National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-06-14 00:00:00

National Gazette.
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VOL. I.
THURSDAY, June 14, 1792.
NUMB. 66.
AUTHENTIC.
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
At the first Session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
An ACT to continue in force the Act, entitled, "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the Penalties and Forfeitures accruing under the Revenue Laws in certain Cases," and to make further provision for the Payment of Pensions to Invalids
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled, "An act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties accruing under the revenue laws in certain cases therein mentioned," shall be, and hereby is, continued in full force for the term of three years, from the passing of this act, and no longer. Provided, That nothing in the said act shall be construed to limit or restrain the power of the President of the United States to grant pardons for offences against the United States.
And be it further enacted, That the yearly pensions which have been, or may be, allowed by, or in pursuance of, any act or law of the United States, to persons who were wounded and disabled in the public service, shall for the space of one year from the fourth day of March last be paid out of the treasury of the United States, under such regulations as the President of the United States may direct.
Approved by the PRESIDENT, May 8th, 1792.
At a meeting of the committee appointed by the American Philosophical Society for the purpose of collecting and communicating to the Society materials for forming the Natural History of the Insect called the Hessian Fly, as also information of the best means of preventing or destroying the Insect, and whatever else relative to the same may be interesting to Agriculture.
RESOLVED that, for obtaining information of the facts necessary for forming the natural history of this insect, before its entire evanishment from among us, it be recommended to all persons whose situation may have brought them into acquaintance with any such facts, to communicate the same by letter addressed to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Secretary of State to the United States.
And that the proper objects of enquiry and information may be more particularly pointed out, the following questions are proposed:
§ 1.
In what year, and at what time of the year, was this animal observed for the first time? Does it seem to have made its appearance in this country only of late years, or are there any reasons for supposing that it was known in any part of the United States previously to the commencement of the late revolution?
§ 2.
At what time of the year has this insect been observed in egg-state; At what time in the worm-state? and at what time in the fly-state? How long does it remain in each of these several states? Does it pass through more than one generation in the course of a year? If it does, which generation of the insect is it that proves most injurious?
§ 3.
What kind of wheat does this insect prove most injurious to? Has it ever been seen on, or has it proved destructive to the Spelts? Does it ever injure the roots of the wheat, &c. Has it ever been seen in the flowers? Does it affect the leaves? What part of the stalk is it
chiefly confined to? Has it ever been known to attack the grain, or to be transported with it? In what manner does it seem to operate its injurious effects? At what season are these effects first observed to commence?
§ 4.
Does it ever injure the Spring-wheat, the Barley, the Buckwheat, and the Oat? Does it injure the Rye or the Indian corn? If it does, on what part of these several vegetables does it chiefly reside? Does it inhabit any of the grasses or other smaller vegetables which we cultivate in our fields, our meadows, gardens, &c. If it does, what are the names of these grasses, &c. and on what parts of these vegetables does it chiefly reside? Has it ever been observed, in any of its stages, in their flowers? Has it ever been known to injure their seeds? Does it appear to be most destructive to the Grasses, &c. of the more wet, or to those of the more dry soils? Has it ever been observed upon any of the larger trees or shrubs of the forest, garden, &c. If it has, what are the names of these trees and shrubs? And what parts of them does it commonly affect?
§ 5.
Does this insect seem to have committed greater depredations on the different grains, but particularly on the wheat, when sown in one soil than when sown in another? Thus, for instance, is it ascertained whether this animal has proved most destructive to wheat which has been sown in a light and loose soil, or to that which has been sown in a strong and heavy soil? Do its ravages appear to be greater or less upon the wheat of land which has been recently manured, than upon the wheat of land that has never been manured at all, or which has not been manured for a considerable length of time?
N.B. All the queries of this section have also a reference to the Rye, the Oat, the Barley, &c.
§ 6.
How far has the Bearded-wheat escaped the injuries of this insect? which variety of the Bearded-wheat, the Yellow, the Red or the White, has been observed to be most exempt from its injuries? Has any variety or species of the wheat entirely escaped the ravages of this insect?
§ 7.
Is it possible to ascertain, with any degree of certainty, the extent of country which this insect has traversed in a year, or in any other given period of time? Are its movements rapid? Does it appear that the progress of the insect has been, in any degree retarded, or obstructed, by rivers, by mountains, &c. Does it appear that it has pursued any general or fixed route through those countries in which it has been observed, as to the north, the south, &c. How far to the north has it been observed? How far to the south? how far to the west?
§ 8.
Have any experiments been made to demonstrate the degree of cold which this insect, in the different stages of its existence, is capable of supporting? Is it food for other animals?
§ 9.
What means have been found most successful for preventing the injuries committed by this insect? How far has the practice of rolling the Wheat and the Rye in the autumn and in the spring been found of service? Have any good consequences resulted from the practice of feeding the grain close in the spring-time? Has the burning of the stubble ever been tried? If it has, what has been the effect? Has the practice of steeping the grain of the Wheat, &c. (previously to its being sown) in infusions of the elder, and of other vegetables, been found of any service?
And while the Committee ask, with earnestness, information from every per-
son who can answer any one or more of the preceding questions, they address themselves in a particular manner to those on whose farms this insect has appeared, praying that they will give them such details as they can give with certainty, regardless of the style or form of their communications, since it will be the duty of the Committee to reduce all the facts received from different persons into an orderly narrative, to be reported to the Society.
Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Smith Barton, James Hutchinson, } Committee. Casper Wistar,
[A few copies of the above queries, printed so as to leave room for answers to each, are left at the office of the General Advertiser, to be disposed of gratis. Such persons as have information to communicate, or intend making such observations as may lead to the information wanted, by applying, will be furnished with copies.]
*** The republication of these Queries throughout the United States may essentially promote the interests of agriculture.
June 7, 1792.
[FROM A LONDON PAPER.]
The following paper was read by Mr. Grey, in the House of Commons on the 29th of February, the Russian Amendment under consideration. The member who presented it, stated it to be the answer of the Turkish Grand Vizier to Sir Robert Ainslie, the British Minister at Constantinople, during the Russian Negotiation.
