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felvei heavy taxed to receive that!
knowlege of the coadaft of their ru-I
lers. which ought to be conveyed tol
them upon the most easy terms poffi-I
Now, fitaated as the printing busi
ness now is, in the southern part
of the United States, is impo
licy, or is it. fafe in Corigrefs, to
abridge the number of newspapers ?
and if they lay that heavy pottage, or
tax, which they have at prefentin con
templet on, the downfall of some
of them will be the natural conse
quence.„
The printers of.the Uiited States
have always shewn themfeives to be
men of liberal and independent fenri
ments;&[am well convinced, would
cheerfully pay acompenfa ion for their
papers being conveyed in the mail
coaches; but for government to
attempt to , derive a revenue from
them, is a mealure so partial and im
politic, that, I flatter myfelf, a ma
jority of our reprefeuthtives, on a re
view of the fubje&,will be more fa
vourably disposed towards them. By
the proposed Poft-Office Plan, it can
oafily be proved,that from the printers
alone (if they were able to pay it)up.
wards of sixty thousand dollars would
be annually ' paid to ^virngient : a
Turn fully Efficient, with, proper ma
nagement, to support the. Port- Office
Establishment ; and this to be extrud
ed from the vitals of the poor Printers
of the United States ! A circumfance
they little expeded while Haggling
with their fellow citizens,'in the late
glorious conteft,and since the termina
tion of that happy period which gave
us liberty, have less reason to expert,
in our prefect flourishing driß pros
perous situation. The Poftmaders ap
pear to have been extremely axious in
this business, and they really have com
pletely efcaed their purpofe—for
they are to receive , one-half of this
pottage, for their additional trouble:
and the fad is, they will have no
more trouble then, than they bare
now.
Bat, have not the mailcarriers car
ried the Printers' Papers, for these
seven years part, without afting one
shilling more for so doiagf And would
tbev nqt have done it again, if Gon
grefs had not interfered in thu busi
ness? Then why Gould Congress fad
die the Printers with a tax that is
unnecessary tor why IbojldCongrefi
tax them more than what is heceffaty
to pay the carriage of their Ta
pert? The fi& is, Congress ought
not to have interferred in this mat
ter at all. The, might, with e
gnal propriety, lay a pottage upon
the baggage, though they have been
admitted in the mail. The carri
ers of the mail had a right to refafe
to carry Ne<vs Papers=and, if they
had done so, the Printers would have
com penfated them for their additional
4 trouble, rather than pay Government
an enormous tax onparralleLed in the
proceedings of any political body on
earth.
I hope, however, thatCongrefs will
permit the Printers to exchange their
Papers with each other, free of port
age, as it is of material conference,
both to them and to the citizens at
large. In the mean time.thtPrinters
had better associate together, and a
dopt some plan, so that their Papers
may be conveyed through theirF.-iends
arid Brethren, in the places where
' their papers circulate, to their Sab
ferjbers, without troubling the Poft
farafters with the bufiners. @ Their pa
pers may be conveyed in the mail
stage, from One end of the continent
to the other, at a considerable less ck
penfe than that proposed by Congress
—and they may save the fifty per cent,
by getting their Friends and Brothers
to deliver their Papers to their Sob
fcribers. In this they wilt be coun
tenanced—far there is not a Citizen
but what reprobates the proposed tax,
of postage, on News papers,
Virginia, January, 1792 #
PHILANTHROPOS,
greater than hit in the &irmith on
the heights. Five sixths of their bul
locks had died, or were rendered use
less—and his men having been em
ployed in carrying (hot instead of
rice, were destitute of every ne<;effa
ry of life.
Ti»o, lamenting having crossed
the river, instantly recrossed it, in or
order to cut off Gen. ^faterrabis,
and prevent a juuQipn between Earl
CorxiuaHij and the Mabr&tes ; and
but for the heavy Lowers which fell
[^ ' n [ he London papers received
by the Packed, arrived at New-York.
are great numbers of accounts of a
DEFEAT of the Afiatick Sultan Tip
pa Saib ; and a RETREAT of Lord
Cornwallis, and Gen. Abercrombie,
after that defeat.
By the British accounts, it appears,
hat the action was fought i,h May,
near Seringapatam, the capture of
which „sa great object of the war.
