Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-01-29 00:00:00

Thomas
Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 79, of Vol. II.]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1791.
[Whole No. 183.]
PARIS.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, OCTOBER 31.
M DUBOIS DE CRANCEY, in the name of the Military Committee, submitted to the consideration of the Assembly, a plan of a decree relative to the arming of the French citizens inhabiting the frontiers. He was of opinion, that no distinction should be made between the inhabitants of the towns and those of the country—that all citizens having sworn to defend the constitution, all have a right to arm in defence of it—and that if the husbandman did not partake in the distribution of the national arms, there would be cause to fear that the inhabitants of towns would harass those of the country, under pretence of keeping them within bounds, or of protecting them.
M. Dubois, in the name of the Military Committee, moved,
1. That the committee of constitution should present, as soon as possible to the Assembly, a plan for organizing the National Guards of the kingdom.
2. That the minister of war should immediately be authorised to arm with musquets and bayonets, every active citizen doing the duty of National Guard.
3. That the same minister should be desired to give an account to the Assembly of the obstacles to the execution of the decree of the 28th July, relative to the manufacture of new arms.
After some discussions, this plan of a decree was adjourned.
M. Regnault gave an account, that in the district of Saint-Jean-d'Angely, the enemies of the public welfare exerted themselves more than ever to persuade the people that they ought not to pay taxes. One of these men, who thus blew the flame of discord, being known, was pursued by the tribunals, and ordered to be taken into custody. The persons entrusted with the execution of this decree, were accompanied with the Marechaussée, and twenty-five regulars. The man was arrested; but as they were conducting him to prison, a numerous body of peasants, armed with musquets, came to his assistance. Firing took place on both sides, and many of the insurgents were killed. The person arrested was then conducted to prison. On the following day the inhabitants of the country collected in great numbers, with design to oblige the Marechaussée to open the gates of the prison in which the prisoner was confined. The Marechaussée opposed the violation of the law; but the Mayor, thinking resistance dangerous, gave orders for liberating the prisoner. The people, not content with this triumph, assembled and seized the Mayor, whom they cruelly massacred.
This affair is again to occupy the attention of the Assembly. It was then decreed, that the Assembly should not have any sitting on Monday, November 1.
A protest against the report made by M. Chabroud, relative to the affair of the 6th of October, and consequently against the decree which followed upon that occasion, has lately made its appearance here, signed by a great number of aristocrats, in which they have made use of their former titles of Dukes, Marquisses, Barons, Chevaliers, &c. and M. Serent has taken the title of Deputy to the States General in behalf of the Noblesse of Nivernois.
The substance of it is as follows:
"We declare that we disapprove, in toto , of the report of the procedure of the Chatelet, as delivered by M. Chabroud, in the name of the committee of reports.
"We disapprove of it, because it gives an unjust account of the depositions.
"We disapprove of it, because it appears to have had no other object than to misstate facts, to represent the victims as guilty, to traduce the witnesses, to render the tribunal odious, to excuse the most horrible attempts, by identifying them with the operations of the National Assembly.
"We disapprove of it for substituting, by way of justification, an imaginary for a real plot, for lessening the horror which every Frenchman should have for actions which criminate the whole nation while they remain unpunished."
L O N D O N, Nov. 30.
A TITLE that has been long extinct, is soon to be revived in one of his Majesty's sons, viz. that of Duke of Kent. Prince Edward, (now
at Gibraltar) is to be made Duke of Cumberland, and the next Prince, Duke of Lancaster.
A considerable part of the late summer and present autumn, has been spent by his Majesty in hunting. The national desire, and the opinion of the physicians concur in recommending this exercise, to prevent him, if possible, from reverting into his late insane situation.
It has puzzled some naturalists to find out what view nature could have had in creating lizards, or whether she had any view at all. Nothing shews the weakness and folly of man more than such disquisitions. It has been lately discovered, and confirmed in many instances, that the tail of a lizard boiled, produces a broth or gravy, which, after a few times drinking, cures, radically, the most inveterate cancer.
The door-money of the late battle of Mendoza and Humphreys (two noted boxers) amounted to the trifling sum of seven hundred pounds .—The door-money at a charity sermon at Doncaster, the subsequent Sabbath, amounted to the sum of four pounds five shillings ! So much for the moral refinement of 1790.
M. de Calonne (say our French accounts) was blamed for having given a false calculation of the expenses necessary to surround Paris with a wall; according to his estimate six millions of livres would have been sufficient. It now appears that fifteen millions, or 650 thousand pounds sterling, will be necessary to complete the undertaking. Nine millions have already been paid, and six millions remain due to the builders.
A boldness of general satire now prevails in Paris; nor is it deemed political to endeavor to suppress it, however strong an inclination there may be for such a measure. Caricature prints of elevated characters are continually hawked about, and bought up with avidity. The kingdom being still in a state of confusion, the Assembly think it better to suffer the spleen of the disaffected to evaporate in this manner, rather than by the more serious means which might take place, were the publication of those caricatures prohibited.
Wednesday morning, as their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and Duke of York followed the King's carriage just after the review, a fellow who had climbed up in a tree to see the spectacle, cried out, "God bless your Royal Highnesses! that's right, take care of your good father!"
DECEMBER 3.
THE NETHERLANDS.
ON Tuesday evening the Duke of Leeds received the following very important communication from Colonel Gardner at Brussels, which confirms the news of the surrender of Namur to the Imperialists, and relates the consequences which it has produced in every part of the Netherlands.