"THE Grand Signior wars for himself, and for himself makes peace—he can trust his own slaves, servants and subjects—he knows their faith, has experienced their virtue, and can rely upon their fidelity: a virtue long since banished your corner of Europe. If all other Christians tell truth no reliance is to be had on England, she buys and sells all mankind. The Ottomans have no connexion with your king, nor your country—we never sought for your advice, your interference or friendship; we have no minister, no agency, no correspondence with you; for what reason offer ye then to mediate for us with Russia: why seek ye to serve an empire of infidels as ye call us Mussulmen? we want not your friendship, aid, or mediation. Your Vizier of whom you speak so highly, must have some project of deception in view, some oppressive scheme to amuse your nation, whom we are told are credulous, servile, and adoring only of money. Avarice, if we are well informed, is your chief characteristic—you would buy and sell your God—Money is your Deity—and all things is commerce with your ministry, with your nation. Come you then to sell us to Russia? No, let us bargain for ourselves: When fate has spun out the thread of our good fortune we must yield; what has been decreed by God and the prophet of men must and will come to pass. We Ottomans know no finesse. Duplicity and cunning are your christian morals. We are not ashamed to be honest, downright, plain and faithful in our state maxims. If we fall in war, we submit to the will of heaven decreed from the beginning. We have long lived in splendor the first power on earth, and we glory in having triumphed for ages over Christian infidelity and depravity, mixed with all sorts of vice and hypocrisy; We adore the God of nature and believe in Mahomet. You neither believe in the God you pretend to worship, nor his Son, whom you call both your God and your prophet. What reliance can there be upon such a sacrilegious race? Truth you banish as you do virtue, from all your conduct and actions with each other; read the catalogue of the com-
plaints, manifestoes, declarations, and remonstrances of all the christian kings, monarchs and emperors, who have lived and warred with each other; you find them all equally blasphemous, equally perfidious, equally cruel, unjust and faithless to their engagements. Did the Turk ever forfeit his promise, word, or honour? Never! Did ever a christian power keep an engagement but while it suited its own avarice or ambition? No! How then do you think we are to trust you, a nation at this moment, if told truth, ruled by a perfidious administration, without one grain of virtue to guide the machine of state? The Grand Signior has no public intercourse with your court; he wants none. If you wish to remain here either as a spy, or, as you term yourself, an ambassador for your court, you may live with those of other christian nations, while you demean yourself with propriety, but we want neither your aid by sea or land, nor your council or mediation. I have no order to thank you for your offer, because it is by the Divan deemed officious. Nor have I any command to thank you for the offer of your naval assistance, because it is what the Porte never dreamed of admitting into our seas. What you have to do with Russia we neither know or care; our concerns with that court we mean to finish as suits ourselves, and the maxims of our laws and state policy.
If you are not the most profligate Christian nation, as you are charged to be, you are undoubtedly the boldest, in presumption and effrontery, in offering to bring such a power as Russia to terms; such as you, and some other trivial christians united, fancy yourselves equal to command—we know better, and therefore this effrontery of yours amounts rather to audacity, and to an imbecile dictation, which must render your councils at home mean and contemptible, and your advice abroad unworthy of wisdom, or attention from any power, much less the regard of the Porte, which on all occasions wherein its ministers had listened to you, have experienced evil, either in your designs or in your ignorance—His Sublime Highness cannot be too much upon his guard against the attempts and presumption of a nation so perfidious to the interests of its subjects (or colonists)—but it is the usual way of christian princes to sell and cede over their subjects to each other for money. Every peace made amongst you, as we are well informed, is made favourable to the king that best bribes. The Ottoman Ministry have too long and too often given ear to European councils, and as often as they so did, they either were betrayed, sold or deceived—away then with your interference for the Porte with Russia.
"It has been your aim to embroil all mankind, and thereafter to profit by your perfidy. We ask not, want not, nor desire your commerce, because our merchants have been sacrificed to your double dealings—you have no religion but gain—avarice is your only god, and the christian faith you profess is but a mask for your hypocrisy—we will hear no more from you—therefore you are commanded to make no reply."
[It is to be lamented that, in addition to the above, it was not noticed that, to the dishonour of the British, and some other christian powers, they, to this day, are tributary not only to each other, but even to the contemptible state of Algiers.—Nations pretending to decide the fates of empires and continents, and at the same time meanly truckling to a nest of Barbarians, could not have failed adding a ludicrous feature to the gloomy picture drawn by the indignant Turk.]
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON—March 31.—Amongst the many improvements in finance which occupy the mind of our able and persevering minister, we hear he has it in contemplation to establish a separate fund of ten millions to serve as a reservoir in case of war, or any other public emergency. This regulation will be of the greatest benefit to the nation, as it will not only support its credit and authority, but prevent deep speculation in the alley.
The 4 per cent fund will likewise come under regulation immediately, which will bring in 160,000. per year to government; and which added to the 400,000. already tacked to the annual million, will put our public debt (hitherto the dread of Englishmen) into the happiest train of liquidation.
A letter from Lyons in France, mentions the rapid progress of the methodist sect in that place; their number amounting already to some hundreds; insomuch that the house taken by them last year for divine worship is found too small, and a large and convenient meeting-house will be commenced, early this spring to accommodate their numerous congregation.
The name of the person that killed the king of Sweden, is Ingelstrom; and his motives for this assassination are variously described. Some said he had undergone a long and severe imprisonment, for attempting to oppose the king's usurpation; others that his grievance was only a dismissal from the army, in which he had served as an ensign of the guards.
This event, whatever may have been the regicide's motive, must have consequences so favorable to the cause of the French, that, like the death of the Emperor, the Jacobines will not go unsuspected.
It was on the 16th of last month that the act was perpetrated; and not till the 19th that messengers were dispatched with the account of it to the ambassadors of Sweden, resident at the several European courts.
Those whose minds are strongly impressed with ideas of the sacred Majesty of kings, may, in what terms they please, express their abhorrence of this murder, but if it should prevent the meditated attack on France, the preservation of many thousand lives may be thought more than a compensation by a humane philosopher, and that the attack on the infant liberty of the French may be disconcerted by the death of Gustavus, seems not at all improbable. His Majesty's son is only in the fourteenth year of his age; and of course during the minority, intrigues for power may be apprehended both from the nobles for the recovery of their former overbearing ascendancy, from the people for the establishment and extension of the rights they have recently obtained—and from the empress in the prosecution of the plan she had so successfully begun. It is probable that the first consequence of these intrigues will be to relinquish the project of sending a fleet into the Mediterranean; for it is not likely that the Empress will be able in the first instance, to carry a point of such consequence. The king of Prussia will not tamely see her become the guardian and dictator of the kingdom; and therefore it is probable that the intended operations against France will not be carried on.
There seems in this act as in the death of the emperor, to be a concatenation of events favorable to the establishment of freedom in France, and through France, in Europe, and the world. No sooner has the policy of courts concerted a scheme for the attack of this new edifice, but the visitation of Providence arrests the assailants and prevents the effusion of blood.
