Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-04-24 00:00:00

Scourious Cave (-373-) Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 94 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1793.
[Whole No. 416.]
LAW OF THE UNION.
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
AN ACT making Appropriations for the Support of Government for the Year one thousand seven hun- dred and ninety-three.
B esit enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, That for the service of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, the sum be appropriated a sum of money, not exceeding one million five hundred and eighty-nine thousand, and forty-four dollars, and seventy-two cents; that is to say:
For the compensations granted by law to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars: For the like compensations to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of six months continuance, one hundred and forty-three thousand, five hundred and ninety-one dollars: For the salaries of the door-keepers and assistant door-keepers, of the Senate and House of Representatives, under the act for their compensation, passed the 12th of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand two hundred and thirty-three dollars, and sixty-eight cents: For the expenses of firewood, stationery, printing work, and all other contingent expenses of the two Houses of Congress, nine thousand five hundred and fifty-two dollars: For making good a deficiency in the appropriation, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for contingent expenses in the office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives, five hundred and seventy-eight dollars: For the compensations granted by law, to the chief justice, associate judges, district judges, and the attorney-general, forty three thousand two hundred dollars: For the additional salary of the attorney-general, by the act of the eighth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and sixty dollars, and eighty-two cents: For defraying the expense of clerks of courts, jurors and witnesses, in aid of the fund arising from fines, forfeitures and penalties, twelve thousand dollars: For defraying the expenses of prosecutions for offences against the United States, and for the safe keeping of prisoners, four thousand dollars: For compensation to the Secretary of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eight thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: For salary of the two principal clerks to the Secretary of the Treasury, from the eighth of May to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand and forty three dollars and twenty-eight cents: For expense of stationery, printing, and all other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred dollars: For compensation to the comptroller of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand four hundred and fifty dollars: For the increased salary of the auditor, from the eighth of May to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, two hundred and sixty dollars, and eighty-two cents: For expense of stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, in the auditor's office, six hundred dollars: For compensation to the register of the Treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, eighteen thousand six hundred dollars: For the increased salary of the register of the Treasury, from the eighth of May, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, three hundred and twenty-six dollars and three cents, and for making good the deficiency in the appropriation of one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one hundred dollars; making, in the whole, four hundred and twenty-six dol-
lars and three cents: For expenses of stationery, printing, and other contingent expenses, in the register's office, two thousand dollars: For compensation to the Treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, four thousand one hundred dollars: For the increased salary of the Treasurer, from the eighth of May, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and for making good a deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for clerks in that office, five hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-eight cents: For expense of firewood, stationery, printing and other contingencies in the treasurer's office, four hundred and fifty dollars: For compensation to the commissioner of the revenue, clerks and persons employed in his office, four thousand one hundred dollars: For the salary of the commissioner of the revenue, clerks and persons employed in that office, from the establishment thereof, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, including also contingent expenses to the same time, two thousand eight hundred and seventy-three dollars and forty-six cents: For the expense of stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the office of the commissioner, three hundred dollars: To make good the deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two for the contingent expenses of the treasury-department, two thousand four hundred dollars: For the payment of rent for the several houses employed in the treasury department, one thousand four hundred and eighty-nine dollars and ninety-nine cents: For wood and candles in the several offices in the treasury department (except the treasurer's office) one thousand two hundred dollars: For compensations to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand, two hundred and fifty dollars: For defraying the expenses of stationery, and for hire of clerks in the offices of the several commissioners of loans, to the first of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, authorized by the act of the eighth of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, thirty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty nine dollars, and ninety-five cents: To make good deficiencies in former appropriations, for similar expenses, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: For compensation to the Secretary of State, clerks and other persons employed in his office, six thousand three hundred dollars: For defraying the expense of collecting the laws of the several States, publishing and distributing the laws of Congress, and all other expenses in the office of the secretary of State, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-one dollars and sixty-seven cents: To make good a deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for the contingent expenses in this office, ninety-three dollars and thirty four cents: For compensation to the commissioners for settlement of the accounts between the United States and the individual States, clerks and persons employed in their office, six thousand six hundred and fifty dollars: For defraying the contingent expenses of the board of commissioners, four hundred and seven dollars: For compensations to the Governors, Secretaries and Judges of the territory north-west, and the territory south of the river Ohio, ten thousand three hundred dollars: For expenses of stationery, office-rent, printing patents for lands, and other contingent expenses in both the said territories, seven hundred dollars: For the payment of the pensions granted to invalids, eighty-two thousand, two hundred and forty-five dollars, and thirty-two cents: For payment of the annual allowance granted by Congress to Baron Steuben, two thousand five hundred dollars: For payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, two thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven dollars, and seventy-three cents: For the maintenance and repair of light-houses, beacons, piers, stakes and buoys, twenty thousand dollars: For the farther expense of building and equipping ten cutters, three thousand dollars: For the purchase of hydrometers, for the use of the officers of the customs and inspectors of the revenue, one thousand five hundred dollars: To make good the deficiency in the appropriation of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for the purchase of hydrometers six hundred and ten dollars, and ten cents: For the payment of such demands, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been duly allowed by the officers of the treasury, five thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars: For compensation to the Secretary of War, clerks and persons employed in his office, seven thousand and fifty dollars: For the increased salary of the chief clerk in the war department, from the eighth of May, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one hundred and thirty dollars and forty-one cents: For expenses of firewood, stationery, printing and other contingent expenses in the office of the Secretary of War, six hundred dollars: For compensation to the accountant to the war-department and clerks in his office, four thousand two
hundred dollars: For salary to the accountant, clerks and for contingent expenses in that office, from the establishment thereof, to the thirty-first of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, one thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars and eighty-nine cents: For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant to the war department, three hundred dollars: For payment of four years rent for the building occupied for offices of the Secretary of War and accountant, one thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars, and sixty-six cents: For salaries of the store-keepers at the several arsenals, rent for the buildings occupied as magazines, for payment of the laborers, coopers, armors and other persons employed in taking care of the ordnance, arms and military stores, seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-five dollars and thirty-two cents: For five hundred rifles, purchased in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, six thousand dollars: For expense of repairing arms, equipments of cannon cartridge-boxes, swords and every other article in the ordnance department, ten thousand dollars: For defraying the expenses of the Indian department, fifty thousand dollars: For the pay of the troops authorized by law, three hundred and four thousand, three hundred and eight dollars: For subsistence, three hundred and twelve thousand, five hundred and sixty-seven dollars, and seventy five cents: For forage, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars: For clothing, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars: For equipments for cavalry, five thousand dollars: For horses for cavalry, five thousand dollars: For hospital department, twenty-five thousand dollars: For quarter-master's department one hundred thousand dollars: For maps, hiring expressies, allowance to officers for extra expenses, printing, loss of stores, advertising, apprehending deserters, and every other contingent expense in the war-department, thirty thousand dollars: For the defensive protection of the frontiers, fifty thousand dollars: For the payment of bounties, fifteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made shall be paid and discharged out of the funds following, to wit:
First—The sum of six hundred thousand dollars reserved by the act making provision for the debt of the United States.—Secondly.—The surplus which may remain unexpended, of the monies appropriated for the use of the war department, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.—And, thirdly.—The surplus of the existing revenues of the United States, to the end of the year, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, except what may be otherwise appropriated, during the present session of Congress.
