Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-09-10 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 39, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1791.
[Whole No. 247.]
AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
The following plan for establishing and promoting Manufactures upon an extensive and competent scale, has received the approbation of many of the citizens of the United States, as well as several respectable foreigners. Subscriptions to a very considerable amount, as mentioned in a former paper, have already been made—Preparations of various kinds are in hand to carry the design into effect, so that there is every reason to indulge the most pleasing expectations from a spirited prosecution of the undertaking.
THE establishment of Manufactures in the United States, when maturely considered, will be found to be of the highest importance to their prosperity. It seems an almost self-evident proposition, that communities which can most completely supply their own wants, are in a state of the highest political perfection. And both Theory and Experience conspire to prove that a nation (unless from a very peculiar coincidence of circumstances) cannot possess much active wealth but as the result of extensive manufactures.
While also it is manifest, that the interest of the community is deeply concerned in the progress of this species of industry, there is as little room to doubt that the interest of individuals may equally be promoted by the pursuit of it. What is there to hinder the profitable prosecution of manufactures in this country—when it is notorious, that independent of impositions for the benefit of the revenue and for the encouragement of domestic enterprise—the natural commercial charges of the greatest part of those which are brought from Europe, amount to from fifteen to thirty per cent.—and when it is equally notorious that provisions and various kinds of raw materials are even cheaper here than in the Country from which our principal supplies come?
The dearness of labour, and the want of Capital, are the two great objections to the success of manufactures in the United States. The first objection ceases to be formidable, when it is recollected how prodigiously the proportion of manual labor in a variety of manufactures has been decreased by the late improvements in the construction and application of machines—and when it is also considered to what an extent women, and even children in the populous parts of the country may be rendered auxiliary to undertakings of this nature. It is also to be taken into calculation, that emigrants may be engaged on reasonable terms in countries where labor is cheap, and brought over to the United States.
The last objection disappears in the eye of those who are aware how much may be done by a proper application of the public Debt.—Here is the resource which has been hitherto wanted. And while a direction of it to this object may be made a mean of public prosperity, and an instrument of profit to adventurers in the enterprise, it, at the same time affords a prospect of an enhancement of the value of the debt, by giving it a new and additional employment and utility.
It is evident that various fabrics, under every supposed disadvantage are in a very promising train. And that the success has not been still more considerable may be traced to very obvious causes.
Scarcely any has been undertaken upon a scale sufficiently extensive, or with a due degree of system. To ensure success—it is desirable to be able to enter into competition with foreign fabrics in three particulars—quality, price, term of credit. To the first, workmen of equal skill is an essential ingredient. The means employed have not generally been adequate to the purpose of procuring them from abroad, and those who have been procurable at home, have for the most part been of an inferior class. To cheapness of price, a capital equal to the purpose of making all necessary advances, and procuring materials on the best terms, is an indispensable requisite—and to the giving of credit, a capital capable of affording a surplus beyond what is required for carrying on the business is not less indispensable. But most undertakings hitherto have been bottomed on very slender resources.
To remedy this defect, an association of the capitals of a number of individuals is an obvious expedient—and the species of capital which consists of the public Stock is susceptible of dispositions which will render it adequate to the end. There is good reason to expect that as far as shall be found necessary money on reasonable terms may be procured abroad upon an hypothecation of the stock. It is presumable that public Banks would not refuse their aid in the same way to a solid institution of so great public utility. The pecuniary aid even of government, though not to be counted upon ought not wholly to be despaired of. And when the Stock shall have attained its due value so that no loss will attend the sale, all such aids may be dispensed with. The Stock may then be turned into specie without disadvantage whenever specie is called for.
But it is easy to see that upon a good Capital in Stock, an effective credit may be raised in various ways which will answer every purpose of specie; independent of the direct expedient of borrowing.
To effect the desired association, an incorporation of the Adventurers must be contemplated as a mean necessary to their security. This can doubtless be obtained. There is scarcely a State which could be insensible to the advantage of being the scene of such an undertaking. But there are reasons which strongly recommend the State of New-Jersey for the purpose. It is thickly populated—provisions are there abundant and cheap. The State having scarcely any external commerce, and no waste lands to be peopled, can feel the impulse of no supposed interest hostile to the advancement of manufactures. Its situation seems to insure a constant friendly disposition.
The great and preliminary desideratum, then, is to form a sufficient Capital. This, it is conceived, ought not to be less than five hundred thousand dollars.—Towards forming this Capital, subscriptions ought immediately to be set on foot, upon this condition that no subscriber shall be bound to pay until an act of Incorporation shall have been obtained—for which, application may be made as soon as the sums subscribed shall amount to one hundred thousand dollars.
As soon as it is evident that a proper Capital can be formed, means ought to be taken to procure from Europe skilful workmen, and such machines and implements as cannot be had here in sufficient perfection. To this the existing crisis of the affairs of certain parts of Europe appears to be particularly favorable. It will not be necessary that all the requisite workmen should be brought from thence.—One in the nature of a foreman for each branch may in some branches suffice. In others it may be requisite to go further, and have one for each subdivision. But numbers of workmen of secondary merit may be found in the United States; and others may be quickly formed.
It is conceived that there would be a moral certainty of success in manufactures of the following articles:
1st. Paper and Pasteboard.
2d. Paper Hangings.
3d. Sail Cloth, and other coarse linen Cloths, such as Sheetings, Shirtings, Diaper, Osnaburghs, &c.
4th. The printing of Cottons and Linens; and as incident to this, but on a smaller scale, the manufacturing of the article to be printed.
5th. Womens Shoes of all kinds.
6th. Thread, Cotton and Worsted Stockings.
7th. Pottery and Earthen Ware.
8th. Chip Hats.
9th. Ribbands and Tapes.
10th. Carpets.
11th. Blankets.
12th. Brass and Iron Wire.
13th. Thread and Fringes.
It will be unnecessary to enter into the details of the execution further than to observe, that the employment of the labor-saving mills and machines is particularly contemplated.
In addition to the foregoing, a Brewery, for the supply of the manufacturers as a primary object, may be thought of.
When application shall be made for an Act of Incorporation, it ought to include a request that provision may be made for incorporating the Inhabitants of the district within a certain defined limit, which shall be chosen by the Company, as the principal seat of their factories; and a further request that the Company may have permission to institute a Lottery or Lotteries in each year, for the term of five years, for a sum or sums, not exceeding in one year 100,000 dollars. The State of New-Jersey, if duly sensible of its interest in the measure, will not refuse encouragements of this nature.
