Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-03-17 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 93, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1792.
[Whole No. 301.]
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES. AT THE FIRST SESSION, Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
AN ACT relative to the Election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, and declaring the Officer who shall act as President in case of Vacancies in the Offices both of President and Vice-President.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That except in case of an election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, prior to the ordinary period as hereinafter specified, electors shall be appointed in each state for the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December in every fourth year succeeding the last election, which electors shall be equal to the number of Senators and Representatives, to which the several states may by law be entitled at the time, when the President and Vice-President, thus to be chosen, should come into office: Provided always, That where no apportionment of Representatives shall have been made after any enumeration, at the time of choosing electors, then the number of electors shall be according to the existing apportionment of Senators and Representatives.
And be it further enacted, That the electors shall meet and give their votes on the said first Wednesday in December, at such place in each state as shall be directed, by the legislature thereof; and the electors in each state shall make and sign three certificates of all the votes by them given, and shall seal up the same, certifying on each that a list of the votes of such state for President and Vice-President is contained therein, and shall by writing under their hands, or under the hands of a majority of them, appoint a person to take charge of and deliver to the President of the Senate, at the seat of government before the first Wednesday in January then next ensuing, one of the said certificates; and the said electors shall forthwith forward by the post-office to the President of the Senate, at the seat of government, one other of the said certificates; and shall forthwith cause the other of the said certificates, to be delivered to the judge of that district in which the said electors shall assemble.
And be it further enacted, That the executive authority of each State shall cause three lists of the names of the electors of such State to be made and certified and to be delivered to the electors on or before the said first Wednesday in December, and the said electors shall annex one of the said lists to each of the lists of their votes.
And be it further enacted, That if a list of votes, from any State shall not have been received at the seat of government on the said first Wednesday in January that then the Secretary of State shall send a special messenger to the district judge in whose custody such list shall have been lodged, who shall forthwith transmit the same to the seat of government.
And be it further enacted, That Congress shall be in session on the second Wednesday in February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and on the second Wednesday in February succeeding every meeting of the electors, and the said certificates, or so many of them as shall have been received, shall then be opened, the votes counted, and the persons who shall fill the offices of President and Vice-President ascertained and declared, agreeably to the constitution.
And be it further enacted, That in case there shall be no President of the Senate at the seat of government on the arrival of the persons entrusted with the list of the votes of the electors, then such persons shall deliver the lists of votes in their custody into the office of the Secretary of State, to be safely kept and delivered over as soon as may be to the President of the Senate.
And be it further enacted, That the persons appointed by the electors to deliver the lists of the votes to the President of the Senate, shall be allowed on the delivery of the said lists twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual road, from the place of the meeting of the electors, to the seat of government of the United States.
And be it further enacted, That if any person appointed to deliver the votes of the electors to the President of the Senate, shall after accepting of his appointment neglect to perform the services required of him by this act, he shall forfeit the sum of one thousand dollars.
And be it further enacted, That in case of removal, death, resignation or inability both of the President and Vice-President of the United States the President of the Senate pro tempore, and in case there shall be no President of the Senate, then the Speaker of the House of Representatives, for the time being shall act as President of the United States until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected.
And be it further enacted, That whenever the offices of President and Vice-President shall both become vacant, the Secretary of State shall forthwith cause a notification thereof to be made to the executive of every state, and shall also cause the same to be published in at least one of the newspapers printed in each state, specifying that electors of the President of the United States shall be appointed or chosen in the several states within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December then next ensuing: Provided, That there shall be the space of two months between the date of such notification and the said first Wednesday in December, but if there shall not be the space of two months between the date of such notification and the first Wednesday in December, and if the term for which the President and Vice-President last in office were elected shall not expire on the third day of March next ensuing, then the Secretary of State shall specify in the notification that the electors shall be appointed or chosen within thirty-four days preceding the first Wednesday in December
in the year next ensuing, within which time the electors shall accordingly be appointed or chosen, and the electors shall meet and give their votes on the said first Wednesday in December and the proceedings and duties of the said electors and others shall be pursuant to the directions prescribed in this act.
And be it further enacted, That the only evidence of a refusal to accept, or of a resignation of the office of President or Vice-President, shall be an instrument in writing declaring the same and subscribed by the person refusing to accept or resigning as the case may be and delivered into the office of the Secretary of State.
And be it further enacted, That the term of four years for which a President and Vice-President shall be elected shall in all cases commence on the fourth day of March next succeeding the day on which the votes of the electors shall have been given.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, MARCH THE FIRST, 1792. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
IT is curious, as well as useful, to observe the changes which industry has effected. Italy is at present rich in silk—yet, in this very country, during two hundred and fifty years from the time of its being first known in Rome, it was sold for its weight in gold. It was not till many hundred years after silk was known there, that the silk-worm was introduced into Europe from China. In the year 551, two Monks were employed by Justinian, the Emperor of Constantinople, to bring the eggs of that useful insect. This they accomplished—and the rearing of silk-worms has spread into several countries, and at last is beginning to be an object of attention in some parts of America. It is more than twelve hundred years since the silk-worm was brought from China to Europe; and one would naturally suppose that there is nothing further remaining to be done towards extending the culture of silk to places where it is not yet introduced, or improving it where it is already practised. Yet this inference, however natural, is invalidated by two remarks. The progress of the culture of silk has been extremely slow, and late experience has proved that it may be extended even to northern climates. Dear as silk was, and eager as the trading world was to get it, it appears that it was near seven hundred years after the silk-worm was brought to Constantinople, before the culture and manufactory of silk was established even at Venice. It was slowly spread from place to place on the shores of the Mediterranean. The experiments made in our own country have universally succeeded. It appears that the hatching of the eggs may be delayed, artificially, till the mulberry leaf is ready for the supply of the young artists. The cold of our seasons seems, in this manner, to be obviated without expense.
There is a sort of prudence which condemns new schemes as visionary, and which no doubt deprived ten generations of this prudent race of the advantages of this culture in Venice, and other places near Constantinople. There is no doubt that had the culture of silk been hastened and fostered by the patronage of governments, and of enlightened nations, it might have been advanced a thousand years ago as far as we see it at this day.
The result from these remarks is, that the subject of the culture of silk deserves the attention of the governments and people of America. History shews us how little was done for ages—and our own experience proves that more may yet be done. The southern states seem to be best situated for it, but the attempts made in the northern should be also patronized and extended.
LONDON, January 7.
THE finances of Sweden are in such a ruinous situation, that the King finds himself under the necessity of convoking the States. His Majesty, notwithstanding, still perseveres in his intentions in favor of the French Princes; for all the officers of the army have received orders to remain with their regiments; and no leave of absence is granted on any pretext whatever.
No less than seventy Swedish merchantmen are at present in the Mediterranean: the late rupture with Algiers therefore fills the merchants of Stockholm with great uneasiness.
