Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-06-16 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS, AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 5, of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1792.
[Whole No. 327.]
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T. PICKERING.
THE following sections of the act entitled, "An act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers, and for other purposes therein mentioned," are republished for the information of all persons, who, on the 29th day of June next (1792) shall be possessed of WINES.
SECT. 10. AND be it further enacted, That all Wines which after the said last day of June next, shall be imported into the United States, shall be landed under the care of the inspector of the port where the same shall be landed, and for that purpose, every permit for landing any Wines, which shall be granted by a Collector, shall, prior to such landing, be produced to the said inspector, who, by endorsement thereupon under his hand, shall signify the production thereof to him, and the time when, after which, and not otherwise, on pain of forfeiture, it shall be lawful to land the said Wines.
SECT. 11. And be it further enacted, That every person, who shall have in his or her possession, Wines which are intended for sale, in quantity exceeding one hundred and fifty gallons, shall prior to the said last day of June next, make entry thereof in writing at some office of inspection in the city, town or county where he or she shall reside, specifying and describing the casks, cases, boxes and other packages containing the same, and the kinds, qualities and quantities thereof, and where, and in whose possession they are; and the officer of inspection, at whose office such entry may be made, shall, as soon as may be thereafter, visit and inspect, or cause to be visited and inspected, the Wines so reported, and shall mark, or cause to be marked, the casks, cases, boxes and packages containing the same, with progressive numbers, with the name of the person to whom the same may belong, the kind or kind thereof, and words "Old Stock," and shall grant a certificate for each cask, case, box or package containing such Wine, describing therein the said cask, case, box or package, and the Wines therein contained, which certificate shall accompany the same, wherever it may be sent.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Kent County, and State of Maryland, on Sunday the 27th May last, a NEGRO MAN, named HARK; about 40 years of age, about five feet nine inches high, has a scar over one of his eye-brows, and when talking, hangs his head on one side, and looks up—had on and took with him the following cloaths, viz. a fearnought coat, a black and white kersey coat, cut round, a white kersey jacket and breeches, two pair of yarn stockings, the one pair lately looted, and the other not, two osnaburgh shirts, each piced on one side, two pair of tow-linen trowsers, one pair patched with new tow-linen down the fore parts, and an old felt hat.
Whoever takes up said Negro, if out of this State, and secures him in gaol, shall receive FOURTEEN DOLLARS reward; and if taken within this State, and secured as aforesaid, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS reward; and it brought home, reasonable expenses will be paid by PEREGRINE LETHBURY. Chester-Town, June 4, 1791.
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CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FRIDAY, April 23, 1792.
A motion for recommitting the bill to provide for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers, was made the preceding day by Mr. Page, but not decided on—it was this day again brought forward by that gentleman, who observed on the occasion—
RISE, Sir, to renew the motion which I made yesterday, that the bill before you may be recommitted. I observed then, that having been reminded of my duty by gentlemen who said that they who had not brought any other plan of ways and means before the House, if they objected to that proposed by the Secretary, had not done their duty, I arose then to show how far I had done my duty, and how far I was willing to go to perform it. I informed the house that as I did not approve of the Secretary's third plan (that which the house had adopted) I had proposed to the leading members (an expression which gave offence to some gentlemen, but which I explained as meaning no more than members who take the lead in business, and to whom I confessed myself obliged for their services, and whom, when they lead rightly, I was willing to follow) an adoption of the Secretary's second plan, but not meeting with their approbation, I then joined my friends in endeavours to amend the bill; failing in this, and called on to do my duty, I rise to move that the bill be recommitted. Had gentlemen, Sir, done what they promised they would do, if the house would apply to the Secretary for the Treasury for a plan of ways and means, I should have no occasion to make this motion. They promised that they would freely and boldly examine his report, and listen attentively to every proposition which could be opposed to it; but have they done this? No—they embraced without hesitation the third plan proposed by the Secretary, as if it were because he said it was the best of the three, without offering either of the other two plans to the house, although the second had been proposed by a member from Massachusetts (Mr. Goodhue) before the house had agreed to apply to the Secretary for his opinion. I hope, therefore, that those gentlemen will now agree to recommit the bill, that we may have an opportunity of trying whether one of the two other plans proposed by the Secretary, or some other, may not be preferable to that adopted in the bill; or, if not, let us at least see whether the plan which has been adopted may not be simplified—for there appears no shadow of reason for repealing an act for establishing a permanent revenue, to re-enact it in a bill for raising a sum of money for a temporary purpose; the business of a campaign—nor can there be any propriety in passing a bill for the defence of the frontiers, which is in fact a bill for the encouragement of manufactures, and of the fisheries, and for increasing the sinking fund, and also for the introduction of a stamp act.
