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The Providence Journal.
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TOWN AND COUNTRY ADVERTISER.
Published on WEDNESDAYS, by JOHN CARTER, JUN. Printer of the LAWS of the UNITED STATES for the State of RHODE-ISLAND, &c. At the NEW PRINTING-OFFICE, West Side of the great Bridge, PROVIDENCE.
[ No. 106. ]
WEDNESDAY, January 7, 1801.
[ Vol. III. ]
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December 31.
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December 31.
From the GEORGETOWN MUSEUM. PATRIOTIC SENTIMENTS.
AFTER a period of twelve years, the administration of our government will soon be put into the hands of men supposed to be, at least in many respects, different principles from their predecessors. What the new administration will be, and what the conduct of all parties, is a subject of much curiosity and of great importance.
If it should hereafter appear, that he who is the First Magistrate under the federal government, is, from whatever cause, inimical to its true principles—if from false theory, from want of firmness, or from the desire of popularity, he yields up to any other set of men, or branch of government, the just prerogatives of his office—if he should permit the executive power to be made a mere machine in the hands of a party or its leaders—if a party in office should go on to weaken the executive power in the several States, to diminish the influence, and to withdraw the constitutional checks, reposed for the sake of deliberation and stability in Senators and Governors—if the gates of our governments should be thrown open and kept open by admitting, without delay or discrimination, all aliens to the right of suffrage and to office—if elections should become more and more scenes of passion and tumult, the dangers of which the peaceable and steady voter chooses not to brave—if men base, turbulent and daring should succeed in acquiring consequence and popularity, while the people become intoxicated with visionary notions of liberty and equality—if the commercial and mechanical interests of the nation should be sacrificed under the pretence of promoting the agricultural—if hostility to the Christian system should be encouraged, and mad and immoral philosophy should extend its influence—if without regard to the balance of power, we should be drawn closer and closer to France, and spurred on to war with Great-Britain—if these things should take place, then, federalists, what you dreaded from the change will be fast hastening on, and almost arrived. Then, virtuous Republicans, you will be on the point of losing the substance in search of the shadow; then will "the sovereign authority be destroyed, and the union dissolved"—then, the pillars of society having been thrown down, the edifice will crush millions in its fall—the chariot of the sun of liberty being already driven far below the safe, the middle course, the North and the South, the East and the West, will be all in flames. Then, your vessel, once freighted with all that was valuable, and making a most prosperous voyage, to avoid Scylla will be wrecked on Charybdis—and all will be LOST.
It is trusted, however, that the vessel of State will be guided across the tempestuous ocean on which she sails, without being wrecked on the half-hidden rocks of French friendship or sunk in the storms of revolution and anarchy. It is hoped, that the mind of "the sage of Monticello" is too virtuous and enlightened to hurry us to the brink of this fatal precipice—it is hoped, that the party, having acquired the power they sought, will be contented to ride, without wishing to "ride like the devil," and draw hell after them. Federalists, let consistency be yours. Cease not to support your wise and virtuous principles, either through despair, negligence, or ambition; and at the same time to not censure, when it is pursued by others, that line of conduct, which you once approved and applauded.
Republicans of reflection, how far would you wish to proceed in change? Where do you intend to stop? Draw in
time some line beyond which you will not pass, or you may be carried by the current much farther than you ever thought or wished—Perhaps, before you are aware, you will find the nation stretched and racked on the ever-rolling wheel of anarchy, revolution and torture.
From the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES. THE TREATY.
THE short time elapsed since the publication of the Convention with France, does not permit a full examination of its merits; it is, however, desirable, that the first impression of its leading principles should be as nearly as possible, correct.
It may be remembered, that "indemnification for past, security against future injuries, and explanations of former misunderstandings," were promised as fruits of this mission. To understand how far these three objects have been attained, we shall briefly examine them in their several order.
1st. Indemnity for spoliations on our commerce. The first mention of indemnities is in the second article, and as the parties declare they had no power to revive the treaty of 1778, and the convention of the 14th of November, it is agreed to negotiate on these points, and the mutual indemnities, at a future and more convenient season—however, left we might claim compensation, for their illegal captures of our property, by the laws of nations, without reference to the stipulations of the treaty of 1778, indemnifications for captures and condemnations are positively excepted and denied by the 5th article.
Thus it appears no part has been obtained of about Twenty Millions of Dollars, taken from us, contrary to the laws of nations, and to solemn treaty.
But it appears very doubtful, whether we can ever renew our demand for indemnity, unless we are ready to renew the treaty of 1778, with that most dangerous condition, the guarantee of the French Islands, and that monster in jurisprudence, the Consular Convention—this is mentioned with diffidence.
2d. Security against future injuries. If there is one man in the page of history who has made himself more than all others pre-eminent in perfidy, who has oftener violated solemn contracts with the surrounding nations, and by a more diabolical treachery, enslaved his country and usurped a throne, it is Consul Buonaparte! a contrast with him is so far from security, we ought to be alarmed at his proffers of amity, as if the enemy were at our gates.
Besides, is it probable he can maintain the lofty station he has assumed, lord and master of twenty-five millions of people? if long hereditary succession, without a rival claim, and the much more mild despotism of the Bourbon family, could not preserve the crown to the mild, but unfortunate Louis. Can a Corsican Robber put aside the pretensions of Angereau, Massena, Moreau, &c. to participate of the power, emolument, and reputation of government? Neither with such a man, or such a government, can there be any security, at least under the present state of things.
3d. Explanations of former misunderstandings. Neither on this point has the least progress been made; but by reinserting the articles of the treaty of 1778, which have been the chief subjects of controversy, the meaning given by each party is still to be insisted upon, or France may interpret the readmission of the articles, without our insisting on our former interpretation, and acquiescence in the one she has given—it will be easily perceived, I allude to the 14th article, by which free ships are to make free goods.
The United States contend (see Mr. Jefferson's correspondence with Mr. Morris and Genet) this stipulation related only to France and the United States; in case one of them being at war, and the other at peace, the ships of the one should protect enemies property from capture by the other; France on the other hand contended, we were obliged to protect her property in our ships from capture by her enemies, who having never acceded to this extraordinary comp't, governed themselves by the general laws of nations, and took French property wherever they found it on the high seas, though on board of neutral ships. This right is so well established by the laws of nations, that Mr. Jefferson, in answer to Mr. Genet, says, he "does not know upon what grounds he could complain of it to the British government."
