Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1790-08-11 00:00:00

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Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 41, BROAD-STREET, NEAR THE EXCHANGE, NEW-YORK.
[No. 35, of Vol. II.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 11, 1790.
[WHOLE No. 139.]
THE TABLET.—No. CXXXVIII.
(Omitted in our last.)
“It is easier to know mankind in general than any one man in particular.”
MY neighbor SCIOMNIS is thought by his acquaintance to have a very philosophic way of thinking. I can never hear him converse without admiring his talents, and being enlightened by his information. It is remarked of him, that he has made human nature the chief object of his study. Nor do I conceive, it is paying him too high a compliment to say, that he can analyze all the springs and properties of the soul with as much skill and propriety, as the ablest artist can define the machinery of a watch. Yet my good neighbor has always been unfortunate in his most intimate connections, and has suffered innumerable vexations from the insincerity and fickleness of his friends. Perhaps no man has been more frequently deceived in his opinions of individuals, or smarted more severely by listening to the impulses of credulity.
I have had the curiosity to search out the cause, why a person so apparently sagacious, is often the dupe of those, who are, in all respects, inferior to himself. It is difficult to assign a reason, why a man who discovers so much discernment, when speaking of mankind in the aggregate, should in all his personal concerns never rightly estimate a single character. A person of the most slender abilities may easily palm himself upon SCIOMNIS for a man of solid understanding; and the most barefaced knaves have gulled him out of his money, by such tricks and evasions, as scarce required ordinary precaution to guard against. In short, my learned friend is wise for every body but himself. He can tell his acquaintance, with almost a prophetic spirit, how to estimate characters and measures; and teach them with a peculiar degree of certainty, how to escape the vices and follies that are floating in society. But he himself can steer clear of none of them. His secrets are often brought to light through the weakness of some of his associates; and his hopes are as often blasted through the knavery of others.
I find the mystery in this whole affair to be nothing more than this, that my neighbor has strong passions as well as a strong understanding. His feelings are so irritable and vigorous that his reason can never assume its full sway in directing concerns of a personal nature. The impulses of some passion beguile him insensibly, and foil that discernment which is conspicuous on occasions where he is totally disinterested. His maxims and reflections bear the marks of a comprehensive genius; while his life discovers a repetition of imprudent acts, which have flowed from a heart susceptible to the slightest touch. If he happens to be flattered he forgets at once that flattery is an artifice used by designing men, and in the ardor of his vanity, commits himself without reserve to the insinuations of the flatterer. This looks very extraordinary, as he frequently in the moments of reflection, expatiates to his friends on the danger of putting confidence in men of smooth insinuating manners. But why do I descend to particulars in designating the character of SCIOMNIS. It is sufficient to say, that although his knowledge of human nature is very acute and extensive, yet he is so much the slave of whatever passion is uppermost, that he is betrayed into a thousand indiscretions, and exposed to innumerable disappointments. He understands mankind in the aggregate; while the application of his knowledge to particular cases is erroneous and unfortunate.
DISCOURSES ON DAVILA.—No. XVII.
(CONTINUED.)
Ses mains, autour du trône, avec confusion, Semaient la jalousie, et la division.
AT present we return to the narration of Davila. The Prince de Condé's quality of Prince of the blood, and the want of plausible pretences, did not permit the Guises, so easily to dismiss him from court. They found, however, a favorable occasion to send him off, for a time, till the new Ministry should be well established, by nominating him Plenipotentiary, to the King of Spain, to ratify the peace and alliance contracted a little before the death of Henry IIId. He quitted the court upon this embassy, and left the field open for the perfection of projects,
which were as yet only in sketches. The Queen mother and the Guises proceeded in the same manner with all whom they feared: Strongly determined to consummate their designs, they judged that they could not succeed, but by arranging all the strong places, as well as the troops, the finances, and all the resources of the state, under their own disposition: so that the most important affairs should pass through no hands but their own, and those of their creatures. Nevertheless, to show that they consulted their interest less than the public good and their own glory, they did not elevate to dignities, people without merit, and drawn from the dust, for fear they should be thought to make creatures for themselves at any rate: but they conferred favors only on persons, who added acknowledged merit to conspicuous birth, and above all, estimable in the eyes of the people for integrity. This conduct had a double advantage, the first, that the people commonly applauded their choice, and their opponents had no pretence to condemn it: the second, that confiding in persons of honor and fidelity, they were not exposed to be deceived, nor to suspect their attachment, as it often happens to those who commit the execution of their designs to people of base extraction, or dishonored by their manners. In this view, they restored to office, Francis Olivier, formerly chancellor of the kingdom, a personage of known integrity and inflexible firmness, in the exercise of his employment. The vigor with which he avowed and supported his sentiments, had caused his dismissal from court, from the beginning of the reign of Henry IIId. and the instigations of the Constable had not a little contributed to his disgrace. They recalled also to council, and near the person of the King, the Cardinal de Tournon, who, in the time of Francis II. grand-father of the reigning Prince, had the principal conduct of affairs. By these measures they flattered the multitude, and fulfilled the expectations of the public, without neglecting their own interests.
The probity of the Cardinal and of the Chancellor, had rendered them dear to the people, who knew how often they had declared themselves against the multiplication of imposts, with which they were oppressed. Moreover, disgraced by the intrigues of the Constable, and recalled with honor by the Guises, they must, both from resentment and gratitude, support with their counsels, and all their influence, the projects of aggrandizement, formed by the latter. Many others had been gained by similar artifices: but the same management was not used with the house of Bourbon, nor with the family of the Constable. On the contrary, the Princes of Lorraine, drawn away by the desire of annihilating the credit of their ancient rival, and of abasing the royal family, seized with ardor, every occasion of diminishing the authority and increasing the losses of their enemies.
(To be continued.)
From the AMERICAN MERCURY.
Published at HARTFORD, by Mr. E. BARCOCK.
FEW writings of the present day deserve more attention than a publication in the Gazette of the United States, entitled, “Discourses on Davila.” The writer I know not, but whoever he is, he is deeply versed in a knowledge of the human heart and the science of governing. Fully acquainted with the history of nations, he has developed the springs of movement in political machines. Unlike some noisy demagogues, who pretend that jealousy is essential to freedom, and that the half formed opinions and local prejudices of every constituent in the woods, must be consulted by representatives in all their proceedings, the writer maintains that men are all under the influence of certain principles, which will war with each other & produce discord, unless they are counteracted by a proper balance of powers in government and by a vigorous executive. Some men love to bawl about freedom, even in the streets and on the house top; but they are usually the most fond of power who make the greatest outcry about tyranny. Fame, interest, ambition, these are the springs that must be touched by government; and however we may declaim against titles, titles of office have an excellent effect upon governors and governed. The best informed men on earth, as a people, are governed more by imagination than by reason.
PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE LATE REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, AND THE CONDUCT OF THE DISSENTERS IN ENGLAND; IN A LETTER TO THE REV. DR. PRIESTLEY.
By J. COURTENAY, ESQ. M. P.
QUO, QUO SCELESTI RUITIS?—HOR.
London, printed 1790.
SIR, I AM not in the least surprised that some of the most enlightened men of the present age, equally distinguished by genius, science, and taste, are seriously alarmed by the dangerous and rapid progress of democracy in France. We had indeed little to fear, whilst they enjoyed that serene and tranquil state of government, uniformly resulting from the unlimited power of a monarch, and the feudal privileges of a numerous, polished, and gallant noblesse. Whilst the various orders of a pious, rich, and splendid hierarchy anxiously watched over the temporal and eternal concerns of a docile obsequious laity, preaching up the catholic apostolic doctrine of passive obedience and non-resistance—internal peace, subordination, and submission, were the characteristics of that gay, volatile, and ingenious people. But now, horresco referens , they no longer acknowledge “The right divine of kings to govern wrong;” and instead of bending their necks to the vice-gerent of heaven, presumptuously look into the sacred ark, question the conduct of the Lord's anointed, and on abstract metaphysical principles (unhappily reduced into practice) assert the inalienable right of man to freedom: The fatal consequences are obvious; as it is a political truth, confirmed by the experience of ages, that the tranquility and happiness of a well regulated community can only be maintained by implicit obedience and unconditional submission. The visions of chimerical speculation must disappear before the light of history, and truth and reason again resume their empire over the human mind. I say then, if the Athenians had quietly and judiciously submitted to the dominion of the thirty tyrants, Critias, and his council of aristocrats would not have been compelled to stain their hands in the blood of their fellow citizens. Socrates might have saved himself and his country, if he had exerted his abilities, like D. H. by supporting the civil and ecclesiastical establishment of Athens, instead of proudly and obstinately displaying that factious and heretodox spirit which has always distinguished you. If Brutus, and his band of Roman conspirators, had saluted Julius Cæsar, king, despotism and felicity would have been diffused over the world, and an English prelate* would not have disgraced himself, and his holy function, by pronouncing an eulogium on assassination, and recommending the dangerous and daring tenets of a heathenish ballad to our ingenious youth, in the insidious and captivating language of classical eloquence.—But let me, in the words of Lord Bacon, bring this topic home to men's business and bosoms. If Mr. Hampden had meekly acquiesced in Charles' claim to ship-money, the nation would have been preserved from the horrors of a civil war; “taxation, no tyranny,” would have become our political creed; America might still have flourished under our auspices; the uncontaminated loyalty of toryism would have been our own; we should not have incurred the wrath of Heaven for shedding the royal martyr's blood; we should not have been punished for that flagitious act by the revolution! Nor have had a Prince of the House of Brunswick to suffer for our sins: We might still have enjoyed a Popish liturgy, a Calvinistical Creed, and an Arminian clergy, with all the superadded blessings of an arbitrary monarchy.
The populous and flourishing kingdom of Dahomey on the gold coast of Africa, is another striking example of the invaluable benefits of absolute power. The king is there a king indeed, being the absolute master of the lives and fortunes of his subjects! “They are,” we are told, “a happy people, and have a great contempt for the subjects of the neighboring republics.” A similar sentiment is thus beautifully expressed by a Tory poet:
“Still to ourselves in every place consign'd, Our own felicity we make or find; The lifted ax, the agonizing wheel, Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel, To men expos'd to power, tho' often known, Leave reason, faith, and conscience all our own.”
THE TRAVELLER.
I flatter myself, that I have already proved to your satisfaction by examples taken both from ancient and modern history, and from recent facts—elucidated by moral reasoning, that the vicious and oppressive conduct of our rulers can only be effectually checked and counteracted by patience, humility, and long suffering; and that all our political evils solely originate from tumult, insurrection and rebellion. Let us learn a lesson of wisdom from the untutored savages of Dahomey; they preserve their lives and property from royal rapacity and violence, by a cheerful resignation of both to the nod of their sovereign. A reverend divine [Dean Swift] earnestly recommends the same system of quietism to the fair sex, as an effectual preservative against any possible violation of their chastity. (To be continued.)
* Dr. Louth.—“Num verendum erat ne quis tyrannidem Pisistratidarum Athenis instaurare auderet, ubi in omnibus conviviis, et æquæ ab infima plebe in compitis, quotidie cantitaretur illud Callistrati nescio cujus, sed ingeniosi certe poetæ, et valde boni civis?
“Quod si post idus illas martias e Tyrannothonis quispiam tale aliquod carmen plebi tradidisset, inque Suburram, et fori circulos, et in ora vulgi intulisset, actum profecto fuisset de partibus æque dominatione Cæsaris: plus mercurio valuisse unum Harmonium quam Ciceronis Phillippicæ omnes.” Prælectiones Hebraicæ, p. 25.
This celebrated song has been translated by Mr. Cumberland
He is not dead, our best belov'd Harmonius is not lost, But with Troy's conquerors remov'd To some more happy coast.
Bind then the myrtle's mystic boughs, And wave your swords around, For so they struck the tyrant low, And so their favours were bound.
Perpetual objects of our love The patriot pair shall be, Who in Minerva's sacred grove Struck, and set Athens free.

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. PUBLISHED
By Authority.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: AT THE SECOND SESSION.
