National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-11-10 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
[NUMB. 4 of VOL. II.]
SATURDAY, November 10, 1792.
[Total No. 108.]
Resolutions of the Legislature of the British Island of Antigua, relative to the prohibition of the African Slave Trade: agreed to on the 16th of September, 1792; — We insert them at large, as speaking the general language of the British Islands on this important subject.
RESOLVED, That on the first establishment of the sugar colonies, the African slave trade was found to be essentially necessary to the settling and cultivating them, and was accordingly sanctioned by act of Parliament; and that it hath been since repeatedly confirmed by subsequent statutes, and may be considered as a part of the original charter or compact, between the mother country and the colonies.
Resolved, That it is the indisputable right of every British subject, to obtain at all times the highest possible price for any article of commerce or manufacture, not being a necessary of life, and that no attempt hath heretofore been known to be made to restrain the price, or to prevent the subject from selling at the home-market to any purchaser, whether for home use or exportation, at such price as he could obtain; except in the case of wool, which being the staple commodity of England, is prohibited to be exported in its raw state, and in that of grain, when there is so little in the market as to endanger the lives of the people by further exportation.
Resolved, That the measure at present pursued by Great-Britain, with a view to the enacting of laws to suppress the slave-trade, on the faith of which so many thousands of his majesty's subjects have ventured their lives and fortunes in these distant and inhospitable climates, and to take from us at a fixed price our sugar in their markets, while they allow us no other European markets to resort to, is unconstitutional and highly oppressive, and tends to a direct violation of the original compact, and to alienate the affections of the colonies from the parent state.
Resolved, That we have the fullest confidence in the wisdom and justice of those branches of the legislature of Great-Britain which have not yet declared themselves on the subject, that they, recollecting the sacred principles on which the glorious revolution in 1688 was established, by which the illustrious house of Brunswick was called to the throne, will resist all attempts that may be made to take advantage of the weakness of the colonies as to any possible effectual resistance, and will shew that justice and equity towards us, which we are unable to enforce, by rejecting any bill or bills, which in the moments of popular delusion and puritanical frenzy may be brought forward, subversive of the constitution and known legal rights of the colonies.
Resolved, That if the above measures should, contrary to our hopes and expectations, be passed into laws, we shall have to lament, that the system of colonial government which not many years ago divided the British empire, after an enormous expenditure of blood and treasure, is to be renewed with regard to us, who, from our divided and insular situations, have nothing left, but to suffer with patience whatever the strong hand of relentless power may inflict upon us; and that while we pretend to boast of the title of Englishmen, we have nothing remaining of the glorious distinction which formerly attended that name.
Resolved, That it is expedient that an address be presented to his majesty, and to the lords spiritual and temporal in parliament assembled, humbly stating in what manner the interests of the sugar colonies have been lately prejudiced, praying redress from such grievances, and particularly deprecating the passing of any law for the abolition of the slave trade.
Sketch of the Proceedings at Paris, on the memorable 10th of August, 1792.
THE decree of the 8th, which acquitted La Fayette, had excited public indignation; and the general discontent was carried to its height on the morrow, by the tardiness of the national assembly in examining the question for deposing the king, at a time when there was not a moment to lose, and in neglecting to sit during the night. The fermentation increased every instant in the most alarming manner. Pétion had declared to the assembly, that he could answer for the tranquillity of the city only till midnight. Besides it was publicly known, that a plan had been formed to sound the alarm at that hour, and to repair to the royal palace, which, by an insidious proclamation, and additional hostile precautions, had been more than ever suspected: for the pro- verbal , instituted to enquire into the king's conduct, had not added to public confidence. The municipality had published this enquiry, but refused to answer for consequences. It was known that the court had thrown open its doors, at the requisition of the magistrates, merely to conceal its flight; and this flight the people on Friday were determined to prevent. The palace was found full of trunks and preparations for travelling.
The alarm bell was rung, and the drums beat at midnight in various sections, and principally in the Fauxbourgs Saint Antoine and Saint-Merceau. The men of Bretagny and Marseilles first made their appearance, but were not long without companions. Many of the citizens ran to arms, and to the guard houses, while others repaired to the common hall, where the council-general was assembled. Pétion was absent. The insidious Louis had sent for him to the palace, to provide, as he said, for the public safety. But the mayor did not return, and his absence caused uneasiness which the municipal officers found it difficult to calm. Many left this place and went to the national assembly, where various members, awakened by the alarm bell, already were sitting, and messengers were dispatched to the remainder. Pétion not having yet left the palace, and a sufficient number of members being present, a decree was obtained to oblige the palace to release its prey. The mayor at length appeared, and was conducted to the common hall. The streets were yet calm and almost deserted, except by several strong patroles of pikemen and musketeers. A false patrole of more than thirty men, commanded by one Carle, was discovered and surrounded. Eight of the soldiers and their chief were put to the sword, and their heads the next morning were borne about on the ends of pikes. Their bodies lay, during the morrow, in the Place Vendome, where they had fallen.
Another false patrole, 2 or 300 strong, with a cannon, kept in the neighborhood of the French theatre all night; this was to have joined a detachment of the battalion of Henry IV. on the Pont neuf, and to have marched and slaughtered Pétion, and the men of Marseilles, encamped on the Pont St. Michael. The acting Sections decreed that the Mayor of Paris should remain in the Council-hall, with a guard of 400 citizens, who should be responsible for the life and liberty of this worthy magistrate.
While these firm and prudent measures were taking, armed citizens of every class assembled in small detachments, and arranged themselves; for their commanders were not present. The insurrection became universal; battalions were formed, preceded by their cannon. The battalion of Henry IV. appeared desirous to quit the common cause, and went so far as to point a part of their artillery on the Rue Dauphine, and the quarters of the men of Marseilles; and so great were the interests that occupied the people, that they
were scarcely noticed. The Place du Conseil already was filled, where the men of Marseilles first arrived, marching through the Rue Saint Honoré.
The court did not think proper to wait till the citizens were all assembled. Louis XVI. whom we no longer can call the King of the French, was not gone to bed. The evening before many carriages had been remarked in the palace yard, and the night had apparently been passed in planning some mode of defence, or rather of retreat. Pétion had been detained from his post as long as possible, so much was his influence over the citizens dreaded. The grenadiers and chasseurs had been commanded to guard the palace. At six in the morning Louis XVI. descended into the court of the princes to harangue the grenadiers, who bore him triumphantly back to his apartment, crying, vive le roi , but deserted their post two hours afterwards on the arrival of the people of the Fauxbourgs. The gunners passed over with their cannon to the side of the patriots.