An incorporation of this sort, will be of great importance to the police of the establishment. It may also be found eligible to vest a part of the funds of the Company in the purchase of ground on which to erect necessary buildings, &c. A part of this ground divided into town lots, may be afterwards a source of profit to the Company.
The Lottery will answer two purposes. It will give a temporary command of money, and the profit arising from it, will go towards indemnifying for first unproductive efforts.
The following scheme for the organisation of the Company, will probably be an eligible one:
1. The capital of the Company, as before remarked, to consist of 500,000 dollars, to be divided into 5000 shares, each share being 100 dollars.
2. Any person, co-partnership or body politic, may subscribe for as many shares as he, she, or they may think fit. The sums subscribed to be payable, one half in the funded six per cent. stock, or in three per cent. stock, at two dollars for one, and the other half in deferred stock. The payments to be in four equal parts. The first at the time of incorporation, the second in six months after, the third in six months after the second, and the fourth in six months after the third. Those who prefer paying in specie, to be permitted to do so, computing the value of the stock at par, and the deferred according to its present value at the time of payment, discounting the interest thereupon during the suspension of the payment, at the rate of six per centum per annum.
3. The affairs of the Company to be under the management of thirteen Directors, to be chosen annually on the first Monday of October in each year, by a plurality of suffrages of the Stockholders. The Directors by plurality of voices, to choose from among themselves a Governor and Deputy Governor.
4. The number of votes to which each Stockholder shall be entitled, shall be in proportion to the number of shares he shall hold, that is to say, one vote for each share. But neither the United States, nor any State which may become a subscriber shall be entitled to more than one hundred votes. The United States, or any State, nevertheless, which may subscribe for not less than one hundred shares, may appoint a Commissioner, who shall have a right at all times to inspect the proceedings of the Company, and the state of its affairs, but without any authority to controul. Every subscriber may vote by attorney duly constituted.
5. There shall be a stated meeting of the Directors on every first Monday of January, April, July and October, at the place which is the principal seat of the Manufactory. But the Governor for the time being, or any three Directors may by writing under his or their hands, directed to the other Directors, and left at their respective places of abode, at least fourteen days prior to the day for meeting, or by advertisement in one public Gazette printed in the State where the Corporation shall be established, and in another public Gazette, printed in the city of Philadelphia, and in another public Gazette, printed into the city of New-York, for the space of thirty days prior to the time of meeting, convene a special meeting of the Directors for the purpose of transacting business of the Company.
6. No Director shall receive any emolument, unless the same shall have been allowed by the Stockholders, at a general meeting. But the Directors may appoint such officers, and with such compensations as they shall think fit.
7. Not less than seven Directors, if the Governor or Deputy Governor be not one, shall constitute a board for the transaction of business. But if the Governor or Deputy Governor be one, five shall suffice. In case it should at any time happen that there are two separate meetings of five or more Directors each, but both less than a majority of the whole, one having the Governor, and the other the Deputy Governor, that at which the Governor shall be present, shall be the legal one.
8. The Directors to have power to make all bye-laws, rules and regulations requisite for conducting the affairs of the Company.
9. At every annual meeting of the Stockholders for the purpose of choosing Directors, the Directors shall lay before them a general state of the affairs of the Company, exhibiting the amount of its Stock, Debts, and Credits, the different kinds of Manufactures carried on, the number of persons employed in each, and their respective compensations, together with an account of profit and loss.
10. The persons, not exceeding five in number, who at any general meeting shall have, next after the Directors chosen, the highest number of votes for Directors, shall by force thereof be a Committee of Inspection, and shall have a right of access to all the books of the Company, and of examination into all its affairs, and shall at each succeeding meeting report all such authentic facts as shall come to their knowledge to the Stockholders, for their information. The Stockholders may also, if they think fit, at any general meeting appoint by plurality of suffrages, any five of their number for the purpose of making such enquiries and investigations as they may think necessary.
11. The Stockholders at a general meeting may annul or alter
any of the regulations established by the Directors, and make such others as they may think necessary.
12. Any Board of Directors, or either of the Committees above-mentioned, may at any time call a general meeting of the Stockholders, giving thirty days previous notice thereof in three Gazettes, one published in the State in which the Factory shall be established, another in the city of Philadelphia, and another in the city of New-York.
13. Every Cashier or Treasurer of the Corporation, shall before he enters on the duties of his office, give bond with one or more sureties, to the satisfaction of the Directors, for the faithful execution of his duty, in a sum not less than twenty thousand dollars.
14. So much of the capital stock of the Company as may consist of Public Debts, shall be placed on the books of the Treasury of the United States in the name of the Corporation; and every Stockholder shall be entitled to a license under the seal of the Corporation to inspect the account of the said stock at his pleasure, as far as may comport with the rules of the Treasury. This however shall not prevent the investment of the said debt in stock of the Bank of the United States, reserving to each Stockholder the like right of inspection in relation to the stock of the Company to be invested.
15. There shall be a yearly dividend of the profits of the Company for the first five years, and after that period a half yearly dividend.
16. The stock of the Corporation shall be assignable and transferable according to such rules as shall be instituted in that behalf, by its laws and ordinances.
17. The Corporation shall be at liberty to make and vend all such articles as shall not be prohibited by law: Provided that it shall only trade in such articles as itself shall manufacture, in whole or in part, or in such as shall be received in payment or exchange therefor.
18. It shall be understood, that a majority of the Stockholders may at any time dissolve the Corporation; but this shall be only done at a General Meeting which shall have been specially summoned for the purpose with public notice of the intent. And upon such dissolution, the directors for the time being, shall be ipso facto, trustees for settling all the affairs of the Corporation, disposing of its effects, paying its debts, and dividing the surplus among the Stockholders, in proportion to their respective interests in the stock; unless other persons as trustees shall have been previously appointed by the Stockholders at a general meeting.
19. The stock and other property of the Corporation, to be exempt from taxes.
THE management of the affairs of this Company, will require that an agent should be appointed to superintend all the different works, and the disposition of the articles manufactured, in conformity to the general regulations of the Directors. This Agent ought to have such a compensation as will command the services of a man every way competent and trust worthy. Such a man may doubtless be found.—It is not a necessary that he should be a technical man in any of the branches of manufacture; but a man of information, thoroughly a man of business, of probity and diligence, and energy.
