Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-12-14 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 66, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1791.
[Whole No. 274.]
The SECRETARY of STATE, to whom was referred by the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, the Resolution of Congress, requesting the President "to cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the Quantity and Situation of the Lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any Citizens of the United States, within the Territory ceded to the United States, by the State of North-Carolina, and within the Territory of the United States, North-west of the River Ohio," makes thereon the following
REPORT.
THE territory ceded by the state of North-Carolina to the United States, by deed bearing date the 25th day of February, 1790, is bounded as follows, to wit: Beginning in the boundary between Virginia and North-Carolina, that is to say, in the parallel of latitude 36 1/2 degrees north from the equator, on the extreme height of the Stone mountain, where the said boundary or parallel intersects it, and running thence along the said extreme height to the place where Watauga river breaks through it; thence a direct course to the top of the Yellow Mountain, where Bright's road crosses the same; thence along the ridge of the said mountain between the waters of Doe river and the waters of Rock creek, to the place where the road crosses the Iron Mountain; from thence along the extreme height of said mountain to where Nolichucky river runs through the same; thence to the top of the Bald mountain; thence along the extreme height of the said mountain to the painted rock, on French Broad river; thence along the highest ridge of the said mountain, to the place where it is called the Great Iron or Smoky mountain; thence along the extreme height of the said mountain to the place where it is called Unaka mountain, between the Indian towns of Cowee and Old Chota; thence along the main ridge of the said mountain, to the southern boundary of the said state of North Carolina, that is to say, to the parallel of latitude 35 degrees north from the equator; thence westwardly along the said boundary or parallel, to the middle of the river Mississippi; thence up the middle of the said river to where it is intersected by the first mentioned parallel of 36 1/2 degrees; thence along the said parallel to the beginning; which tract of country is a degree and a half of latitude from north to south, and about 360 miles, in general, from east to west, as nearly as may be estimated from such maps as exist of that country.
The Indians having claims within the said tract of country, are, the Cherokees and Chickasaws, whose boundaries are settled by the treaties of Hopewell, concluded with the Cherokees on the 28th day of November, 1785, and with the Chickasaws, on the 10th day of January, 1786, and by the treaty of Holston, concluded with the Cherokees, July 22, 1791. These treaties acknowledge to the said Indians all the lands westward and southward of the following lines, to wit: beginning in the boundary between South and North-Carolina, where the South-Carolina Indian boundary strikes the same; thence north to a point from which a line is to be extended to the river Clinch, that shall pass the Holston, at the ridge which divides the waters running into Little River from those running into the Tennessee; thence up the river Clinch to Campbell's line, and along the same to the top of the Cumberland Mountain; thence in a direct course towards the Cumberland River, where the Kentucky road crosses it, as far as the Virginia line, or parallel aforesaid, of 36 1/2 degrees; thence westwardly, or eastwardly, as the case shall be, along the said line or parallel to the point thereof, which is due northeast from another point to be taken on the dividing ridge of Cumberland and Duck Rivers, 40 miles from Nashville; thence south west to the point last mentioned, on the said dividing ridge, and along the said dividing ridge north westwardly, to where it is intersected by the said Virginia line, or parallel of 36 1/2 degrees. So that there remained to the United States, the right of pre-emption of the lands westward and southward of the said lines, and the absolute right to those northward thereof, that is to say: to one parcel to the eastward, some what triangular, comprehending the counties of Sullivan and Washington, and parts of those of Greene and Hawkins, running about 150 miles from east to west, on the Virginia boundary, as its base, and between 80 and 90 miles from north to south, where broadest; and containing, as may be conjectured, without pretending to accuracy, between seven and eight thousand square miles, or about five millions of acres: And to one other parcel to the westward, somewhat triangular also, comprehending parts of the counties of Sumner, Davidson, and Tennessee, the base whereof extends about 150 miles also, from east to west, on the same Virginia line, and its height, from north to south, about 55 miles, and so may comprehend about four thousand square miles, or upward, of two and a half millions of acres of land.
Within these triangles, however, are the following claims of citizens, reserved by the deed of cession, and consequently forming exceptions to the rights of the United States.
I. Appropriations by the State of North-Carolina, for their continental and state officers and soldiers.
II. Grants and titles to grants vested in individuals by the laws of the state.
III. Entries made in Armstrong's office, under an act of that state, of 1783, for the redemption of specie and other certificates.
The claims covered by the 1st reservation are,
1st. The bounties in land given by the said state of North-Carolina, to their continental line, in addition to those given by Congress; these were to be located within a district bounded northwardly by the Virginia line, and southwardly by a line parallel thereto, and 55 miles distant. Westwardly, by the Tennessee, and eastwardly by the meridian of the intersection of the Virginia line, and Cumberland River; grants have accordingly issued for 1,239,498 acres, and warrants for the further quantity of 1,549,726 acres, making together 2,789,224 acres.
It is to be noted that the southwestern and southeastern angles of this district, constituting perhaps a fourth or fifth of the whole, are south of the lines established by the treaties of Hopewell and Holston, and consequently in a country wherein the Indian title is acknowledged and guaranteed by the United States. No information is received of the exact proportion of the locations made within these angles.
2d. Bounties in land to Evans's battalion, raised for state purposes. These were to be taken west of Cumberland Mountain. The locations are not yet made.
The second reservation covers the following claims.
1. Lands for the surveyor general's fees for laying out the military bounties, to be located in the military district. The grants already issued on this account amount to 30,203 acres.
2. Grants to Isaac Shelby, Anthony Bledsoe, and Absalom Tatum, commissioners for laying out the military bounties; and to guards, chain carriers, markers, and hunters, who attended them, already issued to the amount of 65,932 acres, located in the military district.
3. Entries in Washington county amounting to 746,362 1/2 acres; for 414,546 3/4 of which grants have already issued. Of the remaining 331,815 3/4 acres, a considerable proportion were declared void by the laws of the state, and were particularly excluded from the cover of the reservation in the deed of cession, by this clause in it, to wit: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall extend, or be construed to extend, to the making good any entry or entries, or any grant or grants, heretofore declared void, by any act or acts of the general assembly of this state. Still it is to be considered, that many of these persons have settled and improved the lands, are willing, as is said, to comply with such conditions as shall be required of other purchasers, form a strong barrier on the new frontier, acquired by the treaty of Holston, and are, therefore, objects meriting the consideration of the legislature.