Mean while a certain number of new crown pieces and a quantity of excellent wine were distributed among the Swiss, among whom there was a little fear of desertion. The guard was tripled; the king reviewed it in person, and was satisfied. But the 20th of June was not yet forgotten, and the court determined not to wait the arrival of the people. The king and his Medicis, their children, with the prude Elizabeth, and Lamballe, crossed the gardens of the Thuilleries, which were then shut, in their way to the national assembly, escorted by the national guard and all the Swiss, all crying vive le roi . When they had safely conveyed their master and mistress to the senate, the Swiss returned to their posts; but many of the national volunteers, the grenadiers excepted, did not long continue at theirs, being offended at a trifling incident, which ought not to be passed over in silence; it is too important, and proves, beyond dispute, that the court, on its part, had a grand design, and was determined "to set all on the hazard of the die." Previous to the arrival of the men of Marseilles, and the Fauxbourgs at the Carrousel, a large body of citizens had peaceably knocked at the gate of the court of the princes, which had been barred up the evening preceding. The Swiss demanded what they wanted — "To enter" — "You must not enter (replied the Swiss) until you will promise to cry vive le roi , and then we will give you sabres." This atrocious fact speaks for itself.
Meanwhile the alarm bell, which kept ringing, the heads of the men decapitated, borne through the streets, all Paris in arms, and the presence of the cowardly and perfidious king, who came to throw himself on the mercy of the national assembly, together with the firm carriage of the tribunes, inspired so much awe among the members, that they hastily passed a decree, moved by M. Vergniaud, for the suspension of the monarch. It was rumoured on the terrace of the Feuillans, at that time full of people, that the king had been deposed: but this was false, he was only suspended. He might be said to be present at the deliberation of this decree, which was soon over, being placed with his family in the box of the news writers, not being permitted to remain at the bar, and still less by the side of the President. But the people were too merciful to ask any thing more, than that he should be dethroned. The firing of cannon was heard at this moment. There was likewise an universal clapping of hands, which, said they, is the rejoicing of the public at the decree which has been passed.
They were soon undeceived by the sight of a man wounded, and the cry of "To arms! To arms! We are betrayed! The Swiss fire upon the citizens! They have
already mowed down a hundred of the men of Marseilles!"
It was but too true. About half past ten, all Paris might be said to be assembled in the Carrousel and the adjacent places, the men of Marseilles in front, who demanded that the doors of the Cour des Princes should be opened. This was immediately done; they entered, and advanced eight in rank: the Swiss welcomed them; ranged them length ways in several files, and even cartridges were given them in token of friendship. They continued to advance, followed by the battalion of cordeliers. When they were within ten paces of the palace, a rolling fire to the right and left, and even across the palace yard, was made upon them, followed by a discharge of cannon, mangled and loaded with chain shot. Near two hundred men fell on this perfidious and unexpected attack. Their comrades retired in good order without disbanding, being sustained by the Bretons: the fire did not cease, to which they alone were exposed for more than an hour; the Parisian battalions not being provided with more than three rounds of powder and ball. The Swiss kept up an incessant firing from their barracks, where they concealed themselves after the grand discharge, that they might load their guns in safety, being but little inconvenienced by the volunteers. At the same time they fired on the people from every window of the pavillon de flore , and from the grand gallery on the quai. Many citizens, especially women and children, could only avoid the balls by dropping from the parapets into the river. At the same time they fired on the garden side, the city side of the palace, and from the roofs and vent holes. It appeared as if the word was given to react the massacre of St. Bartholomew; though in reality the 10th of August 1792, was more dreadful than the 25th of August 1572; and Louis XVI. was a very different monster from Charles IX. for Charles, with a blunderbuss, standing on a balcony of the Louvre, while he shot his subjects, exposed himself to repaisals; but Louis, having given money and liquor to the Swiss, reviewed them, and ordered them and his knights of the dagger, bravely to assassinate the people from the windows of his palaces, and then, not less cowardly than perfidious, went to seek safety under the protection of the national assembly, and intreated an asylum among the representatives of the nation he had consigned to slaughter. A crime like his is unknown to the history of ages. At length, the men of Marseilles and the Bretons, were not alone exposed to the concealed artillery of the Swiss. — The cavalry of the national gendarmes, participating the glory of the day, which had otherwise been much more bloody for the patriots, hastened, without hesitation, to attack the barracks, and set them on fire. Forty horse and five and twenty men were left dead. A trumpeter of 12 years old had his horse killed under him, and with the utmost coolness cut the straps, took off his portmanteau, and went and placed himself in the ranks of the infantry. We are sorry that we do not know the name of this heroic boy. The pikemen perfectly seconded the gendarmes, braved the artillery, and were highly useful, mingled with the musketeers.
The Swiss were driven from their barracks by the fire, and fled toward the palace. The troops of Marseilles, Brest, and Paris fired on them as they appeared — Could it be believed? Among them were found many of the national guards, in their uniform! But the traitors did not escape their just reward. The confusion at first occasioned some unfortunate mistakes. The Swiss had cannon; but ours, perfectly well served by the men of Marseilles, swept away the enemy. The car-
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Answer to the pieces in the Gazette of the United States (signed An American) containing certain charges against the Secretary of State.
[Continued from our paper of Oct. 13.]
A DISREGARD for the public credit, or to use terms more correspondent with the idea of the writer, a desire to extirpate it, is the remaining article, in the list of charges which have been brought forward by The American against Mr. Jefferson. In the notice I first took of these allegations, this had escaped me. It shall, however, now receive the attention to which it is entitled.
To support this charge, a paragraph stated to be an extract from one of his letters to the former Congress, containing some communication relative to a proposed transfer of the French debt, to a company of Dutch merchants, has been submitted to the public view. Upon this single document it has been rested, and upon this of course must the demonstration depend.
The extract in question has been re-presented to be as follows: "If there is a danger of the public payments not being punctual, I submit whether it may not be better that the discontents which would then arise, should be transferred from a court of whose good offices we have so much need, to the breasts of a private company." By this Mr. Jefferson is exhibited, if not as the author of this proposition, yet as submitting it singly to their consideration, and pressing its adoption by Congress. And from the manner of the publication, and his comments on it, the honor and credit of the writer become pledged, not only for its truth and accuracy, but likewise for its impartiality, in presenting before the public, a full and candid statement of whatever was necessary to enable them to form a just estimate of its merit.
To exculpate him from this dishonorable imputation, even the extract furnished, false and deceptive as it is, upon a sound construction, would have been sufficient. The sole question it involves is, whether the Congress would consent that the French court, should assign the debt we owed them, to a company of private merchants; whether they would agree, to pay the latter at the same time, and under the same conditions, precisely the same sum we owed the former. If Mr. Jefferson had advocated this idea, wherein does the turpitude consist? Debts between individuals have this property, and assignments of them are daily supported in the courts of law and equity. Those from the public to individuals likewise have it: indeed the greater part, perhaps by this time the whole, of the American debt has undergone this process. Upon what principle then refuse it to that due to France? Does morality distinguish between the cases? Or were the claims of that magnanimous nation, for past advances, and at a period of great distress, less to be regarded? or those, who were to profit by the transaction, less the favorites of our government than others who have since infested its seat, and preyed upon individuals?