Her Imperial Majesty was so much affected with the death of Prince Potemkin, that she did not appear in public for fifteen days after she received the melancholy tidings!
The house of Hope, at Amsterdam, has found a great increase of banking business by their con-
cerns with the French Princes. This misfortune, however, attends it, that it is transacted chiefly with crowned heads, in which there is sometimes not the most exact remembrance of promises!
It is said that a commercial treaty between Great-Britain and America will take place the next session.
The Empress of Russia refuses to recognize M. Genet, the French Minister at the court of St. Petersburg.
The town of Seringapatam, in the East-Indies, (since the massacre and plunder of Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1737) is now considered as the largest, and by far the most wealthy town in India; it contains the accumulated wealth of a long line of affluent princes, and the immense treasures of Tippoo. It is situated upon a long island in the Caveri river, and connected with the main by an immense bridge: its defences are not naturally strong. The Caveri, like most of the rivers in India, is fordable at all times, except during the rains, at which period the strength of the place becomes considerably increased. The rains generally commence about the end of May, and break up in July.
Jan. 9. The exiled French Princes have begun a coinage, and are about instituting an order of knighthood. Monsieur has replied to the king's letter in the following terms, so that a civil war seems yet inevitable.
"Sire, my Brother and Lord,
"Count Vergennes has remitted me a letter on the part of your Majesty, of which the address, in spite of my baptismal names thereon written,, was so little mine, that I was about to return it, even unopened.—However, upon his positive assurance that it was for me, I opened it, and the name of brother found therein, leaving me no more doubt, I read it with the respect I owe to the hand-writing and signature of your Majesty.
"The order it contains, to present myself before your Majesty, is not the free expression of your will; and my honor, duty, and affection, equally forbid my obedience."
The Emperor and the King of Prussia have concluded a defensive alliance, in which the latter has undertaken to guarantee the Germanic constitution, and all the rights and possessions of the empire.
We are happy to hear from one of the first mercantile characters in the city, that great as the surplus of the revenue was last year, that of this present year will exceed it by one million six hundred thousand pounds.
To the above pleasing circumstance we are happy to add, that, in consequence of the sum appropriated for the American loyalists being liquidated this year, we shall have next year, beside every other incidental increase, a further addition of three hundred thousand pounds.
It is said that the court of Madrid has agreed to all the demands of the Anglo-American States, even to the free navigation of the Mississippi.
The King of Spain persists in refusing to recognize the New Constitution of France.
The following is the reply of Count Florida Blanca, to the French Minister, in regard to the question—
'The King, my master, has not as yet sufficient experience of the conduct of the French nation, in regard to their own sovereign or Spain, to give a categorical answer on this subject.'
The King of Prussia has conferred the rank of Major-General, and a pension of 200 Rix Dollars on General Heymann, who left the service of France in company with M. Bouille.
Yesterday morning at eight o'clock the house of the Duke of Richmond, in Privy Garden, was discovered to be on fire.—Before the engines arrived, the flames had got to such a height that it was a considerable time before they could be in any degree reduced—but fortunately the fire having broke out at the top of the house, an opportunity was thereby afforded of getting out the most valuable furniture in the lower apartments, which was removed to places of safety in the neighbourhood.
It is with much pleasure we learn that the Duke of Richmond's valuable museum did not fall a prey to the flames during the late fire.—Had it been destroyed, it would have been almost a national loss, for the collection is one of the most splendid in Europe.

CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8.
In committee of the whole, on the Fishery Bill.
On the motion to strike out the words "bounty now allowed," and to insert "allowance now made," &c.
MR. GILES observed, that he conceived the vote of yesterday against striking out the first section, was a decision in favor of the policy of granting governmental aid to the fisheries; the inquiry of to-day will be on what terms this aid shall be granted?
He felt, he said, but little regret at the decision of yesterday, because he had himself previously contemplated some reasons, not unimportant, to justify that decision, and others had been suggested by several gentlemen in the course of the debate: The principles of this policy, he thought however might be combated by reasons of at least equal, and as far as he was able to judge, of paramount importance; but as he admitted considerable weight in the reasons on each side of the question, he was not particularly tenacious of the preference which his own opinion suggested. When he first mentioned his doubts respecting the principle of the bill, it was with diffidence, and those doubts in some measure arose from an idea that the bill contained a direct bounty upon occupation; upon a more minute examination he thought the term bounty unnecessarily introduced into the bill, and that the object of it could be answered without the use of terms, which might hereafter be deemed to contain a decision upon the general principle of the constitutional right to grant bounties; it was to avoid any thing which might wear the appearance of such a decision, that induced him to make the present motion.
He proceeded to remark that as great a difference of opinion often existed respecting the precise meaning of the terms used, as the consequences which flow from them after attaining such precision of meaning; and it is of importance to the present discussion that an accurate definition of the terms used in the bill, and those proposed to be used, should be had.
The avowed object of the bill is not to increase, but to transmute the sum or a portion thereof now allowed to the fisheries in lieu of the drawback upon salt, from the merchant who is now supposed to receive the sole benefit, to the fishermen really employed in the fishing vessels: This is a mere chimerical project, but if it be admitted that this is the object to be effected by the bill, the term bounty is improperly applied.
A gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Ames) who rests the defence of this bill almost solely upon this position, that those who receive the benefit intended by it, are of right entitled to such benefit in consideration of a previous advancement in value, and that this bill contains a mere permission to them to retain their own, has at the same time declared, that he thought the term bounty the most proper and technical, to convey this idea—in this, the gentleman appears to have deviated from his usual accuracy. A bounty is the granting a benefit without a correspondent return in value—a drawback is the retaking of something in consideration of a previous advancement; this is always founded upon a consideration previously received—that is a grant of favor ex mero motu .
But the great characteristic distinction between bounties and drawbacks as they essentially relate to the administration of this government, consists in the governmental objects to which they may severally be applied: Drawbacks are necessarily confined to commercial regulations—bounties may be extended to every possible object of government, and may pervade the whole minutiae of police, they may not only be extended to commerce, but to learning, agriculture, manufactures, and even the sacredness of religion will be found too feeble to furnish complete protection from their influence. The people of the United States have always been scrupulously tenacious of a constitutional security for the most free and equal exercise of this right, but through the medium of bounties even this right may be invaded, and the only security against such invasion must be governmental discretion.
The same characteristic distinction will attend that species of bounty which may incidentally result from commercial regulations; and direct bounties upon occupation founded upon the broad basis of discretionary right: the specification in the constitution of the right to regulate commerce, may possibly in some cases give rise to
this indirect species of bounty, not from any right in the constitution to grant bounties, but as the necessary result from the specified right to make commercial regulations—and this specification can be the only foundation of justification to this indirect species of bounty, but there is no specification in the constitution of a right to regulate learning, agriculture, manufactures or religion, and so far as the sense of the constitution can be collected, it rather forbids than authorises the exercise of that right.