I have thus cursorily gone over the three leading objects of this mission, I hope satisfactorily. I cannot however omit the shameful degradation of our country, and the insolent triumph of France. By refusing even to negotiate on our claim to compensation, she contemptuously rejects our pretence of complaint, and justifies the whole of her conduct—and as in this draught was not sufficiently

bitter, she has thrown all the blame of the rupture upon us, by demanding restoration of the very ships we seized in the act of plundering us of our property sailing on the high seas, under the protection of the laws of nations, and the faith of solemn long existing treaties. As the 25th article is I hope wrong printed, I shall at present make no comments on the apparent infraction of our treaty with Great-Britain, and leave to abler hands more fully to examine this Grecian horse.
From the WASHINGTON FEDERALIST
A s perpetual friction will at length wear away the hardest substance, so must incessant and unremitting calumny triumph in time over the purest virtue.
Perhaps in no age, and in no nation, has such a course of bold and impudent falsehood been tolerated, as has for nearly 8 years distinguished certain papers in the United States.
Relying on the correctness of their own conduct, and on the good sense of the people at large, the Federalists have too long permitted the grossest misrepresentations to remain uncontradicted. They have believed that untruths, bearing about them to every intelligent mind their own refutation, would only excite detestation for their fabricators. They have believed, that in every neighbourhood there would be found knowledge enough to detect, and virtue enough to defeat, the malignant slanders, which every day disgrace and degrade our country, as much as they desame its government, and its best characters. But in this policy they have been mistaken!
Familiarized to detraction, too many of the people have been seduced by its arts into the opinion, that where so much was said, there must be some foundation in fact; all could not be mere defamation—and poisoned by the continued draught of noxious drugs, they have at length given to these foul practices, what ought to be the reward only of rigid virtue and disinterested integrity.
While the upright patriots of our country lament the calamities threatened by this insidious state of the public mind, their conduct will not contribute to increase them. They will not follow the wicked though successful example which has been set them.
Attached to American happiness, they will not disturb it by lawless struggles for power.
Devoted to the union, they will seek to preserve it, in whatever hands the conduct of our affairs may be placed.
Loving the government, they will continue to support it, so long as it shall be practicable to give it support; and forgetting the means which have been used to obtain pre-eminence, they will only see in those who administer it, persons who have been appointed according to the forms of the constitution.
They will, by avoiding that course of malignant calumny which has so much disgraced our country, continue to exhibit in private the same superiority in virtue and patriotism, which has marked their public conduct.
Foreign Articles.
By late arrivals from Europe.
LONDON, November 4.
T HE capture of Florence and Leghorn by the French is an indubitable proof of the little confidence that is to be reposed in the faith and professions of that people.—In every point of view it is an infraction of the Convention. This outrage, this violation of the laws of nations, of humanity, and of every thing that is dear to the safety and repose of man, was committed under the pretext of disarming a banditti, which the French General had the impudence to say "impudence to say" was thought necessary by several partisans of the Grand Duke themselves, who felt that the safety and honour of the French army required that such measures should be taken; to which he has the effrontery to add, that "nothing has passed that could in the slightest degree affect the armistice," that is, in English, the capture of the estate of an amiable Prince, and the seizure of private property, are to be considered as a mere nothing. It is true, he tells the inhabitants, in the name of honour, justice, &c. that private property shall be respected, but he does not add, what will be the case, that it will be exhausted in vexatious and insupportable requisitions. As to the confiscation of British property, we trust the French will be very much disappointed in that respect; as several circumstances induce a belief that this irruption was expected.—For we find that the Archduke and his family arrived at Vienna on the 15th ult. and that the fine Florence gallery of pictures had been removed on board the Arno frigate.—The French accounts state, that the Tuscan General Somariva had emptied the state chests previous to his departure with the Austrians for Ancona.
This outrage must have a great effect on the proceedings at Luneville. Such a glaring act of violence and injustice cannot be passed over in silence, as it would argue a total absence of spirit and firmness in the Austrian Cabinet.
November 8.
A parochial tax is in agitation, which will add one shilling to the pound on the income tax, to be laid out in broths for the starving multitude.
A plan is in agitation of embalming and preserving the most illustrious warriors of France; these mummies are to be placed in the Temple of Mars.
Professor Rich has made the most useful and important discoveries lately in Berlin, for the cure of fevers of every kind. Alkalis, salt-petre, vitriols and common salt, ever are proved by him to be sovereign remedies in these cases. The liberal king of Prussia has liberally rewarded this friend to the human species.
November 12.
By the Lisbon mails, which arrived yesterday, we are sorry to learn, that though the dreadful epidemic which has visited Cadiz, and carried off so many thousands, has moderated in that city, it still continues its ravages in different towns in Spain. The latest letters from Cadiz are dated the 21st ult. on which day the number of deaths was reduced from 340, to 70 or 80 each day. In the neighbouring towns the disorder had increased to an alarming degree. In Chiclana, no fewer than 58 persons died on the 20th. In Seville, its violence was so great, that it carried off between 500 and 600 daily. There have died in Cadiz in two months above 10,000 people.
November 17.
The arrival of Cobentzel and Joseph Bonaparte at Luneville, is put out of doubt by the Paris papers to the 12th, which we received on Saturday. The Journals were brought to Dover by the vessels which purposely sailed from Calais with Mr. Maurix, the messenger, who some time ago brought dispatches from Cobentzel to the British Court. Stahltemberg, the German Minister, being at Twickenham when Mr. Maurix reached town, his dispatches did not regularly come before our Cabinet on Saturday.
By accounts from Italy, it appears hostilities have been on the point of being renewed in that country; but an agreement has been made between the Austrian General Bellegarde, and the French General Brun, by which the latter yields up Ferrara, and the former consents to wave any claims respecting Tuscany, so unjustly seized by the French. That violation of faith made a great impression on the Court of Vienna; but prudence stifled its resentment.—The demolition of Ulm, Ingolstadt and Philipsburg, contrary to treaty, has also made a considerable sensation in Germany, and the Moniteur has attempted a defence of the measure. The demolition of Ulm, it is said, has been suspended, in consequence of certain remonstrances. Lucien Bonaparte is gone to Madrid, but how a mission thither can promote peace and humble the English, as the Paris Journals have informed us, we know not, unless it is intended that Spain shall materially contribute the means of attack on this country. The storm in which our fleet suffered at Gibraltar, is noticed in letters from Spain, published in these Journals, and it is said one or two transports have been driven on shore. The fleet must be considerably embarrassed by the loss of anchors, &c. which it has sustained, and it will be unable to undertake active operations till it receives a supply of stores. The French funds still continue at 34 and a fraction, notwithstanding the apparent opening of the congress of Luneville. If it be true that apartments are fitting up both for Joseph Bonaparte and Cobentzel, they must intend to make some stay there, and actively enter upon negotiations.
LUNEVILLE, November 7.
The Count de Cobentzel arrived here this morning, at 5 o'clock, and Joseph Bonaparte at noon. The former was saluted with 19 pieces of cannon, and the latter by ringing the only bell left us. The two Ministers lodge in private houses, until the apartments in the castle shall be completely furnished.