If the committee of the whole will not adopt the first plan proposed by the Secretary, I mean that for disposing of the interest in the Bank of the United States, which I confess I should prefer to laying the excessive duties proposed in the third plan, and which are to be levied by the
bill before you—nor the second plan, which was once so well recommended by the member from Massachusetts—at least I hope they will simplify the bill, by striking out what is foreign to its purpose; that is, the repeal of the former revenue law; and the indirect introduction of a stamp act, if we are to have a stamp act, and I have no objection to one, let it be introduced fairly and openly, and stand by itself. For my part, I think it a sufficient reason to recommit the bill, to amend it so that it may show at one view not only for what purpose the additional duties are to be laid, but what they are. As the bill now stands, they are so blended with other duties, that no man can see in what manner the sum wanted is to be raised. I know I shall be said to be a bad financier, if I propose to sell out our stock in the Bank. I agree that the Secretary's reason against selling now, when stocks are so low, is good—but I know that I speak like the representative of plain dealing, honest republicans, when I propose rather to sell out their stock in the Bank, than to lay additional taxes on them, and encrase the duty on imports to such a degree as to introduce smuggling, which must be destructive of their morals, ruinous to their revenue, and which may undermine even their manufactures, which these duties were intended to protect; for, as I remarked on a former occasion, if you go beyond a certain point in taxing imports, you will tempt smugglers to introduce articles with which they will undersell the fair trader and the manufacturer. I confess, however, that as we have an interest in the Bank, which may be usefully applied to sinking the national debt—I am willing to apply it to that purpose—and that I prefer the Secretary's second plan to the one the house has adopted. If the bill be committed, I shall be pleased to find the committee disposed to adopt that. By the plan now in the bill, we are in the first instance to borrow the money wanted. Why, if we are to lay an additional duty, may we not lay only enough to pay the interest annually, and the principal by installments? This, I think, must be much more agreeable to our constituents, than to pay the whole sum required by taxes in one year. I see not why we should encrase the duties on imported articles rather than on tonnage. I think an additional duty on foreign tonnage, or, if Congress have the courage to lay it, on vessels of nations not in alliance with us, would easily raise a sum for the discharge of the loan necessary on this occasion? and I am of opinion that it is high time to encrase the tonnage on such vessels; it is more than two years since this house declared it would lay an additional duty on the tonnage of vessels of a certain nation, if it would not make a commercial alliance with our States. I know it is said that such a measure might impede a treaty; but, Sir, no nation upon earth has a right to resent such a step, nor can we be injured by retaliation. As to a treaty, I doubt much whether we stand in need of one. I fear the business of treaties is better understood elsewhere than here, and that foreign Ministers might be an overmatch for us in such negotiations. I had rather regulate our commerce, so as to induce the country with which we wish to trade upon advantageous terms, to grant us such terms; at all events, I should aim at encrasing our revenue in this manner. If we cannot extend our commerce, and at present I would avoid an encrase of duty on imports, I think that the lands in the Western Territory should be sold, and tonnage encrase, before we lay any further burthen on imported articles—a burthen which must be unequally felt by the different states. I hope, therefore, that the bill will be recommitted, and so amended, that it may pass by a great majority.
Mr. Hartley made some observations in opposition to the motion—the question for agreeing to which was negatived.
The bill then being open to amendments, Mr. Williamson objected to the section which exempted books imported for colleges and academies from a duty—and after stating some reasons for his opinion, moved to amend the section by striking out the clause making this exception—this motion, after some debate, was agreed to.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
JASSY, February 28.
THE respective Ministers who attended the Congress held here, left us the 19th of this month, on which occasion the Russians exhibited a grand display of fire works, which had a very noble effect, and were accompanied by the continual discharge of 30 pieces of artillery. The windows of a number of houses were, however, broke by the report. The Turks appeared very much surprized at a diversion of this nature. Count Besborodko afterwards gave a grand dinner, when the Reis Effendi distributed the presents which he had been charged with by his Court to the Russian Plenipotentiaries, and other officers of the Legation.
STOCKHOLM, April 3.
We have not yet seen any authentic list of those who are taken up or supposed to be concerned in the plot of the late regicide; they are however, 28 in number, four of whom the assassin himself owned as accomplices; eight lay under violent suspicion, but have not yet confessed any thing; one poisoned himself;—and, lastly, 14 were arrested on suspicion, of whom five are since released.