Arguments used to deduce any given authority from the term general welfare , abstractedly from the specification of some particular authority, are dangerous in the extreme to rights constitutionally reserved, and ought ever to be viewed with great caution and suspicion; they serve directly to show that this government is not only consolidated in all its parts, but that it is a consolidated government of unlimited discretion, that it contains no constitutional limitation or restriction. If any given authority be inferred from the term general welfare in the abstract, any other authority is equally deducible from it, because the term is applicable to every possible object of government, and differs only in degree, as to the several governmental objects.
He could not see the force of the novel and curious distinction taken by a gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Hillhouse) between general welfare and particular welfare ; for every particular welfare however minute, may be in a degree for the general welfare, and if the decision respecting the existence of this distinction, have no other limitation than congressional discretion—it is equally destructive of all constitutional restraint.
Gentlemen who have advocated this principle of construction, appear startled at some consequences suggested to result from it, and have denied that they have made the admission of such consequences; this is true, nor have those in reply so asserted, but they have taken up the principles of construction furnished by its advocates, and made the application of it to the consequences which they themselves infer; and if the principle be admitted, it is undeniable but that the conclusions drawn from it will necessarily follow in their utmost latitude.
A gentleman from South-Carolina (Mr. Barnwell) confidently spoke of the inherent rights of this government; this is a new source of authority, and totally inapplicable to this government—if there be inherent rights in governments at all, they must belong to governments growing out of a state of society, and not to a government deriving all its authorities by charter from previously existing governments, or the people of those governments. In such a government, the exercise of every authority not contained in the instrument, or deducible from it by a fair and candid construction, is an unjustifiable assumption and usurpation.—He did not mean, he said, to analyse this subject further at this time, and had been led into these general remarks, because the impatience of the committee to have the question upon striking out the section, had caused him to refrain from delivering these sentiments at that time.
He would remark further, that bounties in all countries and at all times have been the effect of favoritism; they have only served to divert the current of industry from its natural channel, into one less advantageous or productive; and in fact they are nothing more than governmental thefts committed upon the rights of one part of the community, and an unmerited governmental munificence to the other.—In this country, and under this government, they present an aspect peculiarly dreadful and deformed.
To contemplate the subjects upon which bounties are to operate in the United States, the nature of the government to dispense them, the state preferences which now do and will forever, more or less, continue to exist, the impossibility of an equal operation of bounties throughout the United States, upon any subject whatever, should be considered; and one of these two effects will necessarily follow the exercise of them—either the very existence of the government will be destroyed, or its administration must be radically changed, it must be converted into the most complex system of tyranny and favoritism.
He observed, that it is not unfrequent at this time to hear of an eastern and southern interest, and he had for some time silently and indignantly seen, or thought he saw, attempts by this mean to influence the deliberations of this House upon almost every important question; so far as he was the insulted object of these attempts, he felt that contempt for their authors, which appeared to him to be the correspondent tribute to the impurity of their designs; yet he thought that this had been the most formidable and effectual ministerial machine which had been yet used in the administration of the government. But one great mischief he apprehended from establishing the principle of the unrestrained right to grant bounties, will be, that it will make the difference of interest between eastern and southern, so far as they differ in their respective states of manufac-
ture and agriculture, real, which is now only ideal—It will make that party real, which is now artificial—The jealousies and suspicions arising from party will then have a substantial foundation, which now have no foundation in fact, but are ingeniously stimulated by a few, for the purpose of effecting particular objects; as long as the government shall be administered liberally & impartially, as long as the principle of reciprocal demand and supply between east and south shall remain inviolate, so long there can exist no essential distinct interest between them; but the instant bounties or governmental preferences are granted to occupation, that instant is created a separate & distinct interest, not wholly between east & south, but between the manufacturer and the cultivator of the soil; there will still exist a community of agricultural interest throughout the United States, and he hoped the time was not far distant, when a common sympathy will be felt by the whole of that class of the community.
For these reasons, he hoped the motion would prevail.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14.
A message from the Senate was delivered by Mr. Secretary Otis, notifying, that they had, on their part, agreed to the report of the managers of the conference, on the disagreeing amendments of both Houses to the "bill to ascertain and regulate the claims to half pay and invalid pensions."
The order of the day being called for, on the contested Georgia election,
A motion of General Jackson's, "that the decision of the Senate of the State of Georgia, on the impeachment of judge Osborne, so far as it respects the Camden return for a member to represent the state of Georgia, on the 3d day of January, 1791, be received as evidence in the present trial of that election, to establish the corruption of Judge Osborne," was the subject of a lengthy debate, in which the extent of the right of the House to judge in all cases of contested elections, was fully discussed.
The question being at length taken on the motion, it passed in the negative—yeas 20—nays 41.
Y E A S.
Messrs. Ashe, Baldwin, Boudinot, Clark, Gerry, Giles, Gregg, Grove, Heister, Jacobs, Key, Kitchell, Macon, Schoonmaker, Steele, Sumpter, Thatcher, Treadwell, Tucker, Willis—20.
N A Y S.
Messrs. Ames, Barnwell, Benson, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Brown, Findley, Fitzsimons, Gilman, Goodhue, Griffin, Hartley, Hillhouse, Huger, Kittera, Lawrance, Learned, Lee, Livermore, Madison, Mercer, Moore, Muhlenburg, Murray, Niles, Page, Parker, Sedgwick, Seney, J. Smith, I. Smith, W. Smith, Sterrer, Sturges, Sylvester, Venable, Vinning, Wadsworth, Ward, White, Williamson—41.
Mr. Lewis, counsel for the sitting member, then proceeded to reply; and having canvassed the evidence respecting the Effingham election, The House adjourned.
THURSDAY, March 15.
A message was received from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis, informing the House that the Senate have passed a bill, entitled, "An act declaring the consent of Congress to certain acts of the states of Maryland, Georgia, and Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, so far as the same respects the states of Georgia, and Rhode Island and Providence Plantations."
The House proceeded in the trial of the Georgia election. Mr. Lewis finished his remarks on the evidence brought forward by the petitioner, Mr. Jackson, at the close of which, he renewed his proposition for a postponement of the decision of the house for a few days.
Mr. Jackson rejoined in a speech of some length, and concluded by saying he should confide in the wisdom and justice which should guide the decision of the House.
When Mr. Jackson finished his speech, a clapping of hands took place in the gallery.
Mr. Baldwin then renewed the motion which he made some days since, the substance of which was, that certain papers transmitted to him by the Supreme Executive of the state of Georgia, being proceedings of the House of Representatives of that state, relative to the election of a member for the eastern district of said state, should be received by the House.—This motion occasioned a debate, which was finally determined by calling for the previous question, in the following words—Shall the main question be now put?—This being determined in the negative, the House adjourned.
FRIDAY, MARCH 16.