But the vindication of Mr. Jefferson against this charge does not rest on the above principle. The contents of his letter, even in the extract published, have been shamefully misrepresented; other parts, absolutely necessary for the full comprehension of it, suppressed; and the proposition which he discountenanced, imposed on him as his own. I have lately seen an extract, in possession of a gentleman, who was at that time a member of the Congress, and whose authenticity cannot be questioned, which verifies what I have here advanced. The only proposition which he made to Congress, was to borrow the money in Holland, and discharge the French debt. This alone was his wish. With respect to the project of the transfer he was only the vehicle of communication, and at the particular request of the agent of the company; hazarding transiently only, in presenting it to the view of that body, an idea which occurred, and which must have occurred to any other person, that it might be better to have for creditors, those from whom no friendly offices had been received, than a powerful nation who had already conferred, and from whom we might hereafter have occasion to solicit, the most important services.
Mr. Jefferson never sought to injure France; that court and the whole nation would exculpate him from the charge.
And the imputation of intending any deception on the mercantile company, is equally false and groundless. By them the contract was solicited of France; and for the deposit of twenty millions of livres, they were to have become entitled to twenty-four, making thereby a clear gain of four millions, with the high rate of interest stipulated by the loan. Our assent
* This writer in answer to a very sensible and well written piece under the signature of ARISTIDES has confessed that the first statement made by him with so much confidence, was inaccurate; but even here he still states it in a point of view which justifies the remark I have made.
was only desired for its consummation. Is it to be presumed that this company were ignorant of the actual state of the debt or of our ability to pay it? and was it in such event, his duty to interfere, in derogation of the character of his country, to warn them of the danger of our probable failure?
The person who published the mutilated extract, possesses, I presume, the true one. The whole was deposited in the quarter from whence it is believed to have been taken. I now therefore call upon him to produce the entire paragraph in his defence. In contempt of official duties, as heretofore suggested and not denied, the veil of secrecy has been torn from it. Whatever detriment, if any, could be sustained from the exposure of a confidential paper, has been already rendered. It only remains by the publication of the truth, to fix the stigma on him who deserves it. Let this likewise proceed from the same party thus notably distinguished, in gratification of private revenge, for the pernicious example of a gross violation of the duties of a public trust, and a glaring outrage on the delicacy of a foreign correspondence.
The visionary danger which threatens in the minds of some men, the public credit, has long been a theme for copious declamation. An enquiry into any proposition, sanctioned by a certain party, however unconnected with it, has been represented as seeking its destruction; and those who conduct it, tho' otherwise pre-eminently distinguished for their talents, their patriotism, their public and private virtues, as having this object solely in view. Much labour and ingenuity have also been bestowed in an effort to impress the public creditors with a belief that on the success of this enterprising faction, in all its measures, their safety depends. Can these arts long bewilder the public mind, and divert it from the true object of enquiry? Can any person who dispassionately contemplates the obvious tendency of measures, with the known and avowed principles of those who espouse them, doubt that the end to which they are intended to be made subservient, far surpasses the honest boundary of a strict fulfillment of the public faith!
Reflections on French affairs: from a Paris paper.
1. It is evident that France would have been this moment in a state of perfect peace, had it not been for the intrigues of the royal family and the aristocratical faction. Another cause of our unsettled state is the numberless contradictory clauses in the national constitution, and the fatal error of leaving the executive power in the hands of a family and of a court, sworn enemies of the nation, and of liberty. The influence of so ancient a race as the Bourbons could not be otherwise than considerable. In our first efforts the hereditary quality of the crown ought to have been done away; at least we should have looked for responsibility in him that wore it, and should not have entrusted the direction of a war against the House of Austria to a man whose interest lay in seeing that House victorious.
2. We have no longer any established religious worship; why then are we still troubled with high-church bells and priests exclusively salaried? Let all church bells be sent to the national foundries—bells, which only serve to disturb and harrow our repose; and let the statues of those deceased tyrants, that still seem to threaten us with despotism, be sent after them. Let us destroy every such vestige of slavery and idolatry, which now only serve to remind us of the days of ignorance and superstition. In their stead, let us set up the images of Rousseau, Franklin, and other worthies, of the present, as well as past ages, who routed mankind to a sense of their liberty and rights. Instead of those loads of trash and imposture that have been palmed upon us for sense and reason, let us attend to the immortal writings of such men, and become truly wise. But, of the idolatrous bronze of bells and statues let us cast cannon of a monstrous calibre, to vomit death and perdition upon the enemies of the people.
3. The prevailing patriotic clubs in England have already rendered a most important service to the reviving liberties of France. The neutrality declared by the king of England, in regard to France, must not be imputed to the abilities of our ambassadors; still less to the benevolence or liberality of the British court: we are indebted for this neutrality to the firmness of the English popular societies, who have forced the government to listen to reason.
4. It was impossible for the national assembly to form the people into any thing like complete union whilst the king, and his party, were secretly fomenting divisions. Had the king openly and publicly contravened the constitution, the assembly would have known how to oppose him; but as long as he affected to adhere to it in every point, and yet was secretly undermining it, they were at a loss how to act, otherwise than by taking the will of the people for their guide. In all these difficulties there was a new Cromwell at the bottom. He has at length thrown off the masque, but too suddenly. Led astray by inordinate am-
bition, he wished to become director-general to the assembly. His audacity has ruined him. At the time Cromwell began to give lessons, and to speak in a domineering stile to the English parliament, he was surrounded with an army who were wholly devoted to his service, and had gained him many victories. Such wretches had not yet encircled the brows of M. de la Fayette; nor could he reasonably presume that his soldiers would ever turn their arms against the conquerors of the Bastille!
5. Some well meaning people lie under a great mistake when they suppose that our internal revolution should necessarily make a change in our external connections. It is true, that if we were a poor, pitiful, or contemptible nation, there would be some reason for our asking permission of our neighbours to become free. Geneva dares not meddle with her own constitution, without leave from the powers that surround her. But what has France to do, if united, with the opinions of the rest of Europe? When once the parts of this great mass have formed themselves into such a coherence, as to be directed to one great object, farewell to all apprehensions from the combined powers.
6. Spain is not by any means entitled to be ranked among the great powers of Europe. The weakness of her government and marine, and her contemptible land force, render useless the immense resources of riches and strength that nature has given her. Her excessive apprehensions from our revolution seem to have made her a stranger to all that has passed, at least till she got a little glimpse of what we were about, through the administration of the count d'Aranda. This minister seems to have comprehended the true interests of Spain, and embraced them. Although by no means a friend to our revolution, he is nevertheless a friend to France, and, as such, will, no doubt, preserve Spain our ally; and if possible, take such advantage of the event, as to make it turn to the best interests of his country.
