Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-08-06 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. 29, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1791.
[Whole No. 237.]
FROM THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
MR. RUSSELL, THE papers under the signature of PUBLICOLA, have called forth a torrent of abuse, not upon their real author nor upon the sentiments they express, but upon a supposed author, and supposed sentiments.
With respect to the author, not one of the conjectures that have appeared in the publick prints has been well grounded. The VICE-PRESIDENT neither wrote nor corrected them; he did not give his sanction to an individual sentiment contained in them, nor did they "go to the press under the assumed patronage of his son."
With respect to the sentiments, to those who have read the pieces with attention, it is needless to say, that they are simply an examination of certain principles and arguments contained in a late pamphlet of Mr. PAINE's, which are supposed to be directly opposite to principles acknowledged by the constitutions of our country. And the author challenges all the writers that have appeared in support of Mr. PAINE's infallibility, to produce a single passage in these publications which has the most distant tendency to recommend either a monarchy or an aristocracy to the citizens of these States.
The writer never had the intention to defend the corruptions of the English constitution: nor even its principles in theory, except such as were adopted in our own. Mr. PAINE has drawn a comparison between certain parts of the English and French constitutions, in which are contained principles of government, that are not acknowledged by our own constitutions. So far as the principles of the English constitution, have been adopted by the Americans, I have defended them, and I am firmly convinced, that we cannot renounce them, without renouncing at the same time the happy governments with which we are favoured.—The question of superiority between the French and English constitutions, has no connection with a question relative to monarchy. If this be true, it must apply equally to the admirers of the French constitution, and Mr. PAINE himself is chargeable with having supported a monarchical institution.—It is well known that by the French constitution, a standing army of near 300,000 is established, and placed beyond the annihilating arm of the legislature. Is it impossible that Mr. PAINE should admire this constitution, without being a friend to standing armies?—The argument is the same, and the assertion might be made, with just as much truth, as that PUBLICOLA is an advocate for monarchy or for aristocracy.
When Mr. PAINE says that a whole nation (by which it is admitted that he means a majority of the nation) have a right to do what it chooses, and when he says that before the formation of civil society every man has a natural right to judge in his own cause, it appears to me that he resolves all right into power; it is this opinion which I have combated, because it appears to me to be of the most pernicious tendency, and if it is not really contained in the pamphlet, I confess myself greatly mistaken. But the enlightened writers, who have defended the principle of Mr. PAINE, differ so essentially in the ground they have taken, that the one or the other would certainly have been charged with propagating detestable heresies, had not the end sanctified the means, and the object of defending Mr. PAINE, reconciled the inconsistency of their reasonings. One writer supports the principle through thick and thin; and tells you that the will of the contracting parties, is the only circumstance that makes treaties obligatory. Another tells you that I have grossly misrepresented Mr. PAINE, and that the national omnipotence which he establishes relates only to the internal concerns of the community. He agrees however that the will of the majority must be taken for the will of the whole nation, and that with respect to the formation of a government, a majority have a right to do what they please. So that it is no longer the "rights of men," but the rights of the majority which alone are unalienable.
Upon the question whether a constitutional government can be made alterable otherwise than by the people in their original character, I have defended the constitution of the United States against the principle of Mr. PAINE, though in the republication of the paper in several of the southern papers, the passage which supports my
opinion by the authority of the constitution, is omitted.
Upon the article of representation, I have contended that the French representation is no representation of the people at all. Is there a man in the United States who would recommend it as a model to us? I have contended that our representation of the people is infinitely superior both to the French and the English; and this is said to be an abominable heresy.
Upon the subject of monopolies, of game laws, and of exclusions from the legislature, I have defended the principles adopted by our own constitutions, and not the abuses of the English government. Upon that of war and peace I have done the same, and wherever Mr. PAINE's observations have appeared to be founded upon any other foundation than truth, I have endeavored to show their fallacy. But a defence of monarchy or aristocracy was no more in my intention, than the defence of the Salic Law of descents was to that of Mr. PAINE.
I shall now conclude these papers with requesting that those only who read them would judge upon their principles; and I am well persuaded, that the candour of the public will not take misrepresentation for reason, nor invective for argument. PUBLICOLA.
FROM THE KENTUCKY GAZETTE.
MR. BRADFORD,
By inserting the inclosed, you will oblige a Volunteer.
AMONG those who have exerted themselves for the destruction of our savage enemy, no one holds so distinguished a rank as Colonel John Campbell, of Louisville: nothing can give more encouragement to those who turn out as volunteers, than the holding out to them the idea, that by encountering difficulties and dangers, they will ensure to themselves the very highest of rewards, the applause and assistance of their fellow citizens.
When the late army under the command of General Scott, arrived at Fort Steuben, on their return from the expedition, fatigued, hungry, and the greater part of them without money, they were invited by Colonel Campbell to refresh themselves at his house, where all who went were furnished with good beef or mutton, and as much grog as they chose. The writer of this letter partook of the Colonel's bounty, and saw at least three hundred men eat and drink at his house in one day—Indeed as long as any of the troops remained in Louisville, the tables were kept constantly spread. The writer has it in view to return public thanks to Colonel Campbell, for the entertainment he received, and to call the attention of the district to his conduct, as highly worthy of imitation.
JEWISH ECONOMY.