A very fine corps of 1500 grenadiers arrived to-day; it will form part of the garrison. The Telegraph is erected on the top of the castle.
CALCUTTA, June 26.
On Tuesday accounts were received of the arrival of the ship Nancy , Capt. Allen, of and from New-York, which she left the 13th of February.
No accounts of any privateers being in the Straights.
The American brig Lydia , Capt. J. Russell, from New-York, also arrived in the river yesterday, last from Madeira, whence she last place she left on the 10th of March.
July 17.
On Saturday last arrived the ship Union , Capt. Cooke, from Rangoon, which she left the 22d ult.
By this vessel we learn that a French privateer, a grab snow, had been cruising off that port for a considerable time, and had made several captures.
The Auspicious , of this port, captured by the Clarisse , Captain Surcouff, had been sold at the Mauritius for 13,000 dollars.
His Majesty's ship La Sybille , Captain Adam, arrived on the 24th from a cruise; and on the same day the American ship Herald , from Boston and Madeira, which last place she left on the 16th of March.
While Captain Binny was at Amboyna, his Majesty's frigate La Virginie brought in there a Dutch ship and two brigs, which she had captured among the islands; their value was estimated at 100,000 dollars.
Letters received from Tranquebar mention the arrival there of two small vessels from the Isle of France, from which place they had a very speedy passage.
The commanders of the above mentioned vessels reported, that prior to their departure from the island, a corvette had arrived from Brest, the Captain of which was charged with letters from the First Consul, to Mr. Malartic, informing him that two frigates were on the point of leaving France for Mauritius, on board of which were commission-
ers for finally adjusting the government of the islands, on such terms as must meet with the general approbation of the inhabitants.
July 25.
On Sunday last arrived the American ship Eclipse , Captain Jones, from Philadelphia, whence she sailed on the 25th of March.
Captain Forrest brings accounts of two small French privateers being on the West coast of Sumatra, which had taken several coasting vessels;—two American ships had been at Padang, and failed again, their destination not known.
Two large transports had arrived there, having on board 700 passengers, most of whom are United Irishmen, of various ranks and descriptions.
The colony was in a very flourishing state, and provisions plenty.
The American ship Cleopatra , Capt. Naylor, arrived on Tuesday from Bombay, whence she sailed on the 23d ult.
On Monday arrived the American ship Aurora , Captain Stone, from Boston, from which she sailed on the 5th of March, and touched nowhere during her passage.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 15.
SOME reports were made, by Mr. Macon, from the committee of claims, which were unfavourable to the petitioners, and were taken up and agreed to by the House.
Mr. Rutledge presented the petition of N. J. Roosevelt, for himself and others, praying an act of incorporation to the Schuyler Copper Mine Company.
Referred to the Committee of Commerce.
The House went into a committee on the bill for the relief of Thomas Hooper, who prayed a drawback on some re-shipped merchandise.
The bill was agreed to, and ordered to be engrossed.
The House also went into committee on the report of the Committee of Claims on the petition of William Nichols, who prayed compensation for expenses paid by him, for jurors and witnesses, in their attendance at Philadelphia in 1794, on the trial of the Western insurgents. The report was favourable. It was agreed to, and a bill was ordered to be brought in to grant the compensation.
Mr. Cooper laid on the table a resolution for a committee to be appointed to consider the expediency of repealing the law laying a direct tax, &c. within the United States. He stated his reasons to be the difficulty and uncertainty of collection, and the want of necessity for the law, or use of its provisions, for any future occasion.
Tuesday, December 16.
Sundry petitions were disposed of.
Wednesday, December 17.
The resolution proposed by Mr. Varnum, to prevent the raising of a battalion of artillery and engineers wanting to complete the 2d regiment, was taken up—and after considerable debate was negatived—39 yeas, 46 nays.
Friday, December 19.
A memorial on the subject of the government of the Mississippi territory was read, and committed to Messrs. Claiborne, Goodrich and Nott.
WASHINGTON'S MAUSOLEUM.
A bill for the erection of a Mausoleum of stone, commemorative of the services of George Washington, was read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole.
Monday, December 22.
The motions of Mr. Davis, respecting the government of the Mississippi Territory, in which the administration of Governor Sargent is complained of, occasioned a debate which occupied the attention of the House during the day.
Tuesday, December 23.
The bill for the erection of a mausoleum to George Washington, was again before the House; when after a debate, protracted beyond the usual hour of adjournment, the question was taken by yeas and nays, on the engrossment of the bill for a third reading, and carried—Yeas 43—Nays 40.
The bill does not decide the dimensions or the position of the Mausoleum; but appropriates 200,000 dollars for its erection.
The debate was, in some parts of it, defultory, tedious, and uninteresting; and in others, forcible and spirited. In particular the eloquence of Mr. Harper and Mr. Randolph was lofty and impressive; in the collision of opinion, the ordinary rules of decorum were prostrated; and language, indignant and sarcastic, impeaching personal motive, was reciprocated with keen severity.
Domestic Intelligence.
WASHINGTON, December 19.
T HE treaty with France having been previously printed for the use of the members of the Senate, Mr. Morris moved on Wednesday the adoption of a rule, enjoining on the members secrecy in the case of all future treaties and the proceedings thereon, unless it should be otherwise directed by the Senate. The motion made did not in the least affect the proceedings of the Senate as to the treaty now before them. On this motion the Senate were equally divided; and the Vice-President gave his casting vote against it.
The reasons for rejecting this motion, we understand, were, that the time of offering it was improper, as it might tend to impeach the conduct of the members in the instance of the treaty before them, respecting which there had been no special injunction of secrecy, and because its provisions were improper in themselves; it was alleged by those who voted against the motion, that the true principle would be, that in all cases of treaties in which the President recommends secrecy, the injunction should exist until revoked by the Senate.
BALTIMORE, December 27.
Extract of a letter from Colonel Burr, to General Smith, dated New-York, December 16.
"It is highly improbable that I shall have an equal number of votes with Mr. Jefferson.—But if such should be the result, every man, who knows me, ought to know that I would utterly disclaim all competition. Be assured that the federal party can entertain no wish for such an exchange. As to my friends, they would dishonour my views and insult my feelings by a suspicion that I would submit to be instrumental in counteracting the wishes and expectations of the United States. And I now constitute you my proxy to declare these sentiments, if the occasion shall require."
PHILADELPHIA, December 24.
On Friday evening last, the houses of Capt. Barry, and Mr. Billington, in Sixth-street, Spruce-street, were assaulted by some villains in a most daring, outrageous manner.
A gun it is supposed was fired into each house, the shot from which passed through the window; but providentially no lives were lost.
