Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-05-11 00:00:00

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Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 4, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1791.
[Whole No. 212.]
TRANSLATED
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
A DISCOURSE OF STEPHEN BOETIUS,
Concerning voluntary Servitude: Or the Anti-On-
(Continued from No. 2, of this Gazette.)
MOREOVER, this same single tyrant, there is no need of fighting him. It is not necessary to defend yourself against him; he is defeated of himself, if the country consents not to servitude. There is nothing to be taken from him: You have only to give him nothing. The country need not take the pains to do any thing for itself; it need only avoid to take pains against itself. The people suffer themselves, or rather cause themselves to be devoured, since by ceasing to serve, they would be excused from it. It is the people who enslave themselves—who cut their own throats—who, having the choice to be subject or to be free, abandon their liberty and put on the yoke—who consent to their own ruin, or rather purchase it. If it would cost him any thing to recover his liberty, I should not urge him to it, since there are so many things dearer to him, than to recover his natural right; or, so to speak, from a Beast to become a Man . Again, I say, I don't desire in him so much boldness. What! if to have liberty, it is only necessary to desire it—if nothing is wanting but a simple volition, is there a nation on earth who would think it too dear to acquire it by a single wish—and who would spare a volition to recover a blessing, which it ought to purchase at the price of its blood?—and which, being lost, all men of honour ought to esteem life a burthen, and death salutary? As the fire from a single spark becomes a flame, continually increasing, and the more fuel you throw in, the more capable it is to burn; and, without throwing on water to quench it, when you cease to lay on wood, having nothing more to consume, it wastes itself, looses its form, and is no longer fire: In the same manner tyrants, the more they plunder, the more they require, the more they ruin and destroy; the more you commit to them, the more you serve them; so much the more they fortify themselves, become continually more strong and fresh to annihilate and destroy every thing. And if you confide nothing to them—if you do not obey them—without contending, without striking, they remain naked and defeated, and are no longer any thing—like a root, having no longer juice or nourishment, they become a dry and dead branch.
The brave, to acquire the good they demand, dread not the danger—the wise shrink not at the trouble—the timid and the dull know not how to endure the evil nor to recover the good: They will, and there they stop: They are deprived by their cowardice of the virtue of an attempt: The desire of the blessing remains in them from nature. This desire, this will, is common to the wise and the foolish, to heroes and cowards, to wish for all things, which being acquired, would render them happy and contented. One single exception, in which I know not how nature seems to have been wanting to men, in not inspiring the desire of it: It is liberty, which is always a good so great and so pleasant, that when it is lost, all sorts of evil come upon us in a train, and even the good which remains behind her lose entirely their relish and flavor, corrupted by servitude. Liberty is the only thing which mankind has no desire for. If they desired it, they certainly would have it. They refuse to make this fair acquisition because it is too easy. Poor creatures! Miserable wretches! People insensible! Nations obstinately bent on your own ill! Blind to your own good! You suffer to be taken away before your eyes, the fairest and clearest of your revenue! You allow your fields, forests and meadows, to be pillaged, your houses to be plundered, and robbed of your ancient furniture, your paternal moveables! You live in such a manner that you may say nothing is your's. It seems as if you would think it a great happiness to hold, by the halves, your own property, your families and your lives; and all this havock, this misfortune, this ruin, comes upon you, not from enemies, but most certainly from the enemy, and from him whom you make so grand as he is, for whom you go so consequently to war, for whose grandeur you refuse not to offer your persons to death. He who lords and masters it over you in this manner, has but two eyes, two hands, but one body, and has nothing about him but what is common to him with the smallest mortal, of the
infinite numbers of men in our cities. Yet he has more than you all, by the advantage you give him, for your destruction. Whence has he taken so many eyes? How could he have spies upon all of you if you did not give him those eyes? How has he so many hands to strike you, if he did not take them from you? The feet with which he tramples on your cities, whence does he borrow them, but from you? How has he any power over you, but by yourselves? How would he dare to impose upon you, if he had not an intelligence with you? What could he do to you if you were not receivers and concealers of the robbers and thieves who plunder you, accomplices of the murderers who kill you, and traitors to yourselves?
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
ELEGY I.
DARK on the morn still hangs the veil of night, And scarce a whisper troubles on the breeze. Now let me roam, a stranger to delight, Wildly regardless, 'neath the dropping trees.  To me the bosom of the night is dear, I hate the broad and laughing face of day; I court the cavern, and the forest drear, Where scarce one straggling sun-beam loves to stray.  For what to me are happiness and joy, The tranquil sleep, and eye of peace serene, The rich man's mirth, the sage's wise employ, Or all the paintings of the moral scene?  O let me rather hail the deepest gloom, The bleak wind whistling thro' the fallen leaves, The screech-owl shrieking o'er the yawning tomb, And bell whose toll the ear of midnight cleaves.  For these are things familiar to my soul, Dead as it is to each enlivening power; When the sighs burst, the tears incessant roll, In sad remembrance' agonizing hour.—  To love unknown, unheard of to adore, To sigh in secret, and conceal'd to weep, To the cold walls the fond complaints to pour, With nightly tears the wakeful pillow steep.—  This is my constant and my lone employ, Lost to the busy pleasures of the men; Unknown is friendship's confidential joy; And fled the days of revelry and mirth.  Whose years of lifeless being pass away; A drear existence lengthens out my life: Hope faintly glimmers an uncertain day, That wakes to agony new mental strife.—  Why to the world should Misery lift the cry? What sympathetic heart will yearn to know The griefs which look new anguish thro' the eye, And give the aching bosom keener woe?—  She who hath torn contentment from my breast, Shines the descendant of illustrious names; Her Sire, a father of the land confess, The tear of gratitude from nature claims.  Nor hath descent alone her mind inform'd, Arm'd with the aid of wealth hath genius shone; Rich in ability—with virtue warm'd— Science, and beauty—every charm her own.  With the mild look of modesty divine She reads the book of nature and mankind; Alone unconscious how her beauties shine, Herself alone to her perfections blind.  Her fair discretion charms the eye of age, Who weeps, in joy, that piety and truth, And heavenly meekness, that doth Heaven engage, Are her's—the lustrous ornaments of youth.  The speech with unassuming science blest, Fills with delight the bosom of the wife; The act which tenderest sympathy confess, Lives in rich radiance to the Poet's eyes.  These are the powers which tear her from my soul; And these the charms which agonize my mind. Love lists my hopes o'er reasons frail controul— To passion, and despair, by turns conign'd,  Sued by the wealthy, by the great adored, Alike to wisdom, and to worth endeard; Where shall Sincerity's frank vow be pour'd? And how affection's still small voice be heard?  The child of educated want, unblest'd— What can I hope for, quite to her unknown? No air-built castles lead to real rest— Nor yet can fancy's self suppress the groan.  For what unheard of, and unseen, is worth; What the fine glow of mental beauty's charms; Undeck'd with title, unenrich'd with birth, Unpress'd by yellow wealth's encircling arms?  Each loved acquirement of the heart refined But gives to poverty severer stings; And every bright perfection of the mind Exalts the torture that the bosom wrings.  But fast! the Morn in vermeil beauty gay, With rosy hand throws blushes o'er the east. O'er all my sorrows yet a smile may stray, And answering love may charm with joy increas'd.  Or yet—when cold, and colourless, my cheek On the wan bosom of the grave reclines, By chance directed, she the tomb may seek, Where the wild ivy with the yew entwines.  Then, while the sad inscription speaks of love That liv'd unnoticed, and that died unblest'd, A tear may fall, the lip in anguish move, And one deep sigh rise struggling from her breast.  —1787. C A R R Y L.