TWO criminals, a Christian and a Jew, Who'd been to honest feelings rather callous, Were on a platform once expos'd to view, Or come, as some folks call it, to the gallows; Or, as of late, as quainter phrase prevails, To try their weight upon the city scales. In dreadful form, the constable and shrieve, The priest, and ord'nary, and croud, attended, Till fix'd the noose, and all had taken leave, When the poor Israelite, befriended, Heard, by exerts from officer of state, A gracious pardon quite reverse his fate. Unmov'd he seem'd, and to the spot close sticking, Ne'er offers, tho' he's bid, to quit the place, Till in the air, the other fellow kicking, The sheriff thought that some peculiar grace, Some Hebrew form of silent deep devotion, Had for a while depriv'd him of his motion. But being question'd, by the sheriff's orders, Why not with proper officer retiring, In tone of voice that on the maiv'lous borders, While that his looks were to the beam aspiring, "I only wait," said he, "before I coes, Ov Mister Catch to puy the ted man's clothes."
ANECDOLE OF SIR ROBERT WALPOLE and Dr. CAMPBELL.
Dr. Campbell was a believer in the divine hereditary right of Kings, and consequently attached from principle to the House of Stuart. It happened that a messenger, who was employed by the Jacobites in England to carry on their correspondence with the pretender, had prevailed upon the Doctor to write a letter to the Pretender's Secretary, and, as the messenger was in Sir Robert's pay, he carried it with the rest to Sir Robert, who sent for the Doctor the following morning (as he often did at other times, having frequently employed his pen in writing in defence of his administration) on pretence of talking to him about something he was to write. He took him to a window which looked into the street; and, while they were standing there together, Sir Robert had contrived that the messenger should pass by, and, looking up, moved his hat at them; upon which Sir Robert asked the Doctor, if he knew that man, and who he was. The Doctor, in some alarm, immediately answered, that he was very well acquainted with him, and that he could assure him he was a very worthy honest man. "He may be so," (said Sir Robert) "but he is certainly a very careless one, for he gave me a letter yesterday which I believe was not intended to come into my hands, and I think its direction is your hand-writing;" and pulling out the Doctor's letter he gave it to him unopened. The Doctor fell upon his knees, and vowed, that as he had given him his life, it should be devoted to his service, and he never ceased to be his fervent advocate throughout the remainder of his life. And Sir Robert was so well convinced of his sincerity, that he would have given him a valuable office; but the Doctor would not sacrifice his principles to his interest, and declined the offer, and continued a nonjuror as long as the old Pretender lived.
The Speech of Tseuycanthaw, or the Speaker that keeps his audience awake, commonly called Red Jacket, at the late Treaty of Newtown Point, in reply to a charge of partiality for the British.
BROTHER CANISADEH,* LISTEN to what I am going to say to you. You have been sent here by the thirteen council fires, to treat with us of peace and friendship. You have already heard a part of what you said to us in charge from them, repeated, according to our custom, by my brother (Oquilonduangwa). You then heard a speech from your brother of the Five Nations. We told you, that a strong wind had blown over us, and scattered some of us on this side, and some on that. The wind seems to be rising again. We do not know but it may blow some of our young warriors among the western Indians—but this would give us great uneasiness. When we replied to your speech the other day, we thought every thing relating to the war, had been buried: but you have since told us, that you think we are most inclined to the British interest. Do you think it wrong for us to make friends of our nearest neighbours? We and all the nations present, were surprised to hear you say so—for we have been very peaceable and friendly with the Thirteen Fires, ever since the last war. As soon as the wind had done blowing, we looked round us: we saw our wives and children in distress, and we immediately turned our faces towards the Thirteen Fires for peace. You ask us in your speech, what is the reason we incline more to one side than the other, as we profess to be our own masters? We wonder that you should ask such a question. Formerly our treaties were confirmed and recorded with wampum: but the Thirteen Fires seem desirous to set our ancient customs aside, by treating with us upon paper. There is not a man in our nation who can explain your rolls to us, and we are obliged to apply to our British neighbours to know what they contain. This prevents us from being altogether independent of them. But this is not all: Our Brothers the British, always advise us to what is best for us. They tell us to listen to what the Thirteen Fires say, when they speak to us of peace: whenever they hear of any thing in our favour, they let us know of it; and, as they give us good advice, we depend upon them. These, Brother, are some of our reasons for confiding in our brothers the British. Their King advises us to peace: and to listen to the same advice from the Thirteen Fires; but not to hear them when they advise for war. This is the counsel we receive from Niagara. They always tell us, we ought to be an independent people, and do nothing but what we think right. We are free nations, ruled by nobody. You complain, that we never make known to you what the British say to us; but always inform them of what you say: we wondered to hear you say so. As you speak to us in writing, we are obliged to go to the British to hear what you say: but as they treat with us by wampum, of which they keep great store, we have no occasion to come to you to explain it to us. You know very well that the Thirteen Fires are so distant from us, that it would be too difficult to travel down to them for advice. The reason why we know so little of one another is, that we have nobody sent from you to stay with us, and explain your purposes to us. Well, Brother, do you begin to perceive that we have reasons for our peculiar attachment to the British? You have thanked us for accepting the offers you brought us; and told us you were glad to find that we had no objections to them. Do not think hardly, Brother, of what we now say, nor suspect that we are in any degree deceived by listening to the voice of those who carry tales. You know we covered up every thing that was amiss, the day before yesterday. We are now joined hand in hand with the Thirteen Fires.—We think of nothing but peace. If you had desired us to bring you the speeches of our brothers the British, we would have brought you the belts and strings along with us, and thrown down the bundles before you. You did not ask us to do so, yet we have told you a few things that you might know what they say to us. Have you heard us plainly, Brother? We are but just now beginning to transact our business at this Council Fire. We hope a man will soon be appointed to act between us, as it was in old times. Then we went to one place to tell every thing we heard, and there we used to hear of every thing that concerned us from all quarters. As soon as an agent is appointed, we shall begin to apply to the Thirteen Fires for advice. Now, Brother, we have freely told you the reasons for our conduct, because we know that we are alike inclined for peace. Our true friendship is now beginning. We have buried all these difficulties. What fault have you to find with us now, Brother?—Let us no longer listen to those that would make mischief between us, nor change our present resolutions. It is best not to repeat disagreeable things that are past. Let them be buried in the earth. This, Brother, is all that the Chiefs and Head Warriors have to say to you now:—
A Broad White Belt.