This outrage was committed about eight o'clock in the evening. Already the neighbourhood was instantly alarmed, the villains escaped, owing to the want of lights in Sixth-street, there being only three or four lamps in all the distance from Walnut to Cedar-street.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Brown, of the United States ship Merrimack, to the Secretary of the Navy,
Dated, Basseterre St. Kitts, Nov. 6.
"I left this port the 20th ult. and returned here again last evening, with one of the finest brigs belonging to Guadalupe, mounting 14 guns, and 120 men."
NEW-YORK, December 24.
Extract of a letter from an officer on board the United States ship President, to his friend in this city, dated
"St. Pierre's, November 20.
"We this morning came to anchor in the roads of St. Pierre, where we found the John Adams and the Schooner Experiment, which we sent in a few days ago, having carried away her fore-topmast and sprung her foremast in the chase. She is getting new ones, and will soon be at sea again—I believe there are five privateers out now: They stay in the ports, and if they see a vessel they run out, and in again immediately. This is evidently the case, for none of our ships have fallen in with them, and we can see numbers of them under the land. The sloop of war Merrimack , about ten days ago, captured a privateer brig of 14 guns, that was driven out of Curracoa by the English. The John Adams is going home, her cruise being over. She has made eleven prizes this trip, one of which was retaken and carried into Guadalupe."
Basseterre, Oct. 18. The United States frigate Chesapeake , Samuel Barron, Esq. commander, sent in on Thursday the English brig Herb , Capt. Lougal, from Providence, to London, laden with sugar, &c.—and yesterday afternoon the sloop Little George , from St. Bartholomews, bound for Guadalupe, with a cargo of provision, was sent in by the United States frigate President , Commodore Truxton.
December 30.
On the Election of President.
The result of the votes of the Electors for a President and Vice President have been so far ascertained, as to render it certain that both Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Burr will have a majority of all the votes. At present, excluding the states of Kentucky and Tennessee, they stand thus:
For Thomas Jefferson 66 Aaron Burr 66 John Adams 65 C. C. Pinckney 64
There is no doubt that Mr. Jefferson has obtained all the votes in Kentucky and Tennessee, which will give him in the whole 73 votes; and it seems most probable that Mr. Burr will have the same number.
In this event, the choice of a President from the two will devolve upon the House of Representatives.
The Constitution, art. II. sec. I. directs, that
"The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the greatest number of votes shall be the President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President; and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said House shall in like manner choose the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote: a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice. In every case after the choice of the President, the person having the greatest number of votes of the Electors shall be the Vice-President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the Sen-

ators shall choose from them, by ballot, the Vice-President."
And the act of Congress passed March 1, 1792, directs,
"That Congress shall be in session on the second Wednesday in February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and on the second Wednesday in February succeeding every meeting of the Electors; and the said certificates, or so many of them as shall have been received, shall then be opened, the votes counted, and the persons who shall fill the offices of President and Vice-President ascertained and declared, agreeably to the constitution."
From these provisions of the constitution, and the act of Congress, it results, that on the second Wednesday in February the votes of the Electors are to be counted, and that in case there be two candidates possessed of the same number of votes, both having a majority of all the electoral votes, the House of Representatives shall elect one of them as President. In this case the House is to vote by states, and the concurrence of a majority of all the states, that is of nine states, is required to constitute the election.
Thus far the Washington Intelligencer.—The returns from Kentucky and Tennessee (of which information was brought by the Southern mail of Saturday last) give seven votes for Mr. Jefferson and seven for Mr. Burr: They are of course equal—each having SEVENTY-THREE votes.
It now devolves on the House of Representatives to determine which of the two shall fill the Presidential chair. What that determination will be, we are unable to say: But we will state, for the satisfaction of our readers, the present strength of the two parties in that House.
   Members. Fed. Rep.     1 N. Hampshire sends 4, of which there are 4 and 0   2 Massachusetts 14 12   3 Rhode-Island 2 0   4 Connecticut 7 0   5 Delaware 1 0   6 South-Carolina 6 5   1 New-York 10 4   2 New-Jersey 5 2   3 Pennsylvania 13 4   4 Virginia 19 7   5 Georgia 2 0   6 Kentucky 2 0   7 Tennessee 1 0   1 Vermont 2 1   2 Maryland 8 4   3 North-Carolina 10 5   106 58 43  
According to this statement there will be 6 Federal Votes, 7 Democratic Votes—and 3 Divided.
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December 30. A FOUNDLING.
Last evening, about 7 o'clock, a small helpless female infant, of about three months old, was left by some depraved inhuman wretch on a stoop in Pine-Street, exposed to the inclemency of the weather, &c. &c. It was wrapped up in a red flannel cloak, with a white mullin turban round its head. The wretch who is capable of such an abominable act, is eligible only for the pillory or gallows; and it is much to be regretted that the laws of this State do not provide suitable punishment for such atrocious crimes. The unfortunate infant, from appearances, was not thus disposed of from poverty; but is probably the result of some illicit intercourse; and, shame, that scourge of depravity, is the cause which led to this inhuman measure—at which the most abandoned wretch ought to shudder. The child was immediately lodged in the alms-house, where we trust it will be taken care of.
A letter is said to be received in town this morning from the seat of government, which states, that Abert Gallatin has been nominated to the Senate of the United States as Secretary of the Treasury, in the room of the Hon. Oliver Walcott, resigned.
December 31. Among the benefits to be derived from a change of administration, we may enumerate the following:
1st. The pages of the Aurora, and its little dependant papers, will be no longer stained with calumny and abuse of upright men; but will for four years be filled with eulogies on the administration. This exchange will be much for the better; as praise is more commendable than blame. If the administration should be good, the praise will be merited; if evil, still the Aurora, to be consistent, must applaud it; and the praise of a bad administration, is a less evil than the abuse of a good one.
2d. The friends of the late and present administration will have a favourable opportunity to show the excellence of their principles and their superior merits, by treating the government with respect in the hands of men they do not like. The papers of that party will not be filled with lies and slander against the constituted authorities; but with a dignity that disdains the meanness and the baseness of bringing the laws into contempt, they will strive to give efficacy to the government.
3d. The pretended republicans, who rail at the marks of respect paid to General Washington and Mr. Adams, and who are already preparing to celebrate the accession of their god, Jefferson, with magnificent festivals, will now learn that there is a wide difference
between directing and abusing the administration of government; between the responsibility of acting at the head of affairs, and the responsibility of complaining at the acts of other.
Six sail of large armed ships, with troops from London, for Surinam, were spoken November 8, lat. 27, long. 57: 30.
The ship Mercury, having on board a very valuable cargo, from the river La Plata, bound to Philadelphia, is taken by the British, and carried into Halifax; 70,000 dollars in specie were landed from her at Halifax.