7. The system preached up by Mr. Paine, while in France, was plain downright republicanism. Finding his doctrines unpopular he retired to England, and it was not till the latter end of June 1792, that his politics, aided by the kindred Jacobin tenets, began to take effect. A popular system of government, it was thought would raise the nation above itself, and change the deepest rooted prejudices into republican virtues; altho' others asserted, and perhaps with some justice, that the redemption of France and the renovated liberty of mankind in that quarter, would work the total confusion of Europe. The prevailing party, however were thoroughly persuaded that the days of universal liberty were at hand, when every nation would rise, like a giant from his sleep, to shake off their shackles—when there would be no more occasion for armies, navies, kings, nobles, priests, nor over-grown rich men, throughout this continent. Every good man must wish the approach of this period, but the present age can only behold it in remote perspective.
8. Despotism was never so much puzzled at any former period, to know how to act, than at the beginning of our revolution. The boldness and novelty of our principles irritated them almost to madness; and it was chiefly owing to the pacific character of Leopold that the violent, tho' secret resolutions of the electors, and some other princes, did not immediately burst out into desperate action. A question might here arise, Could France possibly have vindicated herself into liberty without war? or could any system but war have gone further than merely to reform, and not totally change the old government? The Jacobin revolutionists thought not: and it was their opinion that despotism could die no other than a sanguinary death. Hence the war, that was declared by the influence of that prevailing party, who for a considerable time were monarchists in principle, and retainers to royalty, but at length became republicans when they found that royalty had parted with every sentiment of honor, and nothing less was plotting than to rivet the chains of despotism on the nation, with ten times more strength than before.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
PARIS, Aug. 28.—Sep. 2.
No duty is so dangerous and difficult to the municipal officers, as the guard of the royal family, especially the sister of Louis 16th. This little prude is a daemon of the most incredible mobility—She runs up and down an hundred times a day, between her own apartment and that of her sister in law. Only the most exact and minute watchfulness can prevent the many little plots, of which the family, even in their present state of negation, are capable. There is no sort of artifice or contrivance, to which Elizabeth and Maria do not descend, to corrupt or deceive their guards. These should be often changed. The little sister especially ogles with infinite art; the man most hackneyed in the little policies of woman, may be taken on the second day. Her black lynx eyes, which are also by no means indifferent, read the thoughts and penetrate into the soul of a man.
As to Maria Antoinette, the queen, she conducts herself in a manner more suitable to her age and the loss of her charms. Her mode is to interest the beholder by the appearance of a woman resigned to misfortune. When her women were taken away, others chosen by the municipality were offered her. She replied, affecting the heroine, "I shall perform my household duties myself—Only let me have a tapestry-man, to shew me how to set out my bed."
Her husband in a moment of ill humor, occasioned by the preparations for making a fofe round the tower, forgot himself so far as to bestow some very angry epithets upon his Antoinette, who fainted away upon a couch. In short, she acted in such a way as might have won any person who did not know, that a very few days before, this woman of delicacy advised gunpowder to be put into the brandy given to the Swiss, that they might exert themselves the better against the people and the national guard.
On the day after the domestics were removed, M. Mannal announced, that they were in a state of arrest. Some tears were shed. Dinner, however, was immediately afterwards announced, and then all was well again. The two sisters afterwards proceeded in the arrangement of the apparel and linen, and ordered the beds to be removed, which were become useless by the absence of their domestics. The upholsterer employed in this business, was incessantly watched by the officer of the guards. Antoinette, with an air of much tenderness, asked, if it was not possible to procure her sister a bed somewhat more commodious than her own. This demand was obeyed.
It is curious to know what sort of apartment Elizabeth now occupies. It is an old kitchen upon the third floor; her toilette is placed upon a washing stone, on the side of the stove; her bed was made of girths, with two small matresses; and all the furniture consists of an old buffet, filled with coarse earthen ware.
The new tenant complained not a little of this to the municipal officer, who was at that time busied in preparing the apartments of her sister. Antoinette asked for white curtains, which could not be given her immediately; when they were procured, she loaded the officer with thanks, and praised his humanity to the utmost. He was aware of what was intended by this, and made his report of it.
These circumstances are not to be imputed to any negligence or severity of the municipality. They were owing only to the haste, with which this family was removed from the Feuillans, where their court increased daily, and extended its contagion even to some members of the legislative body.
Now and then Louis dictates to his daughter some passages in tragedies; but the child is chiefly attached to its mother and aunt. The municipal officers upon duty at the temple, are directed to keep the most assiduous watch upon all the words and actions of the hostage family; they are to watch that no sign or note passes between them and their guards; and to examine every thing which is brought, provisions, small furniture and toys. At each meal, they taste, in the presence of the family, all the provisions, lest any attempt should be made to poison them, with the view of charging it upon the municipality. The king always wears his sword.
A person who had not been an eye witness, could not have conceived it possible that there could have been found men so prodigal of life, as those who first entered the garden of the Thuilleries on the memorable tenth of August. After breaking the gates with their cannon, exposed to rolling fire from the windows, without any protection on their parts, they advanced, entered the palace, stormed the staircase and forced the Swiss guards to give way, with a dreadful slaughter—about 1000 first fled, but were met at the Place Louis 15, and there fell under the pikes and bayonets of the citizens. If amidst scenes so dreadful, one could have ventured to smile, it would have been to see dirty fellows covered with dust and blood reposing themselves on silk sofas and embroidered beds, and to hear the pleasantries which their new and unexpected situation drew from them. While some were carrying the valuable effects to the assembly, others of the populace were guarding the rest, and whoever was detected in pilfering the national property, was treated with as little ceremony as the Swiss soldiers. After the work of death had ceased, it was moving to walk in the garden of the Thuilleries, which was now filled with women and children, surveying with anxiety the victims, dying and dead, some looking for a husband, brother, or father, raising up their heads to recognize them, alternately rejoicing for, or lamenting their fate. One woman was very assiduous in finding her husband, turning from one corpse to the other, and still disappointed, she observed, that tho' it was not what she sought, yet it was the body of a good citizen. The great difference between the dead citizens and the king's soldiers was remarkable; the countenances of the former discovered serenity and triumph, those of the latter bore the marks of dismay and despair. This probably arose from the different

modes of death. The citizens fell by bullets, and the Swifts by pikes, sabres, and other weapons, which inflicted more painful and dreadful wounds.
It is remarkable that after all the preparations made by the court; after corrupting the Swifts guards, and filling the palace with those cavaliers, whose swords (according to Mr. Burke) were to leap from their scabbards, to avenge a look of insult towards a queen of France, that they should be so lost to a sense of honor, so utterly forgetful of their obligations and their duty as to suffer a rabble, a swinish multitude, to drive them like sheep before them. Unhappily, the poor soldiers were left the victims of the rage of the people. These noble cavaliers, when they found the multitude somewhat in earnest, after exhorting the Swifts to hold out to the last, stole away through different parts of the palace, particularly through the long gallery of the Louvre, which no person guarded, and saved themselves by flight long before the palace was taken.