Sundry petitions were read and referred. The report of a select committee to which was referred the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the petition of certain loan-officers, was read the first and second time, and referred to a committee of the whole House.
Mr. Boudinot after advertising to some irregularity which took place in the gallery yesterday, and remarking on the importance of the freedom of elections, laid the following motion on the table: Resolved, That whenever in the opinion of the Speaker, or of the Chairman of the committee of the whole House, any disorder-

Philadelphia, March 17.
ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.
ly or improper behavior shall happen in the galleries, it be a standing rule of this House, that the Speaker or Chairman do order the galleries to be immediately cleared without taking the opinion of the House or committee.
An enrolled bill entitled an act declaring the assent of Congress to a certain act of the State of Maryland, &c. was brought in and signed by the Speaker.
The House proceeded in the trial of the Georgia election; after a few introductory remarks, Mr. W. Smith moved the following resolution, viz. That Anthony Wayne was not duly elected a member of this House. This resolution was unanimously agreed to, Ayes fifty-eight.
Mr. Smith then moved another resolution, viz. That a certified copy of the vote just passed should be transmitted by the Speaker to the Supreme Executive of the State of Georgia.
This motion, after considerable debate, was by general consent, laid on the table, till Monday.
The House took into consideration the report of the committee of conference on the bill to regulate the claims to half pay and invalid pensions, and agreed to said report, in consequence of which the bill is passed.
The amendments of the Senate to the Representation bill were read, and laid on the table. The principal amendments are an increase of the Representation to 120 members; and assigning additional members to those States which have the largest fractional numbers on the apportionment of one Representative to every 30 thousand persons, and expunging the fiction which provides for a second enumeration.
The report of the select committee, to whom was referred the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the petition of Comfort Sands and others, was taken into consideration; after considerable debate, the House, without taking a vote, adjourned till to-morrow.
BOSTON, February 22. LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FEB. 24.
A singular letter was presented by Amos Butterick, a Shaker, praying that government would receive back the securities, &c. which had been granted him, as a pension for the loss of an eye in the service; declaring, at the same time, that he could not conscientiously keep it, nor receive any gratuity; which was read and committed to the hon. Mr. Hofmer, Dr. Eustis, and Mr. Johnson—who reported, that the applicant have leave to deposit the money, &c. in the treasury, and that it be safely kept for him.
There is a seasoning in wit, frequently to be found in the most simple expression. On Wednesday, a young girl asked, what the firing and ringing were for? For Gen. WASHINGTON'S Birth-Day, was the reply. "What again," says she, "I thought they kept it a fortnight ago," but recollecting herself, "I suppose," says she, "He is so great a man, that he was born twice."
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE attempt of the persons in the gallery on Thursday last, to manifest their approbation of what was doing in the House of Representatives of the United States, by clapping their hands, was too suddenly checked by the marks of severe displeasure which appeared on the part of the House. It might be said, with more truth, by a part of the House—for proper exceptions are always to be made. But why should not the House suffer the people to express their sense? They represent the people it is true—that, however, is in the quality of substitutes for those who cannot attend in person. Those of the people who are present in the gallery, represent themselves; and with the members, acting as attorneys to those who are absent, the whole is represented. And so things go as merrily as at an horse-race, by shouting and clapping of hands. Who will not prefer this mode of doing business by the House and the gallery in conjunction, to the dull nutcracking, apple-pairing, drowsy hum of their ordinary proceedings?—We talk of the sense of the people. But this, on the old plan, is mere talk: by the addition of the gallery, the advantage is doubled—we have two senses—at least we have something added besides the sense.
The sense of the people expressed at a distance, gets cold before it reaches Congress. But if Congress can be made to do as the gallery would have them, it seems clear that they will be made to obey the sense of the people. This, it is true, would throw a burden on the shoulders of the people of this city. But, for the sake of their distant fellow-citizens, they ought not to refuse, especially as it would give those whom they oblige great pleasure and satisfaction, and increase the confidence reposed in Congress. Nay, if the distant states should happen to neglect chusing members, or they should neglect to attend, things would go on swimmingly notwithstanding. The gallery would see to them. The Senate keeps its doors shut, and seems to believe that a deliberative assembly may deliberate without a gallery. It seems easy to prove the very contrary. A gallery may govern very well without an assembly. They did so at Athens; and if a fellow was noisy, or too tall to size with his townsmen, they shortened him by the head, or sent him to pasture in banishment by the ostracism.
The opposition to clearing the galleries was very fit and proper, and no doubt it could be shown that the motion was unconstitutional. If not from the constitution, at least there is a direct precept from another book, which is—"O clap your hands together all ye people."
ENCORE.
To the Memory of JOHN HALL, Esq. late of Burke County, State of Georgia.
FOR thee, my HALL, I drop a tear—well known To genuine Friendship, and to her alone: For thee shall lasting retrospection mourn, Weep o'er thy grave, and bathe thy peaceful urn. If e'er a tribute was to virtue due, Honor and truth conizn the claim to you: Your life, unspotted, was by worth approv'd; You died lamented, honor'd, and belov'd.
By the latest accounts from Europe, it appears that a combination of different powers in favor of a counter-revolution in France, grows daily more and more obvious.
The papers contain a manifesto of the Emperor of Germany, and a declaration of the Swedish Minister at Vienna—both of which consider the King of the French as in a state of captivity.
On the 16th December, the King of the French appeared in the National Assembly, where he was received with every mark of respect. In a speech to the Assembly, he informed them of the measures he had taken to disperse the assemblies of the emigrants on the frontiers; and of the requisitions made to the neighbouring Princes to divert them from giving them support.
The Emperor, he says, has done all that can be expected from a faithful ally—but his measures at the courts of other Princes, had not been equally successful.—He then informs them that he had anticipated their wishes, and those of the people, by causing a declaration to be made to the Elector of Treves, that if, before the 15th January, he does not put a stop, within his States, to all collecting of troops, and all hostile dispositions on the part of the French who have taken refuge in them, he shall consider him as the enemy of France—and that he had made the most proper military arrangements to render his declarations respected.—The King concludes his speech with assurances of his attachment to the Constitution, and declaring that he "FEELS PROFOUNDLY HOW GLORIOUS IT IS TO BE THE KING OF A FREE PEOPLE."
This speech was received with shouts of applause.
The President of the Assembly replied to this address; in which the fullest assurances are given of every support necessary in defence of the national dignity, the Constitution, and of the King, whose throne stands on the unshaken basis of the Constitution.
The Minister of War, after the King had retired, gave an account to the Assembly of the measures and arrangements which had been made pursuant to orders from the King—by which he said 150,000 men would be on the frontiers in the course of a month—that he was going to the frontiers to inspect in person the fortifications and the army—that three armies were thought necessary, and were to be under the command of Generals Rochambeau, Luckner and La Fayette; three officers in whose patriotism and abilities the nation has the most unbounded confidence.