WE THE SUBSCRIBERS, for ourselves respectively, and not one for the other, and for our respective heirs, executors and administrators, do severally covenant, promise and agree to and with each other, and with the heirs, executors and administrators of each other, That we will respectively contribute and pay in the manner, and at the times specified in the plan hereunto annexed, the respective sums against our respective names hereunder set, for the purpose of establishing a Company for carrying on the business of Manufactures, in one of the States of New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania (giving a preference to New-Jersey, if an incorporation can be obtained from the said State on advantageous terms) according to the general principles of the plan aforesaid, but subject to such alterations as shall be agreed upon at any time previous to the obtaining an Act of Incorporation, either in the principles or details thereof, by the major part of us, whose names are hereunto subscribed, or in the details thereof only, as shall be thought fit by the major part of the persons hereinafter named. And we do hereby jointly and severally constitute and appoint Elias Boudinot, Nicholas Low, William Constable, William Duer, Philip Livingston, Blair M'Clueachan, Matthew M'Connell, and Herman Le Roy, our and each of our Attorneys; who, or the major part of them, or the major part of the survivors of them, are hereby empowered, as soon as the sum of one hundred thousand dollars shall be subscribed hereto, to make application on our behalf to either of the States aforesaid (giving such preference as aforesaid to the State of New-Jersey) for an Act or Acts of Incorporation, according to the principles of the plan aforesaid, with such alterations in the details thereof as shall appear to them eligible, or with such alterations whatsoever, as shall be previously agreed upon by us: And further, to take such measures at our joint expence, as shall appear to them necessary and proper for engaging workmen in the several branches of manufacture mentioned in the said plan.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, We have hereunto subscribed and set our hands and seals, the _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
EXTRACTS, From a Publication in the STATE GAZETTE of NORTH-CAROLINA.
Messrs. HODGE & WILLS.
AMONGST the great number of crimes which civilized and trading nations have made penal and punished with death, there is no one they have attacked with a more irremitting vengeance than FORGERY; regardless of which, a stranger would be induced to think it a genteel accomplishment; and no wonder he should do so, as the young men of the pen in North-Carolina, take a delight in manifesting their genius in the execution of this dangerous practice, committing it publicly with greater dexterity and adroitness than in any other country whatever. It is a fact, and much to be lamented, that on your going in-

to the stores of the merchants of this state, into the public-offices, and even in the houses of the legislature amongst the clerks, on every piece of blotted paper, you may observe an imitation of the hands and signatures of all the gentlemen entrusted with public business, of every gentleman of eminence, of the public officers, and more especially, of the signers of the paper money, other paper securities, and certificates."
"I am an old man, and no Timon , and who in the round of his life, am known to take as much pleasure in the advancement of youth as any person, do declare. I often tremble in observing poor boys very skilful in the use of the pen, without any expectations from parents, friends or property, deeply engaged in this baneful science, making without any intention or knowledge, huge strides to the gallows or the Devil. I will add the observation of an experienced and sensible merchant, who gave it to me whilst writing—"That it is as necessary in credit, that the hand writings of men should be as different as their faces, and that a man, who can write every man's hand, was as dangerous in society, as he who could put on every man's face; that such a person perchance might be honest, but never could be trusted: And that if a young man in a counting-house in Europe, should be caught trying his hand in such business, he would be dismissed, as soon as for the commission of any offence; as no merchant would conceive himself safe with such an adept in the transactions of business, where his honor or credit depended." It would give me great satisfaction if any person of more leisure than I can spare, and greater abilities than I possess, would enlarge on this subject, and be the happy means of deterring our idle youth, who generally have no great stock of religion or morality, from this very useless, dangerous and scandalous practice."
HERACLITUS.
L O N D O N, July 5.
THE Queen of France is certainly by this time closely immured in a convent:—she wept abundantly when she was told by the national commissioners, that it was their painful duty to separate her from the King and dauphin.
The flight of the French king has had this good effect upon the patriots, that it has united those who had before some little differences. When M. de la Fayette was first suspected of being concerned in the escape, M. Barnave, his opponent in the assembly, rose and said, that he would answer for the integrity of M. de la Fayette.
The dauphin of France, who on the 27th of March last attained his sixth year, is a boy of the most promising abilities. His manners and disposition are of so conciliating a nature, as to render him universally beloved.
Monsieur and the Compte d'Artois, will immediately be attainted.
The Queen is to be brought to trial for high treason, and all the world trembles for her destiny, which appears inevitable.
Two of the guards had their throats cut, previous to the French king's escape.
The late agitations in France will necessarily occasion a change in the French affairs, all over Europe. There will be no knowing how to estimate their form of government, or acknowledge the ministers sent to other countries by it.
The king and queen are separately confined and guarded—they met in the chapel royal on Sunday, when the queen fainted at the sight of her children.
Monsieur, the king's brother, and Madame, are arrived at Brussels, where a congress, it is said, will be held to settle a regency for France. Bouille has escaped to Luxembourg.
The royal flight has stopped the general election in France, which will not now take place till order is somewhat restored, and some permanent form of government adopted.
From passengers arrived in Dublin from Bourdeaux, there is intelligence, that the wheat harvest, from the seasonable rains that fell last month in the southern provinces of France, is uncommonly abundant; and the vines, now all in blossom, promise an excellent and abundant vintage: they say also, that the West-India trade at Bourdeaux, was entirely revived from the inactive state which it had been for some thrown into by the commotions that prevailed in the French islands.
It is said the Prince of Wales won upwards of 50,000l. on Tuesday's race at Ascot. The bets depending were more considerable than ever were known at any race—a million of money having, it is said, been sported on this occasion.
Jens Gron, a Norwegian by birth, captain of a vessel named the Emanuel, discovered, on the 31st of May last, a shoal, between the Isle of Anholt and Valsbourg, in Sweden. As this shoal is not laid down in the chart of the Categat, published last year by Professor Lons, the Danish Admiralty have dispatched two yachts, with experienced officers, to examine it minutely, for the future safety of navigators.
The irruption lately made into France, by the Spaniards, was not as has been suggested, the consequence of any dispute among the borderers: but the result of a premeditated plan for invading that kingdom, on all sides, as soon as the Monarch should have effected his escape. The re-capture of his Majesty, having rendered the whole design abortive, the Spanish troops are again retired, and the war suspended till another time.
A certain Republican Writer (Mr. Paine) when he says that hereditary governments are now verging to their decline, is contradicted in one instance at this moment. Poland, from the sad experience of an elective monarchy, by which it has been so long a prey to its own internal feuds, has at this time determined, the crown shall descend in hereditary succession; a change that will in great probability raise that country to its natural degree of elevation and importance among the surrounding states; by whose meddling interference she had declined to the lowest degree of political insignificance. That a country of such extent and fertility should have been reduced so long to submit to the intriguing management of ambitious neighbours, must be owing to some defect in the constitution of its government, by which the powers of an habit naturally robust, could not make those exertions for which it was in possession of very sufficient resources, could they have been brought into action.