The reports concerning a war between the Monarchs allied for the protection of their respective crowns and France, gain daily strength and credit. The French minister of war has declared that an army of Austrians, five and fifty thousand strong, is now upon the French frontier. The emigrants, encouraged by this position of the Imperialists, and the march of the troops of other powers towards the Rhine, have assembled in the neighborhood of Coblenz to the number of fifteen thousand, it is said in arms. These things seem to denounce war; yet what can we think when we reflect on the posture of affairs in the Austrian Netherlands, particularly Flanders and Brabant? The standard of Liberty and France, raised up in opposition to the Croats and German pride, would throw the bulk of the Belgic or Flemish nation into the hands of the National Assembly; the spirit of liberty would prevail in other parts of Germany: the thrones of different German princes might be subverted by a change of sentiment introduced among the troops intended to support them. While dissention and revolt would be thus scattered throughout Germany, and other parts of the continent, the different departments or districts in France would be united by foreign attempts to divide and desolate them. Perhaps, therefore, the allied princes have nothing more in view than to keep up a powerful curb on internal insurrection, as well
as a bulwark against foreign irruption, which French vivacity has not hesitated to threaten.
April 6. M. de Chauvelin is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at the court of London from France; he will be here next week, accompanied by M. de Talleyrand.
M. Bourguet is appointed Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid.
The society of the Feuillans is about to be re-established. M. Adrien Duport is to be the President, and M. Barnave the Secretary. They are to hold their meetings in the church of St. Honoré.
A Russian fleet is talked of at Stockholm, as soon to appear on the coasts of France, probably in the Mediterranean. This accords with a rumour lately circulated here, that the Empress had signified to our cabinet her intention of sending a fleet of observation into the Mediterranean; and expressed her hopes, that as all disputes between Great-Britain and Russia were now happily terminated, her ships would be admitted into the British ports as those of an ally.
Accounts from the Italian ports mention, that orders have been received to prepare for the reception of a Russian fleet early in the summer; and letters from Copenhagen of March 13th state, that the court of Denmark had received official notice that twenty-two ships from Cronstadt, and seven from Archangel, were to rendezvous near the Sound.
M. Delessart, the late French minister for foreign affairs, has undergone his first examination before the High National Court at Orleans, and is no longer in solitary confinement.
The troubles in the south of France, in a great measure, are brought to a conclusion. The city of Arles has submitted, and that of Avignon has been obliged to receive within its walls a body of patriotic troops.
There can be little doubt, that the Russian fleet designed for the Mediterranean, is intended to aid the Counter-Revolution in France. Much trouble and expence have been bestowed by the emigrant princes and their patrons to create insurrections in the south of France, on the coast of the Mediterranean, and the recent unhappy occurrences at Avignon and Arles, prove too well how such machinations have succeeded. That part of the country is at a great distance from the capital; the minds of the people have been poisoned, and the Aristocrats expect to find them ready for their purpose. It is therefore extremely probable, that while the Austrians and Prussians are attacking France on the North, the Italians assisted by the Russian Fleet, may land in the neighbourhood of Marseilles, where they hope to find a welcome reception.
Paris, April 26. The decision of the national assembly of France has accorded precisely with the general anticipation. In the sitting of Friday evening the important decree was passed which sanctions the hostilities of France with the king of Bohemia and Hungary.
It was at the same time resolved, that a manifesto should be immediately published and distributed through the continent, stating the provocations and the motives by which the nation was induced to enter on a war. It was also proposed that both the national guards and the troops of the line should take the oath to the constitution as prescribed on the 14th of January last; but this new ceremony was deemed superfluous.
The empress of Russia, it is said, will send a fleet this summer into the Mediterranean. It is supposed that it will convey a number of troops to the south of France, and co-operate with the Court of Spain in assisting the counter-revolution in France.
EVENTS IN SWEDEN.
The Dutch mail, which arrived on Saturday, brings less intelligence than might have been expected from Stockholm, the advices from that place being of little later date than those last received.
They concur in confirming former reports of the presence of mind shewn by Gustavus during his illness. It appears that, while he waited for the arrival of his surgeon in an apartment adjoining to the saloon of the opera house, several of the foreign ministers presented themselves, to whom he said, "I have given orders, gentlemen, that the gates of the city shall be shut. You will therefore not take it ill, if you should be unable to send couriers to your courts, until after three days. Your advices will then be more certain, since it will then probably be known whether I can survive or not." His conversation then related to the effects which the accident might produce in Europe; and the love of fame, which was always his predominant passion, was perceptible in his remarks.
General baron D'Armfeldt, one of his most affectionate friends, entered the room, pale with sorrow, and unable to utter a word. As he approached, the king stretching out his hand to him, said, "What's the matter my friend? Be not so alarmed upon my account. You know by experience what a wound is;" thus flatteringly alluding to a wound which the general had received in Finland.
At eight o'clock on the morning of his death, he received the sacrament. The queen had taken leave of him the evening before. At half past ten he died in great agonies in the presence of the first physician Danlberg, of the grand almoner Walguist, of the chamberlain Borghenstiera, and of two pages.
The will was opened the same day at noon, in the apartment of the young king, by Lalthom, the secretary of revision; the two princes his uncles and the chiefs of all the regiments and of the department, took the oaths to him; and the usual proclamations were made.
The reports in Stockholm were, that the conspiracy was formed by an hundred and eleven persons all noble, and residing partly in Stockholm, partly in the provinces; and that the plan consisted of 36 articles, one of which was, that, "as soon as the king should be despatched, the duke of Sudermania, and the persons most attached to his majesty, as the generals Taube and baron D'Armfeldt, the baron Ruuth and M. Hakanfon, should be attacked; and their heads should be carried in triumph through the streets: that Lieut. Col. Lilienhorn major of guards should immediately take the command of the troops in Stockholm; that when the public force was won over, the constitution should be restored to the ancient principles of a limited monarchy; that the prince royal should be entirely executive, and committed to the national sovereignty."
The persons arrested are chiefly young men. Several nobles, who were most forward in the opposition to the king, but who were incapable of meditating his death, repaired to the palace, soon after the attempt was known. The king being informed that the Count De Brahe, one of these, was in an anti-Chamber making enquiries concerning his situation desired that he might be admitted and said to him, "that, though he was under circumstances much to be lamented, he regarded that day as happy for himself, since it had given him an opportunity of reconciliation with one of his oldest friends."
FRANCE, April 25.
