Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-03-27 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 86 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1793.
[Whole No. 408.]
PRICE CURRENT.
PER QUANTITY.—DOLLARS 100 Cents each.
PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 27.
   PER QUANTITY.—DOLLARS 100 Cents each. Dls. Cts. Dls. Cts.     ANCHORS pr. lb. 7 10   Allan, English, pr. cwt. 4 33   Ditto, Roch. pr. lb. 11   Atkes, pot, per ton 120   — Pearl 137 140   Arrack pr. gall. 1 33 1 16   Brandy, common 85   — Coniac 90   Brazillett, pr. ton 32 34   Bricks, pr. M. 4 7   Bread, ship, pr. cwt. 2 27   — Ditto, pilot 3 67   — Ditto, small water, per keg 36 40   Beer, American, in bottles, pr. doz. bottles included 1 40   — Ditto pr. barrel 4 67   Boards Cedar, pr. M feet 20   — New England 12   — Oak 14   — Merchantable pine 20   — Sap, do. 18   — Mahogany, per foot 20   The above are the shallot prices, for the yard price, add a dollar 33 cents per 1000.   Brimstone in rolls, pr. cwt. 2 67   Beef, Boston, per barrel 9   — Country ditto 8 9   — Fresh, per cwt. 3 33 4 67   Butter, pr. lb. 16   — in kegs 10   Candles, Sperm, pr. lb. 47   — Wax 56   — Myrtle Wax 13   — Mould, tallow 12   — Dipped 11   Cheese, English, pr. lb. 19   — Country 19   Chocolate 20   Cinnamon 2 40 2 67   Cloves 1 32   Cocoa pr. cwt. 17   Coffee, pr. lb. 17   Coal, pr. bushel 24   Copperas, pr. cwt. 62   Cordage, American, per cwt. 7 67 8   Cotton, pr. lb. 27   Currants 12   Duck, Russia, pr. piece 11 33   — Raveas 8 93 9 67   Dutch sail duck 18 20   Feathers, pr. lb. 48   Flax 11   Flaxseed, pr. bush. 90   Flour, Superfine pr. barrel 5 75   — Common 5 50   — Bur middlings, best 4 47   — Meal, Indian 3 13   — ditto Rye 3 13   — Ship-stuff, pr. cwt. 1 40   Fulic, pr. ton 20   Gins, Holland, pr. case 4 66   — Do. pr. gall. 80   Glue, pr. cwt. 20 21 33   Ginger, white race, per lb. 7   — Ditto, common 7   Ginseng, pr. lb. 10   Ginseng 20   Gunpowder, cannon, pr. q. cask 3 73 4   — Ditto, fine glazed 4   Grain, Wheat pr. bush 1 7 27   — Rye 60   — Oats 35   — Indian corn 60   — Barley 1 3   — Best shelled pr. lb. 7   — Buckwheat, per bush. 40   Hemp, imported, pr. ton 120 146 67   American, pr. lb. 4 5   Herring, pr. bbl. 3   Hides, raw pr. lb. 9   Hops 11   Hoghead hoops, pr. M. 27   Indigo, French per lb. 1 20 1 53   — Carolina 1 20   Irons, sad pr. ton 133 33   Iron, Castings pr. cwt. 3 4   — Bar pr. ton 85 33   — Pig 24 26   — Sheet 173 33   — Nail rods 106 67   Junk, pr. cwt. 4 5   Lard, hogs pr. lb. 9 10   Lead, in pigs pr. cwt. 5 33 5 67   — in bars 10 10   — white 6 40   — red 6 67   Leather, foal, pr. lb. 17   Lignum vitae pr. ton 5 60   Logwood 80   Mace pr. lb. 9   Mackerel, best pr. bbl. 8   — second quality 6 4   Madder, best pr. lb. 16   Marble, wrought, pr. foot 1 33 2 67   Malt spars ditto 33   Molasses pr. gall. 44   Mustard, pr. lb. 87   — flour, in bottles, pr. doz. 1 20   Nails, 8d. sqd. sqd. and 20d. pr. lb. 10   Nutmegs pr. lb. 7   Oil, Linseed, pr. gall. 66   — Olive 87   Oil, Ditto, pr. case 2 50   — Sweet, best, in flasks, pr. box 10 50   — Ditto baskets, 12 bottles 5   — Spermaceti pr. gall. 48   — Tallow 24   — Whale 25   Porter, pr. cask 5 33   — London, pr. doz. 1 60   — American ditto bot. incl. 1 4   Pitch, pr. bbl. 1 73   Pork, Burlington, per barrel 10 67   — Lower county 10   — Carolina 9   Peas, Albany pr. bushel 73   Pepper, pr. lb. 38   Pimento 19   Raisins, best, pr. keg 6 33   — Ditto, pr. jar 2 33   — Ditto, pr. box 2 33   Rice, pr. cwt. 3 78   Rosin, pr. barrel 2 78   Rum, Jamaica, pr. gallon 1 12   — Antigua 1   — Windward 86   — Barbadoes 87   — Country, N. E. 60   Salt petre, pr. cwt. 14 33   Sassafras, pr. ton 6 8   Shot, ditto 145 141   Steel, German pr. lb. 9   — English, blistered, pr. cwt. 10   — American pr. ton 113 33   — Crowley's pr. faggot 10 67   Snake root pr. lb. 20 42   Soap, Brown per lb. 6   — White 8   — Castile 11   Starch 7   Snuff pr. doz. bot. 4 5   Spermaceti, refined, pr. lb. 48   Sailcloth, English, No. 1, pr. yard 28   — Boston, No. 1. ditto 30   — No. II. 29   Sugar Lump, pr. lb. 24   — Loaf, single refined 24   — Ditto, double do. 33   — Havana, white 17 18   — Ditto, brown 11 12   — Muscovado, pr. cwt. 13 15   Spirits Turpentine pr. gallon 37   Salt, Allum pr. bushel 33   — Liverpool 33   — Cadiz 25   — Lisbon 27   Ship build. W. O. frames p. ton 15   Ditto Live Oak 18 67   Ditto red cedar, per foot 33 40   Shingles, 18 inch. per M. 3 33   Ditto 2 feet 5 33   Ditto 3 feet, dressed 13 15   Staves, Pipe, pr. 1000 32   — White Oak hoghead 20 33   — Red Oak do. 19 50   — Leogan 21 33   — Barrel 16   — Heading 25 33   Skins, Otter, best pr. piece 4 67   — Minks 20 40   — Fox, grey 40 80   — Ditto red 1 20   — Martins 24 1   — Fishers 33 67   — Bears 3   — Racoons 27 60   — Musk-rats 11 20   — Beaver, pr. lb. 67 1   — Deer, in hair 20 30   Tar, N. Jersey, 24 gal. p. bbl. 1   — Carolina, 32 gal. 2   Turpentine pr. bbl. 2 33   Tobacco, J. River, best 100 lb. 4 33   — inferior 3 33   — old 4 67   — Rappahannock 3 33   — Coloured Maryland 5 33   — Dark 2 40   — Long-leaf 2 40   — Eastern-shore 2 23   — Carolina, new 1 7   — old 3 33   Tea, Hyson pr. lb. 1 28   — Hyson skin 53 60   — Souchong 50 93   — Congo 43 50   — Bohea 33 36   Tallow, refined, per lb. 1 9   Tin, pr. box 13 33   Verdigrease pr. lb. 47 53   Vermilion, do. 1 33   Varnish, per gallon 33 37   Wax, Bees pr. lb. 25 47   Whale-bone, long pr. lb. 13 30   Wine, Madeira, pr. pipe 176 226   — Lisbon 120 126   — Teneriffe, pr. gallon 63   — Faya 52   — Port pr. pipe 113 33   — Ditto in bottles, pr. doz. 4 6   — Claret 4 6   — Sherry pr. gall. 90 1   — Malaga 77 80  
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
   On London, at 30 days, per £. 100 sterl. 490   — at 60 days 425   — at 90 days 424   Amsterdam, 60 days, pr. guilders, 37   — 90 days, 35  