The Rev. Dr. Coke, the principal successor to the late Mr. John Wesley, has arrived in the William Penn, from Pennsylvania, and immediately enters into the functions appointed by his predecessor.
A member of one of the democratic clubs in Paris proposed—"That the King of the French should be deprived of all wine for a month, as the greatest punishment he could experience."
According to letters from Brussels, a discovery is said to have been made of a conspiracy to seize the Prince of Conde, and carry him a prisoner to the National Assembly at Paris.
The King of Sweden is a personal sufferer by the French Revolution. The National Assembly grant no subsidies to Monarchs, because they do not want their assistance in making conquests, and to the defence of France the inhabitants are very competent themselves.
The magnanimity displayed by the Queen of France, in her late trying situation, has been spoken of even in Paris, with much respect.—Knowing, as every child may now a days know, how easy the transition is from one extreme to another, we should not wonder if her Majesty were to become popular.
The revolution of Poland is to be annually celebrated in a church which is to be erected hereafter, and consecrated to Divine Providence, on the 3d of May.
The King, the Nobles, and the Members of the Diet of Poland, ascribe their revolution solely to the interposition of Providence; and the first of their resolves is to build a temple to the Almighty, in which they may annually commemorate this glorious event.
The French Legislature ascribe their revolution to a word which they themselves do not seem to understand (Philosophy) and shut up or pull down the temples which the piety of their ancestors had built.
The French revolution is a loss to the Pope of about two millions of livres per annum, by the suppression of first fruits to the holy see.
The removal of the remains of Voltaire was attended by all the sorters and carriers of the general and penny post-office; in short, all the men of letters in Paris attended.
Number of the principal Public and State Officers, in the course of the present reign.
 8 Lord Chamberlains  51 Lords of the Bed chamber  8 Masters of the Horse  9 Lord Chancellors  10 Lord Presidents  17 Lord Privy Seals  11 Chief Justices in Eyre  14 Attorneys General  16 Solicitors General  10 First Lords of the Treasury  11 Chancellors of the Exchequer  31 Secretaries of State  12 Paymasters of the Forces  18 Postmasters General  9 Secretaries at War  13 First Lords of the Admiralty  9 Treasurers of the Navy  7 Masters of Ordnance  17 Lord Lieutenants of Ireland  9 Chief and Puisne Judges of the King's Bench  11 Chief and Puisnes of the Common Pleas  11 Barons of the Exchequer  115 Ambassadors and Plenipo's to foreign parts  6 Archbishops, and  92 Bishops. 
Notwithstanding the love letters sent by the American Congress to the National Assembly, England seems to possess their best affections, by their constantly addressing their commercial epistles and ships to their ports.
It seems to announce not merely treachery and falsehood, but absolute incapacity on the part of Louis XVI. to imagine that such miserable reasons as appear in his Declaration, would either be admitted by an enlightened Assembly, or credited by the People. Retire, and dwell in the secure fortress of Montmedy, in order to be ready to head his troops against the rebel Insurgents! Surely this is the drivel of idiocy. Did he not know, that the very distance forfeited his Crown!
By the paucity of expression in the Declaration of the Queen, she seems to have disdained the task she was compelled to perform. All her care seems to be, to exonerate her domestics from the danger of being privy to the design, and thus her magnanimity is uniform, and her praise complete.
Czarsko Zelo, where the Empress of Russia lately received Mr. Fawkener, is a favorite pleasure house, and though a private retreat, is often devoted to plenipotentiary business.
Prince Potemkin, on the 4th of June, gave a grand entertainment to the English Ministers, and families of distinction, resident at Petersburg, in honor of the birth day of his Britannic Majesty.
Not long since Lady Auckland was delivered of a son at the Hague; and, what is not a little singular, her Ladyship can now produce six children, born in as many different kingdoms.
Notwithstanding the rejection of Mr. Fox's Bill declaratory of the powers of a jury with respect to a verdict in cases of Libel, yet we think, hereafter no Judge will venture to press the unconstitutional doctrine which has for a number of years obtained, that Juries are not competent to decide on the point of Law as well as Fact; nor is it likely any Jury will consent to be bullied into a verdict in which a fellow citizen is found guilty of publishing a false and malicious Libel, unless the facts stated in the indictment are clearly and satisfactorily proved, after the sound and legal opinion delivered by Earl Camden in the House of Lords on Wednesday, who declared, that "as the law now stood if twenty-four Judges were to give a decided opinion, and charge, upon any point of law in issue before a Jury, that Jury had a right, if they thought proper, to bring in a verdict directly contrary to the opinions of those Judges, and that verdict would stand good against all power that could be brought against it, for such verdict would be founded on the Law of the Land."
In illustration of the above, we have inserted the following: The first action for a Libel, since the introduction of Mr. Fox's explanatory Bill, was tried on Wednesday before Lord Loughborough, in the Court of Common Pleas, wherein a tea dealer was plaintiff, and an Agent of a Revenue Officer defendant; the damages were laid at 2,000l. The learned Judge, in summing up, stated, "that it was his duty to point out the circumstances of the case, but now it was their Privilege to determine upon the whole of the evidence, as their understanding might direct them, without being influenced in the smallest degree by him." The defendant justified; but failing in complete proof of his allegations, the Jury, after retiring a few minutes, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff, with 10l. damages. Thus under the direction of a Chief Justice, we have the instance of the rights of a Jury to exercise their opinion of the Law as well as the Fact.
Died on the 4th of July, at his house in Hart-street, Bloomsbury-square, in his 82d year, the Hon. W. Bull, a native of South-Carolina, and many years his Majesty's Lieutenant-Governor and Commander in Chief of the said province, which he left with the British troops in 1782, and has since resided in Great-Britain.
ANECDOLE.
At a ball and supper lately given at Berlin by Madame Reitz, an old favorite of the King's, the Turkish Ambassador was present; the Lady having pressed this disciple of Mahomet to drink a glass of Champaign with her, he at length consented, but not until he had a napkin thrown over his face to conceal this trespass on his religious tenets. This, he observed, would prevent the Prophet from being a witness of his sins.
The NAPKIN of the Turkish Ambassador at the Prussian feast, on being obliged to taste the horrid Bacchanalian beverage, was merely the second edition of Dignum's exclamation in the Sultan—"Mahomet, shut your eyes!"
B E R L I N, June 14.
The evening before yesterday, a courier arrived here from Petersburg with dispatches of a pacific nature; in consequence of which messengers were sent to Pomerania and Prussia to order some of the regiments to enter their quarters again.