In the House of Commons of North-Carolina, lately, Mr. Doberry presented a bill directing the manner in which any bet on horse racing shall in future be recovered. Passed and sent to the Senate. The bill to provide for the equal division and distribution of insolvent debtors' estates, was rejected.
HANOVER, December 27. EARTHQUAKE.
On Friday evening of last week, a very sensible earthquake was experienced at this place, which was repeated on Saturday following to such a degree as to shake almost all the buildings in the place, and rattle the glass in the windows of many houses. Whether the neighbouring towns experienced the shock, we have not been able to learn. The same shock was also felt at Bolton, and Concord in New-Hampshire.
BOSTON, January 1.
Since the 1st of January, 1800, there have arrived in the port of Boston, from foreign places, 678 vessels; and during the same period, there have cleared, for foreign ports, 605, viz.—119 ships, 3 barques, 9 snows, 126 brigs, 325 schooners, 23 sloops.
Mr. Iznardi, late Consul of the United States, at Cadiz, has arrived at Norfolk, from the Havannah.
From the EAST-INDIES.
Captain Clay, of the Delaware, arrived at Philadelphia from Calcutta, informs, that a vessel had arrived at the Isle of France, with intelligence, that Buonaparte was immediately to send two frigates to the Mauritius, with Commissioners, for finally adjusting the governments of the islands, on such terms as were likely to meet the general approbation of the inhabitants.
Captain C. has brought with him from Calcutta, a superb piece of Plate, value 2000 rupees, presented by the Right Hon. Lord Mornington, Governor-General of the British possessions in India, to Captain Waters, late commander of the ship Atlantic, of Philadelphia; as a testimony of their gratitude for the service rendered the commercial interests in India by his gallant defence made in that ship against a French cruiser of very superior force, in consequence of which not only the Atlantic but a valuable British Indianman was preserved from the hands of the French.
TWO MEN BURNT ALIVE,
In the United States, near the beginning of the nineteenth century! Whatever sensation such a sentence and the execution of it may have excited in South-Carolina, it certainly excites the utmost horror in New-England. But these are black men who committed murder. But is the crime of murder worse in a black man, than in a white one? Has a black man less sensibility to the torture of fire than a man of any other colour? Who of us could bear to see a dog or a cat tied to a stake and gradually burning to death amidst its piercing cries, and all those contortions which agonizing nature expresses under such a shocking operation?—Still more, who of us could endure the horrible sight of two men, formed, organized, and endowed with every feeling and passion common to each human being, chained to a stake, and burning to death amidst all those heartpiercing cries, and lamentations which tortured human nature must send forth under such an hellish operation? America boasts of the mildness of her laws. I must have mistaken, and read Catolina instead of Algiers!
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
Attempts have been made to evade the law, by entering goods from Calcutta in dollars, instead of rupees, the coin of that place.—If there are any instances where the importer has been suffered to do it, it must have been from inattention to the circumstance, that at Calcutta 100 Spanish dollars are usually exchanged for 208 rupees.
Suppose the exchange at 208; the rupee then costs 48 cents, at which rate a person intending to defraud the revenue will invoice his goods, whereas if his invoice is made out in rupees (as the law requires) the Custom-House estimates them at 55 1-2 cents each, making a difference of 7 1-2 cents; of 12 and a half per cent. loss to the revenue, and of course so much gain to the importer!
We trust the honest fair Trader in no instance will be sacrificed to the sordid views of those of an opposite character.
We give such men this memento, because the law expressly says;—"if goods are invoiced with a design to evade the duties, they shall be forfeited, &c."
From many friends of the Revenue.
WARREN, January 2.
Yesterday, at the annual meeting of the Stockholders of the Warren Insurance Company, the following gentlemen were re-elected Directors of said Company, for the ensuing year, viz.—Charles Wheaton, John Child, James Maxwell, Levi Maxwell, Ebenezer Cole, John Throop Child, Sylvester Child, jun. William Carr, and Dunker Kelley.
After the Stockholders retired, the Directors re-elected Charles Wheaton, President.
Providence, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7.
Extract of a letter from a Senator in Congress, dated Washington, December 27, 1800.
"The returns of the Election of President and Vice-President have all arrived, and are in the hands of the President of the Senate. Yesterday arrived the last, from Kentucky, who has given her votes unanimously for Mr. Jefferson and Mr. Burr.—They have each an even vote of 73.—President Adams 65, and General Pinckney 64. It will therefore become the duty of the House of Representatives to elect either Mr. Jefferson or Mr. Burr, for President. Great interest is making. I at present think Mr. Jefferson will be elected by the House."
At the annual election of Directors of the Providence Insurance Company, holden at the Exchange Coffee-House on Monday last, JOHN MASON, Esq. President, and Messrs. CHARLES LIPPITT, ZEPHANIAH BROWN, and SAMUEL BUTLER, jun. Directors, declined a re-election.
The following gentlemen were unanimously elected Directors for the ensuing year:—Zachariah Allen, Thomas P. Ives, Moses Lippitt, John I. Clark, John Corlis, John Rogers, James Burrill, jun. Young Seaman, Thomas L. Halsey, Amos M. Atwell, Samuel W. Greene, Cyrus Butler, and Samuel G. Arnold.
The thanks of the Stockholders were voted to the President and Directors of the last year.
At a meeting of the Directors on the same day, AMOS M. ATWELL, Esq. was unanimously elected President, and Mr. JOHN MATHEWSON, jun. Secretary.
At the annual election of Directors of the Washington Insurance Company, holden at Mr. Ammidon's Inn, on Tuesday the 6th inst. the following gentlemen were unanimously elected Directors for the ensuing year:—
Richard Jackson, jun. Jabez Bullock, Amos Troop, Thomas Jackson, Grindal Reynolds, Ebenezer Macomber, George Benson, Wheeler Martin, Samuel Aborn, jun. Abner Daggett, Charles Sheldon, George Jackson, William F. Magee.
Mr. RICHARD JACKSON, jun. was re-elected President, and Mr. GEORGE BENSON, Secretary.
At the annual meeting of the Providence Fire Insurance Company, on Tuesday the 6th inst. the following gentlemen were chosen officers for the year ensuing, viz.—
John Mumford, Joseph Jenckes, William Jones, Esq. John F. Sheldon, Col. John Carlile, Col. John Spurr, Amos T. Jenckes, Col. Ephraim Bowen, jun. Isaac Pitman, Nathaniel Cushing, John Pitman, Jeremiah B. Howell, Nathan Angell, jun. Paris J. Tillinghast, and Obadiah Brown (S. M.) Directors.