4. Entries in Sullivan county, amounting to 240,624 acres; for 173,332 acres of which grants have already issued; of the remaining entries, many are certified void, and others understood to be lapsed, or otherwise voidable under the laws of the state.
5. Certain pre-emption rights, granted to the first settlers of Davidson county, on Cumberland river, amounting to 309,760 acres.
6. A grant of 200,000 acres to Richard Henderson, and others, on Powell's and Clinch's rivers, extending up Powell's river in a breadth of not less than 4 miles, and down Clinch's from their junction in a breadth not less than 12 miles. A great part of this is within the Indian territory.
Among the grants of the state now under recapitulation, as forming exceptions out of the absolute rights of the United States, are not to be reckoned here two grants of 2,000 each to Alexander Martin and David Wilson, adjacent to the lands allotted to the officers and soldiers; nor a grant of 25,000 acres on Duck river to the late Major General Greene; because they are wholly within the Indian territory, as acknowledged by the treaties of Hopewell and Holston.
The extent of the third reservation in favor of entries made in Armstrong's office is not yet entirely known, nor can be until the 20th of December, 1792, the last day given for perfecting them: the sum of certificates, however, which had been paid for these warrants into the treasury of the state, before the 20th day of May, 1790, reaches, in all probability, near to their whole amount: this was 373,649. 6s. 5d. currency of that state, and at the price of 10l. the hundred acres, established by law, shews that warrants had issued for 3,736,493 acres; for 1,762,660 of these, grants have passed, which appear to have been located partly in the counties of Greene and Hawkins, and partly in the country, from thence to the Mississippi, as divided into Eastern, Middle and Western districts. Almost the whole of these locations are within the Indian territory: besides the warrants paid for as before mentioned, it is known that there are some others outstanding and not paid for: but perhaps these need not be taken into account, as payment of them has been disputed on the ground, that the lands being within the Indian territory, cannot now be delivered to the holders of the warrants.
On a review of all the reservations, after making such conjectural allowance as our information authorises, for the proportion of them, which may be within the Indian boundaries, it appears probable they cover all the ceded lands susceptible of culture, and cleared of the Indian title, that is to say, all the habitable parts of the two triangles forementioned, excepting only the lands south of French Broad, and Big Pigeon rivers. These were part of the tract appropriated by the laws of the state to the use of the Indians, whose title being purchased at the late treaty of Holston, they are now free to be disposed by the United States, and are probably the only lands open to their disposal, within this southwestern territory, which can excite the attention of purchasers. They are supposed to amount to about 300,000 acres, and we are told that 300 families have already set down upon them without right or licence.
[REMAINDER IN OUR NEXT.]
ON NEWSPAPERS.
[FROM AN ENGLISH PAPER.]
THE effect produced by the newspapers, is so prodigiously great, that it ought to be reckoned as one of the most important among the numerous causes, which have brought this country to its present exalted and unrivalled situation. While the improvements of the public roads, and the creation of immense aqueducts, have shortened the laborious communication of real commerce; while the universal confidence of fictitious commerce has removed, in many cases, the necessity of such weighty communication in practice, the news papers have given wings and light to every thing. The value of all things is known in all places; private correspondence is shortened, and sometimes made superfluous; distances are removed; doubts are cleared up, and the same knowledge of every bargain, every offer, every wish, is diffused with the same certainty and clearness over the whole kingdom, as the petty transactions of a village are made known by the monotonous proclamation of a bell-man. So far their operation extends as to trade and the real concerns of life; but when we consider them in a censorial capacity, we shall be still more astonished at their effect. It is well known that a censorial power is only another word for public opinion—it cannot exist without it. When the republic of Rome ended, the Emperors wished to retain the censorhip, and it was often revived, but always without effect. Public opinion was corrupted; shame had lost its blush; no person feared it; and shame is the only real punishment of a censorial power: So that it is true, though
miserably true, that beyond a certain line, just in proportion as such a power is wanted, its authority is of no effect. With us, however, it is different. Publicity is the censor of Great-Britain. The certainty that the proceedings of every individual, from the highest to the lowest, will be immediately transmitted from one end of the country to the other, from Johnny Grot's house to the Ultima Thule, keeps all the inhabitants, with a coercion far stronger than the law, from doing any thing which they would be ashamed to read themselves, or afraid that others should hear.
It is true that this power may be, has been, and must be, liable at times to considerable abuse; but this abuse has its remedy. The great variety of the papers having separate interests and separate employers, often, by contradicting each other, set mutual errors to rights; when these errors are palpable, they become of little consequence. If they be of a great and dangerous nature, the law is open, and it is now, upon experience, not only open to hear, but ready to punish whenever there is occasion. It is true that such prosecutions are sometimes but poor satisfaction to the person complaining; yet such a defect is only one among the evils our situation exposes us to as individuals, which we each of us readily hazard the chance of; having a much less stake in that hazard, than we have in the general benefit, that results to us with certainty, as members of the community to whose prosperity these papers contribute so much, and could not do so, but with this abuse as incidental to their nature.
It is certainly incumbent upon news-papers, for their own sake, to avoid it as much as possible. There is enough sel volatile , enough matter that is piquante without it, and real wit never requires a sacrifice from propriety or truth, to propitiate its divinity. Accordingly we find, that however some years ago the licence of the press might be complained of, when its liberty was new: there are at present but few drawbacks on this head from its general utility. Another good consequence, of the same tendency, has followed the delivery of the newspapers from messengers and secretaries. Persons of better talents, of better education, and of a higher station in life, than formerly, are induced to undertake an employment, which by that delivery acquired a freedom and independence that makes it equal to any other department of writing, and renders it a liberal and honorable, as well as lucrative, engagement; from whence arises a security against its abuse, that gains ground every day, and is more operative than the strongest direction of law; namely, the conductor's own interest, in preserving the purity of his paper, by sacrificing which to the disreputation of another, he, in a much more effectual manner, counteracts his own.
L O N D O N, September 30.
