Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-01-19 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. 67 of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1793.
[Whole No. 389.]
Foreign Affairs.
PARIS, November 5.
THE King was reported for an hour and a half on Wednesday to have made his escape from the temple. The mistake arose from his omitting to shew himself as usual at the relief of the guard, and was removed upon his appearance on being called to.
Sixteen hundred Louis d'ors, found in rouleaus in the Thuilleries, have been sent to the national treasury.
The community of Paris have lent their statue of liberty to that of Versailles, for the purpose of a civic fete in the latter place.
Several Jacobin societies in the departments, have declared their disapprobation of the attachment of that shewn by Paris to the faction of Marat.
The names of all the principal streets in Paris will shortly be changed. Two of them will take the name of Rue de Lisle, Rue de Thionville; others will take the names of departments. The execution of the decree pronounced for the destruction of Longwy has been suspended.
The Savoyards at Paris gave a civic fete on account of the liberation of their country, on Saturday.
M. Chambon moved in the national assembly, "that the two stamps at present used for assignats, one of which represents the figure of Louis XVI. should be changed—the first to be a Rising Sun, representing the genius of France, and the exergue Equality, Liberty; the second to be Fases and an oak branch, with a cap reversed, and on the exergue 'French Republic, First year of Liberty.'—Decreed.
Le Clerc having furnished some simple medicines to Maria Antonette for her daughter, to take away a sort of excrescence upon her cheek, was interrogated before the commons. He, after stating the nature of the drugs, added, he thought it a pity so masterly a work of nature should be disfigured—The president answered him in the hateful cant of those demagogues—"Know you that the skin of the serpent is also one of the most beautiful of nature's productions?"
M. Antonnelle, the late Mayor of Arles, who had been elected Mayor of Paris, has declined the office on account of his ill health.
LONDON, Nov. 3.
One circumstance relating to the Chinese Embassy is worthy of remark:—It is enacted by the laws of China, that if any native shall presume to interfere in any manner whatever in the politics of Europe, with respect to China, he shall instantly undergo a capital punishment; for which reason the Chinese Missionaries, who are to accompany Lord Macartney, did not dare to render themselves obnoxious to the laws of their country; by writing, with their own hands the fair copy of the translation of the letter intended to be presented by our court to the Emperor of China. This circumstance naturally involved the conductors of the Embassy in a considerable embarrassment, from which, however, they were at length extricated by Dr. Antonio Montucci, a linguist of this city, who, having extended his philological researches even to the singular and mysterious language of China, had become sufficiently conversant with the structure and combination of its characters, to transcribe the original letter, which had been previously composed by the missionaries.
The late decree of death to all emigrants who return to France, even those who notoriously fled from certain massacre had they not become fugitives, is, for the honor of all mankind, held in universal abhorrence and execration.
Mr. Pitt's Million Sinking Fund has discharged nearly ten Millions of the public debt within the space of six years and a quarter, as may be seen by the following statement:— Account of the Total of Capital Stock redeemed by the Commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt on the 1st of November, 1792.
  3 per Cent. Consols 3,487,625   3 per Cent. Reduced 2,971,600   Gld South Sea 1,667,400   New ditto 1,288,800   South Sea 1751 396,400   £9,811,805 
The Pope's threats to the people of France, reminds us of an old Spanish Fable, in which a Fly tells an Ox, that if he dare tread on him he would certainly sting him.
The gentleman who, not long since, received one hundred guineas to return one guinea per day until the Duke of Brunswick arrived at Paris, has offered a thousand guineas to be off the bargain.
The despotic Princes all over Europe, look towards France at present as a Thief looks at the execution of a brother in iniquity. "It is what we must all come to."
Mr. Burke has invited the Abbe Maury to come over and spend a few weeks in some place where the detested principles of the Revolution never entered. Their choice at present is limited to Salisbury Spire or Edystone light-house.
Mr. Kite, in his ingenious practical essay on the recovery of the apparently dead, likewise observes, that electrical shocks are to be admitted as the test of any remains of animal life.
What sort of Republic shall France establish?
This question, to adopt the French Anglicism, is the order of the Day. It is a great question upon which the two parties in the Convention are now at issue. M. Chabot is the warm advocate for a federative Republic, or, as he calls it, a government of Municipalities. By this scheme he proposes that there should be about 80,000 distinct governments in France, each of them forming a Municipality without any check or control in its own district, but the whole to be represented in National Convention by a Congress, who should have the general legislative power, the levying of taxes, the declaration of defensive war, &c. &c.
The scheme of a federative Republic has hitherto made few profelites. The arguments advanced against it are strong, and indeed unanswerable. A federation, say they, results from the union of nations or provinces separately feeble; but who ever thought of dismembering one strong nation, and dividing it into chequers to preserve its unity? All federative governments have bro't into conjunction their district interests, genius, manners, usages, and generally their modes of legislation and administration. Its imperfection consists therefore in its heterogeneous particles.—It is not an entire fusion of one jet, it is an amalgam.—It is not one force, it is the junction of several forces.—It is not a simple, but a compound machine, and the action of the wheels and movements not being uniform, instantaneous and voluntary, as must necessarily arise from unequal
powers and efforts, it cannot be compared to the simple frame, and regular operation of a single state, where all the actions are produced by one central spring, and where all the powers and wishes are united, and, if I may use the expression, twitted together.
One of the grandest ideas that has been executed by men, is the overthrow of the provinces of France, and the creation of departments. This superb division of a country, does honor to the eighteenth century and to the French people. By what blindness do we now propose to re-ascend to provinces?
All this is the mere ephemeral project of some disturbers, who yet hope to distract the people from the true objects of their contemplation. But we do not see any hazard of the concourse of parties coming to an explosion. We find the following article in Condorcet's report of the proceedings of the Convention. It is interesting, because it follows the insinuation which he threw out on Brissot's party.
"On the march that the Convention shall pursue; if we may be allowed to anticipate its future by the picture of its present conduct, and by the public opinion, the result of their deliberations will be good and peaceful. The Convention will not offer to the people the afflicting spectacle of intestine divisions, as they have no longer contending interests to combat, and as there no longer exists any dangerous chiefs in power, in fortune, in credit, around whom the malcontents or the ill-intentioned might rally themselves. Enmities, proscriptions, and particular passions will not form what is called parties. There may be disputes, but there cannot be divisions. In a word, the genius of the Convention is good; but the public opinion which observes it, and which will have influence in spite of the Convention, is still better, and the men, gifted with some talents, and with true force of character, the only men who are proper to influence the destiny of the Republic, know well that the only glory that they can obtain is that attached to the title of a good citizen, and that all which has the air of party, will necessarily disappear as a vain phantom before the intelligence and the power of the people."
PROSPERITY OF ENGLAND.
It is impossible to travel far in this country without being powerfully struck by the unequivocal marks of great and unexampled prosperity which every where present themselves. Habitations comfortable & neat are every where rising up, where before was barren solitude; hamlets are rising into villages, villages into towns, towns into cities, where there is the smallest impulse of the manufacturing spirit, or that of commerce; into something that would bid fair to rival the metropolis, had not that wonderful body itself increased for years past with a rapidity beyond them all. Yet the government wants reforming, we are told. In a garden where every plant flourishes, and the produce exceeds calculation, and even imagination, who will be persuaded that there is gross mismanagement?