An increase of the public expenditure, he observed, would be a necessary consequence of the measures already taken, but France would not stand higgling when its liberty was at stake.
The signal for war, he said, would be the signal for the return of public order.
The manifesto of the Emperor against France is dated the 21st of December, and was published by the French Minister De Lefort, in Paris, the 2d of January, 1792.
A very considerable earthquake was felt in Lisbon the 27th of November last—no accounts are received of any lives being lost, tho' the people were in the greatest consternation.
Articles of a supposed treaty between Russia and Sweden are published in the English papers.
Further European intelligence, by the late arrival at New-York, informs—That the treaty between Russia and Sweden is ratified; that the communication between Russia and France is broken off—That M. Dupontail, the French Minister of War, has resigned. M. L. de Narbonne is talked of as his successor—Four hundred officers of the French navy have emigrated—That at Hanau, a town in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Cassel, great preparations are making on the part of the emigrants—That the King of the French will not, in all probability, affix his signature to the decree against the Clergy—That the King of Prussia is making great military preparations—That parties run high in Peterburgh, since the death of Prince Potemkin, respecting the late war—That the nobility of Russia are opposed to entering into a French war—That the spirit of toleration has penetrated even into Turkey, where the grand Seignior has forbidden any insults being offered to the Christians by the Mussulmen—That the emigrant French Princes, have their public offices at Coblenz, such as war-office, secretary of states' office, &c. at which business is transacted with national regularity—That considerable sums of money have been remitted to Coblenz, but the Count d'Artois, considering it as intended for his own use, and that of some others of the royal household, had dissipated the greatest part of it. M. de Choiseul Gouffier is named Ambassador to the Court of London; and M. de Moustier to Constantinople.
M. la Fayette is arrived at Metz (a city of Germany, about 180 miles east of Paris, subject to France) where he was received with every mark of patriotick distinction.
On Wednesday last Forty-five Indians of distinction, from the Northern Tribes of the Six Nations, arrived in this city; and were most cordially received by his Excellency the Governor.
Accounts from Georgia state, that the Creek Indians, finding Bowles deficient in fulfilling his promises, had drove him away; and that Gen. M c GILLIVRAY intended shortly to attend to running the boundary line agreeable to treaty.
A sum of money has lately been subscribed in the city of Albany, to be disposed of in premiums, for the purpose of promoting the progress and improvement of maple sugar—particularly the graining of it.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman, dated Post Vincennes, January 4th, 1792, to his friend in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania.
"When we entered the Ouabache river it was full of floating ice, Major Hamtramck with whom I came, had about 50 men; we had 170 miles to ascend the river in this situation, and we had but ten days provision. About 200 Pyankeshaw Indians, who had heard of the defeat of the army, and that their prisoners were hanged at Fort-Washington, fell in with us; we happened fortunately to have two Indians with us who had been up to Fort-Washington to see their friends, who were taken by Gen. Scott and Gen. Wilkinson; these two informed their brethren, that their prisoners had not been hanged, as had been told them, but were well treated—this pleased them. But still we apprehended they might wish to take some prisoners which they could offer in exchange for their wives and children, and there were three or four of them for one of us. To account for it, I cannot, but the fact is, they were very kind to us, gave us plenty of fresh meat, and all the assistance they could in coming up. God grant they may always continue in this disposition."
Extract of a letter from Boston.
"The bill for erecting another Bridge over Charles'-River has passed both Houses, and is become a law."
"The University of Cambridge is to receive 300l. annually from the income."
"Three new Bridges will be building in this state this year, of great magnitude—two of them over Merrimack River."
"The subject of the separation of Maine has been warmly debated in the House of Representatives—the Sachem was very pointed in his strictures on the Boston seat; his remarks were properly noticed—an adjournment prevented further personalities, which began to wear a serious aspect. The sense of the people in the district is to be taken on the subject."
"We have had a great contest about the old business of incorporating the town—and were out-voted. I have no doubt, however, that there are more than three quarters of the legal voters in favor of the reform; and measures are taking to ascertain facts."
"HENRY JACKSON, Esq. is chosen by the Legislature Major-General of the First Division of the Militia of the Commonwealth."
When men are seen in small tribes or clans it is a proof that they are in a very imperfect state of civilization. As the social spirit improves they will desire a more extended brotherhood; manage a more numerous society is found to grow with a disposition to form it. The wild Arabs exist in separate tribes and in a state of degradation and barbarism. Almost universally the spirit of society seems to be cramped until the scattered tribes are formed into a great nation. It would be a curious and really useful speculation to shew the moral causes which produce this effect. In a great nation the mind of the individual seems raised a grade or two, and the virtues, and talents of men seem exalted. The American union, if kept entire, will confirm this theory.—It contains within itself the seeds of its own improvement: It will call forth all the energy of the human character. A nation so numerous, spreading over such a space, and so wonderfully prosperous will excite and reward the highest efforts of genius and virtue. A man the least disposed to be languine will not so much doubt the degree to which our national improvement is hastening, as the certainty of our continuing in our present course. He will admit that Macedonia in all its power, and Athens with all its taste, and Rome in all its glory had less to exult in and to hope for than America. He will say it is yet too early to write the history of man, he has been seen only in his cradle. In this whole horizon of light, however, there is only one cloud—and that is charged with tempest and darkness and desolation. The separation of the States would blast all our hopes.—It is the only risk we run as a nation. The world has admired the reflecting character of America. It has done us the credit to suppose that the mind has given us our present national pre-eminence; we are thought to be the most completely civilized of any nation, and therefore the most fit to coalesce into a great and indivisible society. But if we divide we shall shew how much we have been overrated—and if we consider what we shall lose and what we shall suffer from each other, we shall be the most miserable and most degraded people on earth.
The actual state of our country, in the view of every impartial patriotic observer, is a flat contradiction to the revilers of that government, which with so much joy the people so recently adopted.
Perhaps it is not in the power of language to convey to the human understanding more ingenious arguments against the measures of Congress, than those which were offered in the House of Representatives, and which have been published, and circulated in all parts of the United States; but it is to be presumed, that the answers to these arguments were couched in terms equally forcible at least—these answers are likewise before the public—that public which has awarded its approbation to the measures of government, by re-electing their most distinguished advocates.
Say, can ought sooth the restless mind, To all, but its own merits blind? Not GEORGE himself escapes the spleen, Of canker'd malice and chagrined— Tho' Heav'n, all-wise, with gracious hand Created him to save this land.
