Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-03-23 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 85 of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1793.
[Whole No. 407.]
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, March 1.
In committee of the whole, Mr. Mischenberg in the chair, on the 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th resolutions, respecting the official conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury, for which see Gazette of the 6th inst.
(CONTINUED.)
MR. MADISON. He wished not, he said, to waste a moment of the small portion of time left, by regretting its insufficiency for a full discussion of the subject before the committee. But he thought it due to truth, and to the honorable and independent motives of his colleague (Mr. Giles) in proposing the resolutions, to remark that the lateness of the day to which they had been postponed did not justify the strictures which had been made on it. If the delay was not to be considered as unavoidable, some blame at least would fall elsewhere. The enquiries in which the whole business originated, had been moved by his colleague and passed the house some weeks ago. The reports in answer to these enquiries had not been finally made and printed a single day before the present resolutions were submitted to the house. He admitted that it might have been impracticable to report the information called for as early as was desired by the house: He was sensible of the anxiety that would be naturally felt by the officer called upon, to present every consideration that might place his conduct in the most favorable point of view: yet with all these allowances, it was impossible to deny that the reports contained things which did not belong to them, and therefore consumed time which belonged to the period for discussion. He would mention one instance on which there could not possibly be a difference of opinion; viz. the vindication, formally undertaken by the Secretary, of the policy of borrowing money abroad. Whether this policy was right or wrong, the legislature had themselves decided in favor of it; and it was the duty of the Secretary in complying with the orders of the house, to inform the house, how the law had been executed, not why it had been made; to explain his own conduct, not to justify that of the legislature.
It had been asked why the call for information had not been sooner made? The answer was obvious and simple. It was not sooner perceived by the house, that there was such a necessity for it. The want of information was first suggested by the bill for paying two millions of dollars to the bank, altho' 200,000 only were immediately due, and for authorizing another foreign loan to the amount of two millions. From the dawn of light thrown by some circumstances incident to the occasion, on the darkness in which the house had remained, proceeded those doubts and enquiries which had led to the information now possessed. His colleague had great merit in having brought about this development. He had rendered a service highly valuable to the legislature, and no less important and acceptable to the public. One good effect of the information had been, that it prevented the passage of the bill for borrowing 2,000,000 of dollars as an anticipated payment to the bank. The bill had dropped from the hand of its patron with the first light that broke in upon the house. What other measures would have been prevented or varied, if a like knowledge of our funds and finances had been sooner obtained, was matter of serious consideration.
Another consequence of the reports taken together, was that the face of them presented to his colleague, an evidence of the charges contained in the resolutions. Whether at so late a day it was best to leave the subject as exhibited by the various documents in print, for the examination and opinion of the public, or to press it on the consideration of the house, was a point which every member had a right to decide for himself. His colleague had viewed the positions stated in his motion, as too important to be suspended; and as supported by such clear and authentic proofs, that a final portion of time would suffice for the subject. Under this impression, what was his right became his duty; and he had discharged it by offering his resolutions to the house.
As the house had refused to commit the two introductory resolutions which established the rule of judgment to be applied to the case, and the last also, which declared the inference to be drawn: the task of the committee was limited to a simple enquiry into the facts stated. They were to make out and report a special verdict of these, and leave it to the house to pronounce the proper judgment arising from them.
The resolution immediately before the committee imported "that the Secretary of the Treasury had violated the law passed on the 4th of August, 1792, making appropriations of certain monies," first , "by applying a certain portion of the principal borrowed, to the payment of interest on that principal" — secondly , "by drawing part of the same monies into the United States, without the instruction of the President."
The questions here are questions of fact; and whatever quality may be attached by dif-
ferent gentlemen to the several facts, it would seem as if the facts themselves are too clearly supported by the reports of the Secretary, and the documents attending them, to be denied or controverted.
The law of August 4, 1792, authorised the President to cause to be borrowed 12,000,000 of dollars to be applied to the foreign debt of the United States. A subsequent law of August 12, 1792, authorised another loan of two millions of dollars, to be applied to the domestic debt of the United States.
A power to make these loans was delegated on the 28th August, 1792, to the Secretary by a general commission in the usual form, referring to the several acts above-mentioned; but without any farther discrimination of the loans to be made. As the law however for applying loans to the foreign object was prior in date, the presumption would rather be that it was to have a priority of execution; that the first money borrowed was to belong to the first object provided for. It was unnecessary however to dwell on this consideration, because the President had removed all uncertainty by the precise explanations and instructions which accompanied the power to the Secretary, and which ought in truth to be deemed a part of the commission.
The instruction having been more than once read to the committee, he would content himself with referring to it. [The part referred to is in the following words, "I do hereby make known to you, that in the execution of the said trust , you are to observe and follow the orders and directions following, viz. Except where otherwise especially directed by me, you shall employ in the negotiation of any foreign loan or loans which may be made in any foreign country, William Short, Esq. you shall borrow or cause to be borrowed, on the best terms which shall be found practicable, and within the limitations prescribed by law, as to time of repayment and rate of interest, such sum or sums as shall be sufficient to discharge, as well all installments or parts of the principal of the foreign debt, which now are due, or shall become payable to the end of the year 1791, as all interest and arrears of interest which now are or shall become due, in respect to the said debt, to the same end of the year 1791. And you shall apply, or cause to be applied, the monies which shall be so borrowed, with all convenient dispatch, to the payment of the said installments, and parts of the principal and interest, and arrears of interest of the said debt . You shall not extend the amount of the loan which you shall make, or cause to be made, beyond the sum which shall be necessary for completing such payment, unless it can be done upon terms more advantageous to the United States, than those upon which the residue of the said debt shall stand or be. But if the said residue , or any part of the same can be paid off by new loans, upon terms of advantage to the United States, you shall cause such further loans as may be requisite to be made, and the proceeds thereof to be applied accordingly. And for carrying into effect the objects and purposes aforesaid : I do hereby further empower you to make or cause to be made, with whomsoever it may concern, such contract or contracts, being of a nature relative thereto, as shall be found needful and conducive to the interest of the United States."] — By this formal act issued along with the commission to the Secretary, the President designated the object to which the loans to be made, were to be applied; and declared the object to be that provided for by the act of August 4th, 1792, he expressly placed the loan under the authority and provision of that act; so that the moment the money should be borrowed, it was to stand legally appropriated to its specified object; as much as if another law, authorising another loan, for another purpose, had not existed.
