National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-07-18 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
VOL. I.
WEDNESDAY, July 18, 1792.
NUMB. 75.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
Extracts from the LEYDEN paper to May 11th, and from various other French papers, to May 18.
PARIS, May 10.
The subsequent observations have a retrospect to the Manifestoes issued by the House of Austria and their Generals in the Brabantine provinces, to justify the combination of that and certain other continental powers against the reformed Government and Constitution of France.
NOTHING can afford a clearer proof that governmental reformation is far behind national reformation, than the principles which the Governors general in the Low Countries have dared to publish and disseminate in their proclamations. We there find assertions the most false, imputations the most slanderous, and the denial of facts the most notorious. They deny, for instance, that the emigrants have either been protected or tolerated in Germany; and that French travellers and residents in those dominions have been insulted, abused and plundered. This audacious impudence that can coolly deny facts known to all Europe, is not new in their system of politics. What is most astonishing is, the deliberate coolness with which despotism publishes the catechism of its faith, and repeats the ancient creed, at the present period, as it would have done thirty years ago. The sacred name of God is introduced to sanction their worse than Gothic abuses of true government, the perpetuity, we may say, the eternity of the most absurd institutions, couched under the respectable appellation of fundamental laws, but in fact annihilating the rights of men, who have tacitly renounced those rights, merely for the benefit of associating together, and living under a despotism, that has made them its absolute possession and property. And these are the base principles which are preached up to Europe at nearly the close of the eighteenth century.
These proclamations leave not a doubt, but that there is a combination amongst the despotic powers of Europe against the cause of liberty and human nature. The war, then, will include in its issue a cause more interesting to man than ever the annals of man have witnessed. It is the war of reason against prejudice; it is a conflict between all that is great and generous in man, and those hateful passions which degrade him to the nature of a brute; it is the spirit of liberty acting against pride, rage, and superstition. Upon the event of this war depends the rapid advancement or the retrograde movement of civilization. The annals of no nation whatever, that we know of, has presented such a prospect as is now before us. Art thou a Frenchman? —thy name is written in the first pages of the book of renovated man—be it thine, then, to support and extend the glory of your nation. Situated almost in the midst of Europe, here is the luminary that must dart its rays from the centre to the circumference; be it our part to fight, and rather die than suffer it to be extinguished!
ROME, April 24. In the vicinity of Frescati, have been lately discovered the remains of the ancient city of Gabii, which was overwhelmed many ages ago by the eruptions of Vesuvius. In the first digging many fragments of marble pillars have been discovered, the ruins of temples, and mutilated statues. This fortunate discovery promises fair to enrich our cabinets with precious antiquities, the invaluable remains of the genius and arts of ancient Italy.
STRASBOURG, May 8. The declaration of war, by the Assembly, has produced here the most lively emotions of joy. Our troops are in high spirits, and eager to engage the mercenaries of Austria. This, in a great measure, is due to the skillful arrangements, zeal, and patriotism of Marechal Luckner. This officer pos-
esses in the highest degree the confidence of the army, and if conducted by him, will do every thing that men can do. He is one of those few men who can derive advantages even from misfortune. The late disastrous events at Mons and Tournay, have determined him to enforce the most rigid discipline, to prevent such disasters in future, and ensure success. The following is the address he made to his army on this subject, on the 5th instant.
“Marechal Luckner informs the army and the citizens that have taken up arms for the maintenance of liberty, that the whole amount of the killed in the repulse from Mons and Tournay, is about one hundred and fifty men. The Marechal is fully sensible that this failure of success cannot but re-animate the courage of all true Frenchmen. He well knows they are worthy to be a free nation, and as such capable of struggling against the blasts of adverse fortune. By a steadiness and resolution, characteristic of brave men, who are fighting for their rights, they will soon learn how to carry off the victory from hostile mercenaries.—As to himself, (the General said) his duty as a good citizen, was to use his authority and experience, to instruct those under his command in those rigid duties of discipline, by which alone victory could be purchased—to guide them, to habituate them to the arduous toils of war, and to teach them all, that it is only by submitting the energy that animates them to the direction of their chiefs, that they can acquire or preserve the ascendancy that should characterize the soldiers of liberty.
STOCKHOLM, April 26. Yesterday an end was put to the life and torments of Ankerstrom. His right hand was cut off first, then his head. His body was then quartered, and his limbs transfixed upon stakes. This, however, was not the day of his greatest torments; he had become much weakened by the tortures of the preceding days, and his refusal to take any kind of nourishment, must have entirely blunted his nervous sensations. During the three days preceding his execution, he was cruelly tortured with rods, so that when he went to his execution he was rather dragged along, than walked. His sentence included confiscation of property, but the duke regent would not allow the exercise of this barbarous right, and renounced it in favor of Ankerstrom's children, who are to change their name, as well as every other family in the kingdom that went by the name.
WARSAW, April 21. Our revolution is far from being completed. We have however nothing to fear in our own territories: all the danger is from without; and we are more apprehensive than ever of Russian and German troops being sent amongst us.
FRANKFORT, May 10. Since war has been declared by France against Austria, the German courts have thrown off the masque, and justify the suspicions long entertained by the French, that the professions of neutrality and friendship, by some of them, were altogether hypocritical. They now speak openly, and the ancient policy of the Germanic body is necessitated to yield to the peculiarity of circumstances. Some of the members of that body greatly fear the dissemination of French principles in their states; others are the vile tools of more potent princes, to whom they have always bowed—a small number, who are wise, wish to take no part in the quarrel with France, but are forced to furnish their contingent, whether they will or not.
VALENCIENNES, May 11. General Rochambeau has not yet received official notice of his resignation being accepted by the King, or that Marechal Luckner will succeed him. His army, who sincerely love him, are on his account greatly alarmed. The Austrian enemy, having information of our intestine divisions, and the discontent of a part of the troops, seem
disposed to press hard upon our northern army. Our forces, however, are brave and well disciplined, and those who have erred, are impatient to repair their fault.
PARIS, May 14. The Minister for home affairs has expressed fears for the safety of this capital. Paris is become the theatre of intrigue, and the resort of counter-revolutionists, and designing miscreants. A proposition was made in the Assembly of yesterday, by M. Inard, to banish all priests and others, who under religious pretences continued to disturb the peace of the kingdom. To this it was objected, that an express law could not be enacted against priests, without an outrage upon reason and philosophy. The legislature knows neither religion nor ministers of religion, and can single out no sect or body of men either to be persecuted or protected. Any law that only includes the word priest recalls the idea of corporations, which are wholly incompatible with the spirit of the new laws.