ST. JAMES'S, Oct. 25.
This day the Foreign Ministers hereafter mentioned had their first private audiences of her Majesty: The Baron Jacobi, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the King of Prussia, and Thomas Pinckney, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
SATURDAY, January 5.
CONTINUATION OF THE DEBATE ON MR. STEELE'S MOTION, FOR REDUCING THE ARMY.
MR. MURRAY said at so late a stage of the debate it would be improper to detain the committee; and had he heard one position of the gentleman from North-Carolina attended to by any other, he would have held himself inexcusable in calling the attention of the committee to its refutation—except the calculations entered into by the gentleman from North-Carolina, and answered by those of the gentleman from Connecticut, which were all irrelevant to the point in issue, he had heard but one new position advanced on this subject which had been so amply discussed by every member, for at least three weeks last session. The position to which he alluded was this—That as long as one establishment was kept up in one concentrated point, there the Indians would concentrate, and thence is deduced the conclusion that the great combination of the savages was a consequence of the army which we kept up. On this reasoning much stress had been laid by that gentleman, and by most who had supported his motion—and they agreed that by diminishing our establishment and diffusing our materials of defence, the Indians would be disjointed and cease their combined operations.—Nothing he conceived could be more fallacious than any reasoning which mistook effects for causes. He would observe, and the gentleman must admit, that the mode of our defence had been a consequence of the operation of the savages and not a cause of their combination.—The history of Indian warfare from Braddock's defeat up to the year eighty-four could furnish little matter of instruction on the present situation of things—before that period no cause existed that could forcibly attract the savages to a center, or give activity or duration to their combinations in great numbers.—But since the revolution a cause did exist in the neighbourhood of the present scene of operation, over which we have no controul, and which he had no sort of doubt had produced the effects against which the establishment is to act.—That cause, which it was unnecessary but to allude to, had undoubtedly planned the measures—inspired the hostility—and provided the means of Indian warfare; it had organized a set of tribes hitherto dispersed in their action, or had given a formidable method to those who some years since were without method, and who only kept up a kind of in-cursive war, and a running fire along the frontier.—In these times the mode of defence was accommodated to the mode of offence; and when no well organized attack was made, less skill and combination of defence were requisite.—But now the policy of another power gives energy and system to the tribes—it concentrates those powers which were dispersed, and gives permanency to what was before temporary and inconstant; our mode of defence opposed system to system—and permanent defence to the appearances of permanent combinations. Militia woodsmen would do in the old in-cursive war, but were unfit for that sort of war that acted against hostilities which were permanent and organized—for these garrisons uniting the allurements of traffic with the respectability of arms were necessary—and woodsmen who could not leave their families for more than a mere excursion of forty days were not proper. While he was up he would remark that what ever had been said of standing armies, though perfectly true abstractedly taken, did in no point touch on the present question.—We are in a state of war, and have an army and must have one; there was no more resemblance between a standing army and an army, as is ours, raised for actual defence, than there is between a camelion and an owl—the one a thing of ill omen and unnecessary but for works of darkness; the other a creature that took its complexion from the moment.—A standing army exists beyond the laws of reasonable necessity; our establishment was dictated by absolute necessity, is limited in numbers and duration, and is in all respects considered but as the engine of protection against the hostile Indians. Those, he observed, who supported the resolution had a great advantage over its opposers, in the freedom with which they could attack a system which was formed partly from public and partly from confidential information. In defending this system thus openly he felt himself trammelled

perpetually by a natural tendency to use those arguments in its support which he had drawn from confidential sources of information last session; while the doors were shut—but felt the propriety of restraining that impulse, and would only call on members to recollect the view the subject had been held in at a time when all the information was a fair source of debate. He hoped that as there certainly now was no prospect of peace in the spring, and as the President had the power to derive every advantage from the employment of expert woodmen under the law past last session, that the resolution would not be agreed to.
Mr. Williamson did not entirely approve of the motion in its present form; the blanks might be so filled, he thought, as to import a thing opposite to his wishes—they might import a discharge of the troops already raised. He believed his colleague had no such desire; he thought the measure would be improper, but he wished not to have a regiment of officers without soldiers—he wished to fix a time at which the recruiting service should cease, and the supernumerary officers should be discharged. As he intended to move that the proposition might be so amended, he should consider it in that light—and he believed the measure would not be imprudent nor inconsistent with the most vigorous measures of defence or offence.
It should be remembered that the House of Representatives, when they had the bill before them which last winter passed into a law for defending the frontiers, sent it to the Senate with a clause importing that officers below the rank of field-officers, should not be put into commission any faster than troops could be enlisted. The Senate adhering to their privilege, refused to agree to that clause in the bill, and it became necessary immediately to commission the officers for 5000 men, some of whom, if fame speaks truth, not covetous of honor, are content with their pay, without having raised three men. By the proposed amendment, the officers only would be dismissed, whom most of us wished never to have seen in commission.
The proposed regulation has been censured as implicating some kind of censure on the executive. He viewed it in a different light. The executive had done what was proper and necessary at the time. But if it should appear that other measures would fit the change of circumstances, he did not see why those measures should not be adopted. It should be recollected that during the last winter, when the estimate of 5000 men necessary for the defence of our frontier was handed to Congress, there was no militia law. A well armed effective militia, that palladium of liberty, had once and again been recommended by the President to the attention of Congress: but Congress, from year to year, as if they wished for a standing army, had neglected the militia. Towards the close of the last session indeed they passed a law. He hoped he might without offence call it the shadow of a law. It was saying in a few words that the several states might have a good militia if they pleased; and if they pleased, they might have none at all. Was the executive to trust the defence of a country to a militia formed under such a law? He thought not—But he observed, that since the last winter it had come to be generally known, that a class of our fellow citizens exist on the frontiers, who are at all times ready to serve, not as drafted militia, but as volunteers. These are the men, said he, by whom the Indians must be chastised, or we shall never have peace. They are the best woodsmen and marksmen, and they have no professional interest in spinning out the war. He said he must repeat the observation, that volunteers of the militia are the only troops for vigorous offensive operations. Figure to yourselves an army of regulars creeping through the wilderness with all its cannon and other military apparatus in chase of a naked savage, who sees it without being seen. It is an elephant in chase of a wolf. The troops already raised may be pretty well disciplined before the season for action—they are sufficient with the co-operations of the militia, to take a post, and build forts where they please—every thing else is beyond their power, if they were not five but fifteen thousand. They will never be an Indian unless he chooses to be seen. He wished to be indulged in a single observation respecting a case in which it was said the other day, the militia had been surprised. He was sorry that his naming Major Adair had produced the remark; he would nevertheless venture to repeat the case as an instance of vigilance and bravery. The Major believing there was an enemy at hand, had visited all his posts at midnight in person; his Lieutenant, Madison, before the dawn of day, roused all the men, telling them that the Indians were coming. The Major wishing to leave the ground before day-light, called in the sentinels,—but the Indians rushing in with them, gave a heavy fire before there was light by which they could be seen. The Major, he said, had not the merit, as he believed, of having been a Continental officer, but had the merit, not less honorable, of having served bravely in the militia. He questioned on the whole whether any of the green troops to be recruited next spring or summer, will make so good a defence as Major Adair's militia had made:—They had taken scalp for scalp, though they fought against the odds of three to one. He prayed it might be remembered, that his ideas were not founded on any hopes of sudden peace with the Indians; on the contrary, every motion of the Indians, and every measure taken by those who had most influence over the Indians, induced him to regard an Indian war as the perpetual tax of at least one million per annum. It is fortunate, as he conceived, that the United States know the source of their misfortunes—and if they are compelled to spend one million per annum in opposing a
savage enemy who seems to be hunted upon them, perhaps they may be taught to indemnify themselves by refusing to expend several millions which they can easily save. If a perpetual tax on this head must be raised, sound policy will readily point to the proper object of taxation: but this must remain over for our successors. In the mean time, believing that the troops already raised are sufficient to maintain every fort that is or may be erected, and being confident that volunteers may be found at any time sufficient, if it shall be necessary, to extirpate every hostile tribe of Indians—he should vote for the proposition with the proposed amendment.