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, March 1.
In committee of the whole, Mr. Mellenberg in the chair, on the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th resolutions, respecting the official conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury, for which see Gazette of the 6th inst.
(Mr. Madison's Speech concluded.)
THE other attempt to elude the evidence before the committee recoiled with equal force on the gentlemen who had hazarded it. In the report lately made by the trustees of the sinking fund, is a statement laid before them by the Secretary, in which it is noted, that the acceptance of the loan of three millions of florins, and the application of one third of it to the purpose of that fund, was under the consideration of the President.
From this fact it had been inferred, not only that the Secretary had withheld no proper information from the trustees, but that the result of the President's deliberations on the subject had varied the purpose signified by his first instructions to the secretary.
It happened however most unfortunately for the gentlemen who exulted in this argument, that they had entirely overlooked the dates of the two papers. The paper laid before the trustees, and alleged to have explained the final purpose of the President, was dated on the 25th of August, 1790. The paper relied on by the other side, as a final, as well as the most formal, designation of the will of the President, was dated the 28th of August, 1790. The gentlemen, therefore, instead of the inference they had made, should have reversed their premises, and joined with their opponents in concluding that the President was led, by a consideration of the subject, not to do what the secretary in his note to the trustees seemed to anticipate, but what had been evinced by the President's own act of posterior date.
Much has been said on the necessity of sometimes departing from the strictness of legal appropriations, as a plea for any freedoms that may have been taken with them by the secretary. He would not deny that there might be emergencies, in the course of human affairs, or to extraordinary and pressing natures, as to absolve the executive from an inflexible conformity to the injunctions of the law. It was, nevertheless, as essential to remember, as it was obvious to remark, that in all such cases, the necessity should be palpable; that the executive sanction should flow from the supreme source; and that the first opportunity should be seized for communicating to the legislature the measures pursued, with the reasons explaining the necessity of them. This early communication was equally enforced by prudence and by duty. It was the best evidence of the motives for assuming the extraordinary power; it was a respect manifestly due to the legislative authority; and it was more particularly indispensable, as that alone would enable the legislature, by a provident amendment of the law, to accommodate it to like emergencies in future.
In the proceedings falling under the present enquiry, no necessity appeared for the liberties which had been taken, the money appropriated in Europe being more wanted there than at home. It appeared that the instructions of the Supreme Executive, instead of warranting those liberties, had precluded them. Nor had the proper explanations been disclosed in due time to the legislature.
To place the subject in a more distinct point of view, it was proper to advert to the precise authorities and duties of the Secretary, as his office is defined by the act establishing the treasury department. For this purpose Mr. M. read the second section of that act, which is in the words following—"That it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to digest and prepare plans for the improvement and management of the revenue, and for the support of public credit; to prepare and report estimates of the public revenue, and the public expenditures; to superintend the collection of the revenue; to decide on the forms of keeping and stating accounts and making returns, and to grant under the limitations herein established, or to be hereafter provided, all warrants for monies to be issued from the treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law; to execute such services relative to the sale of the lands belonging to the United States, as may be by law required of him; to make report and give information to either branch of the Legislature, in person or in writing (as he may be required) respecting all matters referred to him by the Senate or House of Representatives, or which shall appertain to his office; and generally to perform all such services relative to the finances, as he shall be directed to perform."
This establishment of the office, evidently had no reference beyond the case of superintending the regular and ordinary collection of the revenue, and granting warrants for monies issued from the treasury, in pursuance of appropriations by law.
The case of loans, as an occasional and extraordinary resource, was left to be provided for by particular laws for the purpose. The authority with respect to the loans in question was accordingly committed to the President, in order to secure for so special a trust, the highest responsibility to be found in the government. And when it was considered that the whole sum contemplated was no less than fourteen millions of dollars; and when the latitude as to the terms and contracts was combined with the vastness of the sum; it might well be questioned whether so great a power would have been delegated to any man in whom the legislature and the people of America, had less confidence than they so justly reposed in the existing chief magistrate; and whether an equal power will ever be committed to a successor.
