Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1790-07-31 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 41, BROAD-STREET, NEAR THE EXCHANGE, NEW-YORK.
[No. 32, of VOL. II.]
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1790.
[WHOLE No. 136.]
DISCOURSES ON DAVILA.—No. XVI. (CONTINUED.)
Opposant, sans relâche, avec trop de prudence Les Guises aux Condés, et la France à la France. Toujours prête à s'unir avec ses ennemis Et changeant d'intérêt, de rivaux, et d'amis.
WHILE all minds, were held in agitation at Court by these events, the Bourbons saw themselves, notwithstanding their proximity of blood, and pretensions to the crown, contrary to the usage of the nation, excluded from employments and honors. Except when the necessity of a war, or the exercise of some office of little consequence, which remained to them, required their presence, they appeared not at Court. It is true, that the Count D'Aguien, one of the Princes of this house, had advanced himself by his merit and valour. The King had given him the command of his army in Piedmont. The battle of Cerizolles, which he gained against the Spaniards, had raised his reputation. But this advantage was too transitory to raise the house of Bourbon. This Prince died by accident, in the flour of his age, and his brother, the Duke D'Anguien was killed at the battle of St. Quintin. There remained therefore none of the children of Charles of Bourbon, but Anthony Duke of Vendome, and King of Navarre, by his marriage with Jane of Albret; Louis, Prince of Conde, the stock of the branches of Condé and Conti, killed afterwards at Jarnac, and Charles, Cardinal of Bourbon, proclaimed King afterwards by the Leaguers, under the name of Charles the tenth.
The chiefs of the house, were now, Anthony Duke of Vendome, and Louis Prince of Condé, his brother, both sons of Charles of Vendome, who, after the revolt of the Constable de Bourbon, and the captivity of Francis the first, by his moderation and disinterestedness, had somewhat calmed the hatred which had been violently enkindled against those of his blood. These Princes, depressed by the Guises, whom they called strangers and new comers from Lorraine, complained bitterly, that except the right of succession to the crown, which no man could take from them, they were deprived of all their privileges, and especially of the honor of residing near the person of the King. That they scarcely held any rank in a court, where their birth called them to the first places after his Majesty: and that such conduct was equally inconsistent with reason and equity. The King however, maintained with inflexibility, the power of the Guises against all remonstrances and complaints. The Bourbons endured with less impatience, the elevation of the Constable Montmorency: on the contrary, they were severely mortified to see his credit diminish. United with him by an alliance, by views and by interests, they flattered themselves they might obtain by his means a decent rank, if they could not re-ascend to that which their ancestors had possessed. But now, deprived of that hope which supports the unfortunate by softening the sentiment of their ills, they bore with still greater impatience their disgraces.
Anthony of Vendome, a Prince of a mild and moderate character, appeared to support them with more tranquility than the others, because he meditated great designs. He had married Jane of Albret, only daughter of Henry, King of Navarre, and after the death of his father in law he had taken the crown and title of King. His project was to recover his kingdom of Navarre, of which the Spaniards had made themselves masters, for several years, during the war, between Louis the XIIth, and Ferdinand the Catholic. The Kings of France, to whose interest this state had been sacrificed, had attempted several times to reconquer it. The Spaniards, who could easily march troops to its relief, had hitherto defended it. But the two crowns, being then upon the point of concluding a solid peace, the King of Navarre, hoped to comprehend in the treaty, and to obtain a restitution of his hereditary states, or, at least, an equivalent. He was confirmed in this thought, by the birth of a son, to whom he gave the name of Henry, in memory of his maternal grandfather. This is the Prince, whom, the splendor of his victories raised, after long and bloody wars, to the throne of France, under the name of Henry the fourth, and whose merits and virtues have merited the name of great. He was born the 13th of December, 1554, at Pau, the capital of Bearn. This birth, which filled with joy the King and Queen of Navarre,
inspired them with more ardor, to recover their dominion. Anthony chose rather to interest the King of France, to demand this restitution in the treaty of peace, than to solicit in quality of first Prince of the blood, governments and dignities in the kingdom. It was this, which engaged him to dissemble with more patience and moderation than the rest, the injustice done to his house. The King, persisting in the design of lowering continually the Princes of the blood, or perhaps irritated at the refusal of Anthony, to exchange Bearn and his other states, for cities and territories situated in the interior of the kingdom, had dismembered from Guinne, of which the King of Navarre was governor, as first Prince of the blood, Languedoc and the city of Toulouse, to give the government of it, to the Constable. But the King of Navarre, shewing little resentment of this injustice, pursued constantly his first views. (To be continued.)
The reader is desired to correct the following errors of the press in our last, "Discourses on Davila," fourth line from the top first column, dele apostrophe from the "Montmorencys"—11th line from bottom first column, for "captive" read captivate.
TRANSLATED FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
PARIS.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE COLONIES, Presented to the National Assembly, in the name of the Committee appointed for that purpose, the 23d March, 1790.
By Mr. BARNAVE, Deputy from Dauphiny. CONTINUED.
ARTICLE FIRST.
1st. THE decree of the National Assembly of the 8th of this month, respecting the Colonies, and the present instructions having been sent by the King, to the governor of the colonies of St. Domingo, the governor shall be bound immediately after their reception, to communicate them to the colonial Assembly, should one exist already formed; to notify them in like manner to the provincial Assemblies, and to give legal and authentic knowledge of them to the inhabitants of the colony, by proclaiming and fixing them up in all the parishes.
2d. If a colonial Assembly exists, it may if it pleases declare that it judges the formation of a new colonial Assembly more advantageous to the colony than the continuation of its own powers, and in this case, they shall immediately proceed to new elections.
3d. If on the contrary, it conceives its continuation most advantageous to the colonies it may commence its operations according to the mode pointed out by the National Assembly; but without being capable of using the power granted to the colonial Assemblies to execute certain decrees, until the intention of the colony with respect to its continuation has been proved, agreeable to the forms hereafter set forth.
4th. Immediately after the proclamation and fixing up the decreed institutions in each parish, every person who shall have attained the full age of 25 years, proprietors of real estate, or for want of such property, shall have been settled in the parish for two years, and paid taxes; shall assemble together to form the parochial Assembly.
5th. The parochial Assembly being formed, shall commence by taking into full consideration, the decree of the National Assembly of the 8th inst. and the present instructions, to proceed in the execution, in the manner following.
6th. If no colonial Assembly antecedently elected, should exist in the colony, or if that which existed has declared that it judges it most expedient to form a new one, the parochial Assembly shall immediately proceed to the election of deputies to the colonial Assembly.
