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The National Intelligencer,
AND WASHINGTON ADVERTISER.
VOL. I. WASHINGTON CITY, PRINTED BY SAMUEL HARRISON SMITH, NEW-JERSEY AVENUE, NEAR THE CAPITOL. No. XIV.
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The public will recollect that among the papers left by Dr. FRANKLIN, to his grandson TEMPLE FRANKLIN, was his own life written by himself. At the time of his death it was universally understood in this Country, that this life contained political statements of the most interesting nature. And so impressed was Temple Franklin with their importance that he repaired to England, with the view of publishing them in an advantageous manner, having previously made arrangements for having printed in this Country an edition copied from the English one.
For several years the public curiosity was highly excited, and every man who revered the talents of Franklin was anxious to see his works. At length it was announced, not it is granted from authority, but with strong accompanying evidences of authenticity that Mr. Dilly, an English Bookseller, had purchased the copy right for five thousand guineas, and that the publication would be immediately made. Year after year has since elapsed, without either the appearance of the works, or any apology for the delay, until the public curiosity has almost entirely subsided.
But though the public have, for the greater part, lost the interest they felt yet a number of intelligent citizens have not ceased to recollect with undiminished interest all the circumstances attending this extraordinary transaction. Well knowing that a suppression of Doctor Franklin's works could not flow from a common cause they have diligently endeavoured to investigate its true source. The result of their enquiry is this:—
Temple Franklin actually sold the copy right of Dr. Franklin's works to Mr. Dilly of London. According to the common course of events Mr. Dilly would have immediately published them in order to remunerate himself for the purchase money. Before, however, this publication was made, the British ministry, apprised of the great importance of withholding from the public eye writings which developed the origin, the nature, and the tendency of measures, which presented in an unfavourable view the conduct of the British cabinet during the American war, purchased from Mr. Dilly his right to the work by giving him a larger sum than he had paid Temple Franklin; hoping, by these means, altogether to suppress the works.
If this statement be true, it will at once be seen to involve the most interesting considerations; considerations which do not flow merely from a regard to the reputation of Dr. Franklin, from a laudable solicitude to have justice done to the memory of a departed sage; but such as are connected with historical truth, such as disclose the secret and real views of foreign nations, such as might enable the United States to know who are its friends, and who its enemies.
What motive could induce the English government to obtain the suppression of such a work, but its containing a detail of facts injurious to itself? Such an act cannot be traced to a common cause. The extraordinary nature of the means used fully and clearly evinces the high value of the object effected.
When we consider the knowledge of human nature possessed by Dr. Franklin, the elevated rank he held in the scale of society both in England and France, whereby he gained access to the most authentic sources of information, and his bold and inflexible republicanism, can we avoid the inference, that his writings expose a scene of political events calculated to exhibit British measures at war with the principles of honor and truth. When we further consider that the name of Dr. Franklin has been treated with invariable contempt by men in this country high in political consideration, and that no opportunity has passed unimproved of depreciating his moral character, and impairing the value of his public services, can we help pausing to enquire whether there does not exist some secret cause, developed probably in the doctor's works, for their unceasing persecution. We possess unequivocal evidence of the fertile resources of the British ca-
joice in the seduction of public agents from their duty; nor can we implicitly rely, however strong our confidence in American probity, on its superiority in all instances, to foreign corruption.
If the ideas I have suggested be considered as incorrect, it will at any rate be allowed that the subject is highly interesting, and that it claims the attention of every American, of every lover of truth, & of every friend to genius. I hope the subject will receive this attention. If doubts are entertained, there are men still alive who can dissipate them. Let Temple Franklin himself be appealed to. He cannot be insensible to the memory of an illustrious ancestor and benefactor; nor can he be regardless of his own reputation, which some men will consider as implicated in the foregoing statement.
In order to attract the attention of the nation to the subject, that the enquiry may be made with effect, let every newspaper admit these remarks or such others as shall promote similar views. By this means the most correct information may be expected, justice rendered to one of the greatest men the world has ever produced, and facts interesting not only to America, but to Europe, be disclosed.
A FRIEND TO TRUTH.
The following remarks from STANGER, shew the superiority of Republican over Royal Governments.
For the information of the unlearned reader, it will be necessary to state that the discourses of Sidney on Government were occasioned by a defence of monarchy written by Filmer, to which Sidney replied.
Our author delighting in strange things, lies in the next place, with an admirable sagacity, discover two faults in popular governments, that were never found by any man before him; and these are no less than ignorance and negligence. Speaking of the care of Princes to preserve their subjects, he adds, 'on the contrary, in a popular state, every man knows the public good doth not wholly depend upon his care, but the common-wealth may be well enough governed by others, though he only tend his private business.' And little below, 'nor are they much to be blamed for their negligence, since it is an even wager their ignorance may be as great.' The magistrates among the people being for the most part annual, do always lay down their office before they understand it; so as a prince of a duller understanding must needs excel them. This is bravely determined, and the world is beholden to Filmer for the discovery of the errors that have hitherto been epidemic. Most men had believed, that such as live in free states, are usually pleased with their condition, desire to maintain it; and every man finding his own good comprehended in the public, as those that fall in the same ship, employs the talent he has in endeavouring to preserve it, knowing that he must perish if that miscarry. This was an encouragement to industry; and the continual labours and dangers to which the Romans and other free nations exposed themselves, have been taken for testimonies that they thought themselves concerned in the business that passed among them, and that every one did not neglect them through an opinion that they would be done well enough by others. It was also thought, that free cities, by frequent elections of magistrates, became nurseries of great and able men, every man endeavouring to excel others, that he might be advanced to the honour he had no other title to than what might arise from his merit or reputation; in which they succeeded well, that one of them may be justly said to have produced more eminent men, than all the absolute monarchies that have been in the world. But those were mistakes. Perhaps Brutus, Valerius, and other Roman senators or magistrates, for the space of three hundred years, might have taken some care of the common-wealth, if they had thought it wholly depended upon on them. But believing it would be well enough governed by others, they neglect-