You have found so much fault with us, Brother, that we are a little afraid of you: We have told you some of the principal speeches we have heard from the British. You shall now be our counsellor:—Tell us whether there is any harm in them?
* Commissioner Pickering, so called by them, after an old town, on the side of a hill, in which they lived peacefully.
FROM THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
OBSERVATIONS on AMERICAN PORTER and CHEESE.
THE friends to the interests of mankind were lately gratified by a fact communicated in the various periodical publications in this city, viz. that there had been no spirits used among the sailors on board the ship Brothers, Capt. Josiah, during her late voyage to Canton; and that this circumstance had been so far from injuring the crew, that they enjoyed an uncommon degree of health. It will please the friends of American manufactures, to be informed, that Mr. Hare's porter remained perfectly sound and good the whole passage. Some of that article, indeed, which was taken out in casks, received injury, from not being placed in a favorable situation: but a hundred dozen, originally bottled in his city, not only remained good, but was improved by the voyage.
In another vessel which went to Canton from this city, some English porter was taken out, as well as that made in this city, but not the least superiority could be perceived in the former over the latter, as appears by the candid and unprejudiced testimony of the persons belonging to the vessel.
American manufactures of every kind, but especially porter, have long laboured under the unjust imputation of inferiority when compared with English: but after this fair trial we hope that prejudice will be laid aside, and justice be done.
Cheese is another article, which, although it has been made in this country, and especially to the eastward, for a number of years,

very good, yet has always been thought greatly inferior to that made in Cheshire in England. However, the Block-Island cheeses, which were carried out, in the same ship Brothers, proved, on comparison, to be no ways inferior to the English ones on board; but bore the heat of China, and the vicissitudes of the weather, equally with that imported.
It is with the greatest pleasure that a friend to American manufactures communicates these facts, which can be readily attested by all on board the ship. They will serve to show, that the supposed inferiority of those capital articles of American production, cheese and porter, is a mere deluding pretence.
A Friend to American Manufactures.
Critique on the different English Historians, by Dr. Coote, prefixed to the first volume of his History of England, lately published.
HUME, as an historian, has long enjoyed an extraordinary share of popularity; and his performance seems to be considered, by the majority of readers, as the best account of the affairs of this nation. His abilities were competent to the production of an history which might have far surpassed all the efforts of his British predecessors; and if his talents had been exerted with a just regard to candor and impartiality, and with the sole view of exhibiting a fair and accurate delineation of the transactions of former days, his historic fame would have rested on a more solid basis than that which now supports it.—The spirit of philosophy which animates his work, gives it a manifest superiority over most of the English histories by which it was preceded. His style is elegant, without affectation; and nervous, without an appearance of labour. His arguments in defence of a favorite hypothesis, possess all the acuteness of sophistry, tho' their force is disarmed by the application of sound logic, and the adduction of undistorted facts.—Under the pretext of exposing the delusions of fanaticism, the weakness of bigotry, and the arts of selfish and designing ecclesiastics, he indirectly endeavors to sap the fabric of religion itself, and undermine the dearest interests of society. His political principles are adverse to the claims of freedom; and under the cloak of impartial discussion, he vilifies the exertions of the patriot, and depresses the generous flame of liberty.
The reputation of Rapin is now in the wane. The multiplicity of his errors, his want of animation, and his injudicious use of his materials, have occasioned the decline of that eminence which he once enjoyed, and which produced an unprecedented sale of his voluminous work.—His general impartiality was the original cause of the success of his history; but that quality is not so conspicuous in this author as his advocates pretend; nor, on the other hand, is his performance so defective in this respect, as some later historians have insinuated.
Though Carte is supposed to have employed more time and labour on his history than any preceding or subsequent writer, his success did not correspond with his hopes. The well known prejudices entertained by him, precluded the obvious requisite which such a work demands; and the public could not be expected to cherish a very high opinion of the sagacity or penetration of that author, who, in an enlightened age could decisively attribute the imaginary cure of the scrofula by the royal touch, to a fanatical virtue conferred by Heaven on anointed sovereignty. Carte, however, where his prepossessions do not intervene, is a faithful and accurate writer: but he rarely displays any portion of the graces or the energy of composition.
Guthrie was a good classical scholar, and an ingenious author. His history of England is no contemptible work; but it appears to have been written with too great rapidity, and too little attention of the mind. His remarks too frequently disgust by the vanity with which they are offered, or merit censure by the want of a deliberate examination of that point on which he confidently pronounces his sentiments.