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
AN ACT to continue in force for a limited time, an Act, intitled "An Act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act passed the last session of Congress, intitled "An act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office," be, and the same hereby is continued in force until the end of the next session of Congress and no longer.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States. and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, AUGUST THE FOURTH, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (TRUE COPY)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
AN ACT for the relief of JOHN STEWART and JOHN DAVIDSON.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That so much of the duties accruing on eighteen hundred bushels of salt imported in the ship Mercury, into the port of Annapolis, in the state of Maryland, sometime in the month of April last on account of Messieurs John Stewart and John Davidson, as relates to thirteen hundred and twenty-five bushels thereof, which were casually destroyed by a flood on the night of the same day on which the said salt was landed and stored, shall be, and the same are hereby remitted.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States. and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, AUGUST THE FOURTH, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (TRUE COPY)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the expence of procuring seals for the supreme, circuit, and district Courts of the United States, shall be defrayed out of the money appropriated by an act of the present session, for defraying the contingent charges of government.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States. and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, AUGUST THE SECOND, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (TRUE COPY)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the clerks in the office of the commissioner of army accounts, are intitled to receive for their services, a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be paid in the same manner and at the same rates as the salary allowed to the clerks in the department of treasury: And that the auditor and comptroller be authorized to adjust the accounts of the clerks in the said office, upon the same principles as those of the Treasury department, agreeably to the appropriation by law.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States. and President of the Senate.
APPROVED AUGUST THE SECOND, 1790. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. (TRUE COPY)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
CHANGE OF THE SPANISH MINISTRY.
Extract of a letter from a house in Cadiz to a merchant in Philadelphia, dated June 15, 1790.
I have the pleasure to inform you of a very favorable change taken place in the ministry at our court, which is as follows:
His Excellency the Count de Florida Blanca, first Secretary of State.
His excellency Don Antonio Porlier, Minister of grants, and justice for the home and American department.
His Excellency the Count del Campo de Alanxe, Minister of war, for the home and American department.
His Excellency Don Antonio Valdes, Minister of Marine, and in the absence or sickness of Count Florida Blanca, to act as Secretary of State.
His Excellency Don Pedro Lapez de Lerena, Minister of the finances of the home and American department.
His Excellency Don Geronimo Cavallero, President of the council of war (a new department) with the same honors and emoluments as while one of the Secretaries of State.
His Excellency Don Diego de Gardoqui, Don Pedro de Aparicio, and Count de Casa Valencia, Directors General of the revenues and finances of the American department, still retaining their former appointments, with the honors and antiquity of the Royal and Supreme Council of the Indies.
PROCLAMATION.
By the KING OF FRENCHMEN.
NEVER have circumstances so urgent required all Frenchmen to re-unite in one mind, to rally themselves with courage in support of the law, and to favor with all their might the establishment of the Constitution. We have neglected nothing in order to inspire every citizen with these sentiments. We have ourselves given them an example of our entire and unequivocal confidence in the representatives of the nation, and of our constant disposition to promote every measure that might contribute to the happiness of our subjects, and the prosperity of France.
Can it then be possible that the enemies of the public welfare should still endeavour to interrupt the important labors which occupy the National Assembly, in concert with us, to insure the rights of the people, and prepare for their happiness? That they endeavor to stir up the public mind either by vain terrors and false interpretations of the decrees of the National Assembly accepted or sanctioned by us; or try to raise doubts as to our intentions, as ill-founded as they are injurious; and cloaking their private passions or interests under the sacred name of religion?
An opposition so culpable would sensibly affect us at the same time that it would excite our utmost indignation. The continual object of our cares is to prevent and repress all of such a nature. We have also judged it worthy of our paternal solicitude, to prohibit even the signs that might manifest divisions and parties.
Moved by these considerations, and informed that in different parts of the kingdom, individuals have taken the liberty to wear cockades different from the National one, which we ourselves wear; and reflecting on the inconveniences that may result from this diversity, we have thought fit to prohibit them.
In consequence, we forbid all our faithful subjects throughout the whole extent of our realm to wear any other than the National Cockade.
We exhort all good citizens to abstain in their speeches, as well as in their writings, from every reproach or distinction capable of exasperating people's minds; of fomenting divisions, and of serving even as a pretext for any culpable excess." (Signed)
LOUIS.
And underneath De St. PRIEST."
Paris, May 28, 1790.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
JUNE 1.
On the day on which M de Voisins fell a sacrifice to the unjust vengeance of the people of Valence, three other officers were thrown into prison and thereby saved from the popular fury. The committee of reports proposed in the sitting of yesterday morning to decree their liberation; but it is a power belonging to the executive power, to which the National Assembly has referred it.
The Assembly then went into the discussion of the project of the Ecclesiastical Committee for the organization of the Clergy. The Archbishop of Aix made a very elegant speech proving the rights of the clergy were too sacred to be destroyed.
After some other speakers had delivered their sentiments on the occasion, the discussion on the general question was closed, and the sitting ended by reading an Address from the Municipality of Montauban, accompanied by a proclamation which on the 26th of last month had been stuck up in that town, to appease the fears of the people on the approach de l' armee bordelaise.
LONDON, JUNE 3.
The Court of Portugal have just made public a decree to regulate the future succession to the kingdom. By this decree the succession will, on failure of male issue, not only open the succession to the eldest female but to the second and third daughters; and whoever they shall marry will enjoy the Crown in their right.
Extract of a letter from Stockholm, April 20.
The court martial which has been so long sitting on the officers who refused to serve in Finland, in the campaign of 1788, have at last made public their sentence, which, if not softened by the King, will exhibit a scene of blood that will astonish all Europe. General d' Armfeldt Colonels Hastfco, and Baron d'Otter, and lieutenant Colonel Klingspot, are condemned to be beheaded, and to lose their honors and estates. Colonels Montgomerie and Leyonstedt are condemned to be shot. Several subalterns are also doomed death: and a great many brave officers, now in confinement, are required to ask pardon of the King for their offences; a punishment almost as severe as death itself, to men who acted in discharge of what they thought their duty. We still entertain some hopes that it will be softened by his Majesty."
When the inquest were going their rounds in a city parish, to weigh the bread of the bakers, and try the scales, measures, &c. of dealers, a baker got notice of their approach; and in a
sudden emergency, he thrust a number of half crowns into some loaves that he knew to be short of weight. This was critically observed by a passenger, who determined to punish him. He went into the shop with the inquest, stood by whilst the loaves were weighed, and bought them in their presence. The melancholy baker saw his half crowns depart without daring to stop them, and for the first time in his life did not cheat his customer.
JUNE 7.
Notwithstanding all the reports of Lord Heathfield's setting out to take the command of the garrison of Gibraltar with the circumstance of his arriving at Dover, &c. &c. an evening paper says, we have respectable authority for saying, his Lordship has not quitted his house in London, nor, perhaps, will he, considering his advanced period of life and infirmities, resume that station which he filled with so much honor to himself, and glory to the nation.