After ah eg^gement, in which great
numbers fell, 7%° retreated over
the Ca&fry rivet, end polled hifflfelf
within the walls cd Seringa,awn :
But the rainy season commencing,
which tendered it impbffible for an
army tokeep the field, Lord Corn
wallis was not enabled +6 take advan
tage of his faccefs ; but was obliged
immediately co commence a reticat
in the route which he advanced ; )
leaving behind him the greater part
ofhis artillery &c. swhich from th^
mortality which had pervaded thi
cattle and horses of the army, coal/1
not be brought off. Thus far the
Englife account of the action, and she
retreat—which bears, strong mark/ of
those priblifhed in England of thq de
feat of Gen. Greene by LordCorawj illis,
at Guilford Court- Honfe, and thi. re
treat his Lordfllip was neceffitaj cd to
make the next day or two after .
Tippo, in an account sent do M.de
la Coffingny, the Governor of ) the Ijie
of France, mentions the above a mere
flight skirmish—unworthy of detail
except from the Signal advi ;ntages
to him, with which it was act ompa
oied —His object, he fays, j was to
crefi the river, and to keel Lord
Cornwallis trotting astir bim, until
his army and cattle should be I'o re
duced by sickness and fatigue as to
become.an easy prey. He at ~ord
ingly ported a number bf regia rents
to cover the passage ofhis army across
the river ; which so valiantly full lin
ed the attacks of Lord CornwA Uis'
army, that Tippo eroded in fafety; an
army of 70,000 foot and horse, 60
pieces of cannon, his camp equipage
and followers, The covering party
feeing the objeft for which they well e
appointed, happily accomplished, rd -
tired, and followed jbemfelves in ths
fame order, Teppo states his loss ai
3,5 —and the next day, he fays, his
army, perfectly refreshed, animated
by the glorious atchicvement of the
day before, formed and prepared for
a regular attack , but no attempt
was made by the enemy and iathree
days he learned that they were in the
utmost distress. Their loss had been
LONDON, DEC. I.
ON Monday the Leopard of 50
guns, Capt. Blanket, arrived at
Jr. Helen's, from Midrar charged
with Ilifpaches from Ear! Cor-mallis.
They inform, that he defea vd Tqpo
on the height:, about five miles
from the Cavery river, on the 13th
May in a general adion. Tippo fif
tained great .loft, and recreated to Se
ringapatam. Ear! Cornwallis returned
to Bangalore, without being Laraffed
in his march ; was very much aflifted
by the Mahratta horse. Army in ve
ry high spirits to a man.
European Intelligence.
WAR in INDIA..
ORIGINAL ABSTRACT.
Th grateful P^rijian drm, to in
General. '
This fwefti is to be considered a$
once as a teffitnony^f the services he
has already done to his country, and
as a pledge of those which it has yet
a right to expert froth him. It was
likewise determined, that a petition
on the 22d 4hd 23d May, would, he
fays, have executed a project, that
would have enabled him to starve the
whole British army into a second
Corn-wallsfade. Thus fa, Tipfeo Saib's
account of th e event.
; The Genital issued an order, that
they should prepare for ^ movement
ht eight o'clock in the evening, and
Ihat they Should yoke in the remain-.
;ng bullocks, with as much of the
provifinqs a t they could carry, and
that this fhotfld be done with the ut
most potable silence. AtEight o'clock
a verbal order was given to retreat
by the fame route they had advanced
and fech was their fixation, that they
were under the necessity of leav
ing behind them 500,0^0 mus
ket ball cartridges, gbo barrels gun
povder, 2000 cannon balls, 6 tum
brills of provisions, and a great part
of their camp equipage, betides seve
ral guns. Not one officer out of fifty
was able to bring away a change of
linen, and the General himfelf left
behind him every article even to his
brave a&d erter prizing but like ano
ther brave General in America, is
\nlackj.