The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has appointed the following gentlemen Officers of the squadron of CAVALRY, to be raised agreeable to an act passed the 5th inst, for the more effectual defence of the Frontiers:
 MAJOR. Michael Rudolph, at present Captain in the 1st Reg.  CAPTAINS. John Watts, Virginia; Lawrence Manning, S. Carolina; John Craig, Pennsylvania; John Stake, New-York.  LIEUTENANTS. Robert M c Campbell, S. Carolina; William Aylett Lee, Virginia; William Winton, Virginia; William Davidson, Maryland.  CORNETS. Leonard Covington, Maryland; Solomon Van Rensselaer, N. York; Tarleton Fleming, Virginia; James Taylor, Pennsylvania. 
Married, on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Helmuth, Mr. ISAAC NEALE, Printer, of Burlington, (N. J.) to Miss PEGGY KAMMERER, daughter of Mr. HENRY KAMMERER, of this city.
Died, in Charleston, (S. C.) Capt. ARCHIBALD M c ALLISTER, of the late Maryland line of the Continental Army. This gentleman served with distinguished reputation in the late war—he led the forlorn hope in the brilliant coup-de-main of storming Stony-Point.
In New-York, HENRY REMSEN, Esq. Merchant, of that city.
SHIP NEWS.
From PELOSI'S MARINE LIST.
ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
  Brig Mary Ann, Thompson, St. Eustatia.   Hope, Lee, Aux Cayes.   Sch. Fredericksburg, P. Mann, Virginia.   Samuel, Kirby, ditto.   Polly, Andaule, Port-au-Prince.   Two Sisters, Lownsbury, Hispaniola. 
Price of Stocks as in our last.
FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION,
ON WEDNESDAY the 11th day of April next, at the House of JOHN THOMPSON, in the City of Perth-Amboy, or at private Sale before,
A FARM, containing about four hundred acres of upland and salt meadow, lying within three quarters of a mile of said city; is a great part bounded on the found, and on a navigable creek, on which is a good mill seat. There are on the farm several eligible situations for building, with delightful prospects, excellent brooks and springs; a large apple orchard, and some fruit trees of other kinds, and a sufficient quantity of fire-wood. The soil is good for grass and most kinds of grain, and may at small expence, from the convenience of the salt meadow, and other advantages of manure, be made equal to any farm in New-Jersey. It will be sold all together, or in two or three divisions, as shall appear best to suit those inclined to purchase.
For further particulars, previous to or at the time of sale, apply to the subscribers. JOHN HALSTED, and MATTHIAS HALSTED. (41)
ADVERTISEMENT.
NOTICE is hereby given to the Creditors of JOHN CRAIGE, JOHN BILDERBACK, SAMUEL BARBER, AQUILA HUTCHENS, WILLIAM RICHARDSON, GABRIEL WESTLONG and HUGH GUNNING, insolvent debtors, confined in the gaol of the County of Salem, in the State of New-Jersey, that the Judges of the inferior Court of Common Pleas, for the said County on application to them made, have appointed the sixth day of April next for the said Creditors to appear before any two or more of the said Judges, at the town of Salem, to shew cause, if any they have, why an assignment of the said debtors estate, respectively, should not be made, and they be discharged from confinement, pursuant to an act of Assembly, passed 24th of November last, for the relief of insolvent debtors then confined. (31)

THE EDITOR of the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES, most earnestly requests that those of his subscribers, whose arrearages have been accumulating for more than twelve months, would make payment as soon as possible—at furthest, before the first day of June next.
Those persons who shall be disposed to patronize this GAZETTE after the Post-Office Law shall go into operation, will please to signify their intention to the Deputy Post-Masters in the United States, who are requested to forward such subscriptions as may be received, to the Editor, previous to the said first of June.—The terms of subscription are Three Dollars per annum, exclusive of postage—One half to be paid at the time of subscribing, the other half to be advanced at the expiration of the first six months.
CONTRACTS.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 6, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Proposals will be received at the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until 5 o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday the 21st day of March instant, for the supply of the following articles of Clothing for the Troops in the service of the United States, viz.
For the INFANTRY and ARTILLERY.
 4,608 hats 18,460 shirts  4,608 coats 7,956 pairs of socks  4,608 vests 4,608 blankets  8,668 woolen overalls 4,608 stockings  9,216 linen ditto 4,608 stock clafps  18,376 pairs of shoes 4,608 pairs of buckles. 
For the CAVALRY.
 320 caps 640 do. of stockings  320 coats 1,280 shirts  320 vests 320 blankets  320 pairs leather breeches 320 stockings  640 do. of boots 320 stock clafps.  320 do. of spurs 
Also, 1,200 rifle shirts, to be made of Russia sheeting.
Of the above clothing, five hundred suits are to be delivered on the 15th day of April next; one thousand suits on the 15th day of May next; one thousand five hundred suits on the 15th day of June next; and the remainder on the 15th day of July next.—The place of delivery may be either at New-York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, at the option of the contractor or contractors.
Proposals will be received for the whole of the above mentioned clothing, or for any one component article separately; to be furnished agreeably to patterns or specimens, which may be seen at the War Office.
Good security for the punctual and faithful performance of the contract will be required. The payments will be on the delivery of the clothing; or, if necessary, such reasonable advances will be made as may be desired.
Disimal Swamp Canal Company.
PROPOSALS for cutting a Canal from the waters of Elizabeth River in Virginia, to those of Pasquotank in North-Carolina, or for conducting the work, will be received until the ninth day of April next, by Robert Andrews, of Williamsburg; Thomas Newton, jun. and Daniel Bedinger, of Norfolk, in Virginia; by John Cowper, of Gates County; and Benjamin Jones, of Camden County, in North-Carolina. The length of the Canal will be about sixteen miles; the country through which it will pass, is swampy, free from stones, and covered with heavy wood. The Canal is to be thirty-two feet in width, and eight feet at least in depth, below the surface of the earth, and capable of being navigated in dry seasons, by vessels drawing three feet water.
Good security will be required of contractors; and persons making application to be employed as managers, must produce certificates (from characters of respectability) of their qualifications for a business of this kind.
By order of the President and Directors, WILLIAM A. BAYLEY, Clerk.
Norfolk, January 21, 1792. (ep19a)
American Lead Manufactory.
STEPHEN AUSTIN, & Co.
HAVE just now opened their LEAD-WAREHOUSE, two doors south of Walnut-street Wharf, adjoining their New Factory—where they have now made, and ready for sale, a general assortment of SHOT of all sizes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed a number of experienced English workmen, they warrant it to be equal in quality to any manufactured in Europe, and at a reduced price from the cost of imported.
They also continue to manufacture all the above articles at Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addressed to either of the above Factories, will be thankfully received, and executed on the shortest notice.
N. B. Wanted, industrious, sober, Labouring Men, at the said Mines, where constant employ, good wages, and other encouragements will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and houses for their reception.
For further particulars enquire of Messrs. MOSES AUSTIN & Co. at their Factory in Richmond, or as above.
Philadelphia, December 3, 1791. (f)
MILITIA FINES.