A true and genuine Discovery of ANIMAL ELECTRICITY and MAGNETISM: calculated to detect and overthrow all counterfeit descriptions of the same.
[CONCLUDED.]
HAVING explained briefly the principles of this wonderful science, I shall next consider the modes of treatment. Different people have different modes; but I need only mention two, as they are enough for our purpose. One is by the science itself without any motion of the hands; this is an act of the mind, and the stronger the mental powers are in any operator, and the more they are exerted, the more effectual the treatment will be.
In this method you must be quite abstracted, be absent from all other things; place your thoughts intensely upon the subject on which you would operate. Let the intention of your mind be kept to the work as closely as possible, accompanied with the utmost exertions of volition, or the strongest powers of your will and affections. Put forth all your internal powers in the most energetic manner. It is astonishing what sensible effects will result from this exertion, even so as sometimes to raise a hand from a table. But the subject upon whom you would make trial, should be one who will make no resistance, nor strive against you.
In whatever case you are called to operate have a proper confidence; and do not be discouraged if your expectations should not be fully answered at first, but persevere, and make frequent trials; for in this, as in every thing else, it is a good rule that practice makes perfect, and the more you enter into the spirit of the science, and the more frequently and earnestly you practice it, the more likely you will be to have both confidence and success.
The other method of treating is by using the hands with the science; for both must concur together. The motion of the hands may be useful to keep up the attention of the operator, and give a kind of force to the mind, besides the fingers are a kind of natural conductors, by which the effluvia is conveyed from one body to another; and you will perceive the complaints of the patients by your fingers, sooner than by any other means.
When you move your hands properly, with full intention, and fervent wishes to do good to the patient, exerting all your faculties to produce the most salutary effects, you will soon perceive the consequences, both in yourself, and those whom you treat. Some will be much sooner affected than others, and much more sensibly. The patient will frequently feel a kind of warm and glowing sensation, under the treatment, though sometimes the contrary sensation will be perceived; and the operator will often find his hands and fingers seized with a sensation of heat, pain, numbness or pricking, as when any part is asleep, and frequently by the power of sympathy, he will feel pain in the same part of his body as the patient has it.
It is necessary now to mention some of those disorders to which the body is subject, and which this operation is most likely to remove.
Many diseases at first arise from obstructions, and the want of a proper circulation of the blood and juices. Perspiration suddenly checked produces colds, and these often lay the foundation of incurable disorders, as consumptions, &c.
This science is of prime use in removing all these obstructions, especially in their beginning. When either by the complaint of the patient, or your own sympathetic feelings, you perceive an obstruction, and find where it lies, apply all the force and power of your mind and will to the part affected, with the utmost energy that you are master of: Let all your mental powers be engaged therein, according to the foregoing rules. The disorders of the head deserve a particular place here; for all that are affected with any troublesome complaint in that part of the body, must be sensible that when the head is sick, the heart is faint, and the whole frame is out of order.
The head-ach, is frequently, however, caused by a foul stomach; in that case it will be proper to treat the stomach most, moving the hands up and down, by which the bile will be agitated, and the patient sensibly relieved. When this pain is caused by obstructions in the head, that part must be chiefly treated; and that treatment will most commonly give immediate ease, and help nature to overcome the complaint, as I have experienced.
Deafness, is a very troublesome complaint; and those who are afflicted with it, are generally very desirous of being relieved; let not such despair; for there have been several instances, where deafness has been cured, after some years continuance, by frequent treatments. Great care should be observed lest the party should take cold soon after the treatment, and thus the disorder be made worse instead of being radically cured. This was the case of a young lady not far from London, who had from her childhood been inclining to deafness, and of late years was very deaf indeed. She was cured so far as to hear the least noise, and was quite disturbed at the conversation, which before she could not hear—and this continued some weeks: but by taking cold, her deafness returned as bad or worse than before.
In order to treat for this complaint, let the patient be placed at a little distance, with the ear inclining a small degree towards you; think intensely on the part affected, as though you would have your thoughts or ideas enter into and pass through the head; move your hands backwards and forwards, pointing towards the part affected. Continue the treatment for some time, and generally good effects will follow.
The locked-jaw, is a most dreadful and dangerous complaint, by which many have lost their lives; yet this has been lately removed from a young woman in London, by the treatment, when the physicians judged her utterly incurable.
The very first time she was treated, soon after the treatment began she was able to open her mouth so as to receive the handle of a tea spoon, and presently after the bowl, though before she was not able to open her teeth in the smallest degree. She was afterwards treated till she could take in the handle, and then the bowl of a tea spoon, and open her mouth wide enough for any purposes; the whole within the small space of twenty minutes.
In order to treat a person in this terrible disorder, place the patient before you, and direct your attention to the mouth, as before directed for deafness.
Inflammation of the eye, has been frequently treated with success: during the operation, engage your whole attention to the part affected, and seek with all your might to draw out the inflammation. Always keep in memory that the mind must be wholly employed, as this is much more necessary than the motion of the hands; but I think the treatment is most efficacious when both go together.
Pain in the limbs, or in any other part of the body, may be mitigated, relieved, and in many instances totally cured by this method of treatment. Old and stubborn pains, require frequent and long treating, and the practitioner should not be discouraged, but persevere, still hoping for success.