7th. For this purpose, there shall be made out a statement and an enumeration of all the persons of the parish, absent or present, possessed of the qualities expressed in the 4th article of the present instruction, to determine in proportion to their number, that of the deputies which ought to be sent to the colonial Assembly.
8th. This enumeration being made, the number of the deputies to be nominated, shall be determined, at the rate of one for one hundred citizens; observing, 1st, that the last hundred shall be judged compleat, if it amounts to the number of fifty citizens, so that for 150 citizens there shall be two deputies; for 250 citizens,
three deputies, and so on. 2d, That no regard shall be had in the parishes where there shall be more than 100 citizens, and the fractional number below 50, so that for 149 citizens, there shall only one deputy be appointed, and so on. 3d, In the parishes where there shall be less than one hundred citizens, a deputy shall nevertheless be appointed, however small the number of citizens shall be which may be found therein.
9th. After having determined the number of deputies which they have to nominate, the provincial Assemblies shall proceed to this election, in the manner which shall appear most suitable to them.
10th. The parochial Assemblies shall be at liberty to give instructions to their deputies, but they cannot charge them with any orders tending to constrain their opinions in the colonial Assembly, and still less to insert any clauses tending to withdraw them from the sense of the majority; if a parish should give such orders, they shall be deemed null, and the colonial Assembly shall pay no regard to them, but the elections of the deputies shall not be invalidated.
11th. The deputies elected by the parochial Assembly, shall immediately repair to the town of Leogane, and shall there determine the place where the colonial Assembly ought to sit. (To be continued.)
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
July 20th, 1790.
In Obedience to the Order of the House of Representatives, Of the twentieth of January last, The Secretary of the Treasury, Respectfully Reports,
THAT in the formation of a plan for the disposition of the vacant lands of the United States, there appear to be two leading objects of consideration; one, the facility of advantageous sales according to the probable course of purchases; the other, the accommodation of individuals now inhabiting the western country, or who may hereafter emigrate thither.
The former, as an operation of Finance, claims primary attention; the latter is important, as it relates to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of the western country. It is desirable, and does not appear impracticable, to conciliate both.
Purchasers may be contemplated in three classes—Monied individuals and companies, who will buy to sell again—Associations of persons who intend to make settlements themselves—Single persons or families now resident in the western country, or who may emigrate thither hereafter. The two first will be frequently blended, and will always want considerable tracts. The last will generally purchase small quantities. Hence a plan for the sale of the western lands, while it may have due regard to the last, should be calculated to obtain all the advantages which may be derived from the two first classes. For this reason it seems requisite that the General Loan-Office should be established at the seat of government. 'Tis there that the principal purchasers, whether citizens or foreigners, can most easily find proper agents, and that contracts for large purchases can be best adjusted.
But the accommodation of the present inhabitants of the western territory, and of unassociated persons and families who may emigrate thither, seems to require, that one office subordinate to that at the seat of Congress should be opened in the north-western, and another in the south-western government.
Each of these offices, as well the general one as the subordinate ones, is conceived, may be placed with convenience under the superintendence of three commissioners, who may either be pre-established officers of the government, to whom the duty may be assigned by law, or persons specially appointed for the purpose. The former is recommended by considerations of economy; and it is probable would embrace every advantage which could be derived from a special appointment.
To obviate those inconveniences, and to facilitate and ensure the attainment of those advantages, which may arise from new and casual circumstances, springing up from foreign and domestic causes, appear to be an object for which adequate provision should be made in any plan that may be adopted. For this reason, and from the intrinsic difficulty of regulating the details of a specific provision for the various objects which require to be consulted, so as neither to do too much nor too little for either, it is respectfully submitted, whether it would not be advisable to vest a considerable latitude of discretion in the commissioners of the general loan-office, subject to some such regulations and limitations as follow, viz.
That no land shall be sold, except such in respect to which the titles of the Indian tribes shall have been previously extinguished.
That a sufficient tract or tracts shall be reserved and set apart for satisfying the subscribers to the proposed loan in the public debt, but that no location shall be for less than five hundred acres.
That convenient tracts shall from time to time be set apart for the purpose of locations by actual settlers, in quantities not exceeding to one person one hundred acres.
That other tracts shall, from time to time, be set apart for sales in townships of ten miles square, except where they shall adjoin upon a boundary of some prior grant, or of a tract so set apart; in which cases there shall be no greater departure from such form of location, than may be absolutely necessary.
That any quantities may nevertheless be sold by special contract, comprehended either within natural boundaries or lines, or both.
That the price shall be thirty cents per acre to be paid, either in gold or silver, or in public securities, computing those which shall bear an immediate interest of six per cent. as at par with gold and silver, and those which shall bear a future or less interest, if any there shall be, at a proportional value.
That certificates issued for land upon the proposed loan, shall operate as warrants within the tract or tracts which shall be specially set apart for satisfying the subscribers thereto, and shall also be receivable in all payments whatsoever for land by way of discount, acre for acre.
That no credit shall be given for any quantity less than a township of ten miles square, nor more than two years credit for any greater quantity.

That in every instance of credit, at least one quarter part of the consideration shall be paid down, and security, other than the land itself, shall be required for the residue. And that no title shall be given for any tract or part of a purchase beyond the quantity for which the consideration shall be actually paid.
That the residue of the tract or tracts let apart for the subscribers to the proposed loan, which shall not have been located within two years after the same shall have been set apart, may then be sold on the same terms as any other land.
That the commissioners of each subordinate office shall have the management of all sales, and the issuing of warrants for all locations in the tracts to be set apart for the accommodation of individual settlers, subject to the superintendancy of the commissioners of the general land-office, who may also commit to them the management of any other sales or locations which it may be found expedient to place under their direction.
That there shall be a surveyor-general, who shall have power to appoint a deputy surveyor-general in each of the western governments, and a competent number of deputy surveyors to execute in person all warrants to them directed by the surveyor-general or deputy surveyor-general within certain districts to be assigned to them respectively. That the surveyor-general shall also have in charge all the duties committed to the geographer-general by the several resolutions and ordinances of Congress.
That all warrants issued at the general land-office shall be signed by the commissioners, or such one of them as they may nominate for that purpose, and shall be directed to the surveyor-general. That all warrants issued at a subordinate office, shall be signed by the commissioners of such office, or by such one of them as they may nominate for that purpose, and shall be directed to the deputy surveyor-general within the government. That the priority of locations upon warrants shall be determined by the times of the applications to the deputy surveyors: and in case of two applications for the same land at one time, the priority may be determined by lot.
That the Treasurer of the United States shall be the receiver of all payments for sales made at the general land-office, and may also receive deposits money or securities for purchases intended to be made at the subordinate offices, his receipts or certificates for which shall be received in payment at those offices.