THERE is hardly a kingdom or state on the continent but prohibits the importation of French newspapers, upon the severest penalties. This folly is almost equal to that of a certain ancient Senate. Herosstratus had burnt the famous temple of Diana, in order that his name might become immortal. The Senate were resolved to disappoint his wish, and passed an edict, that no person under penalty of suffering death, should pronounce the name of Herosstratus .—The consequence is, that the incendiary's name has taken root in history, and will never be forgot.
M. Montmorin, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has formally notified to all the foreign courts, the King's acceptance of the Constitution. None of the foreign courts have yet thought proper to take any public notice of this notification.
Nothing is a stronger proof of the general confidence in the stability of the outline of the French Constitution, than the prices at which church and crown lands have sold. From the commencement of the sales, the prices have been from twenty-five to fifty years purchase, the average about thirty; and at present national property cannot be bought at less than thirty-three years purchase. The price may be either paid immediately or by regular installments in the course of eleven years, but with five per cent. interest on the balance till paid.
Monsieur Bougainville, the famous circumnavigator, is appointed Minister of the French Marine.

CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1791.
IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
On the Post-Office Bill.
(CONTINUED.)
Mr. Sedgwick's motion under consideration.
MR. STEELE said he would not take up the time of the House in considering whether the motion was constitutional or not; but he was apprehensive it would be burthensome to impose the duty on the President, who must feel very disagreeably to hear that after he had exerted his utmost abilities to give satisfaction, disccontents had taken place. He hoped the gentleman from N. York, who had hitherto shown himself so staunch a friend to the present Constitution, would not oppose the diffusion of knowledge and information amongst the people, upon an idea of a supposed deficiency in the revenue of the post-office, for it might very soon increase to a sum more than sufficient for the expences of the establishment.
Mr. Vining said that since this subject had been before the last House, during the recess, he had seen many lights thrown on it, and he was convinced that the members were as fully competent to judge of the business as any one man could be: thus he thought a fact not now to be disputed, as well as that more satisfaction would be given to the country in general. There is no analogy between the United States and Great-Britain, when the subject of the post-roads and post-offices are to be considered: this country, from its great extent and uncultivated state, as well as from a thousand other causes, is not at all similar to the situation of Great-Britain; therefore any attempt to imitate their regulations would be improper. With regard to the regulation being given to the President, two things should be considered; to a good President it would be burthen, to a bad President a dangerous power of 'establishing offices and roads in those places only where his interest would be promoted, and removing others of long standing, in order to harass those he might suppose inimical to his ambitious views. The Constitution has certainly given us the power of establishing posts and roads, and it is not even implied that it should be transferred to the President—his powers are well defined; we create offices, and he fills them with such persons as he approves of, with the advice of the Senate. Having thus far stated his opinion, he said he would vote against the amendment to the bill, and when the first section was got over he would propose a clause to be inserted in the second section, which he hoped would meet the ideas of the gentleman from New-York, viz. that the cross-roads and offices should be so regulated as not to exceed the surplusage of the revenue of the general establishment. The doubt of the bill's not passing the Senate should have no weight in his mind: he would rather forsake bills should be lost than shrink from his trust; and he hoped the House of Representatives would show their firmness in the present instance; and if the Senate should afterwards reject the bill, as they had done before, let them be answerable for their own conduct: they can do those things more gracefully than this House, as they are not seen in the act. Mr. Vining concluded by drawing another argument from that part of the speech of the President, at the opening of the present session, which respects the post-office and post-roads, wherein he so warmly recommends it to the Legislature to take up the subject: this expression is as strong an argument as can possibly be adduced, to show that he had no other conception of the matter than that it was the peculiar privilege of the Legislature.
Mr. Barnwell was not surprised that a diversity of opinions should prevail on such a subject; but that there should be any question respecting the constitutionality of the amendment astonished him: it was very natural to suppose members from the same State would differ in opinion, and this showed the greater degree of necessity there was to vest the power in the hands of a high responsible officer to determine the business, for by doing so, there would be less partiality exhibited in the delineation of the roads, &c. But if left to the House, it would be almost impossible to reconcile any line to all parties; for the members from each State would probably be guided more by the principle of domestic convenience
than by a sense of general good.—In reply to Mr. Vining's argument, that it would be a burden to a good President, he thought it would be a pleasure to him to render service to his country. Upon the whole, he was in favor of Mr. Sedgwick's motion.
Mr. Gerry took a general view of most of the arguments in favor of the motion; replied to each; and concluded by asking why the commercial interest only should be accommodated, and the inland inhabitants excluded from the advantages of post-roads—why one class of citizens should be preferred to another? The diffusion of knowledge and information is as necessary to one as the other; and the revenue from the post-office, he had no doubt would increase from year to year, to defray the expence of the additional post roads which are proposed in the bill.
Mr. Steele defended the committee who had reported the bill, and explained the grounds on which they had proceeded in laying out the roads for the general advantage of the United States rather than to accommodate a few trading places only on the sea coast; and with regard to the route to Charleston, to which Mr. Barnwell had objected, he said it would cause letters to arrive there 4 or 5 days sooner than by the old route.
Mr. Benson observed, that the constitutionality of the amendment is denied—and it is said that the legislature alone is competent to establishing post-offices and post-roads; notwithstanding this there is not a single post-office designated by the bill, much has been observed respecting the legislative and executive powers, and the committee are cautioned against delegating the powers of the legislature to the supreme executive; without attempting a definition of their powers, or determining their respective limits, which he conceived it was extremely difficult to do—he would only observe that much must necessarily be left to the discretion of the legislature. He was very doubtful whether it would ever be in the power of the House to form any bill that would give satisfaction. This he spoke from experience; for it had been often tried in the old Congress, and was as often defeated by the partial and local clauses proposed by the different members. For these reasons he believed it would be better to delegate the power, and let the regulations be made by the President, than to be always enacting supplementary laws year after year, at the instance of individual members.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7.
Mr. Sedgwick's motion under consideration.
