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before 1st Jut* iai|, wJkb U»c dim ion
i ta»us
are to
Uoseo.
If Tblc be c at reel then the pefson* appointed by
tha president to receive subscriptions, ha** it in
Iheit power to retain the respective amounts, they
receive until the direr tors ere appointed, which
will give them the use At the first instaliVn-ot for up
wards of eight months end of the second for up
wards of two months, hot as these phna wilt be in
the hands of good democrats it will be all well
chough.
The shares may be monopolized by a few chosen
jends of Madison, Smith & Co. there being no
jpisio'ns to prevent all the individual shares alol
t<* the state fiom being engrossed by three good
publicans—add if this should not be the case, it
Can be so managed that only the particular friends
•f R. Smith St Co. will be permitted to subscribe.
If we pursue this subject we shall shew in our
•nr next some of the evils that may result from the
passage uf this bill.
But however it is so evidently an abortion that
its life cannot be long.
We should not have taken the trouble to have
made these remarks, but considering the bill as the
■tmost effort of the “ greatest financier tn the
jiWcrld’’ we thought it not beneath our notice.
A MERCHANT.
From the American Citizen.
NATIONAL receipts and expendi
tures.
I have no recollection of having seen a concise
9'talenvnt of the receipts and expenditures of the
national government for the last twenty years, as
they fefer to the increase or extinguishment of the
national debt, and as an exhibit of this kind would
afford a pleasing view of our progress from a very
small beginning to a condition exceedingly respect
able, 1 have taken some pains to enable me to lay
such a statement before my readers. Ih doing this
I shall follow the rule laid down by Ml. Gallatin,
thUt of dividing the twenty years into two periods
•f ten each, commencing with the year 1790 ai.d
edding in the year 1799. both inclusive. The se
cond period will of course commence with the \ear
1800 and terminate with that of 1809, including
both. The first comprehends, as to receipts tod
expenses since the revolutionary debt was fund-d,
the administrations of Washington and Adams,
nnd the second embraces the administration o| Jet
tferson. In slating the receipts 1 shall coniine rny
sdlf to those from the Custom-Houses, whi h
come under the denomination ol duties on Imports
and Tonnage, and which as a comparison • >f i. e
two periods, will be found to he equal and tm-re
foiejnst, if we consider, which is thefict, that t. ••
.treasury receipts lrom the sale of lands siiu< the
year 1801, are equal in amount to tiiuse derived
from the extra internal taxes at a particular period
of tbe administration ol Mr. Adams.
The puhhc k debt on the fust of January 1790,
when it was 1 ulined and ascertained, was § 69740, !
366 27 [sixty nine million seven hundred and forty ,
thousand three hundred and sixty six dollars and |
.twenty seven cents.]
A-cording to tr.e report of the secretary of the
treasury, (Mr. Wolcott) dated Jan 22, 1300, the
debt had increased during the first period, namely,
from 1790, to 1799, h-old inclusive, in the sum of
§ 1,310.338 50. [One million five hundred and
sixteen thousand three hundred and thirty-eight
dollars and Ally rents.]
But according to th.i report of “ a committee ap
pointed on the 20th uf March following, to examine
the arcouut8 of the U. Slates relating to the pu lick
debt, and to report the amount respectively incur
red and extinguished,” it appears, that instead of
the puhlick debt having been increased, as stated by
Mr. Wolcott, in the sum of § 1,510,338 50, it hod
been dimud tied by the sum ol § 1,092,84-1 48 [one
million ..nd ninety-two thousauj eight hundred and
fortytnne dollars and forty-tight cents ]
If Mr. Wolcott was right, the debt bad been ih
creased during the administrations of Washington
And Adams about a million and a half, but if incor
rect, as iTie committee after an elaborate investi
gation concluded, the debt had been diminished by a
- sUuWxi eiding a million.
This difference between Mr. Wolcott and the
committee induced Mr. Gallatin to publish in the
year 1800, his “views of the Pubii. k Debt, Re
ceipts and expenditures of the United States,* in
■which, with his usual perspi-nityr and ability, be
discusses the question at l-ngth, According to Mr.