That the secretary of each of the western governments, shall be the receiver of all payments arising from sales at the office of such government.
That controversies concerning rights to patents or grants of land, shall be determined by the commissioners of that office, under whose immediate direction or jurisdiction the locations in respect to which they may arise shall have been made.
That the completion of all contracts and sales heretofore made, shall be under the direction of the commissioners of the general land-office.
That the commissioners of the general land-office, surveyor-general, deputy surveyors-general, and the commissioners of the land-office in each of the western governments, shall not purchase, nor shall others purchase for them in trust, any public lands.
That the secretaries of the western governments shall give security for the faithful execution of their duty, as receivers of the land-office.
That all patents shall be signed by the President of the United States, or by the Vice-President or other officer of government acting as President, and shall be recorded in the office either of the surveyor-general, or of the clerk of the supreme court of the United States.
That all surveys of land shall be at the expence of the purchasers or grantees.
That the fees shall not exceed certain rates to be specified in the law, affording equitable compensations for the services of the surveyors, and establishing reasonable and customary charges for patents and other office papers, for the benefit of the United States.
That the commissioners of the general land-office, shall, as soon as may be, from time to time, cause all the rules and regulations which they may establish to be published in one gazette, at least in each state, and in each of the western governments where there is a gazette, for the information of the citizens of the United States.
Regulations like these will define and fix the most essential particulars which can regard the disposal of the western lands, and where they leave any thing to discretion, will indicate the general principles or policy intended by the legislature to be observed, for a conformity to which the commissioners will, of course, be responsible. They will at the same time leave room for accommodating to circumstances which cannot beforehand be accurately appreciated, and for varying the course of proceeding as experience shall suggest to be proper, and will avoid the danger of those obstructions and embarrassments in the execution, which would be to be apprehended from an endeavour at greater precision and more exact detail.
All which is humbly submitted, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Secretary of the Treasury.
CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, JULY 23.
Debate on the Amendment of the Senate to the Funding Bill, to assume a part of the State Debts.
MR. JACKSON moved that the amendment of the Senate respecting the Assumption of the State debts, should be disagreed to.
In support of his motion he said, it is with great reluctance I rise again on the question before the house. A measure which has not only agitated this legislature, but has more or less convulsed the whole people of the United States. It has clated speculators and state brokers, whilst it has depressed three fourths of the honest part of the community. It has held out alluring prospects and fortunes to the one, whilst it has blasted and withered the just expectations of the other. It has, in short, been the centre pin of visionary projectors and interested men, whilst its future effects have been viewed with horror by disinterested minds.
To give a history of this important question, for important, however wicked, it certainly is, would be to tax Congress with the most extreme inconsistencies; repeatedly has the question been decided, and repeatedly negatived, and as the principle was first originated without reference, the same stubborn disposition is manifested, notwithstanding the repeated determinations of the house. The forms of Proteus have been assumed, and the forms of Proteus have been defeated here, but a new shape is not still wanting to aid the perseverance of the East. The Senate of the United States, a power not known to, nor chosen by, the people, have undertaken to load the citizens of the United States with an enormous debt.
I will not appeal to the passions; but I call on the house, as the representatives of the people, as the guardians of their liberties, to resist this encroachment on their constituents rights, they will expect it, and if the principle is established at present, there
is no knowing to what lengths it may be carried in future. As well might the Senate under color of an amendment, have inserted the whole funding system, in an appropriation bill, as have inserted this new principle in the law before the house. It may be advanced, that it is no money bill, that there are no ways and means, no taxes or burthens imposed on the people. To interested men, and persons who would not look beyond the surface, this reasoning might appear just; but I would ask if the taxes and burthens, the ways and means must not follow—pays this principle in the law, and the public faith is bound, neglect to provide for it, and you lay the government open to insult.
But, Sir, setting this encroachment of the Senate from our view for the present moment, I have no objection to consider the question on its own merits. Nothing which I have yet heard, has convinced me of its propriety. The accumulation of an immense debt ought to be founded in more than perseverance for its basis; it ought to have justice for its ground work, and policy for its superstructure.
The question of justice has been subservient to both sides of the house; but the great rules, the leading features of justice have not been answered, if they have been attempted. Where, I again demand is the justice of compelling a state which has taxed her citizens for the linking her debt, to pay another proportion not of her own, but the debts of other States, which have made no exertions whatever?
If this Assumption had taken place at the conclusion of the war, the principle would have been more just than at present, because none of the States had made exertions to relieve themselves from debt, and they were nearer on an equality, but even then it would not have been on perfect terms of justice, the situations of the state, and their charges, were not the same.
But Sir, supposing the accounts settled at the close of the war; how would the expences of the war have been proportioned, not agreeably to the present ratio of representation, will be allowed me, how then? Why, by the ratio of existing requisitions or nearly so, and Georgia, would have paid the one ninetieth part of the whole debt, whereas at present, she is bound for the one twenty second. But now, Sir, even the ratio of representation is to be overleaped by the present scheme of the Assumption, and by a calculation of the quota, she will pay upwards of 600,000 dollars more than she will be benefited by. New-Hampshire and Georgia ought to receive, if a just quota was allowed as the 65th part of the 21,000,000, 992,307 dollars each—they are, by the system before the house to receive but 300,000 dollars each, which makes a deficiency of 692,307 dollars and some cents of their proportion of the amount which is to benefit other States, and the citizens of New-Hampshire and Georgia are to pay it. Can this house expect that they will quietly submit to it. If the citizens of New-Hampshire are disposed to be easy under the imposition, I do not believe the citizens of the state of Georgia will be contented.—Let us examine some of the other States. Massachusetts is to receive of the sum 4,000,000; her just quota of the sum would be 2,646,153 dollars or thereabouts, enjoying an excess in her favor of 1,353,846 dollars. South Carolina has till a greater excess, she is to receive 4,000,000; her quota of the sum would be 1,653,846 dollars and some cents; the excess in her favor will be 2,346,153 dollars. North Carolina has an excess of 746,153 dollars, where she has not asked it, and when the State and her representatives are averse to the measure. What, Sir, I will ask, is this for? Is it by way of gift, or douceur? I know her representatives to be too honest, too ready to their trust, to be bribed. Georgia and New-Hampshire are however not the only states which will suffer; New-York and Maryland will likewise be injured. The former is to receive 1,800,000; her just quota would be 1,904,615 dollars, there will be a deficiency therefore of 784,615 dollars. The deficiency of Maryland is much greater, she is to receive but 800,000, and the deficiency from the amount of her just quota will be 1,184,615 dollars. One state (Pennsylvania) has a million allowed her above the amount of her debt. So that some of the states are to be double, and some treble taxed, for the benefit of others. I will here, Sir, appeal to the same moral sense with the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Ames) to the same rectitude of the heart, and I will confidently demand from him, if you can impose this burthen on the States, and call it equality, if you can, adopt the Assumption and call it justice.