PARIS, June 30.
The National Assembly of France have decreed as follows: Every person condemned to die shall be beheaded.—Those condemned to the punishment of the chain shall be employed at hard labour, for the benefit of the state, either in the inside of the prison, in the ports and arsenals, or in drying up the marshes. Those condemned to the punishment of the chain, shall carry at one of their feet a ball fixed to a chain. The punishment of the chain shall not be perpetual.
NEW BERN (N. C.) August 20.
Died, on Friday the 12th instant, Col. GEORGE MITCHELL, of Onslow county. The particulars of the tragical manner in which this gentleman came to his untimely end, have been related to us in the following manner.
Col. Mitchell and Robert W. Snead, Esq. were competitors for the honor of representing the county of Onslow, in the Senate of this state—The exertions of the candidates and of their friends had been productive of much ill will and animosity, before the close of the poll, when Mr. Snead was declared duly elected.
After the election was closed, Mr. Snead was observed to call Col. Mitchell from amongst the people assembled at the Court-house, and to go with him into a thicket just by. Shortly after, the report of a pistol reached the ears of those who were at the Court-house, and attracted them to the spot from whence it issued; where, in the presence of Mr. Snead only, lay Col. Mitchell a corpse. Two fresh wounds were discovered on him; one from a pistol shot, passing through from his shoulder out below his ribs; the other on the skull, apparently from a heavy blow with the butt of the pistol. Mr. Snead was thereupon apprehended, but has been since admitted to bail.
Col. Mitchell bore an unblemished character—was very active during the war, and had for many years the honor of representing his county in the General Assembly. He has left a widow and eight children.
PITTSBURGH, August 27.
On Tuesday last, the rear division of troops at this place, amounting to two hundred and sixty men, embarked under the command of Captain Phelon, and immediately proceeded down the river for Head-Quarters—the fleet composed of 12 boats, and rowed with two sets of oars, moved with celerity, and preserving equal given distances, made a handsome appearance.
General Butler and Col. Hodgdon, the Quartermaster-General, follow the troops this day.
The guards in this town are now mounted from a detachment of militia lying on the opposite Allegheny shore.
We hear that a company of the second U. S. regiment, under the command of Capt. Newman, is expected in town to-morrow.
We are informed by a person immediately from Fort Washington, that the party of men from Kentucky, under the command of Col. Harrison, had returned from their expedition against the Indians living on the Scioto; the particulars of which he is not informed of, but understood they had been successful.
We are further informed, that another party started on the return of Col. Harrison.
STOCKBRIDGE, August 30.
It is with the most painful sensations that we announce to the public the unfortunate death of Brigadier-General MOSES ASHLEY, of this town, who was drowned at the Dam of his forge in Lee on Thursday last.
NEW-YORK, September 3.
Extract of a letter from Niagara, dated the 2d of August, to a gentleman on the Mohawk river.
“We have some reason to hope that Col. Simcoe, our proposed Governor, may come to this country by the way of your sea-ports, authorised to settle with Congress the doubtful line of division—which must be a pleasant thing to both countries. Capt. Joseph Brant, after having attended for some time the councils of the Western Indians at the Miami river, set off a few days ago for Quebec, attended with several of the Chiefs from that quarter; as they avowedly go to ask Lord Dorchester’s advice, and as we well know his and government’s strong desire for peace, we would gladly hope that it may be the means of bringing on an accommodation—much will depend on the moderation of your side—you have strength and power, I doubt not, to drive them to the last extremities—but when you consider, that most assuredly their next resource will be to accept the strong offers and pressing instances of the Spaniards, to settle on their side, and that the only motive for these offers is to form a barrier between you and them, which by restraining your frontier settlement, will keep you at a distance from them, of which they are so jealous. When you consider the present animosity of the Indians, aggravated by the loss of their lands, and every thing dear to them, policy and humanity will perhaps dictate an accommodation on reasonable terms, as preferable to the greatest success which may probably entail a cruel predatory war on the defenceless settlers of your western boundaries for many years.”
terms, as preferable to the greatest success which may probably entail a cruel predatory war on the defenceless settlers of your western boundaries for many years.”
Friday last was executed at Albany, pursuant to his sentence at the late Supreme Court, Whiting Sweeting, in the presence of a vast concourse of people.
MIDDLETON (Con.) September 3. We are informed that his Excellency the Governor of this State has appointed the 2d Tuesday of September inst. for the Freemen to meet and choose a Representative to Congress, in the room of the Hon. ROGER SHERMAN, Esq. appointed a Senator.
Philadelphia, September 10.
We are well assured that the Letter signed by Mr. M’Gillivray, and addressed to the “Hon. General Knox,” which has recently appeared in several of the newspapers, was never received by that officer.
Bills have passed the House of Representatives of this Commonwealth repealing its excise laws, and ratifying the first article of the amendments proposed by Congress to the constitution of the United States.
CARPENTER’S HALL, in Chestnut-Street, is engaged for the Bank of the United States.
Further accounts from Europe by the last arrivals. A placard or advertisement, advising the abolition of monarchy, having been circulated in Paris, occasioned a motion in the National Assembly on the first of July, by M. Malouet, that the Attorney-General should commence a prosecution against the authors. This motion occasioned some debate; the motion was at length over-ruled (as involving an abridgement of the liberty of the press) by calling for the order of the day.
July 2. The President announced the reception of a packet containing 87 letters, seized in the boats coming from the Island of Jersey; they were confined to the inspection of the committee of research.
Various bodies of citizens renewed their oaths to support the constitution this day; among others a deputation from the Hotel des Invalides, also 800 students from the university of Paris with their preceptors at their head; they were complimented by the President.
July 3. Mr. C. Lameth was chosen President. An account was received of the irruption of several bodies of Spanish troops into the frontiers of the kingdom; instant preparation was made to repel the invaders—but they very soon retired; it was said by some to be occasioned solely by a contention between the Basques and Spaniards relative to the exportation of some timber; other accounts say that they retreated in consequence of hearing that the King had been arrested in his flight. M. Bouilles’ letter which had been considered as a fabrication, turns out to be genuine; the Assembly were informed that it was printed by his order and circulating in the departments.