Gallatin neither Mr. Wolcott nor tka committee
was correct, and the reasons which he assigns for
his opinion are90 cogent, that I prefer him as au
thority.to either of them. It then we lake Mr. G.il
Isnu’s argunfents and calculations (which have not
been controverted) as unanswerable and certain, the
pub!i< k cfev t had been increased front the year 1790
to the year 1799, both inclusive, by the sum ol
§ 6,657,319 44, [?ix millions six hundred and fif
ty-seven thousand three hundred and nineteen dol
lars and forty four rents.]
jJThe receipts of the government during the same
jMjiod was as follows.
i^Prease of debt (according to
^nlr. Gallatin)
§(*,£57,319 44
Duties on impost and Ton
tonnage, us
1790 1791
4.399,172 99
3,652.013 66
1792
4,604,692 77
1793
179*
a, 105,203 39
5 949216 62
179-5
7*. 117,567 38
179d
1797
8.191,237 10
1793
77 90 .933 88
1799
7.431.875 75
Tout of receipt) (including
the increase of dei-t) from
171)0 .j|£lBp9> both inrtn*
,lve' W ■'
£60,899.633 98
The following »re the re
ceipts pf the government
from the same source vf
revenue from 1800 |o
1809, betfa iaclattve, 1800
9,250^40
1801
10.500.000
1802
12.280.000
11.306.000
1803
12.672.000
1304
1805
13,033,823
A
1806'
14,809.758 *
16,059.924 m
^ t*a> g? year \80&
10,338.162
«|M*W I
ir^etcoufse Tejgji _ 180$
from
period, Of
Herson’s sd
fmn«gjp,ation,[(rt ty fi ve irrit
liorrs~eight hundred and
•ty-four thousand te
ll undr ed and seventy
four dollars 4 eighty-twv
rents.}
But, according to Mr. Gal
latin’sreport ot Decemb er,
1809, there has been paid
of the public debt, during
Mr. Jefferson's adrninis
tratioii.
gf 4,790,OOO
Balance against the second
period, or Mr. Jefferson's
administration [twenty
one million, ninety-eight
thousand, seven hundred
and seventy-four dollars,
and righty-two cents, §21,098,774 82
It follows that the second period lias been more
expensive to the nation (hail the first by the sum
of twenty one mittions, ninety-eight thousand, seem
hundred and seventy-four dollars and eighty two
cents. The teflertion may not be agreeable, but
truth should be followed, lead to where it will.—
The debt which our republican administration has
extinguished in the second period is undoubtedly so
much inferior in amount to the increase of our re
ceipts during the same time. I have nothing to do
with that side of the parly-question which would in
ere ise the balance against the second period by on
nmerating the expense inrurrrd by the suppression
of two rebellions during the first, i have made a
national not a party statement
Philadelphia, April 7.
Yesterday arrived schooner Hound, rapt. Gam
ble. 45 days trom Lisbon. By him we receive
the billowing verbal information—that the British
army were at Coimbra, and the French at Bada
jos, haviag the river Tagus between them. That
the British transports und many vessels were lying
in readiness, should the British meet with any dis- ]
aster, the transports to take off the troops and the
Americans and others to take off such of the inha
bitants that wish to fly. That he saw London pa
pers as f it<> »» thi 2t)th of January, in which wm.
the k.iu’s speech, delivered on the 27th to the p.ir
li t 'i 1 tit, 1 e contents of which as far as he remem
1,eve was so conciliatory towards America, that a
no •> er ol British agents had come out to Lisbon to
purchase 1 otion and othrl* American produce, stop
ped -«riy lurther contracts for those articles.
Baltimore, April 9.
We ate indebted to the politeness of the Editor
of the Whig for ihe following Asiatick Intelligence,
furnished him by capt. Russel of the brig Dolly, ar
rived yesterday from Madrass, via Ceylon and Cape
of Good Hope.
1 he. Dolly left Ceylon the last of November and
the Cepe 0: Good Hope the last of January. Two
days before the departure of the Dolly from Ceylon,
the governour received official advice uf the capture
of T«ppnnooly, a port on the west coast of Suma
tra, belonging to the Biitish, by a French squa
dron Irom Batavia, which had coasted up the
Strerghts of Malacca and along the coast of Suma
tra, where they had captured a vast number of pri
ses and carried them into Tappannoly. Among
these were thirteen Americans with dollars which
they had uot time to convert into paper as they in
tended.