At the Assembly's sitting of yesterday, we were gratified with the news that peace and quiet were completely restored at Avignon. Several dispatches were likewise received from the minister for foreign affairs, announcing the declared neutrality of several powers during the present war. In these are included England, Spain, Sweden, Bavaria, and the Duke of Wirtemberg.—These would be still more worthy of praise, if they had declared, actively, in our favor. Letters from Valenciennes are constantly coming to hand, expressing the regret and sorrow of the French soldiers belonging to the northern army, for what has happened, and promising to spend the last drops of their blood in repairing the fault that has been committed, in giving too much heed to traitorous insinuations.
BRUSSELS, May 7. The president of the council of Namur (Austrian city) has fled here, with some other royalists, on account of anonymous threats of the people. In most of the towns of the Austrian Low Countries, the fermentation is visibly increasing, and the severity of the military discipline contributes not a little to foment insurrections. The Governors General have ordered Marshall Bender to present their thanks to Marshalls Beaulieu and Happoncourt, for their zeal and bravery in repulsing the French at Mons and Tournay. General Brown has left Mons to command the reinforcements sent to Namur. The magazine of stores on the frontiers, for the greater safety, are to be removed to the interior country. The troops France will have to cope with, are 258,000 men, of which Austria furnishes 120,000, Prussia 60,000, the Emperor 38,000, and Russia 30,000.
WARSAW, April 30. Every dispatch from Russia brings us more and more disquiet. The court of Russia will not hear a word of our new constitution, and their intentions are without doubt hostile to Poland. They have already nominated generals Sottilkow, Michelson, and Koffakowitsky, who are to enter Poland at the head of 60,000 men, supported by a body of 20,000 on the borders of Kiovia, and the army of general Kothoulsky, at Moldavia, consisting of 70,000 men. Our court has held an extraordinary sitting on this alarming news: the King, in consequence thereof, has exhorted the states to remain firm to the constitution, and that if necessary he would march at the head of the national forces to oppose invasion. The states have authorized the King to put on foot instantly an army of 100,000 men. M. de Bulhakow, Russian minister, is making preparations for his departure.
STRASBOURG, May 12. The French soldiers here of all ranks are importunate for the severest military laws, to prevent misfortunes in future similar to those at Mons and Tournay. The Austrian forces increase every day at Brisgaw: 80 pieces of artillery arrived yesterday at Fribourg.
ROME, April 13. Strict measures are taking here against the French emigrants ( vagabondi Francesi ). Letters from Loretto advise that the emigrants resident in that city, had frequently requested to be favored with a sight of the treasures of Santa Madona, in the holy house in that city. This being refused them, they attacked the holy house in force, with a design to carry off the treasure. They were repulsed, their leaders taken, and thrown into prison. The government has ordered a body of troops from Ancona to be stationed at Loretto.—The Abbe Maury is named by the Pope, Nuncio at the court of Frankfort, for the election of a new Emperor.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, May 11.
M. Servant, the new minister at war, presented himself to the National Assembly on the 11th instant, and made the following address. “I have accepted the place to which the King has been pleased to nominate me. I have accepted it in the persuasion, that with pure motives, every man ought at this moment to place himself at the most perilous post, particularly as he has the hope of being supported by the representatives of the people.—I enter the lists, and I shall not quit them, until I am convinced that my powers are unequal to my constant desire of doing good. [ The Assembly applauded. ] I have the honor to inform the Assembly of the arrival of M. Luckner at Paris. This patriot general did not hesitate instantly to quit the command of an army well disciplined, by whom he was adored, and of a department of which he had the entire confidence. Solicited to take the command of the northern army, he said in reply, that he would propose a thing more important for the service. He would go to Valenciennes, to re-animate their confidence, and to exert all his efforts in the name of the King to persuade Marshall de Rochambeau, whose great talents he knew, to continue in command: [ a shout of applause. ] He wished to encourage the deluded troops. He wished to serve under M. Rochambeau, as a simple aid-de-camp, until the time that he should return to his own army.—The King's ministers have supported this proposition. They have seized with eagerness the occasion of proving, that, strangers to all personality, they look only at the public good. They doubt not but the public good will be consulted in the union of all those who, like Messrs. Rochambeau and Luckner, have the power of giving victory to their country.—It is but a few minutes ago, that M. Luckner, speaking to the King, said, Sire, my soldiers will follow me like sheep. This was his precise expression.”
M. Dumas then moved, that the president be directed to write to General Luckner, that the nation thank him—Decreed by acclamation.
M. Dumas then made a report on the means of punishing the cowardly conduct of the traitors at Mons. “The committee cannot see, without admiration, that in the midst of the confusion occasioned by the treason and espionage of our enemies, many courageous soldiers supported in their retreat the attack of an enemy, who had gained no advantage but from our unhappy error.”—After a preamble, the decree on this subject was as follows: 1. The executive power is charged to form a court-martial in the city that the general of the northern army shall point out, to try the criminals, who, in the 5th and 6th regiments, cried out Treason , and excited a desertion in the affair of Mons. 2. The general shall summon the 5th and 6th regiments, who were the ring-leaders. If they do not make the discovery within a time to be limited, the regiments shall be broken. 3. If they shall be broken, their colours shall be torn and burnt at the head of the army, and the numbers of the two regiments shall forever remain vacant in the army. 4. The executive power shall

may be found guilty of exciting the troops to mutiny.
Yesterday the Prussian minister informed M. Dumourier, that the King of Prussia had notified him, that 42,000 men of his army, were to act in concert with the troops of his ally the King of Hungary and Bohemia.
STRASBOURG, May 9. M. de Arem-buce is to command the army of France, on the Rhine, during the absence of M. Luckner. The defiles of Portentrui are defended by 7,000 men. Ten thousand men are on the march to defend the two departments of the Rhine. Every day we have volunteers pouring in upon us. Our first line is complete, and amply supplied with provisions and stores. [Strasbourg is a large city of Germany, taken by the French in 1681, and still in their possession.]
LONDON, May 17. Some days ago we stated as an important fact, that Russia and Prussia meant to attack Poland, and to destroy its new constitution. The mails of yesterday confirm the account, and bring as the following paper, which shews the confidence they have in the King, and the unanimity of the Diet. On the 16th of April the Diet passed a preparative of public defence. The preamble states that "taking God, and all the people of the earth to witness, we do not mean to declare war against any power; that we hold in the greatest regard the friendship and good understanding that has subsisted between us and our neighbours, and that we are occupied only in maintaining our liberty and independence—and considering that the negotiations between foreign courts require from us, for the guarantee of the territories of the republic, of the nation, and of our happy constitution, that we should prepare for our defence, we decree.
 1. That the King shall exert the power invested in him by the laws, with the greatest activity and efficacy, in providing for the defence of the nation.  2. We authorize the King to engage two or three foreign generals, and to place them at the head of the army, with the rank of commandants in chief, as well as experienced officers of artillery and engineering.  3. We charge the treasury to negotiate a loan, at home or abroad, for 30 millions, on a mortgage of the produce of the sale of starosties.  4. We authorize the King to dispose of all the money arising from this loan, as well as what may be in the treasury, if war should take place, which God forbid, in the necessary defence of the republic, under the responsibility of the minister.  5. In two months from this date, the minister shall give an account of the issues of money. 