ed it. Camillus, Cincinnatus, Papirius, Fabius, Rullus, and Maximus, Scipio Africanus, Amilcar, Hannibal; Pericles, Themistocles, Alcibiades, Epaminondas, Philomenes, and others, might have proved able men in the affairs of war or government; but they were removed from their offices before they understood them, and must needs be excelled in both by princes, though of duller understanding. This may be enough to excuse them for performing their duty so slackly and meanly: but it is strange that Tacitus, and others should so far overlook the reason, and so grossly mistake the matter of fact, as not only to say, that great and excellent spirits failed when liberty was lost; and all preferments given to those who were most propense to slavery; but that there wanted men even to write the history. They never applied themselves to understand affairs depending upon the will of one man, in whom they were no otherwise concerned, than to avoid the effects of his rage; and that was chiefly to be done, by not falling under the suspicion of being virtuous. This was the study then in request; and the most cunning in this art were called "scientes temporum;" no other wisdom was esteemed in that and the ensuing ages, and no more was required, since the paternal care, deep wisdom, and profound judgment of the princes provided for all; and though they were of duller understandings, they must needs excel other magistrates, who having been created only for a year, left their offices before they could understand the duties of them. This was evidenced by that tenderness, and sincerity of heart, as well as the great purity of manners, observed in Tiberius; the clemency, justice, solid judgment, and frugality, of Caligula; the industry, courage, and sobriety, of Claudius; the good-nature, and prudent government, of Nero; the temperance, vivacity, and diligence of Vitellius; the liberality of Galba and Vespasian; together with the encouragement given by Domitian, Commodus, Heliogabalus, and many others, to all manner of virtues, and favours conferred upon those that excelled in them. Our author, giving such infallible proof of his integrity and understanding, by teaching us these things that would never have come into our heads, ought to be credited, though that which he proposes seem to be most absurd. But if we believe such as live in those times, or those who in later ages have perused their writings, we cannot but think the princes before-mentioned, and the greatest part of those, who possessed the same place, not only to have been void of all virtue, and to have suffered none to grow up under them, but in baseness, sottishness, and malice, to have been equal to the worst of all beasts. Whilst one prince, polluted with lust and blood, sat in his grotto at Caprea, surrounded with an infamous troop of affrologers; and others were governed by whores, bardaches, manumised slaves, and other villains; the empire was ruined through their negligence, incapacity, and wickedness; and the city that had flourished in all manner of virtue, as much or more than any that has been yet known in the world, produced no more; the discipline was dissolved that nourished it; no man could hope to advance a public good, or obviate an evil, by his diligence and valour; and he who acquired reputation by either could expect no other reward than a cruel death. If Germanicus, and Corbulo, who were born when liberty was expiring, be brought for examples against the first part of my assertion, their ends will justify the latter; and no eminent Roman family is known to have brought forth a man that deserved to be named in history since their time. This is as probable in reason, as true in fact. Men are valiant and industrious, when they fight for themselves, and their country; they prove excellent in all the arts of war and peace, when they are bred up in virtuous exercises, and taught by their fathers and masters to rejoice in the honours gained by them: they love their country, when the good of every particular man is comprehended in the public prosperity, and the success of their achievements is improved to the general advantage: they undertake
hazards and labours for the government, when it is justly administered; when innocence is safe, and virtue honoured; when no man is distinguished from the vulgar, but such as have distinguished themselves by the bravery of their actions; when no honour is thought too great for those who do it eminently, unless it be such as cannot be communicated to others of equal merit; they do not spare their persons, purses, or friends, when the public powers are employed for the public benefit, and imprint the like affections in their children from their infancy. The discipline of obedience, in which the Romans were bred, taught them to command: and few were admitted to the magistracies of inferior rank, till they had given such proof of their virtue as might deserve the supreme. Cincinnatus, Camillus, Papirius, Mamercus, Fabius Maximus, were not made dictators, that they might learn the duties of the office; but because they were judged to be of such wisdom, valour, integrity, and experience, that they might be safely trusted with the highest powers; and, whilst the law reigned, not one was advanced to that honour, who did not fully answer what was expected from him. By this means the city was so replenished with men fit for the greatest employments, that even in its infancy, when three hundred and sixty of the Fabii, "quorum neminem," says Livy, "ducem sperneret quibilibet temporibus senatus," were killed in one day, the city did lament the loss; but was not so weakened as to give any advantage to their enemies: and when every one of those who had been eminent before the second Punic war, Fabius Maximus only excepted, had perished in it, others arose in their places, who surpassed them in number, and were equal to them in virtue. The city was a perpetual spring of such men as long as liberty lasted; but that was no sooner overthrown, than virtue was torn up by the roots; the people became base and fardid, the small remains of the nobility doubtful and effeminate, and their Italian associates becoming like to them, the empire, whilst it stood, was only sustained by the strength of foreigners.
The Grecian virtue had the same fate, and expired with liberty: instead of such soldiers as in their time had no equals, and such generals of armies and fleets, legislators and governors, as all succeeding ages have justly admired, they sent out swarms of fiddlers, jesters, chariot drivers, players, hawks, flatterers, ministers of the most impure lusts; or idle, babbling, hypocritical philosophers not much better than they. The emperors courts were always crowded with this vermin; and notwithstanding the necessity our author imagines, that princes must needs understand matters of government better than magistrates annually chosen, they did for the most part prove so brutish as to give themselves, and the world, to be governed by such as these, and that without any great prejudice, since none could be found more ignorant, lewd, and base, than themselves.
It is absurd to impute this to the change of times; for time changes nothing; and nothing was changed in those times, but the government, and that changed all things. This is not accidental, but according to the rules given to nature by God, imposing upon all things a necessity of perpetually following their causes. Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desires and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them. All men follow that which seems advantageous to themselves, such as are bred under a good discipline, and see that all benefits, procured to their country by virtuous actions, redound to the honour and advantage of themselves, their children, friends, and relations, contract, from their infancy, a love to the public, and look upon the common concernments as their own. When they have learnt to be virtuous, and see that virtue is

in esteem, they seek no other preferment than such as may be obtained that way; and no country ever wanted greater numbers of excellent men, where this method was established. On the other side, when it is evident, that the best are despised, hated, or marked out for destruction; all things calculated to the humour or advantage of one man, who is often the worst, or governed by the worst; honours, riches, commands and dignities, disposed by his will, and his favour gained only by a most obsequious respect, or a pretended affection to his person, together with a servile obedience to his commands, all application to virtuous actions will cease; and no man, caring to render himself or children worthy of great employments, such as desire to have them will, by little intrigues, corruption, scurrility, and flattery, endeavour to make way to them; by which means true merit in a short time comes to be abolished, as fell out in Rome as soon as the Cæsars began to reign.
NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The appearance of the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER has been protracted to this day, by the unavoidable, though unanticipated embarrassments attending the removal of a Printing Office. The vessel, which contained the greater part of the materials, failed from Philadelphia on the 20th of September; but did not arrive in this City till the 25th inst. owing to her having been driven on shore by the violence of the late storm. This information is given to remove any censure that may have been thrown upon the Editor for his unexpected delay.
The Editor, at the commencement of his duties, considers it as not improper to state the nature of the plan, which he intends to pursue, and concisely to notice the principles by which he proposes to regulate his own conduct, as well as those by which it is expected that Correspondents will regulate theirs.
Various political opinions divide the civilized world. These opinions in some cases are diffused by the press; in others by the sword.
Amidst this collision of hostile sentiments no surer safeguard of human happiness exists, than the liberty of the Press.