This distinction between the case of ordinary revenue and that of loans, is not only consonant to the actual policy of our laws, but is founded in obvious and solid considerations.
In the collection and disbursement of the ordinary revenues arising from taxation, the business flows in official channels; is subject in every stage to official checks; and the money being in constant influx and efflux, no where accumulates in immense sums.

House, without discovering either that they had been made by the authority or with the knowledge of the President; or had been required for, or applied to the purchase of the public debt; or had been ever communicated to the trustees of the sinking fund, who had the direction of such purchases; or that they were the effect of any necessity that could justify them.
And if there was no evident necessity for the proceeding, it was the more to be lamented, that whilst we were every where sympathising with our allies, in their arduous struggles for liberty, and echoing from every part of the union, our congratulations, and good wishes, the pecuniary succours, so critically necessary to their cause, and the most substantial proof of the sincerity of our professions, should be silently withdrawn across the Atlantic, from the object for which they were intended; succours too, which were not merely a tribute of gratitude, of generosity, or of benevolent zeal for the triumph of liberty; but a debt moreover of strict and positive obligation, for value acknowledged and received. In contemplating the subject in this point of view, he felt a pain which he could not easily express; and to which he persuaded himself, the breast of no other member could be a stranger.
Laying aside however all these unfavorable considerations, the important question still remained, why the legislature had been uninformed of the monies so unexpectedly drawn into the bank, and to so very great an amount. If the drafts had received every requisite sanction—if they had been produced by the most justifiable causes, the existence of 1,220,476 dollars in a situation so different from what had been contemplated, was a fact, which the representatives of the people had a right to know; which it was important to them, and their constituents, that they should know; and which it was the indispensable duty of the officer charged with it, to have made known.
This omission was the more remarkable, when considered in relation to the measure above mentioned, of paying off at once the whole sum of 2,000,000 dollars, payable to the bank by instalments in ten years. A bill for this purpose had been introduced, and was on its passage. The object of it had been patronized by a report of the Secretary not long since made. In one of his last reports, he expressly states among the inducements to such extensive drafts of money from Europe, that they were made "with an eye to placing within the reach of the legislature" the means requisite for this object. Was it not extraordinary; was it not unaccountable, that so important a measure should be recommended, and be actually introduced, and that money otherwise appropriated in Europe, should be transferred to this country and deposited in the bank, in order that it might be within the reach of being applied by the legislature to that measure; and yet that no disclosure should be made to the legislature of the fact, that the money was so drawn and lay at the bank within their reach to be so applied.
If any thing could heighten astonishment on this occasion, it must be the reason assigned by the Secretary for any obscurity that might have hung over our finances,—"that till the last resolutions, no call had been made on the department; which rendered it proper to exhibit a general view of the public monies and funds, or to show the amount and situation of such as were unapplied." Mr. Madison would not decide that the Legislature was free from blame, in not using more full and efficacious means of obtaining such information, as would have removed all obscurity. But whatever degree of blame might fall on them, it never could be admitted, that their calls on the department had furnished no proper occasion for exhibiting a full view of the public finances. He referred generally to the various resolutions, which, without the least force of construction, would have extended to every proper article of information. He reminded the committee of the latitude of reports under certain other orders of the house; and asked whether less freedom of construction was to be allowed when information was to be given, than when power or discretion was to be exercised? But independently of this view of the matter, Mr. M. held it to be clear and palpable, that the very situation of the money, afforded an occasion which rendered it proper, that the House should be informed of it. If a liberty could be taken, of removing money from Europe where it stood appropriated by law, to this country, where there was no legal object that required it, and with an eye, as was stated, to an object to which no money was applicable, without the authority of the Legislature, how could it possibly be supposed improper to take the further liberty of communicating what was done, to the Legislature?
He concluded with recurring to the particular form, in which the subject presented itself to the committee, and repeating, that whatever quality might be attached to the facts charged, or however improper it might be thought by some, to proceed in haste to any affirmative decision on them, it appeared irreconcilable with the evidence which had been produced, to decide, by a negative vote, against the truth of the facts.
(Debate to be continued.)
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO.
CONSIDERING M. Dupont's speech in the National Convention of France, as a sample of that philosophy which prevails too generally among the men of science, who are the principal conductors of the present revolution in that country, it shews us that philosophy is susceptible of fanaticism, as well as religion. These philosophical fanatics are zeal-
ously engaged in preaching a system of equality which, without an entire regeneration of human nature, (to adopt a phrase they are so fond of stealing from the pulpit) could never be maintained—that is, unless all men were perfectly wise and perfectly good—and unless they could be persuaded to labour for the public, without either the natural rewards of industry, or the motives of piety.—They are engaged with equal zeal in destroying all systems of public religion, and seem not to be aware how deeply a tendency to religion is implanted in the human heart. The great body of the people, if they are not well instructed in rational principles of virtue and piety, recommended by the solemnity of religious forms, and sanctioned as they believe by the authority of Heaven, will be perpetually liable, from that tendency, to superstition or enthusiasm.—In the absence of religious forms, they are most prone to enthusiasm.—And when once the phrensy becomes general, no man can pretend to limit its excesses, or to say what direction accident may give it.—Tranquility is destroyed, order is overturned, and that wretched philosophy, that laid the foundation of the evil, will itself be among the first objects of its fury. The bad and the good are equally swept away before this dreadful conflagration. That it has been is sufficient to provoke its vengeance.—It is the spirit of fanaticism to make all things new, and to annihilate, if possible, every vestige of former manners, institutions, and opinions. Such is the tendency likewise of that philosophical fanaticism that now infects many of the leaders of the French nation—And, by attempting to destroy religion, they are, without intending it, preparing the way for a religious phrensy in some future time to spring up, that will be equally terrible and ruinous in its effects. The human mind will rush with violence from the one extreme to the other.
These reflexions deserve the consideration of those few men of science and influence in this country, who are aping the language of France on the subject of equality, and who, though they are not atheists like Dupont, seem to be inspired with a similar antipathy to religious institutions.