The Passes of Portentrui, are now guarded by 7,000 French. The Bishop of Basle, who quitted his bishoprick on their approach, is endeavoring to excite the Swiss Cantons against them. The council of Berne has ordered 1,000 men, with six pieces of cannon, to cover the country near Bienne, but have yet taken no measures that indicate any thing but a strict neutrality.
Bengal is in a very disordered and exhausted state. The particular bankruptcies at Calcutta, the immediate consequence of the scarcity of money, we forbear to particularize, from the respect due to the delicacy of commercial credit. Where there is a chance of recovery there ought not to be a glimpse of imputation. We are sorry however to say, that the avowed bankruptcy of the houses of Graham, Mowbray, and Skirrow, and of Ryder, Mee, and Gregory, are likely to draw along with them very general consequences. A gold mohur was hardly to be seen—and it was this scarcity of money which had brought on those failures among the banks, that have recently arisen as plentifully in Bengal as in England.
The French will undoubtedly penetrate without loss of time into the Austrian Netherlands, where the people are all ripe and anxious for their reception. Determined and prepared as the French are to pay their troops, and to buy what they may want with money, they will carry with them temptations to revolt, which the subjects of despotism can hardly resist; and wherever they appear, the standard of human rights will draw around it the generous and the thinking—the men who have sense to estimate the blessings of liberty, or affection to secure them for their kindred and posterity. What a reverse for the eyes
of Englishmen! Their ancient enemy no longer engaged in blood at the caprice of a king, a minister, a priest, or a strumpet; no longer sacrificing the human race for territory, for a job, for intolerance or for a whim, drawn forth on the side of liberty, and opposed to the same cruel system of which they have been so long the victims, is a spectacle worthy the eyes of Freemen. It flistles in the English bosom every latent spark of enmity. We remember their meddling and restless spirit as the principle of the giant government that they have crushed, and we hail in their present conduct the generous feelings of men who desire only to ascertain their just elevation in the scale of rational being.
AUSTRIAN MANIFESTO.
Perhaps there never was a more open and complete avowal of despotic and tyrannical principles, than are observable in this celebrated State paper, which was drawn up in answer to the declaration of war on the part of France. For the better satisfaction of our readers we give it at full length, by continuation.
A FACTION, by which the kingdom of France has for 4 years been torn asunder, has just prevailed on his most Christian majesty, to sanction a declaration of war against his Apostolical majesty, our most honoured lord and nephew. The first acts of hostilities seem to be directed against these provinces; and the enemies of all order and power, who are meditating an aggression to ruin, found their hopes of success on the spirit of party which was unfortunately disseminated during the late troubles.
"We will carefully attend to the defence of those provinces with the government of which we are entrusted, relying with confidence on the protection of the lord of hosts, who is pleased to manifest the effects of his omnipotence in favour of those who are inspired with a secret respect for the laws, and for all powers by him ordained on the earth for the government of human societies.
"We flatter ourselves that every class of citizens will be animated with one spirit, and that they will vigilantly attend to the maintenance of internal tranquility and the preservation of property, while we order to the frontiers part of his majesty's troops, full of glory, and crowned by victory under the two last reigns, until the league, formed between several great powers, shall oppose a mound to the torrent of sinister projects which menace the overthrow of Europe.
"We owe it to the faithful subjects of his majesty, to inform them of the measures which we have adopted, during a whole year, in hopes of remaining at peace with France; and to warn them of the innumerable calamities which our enemies are eager to spread and perpetuate, under the specious veil of a chimerical liberty, offered to a credulous multitude, by an impious sect of innovators, pretended philosophers, as the infallible result of their mad projects. Theirs is not to war with the principles of the earth, but against the religion of our ancestors, against social order, against prosperity, & against all the comforts which naturally flow from it. They have already, by the adoption of their absurd systems plunged their country into all the horrors of anarchy. Jealous of the prosperity of those nations who still enjoy the fruits of social order, they have formed for their own protection the barbarous project of inspiring them with a similar delirium, of propagating their errors, and with them all the calamities with which the kingdom of France is at this time afflicted.
"They have been, during a whole year, meditating and inventing pretences for the aggression on which they had resolved. Having driven away from the bosom of France, by dint of persecutions all those citizens who were attached to the established religion, and to the prerogative hitherto held sacred by the fundamental laws of the kingdom, they have attempted to prevent them from enjoying in any part of the world, the sweets of hospitality which men reciprocally owe to each other. We have been extremely careful not to afford the slightest grounds of complaint, resolved not to meddle in the least degree, with the political government of any neighbouring states. We have taken care to prevent that any thing should be attempted or even written, in those provinces, against the constitution just established in France; and as a reward for our strict attention to the laws of good neighbourhood, a horde of factious vagabonds have been on our frontiers, resolved on the execution of the most infernal plots. The most infamous writings against religion, and against the constitutional authority of the sovereign, have been dispersed in these provinces. These writings were substantially the same as the speeches delivered in the midst of authorized societies, in which the most atrocious crimes have been recommended as virtues, with a view to flatter the criminal propensities of a set of men, in hopes of reconciling them to a system, which in history will be the disgrace of the present generation,
"All our remonstrances on this subject have been made in vain; and whilst we paid the greatest attention to complaints relative to armaments which had existence, & to pretended insults offered to Frenchmen, all kinds of excesses have been multiplied against the subjects of his majesty, and committed on his territories, and we have never obtained on so many objects of complaint, any thing more than promises of satisfaction, which have in no instance been performed, and when we have, on our part, exercised that vigilance, which was become necessary on the conduct of emissaries, who it was boasted openly, were sent into those provinces, on purpose to excite insurrections and to create anarchy, we have been insulted for having taken those precautions which were construed into attempts against the safety and the liberty of French travellers. On the other hand, we were applauded for having given orders to prevent the assembling of the unfortunate French gentlemen who had emigrated from the kingdom, and to oblige them to conform most strictly to the laws of simple hospitality, in order to preclude the possibility of their arming and forming themselves into a military corps.
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PHILADELPHIA.
JULY 18, 1792.
Saturday last, the 14th of July, the Anniversary of the French Revolution, was celebrated in this city, with every demonstration of joy and congratulation.
The vessels in the harbour were dressed in their colours, and a French vessel saluted the day by frequent firings.
Several select companies celebrated the day in a convivial manner. And the evening was closed by a brilliant display of rockets and other fire-works, which met with the greatest applause from a vast concourse of spectators. The following toasts were drank by the Gentlemen assembled at Oeller's Hotel, after partaking of a splendid repast.