Fever may be greatly relieved by this method : I would also advise to try it in strains, bruises, burns, scalds, sores of all kinds, and in almost all disorders of the human frame.
The science is at present, but in its infancy, and therefore it is not yet reduced to a certainty whether or not it will prove generally efficacious in fits ; some few have been cured and more relieved, but in most instances, as far as I have known, no universal service has been yet done, neither in epileptic nor convulsive fits, nor paralytic cases.
Removing obstructions of all kinds appears to me its principal use ; and when it is considered that most disorders proceed therefrom, it will evidently appear, that the treatment ought not to be neglected in any common case. There is this farther to be said in favor of it, that it cannot do harm in any case ; and, may be productive of very great good.
I have laid down the matter in so plain and clear a stile, that any person may be capable of practising with success, by the blessing of God.
What has brought the science into great disrepute, has been the almost universal practice of making a lucrative trade of teaching and practising it, which it is the great intention of this pamphlet to put a stop to, by laying the whole science, so far as respects practice, open to all, and thereby putting it into their power to treat their friends and neighbors in the most effectual manner.
But I would recommend all invalids who apply for relief to attend to the following rules. First, to avoid all spirituous liquors. Second, rub themselves well with a very coarse towel, and likewise make use of that exercise so much recommended by the late celebrated Dr. Lobb, which is to lift up one hand and one leg alternately, pretty briskly for about half an hour together, as often as you can, which will greatly promote the perspiration, and universally affect the whole habit.
ON A CRISIS.
IN the course of the treatment as directed, should the patients be thrown into a crisis, or state of insensibility, be not discouraged, however terrifying such a state may seem ; it is only nature and the disorder in violent conflict, which will very often happen if the stomach is out of order. In this case be sure to continue the treatment till the paroxysm is quite ceased, and they are perfectly composed. You will then, in general, find them in a great measure freed from all those pains and complaints they came to you to be relieved from.
I have known some put into the most violent agitation, and who continued in the same, apparently in very great agonies for some time, but have come out quite easy and free from any disorder, without knowing that they had been in such a state at all.
There is an effect very often produced, less powerful than the crisis, which I have seen attended with very great and good consequences, called by some a commoto, from the Latin commotus , which causes the invalid to be much agitated, without affecting the mental faculties ; but I have seen many relieved from their disorders without any of these effects. And I can say with the strictest regard to truth, that I never knew an invalid, let his or her pain have been ever so excruciating, that went from the treatment without great relief therefrom.
It may be necessary to say something of absent treatment. This may appear to some incredible ; and indeed this part of the science is more difficult to explain, than that which has been already treated of.
But whoever considers the nature of the human mind, and the amazing strong powers of which it is possessed, such as intense tho't, reflection, sensation, volition, &c. will hesitate before they will peremptorily deny the fact. I have already observed, that the mind is the great agent in producing those surprizing effects, which frequently attend the treatment. And the thoughts can fix as strongly upon an absent as a present object.
A gentleman of undoubted veracity lately assured me, that he went into the country, having at the same time some patients under his care, and he told them to sit at certain hours, and be treated them, tho' absent, and they experienced nearly the same effects, as when he was present with them.
Distance is nothing to the mind, and since thoughts in many instances have great influence, why may they not have power over the disorders of absent persons, as well as those that are present ?
In order to treat absent persons, retire, and set down by yourself for a little time ; collect your thoughts, and be as much abstracted as possible. Reflect on the inconceivable powers with which God has endowed you, and on the benefit you wish to do your absent friend, or acquaintance. Let the idea of him be strongly fixed in your mind. After thinking of him intensely for some time, begin at his head, and in your mind proceed downward to his feet ; till by sympathetic power, you perceive yourself in union with him, and find whether he has pain, and what and where it is, and treat him accordingly. But if you are informed of his complaint, and are desirous of relieving him, then sit down, and be recollected, and begin and treat him in the same manner as tho' you were personally with him. Do this with all possible energy as before directed, and enquire what effects are produced thereby ; for sometimes very wonderful alterations have been perceived by the absent party. Who is there that fully knows the wonderful powers of which he is possessed, and how much good he may do, if he employs it all to the best purposes ?
Should what has been here offered seem but an idle tale, or a phantom of the brain to any, let such not be too hasty in denying what they have not proved ; but let them fairly and impartially try the power of this wonderful science, for their own satisfaction, according to the rules here laid down, and let them endeavor to enter into the spirit and practice of it, and see for themselves what effects will be produced thereby. And doubtless in a little time they will be convinced of the reality of what I have written, and perhaps will have reason to exclaim, that the one half has not been told them !
MR. FENNO,
THE observations of your correspondent in your last paper on the subject of the bank of the United States require attention, since they appear calculated to mislead : it is there stated that natives and foreigners have awarded their approbation to the system, for its immediate and obvious advantages, and for the wisdom and foresight discovered in its organization ; and reasons are given for the privation of all right of representation in foreigners, because the time may arrive when the destruction of the bank and the derangement of the finances of the country may be compensated by the douceurs of a foreign power. To all this splendid train of argumentation it is added, that foreigners must greatly fall in love with this bank—among other reasons because it reserves to the citizens of America the exclusive direction, who are supposed to be most competent to judge of characters suitable for it ; and these beautiful paragraphs for the bank are closed with the grand finale, that great preparations are making at home to subscribe to this bank and that no equal object of speculation is perhaps presented in any quarter of the globe.