There is truth in the declaration the venerable CONGRESS of 1774, who in their address to the Inhabitants of Quebec, speaking of the freedom of the press, say "The importance of this condition, besides the advancement of truth, science, morality, and the arts in general, in its diffusion on liberal sentiments on the administration of government, its ready communication of thoughts between subjects, and its consequent encouragement of union among them, whereby oppressive officers are shamed or intimidated into more honorable and just modes of conducting affairs."
But while the Editor clings with our dearest rights the Liberty of the Press, he is decidedly inimical to its licentiousness.
As, on the one hand, the conduct of public men and the tendency of public measures will be freely examined, so, on the other, private character will remain inviolable, nor shall indelicate ideas or expressions be admitted, however disguised by fire or enlivened by wit.
No sentiments whatever, on the prevalence of which the general good depends, will be excluded from enquiry and discussion. Guided by this principle, the editor need not caution the public against ascribing to HIM, a belief in all the opinions which may occasionally be supported, or a disbelief of those which may be opposed. For as he means not to surrender his own sentiments, so he does not expect that those who write for the National Intelligencer will surrender theirs.
In the admission of compiled as well as original articles, it will be his object to be impartial, and to exhibit, as they exist, the varying opinions and actions of men. Let it however, be considered, that impartiality does not consist in the ACTUAL ADMISSION of as much political matter on one side as the other; but in a readiness to insert articles of merit on either side.
Aware of the equivocal character of PROFESSIONS, and convinced that the public judgment will be formed, as it ought to be, from the manner in which the National Intelligencer shall be conducted, the Editor will add only one remark. His Paper will be PURELY AMERICAN. It will be his effort to promote the true interests of his own Country, uninfluenced either by foreign attachments or enmities.
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facts, and correct political ideas, has determined to enter upon the arduous duties, which such an object involves. He is well apprised of the expense and exertion which such an establishment requires. But he confides in the prompt and energetic co-operation of the friends of truth and of their country in the different parts of the Union. As it is his firm determination, that nothing shall be admitted into the NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, which shall wound national, or calumniate private character, so it is his unalterable purpose freely to insert, and earnestly to invite, whatever shall promote the general welfare. This, and this only, shall be the motive by which his professional deportment shall be guided.
Hitherto, in the management of the UNIVERSAL GAZETTE, the Editor has confined himself, agreeably to the original plan, to recording events as they occurred, with but little animadversion on their causes or effects; and as far as opinions were involved, to relating those of others rather than his own. The Universal Gazette will still be continued on the same plan; the only change that takes place, will arise from its being printed at the seat of government at Washington, instead of Philadelphia; whereby its value will be appreciated rather than impaired.
With respect to the National Intelligencer, another plan will be pursued. Over a faithful and comprehensive detail of facts will preside a spirit of investigation, a desire to enlighten, not only by fact, but by reason. The tendency of public measures, and the conduct of public men, will be examined with candour and truth.
In addition to the mass of information, formed by domestic and foreign events, and especially by a detailed statement of the debates and proceedings of Congress, as much original matter will be furnished as the exertions of the Editor shall be able to command. And if he be not deceived, he can promise the readers of the National Intelligencer, an organ, which shall communicate the language of truth with accuracy, with dignity, and with spirit.
October 31st, 1800.
The NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER is this day presented to the Public. It is the first Paper printed in WASHINGTON; and from the vicinity of the Editor to the Capitol, the seat of the public bodies, he expects to be enabled to furnish the earliest and most correct notices of their deliberations. The crisis of national affairs is deeply interesting, whether contemplated in relation to our internal or external situation. Fully impressed with the sacred duties of the press in such times, and sensible how much good or mischief may be effected by the virtuous or vicious application of the power with which public opinion has invested it, truth and truth only, shall be the guide of the Editor. In many instances he will doubtless be deceived. But in all instances a conscientiousness of error will be followed by a candid renunciation of it.
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For this sole purpose, not in the unworthy spirit of solicitation, it is intended to forward a few of the early numbers to citizens of respectability in the several states, who are requested to use their good offices, if they consider the Paper worthy encouragement.
Oct. 31st. 1800.
Public Sale of Lots, IN WASHINGTON CITY.
WILL be sold at public Auction, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 10th day of December next, at William Tunnicliff's Hotel, ONE HUNDRED LOTS, situated eastward of the Capitol and near to the Eastern Branch ferry. The terms will be one half cash and the other half at 60 days on notes negotiable at the bank of Columbia satisfactorily endorsed.
An indisputable title will be given by GEORGE WALKER. Washington, November 26. }
WASHINGTON BOOK-STORE.
RAPINE, CONRAD, & CO. Corner of South B. Street and New Jersey Avenue, near the Capitol.
HAVE just received, and for sale at the above store, Letters from Alexander Hamilton, concerning the public conduct and character of John Adams, Esq. President of the United States.
Also, just opening, a choice assortment of books in History, Law, Medicine, Divinity, Arts and Sciences, Classics, School books, Novels, Romances, Biography, &c. &c. With a good assortment of super royal, royal, medium, demy, and foolscap writing paper, thick and thin post, blue & common wrapping paper, best Dutch quills, wafers, sealing wax, ink powder, red and black ink, black lead pencils, parchmen, playing cards, blank books, &c. &c. All which they will dispose of at the very lowest prices.
Public officers and others, who will please to favour them with their custom, may rely on having the strictest attention paid to their orders. Nov. 17th, 1800.
JUST IMPORTED,
IN the ship Missouri, via Philadelphia, and now opening for sale at the Subscriber's Store on New-Jersey Avenue Capital Hill, Square 690.
A General Assortment of Ironmongery, Cutlery, Sadlery, Brass Wares and Building Materials.
Among which are the following Articles. Iron pots, frying pans, chaffing dishes, Brass iron and Japanned Candlesticks, patent metal tea kettles and sauce pans; japanned tea trays, waiters and Bread baskets, sad irons, wired up Jacks, sweeping, scrubbing, hearth and shoe brushes; Mathematical instruments, mahogany knife cases, filled with ivory handled knives and forks, Cruet stands, ladies dressing cases; mill, pit and crosscut Saws. 36, 28 and 14lb. Iron weights. Also scale beams to weigh from 5 to 10 cwt. at an end. HENRY INGLE. November 24th, 1800.
CONRAD & McMUNN
HAVE opened houses of entertainment in the range of buildings formerly occupied by Mr. Law, about two hundred paces from the Capitol, in New Jersey avenue, leading from thence to the Eastern Branch. They are spacious and convenient, one of which is designed for stage passengers and travellers, the other for the accommodation of boarders. There is stabling sufficient for 60 horses. They hope to merit public patronage. City of Washington, Nov. 24, 1800.