 1. The French Nation; their constitution, and King.  2. May the freedom which dawned on this day, encircle the globe.  3. Victory to the French armies over the foes to liberty.  4. Liberty or death.  5. The President of the United States.  6. Agriculture, parent of virtue and Independence.  7. Commerce and manufactures.  8. The fair of France and America: may each save a cap of liberty for a husband.  9. Peace to all the world: may it learn to prize and preserve it.  10. The Patriotic King Stanislaus Augustus.  11. The United States: may they prove an asylum to Patriots of every part of the world.  12. The rights of men.  13. The political virtues of Mirabeau: may they cover his foibles.  14. The old thirteen. May the number be sacred in every American mind.  15. The memory of those who have fallen in defence of liberty.  16. The two new States. May they be a blessing in the Union.  17. Le Jour.—The day.  18. Universal liberty to mankind.  19. May the memory of Washington endure with time.  20. The 4th of July, 1776.  21. A revolution upon just principles throughout the world.  22. The state of Pennsylvania out of debt.  23. The national colours of France.  24. May reason and virtue pervade the Universe.  25. Honor to those who have the impulse and spirit to exert it in the cause of liberty.  26. France—Success over all her enemies. 
Accounts down to the last of May received from Londonderry, by the ship Mary Capt. Campbell, arrived at Baltimore, represent Ireland as at the eve of a revolution. The Catholics and Dissenters have joined interest in the common cause, the recovery of usurped rights. The above vessel brings 250 passengers. It was expected that from eight to ten thousand persons would leave that one port for different parts of America, during the present season.
A long list of some of the most respectable names in the British nation, appear in their papers to countenance the two following constitutional objects, which if pursued, they make no doubt will furnish the power and means of correcting the abuses which have arisen from a neglect of the acknowledged principles of their constitution. First. To restore the freedom of election, and a more equal representation of the people in parliament. Secondly. To secure to the people a more frequent exercise of their right of electing their representatives.
The sum of ready money (says a London paper) which the French have succeeded in buying up in England and in Holland, will enable them to carry on this year's
campaign with vigour. It is worth observation, that with all their supposed confusion, they have not ceased one day to lay up for the storm. In all their Dock-yards, building, repairing and equipping have gone on without a moment's intermission; and they have at this time an unexpected number of frigates ready to put to sea to protect their own trade against cruisers. They do not mean, however, to commit depredations on their enemies, by sea.
The despotic combination in Europe seems directed not merely against France, but against Poland also, whose new constitution was framed without violence or bloodshed, and with perfect consent of all the constituent orders of the republic. It is a war of brutal force against philosophy. We shall see, by the result, whether man has yet attained to years of discretion.
Notwithstanding the depressed situation of Tippoo Saib, according to English ministerial papers, others assert that he has found means to send a body of his irregular cavalry into the Carnatic, who have carried havoc and destruction to within a few miles of the gates of Madras.—From the tenor of India news, it is more than probable Lord Cornwallis's next dispatches will contain the terms of a treaty, rather than the capitulation of Seringapatam.
"It is one sure symptom of purity and justice in the French government, that publications concerning it are under no restriction, and the liberty of the Press is not a fiction, which a Lawyer can explain away."
English papers concur in mentioning, that Lord Cornwallis had not marched on the 18th of January. He was then with his army, about seven miles from Severn Droog, and was to march towards Tippoo's capital on the 25th. Tippoo had made propositions for peace, which the allies thought worthy of consideration. It was expected, and little doubted in England; the latter end of May, that the next letters from Lord Cornwallis would contain terms of a treaty.—The citizens of Antwerp have refused to pay subsidies to Austria: they have proceeded so far as to nail up on trees and posts the names of the persons, who, they assert ought to be hang'd for betraying the public cause.—The spirit of desertion, in some degree, prevailed among the Austrian troops on the frontiers: 150 and upwards had come into Lisle in less than eight days—Charles Lameth had succeeded to the command of the army lately under Count Dillon—Mr. Dundas having in the British House of Commons, opposed a reform in the Scotch boroughs, by which the bill was lost, and having asserted that Scotland has no grievances and needs no redress, the Scots in a fit of irritation burnt his effigy in due form at Dundee on the 2d. of May, and soon after at Brechin, and other places—that the Londoners, &c. were most completely duped by the fabricators of the Seringapatam capitulation news; General Abercrombie was for a whole day believed to have landed in England with the news of the surrender, and Mr. Dundas was silly enough to ride to the king at Kew, post haste, to congratulate him on the agreeable event—Paine's crisis, or third part of the Rights of man, was not published on the 22d. of May, but in the press: it was a mistake that the king's proclamation was aimed at Paine's writings: it is in reality pointed at the reformation society, called friends of the people , at the head of whom is Mr. Fox—England is certainly making military preparations with a view to favour France; and whatever might be the wishes or opinions of the court party, the spirit of the nation was decidedly for the defenders of the rights of man: The French Ambassador in England, was negotiating for a marine force, to oppose the Russian fleet, which was looked for in the Mediterranean—The long trial of Mr. Hastings was drawing to a conclusion, and it was generally thought he would be acquitted—A camp had been marked out, near London, on Bagshot Heath, under the command of the Duke of Yorke, consisting of 2 regiments of light dragoons, the 2d. 3d. 14th and 29th regiments of foot, with 30 pieces of artillery and 900 artillery men., to take the ground on the 2d. of July, and continue 16 days; the whole designed to prevent any illegal excesses of the people in celebrating the French revolution on the 14th of July.—the Lord Chancellor of England, Thurlow, had taken leave of the court of chancery on the 2d. of May, and resigned the seals the same afternoon: a cabinet council was held the same day at Buckingham-House, when the seals were put in commission, commissioners are, Chief Baron, Judge Buller, Judge Wilson—Letters, by way of France, had been received in London, confirming the accounts of the assassination of the Duke of Sudermania, successor to the king of Sweden—the Prussian army destined for this years campaign had received their last orders on May 7th, to march on the 30th—the famous libel-bill had passed the house of Lords, in London, on the 21st of May, 57 to 32; General Noailles was detained as a hostage at Vienna, in the place of M. Blomendorff, Austrian charge des affaires at Paris, who is nevertheless at perfect liberty, and had sent a declaration to his court that he is so—supplies of every kind for M. de la Fayettes' army, began to be forwarded on the 14th of May; deputations of both

axes were pouring into Paris from every district in the kingdom, with gifts to the assembly to carry on the war against the despotic powers; neither army had yet resumed their operations: the Austrians had fallen back between Mons and Namur, as if afraid of insurrection in the country behind them; Fayette was enforcing the most rigorous discipline in his army, and copying the great example of the American Fabius, seemed desirous of accustoming his troops to evolutions in the face of an enemy, by skirmishing with the enemy, before attempting any thing of considerable importance.
A paragraph in a London paper of May 18, dated Peterburgh, April 6, asserts that "the house of the deceased Baron Sutherland, Banker to the Empress of Russia, has been obliged to stop payment for the sum of 1,500,000 roubles [a rouble 4/6 sterling] owing to it by the court."