Under similar circumstances, a veteran officer in Louis XIVth's time, being asked by the King, "Whether he felt himself well enough to resume his former military station?" No, Sire, replied the veteran, my former services are sufficiently recorded by your Majesty's giving me the choice of again serving you; but I would choose to dedicate the close of a long life to making up the account between God and my conscience."
By accounts from Stockholm, dated the 18th ult. we learn, that on the 11th, the Swedish fleet made an attack on the port of Revel. They entered the Bay, and a brisk cannonade took place. They silenced the forts which defend the entrance of the harbor, and set fire to the town, which was soon in very general conflagration. They took and burnt seventeen ships, of which six were of the line, and the frigates and smaller ships, and destroyed a considerable quantity of stores. In this bold and successful attempt, they lost two ships of the line, and suffered a great slaughter. We must wait for the arrival of the mail for the particulars of this important affair; but from good authority we are informed, that the above is the substance.
Intelligence is said to be received from Vienna, informing, that "Marshal Loudohn had made a sudden movement with his troops, and advanced within two miles of the frontiers of Prussia so unexpectedly, that the Prussian troops made a precipitate retreat, supposing the Austrians intended to possess themselves of Silesia.
Twenty sail of the line is the force preparing by the Dutch, in consequence of Lord Auckland's requisition of the successors stipulated by the late treaty. Admiral Van Kinshergen has the conduct of this naval equipment, which will be reviewed by the Prince of Orange previous to its putting to sea.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales did not appear at St. James's, with his new EPAULETTE, till the evening, it being collar day. This piece of jewellery is the most superb ever seen at Court, and estimated in value at 22,000l. the form of it is a long shaped oval, the outer row—a circle of very large costly brilliants—the inner part, filled with a mosaic of diamonds—the centre of each part of the mosaic filled with a fine brilliant. The brilliant which formed the button is valued at 4000 guineas—the whole contained near 1000 brilliants of the first water.
DR. FRANKLIN.
The amiable Dubourg, who gave the writer of this, the account of Dr. Franklin's death, and who was the first Frenchman that openly espoused the cause of America, in his Ouvres de Franklin, in two volumes, has inscribed under the head of the Philosopher, the following inscription,
"Il a ravi de feu des Cieux, Il fait fleurir les arts en des climats sauvages; L'Amerique le place a la tete des fages; La Grece l'auroit met au nombre des dieux."
It must now be the wish of every scientific person, to possess an accurate life of this great character; but where is the historian, who can delineate the man who controuled the tremendous fire of the Heavens, and spread the flame of freedom over the earth?
Dr. Franklin died immensely rich, and has left the bulk of his fortune to his daughter, Mrs. Bache, with a large legacy to her husband.
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
The Musical Feast closed on Thursday with a repetition of the Messiah, which was performed before a very numerous audience, not less than 2600. His Majesty and three of the Princesses were present. The Queen was absent, and, it was said, through indisposition.
Hints to Americans who own lands or other real estate in England.
Persons born in the United States of America since their independence, are incapable of holding lands in Great-Britain, as they are not natural born subjects of the kingdom. The treaty of peace secures the present holders, but it does not secure their heirs, consequently those estates will be lost as soon as the present proprietors die.—Does not prudence require that such estates be immediately sold?
A COUNTRYMAN.

CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. SATURDAY, AUGUST 7.
THE bill for appointing a surveyor general was read a second time, and on the question for engrossing was rejected. The speaker laid before the house a letter and report from the Secretary of the Treasury, accompanied with statements of additional sums necessary to be provided for the support of government by farther appropriations. Also informing the house that a surplus to the amount of one million of dollars arising from the revenues of the present year, beyond the appropriations made by law will remain in the Treasury, and suggesting the propriety of applying the same towards buying up the public debt in the market. The house went into committee on the said letter and report, and came to the following resolutions thereon:
Resolved, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars out of the monies arising from the duties on imports and tonnage be reserved and appropriated for satisfying demands against the United States, not otherwise specially provided for; and that an act for that purpose ought to be passed the present session.
Resolved, That out of the monies reserved during the present session for the support of government from the duties on imports and tonnage, a sum not exceeding thirty eight thousand eight hundred and ninety two dollars 75 cents be appropriated for the payment of the debts contracted by Abraham Skinner, late commissary of prisoners, for the subsistence of the officers of the late army while in captivity.
Resolved, That provision by law should be immediately made for the application of the surplus sum which shall remain in the Treasury after all the appropriations made during the present session shall be satisfied, in conformity to the tenor of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The committee then rose, and Mr. Fitzsimons, Mr. Vining, Mr. Madison, Mr. Ames, and Mr. Beufon were appointed a committee to prepare and bring in a bill for the purpose.
A report was received from the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to lost certificates; which was read and laid on the table.
A message was received from the Senate, that they had considered the resolution of the house on the petition of Mr. Mentges, and had non-concurred the same. Also, that they had considered the bill for the appointment of two additional commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and the individual States, and non-concurred the same.
Also, that the Senate had considered the bill making provision for the disabled soldiers and seamen lately in the service of the United States; and had agreed to the same.
Another message was received from the Senate, that they had passed the bill respecting the completing the Light-House on Portland Head. Also, that they had agreed to the bill respecting the Virginia cession, with some amendments. Also, that the Senate agreed to the resolution for an adjournment on Tuesday next.
The house then proceeded to the consideration of the amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill respecting the Virginia cession, and agreed to the same.
The house went into committee on the bill for the relief of Adam Caldwell, and having made some amendments thereto, rose, and ordered the bill to be engrossed for a third reading.
MONDAY, August 9.
A bill for the relief of Adam Caldwell was read the third time and passed.
Mr. Fitzsimons from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported a bill making certain appropriations; and also a bill for reducing the debt of the United States. The said bills were read a first and second time and committed.
The House went into committee on these bills, separately; — they were both amended and passed.
The House proceeded to the consideration of the amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen; — and agreed to the same.
A message was received from the Senate, that they had passed the bill for satisfying the claims of L. dy. Stirling, with amendments — the said amendments being taken into consideration were agreed to.
A message was received from the Senate that they had passed the bill giving the assent of Congress to certain acts of the State of Georgia, Maryland, and Rhode-Island; — with amendments. Also, that they had passed a bill to alter the times for holding the Circuit court in the States of South-Carolina and Georgia.