And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be authorized to borrow, on account of the said States, any sum or sums, not exceeding, in the whole eight hundred thousand dollars, at a rate of interest not exceeding five per centum, per annum, and reimbursable at the pleasure of the United States, to be applied for the purposes aforesaid, and to be repaid out of the said surplus of the duties on imports and tonnage, to the end of the present year, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three: And that it shall be lawful for the bank of the United States, to lend the said sum. And the President of the United States shall cause so much of the loan, made of the bank of the United States, pursuant to the eleventh section of the act, by which it is incorporated, to be paid off, in sums not less than fifty thousand dollars, as, in his opinion, the state of the treasury may, from time to time, admit, out of any monies, which may be in the treasury, having due regard to the exigencies of government, and the appropriations made and to be made by law.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED FEBRUARY 28, 1793. GEO. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
[CONCLUDED FROM OUR LAST.]
W HILE we exult in the success of reason and justice—while we rejoice in the recent victory of energetic principles over chimerical and impracticable republican simplicity, it is duty to consider the past, as to profit in what is to come. In this view, I shall make some observations, as what directly flow from late Congressional occurrences.
I hope the members of Congress will now be taught to be more cautious how they alarm their country, and blame the faithful and most useful servants of the public. We should all have an eye on the conduct of public men; and members of Congress, more than any others, are called to this duty: they are censors on the walls of the republic, and should immediately give notice of approaching danger. But let it be remembered, that it (the thro' mere mistake)
they call friends foes, and mix out the very pillars of the state as secret conspirators against it, they may soon involve us in anarchy and ruin.
Again, the people ought to take up no reports or accusations as established truths. They ought to immediately examine every suggestion of delinquency in their servants; but till they arrive at the issue of that examination, they ought not to condemn—not even to suspect. One would suppose the flaming patriots of Congress knew from whence they have drawn their knowledge of governmental corruptions—one would suppose that before they rose to accuse public functionaries, they knew of a certainty that their accusations were true. Yet we have seen the contrary. While therefore we are careful to give full credit and applause to those who, through youthful ardor, are bold in attacking every appearance of a plot against our liberties—let us not precipitately join in every hue and cry against government, its measures and its officers; but let us examine for ourselves, and when we are convinced, then let us condemn. Too many think there is no need of caution here; they think the only danger is, that the people will be too supine, will be too indifferent to the dangerous measures of their servants. Hence a great talk of jealousy, as a most essential republican virtue—Hence some tell me, they take a certain Gazette; not because they relish the abuse it teems with, but because it serves as a good purgative to the corrupt humours necessarily gathering, from time to time, in the body politic. For my part, I explode these notions, not only as infamously silly, but as actually pernicious to the public good. Why should we make it a virtue to do that to a public character, which if done to a private, would make us worthy to be cropped? This jealousy, with too many, is but another name for injustice and abuse. I think I would help to hunt out of the land every aristocrat, every convicted enemy to the happiness of others. But, for all this, I would not call a man one, and persecute him as such, because he is in office and I am out, because he is rich and I am poor, because his political principles and mode of promoting the general welfare are different from mine—because I am nobody, and he is Secretary of the Treasury.
This conduct, this extravagant jealousy, I pronounce pernicious; and, using a fashionable democratic phrase, I denounce it to a discerning public. Men of genius, cultivated talents and integrity, are men of generous and exquisite feelings. By that abuse, which too many deem a virtuous republican jealousy, these characters will be thrust out of office, that men may take their places, who at gaming tables and brothels have lost the fear of their Creator, the love of others, and that delicious sensibility which ever accompanies an upright and a polished mind. Hardened by vice, the latter can bear, without emotion, that abuse they once so freely bellowed on better men.
Who can estimate the loss of men, such as Mr. Hamilton appears to be? It is immense. Great capacity, much cultivation, not a mere chaotic mass of cumberstone erudition, but wholesome systematic knowledge, almost unequalled diligence and labour, found integrity and distinguished patriotism, are united in him. Drive, by rash accusations and groundless abuse, such as he is, from the helm, and we shall soon founder or be wrecked, amidst those storms, to which every government is more or less exposed.
The loss of men uncommonly qualified in head and heart, to promote the public weal, is not the only ill effect of an uncorrected jealousy in the people. It will dispose them ever to give their confidence to those that oppose government, whatever be their principles or their morals. Thus the vilest men will at times be exalted. The people will foster vipers in their bosom, who, in return, will sting them to death. A variety of contradictory measures will be pursued. The government will want system and stability—it will lose the public confidence, it will totter—it may fall. Nay more, such extreme jealousy, pushing us, on the one hand, to unjust treatment of men in office—and on the other, to the heaping of applause upon men out of office, is the frequent forerunner, and with ourselves may one day be the cause of that monarchic or aristocratic tyranny we now so heartily execrate. Tho' I accustom myself to hope for the best, tho' I admire Dr. Franklin's maxim, and daily find life sweeter by looking at the handsome leg, yet reason and history compel me to dread, lest treacherous and tyrannic Cromwells be secretly hidden under our
and our. Not that I suppose there is any prospect of their having their heart's wish, in all its extent. I fear not, that we shall see them, or any others, kings or nobles; but I fear, I fear their principles and measures will one day impair that harmony which now pervades the Union, and that energy in the united government, which, under a gracious providence, has rescued us from ruin, fills us with felicity, and covers us with honour.