The advocates for the buckle in London, and those for the shoe-string, have settled their differences, and are about to unite in a clasp.
On Wednesday afternoon last the President of the United States, with his Lady, set out for Virginia.
"In the three great districts of the state of New-York, where the people were left to the exercise of their own judgment, Governor Clinton had a majority of twelve hundred and ninety seven votes. In the western district we find a large majority opposed to the governor, and can easily trace the cause, viz. that the greatest landlords in the state live in that district, and have many hundreds of votes, of their own manufacturing, at their controul and call." (N. York Journal.)
Col. Pickering, Post Master General of the United States, has been absent some time on a tour to the northern and eastern states, to visit and regulate the several post offices on those routes.
It does not escape notice (says a correspondent) that the old trick of the artful interested few, to sow divisions among the many, who have a common interest, in order to rule and keep them under, is diligently going on in several quarters. We have lately seen paragraphs in the New-England papers, as well as elsewhere, hinting and trying to persuade, that the complaints against certain measures of the government, and against the jobs, speculations, and self-interested proceedings of Congress, issue merely from a disaffected party in the southern states, and ought consequently in New-England to be disregarded and despised. 'Tis misfortune enough that local prejudices should prevail at all, but it will be a dreadful calamity if the people suffer themselves to be played off in one part of the union against another part, till they are completely duped in all by a faction which the people everywhere despise; and have a common wish, and a common interest to disarm of its present subtle, tyrannical influence on public affairs. This faction sprung up as soon as the government commenced its operations. It is made up of the proud & vain worshippers of aristocracy and monarchy, and of a self-interested and enterprising brood, engendered by speculation and avarice. It has had the government almost constantly under its intriguing sway. The use made of its power for heaping wealth on its members, and its agents in and out of Congress, and for paving the way to hereditary tyranny on the speedy destruction of popular government is sufficiently known to all who have attended to the history of the times since the year 1783. One is at a loss which most to admire, the means by which the faction acquired, or the ends to which it has employed its over-riding influence. Certain it is, they were never more busy than at this moment, when the greatest pains is taken to calumniate all republican endeavours for reforming abuses, and to varnish the misdoings of the government, which the people have begun to open their eyes upon; when it is notorious that the members of the government, not content with the liberal wages they have allowed themselves, have made fortunes out of their proceedings, have turned the altar of the temple as has been severely and truly said, into a gaming table, and have sacrificed the true principles of republican policy, and the just interests of every other class of the community to the interest of dealers in paper, and the plan of carrying on government by influence and intrigue; is not this a crying evil? is not this a common concern? And does it matter from whom or from whence the warning is sounded, though it is certain it does not proceed from the south more than from other quarters. Ought not the friends of liberty and virtue, of order and good government, and of the public good, who must all be enemies of such mal-practices, to join in driving from the temple, the money changers and the paper jobbers, and the idolaters of strange and false governments, who may have found the way into the national legislature? Ought the people, in any part of the union, to be diverted, like the whale by a barrel, from enquiring into the cargo of their own ship, and the conduct of the crew they have themselves put on board? or is the enquirer to be perpetually vilified
as plotting "to subvert the harmony, peace, and happiness of the United States," as asserted in a paper of last week, which also takes occasion to make an observation, (in its application utterly false) that "every man in the United States sits quietly under his own fig-tree, and has none to make him afraid?"
It would be well to mark how the faction act among themselves, when they have a common interest in view opposed to the rights and interests of the people. Do they suffer themselves to be split and set against each other by any of those local prejudices which they now preach up to the people, in order to divide and dupe them? Not they, indeed. They understand their game better. For, from the dealer in scrip down to the lowest huckster of soldiers' certificates, and from the most lordly advocate for monarchy down to the puniest retailer of slanders on the friends of republicanism, the whole fraternity, without regard to north or south, east or west, or city or country, or to profession, occupation, trade or employment, cling together like a hive of bees, ready to sting every one who approaches, after having rifled the whole country of its honey; neither sparing the humblest throb, nor the most tender flower. Thus, they practice union among themselves, against the people, whilst they endeavor to disunite the people in their common defence; that is, however, only in cases where their views are answered by it; for when any high point of prerogative is to be carried, and union is thought to be a good shibboleth, you are sure to hear enough of it then. But candour and consistency are not the faults of these men. On many occasions they make good the cutting reply in a late speech of a representative, that they require you to forget one half their doctrines and arguments, before they can expect your assent to the other half.
Two incendiary newspapers have been for some time published in Paris, entitled The Friend of the People , and The Friend of the King . Although apparently in opposition to each other, they had the same object in view (says Gazette de France ) to conduct the nation to anarchy, and from anarchy to despotism. The Assembly has issued a decree of prosecution against Marat and Royou, the editors and authors, who are both aristocrats.
"Mr. Bolton of Birmingham, has applied the steam engine to coining. By his machinery four boys of ten years old can strike off 30,000 guineas in an hour. The machine keeps an unerring account of the pieces struck."
"The queen of Portugal is better (May 21) though mending very slowly. Her age, which is near three score; her habits, sedentary and dull; her temper, sadly superstitious; all are against her."
"A letter from Coblenz, dated May 5, says, the two brothers of the King of France are more active than ever. The Prince of Conde is now at the head of 20,000 of his countrymen." [Lond. Pap.]
The "Examination of Lord Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the United States," is reprinted in London; also, Dr. Rush's account of the sugar-maple tree.
Extract of a letter from London, dated May 20.
"Despotism and superstition will, from all appearances, contribute at least half their property, to work the downfall of the reformation in France. Even in this country, Mr. Fox has publickly declared in the House of Commons, that the lords spiritual are enemies to the repeal of the laws operating against the equal rights of the people. What then are we to expect from the clergy of the Italian, Spanish, German, & other bigotted nations, but that they will club almost to the last farthing to support the old game of political and religious delusion, and arm a crusade against France. Nothing is more certain than that the abuses of religion and the abuses of government will continue to exist or be annihilated together."
Certain corps of Mountaineers are mentioned to be in the Austrian army, who making their livelihood in peace by hunting goats amongst the precipices of the Alps, are so exceedingly expert as to bring down those animals at the distance of 500 feet, with their short barreled guns. It is queried whether a regiment of our back woods riflemen, raised and sent to France at the expence of the United States, would not be proper antagonists to the Tyrolese, and other soldiers in the Austrian army, who are
said to excel in carrying the winged deaths with certainty to so considerable a distance.
The commander of a British ship of war in Funchal Road, Madeira, about the middle of May, took two seamen from on board the ship Illustrious President, of Richmond, capt. Butler, lying in the same road, and on her way to India. Through the exertions of John Marsden Pintard, Esq. American consul at Madeira, and the demand of the Governor, the two sailors were given up; but the man-of-war (the Hyena) failed without restoring to them their chiefs and bedding. British man-of-war captains distressing American merchantmen in this manner is becoming very common, and seems to require a speedy remonstrance on the part of the United States.