Mr. White observed that there was a necessity for changing many of the present routes of the post, and although gentlemen have said that information on the subject cannot be so well obtained from this House as from the executive, because no one member knows all the roads, yet it must be allowed that every road is known to some of the members. The people of the United States have suffered too long under the present establishment—486,000 inhabitants on the western side of the river Patowmac, in the State of Virginia, are deprived of the benefit of a post-road: will any gentlemen say, that nearly half a million of persons shall not have the privilege of a post-office, or the means of information? He said he should not go into any lengthy observations, as the subject had been so fully discussed yesterday. He then declared his opinion that the House had a right to send a person to lay out the post-roads, agreeably to their directions, and therefore hoped the amendment would be negatived, and that the bill would be gone through with, with such reasonable amendments as might be suggested.
Mr. Livermore said that gentlemen had drawn arguments from the second clause of the bill before it was yet under consideration, from which they endeavored to prove an absurdity in the first clause, and thus take an un candid advantage of the liberality of the committee in leaving the appointment of the deputy post-masters and branching offices to the Post-Master-General: If however there be any defect in the second clause, it can be amended when we come to it; but to attempt bringing forward this section as a bar to the adoption of the first, is an unfair mode of proceeding, and seems as if intended to throw the bill out at any rate. With regard to what has been said of the responsibility of an high executive officer, he did not deny the wisdom and integrity of the President, who would no doubt conduct this as well as he had always done any business committed to his care; but this would be a very troublesome business to impose upon him, and those who were desirous of doing it, were not acting a friendly part. The constitution has pointed out one certain mode for the legislature to proceed in, and it is more proper for the House to determine on the subject than any one man: let the experiment be made for three years, or for ten years, and it will always be found in our power to amend the defects in the system as they arise to our view.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12.
Read, a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the petition of George Webb, late a receiver of continental taxes in the state of Virginia, praying compensation for services, and indemnification for a sum of public money, of which he had been robbed.
Read, and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, two petitions from a number of the inhabitants of Northumberland County, against the duty on spirits distilled from articles the growth of the United States—also the petition of Gilbert Dench, praying compensation for loss sustained in contracts for transporting clothing and military stores during the late war.
A second petition from Charles Hately was read, and referred to the Secretary of State.—Several other petitions were read and referred to the Secretary of War.
The following Message from the President of the United States, was presented by his Secretary, Mr. Lear.
UNITED STATES, Dec. 12, 1791.
Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives,
IT is with great concern that I communicate to you the information received from Major-General St. Clair, of the misfortune that has befallen the troops under his command.
Although the national loss is considerable, according to the scale of the event, yet it may be repaired without great difficulty, excepting as to the brave men who have fallen on the occasion, and who are a subject of public as well as private regret.
A further communication will shortly be made of all such matters as shall be necessary to enable the Legislature to judge of the future measures which it may be proper to pursue.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
[The foregoing message was accompanied with three letters from General St. Clair—the two first dated Oct. 6, and Nov. 1—these contain a detail of the movements of the army from its leaving Fort-Washington, till the time of the action with the enemy—the interesting transactions of that day are related in the third letter, which follows.]
Fort-Washington, Nov. 9, 1791.
SIR,
YESTERDAY afternoon the remains of the army under my command got back to this place, and I have now the painful task to give you an account of as warm and unfortunate an action as almost any that has been fought, in which every corps was engaged and worsted, except the first regiment—that had been detached upon a service I had the honor to inform you of in my last dispatch, and had not joined me.
On the 3d inst. the army had reached a creek about twelve yards wide, running to the southward of west, which I believe to have been the river St. Mary, that empties itself into the Miami, of the lake at the Miami village, about four o'clock in the afternoon, having marched near 9 miles, and were immediately encamped upon a very commanding piece of ground in two lines, having the above mentioned creek in front. The right wing composed of Butler's, Clarke's and Patterson's battalions, commanded by Major-General Butler, formed the first line, and the left wing, consisting of Bedinger's and Gaither's battalions, and the second regiment commanded by Lieut. Colonel Darke, formed the second line, with an interval between them of about seventy yards, which was all the ground would allow.—The right flank was pretty well secured by the creek, a steep bank and Faulkner's corps; some of the cavalry and their piquets covered the left flank. The militia were thrown over the creek, and advanced about one quarter of a mile and encamped in the same order. There were a few Indians who appeared on the opposite side of the creek, but fled with the utmost precipitation on the advance of the militia. At this place, which I judged to be about fifteen miles from the Miami village, I had determined to throw up a slight work, the plan of which was concerted that evening with Major Ferguson, wherein to have deposited the men's knapsacks, and every thing else that was not of absolute necessity, and to have moved on to attack the enemy as soon as the first regiment had come up; but they did not permit me to execute either, for on the 4th, about half an hour before sunrise, and when the men had been just dismissed from the parade (for it was a constant practice to have them all under arms a considerable time before day-light) an attack was made upon the militia—these gave way in a very little time, and rushed into camp through Major Butler's battalion, which, together with part of Clarke's, threw them into considerable disorder, which, notwithstanding the exertions of both, and those officers, was never altogether remedied, the Indians following close at their heels. The fire, however, of the first line, checked them, but almost instantly a very heavy attack began upon that line, and in a few minutes it was extended to the second likewise—the great weight of it was directed against the centre of each, where the artillery was placed, and from which the men

were repeatedly driven with great slaughter. Finding no great effect from our fire, and confusion beginning to spread from the great number of men who were falling in all quarters, it became necessary to try what could be done by the bayonet. Lieutenant Colonel Darke was accordingly ordered to make a charge with part of the second line, and to turn the left flank of the enemy—this was executed with great spirit—the Indians instantly gave way, and were driven back three or four hundred yards; but for want of a sufficient number of rifle-men to pursue this advantage, they soon returned, and the troops were obliged to give back in their turn. At this moment they had entered our camp by the left flank, having pushed back the troops that were posted there. Another charge was made here by the second regiment, Butler's and Clarke's battalions, with equal effect, and it was repeated several times, and always with success; in all of them many men were lost, and particularly the officers, which, with so raw troops, was a loss altogether irreparable.—In that just spoke of, made by the 2d regiment, and Butler's battalion, Major Butler was dangerously wounded, and every officer of the second regiment fell, except three, one of whom, Mr. Gration, was shot through the body. Our artillery being now silenced, and all the officers killed, except Capt. Ford, who was very badly wounded, and more than half of the army fallen, being cut off from the road, it became necessary to attempt the regaining it, and to make a retreat, if possible—to this purpose the remains of the army were formed, as well as circumstances would admit, towards the right of the encampment, from which by the way of the second line, another charge was made upon the enemy, as if with the design to turn their right flank, but, in fact, to gain the road. This was effected, and, as soon as it was open, the militia took along it, followed by the troops, Major Clarke, with his battalion, covering the rear. The retreat, in these circumstances, was, you may be sure, a very precipitate one—it was, in fact, a flight—The camp and the artillery were abandoned; but that was unavoidable, for not an horse was left alive, to have drawn it off, had it otherwise been practicable. But the most disgraceful part of the business is, that the greatest part of the men threw away their arms and accoutrements, even after the pursuit, (which continued about four miles) had ceased. I found the road strewed with them for many miles, but was not able to remedy it; for having had all my horses killed, and being mounted upon one that could not be pricked out of a walk, I could not get forward myself; and the orders I sent forward, either to halt the front, or to prevent the men from parting with their arms, were unattended to.