Mr. Gilman from the committee of enrolment, reported that they had this day presented three acts to the President of the United States, for his approbation.
Mr. Smith (S. C.) from the committee, to whom was referred the accounts of the treasurer of the United States, for the last two quarters, made a report on the same; — which was read and laid on the table.
The amendments of the Senate to the bill for giving the assent of Congress to certain acts of Georgia, Maryland, and Rhode-Island, were taken into consideration, and agreed to.
The memorial and representation of the Legislature of Massachusetts, on the subject of the fisheries, was referred to the Secretary of State.
Mr. Gilman, Mr. White, and Mr. Smith of [S. C.] were appointed a committee, to join a committee of the Senate to notify the President, of the proposed recess of Congress.
A report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the memorial of Gen. Hazen, was received, and laid on the table.
The house resolved that all surveys of lands in the United States made under the direction of the late Geographer General, agreeable to contracts for such parts of said lands made with the late board of Treasury be returned to, and presented by the Secretary of the Treasury so as to complete the said contracts: And that the said Secretary is hereby authorised to direct the making and completing any other surveys that remain to be made, so as to comply on the part of the United States, with the several contracts aforesaid, in conformity to the terms thereof.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 10.
A message was received from The President of the United States, to notify the house that the following Acts had received his assent, viz.
An Act making further provision for payment of the public debt of the United States.
An Act to enable the officers and soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental establishment, to obtain titles to certain lands therein described.
An Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to take measures for finishing the Light-House on Portland Head, in the province of Maine.
Mr. Gilman of the joint committee, reported the following enrolled bills.
An act for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen lately in the service of the United States, and of certain other persons.
An Act declaring the assent of Congress to certain Acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia and Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
An Act for the relief of the persons therein mentioned or described.
An Act to alter the times for holding the Circuit Courts of the United States in the districts of South Carolina and Georgia, and providing that the District Court of Pennsylvania, shall in future be held at the city of Philadelphia only.
A message was received from the Senate to inform the House that they have passed a resolution to adjourn the 12th inst. and request the concurrence of the House.
This Resolution was agreed to.
Adjourned till to-morrow, 10 o'clock, A. M.
NEW-YORK, AUGUST 11.
APPOINTMENTS. — By Authority.
THE President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate has been pleased to nominate and appoint the following officers, viz.
COMMISSIONERS OF LOANS.
 New-Hampshire, Nathaniel Gilman.  Massachusetts, Nathaniel Appleton.  Rhode-Island, Jabez Bowen.  Connecticut, William Ledyard.  New-York, John Cochran.  New-Jersey, James Ewing.  Pennsylvania, Thomas Smith.  Delaware, James Tilton.  Maryland, Thomas Harwood.  Virginia, John Hopkins.  North-Carolina, William Skinner.  South-Carolina, John Newville.  Georgia, Richard Wyllie.  William Irvine, John Taylor Gilman, and John Kean, Commissioners for settling the accounts between the United States and individual States.
Daniel Benezet, sen. Collector for the port of Great Harbor, in the state of New-Jersey.
In the bill now before the Senate, making provision for the reduction of the public debt, it is proposed that one million of dollars now in the Treasury of the United States, be applied to purchasing the public debt in the market, while the debt is under par. Also that the President of the United States be authorized to borrow Two Millions of dollars, to be applied to the same purpose: The business to be under the direction of Five Commissioners, viz. The President of the Senate, The Chief Justice, The Secretary of State, The Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney General; who, or any three of whom, under the direction of the President, are to cause the purchases to be made.
The proposition for applying the surplus of one million to purchasing at the public debt at the market price, while that price is at a discount, must meet the approbation of every friend to the United States: And the patriotic, independent policy which suggested the measure, is one among many other evidences of that ever wakeful vigilance which marks the operations of the Treasury department.
FROM CORRESPONDENTS.
CONGRESS is accused of delaying the public business. Fear generates anger and hatred. Those who feared that it would not be done at all, or done in a manner that would displease them more than being neglected entirely, have suffered great anxiety. The great objects of the session have called up the passions of different classes of citizens. Nothing could be more opposite than their views, and yet all seem to have agreed in giving vent to their passions by accusing Congress. It is time, now the great business is finished, to re-examine the charge.
All public bodies, whose duty it is to deliberate, will move slow, and every nation has more to fear from passion and enthusiasm hurrying their representatives into errors, than from over-caution which will waste only time. A lot of a party-man why has Congress been so long occupied in funding the debt. Perhaps he will say, because the State debts were crowded in. Ask another, he will say, because opposition was made to assuming the State debts. A moderate man of no party will answer, that business was delayed, because the members could not agree how it should be done. If the advocates for the State debts would have joined the opponents of the measure, they might have finished the whole in a week. The like would have happened if all the members had agreed to the assumption. But did the members use more argument for and against the measure, and did they persevere in the support of their respective opinions with more zeal and industry than the different classes of the citizens desired, and had a just right to require of them? The public has been divided as well and perhaps as much as the members. Each man seems to have become angry because others who opposed his opinions would not yield, and not because his representative persevered in trying to persuade him to do it. He would have been more displeased had he found no support, or a faint one given in Congress to the great measures which have called up all his patriotism. The session has not been a period of leisure. As the great subjects of contention are now settled, and a foundation is laid for union, energy, and public credit, there will be less reason for delay in future. We are just beginning to act as a nation. Business will soon wear itself a channel, and flow as fast as it ought.
The business of Congress has been in the highest degree difficult. The entire business of a distressing war has been to settle. A great debt, existing in various intricate forms, has been new modified, and the terms of a new loan agreed upon. Extensive funds have been provided. The public anxiety has proved the difficulty and importance of this part of their labor. Provision has been made for settling the accounts between the United States and the individual States. It was foreseen that this would prove an embarrassing subject, and those who know how much jealousy was entertained on this account, and how many well-informed persons have despaired of its being done at all, will wonder that it has been accomplished. The Congress is charged with fostering faction; the progress and success of this great operation is evidence that the spirit of conciliation is not absolutely banished from the Federal Hall. The controversies about the State debts, the Quaker Memorial, and the seat of government have been carried on with acrimony. However, it is in the highest degree pleasing to see the appearance of harmony, which seems to have returned at the end of the session. Many apprehended that it would never return. Perhaps business never proceeded in Congress more smoothly than it has of late. Altho the very difficult affairs of this session, the most important in the civil history of the Union, have not been transacted in the time, nor in the manner many earnestly desired, it is to be hoped that the public apprehensions and jealousies will subside, and that all good men will cultivate that national spirit which diffused such a lustre over the first session. This country wants nothing but a wise and energetic administration of its government, to become the happiest in the world. But the happiness we have just cause to expect as a people, will be hastened in its progress and increased in degree by cherishing that love for the Union, and that mutual good will which made us a nation. Those who are industrious to low discord ought to be discountenanced.