M. LA FAYETTE’S ADDRESS. The President announced, that the Commandant-General had a letter to communicate some matter to the Assembly. M. La Fayette—“I have received from Luxembourg, under cover, from M. de Bouille, two printed copies of his letter to the National Assembly. If the projects he therein announces should be realized, it will assuredly better become me to combat himself than to reply to his personalities. It is not therefore for the sake of Bouille, who calumniates my conduct, nor for your sake, Sirs, who honor me by your confidence, but for the sake of such as his assertions may deceive, that I am eager to disprove his calumnies. He denounces me herein an enemy to the form of Government you have established: Messieurs, I do not renew the oath I have taken, but I am ready to shed my blood to maintain it.”
The delivery of these sentiments was attended by much applause. English papers say, that the Compte de Mirai has publicly declared at Liege that “the Emperor would never give the least assistance to the King and Queen, so long as they remained in Paris, or even in France.” Doubtless all the other sovereigns will regulate their conduct by that of the Emperor.
Peace was concluded between the Municipalities, of Avignon and Carpentras the 14th June; through the mediation of the King’s Commissioners.
With respect to the negotiations between Great-Britain and Russia, nothing decisive appears in the accounts to the 9th July. The messengers according to the paragraphists, are driving from Court to Court with the lame celerity as they were in January last.
EXTRACTS.
The distinguishing characteristics of men of great talents, have ever been rather great beauties than an exemption from faults; the works of Shakespeare abound with defects that writers of a mediocrity of talents never could have been guilty of.
The man who has never attempted to reduce his own ideas to writing, seldom observes facts or circumstances with that degree of accuracy that is necessary for utility.
One great advantage derived from the multiplied periodical publications now extant, is, that a deviation from the laws of liberality on disputed subjects is very generally reprobated; in those countries where such periodical performances are rare, the same illiberality and rudeness is found to prevail which formerly disgraced literary controversies.
Alexander the Great, when he conquered Asia, imposed only the same tribute which they had before paid to Darius.—It being observed to him that he might draw a much larger revenue from that country, he replied, that “he did not approve of that gardener who, after gathering the fruit, cuts down the trees themselves to sell them.” This answer is founded on common sense—and yet there are many instances to be found in history of princes and rulers, who have rather chose to follow the example of the gardener, and stupidly dry up the sources of their incomes by their oppression.
Extract of a letter from Cape-Francois, August 16.
Our lately formed colonial Assembly has adjourned, to meet in this place the 25th instant. It seems by your late accounts that the King and Queen of France have been detected in an attempt to escape out of the Kingdom. I fear that this event will produce much future confusion; tho’ the philanthropist cannot but view with delight every attempt to raise the fair fabric of freedom on the ruins of despotic sway, I think he must be at a loss to decide whether the constitution of the new French government will lead to that valuable end.
Thursday morning died, to the inexpressible grief of his parents, MARCUS C. KNOX, in the 9th year of his age—the second son of Hon. General Knox, Secretary at War—and yesterday his funeral proceeded from his Father’s house, in Chestnut-Street, to St. Peter’s Church, attended by the Professors and Preceptors of the College and Academy of this city, a long procession of the Youth of that seminary, and a numerous train of mourning friends.
THE PARENT’S CONSOLATION. [An Extract from the Massachusetts Magazine.]
MY heart beats sympathy, and melts with tears of condolance.—Can the agony of grief be soothed by the melttings of friendship?—Can the torture of an afflicted mind be assuaged by the sympathetic sob?—I answer, yes—such is the constitution of the human affections.
Your grief is pungent.—Sudden transition!—from blooming health to violent disease.—Quick and unexpected was its attack, and surprizingly rapid its progress.—To-day a lovely blooming boy—to-morrow a cold corpse, enclosed in its shroud.
Your fond imagination might indulge the pleasing thought of seeing the tender bosom expand and ripen to manhood, a blessing to society, and comfort to its friends.—Pleasing delusion!—Death hath nipped it in its bud, and made it to wither and die. But why dwell on the affecting scene? Behold its gentle spirit disengaged from the encumbrance of flesh, wafted by congenial spirits to the paradise of God; hear it welcomed to seats of everlasting bliss and joy.
Call the consolations of religion to your aid—those can mitigate the poignancy of your sorrow, and reach you to submit to a dispensation so grievous—they will calm the ruffled emotions of your breast, produce resignation to the divine will, and lead you to view every event, however adverse, as directed by consummate wisdom, and designed for our moral improvement and advantage.
Animated by these reflections, the gloom of grief will dissipate, and your mind be restored to serenity.
To his Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esquire, Governor of Pennsylvania.
SIR, IT is with much pleasure I inform your Excellency, that the wheat of the late harvest is allowed generally to be of good quality; from which I flatter myself we shall be enabled to continue the reputation of our flour, so as to retain the preference it has usually met in foreign markets;—which I am sure, Sir, would be pleasing to you, and to which, no efforts of mine shall be wanting.
With very great respect, I have the honor to be, Sir, Your obedient and humble servant, JAMES REED.
Statement of the monthly shipments of flour at the port of Philadelphia, from January 1 to June 30, 1791, inclusive:
   B. of fl. B. m.     Jan. 11281 197   Feb. 6703 75   March 25838 714 43822 b. fl. 896 b. m.   April 32793 216   May 30210 1520   June 22245 221 85248 1957   129070 b. fl. 2853 b. m.   JAMES REED, Inspector of Flour.  
From PELOSI’S MARINE LIST. ARRIVALS at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.     Ship Sally, Weeks, Lisbon   Polly, French, Hull   Betsey, ,” Killabegs   Snow Harmony, Pell, Oporto   Brig St. Anna & St. Rocco, Smith, Madeira   Polly, Bruce, Bay of Honduras   Virginia, ,” Marseilles  
PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES.
FUNDED DEBT.     6 pr. Cents 20 5/8 21 1/2 pr. £. 195 pr. cent.   3 pr. Cents 12 1/2 13 1/2 do. 60 do.   Deferred 6 pr. Cents 12 1/2 13 1/2 do. 62 1/2 do.    UNFUNDED DEBT.     Final Sett. and other Certificates 20 5/8 21 1/2 par   Indents 12 1/2 13 1/2 60 do.   N. and S. Carolina debts, 15 1/2 16 1/2   Bank Subscriptions, 140 Dollars.  
At the above prices for deferred and three per cents, we are informed that the Secretary of the Treasury has recently made purchases to a considerable amount of those species of public debt. According to the funding law, the books for receiving Subscriptions to the Loan of the United States are to be continued open till the last of this present month of September.
BY ORDER OF THE MANAGERS. The MANAGERS of the
New-Haven Wharf Lottery,
HAVING sold what Tickets remained on hand, pledge themselves to the public, that the Drawing said Lottery will commence, in the Representatives’ Chamber, in the State-House in New-Haven, on Monday the 12th of, September next, at ten o’clock, A. M.