The route continued quite to Fort-Jefferson, 29 miles, which was reached a little after sun-setting.
The action began about half an hour before sun-rise, and the retreat was attempted at half an hour after nine o'clock.
I have not yet been able to get returns of the killed and wounded; but Major-General Butler, Lieut. Col. Oldham of the militia, Major Ferguson, Major Heart, and Major Clarke, are among the former. Col. Sargent, my Adjutant-General, Lieut. Col. Darke, Lieut. Col. Gibson, Major Butler, and the Viscount Malarie, who served me as an aid-de-camp, are among the latter, and a great number of captains and subalterns in both.
I have now, Sir, finished my melancholy tale—a tale that will be felt sensibly by every one that has sympathy for private distress, or for public misfortune.
I have nothing, Sir, to lay to the charge of the troops but their want of discipline, which, from the short time they had been in service, it was impossible they should have acquired, and which rendered it very difficult, when they were thrown into confusion, to reduce them again to order, and is one reason why the loss has fallen so heavily upon the officers, who did every thing in their power to effect it; neither were my own exertions wanting, but worn down with illness, and suffering under a painful disease, unable either to mount or dismount an horse without assistance, they were not so great as they otherwise would, and perhaps, ought to have been.—We were overpowered by numbers; but it is no more than justice to observe, that though composed of so many different species of troops, the utmost harmony prevailed through the whole army during the campaign.
At Fort-Jefferson, I found the first regiment, which had returned from the service they had been sent upon without either overtaking the deserters, or meeting the convoys of provision. I am not certain, Sir, whether I ought to consider the absence of this regiment from the field of action as fortunate, or otherwise—I incline to think it was fortunate; for I very much doubt whether, had it been in the action, the fortune of the day had been turned: and, if it had not, the triumph of the enemy would have been more complete, and the country would have been destitute of every means of defence.
Taking a view of the situation of our broken troops at Fort-Jefferson, and that there was no provision in the Fort, I called upon the field-officers, viz. Lieut. Col. Darke, Major Hamilton, Major Zeigler and Major Guither, together with the Adjutant-General, for their advice, what would be proper further to be done, and it was their unanimous opinion, that the addition of the first regiment, unbroken as it was, did not put the army on so respectable a footing as it was in the morning, because a great part of it was now unarmed—that it had been then found unequal to the enemy; and should they come on, which was probable, would be found so again—That the troops could not be thrown into the Fort, both because it was so small, and that there were no provisions in it—That provisions were known to be upon the road, at the distance of one, or at most two marches—That therefore it would be proper to move, without loss of time, to meet the provisions, when the men might have the sooner an opportunity of some refreshment, and that a proper detachment might be sent back with it to have it, safely deposited in the Fort. This advice was accepted, and the army put in motion again at 10 o'clock, and marched all night, and the succeeding day met with a quantity of flour—part of it was distributed immediately—part taken back to supply the army on the march to Fort-Hamilton, and the remainder (about fifty horse-loads) sent forward to Fort-Jefferson—the next day a drove of cattle was met with for the same place, and I have information that both got in: The wounded who had been left at that place, were ordered to be brought here by the return forces.
I have said, Sir, in a former part of this letter, that we were overpowered by numbers; of that, however, I have no other evidence than the weight of the fire, which was always a most deadly one, and generally delivered from the ground, few of the enemy showing themselves on foot, except when they were charged; and that in a few minutes our whole camp, which extended above three hundred and fifty yards in length, was entirely surrounded and attacked on all quarters.
The loss, Sir, the public has sustained by the fall of so many officers, particularly general Butler and major Ferguson, cannot be too much regretted; but it is a circumstance that will alleviate the misfortune in some measure, that all of them fell most gallantly, doing their duty. I have had very particular obligations to many of them, as well as to the survivors, but to none more than to colonel Sargent—He has discharged the various duties of his office with zeal, with exactness and with intelligence, and on all occasions afforded me every assistance in his power, which I have also experienced from my aid-de-camp, lieutenant Denny, and the Viscount Malarie, who served with me in that station as a volunteer.
With every sentiment of respect and regard, I have the honor to be, Sir, your most obedient servant, ARTHUR ST. CLAIR. The Honorable Major-General Knox, Secretary of War.
P. S. Some orders that had been given to Colonel Oldham over night, and which were of much consequence, were not executed; and some very material intelligence was communicated by Captain Slough to General Butler, in the course of the night before the action, which was never imparted to me, nor did I hear of it until after my arrival here.
List of the killed and wounded Officers in the Battle of the 4th November.