Mr. Wadsworth closed the debate by replying particularly to that part of Mr. Steele's speech, in which he controverted some of Mr. Wadsworth's statement.
Mr. Wadsworth said, in the Act of May 2d, 1792, 600,500 dollars were appropriated for various purposes, of which 70,000 dollars were for the quarter master's department, which sum added to 50,000, appropriated by the act of December 23, 1791, make the 120 thousand dollars as he had before stated—not finding the estimates in the Clerk's office, on which these appropriations were made—I went, said Mr. Wadsworth, to the War-Office, and took copies of both estimates, which I have in my hand—and there can be no doubt of the fact, as it has been stated by me. Mr. Wadsworth added some general remarks respecting militia and regular troops—the merits of the former, he never meant to depreciate—he had been witness to many brilliant actions in which they had been engaged. On the present occasion, his wish was to impress on the house the inferiority of a regular established force for the service now under consideration.
SATURDAY, JAN. 12. The Yeas and Nays on Mr. Fitzsimons' resolution for loaning the balances due from the United States to individual States.
The said resolutions being under consideration, A motion was made and seconded to amend the first resolution contained in the said motion, by adding to the end thereof, the following proviso, to wit:
"Provided, that no such loan shall be opened in any state without the assent of the legislature thereof, by an act approving the measure."
It was resolved in the affirmative, Yeas 38—Nays 23.
YEAS. Messrs. Ames, Barnwell, Benson, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Clark, Dayton, Fitzsimons, Gerry, Goodhue, Gordon, Hartley, Hillhouse, Huger, Key, Kitchell, Kittera, Lawrance, Learned, Leonard, Livermore, Madison, Muhlenberg, Niles, Page, Sedgwick, Sylvester, W. Smith, Sterrett, Sturges, Sumpner, Thatcher, Tucker, Venable, Wadsworth, Ward and White—38.
NAYS. Messrs. Ashe, Baldwin, Findley, Giles, Gilman, Greenup, Gregg, Griffin, Grove, Heister, Lee, Macon, Mercer, Milledge, Moore, Murray, Orr, Parker, Schoonmaker, Steele, Treadwell, Williamson, & Willis—23.
And the question being put, that the House do agree to the said first resolution, amended. It was resolved in the affirmative, Yeas 34—Nays 28.
YEAS. Messrs. Ames, Barnwell, Benson, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Clark, Dayton, Fitzsimons, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Gordon, Hartley, Hillhouse, Huger, Key, Kittera, Lawrance, Learned, Leonard, Livermore, Muhlenberg, Sedgwick, Sylvester, Smith, Sterrett, Sturges, Sumpner, Thatcher, Tucker, Wadsworth, Ward, and White—34.
NAYS. Messrs. Ashe, Baldwin, Findley, Giles, Greenup, Gregg, Griffin, Grove, Heister, Kitchell, Lee, Macon, Madison, Mercer, Milledge, Moore, Murray, Niles, Orr, Page, Parker, Schoonmaker, I. Smith, Steele, Treadwell, Venable, Williamson, and Willis—28.
WEDNESDAY, January 16. The order of the day on the memorials of the officers of the late continental army being called for, the House went into a committee of the whole on the same—Mr. B. Bourn in the chair. The proposition offered yesterday by Mr. Gerry, and amended by Mr. Clark, was read by the Chairman; after a lengthy speech by Mr. Boudinot, in opposition to the proposition, the question being put, it was negatived.
Mr. Giles then offered the following, viz. Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, That the prayer of the memorialists is reasonable, and that provision ought to be made for the payment of such sums to the original holders of the proper debt of the United States, as may have been saved by the terms of the loan made under the act to provide for the debt of the U. States, calculating 6 per cent. at 20/ in the pound, and other species of paper at a proportionate value: provided that where any original creditor shall have subscribed to the loan proposed by the act to provide for the debt of the United States, a sum not less than the sum originally stipulated, such creditor shall not be entitled to the benefit of this provision—And that when a less sum shall have been so subscribed, there shall be a proportional reduction of his claim to such benefit.
After a considerable debate on this proposition, Mr. Clark moved that it should be divided. This motion being seconded,
The question was taken on the first clause of the proposition, ending with the word reasonable. This was negatived, nine members only rising in the affirmative.
It was then moved, that it be resolved, as the opinion of this committee, That the prayers of the memorials from officers of several of the
lines of the late continental army, cannot be granted.
This motion was agreed to. The committee then rose, and reported the last resolution to the House.
On the motion to adopt this resolution, the ayes and noes being demanded, are as follows:
Table with 2 columns: YEAS, NAYS. Lists names of members like Ames, Benon, S. Bourne, etc.
Table with 2 columns: YEAS, NAYS. Lists names of members like Ashe, Baldwin, Gerry, etc.
THURSDAY, January 17.
The petition of John Miller and others, praying compensation for services and supplies, was read, and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
In Committee of the Whole, Mr. Key in the Chair. A bill to continue in force for a limited time, and to amend the act providing for the means of intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, was taken into consideration.
The bill was read through and then considered by paragraphs. No amendment being proposed,
The committee rose and reported the bill, which was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
The House then took into consideration the bill to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes.
Mr. Madison's amendment, which had been ordered to be printed, was taken into consideration. It is in the following words—viz.
Strike out the eighth Section, in the words following, "And be it further enacted, That no sale of land, made by any nation or tribe of Indians within the United States, shall be valid to any person or persons, or to any state, unless such state have the right of pre-emption of such land or not, unless the same shall be made, and duly executed, at some public treaty held for that purpose, under the authority of the United States."
And in lieu thereof insert the following: And be it enacted, That no person shall be capable of acquiring any title, in law or equity, to any lands beyond the Indian boundaries, and within those of the United States, by purchase, gift or otherwise, from the Indians, holding or claiming the same; and that it shall be a misdemeanor in any person, punishable by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of a jury, to obtain, accept, or directly or indirectly, to treat for any title to such lands from the said Indians, or any other for them. And that, where any such Indians shall, of their own accord, desire to sell any part of their lands, and it shall be deemed for the interest of the United States, that a purchase shall be made, the same shall be done no otherwise than by treaty or convention, to be entered into pursuant to the constitution; the lands so purchased, to enure to the use of whoever may have the right of pre-emption thereto, and shall pay the price thereof.