My past observations are general. I now close with one more particular. It is, that the late proceedings in Congress should endure the Secretary of the Treasury to every virtuous American. He is one of the brightest jewels in Columbia's crown. As a pillar in the federal building, he seems to unite the solidity of the Doric order, the delicacy and elegance of the Ionic, and the touching beauty of the Corinthian. Here you see I indulge myself. Not that we are known to each other—I never was of his acquaintance, and never expect to be, nor do I

know any thing more of his private character, than that his morals are good, and his soul truly honorable and honest. I view him only as a public man. Remote from public scenes, devoid of ambition, with but little, yet without a want, my life passes sweetly, sometimes most deliciously in the alternate exercises of study, recreation and domestic endearments. This declaration is due to those who see how high the Secretary is in my esteem. So much of me, it may be well to know, that it may be seen, that not only those under the influence of government, but many who derive no direct emolument from it—not only the satellites around the throne, our visionaries have themselves created, and now with noble patriotism attack—but multitudes in every part of the Union do greatly admire and will strenuously support our unparalleled constitution and our virtuous administration. No, Mr. Fenno, it is not by the mignons of power only, as they have been maliciously stiled, that administration is approved. Such an insidious and unjust reflection has at length overcome my past reluctance, and has induced one to publish his sentiments, whose situation in life would, if known, be a satire upon the suggestion of his being directly benefited by, or connected with government. Benefited by it we all are—for it is the fountain of our political comfort: connected we all are, with it, as the body and limbs are connected with the head.
Chiefly a love to others, a desire to make some return amidst too much popular ingratitude to those who are wasting their strength for me and my children, together with some displeasure at the imprudence, if nothing worse, in some public characters, have excited me to transmit my thoughts to you for publication; and I verily believe, tho' I sometimes meet with the jealous and with some who call your's a ministerial paper, the great majority of the people will join me in what I am now uttering, and do coincide with the current sentiments of your Gazette. The enemies of our peace would have their affections disproofed, would be overwhelmed with a just indignation, if the thinking and upright part of the community, at a distance from, as well as at the seat of government, were to publish, as I now do, their sentiments and their feelings respecting our public men and their measures.
I judge of the Secretary from a careful perusal of his official productions, and a careful attention to his official conduct. The present, I deem an important era; and while I leave a G—s to that praise and gratitude which some may hasten to give him, I would strive to bring my fellow-citizens to a just appreciation of the merit of Mr. Hamilton—of that merit which the late accusations have made not merely conspicuous, but truly resplendent. Let then confidence in him be henceforth unshaken; and let the federal measures, of which he is the reputed author, be henceforth considered as largely partaking of his wisdom, energy, order and usefulness.
A CITIZEN.
Foreign Intelligence.
FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION.
MONDAY, February 4.
A DEPUTATION from the section des Lombardes presented an address, thanking the Convention for having struck off the head of the tyrant, and for having declared war against Great-Britain and Holland. They proposed that each municipality should be obliged to furnish a horseman mounted and equipped. This address was ordered to be printed, and referred to the committee of general defence.
TUESDAY, February 5.
A petition was received from the people of Ghent, requesting that they might be united to France.
A petition was also received from the friends of Liberty at Brussels, requesting that Brussels might be united to the French Republic.
Both these petitions were referred to the Diplomatic Committee.
General Bourdonville appeared at the bar, and delivered a speech on his being appointed Minister at War. "There exist great evils," said he, "which are the result of past infidelity. Great remedies are necessary, and the time is short. It is only by multiplying our means and efforts that we can triumph over those obstacles which oppose our success. The armies with only to conquer. Give them proper support, and we shall soon reach that equality, liberty, and happiness, which ought to be the object of our Minister at War. I accept this important office with a resolution of returning to fight against the enemies of my country, with the brave soldiers I have quitted, if after all my efforts I cannot accomplish that end which you propose."
PARIS, February 11.
"To the Editors of all the Journals. STRUCK with horror, I declare as a plain French Citizen, that in my opinion, the sentence of the National Convention which condemns to death the ci-devant Louis XVI. is an infamous iniquity. I think that the public will might free me from the obligation of that
oath which attaches me to the Constitution, but to act contrary to my oath, would only be perjury. I remonstrate against the impunity of the massacres of the month of September.
"What I have here said, my conscience tells me, is a duty that I owe the public. I wish to transmit it to all my cotemporaries, and from generation to generation to the latest posterity.
"Done at Paris this Thursday Evening, Jan. 17, 1793. (Signed) "FRANCIS OURS DANESLE, "of the Isle of Rhe."
BRUSSELS, Jan. 5.
The intelligence of the execution of Louis XVI. has been received here with astonishment and horror. It has occasioned a violent fermentation in the army; and desertions begin to be very considerable in consequence of the King's death. This unfortunate event is likewise the subject of animosity and quarrel throughout the army—several affrays have taken place amongst the military, in which some have been killed and wounded.
LONDON, Feb. 18.
The electors of Liege, to the number 9,700, were assembled on the 28th of January, to determine upon their union with the French republic, when their new attachment was proclaimed throughout the city by the sound of a trumpet.
The Duke of Brunswick is resolved to make every attempt to efface the stain cast upon his character as a General. The King of Prussia has the same intention. He goes along the ranks of his soldiers, addresses all the companies, and endeavors to encourage them whom he calls the companions of the Great Frederick. "Shall these men (lays he) who were accustomed to conquer, return with ignominy. Shall the succeeding year pass over without gaining any advantage to honor your bravery; and shall ye again retire without collecting one sprig of laurel? Soldiers! suffer not Europe to forget that you are Prussians."
The spirit of loyalty has been so much kept up in Wiltshire, that in a little village not five miles from Devizes, the Fidler was burnt in effigy because he would not play "God save the King," at the burning of Tom Paine.
The language of the King of Prussia is insulting in the extreme, as he informs the Poles, "That he cherishes a hope from his pacific measures, that his troops will meet with a favorable reception."—How amiably pacific, when he means to invade and enslave the country! if England goes to war for the Bog, to preserve the balance of power, what will she not do, when a whole country is seized by two despots?
Petitions from every borough in Ireland are received by the Irish parliament, praying for a more equal representation in parliament. These are received with a degree of attention suitable to their importance; and instead of being thrown under the table, as was the case in former sessions, they are now referred to a committee, and the consequences will be such as, we trust, this country will not be averse to emulate.
The portrait of Egalite, in the collection of the Prince of Wales, is to be removed from the Lumber room at Carleton house, to any auctioneer who will knock it down.
As a proof of the flourishing state of the Botany-Bay colony, a letter has been published in several papers, stating that they have an immense extent of excellent land, but no corn; pasture in abundance, but no cattle; and that the climate is wholesome, but the people sickly.
A gentleman in office, being asked why ministers were lavishing so much upon this settlement, said, it was very natural for men in perilous situations to be providing for a sung retreat .
The late alarm at Paris, of an attempt to renew the horrors of the second of September, was occasioned by a crowd of idle people, in the court of the Conciergerie, assembled
to see the execution of a man condemned for forging assignats.