The charge of haste and inaccuracy, which the present critic has ventured to fix on Guthrie, is more justly imputable to his countryman Smollet, as the history compiled by the latter, is solely borrowed from modern writers, whose misrepresentations he has copied, and whose errors he has multiplied. A comparison of his work with the historical labours of Rapin, Carte, and Guthrie, will perhaps convince the examinator, that he did not consult one of the original authors whom he has quoted in his margin. But his defects as an historian are in some measure palliated by that nevens elegance which often appears in his diction, and that judgment which prevents him from dwelling on occurrences of inferior moment.
Goldsmith wrote with spirit and ability; but his history of this kingdom is a mere epitome, and is calculated rather for the amusement of an idle hour, than for the improvement of those who aspire to a competent knowledge of English affairs.
Henry is an accurate and judicious author; but his plan is too detached and disjointed to please the general reader; and that division of his work which comprehends the civil and military history of Great-Britain, is too concise to be satisfactory.
ADVANTAGES of preserving PARSNIPS by drying. [By the Rev. J. Belknap.]
AMONG the number of esculent roots, the parsnip has two singular good qualities. One is, that it will endure the severest frost, and may be taken out of the ground in the spring, as sweet as in autumn; the other is, that it may be preserved, by drying, to any desired length of time.
The first of these advantages has been known for many years past; the people in the most northerly parts of New-England, where winter reigns with great severity, and the ground is often frozen to the depth of two or three feet, for four months, leave their parsnips in the ground till it thaws in the spring, and think them much better preserved than in cellars.
The other advantage never occurred to me till this winter, when one of my neighbours put into my hands a substance which had the appearance of a piece of buck's horn. This was part of a parsnip, which had been drawn out of the ground last April, and had lain neglected in a dry closet for ten months. It was so hard, as to require considerable strength to force a knife through it cross-wise; but being soaked in warm water, for about an hour, it became tender; and was as sweet to the taste, as if it had been fresh drawn from the ground.
As many useful discoveries owe their origin to accident, this may suggest a method of preserving so pleasant and wholesome a vegetable for the use of seamen in long voyages, to prevent the scurvy and other disorders incident to a sea-faring life, which is often rendered tedious and distressing for want of vegetable food; since I am persuaded that parsnips, dried to such a degree as above related, and packed in tight casks, may be transported round the globe, without any loss of their flavour, or diminution of their nutritive quality. Asylum.
ST. JOHN, July 5.
Last night about 11 o'clock, a Smoke House belonging to Mr. Thomas Barker, on York-Point, was discovered to be on fire; the flames almost instantaneously burst out in a tremendous manner, which soon rendered it impossible to be extinguished—The whole town was instantly alarmed, and great numbers assembled—The engines were set to work with all possible expedition, but no efforts could prevent the flames from communicating to the dwelling house of Mr. Barker—a dwelling house, blacksmith's shop, and two other buildings the property of Mr. Thomas Jennings, which were soon reduced to ashes, when fortunately a stop was put to the threatening progress of this distressing calamity.—The united efforts of the Naval and military officers and men (who kindly afforded every possible assistance) together with all ranks of the inhabitants to prevent the conflagration from spreading, must otherwise have proved ineffectual, and the whole range of buildings, together with the Ordnance store, which contained a quantity of powder and other combustible materials would inevitably have been consumed.
Recent accounts from Quebec, brought by a gentleman who arrived at the Great-Falls, a few days since, inform us, that His Royal Highness Prince Edward, with the 7th regiment had arrived, and that the 65th were under orders for this place, to relieve the 54th stationed here, who will then embark for England.
The same accounts add, that his Excellency Lord Dorchester intends shortly for Europe.
PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) July 27.
Arrived here, brig Elizabeth, Capt. Hooper, in 52 days from Greenock, in Scotland. At the time of Capt. Hooper's sailing, (June 2d) preparations were still making for war, the impressing of seamen in England, Scotland and Ireland, was carried on with spirit, &c. But it was generally imagined, by persons of discernment, that these preparations were only designed to divert the attention of the people from revolution principles.—The British fleet had not sailed.—The brig ABC, from the Potomac was at Port Glasgow, waiting for freight, expected to sail 15th July. The ship Duchesse of Haddington failed 14 days before Capt. Hooper, for Boston.
CONCORD, (N. H.) July 20.
We hear from Warner, that on Thursday last, a barn belonging to Mr. Jonathan Straw, was taken up by a whirlwind, from the cills, and torn to pieces. There was a yoke of oxen in the barn at the time, but they were left standing without injury.
On Friday last, in the severe thunder storm, there was a heavy gale of wind about a mile and an half wide, which passed through the southwestern part of this town. It tore up many trees, and did considerable other damage. Deacon Herrick and Mr. Sleeper had each of them a cow killed by the falling of the trees.
The earth is now well watered, and the produce on the farms appears to be rapidly ap-
proaching to maturity, with prospects of a luxuriant harvest.
Died, at Haverhill, Massachusetts, on Wednesday the 6th instant, JOHN THAXTER, Esquire, attorney at law. It is but just, to observe, that his character marked him an ornament to the profession: by his death the public are deprived of a useful man; his acquaintance, of an agreeable companion; his associates, of a sincere friend; and his bereaved consort and an only child, of a tender husband and an affectionate parent.
In 1779, when Mr. Adams was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, to make a treaty of peace, and also a treaty of commerce with Great-Britain, Mr. Thaxter accompanied him to Europe, in the character of Private Secretary. In that situation he obtained the friendship of Judge Dana, who at that time was Secretary to the Commissioners. With Mr. Adams he resided in France and Holland: And while his taste for Literature rendered him an agreeable companion—his integrity and perfect fidelity, in the duties of his station, claimed and received the utmost confidence of that patriotic Statesman, and his great and faithful associate, the present Chief Justice of the United States.