Mr. Madison observed, that misunderstandings, quarrels and wars with the Indians had originated from the circumstance of persons having obtained, through fraud or other improper means, possession of the lands belonging to the Indians. This consideration rendered it highly important that this whole business should be under the absolute and sole direction of the public authority, in order to guard effectually against the fatal consequences which may result to the public by being precipitated into a war, thro' the arts of unprincipled persons, who while the public are made to sustain great calamities, often find means to extricate themselves from bearing their proportion of the inconveniences and expenses.
Several alterations were moved and made in the proposed section—among others,
The words "at the discretion of a jury" on motion of Mr. Livermore, were struck out. The same gentleman moved to expunge these words, "And it shall be deemed for the interest of the United States, that a purchase shall be made." This motion, after some debate, was agreed to.
It was then proposed by Mr. Clark, that the motion should be divided. The first question was for striking out the 8th section.
Mr. Barnwell objected to striking out. He conceived that the original section was as comprehensive as the other; that it was better worded, and liable to fewer exceptions than the substitute, as being more definite; for notwithstanding the latter is longer, yet sales made pursuant to treaties held under an authority not explicitly pointed out, would be liable to cavil and revision; and the persons holding a treaty for the purpose of making purchases, are exposed to incurring the penalty.
Mr. Giles preferred the proposed substitute, if for no other reason than this, that it contained a penalty for making improper purchases.
Mr. Fitzsimons proposed to retain the first section, and to amend it by inserting after the word 'sale,' or 'gift,' and to add the penalty contained in the substitute at the end of the section. Some further amendments were made to the
proposed substitute. The question was put on the first division of the motion.
The original section was struck out, and the section, as amended, agreed to.
An amendment proposed by Mr. Greenup, the object of which is to permit persons travelling thro' the Indian territory to purchase or exchange such articles as may be necessary for their subsistence, was then discussed, and agreed to. The duration of the bill was limited to two years, and then ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
In committee of the whole, Mr. White in the chair, On a bill to determine the northern boundary of the territory of the United States, and the state of North Carolina. This bill consists of one section only, and authorizes the President of the United States to take measures to have the line run. Some amendments were agreed to, and then the committee rose and reported the bill. The House adopted the amendments, and ordered the bill to be engrossed.
Adjourned. The following are the precise terms of the second proposition offered by Mr. Gerry on the memorials of officers of several lines of the late army of the United States, on Tuesday last.
RESOLVED, as the opinion of this committee, That provision be made for such officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the late army of the United States, who received certificates for the balances due to them on a final settlement of their respective accounts. Provided, that such provision shall not exceed the difference between the nominal amount of the said certificates, and the real amount, estimated at the present rates in the market, of the certificates which are or may be issued for those first mentioned, pursuant to an act making provision for the debt of the United States.
THURSDAY, January 10. Sketch of the Debate on the Resolutions respecting the Loan of the Balances due from the United States to the individual States.
After reading the report of the commissioners for settling the accounts, Mr. Giles made some opposition to providing for these balances before they were ascertained; that is not done by the report of the commissioners.
Mr. Fitzsimons briefly stated the motives which had induced him to come forward with the resolutions previous to ascertaining the balances—he thought that while there was an uncertainty in the business, the decisions would be more readily and impartially made.
Mr. Livermore objected to providing for balances before they were known; he thought the resolutions incomplete, as they recognized only creditor states, and say nothing about debtor states.
Mr. Fitzsimons said, he did not believe there would be any debtor states; he was sure there ought not to be any.
Mr. Madison objected to the resolutions on the same principle with Mr. Livermore; he enlarged on the idea, and insisted that without the most urgent necessity, the provision contemplated ought not to be made in the present uncertain state of the business. On the principles of justice and economy, he contended, that a system which would be so complex in its operation, ought not to be adopted; it would operate to the extension of taxation in the United States to the greatest degree, as it would involve a further levying of taxes to reimburse the states that shall finally appear to have large balances due them.
Mr. Fitzsimons said he was not understood—adverting to the act for assuming the state debts, he observed that these balances were there recognized, and the creditors to whom these balances are due, are to all intents and purposes creditors of the union. Mr. Fitzsimons said, he had no idea of the result contemplated by the gentleman in respect to the extension of taxes. No possible difference, he conceived, could take place whether the balances were now assumed, or the ascertainment of them was made previous thereto; the operation would be precisely the same in both cases.
Mr. Sedgwick replied to Mr. Madison—He stated various reasons to show that his objection on the score of increased taxes had really no foundation. Mr. Sedgwick entered into a short discussion of the subject, and stated the real situation of some of the states, to whose citizens large sums are due. He said he had no doubt the general government would consider themselves bound to pay those demands; could he despair of the public faith in this respect, he should despair of the commonwealth; for he should anticipate the most pernicious consequences to flow from the withholding that justice, which those states now looked to the general government to obtain.
Mr. Mercer observed, that the honorable gentleman from Pennsylvania had brought forward his proposition in such a shape, as that it was difficult to determine what his object was; but he inferred from his explanations, unless he contradicted himself, that the real object was a further assumption of the state debts, and to effect the adoption of a question which was rejected at the last session. Here Mr. Mercer entered into a consideration of the various principles which had been proposed as bases for settling and adjusting the accounts between the United States and individual states. He contended that the business was not in such a state as to justify adopting the principle of the resolution. He adverted to the approaching dissolution of the present Congress. He remarked on the difference of the exertions which had been made by the several states—he inferred that there must necessarily be both debtor and creditor states; and hence deduced various considerations which should influence a postponement of this business.
Mr. Gerry recurred to the funding act, to show that debtor and creditor states were therein recognized; with respect to the principles on which the accounts are to be settled, that

business rests with the commissioners, whose decision by a law of the government is to be final; but this he conceived, had nothing to do with the present proposition. He noticed several other objections offered by Mr. Mercer, which he thought appeared to be brought forward merely to embarrass the business. He observed that the present proposition was totally different from that agitated last session; that now offered is reasonable, is founded on equal principles, and its effect will not be to encroach the creditors of the union, nor induce a necessity for one farthing of taxation, which will not be wanted after the accounts are adjusted, and the balances known. He hoped therefore, that the proposition would be agreed to.
Mr. B. Bourn supported the resolution, as being free from the objections urged to those offered the last session. He noticed the remarks which had been made on the resources in lands of the states to whom the balances are supposed to be due; Massachusetts, Rhode-Island and South Carolina are the states the most interested in the business; those states have no lands. With respect to exertions in the common cause, it will not be pretended that those states have not made as great as any in the union. The present proposition involves this simple enquiry, whether the United States shall pay the states as states, or whether they will pay the individual creditors—justice required, in his opinion, that the latter ought to be paid; for their demands are recognized by a law of the union, and they are to all intents and purposes creditors of the union, as fully as any description of creditors whatever.
(Debate to be continued.)
MR. FENNO, The following appeared in the National Gazette of the 9th instant—which, with the inclosed, you are requested to insert in your GA-ZETTE.
To Mr. JAMES BLANCHARD.