This arrangement of the President was the more proper, not only because provision for the payment of the foreign debt had been the primary object of the legislature, and the payment of the French debt, the anxious wish of their constituents; but because payments to France were no longer matter of option, but of strict and positive obligation on the United States. In proof of this, he stated, that the debt to France, calculated to the end of 1791, and computing the livre at 5 4-10 to a dollar, amounted to 4,814,814 dollars, whilst the payments actually made, computing the florin at 2 1-2 to a dollar, amounted to no more than 3,372,717, leaving as a balance at the end of 1791 of 1,442,097 — Adding to this balance the installments due for 1792, amounting to 683,888 dollars — there were to be paid within the year 2,085,985 dollars. The entire payments, however, composed of 656,500 dollars in Europe, and 726,000 put to the account of St. Domingo, (although 444,263.83 were actually paid) amounting to 1,382,500 dollars, leaving due at the end of 1792, a balance of 698,485.
Here he adverted to and read a paragraph in the report of the Secretary, page 16, where in allusion to the measure of drawing bills in the latter part of 1792, he says, "I feel myself the more at liberty to do it, because it did not interfere with a complete fulfilment of the public engagements in regard to the foreign debt. It could be done consistently
with a full reimbursement of all arrears and installments, which had accrued on account of that debt." Mr. M. observed, that as he could not reconcile this paragraph with the calculations which he had stated, and which were drawn from official documents, he must regard it as an unquestionable error produced by some hasty view of the subject.
Returning to the commission, Mr. M. repeated that all the money which that instrument, defined and qualified by the instruction annexed to it, authorised the Secretary to borrow, was actually and specifically appropriated to the payment of the foreign debt, and under circumstances particularly urgent, in relation to a part of it.
In what manner had this trust been carried into execution? It was to be observed with regret, that on the very day, on which the commission and instruction issued from the President, the Secretary commenced his arrangement for diverting part of a loan, accepted and ratified by virtue of his commission, to a purpose different from that specified and required by his instruction. That a fact of so extraordinary a complexion, might be grounded on the most unexceptionable proof, Mr. M. said, he would take the liberty of supporting it by the authority of the Secretary himself. Here he read from the Secretary's letter dated August 28, 1792, to the Dutch houses from whom the loan had been accepted, the following passages, viz. "I should also wish for particular reasons that the business may be so regulated as to give it the form of two loans, one for two millions under the first act, and the other for one million under the second. But neither about this, am I so solicitous as to be willing it should constitute an embarrassment."
"I desire a million and an half of this sum as a payment to France under the direction of Mr. Short, our charge des affaires at that court, whose orders for that purpose you will please to follow."
The aspect here presented by a comparison of the several documents, was singular and remarkable. The subordinate officer appeared in direct opposition to the chief magistrate. The agent was seen over-ruling by his own orders, the orders of his principal. The language of the President was — By virtue of the power vested in me by law, I desire the money to be borrowed, to the discharge of the installments and interest of the foreign debt. The language of the Secretary was — I desire a part of the money only to that purpose, and a part to be brought to the United States for other purposes. He left every member to make his own reflections on the subject. He would only observe in general that it demonstrated the truth asserted in the proposition, that the Secretary had violated both the law of August 4th, 1792, and the instruction of the President relating to it.
He then proceeded to a more distinct view of the two points particularly stated in the resolution.
The first was, "That a certain portion of the principal, borrowed under the act of August 4, 1792, had been applied to the payment of the interest falling due on that principal." As the fact would not, he presumed, be denied, he forbore to quote that part of the documents, which admitted and authenticated it. He would, however, premise to any observations on it, a cursory view of the nature of appropriations.
It was unnecessary to repeat the emphatic remarks on this subject, which had fallen from the member from Pennsylvania (Mr. Findley) It was sufficiently understood, he concluded, that appropriations of money were of a high and sacred character; that they were the great bulwark which our constitution had carefully and jealously established against executive usurpations. He meant only to take notice of the different plans into which appropriations might be moulded, and of the particular operation, which ought to be given to them.
One of the plans, was that of appropriating specified funds to specified objects; in which the supposed certainty of the funds was adjusted to the supposed importance of the objects.
The other plan formed all the branches of the revenue into an aggregate fund; on which the several objects should have a priority of claim, according to their superiority of importance.
It was evident, that in both these cases, the legislature alone possessed the competent authority. The exclusive right of that department of the government to make the proper regulations, was the basis of the utility and efficacy of appropriations.
There was a third question incident to the doctrine of appropriations, viz. Whether, under specific appropriations, such as had been adopted by Congress, the executive authority could, without special permission of the law, apply the excess of one fund to the aid of a deficient one; or borrow from one fund for the object of another. On this question there might perhaps be a difference of opinion. He would only remark, that admitting such a discretion to be implied in the trust of executing the laws, it would still be requisite that the
due sanction of the executive should be given, that a regular account should be kept between the different funds, and that all advances from one to the other should be replaced as soon as possible. This was equally necessary to the preservation of order in the public finances, and to a proper respect for the authority of the laws.
In the present case it did not appear that the monies taken at different times from the loans designated by the President, and thereby placed under the appropriation of the act of August 4, 1792, to the foreign debt, had ever been replaced. It did not appear that any such replacement was regularly planned or provided for. It was particularly worthy of observation moreover, that the only use within the United States for which any loan in Europe could be assigned, was that of the sinking fund; that the trustees of this fund had never been even informed of the drafts; that if all the monies drawn had been carried to the sinking fund, the limited sum of 2,000,000 of dollars would have been exceeded; and that the statements and accounts had in fact been so wound up, as mentioned by the Secretary, that not a single dollar of the money laid out in purchasing the public debt, had been charged on loans drawn into the United States; although such was the only purpose to which they were legally applicable, and such the principal reason assigned for making the draft.
He did not go into a particular proof that the sum drawn into the United States, after subtracting the whole sum placed to a foreign account, exceeded the sum of 2,000,000 of dollars, because the fact had been conceded on the other side, particularly by the statement of the member from Connecticut (Mr. Hillhouse).