In our account of yesterday, we stated that General Schoenfeld, the commander in chief of the Belgic troops, had saved himself by flight from the hands of the Imperialists, and had arrived at Brussels. The latter part of this information we find to be premature, for the Duke of Leeds's dispatches positively mention that the whole Belgic army in garrison at Namur had been made prisoners, and among the rest General Schoenfeld. This account is certainly correct, though the particulars of the capture are not yet known.
But the most important news is, that the Congress of Brussels, on hearing this intelligence, and that the Imperial army, amounting to 40,000 men, under the command of General Bender, was in hasty march towards Brussels, immediately dispersed and took to flight. Some of the Members got away unmolested, but the populace have seized on Van der Noot, and Van Eupen, the lawyer and the priest, who were endeavoring to escape in disguise, both of whom they held in confinement, and their fate will soon prove an example of punishment to others who dare to rebel against their lawful Sovereign, and usurp a Government by the means of the most barefaced and wicked imposture.
The Imperial troops were expected in Brussels on Saturday last, and the inhabitants are extremely well disposed to receive them. They will find no resistance in re-taking possession of the Government of the Netherlands.
The congress of ambassadors at the Hague, for settling the disputes in Brabant, is dissolved rather abruptly. The Count de Merci d'Argenteau, the Imperial minister, had been entreated by the other members of the Congress to delay the entry of the Imperial troops into Brabant for eight days, which he refused to do for as many hours. The ministers of the three allied powers openly protested against this rash conduct of M. de Merci, and the Congress broke up. It is however, generally understood that Lord Auckland tacitly acquiesced in the proceedings of this Minister.
On the very moment that the term given by the Emperor expired, the States of Brabant offered to submit on condition of receiving the Emperor's third son as the Sovereign, but all offers short of unconditional submission were refused.
GEORGETOWN, January 19.
On the 13th inst. at Richmond, about 5 o'clock in the morning, a very severe shock of an earthquake was felt in the city, which lasted about two minutes; it shook the houses so severely, as to occasion many of the inhabitants to get up to see what damage was done.—About the same time a rumbling noise was heard in this town, with an intermission of near half a minute.—The later part so severe as to shake the houses.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, Jan. 13.
(Continued from our last.)
M R. Smith remarked, that there appeared to be so great a diversity of opinion on the subject before the house, that he doubted the possibility of procuring a majority for either of the motions that had been made. There would be objections, he conceived, to any proposition that could be offered; but the committee should determine on that to which there were fewest. To the Secretary of State he tho' there were less than to any other officer proposed.—Those against the Chief Justice, he thought unanswerable; Indeed the gentleman who proposed him, had not offered any answer to the objections made to that officer.
The duties of the President of the Senate, and those of the President of the United States, appeared to him incompatible. The first was the representative of a particular state, and bound to obey the instructions of it. If he was to be deprived of his seat in the Senate, his state would lose a vote there, and the balance of that branch of the legislature would be destroyed.
He recapitulated the objections that had already been made to the Chief Justice's filling the chair. His power of expounding treaties would be improperly mixed with that of making them. That of condemning for offences, with a power of granting reprieves and pardons. Then the Chief Justice could not act with propriety as commander in chief of the army and navy. It had been said, he observed, that the judiciary business might go on for some time without the assistance of the Chief Justice: He thought not. There were three circuit courts, and two judges for each, including the Chief Justice: If he was absent, the business of one of the circuits could not proceed; besides he should preside in the supreme court.
He concluded by saying that the office of Secretary of State, and the duties of President, were analogous: He was a kind of Assistant to the Chief Magistrate, and would therefore very properly supply his place; besides he was always at the seat of government.
Mr. Burke said that he had consulted a gentleman skilled in the doctrine of chances, who, after considering the subject, had informed him, that there was an equal chance that such a contingency would not happen more than once in 840 years. He hoped therefore that the committee would not spend any more time upon the subject, but postpone it altogether.
Mr. Giles conceived that the probability of the event's taking place was much greater than Mr. Burke seemed to think. According to the doctrine of policies, he said, it was not more than fifty to one that it would not happen in two months. However, even if the chance was much less, it was the duty of the house to make provision for the accident before it occurred. If it was left till the case actually took place, it would then be too late to think of remedying the evil; for it was to be provided for by a legislative act, which could not be made complete without the President's approbation and signature, and could therefore not be obtained when the chair was vacant. Then if the event should happen before it was provided for, there would be, he conceived, an end to this government.
He used another argument to urge the necessity of a speedy provision. Suppose, said he, the Vice-President should die, then the fate of this government would remain in the hands of the President, who, by resigning would destroy its organization, without leaving a constitutional mode of filling the vacancy.
In addition to the loss of this government, would not every member of the legislature, he asked, lose his character, credit and reputation.
Having shewn the necessity of making immediate provision for a case of so much importance to the very existence of the government, Mr. Giles

declared he was in favor of filling up the blank with the Secretary of State. He chiefly rested his opinion on the idea, that if the constitution had not intended that the vacancy should be filled by some officer not there mentioned, they would have determined who it should be.
Mr. Sedgwick was sorry that the business had been brought forward, and more so that gentlemen should discover a zeal on the occasion, which indicated too much of taking a personal interest in the question.
He did not apprehend the consequences which would follow, if the accident should occur, would be so dreadful as the gentleman last up appeared to think. There was more danger, he conceived, in ruffling men's tempers now, by designating one officer heir apparent (if he might be allowed the expression) to the office of chief magistrate.