A GENTLEMAN with a small family wishes to get Lodgings, either in Georgetown, or the City, during the Session of Congress.
Apply at this Office, or to Mr. Claxton. Door keeper of the House of Representatives. Nov. 26.
INFORMATION WANTED.
ALEXANDER INNES, a Hatter by trade was sometime ago on board the Constellation frigate and was in 1798 in Norfolk, Virginia. He has not since been heard off. His friends would be thankful if any persons who knew anything of his situation or residence, would communicate it by letter, per post, addressed to Robert Innes, jun. merchant Easton Pennsylvania. P. S. Printers to the Southward of Pennsylvania are requested to give the above a place for a few times. November 28, 1800.
NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that two Tracts of land belonging to CHARLES GRANDJEAN lying in the County of Pickering in the Mississippi Territory, and adjoining land belonging to Adam Bingaman, are attached by a Foreign attachment at the suit of Joseph Calvet for a debt of 2063 dollars 50 cents. JOSEPH CALVET. Nov. 28, 1800.
STRAYED or STOLEN A BLACK MARE with a white streak down her face, with a bunchy Mane and tail. No other particular marks that I know. About thirteen hands high, about twelve years old, very heavy made and in good order, FOUR DOLLARS reward and all reasonable charges paid if left either with the Subscriber, or at JAMES TIMMONS Liberty Street Baltimore, By JAMES USHER, Greenleaf's Point. Washington City, Nov. 10, 1800. 3f.
JOHN BARNES,
FROM PHILADELPHIA, Has just opened for sale the following articles at his store opposite Mr. Semmes's tavern, in Georgetown, a general assortment of Fresh Teas of the first quality, viz. Imperial, Large Hyson, Young Hyson, Hysonskin, Souchong and Bohea. SPICES. Nutmegs, Mace, Cinnamon, Cloves, Four bags fresh Almonds. LIQUORS. Madeira, six years old, Dry Sherry & Port, Brandy, 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, and Holland Gin. COFFEE, Pennington's best refined sugars. With a handsome assortment of gentlemen's fashionable London Hats and trimmings. He has likewise for sale, ten cases well assorted STATIONARY, consisting of writing paper of different qualities, Quills, Wafers, and Ink powder, in packages from 80 to 180 do. lars on the most reasonable terms for cash or approved notes. English and American playing cards, Pasteboard per gross, Wrapping paper per ream, A case of 7-8 and yard wide Irish Linen per piece. Nov. 14th, 1800.
BOARDING AND LODGING.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs the members of the ensuing Congress and the Public, that he has taken the two houses in square No. 690, on the New Jersey Avenue opposite the house at present occupied by Thomas Law, Esq. where he can accommodate either single Gentlemen or those who have families. The houses were finished last spring, so that no danger can be apprehended from damp walls. He has Stableage for several horses and two good Carriage houses. ROBERT W. PEACOCK. City of Washington, October 31st 1800.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1st, 1800.
By a Gentleman, who left LANCASTER (Pennsylvania) on the 26th ult. we learn that the Legislature had not then agreed on the mode of choosing Electors. No new proposition had been made since the rejection of the amendment of the Senate, as stated in our last.
In our last, it was stated that John Codman was elected a Senator of the United States, for Massachusetts. It is not so. JONATHAN MASON is the person actually chosen. The error arose from the incorrect statement of a Boston Paper.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
The following committees have been appointed in the House of Representatives, viz.
Of Commerce and Manufactures consisting of Messrs. S. Smith, Waln, F. Davenport, Huger, Parker, E. Goodrich, and S. Lee.
Of Elections, consisting of Messrs. Dent, L. Williams, Edmond, Muhlenberg, Evans Dickson and Claiborne.
Of Ways and Means, Messrs. Griswold, Powell, Bartlett, Nicholas, Imlay, Nicholson, Taliaferro, Woods and Smilie.
Of Revisal and unfinished business, consisting of Messrs. Platt, Evans and Allison.
Of Claims, consisting of Messrs. Macon, J. C. Smith, J. C. Thomas, Gregg, Holmes, and Bartlett.
The Committee of Revisal and Unfinished business,
HAVE REPORTED—in part,
That they have, according to order, examined the Journal of the last session, and find that the following Bills and Reports were then depending, and undetermined—to wit,
BILLS
Which originated in the House of Representatives.
Making further provision for the relief of persons imprisoned for debts due to the United States; May 13, 1800—Postponed by the Senate until the next session. More effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States—April 21, 1800, postponed by the House, until the first Monday in December, 1800.
To revive and continue in force an act, intituled "An act for establishing trading houses with the Indian Tribes;" May 14, 1800—Postponed by the Senate until the next session.
In addition to the act, intituled "An act for granting lands to the inhabitants and settlers at Vincennes and the Illinois country, in the Territory north west of the Ohio, and for confirming them in their possessions;" May 14, 1800—Postponed until the next session.
For establishing a military academy, and for better organizing the corps of artillery and engineers; April 28, 1800—Postponed by the House until the first Monday in December, 1800.
To authorise the Secretary of the Treasury to lease certain salt-springs, the property of the United States, in the Territory north-west of the Ohio; May 9, 1800. Postponed by the House until the first Monday in December, 1800.
Regulating the grants of land appropriated for the Refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova-Scotia; May 14, 1800—postponed by the House, until the third Monday in November, 1800.
To provide for the sale of certain lands between the Great and Little Miami Rivers;—May 10, 1800—Postponed by the Senate until the next session of Congress.
For erecting a Mausoleum for George Washington; May 12, 1800—Postponed by the Senate until the next session.
To provide for the more convenient and effectual administration of Justice in the courts of the United States; May 1st, 1800—committed to a committee of the whole House—Not further acted on.

REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEES. On the subject of Trading Houses with the Indians; April 22, 1800—ordered to lie on the table.
The report enumerates various other bills, and reports of a private nature, not acted upon; and then concludes,
Your committee further report their opinion, that all petitions which were depending and undecided at the last session of Congress, ought to be taken up and acted upon by the House, as the same may be called for by any Member, or upon the application of the individual claimant or petitioner.
MONDAY, Dec. 1, 1800.
The Bill for compensating, and extending the privilege of franking to, the delegate from the Territory N. W. of the Ohio, was read a third time and passed.
The Memoirs of James Brindley , inserted this day in our columns, merit the notice of our readers, as portraying the plain narrative of the life of a man, whose reputation sprang from his usefulness, unlike in this respect, that crowd of those deified mortals, whose glory is reflected from the misery they inflict upon mankind.
The celebrated Pictures of LEBRUN , representing the battles of Alexander, are ordered to be hung up in the Gallery of the First Consul.