THE Collectors of Militia Fines in the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, and the districts of Moyamensing and Passyunk, are hereby required to collect and pay into the County Treasury, all arrearages of fines, and to settle and deposit their books and vouchers in my Office, at No. 61, Walnut-street, on or before the first day of April next.—Wherefore Notice is given, That immediately from the said first day of April, all Collectors who shall fail in complying with this requisition, will be proceeded against according to law.
THOMAS PROCTER, Lieut. of the City and Liberties.
Philad. Feb. 25, 1792.
TO BE SOLD AT PRIVATE SALE,
ALL the landed estate of GEORGE WARNER, deceased, consisting of a valuable Plantation and tract of Timber Land, supposed to contain between four hundred and 450 acres, about 90 of which is plow-land and 15 of drained meadow. There is on the farm a dwelling-house and kitchen, a cooper's shop and a large barn; a well of water at the door, a good apple orchard. The house stands close on a good landing belonging to the said premises; the rest of the land is well timbered and lies within one mile of said landing, and an equal distance from a saw-mill and grist-mill and also of Quinton's Bridge, bounding on the Main, Allaway's Creek, in the county of Salem, five miles from Salem Court-House.
Any person that is disposed to view or purchase the said premises, may see the place and know the terms, by applying to the subscribers near the same.
MARK MILLER and } Executors. ANDREW MILLER, }
Salem County, 2d mo. 13th, 1792.
N. B. There is likewise a lot of Meadow ground of about 25 acres, adjoining lands of Abbott Sayres and others, the property of said deceased, to be sold in manner as above, by the said executors. [cp4w]
JONES & BURROUGHS,
STOCK-BROKERS,
STATE-STREET, BOSTON,
BUY and sell every kind of the Stocks of the United States, on Commission, by Private Contract, and Public Auction.—Those gentlemen who may be pleased to favor them with their commands, may rely on fidelity, secrecy and dispatch.
Boston, March, 1792. (1aw3m)
IMPERIAL HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA
TEAS,
REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, & SPICES, &c. &c.
Of the first quality—by retail,
No. 19,
Third-Street, between Chestnut and Market Streets
TO BE SOLD, BY JOHN CAREY,
No. 26, PEAR-STREET,
A COLLECTION OF
Scarce and Valuable
BOOKS,
Which may be seen every day, until five o'clock, P. M.
Among them are the following:
Folio. HOMER, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, Eusebius, Sozomen, Theodoret, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Paternus, Pliny, Concordantia Lat. Concordantia Gr. Theſaurus Ciceronis. Biblia Junii and Tremellii. Bible de Martin. Wells's Maps, Scapulae—Phavorini—Martini—Hoffmani Lexica, Vossii Etymologicon, Antiquit. Eccles. Britannica, &c.
Quarto. Pindar, Cyropædia, Bentley's Horace, Terence and Phædrus, Ovid, Juvenal, Manilius, Ciceronis op. om. Cæsar, Suetonius, Julius Pollux, Hederici Lexicon, Vossii Ars Gram. Cluverii Geographia, Justinian Code, &c.
Octavo et infra. Homer, Anacreon, Aristophanes, Longinus, Theophrastus, Hesiod, Poëtæ minores Gr. Isocrates, Phalaris, various editions of Horace, Virgil, Terence, and Ovid, Tibullus, Plautus, Lucan, Martial, Claudian, Val. Flaccus, Ausonius, Buchanan, Sallust, Curtius, Florus, Justin, Val. Maximus, A. Gellius, Hist. August. Scriptores, English and French Translations of some of the Classics, a great variety of Greek and Latin Grammars, &c. &c.
Catalogues may be had of Messrs. Rice & Co. Bookfellers, Market-street, or of JOHN CAREY. October 31. (cp1f.)
FOR SALE,
BLOOMSBURY,
THAT elegant SEAT at the Falls of Delaware, in the vicinity of Trenton, in New-Jersey, occupied for many years past by the subscriber; containing upwards of 200 acres of land, besides a tract of wood-land of about 185 acres, at the distance of two miles. The farm is divided by the main street leading from Trenton to Lambertville, and Philadelphia, into two parts, nearly equal in quantity; the easterly part being arable land, is laid off in convenient fields, and in good farming order. The other part, bounded by the said street on the east, and by the river on the west, forms a square; which, from the combined effect of situation and improvement, is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful and desirable seats in the state. The mansion-house is a handsome, well-finished brick building, 50 by 40, containing four rooms on each floor, with excellent cellars, and a two story brick kitchen; and commanding a very extensive and pleasing view of the river, both above and below, as well as including the falls, and also of Trenton and the neighbouring seats and improvements on both sides of the river. Among the out-buildings are a new stone coach-house and stables, sufficient to contain six carriages and ten horses, accommodated with a cutting and feeding room, and a capacious loft for hay; adjoining there is a very complete granary, rat proof, and a stone cow-house, upwards of 100 feet in length, containing thirty-one paved stalls, over which is a roomy loft for hay, &c. Adjoining the court-yard of the mansion-house, is a garden of about two acres, extending towards the river, in the highest state of culture, and abounding with a rich collection of the choicest fruits of almost every kind, and several large asparagus beds, highly manured. At a convenient distance from the mansion-house, and nearly in the centre of the square, is a new, well-built, stone farm-house, accommodated with a large cheese-room, spring-house, garden, &c. a complete stone smoke-house, corn-crisp, waggon-house, a capacious ice-house, and every other necessary out-building. The ground is properly divided into small fields, all well watered, highly improved, and chiefly under the most approved grass. This square has produced annually, for several years past, upwards of sixty tons of the best hay, besides supporting through the summer season twenty to thirty horned cattle, and eight or ten horses. It contains also two bearing orchards of good fruit. The river abounds, in the proper seasons, with great plenty of all kinds of fish usually found in fresh water in this climate, and with a variety of wild-fowl; both of which may afford a pleasing amusement to the sportsman, as well as a convenient addition to the elegance and variety of his table. The whole of the land, except the wood-land, is inclosed and divided by good fences, great part of which is formed of red cedar posts, and rails of chestnut and white cedar. The purchaser may have the improved square separately, or the whole together, as may best suit him. There is an inexhaustible quantity of good building stone on the river shore. The purchase money, if well secured, and the interest punctually paid, will not be demanded for many years.
Any person desirous of viewing the premises, may be gratified on application to SAMUEL W. STOCKTON, Esq. of Trenton, or Mr. INALLMAN, who at present occupies the farm-house and part of the land—and may know the price on application to the subscriber, at No. 213, South Second-street, opposite to the New-Market, in Philadelphia. JOHN COX. Philadelphia, March 7, 1792. (cp1f.)