He objected to filling up the blank with the Secretary of State; it would be putting in the hands of the President (or of the Vice-President) a power of appointing his successor. The authority with which the Chief Justice is vested, the respect which his station commands, and his independence, induced him, he said, at first to think him the most proper person to be at the head of affairs in case of vacancy in the chief magistracy.—However, if it could not be agreed to postpone the business, he should now vote for the President of the Senate pro tem.
Mr. Benson said that an honorable gentleman (Mr. Smith) had remarked, that he had not attempted to answer the objections which were made to the Chief Justice's being designated to fill the vacancy, and had drawn the conclusion that the objections were unanswerable. He was sensible that there might and would be objections to any officer that could be mentioned; but those against the Chief Justice he did not think unanswerable. It had been objected that there would be an impropriety in his condemning as Chief Justice, and pardoning as President. But something like this is frequently the case. He supposed that whoever exercised the office of Chief Magistrate, would for the time resign his first office. He only mentioned this to show that the objections made to the Chief Justice had not been answered not because they were deemed unanswerable: But his wish was to see the vacancy filled by an independent officer; he had therefore no objection to the President of the Senate pro tem.
Mr. Jackson moved that the consideration of this business be postponed, which was agreed to. The committee rose and reported.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 26.
Sundry petitions were read and referred to the heads of departments.
Mr. Sedgwick, from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported a bill, providing compensation for inspectors and officers by them appointed, which was read the first time.
The bill providing for the renewal of lost certificates, was read the second time, and referred to a committee of the whole, on Thursday the 3d of February.
A message was received from the President of United States, accompanied with the following copies of a letter, addressed to him by the President of the National Assembly of France, and of a decree of that Assembly, transmitted with it.
Mr. President,
The National Assembly has worn, during three days, mourning for Benjamin Franklin, your fellow citizen, your friend, and one of the most useful of your co-operators in the establishment of American Liberty. They charge me to communicate their resolution to the Congress of the United States. In consequence, I have the honor to address to you, Mr. President, the extract from the proceedings of their session of the 11th, which contains the deliberation.
The National Assembly have not been stopped in their decree by the consideration that Franklin was a stranger:—Great men are the fathers of universal humanity:—their loss ought to be felt, as a common misfortune, by all the tribes of the great human family; and it belongs, without doubt, to a nation still affected by all the sentiments, which accompany the achievement of their liberty, and which owes its enfranchisement essentially to the progress of the public reason, to be the first to give the example of the filial gratitude of the people towards their true benefactors;—besides that these ideas, and this example, are so proper to disseminate a happy emulation of patriotism, and thus to extend more and more the empire of reason and virtue, which could not fail promptly to determine a body, devoted to the most important legislative combinations; charged with assuring to the French the rights of men, and citizens; it has believed, without doubt, that fruitful and great truths were likewise numbered among the rights of man.
The name of Benjamin Franklin will be immortal in the records of freedom and philosophy: but it is more particularly dear to a country, where, conducted by the most sublime mission, this venerable man knew very soon to acquire an
infinite number of friends and admirers, as well by the simplicity and sweetness of his manners, as by the purity of his principles, the extent of his knowledge, and the charms of his mind.
It will be remembered, that every success, which he obtained in his important negotiation, was applauded and celebrated (so to express it) all over France, as so many crowns conferred on genius and virtue.
Even then the sentiment of our rights existed in the bottom of our souls. It was easily perceived, that it feelingly mingled in the interest which we took in behalf of America, and in the public vows, which we preferred for your liberty.
At last the hour of the French has arrived:—we love to think, that the citizens of the United States have not regarded with indifference our steps towards liberty. Twenty-six millions of men, breaking their chains, and seriously occupied in giving themselves a durable constitution, are not unworthy the esteem of a generous people who have preceded them in that noble career.
We hope, they will learn, with interest, the funeral homage, which we have rendered to the Nestor of America. May this solemn act of fraternal friendship serve more and more to bind the tie, which ought to unite two free nations! May the common enjoyment of liberty shed itself over the whole globe, and become an indissoluble chain of connexion among all the people of the earth! For ought they not to perceive, that they will march more steadfastly and more certainly to their true happiness, in understanding and loving each other, than in being jealous and fighting!
May the Congress of the United States, and the National Assembly of France, be the first to furnish this fine spectacle to the world! and may the individuals of the two nations connect themselves by a mutual affection, worthy of the friendship which unites the two men, at this day most illustrious by their exertions for liberty—WASHINGTON and LAFAYETTE!
Permit me, Mr. President, to offer, on this occasion, my particular homage of esteem and admiration.
I have the honor to be,
With respectful consideration,
Mr. President,
Your most humble
And
Most obedient servant,
S I E Y E S, President.
Paris, 20th June, 1790.
DECREE of the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, of the 11th of June, 1790.
The National Assembly decree, that their Members shall wear, during three days, mourning for Benjamin Franklin, to commence on Monday next,—that the discourse, pronounced on this occasion, be printed; and that the President write to the American Congress, in the name of the National Assembly.
Compared with the original, by us, President and Secretaries of the National Assembly, at Paris, 10th June, 1790.
SIEYES, President.
GOURDAU, Sec.
FELIX DE PARDIEU, Sec.
(L. S.)
DUMOUCHET, Sec.
The House then proceeded to the consideration of certain papers, transmitted to them by the President on Monday last; which being of a secret nature, the doors were ordered to be shut.
THURSDAY, Jan. 27.
The bill providing compensation to the inspectors, and officers by them appointed pursuant to the act laying duties on distilled spirits; and for other purposes, was read the second time, and referred to a committee of the whole house, and made the order of the day for to-morrow week.