I will now make a few observations on these positions—and first as to the general plaudit at
home and abroad of this bank ; it is perfectly well known that tho' it was carried by a majority in Congress, yet very wise and sensible men in that body disapproved the system, as well as others approved of it. It is a matter of notoriety that the celebrated Madison with uncommon force of eloquence and reason condemned the measure as unconstitutional and inexpedient ; it is equally known that the bill originated not in the House of Representatives, but in the close and mysterious House of Senators, clothed by the weight of whose sanction it was sent to the other House, when it was hurried through with immense speed—and in spite of all application for postponement or time for a more mature consideration, carried by a considerable majority ; it is pretty well known that with the President of the United States it did not pass with quite so much eagerness—having been kept by him till the eleventh hour : it has been currently reported that some of the great officers of State disapproved the system and gave opinions unfavorable to its adoption. It is a matter of public notoriety that the bill has been thought injurious to the stockholders of the bank of North America and detrimental to the charter solemnly granted them by the Congress of 1781 ; on the other hand it is acknowledged that the bill has been greatly applauded by some proprietors in the public funds amongst us, who thought they saw their interests concerned in promoting it—and hence the most powerful class of orators I have met with in favor of it are of this number. As to the general yeomanry of America they have given themselves no trouble in this business and will probably concern themselves little about it : It will furnish to the cities on the sea coast a new object of speculation, and to some of them additional facilities—they will feel its effects more sensibly perhaps than any other part of the union—and so much may be said as to its general popularity at home ; as to what it may obtain abroad time will inform us : All we can now determine is, that the more unpopular it is there the better for the bank, for in proportion as foreigners become concerned without the means of representation, in the same degree as they engross the capital, without being any way useful in its administration—they create a dangerous aristocracy at home, in those citizens who are the domestic proprietors of stock, and who if the number be small, may be influenced at elections, by douceurs at home at least as formidable as any that can be offered from abroad. It is evident that the proxies of foreigners must be placed in the hands of citizens, these have a common interest with the domestic stockholders in all that concerns the bank, and are likely to vote with quite as much intelligence for directors—these citizens would be chiefly merchants trading extensively to foreign countries, who are as much concerned to support the bank and finances of the country, as any other class of men proprietors of bank stock, and who cannot without a stretch of all bounds of probability, be supposed likely to abandon all their domestic relations to gratify any foreigner in the choice of improper directors : This apprehension of foreign influence, is but a chimera, an illusion held up, to favor a few at home who may by the exclusion of foreign stock, from voting, entertain the hopes of influencing all elections themselves, and this they will always do the easier the fewer there may be who are allowed to vote at all ; and therefore cannot but form the wish, that foreigners may take no concern or but little in this institution, that its elections may be the more numerous and respectable of our own citizens, who certainly at last must be most deeply concerned in the prudent direction of the Bank—and are therefore interested that the elections be as numerous and extensive as possible—and not to see the stock held by those who can give no kind of protection, and can be of no sort of use whatever as to the concerns of the institution.
(To be concluded in our next.)
L O N D O N, January 27.
Coachmakers' Hall Society for free Debate, Foster Lane, Cheapside.
THE QUEEN OF FRANCE.
This Evening will be Debated, the following Question, viz.
Does the circumstance of the Queen of France wearing a dagger to prevent, by suicide, an ignoble assassination, argue more the fortitude of ancient virtue, or the pusillanimity of female pride ?"
The situation of the Queen of France at a crisis the most alarming to her personal safety, and the most important to the honor, humanity, and freedom of a great nation and a gallant people, must interest the feelings of every mind of sensibility.—The celebrated Mr. Burke has already mentioned this with a glowing warmth of sentiment, and in language peculiarly his own. This question was last Thursday night publicly proposed and highly approved of, as one that involves the most serious objects of enquiry, and will lead to a debate worthy the attention of the Christian, the Philosopher, and true Patriot.
Chair taken at 8 o'clock ; admittance 6d.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, March 6.
Never has the town of Port-au-Prince experienced a brighter or happier day, a re-union, the most sincere, of all the inhabitants. It was the citizens of the districts who proposed this so much desired reconciliation. There is now but one existing opinion, that of living in peace, of assisting each other, and contributing to the general felicity.
It is to the establishment of the municipality we owe this event, almost despaired of.
This day, preceded by a morning tho' beautifully serene, forced a tear from those whom M. Mauduit has oppressed : Yesterday morning the soldiers accused him of having deceived them—they made him account for his conduct—they doubtless were convinced of his being culpable. In the afternoon they led him to the committee, for the purpose of obliging him to make reparation for the insults done to the town colours, in consequence of his taking them into his possession the 29th and 30th July—he refused—In vain did the citizens implore his pardon, exposing themselves to obtain it—the tumult was extreme—In vain did M. Bondon on his knees beg at least his life—in vain did a thousand voices, united to every effort attempt to avert his cruel fate :—M. Beausoleil who was wounded on the night of the 29th July, exerted all his powers to save him—several strokes of the sabre exercised by his own soldiers, put a period to his days ; his head was severed from his body, and carried on the point of a bayonet, and placed on the gallows—His body was interred this day. All the moveables of his house were broken in pieces and destroyed.
He was the victim of an instant and terrible fermentation, that nothing could calm. We were not eye-witnesses of this scene—a scene that will serve as an example to all those who wish to stop the rapid progress of the revolution. We saw the colours of Port-au-Prince re-conducted with military honor to the place from whence they were taken ; but we saw the joy brighten in the countenances of all the inhabitants re-united, who, together with our three regiments, were present at te deum in the evening.
B O S T O N, May 2.
Extract of a letter from a distinguished character in London, to a citizen of this Commonwealth, dated March 1, 1791.
"I cannot indeed forbear to communicate to you those mixed sentiments of exultation, fear and hope, with which the present state of affairs in Europe have filled the minds of every zealous friend to equal liberty.
"That wonderful event, the French Revolution, fills all our thoughts, and occupies the whole mind.—We desire its permanence and prosperity, with more than paternal solicitude ; for we look upon its firm establishment, as an event which will necessarily bring after it the final emancipation of every other society in Europe, from those monarchic and aristocratic chains, imposed by the violence of arms, and riveted on mankind by ignorance, credulity and priestcraft. And you will pardon me, if I tell you, that, in my opinion, notwithstanding the brilliancy of American exertions in the cause of independence, the continuation of the freedom of that vast continent equally depends on the stability of the French democracy.
"The Americans have a little too much of the leaven of their ancestors in them : They appear to turn their views and desires more to the acquiring of gain, than the enjoyment of rational liberty ; and to have entertained that mischievous opinion, that the felicity of nations depends on their riches.—They have also, I think, been guilty of a dangerous error, in the not restricting the Members of their Congress from the enjoyment of those lucrative offices established by their authority ; and this may become the source of oppressive taxation, and the foundation of aristocratic wealth and ambition.
"The unexampled virtue of the French Legislature, in cutting off this source of corruption, by depriving themselves of the emoluments of office, sets them on a footing of merit, superior to that which any other popular assembly have ever obtained ; and the bright example of this government, if it stands on the same footing as it is at present, with the advantage it will confer on society, will awe the governments of other countries into moderation ; and serve as an antidote to your American travellers, against the fascinating charms of ostentatious luxury.