New-Haven, August 16, 1791.

NEW CONSTITUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF POLAND, &c. &c.
In the name of God, one in the holy Trinity!
STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS, by the grace of God, and the will of the Nation, King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, Russia, Prussia, Muscovia, Samogitia, &c. &c. &c. together with the Confederated States assembled in double number to represent the Polish nation.
PERSUADED that our common fate depends entirely upon establishing and rendering perfect a national constitution, convinced by a long train of experience of many defects in our Government, and willing to profit by the present circumstances of Europe, and by the favorable moment which has restored us to ourselves; free from the disgraceful shackles of foreign influence; prizing more than life, and every personal consideration, the political existence, external independence, and internal liberty of the nation, whose care is entrusted to us; desirous, moreover, to deserve the blessing and gratitude, not only of our cotemporaries, but also of future generations; for the sake of the public good, for securing our liberty, and maintaining our kingdom and our possessions; in order to exert our natural rights with zeal and firmness, we do solemnly establish the present Constitution, which we declare wholly inviolable in every part, till such period as shall be prescribed by law; when the nation, if it should think fit, and deem it necessary, may alter, by its express will, such articles therein as shall be found inadequate. And this present Constitution shall be the standard of all laws and statutes for the future Diets.
ARTICLE I.
The dominant National Religion.
The Holy Roman Catholic Faith, with all its privileges and immunities, shall be the dominant national religion. The changing of it for any other persuasion is forbidden under the penalties of apostasy; but as the same holy religion commands us to love our neighbours, we therefore owe to all people, of whatever persuasion, peace in matters of faith, and the protection of government; consequently we assure, to all persuasions and religions, freedom and liberty according to the laws of the country, and in all dominions of the republic.
ARTICLE II.
Nobility, or the Equestrian Order.
Revering the memory of our ancestors with gratitude, as the first founders of our liberties, it is but just to acknowledge, in a most solemn manner, that all the pre-eminence and prerogatives of liberty, both in public and private life, should be insured to this order; especially laws, statutes, and privileges, granted to this order by Casimir the Great, Lewis of Hungary, Ladislaus Jagellon, and his brother Wittoldus, Grand Duke of Lithuania; also by Ladislaus and Casimirus, both Jagellons; by John Albertus, Alexander, Sigismundus the First, and Sigismundus Augustus (the last of the Jagellonic race) are by the present act renewed, confirmed, and declared to be inviolable. We acknowledge the rank of the noble Equestrian order in Poland, to be equal to all degrees of Nobility—all persons of that order to be equal among themselves, not only in the eligibility to all posts of honor, trust, or emolument, but in the enjoyment of all privileges and prerogatives appertaining to the said order: and in particular, we preserve and guarantee to every individual thereof personal liberty and security of territorial and moveable property as they were formerly enjoyed; nor shall we even suffer the least encroachment on either by the supreme national power (on which the present form of government is established) under any pretext whatsoever, contrary to private rights, either in part, or in the whole; consequently we regard the preservation of personal security and property, as by law ascertained, to be a tie of society, and the very essence of civil liberty, which ought to be considered and respected for ever. It is in this order that we repose the defence of our liberties and the present Constitution: It is to their virtue, valour, honor, and patriotism, we recommend its dignity to venerate, and its stability to defend, as the only bulwark of our liberty and existence.
ARTICLE III.
Towns and Citizens.
The law made by the present Diet, entitled, Our royal free towns within the dominions of the Republic, we mean to consider as a part of the present constitution, and promise to maintain it as a new, additional, true, and effectual support, of our common liberties, and our mutual defence.
ARTICLE IV.
Peasants and Villagers.
This agricultural class of people, the most numerous in the nation, consequently forming the most considerable part of its force, from whose
hands flows the source of our riches, we receive under the protection of national law and Government, from the motives of justice, humanity, christianity, and our own interest well understood; enacting, that whatever liberties, grants, and conventions, between the proprietors and villagers, either individually or collectively, may be allowed in future, and entered authentically into; such agreements, according to their true meaning, shall import mutual and reciprocal obligations, binding not only the present contracting parties, but even their successors by inheritance or acquisition—so far, that it shall not be in the power of either party to alter at pleasure such contracts importing grants on one side, and voluntary promise of duties, labour, or payments, on the other, according to the manner and conditions therein expressed, whether they are to last perpetually, or for a fixed period. Thus having insured to the proprietors every advantage they have a right to from their villagers, and willing to encourage most effectually the population of our country, we publish and proclaim a perfect and entire liberty to all people, either who may be newly coming to settle, or those who, having emigrated, would return to their native country; and we declare most solemnly, that any person coming into Poland from whatever part of the world, or returning from abroad, as soon as he sets his foot on the territory of the Republic, becomes free and at liberty to exercise his industry, wherever, and in whatever manner he pleases, to settle either in towns or villages, to farm and rent lands and houses, on renures and contracts, for as long a term as may be agreed on; with liberty to remain, or to remove, after having fulfilled the obligations he may have voluntarily entered into. (To be continued.)
LOUISIANA.
ALL those persons who have an inclination to settle on the rich lands of the Mississippi, can have a passage to New Orleans about the 20th of October next. Each single man on his arrival there, will have a grant of two hundred and forty acres of land, in fee simple, gratis, without rents or taxes; and each married man, a larger quantity, in proportion to the number of his family. For further particulars, enquire of Messrs. STEWART & NESBITT, No. 15, South Water-Street. Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 1791. [61]
New-Haven Wharf Lottery.
THE Legislature of the State of Connecticut, at their session in December last, granted a Lottery for the purpose of extending Union Wharf, in the harbour of New-Haven, to the channel; and appointed the subscribers managers, who having given bond for the faithful discharge of their trust, present the public with the following
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 10,000 Dollars, is, 10,000. It lists various prize amounts and their frequencies.
5842 Prizes. 11658 Blanks. 17500 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, is 87500. NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
Subject to a deduction of twelve and a half per cent. The public utility of extending this wharf, is too evident to require any comment, to those who are acquainted with the town and harbour of New-Haven; to those who are not, suffice it to say, that its beautiful situation is not surpassed, if equalled by any; being in the heart of a country, which may, with propriety, be said to be the garden of America. The harbour lays open to the sound but by reason of the flats, this wharf is necessarily extended to the channel, where ships can load and unload; and when compleated, will be the most extensive and commodious wharf in America, the whole extent being about 3/4ths of a mile; and not only the mercantile interest of New-Haven and the towns adjacent, but the maritime interest of all the States will be benefited by it. The general with that prevails in the minds of all classes of people, for the success of this enterprize, together with the very great advantage which this scheme holds out to adventurers (there being more capital prizes for the number of tickets than any yet published in America) induce the managers to believe the tickets will meet with a speedy sale.