March 22, 1793.
Foreign Affairs.
LE GHORN, Dec. 19.
WE have further accounts of the departure of the French fleet from the bay of Spechia; ten of them are gone to Toulon, where there are said to be sixty transports, with 15,000 troops on board, waiting for them to convoy. Eleven other French ships of war, with some bomb ketches, are gone to Corsica, to take in 4,000 men. After this the fleet will unite again, and, it is said, will sail to Sardinia.
Admiral Truguet has declared that, as Tuscany has observed a very strict neutrality, it shall not be molested.
HAGUE, January 10.
The States General have published a placard forbidding any men, either as soldiers or sailors from being enlisted here for any foreign service whatever.
The States General have appointed Wednesday, the 13th of February to be appointed as a day of general fasting and prayer, according to annual custom.
LONDON, Jan. 16.
Dumourier, like his predecessors, Fayette and Luckner, has returned to Paris with complaints from the army.—Like Fayette and Luckner, that step may lead to his ruin; for, like them, he will in all probability discover that there is less danger and difficulty in battle, than in proposing to an Assembly of madmen, decency of public conduct, and the adoption of prudent measures.
The industrious tradesmen and laborious poor of this kingdom have great reason to detest those admirers of the French Revolution, for inviting them to assist in a revolution here, and thereby defeating the grand plan for increasing our national strength, by applying the annual surplus of revenue to the reduction of taxes and national debt, and oblige us to employ that and millions more in a fruitless war.
The French Ambassador is supposed to have had his last interview with Ministry on Sunday.
JANUARY 21.
The approaching war with France will unquestionably be the most popular in which this country has ever been involved—We have justice and expediency on our side, and the call of Europe to step forward and check the career of blood hounds.
A more specious, shuffling, unsatisfactory composition, than the answer of the Provisional Executive
Council of France to the official notice of Lord Grenville, delivered to Mons. Chauvelin, can hardly be imagined. The attempt to explain away the decree of the National Convention, by which they hold out invitations to the seditions of all countries, is futile in the extreme, and the subsequent affirmation, that the opening the Scheldt is a matter "absolutely indifferent to England, and as little interesting to Holland," is an impudent and insulting presumption to judge for both countries. Nor is this all: for while the French Republic thus means to "establish itself as an universal arbiter of the treaties which bind nations," it proceeds to declare that it will support the opening of the Scheldt till the Belgic shall be a free and unhackled State—that is, in other words, as long as the French republic shall please. Such language would not have been borne by our hardy ancestors, and we trust Britons will exhibit an hereditary zeal for national honor.
A letter, said to come from an officer in commodore Murray's squadron, mentions that the commodore being joined by two Dutch frigates, and having taken on board pilots at Flushing, he entered the Scheldt on Thursday last. The commodore boarded one of the French frigates lying in the Scheldt, which the crew had abandoned on his approach. A small vessel under French colours, on Tuesday, attempting to sail up the Scheldt, was fired at by the Dutch, and sunk.
A most elegant dinner was on Friday given by the Lord Mayor to a large party of friends, in honor of her Majesty's birth day.
The spirit of loyalty gave a zest to the luxuriance of the entertainment, which was highly expressive of that liberality which distinguishes his Lordship, and the following toasts and sentiments were drank unanimously:
The King; may he reign long and happy.
The Queen, and a long happy life to her.
The Prince of Wales and Royal Family.
Mr. Pitt, &c. &c.
The Constitution of Great Britain, as established by law, and may it flourish and endure while time shall last.
The City of London, and may the spirit of her Citizens preserve her freedom and protect her commerce.
Of the songs, there were several sung in a superior style, and "God save the King!" was given with much effect, by three voices, and the whole company united in the chorus.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
TUESDAY, January 8.
It was decreed that for the future the process verbal shall contain a recital of all the tumultuous scenes in the Convention.
New complaints were made by the Commissioners stationed at Brussels, of the scarcity of forage and provisions in the army of the republic. A new organization of the War-Office, which removes all responsibility from the War Minister, was the consequence of this complaint.
The Minister Pache stated, that the Gendarmes quitted their colours in numbers, which ought to excite an alarm. "If we do not," said he, "put a stop to this calamity, how are we to combat our numerous enemies in the spring! I demand, that they may be considered as deserters."
Referred to the war Committee.
The Decree of the 15th of December, which respects the Belgic Provinces, was next discussed.
"The Priests of Belgium" said Cambon, "the priests alone oppose this decree, because it puts us in possession of eight hundred Abbeys belonging to the Maury of Belgium, and of lands which are to us the Land of Promise. Why should we delay the confiscation of this Church property? I demand that Commissioners may be immediately sent to seize on it." (This proposition
came too home to the feelings of the convention, not to be adopted.)
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16.
It having been decreed by the Provisional Executive Council, that the theatres shall be open during the time employed in passing sentence on Louis Capet, suppressing, however, such pieces as have lately occasioned tumult, a violent debate ensued in the Convention. The conduct of the executive council was censured.
A member complained that the municipal officers had been insulted at the theatre the day before. Order of the day.
Lacroix returned from the army of the Rhine, stated the deplorable situation of the soldiery—without arms, without cloaths, whole companies reduced to three men each, and whole battalions to sixty.
Roland stated, that multitudes fled from the metropolis. It was not surprising, he said, as new proscriptions were on foot. The Federates had demanded that the gates should be shut.
Garnier de Saintes, for calling Cambon a villain, was ordered to the Abbaye for three days. A most violent tumult prevailed in the convention. The sentence of the member was changed to 24 hours confinement at home.
It was announced, that the barriers of Paris were shut. Several conspiracies and plots were also announced.
At six in the evening announced the question,
What punishment shall be applied to the crimes of which Louis XVI. late King of the French, is declared convicted?
The Secretary ascended the Tribunal.
At three in the morning, about a fourth of the voices were collected—the majority were for death.
A member conceived, that the public safety required this punishment, should it be pronounced, to be commuted.