Peace being confirmed, in 1783, the Commissioners sent him to America, with the charge of presenting the Definitive Treaty to Congress:—He was received with attention and respect.
WORCESTER, July 28.
We hear from Royalston, that on Tuesday evening the 12th inst. a barn belonging to Mr. Benjamin May, of that town, was set on fire by lightning and entirely consumed, together with about seven tons of hay, and a quantity of flax. By the extraordinary exertions of the inhabitants, the frame of another barn, 36 feet by 30, was erected on the same spot by sun-set the next day.
NEW-YORK, August 3.
The Directors of the Bank of New-York, yesterday forenoon, appropriated three hundred shares of that Bank, which were unsubscribed, to be offered to the Bank of the United States. This vote of the Directors being made public, the remaining vacant shares of the Bank (about three hundred) were all subscribed in the space of twelve minutes after the opening of the Bank in the afternoon.
WINDHAM, July 23.
Died, in New-London, Monday the 11th inst. Mrs. ELIZABETH DE BRACEGONCE, widow of Mr. LEMERIEU DE COMMANCHE, aged 56 years. She arrived at New-London from Guadalupe about six weeks since, in a declining state of health. In conformity to the request of the friends of the deceased, the Rev. Henry Channing, Presbyterian Minister of the first Protestant Church in that city, attended at the funeral, and officiated, reading the burial service of the Episcopal Church in the United States.—This attention to the feelings of the afflicted, in the true spirit of the Gospel, must be pleasing to every benevolent and christian mind.—ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, and ONE BAPTISM.
Philadelphia, August 6.
JAMES BARRY, Esq. is appointed Vice-Consul within the States of Virginia and Maryland, for her Most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal, and has been recognized as such by the Supreme Executive of the United States.
In the Supreme Court of the United States, on Tuesday last, in the case of William West, plaintiff, in error, versus David Leonard Barnes and others, defendants.
Mr. Bradford offered to the court a writ, purporting to be a writ of error issued out of the office of the clerk of the Circuit Court for Rhode-Island, directing to that court, and commanding the return of the judgment and proceedings by them rendered in this cause to this court with such returns.
On motion of Mr. Bradford, counsel for William West, the said writ and papers annexed thereto, were read. Mr. Bradford then moved for a rule, that the defendant rejoin to the errors assigned by the plaintiff in this cause.
Mr. David Leonard Barnes, one of the defendants, and a counsellor of this court objected to the validity of the writ in question, and on that principle, to the rule moved for.
The arguments on both sides being heard, the Court informed the parties that they would consider the question. Adjourned.
Wednesday the Court refused to grant the rule moved for on Tuesday, in the above cause; being unanimously of opinion that writs of error to remove causes to this court from inferior ones, can regularly issue from the clerk's office, of this court.
The attorney-general of the United States informed the court that there were several persons now confined in the jail of Philadelphia, charged with crimes committed against the United States. He then read a letter on the subject, from William Lewis, Esq. district judge, to William Rawle, Esq. attorney for the same, informing, that several of those persons had been confined for a

length of time, and recommended that a special district court should be held for the purpose of trying them; whereupon the court ordered a special district court on next Monday week, for the purpose of trying Eleanor McDonald and others: N. B. The said Eleanor was committed on a charge of robbing a ship of eleven doubloons and some other property.
The attorney-general also moved for a commission to issue from the court, appointing certain persons in Holland to be commissioners for taking evidence in a case depending against the State of Maryland, which was ordered accordingly.
The following named gentlemen took the usual oaths, and were appointed counsellors of the Supreme Court of the United States, viz. David Leonard Barnes, of Massachusetts; Charles Swift, of Philadelphia; Thomas Smith, of Carlisle; and Jacob R. Howell, of Philadelphia. Adjourned.
On Monday last, the Mayor of this city, accompanied by two Aldermen, two county Magistrates, two county Commissioners, and one of the gaol Inspectors, met at the gaol of this city, in order to lay out the ground for erecting solitary cells, agreeably to the late penal law of this state, for the purpose of confining those criminals who cannot be reclaimed simply by hard labour.
By Capt. Cloufer, of the brig Hetty, in 12 days from Cape-Francois, there are letters received by merchants in this city, informing, that a perfect reconciliation has taken place between the white inhabitants and the people of colour; in consequence of which, a day of rejoicing and public festivity was kept with great splendor; no work was allowed to be transacted, even on board vessels in the harbour: And every thing wore the appearance of peace and harmony at the time of Capt. Cloufer's departure. Mail.
A writer in the Pittsburgh paper speaking of Indian treaties, observes, It seems to me that the principle on which treaties are held with the Indians, might be altered a little for the better. I mean only in one particular instance, viz. that instead of carrying goods to make presents to them, they should be obliged to bring furs to make presents to us. I illustrate the matter in this way. If you examine an Indian, you will find that he lives a dog's life, lazy and hungry: Never goes to hunt when he can help it, and if he can get blankets by stealing, will prefer it much to getting them by purchase. A war is a profitable thing to him, when the things that our house-wives and weavers have made in peace, come to his hands without much trouble. But a treaty is best of all, and crowns the matter; for there he gets rum, and covering for his breech, just for the word brother. If a treaty can be brought about at any time, by a little war, preceding it, is an Indian such a fool, as not to go to war, within a little time after the treaty, that he may treat again? Thus war begets treaties, and treaties beget war.