The French had landed a considerable force at
Tappanooly, which they were expeditiously foiti
fying, having resolved to establish themselves there
on Account of its good harbour and advantageous
position. They gave laws to the surrouuding ioun
try’ .
While at the Cape of Good Hope, h French prize
brig arrived, captured on her voyage from the Isle
of France, which she left Jan. 5, for Bordeaux.—
Capt. Mix, of New-York, a pass- nger on board the
prize, informed fapt. R. that (he Bluish still kept
up a vigorous blockade on that and the adj icent isl
ar, I, pclwitbstund which dour sold for § 8 per bar
r 1, and beef jjj 10. The governour oi the isles ol
Fr mf* and Bourbon (general Duromg) has, during
the last year, put an entire stop to the cultivation
of codes thereon, giving every encourageuit-ut to
the planters in cultivate wheat and evtiy other pro
duce necessary to the support of Lhe inhabitants.—
It was cult ulated there was wheat enough 011 ibe
islands, for three years consumption.
Among the number of passengers on board the
prize at the Cape, was captain While, late of the
brig Mohawk, of this port, who bad sold his ves
t'd ..nd cargo at the Isle of France.
Lat. 3 40, 8. long 34, ff, spoke English ship
Ah Sander, Hughes, from Liverpool, to 1'ernam
buro. Capt. H. informed, that notwithstanding
the non-inter course law, he never saw the harbour
uf Liverpool crowded so much with American ship
ping at one time as at preset)!; most of whom had
evaded our interdicting laws. Their crews were
mostly turned ashore to seek their bread, and the
vessels advertised for sale, which overstocked that
port With American seamen. Of the Alexander’s
new, 17 in number, 10 were Americans, only a
few months from the United States.
March 21, lat. 36, 51, N. long. 68, 43, W.
spoke hng Piiamix, from N. Haven for St. Barts. 3
days out.
April 3d, lat. 36,40, N. long. 64, 50, W. was
boarded by a lieutenant from a British frigate, who
overhauled and strictly examined the Dolly’s pa
pers. The frigate was one of four from Bermuda,
two ,»f which were to cruize off the Cape’s of Virgi
nia, and two off the Capes of Delaware.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Saturday, Apt it 7.
The house agreed, on motion of Mr. Smilie, lo
mee* at ten o’rloek for the remainder of the session.
reported a bill authorising a loan tor
* money not exceeding theaumonnt of the
publiclf d»bt ieimt.ur»eaUe according talaw during
ihe present year. Twice read.ymM ,
r Mr. Maeon said he was instructed by tVcom
miitee of foreign raUtioM to report in port the
faUo—*•- ' ' '
. ___
•‘awwMRnr fSft&Sfr1' :<£/' -S
r - f»w|8tlthl
***** "' l,,<“‘rf *"lMl«||fcAnd act to «.u.i.i|.i»i
• •.filing in lore* 'eilg^Ffts rtf the act eot.llnl
*• m nci.to iuterdicf the mmro»<rri«l meremrwi
^jjp* fhe United Sidles and Greal-Bhlsin and
FrtjP'f', „od their dependent if*, and ini' other put -
p iStss,” I e and the saint is Hereby repealed.
See. 2. I’rovtdes that all penalties heretofore in
curred Shall nevertheless hf rollrrted. ^
Sec. 3. And be u further enacted. That in case
eitbei Great Britain or France shall before the 3d
day of March next so revoke or modify her edicts
as they shall cease to violate the lawful commerce
ol the United States, which fact the president of the
United States shall declare by proclamation, and if
the other nation shall not within Ihiee mouths
thereafter so revoke or modify her edicts in like
manner, then the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6'tb, 7th, 8th, JJth
and JOth sections of the art entitled an art to inter
dict the commercial intercourse between the United
States and Great Btitainand France and tbeir de
pendencies and for other purposes shall from and
alter the expiration of three months from the date
oi the proclamation aforesaid be revived and have
full power and effect so far as relates to the domi
nions, colonies or dependencies and to the articles
the growth, produce or manufacture of the domini
ons, colonies or dependencies oi the notion thus re
fusing or neglecting to revoke or modify her edicts
in the manner aforesaid.