The Queen of Sweden is very ill.
The deceased King not long before his death desired that the conspirators might be pardoned, and the assassin himself be as mildly punished as the law would admit of.
It is said, that Ankerstrom had attempted to starve himself to death, but that he had been forced to take nourishment.
All the inhabitants of Stockholm have been forbid to have any gunpowder in their houses, or to sell any.
VIENNA, April 4.
The family of our young sovereign is assembling agreeably to his desire. The Archduchess Maria Theresa, and Prince Anthony of Saxony, her consort, arrived some days ago, and the Archduke Ferdinand, Grand Duke of Tuscany, arrived here yesterday.
Our Court have published the whole of the correspondence with France, contained in forty-four quarto pages. The reason for this publication is said to be, to clear our Ministry from the wrong opinion which the National Assembly may entertain of them, when, in fact, the Jacobins are only to blame.
The correspondence begins with a letter from M. de Lessart, and ends with the note from the Prince Chancellor, and indulges the declaration of the present king, which is to the following purport:
"That upon this subject he thinks exactly as his predecessor, and follows only the prudent rules of precaution, without any hostile intentions; that with respect to further steps he shall be entirely guided by what his allies shall think necessary to do in the present state of affairs. That in the mean time he hoped the French nation would rescue their honor and independence from the influence of a bloodthirsty faction, whose only views were to render the liberty of the King, the support of the Monarchy, and the restoration of a permanent Constitution, mere names," &c. &c.
M. de Noailles, having sent to Paris his resignation of the embassy from France, sets off to-morrow for Lucca, where he purposed living in a private manner, at least till the peace and happiness of his country are finally settled. The reward which M. de Lessart has met with for his services, has afforded a lesson to M. de Noailles, who is determined not to expose himself to the same treatment.
HAMBURGH, April 13.
We learn from Elsingburgh, that 10,000 Dalecarlians have entered Stockholm. This (although not absolutely to be credited) seems to be rather confirmed by the stopping of the posts from that capital to the continent.
We learn from Copenhagen, that on the 7th no post had arrived from Stockholm, and that all travellers were detained at the frontiers of Sweden. Thus we do not learn what is going forward there, but from the above precaution it is not likely that tranquility reigns in that kingdom.
MADRID, March 28.
M. Gardoqui is Minister of L'Azienda and the Indies. The King is not at all pleased with the pensions and rewards granted by the late Minister.

PARIS, April 21.
In the sitting of yesterday evening the Assembly, after having taken into consideration the formal proposition of the King, declared war against Francis II. King of Hungary and Bohemia.
This decree was carried after a discussion of two hours, with almost the unanimous voice of the members. The preamble, drawn up during the sitting by the Diplomatic Committee, contains a summary recapitulation of those grievances, of which redress could not be obtained by the means of negotiations; and a declaration that France, having entered into this war only to repel the attack of a foreign court, and defend its sovereignty, will not cease to manifest its respect for the rights of nations, and the laws of that universal fraternity which it has acknowledged in its constitution.
A deputation of 24 members was appointed immediately to carry this Decree to the King, in order to receive his sanction.
M. Condorcet proposed the plan of a National Manifesto, which has been adjourned for three days, in order to afford the assembly time for deliberation.
M. Forfaix has given a most favorable account of the measures which had been employed by the National Treasury to secure for the Nation those supplies of real specie, which may be necessary to support the expenses of a campaign; and upon his proposition it has been decreed that the whole army shall in future receive their pay in silver.
We need scarcely add, that this declaration of a war has given the greatest satisfaction to all ranks of citizens, and may probably have the effect to reconcile their differences, and direct their force to a common object.
Extract of a letter from Vienna, April 7.
The assassination of the King of Sweden causes a great sensation here, and no doubt throughout Europe. This event, and its consequences, must cause a great alteration in the proceedings of different courts, and Sweden may be looked upon as snatched away from the grand confederacy against France, as she will find enough to do to quell the discords which prevail within herself. What our court will resolve upon is not yet known; but it is generally believed that a week or two will show the joint intentions of the Houses of Austria and Prussia."
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, April 20.
In the sitting of the 19th, M. Dumourier read the following communications:
Letter from M. NOAILLES to the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, April 5.
SIR, Your dispatches of the 27th of March were brought to me by the Courier Derville, on the 4th of April. I immediately obeyed the instructions contained in them, by visiting the Count Cobenzel, Vice Chancellor of State and of Court. I preferred addressing myself to him, because I was sure, by his means, of introducing whatever I chose to the knowledge of the Sovereign.