SIR, AFTER having served your country with distinguished honor and integrity, during the late arduous contest for freedom and independence, you have now nobly and intrepidly stepped forth, to vindicate your own rights and those of your fellow soldiers, by calling on your country for that justice to which they have so righteous a claim, and which has so long been denied—you have attacked speculation in its strong hold, no doubt the next you have disturbed will send forth a howling tribe about your ears, but persevere in the good cause—be not deterred by the open threats or secret frowns of men in office—we have long been amused with hints and insinuations respecting the dark intrigues of Congressmen. It was reserved for you, Sir, to point out the culprits. Neither names nor nations should screen public plunderers from public execrations; go on, Sir, in the noble work you have begun—state facts, produce your vouchers, name your men, lay open the whole scene of iniquity and let vengeance fall on the guilty—strip off the mask that conceals the speculator under the guise of the patriot—drag forth to day-light the men, let them be who they will; whether they be Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Judges, Senators, Representatives, Secretaries, Comptrollers, Auditors, Commissioners, Registers, Clerks, Collectors, Supervisors, Inspectors, Agents, Contractors, Quarter-masters, Generals, Colonels, Governors, State Comptrollers, Treasurers, Accountants, or whatever else may be named. Let the Augean stable be cleaned, tho' the world be turned inside out or topsy-turvy—order will spring out of confusion, light will flash out of chaos, rogues will be exposed, justice shall appear, and the war-worn soldier, the penniless officer, and the long-cheated real public creditor shall bless the name of Blanchard. Having entered on the arduous undertaking, having collected materials in your late southern tour, having an able friend, adviser and counsellor in that independent and truly disinterested friend of the poor soldier, the author of "the poor soldiers' plea"—you must be armed at all points, your enemies cannot assail you with advantage; they shall retire from your attack, and the whole herd of speculators, from the first man in the government, to the despicable wretch who prowling thro' the country for prey, has bought the soldier's or widow's mite for a long, shall crouch and refund their ill-gotten gains—cloath'd with the impenetrable armour of honor, faith, a good conscience and an unspotted character, you will effect your object, tho' Appollyon and all his host of treasury blood-suckers should stand in your way.
A FELLOW LABORER.
No. 2.
To Mr. J. — B. —
SIR, SUCH is the uncertainty in all human affairs, that however good the cause, however eminent the abilities that are engaged in its support, every wise and reflecting mind will constantly hold itself in a state prepared for disappointment. I doubt not, Sir, your contemplations have inspired some ideas congenial to the above, on a recent event—the failure of our application to Congress. For tho' it has been insinuated that it is possible some persons may have been actuated by improper motives on the occasion—yet I can bear witness to the honor, consistency and public spirit of Mr. J. — B. — no sinister motives have influenced your exertion. You, Sir, early engaged in the service of your country from patriotic principles, and persevered without the smallest deviation from the strict line of duty to the end of the contest. Some have asserted that you began the business of speculation while in the army—that you defended to every artifice to possess yourself of the claims of the soldiers—but others pretend to think this cannot be true—for they say it is well known, that at the close of the war, you were not possessed of property sufficient to countenance such a suggestion—besides, it is said by some who know you well, that tho' you were cursed with the itch of speculation, yet possessing too much of a projecting spirit, like those of other eminent personages, your schemes and speculations have terminated in disappointment, loss and poverty. I cannot help, Sir, expressing my sympathy with you on the unfortunate issue of some of your
truly benevolent and virtuous enterprises of a more recent date. Inflamed by the fire of philanthropy, you took your late tour to the southern states, to kindle a similar flame in the bosom of some persons there. With what pleasure did all your fellow laborers behold your name adorning the southern gazettes. It is to be lamented that your success was so partial in this business; and that you entirely failed for want of the Rhino in your LAND WARRANT and CERTIFICATE speculation. You had no cash, and alas, they would not trust you. We have to lament, my dear fellow laborer, that all our trouble and expence in procuring the long list of names from the public offices of those we intended to cheat, were thrown away. Here let me caution you to be on your guard against wolves in sheep-skins. But, dear Sir, the best intentions are often frustrated. I shall never forget the unmerited abuse you received in New-York on a certain occasion, when the Postmaster was so uncompliant as to prevent you from prescribing rules in his office. Your object was doubtless laudable; but he could not see thro' the justice of sending your letters at half price.
There are many other matters and things on which I could condole with you—but the time fails me at present—and you have in our old friend and counsellor, the author of "the poor soldiers' plea," so sympathizing, kind and generous an ally, that I need not enlarge at this time. I shall conclude therefore at present with proposing that you should go on with the good work; should you succeed, our fortunes are made—we know who will be entitled to the benefit of depreciation, from North-Carolina to New-Hampshire.
You know there are the letters of a certain head of a department, which you have said are in your possession—these you must bring forward, or I assure you, there is danger of your being obliged to acknowledge that you are a liar; and it would be a horrid thing for you yourself to publish such a fact.
There is one thing more, my dear James, and I have done—a most formidable majority in the government is against us—and, I believe, among the people. You have abused individuals—men whom neither you nor I were ever acquainted with, and never will be; but take care, my dear fellow—do not damn the whole majority of Congress as a set of scoundrels, lest your tongue should become too long for your mouth.
Yours, in much amity,
A FELLOW LABORER.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
THE army memorial lays stress on their being paid certificates worth 3/ in the pound, instead of 20/ in money. It is necessary to be correct in our ideas of this operation. The army had an unliquidated demand. It was liquidated, and the final settlements issued in consequence. It would be absurd to imagine that the unliquidated demand remained in force as well as the new certificate given in lieu of it; for in that case the United States will be charged twice for the same debt. Common sense and common practice teach every person that the new certificate created a new demand, instead of the old one, as a bond puts an end to a running account. In this sense, and in this sense only, the certificate operated as payment. But it carried the evidence of their whole demand at 20/ in the pound in specie. The army memorialists seem to have erected a very solid work on a fictitious basis. Had the old demand of the army been liquidated and settled by the delivery of counterfeit certificates, the old debt would have remained in force, because the new demand could not have any force at all. Every man who has served on a jury or even seen a court of justice, will perceive that the doctrine of the certificates being worth and discharging only 3/ instead of 20/ is wholly unfounded; whatever their market value might be, they certainly carried on the face the evidence of the whole sum of 20/ the certificates being made transferable was no accommodation to the public—as it is plain whoever might keep them, the public would be charged to pay the full amount. They were made transferable it is said on the request of the army—whether this be true or false is not very material; for it is inconceivable that the final settlements should carry to every possessor a right to 20/ against the public, and yet should discharge the public of only 3/ of the debt due the officers. Instead therefore of saying that the certificates were given the officers in payment, which is not true, we should say, they were given on a final settlement of their claims, and were (not the payment, but) the evidence of their whole demand. The question of their merits, their sufferings and losses, is not intended to be included in these remarks—which are made to show that the principle on which they rest their claims, as of right, is unfounded.
A FRIEND TO THE LATE ARMY.
Philadelphia, Jan. 19.
We hear from Georgia, that the legislature of that State, at their last session, have promoted the Hon. Brig. General James Jackson, to the rank of a Major Gen. and the Hon. Col. James Gunn, to the rank of a Brig. General.
BANK OF NORTH-AMERICA.
JAN. 14, 1792.