A free people will often complain, because it is a part of the government, and because a free people will soon become enlightened, and see the errors of measures. But those are deceived who suppose that these complaints discover a dislike to government. If our citizens had not expected much from Congress, and felt a sincere regard for the Union, they would not have shown such impatience under the delay of their wishes. We cease to be a people if we relax the bands of union.
Forty eight Acts have been passed the present session.
PRICE CURRENT. — PUBLIC SECURITIES.
FINAL SETTLEMENTS 13/6. INDENTS 2/.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Charleston, (S. C.) to the Editor, July 24, 1790.
"I was much pleased on the whole with the observations on the English letter in your paper; but I cannot say the pleasure was heightened by the reflection thrown out against the Southern States. 'Tis true it would appear from the conduct of their representatives, [which, I think will not tend much to increase their popularity] that South Carolina and Georgia are violently opposed to restrictions on foreign navigation; but I believe, from the little information I have been able to gain, that the contrary is the case, particularly in this state, except amongst a few British merchants, who, though they enjoy all the privileges of American citizens, make it a point to injure our trade as much as possible. — Every person must know it is the interest of the inhabitants at the present moment to export their produce in British bottoms—but they look forward—they are not so miserly short-sighted, as to lock up the penny to-day, which might produce them a shilling by to-morrow.
"I think a writer who wishes to make the public wiser and better by his speculations, ought to be careful how he publishes any thing which may tend to keep alive vulgar local prejudices. It was the laying aside these prejudices that made us a nation—it was the revival of these prejudices that brought us to the brink of political ruin—it was the smothering of these prejudices again, that gave us a government.—And, happy shall we be, if their re-animation does not bring us, not only to the precipice of ruin, but plunge us down, to rise no more."
The District Court of the United States for the district of New-York, which was opened at the Court Room in this city on Tuesday the third of August instant, closed on the Saturday following. A respectable Grand Jury attended on this occasion.
We are informed that a special court will be held at the Court Room on Thursday the 19th instant, for the dispatch of business.
Last week the key of the Bastille, accompanied with a fine drawing of that famous building, was presented to the President of the United States, by JOHN RUTLEDGE, jun. Esq. to whose care they were committed by the illustrious patriot the Marquis de la Fayette, for that purpose. Mr. RUTLEDGE arrived in the Chesterfield Packet.
Saturday last a commission passed the great seal of the United States, appointing The Hon. Gen. KNOX, sole commissioner for negotiating a Treaty of Peace with the Creek nation.
Speculation is boundless in its excursions: Hence the British accounts contain ninety-nine conjectures and suppositions for one fact. The following will show the justice of this remark.
If there should be a Spanish war, the British parliament will be dissolved, and of course a new one chosen: If there should not be a war the minister will suspend the dissolution: If Great Britain should be dragged into a war with Spain, it will afford an opportunity for great national glory and advantage: It is a conjecture that the war on the part of Spain will be defensive: It is a conjecture that the armaments of Spain are designed to induce the National Assembly to commence hostilities against Great Britain: If the National Assembly should remain neuter, Spain will probably have recourse to other expedients: but if France should arm, it is conjectured that a general war is inevitable: If the King of Prussia deserts the Belgic confederacy, they must encounter the victorious veterans of Austria, and the probability is, that all the German Princes will make their subjugation a common cause.—In short there is no end to conjectures, probabilities, uncertainties, anticipations, &c. &c. After all it appears that on the 10th of June, the date of the latest accounts from Europe, nothing decisive respecting the Spanish war had taken place.
Lenses and Reflectors for Light-Houses, have been found far superior to either coal, or lamps, as they afford a brighter, and more steady light, and are seen at a much greater distance than those which direct our mariners on the American coast.
Several of our correspondents have expressed their approbation, in very strong terms, of the new publication called the Bloomsgrove family. The learned author appears to have investigated the subject of education upon its true principles, and has made it evident that with proper attention by the parents, it is easy to induce children to be virtuous and orderly. Perhaps no publication better deserves a strict perusal than the memoirs of the Bloomsgrove family.
The "Daily Advertiser" to be published in Philadelphia next month, by Benjamin Franklin Bache, is to be printed on a folio demi, almost as large again as was first intended. The terms of subscribing to remain the same, viz. five dollars pr. annum.
We hear that the Senate have, in Committee, agreed to the bill for reducing the public debt, by a large majority.
CONSISTENCY.
THE great, the learned Dr. H— Wrote a long Essay for to shew Th' nonsense of Greek and Latin; Then in the House, both hands in's breeches, With twisted phiz, he lards his speeches, With scraps lugg'd smoothly pat in. Thus have I heard a patriot bawl, And on the very building call, To witness to his zeal, fir; But yet relentless doom to toil, His fellow men in bondage vile, With bosom cas'd with steel, fir,
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. — NEW-YORK.
 Schooner Industry, Farring, Tobago.  Nancy, Denton, Edenton,  Nancy, Madox, Norfolk, 3 days.  Sloop Aurora, Cahoon, Rhode Island, 2 days.  Sally, Clarke, St. John's.  Fanny, Tillinghast, Rhode Island, 2 days.  Betsey, Brooks, Philadelphia, 6.  Sally, Culver, Peterburg, 5.  Sally, Griffin, St. Martin's, 24. 

To the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. The ADDRESS of the Convention of the UNIVERSAL CHURCH, assembled in Philadelphia. 1790.
SIR,
PERMIT us in the name of the Society whom we represent, to concur in the numerous congratulations which have been offered to you since your accession to the government of the United States.
For an account of our principles we beg leave to refer you to the pamphlet, which we have now the honor to put into your hands. In this publication it will appear, that the peculiar doctrine which we hold, is not less friendly to the order and happiness of society, than it is essential to the perfections of the Deity.