Gensonne moved, that the authors of the crimes of the 2d of September, should be pursued by the ministers of justice.
BRUSSELS, Jan. 14.
Two revolutions have not yet been able to enlighten the Brabanters. The ministers of Austria, the intriguers of Prussia, and the emissaries of Holland, have sported both with the sincerity and energy of this people. They have been deceived by the States and betrayed by those very men who first raised the standard of insurrection. Different parties and factions have in turns excited their passions or strengthened their prejudices, and after sowing division among the citizens, have either through avarice or ambition sold them to the House of Austria. The bishops, monks, nobility, and administrators of the House of Austria are those who now direct the motions of that people who spoke so much of liberty, and who have struggled so much in the noble cause. It is not possible to believe that the Brabanters, if left to themselves, would bawl out so loudly for their constitution, their whole constitution and nothing but their constitution. No. These people are deceived and misled.—What can we think of the nomination of an electoral body, who curse the presence of the French, insult their principles, and reject with loud clamours the oath of equality? One cannot read, without indignation, the result of the primary assemblies, in which the following declaration was proposed to be made in the free city of Brussels at the time of the elections.
DECLARATION.
Glory to God, and peace and good will to all men.
I. That the inhabitants of the free city of Brussels will courageously maintain the Catholic, Apostolic, and Romish religion.
II. That they will acknowledge and have no other supreme judge than the council of Brabant.
III. That they acknowledge and will have no other representatives of the people of Brabant than the Three Estates.

IV. That they require and demand that the ancient constitution, and the ancient laws and usages be executed and followed and that they shall serve as the only basis both for the civil, religious, and diplomatic administrations, as well as for all others.
V. That the following persons be chosen to exercise in the interim the authority or power exercised by the Duke as far as concerns the city and bailiwick of the city of Brussels.
[Here follow the names.]
FORM OF THE OATH.
"We swear to be faithful to the free and sovereign people of Brabant to maintain the catholic, apostolic and Romish religion, the constitution of the country of Brabant, and to do every thing that is prescribed, or that ought to be executed for their happiness, and whatever may be afterwards ordained by the sovereign will of the people."
"So help me God and all the Saints."
COPENHAGEN, Jan. 11.
Our court, in answer to the note sent by the Emperor, requesting us to furnish forthwith the triple military contingency for the duchy of Holstein, have declared they will furnish this contingency as soon as possible, but in specie, instead of troops.
Domestic Articles.
BOSTON, March 15.
On Tuesday last an action of trespass for assault and battery, brought by Benjamin Austin, jun. Esq. against Captain Benjamin Russell, Editor of the Centinel, came on before the Supreme Judicial Court. The counsel for the Defendant were Messrs. Otis and Morton, who managed the cause in an elegant and masterly manner. The counsel for the plaintiff did not appear so DEXTEROUS, in this plea, as we have known him on some other occasions, being several times called to order, by Judge Dana, for deviating from the evidence: He supposed that Mr. Austin ought to recover extraordinary damages because he was a Senator of the Commonwealth, and said that his honor would be valued in exact proportion with the damages he recovered; if this is really the case, we are sorry the gentleman's honor, which by himself was valued at a thousand pounds, should be so slighted by the Jury, who deducted therefrom nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds.
STAUNTON, Feb. 21.
We hear from Lewisburgh, Greenbrier county, that a company of Light Dragoons, quartered there, are to march on the eighth March for the Great Kanawha—at which place they will embark for Kentucky.
We are informed by a gentleman just arrived from the Salt Works in Kentucky, that on the 17th of January last, the Indians killed three men at the Bear Wallow, on the road from that place to the settlements of Cumberland.
We also hear, that a treaty is to be held in the spring, with the hostile tribes of Indians—and that an Indian flag arrived at Fort Jefferson the 10th of January last.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Washington, to a gentleman in this town, dated Jan. 14.
"I have nothing material to inform you respecting our situation at present—but am very sorry that the small portion of news which I have gathered is very bad—three men were recently hung at Fort Hamilton for desertion, and seven more have been tried, but their sentence is not passed. Among the latter are two belonging to Captain Alexander Gibson's company, whom it is expected will certainly be executed—as one of them deserted at the Warm Springs, for which he was punished—and one of our officers, in order to save the Indians the trouble, has put an end to his own existence, by cutting his throat."
Philadelphia, March 27.
The Charleston City Gazette, of March 15, contains the following important intelligence, received by an arrival at that port, from Bristol.
FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION.
JANUARY 20.
The minister of justice informed the convention that the executive council had been summoned, and assembled early this morning, for the execution of the decree relative to Louis Capet, a decree of which two copies had been transmitted to the hotel of the minister of justice. The council had called to its assistance the department, the mayor, the commandant general, and public accuser of the public tribunal. After having concerted along with these, the measures of execution, the minister of justice, president of the executive council, a member of the council, the secretary, and two members of the department, went together to the temple.
At two o'clock, they were brought to Louis, to whom the minister of justice, president of the executive council said, "Louis, the executive has been charged to notify to you the extract of the minutes of the national convention, dated the 15th, 17th and 19th of this month, which the secretary will now read to you." The secretary of the executive council proceeded to read these three extracts.
Louis answered by reading a written paper, signed with his own hand. After having heard this paper, I answered, continued the minister of justice, that we should deliberate on the object of his demands. We retired, and as we were of opinion, that we could not decide alone on the conduct proper to be adopted, we returned to the council, which decreed, that we should submit to you the writing delivered by Louis to the deputation, of which I shall now read you a copy.
The last requests of Louis!
"I demand a delay of three days, in order to make the necessary preparations to appear, in the presence of God—I demand for that purpose to send for and see freely the person whom I shall name—the person whom I demand is M. Eschevaux de Formont—he lodges at No. 489, Rue de Bacq.
"I demand that his person be secured from all disturbance, from all apprehension on account of the last offices of charity which he shall render me.
"I demand to be freed from that perpetual inspection, which the council general has established over me for some months.
"I demand in this interval, to be able to see my family as often as I shall request, and without witness.