Mr. Noailles, the French minister to the Court of Vienna, on the 5th instant notified Count Cobenzel, Vice-Chancellor of the German Empire, that he had received orders to demand a declaration by which the court of Vienna should renounce its armaments and coalition; and to announce that, in default of this declaration, the French king will consider himself to be in a state of war with Austria; in which he will be supported by his nation, who will only a decision. In answer to this, as had been expected, the Count Cobenzel only made the following requisitions. — 1 That satisfaction should be given to the princes possessed in Alsace—2 That satisfaction should be given to the pope for the County of Avignon—3 That the neighbouring powers shall have no reason for the apprehensions, which arise from the present weakness of the internal government of France.—This and another notification from M. de Noailles, containing the answer of the king of Prussia on the affairs of France, agreeing in all respects with the sentiments of the king of Hungary, produced the following letter from Louis the 6th to the President of the National Assembly:
"Mr. PRESIDENT,
"I entreat you to make known to the Assembly that I shall come there to-morrow at half past twelve o'clock.
"LOUIS."
On Friday his Majesty came to the Assembly, the members of which rose and were uncovered as he entered, and took their seats when he had reached his place. The king then spake as follows:
KING'S SPEECH.
"GENTLEMEN,
"I have come among you for an object of the highest importance in the present circumstances. My Minister of Foreign Affairs will read to you the Report which he made to me in the Council on our situation with regard to Germany."
The Minister of foreign affairs, then went up and standing by the king's side read the report, which the king had notified to the Assembly.
Minute of the Cabinet Council of France addressed to the King.
"Sir,
"When you took an oath of fidelity to the Constitution, you became the object of the hatred of the enemies of liberty. No natural tie could stop them, no motive of alliance, of neighbourhood, of property, could prevent their enmity. Your ancient allies erased your name out of the list of Despots, and from that moment they forgot your Majesty's fidelity. The Emigrants, rebels to the laws of their country, are gone beyond the frontiers to prepare a guilty aggression against France. They wish to carry into its bosom fire and sword. Their rage would have been impotent if the foreign Princes had not seconded and encouraged their criminal manoeuvres. The House of Austria has done every thing to en-
corage their audacity.—The House of Austria, who since the treaty of 1756 has found us good and faithful allies.—This treaty, Sire, subjected us to the ambitious views of this House. She engaged us in all her wars to which she called us as her allies. We have been prodigal of our blood in the cruel tragedies of despotism. The infant that the House of Austria saw the could no longer govern us for her purposes, she became our enemy.
"It was Austria that has stirred up again France the restless northern potentate, whose tyrannical phrensy has at last made him fall under the sword of an assassin.—It was Austria who in office, of which Europe shall judge, advised one party of Frenchmen to take up arms against the other. The note of the court of Vienna, of the 18th Feb. was in truth a declaration of war. M. Kaunitz there avows the league of the powers against France. The death of Leopold ought to have made some change in the ambitious system, but we have seen the contrary.
"The note of the 18th of March is the ultimatum of the Court of Vienna. This note is more provoking still than the former. The King of Hungary wishes that we should submit our constitution to his revision; and he does not dissemble the project of arming Frenchmen against Frenchmen.
"Sire" continues the minister, "in charging me with the administration of foreign affairs you have imposed on me the telling you the truth: It results from this explosion, that the treaty of 1756 is broken, in fact, by the House of Austria; that the maintenance of a league of the powers is an act of hostility against France and that you ought this instant to order M. Noailles, your Ambassador, to quit the Court of Vienna without taking leave.—Sire,—the Austrian troops are on the march—the camps are marked out, fortresses are building: the nation, by its oath on the 14th of July, has declared that any man who shall accede to an unconstitutional negotiation is a traitor. The delay granted to Austria is expired—your honour is attacked—the nation is insulted—Therefore there remains for you no other part to take but to make to the National Assembly the formal proposition of war against the king of Bohemia and Hungary."
The minister having read this minute, the king resumed his speech.—
Conclusion of the King's Speech.
"You have heard, Messieurs, the deliberation and the decision of my council. I adopt their determination. It is conformable to the will, many times expressed, of the National Assembly, and to that which has been addressed to me to be the will of all the French people. Frenchmen prefer war to ruinous anxiety, and to a humiliating state, which compromises our Constitution and our dignity. I have done every thing to avert war; but I judge it indispensable, I come, therefore, in the terms of the constitution, to propose to you formally to declare war against the king of Bohemia and Hungary."
A burst of applause broke from the galleries. The Assembly maintained a dignified silence.
The President answered:
"SIRE,
"The assembly will proceed to deliberate on the great proposition which your Majesty has made to them. They will address to you, by a message, the result of their deliberation."
The King then retired with his Ministers and conducted with the same deputation of Members.
The Hall rung with acclamations of the people.
The assembly was adjourned to five in the evening.
APRIL 19.—(Evening)
Read a letter from Gen. Luckner, complaining that the war Minister had made public a letter of his, which was of a confidential nature.
Read a letter from Messrs. Beaux, merchants at Marseilles, containing information that M. Marchand, master of the ship Le Solide, has discovered four islands in the Indian seas, which are fully peopled, and abounding in hogs, birds, herbs, &c. and that he had taken possession of them in the name of the French nation, and of Louis XVI. This letter was accompanied by charts of the islands. The charts were accepted, but the master of the ship was blamed for having taken possession of the islands, as the French nation have renounced all conquests.
THE Subscriber begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from Pennington to that noted tavern and ferry stand opposite to Eafon, on the Jersey side of the Delaware,—He has provided himself with a good and safe set of ferry-crafts, and purposes keeping the best entertainment for man and horse. Every attention shall be paid to gentlemen travellers and others by the public's most obedient and very humble servant,
THOMAS BULLMAN.
May 8th, 1792.
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PHILADELPHIA.
JUNE 14, 1792.
A S. Carolina paper of May 20th, asserts that Gen. Jackson has declined serving as a representative of the state of Georgia, in Congress.
The late resolution of the house of commons (say the London prints) respecting the slave trade, seems likely to end merely in an abstract proposition—that it ought to be abolished.
Verbal accounts are said to have been received in London, about the middle of April, from Bengal, intimating that Tipoo Saib was surrounded on all quarters by the English armies; his troops deserting in great numbers, and all resources cut off from him. Should these circumstances be true, it is probable we may have the news of his capture by the next arrivals.
A theatre, it is said, is shortly to be erected in Charleston (S. C.) by the Old American Company of Comedians. It is expected to be ready for exhibiting the ensuing winter.
A cause was lately brought before the federal court of South-Carolina, stating claims of a certain British mercantile house (in London) against the surviving partner of an American house in Charleston. The great question for decision is, whether debts due from merchants in America to those resident in England, should bear interest during the war?—The plaintiff has obtained permission of the court to send to England to examine witnesses, to substantiate the claims.