Mr. Bourne, presented the address and memorial of the people called Quakers, in the state of Rhode-Island, respecting certain parts of the militia bill.
Sundry petitions were read and referred.
Mr. Gerry presented a memorial from the Marine Society of Boston—proposing the establishment of an Hospital, for the benefit of sick and disabled seamen—to be divided into three departments—one for the Southern—one for the Central, and one for the Eastern states—being read—Mr. Gerry moved that this memorial should be reported to the committee already appointed on the memorials of the merchants and others of the town of Baltimore—this motion subsided, and it was ordered that the memorial should lie on the table.
Mr. Parker gave notice, that he should to-morrow move that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill for the general establishment of marine Hospitals in the United States.
A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Secretary Lear, in the following words:
UNITED STATES, Jan. 27, 1791.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and
House of Representatives,
IN order that you may be fully informed of the situation of the frontiers, and the prospects of hostility in that quarter; I lay before you the
intelligence of some recent depredations, received since my message to you upon this subject of the 24th instant. G. WASHINGTON.
Mr. Secretary informed the Speaker that the papers were sent to the Senate.
A message from the Senate was received by Mr. Otis, their Secretary, informing the house that they have passed a bill concerning Consuls and Vice-Consuls;—also communicating sundry papers, referred to in the message of the President of the United States.—The papers were read—viz. a letter from General Putnam to the President of the United States, dated at Marietta, Jan. 8, containing an account of an attack, the 2d inst. on Big Bottom, a settlement about 40 miles up the river, in which 11 persons were killed, and three taken prisoners; a letter from same person to Gen. Knox, and a letter from Capt. David Zeigler, to Gov. St. Clair, corroborative of the above account. These papers were referred to the committee appointed yesterday on the message from the President of the United States.
The engrossed bill, repealing, after the last day of June next, the duties heretofore laid on distilled spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and also upon spirits distilled within the United States, and for appropriating the same, was passed by a majority of fourteen. The yeas and nays being called for, were as follows:
YEAS.
Messrs. Ames, Benson, Boudinot, Bourne, Caldwell, Carroll, Clymer, Fitzsimons, Floyd, Foster, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Griffin, Grout, Huntington, Lawrance, Lee, Leonard, Livermore, Madison, Partridge, Schureman, Sedgwick, Sherman, Sylvester, Sinnickson, Smith, (S. C.) Sturges, Thatcher, Trumbull, Vining, Wadsworth, White, Wynkoop. Total 35.
NAYS.
Messrs. Ashe, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Brown, Burke, Giles, Hartley, Hathorn, Heister, Jackson, Mathews, Moore, Muhlenberg, Parker, Van Ranselaer, Seney, Smith, (M.) Steele, Stone, Tucker, Williamson. 21.
FRIDAY, Jan. 28.
The Consol Bill received yesterday from the Senate, was read the first and second time, and made the order of the day for Wednesday next. Ordered that 100 copies be printed for the use of the house.
Mr. Heister presented a memorial and petition of a number of the public creditors holding Loan Office Certificates, received in the years 1777 and 1773, for money lent, for carrying on the late war, read and laid on the table.
This petition respects Certificates received for loans of paper money, on the nominal amount of which, interest, at 6 per cent. per ann. had been paid.
Mr. Ames laid the following motion on the table, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report, whether it is necessary that any provision should be made by law respecting the new emission money.
Mr. Smith (S. C.) brought in a report on the petition of Henry Laurens, which was against granting the prayer of the petition; laid on the table.
Mr. Sturges brought in a report on the memorial of the inhabitants of Albany and Washington counties, respecting the pension granted to John Younglove—which in substance was, that said pension appeared to have been improperly obtained; the committee proposed that the business should be referred to the Secretary of war to investigate the same and report.
Mr. Lawrance presented a memorial and petition from the inspectors of the city of New-York, praying an encrease of their compensation.
The report on the petition of John Churchman was taken into consideration; the first part of the report respected furnishing him with money to prosecute his discoveries by a voyage to Baffin's Bay—on this part of the memorial the committee offered no opinion. A motion being made to take the sense of the house, whether he should be furnished with a sum of money for this purpose; the question being put, it passed in the negative.
On the other part of the report which respects the enhancement of the penalty for counterfeiting or copying original charts—a committee was appointed to bring in a bill to make provision for that purpose.
The committee on the petition of George Gibson, brought in a report, which was in favor of the prayer of said petition.
The Speaker communicated to the house a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the subject of the establishment of a Mint. Ordered that 200 copies be printed for the use of the house.
On motion of Mr. Brown, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, and took into consideration the bill providing for the admission of Kentucky into the Union.
Mr. Boudinot in the chair.
The Chairman reported the bill to the house without amendment—on motion the bill was read the third time, and passed.

The house took into consideration the report of the joint committee in respect to the time when the next Congress shall commence its sessions.
The house after some debate, agreed to the report; the first part of which states that it will not be necessary for the new Congress to commence its session immediately after the 4th March.
The second part of the report proposes that the time for the annual meeting of Congress should be altered; a committee consisting of Mr. Tucker, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Partridge was appointed to report a bill for that purpose.
In committee of the whole on the bill declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of the State of Maryland.
Some amendments being agreed to by the committee, the bill was reported to the house, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday next.
A motion made by Mr. Tucker, respecting provision to be made for subscribing, agreeable to the funding system, certain certificates issued in lieu of others, in several of the States, subsequent to the 1st January 1790—was referred to the Secretary of the Treasury. Adjourned till Monday.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 24.