Thus it appeared clearly, in confirmation of the first point, that the application of a certain portion of the principal borrowed in Europe, to payment of the interest, was not a mere transposition of monies, to prevent the lending them backwards or forwards; nor an advance of money from an overflowing fund in favor of a deficient one; but an absolute diversion of appropriated money; and consequently a violation of the law making the appropriation.
The second point in the resolution, relating to the drawing of monies into the United States without the instruction of the President.
This point had been fully established by the documents and explanations applied to the first. They had done more: They had demonstrated that the instructions of the President which dedicated the loans to be made under his commission, to a foreign object, were an express prohibition of drafts for any domestic object. It was sufficient therefore to refer to the instructions of the President, and to the contradictory steps taken by the Secretary.
Two attempts had been made to elude the force of these official proofs.
The first appealed to the President's speech at the opening of the Session in 1792; to the report of the Secretary made in consequence of it to the house; and to the supplementary act of Congress passed in conformity to the report.
Had the circumstances involved in this transaction been attended to by those who seemed to rely on it, Mr. M. was persuaded that a reference to it would never have been made by gentlemen on that side. As they had thought it however to draw arguments from that source, it was proper to give an answer to them; and the best answer would be a naked statement of facts.
The instruction of the President to the Secretary, was given, as has been seen, on the 28th of August 1792. The letter of the Secretary contravening this instruction, was dated, as has also been seen, on the same 28th day of August, 1792.
The actual drawing of bills by the Secretary commenced the 15th of December, 1792.
The law now pleaded in justification of the conduct of the Secretary passed on the 3d of March, 1791.
There are other facts material to a correct and full view of the business.
The speech of the President was delivered on the 8th of December, 1792. It briefly informed the two houses that "a loan of three millions of florins, towards which some provisional measures had previously taken place; had been completed in Holland," — and, "That the secretary of the treasury had his direction to communicate such further particulars as might be requisite for more precise information."
The consequent report of the secretary recommending the provision in the supplementary act, was not received till the 25th of February, 1791: six days only before the constitutional dissolution of the house.
In the interval between the speech of the President and the secretary's report, he had proceeded to draw bills to the amount of 793,392 florins.
His report, notwithstanding what had been said of it, contained not a word from which it could be known that a single florin had been actually drawn over to the United States.
[To be continued.]

The following excellent Composition is taken from the ALBANY REGISTER.
THE EXIT OF OLD AGE; OR, REFLECTIONS ADAPTED TO THE CLOSE OF A WELL-SPENT LIFE.
HUSH, hush, my friends, Why stand you round me weeping? You shock my fortitude—too weak already: Save that dear infant, he may long be useful: My day is over. With pleasure and with pain I, in retrospeet, View my past life: I see a thousand failings; Yet here and there a man, that when an orphan Fed at my table. My door was ever open to the stranger; My heart to the distressed; my hand was ready To reach a morsel to the poor and needy; If but a morsel. The sick I visited; I felt the anguish I could not heal; but kindness was a cordial: Their earnest looks acknowledged my compassion: They bless'd me dying. These feet, unable now to bear the burden Impos'd upon them by the law of nature, How nimbly have they mov'd this active body, When sorrow call'd me. A mental touch of the Benefic Spirit Moulded my texture to these deeds of mercy: With pleasure I have sooth'd the sobbing bosom, Sunk by oppression. Indulgent Heav'n! not greater was thy glory Of pow'r and wisdom, sung at the creation By morning stars, than four score years' experience Proclaims thy goodness. From thee this wondrous frame of mine proceeded, By thee to feeble age it is protracted, To thee it gravitates as to the centre Of its existence. Let uncreated love's mysterious mantle, Woven to cover naked human nature, Hide what the child, the youth, or man has acted That age would blush at. Farewel, a long farewel, to sin and sorrow: Now Death's cold hand is reaching me a potion To cure the maladies of human nature; Age is the last one. If in the nurse's arms we are not smother'd, Yet first or last death will rock o'er the cradle; As there the young—here the old infant tumbles Into his coffin. Good night, my friends! When this last nap is over, (I rest in hope) awaking from my slumber, I shall arise and with you a good morning In Life Eternal. J. T.
Foreign Affairs.
PARIS, JAN. 4.
PART of the plan of the Committee of General Defence is, to station a number of small vessels on the coast between Calais and Dunkirk, to intercept the British traders, and perhaps occasionally to harass the coast of England. These vessels will be supplied with a powerful artillery, and will discharge red hot shot; and their force will be such, as to render it necessary for the British Government to keep a large squadron in the Downs.
Some of the English Admirals, if they should go to war, will not like the present French mode of fighting. They will not find their squadrons so easy a conquest as they have been. You may depend on it, that the character of the nation is essentially changed, and that it is chiefly the fierce republican spirit, with which they are actuated, that has rendered their armies invincible to the German mercenaries.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
MONDAY, JAN. 14.
Bouzon denounced the Council General of the Commons, for having issued a decree of shutting up the Play-houses, and other places of public entertainment: He moved that this decree be annulled.
Quinette observed, that there was a decree extant, which charged the Executive Power to take all possible measures of safety during the judgment of Louis Capet.
The Assembly called for the order of the day.
A letter was read from M. Bertrand, the Ex Minister, who complained, that the Minister of Justice had not delivered to the Official Defenders of Louis XVI. certain papers, which he had addressed to them.
The Minister of Justice said, he had delivered those pieces into the hands of the Commission of twelve.
A member of this Commission declared, that the pieces had been presented to Maleherbes, but the latter would not make any use of them.
The Convention called for the order of the day, being
The final judgment of Louis XVI.
Lehardi moved, that it be previously decided by a nominal call, if the Decree that is to be pronoun-
ced on the fate of Louis shall be sanctioned by the nation at large.
Another proposed these questions:
1. Is it compatible with the interest of the State, that Louis be deprived of his dignity?
2. Is it proper that he should suffer death, or should he be imprisoned for life?
3. In either case shall appeal to the people take place?
Coulthon and Gauthier moved, that the following two questions be first put:
1. Is Louis guilty of high treason and conspiracy against the Liberty and Sovereignty of the Nation?
Louvet moved, that in order to show a proper respect to the opinions of the different Members, it should first be decided, whether or not the appeal to the sovereign people should take place?