"I would request, that the national convention would immediately proceed to deliberate on the fate of my family, and permit them to retire freely, wherever they think proper.
"I recommend to the nation, all the persons who were attached to me. There are many of them who have expended all their fortunes to purchase places under the new government, and who, having now lost their sole dependance, must be in circumstances of want: Among my pensioners, were many aged and indigent persons, who had no other means of support except the pension on which I gave them. (Signed) LOUIS."
Done at the Temple, January 20th, 1793. Cambacérès—"Louis Capet has only made these demands which you have now heard, to the deputies of the executive council, because they did not inform him of the decree passed yesterday on my proposition, in which the greater part of his requests are anticipated. I demand on that ground, that we shall pass to the order of the day. The assembly passed to the order of the day."
Execution of Louis 16.
PARIS, January 22.
Louis was Beheaded yesterday at the Place de Louis XV. at a quarter past ten o'clock in the morning. He was conducted thither in the mayor's carriage, accompanied by his confessor and two gendarmes. Great silence was preserved during the procession, but when he reached the total spot, the noise of drums and trumpets was great. He ascended the scaffold with firmness, made a sign he had something to say: little, however, was heard, on account of the noise, except, "I die innocent! I forgive you all!" The sentence was instantly executed, and Vive la Nation resounded on all sides.
The whole place, and the avenues, were filled with troops of the line.
A member of the convention, who voted for his death, was attacked in a coffee house and killed. This, it is feared, is but the beginning of a scene of bloodshed, which will not soon be terminated.
Extract from the GAZETTE NATIONALE, or LE MONITEUR UNIVERSEL, a paper published at Paris, dated Sunday the 23rd of December, 1792.
Sitting of the National Convention, December 27th. A letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was read by a Secretary, in the following terms:
"Citizen President—The evidence of talents and civism given by Citizen Genest in the different missions with which he has been charged, has led the executive Council to determine to reward his zeal by nominating him Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America. His endeavors will be to strengthen the bonds of union of the two nations; an object which has been so much neglected by the former government.
"From the instructions that were given by the former Ministry to the Agents in that country, which the executive Council caused to be laid before them, they have seen with indignation, that, at the very time when the good people of America expressed to us their friendship and gratitude in the most affectionate manner, Vergennes and Montmolin
thought "that it was not suitable to France to give America all the countenance of which it was susceptible, because it would acquire a strength which it might probably be tempted to abuse." They therefore enjoined on their agents a passive conduct in regard to that nation; and to speak of nothing but the personal views of the King for its prosperity. The operations of war were directed by the same Machiavellian maxims. The same duplicity was employed in the negotiations of peace; in which, when signed, the people for whom we had taken up arms were altogether neglected.
"The National Convention will follow another course. It has already manifested the desire of contracting a solid alliance with the Americans, which induces me to call to the attention of the Convention their engagement to express, by a letter which the President has been charged to write, their sensibility of the generous succour which the United States, and in particular the state of Pennsylvania, have given to the Colonies. If Citizen Genest were the bearer of this letter, I am of opinion that it might have a very good effect, and facilitate his negotiations."
"This was a mistake, the whole succour having been from the United States."
The letter alluded to in the foregoing, is as follows:
OFFICIAL LETTER.
To be delivered, on the part of the French Republic, to the United States of America.
"President of the United States of North America,
"Amidst the storms which buffet our infant liberty, it is a comfort to the French Republic to have communication with other Republics founded on the same principles as her own. Our brothers of the United States, no doubt, have heard, with gladness, the new revolution, which overthrew the last obstacle to our liberty. This revolution was necessary. Royalty was still existing, and in every constitution where it exists, there is no true liberty. Kings and equality are incompatible with each other; it is their business to conspire against it & the sovereignty of nations.
"The United States of America will hardly credit it; the support which the ancient French Court had afforded them to recover their independence, was only the fruit of base speculation; their glory offended its ambitious views, and the ambassadors bore the criminal orders of stopping the career of their prosperity.
"Nay, it is only between free nations that sincere and fraternal treaties can be formed. The liberty which the French Republic wishes to restore to the nations that shall call for her assistance, will not be polluted with similar stains: It shall be pure like itself.
"The immense distance which parts us, prevents your taking, in this glorious regeneration of Europe, that concern which your principles and past combats reserved to you. Single and alone against the coalition of Kings, we have shown ourselves worthy of being called your brothers; and the ignominious retreat of their combined armies, Gemmappe, Spire, Savoy, Flanders—all these successes ought to call to your remembrance Saratoga, Trenton, and York Town.
"When will the final term of our struggles come? We do not yet know; but, free Americans, rely on our courage and perseverance; not a Frenchman shall remain, or they shall all be free. Liberty shall become extinct in Europe, or our principles shall triumph every where over the league of despots. They have raised forms against us even in our own hemisphere; they have excited our islands to rebellion, but our principles and our arms will finally give them again calm prosperity. The United States have contributed towards it, by the ample relief they have afforded for our colonies, at a moment when France was too remote to give them support. Thanks to you, generous Americans, it is the debt which the gratitude of the French Republic discharges with heartfelt satisfaction.
"The time is doubtless not far distant when the Colonies, far from being a subject of eternal rivalry and war, will only be a further tie among nations. The time is not far distant when found policy shall lay down the basis of Commerce, not on exclusive interests, but on the conjoint interests of all, and on the nature of things. It depends on the courage of the United States to accelerate that happy moment, and the French republic will eagerly give her concurrence to all the efforts they shall make for riveting the political and commercial ties of two nations, who can no longer have but one common sentiment, since their principles and interests are common."