I consider the state which made exertions, as I mentioned on a former day, to have paid off so much of its proportion of these debts, whether called the debts of the States, or the debts of the Union. If state debts, the state ought to pay the debts of other states; if they are the debts of the Union, then has the state which has exerted itself and paid off its own debt, contributed to its proportion, and ought not to pay a second time.
A gentleman from Connecticut has analyzed the argument in favor of the measure. As I think them of as much weight as any that have been advanced, I will notice a few of them, as well as my small ability will permit. That gentleman's first argument is, that the debts were contracted on behalf and for the benefit of the United States, and that therefore justice requires they should be assumed. On this principle, the gentleman has endeavored to prove that the debts are of the same nature, and in fact the debts of the United States. The very term, however, which he uses, of state debts, must convince him they are so; his explanation with a gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Gerry,) why they were not inserted in the constitution, has convinced me that they were not respected as the debts of the Union by the Convention. That Convention met, and the Constitution was formed, for the restoration of public credit, and if the state debts were a part of the debt of the Union, provision would have been made for them. But, Sir, if the convention had no power to insert them in the constitution, whence all our powers are derived: Neither, Sir, have we a power under that Constitution to provide for the payment of them: Neither are those debts of the same nature with that of the United States. The same scrutinizing eye hath not pervaded the respective states. Some states in expectation of being the paymasters themselves, have dealt with a rigid parsimony, others have been as extravagantly liberal. Some have allowed regiments of officers to their militia without men, whilst others have reduced their officers to a grinding situation. Some have allowed large bounties and pay, as has been the case with some of the States who complain most, whilst others have scarcely allowed bounty or pay at all. Many of the charges of individual states would be rejected, whilst others which the states have rejected would be allowed. The difference is very great, and as clear as the day, and none but interested individuals can prevent discerning it.
To be continued.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28.
THE bill for the relief of disabled soldiers and seamen, and other persons lately in the service of the United States, was passed.
A bill to satisfy the claims of Thomas Barclay was reported, read the first and second time, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
A bill to continue the act for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office, was read the first and second time.
The house took into consideration the amendments of the Senate to the Collection Bill, and agreed to the same.
THURSDAY, JULY 29.
The bill for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office, and the bill to compensate the ser-
vices of Thomas Barclay, were read the third time and passed.
Mr. Steele of the committee appointed to examine into the proceedings of the several States on the subject of the Amendments proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States, reported, in substance as follow—
New-Hampshire and New-York accepted all the articles but the second.
Pennsylvania passed over in silence the first and second articles—and accepted the rest.
Delaware postponed the first article.
Maryland, South and North Carolina, and Rhode-Island, ratified the whole.—So that it appears the first article has been agreed to by six States—the second by five—and all the others by eight.
A report on the memorial of Mrs. Greene, widow of the late Major Gen. Greene, was read.
A petition of Joseph Miller of Philadelphia was read, stating that he has established a Manufactory of Gunpowder in the State of Pennsylvania, in which, by proper encouragement, a sufficient quantity of that article may be manufactured for the use of the United States—and praying the patronage of Congress.
Mr. Vining moved that the motion of Mr. Bloodworth for leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the 5th section of the Residence Law, should be taken into consideration.
Mr. Bloodworth wished the motion might be suspended. He said that he did not mean to call it up to day—and therefore had not prepared himself to state his reasons fully for introducing it.
Mr. Vining observed, that the motion was in possession of the house, and any member had a right to call it up.
Mr. Lawrance contended that it was very extraordinary that a motion brought forward by one gentleman should be called up by another, contrary to the wish of the member who made it. He thought it was contrary to the rules of the House.
Some further altercation ensued, in which Mr. Vining, Mr. Gerry, Mr. Bloodworth, and Mr. Lee spoke.
Mr. Bloodworth finally withdrew his motion for the present.
A message was received from the Senate informing the house that they have agreed to some, and disagreed to others of the amendments proposed by the house to the amendments of the Senate to the Funding Bill.
The house after some debate receded from their amendments, and agreed to those of the Senate.
The bill has now passed both houses. The interest on Indents, and on one third of the State Debts is fixed at three pr. cent. pr. ann.
The first article of disagreement was in respect to the time when interest shall commence on the deferred part of the principal—The house proposed seven years—the Senate adhered to ten.
The motion for receding was opposed by Messrs Lawrance, Gerry, Ames and Seney—and supported by Mr. Sedgwick, Fitzsimons, Sherman, Williamson, Stone and Lee—and on the question Mr. Lawrance called for the Ayes and Noes, which are as follow—
AYES.
Messrs Ashe, Baldwin, Brown, Burke, Cadwalader, Carroll, Clymer, Fitzsimons, Floyd, Gale, Goodhue, Griffin, Grout, Hartley, Heister, Huger, Huntington, Lee, Leonard, Livermore, Muhlenberg, Partridge, Scot, Sedgwick, Sherman, Sinnickson, Smith, (S. C.) Stone, Thatcher, Tucker, Vining, Wynkoop, Williamson.—33.
NOES.
Messrs Ames, Benson, Bloodworth, Contee, Coles, Foster, Gerry, Gilman, Hathorne, Jackson, Lawrance, Madison, Mathews, Moore, Page, Parker, Rensselaer, Schureman, Seney, Sevier, Sylvester, Smith (M.) Steele, Sturges, Sumppter, Trumbull, White.—27.
The next article of disagreement was the interest on Indents—The house proposed four per cent. The Senate adhered to their proposition for three. The motion for receding was determined by Ayes and Noes, as follow, viz.
AYES.
Messrs Ashe, Baldwin, Brown, Burke, Cadwalader, Carroll, Clymer, Fitzsimons, Floyd, Gale, Goodhue, Grout, Hartley, Heister, Huger, Huntington, Lee, Leonard, Livermore, P. Muhlenberg, Partridge, Schureman, Scot, Sedgwick, Sherman, Sylvester, Sinnickson, Smith, (S. C.) Stone, Thatcher, Tucker, Williamson, Wynkoop.—33.
NOES.
Messrs Ames, Benson, Bloodworth, Coles, Contee, Foster, Gerry, Gilman, Griffin, Hathorne, Jackson, Lawrance, Madison, Mathews, Moore, Page, Parker, Rensselaer, Seney, Sevier, Smith (M.) Steele, Sturges, Sumppter, Trumbull, Vining, White.—27.