An officer (of the first regiment) and a soldier, being lately at a short distance from Fort Jefferson, were killed and scalped by the Indians—small parties of whom, it seems, are continually hovering about that post.
On the 5th ult. Gen. Anthony Wayne had reached as far as York (90 miles west of this place) on his way to join the western army.
The President and Directors of the bank of New-York have tendered the services of their bank to the bank of Albany, offering to receive the paper of the latter, and exchange, without any particular limitation.
“Twelve hundred shares (says an Albany paper) are subscribed to the northern and western canals, in the city of New-York only; which added to the other subscriptions, the amount is 1425 shares—whereas one thousand shares would have been sufficient to set the whole of both canals in motion.”
We learn by accounts from the westward, that seven hundred rifle-men have crossed the Ohio, at the mouth of Buffalo, above Wheeling, about the 22d of May, to make a dash at the Indian settlements, at and about Sandusky.—Several Indian depredations have been committed in and about Reed's Station—the predominant rage amongst them, seems to be the carrying off horses, in which they are but too successful.
That destructive insect, the Hessian fly, has made its appearance about Elk-Ridge, in Maryland, where the crops of wheat have generally fallen before it. In West-Jersey, considerable damage has also been done by the same insect; many farmers having found their crops already so far ruined, as to induce them to turn in their cattle to feed upon the remains.
The accounts lately published in several Maryland papers, and from thence into the Philadelphia prints, of the death of Gen. M c Gillivray seem to be without foundation. A letter received from a gentleman in Augusta (Georgia) dated May 23, mentions his arrival at Rock-landing with a number of the upper chiefs; but, in consequence of two white men who were murdered, some little time back, they have all returned to the Creek nation, in order to hold a grand council to decide this business, which will in all probability detain the running of the lines for these three months.”
The extreme cold weather, for the season and the vast quantity of rain which has fallen within a few days past, we have reason to apprehend will do injury to crops in every part of the country. The oldest inhabitants of Pennsylvania do not remember weather in the month of June equally unseasonable.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Wheeling, dated the 28th of May.
“It is now near two months since we have had any alarm of the Indians in our quarter; what they can be about we cannot suggest; we have had two parties of scouts out thro' the Indian country, but they have not yet returned, being away two weeks. There has been an expedition against the Sanduski Indian towns attempted, but has fallen through by reason of men not turning out to a sufficient number; about 300 rendezvoused at this place—it was concluded that 5 or 600 men would be the least that could venture in hopes of success. It is now concluded on by our county lieutenants to apply to our government for assistance, as well as to the government of the United States, to enable us to carry the plan into execution.”
cluded that 5 or 600 men would be the least that could venture in hopes of success. It is now concluded on by our county lieutenants to apply to our government for assistance, as well as to the government of the United States, to enable us to carry the plan into execution.”
A pretence to divine inspiration has been the state trick of imposture in all ages.—The learned reader will readily recognize a striking resemblance between the convulsive ravings of the Heathen priests when placed on the sacred tripod, and the incoherent raptures and grimaces of some modern declaimers.—Yet they have to boast their popularity and their crowded audiences. Many reasons, which have no connection with genuine christianity, might be assigned for this; but brevity will confine us to one. Uncultivated minds derive their greatest pleasure from violent emotions. Multitudes will pass the most instructive lecture with indifference, and crowd to an execution. There the tragical end of the criminals excites a mixture of terror and pity, which they indulge for a while, and afterwards retire to the banquet of the brothel with unabated avidity. The fanatic preacher builds his celebrity on this disposition; by degrees he works up his imagination to a pitch sufficient to throw the animal spirits into a ferment; then expatiating on the heinousness of sin thunders forth the threatenings of the law. The audience catch the contagion, and are agitated with all the emotions of terror. When the preacher thinks the storm has taken sufficient effect, he dispels the clouds, and presents a clear sky: The promises of the gospel are now thrown out with a rapidity and irreverence shocking to think of: at his magic word the passion is instantly changed, and the well disciplined flock become dissolved in floods of joy and exultation. To close the scene, they are dismissed with assurances (taken from scripture allegory) that tho' poor and despised in this world, in the world to come they shall receive palms of victory and crowns of glory.” The transported congregation, after extolling the great good man, separate, and consider the work of religion at an end, till the next joyful meeting; when the same rough strains, clumsily transposed, are again played over, and the same ridiculous mummery re-acted. Is it possible that any person can discover the smallest analogy between fanaticism, and that composed rational devotion which ought to prevail in a christian assembly? can that sincere contrition of spirit, which promises a departure from sin have place in the frantic ravings of a disordered mind? can lasting resolves of reformation be formed amidst the tumult of passion? [Virginia Gazette]
It is equally happy and honorable for America, that among the discordant sections into which society may be thrown, she has nothing to apprehend, and every thing to hope, on the score of Religion. The Rights of opinion are not only established in our charters of government, but are written in the hearts and minds of our citizens. If a difference in religious creeds exists among us, it is no longer a torch of discord inflaming the evil passions of human nature, and consuming every benign sentiment of religion itself: It has been converted by the enlightened policy of our country, into a mutual and benevolent tolerance, which, though among the latest virtues that have re-visited the earth, is one of the noblest that can adorn society, or cement the affections of its members. Persecution is extinct; and whether patriotism or piety were to pronounce on the man who could with to re-kindle it in any form whatever, he could only have to chuse between the sentence of a contemptible bigot, or a hypocritical incendiary.—Such is the genius of AMERICAN LIBERTY—Let the boasters of European liberty blush at the contrast!
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
We hear from Georgia, that General Jackson has declined serving as a Representative in Congress for the Eastern district of that state. It seems hard upon Georgia that the people should not have been duly represented during the most interesting part of the last session when so many laws of the utmost importance were passing: It must also have produced a degree of chagrin in the government of that state to find their official communications to Congress rejected, declaring their opinion that Gen. Jackson was their true Representative; and it must have increased that chagrin to the highest degree to find, that they should lose their weight and consequence in the scale of legal representation by only the vote of an individual unattached, and by them suspected to be inimical to their interests.—That there was an evident bias in the House of Representatives, of a most singular nature, in the vote given the 21st of March last, must appear to every impartial examiner, who will take the trouble to cast his eye over the Yeas and Nays, where it will clearly appear that the northern members generally voted in the negative on the question for declaring Gen. Jackson entitled to a seat. Whatever might have influenced members to advocate northern and southern interest, upon the great questions of assumption, permanent residence, imposts, or the like, still it must appear strange to unbiaffed
men that those separate interests should be opposed on a question of a legal nature, such as that of a contested election; and it is to be lamented by the people of the United States that there should already spring up under the present government a species of intrigue which must, if it increases, prove extremely noxious to the harmony of the union.