1 he hill was lead a first time, and passed a second
reading, 51 to 39.
BANK OF THR UNITED STA1 ES.
Mr. Taylor reported a bill continuing in force
for a term of twenty years, the act entitled “ An
a t to incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of
the United States,” on the terms and conditions
therein mentioned. Twice read and committed.
ar-NA 1 r,— rnaay, April 0.
Mr. Giles submitted ,tha following resolutions
h«r consideration :
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to in
quire into the expediency of providing by law (or
ippropriating certain waste end unappropriated
lands, to satisfy bounties due from the state ol Vir
ginia, to the office)s and soldiers of the line of that
slate, and to the marines thereof; and if deemed ex
pedient, to des’gnate the said lands by law,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to in
quire into the expediency'of extinguishing the In
dian claim to lends within the boundaries of the
state 01 Kentucky, and of confirming the titles ol
all locations, for military set vices, therein made;
ind that the committee have leave to report by bill
or otherwise.
The bill to incorporate the trustees to Washing
ton college was postponed to the first Monday in
Decern: er next.
The senate resumed the consideration of the hill
making provision for the establishment ot a Natl- I
onal Bank, with the several amendments reported
thereto. And after discussion the further conside
ration of the bill wus, on motion of Mr. Pope post
poned till to morrow.
Saturday, April 7*
Mr. Brent reported a bill concerning the society
of the order ol La Trappe—Read and passed to a
second readiug.
The resolution offered by Mr. Lloyd on Thursday
respecting the militia of the U. btates was taken up
and Hgreed to.
The hill authorising the discharge of Phineas
Varney from his imprisonment was read a secono
lime, and on the question of its going to a third
reading it was negatived,
The hill for the preservation of peace and main
tenance of the authority of the United States
in the ports, harbors and warters under tbnr juris
diction, was ordered to be engrossed for a third
reading.
I'he resolution from the house of representatives
for adjournment on the 23d of April was read alhird
time Hiid passed as loliows j
For the motion, Messrs. Bayard, Bradley, Camp
bell, Cnainplin, Clay, Condil, Crawlord, Franklin,
German, Gilman, Goodrich, Gregg, flililmuse,
Horsey, l.amheit, Lloyd, Meigs, Pickering, Reed,
Robinson, Sumpter, Fait, Turner—23.
Against thi bill, Messrs. Anderson, Brent, Gail
lard, Letb,Smith of Md. Smith of N. Y. While
side—7‘
The hill fixing the ronipfnsation of public mi
nisters, eke. was ordered to he engrossed for a third
roaoiug,
The senate resumed the consideration of the bill
regulating the post oltice establishment.
Gazelle Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED,
Brig Equator, lard, 8 days Irom K' nnebuflk.
Sch’r '1 wo Brothers, Nit hols, 3 days irum New
York.
Sch'r Helen, Pearson, 6 days Iruru Philadelphia.
Sch‘r Mary, Rutter, 15 cava from St. Barttoiln
mews, Ballast, to order.—-The brig Louisiana Pac k
et, Adams, was to sail the same day for this port
Sloop Mary Aon, Poller, 48 hours from New
York.
Sch'r Alexander, Pickett, 10 days from Balti
more bound to Madeira, in distrtt* ; pumps choak*
ed, and cat go shilled.
Philadelphia, April J,
Yesterday arrived, sch’r Hound, rapt. Gamble,
45 days from Lisbon. This schooner was bound In
<St. Sebastians, but falling in with the British frigate
Loire, was fired on, brought to and forbid going into
St, Sebastians, when he altered hla course fat and
arrived at Lisbon, from Whence he has' returned
with the cargo be look from hence.