"You may well believe, Sir, that very contrary sentiments to these, which I have above described, agitate the minds of a very large party in this country.—Mr. Burke, who may be considered as the mouth of this party, and the strenuous supporter of monarchy and aristocracy, has published a work in which all these rights are pertinaciously defended, and the French government and Legislature abused with great virulence.
"Though popular in this country, his answers are numerous, as he is considered as the Champion of Aristocracy here."

On Saturday last the Manager who signed the Ticket No. 6052, in the First Class of the Semi-annual State Lottery, which drew the capital Prize of 10,000 Dollars, deposited the Money in the Massachusetts Bank, there to remain until the fortunate Adventurer applies for it.
N E W-Y O R K, May 6.
By letters received from Tobago, via Philadelphia, dated April 5, we are informed that the commander of the island had forbidden the exportation of sugars and cotton to America. And an additional duty of 4-2 per cent. had been laid on all rum exported.
Last Saturday William Jones, who has been confined some time in New-Ark gaol for the murder of Samuel Shotwell, after a fair and impartial trial, by a jury of his peers, was found guilty and received sentence of death accordingly. He was to be executed this day, between the hours of eleven and three o'clock.
Died, at Philadelphia, on Tuesday morning last, about 10 o'clock, Mr. PATRICK O'BRIAN. He was seized, at his office, with a bleeding at the nose and mouth, and though the most eminent physicians (Rush, Jones and Wistar) were instantly called to his assistance, their skill proved ineffectual. By his acquaintance and friends he is much lamented.
It was the opinion of the physicians, that his death was occasioned by the bursting of a blood vessel near the heart.
Mr. O'Brian was a gentleman well known and much esteemed in this city.
N E W-H A V E N, May 4.
Last Saturday the Circuit Court of the United States finished the business before them in this place, having sat six days.
During the session many important questions were agitated and decided. Among others came on the great and much litigated question, Whether obligations in favour of real British subjects, or those who had joined the armies of the King of Great-Britain, during the war, should draw interest during the time the creditors were inaccessible by reason of the war. In this case the court adjudged that the statute law of Connecticut enabling the state courts to deduct interest in such cases, was an infringement of the treaty of the peace, and that upon common law principles, interest was recoverable.—The learned and ingenious arguments from the bench on this question, were highly interesting, and gave general satisfaction.
Died, last Thursday, much lamented by those who wish to defraud their creditors, an act or law of Connecticut, entitled, "An act relating to the debts due to persons who have been and remained within the enemies power, or lines, during the late war."—This statute, though of a weakly habit, hath yielded great service to the people of this state.—It hath been productive of at least 100,000 pounds in cash.—It received its death wound by the adoption of the New-Constitution, and hath languished in extreme agony ever since.—On Thursday the 28 ult. the two-edged sword of justice gave its last fatal stroke, and it expired without a groan.—Numerous spectators beheld its corpse with a smile, and hoped that it might never rise again in this world to our shame, or the world to come to our confusion.
Recent accounts are, that since the arrival of the Fleet and Army, from France, public tranquility is nearly restored in the French Islands.
Account of Silk raised in Northford, 1790.
   Runs. Mrs. Lois Street, 30     Dr. Jared Foot, 130 Mr. Elihu Rogers, 30   Capt. Isaac Foot, 80 Mr. Aaron Cook, 25   Capt. Josiah Fowler, 80 Mr. Jonathan Linsley, 20   Mr. Jonathan Fowler, 80 Mr. Solomon Linsley, 20   Mr. Benjamin Maltby, 60 Mr. Elihu Foot, 20   Mr. Titus Cook, 60 Mr. Amos Harrison, 20   Mr. Sherman Kimberly, 55 Mr. Edmund Harrison, 20   Jonathan Maltby, A. M. 50 Mr. Elnathan Tyler, 20   Capt. Elihu Baldwin, 50 Mr. James Smith, 20   Mr. Josiah Fowler, jun. 50 Mr. Samuel Munson, 20   Mr. Joseph Munson, 50 Mr. Lemuel Munson, 20   Mr. Devenport Williams, 40 Mr. Solomon Talmadge, 18   Capt. Joseph Rogers, 40 Scattering, 60   Mr. Isaac Ingram, 40 60   1200  
1200 Runs at 3 runs to one yard, will make 400 yards of Silk cloth, the produce of one year in Northford, Connecticut. This account is not perfectly accurate; but it is so near true as to give a just idea of the Silk Culture in Northford.
The following TOASTS were given at the election of officers for an Artillery company, in Providence.
 1. Our country.—  2. May its elections feel no influence but the good of the whole.—  3. The Man of our choice—  4. May he stand square to the front—  5. May his actions be perpendicular—  6. May his ideas be properly dressed—  7. May his conduct be uniform—  8. May the party politician fall in his rear—  9. May his honor be unimpeached—  10. May his arguments be rammed home—  11. May he never advance towards popularity with an oblique step—  12. May his virtue be such that he shall pass at the grand inspection.  13. May the Statesman not thus qualified, face to the right about. 
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
SONNET VIII.
TO THE MOON.
BEND from thy throne fair Empress of the Night, And as thou look'st o'er earth with eye serene, Marking thy shadowy paintings on the green, And brightening Heaven with silver-streaming light— O! if in all thy course, divinely bright, Thou see'st one wretch, in felon malice mean, Debase the varied beauty of the scene; Or one fell murderer burst the bands of right; Dart thro' his soul, severely bright, a ray Whose living splendor shall his hand arrest; And to his guilty-conscious spirit say— 'Tho' thou may'st live unknown to Law's behest, And hide thy deeds from mortals, and the day— Yet Conscience' worm shall rankle in thy breast.'  E L L A.
Philadelphia, May 11.
Sunday afternoon a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Kennedy, high-street, near eighth-street, which got to considerable height before it was discovered; the usual alertness of the citizens was conspicuous on this occasion, and the fire extinguished without doing any considerable damage.
Monday night, between the hours of 10 and 11 the city was again alarmed with the cry of fire, which broke out in a stable near dock-street; the building was instantly enveloped in flames, which were rapidly communicated to those adjacent; and a great destruction of property was the consequence of this disastrous event—10 or 15 houses, shops and other buildings, fell a sacrifice to the flames.
The spirit and activity of the citizens were never exerted to better effect—the weather being calm, their exertions prevented the fire from spreading beyond the buildings immediately connected, and many of those that partly burnt, were saved from total destruction.