General Jackson's conduct in checking the first corruption that was attempted to be practiced against the freedom of election since the establishment of the present constitution, has been justly admired by every true republican in America, especially, when it must now appear that he was actuated by no other than the most patriotic motives: for, he shewed no sort of resentment against his opponent, neither was he anxious for a seat in Congress. The true motive was, that of serving his country, by holding up to the public detestation a corrupt judge, and making an example of him, to deter others from attempting the like infamous conduct, in future—and, in doing this, Gen. Jackson has evinced great abilities, expended a considerable sum of money, risked his life and health at an inclement season of the year, and having completed the business, has been again called on by his fellow citizens to represent them. Indeed, he has received the public thanks of the government of his own state, and is well deserving of the thanks of all the freemen in the United States. His independent conduct, and his abilities, may have proved irksome to a party in the legislature of the union, who have exposed their liberality on many occasions; but his merit, and spirit will not be suffered to remain in obscurity, whilst there is an honest printer on the continent, to record it; whilst the state of Georgia can remember the insult it has received, and whilst it yet remains in their power to resent it, by electing this man their Governor, which they will most assuredly do; thus holding him up in their highest place of honour, whilst they will leave the junto of Bankers and Speculators and army-contractors, a group of living “figures, for the hand of time to point his flow, scorn unmoving finger at.”
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
ONCE MORE, Ye foreigners, attend!
Suppose I should, by sound of trumpet, proclaim through the streets, that all foreigners deserve to be banished, as dangerous men, would you think it a sufficient apology, if, in 4 or 5 days after, when called to account for my conduct, I should say, the words were not mine, but that I had heard a drunken sailor utter them in a grog-shop? Suppose again, a man who has wilfully poisoned his neighbour, should plead in excuse, that it was not he, who prepared the dose, but some obscure apothecary;—would such an apology save him from the gallows? I hope not: though I fear, that on this point I differ in opinion from Mr. Fenno, who having published in the Gazette of the United States (under the Philadelphia head, unqualified, and without quoting his authority) a paragraph reflecting on foreigners, thinks it a sufficient apology, to inform us, several days after, that he had copied it from the Newark Gazette. But why did he copy it at all? and how are we to know that he really did copy it, unless we send to Newark for a complete file of the papers, as he has not told us, when the piece appeared, whether before the revolution, or since?
Must a foreigner, whenever he finds himself, in common with all other foreigners, insulted or slandered in the Gazette of the United States, write off to all the printers in the Union for their papers for two or three months back, and spend as many months in reading them, to find out the source of the slander, before he can venture an answer? It seems he must, if I understand Mr. Fenno's publication of this morning: and a more ready mode could not possibly be taken, to establish aristocracy; since no man could then venture to answer a paragraph, unless he was rich enough to subscribe for every paper in the United States, and could spare time to read them all. A poor republican, who cannot spare money or time for more than one paper, must be silent, because he cannot trace a paragraph which perhaps originally appeared in some obscure paper printed at Wilscasset, Muskingham, or in the back parts of Georgia: and then, how easy for a designing printer, to send obnoxious paragraphs to distant, obscure parts, merely for the purpose of copying them afterwards into his own paper at the seat of government! how easy to screen himself from censure, by giving his own original pieces under the cautious title of ‘Extracts,’ ‘Communications,’ &c. The various tricks of this kind, practised by jobbers and speculators, have taught merchants to be cautious with respect to mercantile paragraphs: and why should we not be equally so, in reading political paragraphs, which may be fabricated in the same manner?
Allowing however, that the paragraph in question was not fabricated in Philadelphia by Mr. Fenno, or any of his friends (which indeed I do not mean to insinuate) can Mr. Fenno deny, that he has himself often thrown out insinuations against foreigners, as being the writers against government, and consequently “enemies to the government” as he commonly calls such writers? If he does, I can prove the charge against him, by recurring to the files of his paper. Nay,
he has saved me the trouble: for in his Gazette of this morning, he declares his “full conviction that the insinuation is well founded.”
But I would ask Mr. Fenno, was it a pack of foreigners, and runaway slaves, who, as grand jury, in Georgia, presented the Excise as a public nuisance? Was it a pack of ragged foreigners, who assembled in Richmond, to remonstrate against the tax upon newspapers? Is it foreigners who write against the measures of government, in Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, every part of the union? Was it a crew of discontented foreigners, whose patriotic eloquence has, for three years past, thundered in Congress against every one of those measures, that are reprobated in print? Was it a band of foreigners, who declaimed against the assumption during the last session, and triumphantly drove the Assumptioneers from the field?—Was it a host of foreigners, who, with the President of the U. S. at their head, kicked out of doors the fractionizing representation bill, to introduce a constitutional one? Is it a pack of foreigners, who, after the 4th of March next (when the representation is equal) will gratify the people, by repealing every obnoxious law?—If it be, then “the insinuation is well founded,” as Mr. Fenno asserts; and all foreigners ought to be banished, especially those foreigners, who have established various manufactures in the southern states, and thus spoiled the trade of N. England; and those others, who are settling the back lands, and raising the price upon the emigrants from the eastward.
Mr. Fenno seems displeased at the “polite and candid manner,” in which he has been quoted. If I had (as other writers have) called him “the aristocratic printer,” “Pomposo's printer,” or “J— A—s's printer,” he might have some reason to complain: but he has none, when, without any disgraceful addition, he is designated by the name of John Fenno, which he prints at the head of his paper. If however he thinks the name of John Fenno a disgrace, I humbly beg his pardon for having used it: and hence forward, if ever I have occasion to mention him, I will, if he thinks proper, designate him by the name of Jack the Giant-Killer, or any other name he chuses to adopt.
I will here observe, by the way, that neither Mr. Fenno, nor any one of those few printers who accord with him in sentiment, has any reason to complain on the score of politeness and decorum; as they have, for months past, loaded every republican printer and writer with the most virulent abuse, which has escaped the knowledge of the public in general, only because the persons who were abused, disdained to take notice of it.