Cambacérès was of opinion, that the Convention ought to pronounce a judgment in ipso facto ; he expressed at the same time his doubts, if the Convention had such a power vested in them; he therefore moved, that, to avoid all difficulties, the Convention should make an appeal to the Primary Assemblies, to consult them, whether or not it is their wish that the Convention should judge Louis, and pronounce sentence upon him?
Quinette was for judging Louis, and referring his sentence to the Sovereign people in the Primary Assemblies.
The Mountain became extremely clamorous, and wished that Louis should be immediately sentenced to suffer death, that his sentence should be pronounced, and afterwards referred to the ratification of the people.
After many tumultuous debates, the discussion was finally closed, and the following three questions adopted, on the motion of Barrerre.
1. Is Louis guilty or not guilty of High Treason, and of attempts against the general safety of the State?
2. Shall the appeal to the people take place?
3. What punishment shall he suffer?
TUESDAY, JANUARY 15.
Bouzon moved, and the Convention decreed, that every member who should vote on the questions terminating the judgment of Louis, should have his name inscribed in a book destined for that purpose, and that the different names should afterwards be sent to the 84 Departments.
Here Manuel, one of the Secretaries, read the first question, on which the Members of the Convention were to vote, viz.
“Is LOUIS Guilty or not Guilty of High Treason, and of attempts against the General Safety of the State?”
The nominal call began, Mr. Salles read the names, and each member ascended the tribune.
The following members then voted.
Bouzon. I vote that Louis be imprisoned with his family, till all the nation shall unite to decide his fate.
Lanjuinais. Louis is guilty.
Bondron. I declare Louis is guilty.
Vandelicourt. Legislators, I do not choose to be a judge in criminal matters.
Lalande. Louis is neither guilty nor not guilty.
Offelien. I know that Louis paid his guards at Coblenz; I do therefore pronounce him guilty.
M. Egalite, guilty.
Danton. Yes, he is guilty.
Compte. Speaking as a Legislator, Louis is guilty; as a judge I won't speak.
Montaigne. Louis is guilty, nay more than guilty.
Faure. Louis is guilty in point of the law respecting Royalty, and I do declare him guilty.
Delayhe. To put the question, whether Louis is guilty or not guilty, is to ask if we are ourselves guilty. I do declare Louis is guilty.
Barnard des Sablons. Louis is guilty and not guilty.
Morrison. I can answer none of the questions proposed.
Noel. I once had a son. He died in defence of his country. I do not think that a father who bewailed a son slain, can be the judge of him who is accused of being the author of his wretchedness.
Maure. Guilty on my honor and conscience.
Corea Fustier. Guilty.
Valady. I cannot pronounce, for I am no judge.
Fauchett. As citizen I am convinced of his guilt; as legislator I declare him guilty; as judge I have nothing to say.
Dubois. As a judge I do declare Louis is guilty; but we ought to appeal to the people.
Laumont. I can never believe that the Convention have all powers vested in them; upon the present matter I shall be silent for ever.
Larivière. I did never vote that the Convention should judge Louis, so cannot vote on the business in question.
Doulcet. I vote for the safe custody of Louis and his family, till the termination of the war; take care that he may have no successor; and when the war is once terminated, let the decree of his fate be submitted to the people.
Meynard was of the same opinion.
Chambon. I vote for the appeal to the people; I also vote for the abolition of Royalty and the establishment of the Primary Assemblies be likewise submitted to the people.
Baralion. I will be no judge; my conscience does not allow it.
Julien. I am invested with unlimited powers; and in virtue of my Legislative capacity, I do declare that Louis is guilty.
LONDON, JAN. 12.
The combined armies destined to act against France the ensuing spring will, it is said, amount to more than 300,000 men. The Austrian and Prussian troops will be each under a separate command.
It was, yesterday, reported, at the public offices, that the French had ordered thirty-five sail of the line, and more than twenty frigates to be prepared for the sea.
The cloaths and other effects of the late King and Queen of France, found at the Thuilleries, on the 10th of August, were to be sold by auction in Paris, last Monday.
The term of Lord George Gordon's confinement expires in the course of this week.
Mr. Secretary Dundas's new Militia Bill, is nothing more than to supply an extraordinary defect in the last—which left out the usual clause to compel parishes to provide for the families of Militia men, when called out on actual service.
The Lion man of war of 64 guns, Captain Sir E. Gower, which failed some time since with Lord Macartney and his suit on board, in company with the Hindostan East India man, as a store ship, is bound with the partner, to the port of Yelcaph, in the yellow sea, which is the nearest to Pekin, the capital of China, from whence it is distant less than thirty leagues.
An old Scotch Peer's advice to his son is strongly to be recommended to our present young men—to be underhorse, underhoused, and underived.
When Sedition was openly stalking in every part of the Kingdom, domestic traitors, desirous of keeping Englishmen unprepared to repel the meditated attempts against the country, impudently asserted in their conversations, as well as in their publications, that every fear was merely ideal, and that neither sedition or insurrection existed in any part of the British Empire.
Equally in defiance of all truth, and equally for the traitorous purpose of putting Englishmen off their guard, it is now asserted that government are not vigorous in their preparations for war, and that they are endeavoring to hold out an idea of peace; the direct reverse is notoriously the truth—preparations were never more vigorous—and Lord Grenville's answer to the Would-be Ambassador, is a decisive proof that Administration neither hold out an idea of the pro-
bability of, or wish for, peace with modern France.
Lord Amherst is appointed commander in Chief of the British Army. Official Particulars of the recent action at Hock-Heim, between the French and the combined Prussian and Austrian armies.
Head Quarters, Hockheim, Jan. 7, 1793.
Yesterday afternoon his Prussian Majesty, accompanied by his Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick, arrived here, from the action which took place at Hockheim. His Majesty honored the Theatre with his presence, and went afterwards to the ball given by his Royal Highness the Prince Royal of Prussia.
All we know of the action is, that it was very smart on both sides.
The French troops stationed at Cassel, under the command of Gen. Neuwinger, wanted to force their way to Hockheim, but the Hessian and Prussian troops contested this passage with that valour which they are so renowned for.
Prince Hohenloe, whose headquarters are at Weisbaden, arrived likewise in the field of battle, and attacked the French in the flank, which forced them to make a precipitate retreat to their entrenchments at Cassel. On this occasion the Prussian General Wolfrath had his horse shot under him.