Similar amendments followed of course in respect to the assumed part of the debt—which were agreed to.—Previous to which, Mr. Parker moved that the further consideration of the amendments to the Funding Bill, should be deferred to the next session.—This motion was determined not to be in order. Adjourned.

FRIDAY, JULY 30.
Sundry petitions and memorials were read and referred to the heads of departments.
The report on the petition of Catherine Greene, widow of the late general Greene, was read the second time; this report was in favor of the prayer of the petition, so far as to indemnify the heirs of general Greene, from demands arising from engagements and contracts made by him on account of the United States.
A motion was made to refer the papers which accompanied the petition to the Secretary of the Treasury—some conversation ensued on this motion; Mr. Stone said he thought it more proper to refer them to the Auditor-General; Mr. Gerry called for the reading the paper—which was done.
The motion for referring to the Secretary of the Treasury was adopted.
A message was received from the Senate informing that they have passed a bill for the relief of John Stuart and John Davidson, and a bill for the temporary establishment of the Post-Office.
In committee of the whole on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury respecting a plan for the disposition of the lands in the Western Territory—some progress was made in the discussion.
Adjourned till Monday.
LONDON, May 21.
WE learn from Messina, that on the 31st March at 8 in the morning, the mountain Paci, which covers Scylla, on the east side, fell into the sea with a horrid crash. The commotion it excited caused the waters to overflow the country for 2 leagues and rise to the top of Sicily. Six persons perished at Scylla, but the fishermen at the lighthouse had time to save themselves. It is supposed that the sea had been undermining it ever since the earthquake of 1783, by getting into the excavations then made.
The Brunswick man of war lately launched, has several conveniencies new to the navy, particularly one, by which the levers of the chain pumps may be shipped and unshipped with ease, so as to render all clear; as also more simple means of obtaining intelligence of the exact draught of water during an action, without being exposed to the enemy's fire.
The most authentic accounts from Spain do not justify the belief that they have more than thirteen ships of the line ready for sea.
Mr. Bruce, the late traveller asserts: With regard to cotton, the finest vallies in Syria, watered by the cool refreshing springs that fall from Mount Libanus, are planted with this shrub; and in the same grounds, alternately, with the tree which produces its fiber in manufactures, silk. Cotton clothes all Ethiopia; cotton is the basis of its commerce with India; and of the commerce between England, France, and the Levant, and cotton should be the favourite manufacture, after wool, of Britain. It will in time, says Mr. Bruce, take place of that ungrateful culture flax; will always employ more hands, and be a more ample field for distinguishing the ingenuity of our manufacturers.
On the 8th instant a very cruel murder was committed in the vicinity of Cork. Richard Newnham, Esq. and his brother Devonshire Newnham, Esq. went on a hunting party near his seat at Maryborough: One of the neighbouring peasantry intreated them not to pass through his potatoe ground, as it would ruin him and his family. Devonshire called the poor wretch a scoundrel for his presumption, and instantly struck him with his whip, while his brother Richard inhumanly struck him on the back part of the head, until they fractured the skull of the unfortunate man, of which wounds he instantly expired. The Coroner's inquest has brought in their verdict wilful murder ! They are committed to prison to take their trial at the next assizes: Richard Newnham, who has ever been of a tyrannical and sanguinary disposition, is in the receipt of 3000l. per annum; and his brother, of 2000l.—A similar example to that of Fitzgerald, in this country, is much wanting, to reform the turbulent disposition of the country Squires.
NOOTKA SOUND.
The circumstances of the trade and situation of this part of North America being a matter of such general conversation and great public moment, we are particularly happy in being enabled to give some further account of the transactions, that have happened at Nootka Sound, as well as to point out the advantages that were likely to be extended to other places by the means of this trade.
It is necessary to remark that the skin of the sea otter is worn only in the Northern regions of China. Its fur, though beautiful and magnificent, is too heavy for the sultry atmosphere of the Southern Provinces.
Pekin is, therefore, the proper mart for this valuable commodity; and in this immense city, the consumption is so great, that the produce of the voyage meets an immediate sale.
The Mandarins of the court, and even the Emperor himself, are fond of wearing this costly fur. To a citizen of common rank, a sea otter's collar to his vestment is a luxury.
The natives of the north-west coast of America, set so great a value on woolens of all kinds, that all the blankets, cloths, hats, and stockings, that could be procured in China, if English manufacture, were sold to the Indians, with whose chiefs treaties of commerce had been formed.
An act of cruelty committed by an officer of the Spanish Admiral Martiney's ship deserves to be recorded.
The Spaniards discovering that Callicum, a chief, second in authority at Nootka Sound, was in alliance with the English, he was shot through the heart in the mouth of June, 1789. The wife of Callicum, with an infant child, escaped, but not till wounded.
Macquilla, the chief, first in command, retired at the head of the allies of England, from Nootka Sound, and to avoid the cruelty of the Spaniards, they fled to distant parts. Such of the natives as they could seize, the Spaniards condemned to work as slaves on their fortifications.
At this period, it was in contemplation of the Spaniards to seize the Sandwich Islands, with a view to deprive British ships of refreshments. And we further add, on authority that amounts nearly to demonstration, that on the very lands purchased from the Nootka chief by captain Mears, the Spaniards have already opened valuable mines.
Another object of this enterprise was, to supply the markets of Kamchatka, and other ports belonging to the Russians, with the teas and other produce of China. This promised to be an invaluable channel of commerce, as the Chinese have shut their ports against the Russians, who formerly traded to their markets.
On this voyage of discovery and experiment, one of our ships sailed and disposed of her cargo, but was unfortunately lost on her return to China.
To these curious particulars we add, with a patriot joy, that the consumption of the glorious staple of England, her broad cloths, is astonishingly great in Japan and China: British hardware, &c. is also in great request.
From the Friendship of Tiara to Captain Mears, ships which touch at the Sandwich Islands may depend on the utmost attention and civility. This Prince is six feet four inches and an half high, and of proportionate bulk.
A most degrading circumstance, respecting the insult upon the British flag at St. George's Sound, has not been yet communicated to the public:—A Captain Kendricks, commanding an American ship, had been trading a considerable time on the coast, and the Spaniards treated him with the greatest civility, so that Spain has the temerity to dare the maritime power of Britain, and yet truckles to the American stripes.
MAY 15.
Yesterday his Majesty was pleased to issue his Royal Proclamation for recalling and prohibiting seamen and other natural born subjects of his dominions, from serving foreign Princes and states, and for granting a reward of 20s. for discovering every seaman who shall conceal himself.