 K I L L E D. Major-General. Richard Butler. Lieutenant-Colonel. Oldham. Kentucky militia. Majors. Ferguson, Clark, and Heart. Captains. Bradburn, Phelon, Kirkwood, Price, Van Swearingen, Tipton, Smith, Purdy, Pratt, Guthrie, Cribbs, and Newman. Lieutenants. Spear, Warren, Boyd, McMath, Burgefs, Kelso, Read, Little, Hopper, and Lickens. Ensigns. Cobb, Balch, Chase, Turner, Wilson, Brooks, Beatty, and Purdy. Quarter-Masters. Reynolds and Ward. Adjutants. Anderson. Doctor. Grafton.  W O U N D E D. Lieutenant-Colonels. Gibson, and Darke. Adjutant-General. Sargent. Major. Butler. Captains. Doyle, Truman, Ford, Buchannen, Darke, and Slough. Lieutenants. Gration, Davidson, De Butts, Price, Morgan, M'Crea, Lytle and Thompson. Ensign. Bines. Adjutants. Whittier and Crawford. The Viscount Malarie, who acted as a volunteer Aid du Camp. 
[The above List was forwarded by Quarter-Master Hodgdon, at Fort-Walington, to the Secretary of War.]
The amendments proposed by the Senate to the Representation Bill were taken into consideration. A motion to agree to the first amendment, which is to encrease the ratio from 30 to 33 thousand, occasioned a lengthy debate, which continued till past 3 o'clock, when an adjournment being called for, precluded any decision on the motion.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13.
Several petitions were read and referred to the Secretary at War. A petition from J. F. Amelung, proprietor of a glass manufactory in the State of Maryland, praying the patronage of the government to his manufacture; was read and laid on the table.
A memorial of the Illinois and Wabash land companies, was presented by Mr. Hartley—read and referred to a select committee, consisting of Messrs. Livermore, Fitzsimons and Clark.
A message was received from the President of the United States by Mr. Secretary Lear—communicating a plan of the city, laid out as the permanent seat of the government of the United States.
A message from the Senate by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed the House that they have passed a bill for the relief of David Cook and Thomas Campbell, with amendments.
The amendments of the Senate to the Representation bill, were again taken into consideration—After some debate respecting order—The House went into a committee of the whole, on those amendments.
A motion by Mr. Sedgwick, to amend the first amendment, by striking out one after the word Delaware, for the purpose of inserting two, induced a lengthy debate.
The question being at length taken, was negatived, twenty-one members only rising in favor of it.
The question for agreeing to the first amendment of the Senate, being then put, was negatived, 31 to 30. The other amendment was merely literal, and was agreed to. The committee then rose and reported accordingly, and the House adjourned.
N E W - Y O R K, December 9.
On Wednesday night last, about ten o'clock, a most alarming fire broke out in the large workshop in John-Street, belonging to Mr. Haller, Coach Maker, Broad Way, which entirely consumed the same. By the united exertions of all ranks of citizens, the Theatre (which caught fire several times) and the adjoining buildings were preserved. Fortunately no lives were lost. The person who exerted himself so much on the top of the Theatre, was David Burgher of this city.
Philadelphia, December 14.
Pursuant to advertisement, the Lectures on Law and Government by the Hon. JAMES WILSON, L. L. D. commenced last Monday evening, at the College in this City. The Lectures of this Gentleman, last Winter, were entertaining and instructive—Good reasons may be suggested why those of the present Season may prove more highly interesting.
On Friday the 9th inst. the Governor of the State met both Houses of the Legislature in the Senate Chamber, and communicated his Speech, on the business of the present Session. Among other objects contemplated in the Speech, was the opening of the navigation of the Susquehanna; a plan for forming a communication by water, with a few easy carrying places, from the Ohio to the rivers (particularly the Delaware) falling into the Atlantic Ocean: and a negotiation between the States of Pennsylvania and Maryland for the purpose of uniting the navigation of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays, and thereby opening a new avenue from this port to the ocean.
A Connecticut paper informs, that No. 14,508, drew a prize of 10,000 dollars in the Massachusetts Lottery. It was the property of the Commonwealth.
Of the 68,664 negroes that have revolted in Hispaniola, 30,000 may be deemed lost, either by being actually killed, or becoming wild in mountains to which there is no access. The value of each of these negroes may be estimated at 2500 livres each, which makes the whole loss in revolted negroes, 75,000,000 livres.
The losses incurred from the destruction of 172 sugar works, plantation houses, cattle, &c. &c. is reckoned at 114,800,000 livres.
The losses in buildings, produce, and the cattle on 936 coffee plantations, is 131,400,000 livres.—Villages, cotton and indigo plantations, and cattle, buildings, &c. upon them, are estimated at 6,400,000 livres.
Total loss—324,600,000 livres.
SAYS A CORRESPONDENT.
The benefits resulting from general knowledge have been disputed. The opposers of the means of learning for the poorer classes of people have said, that you cannot make every poor man a good scholar: They ask, what is gained by making smatterers in learning; science they affirm, gains little, and labor loses much—for men who read much will work little.—They become discontented with their lot, and even if they could change it to their own advantage, the case would not be mended, for others must be found to take their places. The drudgery of the world must be done; and it would be found as hard on those who have it to do as before learning, was given them; and harder, because they would then know it to be drudgery.
These are plausible arguments in favor of ignorance—and such as ignorance could not have suggested in its own defence; tis thus that the sons of science turn parricides against the mother whose milk has nourished them.—The answer to this ungenerous philosophy is not hard to be found:—Education is, not recommended merely to make men book wise, but to extend the comprehension of their minds—to increase their ideas, that is to say, to increase their wisdom; real wisdom can do no harm—surely it will not make men prefer idleness to industry, nor a vain ambition to thrift and steadiness even in an humble calling. It is true that the attempts to make them wiser may sometimes fail, and may even make a few more vain, idle and worthless, than if they had been left to themselves. The like charge may be urged against education in the families of the wealthy, and indeed against any good institution whatever. It is plain that education has the opposite tendency, which is a sufficient answer to that part of the oration in favor of ignorance.
But why is it forgotten that a few instances of folly made worse by teaching, are nothing compared with the many instances of men made more sober, virtuous and diligent by it. Add to this that it is as likely to happen that an eminent genius shall start up from the family of a poor man as of a rich one; one such might benefit mankind more than education ever could do them. Then give to all the means of knowledge, and leave it to nature to mark out the differences between her children. The light of heaven is pleasant, would you pluck poor men's eyes out? The light of knowledge is no less so, and will you blind them? Then establish schools, that is, open the windows and let in the day light.
Extract of a letter from the Post-Master at Hartford, to the Editor, dated December 4.