Agreeably to the late census, the county of New-London (Connecticut) contains 33,200 inhabitants, which is an increase of 1895, since the year 1774.
There were exported from the district of New-London (Connecticut) in the year 1790, 7072 horses, cattle, and mules, it being 394 more than was shipped the preceding year—30 odd sail of vessels are now frozen up in Connecticut river, bound to the West-Indies.
There are owned and chartered in that district, 3 ships, 1 snow, 55 brigs, 50 schooners, 17 sloops.
The election for Representatives to the Congress of the United States commences to-morrow, in the State of New-Jersey.
Speculating in funds goes on as briskly as ever—no less than four expresses have passed and re-passed, with Pegassian swiftness, from this city, to and from Philadelphia and Boston, within the week past.
The total of the taxes laid on Great-Britain in the single year of 1780, was 21,382,249l. 11s. 8d. sterling—above one third more than the whole national debt of the United States. Let Americans consider these things.
Extract from the Leyden Gazette of Nov. 19.
“Letters from Nanci mention the unwelcome news of the death of M. Desilles, the brave young officer who tied himself to the mouth of a loaded cannon on the 31st August, to prevent the mutinous garrison of Nanci, from firing on the national troops. The wounds he received in that affair, have been the cause of his death. At Nanci it is regarded as a public loss, and a cause of mourning to the whole city. Doubtless every Frenchman, every man, whose soul is not steeled to every sentiment of patriotism and humanity, will feel emotions of grief and regret at the early death of a citizen, for whom all Nanci is in tears. His name, which is already ranked with the noblest in antiquity, will descend with their's to the latest posterity, and obscure them in its superior lustre, by the remembrance of the noble action in which he sacrificed his life to the peace of his country. Let us contrast the conduct of this young man with that of those Infernals, in the shapes of men, who, with deliberate coolness can scheme scenes of disorder, anarchy, and vengeance, merely to gratify their ambitious views, and add, they care not how much, to the miseries of man.—The National Assembly in a letter directed to the friends of M. Desilles, have condoled with them on the loss of so excellent a citizen.
Philadelphia, Jan. 29.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fayetteville (N. C.) to a member of Congress, dated 15th December, 1790.
“I am now to inform you that the session of our Assembly is drawing to a period; the adjournment sine die will take place this evening. Next session is to be held at Newbern, the first Monday in December next.
“Among the various business agitated this session, has been that of subscribing the state securities now in the treasury to the loan proposed by Congress, and of opening an office for purchasing up the remaining debt, whereby the treasury might become possessed of a sufficient sum to subscribe the whole amount to be assumed for this state; but this scheme, I am happy in saying, has not succeeded—the bill for the purpose is laid over, by a respectable majority, to next assembly, which by the bye will not happen until two months after the subscription books are closed. The beneficial effects of this decision already begin to be experienced by the few who have had faith or obstinacy enough to induce them to hold up their certificates—state securities have risen 50 per cent. in twenty-four hours—the information will be immediately disseminated by the members among their constituents, and we shall henceforth know how to set a value upon the small portion of certificates, out of which the knowing ones have not heretofore duped us. Another circumstance which operates in favor of our certificates is, that the report of the Comptroller, made to the present Assembly, states the amount in circulation to be barely sufficient to fill the loan; in which statement is included one-half the Warrenton emission, which we all know are not assumable—so that we have the fullest assurance the whole of our subscriptions will be assumed. The Commissioner of loans has made application for the checks, by which to examine the certificates presented to be loaned; his request has been negatived; but at the same time a resolution was adopted, allowing him access to them, provided he would go where they are (viz. Hillsborough) which we have no doubt will be the case; as we cannot harbour a thought that the Secretary of the Treasury, in whom we have the highest confidence, will permit to become statutory in so remote a corner of the State as is Edenton, an office, established as well for the general good and accommodation of the citizens of the State, as for the United States.
“Along with the foregoing information suffer me to intrude the following, which, for the information of the concerned to the Northward and Eastward, it may perhaps be well to publish in the newspapers of your city, as the Act itself may not find its way among them in due time: A Law has passed this session, for doing an act of justice to the holders of certificates, issued for just claims by the Commissioners of Army Accounts at Warrenton, in the year 1786; by this Act the Agent for settling the accounts of this State, with the United States, is required to make return to the Treasurer of the State, by the first of May next, of all the settlements made by the said Commissioners in 1786, distinguishing the just from the unjust, the holders of Certificates are to bring them in to the Treasury, before or at the next session of Assembly, and the Treasurer is to issue new Certificates of like tenor for all such as shall appear to have been fairly obtained. The act expires at the rising of the Assembly, and such who shall not by that period have presented their claims are forever precluded.”
Thursday an express arrived at the War-Office of the United States, from the Western country.
The following extract of a letter from Capt. Zeigler, dated Fort Harmar, January 8, to the Secretary at War, contains the substance of the intelligence brought by the express.
“I AM extremely sorry to inform you, that the settlement called Big Bottom, twenty miles up the Muskingum, from this post, was cut off by the Savages on the 2d instant. Eleven men and two children were killed; two men who were quartered in a cabin a small distance from the Block-House escaped; three men it is supposed, are taken prisoners as their bodies are not found.
Extract of a letter from Marietta, to a Member of Congress, dated Jan. 6, 1791.