The drawing will positively commence at the State-House, in New-Haven, on the 20th of September next, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid on demand, by the managers. Those prizes not called for in nine months after drawing, will be deemed as generously given for the use of the wharf, and appropriated accordingly.
MANAGERS: JAMES RICE, MICHAEL TODD, JEREMIAH ATWATER, ELIJAH AUSTIN, JOSEPH DRAKE, JOSEPH HOWELL. New-Haven, April 14, 1791.
PUBLIC SECURITIES, BOUGHT AND SOLD, on COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON, CHESTNUT-STREET, next door to the Bank, No. 97. MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL, AND NEW-HAVEN LOTTERY TICKETS, To be had at the same place.
Blank Powers to receive the Interest, and for the transfer of the principal of public debt, agreeable to the Rules established in the Treasury Department: Also Blanks for abstracts of Certificates, to be sold by the Editor.
BOOKS.
CAREY, STEWART, and Co. No. 22, NORTH-FRONT-STREET, HAVE FOR SALE,
A large collection of BOOKS;
Among which are the following AMERICAN EDITIONS.
LOVELASS on Bills of Exchange. Dallas's Reports. Clerk's Vade Mecum. Kirby's Connecticut Reports. Gilbert's Law of Evidence. Conductor Generalis. New Edinburgh Dispensary. Buchanan's Domestic Medicine, latest edition. Cullen's First Lines of the Practice of Physic. Clark on Diseases of Horses. Rush's Medical Enquiries. Gentleman's Pocket Farrier. Brown's Elements of Medicine. Osterwald's Christian Theology. Jenyn's Internal Evidence of the Christian Religion. Rife and Progress of Religion in the Soul. Beattie's Evidence of Ditto. Necker on Religious Opinions. Think Well On't. Fordyce's Addresses to Young Men. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum. Edwards's History of Redemption. Sermons to Young Women. on the Religious Affections. Poor Man's Help and Young Man's Guide. against Chauncy. Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies. Booth's Apology for the Baptists. Lectures delivered by Soame Jenyns. Downey Translation of the Vulgate Bible. The Christian Remembrancer. Enfield's Family Prayers. Future State Eternal. Methodist Hymns. Russel's Seven Sermons. Watts's Hymns and Psalms. Price's Sermons.
Ramfay's American Revolution. Life of Baron Trenck. History of America. Smith's Wealth of Nations. Morse's Geography. Paley's Moral Philosophy. Siege of Gibraltar. Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History. Shaw's Abridgement of Bruce's Travels. Nicholson's Natural Philosophy. Keate's Account of the Pelew Islands. Junius's Letters.
Pike's Arithmetic. Hale's Affectionate Epistles to his Children. Gough's Arithmetic, altered by Workman. Beauties of Johnson. Clark's Introduction to the making of Latin. of Sterne. Doddsley's Fables. Percival's Father's Instructions. P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon, 1. X. Lady's Advice to her Daughters. Philadelphia Latin Grammar. Emma Corbet. Ruddiman's Rudiments. Accomplished Gentleman. Schoolmaster's Assistant. Ela, or the Delusions of the Heart. Selectae & Veteri Testamento Historiae. Adventures of Maria Cecilia. Scott's Lessons on Elocution. Adventures of Alphonso and Dalinda. Sargeant's Short Hand. Beattie's Poems. Wittenhall's Greek Grammar. Conquest of Canaan. Young Man's Companion. Chesterfield's Principles of Politeness. Catechism of Nature. Economy of Human Life. Hervey's Meditations. Fables for the Ladies. Young's Night Thoughts. Freneau's Poems. Thomson's Seasons. Mackenzie's Lounger. Rudiments of Taste. More's Sacred Dramas. Klopstock's Messiah. Present for an Apprentice. Lavater's Aphorisms.
IMPORTED BOOKS.
Kennet's Roman Antiquities. School Dialogues. Trimmer's Sacred History, 6 vols. Andrews's History of the American War, 4 vols. Nicholson's Navigation. New Annual Register. Alexander's Experimental Enquiries. Vattel's Law of Nations. Walker's Academic Speaker. Experimental Essays. Life of Robinson Crusoe. Huxham on Fevers. Saville's Miscellanies. Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread. School of Wisdom. Edinburgh Pharmacopia. Knox's Sermons, 2 vols. Description of 300 Animals. Burke's Speeches and Political Tracts. Boyle's Voyages. Beauties of the British Senate. The Apocrypha. Davies's Dramatic Miscellanies. Marmontel's Belisarius. Miss Murray's Mentor. Journey through Sweden. Stuart's View of Society. Dupaty's Travels. Richard Steele's Correspondence. Stretch's Beauties of History. Man of the Moon, 2 vols. Allinson's Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste. Dramatic Pieces. Philadelphia, August 6 1791. (w&f3w 12w61)
Public Notice is hereby given.
to all whom these presents shall come, or in any wise concern That JAMES GARDNER, late of Wilmington, North-Carolina deceased, did make four promissory notes payable to SAMUEL JACKSON, of Philadelphia, Merchant, all bearing date the 19th July, 1785, one for three hundred and seventy-one pounds, payable in six months—one for seven hundred and forty two pounds in nine months—one for seven hundred and forty pounds, in twelve months—and one for seven hundred and forty-five pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, in fifteen months, amounting in the whole to two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, and payable in produce at Wilmington:—Which said notes have been assigned by the said Samuel Jackson to THOMAS MACKIE and Co. and JAMES HOOD, Merchants, Philadelphia, and have since, in the lifetime of the said Gardner, by him been accounted for and paid in part to the amount of two thousand and forty-seven pounds fifteen shillings and six-pence, to the said THOMAS MACKIE, and Co. in proof of which the subscribers have sufficient vouchers. These are therefore to caution all persons from purchasing said notes as they will not be taken up.
THOMAS WRIGHT, ROBERT SCOTT, M. R. WILLKINGS, Executors.
Wilmington, North-Carolina. 27th May, 1791. (e p. 3 m.)
PHILADELPHIA, 20th July, 1791.
THE Commissioners appointed to receive Subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, do hereby, agreeable to law, inform the Stockholders of the said Bank, that an election for twenty five Directors will be held at the City-Hall in Philadelphia, on Friday the 21st day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the morning. THOMAS WILLING, DAVID RITTENHOUSE, SAMUEL HOWELL.
The JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.
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