In a letter received by yesterday's post from Portsmouth, by a gentleman in the city, particular mention is made, that previous to writing, an incredible number of Jews had arrived there, and engaged for every empty house in that town. Common, and Gosport; and the owners had let them upon terms of enormous advance, provided the war should continue. They have even contracted for building of new houses, as they appear certain of a war, and that it will prove very advantageous from the amazing riches our ships of war and privateers most probably may bring from the South Seas, and other Spanish settlements.
By accounts received at Lloyd's upwards of three hundred sail of merchant ships are expected to arrive in the course of this month, which will furnish Government with a sufficient number of seaman to man the ships fitted out.
The ships of war which have been put into commission, are not only ordered to be manned with as much dispatch as possible, but victualled.
The Russian squadron which is to put to sea this summer is composed of 31 ships of the line.
THE TABLET.—No. CXXXVI.
"Those persons who lead a sedentary life should contrive that their amusements be of such a nature as to give considerable exercise to the limbs."
I HAVE frequently observed that men of a studious, contemplative turn of mind lose their relish for such amusements as require bodily exertion. This is a circumstance that deserves to be seriously considered by those whose mode of life leads them to sedentary habits. Man is a being formed more for action than contemplation. He preserves his health, cheerfulness and the natural vigor of his constitution, in much higher perfection, while he follows active pursuits, than when he is devoted to study and retirement. There is nevertheless a necessity that some persons should employ themselves in the acquisition of literature.
In the essays of Mr. Webster, I find some excellent observations on the subject now under consideration. After speaking of the ill effects of too close an attention to study, without a suitable mixture of active amusements, he makes the following remarks.
"To avoid these ills, much exercise of the arms and body is not only useful but necessary; and when it is not the lot of young persons to labor in agriculture or mechanic arts, some laborious amusement should be
constantly and daily pursued as a substitute—and none is preferable to fencing. A fencing school is perhaps as necessary an institution in a college, as a professorship of mathematics; for young men usually enter college about the age of puberty; and often leave a laborious occupation to commence a sedentary life, at the very time when labor or exercise is the most necessary to give firmness and vigor to their constitutions. In consequence of this change, and an academic life, they often run up into long, slender, effeminate bodies, which a slight cold may throw into a consumption; or by an intense application to books, add to a debilitated frame of body, a weak nervous system, which keeps them always dying, though it may not end life till old age."
"Four hours of uninterrupted study in a day is generally sufficient to furnish the mind with as many ideas as can be retained, methodized and applied to practice; and it is well if one half of what are run over in this time are not lost. It may sometimes be necessary to study or read more hours in a day; but it will as often be found useful to read less."
NEW-YORK, JULY 31.
Further accounts by the papers from Ireland, inform, that the National Assembly has decreed that the ancient municipality of the city of Paris, and all the offices connected with it, should be suppressed and abolished.— Thus a system of police is destroyed which in a great measure furnished for so many ages, the victims of despotism to the dungeons of despair, in the infernal Bastile. —That Monf. Fitzjean de St. Colombe had fallen a sacrifice to the populace.—That the assembly has decreed the elections of judges should be by the people—and that but one subject shall be presented to the King for his approbation.—That there was in circulation of the notes issued by the Caisse d'Escompte 169,124,000 livres. The National Assembly has also determined that public officers other than the judges, shall be nominated by the King; and hold their offices during good behavior—none of the members of the present assembly to be eligible till four years after the present session.—Members of subsequent assemblies to be eligible in two years after the session.—Mr. Lambert director of the Mint at Rouen has received contributions in plate to the amount of 409,484 Livres.
A French fleet from the Islands is expected to arrive at Boston by the 20th August, under the command of the Right Hon. The Viscount Pontievres Gien.
At the commencement in the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 21st instant.—The degree of Bachelor of Arts was conferred on forty three young gentlemen, and the degree of Master of Arts on thirty five.—The degree of doctor of laws was conferred on the Hon. John Jay, chief justice of the United States.
Thursday last there was an Entertainment on board the ship America , Capt. Sarly, lately from Canton, which was honored by the company of the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, The Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and the Secretary at War, His Excellency the Governor of the State, and a very large and respectable company of other citizens.
To comprehend every charge, it is probable that the late war was an expense to the people of America of at least 60,000,000 of pounds sterl. The paper money was an effectual tax, which has not cost the government much to collect. What was advanced during the war was paid rather by suffering the noble enthusiasm of the people to tax itself, than by the resources of Congress. The sums paid towards the debts since the peace have been at a great discount. Perhaps not a single instance can be given of a dollar paid at par. The entire remaining debt is about eighteen millions sterling, or eighty millions of dollars. It will appear therefore that the burden of this debt, however heavy upon unfortunate individuals, has been light to the government, as more than two thirds of the charges of the war no longer exist as debts against the Union. It seems to follow clearly, that although justice calls for a good provision for the existing debt, and it may seem unfeeling to urge any other motive, yet this claim of justice is enforced by the above state of facts. Why should we wish to dispute the validity of it, or object to paying what remains, inasmuch as we have extinguished vast sums on such easy terms?
If it is thought necessary to suspend part of the demands of our creditors, on account of our present inability to pay them: Government is under every possible obligation to pledge itself to do them full justice the moment they are in a capacity to do it.
Few persons cultivate the science of ANATOMY with ardor in our country. The rash and odious abuse of it, a few years since in several cities on the continent, by many indiscreet persons, has given to the public a disgust, and to individuals, a fear of meddling any more with human bodies. A wide field is still left for the exertions of diligence and genius in the pursuit of discoveries by comparative Anatomy. This may be followed without giving offence to any person. We are happy to hear of Dr. Post's beautiful dissection of the Free-Martin a few weeks ago, and to learn that his discoveries nearly agree with Mr. JOHN HUNTER's on the same subject. This we consider as the best Anatomical performance since MITCHELL's publication about the absorbent vessels .
The Professor of Natural History in the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. BENJAMIN S. BARTON, meditates a great Botanical Work. This is no less than a FLORA of the United States, to comprehend a full account of all the indigenous plants growing therein. The lovers of natural science feel themselves exceedingly glad on this occasion, not only on account of the curiosity and usefulness of the performance, but also because the author is an American. It is imagined that by the assistance of Mitchell, Cutler, Marshall, Bartram and other American Botanists, Dr. Barton will be able in some years to accomplish his laudable undertaking.
DEATHS.
Died at West-Point, the 11th inst. after a tedious illness, Capt. WILLIAM PRICE, Commissary of Military Stores. At Fairfield, GOLD SELLECK SILLIMAN, Esq. in the 59th year of his age.
ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST.—NEW-YORK.
Ship Jay, Randal, Canton. 5 months 25 days. Brig Anthony, Puller, ditto. 6 months. —Betsey, Bright, Faulkland Islands, 63 days. Sloop Cynthia, Turks Island, 25

LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES. PUBLISHED
By Authority.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES :
AT THE SECOND SESSION.
