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ported there, before the war, foot fifths
were re-expored. We are assured in
deed, that the quantities sent thither for
re exports ion fincc the war, are con
fiderab’.y diminished, yet less so than rea
son and national interest would didste.
The whole of our grain is re-exported
when wheat is btlow 50/. the quarter,
and other grains in proportion.
The UNITED NETHERLANDS
prohibit our pickled beef and pork, meals
and bread of all forts, and lay a prohib
itory duty on {pirits did tied from gram.
All other ci our productions are re
ceived on varied duties, which may be
reckoned, on a medium at about three
per cent.
They consume but a small proportion
of what they rece ve. Tne residue is
partly forwarded for conlumption in the
inland parts of Europe, and partly re
{hipped to other maritime countries.
On the latter portion they intercept,
between us and rhe consumer, so much
of the value as is absorbed by the char
ges attending an intermediate deposit.
Foreign goods, except iome East-In
dia ariclts, are received in vessels of a
ny nation. . ,
Our (hips may be fold and naturalized
there, with one or two exceptions which
fom^^hat 'eft^n tne r value. ir »
DENMARK laysconfid^rable duties
on our tobacco and rice carried, in their
own vessels, and half as much more, if ।
catned-in ours ; bst theexaS amount of
thef? duties is not perfectly known here,
They lay such as amount to prohibitions
cn our indigo and corn.
SWEDEN receives favourably our
grains and meals, faked provisions, in
digo, and whale oil.
They fubjeft our rice to duties of six
teen mills the pound weight, carried in
their own vessels, and of forty per cent,
additional on that, or 224 10 mills,
carried in ours, or any others. Being
thus rendered too dear as an article of
common food, little of it is comumed
with them- They consume fame of
our tobaccoes, which they take circuitous.
]y through Great-Britain ; levying heavy
duties on them also J their duties of en
try, town duties, and excise being 4* 34
dollars, the hundred weight, if carried
in their own vessels, and of forty per
cent. cn that additional, if carried in
our own, or any other vessels.
They prohibit altogether, our bread,
fifh, pot and pearl ashes, flax feed, car,
pitch and turpentine, wood (except oak
timber and mails,) and all foreign man
ufactures.
Under so many reftridions and pro
hibitions, our navigation with them is
reduced almotl to nothing.
With our neighbor s, an order of
things much harder pre nts bfolf-
SPAIN and PORTUGAL refofe, to
thole parts of America which they gov
ern, all direct inte ccurfe with anv peo
ple but themselves. The commodities
in annual demand, between them and
the ; r-neighbours, mpft be carried to be
exchanged in feme port of the dominant
country ; and the transportation between
that and’the fobbed state muff be in a
domestic bottom.
FRANCE by a Handing law, permits
her Weft India poffeflions to receive di
reaiy our vegetables, live provisions,
horses, wood, tar, pitch, and turpentine,
rice, and maize, and prohibits our other
bread fluff: But a suspension of this pro
hibition having been left to the Coloni
*l Legislatures, in times of scarcity, it
oas formerly suspended occafiopally, but
latterly without interruption.
Out Fresh and faked provi'ov (ex
cept pork,) are received in their iffands
under a duty of three colonial livres the
kental, and our vessels are as free as their
own to carry Our commodities thither,
and »o bring away rum and mokffes.
GREAT BRITAIN admits in her
iffands, our vegetables, live provisions,
horses, wood, tar, pitch, and turpentine,
rice, and bread fluff by a proclamation
of her executive, limited always to the
term of a year, but hitherto renewed from
year to year. She prohibits our faked
f fh,and other faked provisions. She does
notpermit our veffek to carry thither
©Ur own produce. —Her vessels alone
jnav^keirfrom usand bring in exchange
;um,Waffes. fog^r, coffee, cocoa nuts,
ginger, and pietnento. There are, in-
deed, fotoe freedoms in the iffand of
Dominicojbut, under such circumwn
ces, as to be little used by us. In me
Brit'fh continental colonies, and 10
Newfoundland, all our produftiojQS are
prohibited, and our vessels forbidder to
enter their ports. Their governor, h«w
ever, in times of dhlrefs, have power to
permit a temporary importation of cer
tain art cles in their own bottoms but
not in curs.
Our citizens Cannot reside as merchants
or factors within any of the Briiifh plan
tations, this being expressly prohibited
by the fame statute of 12. Car. 2. C.
18, commonly called the navigation
ad.
L FO NS.
THIS city, the second in
point of population and
wealth, in France, for a long
time refilled the powers of the
Convention ; but on the 9th of
October, it capitulated ; andthe
troops of the Republic took pot->
session of the place : The rebels
were on their way to Savoy.