It is a singular circumstance in the history of this doctrine, that it has been preached and defended in every age, since the first promulgation of the gospel, but we represent the first society professing this doctrine, that have formed themselves into an independent church. Posterity will hardly fail of connecting this memorable event, with the auspicious years of peace, liberty and free inquiry in the United States, which distinguished the administration of General Washington.
We join thus publicly with our affectionate fellow-citizens in thanks to Almighty God for the last of his numerous signal acts of goodness to our country in preserving your valuable life in a late dangerous indisposition, and we assure you Sir, that duty will not prompt us more than affection to pray, that you may long continue the support and ornament of our country, and that you may hereafter fill a higher station, and enjoy the greater reward of being a King and Priest to our God.
Signed in behalf and by order of the Convention. JOHN MURRAY, W. EUGENE IMLAY.
To the CONVENTION of the UNIVERSAL CHURCH, lately assembled at Philadelphia.
GENTLEMEN,
I THANK you cordially for the congratulations which you offer on my appointment to the office I have the honor to hold in the government of the United States.
It gives me the most sensible pleasure to find, that, in our nation, however different are the sentiments of the citizens on religious doctrines, they generally concur in one thing: For their political professions and practices are almost universally friendly to the order and happiness of our civil institutions. I am also happy in finding this disposition particularly evinced by your Society, It is moreover my earnest desire, that all the members of every association or community, throughout the United States, may make such use of the auspicious years of peace, liberty, and free inquiry, with which they are now favored, as they shall hereafter find occasion to rejoice for having done.—With great satisfaction, I embrace this opportunity to express my acknowledgments for the interest my affectionate fellow citizens have taken in my recovery from a late dangerous indisposition and I assure you gentlemen, that in mentioning my obligations for the effusions of your benevolent wishes on my behalf, I feel animated with new zeal, that my conduct may ever be worthy of your favorable opinion, as well as such as shall, in every respect, best comport with the character of an intelligent and accountable being. G. WASHINGTON.
FROM THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
MT. RUSSELL,
I SEND you an extract from Dixon's Voyage round the world, performed in 1785, '86, '87 and '88—from which some idea may be formed of the commercial importance of the object contended for by England, in the present fracas with Spain—and, perhaps, some inducement held out to our countrymen, to imitate the enterprize of the gentlemen who fitted out the COLUMBIA and WASHINGTON. As wishing to promote the interests of commerce, I doubt not your inserting it in the CENTINEL. Your's
MERCATOR.
NOOTKA SOUND.
“ THE first vessel fitted out for the trade on the North-West Coast of America, was a brig of 60 tons, from China, commanded by Capt. Hanna. He left the Typa in April, 1785, arrived at Nootka in August following, left that place in the latter end of September, and arrived at Macao, in December, the same year. His cargo consisted of 500 sea-otter skins, beside pieces, which were disposed of as follows :
 140 skins at 60 dollars each, amount to 8,400 dol.  175 do. 45 7,875  80 do. 30 2,400  54 do. 15 825  50 do. 10 500  240 pieces sold for 600  Total 20,600 dol. 
In the beginning of 1786, the snow Captain Cook, of 300 tons, Captain Lorie, and the experiment, Captain Guile, of 100 tons, were fitted out from Bombay. They arrived at Nootka in June, and left that place sometime before August, with 600 skins. They traced the coast up to Prince William's Sound, without adding much to their trade; and arrived at Canton on the 4th of April following. This cargo was sold altogether at 40 dollars per skin, which amounts to 24,000 dol.
The Nootka, Capt. Mears, of 200 tons, failed from Bengal, separately, and the sale of his cargo at Canton, was as follows :
 50 prime sea otter-skins at 91 dol. each, 4,550 dol.  50 do. 70 3,500  52 do. 50 2,600  58 do. 35 2,030  31 half worn, 20 620  50 do. 15 750  26 old and bad, 5 130  12 large pieces, 10 120  17 smaller, 5 85  37 sea-otter tails, 2 74  31 inferior, - 39  48 land otter-skins 6 288  14 very bad beaver 3 42  27 martin skins, - 14 
Total 14,842 dol.
The Imperial Eagle, Capt. Berkley, left Ostend the 23d of November, 1786; arrived at Nootka in the beginning of June, 1787, and left it with a cargo of near 700 prime sea-otter skins, and above 100 of an inferior quality: They were not sold when the Queen Charlotte left China, but the price put on them was 30,000 dollars.
The cargoes of the King George and Queen Charlotte consisted of 2552 sea-otter skins, 434 cub, and 44 fox skins, which were disposed of by the East-India Company's supercargoes. The rest, which consisted of 1080 beaver tails, sundry pieces of beaver skins and cloaks, 110 fur seal skins, about 150 land beaver, 60 fine cloaks, of the earless marmot, together with a few racoon, fox, lynx, and other skins, were left with the Captains to be sold in the best manner which they were able.
 The part put into the hands of the supercargoes was sold for 50,000  The 1080 beaver tails sold for 2 dollars each, or 2,160  The 110 seal skins for 5 ditto 555  A small parcel of rubbish 50  The cloaks, and other furs, &c. 1000  Total 53, 765" 
MASSACHUSETTS STATE LOTTERY.
THE Managers of the STATE LOTTERY, present the Public with the First Class of the Massachusetts Semi-annual State Lottery, which will commence drawing in the Representatives' Chamber, in Boston, on the Seventeenth of March next, or sooner, if the Tickets shall be disposed of.
SCHEME.
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
25,000 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. for the use of the Commonwealth.
 Prizes. Dollars. is Dollars.  1 of 10000 are 10000  2 of 3000 are 6000  3 of 2000 are 6000  6 of 1000 are 6000  10 of 500 are 5000  30 of 200 are 6000  80 of 100 are 8000  90 of 50 are 4500  100 of 40 are 4000  120 of 30 are 3600  161 of 20 are 3220  200 of 10 are 2000  7585 of 8 are 60680  8388 Prizes. 125000  16612 Blanks. 
25000. TICKETS may be had of the several Managers, who will pay the Prizes on demand—of the TREASURER of the Commonwealth—of JAMES WHITE, at his Book-Store, Franklin's-Head, Court-Street, and at other places as usual.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. } Managers. DAVID COBB, } SAMUEL COOPER, } GEORGE R. MINOT, } JOHN KNEELAND, } Boston, July 28, 1790.
ADVERTISEMENT.