The distresses of some of the sufferers are great—the heart of sensibility must be affected—and the hand of benevolence extended to mitigate their sorrows.
A correspondent congratulates his fellow-citizens on the pleasing prospect, now opened, of a full trial of the new penal code: the present JAILOR is a very respectable character, and most cordially unites with the worthy Inspectors in carrying every thing into execution, which may have a tendency to ameliorate the condition of the unhappy prisoners, and to accomplish the important ends proposed by their confinement.—Our correspondent further informs, that on Sunday morning last, the prisoners were assembled, and heard a sermon, from the Rev. Dr. ROGERS, and that during the whole performance, they behaved with the utmost propriety and solemnity: After divine service, they expressed a wish to be indulged as often as possible in the same way, and Capt. WEEP assured them, that his influence, and that of the Inspectors, would not be wanting in soliciting the clergymen of the various religious denominations in the city to attend in rotation—a request which will undoubtedly be most readily complied with—"I was in prison, and ye came unto me."
Extracts from Mr. Paine's Pamphlet.
Altho the French nation rendered the late government insolvent, it did not permit the insolvency to act towards the creditors; and the creditors considering the nation as the real pay-master, and the government only as the agent, rested themselves on the nation, in preference to the government. This appears greatly to disturb Mr. Burke, as the precedent is fatal to the policy by which governments have supposed themselves secure. They have contracted debts with a view of attaching what is called the monied interest of a nation to their support; but the example in France shews, that the permanent security of the creditor is in the nation, and not in the government; and that in all possible revolutions that may happen in governments, the means are always with the nation, and the nation always in existence. Mr. Burke argues, that the creditors ought to have abided the fate of the government which they trusted; but the National Assembly considered them as the creditors of the nation, and not of the government—of the master, and not of the steward.
Notwithstanding the late government could not discharge the current expences, the present government has paid off a great part of the capital. This has been accomplished by two means; the one by lessening the expences of government, and the other by the sale of the monastic and ecclesiastical landed estates. The devotees and penitent debauchees, extortioners and misers of former days, to ensure themselves a better world than that which they were about to leave, had bequeathed immense property in trust to the priesthood, for pious uses; and the priesthood kept it for themselves. The National Assembly has ordered it to be sold for the good of the whole nation, and the priesthood to be decently provided for.
It is not the nation of France that Mr. Burke means, but the COURT; and every Court in Europe, dreading the same fate, is in mourning. He writes neither in the character of a Frenchman nor an Englishman, but in the fawning character of that creature known in all countries, and a friend to none, a COURTIER. Whether it be the Court of Versailles, or the Court of St.
James's, or of Carlton-House, or the Court in expectation, signifies not; for the caterpillar principle of all Courts and Courtiers are alike. They form a common policy throughout Europe, detached and separate from the interest of nations; and while they appear to quarrel, they agree to plunder.—Nothing can be more terrible to a Court or a Courtier, than the Revolution of France. That which is a blessing to nations, is bitterness to them; and as their existence depends on the duplicity of a country, they tremble at the approach of principles, and dread the precedent that threatens their overthrow.
What a pity 'tis that certain modern reformers had not lived some centuries ago; how much trouble and expence would have been saved had the short cut to science been then known—Greek and Latin would not have interposed their clogs and hindrances in the road to literary fame—but, as on another occasion, whole nations of sages, philosophers, poets and legislators would have been born in a day.—What a race of blockheads were our ancestors!
The transformations that are daily taking place in the ideas of mankind, will very shortly render a new vocabulary absolutely necessary; what an absurdity would it now appear to hear the clergy praying in the language of scripture, that their hearers may be made "kings and priests!"
The modern race of mankind are to be stimulated to patriotism by an entirely new set of incentives; riches and honors, those inferior considerations have lost their attractions, and that desideratum the love of virtue for its own sake, shall henceforth impel the human race involuntarily to apportion their praise and approbation upon a scale exactly suited to every possible degree and variation of merit.
We are informed that the murders committed by the Indians on the Alleghany in March last, were not committed by the Munses and Seneca's, as has been publicly reported: Capt. Bullet, who was said to be killed, has been seen since that time—he with a number of Munses had been hunting near the Susquehannah waters, during the whole winter and spring.
The Seneca, called Snip-Nose, who was also said to be of the party, not long before the massacre, was near Fort Franklin and went to Buffalo Creek, where the Chiefs say he now is and that he has not been absent. The Indian supposed to be Snip-Nose, was a Munses living on Beaver Waters, and known by the name of Capt. Peters, a relation to some of the Indians killed by Capt. Brady. Another of the Indians who committed the murder was known by the name of Flin, had often been with the Seneca's but he lived and hunted on Beaver Waters, was also connected with the families who suffered at the Beaver Block-House; and there can be no doubt, but the murders were committed by the friends and relations of those families, who hunted on Beaver Waters, and not by the Indians on the Alleghany, who in every particular manifest the most sincere attachment to the United States.
The ship Brothers, Capt. James Josiah, arrived here on Monday, after a passage of five months from Canton.
It is pleasing to learn that all the hands who sailed from hence in this ship have returned in perfect health, nor did they, during the voyage, experience any kind of sickness.
DIED suddenly, on Monday morning, the Hon. FRANCIS HOPKINSON, District Judge of the United States for the State of Pennsylvania.
Science and patriotism sustain a shock in the death of this valuable citizen.
The mail for Pittsburgh will leave the Post-Office every Friday morning at half past 7 o'clock, and arrive every Thursday 10 o'clock, A. M.
New-Haven Wharf Lottery.
THE Legislature of the State of Connecticut, at their session in December last, granted a Lottery for the purpose of extending Union Wharf, in the harbour of New-Haven, to the channel; and appointed the subscribers managers, who having given bond for the faithful discharge of their trust, present the public with the following
   S C H E M E.     1 Prize of 10,000 Dollars, is 10,000   1 5000 5000   1 4000 4000   2 2000 are 4000   4 1000 4000   5 500 2500   12 200 2400   30 100 3000   45 50 2250   50 40 2000   61 30 1830   100 20 2000   140 10 1400   5392 8 43120  
5842 Prizes. 11658 Blanks. 17500 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, is 87500
NOT TWO BLANKS to A PRIZE.
Subject to a deduction of twelve and a half per cent.