under inc^nt rains, and without
the means of making fires, for the
powder in the pouches was so wet,
that it would not take fire, and they
were obliged therefore to eat their
rice raw. On their arrival at their
cantonments, the number of sick way
incredible. Os the firft company of
artillery, bat two were returned fit
for duty ; of the second, there were
four,=and the rest in the fame pro
portion.—There were more thanxyoo
European troops on the sick lift, and
every one of them, almost sick and
well, ftript of his necessaries, and
without the means of procuring a fop
nppo Saib unites to the vigour of
mafeuline health and courage, a ge
nious for warlike manoeuvres, rarely
(he National Guard has presen
ted to M. 'de la Fayette, as the most
aoble and most simple testimony of
its attachment,! gold mounted (word
with this infeription,
Gen. Abercrombie's retreat is thus
narrated—lc is said, in the Britifo
papers to ha, 2 been written by an ar
tillery officer, under ,that General,
and dated from Cannmore, the loth
June.l
It states, that the General mount
ed the Gnaet with provisions for fix
months, and with fibres and ammu
nition of all kinds for the'fiege ofSe
rigapatam. The fatigue was exces
sive. They took [foffeffion of the fort
of Periapitam 1 wit feout obftacle^ and
found the adjacent country a perfed
garden. On the /„d of May they
were fupprifed by a body of the ene
my's corfe, who swept along the front
of their line, angl carried off a large
number of their draught bullocks. Os
tfe approach of this body of horse
they had no notice whatever for they
bad neither piquets nor advance
guards.
to be met with—He is the General
Greene of Asia. Lord Cornwallis, is
marquee equipage, and the key rif
the cypher, the military chest, cort,
taining three lack of rupees, and
what is Hill Calamitous, , and even
Blocking, the sick were abandoned tri
their fate and unable to keep up with
the march, were left to the mercy of
that enemy, whom it is the faffiica
to paint as a tyrant.
they had to defcond the steep Gnaut
Their mvch was dreadful ; for
FRANCE.
PROVIDENCE, FEB. 16.
Extraa o, a Letter from an rffi(er cflL
V. S. Regitaent, dared Marietta Jan.
X, 1792, ;„
" OTHJNG material has tranC
.: .pired since my lass, the Sa
vages dot having shewn themselves;
since the battle—we are threatened^
however, with their appearance in th!
spring, and if possible, with redoubled
ferocity., Most of the settlements up
on these waters are it )a very defence
lefs filiation,and mufteither be aban
doned,'or what is more diftreffing,in
cur the hazard of savage barbarity.—
The latter indeed will be inevitable
by many families from their inability
to effect a removal in the depth' of
winter. This is the only place which
is rendered in any degree tenable, ft
even here our force is too inadequate,
and but illy prepared for service.
,*' I particularly lament the fituati
cn of BtilprepA fettlemenc about zo
miles below, confiftiog of feme of the „
most refpe&able families that have
emigrated to this country, and tyhofe
exertfone have been indefatigable ia
rendering it the most improved of any
upon the Obio. You may conceive
some idea of the flourifhing condition
of Bellpre, when I inform you that iq
parting that place.we enumerated 406
hogs in pens, fattening for the fall
slaughter; a number quite inconsi
derable when compared to that which
was then ranging in the uroods. We
had also the pleasure of viewing flacks
and cribs of grain, tri the amount of
many tloufand bushels, and were in
formed of one individual, who had
contraded with the French agent for
the file of 4000 bulhels of corn, of hit
own growth in one year.-^The vege
tables indeed are innumerable,& ou?
soldiers were fuffered to take as many
of them, gratis, as fubufted them for
fame weeks." -
" FEB. 13, 1792.
" It has been reported, that the Se
nate has non-concurred the Military
Bill— This 1 believe is not the fa&.
It has been checked there* it is true,
but my opinion is that it will finally
psfh ''
"A Bill has passed the House of
Representatives of the United States,
making provision for ibefe Officers &
Soldiers who were wounded in |he fir
vice, and have not received pensions.
—The Bill provides the DifriaJu&g,
to be the person authorised to deter
mine, (after the examination of a
Physician, to be appointed for that
purpose, under oath) on the amount
of penfian to be received.
fnculd be prefenud to the Legiflatira
Body, in the name of the National
Parisian Guard, beseeching it to take
into consideration rhe pecuniary fa-'
crifices which M. de la Fayette had
made to theirßevolution, and to con
sider of means to recompeofe him ia,
a manner worthy of him and of a
great nariea.
M. Trabe, the Minister of pub
lick contributions, gave an account of
the progress he had made in rhe ex
ecutton of the new fyflem. Sixty-two
of the departments had comple ed
their assessments and feat him the re
turns which amounted to 245 -mili
eus ;fo that the whole sum .for the
twenty one remaining would be on
ly fifty-five millions. He concluded
a very fatisfadory report, by decla
ring that he should continue to pay
the, most scrupulous attention to the
duties of his office, always consider
ing himfelf as ading under the eyes
of the nation that saw, ct Europe
that liff^ied, and of jolterity, that
would judge.
FROM PHILADELPHIA,
American Advices.
BOSTON, FEB. 22.