"I laid every thing to the Vice-Chancellor which could produce a definitive explanation, such as you wished. I represented to him how much our uneasiness increased every day, upon observing the hostile preparations directed against us.
[M. Noailles, after some similar observations, concluded his address to Count Cobenzel by saying, that he had received orders to demand a declaration by which the Court of Vienna should renounce its armaments and coalition; and to announce, that, in default of this declaration, the French King will consider himself to be in a state of war with Austria, in which he would be supported by the whole nation, who with only for an immediate decision.]
"Count Cobenzel undertook to justify his Court from the hostile views imputed to it, and contended, that the reinforcements sent to Brisgaw were for the preservation of order. I observed, that so many precautions, after the concert that was known to us, justified our alarms. I insisted especially upon the conclusion
of this concert so contrary to what we might expect from an ally.
"The reply of Count Cobenzel confirmed me in my former opinion, that his court did not wish to attack us, but would make requisitions—which it would be difficult to avoid without a war. He said, that the concert was no longer personally to the King of Hungary; that he could not withdraw himself, but with other courts; and, that this concert would continue till what remained to be settled with France was brought to a conclusion. He specified to me three points.
 1. "That satisfaction should be given to the Princes possessed in Alsace.  2. "That satisfaction should be given to the Pope for the country of Avignon.  3. "That the neighbouring powers shall have no reason for the apprehensions, which arise from the present weakness of the internal government of France. 
"I asked Count Cobenzel, if, for answer to the representations which I had made him, I might say, that his Court adhered to the official note of the 10th of March. The Minister perceiving himself surrounded by the circle which I had drawn, said, that he would take directions of his Majesty, and inform me of what he should be ordered to say.
"M. de Bischoffswerder set out this day upon his return to Berlin. He would have begun his journey sooner, but that he waited for a circular letter, which will be addressed to the coalesced Courts, and probably to the States of the Empire, as Co-States, demanding from each the assistance that they have proposed to give, either in money, or men, in case of war.
"This, I am informed, was the motive of his delay, but I have no certainty upon the subject.
"M. de Bischoffswerder will stop at Prague to see the Prince of Hohenlohe, and agree with him upon the time and place for an interview between the Austrian General and the Duke of Brunswick. This interview is expected to take place at Leipzig, in the course of a month. According to this opinion, the Court of Vienna has adopted a plan purely defensive, notwithstanding the endeavors of the Court of Berlin to suggest another."
SECOND LETTER of M. NOAILLES.
"I have waited, Sir, for the answer of the Count de Cobenzel. He has just informed me, on the part of the King of Hungary, that the note dated March 18 contains the answer to the demands which I had been charged to renew; and that the disposition expressed in that note could be the less altered since it contained also the opinion of the King of Prussia upon the affairs of France, an opinion agreeing in all respects with that of the King of Hungary."
The President then read the following letter from the King:
LETTER FROM THE KING.
"MR. PRESIDENT "I entreat you to make known to the Assembly that I shall come there to-morrow at half past twelve o'clock. "LOUIS."
On Friday his Majesty came to the Assembly, the Members of which rose and were uncovered as he entered, and took their seats when he had reached his place. The King then spoke as follows:
KING'S SPEECH.
"GENTLEMEN, "I have come among you for an object of the highest importance in the present circumstances. My Minister of Foreign Affairs will read to you the Report which he made to me in Council on our situation with regard to Germany."
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, then went up and standing by the King's side read the report, which the King had notified to the Assembly.
MINUTE of the CABINET COUNCIL of FRANCE addressed to the KING.
"SIR, "When you took an oath of fidelity to the Constitution, you became the object of the hatred of the enemies of liberty. No natural tie could stop them, no motive of alliance, of neighborhood, of propriety, could prevent their enmity. Your ancient
allies erased your name out of the list of Despots, and from that moment they forget your Majesty's fidelity. The emigrants, rebels to the laws of their country, are gone beyond the frontiers to prepare a guilty aggression against France. They will carry into its bosom fire and sword. Their rage would have been impotent if the Foreign Princes had not seconded and encouraged their criminal manœuvres. The House of Austria has done every thing to encourage their audacity.—The House of Austria, who since the treaty of 1756 has found us good and faithful allies.—This Treaty, Sire, subjected us to the ambitious views of this House. She engaged us in all her wars, to which she called us as her allies. We have been prodigal of our blood in the cruel tragedies of despotism. The instant that the House of Austria saw she could no longer govern us for her purposes, she became our enemy.