"An extraordinary failure of your papers has happened, but one having arrived these five posts."
"The subscribers have paid with reluctance owing to the loss of former numbers, and these frequent disappointments."
Extract of another letter to the Editor, from the Post-Master at New-Haven, dated December 5.
"I am sorry to inform you that the old complaint respecting the conveyance of your papers grows worse and worse; we have received but one paper in two weeks; your customers here are on the point of giving them up. Is there not some persons between Philadelphia and this town unfriendly to you, or to New-Haven folks? As the papers for those beyond this town, come on more regularly."
The above are among the numerous letters which the Editor is constantly receiving on the same subject.
He would inform the Post-Masters respectively, that the names of the subscribers for the GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES, have been principally collected and forwarded to him by the Post-Masters in various parts of the Union.
On receipt of the above letters, the Editor enquired at the post-office in this city, respecting the business, and was informed that all the packets of the Gazette which had been lodged therein, had been forwarded, for their several destinations—Punctuality is justly considered as the soul of this business—the Editor has been unremitted in his attention to that point.
The Post-Masters of the United States are in general, men of liberal and enlightened minds—the Editor, who personally acquainted with but few of them, has received innumerable instances of their attention and politeness—He solicits a continuance of their friendship; and particularly that they would facilitate the transmission of those packets of the Gazette which are dispatched from the Post-Office of this city. Indeed it is extremely difficult to conceive how an article can be arrested in its progress to a particular destination, that is once deposited in the mail port-manteau.
Information respecting any missing packets of the Gazette of the United States will be thankfully received.
The Respondent is necessarily postponed till our next.
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At No. 263, South Front-Street, Last Night JOHN MACPHERSON will Lecture on ASTRONOMY, and begin precisely at Eight o'Clock. Tickets are sold by Mr. Poulton, at the Library; Mr. Pelfo, at the Merchant's Coffeehouse; and by said Macpherson, at one half a dollar each. Dec. 14.

PRICE CURRENT.—PHILADELPHIA.
PER QUANTITY. DECEMBER 13.—DOLLARS 100 Cents each.
Table listing various goods and their prices, including ANCHORS, Alum, Ashes, Brandy, Beer, Boards, Candles, Cheese, Chocolate, Cinnamon, Cloves, Coal, Cocoa, Coffee, Copperas, Cordage, Cotton, Currants, Duck, Feathers, Flax, Flour, Fustic, Gin, Glue, Ginger, Ginseng, Gunpowder, Grain, Hemp, Hides, Hops, Indigo, Irons, Lead, Leather, Lignum vitae, Logwood, Mace, Mackerel, Madder, Marble, Mast, Molasses, Mustard, Mahogany, Nails, Nutmegs, Oil, Porter.
IMPERIAL HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA TEAS, REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, & SPICES, &c. &c. Of the first quality—by retail, No. 19, Third-Street, between Chefnut and Market Streets.
Bank of the United States.
DECEMBER 3, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Bank of the United States will be opened on Monday the 5th instant. Transfers of the subscriptions to the stock of said Bank may then be made. On Monday the 12th instant, deposits will be received, and on Tuesday the 20th instant, discounts may be made. By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier. All Bills or Notes offered for Discount shall be delivered into the Bank on Mondays or Wednesdays, the Discount shall be settled on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and shall be made known the next succeeding days.
AT A MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, DECEMBER 5, 1791.
RESOLVED, THAT the payment of the portion of the Capital Stock of the Bank of the United States, consisting of Specie which will be due on the several Shares, on the first Monday of January next, may be made at the respective Banks of Massachusetts and New-York. Provided, That any Stockholder claiming the benefit of such payment, shall, on or before the first Monday in January next, exhibit to the Cashier of the Bank of the United States, a Certificate signed by the Cashier of the Bank into which such payment shall have been made—any thing in the regulations heretofore established to the contrary notwithstanding. By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
Bank of the United States.
PHILADELPHIA, November 22, 1791.
THE STOCKHOLDERS of the BANK OF THE UNITED STATES are hereby informed, that according to the statute of incorporation, a general election for twenty-five DIRECTORS will be held at the Bank of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the second day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
And, pursuant to the eleventh section of the By-Laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are hereby notified to assemble in general meeting, at the same place, on Tuesday the third day of January next, at five o'clock in the evening. By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
Second fundamental Article of Statute of Incorporation.
"Not more than three-fourths of the Directors in office, exclusive of the President, shall be eligible for the next succeeding year. But the Director who shall be President at the time of an election, may always be re-elected." [epif]
PUBLIC SECURITIES,
BOUGHT and SOLD, on COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON, Chefnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97. MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL, LOTTERY TICKETS, To be had at the same place.
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. 2m
GEORGE MEADE
Has for SALE, at his Stores on WALNUT-STREET WHARF, A FEW pipes of 3 and 4 years old bills of exchange Madeira WINE, which he will dispose of by the pipe, hoghead or quarter cask. London market Madeira WINE, 5 and 6 years old. Old Sherry WINE of the first quality, by the hoghead or quarter cask. Three and 4 years old Lisbon WINE, of a superior quality to what is generally imported, by the pipe, quarter cask, or larger quantity. Choice old Coniac BRANDY, by the pipe, tierce, or larger quantity. A few quarter chests of first quality Hyson TEA. He has just received by the Pigou, Loxley, master, from London, a few quarter chests of old Madeira WINE—And By the brig Mercury, Capt. Stevens, from Dublin, a few boxes of Irish LINENS, low priced and well assorted; a few bales of red and white FLANNELS, and some GLUE. A few boxes of Spermacei Candles of the first quality, and Burlington PORK of prime quality. He has also to dispose of, a quantity of dressed White Oak STAVES. He means to keep a constant supply of First Quality Madeira and Lisbon WINES, and whoever is pleased to favor him with their custom, may be assured of being well served. He will, through the Winter and Spring, buy undressed HAND-SPIKES. He is purchasing FLAX-SEED and BEES-WAX, and will give the highest price for them. N.B. A few hampers of excellent London PORTER and Taunton ALE, just received, and to be disposed of. Philadelphia, November 16, 1791. (ep6w.)