AT a meeting of the Stockholders held this day, for the election of twelve Directors for the ensuing year, the following persons were elected:
  John Nixon,  William Smith,    John Morton,  Benjamin Fuller,    Robert Waln,  Thomas Fitzsimons,    Mordecai Lewis,  Miers Fisher,    George Latimer,  Joseph Swift,    Josiah Hewes,  Richard Rundle.  
FUNDING SYSTEM.
Lord what a pother some folks make, According to the side they take; A party man when first you lift him, Inveighs against the funding system; It is a gulph that swallows up The public interest at a sup— Not Newton's mind in calculation, Could count the losses of the nation; But—ah how short our memories are, Those who such things assert and swear, When the old story is grown stale, Don't blush to tell a diff'rent tale; Hence by the dint of second light, What millions saved, are bro't to light.
Whereas, in consequence of an arrangement just adopted by the Government of the United States, at the request of the Minister of France, the Subscriber is to be successively provided with Funds for the discharge of the drafts of the administration of the French Colony of Hispaniola, from No. 173, of the 10th of September, to No. 379, of the 11th of December last inclusively.
He informs the Holders of said Drafts that they will be paid by him as they become due.
The Public is once more requested to attend to the Caution given by the Subscriber in his Advertisements of the 9th of August, and 21st of November last, as no other Bills from the aforesaid Administration will be accepted or paid here in future.
ANTOINE R. C. M. DELAFORST, Consul General of France.
Philadelphia, Jan. 17th, 1793.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Clifton, near Bristol, (England) to his friend in Baltimore, dated October 20, 1792.
"With respect to politics, the English newspapers will shew you to what outrageous lengths the Jacobins and Republicans of France have carried on matters. We are in daily expectation of hearing of their having sacrificed the poor King and Queen.—The Austrians and Prussians seem to have been grossly misled by the Emigrants, in representing a larger body of malcontents in the kingdom of France, than there appears to be. They advanced rapidly under the idea of support, but finding the body of the people against them, they have retreated, and, I suppose, it will end in the rascals' establishing their own wild incoherent system of government. If they would only content themselves with bringing on their own destruction, no person would care whether they had any government or not, or be interested in it; but when they threaten every country in Europe with sending emillaries abroad, to poison the minds of the common people, to subvert every thing that is decent and respectable in each country, it then becomes a matter of moment to each to endeavor to counteract their schemes. At present, I am very sure, the good sense of the great body of the people in this country is against any such innovation; and, I believe, Mr. Thomas Paine, at length, begins to think so. He embarked at Dover for France the other day, amidst the hisses and execrations of the populace."
It is without doubt one of the greatest offences that can be committed, in the view of certain characters, so much as to doubt the goodness of those motives, which lead modern reformers to beat down every barrier between that virtue on which republics can alone exist, and that INFIDELITY which recognizes nothing as a crime that may conduce to facilitating the ambitious views of its disciples.
MARRIED, Mr. LEWIS HALLAM to Miss ELIZA TUNE.
ORATORY.
THE art of speaking is a pretty thing, Provided you can touch old Stenton's string; For he in vain his reas'ning pow'rs employs, Who does not teach his tongue to make a noise; A noise—Ye gods! you whisper when you thunder, Compar'd with sounds that make the gall'ry wonder.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
  6 per Cents, 20/1   3 per Cents, 11/10   Deferred, 12/4   Full shares Bank U. S. 34 per cent. prem. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The extract from a Cape-Francois paper—and many other articles are necessarily postponed till our next.
City of Washington.
JANUARY 7th, 1793.
A NUMBER of Lots in this City will be offered for sale at auction, by the Commissioners, on the 17th day of September next.—One fourth part of the purchase money is to be paid down, the residue at three equal annual payments with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
JOHN M. GANTT, Clerk to the Com'rs.
Extract of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, concerning the Territory of Columbia, and the City of Washington.
"Be it enacted, That any foreigner may by deed or will, hereafter to be made, take and hold lands within that part of the said Territory which lies within this State, in the same manner as if he was a citizen of this State; and the same lands may be conveyed by him, and transmitted to and be inherited by his heirs or relations, as if he and they were citizens of this State: Provided, That no foreigner shall, in virtue hereof, be entitled to any further or other privilege of a citizen."
Jan. 19.
FOR SALE,
By the Subscriber, at Walnut-Street Wharf,
BILL OF EXCHANGE
Madeira Wine,
Fit for immediate use, in pipes & quarter casks,
TENNERIFFE WINE, in pipes, SHERRY WINE, in quarter casks, WEST-INDIA RUM, 2, 3 and 4 proof, OLD BRANDY, OLD SPIRIT, COPPERAS, BRIMSTONE, ALLUM, Two Bales 10-4 BLANKETS, and A Bale of MUSLINS.
A new 13-4 Inch CABLE, 120 fathoms long.
GEORGE MEADE.
Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 1793. ephm
TO BE SOLD, OR LEASED
FOR SEVEN OR TEN YEARS, THE FOLLOWING
HOUSES.
ONE on Walnut-street, near Fourth-street, 23 feet front, has two parlours below, the front one 21 1/2 by 17 1/2 feet, the back parlour is 18 by 14 feet. The front room up stairs is 26 1/2 by 17 1/2 feet. There are five good chambers in this house, besides the garret is divided into three rooms, in two of them there are fire-places.
The other House is 27 feet upon Walnut-street, and 32 feet upon 4th street; there are two good parlours below, one of them 25 by 20 1-2 feet, the other 25 by 18 1-2 feet, and seven complete bed-chambers; besides the garret is divided into 4 rooms, 3 of which rooms have fire-places. The kitchens are good ones, and are under the houses; the largest house has also a house-keeper's room. It is intended there shall be a communication from both of these houses to a neighbouring ice-house, sufficiently large to supply 3 houses. Within 50 yards of these houses, there will be complete stables and coach houses, for both houses; they will be finished in the most complete manner, and the keys ready to be delivered early in the summer.
On paying half the money down (if sold) the other half may be paid by instalments, or the whole may remain for 5 years, paying interest and giving security on the premises.
For terms of sale or lease, apply to the Subscriber,
GEORGE MEADE.
Who has for SALE,
Sundry Ground Rents,
In this city, amounting to twenty-five pounds sixteen shillings and six-pence, per annum.
Also, a quantity of BAGS, that will contain two and a half and three and a half bushels.
Philadelphia, Jan. 19, 1793. ephm
By the Commissioners appointed 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, is 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 5,000 is 10,000   10 ditto 1,000 is 10,000   20 ditto 500 is 10,000   100 ditto 100 is 10,000   200 ditto 50 is 10,000   400 ditto 25 is 10,000   1,000 ditto 10 is 10,000   15,000 ditto 10 is 150,000   16,737 Prizes Dollars 350,000   33,263 Blanks   50,000 
The sole design of this Lottery being to facilitate other improvements together with the Public Buildings—it is the particular desire of the Commissioners that these may be effected with as few deductions from the Prizes as possible—how far their endeavors may be answered, the Scheme of the Lottery will demonstrate. The keys of the Hotel, when complete, will be delivered to the fortunate possessor of the ticket drawn against its number—if the necessary expenses of the Lottery should be taken from the principal prize, a quantity of excellent Free Stone will be given, sufficient to complete the whole building, as an indemnification.
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.
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; of Messrs. James West & Co. Baltimore; of Mr. Peter Gilman, 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 300 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 expence intended for this purpose.