“When the settlers of this region had purchased their lands and removed hither, they had not the least apprehension, that they had any difficulties to encounter, except those of an uncultivated soil—placing all faith and confidence in the hon. the Congress, of whom they purchased it—being as it were under the necessity of laying out that which they received as pay for their past services, in land, most of the settlers here consider their purchase as bought with their blood: But, Sir, is it possible we should have purchased lands, which we cannot improve, by reason of a savage enemy, whom the United States can extirpate with a nod?—No. Surely we shall have help in due time. You have no doubt had the particulars of the attack on the unfortunate settlement up the Muskingum.—The groans of your slaughtered dying countrymen—the lamentations of parents for the loss of their beloved sons—the indignity offered to the United States by those savages’ murdering her sons, who were peaceably improving the land she had sold them, will rouse the indignation of the American Eagle, and pour speedy vengeance on the guilty heads of those murderers, who received not the least provocation, but on the contrary every friendly office in our power. It is not my province to enquire into the particulars of the late expedition; but this I can say with propriety, that it has not had the desired effect—for in place of humbling, it only irritated—and instead of a partial, it has produced a general WAR. To whom have we to look for help and protection from the enemy, but to the general government, whom, next to God, are the fathers and guardians of the lives and properties of the people.”
Extract of a letter from Brunswick, (N. J.) Jan. 24.
“I have just returned from seeing a great curiosity, at least to-most of us in this part of the country: On Sunday the 16th inst. there was drove on shore three miles E. S. E. of South-Amboy, a young Calf-Whale, about 36 feet long, 16 feet circumference, jaw 7 feet in length, and tail 7 feet 4 inches broad. Various are the opinions of people on this occasion: Some say it is the sign of a hard winter: Others, that it forbodes a change in Congress—We shall be better able to determine after election is over: Our exhibition comes on to-morrow—there will be a sad shaking—You see we have 42 candidates—and all of them have their friends.”
A vote of thanks to the FOUR Senators of the United States, who voted against the Treaty with the Creek Nation, was passed by the Senate of Georgia at their late session, by the casting vote of their President.
It seems, by the above, that the Treaty with the Creek Nation is not without friends—even in Georgia.
SEVENTEEN HUNDRED BOLTS of DUCK, of 40 yards each, have been sold from the Boston Sail-Cloth Manufactory in the last year, of a superior quality to any ever before seen in America.
The noble Ship PRESIDENT, of 1000 tons burthen, lately launched at Providence, is wholly clothed with Duck from this manufactory.
We hear that the census of the inhabitants of the State of Massachusetts, including the district of Maine, amounts to four hundred and seventy thousand persons.
The very respectable majority of the house of Representatives, on passing the new revenue bill—suggests ideas very favorable to the enlightened policy, and independence of that hon. body—while it discovers a proper confidence in the patriotism of their constituents.
A certain distinguished character in the United States, wrote a book on the subject of government.—He founded his system on the experience of mankind, in all countries and ages—and the invariable principles of human nature—the great objects of this work, are to devise the most effectual barriers to the encroachments of arbitrary power, and the most perfect safeguards to liberty.—A correspondent observed, that in a late debate on the excise bill, the principles of this work were very fully recognized; when it was urged as a reason for a certain amendment proposed to the bill, “that human nature is always the same—what has been, will be again—and that experience is the only intallible guide in legislation;” when the principles of emulation, rivalry and ambition are brought forward as the great moving causes of action to the human mind; and a balanced government is urged as the natural and necessary result; it is very fashionable to hear persons say, that modern human nature, is so very different a thing from ancient human nature, that it will be universally found in future, that
every idea of distinction and emulation is eradicated from the human constitution! That every man, according to scripture, will prefer his neighbour's interest to his own; that equality and communitiy of goods will render the condition of mankind in the United States infinitely more eligible than it has been in any former age of the world.
The excise bills as it is termed, now before Congress, has met with much undeserved censure from an erroneous idea, that those men who strenuously opposed the same system of taxation, previous to the revolution, and whose opposition to the measures of the British government were the cause of the liberty we now enjoy, would act inconsistently by favoring a system of taxation they then detested and resolutely opposed.—Independent of the wide difference between the principles of the bill now before Congress, and the British excise; it may justly be observed, that there exists some difference in bearing a burden imposed by a government in which we had no participation, and in paying a tax laid by our immediate representatives, and for the support of a government of our own choice. Gen. Adv.
The only plausible objection against the assumption of the excise by the general government, is a supposition that the impost will so encrease, that no other additional revenue will be wanted—but this objection excludes all idea of sinking any part of the principal of the public debt—of making a certain provision to pay the interest agreeable to the plighted faith of the United States—or of a ruinous clashing of jurisdictions, in case the states should separately renew their excise systems, if Congress should waive the right to that source of revenue.
According to the several enumerations of the inhabitants of various districts of the United States, the population of this country exceeds all the estimates heretofore published on the subject. Some persons may say the amazing increase in particular places, is owing in a great degree to emigrations—grant this to be the case—where is the spot in those States which have furnished the largest number of emigrants, that has not also made advances in its population. The fact is, that this country is advancing to the sovereignty of the globe with a rapidity that baffles all calculation.
The issue of the Belgic Revolution sufficiently evinces, that no system, which is founded on an invasion of EQUAL RIGHTS, can possibly succeed.—A levelling principle is the canker of a free Constitution.
There is a profession, which it has become a good deal fashionable to rail against, to whom civil society is under no small obligations both on account of their public spirit, and as assertors of the rights of freemen—I mean lawyers; it is said the present glorious revolution of France owes its rise in a great measure to the gentlemen of the bar—and in our own country they have always borne a conspicuous part in the council and in the field.