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Monday the fourth of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
AN ACT providing for holding a Treaty or Treaties to establish Peace with certain Indian Tribes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That in addition to the balance unexpended, of the sum of twenty-thousand dollars, appropriated by the act, intitled, "An act providing for the expenses which may attend negotiations or treaties with the Indian Tribes, and the appointment of commissioners for managing the same," a farther sum, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, arising from the duties on imports and tonnage, shall be, and the same is hereby appropriated for defraying the expenses of negotiating, and holding a treaty or treaties, and for promoting a friendly intercourse, and preserving peace with the Indian Tribes.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, JULY THE TWENTY SECOND, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
(TRUE COPY)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
AN ACT to regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall be permitted to carry on any trade or intercourse with the Indian tribes, without a licence for that purpose, under the hand and seal of the Superintendent of the department, or of such other person as the President of the United States shall appoint for that purpose; which Superintendent, or other person so appointed, shall on application, issue such licence to any proper person, who shall enter into bond with one or more sureties, approved of by the Superintendent, or person issuing such licence, or by the President of the United States, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, payable to the President of the United States for the time being, for the use of the United States, conditioned for the true and faithful observance of such rules, regulations and restrictions, as now are, or hereafter shall be made for the government of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes. The said Superintendents and persons by them licensed as aforesaid, shall be governed in all things touching the said trade and intercourse by such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe. And no other person shall be permitted to carry on any trade or intercourse with the Indians without such licence as aforesaid. No licence shall be granted for a longer term than two years. Provided nevertheless, That the President may make such order respecting the tribes surrounded in their settlements by the citizens of the United States, as to secure an intercourse without licence, if he may deem it proper.
And be it further enacted, That the Superintendent, or person issuing such licence, shall have full power and authority to recall all such licences as he may have issued, if the person so licenced shall transgress any of the regulations or restrictions provided for the government of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and shall put in suit such bonds as he may have taken immediately on the breach of any condition in said bond. Provided always, That if it shall appear on trial, that the person from whom such licence shall have been recalled, has not offended against any of the provisions of this act, or the regulations prescribed for the trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, he shall be entitled to receive a new licence.
And be it further enacted, That every person who shall attempt to trade with the Indian tribes, or be found in the Indian country with such merchandise in his possession as are usually vendored to the Indians, without a licence first had and obtained, as in this act prescribed, and being thereof convicted in any court proper to try the same, shall forfeit all the merchandise so offered for sale to the Indian tribes, or so found, in the Indian country, which forfeiture shall be, one half to the benefit of the person prosecuting, and the other half to the benefit of the United States.
And be it enacted and declared, That no sale of lands made by any Indians, or any nation or tribe of Indians within the United States, shall be valid to any person or persons or to any State, whether having the right of pre-emption to such lands or not, unless the same shall be made and duly executed at some public treaty, held under the authority of the United States.
And be it further enacted, That if any citizen or inhabitant of the United States, or of either of the territorial districts of the United States, shall go into any town, settlement or territory belonging to any nation or tribe of Indians, and shall there commit any crime upon, or trespass against, the person or property of any peaceable and friendly Indian or Indians, which, if committed within the jurisdiction of any State, or within the jurisdiction of either of the said districts against a citizen or white inhabitant thereof, would be punishable by the laws of such State or district, such offender or offenders shall be subject to the same punishment, and shall be proceeded against in the same manner, as if the offence had been committed within the jurisdiction of the State or district to which he or they may belong, against a citizen or white inhabitant thereof.
And be it further enacted, That for any of the crimes or offences aforesaid, the like proceedings shall be had for apprehending, imprisoning or bailing the offender, as the case may be, and for recognizing the witnesses for their appearance to testify in the case, and where the offender shall be committed, or the witnesses shall be in a district other than that in which the offence is to be tried, for the removal of the offender and the witnesses, or either of them, as the case may be, to the district in which the trial is to be had, as by the act to establish the judicial courts of the United States are directed, for any crimes or offences against the United States.
And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force for the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States,
and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, JULY THE TWENTY SECOND, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
(TRUE COPY)
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
LONDON, May 10—15.
L ORD George Gordon, in consequence of an altercation with the gaoler of Newgate, has been removed from his apartment into the ground cell, and there confined without bed or furniture! Without deciding on the propriety or impropriety of the gaoler's conduct, every man of feeling must lament that his lordship is reduced to so deplorable a situation.
The immense train of Austrian artillery which was at Peterwardin passed Vienna on its way to Moravia the 20th ult. The first piece passed at half past six in the morning, and it was half past two in the afternoon before the whole had gone by, though not one moment's stoppage took place the whole time.
The affair at Marseilles, according to the best accounts was not so bloody as at first it was represented. The commander of Fort St. John was the only person who lost his life, and this on account of some improper expressions two days after the fort was surrendered. The populace then renewed the dreadful scene of Paris during the first days of the revolution.
A Deputation was lately sent to the Queen of France from the committee of researches in Paris to request information with respect to the violences committed at Versailles, on the night of the 6th of October. Her first answer was, "I will never become an informer against any of the subjects of the King!" The deputation waited on her Majesty a second time, when her answer was still more emphatic, "I have seen every thing," said she—"I understood every thing—and have forgotten every thing."
On Monday two journeymen shoemakers in Liverpool of the name of Griffiths and Wrighten, agreed for a wager, to try which was the neatest and most expeditious workman, for which purpose they set to at five o'clock in the morning and continued with little intermission until eight in the evening, during which time, the former made, in a neat and workmanlike manner thirteen pair and an odd one of children's pumps out of the rough, with the heel-rans and insoals proper; the latter made twelve pair complete. 'Tis supposed the greatest performance ever known to be done by any of the craft.
A Mr. D—brought his wife before the Magistrates, at the Public Office, Bow-street, for assaulting and beating him. D—gave an account of the last assault she had committed on him (for to enumerate every one would have taken up the Magistrates time, perhaps, till now.) It was with a hearth-broom, which the lady thought proper to break over her husband's head. He gave another proof of the happiness he had experienced in the matrimonial state; for he declared, out of fifteen years that he had been married to her, he had not three days quiet, owing to her turbulent disposition, which had reduced him from a state of independence to poverty. She was committed to Tothill-fields, Bridewell, until she finds bail for her appearance at the next sessions.
A LINCOLN'S INN FROLIC.