S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City.
January 19.

From the American Daily Advertiser.
ADVANTAGES OF CANALS.
THERE is now erected on the waters of Brandywine, fifty merchant mills, which grinding six months in the year, and packing ten barrels of flour per day—at the average rate of 4d. per barrel—is bbls. 91,500
4 Grist mills. 50 Saw mills, working six months in the year, will cut 1000 feet per day, of plank, boards, &c. at 10s. per thousand, is, thousf. 9,140
1 Furnace, making 15 tons pig metal and three tons callings, per week, to continue in blast nine months in the year—at 7s. 6d. per ton—is tons 117
8 Forges, making on an average 75 tons bar iron each, annually, is tons 600 at 5s. per ton.
2 Slitting mills, making 200 tons each, is tons 400 at 5s. per ton.
4 Paper mills, contributing towards toll, each £. 100
3 Oil do. do. do. each 50
7 Fulling mills.
1 Snuff mill, contributing towards toll, 75
1 Tilt hammer.
The commodities manufactured at the above mills, at the rates annexed, will cost to carry them to Philadelphia market by means of a canal, £. 7018 17 6
Whereas the present mode of carriage, by land, will amount to 21,056 12 6
From which deduct the sum as above, cost of carriage down the canal, 7018 17 6
Leaves a balance in favor of the water carriage, for the mills above noted, £. 14,037 15 0
A writer in a late London paper, speaking of LA FAYETTE, says,
IF France ever inhaled the sacred august spirit of Liberty, if she has shown to the world magnanimous proofs of it, it is to La Fayette that she is in a great measure indebted for this. It was from him that France first knew that a worthy citizen and soldier were no incompatible terms; that all men are by nature free and equal, as to their rights. He would have taught them, that a constitution formed by the unanimous suffrage of Free-Men, ought to be respected and obeyed. Prevented in his career of glory by the arts of insidious and abandoned factions, he yet merits the eulogy of every good man, whose hearts must be touched at the ignoble destiny which now awaits him.
"I will not enquire whether the Combined Armies had a right, when he quitted his country, to treat him as a prisoner at war—perhaps they had; but surely the fate of that General must be singularly hard, who, if before incapable of returning to his native country, is now, by the late decree against all Emigrants, to be considered as of no Nation. He is then to undergo, unless timely relieved, perpetual imprisonment. There is no one (whatever may be their inclinations) in France who can liberate him. To whom, then, can the province of ransoming an Hero who has contributed to the destruction of despotism in France, devolve?—It is reserved for the English—to that manly and generous nation, who has lately evinced by its conduct that it is unswayed and unbiased by narrow views; that it forgets enmities; that has illustrated most strikingly to this and every succeeding age, that she regards no longer the confined doctrines which till of late isolated her from Europeans; that all mankind in distress are her brethren:—Perfect these laudable efforts of benevolence and philanthropy—Release La Fayette
from his manacles.—America is too far distant to engage herself in European broils; and from you only he has any hopes. Hasten then ye generous Britons! to his succour, and immortalize your names."
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
RESOLVED, THAT the Cashier be authorised to receive from the proprietor of any number of complete shares, such Certificates, not in his own name, as he may be the proprietor of; and after cancelling the same, to issue a new Certificate or Certificates in lieu thereof, in the name of such proprietor.
RESOLVED, That in all future transfers of complete shares in the capital stock of the Bank, the Certificates of the shares transferred be cancelled, and a new Certificate or Certificates be issued in the name of the transferee or purchaser.
RESOLVED, That the Certificates in future issued, be for one or more shares, as the proprietor may request; and the new Certificate or Certificates shall be of correspondent numbers with those in lieu of which they are issued. JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
PHILADELPHIA, January 7, 1793. NOTICE is hereby given, that there will be paid at the Bank, after the 17th instant, to the Stockholders or their Representatives duly authorized, the following sums, being the Dividend declared for the last six months, viz.
For each share bearing dividend from the 1st of July, Sixteen Dollars. For each share bearing dividend from the 1st of August, Fifteen Dollars, 33 Cents. For each share bearing dividend from the 1st of September, Fourteen Dollars, 67 Cents. For each share bearing dividend from the 1st of October, Fourteen Dollars. For each share bearing dividend from the 1st of November, Thirteen Dollars, 33 Cents. For each share bearing dividend from the 1st of December, Twelve Dollars, 67 Cents. For each three-quarter share, Twelve Dollars. By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
50 Dollars Reward.
RAN away on the 25th instant, a likely Negro Man called ISAAC, about twenty-three years old, five feet six or eight inches high, a well made fellow, fond of talking, has a large mouth; and shows his teeth very much when talking; had on when he went away, a brown linen shirt, a short white kersey over jacket with a very high collar and plain breasted, with buttons which appear to have been very gay; a pair of white kersey breeches, a pair of white knit yarn stockings, a pair of shoes with strings in them, and a coarse hat: all the above clothes are almost new. Said Negro was formerly the property of Mr. William Thomas, late of Kent County, near George-Town Cross Roads, deceased, and has for several years been employed in that neighbourhood, and principally by a Mr. Maxwell, and lately by Messrs. John and James Carmack, as a waggoneer, which business he is well acquainted with, and is what he prefers; and has been engaged in driving a waggon from said Cross-Roads to Duck-Creek, &c. until August last. I expect he will make his way for the neighbourhoods of George-Town, Duck-Creek, Dover or Wilmington. The above reward will be paid if delivered to me in this place, or Thirty Dollars if secured in any jail, so that I get him again. He is an artful fellow, and when taken, will make his escape, unless particularly secured. EASTON, OWEN KENNARD, Talbot County, Maryland, Dec. 28, 1792.
200 Dollars Reward.
LOST, at Providence, or between Providence and Boston, a very small TRUNK, covered with seal-skin of a reddish colour, with white spots. It contained a quantity of South and North-Carolina State Notes, and a few of the State of Rhode-Island; with other papers, which can only be serviceable to the proprietor. The State notes are checked at the offices from whence they issued. Any person producing the Trunk (with its contents) to JOHN MARSTON, of Boston, WILLIAM HALL, of Providence, Messrs. PATERSON and BRASHER, New-York, or Mr. SAMUEL EMERY, in Philadelphia, shall receive the above reward, or for any part of the property, One Hundred Dollars. Boston, Nov. 28. eptf.
To the Public.
THE Subscribers having been appointed a committee of the Board of the Trustees of the University of North-Carolina, for the purpose of receiving proposals from such gentlemen as may intend to undertake the instruction of youth in that institution, take the opportunity of making known to the public their wish that such gentlemen should signify their inclination to the Subscribers.
The objects to which it is contemplated by the Board to turn the attention of the students, on the first establishment, are—The study of Languages, particularly the English—History, ancient and modern—the Belle-lettres—Logic and Moral Philosophy—the knowledge of the Mathematics and Natural Philosophy—Agriculture and Botany, with the principles of Architecture.
Gentlemen conversant in these branches of Science and Literature, and who can be well recommended, will receive very handsome encouragement by the Board. The exercises of the institution will commence as early as possible after the completion of the buildings of the University, which are to be contracted for immediately.
SAMUEL ASHE, A. MOORE, JOHN HAYE, DAVID STONE, SAM. MCCORKLE.