JOHN PINTARD,
SWORN BROKER & AUCTIONEER, PURCHASES and SELLS PUBLIC DEBT of every description, on Commission, at the following rates: ON the specie amount of all sales at auction, one eighth per cent. On ditto at private sale or purchase, one-half per cent. On remittances, ditto. Receiving interest at the Loan-Office, one per cent. on the amount of the interest. For making transfers at ditto, seventy-five cents per transfer. Such persons as may incline to favor the subscriber with their orders, may rely on their being executed with punctuality, fidelity and dispatch. His long experience and extensive dealings in the public stocks, together with a well established correspondence throughout the United States, enable him to conduct his operations with peculiar benefit to his employers. JOHN PINTARD, New-York, No. 57, King-Street. October 15, 1791.
BOULTING CLOTHS.
An extensive Assortment, of very superior texture, suitable for every branch of the business, just imported from Amsterdam, and for SALE by DANIEL TYSON, No. 114, SOUTH FRONT-STREET; Where Millers and others may always be supplied with the best Cloths, and large allowance made to those who purchase in quantities to sell again. Also for SALE, a Quantity of Particular
MADEIRA WINE,
Of the first Quality, fit for immediate use, in Pipes. Philadelphia, December 6, 1791. [lawim]
American Lead Manufactor.
STEPHEN AUSTIN, & Co.
HAVE just now opened their LEAD-WAREHOUSE, two doors south of Walnut-Street Wharf, adjoining their New Factory—where they have now made, and ready for sale, a general assortment of SHOT of all sizes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed a number of experienced English workmen, they warrant it to be equal in quality to any manufactured in Europe, and at a reduced price from the prime cost of imported.
They also continue to manufacture all the above articles at Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addressed to either of the above Factories, will be thankfully received, and executed on the shortest notice.
N. B. Wanted, industrious, sober, Labouring Men, at the said Mines, where constant employ, good wages, and other encouragements will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and houses for their reception. For further particulars enquire of Messrs. MOSES AUSTIN & Co. at their Factory in Richmond, or as above. Philadelphia, December 3, 1791. (f)
TO BE SOLD, BY JOHN CAREY, No. 26, PEAR-STREET, A COLLECTION OF
Scarce and Valuable BOOKS,
Which may be seen every day, until five o'clock, P. M.
Among them are the following: Folio. HOMER, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, Eusebius, Sozomen, Theodoret, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Paterculus, Pliny, Concordantia Lat. Concordantia Gr. Theaurus Ciceronis. Biblia Junii and Tremellii, Bible de Martin, Wells's Maps, Scapula—Phavorini—Martini—Hoffmani Lexica, Vossii Etymologicon, Antiquit. Ecclesie. Britannice, &c. Quarto. Pindar, Cyropædia, Bentley's Horace, Terence and Phædrus, Ovid, Juvenal, Manilius, Ciceronis op. om. Cæsar, Suetonius, Julius Pollux, Hederici Lexicon, Vossii Ars Gram. Cluverii Geographia, Julianian Code, &c. Octavo et infra. Homer, Anacreon, Aristophanes, Longinus, Theophrastus, Hesiod, Poëtæ minores Gr. Isocrates, Phalaris, various editions of Horace, Virgil, Terence, and Ovid, Tibullus, Plautus, Lucan, Martial, Claudian, Val. Flaccus, Ausonius, Buchanan, Sallust, Curtius, Florus, Justin, Val. Maximus, A. Gellius, Hist. August. Scriptores, English and French Translations of some of the Classics, a great variety of Greek and Latin Grammars, &c. &c. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. Rice & Co. Booksellers, Market-Street, or JOHN CAREY. October 31. (ep tf.)
TO BE SOLD,
And possession given immediately,
That pleasantly situated FARM
Whereon the subscriber now lives. IT lies on the road from Princeton to Brunswick, about a mile and a half from the former. It contains 213 acres, whereof 47 are woodland, upwards of 30 meadow, and 20 more may be made. Also a young orchard of 200 apple trees, besides a variety of peach and cherry trees, and a large garden; the whole under good fence. There are on the premises a two story stone house and kitchen, with an elegant piazza, the whole painted and finished. Also, a smoke-house, work-shop, granary, waggon-house; barracks cow-houses, two stories high and 60 feet long, and a good barn, with stabling. From the buildings there are charming views of Princeton, the neighbouring farms, and Monmouth hills. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber on the premises, or to ISAAC SNOWDEN, No. 141, South Second-Street, Philadelphia. ISAAC SNOWDEN, Junior. Princeton, October 10, 1791. (ep2m)
Forty Dollars Reward.
LAST night was broke open the Store of the subscriber, at Bordentown, and stolen from the same the following articles, viz. One hair trunk, containing womens' wearing apparel; 1 small box, containing four clocks and one dozen teapots; 1 ditto containing one bottle green cloth coat, one striped vest and breeches, two shirts and a small bag with 36 dollars and 20s. to 30s. Jersey coppers; 1 keg containing a large bible, with other small books; 1 box containing 447 real ostrich feathers, some of them large and elegant, and of different colours; 2 barrels rye meal, branded Stout and Imray; 1 barrel pork; 1 ream paper, and 1 dozen paste-boards.—Stolen at the same time, a large Batteau, with black sides. A reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the above property, so that the owners may have the articles again, or in proportion for part thereof; also a further reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the perpetrator or perpetrators, so that they may be brought to justice, by JOHN VAN EMBURGH. Bordentown, New-Jersey, Sept. 1, 1791. (ep tf.)
In the Press, and speedily will be published, HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS; Consisting of STATE PAPERS, and other authentic Documents, tending to elucidate the HISTORY of AMERICA, and particularly of the UNITED STATES. By EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M.
** The price to Subscribers will be a Dollar for each Number, containing 160 large quarto pages; or Four Dollars and a Quarter for each Volume in Boards; to be paid as follows, viz. the first and second Numbers, or Volumes, to be paid for on delivery of the first; and each subsequent one (except the last) at the time of delivery.
Subscriptions will be received, in this city, by THOMAS DOBSON, and HAZARD & ADDOMS, (who will exhibit specimens of the work) and in other places by the principal Booksellers there. Philadelphia, November 5, 1791.
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