Nathan Waterman, Treasurer. Joseph Lawrence, Secretary. John Mumford, Obadiah Brown (S. M.) and Nathaniel Cushing, Trustees.
COMMUNICATION.
OBSERVING at a funeral, not long since, a number of females standing some time on the wet ground, and facing a brisk north-west wind, waiting for the procession to be formed, I could not forbear a reflection on the danger to which they were exposed. I regretted to see so many valuable wives, mothers, and sisters, exposing their health, in the thin shoes and dress of the present day, merely in conformity to a practice to which custom has given its stamp; but is in itself useless. It cannot be doubted, but that many a premature death has been occasioned by this custom, which I believe is prevalent only in New-England. The extreme sensibility of the female heart, naturally induces them to express their sympathy for the afflicted. This may be done by attending at the house of mourning, and shewing kind attention to the afflicted females during the absence of their male friends, as the case may require, without exposing their health in processions, either on foot or in open carriages. The latter custom too, adds much to funeral expenses, and often takes away much of the little that is left for the support of the surviving. A general custom must be followed by the less able as well as those who are more so; and is done to the great inconvenience of many families. This observation extends also to mourning dress, which has again become burthensome. I think it not improbable that the female charitable society, which, to the honour of the sex, has been established in this town, have to reimburse many of those useless expenses by their kind appropriations. Shall the writer of this, therefore, recommend it to that truly estimable society, to take into their serious consideration the propriety of discouraging such a procedure by their own example, and by using their influence to dissuade others from it? HUMANITAS.
A bill has been introduced into the House of Representatives of North-Carolina, for the further taxing of Bachelors, and to forward the population of the State, by promoting and encouraging matrimony.
The State of Virginia has ceded to the United States the Marine Hospital at Norfolk, with its lots and appurtenances, and the land called Gosport; and it was expected they would be accepted.
The ice in the Hudson and Mohawk was broken up by the late freshes, and great damage has been occasioned to mills, bridges, &c. in various parts of the country.
By letters from Washington, it is said, there appears little probability of the ratification of the French treaty. The objections are reported to be principally confined to three points: 1st, the want of provisions for the indemnity of the sufferers by maritime depredations: 2d, the stipulation for the surrender of the captured national vessels: and 3d, the deficiency of specific commercial advantages in all the French ports.
The ships Cleopatra, Naylor, and Grace, Davis, both of Philadelphia, were left at Calcutta in August last.
His Excellency John Jay, Esq. is appointed by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to be Chief Justice of the United States, in the room of the Hon. Oliver Ellsworth, Esq. resigned.
MARRIED,
In this town, on Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Gano, Mr. Ebenezer K. Dexter, merchant, to Miss Waitstill Howell, eldest daughter of the Hon. David Howell, Esq.
DIED,
In this town, on Sunday last, in the 65th year of her age, Mrs. Patience Sterling, consort of Dr. Henry Sterling. Her remains will be interred this afternoon, at 2 o'clock; the friends and acquaintance of the deceased are requested to attend without further invitation.
On Monday morning last, Mrs. Rosella Tillinghast, widow of the late Mr. William Tillinghast. Her funeral will be attended this afternoon, at 3 o'clock, from the house of the deceased, South end.
On Wednesday, the 15th October, in Broad-Street Buildings, London, aged 57, Mrs. Mary Mullett, wife of Mr. Thomas Mullett. She was the eldest surviving daughter of the late Rev. Hugh Evans, M. A. and sister of the late Rev. Caleb Evans, D. D. successive Pastors of the Baptist Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Broad-Mead, Bristol; and President of a very respectable establishment in that city, for the education of candidates for the Christian Ministry.
RUM FOR SALE,
John Mason and Sons HAVE received a consignment of eighteen hogheads of Demerara RUM, of a good flavour and high proof, which they offer for sale at a very low price for cash or on short credit.
January 7.
HAT FURS.
Peter Taylor HAS JUST RECEIVED,
A GOOD assortment of HAT FURS, such as Northern and Western Beaver; do. Raccoon Skins and Muskrat, which will be sold on as good terms as can be bought in the New-England States, for CASH.
ALSO, A good assortment of Fine Hats, and Feits, which can be recommended.
LIKEWISE, 16,000 Dutch Quills, a few pieces Hair Ribbon, which will be sold on credit.
January 7. Said Taylor will give cash and a generous price for any quantity of good Mink Skins.
Those who love REPUBLICAN GOVERNMENT must cherish LITERATURE.
FOR this purpose the Proprietors of the Providence Library are pressingly requested to meet next Saturday, the 10th inst. at 2 o'clock, P. M. at the Library-Room, to adopt some mode to prevent the Library from being totally destroyed, as it will be, unless the Proprietors attend more than they have of late years.
PARIS J. TILLINGHAST, Proprietors' Clerk. January 7.
To Let,
A CONVENIENT DWELLING-HOUSE, west side of the Mill-bridge, lately occupied by Mr. ELISHA BROWN. For terms, apply to
BENJAMIN SMITH. January 7.
LOST,
ON Thursday the 25th of December, between Providence and BARZILAI PAINE, Esq's. in Gloucester, two Silk changeable Handkerchiefs. Whoever has found the same, and will leave them at this Office, or at ABRAHAM BAKER's, in Gloucester, shall be handsomely rewarded for their kindness.
January 7.
Take Notice.
TAKEN up on the land occupied by the subscriber, in North-Providence, on or about the 1st inst. a HORSE COLT, rising two years old. Whoever has lost the same may have him again, by proving property, and paying charges.
ROBERT HARKNESS. North-Providence, 6th inst. Mo.

Selected Poetry.
THE PETITION.
GRANT , thou GENTLE GOD OF LOVE, Happiness I now may prove: Pain I've tasted without measure, Give me now a moment's pleasure. Will the beauteous nymph comply? Or, despairing, shall I die?
Thus to CUPID I applied, And his godship thus replied:
Cease, fond mortal, to repine— Your enjoyment equals mine: Nor a greater bliss implore— You're HER SLAVE, and I'm no more." EUGENIUS.
For the PROVIDENCE JOURNAL.
MR. CARTER, PLEASE to publish in your paper the following ancient inscription, copied from the tomb-stone of a lady in the cathedral of the bishoprick of Ely, in England. By complying you will oblige
A CUSTOMER.
"Yet a verie little, and he that will come, shall "come." "The spirit and the bride say come— Lett him that heareth say come— And lett him that is athirst say come— Even soe come LORD JESUS."
URSULA. { TYNDALL, by birth, CONY, by choice, UPCHER, in age, and for comfort.*
* Anno Atatis 77. N. B. This gentlewoman was daughter to Doctor Humphrey Tyndall, first Dean of Ely, and was called Sappho, for her wit and morals. She married at 20, became a widow at 42, and after enjoying her liberty 35 years, married, at 77, a lad of 19, for comfort, being within two months of her end.