The city oi Lyons, is by ^decree
of the Convention, ordered to be
Jeff roved, except the public
edifices. —and a pillar to be tr
eked on the ruins, thus inferib
ed “ Lyons rebelled against Liberty
the tecond year of the Republic f
All France is declared to be
in a state of siege and all foreign
ers are arrested, and to be held
incuftody until peace takes place.
All vessels belonging to the
French merchants, are deemed
to b** at the disposal of the Minis
ter of the Martine, upon this
condition, that the owners (hall
receive a twelfth part of their
value every year that the man
ning, victualling, &c. (hall be at
the expence of the government,
and that at the condufion of the
war, they (hall be given up, in
the state they were received.
Besides this, thirty million of
livres are voted to the Minifler,
for a secret expedition ; and the
current of opinion is that an inva
sion of the iffand of Great
Britain is intended.
Thursday, Jan. 2.
THE House proceeded to confider
the resolutions reported yesterday
from the committee of the whole House,
on the confidential communication from
the President, refpedling the measures
which have been pursued for obtaining
a recognition of the treaty between the
United States and Morocco, and for the
ransom of prisoners, and eftablifhmentof
peace with the Algeiines; whereupon,
The firft and second o f the said refolu.
tions being severally twice read at th<
clerk’s table, were, on the question put
thereupon, agreed to by the House,
as follows :
Refo’ved, that a sum not exceeding
dollars, beappropriated, in addi
tion to the provision heretofore made to
defray any expense which may be incur
red in relation to the intercourse between
the United Statesand foreign nations.
Resolved, that a naval force, adequate
to the protection of the commerceof the
United States, against the Algerine cor
sairs ought to be provided.
The third resolution being read in the
words following,
“ Resolved, that a committee be ap
pointed to report tothis House the n<val
force necessary for the purpofesaforefaid.
together with an estimate of the expense.”
A motion was made and seconded to
amend the fame, by adding td (he erd
theredf, the words ,r ahd the ways and
means sos defraying the.fame.”
Congressional Journal.
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And the question being put thereupon,
it was re Solved in the affirmative;
yeas, 46'; nays, 44.
And theh the main qceftion being put
chat thehoufe do agree to the said rcfolu
tion, amended to read as follows,
, “Rcfoivedjhat a com mt tee be appoint
ed co report to this House, the naval force
necessary for the pvirpofes aforefaid, to
gether with an estimate of the expense,
and the ways and means for defraying
the fame. ”
It was refulved in the affirmative.
Ordered, that Mr. Fitzfimons, Mr.
Goodhue, Mr. Jeremiah Wadlworth,
Mr. Forest, Mr. Malbone,Mr. Boudinot,
Mr. Parker, Mr. Macon.and Mr. Winn,
be appointed a committee pursuant to
the last resolution.
^UEEN OF FRANCE.
The murder of the F>ueen of France is
an event that will greatly inti rest the fee
lings and occupy much of the at tent icon of
the future hi dorian of every country ; for
it has pretented Jomething new in the gen
eral hifton of mankind. It comes not
within the fope of our knowledge, shat
such an instance of unrelenting cruelty, of
(yftematic injustice, and diabolical atrocify
WE haw just received a letter from
Oftend dated 2zd inf. at I o'clock
P. M. nxhich con’ains the follov^in^ in
teresting paragraph :
“An express hae tbit moment ai rived
from the Prince of Cobourg, informing us,
that ^fter having recrofed the Sambre. on
the night of the 1 ^tb inf. and expecting an
attack from the enemy, he [ent Gin. Clair
fayt v ith 30,000 men by a circuitous route
to lie in vai’ for them, and retreated with
the main army. As he exyeßed, the ene
my fell on him in great numbers, but by
this judicious measure, they ^ere attacked
front and rear, at the Jame period, and
f 5,000 f^en viere killed and taken, vuitb
several pieces of cannon. Lhe Hritijh
troops had not arrived to Jharc in the
glory of the days
The late decree of the National Conven.
tion for the arrest of all the Juljeßs 0/ the
King of Great-Britain, andfor the con
fife at on of their whole property, must make
the public anxious to know who are Jub.
jeßs to this harfb and indifriminate pun
ijhment—This [evere decree pafed the Con.
vention on the icyh day of the fir JI month,
and was dispatched to all the Departments
by extraordinary couriers, with orders for
its immediate execution all over the Re
public— Seals have been put upon the
papers of all who have been thus arres
ted.
The Number of Britijhfubjeßs who are
Hable to fuff er by this decree, is eflimated
a t no left than ten or eleven thousand, be
ftdes avast number of merchants and man
ufaßurers not resident in France ,who will
fuff er in tblir property !