TWO young gentlemen who are studying the law, and who have chambers in Lincoln's Inn, took a particular fancy the other day to a young woman who frequented the garden with a child in her arms. They laid various stratagems to entice the mother to come into their chambers; but she saw the intent, and studiously avoided a visit of that kind.—At last they thought they hit upon a scheme that must effectually bring her in. One of the gentlemen took the baby in his arms, and, after kissing it, brought it home to his apartment. The other student followed, and both now imagined that the woman must naturally come for her child; but, as the saying is, "she bit the biter" for she lent the child to their protection, and made the best of her way home; and has taken care to conceal that home from them. They are persons of good fortune, and have sent the child to nurse. The public may rely on our assertion, that this is a fact.
ANECDOTE.
A Tar, after returning from a voyage for logwood, having made rather too free with a plank belonging to the owners of the vessel to which he belonged, was taken before a justice, and accused of the theft. One being asked what he had to say in his defence, replied "that, after having assisted to steal a whole shipload from the Spaniards, it was a hard case that he could not have a plank for his own use, without so much parlarer!"
NEW-YORK, July 30.
The latest accounts from Europe inform that according to the present appearances, the belligerent powers of Europe (among which we reckon those preparing for war) may be drawn out in battle array in the following manner.
  Great Britain } against Germany   Prussia Spain   Sweden Russia   Holland Denmark   and Turkey Italian States   The Pope 
To which may be added, France incapable, Portugal and Sardinia neutral or doubtful. To consider the situation as to men and money of the
first list and of the last, one would be apt to think there is an amazing inequality, and that in favor of the former. We have ranked Holland from its intimate connection with Prussia and Great Britain. Further accounts state,
That the orders which the Spaniards had given to be executed for them in London, were countermanded; and the best informed mercantile men infer from thence the certainty of a war with Spain.
That Mons. de Barset was the gentleman who was sacrificed at Marseilles and not Mons. de Calvet: that accounts from France teem with details of shocking excesses. Several eminent characters having recently lost their lives.
That the National Assembly have voted an Address to the King, expressing their resolution that the nation should not be involved in any foreign war.
The House of Commons of Great Britain have resolved to permit the importation of Rape Seed, and Rape Cakes from the United States of America.
The King of Naples has made a Princely provision for the maintenance of the Count d'Artois. He has provided him with a palace, and allowed him the establishment of 120 servants.
FOR SALE
The IRON WORKS,
B ELONGING to the Estate of JAMES HUNTER, deceased, pleasantly situated on the falls of Rappahannock River, within two miles of the town of Fredericksburg, and one of Falmouth and Tide-Water—Consisting of a Forge, 130 feet by 34, eight fires, and four hammers—a Coal House, 80 feet by 40—a Slitting and Rolling Mill, 68 feet by 36, for Sheet, Rolled and Slit Iron. A Merchant Mill, 70 feet by 36, with two pair of stones; one whereof French Burr, and every other necessary apparatus for manufacturing Flour in the best method.—A Saw Mill adjoining the same, 60 feet by 10. The walls of all these buildgs are of stone, extremely strong and neat, of the best workmanship. The running gears, machinery and fixtures of the whole, commodiously and judiciously contrived, and performed in the most masterly and advantageous manner, on large and improved plans. The different departments are conveniently disposed and arranged at proper distances, on a deep and capacious canal, calculated to supply more large and extensive works, and future improvements; cautiously secured and guarded against casualties from freshets, or high floods; has its source in the main body of the river; a copious proportion whereof, to any reasonable degree of quantity, is at pleasure collected and turned in by a complete set of well constructed strong dams, which have not broke, or given way, since their formation, near nineteen years past.—The head and fall of the water operating on the wheels, is about twenty feet: the greatest part of the works are in good repair, and the whole may be rendered so at a small expence. In the appendages thereto, are a convenient Tanyard, variety of shops and utensils for mechanical business of different kinds, houses for the Managers, Workmen, &c.—And about 4 to 8000 acres of land contiguous, mostly wooded, including some Farms and meadow land. Also, will be offered for sale, a number of valuable Slaves, such as Hammermen, Refiners, Colliers, Forge Carpenters, Wheelwrights, Smiths, Millers, Waggoners, &c. These works have advantages over any in America, particularly in respect to the sale of their produce, as there is none of the kind to the southward thereof, to most of which extensive, rich and fertile country, there is easy conveyance by water; nor is there any Forge within 90 miles, nor a Slitting mill at all in this State, which might share the custom, or vie with its manufactory—some other peculiar advantages that can best be pointed out on the premises, which on application will be shown, and the terms of Sale made known, and very easy for the purchaser, by
ADAM HUNTER, or } Executors. ABNER VERNON. }
Virginia, May 28, 1790.
(3w.)
New-York City Lottery.
SCHEME of a LOTTERY, for the purpose of raising Seven Thousand Five Hundred Pounds, agreeable to an ACT of the Legislature of the State of New-York, passed 8th February, 1790.
S C H E M E.
  1 PRIZE of £.3000 £ 3000   2 1000 2000   3 500 1500   10 200 2000   30 100 3000   50 50 2500   120 20 2400   180 10 1800   7950 4 31800 
8346 Prizes, } 25000 Tickets, at 40s. each, £.50000 16654 Blanks, }
Subject to a deduction of Fifteen per Cent.
THE object of this LOTTERY being to raise a part of the sum advanced by the corporation for repairing and enlarging the CITY HALL, for the accommodation of CONGRESS, which does so much honor to the Architect, as well as credit to the city. The managers presume that their fellow Citizens will cheerfully concur in promoting the sale of Tickets, especially as the success of this Lottery will relieve them from a tax, which must otherwise be laid to reimburse the corporation.
The above SCHEME is calculated in a manner very beneficial to advertisers, there not being two blanks to a prize.
The Lottery is intended to commence drawing on the FIRST MONDAY in August next, or sooner if filled, of which timely notice will be given. A list of the fortunate numbers will be published at the expiration of the drawing.
Tickets are to be sold by the subscribers, who are appointed Managers by the Corporation.
ISAAC STOUTENBURGH, ABRAHAM HERRING, PETER T. CURTENIUS, JOHN PINTARD. New-York, 6th March, 1790.
THE Managers give notice that agreeable to an order of the Corporation, the drawing of the City-Lottery, will positively commence on the first Monday in August. (Next Monday.) July 24.
THE Creditors of Col. ELISHA SHELTON, of Salisbury, are hereby notified, That the Subscribers being appointed Trustees of said SHELTON's estate, will attend to the business of their appointment on the first Monday of August next, at the house of JACOBUS DAVIS, in said Salisbury, agreeable to the Act of Assembly.—The interest of the creditors requires their general attendance.
HEZEKIAH FITCH, } Trustees. JOHN BIRD, }
Salisbury, (Connecticut), June 28, 1789.