"It was Austria that had stirred up against France the restless Northern Potentate, whose tyrannical phrenzy has at last made him fall under the sword of an assassin.—It was Austria who in office, of which Europe shall judge, advised one party of Frenchmen to take up arms against the other. The note of the Court of Vienna, of the 18th Feb. was in truth a declaration of war. M. Kaunitz there avows the league of the powers against France. The death of Leopold ought to have made some change in this ambitious system, but we have seen the contrary.
"The note of the 18th of March is the ultimatum of the Court of Vienna. This note is more provoking still than the former. The King of Hungary wishes that we should submit our constitution to his revision; and he does not dissemble the project of arming Frenchmen against Frenchmen.
"Sire," continues the Minister, "in charging me with the administration of foreign affairs you have imposed on me the telling you the truth: I proceed to tell you the truth. It results from this explosion, that the Treaty of 1756 is broken, in fact, by the House of Austria; that the maintenance of a League of the Powers is an act of hostility against France and that you ought this instant to order M. Noailles, your ambassador, to quit the Court of Vienna without taking leave. Sire—the Austrian troops are on the March—the camps are marked out—fortresses are building: the Nation, by its oath on the 14th of July, has declared that any man who shall accede to an unconstitutional negotiation is a traitor. The delay granted to Austria is expired—your honor is attacked—the Nation is insulted—Therefore there remains for you no other part to take but to make to the National Assembly the formal proposition of war against the King of Bohemia and Hungary."
The Minister having read this minute, the King resumed his speech—
CONCLUSION of the KING'S SPEECH.
"You have heard, Messieurs, the deliberation and the decision of my Council. I adopt their determination. It is conformable to the wish, many times expressed, of the National Assembly, and to that which has been addressed to me to be the wish of all the French People. Frenchmen prefer war to a ruinous anxiety, and to a humiliating state, which compromises our Constitution, and our dignity. I have done every thing to avert war; but I judge it indispensable. I come, therefore, in the terms of the Constitution, to propose to you formally to declare War against the King of Bohemia and Hungary."
The President answered:
"SIR, "The assembly will proceed to deliberate on the great proposition which your Majesty has made to them. They will address to you, by a message, the result of their deliberation."
The King then retired with his Ministers, and conducted by the same Deputation of Members. The Hall rung with acclamations of the people. The assembly was adjourned to five in the evening.
APRIL 19.—(Evening.) Read a letter from Gen. Luckner, complaining that the War Minister
had made public a letter of his, which was of a confidential nature.
Read a letter from Mess. Baux, merchant at Marseilles, containing information that M. Marchand, master of the ship Le Solide, has discovered four Islands in the Indian seas, which are fully peopled, and abounding in hogs, birds, herbs, &c. and that he had taken possession of them in the name of the French nation, and of Louis XVI. This letter was accompanied by charts of the Islands. The charts were accepted, but the master of the ship was blamed for having taken possession of the Islands, as the French nation has renounced all conquests.
DUBLIN, April 19.
On Wednesday last Mr. James Napier Tandy, was taken into the custody of the serjeant at arms of the commons of Ireland, and that evening brought to the bar of the house, where, refusing to answer any interrogations of the Speaker, he was committed to Newgate; but, in consequence of the prorogation of Parliament he was set at liberty about nine o'clock the same night.
WOLVERHAMPTON, March 21.
The defect of some laws are in many instances incredible. A Mr. Green, Cordwainer, of Birmingham, is but just released from a private mad house at Bilston, where he had been sent by his loving wife, and confined upwards of twelve months as a lunatic; during which time, he asserts in an advertisement, the tender fair-one actually made away with his stock in trade, greatest part of his household furniture, and received money from the Bank, rents, and other debts, amounting in all to upwards of 900l. besides absconding with all his title deeds, and books of accounts.
LONDON, March 29.
It appears by the following resolution of a Society for promoting the spiritual and temporal welfare of the Negroes in the Colonies, upon the true and rational principles of justice, humanity, and christianity, that no means have hitherto been employed by the rulers of our church or state for conveying religious instruction to those poor people; and that the blame thrown upon the planters on that account ought to be shared with others; and we sincerely wish the measure now proposed may be adopted for all their sakes.