The last accounts from India mention, that a flight of Locusts several miles in extent, and so thick as in their progress wholly to obscure the sun, had passed over Malda, Rajemul, and Helebas. Fortunately for the terrified Inhabitants without stopping. From Helebas they directed their course along the Jemma, towards Agra; in the neighbourhood of that city they are stated to have descended, and to have totally destroyed the vegetation of the district.
London pap.
In England a mode has been discovered of manufacturing paper from Straw . It is of strong consistence, and though it retains the colour of the material from which it is made, will serve for packing parcels, printing hand-bills, posting bills, and such other ordinary purposes. It is hoped, therefore, that this invention will be likely to reduce the present advanced prices of rags and paper, and destroy a monopoly.
M. Achard, the Prussian chemist, has at length brought his discoveries, in the article of sugar from vegetables, to such perfection that he is enabled to vend it at sixpence the pound.
RE-MANUFACTURE OF PAPER.
A company has just been established in London, for the purpose of extracting every kind of ink, printed or written, from paper of every sort, and re-manufacturing it in the usual way. Such an invention, which has long been a great desideratum, promises to be of considerable benefit to the public, by converting to use, the immense mass of waste paper, which is every where to be found! and thus, we hope, reducing the price of this most useful article, which has of late risen to such an extravagant height as to impede very materially the advancement of Literature. A patent has been granted for this discovery.
Paper already printed on, is now regularly bought in at the rag-shops of foreign countries, to be re-manufactured by the paper makers. News-papers, old books, unsaleable books, can all be reduced to a white pulp by the process of Madame Mallon. —It is thus described in a continental journal: Choose paper of similar hues to be used together. On one hundred weight of paper pour five hundred weight of boiling water. Stir it continually with indented paddles until the whole is reduced to a pulp. Drain off the water through an opening covered with flannel. Pour on fresh boiling water, and repeat the stirring with incessant industry. Such of the component parts of the printer's ink, as are not soluble in water, will sink, to the bottom of the vat gradually, and the pulp will assume a whiter and whiter appearance, and may be removed in shallow pails to be submitted to the usual process of manufacture. This fortunate discovery will be the grand defence of posterity against superfluous and tedious books.
The quantity of paper stuff may in another manner be increased. Instead of making tinder from rags, it might be made, as in France, from the agaric of the ash. The fungus is sliced thin, dried, beaten with a hammer until it becomes very elastic, and boiled in water impregnated with saltpetre. In this state it readily catches fire from the spark of a flint, and is sold very cheap at the shops by the name Amadou .
If this substance were easily to be had, the rags now burnt for tinder might be preserved.
PENNSYLVANIA LEGISLATURE.
LANCASTER, Nov. 24.
GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
GENTLEMEN,
In proceeding to lay before you a general state of the commonwealth, I derive the highest satisfaction from an opportunity of congratulating you, upon the health that the city of Philadelphia has enjoyed, during the present year, as well as upon the many other blessings, which a beneficent Providence has bestowed upon our country. The commerce of the state, relieved from domestic calamity and external outrage, promises to revive with all its energy and enterprise. Her agricultural industry has been productive beyond the experience of any former period: while the progress of population and settlement (notwithstanding an impolitic discouragement of migration to America) rapidly extends, throughout her territory, the various arts and advantages of social life. To preserve, and to improve a situation thus propitious, will certainly demand and deserve the attention of every department of the government; but from the legislature, in particular, much is expected, and much, I am persuaded, will be performed.
It is obvious, that on the judicious administration, as well as on the faithful administration of our municipal institutions, must depend the order, safety and tranquility of the community. Hence, it becomes necessary occasionally to review the general laws for regulating our police; to adapt them to the inevitable mutation of human affairs; and to amend them according to the useful lessons of experience. With this view, therefore, permit me to introduce to your immediate consideration, the propriety of revising the existing systems, in relation to elections, to courts of justice, and to the militia.
The law for regulating the general election, has been found defective in its description of the qualification of voters: in the vigour of the proof required to establish the privilege of voting: and in the omission of a summary mode, to investigate and decide any contest that may arise at a preliminary election for inspectors, and other officers. While, on the one hand, this sacred right of citizenship ought to be effectually protected from invasion, it will be allowed, that on the other hand, no obstacle should be interposed, or tolerated, by which the friends of a particular candidate may embarrass and oppress their opponents; or by which the constitutional franchise of a single qualified elector may be endangered and destroyed.
It is referred, therefore, generally, to your wisdom to devise a remedy for the defects, that have been stated; but the occasion seems, in a special manner, to require the legislative aid, to obviate the doubts, which have been recently created, respecting the validity of acts of naturalization, in the courts of Common Pleas. I have always, I confess, considered those courts, in their constitution and jurisdiction, to be Superior Courts (though not Supreme) as well as District Courts; and consequently, expressly empowered by the act of Congress to grant certificates of naturalization: but, on a question of such importance, to so many adopted citizens, you will, probably, deem it expedient to pass a declaratory act. On the subject of elections, your attention will, likewise, be naturally attracted, during the present session, by the inconveniences, which the state has repeatedly encountered, for want of a permanent law, to regulate the manner of choosing Senators of the United States, and of appointing the Electors of a President and Vice President.
Adverting to the Courts of Law, you will readily perceive, that the extension of Commerce and agriculture, the increase of population, and the multiplication of counties, have so accumulated the objects and duties of the judiciary department, that the existing system has proved to be no longer adequate to the regular and efficient administration of justice. An addition to the number of Judges of the Supreme court, and a subdivision of the circuits of the courts of Common Pleas, appear, therefore to be indispensably requisite, for the safety and accommodation of the people; but how far such an arrangement may be made to supersede the use, and to subtract the expense of the high Court of errors and appeals, you will determine. The constitution contem-
plates a legislative provision for authorizing for the sum of forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; but you will perceive by the report of the agents, that the premises are subject to a ground rent, which the state is bound to discharge. Though I think, render a greater service to our constituents, than by devising and enforcing a plan for the return of Jurors, which, in every vicissitude of party influence, and popular opinion, shall operate freely, without their favor, and without prejudice. In our penal code, few important alterations can, at this time, be suggested; but it may be proper to observe, that the nature and degree of some of the punishments denounced by the health laws, are so disproportionate to their relative offences, as to assume a character of cruelty, inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution, and obstructive in the execution of the regulations for the security of the port.
It is with pride and pleasure, that I inform you of a numerous and effective enrollment of our militia (the strength and safety of a free people) amounting, on the best calculation to about eighty thousand citizens. A report of the quantity and distribution of the public arms lately purchased will be laid before you; but many of the old arms are in possession of individuals in different parts of the state, who ought to be induced, or compelled, to deliver them to the Brigade Inspectors, and an officer appears necessary, for the safe keeping, repairing, and superintending the whole of them. Notwithstanding the judicious liberality of the legislature in their former appropriations for this object, it will be necessary to give additional powers, either to the Brigade Inspectors, or to the department of accounts for the purpose of collecting the arrearages, as well as the accruing fines, which constitute the only permanent fund for defraying the expenses of the militia. Some mode should, also, be prescribed for deciding contested elections; the Judges of elections should be placed under obligation of an oath or affirmation, as well as the officers commissioned; and it seems to be proper, in conformity to the general principle of the law, that a provision should be made, for issuing commissions to supply any future vacancies, not on a tenure of seven years, but only for the unexpired portion of the septennial period of election.