A young woman of the name of La-combe was among the ranks of the patriots who boldly stormed the palace of the Tuileries, amidst the havoc made by the fire of the Swifts guards.
In one place the saved 70 Swifts soldiers from immediate slaughter, and collecting a chosen band of Federists, she put herself at their head, and placing these men in the centre, protected them through crowds of people who cried out for their blood, which they said ought to be shed, to revenge the death of the brave patriots whom these Swifts had slain.
But this truly gallant Amazon declared, that those who should attack these disarmed prisoners must first take her life; nor did she quit them till she had conveyed them to prison, and thus secured them from every other vengeance, save that of the law.
The Federists of the 83 departments, who had witnessed both her bravery in the attack, and her humanity after victory, bestowed upon her a civic crown, as the reward of her virtues. She appeared, on Saturday last at the bar of the national assembly, and presented this crown to the President, as homage paid to the patriotism of the legislature.
She was invited to sit within the bar; and honorable mention of her and her offering was made in the journals.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 7.
Mr. Steele moved that the report of the committee, at the close of the last session, on the causes of the failure of the late expedition under Gen. St. Clair, be taken up. The report was accordingly referred to a committee of the whole, and made the order of the day for next Wednesday.
A statement of public accounts was communicated by the Treasurer of the United States, which was ordered to be printed.
Messrs. Goodhue, Fitzsimons, and Parker were appointed a committee to bring in a bill for registering vessels, and regulating those employed in the coating trade and fisheries.
A memorial was read from Joseph Barras, attorney in fact for D. Rumsey, praying for a more effectual patent system than that now established, and securing to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their works and inventions.
Order of the day. The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the President's Speech to both Houses.
On motion, Resolved that an address be prepared in answer to the President's Speech, to assure him that the House would take into consideration the matters submitted to them. Messrs. Madison, Benfon, and Murray were appointed a committee to draw up the address.
A message was received from the President of the United States, containing 1st. A communication from the Secretary of State enclosing an account of the application of the fund appropriated to foreign purposes. 2. A letter from the justices of the supreme court, inclosing a memorial to Congress, respecting the inconveniences to which they are subjected by the operation of the judiciary law of the United States. 3. A letter from the judges of the district court of North-Carolina, stating objections to the act passed the last session, providing for the settlement of claims of orphans and widows barred by the limitations before established; and also to regulate the claims of invalid pensioners. The remaining article, was of a confidential nature, upon which the galleries were shut.
THURSDAY, Nov. 8.
A report was brought in on the petition from the merchants of Charleston, stating it to be well founded, and proposing two resolutions, 1: that a bill be brought in to regulate fees in the admiralty courts of the United States; and 2. that the obnoxious clause in the act for the regulation of seamen, be repealed, and another substituted. The report was ordered to lie on the table.
ble; as were also several petitions for compensation, &c.
A letter was read from the Secretary of war, announcing that Gen. Putnam had on the 27th of September, concluded a treaty of peace with several tribes of Indians, on the Wabash and Illinois rivers; and also, that he had forwarded a message to the other hostile tribes, to persuade them to peace. With this letter was communicated the message of Gen. Putnam to the several tribes.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury relative to lost certificates was, on motion of Mr. Lee, referred to a committee of the whole house on Monday the 19th inst.
The petition of Joseph Barnes was referred to a select committee, to report thereon: on motion of Mr. Smith, S. C. that part of the President's speech relative to the judiciary was also referred to a select committee.
A memorial was read, from W. and J. Sims, of Philadelphia, praying release from their bonds for duties payable in New-York on the cargo of a ship from Cadiz that had been compelled to put into that port by hard weather, and was afterwards totally lost on the coast of Jersey, in coming round to Philadelphia, the port of her destination.
A committee was appointed to report a bill to regulate pilots, and provide for the superintendence of light-houses, beacons, buoys, &c.---further communications being of a private nature, the galleries were cleared.
PHILADELPHIA.
NOVEMBER 10.
The governor of the state of Maryland has, by proclamation, notified the following persons as duly elected representatives of that state in the third Congress of the United States, viz. George Dent, John F. Mercer, Uriah Forrest, Thomas Sprig, Samuel Smith, Gabriel Christie, William Hindman, and William Vans Murray, Esquires.
The legislature of New-Jersey have appointed Frederick Frelinghuysen, Esq. a senator in the Congress of the United States, from the 4th of March next: And the following gentlemen electors of the President and Vice-President of the United States—Thomas Henderdon, Richard Stockton, Joseph Bloomfield, Franklin Davenport, Aaron D. Woodruff, John Van Cleve, and Samuel Dick.
According to a letter from Louisville, in Kentucky (dated October 14) "a treaty was opened on the 24th of September at Post Vincennes with seven nations of Indians, viz. The Eel-rivers, Weachtcon, Piankianaws, Potawatchems, Kickapooes, Kikakias, and Ausquetoes. The treaty was concluded on the 27th of the same month. These nations have buried the hatchet, and are now entirely broke off from the league of the war nations." It is added, that the principal chiefs of these nations, 16 in number, are now on their way to this city.
The town of Fayetteville, in North-Carolina, suffered a very considerable loss by fire on the evening of the 23d of October. About 40 tenable dwelling houses and stores were consumed, in spite of every exertion, and 28 buildings of other descriptions. The whole loss in buildings is said to amount to 30,000.---no estimate is yet formed of the loss in goods and household furniture, but thought to be considerably less than that in buildings.
The troops at and about Pittsburgh are shortly to move into winter quarters. The place fixed on for this purpose is said to be on the Ohio river, near Log's Town, where the soldiers are to erect huts, to shelter themselves during the ensuing winter.
Extract of a letter from Holland. "You have already been informed that our government has prohibited the importation of tea, coming from your ports, and now has laid an additional duty of one per cent. on all American imports, and an half per cent on exports for your continent. This measure has been taken to counterbalance the prohibition lately made on your side, of Holland gin in cases; which article was one of the few we were able to furnish you with, in return for your cargoes of tobacco, rice, &c. As by this innovation, your trade is to suffer much more than ours, your rulers may, of course, be convinced of the truth of that French adage, "Qui trop embrasse, mal etreint." Learn this short lesson from the Dutch, That "they lose all who grasp too much."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Cathalan, vice-consul of the United States, at Marseilles, to the Secretary of State, dated Marseilles, 24th August, 1792.