When the King of Prussia entered Hockheim, twelve Frenchmen, who were concealed in the tower above the town-gate, fired down with muskets and carbines upon his Majesty, who was then very close but providentially escaped without being hurt. A Hessian detachment immediately rushed into the tower, and cut those murderous French banditti in pieces.
The French left 300 men dead and wounded on the field. The Hessian Chasseurs have suffered considerably.
This afternoon 160 Frenchmen, and 12 pieces of cannon, were brought in here, preceded by 12 trumpeters, as trophies of the engagement.
More prisoners are expected to-morrow.
A French Colonel has just been brought in prisoner.
JANUARY 19.
The executive government of France displays its usual consistency in calling on the United States of America to fulfill the treaty defensive and offensive, entered into by them with Louis XVI. while his deposition from the throne is considered by that very government as a ground for violating every treaty they have unfortunately ratified with the powers of Europe. A very little attention, however, to the affairs of the American States, since the last peace, will dissipate every idea, that they can so far forget their best interests, as to take a part in the dissensions of Europe. All the advantages which could be derived to them from becoming parties in a war, would be the casual, partial and dishonorable gain, which might result to individuals from privatising expeditions; and the loss, in such cases, would be, the infinite benefits, both civil and political, which an infant state must derive, in a very pre-eminent degree, from the blessing of peace. The never failing care and commanding influence of Mr. Washington, which have hitherto preserved his country from the misery of feuds among its people, will, we doubt not, be effectually exerted to save it also from the calamities of war with other nations.
JANUARY 21.
Our learned and eloquent Secretary of State sets out, in his elaborate rescript, with saying that he shall give M. Chauvelin no credit, but as he is accredited by the King of France. No such personage being now in existence, what degree of credit can be given him? He would then, it seems, in no sort whatever treat with a minister from the Republic of France; in his own high-mindedness, and high-mightinesship, not allowing that country to alter its government, when the majority of it think it fit. What would Oliver Cromwell not only have said, but have done, had Mazarine refused to acknowledge the sovereignty of the Republic of England? He would have destroyed with his fleet all the sea ports of France towards the Mediterranean.
In the Irish House of Lords, the motion for an address to his Majesty on the speech at the opening of the session, was made by the Earl of Westmeath, and carried unanimously. The motion for an address to the Lord Lieutenant was made by Lord Viscount Dillon, and opposed by the Duke of Leinster; on which Lord Portarlington said, he was sorry to differ from the noble Duke, with whom he had so long agreed; but in the present instance he felt that it was as necessary in Ireland for Parliament to unite and resist the enemies of the Constitution, as it was in England, where party was laid aside to save the country. He knew not of any parties in this country, but if there were, he was sensible that they should give place to the more important consideration of the public safety.

On the question being put, the Duke was the only dissenter. Ireland, with that loyalty and political prudence which we expected she would display, but which the English Jacobins hoped she would not, has given the finishing blow to faction. The incendiaries of France, and the perturbed spirits of the phalanx, have now their prospects blasted. Their diabolical endeavors to divide Great-Britain and Ireland, the more surely to ruin both, have been frustrated; and France and Faction have now to dread the united exertions of Britannia and Hibernia to suppress anarchy and Jacobin politics.
Mad. D'Eon, after all the vicissitudes and singularities of her extraordinary life, is likely to close it in happiness, if competency can confer felicity. The mother of this heroic female lately died in France, at the age of eighty-seven, and has left her daughter a considerable fortune.
Mrs. Bateman, of Soho-square, is preparing a public breakfast in honour of Madam D'Eon's accession to a comfortable independence. There is to be a concert on the occasion, and a grand exhibition in the art of fencing, to which the ci-devant Chevalier has promised to contribute all the skill which time and want of practice have left her.
Domestic Articles.
BOSTON, March 13.
Yesterday being assigned by the hon. House of Representatives, for coming to a choice, on their part, of a Federal Senator; the ballots were taken, when the number of votes given in were 199—100 making a choice—The Hon. CALEB STRONG, Esq. had 113 votes, and was chosen. This gentleman is therefore re-elected.
Yesterday, in the hon. Supreme Judicial Court, the action of trespass, for assault and battery, brought by the Hon. Benjamin Austin, Esq. against the Editor of the CENTINEL, was tried—and after a hearing, which continued the whole day, the Jury gave their verdict for the Plaintiff.
A correspondent thinks it rather extraordinary, that the charges brought against the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, by Mr. Giles, should have found their way into the Argus of yesterday; and the decision of Congress thereon, be lost before they could arrive—when it is well known they both set out in company together from Philadelphia. Nor can the same correspondent account why a former string of Resolutions introduced by Mr. Giles, should appear in the Chronicle, and the Report of the Secretary of the Treasury, in consequence thereof, be excluded. It is believed, the public are not satisfied with this mode of doing business.
Extract from the Journals of the Municipality of Cape-Francois, in the session of the 31st of December, 1792.
Extract from the Resolves of said day.
"Art. V. EVERY matter or owner of vessel, either French or Foreigner, shall be bound to make a declaration of the number of foreigners on board his vessel, mentioning both their age and name. No masters of such vessels shall, under the penalty of 1500 livres, let any one of their passengers come on shore without a permit from the Municipality; and in case his or their declaration should be proved false, he or they shall be severely punished for such offence."
(Signed) CHEVALIER, Mayor, and GAANIER, S.V.
Certified as a true translation from the original resolves recorded in the journal of the office of the Municipality.
CARRE, fn. Interpreter to the Municipality of Cape F.
A copy of the above will be delivered each Captain on his arrival at the Cape, or other port of St. Domingo, and a receipt exacted for the same, in order that they may not plead ignorance of this Decree. The Printers throughout the United States are requested to publish the above.
MR FENNO, THE NORTH-CAROLINA JOURNAL, printed at Halifax, contains the following article—which, please to publish, with the lines annexed, and oblige Your's, C.
HALIFAX, March 6.
THE neighboring Sportsmen are informed, that a Main of Twenty-one COCKS will be fought in this Town, on Thursday the 14th inst.
FROM Britain's isle this cruel pastime came, A sport that puts humanity to shame: Around the pit the gamblers take their stand, While bets and oaths pervade th' unfeeling band; This they call pleasure—but, 'tis love of gain Which give the group alternate joy and pain— Hence all the tricking acts are here display'd, By which the vilest gamblers prop their trade.