A woman, calling herself the nurse of the late king's daughter, sent a letter to the commons, praying admission to see her foster child, and offering to remain confined in the temple with her as long as they should think fit. The commons passed to the order of the day, on the ground that the person in whose name the letter was written was not known to them.
It is somewhat singular, that one of the most strenuous opposers of a general repeal of the laws against the Roman Catholics of Ireland, should be the lord chancellor (Fitzgibbon) who is the first of his family that was educated a Protestant. His father was a Roman Catholic, but conformed, that he might be qualified to practice the profession of the law.
Many, indeed most of our modern writers on political subjects, might with great propriety adopt the following motto from Smithson's amiable ness of candor and diffidence:
"Though I have examined what all other authors have written on this affair with great impartiality, yet I cannot conceive that any of them have the least merit; nor do I find one man that has treated the subject sensibly, except myself."
That deservedly popular air, 'God save the King,' was composed in the reign of George I. by Mr. Carey: and it obviously applies to a warrior and a patriot Sovereign. When first sung, some parts of it were not understood exactly in the sense that they are at present. Thus, 'confound their politics,' alluded to the politics of the pretender and the adherents of the Stuarts, as supported by the despots of France.—We need scarcely mention, that these were divine, indefeasible rights of Kings, the sacred inviolability of their persons, passive obedience, non-resistance, &c. with other exploded doctrines, which would hardly be admitted even at the Crown and Anchor.
PORTAIT OF PHILIP EGALITE, Ci-devant Duke of Orleans.
His whole life has been the scandal of his age, a swindler and debauchee in his youth, he corrupted and destroyed the Prince de Lamballe, his brother-in-law, with a view afterwards to accuse, assassinate, and plunder the Princess, his wife, whom he stripped of an immense fortune, and reduced to poverty.
He carries in his bosom the pestilential germe of corruption; and after dishonoring his own bed, he dishonors that of another, and blasts what little remained of the family of the celebrated Buffon, whose daughter he made the instrument of his debauchery.
Proprietor of that celebrated gallery of pictures, collected at a vast expence by his ancestors, who were an honor to France, he has mutilated and dispersed those chef d'œuvres of art, whose value he had not the talents to appreciate.
If he was ever in battle, it was when he hid himself upon the appearance of the enemy's colours, and acquired the ironical surname of l'Heros d'Ouessant. If he participated in the crimes of the Revolution it was to fly before la Fayette, and demonstrate that he was equally the scoundrel and the villain. If he made an effort to build the Palace Royale, it was to plunge thousands of families in despair, who had the credulity to entrust him with their property, which was swallowed up in that fraudulent bankruptcy, which he committed with the most cynical impudence.
These treasures and his fortune have been employed to pay the crimes of the 5th of October, the 10th of August, the 2d of September, and the 21st of January. Thus has Heaven been lavish of its favors, only to render vice more conspicuous. He was educated in dignity, that his villainy might be more prominent; he was rich and powerful, only that his vices might be more numerous and despised; he was stationed near the throne, only to overturn it with more public disgrace, and thus offer a terrible lesson to nations and to kings.
His friends and his agents were homogenial with himself, La Clos, the author of the immoral romance, called Les Saisons Dangereuses;—Genlis Sillery, a man the most deeply perverted in iniquity of any other of the present age, and the hero of the annals of debauchery, figured away in his councils, in conjunction with that execrable monster and atheistical priest, who at the end of the 18th century disgraces the name of Perigord. Add to these, we may reckon that graceless wretch La Touche, and Biron, enlarged from an English prison, to appear at the head of the armies of the Revolution.
Such were the worthy colleagues of Philip Egalite; such were his coadjutors in that series of guilt, which wanted only to be completed, by calling to his assistance Le Gendre, the butcher, and the nephew of Damien, Roberispierre, and the malefactors of every country. Such were his secretaries, his directors, his Chancellors, his familiars, and his bosom friends!!!
Miracles of General Dumourier.
The seven Champions of Christendom—Guy, Earl of Warwick—St. George and the Dragon—Joan of Arc—Jack the Giant killer, and the Master Cat or Puss in Boots, never performed such wonders as the mighty Dumourier means to accomplish in the ensuing campaign.
He is to make all Belgium free against the consent of the people, and with the discordant voice of unanimity, force them to confess themselves happy in the midst of misery.
He is to have a triumphal entry into Amsterdam, make all Dutchmen throw off their large galligaskins, become Sans Culottes, and instead of smoking Canaster, sing ca ira and jig the Marfeillois dance.
After disuniting the United States of Holland, emptying the bank, plundering the inhabitants, sending the Dutch fleet to Brest, and laying the Provinces first under contribution, and afterwards under water, he is, with the Prince and Princess of Orange as part of his suite, to throw a bridge of flat-bottomed boats from the Texel to Dover, and march his troops into Great-Britain.
During this expedition, the National Convention are to pass a Decree, commanding the winds to cease so that there shall not be one breath of air to fill the sails of an English ship of war.
He is by a new preparation of Philosophical Chemistry, to petrify the whole Militia of England, stagnate the Patriotic fluid in which the hearts of the people so long have swam, and transmute the mind of a Briton into that of a Frenchman.
He is to plant the tree of Liberty in St. James's Park, (this he averred to Lord Lauderdale when they last dined together) to send the Royal Family into exile, to wash away all the Coronets in the kingdom, behead all the Bishops, hang all the other Clergy, make stables of the Churches and Chapels, dismiss both Houses of Parliament, elect the Constitutional Societies into a National Convention, make Horne Tooke, President, Mr. Rous, Mayor of London and Westminster, and give the command of the army to Citizen Semple.
Having conquered Great-Britain and got possession of her immense fleet, he is immediately to set sail for China, and plant the Tree of Liberty at Pekin; tender the Civic Oath to the Mandarins, and make that great Empire an eighty-sixth Department to France.
In consequence of these achievements the rest of the world must immediately submit; and this great General having disposed of the Empress of Russia's grey hairs, the House of Prussia and Austria, the Kings of Spain, Portugal, &c. &c. he will return to Paris as Cæsar did to Rome, and obtaining a triumph, he will receive a dagger.
Such are the suggestions of his wild imagination, uncontrouled by reason, unchecked by probability, and rioting in the idea that man should acknowledge no God but his own Will.

DUBLIN, Jan. 29. Never did the recruiting service proceed with so much success in this kingdom as at this moment: Within the last week, a serjeant upon this duty, raised 150 men in the course of one day—and so much did the ardor of the multitude second his zeal, that he was borne round the city on the shoulders of the admiring croud, while he exhorted and invited Irishmen to enlist in defence of their king and country?