"I offer to your consideration a very interesting matter, explained in full in a memoire* which I have presented to the municipality of Marseilles, of which
I send you here enclosed a copy*, dated the 19th inst. on the subject of wheat and flour, to which I beg leave to refer you. We are in the greatest apprehension of being in great need of these, so necessary commodities, and of seeing prices gradually rise from £53 a 54 per charge of 18,290 Marseilles weight (flour the same price per barrel) which they would now obtain ready money, on the wharf, to £65 before next month of December, and £70 before March, on the actual course of foreign exchange and specie, rising again till next crop in July next.
This memoire was so well received by the municipality, that they have determined to write a letter to General George Washington, President of the United States of America, dated this day, which I have the pleasure of sending you here enclosed, begging you, Sir, to present to him, in the name of the town of Marseilles. I hope that the American merchants on his invitation will contribute all in their power to supply this town abundantly.
You may assure them that brandies will be at moderate terms, about £45 a £40 per gl. gros of 90lb. English, they will make an advantageous remittance. For my part in the consulate line, as well as in the commercial one, they may rely on all my endeavours to render their voyage and adventures as beneficial as possible.
Tobacco on the contrary abounds now, and cannot obtain here £54 mark weight; no purchasers.
I shall depart for Bordeaux in two hours to see consul Fenwick; when arrived, I shall have the honor of addressing you and sending a copy of this and the municipality letter.
I am, &c. (Signed) STEPHEN CATHALAN, jun."
* This shall appear in our next.
To the President of the United States of America.
Marseilles, 24th August, 1792, the 4th year of liberty.
SIR,
FREE nations are always in alliance, and are alike interested in affording mutual aid and assistance to each other. A common interest has already united the inhabitants of the American States to the interests of regenerated France. Their three coloured flags are unfurled upon every sea, proclaiming that the free Americans and French are brethren. The name of Washington is as much revered here as at Philadelphia. It is to Washington that we address ourselves in order to convey the sentiments of our fellow-citizens to a nation for whom he has done and suffered so much.
Commerce is one of the first ties in the fraternity of mankind, and engaged as we are in the destructive trade of war, which unfortunately has become necessary in order to establish the cause of liberty, free citizens ought nevertheless to leave no possible means untried to extend their commercial intercourse, and ensure the means of subsistence.
The time will arrive, and doubtless it is not far off, when the genius of liberty, having crossed the ocean, and hovered over France, will kindle over the whole earth that sacred fire which now animates our breasts. The demons of discord will then be chained up forever, the sword will be rendered useless, and the great bond of nations will be confidence and brotherly affection.
We have, therefore, to propose to our American brethren to form more extensive commercial connexions with us than heretofore. Above all, we present to their view an object of speculation, which, while it supplies our wants, offers emoluments to the adventurer by no means contemptible. The article of provisions, for which we have contracted, cannot be supplied during the present year, on account of the indifferent crops, which are disproportionate to the quantities that Marseilles annually lays up either for the use of her own citizens, for the southern districts of France, or for a part of Spain and Italy.
Such being our situation, we have petitioned the national assembly to grant a premium of fifty sous per quintal, (mark weight) of grain that shall be imported from abroad into the southern districts of France: and we have reason to believe that our patriotic legislators will comply with our request.
But this is not the only step we will take in favor of our American brethren. We will petition the executive council that the American flag be protected by the French cruising vessels of war; and we have every reason to believe that our solicitations on this subject will not be fruitless.
Exert your influence then, Sir, to engage our American brethren to export to us the superfluity of their crops. Be pleased to inform them that in exchange for their produce they will be supplied in our port with oils and wines, besides other articles and commodities which may suit their market. Inform them, Sir, that the citizens of Marseilles will do every thing in their power to encourage the American trade, and that in this instance in particular they will consider a compliance with their wishes as a proof of the fraternal
friendship that exists between the two nations.
It is worthy of your character, Sir, to cherish such sentiments, the dissemination of which will constitute the happiness of your nation. You have toiled for the liberty of your country, and by meriting the universal esteem of all nations, you have gained that, in particular, of the Mayor, Municipal officers, and public Attorney for the community of Marseilles.
(Signed)
MAURRAILLE, Mayor.
[Here follow also the signatures of the other officers of the municipality of Marseilles.]
The following is a complete list of the present Congress of the United States.
 GEORGE WASHINGTON, President,  JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President.  Senators—From New-Hampshire, John Langdon, Paine Wingate. Massachusetts, George Cabot, Caleb Strong. Rhode-Island, Theodore Foster, Joseph Stanton. Connecticut, Oliver Ellsworth; Roger Sherman. Vermont, Stephen R. Bradley, Moses Robinson. New-York, Aaron Burr, Rufus King. New-Jersey, Philemon Dickinson, John Rutherford. Pennsylvania, Robert Morris. Delaware, Richard Bassett, George Read. Maryland, Charles Carroll, John Henry. Virginia, James Monroe, John Taylor. Kentucky, John Brown, John Edwards. North-Carolina, Benjamin Hawkins, Samuel Johnston. South-Carolina, Pierce Butler, Ralph Izard, Georgia, William Few, James Gunn—Representatives—New-Hampshire, Nicholas Gilman, Samuel Livermore, Jeremiah Smith. Massachusetts, Fisher Ames, Shearjashub Bourne, Elbridge Gerry, Benjamin Goodhue, George Leonard, Theodore Sedgwick, George Thatcher, Artemas Ward. Rhode-Island, Benjamin Bourne, Connecticut, James Hillhouse, Amsa Learned, Jonathan Sturges, Jonathan Trumbull (Speaker), Jeremiah Wadsworth. Vermont, Nathaniel Niles, Israel Smith. New-York, Egbert Benson, James Gordon, John Lawrence, Cornelius C. Schoonmaker, Peter Sylvester, Thomas Treadwell. New-Jersey, Elias Boudinot, Abraham Clark, Jonathan Dayton, Aaron Kitchell. Pennsylvania, William Findley, Thomas Fitzsimons, Andrew Gregg, Thomas Hartley, Daniel Heister, Israel Jacobs, John Wilkes Kittera, Frederic Augustus Muhlenberg. Delaware, John Vining, Maryland, Philip Key, John F. Mercer, William Vans Murray, Joshua Seney, Upson Sheredine, Samuel Sterrett. Virginia, William B. Giles, Samuel Griffin, Richard Bland Lee, James Madison, Andrew Moore, John Page, Josiah Parker, Abraham Venable, Alexander White. Kentucky, Christopher Greenup, Alexander D. Orr. N. Carolina, John Baptist Ashe, William Barry Grove, Nathaniel Macon, John Steele, Hugh Williamson. South-Carolina, Robert Barnwell, Daniel Huger, William Smith, Thomas Sumter, Thomas Tudor Tucker. Georgia, Abraham Baldwin, John Milledge, Francis Willis. 
K I D, and Co. PERFUMERS, &c.