"We are convinced (says a letter from Denmark of May 10,) that to encourage the American trade, we must reduce our duties. Mr. Saabye is appointed Danish consul to the United States."
[From a Correspondent at Elkton.] Impressed with an idea of the many superior advantages we enjoy, in this young and flourishing Republic, from the establishment of political and religious freedom, and desiring those inestimable blessings to be communicated to all mankind, a number of gentlemen of Cecil county met, at Capt. Sears's Hotel, in Elkton, on the 14th instant, to commemorate the anniversary of the establishment of the French Constitution. Festivity and friendship characterized the day, with the warmest wishes of success to the bleeding patriots of France, who so justly deserve our most grateful remembrance. After dinner the following toasts were drank, accompanied with every expression of joy, that could do honour to so important an occasion.
 1. The National Assembly of France.  2. The United States.  3. May the present alliance between France and America, be productive of happy consequences to both nations.  4. May France prove as successful in her struggles for liberty as America.  5. The majesty of the people.  6. The President of the United States.  7. Gen. Wayne and the western army.  8. Thomas Paine, and the rights of man.  9. Destruction to Mt. Burke's "Corinthian Capital of Polished Society."  10. The promoters and supporters of the French revolution.  11. May La Fayette be as renowned and victorious in France as Washington in America.  12. A revolution and freedom to the natives of South-America.  13. May the spark of liberty, at first kindled in America, become a perfect blaze to illumine the whole world.  14. May the kings of Europe exchange their crowns for the cap of liberty.  15. Many days like this. 
DETACHED THOUGHTS ON ELECTIVE GOVERNMENT.
WHEN the friends of hereditary power allege the experience of Poland as a proof of those evils, which (they say) must ever attend the appointment of a chief magistrate by election, they take care not to mention, that all those disorders arose from the factious, turbulent disposition of an ungovernable aristocracy, and were fomented by the jealousy and ambition of the different European despots, each of whom wished to see one of his own family on the throne, to which unhappily the laws permitted foreigners to aspire. When such a door lay open for bribery and intrigue, we need no longer wonder at the convulsions caused in Poland by every election.
HAD the Polish peasantry heretofore enjoyed the same privileges, which their late revolution has conferred on them,—that is to say—had they enjoyed some of those rights, to which, as men, they were entitled, and which the meanest American farmer enjoys,—they would have been able in some measure to check the turbulent spirit of the aristocracy, and prevent much of that confusion, that usually attended the election of their monarchs. And had there been a law expressly prohibiting the election of a foreigner, the kings of Europe would have had very little temptation to squander millions against millions, to procure the election of any one man, in preference to another.
O DYE II, Addressed to Crispin O'Connor, Esq. a back woods Planter.
WISE was your plan when forty years ago From Patrick's Isle you first resolved to stray, Where lords and knights as thick as rushes grow, And vulgar folks are in each other's way;
Where mother-country sets the step-dame's part, Cuts off, by aid of hemp, each petty sinner, And twice or thrice in every score of years Hatches sad wars to make her brood the thinner.
How few aspire to quit the ungrateful soil That starves the plant it had the strength to bear: How many slay, to grieve, and fret, and toil, And view the plenty that they must not share.
This you beheld—and westward set your nose, Like some bold prow, that ploughs the Atlantic foam— And left less vent'rous wights, like famish'd crows, To feed on hog-peas, hips and haws at home.
Safe landed here, not long the coast detain'd Your wary steps—but, wand'ring on, you found Farin the well, a paltry spot of land, That no man envied, and that no man own'd.
A woody hill beside a dismal bog— This was your choice; nor were you much to blame: And here, responsive to the croaking frog, You grubb'd, and stubb'd, and fear'd no landlord's claim.
An axe, an adze, a hammer, and a saw; These were the tools that built your humble shed: A cock, a hen, a malfist, and a cow; These were your subjects, to this desert led.
Now times are chang'd—and Labour's nervous hand Bids harvests rise where clustering bushes grew; The dismal bog by lengthy sluices drain'd, Supports no more hoarse captain Bull Frog's crew.—
Prosper your toil!—but, friend, had you remain'd In lands, where stars and garter'd nobles shine, When you had thus, to sixty years attain'd, What different fate, 'Squire Crispin, had been thine!
Nine pence a day, coarse fare, a bed of boards, The midnight loom, high rents, and excis'd beer; Slave to dull squires, kings' brats, and huffish lords, (Thanks be to Heaven) not yet in fashion here! July 16.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber, living near George town, Sussex county, Delaware State, the 3d of this instant, a negro man named ISAAC. He is about twenty one years of age, five feet ten inches, or thereabouts high; a strait-limb'd, likely fellow, has a pleasant countenance when he laughs; is very artful and cunning; has a fear over one eye; and fore teeth wide apart. Had on, when he went away, a linen shirt and trowsers; a jacket without sleeves. It is not unlikely, however, that he may change his dress, and also his name. Whoever takes him up, and secures him in any jail, or otherwise, so that the owner may have him again, shall receive FIVE POUNDS reward, and all reasonable charges paid by me the subscriber. EBENEZER GITICHEN. July 3d. 1792. 11.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber in November 1791 a negro woman by the name of Alice about 25 years of age; she is a low well set wench something on the yellow complexion with a bushy head of hair something related to the East India molattoes, broad over the shoulders, has holes in her ears and ring's in them when went away, she can spin and weave tolerably well, she has been at work in Milford and as high as Dover-Town in the Delaware state, in the month of May 1792. I expect she has made higher up. She at that time went by the name of Blake.—Whoever takes up and secures said Negro wench, so as the owner may get her again, shall have the above reward—Living in Accomack county, Virginia. CHARLES TURNSELL: 4 times, 2 aw:
HOWELL'S LARGE MAP of PENNSYLVANIA.
THIS work is engraved in the most elegant style, and will be ready for delivery early this summer. It is 63 inches long and 36 inches wide, and for the most part very full of work (except for some small places of which materials were not to be had) and was wholly compiled from actual surveys, acquired at great expence of money, and more than four years labour, and from its manifest public utility, the Legislature has been pleased to grant the proprietor the sum of three hundred pounds. This map exhibits the County and Township Divisions, and those of the Surveyors Districts in the New-Purchase, Donation and Depreciation Lands; the waters, portages, and the Canal, mountains and valleys, roads, towns, &c.
He thanks the Public for their very liberal subscription, and informs them that it is yet kept open. He sells his SMALL MAPS, on canvals, folded and cas'd for pocket carriage, at 10/6, and plain at 8/4.
READING HOWELL No. 83, North Fifth-street. June 11. 1aw. Gw.