"Resolved, That a petition be presented to his Majesty, humbly beseeching him to be graciously pleased to give directions to the most Reverend the Archbishops, and the Right Reverend the Bishops, to take into their consideration the spiritual wants of the Negroes and the People of Colour in the British West-India Islands, and to form a plan consistent with their temporal condition for their instruction and improvement in the great principles of Religion and Morality; and that his Majesty would likewise be graciously pleased to direct the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to transmit such a plan, when formed and approved, to the several West-India Governors, with instructions to lay it before their respective Councils and Assemblies, and in his Majesty's name to recommend to their particular attention such parts thereof as may appear to require the aid and support of the Legislature, and thereby obviate a great and standing reproach to the British Government and Established Church, and render the removal of the African Negroes to our Colonies a real and substantial blessing to those our unenlightened and degraded fellow-creatures."
April 6. It is said, that in consequence of what passed in the House of Commons on Wednesday, the Minister has declared there shall be no more Lotteries.
The Russians are evacuating all the places taken from the Turks, and among others Imael is on the point of being restored.
From the recall of the regiment of Ernst by the Canton of Berne, and the resignation of the Marechal d'Affry, the principal officer of the Swiss corps, it is supposed that the other Cantons will follow their example, and that the Swiss troops, which are

said to be about seventeen thousand men, of the best troops in the French service, will be all recalled.
While we are told of hostile designs and preparations against the French on the part of Russia, Sweden, Austria, Prussia, &c. news is brought of the Attempt to murder the Swedish Monarch , the principal Mover, and the intended Head of the Associated Army, in his own palace.—Though it may be rash to ascribe the death of a King, according to a natural propensity, to some political and great design, it will be difficult to exclude from the active imaginations of men, the recollection, that the deaths of Leopold and Gustavus have followed each other, at such a crisis, with rapidity.—It will also be recollected that fanatics are never wanting who will dare to attempt, like Ravillac and Damiens , the lives of the best and the most inoffensive of Princes.
APRIL 26.
The Cornwallis brings advice from Canton, that a dock yard, called the Bansale , belonging to the Dutch, had been burnt. The concerns of that country all over India are by no means in a flourishing state. There has been a disturbance between the English and French seamen in Canton-river, in which the former pulled down the national colours, and trampled them under feet.
The decision of the National Assembly of France has accorded precisely with the general anticipation. In the sitting of Friday evening the important decree was passed which sanctions the hostilities of France with the King of Bohemia and Hungary.
It was at the same time resolved, that a manifesto should be immediately published and distributed through the continent, stating the provocations and the motives by which the nation was induced to enter on a war. It was also proposed that both the national guards and the troops of the line should take the oath to the constitution as prescribed on the 14th of January last; but this new ceremony was deemed superfluous.
The Empress of Russia, it is said, will send a fleet this summer into the Mediterranean. It is supposed that it will convey a number of troops to the South of France, and co-operate with the court of Spain in assisting the counter-revolution in France.
EVENTS IN SWEDEN.
The Dutch mail, which arrived on Saturday, brings less intelligence than might have been expected from Stockholm, the advices from that place being of little later date than those last received.
They concur in confirming former reports of the presence of mind shown by Gustavus during his illness. It appears, that, while he waited for the arrival of his surgeons in an apartment adjoining to the saloon of the opera house, several of the foreign ministers presented themselves, to whom he said, "I have given orders, gentlemen, that the gates of the city shall be shut. You will, therefore, not take it ill, if you should be unable to send couriers to your courts, until after three days. Your advices will then be more certain, since it will then probably be known whether I can survive or not." His conversation then related to the effects which the accident might produce in Europe; and the love of fame, which was always his predominant passion, was perceptible in his remarks.
General Baron d'Armfeldt, one of his most affectionate friends, entered the room, pale with horror, and unable to utter a word. As he approached, the King, stretching out his hand to him, said, "What's the matter my friend? Be not so alarmed on my account. You know by experience what a wound is;" thus alluding to the wound which the general had received in Finland.
At eight o'clock on the morning of his death, he received the sacrament. The Queen had taken leave of him the evening before. At half past ten, he died in great agonies in the presence of the first physician Dahlgren, of the grand almoner Wallquist, of the chamberlain Borghenshierna, and of two pages.
The will was opened the same day at noon, in the apartments of the young King, by Lillhoom, the secretary of revision; the two princes his uncles and the chiefs of all the regiments and of the departments, took the oaths to him; and the usual proclamations were made.