In Rome, when cruel scenes were all the rage, Game-cocks and quails were butcher'd on the stage; From scenes like these, the gladiators sprung, Which Rome's proud honors bath on Gibbets hung— Now Britain, thousands to a circus draw, Her princes there to bruisers shout applause! The days of chivalry says Burke are gone, But a worse era is fast posting on.
EXTRACT.
"No immoral man can possibly be a true patriot; and all those who profess outrageous zeal for the liberty and prosperity of their country, and at the same time infringe her law, affront her religion and debauch her people, are but d. ipicab. le quacks, by fraud or ignorance increasing the disorders they pretend to remedy."
Philadelphia, March 23.
ABSTRACT of FOREIGN NEWS.
THE citizen-soldiers of France who had been prisoners in Luxemburg, complained to the Convention of cruel treatment received from the enemy while in their hands; they had been beaten with sticks and sabres, and fed with mouldy bread—they demanded speedy vengeance. Referred to the military committee.
The Mayor of Paris, in an account of the state of the Capital, given in to the Convention, represents the city as in a very critical situation, owing to the depreciation of the notes in circulation—alarms respecting provisions—trademen wanting employ—complaints against the administration of the posts—flownets of the rebel to the widows of those who have been hurried to the frontiers—concealed enemies in brothels and gaming houses, &c. &c. but the departments of the police are exerting themselves to remedy every disorder.—The total of the armed force at Paris, on the 5th January, is stated at 227,089; these are composed of 116,452 National Guards, Gendarmerie & Conquerors of the Bastille 2423, Federates 5601.
The Administrators of Finisterre, in an address to the Convention, denounce Marat, Robespierre, Bazire, Chabot and Merlin, as intrigues—"expel them (say they) for you ought not to breathe the same air with these villains." A great tumult followed the reading of this address.
General Dumourier, in a letter to the Convention, pathetically depicts the destitute situation of the army. He charges the deficiency to the war-office, which he says is become a club. He says he has sworn to retire from all public employment on the conclusion of a peace; and should this declaration not be sufficient, as soon as the Republic is delivered from the scourge of war, to remove all suspicion, he promises to impose on himself the most rigorous ostracism. He concludes by saying—But if the National Convention, in the terrible crisis in which we now are, shall not grant me that confidence to which I think myself entitled; if it take precautions against me; and if it does not pursue decisive measures respecting the four Memorials which I submit to its wisdom, then, Citizen President, I shall immediately prove to my country, that I have neither avarice nor ambition, by resigning my generalship, and by retiring to the country, where I shall continue my studies on politics and war, and be ready at all times to quit my solitude, when a well regulated government shall afford me the means of being useful to my fellow-citizens.
General Valence writes from Liege, that a body of his troops has seized, in the Emperor's treasuries, cash, to the amount of 200,000 livres. The English are recruiting their army, by raising independent companies; 120 of these are ordered to be formed of 100 men each.
Lord Grenville, the British Secretary of State, has answered the note of the French Minister, M. Chauvelin. This answer is lengthy; it is what, in diplomatic language, is called raisonne , and contains all the arguments upon which the British Court has taken up the question. This has been transmitted to the Executive of France; it had not been communicated to the Assembly. The English paragraph adds, that by this it would seem as if the Executive Council were deliberating on the contents, and deliberation is constantly favorable to peace.
A grenadier of the French army was announced to the National Convention by the Minister of Marine. This citizen soldier had had an interview with the King of Naples, in which he had demanded and received of the King, reparation of the injury which the French republic had sustained in respect to a note said to be sent to the Divan by the Agent of that Prince, to prevent Semonville from being received as Ambassador of France at the Ottoman Court. The grenadier, in his speech to the King, said he allowed him only an hour to return an answer to his demand. The Minister of the King, within the time, announced, That his Sicilian Majesty formally and openly disavows every thing that may have been done in his name against the French nation, at Constantinople. This grenadier was sent from the fleet by Capt. LATOUCHE, then in the harbour with a French squadron.
The diplomatic dispute between France and England, according to the notes which have passed between Lord Grenville, the British Secretary of State, and M. Le Brun, the French Minister, appears to be reduced to two points, viz.—First. The Decree of the National Convention of the 19th November, which the British Minister considers as "announcing to the sedition of all nations, the cases in which they may depend previously on the support and assistance of France." On this M. Le Brun says, "Nothing could be more strange than this reproach to the sentiments of the National Convention." He disclaims all intention on their part of favoring the sedition, or encouraging mobs.—The second point is the Scheldt. On this the British Minister says, "England will never consent that France shall arrogate the power of annulling at her pleasure, and under the pretence of a pretended natural right, of which she makes herself the only judge, the political system of Europe, established by solemn treaties, and guaranteed by the consent of all the powers." In answer to this the French Minister says, "The treaty in question was concluded by the Emperor, without the participation of the Belgians—The Emperor, to secure the possession of the low countries, sacrificed without scruple, the most inviolable of rights." The Minister of France adds, "but is France authorized to break the stipulations which are opposed to the liberty of the Scheldt? If the rights of Nature and those of Nations are consulted, and not France alone, all the nations of Europe are authorized to do it—there can be no doubt of it."
The Senate of Massachusetts have appointed the Rev. Dr. PARKER, Minister of one of the Episcopal Churches, to preach the next anniversary Election Sermon.
Accounts by the ship Tryal say, that the English Packet had four that fired at her by a French frigate as she went out of Lisbon, with intention to bring the Packet to, but she refused to heave to, and proceeded on her voyage with hoisted colours.
The English papers are filled with accounts of the preparations of that nation for war—that exclusive of the King's bounty of five pounds, the counties had offered an additional recompense of fifty guineas to every seaman who would enter the fleet; the consequence of which was, that men were enlisting extremely fast.
They were pressing men fast at Lisbon when the Tryal failed, and the place was strongly fortified—1300 had been pressed in one night, and the common jails almost emptied. The people in Lisbon are alarmed, fearing a visit from the French fleet, which is said to be on very respectable footing.
The story of the massacre of the French garrison at Frankfort, is totally contradicted by a letter in the English papers, dated at that place after the retaking of it by the Prussians—the reverse was the fact, and this, the letter says, has been attested by the French prisoners themselves in letters to the National Convention—The citizens of Frankfort, at the hazard of their lives, rescuing the French from the fury of the enemy.