Several private letters from per fans of
the be ft information in the Low Countries
agree, that the late retreat of the Prince
of Saxe Cob urg from before Maubeuge,
was the efieß of wrong information given
him by one of his did de camps, who told
him that the Austrian army was on the
point oj being cut of by that of the enemy,
who were far superior in (Length.
Uponlhis report, the Prince is said to
have sent orders to General Clairfait to
repafs the river Sambre and the latter obey
ed at the very moment the French were
retreating, and which unfortunately ths
obfeurity of the night coming on prevented
him from obfervirg.
Lord Howe Jailed with the feet under
his command from Torbay on Sunday morn
ing ; but in conjequence of dispatches sent
Jrom London, and forwarded to his Lord-
Jhip by a [wift Jailing cutter, he returned
again to port, after being but a few hours
at sea !
British Subje&s in Francei
Late European News.
Lxtrafl frem tb» ’Journal.
JOHN EECKLY, C. H. R-
LONDON, 08. 24.
By Friday s Mail.
ever veas before di [played. The unman
dignities which have been long praßife
against an unfortunatf and unprcteße
woman, bad excited in every fetling bojot.
a d.gree of indignation equal to the gen
eral admiration of' the fortitude win
which these were borne, and had gradually -
prepared us to expeß the ufmoft that Jav<
age power could infliß. But yet, in ib.
charges exhibited against the royal vißi^np
every preceding stretch of demonical ingtnu~\
ity was far out [tripped, and crimes that tili ,
then had never entered the conception of
the mos depraved imagination, were al
ledged, as if intended to heap upon the
guilty accujers the accumu 'atcd execration
of mank nd,
The ccnduß of the unhappy ^ueen in
this trying jituation, was worthy the dig
nify of her birth, and the exalted character
of a mother ; and the (hock which the mind
receives upon a pern lai of the trcmfaSion,
is relieved in a noble triumph derived, by
the reply of the ^ueen, to virtue and re
ligion, over Jucb unheard-of violation of %
the irrefragable mandates of nature and
of God.
HUDSON, Jah i.
A report is in totvn, from Nisgarm
that Gen. Wayne, by a msneeuvre (ev
ery way wor’hv of the man) had focffcc
tuaily ambuffied the Indians, oh the
ground of General St. Clair’s defeat, as
to have made a most dtesdfol daughter
among those tawny sons of the defart and
t ^ken a great number as ptifcncn. It
is mentioned, that the ambuffi was so
THERE can be liale doubt on the
mind of any unprejudiced citizen, tak
ing in’o couderation recent comßiO
nicaticns, but that the United Stares
would at this moment, have been expe
riencing all the horror? of war, had not
the proclamation of neutrality been issu
ed at the crisis at which it was pro
mulgated. •
A friend to the peace of America, con
gratulates his countrymen, upon the un
common unanimity which fubfifls be
tween both branches of Ccngrefs, and
the President of the United States. Al
thoueh bcretofo'e there might have been
a difference among ourfdves upon feme
points, yet (like man and wife who have
been in the habit of bickering a little)
we unanimouffy eppefe all foreign
inferences.
PITTSBURGH, Dec.2B.
Extract of a letter from Fort ll'ajhingtcn
dated Nov 14, 1793, to a gentleman
in this town.
“ r received a Jet'er a few days ago from {
| the Falls, informing me that an tx- v
petition is there preparing against L< u- |
i liana, under the ccrrniand of the well
known Gen. Clarke, who (fays my infor
mant) is appointed a major-general in the
a;mies of France, and ccmmarder in
chief of the French Revolu ionary Legion
on the Miffifippi, &c. That a pay mailer
is atluaily arrived with cash, and aha
fame French artillery officers,— 40 odd
boats on a new cooftrudtion are to be
built at that place as soon as pcffible—
that blank ccmmiffions are font to the
General to be filled at his plcafure—that
the Legion is to be on a life eftabliffi
ment, the fame as in Frsnce—that pub
lic plunder is to be relinquished to the
troeps, and they are to receive lands in
the conquered country coofonant to
grade, and that after the war they fiiall
not be liable to be called out of the
country, but are so garrison it.
A gentleman now in t wr, who lately
left the frontiers of this state, fays, the
Indians are very friendly towards us,
and more so since the failure of the kt«
attempted treaty. He was told by fover
al who had been among them, that thofo
about Sandusky, &c. Icon afer our
commissioners, left there, a mortal difeafo
fc'zed ’hem, of which numbers died;
it has abated and with the good effefi of
creating in them a forrrw for their not
concluding a peace, as they attribute the
mortality of the disorder to that caufo.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, Jan. 2.
American, Intelligence.
LANSING BURGH, Dec. 31-