Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-10-26 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. 52, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1791.
[Whole No. 260.]
CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE.
(Concluded.)
SECTION II.
OF THE INTERIOR ADMINISTRATION.
 I. THERE is in each department a superior administration, and in each district a subordinate administration.  II. The administrators have no character of representation;  III. They can assume no authority over judicial proceedings, or over military dispositions and operations.  IV. It belongs to the legislative power to determine the extent and the rules of their functions.  V. The King has the right of annulling such acts of the administrators of department, as are contrary to the law, or the orders transmitted to them. He may, in case of obstinate disobedience, or of their endangering by their acts, the safety or peace of the public, suspend them from their functions.  VI. The administrators of department have also the right of annulling the acts of sub-administrators of district, contrary to the laws or decrees of the administrators of department, or to the orders which the latter shall have given or transmitted. They may likewise in case of an obstinate disobedience on the part of the sub-administrators, or if the latter endanger, by their acts, the public safety or tranquility, suspend them from their functions, with the reserve of informing the King, who may remove or confirm the suspension.  VII. The King, if the administrators of department shall not use the power which is delegated to them in the article above, may directly annul the acts of sub-administrators, and suspend them in the same cases.  VIII. Whenever the King shall pronounce or confirm the suspension of administrators, or sub-administrators, he shall inform the legislative body.  This body may either remove or confirm the suspension, or even dissolve the culpable administration; and if there is good ground, remit all the administrators, or some of them to the criminal tribunals, or enforce against them the decree of accusation. 
SECTION III.
OF EXTERIOR CONNECTIONS.
 I. The King alone can interfere in foreign political connections, conduct negotiations, make preparations of war proportioned to those of the neighboring States, distribute the land and sea forces as he shall judge most suitable, and regulate their direction in case of war.  II. Every declaration of war shall be made in these terms:— "By the King of the French in the name of the nation."  III. It belongs to the King to resolve and sign with all foreign powers all treaties of peace, alliance, and commerce, and other conventions, which he shall deem necessary for the welfare of the State, with a reserve for the ratification of the Legislative Body. 
CHAPTER V.
OF THE JUDICIAL POWER.
 I. The Judicial Powers can in no case be exercised either by the Legislative Body or the King.  II. Justice shall be gratuitously rendered by Judges chosen for a time by the people, instituted by letters patent of the King, and who cannot be deposed, except from a forfeiture duly judged, or suspended, except from an accusation admitted.  III. The Tribunals cannot either interfere in the exercise of the Legislative Power, or suspend the execution of the laws, or undertake the administrative functions, or cite before them the administrators on account of their functions.  IV. No citizens can be withdrawn from the Judges whom the law assigns to them by any commission, or by any other attributions or evocations than those which are determined by the laws.  V. The orders issued for executing the judgments of the Tribunals shall be conceived in these terms:— "N. (the name of the King) by the Grace of God, and by the Constitutional Law of the State, King of the French, to all present and to come, Greeting: The Tribunal of — has passed the following judgment." 
[Here shall follow a copy of the Judgment.]
"We charge and enjoin all officers upon the present demand, to put the same judgment into execution, to our Commissioners of the Tribunals to enforce the same, and to all the Commanders and officers of the public force to be assisting with their force, when it shall be legally required; in witness of which the present judgment has been sealed and signed by the President of the Tribunal and by the Register."
 VI. There shall be one or more Justices of Peace in the Cantons and in the Cities. The number shall be determined by the legislative power.  VII. It belongs to the legislative power to regulate the districts of Tribunals, and the number of Judges, of which each Tribunal shall be composed.  VIII. In criminal matters, no citizen can be judged, except on an accusation received by Jurors, or decreed by the Legislative Body, in the cases in which it belongs to it to prosecute the accusation:  After the accusation shall be admitted, the fact shall be examined, and declared by the Jurors:  The Accuser shall have the privilege of rejecting twenty:  The Jurors who declare the fact, shall not be fewer than twelve.  The application of the law shall be made by all the Judges.  The process shall be public:  No man acquitted by a legal Jury, can be apprehended or accused on account of the same fact.    IX. For the whole kingdom there shall be one Tribunal of appeal, established near the legislative body. Its functions shall be to pronounce,  On Appeals from the judgment of the Tribunals:  On Appeals from the Judgment of one Tribunal to another, on lawful cause of suspicion:  On regulations of Judges, and exceptions to a whole Tribunal.    X. The Tribunal of Appeal can never enter into an original examination of a case, but after annulling a judgment in a Process, in which the forms have been violated, or which shall contain an express contravention of law, it shall refer the merits of the case to the Tribunal that ought to take cognizance of them.  XI. When after two Appeals, the Judgment of the third Tribunal shall be questioned in the same way as that of the former two, the case shall not be carried again to the Tribunal of Appeal, without being first submitted to the legislative body, which shall 
pass a Decree declaratory of the Law, to which the Tribunal of Appeal shall be bound to conform.
XII. The Tribunal of Appeal shall be bound to send every year to the Bar of the Legislative Body, a Deputation of eight of its Members, to present a statement of the Judgments given, with an abstract of the case annexed to each, and the text of the law, which was the ground of the declaration.
XIII. A High National Court, composed of Members of the Tribunal of Appeal and High Jurors, shall take cognizance of the crimes of Ministers, and the principal Agents of the Executive Power, and of crimes which attack the general safety of the State, when the legislative body shall pass a Decree of Accusation.
It shall not assemble but on the Proclamation of the Legislative Body.
XIV. The functions of the King's Commissioners in the Tribunals, shall be to require the observance of the laws in the judgments to be given, and to cause them to be executed after they are passed:
They shall not be public accusers; but they shall be heard on all occasions, and shall require, during process, regularity of forms, and before judgment the application of the law.
XV. The King's Commissioners in the Tribunals shall represent to the Director of the Jury, either officially or according to orders given them by the King:
Offences against the individual liberty of citizens, against the free circulation of provisions, and the collection of contributions:
Offences by which the execution of orders given by the King, in the exercise of the functions delegated to him, shall be disturbed or impeded; and opposition to the execution of judgments, and all the executive acts proceeding from established powers.