"I was lamenting to one of the members of the Convention (says an English paragraph) that a great deliberating assembly should thus be converted into a theatre of noise, threats and confusion. Pardieu! said he, alluding to the late dagger scene, but if our senate is a bear-garden, yours is a mountebank stage. It is curious, added he, that nobody in France should know any thing of these terrible daggers made in England, and that the French nation should be accused of assassinating with a weapon that since the revolution was never worn or used, unless by the Chevaliers du Poignard, the king's friends, who were disarmed in the Thuilleries on the 22d of Feb. 1790, and taken into custody, with the same concealed weapons, at the Pont Tournant, on the 10th of August, 1792. It is not therefore astonishing, that Mr. B— should wear the peculiar weapon of the party he supports; but it is strange that he should charge upon his enemies the sins of his friends. As to his accusation of atheism, it reminds me of the well known story of the German, who, quarreling with his landlady at Blois, wrote down in his album, that all the women of that city were red haired and scolds. I relate this conversation, because I think it is just in all cases that both sides should be heard."
It has been repeatedly said that Mr. Burke is a pensioner.—In his speech against Mr. Fox's motion in the House of Commons for sending an Ambassador to France—Mr. Burke makes the following declaration:—
Strange as it might appear to some gentlemen with whom he formerly acted, he affirmed, in the face of the house and his country—"I remain, and ever will, my independence—I have made no provision for myself or family—We are not in the possession of any office; neither cajoled by the reversion of place, nor by the promise of pension—and yet, because I have warmly expressed my abhorrence of the French doctrines, I am pursued and reviled with all the force of rancour and hostility."
In the Senate of this state on Thursday last, on the motion to postpone the consideration of the first section of the bill for erecting the Bank of Pennsylvania, in order to introduce a substitute for the purpose of vesting the inactive monies of the state in the stock of the Bank of North America—the yeas and nays being called by Mr. Morris, seconded by Mr. Smilie, were as follows:
YEAS.—Messrs. Morris, Thomas, Jenks, Schmoyer, Coats, and Sellers. NAYS.—Messrs. Scott, Edie, Hoge, Smilie, Kennedy, Brown, Heister, Hanna, Smith, Montgomery, and Moore. In favour of erecting the Bank of Pennsylvania, 11 to 6.
Extract of a letter dated Fort St. Clair, Jan. 11. "This place is garrisoned by 150 riflemen. A few days since some Indians near Fort Jefferson, were discovered; one of them was shot at and wounded. They were the first that has been discovered since the battle with the Kentuckians on the 6th November last."
NORFOLK, (V.) March 9. On Tuesday last as a Canoe, with five persons in her, was crossing from Portsmouth to this town, the wind being very high, the upset and went down. Captain Tyrell, of the Schooner Polly, from Weymouth, Massachusetts, happening to be passing from the wharf, immediately jumped into his boat, and kindly rendered every assistance in his power, but was only fortunate enough to save three of them.
STATE OF NORTH-CAROLINA.
IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY, Dec. 31, 1792.
RESOLVED, That the thanks of this General Assembly be presented to the Hon. SAMUEL JOHNSTON, for his faithful services as Senator of this state to the Congress of the United States—and that the Speakers of both Houses be requested to transmit him the said resolution.
W. LENOIR, S. S. S. CABARRUS, S. H. C.
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Incendiary writers, an hireling press, and factious men who foment discords to gain elections have given themselves no breathing spell in their task of making mischief since our free constitution was proposed to the public.—We hear of British factions—but more profligate lies or more malignant suspicions were never scattered in any country on earth in order to bring the government and its officers into contempt and abhorrence. The only chance in the favor of government is the sound sense of the people—and truly none was ever more tried or more insulted. Much will it redound to the honor of our citizens if they disregard in future, as they have heretofore done the seditious arts of their enemies. But if our affairs should get into confusion, it will show that we have thought better of ourselves and the world has been kind enough to think better of us as a nation than we deserve. They will say the constitution was the work of the wilest and best men—but it has been mar'd by the inost worthless.
Happy is it for a people when intrigue gets entangled in a net of its own weaving—honesty is always a match for cunning and false patriotism, in a fair and candid investigation of its motives and conduct—Envy may raise a mist, but time and reflection dissipate the vapors, and a wise and enlightened people award the tribute of applause to solid merit.
We have heard of the inextricable difficulties of the people; we have heard of the intolerable burthens they are at this moment groaning under—and we now hear from the same quarter, "that by a combination of favorable circumstances, or the collected good sense of its inhabitants, the country has extricated itself from a few embarrassments"—Alas, what a pity that certain restless spirits cannot assume to themselves any of the honor—and that neither in prose or verse, one solitary publication can be found to celebrate their praise. Friends of merit, ere you indulge your feelings, consult the opinion-mongers, for their indignation is excited at every mode of expressing your sentiments, which is not dictated by themselves.
The mischief makers have pretended that there was a corrupt majority in Congress watching for opportunities to swell up the debt—because debts and taxes create a corrupt influence. It is time to drop this article from the impeachment, because it would involve the dear friends of liberty, the pure enemies of antirepublican public faith and aristocratical public credit and order. On the business of the army claim, the opposers of Treasury influence would (at least they said they would) allow millions more debt in favor of the late army and original certificate holders. Abused and deceived citizens—who on this occasion were the men to hunt up claims to swell the public debt—which will you give credit to—words—big swelling words of vanity and deceit—or plain facts that speak louder?
Vinall's Arithmetics.
THE Second Edition of this work, with improvements, will speedily be put to press.
The rapid sale of the first edition*, greatly beyond the author's most sanguine expectations, encourages him to print a second edition. He intends to have it printed upon much better paper than the former, and with a new type.
Those Bookellers who wish to take a number of copies in sheets, are requested to apply to the author for particulars. * 1000 Copies.
At a meeting of the SCHOOL COMMITTEE, February 5th, 1793.
The Committee, appointed to examine "The Preceptor's Assistant, or Student's Guide," being a systematical treatise of Arithmetics, by JOHN VINALL, teacher of the Mathematics & Writing, in Boston, reported, that they have attended that service, and are of opinion, that the work is executed with judgment, and is as well calculated for the use of schools, counting houses, and private families, as any of the same compass that has hitherto been offered to the public.