Have just imported in the PIGOU, and other late arrivals from Europe, and now open for Sale, at their store, No. 222, in Market above Sixth-street.
A general assortment of the following GOOD S, viz.
 LADIES' and Gentlemen's japanned dressing cases complete, of all sorts  Gentlemen's shaving cases, powder bags, boxes and powder puffs of all sorts  Tortoiseshell, ivory, and horn combs, of all kinds  Tooth brushes, dragon roots and tooth powder  All kinds of the best cloths brushes  Ladies' tortoiseshell sliders for the hair  Best Windsor soap, all kinds of wash balls  Powder masks and court-plaster  Silk purses and gloves tops  All kinds of razors, warranted  Pocket, pen, and sporting knives  Scissors of all kinds  Pinchugs, curling and spring irons  A general assortment of pocket-books, ladies' thread-cases and etwes  Best English, Cheshire, and Gloucester cheeses  Wax, wax candles, and sealing-wax  Message cards of all kinds  All kinds of hair powder  English, French, and other pomatums  Tamboured, Cassimier and muslin waistcoat patterns. 
An elegant assortment of Ready made Millinery,
 Consisting of full dress, Caps, Hats, and Bonnets.  Fine chip hats  Black and coloured beaver hats, best quality  An assortment of the most fashionable ribbons  And beads for trimmings and other ornaments. 
Have likewise received a fresh supply of MILK of ROSES.
They beg leave to inform the ladies, that they continue to make all kinds of ornamental false hair upon an entire new method, and of so light and easy a construction, that they look better than when a lady is dressed by the most expert hair dresser.
 An assortment of elegant cut Steel Watch Chains, Seals, Watch Keys, &c. with a variety of other goods, too tedious to enumerate. 
November 10. 4w. 24w.

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age became horrible within a palace, where the cowards that had escaped, joined with the valets of the court, who were likewise armed, and prepared to sustain a combat, which they did not imagine would have become so serious. The vestibule, the grand stair case, the chapel, the anti-chambers, the galleries, the hall of the throne, and the council chamber, at once broke in upon by the people, were all tarnished with blood of the Swifs and the king's valets; they were known by their liveries, and guilty, as they were, of the worst of treachery, were treated with out pity. The justice of the people displayed itself in all its horror. Every apartment was searched for the discovery of traitors. An Abbe, preceptor to the son of Louis XVI. had concealed eight in his apartment, at the bottom of a large press, of which he had the keys. When they came to search his chamber, his embarrassed air betrayed him, and he and they were immolated by the too vindictive people. Nor could the Abbe Bouillon escape, nor Clermont Tonnerre, who was overtaken in the Rue de Seves-Saint-Germain. The choice spirit of the aristocrats; he to whom the queen, that she might reward him for having made her laugh at the expence of the patriots, had given a pension of twenty five thousand livres per annum from the civil list, with the addition of a handsome wife, Suleau, in the uniform of a national grenadier, was discovered, and put to death, as he was watching round the palace. The evening before, he had vaunted, that the king might depend on ten thousand men, capable of putting all the Parisians to the rout.
Generosity had been lost on the callous hearts of courtiers; with them examples of terror only can prevail. These the people gave: they granted no quarter to the inmates of the palace. The Swifs, and others, who had fled to the roof, were hurled headlong down. Some were caught in the out houses and some in the kitchens, where all were put to death; accomplices as they were of their master, and estranged from their country. The very cellars were searched, where thousands of torches were found, apparently collected for the conflagration of Paris, when another Nero should give the signal. Nor did they stop here; the fugitives in red were pursued over the garden, into the Elysian fields, on the terrace, into the wood, and through the gardens of the prince. Nor were the Swifs porters, who opened the gates for the massacre of the men of Marseilles, spared: the sanguinary act did but too deeply merit punishment.
Sixty Swifs were tried by a martial law, and executed before the common hall. The people went to the house of the Sieur d'Affry, but that courtly Swifs made his escape through the back door of the hotel to the national guards, who with great difficulty conducted him safe to the abbey, where he is imprisoned.
Let us leave the palace for a moment for the garden of the Infanta, which was intrepidly sealed by the battalion of St. Germain l'Auxerrois. Never was greater ardour beheld. The king's friends, stationed in that part of the Louvre where the war minister keeps his offices, fired upon the people. These savages in black were posted there to make a diversion, and gain merit in the eyes of Antoinette and her king. The Swifs of Courbevoie appeared at the end of the Champs Elysees, where they were shown an order from the king to lay down their arms. They obeyed and returned, having had a view of many of their breathless comrades.
The people divided the spoil of the dead, but not by way of clothing themselves; the sans culottes would have nothing more than each a remnant, as a proof of their victory over the armed valets of the monarch. They displayed the same moderation, or rather the same generosity, relative to the rich effects with which the palace was filled. Men, with scarcely a coat to cover them, brought purses, filled with gold and silver coin, without opening them; the queen's jewels, the plate both of the chapel and the palace, a hat full of Louis d'Ors, affignats and letters, and laid them all before the national assembly. Others seized on the treasury of the Swifs, and brought it triumphantly to the same place, while emigrant officers have carried off with them their regimental chests.
Much of the furniture and most of the glasses were broken. The wine was not
spared, but the most trifling theft was no sooner discovered than punished. One thief taken in the fact was executed in the place. A hundred other thieves during that day and night, and the morrow, were executed.
What a spectacle was Paris, and especially the place of action, on the evening of the 10th of August! Labour and trade were interrupted, the workshop and the counter deserted. Amid apparent disorder, there was a strong mixture of harmony, fraternity, sensibility, vengeance, generosity and barbarity!
Every street was in arms, yet no outrage committed in the streets. But, alas! the citizens were grievously and too often afflicted at the sight of patriots dying or wounded, borne home by their comrades, and followed by their weeping family. Every eye, every step was directed to the palace which sent forth volumes of smoke. The Carouzel appeared to be a vast burning furnace. In order to enter the palace it was necessary to cross two of its wings, which were reeking in their embers, and to trample either on burning beams or on bodies not yet cold. The court of the princes was but an other aspect of the same picture; it presented the facade of the palace battered from top to bottom by the national cannon, some of which still seemed to threaten the too long abode of royal vice. Here too the dead lay strewed. But how describe the vestibule, the stair case, the chapel, and the apartments? It was horror not to be exceeded. Yet even this horror might be endured, by recollecting who had been their inhabitants. The walls and floors were stained with blood, covered with broken weapons, and the limbs of men, mingled with torn garments, royal robes, velvets worked in gold with fleur-de-lis, furniture broken, shattered vases, bottles distributed to the mercenary executioners of the despot, and dead bodies at every step! The palace gate leading to the terrace was obstructed by heaps of dead, almost naked, and as if still biting the dust, their hands grasped in rage to have fallen by the sword of the people. Every alley of that noble garden, the admiration of foreigners, and the pride of nature and of art, presented nothing but more dead and more; some under the trees, some extended beneath the statues, and others strewed over with grass and the flowers of the garden; and, to give the last touch to this fearful scene, the wooden barracks of the Swifs all on fire, and the flames lighting those who were loading numerous carriages brought to take away the dead from the place de Louis XV. By the side of this scene of horror sat Louis XVI. the author of all these lamentable tragedies, at a well replenished table in the room of one of the committees of the national assembly, eating and drinking as usual, in company of his silent and enraged wife; she biting her lips at not having been better seconded in dreadful crimes and deplorable guilt.