The reports in Stockholm were, that the conspiracy was formed by an hundred and eleven persons all noble, residing partly in Stockholm and partly in the provinces; and that the plan consisted of 36 articles, one of which was, that "as soon as the King should be despatched, the Duke of Sudermania, and the persons most attached to his Majesty, as the generals Taube and Baron d'Armfeldt, the Baron Ruuth and M. Hakan-son, should be attacked, and their heads carried in triumph through the streets; that lieut. col. Lillienhorn major of guards, should immediately take the command of the troops in Stockholm; that, when the public force was won over, the constitution should be restored to the ancient principles of a limited monarchy; that the Prince Royal should be entirely executive, and committed to the national sovereignty."
The persons arrested are chiefly young men. Several nobles, who were most forward in the opposition to the King, but who were incapable of meditating his death, repaired to the palace, soon after the attempt was known. The King being informed that the Count de Brahe, one of the he, was in an anti-chamber, making enquiries concerning his situation, desired that he might be admitted, and said to him, "though he was under circumstances much to be lamented, he regarded that day as happy for himself, since it had given him an opportunity of reconciliation with one of his oldest friends."
By a private letter received at Paris from the banks of the Rhine, it appears that the court of Prussia had, some time ago, ordered the Prussian Envoy at Paris to dispatch a courier the moment that war should be resolved upon by the National Assembly. The first courier has accordingly been
sent with all expedition to Hesse Cassel, from whence another was to be instantly despatched to the Commander in Chief of the army of 15,000 Prussians, waiting for orders to march into Liege, which they will easily accomplish in three days. This army is intended not only to check the insurrection of the French, but also to keep the Liegeois in awe, who only wish for an other opportunity to break their fetters.
M. de Conde is at Bingen with 1,500 men. There are 8,000 emigrants in the vicinity of Coblenz. The corps of Wutzenstein has received orders from the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel to quit the country of Hanau in 48 hours.
The Legion of Mirabeau is still in the principal city of Hohenlohe, unprovided with any arms except sabres.
Quarters are preparing in the Margraviate of Baden for 8,000 Austrian Horse. Bavaria is full of troops, but they are not yet in motion.
Letters from Madrid inform, that Don Francisco Monino, Governor of the Councils of the Indies, and brother to Count de Florida Blanca, is disgraced. He was ordered, on the 21st of March, to quit Madrid instantly, and to repair to a small town called Ennal, in La Mancha. He is deprived of all his pensions. Abbe d'Heral, Agent for the French Princes, is also on the point of leaving Madrid.
One of the public Societies of Ireland have voted, "That the proclamation of the Irish Parliament for apprehending Napper Tandy, Esq. without giving him a summons, is illegal, and shall be brought forward to receive a judicial discussion." In consequence of the unseeling farcasm thrown out against M. Gouven in the National Assembly, by M. Chodieu, for having dared to complain that his brother was murdered by the soldiers of Chateaux, the farcasmic Legislator has been challenged by M. Gouven. They met near Bondy, and M. Chodieu was killed by the first shot.
While it might be supposed, that under the circumstances of actual war, in which the French are now engaged, they would be glad to unite, and combine the abilities of their best Generals, and those who have been the firmest friends to the revolution, we find the greatest degradation cast on M. de la Fayette that a rabble could invent. His bust, which was erected at the expence of the nation, for his supposed services to it in the beginning of the revolution, has been torn down by the mob, and ignominiously dragged through the streets of Paris.
On Easter Sunday the new King of Hungary washed the feet of twelve poor old men, and his Queen, accompanied by the Archduchesses, those of twelve poor women. In the afternoon, they visited several of the churches in Vienna on foot.
The Chevalier Enio, Commander of the Venetian squadron cruising in the Mediterranean against the Tunisians, died lately on board his vessel, and the command has devolved on Admiral Condumer.
They are much disturbed in Poland by a report that the Empress of Russia, who has long secretly abetted the enemies of the new constitution, has now granted them her entire and open protection.
The Dutch mail of yesterday brings us the certain accounts of the march of the Austrian troops.
Dr. Willis, shortly after his arrival in Portugal, dismissed 40 Physicians "at a clap," who attended the Queen, and nearly as many Friars who surrounded her. If the Doctor is not upon his guard, he may have a little physic administered to himself.
A few days since died at Vienna, after a long illness, Count Zinzendorff, Privy Councillor, and President of the Royal Council of Appeal. On the same day died, Baron Kienmayor, Vice-President of the same tribunal.
On Monday the 9th inst. Gustavus Vassa, the African, well known in England as the champion and advocate for procuring a suppression of the slave trade, was married at Soham, in Cambridgeshire, to Miss Cullen, daughter of Mr. Cullen, of Ely, in the same county, in presence of a vast number of people assembled on the occasion.