LOOKING-GLASSES.
At the GOLDEN BEE-HIVE, Jeremiah F. Jenkins
HAS just received an assortment of English and Dutch Looking-Glasses some of which are elegant and of the latest fashion—English Window Glass 8 by 6 and 9 by 7. Waffle Irons, fine Table Salt, Basket ditto. A few pipes French Brandy; Canton dyed dark blue Nankens—and black wide ditto. And for the Ladies handsome Slips—useful at this Season.
December 24.
To be Sold,
A VALUABLE FARM, in East-Greenwich, containing about an hundred acres of most excellent land adjoining the compact part of said town, with a large Dwelling-house and Barn, and other out-buildings thereon. Said farm is excellently watered with durable springs. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to
JOHN PEARCE.
December 24.
LOST,
On Friday afternoon last,
A RED MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, containing Fifty-eight Dollars in Providence Bank Notes, a Debenture Certificate from the Custom-House in Providence, No. 815, dated the 7th of November last, for 52 dollars and 28 cents; two cents; two Tickets in the Providence Episcopal Church Lottery, and a number of other papers of no consequence to any one but the owner. Whoever has found said Pocket-Book, and will return it to the subscriber, or leave it at this Printing-Office, shall receive Twenty-Dollars reward for the Pocket-Book, Money and Papers, or Five Dollars for the Book and Papers.
GEORGE C. PECK.
December 24.
Kent, sc.
WHEREAS JERAD GORTON, of West-Greenwich, in the county of Kent, and State of Rhode-Island, labourer, preferred his petition to the next term of the Supreme Judicial Court, to be holden in East-Greenwich, in said county, on the second Monday in April next, praying for divers causes therein set forth, that a decree of divorce between him and his wife Elizabeth Gorton, may be passed:—Notice is hereby given to the said Elizabeth, to appear at the next term of said Court, and show cause, if any she hath, why the prayer of said Petitioner should not be granted.
A. BOYD, Clerk.
December 24.
LOST, IN THE STREET,
A Note of Hand,
SIGNED by HARRIS and RHODES, payable at Providence Bank, in 60 days, to CHRISTOPHER C. OLNEY, and Co. for 142 dollars, dated December 1, 1800.
Any person finding the same, is desired to leave it at the store of the subscribers, and they shall be handsomely rewarded.
C. C. OLNEY and Co.
N. B. Said Note is of no use to any person but the owners, the payment of it being stopped.
December 14.
For SALE by Harris and Rhodes,
 20 Boxes Havana White and Brown Sugar  5 Hogheads W. I. Rum  3 Pipes Brandy  10 Hogheads Molasses  Hyson, Souchong and Bohea Tea  Turks-Island and Rock Salt  Tobacco by the Hoghead  A few Kegs Honey  Cash paid for good clean Flax-Seed. 
October 15.
(epif.)
Musical Instruments
AND MOROCCO POCKET-BOOKS.
Just received, and for sale, by
DAVID VINTON,
At the Corner Store, No. 7, Market-Square, IN addition to his usual extensive assortment of FANCY-GOODS, he has opened a large and beautiful variety of Ladies and Gentlemen's MOROCCO POCKET-BOOKS, of almost every size and quality, per dozen or single, of different prices, from 25 cents up to ten dollars each. The Ladies Pocket-Books and Thread Cases, with high finished instruments, and silver and enameled Clasps, are richly bound with silver rims.
Likewise, Just Opened,
144 GOOD toned VIOLINS, and genuine Roman Violin and Bass-Viol Strings, of a superior quality: Bass-Viols, Clarionets, Hautboys, German Flutes, and Fifes, plain and tip'd with ivory.
400 Different pieces NEW MUSIC, and SONGS, from the most celebrated and modern authors.
Also,
A new supply of Green and White SPECTACLES, calculated for all ages, and of various prices.
Spices of every kind, and Fresh Malaga, real Muscadel, and Bloom RAISINS, per box, excellent soft shell'd Almonds, and large Turkey Figs, Sweet Oil, per box or flask, warranted Mustard and Cayenne, India Soy, Capers, Pepper-Sauce, Anchovies, &c. &c.
POWDER and SHOT.
Ten different sizes real PATENT SHOT, per bag, or less quantity; warranted GUN-POWDER, of the first, second, third and fourth qualities, and best Oil Flints.
Two New CHAISE for sale, very low, on a long and approved credit.
November 26.
GROCERY STORE.
S. C. Blodget
Respectfully informs his friends and the public at large, that he has taken the store lately occupied by THOMAS LLOYD HALSEY, Esq. in his old mansion-house, nearly opposite Bank-lane, where he is opening for sale, on very moderate terms, a general assortment of GROCERIES, genuine in kind.
December 17.
William Blodget, jun.
Store No. 7, Cheapside, Has this day received and opening for sale, an extensive additional supply, to his recently largely replenished Stock, completing a very general assortment of Fashionable, Staple and Fancy GOODS, viz.
PLAIN, sprigged, and fancy wrought, book, and jaconet Muslin, India and Scotch; linnen and cotton Handkerchiefs; white, fancy, coloured, book, jaconet Muslin, do. India and English silk Handkerchiefs, every description; blue and yellow Nankins; Durants, Tamnies, Sha-loons, Rattinees, superfine, fine and mock Moreenes; Russells; Calimancoes, and Wildbores, striped and plain; Mullinets, Dimity, Calicoes and London Chintzes, a very extensive variety; linnen and cotton Cambricks; Irish linnen Sheeting, an extensive choice; Hosiery, a large supply, worsted, cotton, thread, plated and silk of every quality, for ladies and gentlemen; fancy silk and cotton Shawls, a very extensive assortment; camels hair do. with and without silk and worsted fringes; Sattins; Lutestring; Florentines; Sarfenets and Pelongs; fancy silk and embroidered Marceilles Vellings; plain and milled swan-down do. Hats of every description; Flannels and Baizes at all prices; Rattinees and fashionable Coating, and habit Cloths for ladies; silk and cotton long and short, plain and laced Gloves and Mitts of all colours; long and short kid Gloves; a beautiful variety fashionable Ribbons; Russia and American made fox Muffs; Umbrellas; silk Velvets, and Bindings; fancy coloured Crapes; Suspenders; Stocks; Blankets, every size; Serges; Forest Cloths; Plains; Kerseys; fashionable black and other coloured striped Velvets; Diapers; fancy coloured Mullins; Gown Trimmings, a recent fashionable article; Gauzes; Dress Combs; Lion Skin and Fernoughes; Shags; Elastic Cloths; Dutch, French, and English Broadcloths and Cassimeres of the most fashionable and best kinds, a very extensive supply calculated for every taste; all at very moderate prices, wholesale or retail. With the addition of very many other useful articles.