Continuation of the French LAWS relative to PATENTS.
LAW
Respecting the Rules on the Property of Authors of Inventions and Discoveries in every work of genius.
Given at Paris, May 25, 1791.
Louis by the grace of God, and, by the constitutional law of the state, King of the French, to all present and to come: Greeting;
The National Assembly has decreed, and we will and order what follows:—
DECREE of the National Assembly on March 29th, 31st. April 7th, and May 14th, 1791.
Rules for the execution of the law of the 7th January 1791, on property of authors of inventions and discoveries in every work of genius.
RECORD II.
Article 1. ANY one who wishes to obtain a brevet of invention, shall be obliged, conformably to the 4th Article of the law of January 7th, to apply to the Secretary's office of the directory of his department, to convey his Petition to the King, with the descriptions of all the means he proposed to employ; likewise, the drawings and models relative to the objects of his petition, conformably to the third article of the 1st Record: to which shall be joined, a duplicate of the list of all the different pieces contained in the packet, Signed by the petitioner; one of which duplicates shall be sent to the Secretary's office of that department, by the director; to which the said director shall give his receipt, at the bottom of the said list, for all the different pieces therein mentioned.
Article 2nd. The petitioner shall have a right, before he signs the verbal process, to have a catalogue of all the different Brevets that have been granted, to the end that he may be able to judge if he ought to persist.
Article 3d. The petitioner shall be obliged, conformably to the 3d article of the 1st record, to have a receipt from the Secretary's office of the department, for the duties of the brevet according to the tarif annexed to the patent rules, under the 4th number; but he shall be at liberty to pay only one half of the duties when he presents his petition; but he must give a promissory note, that he will pay the remainder at the expiration of six months.
Article 4th. If the recognizance is not fulfilled at the time prescribed, the brevet which shall have been delivered, shall be of no effect, his right shall become free for any one to make use of; and advice of its being free, shall be sent to all the departments, from the directory of brevets of inventions.
Article 5th. Every person holding a brevet, shall be obliged to pay, over and above the aforesaid duties, a patent tax; which shall be annually imposed on all professions, arts and trades, by the law of Jan. 7, 1791.
Article 6th. A proprietor of a brevet, who would make any change of an object declared in his first petition, shall be obliged to make his declaration of it and remit the description of his new invention, to the Secretary's office of that department; in the form and manner prescribed in the 1st article of the 2d record; and there shall be observed, in this case, the same formalities betwixt the directors of the department, and those of the brevets of inventions.
Article 7th. If such patentee wishes not to enjoy exclusively the exercise of his new invention longer than the time of his brevet, he shall have granted him by the director of brevets of invention, a certificate, in which his new declaration shall be mentioned: likewise, the placing the packet containing the description of his new expedient: he shall be free, also, to take successively a new brevet for the above mentioned changes, or to unite them in one brevet, when he shall present them collectively. These new brevets, shall be dispatched in the same manner and with the same forms, as brevets of invention, and they shall have the same effect.
Article 8th. If any person shall announce the means to make perfect an invention, for which a brevet has already been granted, he shall obtain by his petition a brevet for the exclusive exercise of the said expedient, without his being permitted, under any pretext whatever, to execute or make or occasion to be executed the principal invention; and vice versa. The first inventor shall not be allowed to make use of the improvement; nor, shall the changing forms or proportions, no more than that of the originals, in any sort whatever, be placed in the rank of inventions.
Article 9th. All grants of brevets obtained for any object, which the tribunals shall judge contrary to the law of the kingdom, to the public security, or to rules of the police, shall be deprived of its rights, without being able to pretend to any indemnification; the public minister shall be at liberty to take such measures, according to the importance of the case, as he shall judge proper.
Article 10th. Should the proprietor of a brevet be troubled in the exercise of his private right, he shall be able, by the forms prescribed for other civil causes, to cause to be condemned the offending party in pains and penalties pronounced by the law; when the offender shall have been brought before a justice of the peace.
Article 11th. A justice of the peace shall hear the parties, and their witnesses, shall order the proofs which shall be necessary; and the judgement he shall pronounce, shall be executed, provisionally, notwithstanding an appeal.
Article 12th. In a case where a seizure shall be made according to law, but not being able to discover any object fabricated, sold, or made for sale in a fraudulent manner; the informer shall bear the penalties in the 13th article of the law, at least, 'till he can make appear the information
by legal proofs; in which case, he shall be exempt from the said penalties;—without nevertheless pretending to any damages.
Article 13th. The proceedings shall be the same, in case of a contest between two Brevets for the same object; if it be declared there is an exact resemblance, the Brevet anterior shall be the only one valid; but, if there is any part that the resemblance is not exact, the Brevet posterior, shall be converted into a perfecting Brevet and shall be exempt from any other duties, in consideration of the expedient, which had not been announced in the first Brevet.
Article 14th. The proprietor of a brevet, shall be free to contract with any society, he shall choose, to exercise his right conformable to the usual modes of trade; but, he is absolutely forbid in the penalty of losing his right to his brevet, to establish his enterprise by actions.
Article 15th. When a proprietor of a brevet shall part with all, or only a part of his right in his brevet, (which he shall not be able to do but by a deed drawn up by a notary) the contracting parties shall be obliged to have this conveyance registered, (according to the 5th number) under the penalty of the loss of brevets at the secretary's office of their respective departments, who shall send information to the directory of brevets of inventions; to the end, that this may send information to all other departments.
Article 16th. In compliance with the 17th article of the law of January 7th, all the possessors of exclusive privileges supported by the said article, shall be obliged, at the end of six months after the publication of their rules, to have registered at the directory of inventions, the titles of their privileges, and there to place the descriptions of the privileged objects; conformably to the first article of the present record; in the penalty of the loss of their privileges.
RECORD, 3d.
Article 18. The National Assembly will refer to the minister of the inner department, the proper measures to be taken for executing the rules of the law of the brevets of invention; and, a charge to present, forthwith, to the assembly, the disposition that he shall judge necessary to make this bill of public utility.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
To the PRINTER.
WHILST our American aristocrats are anxious to adopt the spirit and principles of the British government, they will no doubt, think it necessary to publish the most flattering accounts of the prosperity and grandeur of that Country. Some of the Clergy, a few of the Nobility, pensioners and placemen enjoy every comfort and luxury, at the expense of the laborious part of the community; but the misery and oppression of the most numerous and most useful class of Citizens has been strongly pictured by many late writers. In addition to the accounts given in some of your late papers, I beg leave to communicate one from a late publication on agriculture. Mr. Marshall, in his "Midland Counties," Vol. 2. Page 217, observes, "It having always appeared to me incomprehensible how a common farm labourer who, perhaps, does not earn more than six or seven shillings a week, rears a large family, as many a one does without any assistance, I desired old George Barwell, who has brought up five or six sons and daughters, to clear up the mystery—he acknowledged, that he has frequently been hard put to it. He has sometimes barely had bread for his children: not a morsel for himself: having often made a dinner of raw hog peas" Again p. 364 "I lately sold a parcel of cord wood to a Jersey comber, who employed a poor old man to burn it for him, on the spot, at eight pence a quarter, and board; which however did not cost him much. The poor devil had sometimes bread and sometimes cheese, and sometimes neither, with seldom any thing but water to drink. His lodging cost him nothing. He built himself a hut with slabs and sods, a cone seven feet wide at the base, on the inside and four feet high in the center. The floor divided by a long log: one side littered with straw for a lodging room: the other furnished with a loose log as a sitting room."