Translation from a late St. Domingo Paper. The Revolution in St. Domingo was premature. It should only have kept pace with that of the empire. It has already cost the Colonists above two years of disturbances, and 25 or 30 millions of livres*, in extra expences, loss on recoveries, and diminution in the price of produce. It has destroyed, or at least weakened, the confidence of the mother country; it has stopped the circulation of even that small portion of specie, which the Anglo-Americans have, for a few months longer, left in our possession. It is at length time to open our eyes, and to view the precipice, to whose brink we had been dragged by the united efforts of error and ambition. It is time to appreciate the fine speeches, which have hitherto concealed the truth from us:—It is time, at length, to alter our course. The law points out to us the right path—that let us pursue. Where is the man, who can so far be imposed upon, as to think us happy and free? The public prints are full of the names of those who advertise their departure from the Island. A bad proof this, of our boasted happiness. When once we listen to the voice of justice and reason,—when private gives way to public interest,—then only can we call ourselves happy. It is a cruel reflexion, that the present state of our affairs should make us look back with regret on the past. May the time to come, banish all remembrance of both past and present!
The generality of our public prints have been instrumental in producing our misfortunes.—They have exasperated the minds of the people, and raised them to a state of fermentation. To the inflammatory paragraphs in the Courier Politique , we owe the Caricatures , that were stuck up on the church gates: and had it not been for those Caricatures , the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince would hardly have been tempted to run the risk of being cut to pieces in disarming a regiment of soldiers. It were, indeed, much to be wished, that the writers of both parties would agree to throw by their pens.
* Thirty millions of livres make above five millions and a half of dollars.
WHAT a truly pleasing prospect does our country exhibit at the present moment!—That confidence which the general government has inspired, has given new energy to the human mind.—Recent accounts from the State of Georgia are favorable—peace reigns in her borders—the savages are quiet—and the population, commerce, and wealth of the State, are hourly encreasing.—The late detail published in this paper, of the happy revolution, and posture of affairs in the important State of South-Carolina, must impress with real pleasure every bosom susceptible of the benevolent feelings.—What a glorious reverse of circumstances has taken place!—May South-Carolina always know, and pursue the things that belong to her peace—domestic, internal tranquility, must accelerate her progress in solid wealth and consequence.—In North-Carolina, the voice of complaint is not heard—and if any disagreeable apprehensions have been entertained respecting some recent acts of Congress, as light and information extend, they appear to be subsiding and dying away. A gentleman acquainted with the affairs of that State, informed the writer of this article, that the patriotic exertions and representations of the first characters there, had been attended with the most salutary effects in removing prejudices, and diffusing just and liberal sentiments respecting the general government, particularly among the people in the interior parts of the State: The proceedings of all their social circles on the late anniversary of Independence, evince the federal disposition of North-Carolina.
Virginia, the ancient, is also tranquil and happy—the heavens have shed their benign influences on the labors of the husbandman—her fields have brought forth abundance, and she will more and more realize her policy in converting her tobacco fields into wheat fields. No disagreeable anticipations appear to be realized—from a happy confidence in the wisdom of her elected civil fathers, a spirit of candor and calm investigation, we may always expect, will distinguish the councils of this great and respectable member of the Union. The great business of preparing the seat of the general government, and of giving effectual protection to the frontiers, now engage her attention. The late brilliant stroke of the Kentuckians establishes the spirited, patriotic and enterprising character of the inhabitants of that young, but rising State.
Many recent transactions serve to develope the genuine character of the people of Maryland:—Their liberal tolerant principles have long been known and celebrated—their commercial importance is daily more and more apparent—the independent and generous plan of their new institution, the State-Bank, must be productive of solid commercial advantages, facilitate their negotiations, and give a spring to their manufactures and agriculture. The population of this State has advanced with rapid strides, which, added to many other favorable circumstances, her federal and republican attachments, must continue to advance her prosperity and importance.
Pennsylvania, from her situation, may be considered as the lap of Columbia, in which the treasures of agriculture and commerce are poured with a liberal hand.—While she is exploring her interior resources and advantages, the nations of Europe, particularly Hibernia, is sending forth her hardy sons by thousands, to encrease her strength and population. It is hardly necessary to advert to the numberless benefits derived from her being the natural centre of the union, and the present seat of the general government—there can be no doubt of her availing herself of these circumstances to enhance her wealth, and by the spirit and enterprize of her discerning citizens, to place her affairs in such a situation, as that whenever the seat of the general government shall be removed, she may by the force of her own internal principles, be impelled forward in every political, commercial, and agricultural improvement. (To be continued.)
The amount of Duties on goods, wares and merchandise, imported into the District of Providence, between the last day of December 1790, and the first day of July 1791, as secured at the Custom-House, is
Table with 2 columns: Amount of ditto on Tonnage, 59,440 45 1/2; 325 69. Total Dollars 59,766 14 3/4.
NEW-YORK, August 4. Cash Price of STOCKS last evening at Public Auction. Six per cents 21 3/4; three per cents 13 3/4; deferred 13 3/4. 2d. National Bank scripts, 100 and 50 dollars. Bank of New-York, 25 per cent. advance. New-York State Debt, 18s. 10d. principal and interest.