Having brought these principal institutions into your view, and considering the diffusion of useful knowledge among the people, to be the best auxiliary to the administration of a free government, allow me, gentlemen, to remind you of a constitutional injunction, "that the Legislature shall as soon as conveniently may be, provide by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the state, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis." As another important instrument, to unite the interests and affections of the citizens, the communication between the different parts of the state should be facilitated by every practicable means. An opportunity will be taken during the present session, to exhibit a report on the progress in executing the various contracts, which have been formed for the improvement of our public roads and inland navigation; but, besides affording occasional aids from the Treasury for specific objects, I trust that you will render the permanent provisions of our law, relative to roads and highways, more general, more operative. The business of the Land Office, and of the Board of Property, becomes highly interesting to the community. Some measures should be pursued to compel persons holding lands under settlements, warrants, and locations, to apply for patents; and you cannot be too early in taking the proper precautions, to avert the danger, that menaces the property and peace of the state, from a collision of titles in the distant counties. To add, that during the present session it will be necessary to choose a Senator of the United States—and that the constitution requires, an apportionment of the representation in the General Assembly to the number of taxable inhabitants, according to the returns of enumeration which will be transmitted to you, as soon as they are received.
Since the last adjournment of the legislature, the duties devolving on the executive, have been punctually performed. In organizing the several new Counties, however, some difficulty has occurred, (which it may be proper to obviate by a decision of the Judges) in relation to the validity of the commissions of magistrates, whose residence does not continue within the boundaries of the county, for which they were originally appointed. The sale of the house and lots that belonged to the State, situated between Market and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia, has been made to the University of Pennsylvania, in the manner, and on the conditions, prescribed,
for the sum of forty-one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; but you will perceive by the report of the agents, that the premises are subject to a ground rent, which the state is bound to discharge. Though I think, render a greater service to our constituents, than by devising and enforcing a plan for the return of Jurors, which, in every vicissitude of party influence, and popular opinion, shall operate freely, without their favor, and without prejudice. In our penal code, few important alterations can, at this time, be suggested; but it may be proper to observe, that the nature and degree of some of the punishments denounced by the health laws, are so disproportionate to their relative offences, as to assume a character of cruelty, inconsistent with the spirit of the constitution, and obstructive in the execution of the regulations for the security of the port.
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives,
The Officers of Accounts will lay before you a detail of the Finances of the state; but permit me, in general, to inform you, that on the first day of October last, there was a balance of eighty-six thousand three hundred and sixty dollars in the treasury, which our various sources of revenue will, probably, in the course of the ensuing year, augment to a sum of three hundred and four thousand and seventy nine dollars. Besides, however, defraying the expenses of government, paying the sums due on the contracts for arms and satisfying various miscellaneous appropriations, it will be necessary to provide, for discharging the moiety of the loan from the Bank of Pennsylvania, which will be due on the first day of April next. Hence, you will discover a considerable deficit (amounting perhaps to a sum of eighty thousand dollars) to supply which you will be under the necessity of resorting to a mediate tax, or to a sale of the public stock belonging to the State; but, I am confident, that in the arrangement of our Finances you will be equally attentive to the principles of public credit, and useful economy.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, With the various other documents relating to the topics of this message, the Secretary will present for your information, copies of reports from the several Land Officers, and a Schedule of the acts that will shortly expire, in consequence of their respective limitations. I trust, that in these and in all my official communications, you will perceive the proofs of a sincere disposition, to advance the welfare of the state, to facilitate the deliberations of the legislature, and to expedite the transaction of the public business.
THOMAS M'KEAN.
Lancaster Nov. 21, 1800.
THE SUBSCRIBER
OFFERS FOR SALE,
THE FOLLOWING VALUABLE PROPERTY.
In George Town & the City of Washington.
VIZ,
A BRICK HOUSE & LOT near the Union tavern; the terms of payment as follows, one half cash, the balance in 6 and 9 months, the purchaser giving notes with approved indorsers.
—ALSO—
A number of Lots unimproved; one lot adjoining the above, 47 feet front, 120 back; one lot on the causeway, near Mr. Joseph Peck's building, 26 feet front by 125 back; one fourth of the square in Thomas Beall's addition to George Town, on an elegant eminence, it being part of that square improved by Mr. William Smith; also, a lot in said addition, it being at the diagonal corner from the place of residence of Joseph Nourse, Esq; one lot in the City of Washington, square 164, fronting North K. street 66 feet 4 inches by 60 feet 10 inches on Connecticut Avenue, containing 3295 square feet, with a spring of excellent water running through said lot.
All the above property will be disposed of on the most reasonable terms; and indisputable titles will be given on the purchase money being paid.
JONATHAN JACKSON.
November 12, 1800
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
FOR Apprehending and securing in any Goal, so that the Subscriber gets him again A NEGRO MAN named NACE, ran away some time in the month of October, aged Thirty years, about five feet high, light complexion, wears his hair queued, a well set trunky fellow. I have cause to believe he is in the City of Washington. It is unnecessary to describe his Clothing as he will have it in his power to change them. I will give TWENTY DOLLARS if ten miles from home, THIRTY DOLLARS if twenty miles, and the above reward if a greater distance.
ZACHARIAH SOTHORON.
Charles County near Benedict, October 31.
PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
EXECUTED BY
SAMUEL H. SMITH.

MEMOIRS OF JAMES BRINDLEY.
JAMES BRINDLEY, the ingenious projector of the present system of Canal navigation, was born at Tunstall, in the parish of Wormhill, Derbyshire, in 1716. His father was a small freeholder, who dissipated his property in company and field amusements, and neglected his family. In consequence young Brindley was left destitute of even the common rudiments of education, and, till the age of seventeen, was casually employed in rustic labours; and at that period he bound himself apprentice to one Bennet, a mill-wright, at Macclesfield, in Cheshire, where his mechanical genius presently developed itself. The master being frequently absent, the apprentice was often left for weeks together to finish pieces of work, concerning which he had received no instruction, and Bennet, on his return, was greatly astonished to see improvements in various parts of mechanism of which he had no previous conception. It was not long before the millers discovered Brindley's merits, and preferred him in the execution of their orders, to the master of any other workmen. At the expiration of his servitude Bennet, being grown into years, he took the management of the business upon himself, and, by his skill and industry, contributed to support his old master and family in a comfortable manner.