Domestic Articles.
SAVANNAH, April 4. On Thursday morning last, Mr. George Washington Greene, son of the late Gen. Greene, was unfortunately drowned in this river, near Mulberry Grove, by the upsetting of a canoe. Mr. Stites, a young gentleman who was with him, with much difficulty got to the shore. Mr. Greene's Corpse was found next day, and on Saturday was interred here. The Cincinnati Society, of which he was a member, and a number of respectable citizens, attended the funeral.
We are happy to have it in our power to contradict that part of the disagreeable Indian intelligence, which mentioned the plundering of Mr. Cashen's store on Seilla, and the murder of his two clerks. It seems some Indians had been at the store, but did not commit any acts of violence. The goods have since been removed from thence by Mr. Cashen.
CHARLESTON, April 9. Yesterday morning the French frigate, L'Embuscade, commanded by citizen Bompard, mounting 36 guns, and manned with 300 seamen, appeared off our bar; where she came to anchor.
L'Embuscade had a passage of forty-two days from Rochfort. This vessel was dispatched by the French Republic with M. Genest, Ambassador from the Executive Council of that nation to the President and Congress of the United States of America.
April 10. Yesterday commodore Gillon entertained M. Genest, the French Ambassador, with his suite, the officers of L'Embuscade, and a number of French citizens, at his house in this city.
The French frigate L'Embuscade took one prize on her passage from France, namely, the brig Sally, from Nova Scotia to Barbadoes. The capture was made near Bermuda, but the prize has not yet arrived.
We are informed, that a detachment of British troops, amounting to one hundred men, have just arrived at Bermuda, and that an additional reinforcement is expected there—as an attack from a French squadron was seriously apprehended.
Monsr. Genest has favored us with the following important intelligence, viz. That the National Convention, considering that timber, of the growth of the United States, proper for the building of ships, is equal to any in the world, have lately passed a decree, revoking, in favor of the United States, all the laws which heretofore have existed in that country, with regard to the sale of foreign bottoms within the French ports; so that American built vessels sent thither, for sale, will in all probability meet with a very good market.
April 13. We understand, that his Excellency the Governor has given orders to have this harbor put into a temporary state of defence. Eight 18 pounders are to be sent down to Fort Johnston—and some works are ordered to be thrown up on Shoote's Folly, where several heavy pieces of cannon are to be planted.
The brig Morning Star, Capt. Fullarton, which was taken by the frigate L'Embuscade, on the 10th inst. came into this port yesterday; also, the prize brig Four Brothers, of Nova Scotia.
BOSTON, April 13.
NEW THEATRE.
On Tuesday evening, the friends of the Drama met, for the purpose of opening a subscription to build an elegant house for Thea-
trical Exhibitions—when the shares were immediately filled. The number of shares was 120—at 50l. a share;—and no one was permitted to subscribe for more than two shares. We are told, that a very convenient spot of land, in Federal-street, has been purchased, by the Committee, and that measures for building the house are in train.
The new Bridge over Charles-River, is prosecuting with vigour. The workmen on this side have commenced their labours, and from appearance will in a short time complete their business.
Married, at Nantucket, Mr. JOHN FAIRWEATHER, to Miss HENRY SWAIN. Mr. Fairweather was single, and an apprentice—free—married and bedded—broke out with the small pox the natural way—separated from his wife—and lodged in a hospital, all in less than 48 hours!
Cave
SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) April 16.
NATURAL CURIOSITY.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman living in the county of Otsego, New-York, to his friend in this county.
"I was separate a few rods from my brother huntsmen, on the southeast side of Schoharie mountain, which lies in the county of Otsego, in the pursuit of game, on the 15th of December last. As I was walking through a thicket of oak bushes, where there was but little snow on the ground, I unexpectedly found myself falling into the earth. I dropped my gun and endeavoured to save myself with my hands, but to no purpose. I went down a distance upwards of 63 feet, as was afterwards ascertained by measuring, without receiving any material injury, except bruising my elbows and thighs a little. I found myself in a cave upwards of 42 paces long, and about 20 wide. It was by mere accident my companions discovered me; as all the noise I was capable of making, could not be heard at the distance of a rod from the mouth of the cavity. My companions threw down one end of a rope to me—by making myself fast to it, I was, after much difficulty, drawn from the gloomy mansion. By the same rope the three men who were with me, were let down, by turn, to view the cave. It was as smooth inside, as if it had been worked out by a stone-cutter—and at one corner there was a small spring of genuine cold sweet water, which gently empties itself out at the opposite corner. It is evident that some persons had been so unfortunate as to fall into this cave, and for want of assistance, perish in it—as we found a number of human bones on the bottom of the cave. The philosophic mind may here find ample employment in tracing out the original cause of a curiosity like the present. I think it exceeds every curiosity which I ever was spectator of, in the course of my life."
Philadelphia, April 24.
By the Ship Industry, Capt. Rudd, arrived at Bermuda Hundred, from London, we have the following interesting advices:
PARIS, Feb. 14. Gen. Wimpfen in the command of the city of Mentz, though it is reported that a general attack is meditated by the Prussian and Austrian troops, who have blockaded that city for the last two months. But a circumstance of the most fatal aspect to the French conquests on that side, is, that a letter was read in Convention on Tuesday the 12th, which shews, that the National Gendarmerie of Culsine, desert every day to the enemy.
FEB. 21. General Biron is arrived at Nice. Pache, Rœderer, and Roland, were candidates for the Mayorality of Paris, Pache carried his election by a considerable majority, and took the oaths accordingly.
Monge, who gave in his resignation as Minister of Marine, has been re-elected. They write from Leghorn, that the French squadron destined for the Sardinian expedition, was on the 23d ult. stationed off Cagliari. That they had taken the little isles of St. Magdalena and St. Pierre, whose garrison withdrew, after having spiked their cannon, and moved their light artillery.
MADRID, Feb. 7. The following is an extract of the MADRID GAZETTE of the 5th inst. which officially notified the death of the KING OF FRANCE:
"His Majesty has ordered the court to take mourning for three months from the 3d instant, on account of the death of his most Christian Majesty, Louis the XVI. King of France, who finished his career on the 21st of January, with a heroism equal to his hard misfortune, and to the inhumanity of the horrid and unheard of outrages committed against his august person."
LONDON, Feb. 11. Though France has not expressly declared war against Russia, hostilities are not the less open; for the circular letter of the minister of marine, sent to all the ports, carries an order to lay an embargo on all Russian vessels as well as others, and this order has been executed in the port of Bourdeaux.