Table with 2 columns: From PELOSI'S MARINE LIST. ARRIVALS at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Ship James and Catharine, Crawford, Jamaica; Brig Betsey, Russell, Port-au-Prince; Hetty, Cloufer, Cape-Francois; Sukey, Atkins, ditto; Christiana, Brown, St. Eustatia; Paca, Lee, St. Croix; Barque Virgin, Cape-Francois; Sloop Pomona, Church, St. Eustatia; Hope, Lake, St. Thomas.
We hear that Governor Blount, under the auspices, and by the direction of the President of the United States, on the second of July concluded a Treaty with the Cherokee nation of Indians.—This nation consists of about 2500 warriors, who are situated principally upon the waters of the beautiful river Tennessee. They have been greatly agitated since the treaty of Hopewell, in November 1785, by the encroachments of the whites upon their lands; but are now entirely satisfied by the liberality and justice of the United States.
Table with 2 columns: PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 21 3/4 pr. £. 106 3/4 pr. cent. 3 pr. Cents 12 3/4 12 3/4 63 3/4 do. Deferred 6 pr. Cents 13 3/4 13 3/4 70 do. UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Sett. and other Certificates 100/ par. Indents 12 3/4 12 3/4 63 3/4 do. N. and S. Carolina debts, 14 3/4. Bank Subscriptions, 130 to 135 Dollars.
GRAY'S GARDENS. A CONCERT of VOCAL and INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC will begin THIS DAY, the 6th of August, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and conclude at 9 at night, should the day be fair. Tickets delivered at one Quarter of a Dollar at the Bar. The Ship UNION, the Water-Fall, and Gardens, will be elegantly Illuminated at night. G. & R. GRAY.
A YOUNG Gentleman, who was bred to business, and can be favorably recommended, intending to visit the Manufactories in the South of France, the ensuing Winter, will accept of Orders for Goods, and execute them on a moderate Commission. N. B. He will continue there, if encouraged.—Applications directed to A. Z. and left at the Printers, will be punctually attended to. Philad. August 6, 1791. (eptf)
BOOKS. CAREY, STEWART, and Co. No. 22, NORTH-FRONT-STREET, HAVE FOR SALE, A large collection of BOOKS; Among which are the following AMERICAN EDITIONS.
Table with 2 columns: LOVELASS on Bills of Exchange. Dallas's Reports. Clerk's Vade Mecum. Kirby's Connecticut Reports. Gilbert's Law of Evidence. Conductor Generalis. New Edinburgh Dispensatory. Buchan's Domestic Medicine, latest edition. Cullen's First Lines of the Practice of Physic. Clark on Diseases of Horses. Rush's Medical Enquiries. Gentleman's Pocket Farrier. Brown's Elements of Medicine. Offerwald's Christian Theology. Jenyn's Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. Beattie's Evidence of Ditto. Necker on Religious Opinions. Think Well On't. Fordyce's Addresses to Young Men. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum. Sermons to Young Men. Edwards's History of Redemption. Women. on the Religious Affections. Poor Man's Help and Young Man's Guide. against Chauncy. Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies. Booth's Apology for the Baptists. Lectures delivered by Soame Jenyns. Downy Translation of the Vulgate Bible. The Christian Remembrancer. Enfield's Family Prayers. Future State Eternal. Methodist Hymns. Russel's Seven Sermons. Price's Sermons. Ramsay's American Revolution. Life of Baron Trenck. History of America. Smith's Wealth of Nations. Morse's Geography. Paley's Moral Philosophy. Siege of Gibraltar. Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History. Shaw's Abridgement of Bruce's Travels. Nicholson's Natural Philosophy. Keate's Account of the Pelew Islands. Junius's Letters. Pike's Arithmetic. Hale's Affectionate Epistles to his Children. Gough's Arithmetic, altered by Workman. Beauties of Johnson. Clark's Introduction to the making of Latin. of Sterne. Dodsley's Fables. Percival's Father's Instructions. P. Ovidii Naso's Metamorphoses, I. X. Lady's Advice to her Daughters. Emma Corbet. Philadelphia Latin Grammar. Accomplished Gentleman. Ruddiman's Rudiments. Ela, or the Delusions of the Heart. Schoolmaster's Assistant. Adventures of Maria Cecilia. Seleca & Veteri Testamento Historie. Adventures of Alphonso and Dalinda. Scott's Lessons on Elocution. Beattie's Poems. Sargeant's Short Hand. Conquest of Canaan. Wettenhall's Greek Grammar. Chesterfield's Principles of Politeness. Young Man's Companion. Economy of Human Life. Catechism of Nature. Fables for the Ladies. Hervey's Meditations. Freneau's Poems. Young's Night Thoughts. Mackenzie's Lounger. Thomson's Seasons. More's Sacred Dramas. Rudiments of Taste. Present for an Apprentice. Klopstock's Messiah. Lavater's Aphorisms.
Table with 2 columns: IMPORTED BOOKS. Kennet's Roman Antiquities. School Dialogues. Trimmer's Sacred History, 6 vols. Andrews's History of the American War, 4 vols. Nicholson's Navigation. New Annual Register. Alexander's Experimental Enquiries. Vattel's Law of Nations. Experimental Essays. Walker's Academic Speaker. Huxham on Fevers. Life of Robinson Crusoe. Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread. Saville's Miscellanies. Edinburgh Pharmacopia. School of Wisdom. Burke's Speeches and Political Tracts. Knox's Sermons, 2 vols. Beauties of the British Senate. Description of 300 Animals. Davies's Dramatic Miscellanies. Boyle's Voyages. Miss Murray's Mentor. Sterne's Sentimental Journey. Stuart's View of Society. The Apocrypha. Richard Steele's Correspondence. Marmontel's Belisarius. Man of the Moon, 2 vols. Journey through Sweden. Dramatic Pieces. Dupaty's Travels. Philadelphia, August 6, 1791. Stretch's Beauties of History. Allinson's Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste. (w&sgw 12w6t)

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WAR DEPARTMENT,
MAY 30, 1791.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of March, 1791, and which will become due on the 4th day of September ensuing, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within the States respectively, under the usual regulations, viz. Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers.