This is undoubtedly a fact, that lawyers have always been held in low estimation in despotic and arbitrary governments.
The Hon. AARON BURR, of New-York, is elected Senator of the United States, to take the place of Hon. PHILIP SCHUYLER, in March next.
Yesterday departed this life, in an advanced age, the Hon. GEORGE BRYAN, Esq. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
AT the late Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Society, for promoting the abolition of Slavery, &c. held, agreeably to their Charter, on the 3d inst. the following persons were elected officers for the present year.
 President, James Pemberton, Esq.  Vice-Presidents, { Rev. Dr. William Rogers, Rev. Dr. Nicholas Collin.  Secretaries, { Dr. Samuel P. Griffiths, Mr. John McCrea.  Treasurer, { Mr. James Starr.  Counsellors, { Miers Fisher, Esq. William Lewis, Esq. William Rawle, Esq. John D. Coxe, Esq. John Todd, Jun. Esq. Joseph Thomas, Esq.  Committee of Correspondence, { James Pemberton, Esq. Rev. Dr. William Rogers, Dr. Samuel P. Griffiths, Richard Wells, Esq. Mr. Caleb Lowndes, Dr. Casper Wistar, Mr. John McCrea. 
ARRIVALS at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA SINCE OUR LAST.
  Sloop Industry, Allen, Virginia.   Brig Hawk, Curwin, Liverpool.   Schooner Polly, Andote, Port-au-Prince.   Brig Virginia, Dott, Marseilles. 
PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES.
   FUNDED DEBT.     6 pr. Cents 16/6. 17/. 85 pr. cent.   3 pr. Cents 8/9 9/. 45 do.   Deferred 6 pr. Cents 9/. 45 do.   UNFUNDED DEBT.   Final Sett. and other Certificates 15/3 15/6 77 1/2 do.   Indents 8/9 9/. 45 do.   N. and S. Carolina, debts, 11/. 11/6. 57 1/2 do.  
The purchases of public debt by the Treasurer of the United States on Monday 17th inst. were at 17 3/4 for 6 per cents, and 9/ for 3 per cents and deferred 6 per cents.

FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.
LINES on FEMALE GENIUS.
To PHILENIA; occasioned by reading her POEM, entitled, "Oubli, or the Virtues of Nature."
IN former days, as ancient poets feign, A strange contention fill'd th' ethereal plain, What go'dess, fairest in angelic eyes, Should o'er her bright compeers in beauty rise...
From Albion's cliffs what tides of music flow, When heart struck SEWARD pours the plaint of woe, When CARTER's modulated numbers roll, And MOORE and AIKIN moralize the foul.
O woman, favorite of the smiling skies! Be thy just rights asserted by the wise! To thy fair fame impartial, they shall find Genius is not to any sex confin'd;...
* A Lady of Boston.
BOSTON, Jan. 15.
TIPO SAIB.
By an arrival at Salem from India, a Calcutta paper has been received, which gives accounts of the operations of that inveterate enemy of the English, TIPO SAIB, the successor of the famous Hyder Ali, against the Rajah of Travancore.
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
Of France, at the date of the last accounts, was fast approaching towards its dissolution—the consequent general election that will take place throughout France, will be the true epocha for the permanent establishment, or final destruction of the liberties of that country.
Hail, thou that shalt a sceptre wield, Unspotted long with human gore: Thy chatelet shall a nation yield, To regal tyranny no more.
Another LOUIS views thy state, And the great HENRY joys to see His injur'd country blest thro' late With LOUIS and with Liberty."
SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY.
So great has been the encouragement given to this Lottery, that even bets were yesterday laid, that there would not be a Ticket to be purchased for weeks previous to the time fixed for drawing.
BALTIMORE, January 18.
His Britannic Majesty hath been pleased to approve the Appointment of JOSHUA JOHNSON, Esquire, to be the Consul for the United States of America, at the Port of London and Places adjacent.
New Line of Stages.
THE Subscriber has established a line of STAGES from Hartford to Boston, by way of Norwich and Providence, which will run thro' twice a week during the Winter Season, and three times a week during the Summer Season.
Good Carriages, Horses, and careful Drivers are provided. Passengers pay three Pence per Mile, and are allowed 14 pound Baggage each—Extra Baggage pays at the rate of three Pence per Mile for every 150 wt.
The Stage for the Eastward leaves Hartford—Mondays and Thursdays, Norwich—Tuesdays and Fridays, Providence—Wednesdays and Saturdays, for the Westward, leaves Boston—Mondays and Thursdays, Providence—Tuesdays and Fridays, Norwich—Wednesdays and Saturdays.
69-2w3m
JESSE BROWN.
South-Carolina Lands for Sale,
ABOUT one hundred miles from Charleston, for any kind of Goods. One third part of 63 Tracts of Land, containing 51,900 acres, lying near the rivers of Savannah, Big and Little Salt Coahatchee, and the fork of the Edisto: These Lands are a dark, or a copper-coloured soil, in an inhabited part of the State.
Also 5 tracts of Land in Ninety-Six district, 4 in Orangeburg district, 6 in Camden, all containing 7,600 acres, all good land, with streams of water running through them. These Lands will be sold so low, that a man may make his fortune in buying them, for the purpose of selling them again, as emigrants are daily arriving there from Europe, to settle.
Duplicate Plots and Grants may be seen, and indisputable titles will be given by the subscriber. FREDERICK KING. Morrisstown, Jan. 1791. (77-6w1w.)