Before the 1st of March, the emperor and the king of Prussia, will have on foot 340,000 men, all distributed in different posts to act against France.
Feb. 23. We are glad to find that the failures in the city are not so considerable as reported in yesterday's paper, and that one of the American houses which stopped payment a few days since, has been enabled to go on with their arrears.
Feb. 24. The Dutch mail received yesterday, brought advice of a smart action between a detachment of Prussians, and a large part of the French army under general Chambo-ran, before Venloo, but although attended with much slaughter, did not prove any decisive, each party claiming victory. The Prussians retained the field.
Extract of a letter from Norfolk, April 14. "We have an arrival from London in six weeks, the letters are not come up—I have seen papers to the 25th of February. Spain has declared war, and 30 sail of the line were expected to join the British and Dutch fleet, about the beginning of this month. It was said that all the vessels fitted out by France, as privateers, were taken as they appeared in the seas. We had a report that the queen of France, was tried, condemned and executed; however, this seems premature, and without foundation."
Captain Art, arrived last Saturday from Charleston, was informed that the French had declared war against Russia. The frigate L'Embuscade, after landing the Ambassador, Monsr. Genest, continued opposite the bar for two or three days, and then disappeared. As the Delaware came out, the 11th instant, she spoke a British brig from Halifax going into Charleston, who informed Capt. Art that she was a prize to the French frigate.
The French Ambassador was to set out for Philadelphia, it was reported, on the 9th, but had not, however, departed, the day Capt. Art failed; but that he would actually set out in a day or two, and his two Secretaries would shortly embark in the brig Aurora, Capt. Crofts.
The Ambassador's suite, carriage and furniture was not ready in time for the Delaware.
Innumerable reports are fabricated, and thrown into circulation at the present day.—Among others, that Lord Dorchester is appointed ambassador to the United States; another, that he is coming to Philadelphia to deliver up our western posts.—It is a fact, however, that a gentleman in this city, has a letter from one of Lord Dorchester's suite, which says, that he is going to Quebec the ensuing spring to resume, as supposed, the government of Canada.
Extract of a letter from Birmingham. "This place is far from being in a state of tranquility.—Party disputes and animosities run as high as ever; and though proper exertions are made by many respectable individuals on both sides to calm the violence of the tide, it is expected again to overflow its banks with many mischievous effects."
"The great bone of contention and source of menace on one side, and terror on the other, appears to be this:—Damages were granted to those who were sufferers in the late disturbances and riots—these were to be raised by a kind of rate, levied, we believe, by the vestries of the different parishes.—This rate many individuals have absolutely refused to pay. This must consequently give occasion for new trials, excite fresh animosities, and eventually, it is to be feared, promote repeated and reciprocal acts of outrage. It is certainly a most critical period, and demands the serious attention of those who may be able to prevent the evils which are dreaded."
Passengers arrived in the William Penn, from London.—Mr. Scott, Mrs. French, Miss Sheaff, Mr. and Mrs. Gaifem, and three children, Miss Yeats, Mrs. Josiah, and five steerage passengers.
The Agio of the bank of Holland, which stood at 1 3/4 per cent. for some time, fell to 1 per cent on the 8th February, on the London exchange, as appears by Lloyd's list.—Exchange in Spain and Portugal was falling, and it was rising on Dublin and Hamburg. Bank of England stock fell from 176 on the 8th February, when it stood at 163 3/4.
Capt. Dixon, a celebrated English sea commander, and well known for his circumnavigatory voyages, upon a late visit to Bermuda, fixed the latitude of St. George's, in that island, from the mean result of a number of accurate observations, to 32 deg. 22 min. 20 seconds, N. and long. 64 deg. 33 min. W.—He advises navigators steering in a parallel of latitude for Bermuda, to prefer 32 deg. 8 min. instead of 32. 25. as generally laid down in the printed tables.
A pathetic admonition to the Roman Catholics of Ireland, from five catholic bishops then in Dublin, was read in all the chapels of that city on the 26th of January last—in which the people of that persuasion are exhorted to gratitude to the king, for recommending his Roman Catholic subjects to the wisdom and liberality of parliament.—The admonition expresses the greatest detestation of the enormities committed in some counties of the kingdom, by seditious and misguided wretches of every religious denomination, and conjures the people to avoid every appearance of riot.
A remark has been made, that if Louis XVI. had been less just he might have been less unfortunate.—It is confirmed by every view of the subject.—If to any party he had given himself up, he might have lived the Nominal Ruler of a land governed by a Faction.
The unhappy Louis was, like a Prince whose reign is honored by the happy test of popular veneration, a model of Private, a model of public virtue. No one inordinate excess can be recorded of him: Like our own Charles he might conjure his offspring to say to the wife of his bosom, "that even in thought he had ever wronged her." Religion, it is well known, infused a fortitude into his breast, that all the insolence of little villainy could not discompose. His deportment upon his Trial was dignified and firm. For his Family, as a man, it became him to feel—but suffering a Martyrdom, he expired as a Martyr; his thoughts were beyond himself. Eng. Pap.
A correspondent observes, that the general sentiment of the sovereign people was never perhaps more fully expressed on any occasion, than it is in the proclamation of the President of the United States.
By Authority.
BY THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.
A Proclamation
WHEREAS it appears, that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, G. Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part; and France, on the other—and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial towards the belligerent powers.
I HAVE therefore thought fit by these presents, to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those powers respectively; and to exhort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsoever, which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition.
AND I DO hereby also make known, that whosoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations, by committing, aiding or abetting hostilities against any of the said powers, or by carrying to any of them those articles, which are deemed contraband by the modern usage of nations, will not receive the protection of the United States against such punishment or forfeiture; and further, that I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons, who shall, within the cognizance of the Courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the powers at war, or any of them.
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the City of Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the seventeenth.
G. WASHINGTON.
By the PRESIDENT, Th: JEFFERSON.
MR. FENNO,
There is a peculiar and very urgent reason for proposing the following question at this time, and it is earnestly requested that such of your correspondents as may be able to give satisfactory answers to the same would be pleased to send them in as soon as possible.
THE QUESTION.
SUPPOSE I should be cast away upon some desolate island, or should travel into some uncivilized country, where no kind of mathematical instruments could be procured.—I want to know what observations I could make in such circumstances, without the assistance of any other instruments, except a knife and hatchet, or such as I could readily make with these—so as to enable me afterwards, with the assistance of proper books, to compute, with tolerable accuracy, the latitude and longitude of the place where I had made such observations.