In process of time Brindley set up as a mill-wright on his own account, and, by a number of new and ingenious contrivances, greatly improved that branch of mechanics, and acquired a high reputation in the neighbourhood. His fame extended to a wider circle; he was employed in 1752 to erect a water engine at Clifton, in Lancashire, for the purpose of draining some coal mines. Here he gave an essay of his abilities in a kind of work for which he was afterwards so much distinguished, driving a tunnel under ground, through a rock nearly 600 yards in length, by which water was brought out of the Irwell for the purpose of turning a wheel, fixed 30 feet below the surface of the earth. In 1755 he was employed to execute the larger wheels for a silk mill at Congleton; and another person, who was engaged to make other parts of the machinery, and to superintend the whole, proving incapable of completing the work, the business was entirely committed to Brindley, who not only executed the original plan in a masterly manner, but made additions of many curious and valuable improvements, as well in the construction of the engine itself, as in the method of making the wheels and pinions belonging to it. About this time, too, the mills for grinding flints in the Staffordshire potteries received various useful improvements from his ingenuity.
In the year 1756, he undertook to erect a steam engine, upon a new plan, at Newcastle-under-Line; and he was for a time very intent upon a variety of contrivances for improving this useful piece of mechanism; but from these designs he was, happily for the public, called away to take the lead in (what the event has proved to be) a national concern of capital importance, the projecting the system of canal navigation. The Duke of Bridgewater, who had formed the design of carrying a canal from his coal works at Worsley to Manchester, induced by the reputation of Mr. Brindley, to consult him on the execution of it; and having the sagacity to perceive, and strength of mind to confide in, the original and commanding abilities of this self-taught genius, he committed to him the management of the arduous undertaking. In the projecting of these works, Mr. Brindley, from the very first, adopted those leading principles which he ever after adhered to, and in which he has been imitated by all succeeding artists.
To preserve as much as possible the level of his canals, and to avoid the mixture and interference of all natural streams, were objects at which he constantly aimed. To accomplish these, no labour and expense was spared, and his genius seemed to delight in overcoming all obstacles to them, by the discovery of a new and extraordinary contrivances.
The most experienced engineers upon former systems were amazed and confounded at his projects of aqueduct bridges over navigable rivers, mounds across deep vallies, and subterraneous tunnels; nor could they believe in the practicability of some of these schemes till they saw them effected. In the execution, the ideas he followed were his own; and the minutest, as well as the greatest, of the expedients he employed, bore the stamp of originality. Every man of genius is an enthusiast. Mr. Brindley was an enthusiast in favour of the superiority of canal navigations above those of rivers; and this
triumph of art over nature, led him to view with a sort of contempt the winding stream, in which the lover of rural beauty so much delights. This sentiment he is said to have expressed in a striking manner at an examination before a committee of the house of commons, when, on being asked, after he had made some contemptuous remarks relative to rivers, what he conceived they were created for, he answered, "to feed navigable canals." A direct rivalry with the navigation of the Irwell and Mersey was the bold enterprize of his first great canal; and since the success of that design, it has become common all over the kingdom to see canals accompanying with insulting parallel the course of the navigable rivers.
After the successful execution of the Duke of Bridgewater's canal to Mersey, Mr. Brindley was employed in the revived design of carrying a canal from the river to the Trent, through the counties of Chester and Stafford. This undertaking commenced in the year 1766, and from the great ideas it opened to the mind of its conductor, of a scheme of inland navigation, which should connect all the internal parts of England with each other, and with the principal sea ports, by means of branches from this main stream, he gave it the emphatical name of the "Grand Trunk." In executing this, he was called upon to employ all the resources of his invention, on account of the inequality and various nature of the ground to be cut through; in particular the hill of Harecastle, which was only to be passed by a tunnel of great length, bored through strata of different consistency, and some of them mere quick-sand, proved to be a most difficult as well as expensive obstacle, which, however, he completely surmounted. While this was carrying on, a branch from the Grand Trunk to join the Severn, near Bewdley, was committed to his management, and was finished in 1772. He also executed a canal from Droitwich to the Severn; and he planned the Coventry canal, and for some time superintended its execution, but on account of some difference in opinion he resigned that office. The Chesterfield canal was the last undertaking of the kind which he conducted, but he only lived to finish some miles of it. There was, however, scarcely any design of canal navigation set on foot in the kingdom, during the latter years of his life, in which he was not consulted, and the plan of which he did not either form, or revise and improve. All these it is needless to enumerate; but as an instance of the vastness of his ideas, it may be mentioned, that on planning a canal from Liverpool to join that of the Duke of Bridgewater's at Runcorn, it was part of his intention to carry it by an aqueduct bridge across the Mersey at Runcorn-gap, a place where a tide, sometimes rising fourteen feet, rushes with great rapidity through a sudden contraction of the channel. As a mechanic and engineer he was likewise consulted on other occasions; as with respect to the draining of the low lands in the different parts of Lincolnshire and the Isle of Ely, and to the cleansing of the docks of Liverpool from mud. He pointed out a method which has been successfully practised, of building sea walls without mortar; and he was the author of a very ingenious improvement of a machine for drawing water out of mines, by the contrivance of a losing and a gaining bucket.
The intensity of application which all his various and complicated employments required, shortened his days, as the number of his undertakings, in some degree, impaired his usefulness. He fell into a kind of chronic fever, which, after continuing some years, with little intermission, at length wore out his frame, and put a period to his life, on September 27, 1772, in the 55th year of his age. He died at Turnhurst in Staffordshire, and was buried at New Chapel in the same county.
In appearance and manners, as well as in acquirements, Mr. Brindley was a mere peasant, unlettered and rude of speech; it was easier for him to devise means for executing a design than to communicate his ideas concerning it to others. Formed by nature for the profession he assumed, it was there alone that he was in his proper element; and so occupied was his mind with business that he was incapable of relaxing in any of the common amusements of life. As he had not the ideas of other men to assist him, whenever a point of difficulty in contrivance occurred, it was his custom to retire to his bed, where, in perfect solitude, he would lie for one, two, or three days, pondering the matter in his mind, till the requisite expedient had presented itself.
This is that true inspiration which poets have almost exclusively arrogated to themselves, but which men of original genius in every walk are actuated by, when, from the operation of the mind acting upon itself, without intrusion of foreign notions, they create and invent.
A remarkably retentive memory was one
of the essential qualities which Mr. Brindley brought to his mental operations. This enabled him to execute all the parts of the most complex machine in due order, without any helps of models or drawings, provided he had once accurately settled the whole plan in his mind.