No part of the palace of the Thuilleries was hurt, save where the cannon struck, and which can be repaired; but the barracks which surrounded it, and which spoiled its appearance, were consigned to flames, and are levelled with the ground. It is most likely that it will be consigned in future to a hall for the assembly, bureaus for the national business, and apartments for the minister and President of the republic.
Prices Current at Philadelphia.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Includes items like Ashes, Bacon, Bees wax, Brandy, Butter, Beef, Coals, Coffee, Cotton, Cheese, Chocolate, Codfish, Cordage, Duck, Dutch fail duck, Salt cloth, Flaxseed, Flax, Flour, Burt middlings, Meal Indian, Rye, Ship stuff.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Includes items like Gin, Ginseing, Grain, Buck-wheat, Indian corn, Rye, Herrings, Hoops, Barrel, Hams, Hemp, Hides, Indigo, Iron, Castings, Nail-rods, Pig, Sheet, Leather, Logwood, Lard, Lead, In pigs, Red, White, Mackerel, Madder, Myrtle wax, Molasses, Nails, Nutmegs, Oil, Olive, Sweet best in baskts, 30 flasks, Spermaceti, Train, Whale, Pepper, Pimento, Porter, Pitch, Pork, Raisins, Jar do. per keg, Sun do. per keg, Rice, Rotin, Rum, Barbadoes, New-England, Jamaica, Windward Island, Salmon, Scantling, Shingles, Salt, Cadiz, Lisbon, Liverpool, Skins, Red, Snake-Root, Sugar, Brown, Muscovado, Lump, Loaf, Tallow, Tin, Tar, Turpentine, Tea, Hyson skin, Souchong, Congo, Bohea, Tobacco, Inferior, Old, Rappahannock, Coloured Maryland, Dark, Long leaf, Eastern Shore, Carolina, old, Carolina, new, Wine, Madeira, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Fayal, Port, Sherry.
NOTICE.
THIS is to forwarn all masters of vessels and others, at their peril, not to take a certain mulatto Boy, named Lewis Boget, formerly of Cayenne, out of this city, he being lawfully bound and apprenticed to me, until 16th Nov. 1793; as I have reason to suspect he is endeavouring to leave this city. JAMES ROBERTSON. New-York, October 9.
Manufactured and for Sale,
At No. 11, North Sixth-street, Fashionable Round Top and Flat BUTTONS, Warranted superior to any imported of equal price. Country Store-keepers supplied either in small or large quantities, By S. POST & Co. N.B. Conkhel Buttons, Buckles, &c. Oct. 17.
GEOGRAPHY.
Mathew Carey.
Respectfully submits to the Citizens of the United States, the following PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, An AMERICAN EDITION of Guthrie's Geography IMPROVED.
I. It shall be published in 48 weekly numbers, each containing three sheets, or twenty four pages, of letter press, in quarto, printed with new types on fine paper. II. In the course of the work will be delivered about thirty large maps, of the same size as those in the European editions viz. most of them sheet maps on post paper. III. The price of each number will be a quarter dollar, to be paid on delivery. IV. The work will be put to press as soon as 700 copies are subscribed for. V. Subscribers who disapprove of the work, on the publication of the three first numbers, are to be at liberty to return them, and shall have their money repaid. VI. The subscribers' names shall be prefixed as patrons of the undertaking.
Perhaps there is no science more entertaining and useful than geography. It reveals the discoveries of travellers—the remarkable curiosities of all countries, in nature and art—the situation of provinces, cities, towns, villages, rivers, and mountains—in fine, the history, manners, customs, laws, forces, revenues, and government of different nations.
It is an old observation, that "there is not a son or daughter of Adam, but has some concern with geography," and that a knowledge of this science is indispensable towards the study of history with advantage or satisfaction. Indeed a man unacquainted with it, cannot discourse on the most common newspaper topic of the day without betraying his ignorance.
So much for geography generally. With respect to the present plan, let it suffice to remark, that Guthrie's Geography has been long acknowledged to be the best in the English language; however, the account of America in it has, from obvious reasons, been very erroneous and defective. The errors of former editions will be corrected, and the defects supplied; by gentlemen of abilities, who have engaged to superintend this undertaking, and to avail themselves of all the information that can be procured, to render it the most complete edition extant.
The Printer earnestly solicits the support of his fellow citizens throughout the United States: and as no deposit is required, and every subscriber will be at liberty to withdraw his name, if, on trial, he should disapprove of the work, he hopes the friends of science, and of American arts and manufactures, will cheerfully and early patronize this useful work, the greatest and most expensive, probably, ever yet attempted in America, in the typographical line, the Encyclopaedia excepted. Phila. Nov. 9th. 1792.
FOR SALE,
A good MILL SEAT, And an excellent stand for a country store, Situate on Millstone Creek, about seven miles from Hide's Town or Cranberry, on the great road leading from Hide's Town to M'Kean's court-house, in New-Jersey.
THERE are one hundred and sixty-seven acres and an half of good land in the above mentioned tract; a new mill thereon 28 by 40 feet, just built; an excellent stream of water; the mill enjoys a head of water between 6 and 7 feet; has 2 pair of stones, and water sufficient to drive 4 pair; about 25 acres of excellent meadow, and about 20 acres more to be made with great convenience; two good frame dwelling houses thereon, built about 4 years since, with kitchens to both; a barn and stables; excellent water close to the door, and including about 25 acres of excellent wood land. For terms apply to Joseph Farnese on the premises, or at M c Kean and Van Emburgh's store on their wharf immediately next below Arch-street, to ROBERT M c KEAN:
Who has for Sale,
Five Grants of Land in Franklin county, in the state of Georgia, of 1000 acres each; Situate on Broad River, and taken up 28th June last. One grant in the same county and state, of one thousand acres, dated 25th May, 1790. One of two hundred and eighty-seven acres and an half, in the same county and state, dated 23rd April, 1789, and on Trail Creek; and one grant of two hundred and eighty-seven acres and an half, in the same county and state, on the Oconee River. Philad. Oct. 31.
Three handsome Editions of the Laws of the United States for sale at this office (No. 209 Market Street) in folio and octavo, either full or half bound—N.B. The Laws of the last Session, in octavo only, may be had separate, price three eighths of a dollar.
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