N. B. It may be taken for granted that I shall be able to preserve an exact register of all my observations, and of the year, month, and day when they were made; and that I know the names of most of the principal fixed stars, or at least shall be able to point out such on which I shall have made any observation.
It is requested that your correspondents be very minute and particular in the directions they may give, so that they may be easily understood, and readily put in practice.
It is also requested that you would publish all the answers to this question which shall be sent you, so that from the whole a choice may be made, as circumstances may require.
A TRAVELLER.
DIED. —At Waynesborough, Chester county, the 18th inst. Mrs. MARY WAYNE, the amiable consort of Major-General Anthony Wayne.
PETERSBURGH, April 16.
The ship Industry left the Downs about the 6th of March—no accounts are received by the Industry of the death of the Queen of France; we may therefore conclude that the reports to that effect are without foundation.
New-York, April 22.
An account has been received from St. Kitts, that his Britannic Majesty's frigate Proserpine, of 28 guns, had, after a smart contest, taken and carried to that island, the French frigate la Felicite, of 32 guns.
Last night arrived the ship Greyhound, in seven weeks from London, and the brig Almy, in forty-six days from Glasgow.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Ship Delaware, Art, Charleston Brig Noah's-Ark, Virginia Sloop Experiment, Smith, Cape-Francis Betsey, Taylor, North-Carolina Betsey, Everage, Virginia Dechance, Dillaknow, Georgia Phoenix, Shepard, Virginia
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STIRRS not thy spirit, PRIESTLEY, as the train With low obeisance, and with servile phrase, File behind file, advance, with supple knee, And lay their necks beneath the foot of power?
London, Dec. 29, 1792.
AN EPIGRAM,
Said to be written by the unfortunate G. Barrington, on the Duke of Richmond having inscribed his family vault with the title of DOMUS UTERINA.
DID he who thus inscrib'd this wall, Not read or not believe Saint Paul? Who says there is, where'er it stands, Another house not made with hands.
[BEE.]
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VOLUME VIII, OF ENCYCLOPEDIA:
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As several gentlemen who have honored this undertaking with early subscriptions, have only received a small part of the work, they are earnestly requested to complete their sets, as far as published, immediately, while the publisher still has it in his power to supply them with the parts which have not been furnished. As the subscription will very possibly be closed by the first of July next, the publisher cannot undertake to complete sets after that period; and those who wish to become possessors of this truly valuable and important work, will please apply before the expiration of that time, that they may not be disappointed.
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N. B. A few Boxes of the above HYSON for sale.
Just published, By THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second-Street,
A CASE,
Decided in the SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES, in which is discussed the Question, WHETHER A STATE IS LIABLE TO BE SUED BY A PRIVATE CITIZEN OF ANOTHER STATE? Price Half a Dollar.
DISTRICT of PENNSYLVANIA, to wit.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirteenth day of March, in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Thomas Dobson, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit.
"An Enquiry how far the Punishment of Death is necessary in Pennsylvania. With Notes and Illustrations. By William Bradford, Esq. To which is added, an Account of the Gaol and Penitentiary House of Philadelphia, and of the interior Management thereof. By Caleb Lownes, of Philadelphia. If we enquire into the Causes of all human Corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the Impunity of Crimes, and not from the Moderation of Punishments."—Montesq.
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned."
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. The above work is sold in Charleston by William Price Young; Richmond, by Archibald Currie; Baltimore, by James Rice; New-York, by Thomas Allen; Boston, by David West.
ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEREAS A BRIDGE is to be built over Raritan River, at the city of New-Brunswick, in the state of New-Jersey—to accomplish which, will require the service of many carpenters and masons of experience; Notice is therefore hereby given, that any person or persons inclining to undertake the whole, or any part thereof, by applying to the subscribers, on or before the first day of May next, may have an opportunity of contracting for the same.
JOHN BAYARD, JACOB HARDENBURGH, JOHN DENNIS, Sen. Brunswick, March 24th.
An Ordinance for securing the punctual Payment of the Monies due on the Subscriptions to the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures.
WHEREAS doubts have heretofore arisen with regard to the power of the Society to annex any penalties to the non-payment of the instalments, agreeably to the terms of the subscriptions. And whereas the Legislature at their last session, passed a Supplement to the original law of incorporation, removing the said doubts, and fully authorizing the Directors to pass any ordinance they may think proper, to compel the punctual payment of the said subscriptions:
Sec. 1. Be it ordained, therefore, by the Governor and Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, That if any subscriber or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the second payment of his, her, or their respective subscriptions, together with the lawful interest arising thereon, either to the cashier of the United States Bank Office of Discount and Deposit, at New-York, the cashier of the Bank of New-York, the cashier of the Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, of John Bayard, Esq. in the city of New-Brunswick, in the state of New-Jersey, on or before the thirteenth day of April next: That then and in that case, all and every share or shares of such person or persons so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Directors, and their successors, for the common benefit of the said Society.
Sec. 2. And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That if any subscriber, or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the third payment of his, her or their respective subscriptions, together with the lawful interest arising thereon, on or before the thirteenth day of May next. That then and in that case all and every share or shares of such person or persons so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Directors, and their successors, for the common benefit of the said Society.
Sec. 3. And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That if any subscriber, or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the fourth payment of his, her, or their respective subscriptions, on or before the thirteenth day of July next, that then and in that case, all and every share or shares of such person or persons, so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said Directors, and their successors, for the common benefit of the said Society.
NICHOLAS LOW, Governor. Passed at New-Ark, 20th February, 1793. (Counterigned) ELISHA BOUDINOT, Secretary pro tempore.
BE IT KNOWN, that the proportion of specie which may be paid on the respective payments of every original share, by such Stockholders as prefer paying a moiety of said shares in specie, in lieu of deferred debt, is as follows: Dals. Cts.
On the 13th of April, 1793, with interest from 13th July, 1792, 7 63 On the 13th of May, 1793, with interest from 13th January, 1793, 7 86 On the 13th of July, 1793, 8 09
Stockholders in the said Society are hereby notified, that I, the subscriber, am duly authorized to make the requisite indorsements upon the certificates of shares which they may respectively hold, and that books of transfer are opened at my office, in Front-Street, New-York.
NICHOLAS LOW. February 21, 1793. raw: gM.
By THOMAS JOHNSON, DAVID STUART, & DANIEL CARROLL, Esquires,
COMMISSIONERS appointed by Government to prepare the Public Buildings, &c. within the City of Washington, for the reception of Congress, and for their permanent residence after the year 1800—
A LOTTERY
FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
50,000 Tickets at 7 dollars, are 350,000 dollars.