He complains, that “none but mutilated extracts” of his are published. Does he expect that any man, for the sake of refuting a single assertion, will take the trouble of copying out the whole piece that contains it? This would be a master-stroke in differentiating his principles thro' the union, and making all the papers in the U. States sing the same tune with Mr. Fenno. If it is no affront to mention Mahomet in company with Mr. Fenno, Mahomet has asserted in his Alcoran, that women have no souls. Now suppose I wish to refute that position in a newspaper, must I pay the printer for publishing the entire Alcoran, chapter by chapter, for whole months together, before I can venture to reply? I am afraid I must, left Mahomet and Mr. Fenno should complain of the publication of “mutilated extracts!”—I hope however, that men of sense and candor would not listen to the complaint of either Mahomet or Mr. Fenno in that case; but allow, that when a writer only undertakes to refute a particular assertion, either in the Alcoran or Gazette of the U. States, it is sufficient to quote that assertion, without republishing all the farrago of stuff that accompanies it. OH LA!
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THE VILLAGE MERCHANT.
[Continued from No. 64.]
A LACK-a day! on life's uncertain road How many plagues, what evils must befall; Love has on none unmingled bliss bestow'd, But disappointment is the lot of all: Thieves rob our stores, in spite of locks and keys; Cats steal our cream, and rats infest our cheese, The finest coat a greasy spot may assail, Or Susan pin a dish-clout to its tail!
Our Village-Merchant (trust me) had his share Of vile mis-haps—for now, the goods unpack'd Discover'd, what might make a deacon swear, Jugs, cream-pots, pipes, and grog-bowls sad-ly crack'd.—
A general groan through all the crowd was heard Most pitied him, and some his ruin fear'd: Poor wight! 'twas sad to see him fret and chafe, While each enquir'd—'Sir, is the rum-cask safe?'
Alas! even that some mischief had endur'd— One rascals hoop had started, near the chine! Then curiously the bung-hole they explor'd With stem of pipe, the leakage to define.— "Five gallons must be charg'd to loss and gain!" "Five gallons!" (said the merchant) wretch'd with pain—
"Now may the cooper never see full flask But still be driving at an empty cask— Five gallons might have mellow'd down the Squire, And made the captain strut a full inch higher Five gallons might have prompted many a song, And made a frolic more than five days long— Five gallons now are lost—and, sad to think, That when they leak'd, no soul was there to drink!"
Now slightly treated with a proof-glass dram, Each neighbour took his leave, and mov'd to bed, All but the merchant!—he, with grief o'ercome, Revolv'd strange notions in his scheming head— "For losses, such as these, (thought he) 'tis meant
"That goods are sold at twenty-five per cent— (No doubt, your trading men know what is just) 'Tis twenty-five times what they cost at first."
So rigging off his shelves by light of candle, The ancient smoke-house walls began to shine: Here stood his tea-pots (some without a handle)— A broken jar—and there a keg of wine,— Pipes, many a dozen (ordered in a row)— Jugs—mugs—and grog-bowls—lets for sale than show—
The leaky cask—replenish'd from the well, Roll'd to its birth—but no tales will tell— Catching the eye in elegant display, All was arrang'd, and sang, by break of day: The blue dram-bottle on the counter plac'd, Stood, all prepar'd for him that buys to taste— Sure bait! by which the man of cash is taken, As rats are caught by cheese, or scraps of bacon.
[To be continued.]
ON THE PROLONGATION OF THE POLAR AX- IS OF THE EARTH.
[Translated from a new work, lately published at Paris.]
UPWARDS of a century ago it was univer- sally believed that the earth's polar axis was pro- longated, and at present people are as thoroughly persuaded that the earth is flattened about the poles; or, in other words, that the equatorial diameter is longer than the polar. I shall not, in this place, enter into an examination of the principles upon which this latter hypothesis is founded, or of the observations which have been brought to support it. The earth's being flatt- ened at the poles is supposed to be occasioned by the centrifugal power, which is also made to ac- count for its progressive motion in the heavens, altho' this imagined power, which, it is pretend- ed, has added so much to the equatorial diame- ter of the earth, has not in reality the ability to raise a single straw from the surface. It has been said, that the notion of the earth's being flatt- ened at the poles is amply proved by the different measurements of two degrees of a terrestrial cir- cle, procured at an immense expense, one in Pe- ru, near the equator, the other in Lapland, in the vicinity of the polar circle. These experi- ments were, no doubt, made by men famous for their knowledge in such matters. But others as wise and as famous as themselves, have undenia- bly proved from other principles and other experi- ments, that the earth is, like an egg, prolonged towards the poles, a sufficient proof of which is the increase of the quantity in a degree of latitude as you advance towards the poles. The polar ax- is of the earth, according to Cassini, is estimat- ed at fifty leagues more than the equatorial diame- ter, which gives either pole an elevation of twen- ty-five leagues above the perfectly globular cir- cumference of the earth. I confess myself a con- vert to the opinion of the last mentioned cele- brated philosopher; for the truth of which, also, we have ocular demonstration in central eclipses of the moon, at which times the shadow of the earth appears of an oval figure at her poles, as both Tycho Brahe and Kepler have observed; whose names may here stand in stead of many others.
This image of the earth, when thus presented to our view in the heavens, is so plain and stri- king, that her rotundity is sensibly and visibly altered.
Many naturalists have supposed, as I do, that the earth is covered with ice at the poles, to such a height as to render her figure sensibly oval. And this hypothesis serves admirably well to resolve an important difficulty, which not a little embar- rassed both Tycho Brahe and even the sagacious Kepler, in their observations upon central (or to- tal) lunar eclipses, when she was on or about the equator; as in that observed by Tycho in the year 1588, and by Kepler in 1624, of which he
thus speaks.—"It is to be noted that this eclipse of the moon (meaning that on Sept. 26, 1624) very much deceived us in our calculations; for, the duration of total darkness was not only very short, but the remainder of its duration of much shorter continuance than we expected, as well as the time preceding the total darkness; just as if the earth was of an elliptical form, and having her diameter under the equator shorter than that ex- tending from one pole to the other."
But, without having recourse to the authority of any names whatever for the support of our sys- tem, we may conclude from analogy only, that the axis of the earth is the longest diameter.
The mountains (Cordilleras) of Peru, which are mere mole-hills in comparison to the two he- mispheres, and the rivers flowing from which are mere brooks in comparison to the vast ocean, have solid ridges of ice upon them from 20 to 30 leagues in breadth, interspersed with pyramids of ice and snow in their center from 12 to 1500 fa- thoms of elevation. If these are so immense, what ought then to be the height of the vast cone of ice at either pole, which in their respective winters have a circle of ice about them almost 1200 leagues in diameter? For my own part, I have no doubt, that the prodigious thickness of these cones, at the poles, is one cause of the earth having appeared of an oval form in the cen- tral eclipses of the moon observed by Tycho Brahe and Kepler.