The following vessels sailed from Lisbon, while
he lay there—Sbip Maria, Wood, for New York ;
ship Abeyna for Boston ; ship Piacataqun for Phi
ladelphia, and brigfMaria, Story, tor New York, all
sailed on the lT't.b Feb, and the ship Diana ot and
for Alexandria, sailed Fein SI, the ship Nabby,
Smith, for New York on the 80th Fdb. Copt. S.
left there, brig SusaniMjTbnrston, from PhitaM
phtn, time of sailing un'trUm; ship Washington,
Bleeker, for Boston, uncertain ; ship Ann Wiliams,
Dayton, for Nep York, th 15 days;
Davis, for Boston, uncertain; ship A
m
(W^an, ofawdfirt* WihriiaMi
' .VTCohb, of fta i&i&mmir&'CJd&iiliiM
nflittg uurvi tain
Uio where bound; <S<$rgt-j: XbfinrL W.
tirtl.jfcthe 20Ih feB* W(i£fyppM,
NerRBfyport, in lO^ifoy*^
Plymouth, for Rofti.m; uucerta® »be
a- hoonm Enterprizr* Piatt, »»f Hingjbi
fain; Jane, Hell, (rom Cununa, oof ii
The ship Edward, Elliot, of Newhuryc
PORT OP NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH*
CUSTOM-HOUSE—E*T*at*. " ^
5«'h'r Independence, Il.ker,
Two Brothers Nichols,
Sloop Mary Ann, Foster,
Faelr. Av.>ey.
Friendship, An^ur,
(*LC.I REXP.
Ship Washington, Farley,
Colombia, Beil,
Brig Hell, Trash,
S'h’r Friendship, Rider,
Soft#.
Solly, Gie-o,
Providence.
Warner, Knapp,
Baltimore,*
Sloop Roby, Consoler,
Pro-, iiience^l
'-"S -J—LXJf
„ -9M
On Monday the l‘<Sth insta
o'clock, will be Sold, at the foot
ket for ready money,
A second hand fifteen inch
about 80 fathom,
5 chests Young Hyson Tea, ,
10 barrels Beef, 10 barrels N. E. Ram,
20 j i rs best clarified H .ney, *
5 barrels Crackers, kc.
-1lao a t same time and place,
For the benefit of the owners and undei „^a<*o*
the Rising States, Capt. Jennings,
About 60 fathom of 13 inch Cable
a •, ,» william pen nock, v.m.
April 13. 1 W
JUST RECEIVED
Per the Brig Sally Barker, and .
Sale by tkm
Subscribers, S^L
3i packages Giass & Croetery Ware.
Mom Muers Son.
April 13. _tf
Landing This. Day,
boxes flint and cut Glassware*
u
asserted,
4 trates Queen's Ware, 40 kegs Butter,
20C0 yards Fow Cloth.^No. 1 and 2 Beef,
N. E. Rum in hogsheads and barrels.
For Sale by b
Awfs Jennin^# Roddey.,
.44*
» FOR FREIGHT; <
The good Brig EQU ATOR,
Captain Lord. "*
Burthen 190 tons, atul will Carry S40 hogsheads to
bacco or 2000 barrels flour j she is an excellent vtfs
sel, almost new, and in complete order to receive-*
cargo. For terms .‘ppiy to
Martin Fisk. - >
April 13. ,‘3
The Occa- Insurance Company,
H-ve opened their Office corner of Wall and Pcarl
Streets, where applications will be receivccLaiuI ,
swered from ten to three o’clock:
Their Capital is Five IIuni
stmd Doli rs.
All losses will be paid without the abatement of
two per cent, and this Company pay particular sto
rage on Hemp and Totx.ccoV'on certain conditions
specified iu their policies. , f.
Applications for Insurance from other places, bv
letter addred to tye President (post paid) will be a
swered by return of mall, " 1
Arm-Tor*, dpril'S. 1 to 13th
Fbr Sale on board the Smack Logic, lying at.
bill’s wharf, , * . . .
A quantity of COD FISH, -
Alive, and in excellent order. tApply on board to
George Ashbey.«
April 13*
( tfyfte of tht Mario* Insura»ct (
t «/' Norfntlt, Aprft q, If
The Stockholders in the *
pany are hereby notified, that an etectW"«At|
held on Tuesday the firet of next m
fice, for the purpose of electing Fli
to serve for one year from rite said first
The election will commence at eleven j
John Cowper,
tor /> E~~~ Afloat,
400 barrels Columbiflijpf ills
April 11
FO R SIKW
The SloO]
„ .' ‘ C&t
Will nil 09 Saturday nut.
light articles, or pasfege, apply
ton’* wharf, .