PURSUANT to a Resolve of act of Congress of the 10th day of May, 1780, relative to the destruction of Loan-Office Certificates by accident; notice is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that on the 2d day of January 1780, the house occupied by the subscriber in Market-Street, Philadelphia, took fire and was consumed, in which was lodged a number of Loan-Office certificates as pr. list below, all which were destroyed by the said fire: Therefore if any person, hath any objection why the said Certificates should not be renewed, agreeable to the resolves of Congress, they must make them before the expiration of three months, from the date hereof.
Invoice of Loan-Office Certificates destroyed in the house of John Holker on the 2d day of January 1780.
 1778. No. Dols.  March 13. 1636 1 Samuel Cooke, jun. New-York, 600  1673 1 ditto. do. 600  Dollars, 1200. 
In testimony whereof I have signed the present for publication. New-York, July 26th, 1790. HOLKER.
FOR SALE
The IRON WORKS,
BELONGING to the Estate of JAMES HUNTER, deceased, pleasantly situated on the falls of Rappahannock River, within two miles of the town of Frederickburg, and one of Falmouth and Tide-Water—Consisting of a Forge, 130 feet by 54, eight fires, and four hammers—a Coal House, 80 feet by 40—a Slitting and Rolling Mill, 68 feet by 30, for Sheet, Rolled and Slit Iron. A Merchant Mill, 70 feet by 36, with two pair of stones; one whereof French Burr, and every other necessary apparatus for manufacturing Flour in the best method.—A Saw Mill adjoining the same, 60 feet by 10. The walls of all these buildings are of stone, extremely strong and neat, of the best workmanship. The running gears, machinery and fixtures of the whole, commodiously and judiciously contrived, and performed in the most masterly and advantageous manner, on large and improved plans. The different departments are conveniently disposed and arranged at proper distances, on a deep and capacious canal, calculated to supply more large and extensive works, and future improvements; cautiously secured and guarded against casualties from freshness, or high floods; has its source in the main body of the river; a copious proportion whereof, to any reasonable degree of quantity, is at pleasure collected and turned in by a complete set of well constructed strong dams, which have not broke, or given way, since their formation, near nineteen years past.—The head and fall of the water operating on the wheels, is about twenty feet; the greatest part of the works are in good repair, and the whole may be rendered so at a small expence. In the appendages thereto, are a convenient Tanyard, variety of shops and utensils for mechanical business of different kinds, houses for the Managers, Workmen, &c.—And about 4 to 8000 acres of land contiguous, mostly wooded, including some Farms and meadow land. Also, will be offered for sale, a number of valuable Slaves, such as Hammermen, Refiners, Colliers, Forge Carpenters, Wheelwrights, Smiths, Millers, Waggoners, &c. These works have advantages over any in America, particularly in respect to the sale of their produce, as there is none of the kind to the southward thereof, to most of which extensive, rich and fertile country, there is easy conveyance by water; nor is there any Forge within 90 miles, nor a Slitting mill at all in this State, which might share the custom, or vie with its manufactory—some other peculiar advantages that can best be pointed out on the premises, which on application will be shewn, and the terms of Sale made known, and very easy for the purchaser, by
ADAM HUNTER, or } Executors. ABNER VERNON. }
Virginia, May 28, 1790.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
July 13, 1790.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, to the first day of October next inclusive, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty first day of December 1791, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein after mentioned, viz.
At any place or places, betwixt Yorktown in the state of Pennsylvania, and Fort Pitt and at Fort Pitt,
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Fort M'Intosh, on the River Ohio, and at Fort M'Intosh.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort M'Intosh and the mouth of the River Muskingum, and at the mouth of the River Muskingum.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence over to the Cayuga River, and down the said River to its mouth.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the river Muskingum, and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth of the said River Scioto.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of Scioto River, and the mouth of the great Miami at the mouth of the great Miami, and from thence to the Rapids, on the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the great Miami, up the said Miami, to and at Piquetown, and thence over to the Miami Village, on the river of the same name which empties into Lake Erie.
At any place or places from the rapids of the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, thence up the said Wabash to Post St. Vincennes, at Post St. Vincennes, and thence up the said river Wabash, to the Miami Village, before described.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Wabash river to the mouth of the river Ohio.
At any place or places, on the east side of the river Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio river, to the mouth of the Illinois river.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Miami river to the Miami Village.
At any place or places, from the Miami Village to Sandusky, and at Sandusky, and from Sandusky to the mouth of Cayuga river.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Venango, and at Venango.
At any place or places, betwixt Venango and Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf betwixt Le Beuf and and Presq' Isle, at Presq' Isle, and betwixt Presq' Isle and the mouth of Cayuga river.
At the mouth of Cayuga river, and at any place or places, on the road from Fort Pitt, to the mouth of Cayuga river, by the way of Big Beaver creek.
At any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the river Margot inclusively.
At any place or places, from the said river Margot, to the river Yazous inclusively.
At any place or places from the mouth of the river Tennessee, to Ocochampo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusively.
Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on, betwixt the public and the contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
 One pound of bread or flour,  One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork,  Half a jill of rum, brandy or whisky,  One quart of salt,  Two quarts of vinegar,  Two pounds of soap,  One pound of candles,  per. 100 rations.
The proposals must specify the lowest price per ration. No credit is required. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Secretary of the Treasury.
By Order of the Honorable Richard Morris, Esq. Chief Justice of the State of New-York.
NOTICE is hereby given to Lewis M'Donald, of Connecticut, an absent debtor, that upon application and due proof made to the said chief justice by a creditor of the said Lewis M'Donald, pursuant to an act of the Legislature of the said State, entitled, "An act for relief against absconding and absent debtors," passed the 4th April, 1786; he, the said chief justice, has directed all the said Lewis M'Donalds estate, within this State, to be seized, and that unless he shall discharge his debts within twelve months after the publication of this notice, the same will be sold for the payment of his creditors. Dated the 3d May, 1790.
New-York, May 7, 1790. (1w.17.)
THE Creditors of Col. ELISHA SHELDON, of Salisbury, are hereby notified, That the Subscribers being appointed Trustees of said SHELDON's estate, will attend to the business of their appointment on the first Monday of August next, at the house of JACOBUS DAVIS, in said Salisbury, agreeable to the Act of Assembly.—The interest of the creditors requires their general attendance. HEZEKIAH FITCH, } Trustees. JOHN BIRD, }
Salisbury, (Connecticut), June 28, 1789.