TO BE SOLD AT PRIVATE SALE,
A VALUABLE PLANTATION, the title indisputable, in the county of Gloucester, supposed to contain five hundred and forty acres of Meadow Land and Cedar Swamp, situate on a branch of Little Egg-Harbour River, in the township of Galloway. There is on said premises a frame house and kitchen, a small hay house and stable. About sixty acres of the land cleared, and about one hundred and ninety of woodland, and a cedar swamp, chiefly well timbered, and about 300 acres of meadow (interspersed with fresh water flowing streams) sufficient to supply one hundred head of cattle.—The situation is allowed by judges, to be capital for raising stock.—Any person inclining to purchase said Plantation, may have possession from the 25th of March ensuing. The terms may be known by applying to the subscriber, living at Quinton's Bridge, in the county of Salem; or a further description may be had, by applying to Richard Wood, senior, in Greenwich; or Joseph Sloan, Surveyor, near Hattorfield; or of James Scull, adjoining said lands.—The place above mentioned, is a pleasant healthy country, within two miles of three grist and saw-mills: And three houses appropriated to divine worship, are about the same distance. Terms of payment made easy, by ANDREW MILLER. Quinton's Bridge, Salem County, 2d mo. 13th, 1792. [cp4w]
SALES
Of the real Estate of JOHN KIDD, late of the Township of Bensalem, in the County of Bucks, Esquire, deceased, pursuant to the Directions of his last Will and Testament.
ON Tuesday the 27th of March next will be exposed to Sale, by way of Public Vendue, on the premises—One exceedingly valuable and highly improved Farm, containing about two hundred and ninety-nine acres, situate on the river Delaware; on which is erected a handsome two-story brick house, with a new piazza in the front, two kitchens, a good barn, stables, hay-house, and other convenient outhouses. A good orchard of the best kind of grafted fruit, now in its prime; a large garden well fenced in, and in good order; and a lhad and herring fishery before the door. This place is remarkably well timbered, has a sufficiency of meadow, a large front on the river, and runs back to the post-road.
One other very valuable Farm, adjoining the above; containing about two hundred and seven acres, the greatest part of which is wood-land. There are on this farm a good house, barn, stables, and other outhouses, with a young thriving orchard of the best grafted fruit, and a lhad and herring fishery. It has long been a well accustomed tavern; and the ferry belonging to it, known by the name of Dunks's, is noted for being well kept and much frequented. Both the above places afford the best prospects on the river, and are remarkably healthy.
One other small Farm, containing about sixty-three acres, situate in the township of Southampton, in the county aforesaid; on which are erected two log-houses. There is a small orchard, and a great sufficiency of wood-land and meadow ground.
One Lot, containing four acres, situate on the great post-road leading from Philadelphia to New-York, and ten miles from the former. On it is a good log dwelling-house, and work-shop adjoining, with a well of excellent water at the door: now in the tenure of the Widow Ward.
Also, at the same time and place, will be sold all the remaining Stock, Household-Furniture, Farming Utensils, and Wheat in the ground.
N. B. The conditions of sale will be, one-third of the purchase money to be paid down, and the remainder in two yearly payments with interest.
JOHN SWIFT, JOHN M. NESBIT, } Executors. SAMUEL BENEZET, }
(cp1m27)
To be SOLD peremptorily, at PUBLIC VENDUE, on Wednesday the 11th day of April next,
THE SEAT of the late Doctor Lewis Johnson, deceased, in Perth-Amboy, containing TWO HUNDRED ACRES OF LAND.
This place is bounded southerly for near a mile on the river Raritan, where it empties into the bay about 18 miles from Sandy-Hook, and affords two most agreeable situations for Gentlemen's Seats. There are now on it, two brick houses, with gardens, and a good collection of fruit trees of the best kinds. The land is very fertile, and a great part of it very good meadow; and from its situation on the river, has the advantage of fish of different kinds, in their seasons, particularly of oysters and chicken clams, which may be picked in great plenty on the flats before the doors. It is a delightful, healthy situation, capable of genteel and tasty improvements; and as Perth-Amboy is one of the best sea-ports in the United States, and within 18 miles of the sea, the prospect of its increasing in value from that circumstance, is by no means inconsiderable.
There will also be sold, other Lots, within the bounds of the city, and about Five Hundred Acres of Land on the opposite side of the river Raritan—part of which is improved by a farm—on which there is a framed dwelling-house and barn, with an orchard of grafted apple trees, and will contain about one hundred and fifty acres; the remainder will be sold in convenient lots, well wooded and timbered, and very convenient for supplying New-York and other markets with fire-wood, timber for ship building, and other uses, the transportation by water being easy and safe.—The conditions will be made known at the day of sale, and the requisite conveyances made by
JAMES PARKER and } Trustees to the said Estate. BOWES REED, }
Likewise to be SOLD, at the same time and place,
ELEVEN ACRES OF LAND, adjoining the above, the property of the Proprietors of East New-Jersey, wherein the proprietary house lately stood. The elegant situation of this spot is hardly to be equalled; it affords a grand prospect of Raritan Bay, and of the Bay formed by the waters of Raritan and Hudson's rivers, where they disemboque into the sea to the East—and a most delightful one of the serpentine course of the Raritan river, for several miles, through a rich tract of meadow to the West. The great quantity of stone neatly dressed, and brick, the remains of the house lately burned, will be nearly sufficient for a new building; and a large stone cistern, and well of excellent water, with a very convenient stable and coach-house, will greatly lessen the expence of putting the place in order for the residence of a Gentleman.—There are few situations so eligible, particularly in the summer season—when the cool sea breezes, and the elevated situation, render them places of pleasing retreat, from the confinement and sultry air of the southern states and neighbouring cities. (ep6w)
Perth-Amboy, Feb. 15, 1792.
A LOTTERY,
To raise the sum of £. 750 for the purpose of repairing the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New-Brunswick, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, passed November 1791.
S C H E M E.
 1 Prize of 2000 Dollars is 2000  1 1000 1000  2 500 1000  5 200 1000  10 100 1000  20 50 1000  30 20 600  90 10 900  1675 4 6700  1814 Prizes. 16000  3520 Blanks. 
5334 Tickets, at 3 Dollars each, is 16002 Dolls.
This Lottery is composed of 5334 Tickets, not two Blanks to one Prize, and subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. which is more favorable to adventurers than any Lottery yet offered to the public—and it being of such evident utility, that it cannot be doubted but the undertaking will meet with the most liberal support.
The drawing will commence on the second Monday in April, or sooner if the Tickets are disposed of, in the city of New-Brunswick, under the inspection of Col. John Bayard, President of said city; James Parker, Esq. Mayor of the city of Amboy; and Archibald Mercer, Esq. Deputy Governor of the Manufacturing Society of New-Jersey.
Tickets to be had of the following persons, who are duly appointed Managers, are under oath, and have given security for the faithful performance of their duty.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid immediately after the drawing of the Lottery.
JOHN PARKER, PETER KEENON, ANTHONY W. WHITE, } Managers.
New-Brunswick, January 20, 1792. [cp3m]