VOTED, That the above report be accepted, and that Mr. VINALL be furnished with a copy of it, whenever he shall desire it.
Copy of the Records. Attest, CHARLES BULFINCH, Sec'y.
The following character of the above work, is given in the Review of the Massachusetts Magazine, for Jan. 1793:
"This is a very useful work, and is no ill proof of the judgment and industry of the author. The rules are laid down with propriety, and the examples annexed are sufficient for their illustration. One part of the work deserves particular commendation. We mean that which the author titles "Mercantile Arithmetics." It occupies a considerable portion of his book, but not more than its importance will justify. We would recommend to the young Arithmetician to pay a particular attention to this branch. He will find its principles well explained. And should he make himself master of them, he will always have reason to acknowledge his obligation to the judicious and laborious author. We cannot but congratulate the rising generation on account of the many useful productions which have lately appeared; and in which their improvement has been principally consulted. Among those productions we must place this treatise of Arithmetics. We should be wanting in justice to the author, should we not acknowledge that his work is in reality that which its title imports—The PRECEPTOR'S ASSISTANT, or STUDENT'S GUIDE."
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By THOMAS JOHNSON, DAVID STUART, & DANIEL CARROLL, Esquires, COMMISSIONERS appointed by Government to prepare the Public Buildings, &c. within the City of Washington, for the reception of Congress, and for their permanent residence after the year 1800—
A LOTTERY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY. 50,000 Tickets at 7 dollars, are 350,000 dollars. LIST OF PRIZES, viz. 1 Superb Hotel, with baths, out houses, &c. &c. to cost 50,000 1 Cash Prize 25,000 1 ditto 20,000 1 ditto 15,000 1 ditto 10,000 2 ditto 10,000 10 ditto 10,000 20 ditto 10,000 100 ditto 10,000 200 ditto 10,000 400 ditto 10,000 1,000 ditto 20,000 15,000 ditto 150,000 16,737 Prizes Dollars 350,000 33,263 Blanks 50,000
By this scheme at least the amount of the tickets will return to the fortunate adventurers, and yet the federal City will gain its object thereby, in a magnificent building designed both for public and private convenience. Although some expense must necessarily attend the conducting of the lottery, (which expense will be taken from the principal prize) the Commissioners having agreed to present in return a sufficient quantity of excellent free-stone, together with the best adapted lots for the hotel and for the out-houses, the value of the lottery entire may be fairly rated at something more than par: In this important instance it will be found, on examination, to exceed all the lotteries that have ever been offered to the Public in this or perhaps in any other country. The keys of the Hotel, when complete, will be delivered to the fortunate possessor of the ticket drawn against its number.—All the other prizes will be paid, without deduction, in one month after the drawing, by the City Treasurer at Washington, or at such Bank or Banks as may be hereafter announced, for the convenience of the fortunate adventurers. The drawing will commence on Monday the 9th of September next, at the City of Washington. Tickets may be had of Col. Wm. Dickens, City Treasurer of Washington; Thayer & Bartlet, of Charleston, South-Carolina; Gideon Denison, Savannah; Messrs. James West & Co. Baltimore; Mr. Peter Climan, Boston; and at such other places as will be hereafter published. N. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given for the best Plan of an elegant and convenient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out houses, if presented on or before the 10th of April next; and a preference will be given to the Artist for a Contract, provided he be duly qualified to complete his plan. The ground on which the Hotel and out houses are to be erected, will be a corner lot of about 90 by 200 feet, with a back avenue to the stables, &c. Sections and estimates of the expense will be expected with the elevations, &c. complete; and 50,000 dollars must be regarded by the Architect as the utmost limit in the expense intended for this purpose. S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City. March 6, 1793.
War Department, JANUARY 28, 1793.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of September 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of March 1793, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within the states respectively, under the usual regulations, viz. Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers: 1st. The certificate given by the state, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an Invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which, as such, he is annually entitled. 2d. An affidavit agreeably to the following form: A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of in the state of and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited) That he served (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the and county of and has resided there for the last years, previous to which he resided in In case an Invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeable to the following form: I, A. B. of county of state of do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for six months, as an Invalid of the United States, from the 4th day of September 1792, and ending the 4th day of March 1793. Signed and Sealed in the Presence of Acknowledged before me, Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the Invalid died, whose pension they may claim. By Command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary at War.
ADVERTISEMENT. NOTICE is hereby given, That the Commissioners appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of North-Carolina, will attend at the town of Hillsborough, on the 18th, 19th and 20th days of April next, for the purpose of receiving proposals from such persons as may be disposed to undertake the Buildings of the University. FREDERICK HARGETT, Chairman. PHILADELPHIA, January 9, 1793. Mathew Carey Respectfully informs the Citizens of the United States, that the Maps for his intended edition of
Guthrie's Geography IMPROVED. Are now engraving—and as soon as a sufficient number of them are finished, to secure a regular supply during the publication, which will probably be early next Spring, the work will be put to press. He returns his acknowledgements to the very respectable number of Subscribers, who have come forward thus early to patronize this arduous undertaking. He assures them and the public in general, that no pains or expense shall be spared in the execution of the work. Terms of the Work: 1. IT shall be published in 48 weekly numbers, each containing three sheets, or twenty-four pages, of letter press, in quarto, printed with new types on fine paper. II. In the course of the work will be delivered about thirty large maps, of the same size as those in the European editions, viz. most of them sheet maps on post paper. Besides the maps in the British edition, this work will contain nine or ten American State Maps. III. The price of each number will be a quarter dollar, to be paid on delivery. No advance required. IV. Subscribers who disapprove of the work, on the publication of the three first numbers, are to be at liberty to return them, and shall have their money repaid. V. The subscribers' names shall be prefixed as patrons of the undertaking. * * Subscriptions received in Philadelphia by the intended publisher; in New-York, by all the booksellers; in New-Haven, by Mr. Beers; in Hartford, by Mr. Patten; in Boston, by Messrs. Thomas & Andrews, and by Mr. West; in Baltimore, by Mr. Rice; in Richmond, by Mr. J. Carey; in Charleston, by Mr. W. P. Young, and by sundry other persons throughout the United States. (newt)
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