Forty Dollars Reward.
LOST by the Subscriber, on the 12th day of January 1791, between Penolopon and Freehold, in the county of Monmouth, and State of New-Jersey, the following Certificates, issued by the said State, to sundry Soldiers, for the three-fourth parts of the depreciation of their pay; all of which are signed by John Stevens, jun. Treasurer, and countersigned by James Ewing, Auditor, viz.
Table with 4 columns: No., Dated, Payable to, Amount. It lists various soldiers and the amounts owed to them, such as Powel Alston, Jacob Long, Oliver Cromwell, etc.
Any person who may have found the said Certificates, and will return them to the subscriber, living at Penolopon aforesaid, shall receive the above reward; and in proportion for any part of them which may be returned.
All persons are hereby cautioned against purchasing any of the above Certificates, as payment is stopped at the public offices. If any of them should be offered for sale, the person to whom they are offered is requested to stop the same, and give notice thereof to their humble servant. KENNETH HANKINSON. Monmouth County, New-Jersey. Jan. 15, 1791.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
JANUARY 25, 1791.
THE Public Creditors are reminded that, in order to the proper dispositions for paying the Interest in the several States, it is necessary that the amount to be paid in each should be previously known at the Treasury. And as the expiration of the first quarter is not far distant, it is wished that those who have not yet done it, may be expeditious in making and signifying their election, pursuant to the act making provision for the debt of the United States.
INFORMATION WANTED.
THE Subscriber requests, if any gentleman can give him information of a purchase of Lands made by a Mr. Daniel Richardet, in the year 1781 and 1782, in some part of the United States, he will be so kind as to inform his Brother, by directing a line to him, at the Printer's office. S. RICHARDET. January, 1791.
MASSACHUSETTS STATE LOTTERY.
THE Managers of the STATE LOTTERY, present the Public with the First Class of the Massachusetts Semi-annual State Lottery, which will commenced drawing in the Representatives' Chamber, in Boston, on the Seventeenth of March next, or sooner, if the Tickets shall be disposed of.
SCHEME.
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
25,000 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a deduction of twelve and one half per cent. for the use of the Commonwealth.
Table with 4 columns: Prizes, Dollars, of, Dollars. It lists the prize amounts and the number of tickets that win them, such as 1 of 10000 is 10000, 2 of 3000 are 6000, etc.
25,000. THE TICKETS may be had of the several Managers, who will pay the Prizes on demand—of the TREASURER of the Commonwealth—of JAMES WHITE, at his Book-Store, Franklin's-Head Court-Street, and at other places as usual.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. DAVID COBB. SAMUEL COOPER, GEORGE R. MINOT, JOHN KNEELAND, Managers.
Boston, July 28, 1790. Tickets in the above Lottery are to be sold by Stephen Austin, corner of Front and Pine Streets, Philadelphia.
PLEASE TO NOTICE.
FOR the accommodation of those who would wish to become Adventurers in the First Class of the MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL STATE LOTTERY, letters, post paid, directed to SAMUEL COOPER, at his Office, North side State-House, Boston, enclosing Philadelphia, New-York or Boston Bank-Bills, or other good Bills, will be particularly attended to, and Tickets forwarded immediately upon the receipt of such letters.
Boston, Dec. 22, 1790.
N.B. A List of Prizes will be deposited with the Printer hereof, immediately after the drawing is completed.
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PRICE CURRENT.—PHILADELPHIA.
PER QUANTITY. JANUARY 28.—DOLLARS at 7/6.
Large table listing prices for various goods including Anchors, Allum, Ashes, Brandy, Braziletto, Bricks, Bread, Butter, Cedar, Chocolate, Coal, Coffee, Cinnamon, Cassia, Cheese, Country, Sper. pr. lb., Wax, Myrtle Wax, Mould, Tallow, Dipped, Cotton, Currants, Cloves, Copperas, Cordage, Cocoa, Duck, Ravens, Flour, Common, Bur middlings, middlings, Ship-stuff, Flax, Fultic, Feathers, Flaxseed, Glue, Ginger, Ditto, common, Ditto, ground, Ginseng, Gunpowder, Ditto, fine, Gin, Holland, Do., pr. case, Wheat, Rye, Oats, Indian corn, Barley, Best shelled, Buckwheat, Hams, Hemp, Hoghead hoops, Herring, Hides, raw, Hops, Indigo, French, Carolina, Irons, Castings, Bar, Pig, Sheet, Nail rods, Junk, pr. cwt., Lard, hogs, Lead in pigs, in bars, Lead, white, red, Leather, foal, Lignum vitae, Logwood, Meal, Indian, Rye, Mackerel, Common, Mace, Mustard, Madder, Molasses, Marble, Malt spars, Mahogany, Nutmegs, Nails, Linseed, Train, Spermaceti, Whale, Olive, Ditto, pr. case, Best sweet in flasks, pr. box, baskets, Oak timber, Porter in casks, London, Bills of Exchange, London, Ditto, Amsterdam, France, and a section for Rooms.
WANTED, TWO OR MORE
Convenient ROOMS,
in Chestnut-Street, or as near the Bank as possible. Enquire of the Printer. (eptf.)
THE Subscribers for this paper, in the city of New-York, are respectfully informed, that the charge of the paper's proving inconvenient to Mr. Wetmore, at the Post-Office, the Editor has engaged Mr. Samuel Campbell, Book-seller, Hanover-Square, to receive them and superintend their delivery—by whom Subscriptions and arrearages will be received.