Accounts from Martinque say—Tranquility is now perfectly re-established in that island. The national tri-coloured flag was hoisted there on the 4th of January, immediately after the departure of the fleet of royalists, who have been the cause of much disturbance in the colony. They consist of the ship La Ferme, the frigate La Calypso, the corvette La Marechal de Castries, a transport, and a small vessel. They have taken refuge in the Spanish Island of Trinidad, the Governor of which finding himself much incommoded by their visit, has written home to Madrid to know what steps are to be taken. The patriotic frigate La Felicite, Captain M. La Crosse, who was obliged to fly to St. Lucia during the insurrection, arrived at St. Pierre the 3d of February, and has brought M. Rochambeau, jun. son of him who went to Cape-Francois, to succeed M. Behague, the ci-devant Governor. A small vessel arrived at St. Lucia from France on the 7th of February, after a passage of 22 days, brings word that a small squadron, under the command of Capt. Duval, destined to restore order and tranquility to our islands, was to sail on the 24th of January.
All the inhabitants who had emigrated have returned since the national flag has been hoisted, and things begin to wear a pleasing aspect."
The Knoxville Gazette says—A gentleman who arrived in town last week from Mero District, we are informed, that about the middle of January seven or eight Indians crossed Cumberland River to the north side, near the mouth of White's Creek (seven miles from Nashville) and there fell in with Gower, whom they fired on and mortally wounded; he notwithstanding made his escape to Hickman's station, where he expired in a few days.
The same day a man was wounded on the south side, near the same place.
A writer in the Virginia Chronicle speaking of French affairs, says—Those who have traced the steps which have led to this revolution, will perceive, that all their sufferings, and all the convulsions now agitating the kingdom, have proceeded, from the Queen's patronage of the American cause; and had that sprung from her zeal for its freedom, it would have been laudable; but on the contrary, it arose from her avowed enmity to the English nation.—The King too, who Mr. Burke extols as amongst the best of Monarchs and as possessing the pu-est of hearts, has himself most essentially contributed to destroy the peace of his kingdom, and to endanger the lives and royal prospects of his own immediate family, by sanctioning the union of the Clergy, Nobles and Commons, into one House: his fatal connivance at this Act, which destroyed decree, and consequently the veneration due both to the propriety of rank, and to which property is entitled—at the same moment unlinked all order and subordination. —The motives for the Queen's conduct were fatally vindictive; to the policy of Louis, wretchedly temporizing in that first destructive step, his present lamentable situation is attributable alone.
We learn that Brissot de Warville voted in the National Convention in favor of referring the final sentence on the King to the primary assemblies.
Houdon, the famous French sculptor, who paid a visit to this country a few years ago to procure a likeness of the President, and who was employed by the state of Virginia, to execute a marble statue of that American hero and statesman, had completed the same by the end of November last. It may, therefore, soon be expected.
Extract of a letter from Kingston, (Jan.) dated Feb. 16, received by the brig Ann, Capt. George.
"Captain William Bligh arrived here the 6th of February, in the ship Providence, from Otaheite, with 347 plants of the bread fruit tree, 332 of which have been left in this island, the remainder, I understand, are intended for the King's gardens at Kew.
"Besides the plants abovementioned, Captain Bligh has brought 248 plants of different kinds; among which are the Otaheite apple, (one of the most delicious and high-flavored fruits in the world) the mango, China lemon, almond, and two nutmegs, which have been planted, and it is expected will grow. He has also brought two natives with him; one of them came with an intention of going to England, the other stays here to assist in the cultivation of the plants."
COMMUNICATION.
Continual dropping wears away stones.—The unceasing cry of misconduct and corruption in our government, cannot fail to enflame the minds of many citizens. It would be curious as well as useful to throw into a catalogue—it would be a very long one—the barefaced falsehoods which have been printed in this city, and re-printed in almost every part of the United States, against the government, within two years past. There is scarcely a single great measure of Congress which has not had a host of lies going before it, like an advanced guard, to make the people suspect and abhor the legislature of the union. Still the good sense of the people overpowers this host, and the laws of the union are submitted to. The more the government is degraded in some districts by calumny and falsehood, the more is it to the honor of America that the laws are still held in respect by the people at large.
Married at Columbia, Western Territory, by the Rev. John Smith, Captain John Armstrong, of the first United States' regiment, to Miss T. G. Forth, daughter of William G. Forth, Esq. one of the judges of the common pleas for the county of Hamilton—A young lady of excellent education, and possessing every mental accomplishment requisite to insure happiness in the married state.
Next Saturday's Gazette will contain an interesting and particular account of the fate of Col. Hardin, Major Trueman, and the other persons who were murdered by the Indians, while acting under the sanction of flags of truce.
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Morse's Geography, Revised, corrected, and greatly enlarged, with many additional Maps, well engraved.
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JANUARY 7th, 1793. A NUMBER of Lots in this City will be offered for sale at auction, by the Commissioners, on the 17th day of September next. One fourth part of the purchase money is to be paid down, the residue at three equal annual payments with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
JOHN M. GANTT, Clerk to the Com'rs.
Extract of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, concerning the Territory of Columbia, and the City of Washington.
"Be it enacted, That any foreigner may by deed or will, hereafter to be made, take and hold lands within that part of the said Territory which lies within this State; in the same manner as if he was a citizen of this State; and the same lands may be conveyed by him, and transmitted to and be inherited by his heirs or relations, as if he and they were citizens of this State: Provided, That no foreigner shall, in virtue hereof, be entitled to any further or other privilege of a citizen."
Jan. 19.
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Instability of mind impedes our road to PERFECTION; and youth, if not animated by EXAMPLE, to illustrate the precepts of VIRTUE, will ever fall into ERROR.
The European edition of this work, printed last year, sells at 12s. the two volumes, (and few copies, if any, to be had at that price)—This first American edition, which shall be well executed, on an entire new type and fine paper, will be delivered to subscribers in one volume of about 420 pages 12mo. neatly bound, at a French Crown each, to be paid on receiving the book, which will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscriptions are obtained to defray the expense of the undertaking.
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DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirteenth day of March, in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, THOMAS DOBSON, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit:
"An Enquiry how far the Punishment of Death is necessary in Pennsylvania. With Notes and Illustrations. By William Bradford, Esq. To which is added, an Account of the Gaol and Penitentiary House of Philadelphia, and of the interior Management thereof. By Caleb Lownes, of Philadelphia. If we enquire into the Causes of all human Corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the Impunity of Crimes, and not from the Moderation of Punishments."—Montesq.