The public utility of extending this wharf, is too evident to require any comment, to those who are acquainted with the town and harbour of New-Haven; to those who are not, suffice it to say, that its beautiful situation is not surpassed, if equalled by any; being in the heart of a country, which may, with propriety, be said to be the garden of America. The harbour lays open to the sound but by reason of the flats, this wharf is necessarily extended to the channel, where ships can load and unload; and when compleated, will be the most extensive and commodious wharf in America, the whole extent being about 3-4ths of a mile; and not only the mercantile interest of New-Haven and the towns adjacent, but the maritime interest of all the States will be benefited by it. The general wish that prevails in the minds of all classes of people, for the success of this enterprize, together with the very great advantage which this scheme holds out to adventurers (there being more capital prizes for the number of tickets than any yet published in America) induce the managers to believe the tickets will meet with a speedy sale.
The drawing will positively commence at the State-House, in New-Haven, on the 13th of September next, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid on demand, by the managers. Those prizes not called for in nine months after drawing, will be deemed as generously given for the use of the wharf, and appropriated accordingly.
MANAGERS:
JAMES RICE, MICHAEL TODD, JEREMIAH ATWATER, ELIJAH AUSTIN, JOSEPH DRAKE, JOSEPH HOWELL.
New-Haven, April 14, 1791.
TICKETS in the above Lottery may be had at the Compting-house of Messrs. STEPHEN AUSTIN, and Co. corner of Front and Pine-Streets.

Sung at the Ordination of Mr. ABEL FLINT, at Hartford, April 20—composed for the occasion.
ALMIGHTY GOD, whose sov'reign sway, "The known, and unknown worlds obey;" To thee our song of praise shall rise, Like sweetest incense to the skies.
Parent of light, we bless thy hand, That in Creation's great command, Thy Church illustriously should share Thy first, thy most peculiar care.
Thy Church, establish'd e'er the spheres Began the circuit of their years, Eternal ages yet to come, Shall flourish in immortal bloom.
Look from thy heavenly throne of love, With pious zeal our bosoms prove; While on this solemn day, we raise Our boldest notes to hymn thy praise.
Give to thy servant, sov'reign Lord, Whom thou hast call'd to preach thy word, Invested in the robes of peace, Of grace divine, a rich encase.
Grant that this people, warm with zeal, May every christian virtue feel; And o'er his failings kindly move Th' endearing mantle of their love.
And when this life of praise is o'er; When Sabbaths shall return no more; When Gospel sounds, divinely clear, Shall cease to charm the ravish'd ear;
Then may we, cloth'd in every grace, Enraptur'd, view thy glorious face; Spring from the close of morn and even, And join the gen'ral Church in Heaven.
REPORT
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, On the subject of the COD AND WHALE FISHERIES, [CONTINUED.]
OF the disadvantages, which depend on others, are—
 1. The loss of the Mediterranean markets.  2. Exclusions from the markets of some of our neighbours.  3. High duties in those of others, and—  4. Bounties to the individuals in competition with us. 
The consideration of these will find its place more aptly, after a review of the condition of our whale fishery, shall have led us to the same point. To this branch of the subject, therefore, we will now proceed.
The whale fishery was first brought into notice of the southern nations of Europe, in the fifteenth century, by the same Biscayans and Basques, who led the way to the fishery of Newfoundland.—They began it on their own coasts, but soon found that the principal residence of the whale, was in the northern seas, into which, therefore, they pursued him. In 1578, they employed twenty-five ships in that business; the Dutch and Hamburgers took it up after this, and about the middle of the seventeenth century, the former employed about two hundred ships, and the latter three hundred and fifty.
The English endeavoured also to participate of it. In 1672, they offered to their own fishermen a bounty of six shillings a ton, on the oil they should bring home, and instituted at different times, different exclusive companies, all of which failed of success. They raised their bounty in 1733, to twenty shillings a ton on the admeasurement of the vessel. In 1740, to thirty shillings, with a privilege to the fisherman against being impressed. The Basque fishery, supported by poverty alone, had maintained but a feeble existence, before competitors, aided by the bounties of their nation, and was, in fine, annihilated by the war of 1745, at the close of which, the English bounty was raised to forty shillings. From this epoch, their whale fishery went on between the limits of twenty-eight and sixty-seven vessels, till the commencement of the last war.
The Dutch, in the mean time, had declined gradually to about one hundred and thirty ships, and have since that fallen down to less than half that number: so that their fishery, notwithstanding a bounty of thirty florins a man, as well as that of Hamburg, is now nearly out of competition.
In 1715, the Americans began their whale fishery. They were led to it at first by the whales which presented themselves on their coasts. They attacked them there in small vessels of forty tons. As the whale, being infested, retired from the coast, they followed him farther and farther into the ocean, still enlarging their vessels, with their adventures, to sixty, one hundred and two hundred tons. Having extended their pursuit to the Western Islands, they fell in, accidentally, with the spermaceti whale, of a different species from that of Greenland, which alone had been hitherto known in commerce; more fierce and active, and whose oil and head-matter was found to be more valuable, as it might be used in the interior of houses without offending the smell. The distinction now first arose between the northern and southern fisheries; the object of the former being the Greenland whale, which frequents the northern coasts and seas of Europe and America,
that of the latter being the spermaceti whale, which was found in the southern seas, from the Western Islands and coast of Africa to that of Brazil, and still on to the Falkland Islands. Here again, within soundings, on the coast of Brazil, they found a third species of whale, which they called the black, or Brazil whale, smaller than the Greenland, yielding a still less valuable oil, fit only for summer use, as it becomes opaque at fifty degrees of Farenheit's thermometer, while that of the spermaceti whale is limped to forty-one, and of the Greenland whale to thirty-six, of the same thermometer. It is only worth taking therefore, when it falls in the way of the fishermen, but not worth seeking, except when they have failed of success against the spermaceti whale, in which case this kind, easily found and taken, serves to moderate their loss.
[To be continued.]
A CARD.
JOSEPH WHEATON
P R E S E N T S his compliments to his old Military Friends, the Gentlemen of the Civil List, and the Public—wishes they may be informed that he has received a very handsome ASSORTMENT of the best chosen
SPRING GOODS,
By the PIGOU, and other late arrivals, which are now opening at his KNOWN CHEAP STORE, No. 38, Third-Street, North, and which he is determined to dispose of (at wholesale or retail) on so low terms as must make it an object to customers.—Orders from his friends will be attended to with punctuality and dispatch, and the time of payment made convenient.