LIST OF PRIZES, viz. 1 Superb Hotel, with baths, & out-houses, &c. &c. to cost 50,000 1 Cash Prize 25,000 1 ditto 20,000 1 ditto 15,000 1 ditto 10,000 2 ditto 5,000 10 ditto 1,000 20 ditto 500 100 ditto 100 200 ditto 50 400 ditto 25 1,000 ditto 20 15,000 ditto 10 Dollars 350,000 16,737 Prizes 33,263 Blanks
By this scheme at least the amount of the tickets will return to the fortunate adventurers, and yet the federal City will gain its object thereby, in a magnificent building designed both for public and private convenience.
Although some experience must necessarily attend the conducting of the lottery, (which experience will be taken from the principal prize) the Commissioners having agreed to present in return a sufficient quantity of excellent free-stone, together with the best adapted lots for the hotel and for the out-houses, the value of the lottery entire may be fairly rated at something more than par: In this important instance it will be found, on examination, to exceed all the lotteries that have ever been offered to the Public in this or perhaps in any other country. The keys of the Hotel, when complete, will be delivered to the fortunate possessor of the ticket drawn against its number.—All the other prizes will be paid, without deduction, in one month after the drawing, by the City Treasurer at Washington, or at such Bank or Banks as may be hereafter announced, for the convenience of the fortunate adventurers. The drawing will commence on Monday the 9th of September next, at the City of Washington.
Tickets may be had of Col. Wm. Dickens, City Treasurer of Washington; Thayer & Bartlet, of Charleston, South-Carolina; Gideon Denison, Savannah; Messrs. James West & Co. Baltimore; Mr. Peter Gilman, Boston; and at such other places as will be hereafter published.
N. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given for the best Plan of an elegant and convenient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out houses, if presented on or before the 10th of April next; and a preference will be given to the Artist for a Contract, provided he be duly qualified to complete his plan. The ground on which the Hotel and out-houses are to be erected, will be a corner lot of about 60 by 200 feet, with a back avenue to the stables, &c. Sections and estimates of the expense will be expected with the elevations, &c. complete; and 50,000 dollars must be regarded by the Architect as the utmost limit in the expense intended for this purpose. S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City. March 6, 1793.
War Department,
JANUARY 28, 1793.
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 September 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of March 1793, 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 agreeable 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 six months, as an Invalid of the United States, from the 4th day of September 1792, and ending the 4th day of March 1793.
Signed and Sealed in the Presence of
Acknowledged before me, Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the Invalid died, whose pension they may claim. By Command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary at War.
Stock Brokers Office,
No. 16, Wall-street, New-York.
THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE & SALE of STOCKS on COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost facility and dispatch.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States, will be strictly attended to.
(t.f.) LEONARD BLECKER.
TO BE SOLD,
An noted covering Horse, OF THE HUNTING BREED.
HE was imported from England in November last, seven hundred and eighty-six, and is now ten years old; he is a bright bay, with a blaze, fifteen hands one inch high, is well formed, has a great deal of bone and strength, and his action equal to any horse. His colts are well approved of in the different parts of the State where he has stood, of which any person inclined to purchase can inform themselves.—Enquire of the Printer. February 18, 1793.
POST-ROAD
TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY.
THE public are hereby informed, that the Post-Road from Philadelphia to Reading, is continued to Sunbury and Northumberland; thence up the West Branch of the Susquehanna as far as Licomming; thence to the Painted Post (in New-York state, near the forks of the Tings) thence to Bath (a town laid out on the Cohoeson Branch of the Tioga) thence to Williamsburg, at the forks of Genesee River.
Letters for this new route will be sent from the Philadelphia Post-Office every Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, with the mail for Reading.
A weekly mail will also be carried from Bethlehem to Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne.
General Post-Office, April 6, 1793.
Vinall's Arithmetic.
THE Second Edition of this work, with improvements, will speedily be put to press.
The rapid sale of the first edition*, greatly beyond the author's most sanguine expectations, encourages him to print a second edition. He intends to have it printed upon much better paper than the former, and with a new type.
Those Booksellers who wish to take a number of copies in sheets, are requested to apply to the author for particulars. * 1000 Copies.
At a meeting of the SCHOOL COMMITTEE, February 4th, 1793.
The Committee, appointed to examine "The Preceptor's Assistant, or Student's Guide," being a systematical treatise of Arithmetic, by JOHN VINALL, teacher of the Mathematics & Writing, in Boston, reported, that they have attended that service, and are of opinion, that the work is executed with judgment, and is as well calculated for the use of schools, counting houses, and private families, as any of the same compass that has hitherto been offered to the public.
VOTED, That the above report be accepted, and that Mr. VINALL be furnished with a copy of it, whenever he shall desire it.
Copy of the Records. Attest, CHARLES BULFINCH, Sec'y.
The following character of the above work, is given in the Review of the Massachusetts Magazine, for Jan. 1793:
"This is a very useful work, and is no ill proof of the judgment and industry of the author. The rules are laid down with propriety, and the examples annexed are sufficient for their illustration. One part of the work deserves particular commendation. We mean that which the author titles "Mercantile Arithmetic." It occupies a considerable portion of his book, but not more than its importance will justify. We would recommend to the young Arithmetician to pay a particular attention to this branch. He will find its principles well explained. And should he make himself master of them, he will always have reason to acknowledge his obligation to the judicious and laborious author. We cannot but congratulate the rising generation on account of the many useful productions which have lately appeared; and in which their improvement has been principally consulted.—Among those productions we must place this treatise of Arithmetic. We should be wanting in justice to the author, should we not acknowledge that his work is in reality that which its title imports—The PRECEPTOR'S ASSISTANT, or STUDENT'S GUIDE." I. C. A. A. A. S.
Boston, Feb. 13.
City of Washington.
JANUARY 7th, 1793.
A NUMBER of Lots in this City will be offered for sale at auction, by the Commissioners, on the 17th day of September next.—One fourth part of the purchase money is to be paid down, the residue at three equal annual payments with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
JOHN M. GANTT, Clerk to the Com'ts. Extract of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, concerning the Territory of Columbia, and the City of Washington.
"Be it enacted, That any foreigner may by deed or will, hereafter to be made, take and hold lands within that part of the said Territory which lies within this State, in the same manner as if he was a citizen of this State; and the same lands may be conveyed by him, and transmitted to and be inherited by his heirs or relations, as if he and they were citizens of this State: Provided, That no foreigner shall, in virtue hereof, be entitled to any further or other privilege of a citizen."
Jan. 29. if