Phila. July 13.
Society for establishing Useful Manufactures.
PROPOSALS to contract for the following purposes, will be received at New-York by Nicholas Low, at New-Ark by Elisha Boudinot, at New-Brunswick by John Bayard, and at Philadelphia, by Charles Pettit—viz:
1st. To cut a canal from the river Passaick, beginning at a point near a station, where stands a stake marked No. 1, and continuing thence to the brink of a precipice at or near a rock marked No. 3. This canal must be thirty feet wide, and must be sunk to a level with the surface of the water in the driest season.
2d. To erect flood-gates in the said canal near the brink of the precipice.
3d. To erect a dam on the river Passaick above the Great Falls, and below the place of the canal. The dam to be four feet above the level of the surface of the water at the driest season.
4th. To erect a dry wall across a gully adjacent to the abovementioned precipice, in a direction from the said station No. 3, to another station being a stake marked No. 6, on or near the summit
of a hill, extending from thence to the other; and to make a wooden trough upon the said wall sixteen feet wide by seven feet deep.
5th. To extend a trough of the same dimensions, from the said station No. 6, to another station being a tree marked No. 7, with a dry wall on one side, the whole length thereof, of the thickness of six feet.
6th. To erect at the town of Paterson, near the Falls of the Passaick, a stone building, fifty five feet long by thirty-two feet wide, four stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof.
7th. To erect another stone building at the said town of Paterson, seventy-eight feet long, by thirty-one feet wide, three stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof.
8th. To erect another stone building at the said town of Paterson, thirty-eight feet long by twenty-seven feet wide, two stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof.
9th. To erect another stone building sixty-eight feet long by thirty six feet wide, two stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof.
10th. To erect fifty houses of stone or wood, as may be afterwards determined, each twenty-four feet long by eighteen feet wide, in height from the lower floor to the plate twelve feet, with a cellar and a garret. Two houses to be under one roof, with a party wall. The proposals will specify severally the rates at which these buildings will be undertaken in stone and in wood.
Descriptive plans of the several objects above specified, No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, may be seen in the possession of Nicholas Low at New-York, Elisha Boudinot, at New-Ark, John Bayard, at New-Brunswick, Charles Pettit, at Philadelphia and William Hall at the said town of Paterson. The said William Hall will give such explanations as may be necessary.
A descriptive plan of the building above specified No. 6, may be seen in the possession of the four first above mentioned persons and of Thomas Marshall, at the town of Paterson who will give such explanations as may be necessary.
A descriptive plan of the building above specified No. 9, may be seen in the possession of the four first abovementioned persons, and of William Pearce at the town of Paterson, who will give such explanations as may be necessary.
All materials are to be found, brought to the spot, and erected by the contractors, to whom liberty will be granted under certain restrictions to use the stones or timber which may be on the lands of the society.
The proposals may comprehend either the whole or any one or more of the foregoing objects. The proposals may accompany their proposals by the suggestion of any other methods which shall occur to them for constructing a competent wall across the gully from station No. 3, to station No. 6, and for conveying the water from thence to station No. 7, and the terms upon which they may be disposed to contract according to those methods.
All the works for conveying the water must be warranted for seven years.
Proposals must be in writing, and under seal addressed to the society for establishing useful manufactures; and delivered to one of the said persons first mentioned, on or before the twenty sixth of July instant.
July 10. 37.
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NEW-YORK & PHILADELPHIA STAGES
Via Bordentown and Burlington, And SHREWSBURY & PHILADELPHIA STAGE,
Via Bordentown.
THE proprietors of the New-York and Philadelphia land and water Stages beg leave to mention, that for the better accommodation of passengers, they have thought proper to remove the different packet boats from their former stand, at the Crooked Bilet wharf, to the wharf or dock immediately next below Arch-Street, from whence, on the first day of July next, and afterwards, a convenient packet-boat will start for New-York, as usual, on every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The passage to be made either by the way of Bordentown or Burlington, each place to be taken alternately. Fare for passengers from Philadelphia to New-York 15s.—For Goods pr. cwt. 6.
VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN,
DAVID WILLIAMSON,
Proprietors of the line of New-York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Bordentown.
JACOB MYERS,
AMOS HUTCHIN,
NICHOLAS SCHENK,
Proprietors of the line of N. York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Burlington.
The Shrewsbury Stage will leave Philadelphia in the months of July and September, on every Sunday and Wednesday, and return on every Tuesday and Friday. In the month of August, it will leave Philadelphia on every Sunday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday and Saturday.
VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN,
DANIEL LOT,
Proprietors of the Shrewsbury and Philad. Stage.
Bordentown, June 25, 1792.
For freight or passage apply to the masters on board, or to M'KEAN & VAN EMBURGH, at their store on said wharf, immediately next below Arch-Street; by whom orders for the purchase of all kinds of grain, flaves, or other country produce, are punctually attended to.
For freight or passage to Lambert or Trenton, also apply as above.
Philadelphia, June 27.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE Subscriber has it in contemplation soon to decline his present business—and having on hand a considerable quantity of superfine second and elastic cloths, together with a variety of other articles in his way, proposes to sell them at the following reduced prices, VIZ.
 Best Superfine navy blue 34s.  Ditto. ditto. Scarlet 36s.  Common colours superfine 32s.  Elastic stripes 9s.  London buff and white cassimers 15/6.  Ditto, coloured do. 15/6.  Yorkshire do. do. 13/6.  Striped toiletens 14/.  Rattinets 3/.  Striped Nankeens: 3/4.  A variety of waistcoat flapes proportionably low  Fancy buttons and trimmings do.  London best silk hose, from 22/6 to 24/. 
The above goods have been mostly imported from one of the first mercantile houses in London, and are of an equal quality to any imported into America; they will be sold per piece or smaller quantity as may best suit the purchasers, by the public's most humble servant, JOHN SHEPHERD.
Any person disposed to purchase the whole of the above stock, may also have on reasonable terms his present dwelling house together with the store, a more eligible situation for business in the tailor's line is not to be found in this city. The advantage of this business being so well established by the proprietor will be very great, and from well known facts, needs no comment.
A lease of six years may be had of the house.
May 14. 2aw. tf.
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