1st. The certificate given by the state, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which as such he is annually entitled.
2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form:
A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of in the state of and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited.) That he served (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the and county of and has resided there for the last years, previous to which he resided in
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeably to the following form:
I, A. B. of county of state of do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for five months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and ending the fourth day of September of the same year.
Signed and sealed in the presence of
{Witnesses.
Acknowledged before me,
Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim.
By command of the President of the United States,
H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
PHILADELPHIA, 20th July, 1791.
THE Commissioners appointed to receive Subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, do hereby, agreeable to law, inform the Stockholders of the said Bank, that an election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the City-Hall in Philadelphia, on Friday the 21st day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the morning. THOMAS WILLING, DAVID RITTENHOUSE, SAMUEL HOWELL.
Charlestown (Mass.) Lottery.
CLASS XXII.
THE MANAGERS of said LOTTERY present to the Public the following
S C H E M E
Of the TWENTY-SECOND CLASS,
Consisting of 7000 Tickets, at THREE DOLLARS each, 21,000 Dollars.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 2500 Dolls. is, and a third column. Rows include: 1 Prize of 2500, 1 of 1000, 15 of 100, 20 of 50, 20 of 40, 20 of 30, 40 of 20, 60 of 10, 70 of 8, 80 of 6, 200 of 4.
2335 Prizes, 4665 Blanks, Deduction, 17872 3:28
7000 Tickets, Amount, 21000
This Class will commence drawing on or before the 1st of September.
TICKETS may be had of the several Managers in Charlestown, and at the usual places in Boston.
THOMAS HARRIS, MATTHEW BRIDGE, SAMUEL SOLEY, Managers.
Charleston, May 25, 1791.
HAZARD and ADDOMS,
No. 173, Market-Street, HAVE TICKETS in the above, and in the Massachusetts Second SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY, for Sale.
MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY.
CLASS II.
THE MANAGERS of the STATE-LOTTERY assure the Public, that the second Class of the SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY will positively commence drawing on the day appointed, viz. On Thursday the 13th of October next, or sooner, if the Tickets shall be disposed of. As the Managers have in their several monthly Lotteries commenced drawing at the hour assigned, so they are determined to be equally as punctual in this.
S C H E M E.
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
25,000 TICKETS, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. for the use of the Commonwealth.
Table with 3 columns: PRIZES, DOLLARS, DOLLARS. Rows include: 1 of 10000 is 10000, 2 of 3000 are 6000, 3 of 2000 are 6000, 6 of 1000 are 6000, 10 of 500 are 5000, 30 of 200 are 6000, 80 of 100 are 8000, 90 of 50 are 4500, 100 of 40 are 4000, 120 of 30 are 3600, 161 of 20 are 3220, 200 of 10 are 2000, 7585 of 8 are 60680.
8388 Prizes, 16612 Blanks, 125000
25000 Tickets.
TICKETS in the above Class may be had of the several MANAGERS, who will pay the prizes on demand; of the TREASURER of the Commonwealth; of JAMES WHITE, at his Book-store, Franklin's Head, Court-street—and at other places, as usual.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. DAVID COBB, SAMUEL COOPER, GEORGE R. MINOT, JOHN KNEELAND, Managers.
Boston, April 14, 1791.
Public Notice is hereby given,
to all whom these presents shall come, or in any wise concern, That JAMES GARDNER, late of Wilmington, North-Carolina, deceased, did make four promissory notes payable to SAMUEL JACKSON, of Philadelphia, Merchant, all bearing date the 19th July, 1785, one for three hundred and seventy-one pounds, payable in six months—one for seven hundred and forty two pounds, in nine months—one for seven hundred and forty pounds, in twelve months—and one for seven hundred and forty-five pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, in fifteen months, amounting in the whole to two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, and payable in produce at Wilmington:—Which said notes have been assigned by the said Samuel Jackson to THOMAS MACKIE and Co. and JAMES HOOD, Merchants, Philadelphia, and have since, in the life-time of the said Gardner, by him been accounted for and paid in part to the amount of two thousand and forty-seven pounds fifteen shillings and six-pence, to the said THOMAS MACKIE and Co. in proof of which the subscribers have sufficient vouchers.
These are therefore to caution all persons from purchasing said notes as they will not be taken up.
THOMAS WRIGHT, ROBERT SCOTT, M. R. WILLKINGS, Executors.
Wilmington, North-Carolina, 27th May, 1791. (c p 3 m.)
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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 inclusively.
At any place or places, from the said river Margot, to the river Yazous inclusively.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the river Tenesee, to Ocochappo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusively.
Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on, betwixt the public and the contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork, Half a Jill of rum, brandy or whisky, One quart of salt, Two quarts of vinegar, Two pounds of soap, One pound of candles, per. 100 rations.
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 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.
Therations 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 deposition of two or more credible 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 JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.