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned."
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NOTICE is hereby given, That the Commissioners appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of North-Carolina, will attend at the town of Hillsborough, on the 18th, 19th and 20th days of April next, for the purpose of receiving proposals from such persons as may be disposed to undertake the Buildings of the University.
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RESOLVED, THAT any person residing in Europe, who shall authorize the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, to receive annuities, or interest arising from the public debt of the United States of America, shall from time to time have authority to draw on the said President, Directors and Company, to the amount of the monies by them received, which drafts shall be paid without deduction and free of expense—Or,
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An Ordinance for securing the unapplied Payment of the Monies due on the Subscriptions to the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures.
WHEREAS doubts have heretofore arisen with regard to the power of the Society to annex any penalties to the non-payment of the instalments, agreeably to the terms of the subscriptions. And whereas the Legislature at their last session, passed a supplement to the original law of incorporation, removing the said doubts, and fully authorizing the Directors to pass any ordinance they may think proper, to compel the punctual payment of the said subscriptions.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained, therefore, by the Governor and Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, That if any subscriber or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the second payment of his, her, or their respective subscriptions, together with the lawful interest arising thereon, either to the cashier of the United States Bank Office of Discount and Deposit, at New-York, the cashier of the Bank of New-York, the cashier of the Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, of John Bayard, Esq. in the city of New-Brunswick, in the state of New-Jersey, on or before the thirteenth day of April next: That then and in that case, all and every share or shares of such person or persons so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Directors, and their successors, for the common benefit of the said Society.
Sec. 2. And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That if any subscriber, or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the third payment of his, her, or their respective subscriptions, together with the lawful interest arising thereon, on or before the thirteenth day of May next. That then and in that case all and every share or shares of such person or persons so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Directors, and their successors, for the common benefit of the said Society.
Sec. 3. And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That if any subscriber, or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the fourth payment of his, her, or their respective subscriptions, on or before the thirteenth day of July next, that then and in that case, all and every share or shares of such person or persons so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Directors, and their successors, for the common benefit of the said Society.
NICHOLAS LOW, Governor. Passed at New-Ark, 20th February, 1793. (Counterigned) ELISHA BOUDINOT, Secretary pro tempore.
BE IT KNOWN, that the proportion of specie which may be paid on the respective payments of every original share, by such Stockholders as prefer paying a moiety of said shares in specie, in lieu of deferred debt, is as follows:
Dols. Cts. On the 13th of April, 1793, with interest from 13th July, 1792, 7 63 On the 13th of May, 1793, with interest from 13th January, 1793, 7 86 On the 13th of July, 1793, 8 09
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War Department.
JANUARY 28, 1793. INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of September 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of March 1793, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans regulations, viz.
Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers: 1st. The certificate given by the State, specifying that the person presenting the same is in fact an Invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which he is annually entitled. 2d. An affidavit agreeably to the following form:
A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of _____ in the state of _____ and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited). That he served (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the _____ and county of _____ and has resided there for the last _____ years, previous to which he resided in _____
In case an Invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeable to the following form:
I, A. B. of _____ county of _____ state of _____ do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of _____ my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for six months, as an Invalid of the United States, from the 4th day of September 1792, and ending the 4th day of March 1793.
Signed and Sealed in the Presence of
Acknowledged before me, Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the Invalid died, whose pension they may claim. By Command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary at War.
By THOMAS JOHNSON, DAVID STUART, & DANIEL CARROLL, Esquires,
COMMISSIONERS appointed by Government to prepare the Public Buildings, &c. within the City of Washington, for the reception of Congress, and for their permanent residence after the year 1800.
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50,000 Tickets at 7 dollars, are 350,000 dollars.
LIST OF PRIZES, viz.
  1 Superb Hotel, with baths, out-houses, &c. &c. to cost 50,000   1 Cash Prize 25,000   1 ditto 50,000   1 ditto 15,000   1 ditto 10,000   2 ditto 5,000 are 10,000   10 ditto 1,000 10,000   20 ditto 500 10,000   100 ditto 100 10,000   200 ditto 50 10,000   400 ditto 25 10,000   1,000 ditto 20 20,000   15,000 ditto 10 150,000     16,737 Prizes Dollars 350,000.   33,263 Blankes 
50,000 By this scheme at least the amount of the tickets will return to the fortunate adventurers, and yet the Federal City will gain its object thereby, in a magnificent building designed both for public and private convenience.
Although some expense must necessarily attend the conducting of the Lottery, which expense will be taken from the principal prize, the Commissioners having agreed to present, in return a sufficient quantity of excellent free-stone, together with the best adapted lots for the hotel and for the out-houses, the value of the lottery entire may be fairly rated as something more than par: In this important instance it will be found, on examination, to exceed all the lotteries that have ever been offered to the Public in this or perhaps in any other country. The keys of the Hotel, when complete, will be delivered to the fortunate possessor of the ticket drawn against its number.—All the other prizes will be paid, without deduction, in one month after the drawing, by the City Treasurer at Washington, or at such Bank or Banks as may be hereafter announced, for the convenience of the fortunate adventurers.
The drawing will commence on Monday the 9th of September next, at the City of Washington.
Tickets may be had of Col. Wm. Dickens, City Treasurer of Washington; Thayer & Bartlet, of Charleston, South-Carolina; Gideon Denison, Savannah; Messrs. James West & Co. Baltimore; Mr. Peter Gilman, Boston; and at such other places as will be hereafter published.
N. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given for the best Plan of an elegant and convenient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out-houses, if presented on or before the 10th of April next; and a preference will be given to the Artist for a Contract, provided he be duly qualified to complete his plan. The ground on which the Hotel and out-houses are to be erected, will be a corner lot of about 90 by 200 feet, with a back avenue to the stables, &c. Sections and estimates of the expense will be expected with the elevations, &c. complete; and 50,000 dollars must be regarded by the Architect as the utmost limit in the expense intended for this purpose. S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City.
March 6, 1793.