XVI. The Minister of Justice shall represent to the Tribunal of Appeal, by means of the King's Commissioner, the acts by which the Judges have exceeded their jurisdiction.
The Tribunal shall annul these acts, and if they give ground for forfeiture, the fact shall be represented to the Legislative Body, which shall pass the Decree of Accusation, and refer the parties informed against to the High National Court.
HEAD IV.
OF THE PUBLIC FORCE.
 I. The Public Force is instituted to defend the State against external enemies; and to maintain internal order and the execution of the laws.  II. It is composed of the land and sea force; of the troops especially destined for home service; and, subsidiarily of the active citizens and their children of age to bear arms, registered in the roll of National Guards.  III. The National Guards do not form a military body, or an institution in the State; they are the citizens themselves called to assist the public force.  IV. The citizens can never embody themselves, or act as National Guards, but by virtue of a requisition, or a legal authority:  They are subject in this quality to an organization, to be determined by the law:  They shall be distinguished in the whole kingdom by only one form of discipline, and one uniform.  Distinctions of rank and subordination subsist only relatively to the service, and during its continuance.    VI. Officers are chosen for a time, and cannot again be chosen, till after a certain interval of service.  None shall command the National Guard of more than one district.  VII. All the parts of the public force employed for the safety of the State from foreign enemies, are under the command of the King.  VIII. No body or detachment of troops of the line can act in the internal part of the kingdom without a legal order.  IX. No agent of the public force can be in the house of a citizen, if it is not in order to execute the instructions of the police and of justice, or in cases formally provided for by the law.  X. The requisition of the public force in the internal part of the kingdom, belongs to the civil officers, according to the regulations provided by the legislative power.  XI. When any department is in a state of commotion, the King shall issue, subject to the responsibility of Ministers, the necessary orders for the execution of laws, and the re-establishment of order; but with the reserve of informing the legislative body, if it is assembled, and of convoking it, if it be not sitting.  XII. The public force is essentially obedient; no person in arms can deliberate. 
HEAD V.
OF THE PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS.
 I. Public contributions shall be debated and fixed every year by the legislative body, and cannot continue in force longer than the last day of the following session, if they are not expressly renewed.  II. The funds necessary to the discharge of the national debt, and the payment of the civil list, can under no pretext be refused or suspended.  III. The administrators of department, and sub-administrators, can neither establish any public contribution, nor make any distribution beyond the time and the sums fixed by the legislative body, nor deliberate, or permit, without being authorized by it, any local loan to be charged to the citizens of the department.  IV. The executive power directs and superintends the collection and paying in of contributions, and gives the necessary orders to this effect. 
HEAD VI.
Of the connexion of the French Nation with foreign Nations.
The French nation renounces the undertaking of any war with a view of making conquests, and will never employ its forces against the liberty of any people.
The Constitution no longer admits the Droit d'Aubaine. Foreigners, whether settled in France or not, inherit the property of their parents, whether foreigners or Frenchmen. They can contract, acquire, and receive property situated in France, and dispose of it as well as any French citizen, in every mode authorized by the laws.
Foreigners in France are subject to the same criminal laws and regulations of police as French citizens: Their persons, effects, industry, and religion, are equally protected by the law.
French colonies and possessions in Asia, Africa and America, are not included in the present Constitution.
None of the powers instituted by the Constitution have a right to change it in its form, or in its parts.
The constituting National Assembly commits the deposit to the fidelity of the legislative body, of the King, and of the Judges, to
the vigilance of fathers of families, to wives and to mothers, to the attachment of young citizens, to the courage of all Frenchmen.
With respect to the laws made by the National Assembly, which are not included in the act of Constitution, and those anterior laws, which it has not altered, they shall be observed, so long as they shall not be revoked or modified by the legislative power.
Signed, by the members of the Committees of Constitution and revision,
  TARGET, TALLEYRAND,   BRIOIS-BAUMEZ, PERIGORD,   THOURET, DEMUNIER,   ADRIEN DU-PORT, RABAUD,   BARNAVE, EMMANUEL SIEYES,   LE CHAPELIER, PETHION,   ALEXANDER LAMETH, BUZOT. 
Note—M. STANISLAS CLERMONT TONNERRE, absent by permission.
FROM THE COURIER DE L'EUROPE.
ROME, July 30.
AT last Rome speaks:—The Holy Father has passed the Rubicon: The Vatican has darted its thunderbolts: The grand Bull the summary of all imprecations, all excommunications, all execrations, all detestations and maledictions of the Church is ready: Perhaps, alas, it has already been sent off. All Frenchmen who have participated in the creation of New-Bishops, even the Prelates, all public functionaries, that have taken the oath, their adherents and abettors, without distinction of age or sex are anathematized, are rejected from the bosom of the tender mother of the faithful. It is impossible to endure any longer the outrages and the contempt of this National Assembly, who believe that a POPE is only a spiritual head, that the Clergy must profess the same self-denial as Jesus Christ, and be governed, like others, by the precepts of the Gospel. They will all be marked with the sign of the beast, those miscreants, those philosophers, those regenerators of their country and religion. It would be a pleasing sight to see them stigmatized by the Pontifical Omnipotence. This would be the only means to check those daring innovators, who are insolent enough to prefer the simplicity of Christianity to the pomp of Rome, and the pure moral of a handful of common men, to the elegant life of a number of gentlemen Ecclesiastics. To defer this would be losing an opportunity to improve certain circumstances that alone may re-establish the affairs of the Holy See, which daily grow worse, even in Corsica, where Gen. Paoli, on his return to Bastia, has succeeded to re-establish things upon a Constitutional footing, to obviate our holy intrigues, and to install the elected Bishop in his functions, without the interference of His Holiness.
FROM THE BRISTOL GAZETTE, AUGUST 11.
TUESDAY afternoon died at Downesend, in the 54th year of his age the Rev. CALEB EVANS, D. D. many years President of the Baptist Academy, and Pastor of the congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Broad-mead, in this city.
Though he languished under severe indisposition for upwards of two months, his death may be pronounced sudden and unexpected. His friends began to flatter themselves with the hope of his recovery, when, on Sunday last in the afternoon, a second paralytic seizure, suddenly rendered him speechless and insensible, in which state he continued till he expired.
How pleasingly those qualities, which recommend and endear the husband, the parent, the friend, the christian, the tutor, and the minister, were combined in him, those alone can tell, who had the happiness of being connected with him in those capacities. He possessed an enlarged and liberal—a benevolent and pious mind; and while those individuals and communities with whom he was more particularly connected venerate his memory, and mourn for his death, the sympathy of society, wherever he was known will be excited, and his removal will be considered as a public loss.
A GENUINE ANECDOTE.
IN the time of Sir Robert Walpole, when the Bench of Bishops were not so independent as at present, Sir Robert stood much in need of their votes on a great National question, which he had reason to think they would oppose. Sir Robert, in order to secure their support, prevailed on the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom he had raised to that dignity, to remain at home on the occasion, and permit him to have it given out, that his Grace was ill, and lay at the point of death. The expedient took, the whole Bench, to a man, came down to the House, and voted for the Minister.

L O N D O N, August 20.
STATE PAPER.
Copy of a Rescript lately published by Spain, which very much interests every State in Europe.
ARTICLE I.
ON receipt of the Royal Rescript, which accompanies the present instruction, the means of putting it into execution shall be forthwith adopted, without any delay or excuse whatever. In cities where there are courts of justice or courts of chancery, and where, of consequence, the various quarters thereof are superintended and governed by particular alcaldes (judges and governors) the criminal alcaldes shall verify, whether in the registered or matriculated lists, which it is their duty to make out, all strangers residing in the districts have been noticed, as well as their families, their names, their country, their religion, their employment, their destination, and the reason of their sojourning. There shall also be expressed, whether they have declared their unwillingness to continue to reside there domiciliated and subjects of his Majesty, or simply as travellers. In cases where these informations have not been taken, they shall be immediately ascertained.
Art. II. In cities where there are alcaldes of districts, but without a tribunal, the corregidores and justices of the peace shall take the same informations, availing themselves of the assistance of the notaries, the alguazils (sergeants or bailiffs) and other confidential persons, in order to ascertain the number of the domiciliated.
Art. IV. These measures having been put in execution, foreigners of both sexes, who shall be matriculated, shall formally declare whether or not they intend to remain domiciliated and subjects of his Majesty; and they shall sign their declarations.
Art. V. Foreigners who are already, or are willing to be domiciliated, must be Catholics and take the following oath before the tribunals.
"I swear to observe the Catholic Religion, to be faithful to it as well as to the King, whose subject I am, in submitting to the laws and customs of this kingdom, renouncing every right and privilege of a foreigner, and every relation to, and union with, or dependence on the country in which I was born. I promise not to avail myself of its protection, nor that of its Ambassadors, Ministers or Consuls, under pain of the galleys, imprisonment, or expulsion from his Majesty's dominions, and confiscation of my property, according to my transgression and quality."
The above oath being made and signed, shall be deposited in the archives of the tribunal, to have recourse thereto in case of need.
Art. VI. Notice shall be given to those who shall declare themselves travellers, that they cannot exercise any liberal art or mechanic profession without being domiciliated. Consequently foreigners can neither be physicians, surgeons, nor architects, unless they have an express licence from his Majesty. Neither can they be merchants a la verre (to sell by the ell or yard) nor retailers of any merchandise; nor peruke-makers or hair-dressers, nor haberdashers, tailors, shoemakers, nor even domestics.
Art. VII. Fifteen days shall be given to foreigners included in the preceding article, to quit Madrid, and two months to go out of the kingdom; or within the said term, they shall be compelled to become domiciliated, and take the oath required, submitting themselves to the pains and punishments already pronounced. Those who wish to be regarded as foreigners can neither appear nor remain at Madrid, without having obtained permission from the office of the principal Secretary of State.
Art. VIII. With regard to foreigners coming into the kingdom, his Majesty, desirous of maintaining the treaties which subsist with foreign powers with respect to the commerce of their respective subjects in his kingdom, the permissions and passports by virtue of which these merchants enter the ports and commercial towns shall be examined; and they shall be prevented from coming any other way than that which shall be pointed out to them, except by express royal permission.
The vice-roys, captains, generals, and governors of the frontiers, are, in this respect, to specify in the passports of strangers, whether they are come to seek refuge, asylum, or hospitality; and point out the roads which they are to take in the interior parts of the kingdom, after they have sworn, provisionally, obedience and submission to the laws of the country.
Art. IX. In cities where there are manufactures established by order and for the account of his Majesty, and in the other manufactures where there are overseers or workmen who do not profess the Catholic Religion, particular lists shall be made of these manufactures, containing details of the date and duration of their undertakings. These lists shall be remitted to the President of the Council of Castile, that the said workmen may be afterwards informed what they have to do; but in the mean time they shall not be molested.
Art. X. In the dispositions and principles determined by the Royal Edict, the justices shall take care to include all strangers, and even those who are employed in the King's military household, and also those in civil employments.
Art. XI. The ceremony of matriculation, of the declaration, and of the oaths of strangers who are, or wish to be domiciliated, being performed, an account thereof shall be immediately given to the tribunals who shall transmit them to the council, even before the lists may be complete.
SEPTEMBER 2.
In one respect this country has profited by the French Revolution. It impoverished and weakened France, and prevented that junction with Tippoo Saib which was originally planned in hostility to the commercial and military interests of Great-Britain in India.
Reports are current, that some popular commotions have taken place in Norway, the particulars have not yet been stated.
The rebuilding of the arsenal at Amsterdam has commenced, with 300 workmen.
A vessel is now breaking up at Deptford-yard, which is the very identical one in which King James the Second went from Feverham to the continent on his abdication. She is called the Royal Escape.
Samuel Phelps, the Horse-Monster, has received sentence of death, at Bedford assizes, for cutting out the tongue of one of those useful animals.
The opposition are now censuring the minister for partaking of a little relaxation after the conclusion of business—but surely they ought not to refuse him that indulgence, since their's is a life of Play!
Extract of a letter from the Hague, Sept. 2.
"An express is arrived here with accounts that peace is established between Russia and the Porte, at Maczin, in sight of the two armies."
The Duke of Wurtemberg is expected to return to this metropolis early in the spring, when a marriage between his Serene Highness and one of the King's daughters is expected to be solemnized.
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE.
An extraordinary and melancholy circumstance took place yesterday afternoon in Vine-street, Chandos-street. A young man, genteelly dressed, went with one of the many wretched females that inhabit that place, and, being alone with her in the room, expressed a great partiality for the sensation of hanging; he used many arguments to persuade the girl to tie him up for five minutes, which, in consequence of a promised reward of half a guinea, she at length consented to; upon this he produced a new cord from his pocket, and she fastened him to a staple in the room. After he had hung some little time the girl began to be terrified; upon perceiving him motionless she was so frightened she could not fulfil her promise of cutting him down, and with difficulty alarmed the people in the house, but too late; for when assistance came, he was too far gone for recovery. Such is the account given by the woman, nor did there appear any suspicious circumstances to doubt the fact. He was taken to St. Martin's watch-house, and in his pockets were found a guinea and an half, but no paper which could lead to a discovery of his person.
Peter Motteux, the well-known translator of Don Quixote into English, lost his life in the same manner, and from the same cause, as the man who was hanged in Vine-street. Mr. Motteux had taken two women of the town into a tavern in St. James's street, who, by his desire, hanged him, and were to have cut him down in five minutes. Just at this period, a trumpeter was heard in the street, and some procession went along; the curiosity of the girls was excited, and when they returned to relieve the suspended gallant, he was dead.
The man who was hanged on Friday, by his own desire, was a musician of some estimation; his name was Kotzwarr, a German. On the examination of the girl, circumstances transpired, which are improper for detail here—the most favourable conclusion we can draw is, that the man was insane.
The Jury, after sitting till near 12 o'clock, returned with a verdict—Guilty of Murder—but not intentionally.
Weymouth, Saturday Evening.
This evening, at six o'clock, their Majesties arrived at this place, with all their Royal Suite. Immediately on their entrance in the Palace, the Royal Artillery fired, which was directly answered by the different ships of war, and other vessels that were in the roads; after which the guns at Portland Castle gave a Royal Salute. As soon as it was dark, a general illumination took place; every one vying with each other in point of device. Several of the tradespeople had some transparencies—Richardson, the Woolen draper, Shaw, the dentist, Delamotte, &c. &c. but the most superb, on this occasion, were his Grace the Duke of St. Alban's; and at Mr. Love's circulating and musical library was a capital piece of painting twelve feet by sixteen.
CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24.
THIS day the Second Congress of the United States assembled in this city, for the dispatch of public business.
The following Gentlemen of the Senate appeared in the Senate Chamber, viz.
The Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
  Messrs. Langdon  Messrs. Rutherford    Wingate  Morris    Sherman  Read    Cabot  Johnston    Strong  Hawkins    Stanton  Butler    Foster  Izard    Burr  Few    Dickenson   
Members present of the House of Representatives.
  Messrs. Ames  Messrs. Madison    Boudinot  F. A. Muhlenberg    Bourne, M.  Smith, N. H.    Bourne, R. I.  Smith, S. C.    Brown  Steele    Fitzsimons  Sturges    Gerry  Sterrett    Giles  Sylvester    Gilman  Trumbull    Griffin  Tucker    Gordon  Thatcher    Heister  Treadwell    Huger  Vining    Larned  Ward    Livermore  Wadsworth    R. B. Lee  Williamson    Lawrance  Willis  
A quorum of the House being present, they proceeded to the election of their officers—the Hon. Jonathan Trumbull was chosen Speaker—John Beckley, Esq. Clerk—Joseph Wheaton, Esq. Serjeant at Arms—Mr. Gifford Dally, Door-keeper, and Mr. Thomas Claxton, Assistant Door-keeper.
Mr. Livermore administered the oath prescribed by the Constitution to the Speaker. The Speaker then administered the same to the Members, and the Clerk, respectively.
A message by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed, that the Senate, having made a house, were ready to proceed to business—and that they had appointed a committee to wait on the President of the United States with this information. Committee—Messrs. Izard and Langdon.
A message from the House, by Mr. Beckley, informed the Senate that a quorum of the Members was assembled, and ready to proceed to business—and that they had appointed Messrs. Smith, S. C. White and Lawrance, a committee on their part, to join the above committee of the Senate.
The joint committee waited on the President of the United States accordingly, who was pleased to inform them that he would meet the two Houses in the Senate Chamber, to-morrow, at 12 o'clock.
A message from the Senate informed the House that they had appointed the Rev. Bishop White Chaplain to Congress, on their part.
The House postponed their choice of a Chaplain till to-morrow. Adjourned till 11 o'clock to-morrow.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25.
Mr. Clark, Mr. Dayton, and Mr. Kitchell, from New-Jersey, and Mr. Jacobs, member for Pennsylvania, took their seats this day—and were qualified according to the Constitution.
On motion of Mr. Livermore, the House proceeded to elect a Chaplain; the ballots being collected and counted, it appeared that the Rev. Dr. Blair was chosen.
A message was received from the Senate by Mr. Secretary Otis, informing the House that the Senate is now ready to meet the members in the Senate Chamber, to receive the President of the United States, and such communications as he may be pleased to make; and that seats are provided for the members of the House accordingly.
The Speaker (preceded by the Serjeant at Arms, with his Mace) attended by the Members, proceeded to the Senate Chamber—At 12 o'clock the President of the United States arrived, attended by Mr. Secretary Lear, and Major Jackson, and accompanied by the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary of State, the Secretary at War, and the Attorney General, when he was pleased to make the following speech. [For which see next column.]
The President then retired, and the Members returned to their Hall, where the Speaker laid before them a copy of the Speech which was read by the Clerk.
On motion of Mr. Lawrance, it was voted that the Speech of the President of the United States be referred to a committee of the whole House, and be made the order of the day for to-morrow.
The House then adjourned to this day 11 o'clock.
City-Hall, Philadelphia, October 21, 1791.
WE the subscribers, this day appointed by the Stockholders of the Bank of the United States, to preside at the election of twenty-five Directors for the said Bank, do hereby certify, that the following Gentlemen were duly elected, agreeably to the number of votes annexed to their respective names.
   Votes. Votes.     James Watson 2936 Joseph Barrell 2928   Philip Livingston 2936 John Watts 2928   Rufus King 2936 Joseph Ball 2928   Nicholas Low 2936 William Bingham 2928   Joseph Anthony 2936 James Cole Fisher 2928   Herman Le Roy 2936 Robert Smith 2928   Thomas Willing 2936 Archibald M c Call 2928   Dr. James M c Clurg 2936 Charles Carroll, C. 2928   Samuel Johnston, N. C. 2936 Charles Pettit 2927   William Smith, S. C. 2936 John M. Nesbitt 2926   Jonathan Mason, jun. 2928 George Cabot 2897   Jeremiah Wadsworth 2935 Fisher Ames 2897   John Lawrance 2935  
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seal the day and year first above written.
TRISTRAM DALTON, (L. S.) GERARD BANCKER, (L. S.) SAMUEL POWELL. (L. S.)
NEW-HAVEN, October 19.
On Monday the 17th instant, the drawing of NEW-HAVEN WHARF LOTTERY re-commenced—since which, no prizes drawn higher than 100 dollars.

S P E E C H OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TO BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS.
FELLOW CITIZENS OF THE SENATE, AND OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
I MEET you, upon the present occasion, with the feelings which are naturally inspired by a strong impression of the prosperous situation of our common country, and by a persuasion equally strong that the labors of the session, which has just commenced, will, under the guidance of a spirit no less prudent than patriotic, issue in measures, conducive to the stability and increase of national prosperity.
Numerous as are the providential blessings which demand our grateful acknowledgments—the abundance with which another year has again rewarded the industry of the husbandman is too important to escape recollection.
Your own observations, in your respective situations, will have satisfied you of the progressive state of agriculture, manufactures, commerce and navigation: In tracing their causes, you will have remarked, with particular pleasure, the happy effects of that revival of confidence, public as well as private, to which the constitution and laws of the United States have so eminently contributed: And you will have observed, with no less interest, new and decisive proofs of the encreasing reputation and credit of the nation. But you nevertheless cannot fail to derive satisfaction from the confirmation of these circumstances, which will be disclosed, in the several official communications, that will be made to you in the course of your deliberations.
The rapid subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, which completed the sum allowed to be subscribed, in a single day, is among the striking and pleasing evidences which present themselves, not only of confidence in the government, but of resource in the community.
In the interval of your recesses, due attention has been paid to the execution of the different objects which were specially provided for by the laws and resolutions of the last session.
Among the most important of these, is the defence and security of the Western Frontiers. To accomplish it on the most humane principles, was a primary with you.
Accordingly, at the same time, that treaties have been provisionally concluded, and other proper means used to attach the wavering, and to confirm in their friendship, the well-disposed tribes of Indians—effectual measures have been adopted to make those of a hostile description sensible, that a pacification was desired upon terms of moderation and justice.
These measures having proved unsuccessful, it became necessary to convince the refractory of the power of the United States to punish their depredations. Offensive operations have therefore been directed; to be conducted, however, as consistently as possible with the dictates of humanity. Some of these have been crowned with full success, and others are yet depending. The expeditions which have been completed, were carried on under the authority, and at the expence of the United States, by the Militia of Kentucky; whose enterprise, intrepidity and good conduct, are entitled to peculiar commendation.
Overtures of peace are still continued to the deluded tribes, and considerable numbers of individuals belonging to them have lately renounced all further opposition, removed from their former situations, and placed themselves under the immediate protection of the United States.
It is sincerely to be desired, that all need of coercion, in future, may cease; and that an intimate intercourse may succeed; calculated to advance the happiness of the Indians, and to attach them firmly to the United States.
In order to this, it seems necessary, That they should experience the benefits of an impartial dispensation of justice.
That the mode of alienating their lands, the main source of discontent and war, should be so defined and regulated, as to obviate imposition, and as far as may be practicable, controversy concerning the reality, and extent of the alienations which are made.
That commerce with them should be promoted under regulations tending to secure an equitable deportment towards them, and that such rational experiments should be made, for imparting to them the blessings of civilization, as may, from time to time, suit their condition.
That the Executive of the United States should be enabled to employ the means to which the Indians have been long accustomed for uniting their immediate interests with the preservation of peace.
And, that efficacious provision should be made for inflicting adequate penalties upon all those who, by violating their rights, shall infringe the treaties, and endanger the peace of the Union.
A system corresponding with the mild principles of religion and philanthropy towards an unenlightened race of men, whose happiness materially depends on the conduct of the United States, would be as honorable to the national character as conformable to the dictates of sound policy.
The powers specially vested in me by the act laying certain duties on distilled spirits, which respect the subdivisions of the districts into surveys, the appointment of officers, and the assignment of compensations, have likewise been carried into effect.—In a matter in which both materials and experience were wanting to guide the calculation, it will be readily conceived that there must have been difficulty in such an adjustment of the rates of compensation as would conciliate a reasonable competency with a proper regard to the limits prescribed by the law. It is hoped that the circumspection which has been used, will be found in the result to have secured the best of the two objects; but it is probable, that with a view to the first, in some instances, a revision of the provision will be found advisable.
The impressions with which this law has been received by the community have been, upon the whole, such as were to be expected among enlightened and well disposed citizens, from the propriety and necessity of the measure.—The novelty however of the tax in a considerable part of the United States, and a misconception of some of its provisions, have given occasion in particular places to some degree of discontent.—But it is satisfactory to know that this disposition yields to proper explanations and more just apprehensions of the true nature of the law. And I entertain a full confidence, that it will, in all, give way to motives which arise out of a just sense of duty, and a virtuous regard to the public welfare.
If there are any circumstances in the law, which, consistently with its main design, may be so varied as to remove any well intentioned objections, that may happen to exist, it will consist with a wise moderation to make the proper variations. It is desirable, on all occasions, to unite with a steady and firm adherence to constitutional and necessary acts of government, the fullest evidence of a disposition, as far as may be practicable, to consult the wishes of every part of the community, and to lay the foundations of the public administration in the affections of the people.
Pursuant to the authority contained in the several acts on that subject—a district of ten miles square for the permanent seat of the government of the United States has been fixed, and announced by Proclamation; which district will comprehend lands on both sides of the River Potomac and the towns of Alexandria and George-Town. A city has also been laid out agreeably to a plan which will be placed before Congress: And as there is a prospect
favoured by the rate of sales which have already taken place, of ample funds for carrying on the necessary public buildings, there is every expectation of their due progress.
The completion of the Census of the inhabitants, for which provision was made by law, has been duly notified (excepting one instance in which the return has been informal, and another in which it has been omitted, or miscarried) and the returns of the officers who were charged with this duty, which will be laid before you, will give you the pleasing assurance that the present population of the United States borders on four millions of persons.
It is proper also to inform you that a further loan of two millions and a half of Florins has been completed in Holland; the terms of which are similar to those of the one last announced, except as to a small reduction of charges. Another on like terms for six millions of Florins had been set on foot under circumstances that assured an immediate completion.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE. Two Treaties which have been provisionally concluded with the Cherokees, and six nations of Indians, will be laid before you for your consideration, and ratification.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. In entering upon the discharge of your legislative trust, you must anticipate with pleasure, that many of the difficulties, necessarily incident to the first arrangements of a new government, for an extensive country, have been happily surmounted by the zealous and judicious exertions of your predecessors in co-operation with the other branch of the legislature. The important objects, which remain to be accomplished, will, I am persuaded, be conducted upon principles equally comprehensive, and equally well calculated for the advancement of the general weal.
The time limited for receiving subscriptions to the loans proposed by the act making provision for the debt of the United States having expired, statements from the proper department will, as soon as possible, apprise you of the exact result. Enough however is already known, to afford an assurance that the views of that act have been substantially fulfilled. The subscription in the domestic debt of the United States has embraced by far the greatest proportion of that debt; affording at the same time proof of the general satisfaction of the public creditors with the system which has been proposed to their acceptance, and of the spirit of accommodation to the convenience of the government with which they are actuated. The subscriptions in the debts of the respective States, as far as the provisions of the law have permitted, may be said to be universal. The part of the debt of the United States, which remains unsubscribed, will naturally engage your further deliberations.
It is particularly pleasing to me to be able to announce to you, that the revenues which have been established promise to be adequate to their objects; and may be permitted, if no unforeseen exigency occurs, to supersede for the present the necessity of any new burthens upon our constituents.
An object which will claim your early attention is a provision for the current service of the ensuing year, together with such anticipated demands upon the Treasury as require to be immediately discharged, and such casualties as may have arisen in the execution of the public business, for which no specific appropriation may have yet been made; of all which a proper estimate will be laid before you.
GENTLEMEN OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, I shall content myself with a general reference to former communications for several objects, upon which the urgency of other affairs has hitherto postponed any definitive resolution. Their importance will recal them to your attention; and I trust that the progress already made in the most arduous arrangements of the government, will afford you leisure to resume them with advantage.
There are, however, some of them of which I cannot forbear a more particular mention.—These are the Militia, the Post-Office, and Post Roads—the Mint, Weights and Measures—a provision for the sale of the vacant Lands of the United States.
The first is certainly an object of primary importance, whether viewed in reference to the national security, to the satisfaction of the community, or to the preservation of order.—In connection with this, the establishment of competent magazines and arsenals, and the fortification of such places as are peculiarly important and vulnerable, naturally present themselves to consideration. The safety of the United States under divine protection ought to rest on the basis of systematic and solid arrangements; exposed as little as possible to the hazards of fortuitous circumstances.
The importance of the Post-Office and Post Roads on a plan sufficiently liberal and comprehensive, as they respect the expedition, safety, and facility of communication, is increased by the instrumentality in diffusing a knowledge of the laws and proceedings of the government; which, while it contributes to the security of the people, serves also to guard them against the effects of misrepresentation and misconception. The establishment of additional cross Posts, especially to some of the important points in the Western and Northern parts of the Union cannot fail to be of material utility.
The disorders in the existing currency, and especially the scarcity of small change, a scarcity so peculiarly distressing to the poorer classes, strongly recommend the carrying into immediate effect the resolution already entered into concerning the establishment of a Mint. Measures have been taken pursuant to that resolution for procuring some of the most necessary artists together with the requisite apparatus.
An uniformity in the Weights and Measures of the country is among the important objects submitted to you by the constitution, and if it can be derived from a standard at once invariable and universal, must be no less honorable to the public councils, than conducive to the public convenience.
A provision for the sale of the vacant Lands of the United States is particularly urged, among other reasons, by the important considerations that they are pledged as a fund for reimbursing the public debt; that if timely and judiciously applied, they may save the necessity of burthening our citizens with new taxes for the extinguishment of the principal; and that being free to discharge the principal but in a limited proportion no opportunity ought to be lost for availing the public of its right.
G. WASHINGTON.
UNITED STATES, October 25, 1791.
PROVIDENCE, October 15. PIRACY.
The St. Eustatia Gazette of the 16th ult. contains the following Advertisement—“Last night was run away with, the Sloop POLLY, of Providence, Rhode-Island, by her Mate, named WILLIAM ROUND, and a young Man called SAM—She had on board 22 hogsheads and 6 barrels of sugar, 21 cases of gin, 30 barrels of beef, and in the Captain's chest between 1400 and 1500 dollars. Round is about 5 feet 6 inches high, a stout well made fellow; and Sam is about 5 feet 3 inches high, a dull heavy fellow. The Sloop is a large black New-England built vessel. Four hundred dollars reward is offered by Hardiman and Clarkson, of St. Eustatia, for recovering the vessel and securing the pirates.—N. B. The Captain
of the Sloop is Richard Low, who has her register and papers.”
[The above Sloop belongs to Messrs. BROWN & FRANCIS, of this Town, who will pay the above mentioned reward of four hundred dollars for the sloop and cargo, and one hundred dollars for the mate.—He is an active man, of a fair complexion, has long black hair, speaks very quick, and calls himself a Bostonian, though his pronunciation resembles that of an Irishman. He married in Boston, where his wife now lives.—On the Portage-Bill he signed his name Nathaniel Rounds.]
Philadelphia, October 26.
Friday afternoon arrived in town, from his seat in Braintree, Massachusetts, the VICE-PRESIDENT of the United States, his Lady and Family.
The Vice-President has taken the house lately in the occupation of the Hon. Judge Bradford, the corner of Fourth and Mulberry streets.
The people of the United States justly appreciate the superior advantages they enjoy under the auspices of their present Government. This Government is founded on the principles of justice and freedom. It secures to every man the full possession of the produce of his industry, and sacredly guards the social and personal rights of every citizen.
A confidence in the administration of this Government pervades all classes and denominations of men—this has animated every faculty of the human mind to exertion—and so fully convinced are the people of the unspeakable importance of peace and domestic tranquility to the public prosperity and happiness, that we may justly anticipate a long succession of years in which those principles, essentially connected with our national felicity and honour, shall be maturing to a state of perfection, hitherto unknown.
The President of the United States, we are well assured, expressed great satisfaction at the punctuality with which the Members of the National Legislature have taken their seats the present session.
Some strictures in the English papers on the Riots at Birmingham, represent the persons principally active in those scenes of devastation, as ignorant, savage and ferocious—This exhibits a most gloomy picture of the state of society in respect to the poor of that country—and suggests some useful ideas to the legislators of a free people.—It shews the infinite importance of disseminating knowledge among all classes of a community, particularly the poor.
It is by force alone that an ignorant herd can be governed—but when the judgment is regulated by reason, and the understanding is properly enlightened, the people need only to be informed of their duty, and obedience to the laws follows of course.
The duties of society are performed with cheerfulness, when the people act from the impulse of duty, and the dictates of an enlightened mind.—But the outrages of an ignorant multitude can only be checked by the interposition of the military—Hence we see that no riot can be quelled in England without an armed force.
Extract of a letter from Glasgow, July 28. “There is a fine prospect of a plentiful harvest both in Britain and Ireland—the crop in France this year has been exceedingly good, and all got safe in—from Poland and the Baltic, the granaries of Europe, the prospect is equally favorable. If the war should be finished this year between the Turks and Russians, grain will be very low in Europe.
“The United States will never find such a sure and certain market for their grain as by encouraging manufactures. This will be a market attended with no risks, nor liable to the regulation of no foreign prince. In short, if peace is restored in Europe, it is doubtful if there will be occasion for a single cargo of American wheat. By encouraging manufactures so much in Britain, all that the country grows is consumed at home.”
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LITERARY ANECDOTE,
WHICH OUGHT TO BE HAD IN EVERLASTING REMEMBRANCE.
THE performance known by the title of Burn's treatise on the office of a Justice of Peace, was written by a poor clergyman in the north of England. He went to London to sell his manuscript, and enquired of the landlord at the inn where he lodged, if he was acquainted with any bookseller? The master of the house introduced him to a person in trade, who after keeping the manuscript for examination eight days, at last offered him twenty pounds for it. After a variety of disappointments of the same kind, the author waited on Mr. Miller, who was rising fast into fame and fortune. He had sufficient strength of mind to see that "honesty is the best policy;" and by treating every writer with justice, and often with generosity, he acquired a most opulent fortune. He had in his employment gentlemen in every different branch of learning, who were to inform him of the merit of the different books submitted to their inspection. The manuscript in question was transmitted to a Scotch student in the temple, and Burn in the interim received a general invitation to Mr. Miller's table. In eight or ten days, the manuscript was returned to Mr. Miller, with a note that it would be an excellent bargain at two hundred pounds. Next day after dinner, when the glass had begun to circulate, he asked Burn, what was the lowest sum that he would take? The poor man replied, that the highest offer which he had received was twenty pounds, a sum too small to defray the expenses of his journey. "Will you accept two hundred guineas?" said Mr. Miller. "Two hundred guineas!" cried the parson, clapping his hands, "I am extremely fortunate." The book went thro many impressions, and Miller, of his own good will, paid the clergyman an hundred pounds additional for each of them. As the author loved port, the bookseller farther gave him a letter of credit for the purchase of a pipe per annum during the rest of his life, in any wine-cellar in London, where he thought proper. "After all this," added Mr. Miller, in telling the story, "I have lived to clear eleven thousand pounds by the bargain."
Monthly Shipments of Flour, at the Port of Philadelphia, from the 1st of July to September 30, 1791, inclusive.
  Shipped in July 30135 Barrels of 642 Barrels of   August 24927 Flour. 534 Middlings.   Sept. 29164 233   Total, 86226 1379 
JAMES READ, Inspector of Flour. Philadelphia, October 7, 1791.
JOHN PINTARD, SWORN BROKER & AUCTIONEER, PURCHASES AND SELLS PUBLIC DEBT of every description, on Commission, at the following rates:
ON the specie amount of all sales at auction, one eighth per cent. On ditto at private sale or purchase, one-half per cent. On remittances, ditto. Receiving interest at the Loan-Office, one per cent. on the amount of the interest. For making transfers at ditto, seventy-five cents per transfer. Such persons as may incline to favor the subscriber with their orders, may rely on their being executed with punctuality, fidelity and dispatch. His long experience and extensive dealings in the public stocks, together with a well established correspondence throughout the United States, enable him to conduct his operations with peculiar benefit to his employers. JOHN PINTARD, New-York, No. 57, King-Street. October 15, 1791.
PUBLIC SECURITIES,
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HOLY BIBLE.---Royal Quarto.
MR. THOMAS, of Worcester, Massachusetts, most respectfully informs the public, that he has this day completed the Old and New Testaments of his Royal Quarto Edition of the HOLY BIBLE. The Apocrypha and Index, &c. will be finished with all the dispatch the nature of the work will admit.
Such Gentlemen as hold SUBSCRIPTION PAPERS, he begs will return them to him at Worcester, or to him and Company at Boston, by the last day of November next, and as much sooner as they conveniently can.
He is happy to inform the public, that the work has been examined by many gentlemen, clergymen and others, and has met with their highest approbation; both as to the execution of the printing, its correctness, and its cheapness compared with English copies of the same size and quality.
As this very laborious and exceedingly expensive undertaking, is carried on solely at his own cost, he is led to hope that all those who wish to possess a large Family Bible, will so far encourage this laudable undertaking of their countryman, as to add their names to the subscription.
Worcester, Sept. 29, 1791. ISAIAH THOMAS.
ADVERTISEMENT.
BY late arrivals from France, the Editor has received from No. 10 to 31, both inclusive, of a Publication which comes out twice a week in Paris, entitled, "CORRESPONDANCE NATIONALE." From No. 1 to No. 10, have been shipped, but are not yet come to hand. Any person who may incline to subscribe for this work, which appears to be ingenious, impartial and patriotic, may be furnished with the numbers as they arrive by applying to the Editor of this Gazette.
Funds of the United States.
ALL kinds of the Public Debt of the Union, bought, sold, or exchanged; Foreign and Inland Bills of Exchange negotiated; Merchandise of all sorts bought and sold on Commission, and all other Business in the line of a Broker, transacted by
WILLIAM CLELAND, At the Office next door to the Custom-House, State-Street, BOSTON. 2m
IMPERIAL HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA
T E A S,
REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, & SPICES, &c. &c.
Of the first quality--by retail,
No 19,
Third-Street, between Chestnut and Market Streets
TO BE SOLD,
And possession given immediately,
That pleasantly situated FARM
Whereon the subscriber now lives.
IT lies on the road from Princeton to Brunswick, about a mile and a half from the former. It contains 213 acres, whereof 47 are woodland, upwards of 30 meadow, and 30 more may be made. Also a young orchard of 200 apple trees, besides a variety of peach and cherry trees, and a large garden; the whole under good fence. There are on the premises a two story stone house and kitchen, with an elegant piazza, the whole painted and finished. Also, a smoke-house, work-shop, granary, waggon-house; barracks cow-houses, two stories high and 60 feet long, and a good barn, with stabling. From the buildings there are charming views of Princeton, the neighbouring farms, and Monmouth hills. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber on the premises, or to ISAAC SNOWDEN, No. 141, South Second-street, Philadelphia.
ISAAC SNOWDEN, Junior.
Princeton, October 10, 1791. [ev2m]
Lectures on Government & Law.
THE Honorable JAMES WILSON, L.L.D. Professor of Laws in the College and Academy of Philadelphia, proposes to deliver, next Winter, two Courses of Lectures. One Course to begin on the Second Monday, the other on the Second Tuesday of December.
WILLIAM ROGERS,
Secretary to the Board of Faculty. [eptD]
Philadelphia, October 12, 1791.
WANTED, A NUMBER OF
Journeymen Cordwainers,
Who will find constant employment and generous wages, by applying to the Master Cordwainers of the City of Philadelphia. October 22, 1791. [eptf]
Wanted, a good COOK,
To whom gentle wages will be allowed. None need apply who cannot be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY, some time in August 1789, a yellow NEGRO MAN, named ABRAHAM, late the property of Nathaniel Wickliff, deceased--about forty-five years of age, about five feet eight or nine inches high, pretty well set, with a large woolly head and large beard, walks with his knees bent, often complains of pains in his feet and ankles--by trade a bricklayer, stone mason and plasterer. He is a very handy fellow as a house-waiter, and is fond of such business. He is a great dissembler, and no doubt pretends he is a freeman. He has been cloped so long that no description of his present clothing can be given. It is supposed that he went to the Northern States, as he often mentioned having friends there. Twenty Dollars reward will be given to any person that will secure said Negro in any jail, so that the subscriber may get him again; and reasonable charges will be paid--or Thirty Dollars will be given if he is brought to Prince William County, Virginia, to Mr. JOHN KINCHELOE, by
CHARLES WICKLIFF, Administrator.
October 12, 1791. [18gw]
Forty Dollars Reward.
LAST night was broke open the Store of the subscriber, at Bordentown, and stolen from the same the following articles, viz. One hair trunk, containing women's wearing apparel; 1 small box, containing four clocks and one dozen testaments; 1 ditto containing one bottle green cloth coat, one striped vest and breeches, two shirts and a small bag with 36 dollars and 20s. to 30s. Jersey coppers; 1 keg containing a large bible, with other small books; 1 box containing 447 real ostrich feathers, some of them large and elegant, and of different colours; 2 barrels rye meal, branded Stout and Imlay; 1 barrel pork, 1 ream paper, and 1 dozen pate-boards.--Stolen at the same time, a large Batteau, with black fides.
A reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the above property, so that the owners may have the articles again, or in proportion for part thereof; also a further reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the perpetrator or perpetrators, so that they may be brought to justice, by
JOHN VAN EMBURGH.
Bordentown, New-Jersey, Sept. 1, 1791. [eptf]
W. M C DOUGALL'S
DANCING SCHOOL,
Is now opened at his School-Room, No. 28, Carter's Alley.
HE returns his sincere thanks for the great encouragement he has experienced these eighteen years; hopes the reputation of his school for decorum and good order, as well as the performance of his scholars, will still ensure him a respectable share of the public favor.
A number of new Cotillions and Country Dances will be taught during the season.
Those who please to honor him with the tuition of their children, may be assured, they will be taught in the most approved style, and that proper attention will be paid to their carriage and manners.
A general practising for the improvement of the scholars, will be held at the New Rooms, every other Wednesday; when the employers, and strangers of genteel deportment, will be admitted. These practisings will be attended with no expence.
N. B. An EVENING SCHOOL will be opened for grown Gentlemen, as soon as a sufficient number offer.
Philadelphia, September 14, 1791. [t. f.]
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, October 7, 1791.
The MEDICAL LECTURES will begin on the first Monday in November next.
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.
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This conviction led to the adoption of the new constitution; for however various the sentiments, respecting the merits of this system, all GOOD MEN are agreed in the necessity of an efficient federal government.
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April 15, 1789.
THE EDITOR.
POSTSCRIPT.
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