The price of this Gazette is Three Dollars per annum—One half to be paid at the time of subscribing.
Federal City.
THE Subscriber will convey forever, by good and sufficient deed, Thirty Lots in the City of Washington, situated on South Capitol Street, to any man or company of men—provided they will agree to erect thereon good and sufficient brick houses, within three years from the date hereof. DANIEL CARROLL, of Duddington. City of Washington, Dec. 31, 1792.
TO BE SOLD, That well-known Place, called South-Point,
LYING at the end of Sininuxent Neck, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, within two miles of the Inlet, in Worcester County, in the said State, being the first landing for vessels that trade in there. From the situation of the place, it is convenient for fish, clams and oysters, is open to the sea, and has every convenience that could be wish'd for. The soil is excellent for Indian corn, wheat or flax, is natural to clover, and has a good marsh pasture for stock.
Any person desirous of purchasing, may know the terms by applying to Ashton Humphreys, Esq. in Philadelphia—Mr. Benjamin Purnell, in Indian Town, Worcester County—or to Capt. Littleton Robins, near the place. Jan. 2.
A GREAT BARGAIN.
FOR Sale, a beautiful situation on the Potomack, adjoining the town of Alexandria and in a line of direction towards the Federal City and George-Town, in full view of each place, commanding a prospect of the river and adjacent country of Maryland and Virginia, for many miles; about 45 or 50 acres of Land, lying directly on the river, will be sold, with the improvements, which are, a two-story framed dwelling-house, neatly finished, a kitchen, office, brick smoke-house and dairy, two-story framed barn, a well of excellent water, and an ice-house, a yard and garden, neatly raised and highly improved, with a number of other necessary improvements; the whole of the land enclosed with posts and rails, ten or fifteen acres laid down, with different kinds of grass. Its contiguity to those three towns must render it an object worthy the attention of any person who wishes to invest money in a property that must enhance in value, in proportion to the rapid increase of the Federal City, Alexandria and George-Town. This property lies nearly in a central situation to each place. The Potomack at this spot has a fine deep shore and harbour, capable of receiving vessels of any burden. It may not be improper to observe, that men of judgment think a profitable and convenient Ferry might be erected here to the City of Washington and the Maryland shores leading to Baltimore and Philadelphia. Also to sell, 215 acres of Wood-Land, about three miles distant, which will suit well to supply the above in wood and timber. The title may be seen to the above property, which is indisputable, and terms known by application to the subscriber, living on the premises. BALDWIN DADE. December 12th, 1792.
RUN-AWAY
FROM THE SUBSCRIBER, THE 12th APRIL, A NEGRO BOY, named Zeb; slim and tall, sixteen years old; came to Samuel Lipincott's at Bordentown on the 15th, said his name was Henry, and left that place the 27th May. On the 27th day of June, he was taken up in Bucks County, and carried before a Magistrate, said he was free, and that he lived on the Sultchannah—taking a person by the name of Abraham Prall, took him three days journey from home, and turned him adrift with one dollar—He asked the Justice for a pass to go to his father, and nothing appeared to the contrary—He lived with one Thomas Paxwell till the 19th of this instant, and then made his escape from him; he called his name Peter Johnson—had on an old Grey Coating Round Jacket, lined with red baize; an old pair Leather Breeches, and an old Felt Hat. Whoever takes up said Boy, and brings him to JACOB MERSEREAU, on Staten-Island, shall receive TWENTY DOLLARS, with reasonable charges, paid by JACOB MERSEREAU, Lieut. Col. Dec. 29.
BOWEN'S EXHIBITIONS OF Wax-Work & Paintings,
ARE open every day and evening (Sundays excepted) at the House lately occupied by Mrs. PINE, No. 9, North Eighth-Street. FIRST ROOM—Contains upwards of 100 elegant Paintings, and about 30 Wax Figures, in full stature, among which are Likenesses of a number of the principal characters in America; Baron Trenck in chains, an Indian Chief, and several beautiful young Ladies of different States, &c. &c. SECOND ROOM—Contains eighteen large Wax Figures, which form a SOCIABLE CLUB, or the OYSTER SUPPER; and the SCHOOL for SCANDAL, consisting of twelve female Figures, making their observations on a young Lady, who had eloped with a Footman. Admittance One Quarter of a Dollar each Room.
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PRINTED AND SOLD BY MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia.
1. AMERICAN MUSEUM, from its commencement in January 1787, to June 1792, in eleven vols. Price, neatly bound and lettered, seventeen dollars and three fifths. This work, which is now conducted on an improved plan, containing the best pieces published for and against the proceedings of government, will be found to contain at least as great a variety of political, agricultural, and miscellaneous essays, as any ever published in America. Perhaps in no one work are so many valuable documents respecting the history of this country, collected together. His Excellency the President of the United States, has declared of it, that "a more useful literary plan has never been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement." The subscription is two dollars and a half per ann. Gentlemen in the country who wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to give commission to friends in the city to subscribe for and receive it.—Any of the back numbers may be had in order to complete sets. 2. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on Nursing and the management of Children. "We recommend these letters to the perusal of those to whom they are particularly addressed." Monthly Review, vol. 38, p. 101—Price, bound, 62 cents. 3. Duncan's Elements of Logic—75 cents. 4. Beauties of Fielding—50 cents. 5. Beauties of Blair—50 cents. 6. Ladies' Pocket Library, containing Miss More's Essays, Gregory's Legacy, Lady Pennington's Advice, Marchioness of Lambert's Advice, Swift's Letter to a newly married Lady, Mrs. Chapone on command of Temper, More's Fables for the Ladies, Price 6/6. 7. Smith's History of New-York. Price a dollar and a quarter. 8. Elements of Moral Science, by James Beattie, L.L.D. professor of moral philosophy and logic in the Marischal College, Aberdeen—Price three-fourths of a dollar. Of this book the Critical Reviewers (vol. 69, p. 628) say: "We have seen nothing on these subjects more plain, more perspicuous, or more generally useful." N. B. It is introduced into the University in Philadelphia. 9. Beauties of Poetry. Price four-fifths of a dollar. 10. Blair's Sermons. Price two dollars. 11. Necker's Treatise on the importance of Religious Opinions.—Price four-fifths of a dollar. 12. Examination of the Observations of Lord Sheffield on American Commerce—Price, on very fine paper, 5/6 of a dollar. 13. The Constitutions of the several United States, with the Federal Constitution, &c. Price five-eighths of a dollar. 14. M'Fingal. Price three-eighths of a dollar. 15. American Jell Book. Price three-fifths of a dollar. 16. Garden of the Soul. Price half a dollar. 17. The Doway Translation of the Vulgar Bible, in quarto—Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/6—plain, six dollars. 18. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum—Price a quarter dollar. 19. Think well on't. Price a quarter dollar. 20. Christian Economy. Price a fifth of a dollar. 21. History of Charles Grandison, abridged—Price a sixth of a dollar. 22. Poems by Col. Humphreys—Price a third of a dollar. 23. Select Poems, chiefly American—Price a sixth of a dollar. Said CAREY has for sale, a large assortment of Books, European as well as American editions, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. Country gentlemen, who favor him with commands, may depend upon being supplied in the most satisfactory manner. A liberal allowance to such as purchase quantities for public libraries or to sell again.