In the calculation of the powers of machines, he followed a plan peculiar to himself; but, indeed, the only one he could follow without instruction in the rules of art. He would work the question for some time in his head, and then set down the result in figures; then taking it up in this stage, he would again proceed by a mental operation to another result, and thus he would go on by stages till the whole was finished, only making use of figures to mark the several results of his operations. But though, by the wonderful powers of native genius, he was thus enabled to get over his want of artificial method to a certain degree, yet there is no doubt, that when his concerns became extremely complicated, with accounts of various kinds to keep, and calculations of all sorts to form, he could not avoid that perplexity and embarrassment, which a readiness in the process carried on by pen and paper can alone obviate. His estimates of expense have generally proved wide of reality; and he seems to have been better qualified to be the contriver than the manager of a great design. His moral qualities were, however, highly respectable. He was far above envy and jealousy, and freely communicated his improvements to persons capable of receiving, and executing them; taking a liberal satisfaction in forming a new generation of engineers, able to proceed with the great plans, in the success of which he was so deeply interested. His integrity and regard to the advantage of his employers were unimpeachable. In fine, the name of Brindley will ever keep a place among that small number of mankind, who form an era in the art or science, to which they devote themselves, by a large and durable extension of their limits.
We have received a copy of GOVERNOR ST. CLAIR'S Speech to the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory N. W. of the Ohio. It is a very long and contains much matter entirely local. But the following extract contains sentiments worthy of general notice.
"SITUATED, Gentlemen, as we are, in a country bordering upon many savage tribes, with whom (the principles of religion and justice out of the question) it is our interest and should be our policy to be at peace, it is clearly necessary, that the treaties made with them by the government of the United States, should not be contravened with impunity, by any of the inhabitants of this territory, and it may be proper that the general regulations, that have been established with respect to them should, sometimes, be aided by municipal laws; and this has, by the ordinance for the government of the territory, been made a duty; speaking of those tribes it says, "in their property, rights, and liberty, they shall never be invaded or disturbed, unless in just and lawful wars, authorised by congress, but laws founded in justice and humanity shall from time to time be made for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them." Justice, gentlemen, is as much a duty of societies as of individuals, and our holy religion commands, that whatever we would that others should do unto us, so should we do unto them. To act honestly, fairly, and justly, and to perform our promises to Indians with whom the nation is at peace, is as much a duty, or more so, as to those who are in the highest state of civilization, and it is within the sphere of your Legislative power to compel it. It has long been a disgrace to the people of all the states bordering upon the Indians, both as men and as christians, that while they loudly complained of every injury or wrong received from them, and imperiously demanded satisfaction, they were daily offering to them injuries and wrongs of the most provoking and atrocious nature, for which I have not heard that any person was ever brought to due punishment, and all proceeding from the false principle, that, because they had not received the light of the gospel, they might be abused, cheated, robbed, plundered and murdered at pleasure, and the perpetrators, because professed christians, ought not to suffer for it.
What kind of Christianity is this, or where is it to be found? Surely not in the gospel of Jesus Christ. And what an obstacle must it throw in the way of such of them as might be desirous to embrace that religion, the doctrines of which we profess to believe to be founded in unerring wisdom,
and the precepts given by the command of God himself, when they see it so totally disregarded by us, with respect to them. I hope we shall be careful that no reproach of this nature shall attach to us. But it would be criminal to conceal from you, that the number of those unhappy people who have been killed since the peace of Grenville, in consequence of this diabolical principle, is great enough to give a very serious alarm for the consequences. A late attempt to bring to punishment a person who, with another, had killed two of the Six nations, and wounded two children, in Trumbull county, proved abortive. Though the homicide was clearly proven, and that it was committed with deliberate malice, the perpetrator was acquitted. Under such circumstances can it be expected, that any people, civilized or savage, will remain at peace? Have we not reason to fear the displeasure of the Almighty, who looks with an equal eye on all his creatures, and that the rage of the savage may be let loose to vindicate his broken laws. Effectual measures should be taken to insure to the Indians all the privileges that they are entitled to by treaty—to render redress of wrongs early to them—and to compel juries to do their duties by temporal pains and penalties, where the sanctions of religion fail of producing that effect.
IRISH HOUSE OF COMMONS.
Tuesday, July 1.
Dr. Duigenan moved for leave to bring in a bill "to compensate ecclesiastical persons for tithes withheld during the rebellion."—Leave given.
Mr. Alexander reported from the committee of Supply, the following resolutions, which were agreed to by the house:
 1. That a sum of 11,411. 11s. 11d. be granted to the Right Honourable, the speaker, to be by him applied to defray the expense of forming indexes to the several volumes of the new Edition of the journals of the House of Commons, of forming a General Index to the said journals, and of printing the same, and also the expense of binding six hundred and nine sets of the said Journals and Indexes.  2. That his majesty be enabled to charge upon the consolidated fund an annual sum of 600l. net, to be paid to the earl of Rockingham towards the support of the high rank he holds in this kingdom.  3. That his majesty be enabled to charge upon the consolidated fund an annual sum not exceeding 2000l. net, to be paid to the earl of Athlone, and the successors to that dignity, in lieu of the annuity of 1200l. which has been granted to him in pursuance of an act passed in this kingdom in the thirty-sixth year of his majesty's reign.  4. That his majesty be enabled to charge upon the consolidated fund an annual sum not exceeding 600l. net, to be paid to lord Aylmer, towards the support of the dignity he holds in the Peerage of this kingdom.  5. That his majesty be enabled to charge upon the consolidated fund an annual sum not exceeding 1200l. net, to be paid to the Right Honourable John Monck Mason, in consideration of his long and faithful services, to commence upon his resignation of the office of one of the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury. 
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
FOR SALE, Lot No. 9, in Square 122.
THE above is inferior to few lots in this city, being but two squares west of the President's Square, commanding an extensive view of the Potomac, it is a corner lot, and fronts 155 feet 10 inches on F. Street, and 59 feet and an half inch on 20th Street.—An indisputable title will be given on receiving the amount of the purchase money. For terms apply to the subscriber a few doors east of the Little Hotel.
JOHN KEARNEY.
N. B. I will also sell Lot No. 4, in Square No. 491, fronting 55 feet 3 inches on the Pennsylvania Avenue, and extending back 150 feet to an alley of 30 feet wide, with the advantage of a 15 feet alley along side of it; and Lot No. 24, in Square No. 378, fronting 51 feet 5 inches on Ninth street, and running back 107 feet 2 inches to a 30 feet alley. West India goods will be taken in payment for a considerable part of the above property.
I. K.
November 17, 1800.
BOARDING AND LODGING.
FIVE or Six gentlemen can be accommodated with Genteel Board and Lodging, in a good and comfortable House, on New-Jersey Avenue, at Mr. Law's former residence. Also good Stabling wherein twenty horses can be accommodated by,
SAMUEL BOOTES.
Nov. 16/h, 1800.
4t.