From such a configuration of the globe results also another consequence. If the elevation of the polar ice is capable of altering the form of the globe, as imaged in the heavens, its weight ought to have some influence upon the earth's motion in the ecliptic. There is, in fact, a remarkable analogy between the motion by which the earth alternately presents its two poles to the sun in one year, and the reciprocal melting of the polar ice which happens in the same space of time. I conceive the motion of the earth to be affected by these alternate meltings of the ice in the fol- lowing manner: Admitting, with astronomers, the laws of reciprocal attraction amongst the stars, the earth ought certainly to present to the sun, by which she is attracted, the heaviest part of her body. But the heaviest part ought to be one of her poles when surcharged with a cone of ice, above two thousand leagues in circumference, and of an elevation far exceeding the highest parts of all continents. But, in proportion as the ice of this pole melts, when the sun becomes more vertical; and, on the contrary, as the ice of the opposite pole increases, as the sun recedes from it, it must follow that the former pole becoming lighter, and the latter heavier, the center of gra- vity passes alternately from one to the other; and from this alternate preponderance must necessarily result the movement of our globe in the ecliptic, which gives us summer and winter.
It would follow from this alternate change of weight from one pole to the other, that our he- misphere, having incomparably more land than the southern, and consequently being more heavy, ought to be inclined for a longer time towards the sun than the other. This actually happens, since we have five or six days more of summer than of winter. Hence it follows that our pole cannot lose its center of gravity till the opposite pole has loaded itself with a weight of ice greater than the weight of our continent and the ice of our hemi- sphere. This also is proved, from experience, to be the case; for the ice towards the south pole is more high, as well as more extended than that about our pole; navigators never having been able to advance to more than 70 degrees of south latitude, whereas it is common to sail beyond 82, north. This at once explains the reason why the power called Nature has thought proper to distinguish this globe into two hemispheres, the one including within itself the greater quantity of land, and the other the largest portion of seas, that in its motion it might partake of the two properties of versatility and steadiness. Hence too we see the reason why the south pole is placed in the midst of immense oceans, far away from any land, that it might load itself with a greater quantity of marine evaporations, accumulated around it in the form of ice, and thus balance the weight of those immense continents which ex- tend over the northern hemisphere.
June 11.
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"WHILE I was admiring the fantastical ra- mifications of some umbelliferous plants that hung over the margin of the Liffey, the fallacious bank, imperceptibly corroded by the moist tooth of the fluid, gave way beneath my feet, and I was suddenly submerged to some fathoms of profundity— presence of mind, in constitutions not natu- rally timid, is generally in proportion to the im- minency of peril; having never learnt to move through the water in horizontal progression, had I desponded, I had perished; but being for a mo- ment raised above the element by my struggles, or by some felicitous casualty, I was sensible of the danger, and instantly embraced the means of extrication; a cow, at the moment of my lapse, had entered the stream within the distance of a protruded arm, and being in the act of transverse navigation to seek the pasture of the opposite bank, I laid hold of that part of the animal which is loosely pendant behind, and is formed by a con- catenation of the vertebrae; in this manner I was safely conveyed to a fordable passage, not without some dejection from the sense of progress with- out effort on my part, and the exhilarating ap- proximation of more than problematical deliver- ance. Though, in some respect, I resembled the pilot of Guaya, yet my companions, unlike the barbarous Phrygian spectators, forbore to ac- cerbitate the unouthness of embarrassment by the insult of derision; shrieks of complacency testified sorrow for my submersion, and safety was made more pleasant by the felicitation of sym- pathy; as the danger was over, I took no um- brage at a little ribbity excited by the seculency
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THE Subscriber has it in contemplation soon to decline his present business—and having on hand a considerable quantity of superfine second and elastic cloths, together with a variety of other ar- ticles in his way, proposes to sell them at the following reduced prices—
  Best Superfine navy blue 34/6   Ditto. ditto. Scarlet 36/6   Common colours superfine 32/6   Elastic stripes 9/6   London buff and white cassimere 15/6   Ditto, coloured do. 15/6   Yorkshire do. do. 13/6   Striped toiletens 14/6   Rattinets 3/6   Striped Nankeens 3/4   A variety of waistcoat shapes proportionably low,   Fancy buttons and trimmings do.   London best silk hose, from 22/6 to 24/6.   The above goods have been mostly imported from one of the first Mercantile houses in London, and are of an equal quality to any imported into Ameri- ca; they will be sold per piece or smaller quantity as may best suit the purchasers; by the public's most bumble servant, JOHN SHEPHERD.
No. 3 South Fourth-Street. Any person disposed to purchase the whole of the above stock, may also have on reasonable terms his present dwelling house, together with the store, a more eligible situation for business in the tailor's line is not to be found in this city. The advantage of this business being so well est- ablished by the proprietor will be very great, and from well known facts, needs no comment. A lease of six years may be had of the house. May 14, 2gw. 1f.
Just imported in the ship Molly, Captain Pitt, from Lisbon—
A few Pipes and Quarter Casks of LISBON WINE,
Far superior in quality to what is generally impor- ted; and a few Dales of the very best CORKS, To be Sold by
GEORGE MEADE,
Who has also for sale, Choice three and five years old
Bill of Exchange Madeira Wine,
By the Pipe, or Quarter Cask,
LONDON MARKET MADEIRA WINE
five years old by the pipe, or quarter Cask,
Choice old Sherry WINE by the quarter cask
Mess BEEF of a superior quality and such as is
fit for an East India Voyage—put up in
this city.
Choice first quality BEEF do.
Do Second do.
BOSTON BEEF equal to any from that
country.
Burlington Pork of the first quality, and one hundred and fourteen hds of
FLAX SEED, &c. &c.
May 16 2a. w. 1m.
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May 24.
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THE LAWS of the UNITED STATES, Passed at the First Session of the Second Congress.
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A FARM FOR SALE.
To be sold cheap for cash, a Farm situated on the Banks, and on the north side of the river Rar- itan in the state of New-Jersey; eight miles from the city of New-Brunswick, and one from the town of Bound Brook, containing 191 acres, and 40 acres about a mile distant apportioned to it for woodland: on this farm has lately been erected a neat and convenient house 28 by 34 feet neatly finished, built on a cellar the dimensions of the House, with a kitchen forming a wing 24 by 18 feet completed: 50 acres of it being meadow renders this place tru- ly valuable; the healthy airy and pleasant situation makes it an agreeable seat for a gentleman: the meadow and fertility of the soil, an object for the farmer, & its being surrounded by the most wealthy and opulent farmers in the state, a very eligible stand for a store. The ride to and from Brunswick on either side of the river, is delightful: for the price apply to the editor of the National Gazette.
6w 1a.w.
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