Philad. May 2, 1791.
PHILADELPHIA, May 3.
WE, the Commissioners, appointed to receive subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, do hereby give public notice, that the Books will be opened by us for that purpose at the Bank of North-America, on Monday the 4th day of July next.
THOMAS WILLING, SAMUEL HOWELL, BEALE BORDLEY, LAMBERT CADWALADER, DAVID RITTENHOUSE.
All the Printers in the United States are requested to publish the above.
To be disposed of, BY PRIVATE SALE, A COLLECTION OF
Scarce and Valuable BOOKS,
In various LANGUAGES—being part of a private Library; Among which are the following:
FOLIO. Euripides, Homer, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Plato, Lucian, Plutarch, Pausanias, Procopius, Eusebius, Nicephorus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Seneca, Pliny, &c.
Quarto. Pindar, Aristotle, Terence, Ovid, Cæsar, Suetonius, Juvenal, Manilius, &c.
Octavo & infra. Septuagint, Aristophanes, Longinus, Theophrastus, Epictetus, Hesiod, Orpheus, M. Antoninus, Phalaris, Isocrates, Polyænus, Lucretius, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Paternculus, Florus, Lucan, Statius, Gellius, Ausonius, Vida, Buchanan, Boëthius, Poëtæ minores Latini, Callipædia, Strada, L. Valla, &c.
Catalogues may be had, and further particulars learned, at the Book-Store of Messrs. RICE and Co. Market-Street. Catalogues are also stitched up with the AMERICAN MUSEUM, for April.
ADVERTISEMENT.
THE Subscriber, who served a regular apprenticeship to the business of VENDUE-MASTER, under Mr. GEORGE KELLY, has just opened an OFFICE in the Borough of NORFOLK, Virginia, in a good and convenient House, situated near the County Wharf, where he is in hopes of giving general satisfaction to all those that may be pleased to favor him with their commands.
Norfolk, Virginia, April 21, 1791. JOHN H. HALL. (1 ep 7w)
MATTHEW M'CONNELL,
IN CHESNUT-STREET, No. 66,
BUYS and SELLS all kinds of THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNION; has frequently occasion to NEGOTIATE INLAND BILLS OF EXCHANGE—and will receive Orders for making SUBSCRIPTIONS to the BANK of the UNITED STATES.
Philadelphia, March 30, 1791. (96 tf)
GALLAUDET and EWING,
No. 54, SOUTH SECOND STREET,
HAVE imported in the Lady Walterstorf, from London, Manchester and Adriana from Liverpool, and the Birmingham Packet from Bristol, a GENERAL ASSORTMENT of SEASONABLE GOODS,
which they will sell on reasonable terms.—On hand for sale, a few hogheads of OLD JAMES'S RIVER TOBACCO.
Philadelphia, April 9, 1791. 100 ep 1m
Funds of the United States.
ALL kinds of the Public Debt of the Union, bought, sold, or exchanged; Foreign and inland Bills of Exchange, negotiated; Merchandise of all sorts Bought and Sold on Commission, and all other Business in the line of a Broker, transacted by
WILLIAM CLELAND,
At the Office, next door to the Custom-House, State-Street, BOSTON.
TO BE SOLD,
THE SEAT OF THE LATE GOVERNOR LIVINGSTON,
Situate about a mile from Elizabeth-Town, on the public road to Morris Town. The farm contains between 90 and 100 acres of land, 15 or 20 acres of which are wood land; there is also appertaining to the said farm about 19 acres of salt meadow. Particular attention having been paid to the cultivation of fruit; there is on the farm a very large collection of various kinds of the choicest fruit trees, &c. in full bearing; the house is large, convenient, well built and in very good repair.
Enquire of the Printer, for further particulars.
New-York, Jan. 1791. 80 3m
A few copies of the CONSTITUTION of the United States, printed with Notes, may be had of the Editor.
All persons concerned will be pleased to take notice that the following advertisement has been varied from that published in our paper of the 23d of March.]
Treasury Department.
MARCH 22, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the first Monday in September 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, 1792, 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 McIntosh, on the River Ohio, and at Fort McIntosh.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort McIntosh 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 Cayoga 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 Cayoga 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 Presq' Isle, at Presq' Isle, and betwixt Presq' Isle and the mouth of Cayoga river.
At the mouth of Cayoga river, and at any place or places, on the route from Fort Pitt, to the mouth of Cayoga 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 inclusive.
At any place or places, from the said river Margot, to the river Yazous inclusive.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the river Tenece, to Oconchappo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusive.
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,  } per. 100 rations.    One pound of beef, or ¾ 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,   
ALSO, That Proposals will be received at the said office until the first Monday in September 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, 1792, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the state of Massachusetts, and at the Post of West-Point, in the state of New-York.
The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the same articles as are above mentioned.
ALSO, That proposals will be received at the said office, until the 1st Monday in September next inclusive, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein after mentioned.
At the post on the river Saint Mary, at present commanded by Capt. Henry Burbeck.
At the post on the river Altamaha, at present commanded by Capt. John Smith.
At the post on the river Oconee, at present commanded by Capt. Joseph Savage.
At the post on the river Apalachee, at present commanded by Capt. Michael Rudolph.
At any place or places from the Rock Landing on the Oconee, up to the mouth of the main south branch of the said river, from the said mouth up to the source of the said main south branch, and from thence to the Currahee mountain.
At any other place or places within the state of Georgia which may hereafter be occupied as permanent posts by any troops of the United States.
And for rations deliverable on the march to such future posts.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at each of the said posts, for the space of at least two months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the same articles, as are abovementioned.
It is to be understood in each case, that all losses sustained by the depredations of the enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the prices of the articles captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation is claimed.
The contracts for the above supplies will be made either for one year, or for two years, as may appear eligible. Persons disposed to contract will therefore confine their offers to one year, or they may make their propositions so as to admit an election of the term of two years.
The proposals may be made for the whole of the above posts together, or separately for Springfield, for West-Point, for Yorktown, and the seventeen places following it, and for the posts in Georgia; and they must specify the lowest price per ration, for prompt payment.
The Printers who have published the above advertisement, are requested to reprint it with the alterations.
MANUEL NOAH,
BROKER,
No. 91, Race-Street, between Second and Third-Streets,
BUYS and SELLS
Continental & State Certificates,
Pennsylvania and Jersey Paper Money, And all kinds of SECURITIES of the United States, or of any particular State.