November 26.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 18, 1800.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
In pursuance of an act of Congress, passed on the 23d day of April, one thousand eight hundred, entitled "An act to establish a General Stamp-Office,"
THAT a General Stamp-Office is now established at the seat of government, in the city of Washington, from whence there will issue, from and after the date hereof (upon the application of the Supervisors of the Revenue, under whose management the collection of the stamp duties is placed) any quantities of paper, parchment and vellum, marked or stamped, and duly counter-stamped, with the following rates of duty, which are demandable by law:—
For every skin or piece of vellum or parchment, or sheet or piece of paper, upon which shall be written or printed any or either of the instruments or writings following, to wit.
   D. C. M.     ANY certificate of naturalization, - - - - - 5   Any licence to practise, or certificate of the admission, enrollment or registry of any counsellor, solicitor, attorney, advocate or proctor, in any court of the United States, - - - - - 10   Provided, That a certificate in any one of the courts of the United States, for any one of the said offices, shall, so far as relates to the payment of the duty aforesaid, be a sufficient admission in all the courts of the United States, for each and every of the said offices.   Any grant or letters patent, under the seal or authority of the United States, (except for lands granted for military services) - - - - - 4   Any exemplification or certified copy of any such grant or letters patent (except for lands granted for military services) - - - - - 2   Any charter-party, bottomry or respondentia bond, - - - - - 1   Any receipt or discharge for or on account of any legacy left by any will, or other testamentary instrument, or for any share or part of a personal estate, divided by force of any statute of distributions other than to the wife, children or grand-children of the person deceased, the amount whereof shall be above the value of fifty dollars, and shall not exceed the value of one hundred dollars, - - - - - 25   When the amount thereof shall exceed the value of one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed five hundred dollars, - - - - - 50   And for every further sum of five hundred dollars, the additional sum of - - - - - 25   Any policy of insurance, or instrument in nature thereof, when the sum for which insurance is made shall not exceed five hundred dollars, - - - - - 1   When the sum insured shall exceed five hundred dollars, - - - - - 50   Any exemplification of what nature soever, that shall pass the seal of any court, other than such as it may be the duty of the clerk of such court to furnish for the use of the United States, or some particular States, - - - - - 1   Any bond, bill single or penal, inland bill of exchange, promissory note or other note (other than any recognizance, bill, bond or other obligation, or contract, made to or with the United States, or any State or for their use respectively; and any bonds required in any case by the laws of the United States, or of any State, upon legal process, or in any judicial proceeding, or for the faithful performance of any trust or duty) - - - - - 10   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, - - - - - 25   If above one hundred and not exceeding five hundred dollars, - - - - - 50   If above five hundred and not exceeding one thousand dollars, - - - - - 75   And if above one thousand dollars, - - - - -   Provided, That if any bonds or notes shall be payable at or within sixty days, such bonds or notes shall be subject to only two-fifths parts of the duty aforesaid, viz.   If above twenty and not exceeding one hundred dollars, - - - - - 4   If above one hundred dollars and not exceeding five hundred dollars, - - - - - 10   If above five hundred dollars and not exceeding one thousand dollars, - - - - - 20   If above one thousand dollars, - - - - - 30   Any foreign bill of exchange, draft or order for the payment of money in any foreign country, - - - - - 20   The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of exchange, without respect to the number contained in each set.   Any note or bill of lading or writing, or receipt in nature thereof for goods or merchandise to be exported; - - - - -   If from one district to another district of the United States, not being in the same State, - - - - - 4   If from the United States to any foreign port or place, - - - - - 10   The said duty being chargeable upon each and every bill of lading, without respect to the number contained in each set.   Any notes issued by the banks now established, or that may be hereafter established within the United States, other than the notes of such of the said banks as shall agree to an annual composition of one per centum on the annual dividends made by such banks, to their stockholders respectively, according to the following scale:   On all notes not exceeding fifty dollars, for each dollar, - - - - - 50   On all notes above fifty dollars, and not exceeding one hundred dollars, - - - - - 1   On all notes above one hundred dollars, and not exceeding five hundred dollars, - - - - - 2   On all notes above five hundred dollars, - - - - - 25   Any protest or other notarial act, - - - - - 25   Any letter of attorney, except for an invalid pension, or to obtain or sell warrants for land granted by the United States as bounty for military services performed in the late war, - - - - - 25   Any inventory or catalogue of any furniture, goods or effects made in any case required by law (except in cases of goods and chattels distrained for rent or taxes, and goods taken in virtue of any legal process by any officer) - - - - - 50   Any certificate of a share in any insurance company, of a share in the bank of the United States, or of any state or other bank; - - - - -   If above twenty dollars and not exceeding one hundred dollars, - - - - - 10   If above one hundred dollars, - - - - - 25   If under twenty dollars, at the rate of ten cents for one hundred dollars. 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THAT the power of the Supervisors of the Revenue to mark or stamp any vellum, parchment or paper chargeable with duty, will cease and determine from and after six months from the date hereof, to wit, on the last day of February, 1801.
THAT, if any persons shall, after the last day of February 1801, have in their custody or possession, any vellum, parchment or paper, marked or stamped by the Supervisors of the Revenue, upon which any matter or thing, charged with duty, shall not have been written or printed, they may at any time within the space of sixty days after the said last day of February, 1801, bring or send such vellum, parchment and paper, unto some office of inspection, and in lieu thereof, receive a like quantity or value of vellum, parchment and paper, duly stamped, in pursuance of the act herein before recited. And in case any person shall neglect or refuse, within the time aforesaid, to bring or cause to be brought unto some officer of inspection, any such vellum, parchment or paper, it is hereby declared, that the same will thereafter be of no other effect or use, than if it had never been marked or stamped, and that all masters and things, which may after that time be written or printed upon any vellum, parchment or paper, authorized to be exchanged in manner aforesaid, will be of no other effect, than if they had been written or printed on paper, parchment or vellum, not marked or stamped.
AND for the convenience of those persons who may be inclined to have their own vellum, parchment and paper stamped or marked, it is hereby declared, that when any person shall deposit any vellum, parchment or paper at the office of a supervisor, accompanied with a list, specifying the number and denomination of the stamps or marks, which are desired to be thereto affixed, the same will be transmitted to the General Stamp-Office, and there properly marked or stamped, and forthwith sent back to the same supervisor, who will thereupon collect the duties and deliver the paper, parchment or vellum, to the order of the person from whom the same was received.
GIVEN under my hand, and the seal of the Treasury, at WASHINGTON, the day and year above mentioned.
(s.s.) OLIVER WOLCOTT, SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY.