Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-05-12 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 109, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1792.
[Whole No. 317.]
FROM THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
REFLECTIONS on the STATE of the UNION. [CONCLUDED.]
THE countries south of Pennsylvania are remarkably rich in fossils. Coals, copper, iron, lead, and other minerals are found in either Virginia, North or South-Carolina, or Georgia, or all of them. Mineral appearances occur every where. The promotion of manufactures is necessary to draw these forth; and as they have immense forests of wood, and the most powerful mill-streams, there can be no doubt, that they will be brought into use, as soon as those means shall be adopted.
The family manufactures of the middle and interior counties of Virginia, North-Carolina, and the interior counties of Georgia, South-Carolina, and Maryland, are said to be greater in value, than the articles of foreign manufactures, which they use; and were they universally awake to the facility, profits, and national importance of this mode of manufacturing, they might extend it much further, without impeding their farming operations, while, at the same time, they would provide an use for their agricultural productions.
A single state, Pennsylvania, has upwards of fifty paper mills, which work up materials of no value. The manufactures from those mills are computed at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars—the hands employed in them do not exceed one hundred and fifty, or two hundred. That state contains about one ninth of the people of the United States, and their contributions to the expenses of the government and the interest of the public debt, are consequently about 400,000 dollars. Their paper-mills, therefore, indemnify them for five-eighths of their quota! It is the duty of government to encourage the other states to do the same, especially as it can be done by WATER MEANS, and not by MEN diverted from their farms. The southern states do not want a capacity for this manufacture, which has acquired an establishment in Maryland, and has appeared as far to the southward as North-Carolina.
It may be safely affirmed, that the manufactures of LEATHER in the United States exceed in value ALL OUR ANNUAL BURDENS. We import few or no shoes. In each of the two last years we have procured from abroad no more than 70,000 pair of shoes and boots, for 4,000,000 of people. If we use only one pair and a half per annum per person, at seventy-five cents, they will amount to 4,500,000 dollars, which exceeds every demand of the general and state governments. The hides, skins, bark, lime, thread, bristles, and wax, nay, the very heel-pegs, are all drawn from our lands and farms. Recollecting this, and similar facts, we cannot question the utility of manufactures to the farmers, planters, and landed interest. If the manufacture of shoes in this country, were abolished, our annual debt to foreign countries would be increased to an amount equal to all our public contributions. Similar observations might be made on several other articles, though no one to so great an extent.
The manufactures of wool in Great-Britain have been stated by their ministers at 16,800,000. sterling—and the simple manufactures of liquors in that country are said to consume twenty-five millions of bushels of grain. Were there no other proof, we could not doubt the importance of manufactures to the agriculture of that country. They nourish and support it. We make up all our wool—our lands produce cotton with great facility; and we manufacture liquors as easily as Britain. There is no doubt, that the latter branch already affords to our farmers an ANNUAL MARKET for 1,500,000 bushels of grain. This manufacture is well understood and carried on in all the southern states.
The objection, that manufactures take the people from agriculture, is not solid, as elsewhere observed; since women, children, horses, water, and fire, all work at manufactures, and perform four-fifths of the labour; and as many manufacturers migrate to the United States, it may be fairly questioned, whether the QUANTITY of agricultural industry is not INCREASED by the impulse and demand arising from manufactures, though a few cultivators should follow them. And it may be asked, whether a farmer does not raise THE MORE cotton, flax, hemp, and wool, because his wife and daughters spin and weave them?
The employment of the new medium, the public certificates (which may be taken at 15,000,000. sterling) in a country that formerly had not 3,000,000. sterling of medium, renders manufactures necessary at this time. It may be said, lands will employ it. But farms sold well at the time when 3,000,000. sterling was probably the utmost extent of our medium, and cannot therefore give employment to the additional twelve millions, though they might to a part of it. The first application of this capital is intended to be made to the manufacturing of cotton, which is peculiar to the southern states. This is one method by which those states will be benefited by even that part of the public debt, which they do not own. On this important point more will be said hereafter.
More money is employed in manufactures, than in foreign commerce, because the gross value of exported articles is much less than the gross value of manufactured articles. This will not be doubted, when it is remembered, that shoes alone amount to several millions of dollars. These manufactures cannot be deemed less important to the southern landholders than foreign commerce; and those proprietors will not be disposed to neglect foreign commerce, nor will they consider it as irrelevant to their local interests.
EXTRACT.
“It is reported of the Sybarites, that they destroyed all their cocks, that they might dream out their morning dreams without disturbance. Though I would not so far promote effeminacy as to propose the Sybarites for an example, yet since there is no man so corrupt or foolish, but that something useful may be learned from him, I could wish that in imitation of a people not often to be copied, some regulations might be made to exclude screech owls from all company, as the enemies of mankind, and confine them to some proper receptacle, where they may mingle sighs at leisure, and thicken the gloom of one another.”
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MANUFACTURES.
IT is often said in conversation, that agriculture is the greatest interest of the American people, and the foundation on which their wealth and prosperity are supported. This is just, but a conclusion is drawn from the principle which is not equally well founded. We often hear it remarked that agriculture being the best interest, it is improper to engage in manufactures. This is carelessly asserted and admitted. But, is it true that the interest of agriculture is injured by our manufactures?—Our farmers will not easily be persuaded that it is. What is done with the wool, flax, cotton, hemp, but to work them up. All the iron made in the country is wrought in it. Would any man, in his wits, recommend that all these articles, which form the materials of our most valuable manufactures, should no longer be cultivated or attended to. The farmer would suffer, and the money of the country must be sent out of it to buy the articles. What has the farmer to apprehend from the increase of manufactures; that he will sell flax, hemp, cotton and wool, on better terms, and in greater quantities? The manufactures of the country have grown up wonderfully since the protection given them by the laws of the United States. Since that increase, have not the farmers found the advantage? They have—and the new impost act will operate to extend the demand for the produce of their lands. The sail-cloth manufactories at Boston, and elsewhere in the state of Massachusetts, have made a demand for all the flax produced and offered at market, and the price has risen with the demand. The farmers in that instance receive a direct profit from the manufactory. This is intended only as an instance—many others might be adduced. They all tend to refute the insinuations which are often made to rouse jealousy, on the thread-bare pretence that the eastern and southern states have different interests, and that the farmers will be sacrificed to the manufacturers.
The manufactures of the southern states appear, on enquiry, to be more advanced, as well as more prosperous, than has been believed. But if it was not so, it is hard to see the damage sustained by the southern states, by the middle and eastern manufacturers buying their flax, wool, cotton, hemp and coals, as well as their corn, to feed them—all which is actually the case at present.
It is much to be wished that a brotherly affection may subsist between the citizens of the different states. If these remarks, trite as they may appear, have any tendency to that end, the design of the writer will be accomplished.
A C T S, &c.
Passed at the First Session of the Second Congress of the United States, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
November 8. AN ACT granting farther time for making return of the enumeration of the inhabitants in the district of South-Carolina.
Dec. 16. An Act for the relief of David Cook and Thomas Campbell.
23. An Act making appropriations for the support of government for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
Jan. 3. An Act for carrying into effect a contract between the United States and the State of Pennsylvania.
23. An Act to extend the time limited for settling the accounts of the United States with the individual States.
Feb. 16. An Act concerning certain fisheries of the United States, and for the regulation and government of the fishermen employed therein.
20. An Act to establish the post-office and post-roads within the United States.
March 1. An Act relative to the election of a President and Vice-President of the United States, and declaring the officer who shall act as President in case of vacancies in the offices both of President and Vice-President.
5. An Act for making farther and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States.
19. An Act declaring the consent of Congress to a certain act of the State of Maryland, and to continue for a longer time an act declaring the assent of Congress to certain acts of the States of Maryland, Georgia and Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, so far as the same respects the States of Georgia, and Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations.
23. An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions.
27. An Act providing for the settlement of the claims of persons under particular circumstances barred by the limitations heretofore established.
27. An Act for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids and other persons.
28. An Act supplemental to the act for making farther and more effectual provision for the protection of the frontiers of the United States.
April 2. An Act for finishing the light-house on Baldhead, at the mouth of Cape-Fear river, in the State of North-Carolina.
An act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States.
12. An Act supplementary to the act for the establishment and support of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers.
An Act to erect a light-house on Montok-Point, in the State of New-York.
An Act for ascertaining the bounds of a tract of land purchased by John Cleves Symmes.
An Act for fixing the compensation of the door-keepers of the Senate and House of Representatives in Congress.
13. An Act for altering the times of holding the circuit courts, in certain districts of the United States, and for other purposes.
An Act to compensate the corporation of trustees of the public grammar school and academy of Wilmington, in the State of Delaware, for the occupation of, and damages done to the said school, during the late war.
14. An Act for apportioning representatives among the several States according to the first enumeration.
An Act concerning consuls and vice-consuls.
21. An Act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates.
27. An Act to indemnify the estate of the late Major-General Nathaniel Greene, for a certain bond entered into by him during the late war.
May 2. An Act for raising a farther sum of money for the protection of the frontiers, and for other purposes therein mentioned.
An Act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
5. An Act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt.
An Act authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to John Cleves Symmes, and his associates.
An Act to alter the time of the next annual meeting of Congress.
8. An Act concerning the duties on spirits distilled within the United States.
An Act relative to the compensations to certain officers employed in the collection of the duties of impost and tonnage.
An Act to continue in force the act intitled, “An Act to provide for mitigating or remitting the penalties and forfeitures accruing under the revenue laws in certain cases, and to make farther provision for the payment of pensions to invalids.”
An Act supplemental to the act making provision for the debt of the United States.
An Act for making compensations to the commissioners of loans for extraordinary expenses.
An Act making alterations in the treasury and war departments.
An Act making certain appropriations therein specified.
An Act to provide for a copper coinage.
An Act for regulating process in the courts of the United States, and providing compensations for the officers of the said courts, and for jurors and witnesses.
An Act concerning the claim of John Brown Cutting against the United States.
An Act to compensate the services of the late colonel George Gibson.
An Act more effectually to provide for the national defence by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States.
An Act respecting the government of the Territory of the United States, North-West and South of the River Ohio.
Resolve, directing the Secretary of the Treasury to furnish the several collectors with printed Clearances, stating the accounts of the methods that have been used to obtain fresh water from salt, &c.
EXTRACTS.
“When fortune frowns, and friendship stands aloof—when the forlorn victim lies stretched on the bed of anguish, with misery and want pictured before him—the pleasing, venerable form of RELIGION presents herself to his view—speaks joy and consolation to her humble votary—shews him the delusions of riches, and the vanities of worldly pleasure. His groans are changed into triumphs—as his misfortunes accumulate, his hopes increase—and the pillar of his fortitude is the wretchedness of his condition—with the sage of antiquity he may say, “Alas! he should have perished, had he not been undone.”
“Pure and genuine religion does not consist in the disgusting severity of a puritanical outside; nor does it in the least depend on nominal distinctions, as was formerly imagined; when the difference of a single letter, in a term of favored orthodoxy, opened wide the field of controversy—where the benevolent spirit of christianity was sacrificed to theological rancour, the church torn into schisms, and her wreath of victory was the blood of her children. As well might the intrinsic worth and excellence of a jewel be estimated from the casket in which it happens to be inclosed, as the goodness of religion measured by external forms, or inferred from modes of faith. It is built on the love and reverence of the Supreme Being, and an unshaken belief in the words of sacred truth, joined to a warm and practical benevolence towards all our fellow beings—piety and virtue are its everlasting pillars, faith and charity being the chief corner stone.”

CONGRESS. PHILADELPHIA.
The following Report was read in the House of Representatives on Tuesday last.
THE committee appointed to enquire into the causes of the failure of the late expedition under Major-General St. Clair, have proceeded to examine all the papers furnished by the executive department relatively thereto, lundry papers and accounts furnished by the Treasury and War departments, with explanations of the same by the heads of those departments in person, to hear the testimony of witnesses upon oath, and written remarks by General St. Clair, upon the facts established by the whole evidence, and as the result of their inquiries, make the following REPORT:
The contract for the supplies of the army on the route from Fort Pitt, was made by Theodosius Fowler, with the Secretary of the Treasury, and bears date the twenty-eighth day of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, that at the same time a bond in the penalty of one hundred thousand dollars, with Walter Livingston and John Cochran, securities thereto, was entered into for the due execution of the contract.
That on the third day of January, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, the contract was wholly transferred from the said Fowler to William Duer, a copy of which transfer was lodged in the office of the Secretary of the Treasury; that by letter from the Secretary at War, bearing date the twenty-fifth of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, addressed to William Duer, it appears that he was considered as the contractor; that no correspondence appears to have taken place subsequently to that time between Theodosius Fowler and either the treasury or war departments—that on the sixth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, a contract was entered into by William Duer with the Secretary at War, for supplying the troops with provisions until their arrival at Fort Pitt, and at Fort Pitt, a bond was at the same time entered into by the said William Duer for the due execution of the said contract in the penalty of four thousand dollars, without any security whatsoever.
That the act making provision for the defence of the frontiers, received the signature of the President of the United States the third of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one—That General St. Clair was appointed commander in chief of the army destined for the expedition on the fourth day of the same month, and on the twenty-eighth left Philadelphia for Fort Pitt, at which place he arrived the sixteenth day of April, and from thence proceeded to Lexington, and from thence to Fort Washington, where he arrived on the fifteenth day of May.—At the time of the arrival of the General at Fort Washington, the garrison there consisted of seventy-five non-commissioned officers and privates fit for duty—the garrison at Fort Harmar of forty-five—at Fort Steuben of sixty-one—at Fort Knox of eighty-three—and on the fifteenth day of July, the whole of the first United States regiment, amounting to two hundred and ninety-nine non-commissioned officers and privates, arrived at Fort Washington under orders from the commander in chief. General Butler was appointed the second in command in the month of March, and immediately proceeded to make the necessary arrangements for the recruiting service; that he arrived in Baltimore in the state of Maryland the twentieth of April, and continued there till the thirtieth of the same month; that he arrived at Carlisle in the state of Pennsylvania on the ninth of May, and at Fort Pitt on the twenty second of the month. It appears that no monies for purchasing supplies were furnished at Carlisle, which was the place of rendezvous, for the enlisted soldiery, on the ninth of May; and that Mr. Smith, agent for the contractor, was actively engaged in furnishing supplies for the troops on credit.
It appears by letters from John Kean, another of the contractor's agents, that no monies had been received by him on the eighth of May; and it appears that on the twenty-third of March, there was advanced to William Duer, upon the last mentioned contract, from the treasury, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars; that there was advanced upon the first mentioned contract, the sum of seventy thousand dollars, in the following dates, to wit:
 March 22d 10,000 Dollars.  April 7th 15,000  April 25th 15,000  May 7th 20,000  July 20th 10,000 
It appears from the correspondence of General Butler to the Secretary at War, from the ninth of May to the ninth of June, repeated complaints were made of fatal mismanagements and neglects, in the quarter master's and military stores department, particularly as to tents, knap-sacks, camp kettles, cartridge boxes, pack saddles, &c. all of which articles were deficient in quantity, and bad in quality.
The pack saddles in particular were made in Philadelphia, which with the transportation, amounted to more than double the price at which they might have been procured at Fort Pitt, and were found upon examination to be unfit for use;—the arms sent forward appear not to have been duly examined, and arrived at Fort Pitt extremely out of order, and many totally unfit for use, which circumstance rendered repairs absolutely necessary, and added to the delay of the troops at Fort Pitt.
It appears that a great proportion of the powder supplied for the use of the army, was not of good quality, though an experiment was made by Major Ferguson at Fort Pitt with a howitz, who reported in favor of the quality of the powder. On the ninth of June General Neville, another of the contractor's agents, informed General Butler, that he had not at that time received any monies from the contractors, for the purchase of provisions, &c. for the troops, and was obliged to supply them on credit; that the country furnished provisions in abundance at a cheap rate, when money was had for the purchase. That shortly after this information was communicated to General Butler, at his request four hundred dollars were advanced to General Neville by the quarter master, for the purchase of provisions for the troops. The troops arrived at Fort Pitt in the following order, to wit:
 May 16th, Captain Slough, sixty-nine men.  May 18th, Captain Powers, seventy-eight men.  May 19th, Captain Cibbs, forty men: same day, Captain Guthrie, twenty-three.  May 25th, Captain Armstrong, seventy-six: same day, Captain Kirkwood, sixty-seven.  May 13th, Captain Snowden, one hundred and one.  June 2d, Captain Sparks, eighty-three.  June 3d, Captain Butler, sixty-one: same day, Captain Brook, eighty-two: same day, Captain Vanwearingen, eighty-eight.  June 5th, Captain Pike, seventy-three:—Total, including officers and privates, eight hundred and forty-two; and left that place in the following order—Major Ferguson with Capt. Armstrong's company, about the first of June. Captain Snowden, with the troops under his command, on the day of Major Gaither, with about five hundred men, 12th day of July; and on the 22d August the last of the troops under the command of Capt. Phelon, and General Butler with the Quartermaster-General, on the 26th August. 
It appears that General Butler had orders from the department at war to protect the frontiers with the troops under his command, and that the delays in sending forward the troops from Fort Pitt arose partly from that circumstance, and partly from the temporary want of supplies of provisions and other necessaries, and from the want of the necessary boats for their transportation, which were not in readiness as soon as the troops were. It appears that General Butler acted with ability, activity and zeal in
his command at Fort Pitt, and that the delays of the troops there cannot be imputed to his want of judgement, or his want of exertion.
The troops met with considerable difficulties and delays in going down the river, from the low state of the water, and arrived at Fort Washington in the following order—Capt. Munford from North-Carolina, with about fifty men, on the day of Major Ferguson with Capt. Armstrong's company, on the day of Major Gaither, with the troops under his command, on the day of Col. Darke, with the troops under his command, on the day of and the Kentucky militia on the day of
The army consisting of about two thousand non-commissioned officers and privates, moved from Fort Washington by orders from the commander in chief to a place about five or six miles from thence, called Ludlow's Station, where they continued till the seventeenth day of September, at which time the whole army amounted to about two thousand three hundred non-commissioned officers and privates fit for duty—That the price of rations at Fort Washington agreeably to contract was 6 3-4 90ths of a dollar per ration, the price of rations at Ludlow's Station was 15 1-4 90ths of a dollar per ration.
That the inducements of the commander in chief to this movement, appear to have been to furnish green forage for the horses and beef cattle of the army, to instruct the soldiery in field exercise and other necessary discipline, and to deprive them of the means of intoxication which were very plentifully supplied at Fort Washington, and used to an excessive degree by the soldiery, to correct the excessive use of which the most rigid attention to discipline was found incompetent.
Mr. Hodgdon was appointed quarter master general in the month of March, and continued at Philadelphia, until the 4th of June, he then proceeded to Fort Pitt, where he arrived the tenth of the same month—no sufficient causes have appeared to the committee to justify this delay, and his presence with the army appears to have been essentially necessary previously to that time, the duties of the commander in chief were much increased in consequence of the absence of the quarter master general and after a continued expectation of his arrival at Fort Washington, for more than six weeks, the commander in chief gave him express orders by letter to repair to camp without delay.
The receipt of the letter is acknowledged, but the orders contained therein were neither answered nor obeyed, and his arrival at camp was not until the tenth of September. The commander in chief until that time in addition to the duties of his office, discharged those of the quarter master general, and the military stores furnished by that department were so deficient from mismanagement and neglect, that many things essential to the movements of the army were either wholly made or repaired at Fort Washington, and even the tools for the artificers to work with; the quarter master particularly informed the commander in chief that two complete travelling forges were sent forward, and upon examination both of them were found to be without anvils, many other things equally necessary were either wholly omitted, or unfit for their intended use. There were six hundred and seventy-five stand of arms at Fort Washington the first of June, and most of them totally out of repair. The commander in chief appears to have been correct and attentive in all his communications with the Secretary at war, and to have discharged the various duties which devolved upon him with ability, activity and zeal.
The army moved from Ludlow's Station on the seventeenth day of September, and arrived at the place where Fort Hamilton is now erected, on the day of they employed about fifteen days building that fort, and then proceeded in their march to the place where Fort Jefferson is now erected, forty-four miles distant from Fort Hamilton, where they arrived on the day of October, and commenced their march from that place on the 24th of the same month—that the army at this time consisted of about non-commissioned officers and privates fit for duty; at this time the army had not more than three days supply of flour, and were sometimes at one fourth, and sometimes at one half allowance of that article, the deficiencies of which allowance were made up by in creasing the quantity of beef with which they were plentifully supplied. The army was delayed five or six days on the march from Fort Jefferson, for the want of provisions, and the season was so far advanced that sufficient green forage for the horses could not be procured, from which circumstances many of the horses were totally lost, and others rendered unfit for service.—
The orders to the commander in chief to proceed with the expedition, were express and unequivocal, so much so, as in the opinion of the committee to preclude the commander in chief from exercising any discretion relatively to that object.
On the 31st of October about sixty of the Kentucky militia deserted in a body, and the first regiment consisting of about three hundred effective men was detached with a view to cover a convoy of provisions which was expected and which it was supposed was in danger from the deserted militia, and to prevent further desertion—On the 3d of November—after detaching the first regiment the army consisted of about fourteen hundred effective men, and on the morning of the 4th about a half an hour after sunrise, a general attack was commenced, and in a few minutes thereafter, nearly the whole army was surrounded by the enemy, the action continued about four hours during which several charges were made by part of the army, which caused the enemy to give way but produced no good effect, the attack was unexpected, the troops having been just dismissed from the morning parade, it commenced upon the militia who were in advance of the main army, and who fled through the main army, without firing a gun, this circumstance threw the troops into some disorder which it appears they never completely recovered from during the action, the fire of the army was constant but not well directed, and it appears that a part of the troops behaved as well as could be expected from their state of discipline, and the manner and suddenness of the attack; the commander in chief appears to have been cool and deliberate in the whole of the action, and the officers in general active and intrepid—the whole order of march as far as the committee are capable of expressing an opinion, appears to have been judicious, and the ground for action well chosen; the retreat was disorderly in the extreme, after it commenced no orders were obeyed if any were given, the men having lost all regard of discipline or controul; all the precautions appear to have been taken for the safety and comfort of the wounded which the circumstances of the case would admit of.
The committee have had no competent evidence before them to ascertain the number of the enemy in action—there were various conjectures as to the number, from different persons from five hundred the lowest, to one thousand or twelve hundred the highest.
Mr. Barton a witness examined by the committee conversed with a chief at Niagara who was in the action, and was by him informed that the number of the enemy in action was one thousand and forty and that six hundred more had convened, but were engaged in hunting, at the time of the action. He was also informed that the enemy had not collected in any considerable numbers until a few days before the action, this information appears to be corroborated by some other circumstances sufficient to induce a belief of the fact in the committee.
The Contractors for supplies agreeably to the terms of contract were to furnish horses, &c. for the transportation of the supplies, in this condition of the contract, there was a total failure, which compelled the commander in chief to direct between six and seven hundred horses to be purchased by Israel Ludlow, one of the contractor's agents, to draw bills on Mr. Duer, the acting contractor for payment, which bills were
endorsed by the commander in chief, to the amount of about seventeen thousand dollars, were protested by the contractor, and paid at the treasury; the persons employed by the agents of the contractors to drive the horses, appear to have been totally unacquainted with that business, and from the want of bells, hopples, and other necessaries of that kind, as well as from other gross mismanagement, many of the horses were lost, and others rendered unfit for service;—from which causes there were not pack horses sufficient to transport the necessary quantity of flour from Fort Washington for the use of the army on their march, this circumstance retarded the execution of the expedition.
The officers agreeably to the terms of contract had an election, of drawing the whole of the rations, to which their rank entitled them, or of receiving the contract price of them in cash, the contractor's agents not being furnished with money for this purpose, gave rise to a general order, by which the officer was directed to receive a certificate from the contractor's agent called a due bill, of one of which bills the following is a copy:—"Due Major H. Gaither one hundred and seventy-three complete rations on the route to Miami village as appears by Wilson's certificate." MATT. EARNEST, for WM. DUER.
Fort-Washington, Nov. 27th, 1792.
This due bill issued upon the officer's signing some acknowledgement of satisfaction for his whole retained rations, which acknowledgement of satisfaction forms a voucher for settlement to the contractor, with the treasury department; and the officer is refused payment for these due bills at the pay office. All casualties by which these evidences of debt become lost or destroyed, are the gain of the contractor and the loss of the officer.
It is suggested by the Secretary of the Treasury, though not with positive certainty, that a sufficient sum will be found due from the treasury to the contractors upon a final settlement, to cover all these debts to the officers; the general order which had the operation before stated, continued in force about five or six weeks, and was abolished about the 19th of October. The privates of the levies received but three dollars pay each, from the time of their respective enlistments to the time of their respective discharges, and were actually discharged without further pay or settlement; notes of discharge were given them, specifying the time of their service, and bearing indorsements, that some advancements had been made to them in account, without stating the amount, the object of which is suggested to have been to prevent transfers, the intended effect was not produced by the measure; the notes were sold for trifling considerations, the real sums due on the notes were various, from ten to twenty-five dollars, and they were frequently sold for one dollar, or one gallon of whikey; the monies for the pay of the levies did not leave Philadelphia till the 4th of December, nor arrive at Fort-Washington till the 3d of January, 1792, some time after the last insisted levies were known to be entitled to their discharges: two reasons have been assigned by the Secretary at War for this delay of payment, the one, because there was no regular Paymaster to the army, and the difficulties of transmitting monies at so great a distance to the army, in consequence of the want of such an officer; the other, because it was supposed the army would be at that time at the Miami village, so far advanced in the wilderness, as not to admit of the practicability of discharging the levies, the total defeat of the army not having been previously counted upon.
The cloathing for the levies appears to have been of a very inferior quality, particularly coats, hats, and shoes, the last of which in many cases lasted not more than four days, and better cloathing was furnished them upon their enlistments into the regular service, which was for a time countenanced by the commander in chief.
Various modes appear to have been pursued by the officers in enlisting the levies, which occasioned great uneasiness and some confusion; a considerable part of the Virginia battalion was so insisted, that the terms of their enlistments appear to have expired the 1st of November: the orders to the recruiting serjeants appear not to have been sufficiently explicit upon this point—whether the terms of enlistment were to commence at the time of enlistment, or at the arrival at a place of rendezvous. The militia appear to have been composed principally of substitutes, and totally ungovernable, and regardless of military duty or subordination. It appears that the commander in chief had it in contemplation to commence the expedition at least one month earlier than it was commenced, with the force he then had, which was not very different from the real force in action; but was prevented for the want of the quarter-master and contractor, and in consequence of the extreme deficiencies and derangements of the business of those departments, the person sent forward by the quarter-master being totally incompetent for the business, and the contractor's agents not being sufficiently supplied with money to enable them to execute their duties.
It appears to the committee, that in the wilderness where vegetables are not to be had, and the duties of the soldier uncommonly hard, the rations allowed by law, if completely supplied, are insufficient. This circumstance, with others, produced discontent and desertion among the soldiers.
It appears to the committee that there were appropriated for the use of the war department, for the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, the sum of six hundred and fifty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty-one dollars, and sixty-one cents, and that there have been advanced by the treasury to the war department, upon that appropriation, five hundred and seventy-five thousand, nine hundred and six dollars, and fifty-seven cents, to wit:
  dollars cents    1791 February advanced 15,000  March do. 46,002 22  April do. 100,106 22  May do. 80,109 80  June do. 55,387 44  July do. 14,105 39  August do. 14,554 59  September do. 14,796 53  October do. 184 81  November do. 107 28  1792 January do. 33,753  February do. 43,562 61  March do. 1,741 16  
 Amounting to 419,311 1  To which add monies borrowed from the bank of North America on loan without interest, 156,595 56  575,906 57 
And that the treasury has always been in readiness to make the requisite advances upon the request of the Secretary at War. It does not appear to the committee in what manner, and to what amount these advancements have been disbursed, the accounts not having been yet settled at the treasury—nor was it possible, from the nature of the case, that they could at this time, have received any conclusive or satisfactory information on that point.

From the foregoing state of facts, the committee suggest the following as the principal causes, in their opinion, of the failure of the late expedition, under Major General St. Clair.
THE delay in furnishing the materials and estimates for, and in passing the act for the protection of the frontiers, the time after the passing of which was hardly sufficient to complete and discipline an army for such an expedition, during the summer months of the same year.
The delays consequent upon the gross and various mismanagements and neglects in the quarter-master's and contractor's departments; the lateness of the season at which the expedition was undertaken, the green forage having been previously destroyed by the frost, so that a sufficiency of subsistence for the horses necessary for the army could not be procured.
The want of discipline and experience in the troops.
The committee conceive it but justice to the Commander in Chief to say, that in their opinion, the failure of the late expedition can in no respect be imputed to his conduct, either at any time before or during the action; but that as his conduct in all the preparatory arrangements was marked with peculiar ability and zeal, so his conduct during the action furnished strong testimonies of his coolness and intrepidity.
The committee suggest as reasons for leaving the number of the troops at particular periods, and the dates of some facts blank, the want of sufficient time to complete the report with minuteness, and in some instances, the want of the necessary evidence.
The said report being read, Resolved, That this House will early in the next session proceed to take the same into consideration.
Extract from the Journal, JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8.
A message from the President of the United States, by Mr. Lear, informed the House that he had this day approved and signed two acts, which originated in the House, viz. An act supplementary to the act making provision for the debt of the United States; and an act making compensations to the commissioners of loans for extraordinary expenses.
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, informed the House, that they have passed an act respecting the government of the territory of the United States north-west and south of the river Ohio.
The committee on enrolled bills reported as truly enrolled the following bills: An act making certain appropriations therein specified—An act respecting the government of the territory of the United States north-west and south of the river Ohio—An act respecting the claim of J. B. Cutting—Also, a resolve directing printed clearances of particular form for the collectors of the United States.
The Speaker signed the above bills and resolve: the same being laid before the President, a message was received by Mr. Secretary Lear, informing the House that they had received his approbation and signature.
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed the House, that the President had notified the Senate that he had approved and signed two acts which originated in the Senate—An act to provide for a copper coinage—and An act to compensate the services of the late Colonel George Gibson.
The Secretary also informed the House, that the Senate having completed the business before them, were about to adjourn.
A message was sent to inform the Senate, that the House having completed the business before them, are about to adjourn.
On motion of Mr. Smith, it was ordered that the clerk procure such of the laws of the several states as are not already in his office.
The Speaker then adjourned the House, to meet again on the first Monday of November next, according to law.
PARIS. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, FEBRUARY 26.
Marshal Luckner was introduced amid the applause of the Assembly, and presented an Address which the Minister at War read for him.
"The King having called me to Paris, I eagerly avail myself of my stay there to renew my professions of respect and gratitude to the National Assembly: You have concurred by a decree in the honourable mark of esteem and confidence, which the King has been pleased to grant me. My life is the property of the country that has adopted me; and I shall acknowledge no glory but what I may acquire by associating myself in the triumph of the French, if their laws and their liberty are threatened. To consecrate without reserve the remainder of a laborious life to so grand and so just a cause, will be the best proof of my profound gratitude to the National Assembly and the King."
"In concert with the general officers of the garrison of Strasbourg, I have written to the Minister at War, to inform him of the situation of the officers of my army, who have nothing to subsist upon but their pay. No complaint from them has reached my ear; but their resignation, when they find themselves in real distress, makes it more peculiarly the duty of their General to make known their situation to the National Assembly. They have not the half of their pay at their own disposal; and the officers of the cavalry, on whom there are stoppages for the purchase of their horses, have considerably less."
"I may be allowed to flatter myself, that to lay before the Representatives of the French people, the embarrassment of a part of their defenders, will be sufficient to procure the redress to be expected from their attention and their justice."
"I shall communicate to the Minister at War, in writing, the measures which I think necessary to assure the success of the French armies. Permit me only to bear testimony to the National Assembly of the good order that reigns among the troops under my command. The soldiers display their patriotism by their spirit and their strict attention to discipline."
The President returned an answer to this address, and the Assembly ordered it to be inserted in their minutes.
LONDON, February 28.
We have heard of "proud days for England!" But what a truly proud day was Monday last for Mr. Pitt!—A flourishing Exchequer, an army and navy establishment to be reduced, and a large annual sum to be reserved for paying off the National Debt, and the public to be eased of 200,000l. annually in taxes!
The enemies of the Minister affect to say, that he takes off taxes merely to increase his popularity. That popularity should be the consequence of his having acted so admirably for the public interest, is only ascribing to the people of this country a very moderate share indeed of penetration, honesty, and common sense.
FRANCE, the great centre to which every political eye is still turned, continues to be agitated by all the turbulence and fluctuation incident to democratical government. The National Assembly sometimes bully the Emperor, and at others affect circumspection and caution; yet the general temper of the nation, inquisitive and disturbed, tends to action. But if they should in reality make war on Germany, from whence are they to draw their supplies? If the present revenue of France falls short of the expenditure in times of peace, how inadequate must it be to the public exigencies in time of war? This reasoning appears plausible: and yet, if a war against the German Princes confederated against France and Liberty should take place, it might be found to be fallacious. There is at present a general reluctance throughout the provinces to pay the taxes. Taxes are voted by the Assembly, but evaded by the people. They do not see the connection between taxes and liberty so readily as the connection between taxes and war. Taxes are as necessary to liberty as they are to war; for there can be no secure and permanent liberty without a fixed and regular government, nor any fixed and regular government without a revenue to support it. But the nation at large do not discern this truth. They rather fancy that there is a natural affinity between freedom and exemption from all taxation. Though, therefore, the French are not a sordid or avaricious, but an open and a generous people, and though their vows in favor of liberty are sincere and ardent, yet they do not exert the nerve of wealth [Facultats] so much as they would do in the case of a war with Despotism, where they would readily perceive money to be necessary. Nor, were their resources in money deficient, would the daring Genius of Liberty sink down in despondent inaction. The Americans had little, and next to no money; yet their councils held always a sublime course, and aspired to the loftiest object of ambition—the establishment of liberty, by equal representation, for the good of mankind. If they wanted silver and gold, they contributed their personal service; they gave such things as they had; horses, waggons, provisions and other ammunition. The naked American, inspired by the unconquerable spirit of liberty, found means to elude the grasp of the proud and powerful Briton, covered with a coat of mail, and glorying in his strength.
SHIP NEWS.
Table with 3 columns: ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Columns: Ship Name, Origin, Destination. Includes entries for Brig Sally, Lydia, Georgia Packet, Molly, Schooner Industry, Sloop Betsey, Hope, Clary, Nancy, Friendship.
Philadelphia, May 12.
The substance of the last accounts from France, received by the Louisa, Capt. Birkhead, is, that assignats were at 40 per cent. discount in exchange for French crowns—That disturbances had taken place in Marseilles: the Spanish arms were taken from the door of the Consul of that kingdom—that the Consul had in consequence taken his departure—that the national troops had disarmed the Swiss regiment of Hernest—that this regiment marched to Roquemaure, where they were received as if they had attempted to destroy the nation, passed the night in the open air, and were scarcely able to procure victuals for their money. The only crime alledged against them is, their having always been subordinate to their officers, and during their stay in Marseilles, had prevented the merchants from being plundered of their property.—That a huckster woman having spoken disrespectfully of the national troops who had performed the service of disarming the Swiss, was thrown into prison—but the people forced the prison doors, took her out, and hung her in presence of her husband, at the lamp post—the first female victim to the revolution.—That wheat and flour are much wanted at Marseilles, and that the crop now in the ground affords a very unfavorable prospect—That American wheat would fetch fifty livres per charge, and superfine flour sixty livres per barrel.
Thursday last the PRESIDENT of the United States, attended by Mr. Secretary LEAR, sat out on a tour to the Southward.—We hear that the PRESIDENT will be at the Seat of Government by the 10th June.
According to the list in the first page of this paper, one Resolve and forty-four Acts were passed by Congress at the late session.
By a proclamation of his Excellency Governor Woodley, dated the 12th April, 1792, the importation of lumber, of any sort, until the first day of August next ensuing, and of flour, corn, corn meal, and ship stuff, until the 20th day of May next ensuing, and no longer, from any island in these seas under the dominion of any foreign European sovereign or state, is permitted into St. Christopher's.
Although the proposition for assuming the residue of the State Debts was not adopted at the late session, yet, as it will undoubtedly be renewed at the next, there is the highest probability that it will then succeed. The principle on which the former assumption was made, applying with equal if not greater force to the debts unprovided for, the strongest reasons exist for the holders of the evidences of State Debts not to alienate them, for any consideration below their just value.
The Charleston Tontine being converted into a Bank, by the title of the South-Carolina Bank, on the 28th ult. THOMAS JONES, Esq. was unanimously elected President of the institution.
Passengers in the brig Georgia Packet, Capt. Burroughs, from Charleston, arrived yesterday:—Mr. Poague, Mr. Parry, Miss Parry, Mr. Read, Mr. Armour, Mr. Stutton, Mr. Abercrombie, Mr. Torrey, Mr. Canfield and Mr. Rittenhouse.
Married, Thursday evening, Mr. SAMUEL BLODGET, jun. of Boston, to Miss REBECCA SMITH, daughter of the Rev. Doctor WM. SMITH, of this city.
Died, in Charleston, Mrs. HENRIETTA RUTLEDGE, wife of EDWARD RUTLEDGE, Esq.—Also, at her plantation, C. C. Parish, Mrs. SARAH RUTLEDGE, aged 68.
The length of the Report in this day's Gazette, has excluded sundry articles which would otherwise have appeared.
* * In the middle column, third page of our last, for "unconstitutional," read "constitutional."
By the Post-Office Act, after the first of June next, newspapers sent by the mail are subject to postage of one cent each paper, for 100 miles carriage, or less—and for all distances more than an hundred miles, one cent and an half each paper. The postage to be paid by the Subscribers, at the office where the papers are delivered.—As it is optional with Subscribers to receive their papers through the medium of the Post Office, or to contract with the Stage Proprietors, the patrons of this Gazette, within a short distance of this city, may find it advantageous to adopt the latter mode.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Type, Price. Includes entries for 6 per Cents, 3 per Cents, Deferred, Indents, Final Settlements, Half shares Bank U. S., Shares Bank North-America.
Bank of the United States, MAY 8, 1792.
RESOLVED, That the specie proportion of the third payment due on the first Monday of July next, on each share of the Bank of the United States, may be made at the Bank, or at any of the offices of discount and deposit; and that transfers of public debt on account of such payment, may be made on the books of the Treasury of the United States, or in the office of any of the Commissioners of Loans in any of the States, certificates of which transfers to be deposited in the office in which the specie proportion of such payment shall be made.
Resolved, That the transfer books be closed fourteen days previous to the first days of July and January of each year.
By Order, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.

Bank of the United States.
MARCH 31, 1792.
RESOLVED, That the Stockholders be, and hereby are, authorised to compleat their Shares by payment at any time before the periods required by the law of incorporation.
Resolved, That each Share so compleated, shall be entitled to draw a dividend of the profits of the Bank, from and after the first day of the month next succeeding the day of compleating such Shares.
Resolved, That so much of the quarter's interest upon the Public Debt transferred to compleat any Share as aforesaid, as shall have accrued before the first day of the month next succeeding the completion of such Share, shall be received by the Bank, and paid to the persons who shall have transferred the same.
By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
AT A MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, MARCH 30, 1792.
RESOLVED, That the Offices of Discount and Deposit be authorised to receive of Stockholders the 3d and 4th Specie Payments on their Shares in the Capital Stock of the Bank, and that the Cashiers of the said offices give duplicate receipts for such payments, one of which receipts, accompanied with evidence of a transfer of public debt sufficient to complete said shares, upon being produced at the Bank, shall entitle such Stockholders to certificates for full shares, and to all the benefits of the Resolutions of the Board of Directors passed the 21st instant, relative to completing shares by payment at any time before the periods required by the law of incorporation.
By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
JONES & BURROUGHS,
STOCK-BROKERS,
STATE-STREET, BOSTON.
BUY and sell every kind of the Stocks of the United States, on Commission, by Private Contract, and Public Auction. Those gentlemen who may be pleased to favor them with their commands, may rely on fidelity, secrecy and dispatch.
Boston, March, 1792. (iawgm)
GEORGETOWN (POTOWMAC.)
THE SUBSCRIBER HATH OPENED A
House of Entertainment,
At the Sign of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, In that commodious House lately occupied by Thomas Beale, Esq. Mayor of this Town.
He has furnished himself with a stock of the best Liquors, and will use every exertion to give satisfaction by procuring, in their season, the best of every species of provision, and having the same served up in the most neat and elegant manner.
(iawitjul.) GEORGE H. LEIGH.
LIEUTENANT'S OFFICE, APRIL 17, 1792.
NOTIFICATION.
To the Militia of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia and Northern Liberties, and the Districts of Moyamensing and Passyunk.
THAT they are to meet and exercise in Battalion, under their respective Officers, on the following days, commencing the first Monday in May:
 The Artillery, and First Battalion, on the 7th day of May,  Second Battalion, on the 8th do.  Third Battalion, on the 9th do.  Fourth Battalion, on the 10th do.  Fifth Battalion, on the 11th do.  Sixth Battalion, on the 12th do.  Seventh Battalion, on the 13th do. 
THOMAS PROCTER,
Lieutenant of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia.
The present Officers commanding Battalions, and the Officers of the several Companies, are to perform their duties respectively on the above field days.
Stock Brokers Office,
No. 45, Great Dock-Street, NEW-YORK.
THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE and SALE of STOCKS on COMMISSION, Begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States will be strictly attended to.
LEONARD BLEECKER.
May 2. (t.f.)
APRIL 27, 1792.
TO BE SOLD AT PRIVATE SALE,
At any time between this date and the first day of July ensuing,
A very valuable FARM,
PLEASANTLY situated, and bounded on the East by the river Delaware, 17 miles above Philadelphia; containing 203 acres, 40 whereof is first rate Timothy Meadow, which may be watered in a dry time; 25 acres, a rich low bottom, may be made very good meadow at an easy expence. The upland lays in the lap of about 50 acres of rich out marsh, from which (by an easy ascent to the cleared fields) 130 acres of excellent upland meadow may be made, at a moderate expence; 30 acres of woodland. A never failing stream of water runs through this tract, on which is a seat for a mill, and in which is good sport with the net and hook; plenty of rabbits and small game; and on the flats, abundance of wild ducks in the season. A good mansion-house, garden, and necessary out-buildings; an orchard of the best kinds of apple, pear, peach and cherry trees, bearing; a crop of wheat and rye in the ground, and a spring crop putting in. Apply to Dr. JOHN GIBBONS, in Arch-Street, Philadelphia; Mr. HENRY WATERMAN, at the Washington, on the Bristol road; or to Mr. JOSEPH BALDWIN, at Neshannoy Ferry, or Mr. BARNET DUREEN, same place, Bucks County. The purchaser, paying one third of the price down, may have a term of years to pay the residue, paying interest. May 5. (cp.t.f.)
THE EDITOR of the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES, most earnestly requests that those of his subscribers, whose arrearages have been accumulating for more than twelve months, would make payment as soon as possible—at farthest, before the first day of June next.
Those persons who shall be disposed to patronize this GAZETTE after the Post-Office Law shall go into operation, will please to signify their intention to the Deputy Post-Masters in the United States, who are requested to forward such subscriptions as may be received, to the Editor, previous to the said first of June.—The terms of subscription are Three Dollars per annum, exclusive of postage—One half to be paid at the time of subscribing, the other half to be advanced at the expiration of the first six months.
WANTED, the First Volume of the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES—for which Six Dollars will be paid by the EDITOR.
TO comprize in the present volume of this Gazette all the Laws which are and may be enacted by Congress in the present session, it will be necessary to extend the numbers to the last of May. The fourth volume, therefore, will commence with the beginning of June—and will be printed on paper of larger dimensions than the present, provided the Editor's receipts of arrearages shall enable him to do it—the price to continue at Three Dollars per annum.
Three years are nearly expired since this publication first made its appearance; during which, scarcely a single instance has occurred of remissness in punctually dispatching the papers from the Printing-Office—their failures in reaching the subscribers, have been owing to causes which were entirely beyond the controul of the publisher. Under the new regulations of the Post-Office Department, the Subscribers for the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES may therefore promise themselves the advantage of the strictest punctuality on the part of the Editor—which, aided by that energy we have the greatest reason to expect will distinguish the Superintendence of the Gentleman now at the head of the Post-Office Department, will ensure a steady transmission of Newspapers to all parts of the Union.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, MARCH 31, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the interest for the quarter, ending this day, on the FUNDED DEBT of the United States, standing on the books of the Treasury, and of the Commissioner of Loans for this State, will be paid at the Bank of the United States.
TO BE SOLD,
THAT large, elegant and convenient HOUSE, in which the subscriber now lives, situate in Elizabeth-Town, in the state of New-Jersey, within 16 miles of the city of New-York. It is finished in the very best manner, and peculiarly convenient for a gentleman with a large family. The Lot contains about four acres of land—the Garden is large, well laid out, and stocked with a good assortment of fruit. For further particulars, enquire of WILLIAM BRADFORD, Esq. in Philadelphia, JOHN PINTARD, Esq. in New-York, or the Subscriber, on the Premises. May 2. 1792. (iawgw) ELIAS BOUDINOT.
ADVERTISEMENT.
BY VIRTUE of an order from JOHN HOLMES, EDMUND WEATHERBY and BENJAMIN HOLMES, Esqrs. Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Salem, directing us to make Sale of so much of the Lands of BENJAMIN CRIPPS, in the Township of Manington, in the County of Salem aforesaid, as will defray the expenses attending the division or partition of Lands held in common between ABRAHAM HEWLING and the aforesaid Benjamin Cripps, agreeably to an act of Assembly, &c. In pursuance of the above order, will be Sold by public Vendue, a tract or piece of Land (or as much thereof as will defray the above expenses) being part of the above, situate and bounded by Lands of Job Shreeve, the aforesaid Abraham Hewlings, and others, on seventh day 26th of May next, 1792.—At the house of Henry Sparks, Inn-keeper in Salem aforesaid—by WILLIAM GOODWIN, JOHN WISTAR and THOMAS CLEMENT, Commissioners. 20th April, 1792. 4w.cp.
A LOTTERY,
TO raise the sum of £ 750 for the purpose of repairing the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New-Brunswick, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, passed November 1791.
SCHEME.
   1 Prize of 2000 Dollars is 2000     1 1000 1000   2 500 1000   5 200 1000   10 100 1000   80 50 1500   90 20 1800   1675 4 6700   1814 Prizes. 16000   3320 Blanks.  
5334 Tickets, at 3 Dollars each, is 16002 Dolls.
This Lottery is composed of 5334 Tickets, not two Blanks to one Prize, and subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. which is more favorable to adventurers than any Lottery yet offered to the public—and it being of such evident utility, that it cannot be doubted but the undertaking will meet with the most liberal support.
The drawing will positively commence on the second Monday in July, or sooner if the Tickets are disposed of, in the city of New-Brunswick, under the inspection of Col. John Bayard, President of said city; James Parker, Esq. Mayor of the city of Amboy; and Archibald Mercer, Esq. Deputy Governor of the Manufacturing Society of New-Jersey.
Tickets to be had of the following persons, who are duly appointed Managers, are under oath, and have given security for the faithful performance of their duty.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid immediately after the drawing of the Lottery.
JOHN PARKER, PETER KEENON, ANTHONY W. WHITE, Managers.
N. B. Those prizes which are not demanded within six months after the drawing of the Lottery, will be considered as a generous donation to the Church.
* * Adventurers in the above Lottery have a chance of more than 3 per cent. per month for their money. To accommodate all those who may be disposed to purchase Tickets, letters directed to P. KEENON, Manager, and Postmaster, at New-Brunswick, and enclosing good bills, will be attended to, and Tickets forwarded on receipt of such letters. New-Brunswick, April 20, 1792.
JUST PUBLISHED,
AND TO BE SOLD BY THOMAS DOBSON, Bookseller, At the Stone House in Second-Street, The First Volume of HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS:
Consisting of STATE PAPERS, and other authentic documents, intended as materials for an History of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
BY EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M.
Member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The design of this compilation being to preserve and exhibit a regular series of the most important and authentic documents relating to the history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time, it must be peculiarly interesting to all who wish to acquire a thorough knowledge of this subject. April 4. (cp.um)
Farms & Mills for Sale & Lease.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE FARM, situate on the Turnpike Road leading from Baltimore-Town to Rifter's-Town, about 6 1/2 miles from the former; containing about 430 or 440 acres of good farming land, 70 or 80 acres of which are excellent grass ground; about 170 acres are cleared, upwards of twenty whereof are made meadow; the residue abounding in good timber, and other trees for enclosure and fuel; There are two apple-orchards thereon, and buildings that may do, for the present, for an Overseer and his family.
Also, a Tract of LAND, containing about 650 acre, within two miles of the same road, and about 18 or 20 miles distant from Baltimore-Town; about 700 acres whereof are cleared, well enclosed and improved by culture and with valuable buildings, some excellent meadows, near 20 acres, made.
Also, a small FARM, on a public road leading to said town, about the same distance therefrom as the last described land; containing 103 acres, whereon is an excellent apple-orchard, but no other improvements of much value.
The two first above-mentioned Farms are furnished with flax, Rock of each kind, and all necessary implements of husbandry, which may be had with them; they are sown with wheat, which promises an abundant crop;—the business of the last of the two has been, for nine years, and is now, conducted by a skilful industrious Manager, who may be continued in the management, on terms.
TO BE LET,
A FARM, on the said Turnpike Road, leading from Rifter's-Town to Winchester, Taney-Town, Frederick, and Hager's-Town; whereon is erected a large commodious brick house, that has been used for some years past as a tavern, and, by a tenant qualified for that business, could be made an excellent stage; within a few rods of which, and on the main Falls of Potapico, is also erected a GRIST-MILL, now in good order for Merchant-Work, with a new SAW-MILL, and Land therewith.
For the title and terms of sale, and the lease, of all or any part of the above valuable property, apply to
THOMAS JONES.
Baltimore County, March 7, 1792.
[61]
FOR SALE, BLOOMSBURY,
THAT elegant SEAT at the Falls of Delaware, in the vicinity of Trenton, in New-Jersey, occupied for many years past by the subscriber; containing upwards of 200 acres of land, besides a tract of wood-land of about 185 acres, at the distance of two miles. The farm is divided by the main street leading from Trenton to Lambertville, and Philadelphia, into two parts, nearly equal in quantity; the easterly part being arable land, is laid off in convenient fields, and in good farming order. The other part, bounded by the said street on the east, and by the river on the west, forms a square; which, from the combined effect of situation and improvement, is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful and desirable seats in the state. The mansion-house is a handsome, well-finished brick building, 50 by 40, containing four rooms on each floor, with excellent cellars, and a two story brick kitchen; and commanding a very extensive and pleasing view of the river, both above and below, as well as including the falls, and also of Trenton and the neighbouring seats and improvements on both sides of the river. Among the out-buildings are a new stone coach-house and stables, sufficient to contain six carriages and ten horses, accommodated with a cutting and feeding room, and a capacious loft for hay; adjoining these is a very complete granary, rat proof, and a stone cow-house, upwards of 100 feet in length, containing thirty-one paved stalls, over which is a roomy loft for hay, &c. Adjoining the court-yard of the mansion-house, is a garden of about two acres, extending towards the river, in the highest state of culture, and abounding with a rich collection of the choicest fruits of almost every kind, and several large asparagus beds, highly manured. At a convenient distance from the mansion-house, and nearly in the centre of the square, is a new, well-built, stone farm-house, accommodated with a large cheese-room, spring-house, garden, &c. a complete stone smoke-house, corncribs, waggon-house, a capacious ice-house, and every other necessary out-building. The ground is properly divided into small fields, all well watered, highly improved, and chiefly under the most approved grass. This square has produced annually, for several years past, upwards of sixty tons of the best hay, besides supporting through the summer season twenty to thirty horned cattle, and eight or ten horses. It contains also two bearing orchards of good fruit. The river abounds, in the proper seasons, with great plenty of all kinds of fish usually found in fresh water in this climate, and with a variety of wild-fowl; both of which may afford a pleasing amusement to the sportsman, as well as a convenient addition to the elegance and variety of his table. The whole of the land, except the wood-land, is inclosed and divided by good fences, great part of which is formed of red cedar posts, and rails of chestnut and white cedar. The purchaser may have the improved square separately, or the whole together, as may best suit him. There is an inexhaustible quantity of good building stone on the river shore. The purchase money, if well secured, and the interest punctually paid, will not be demanded for many years.
Any person desirous of viewing the premises, may be gratified on application to SAMUEL W. STOCKTON, Esq. of Trenton, or Mr. INALLMAN, who at present occupies the farm-house and part of the land—and may know the price on application to the subscriber, at No. 213, South Second-Street, opposite to the New-Market, in Philadelphia. JOHN COX.
PROPOSALS
FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
SYSTEM for the DISCIPLINE of the ARTILLERY in the UNITED STATES of AMERICA;
OR, THE YOUNG ARTILLERIST'S POCKET COMPANION. IN THREE PARTS.
Part 1. CONTAINING the duty and practice of light field artillery.
Part 2. Containing the theory and practice of heavy artillery: to which will be added, an extract of a Treatise on the origin and principle of Courts-Martial, wrote by an experienced Officer in the line, and who did duty as Judge-Advocate in America.
Part 3. Laboratory duty; containing a great variety of directions for composition, and the method of making artificial fire-works, and the formation of ammunition for the different kinds of ordnance.
By WILLIAM STEVENS, Esq.
An Officer in the American Artillery through the whole of the late revolution, and since in the Militia.
CONDITIONS.
This work to be printed on good paper with a handsome type, neatly bound and lettered, in three pocket volumes, containing upwards of one thousand pages; illustrated with a great variety of explanatory plates, executed by able artists.
The price to subscribers, One Dollar each volume—to non-subscribers, One French Crown each volume: and those who subscribe for six sets, shall have a seventh gratis.
This work shall be published as soon as five hundred copies are subscribed for.
Subscription papers will be lodged with the principal Printers and Booksellers in the United States of America.