The mutual explanations which have passed between the courts of London and Paris on the subject of the engagement between the frigates in the East-Indies, have settled the subject amicably and honorably to both.
Extract of a letter from the Hague, April 19. "We learn that M. de la Tour du Pin Gouinck-les of the French Diplomatic Corps is going to remove from his post, and he has accordingly delivered his letters of recall as Minister from France to our government. He has discharged most of his domestics, but will most likely not return to his own country, but, like many other French ministers, wait in a foreign climate the return of tranquility in France."
"Our Government has resolved to furnish the frontiers with additional troops, and accordingly orders are given for the troops in the interior parts to approach the frontiers successively."
Extract of a letter from Berlin, April 19. "Since the return of general Bischoffswerder our cabinet is very busy, and such arrangements are making as indicate an approaching march of troops. The army smiths and other workmen are fully employed, and yesterday, at the giving of the word for the day, the order was renewed not to enlist any French, Alsatians, Lithuanians, Swifs, or other Germans, who had been in the French service, in order to prevent the introduction of any discontented persons, and that in short, no recruit should be accepted without undergoing a severe examination."
"His Majesty has granted the French General Heymann an annual pension of 2000 dollars."
[For more European articles, see 4th page.]
BOSTON, June 7.
We hear from undoubted authority, that there is a majority of the inhabitants of the District of Maine, against a separation of the Eastern Counties from this Commonwealth.
MIDDLETON, June 9.
On the 13th inst. if the weather be fair, if not, the first fair day following, an attempt will be made to remove the Meeting-House, in New-town, about eight rods, with the steeple entire. As this will be the greatest movement ever attempted in this State, it is probable that New-town will have the honor, as well as the profit, of many spectators on that day, who have not too deeply election their purples.
NEW-YORK, June 9. We hear from Clerktown, Orange county, that on the 30th ult. Mr. Daniel Odell, of that town, was inhumanly murdered at or near Haverstraw, where a party were met to spend the evening in jollity: that the jury which sat upon the body, brought in their verdict wilful murder; and that one Isaac Jones was immediately committed to jail, on the presumption that he had perpetrated the fact. The wife of the deceased, with 5 children, left the house but a few moments before the fatal catastrophe took place.
June 12. Yesterday the election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, was determined in this city, when GEORGE CLINTON and PIERRE VAN CORTLANDT, Esquires, were, by Mellen Smith, David Gellon, Jonathan N. Havens, Pierre Van Cortlandt, jun. Thomas Tillotson, David M'Carty and Daniel Graham, being a majority of the canvassers, appointed and declared Governor and Lieutenant Governor of the State.
PITTSBURGH, June 9.
For the satisfaction of the public, Capt. Jeffers has furnished us with the following intelligence:
Immediately on receiving information at Fort Franklin of the depredations committed by the Indians at Reed's Station, I marched, with the rangers under my command, in order, if possible, to intercept the party on their return; but the distance and difficulty of the march, and other unavoidable obstacles, prevented it; and from the appearance of the tracks, the enemy had passed three days before. On the Shenango I fell in with two Munses and a Cayuga, who I made prisoners and brought to this place, but from sundry circumstances in their favor, Gen. Putnam thought proper to release them. A short distance beyond the Salt Licks, I fell in with a party of Delawares, killed two, and wounded one.
In justice to Messrs. Lord, Wentworth, and Rosecrantz, volunteers under me, I must observe, that their conduct on all occasions was uniform and steady, and they obeyed every order with the greatest alacrity. Such men deserve the notice of those at the head of our affairs.
EXTRACT
From Governor HANCOCK's Speech to both Houses of the Legislature of Massachusetts.
"THE means most likely to continue our public felicity, are the establishing and executing such laws, as will tend to support the habits of truth, integrity, and every moral virtue; and by certain, and adequate punishments, to prohibit all frauds, and every immorality and vice: The providing for a regular support of teachers of piety, religion, and morality; and the maintenance of free public schools in the towns of the state, by which the children of the poorer will have equal advantages with those of the richer part of the community. I am exceedingly gratified in being assured, that these important institutions are so generally attended to by the people of this state: And as I consider our University at Cambridge, as being the principal source of the learning and intelligence possessed by this community, I cannot but earnestly solicit you to give it your encouragement and support: By these, and other measures, which your wisdom and prudence will dictate, under the smiles of that Divine Being, who has hitherto afforded us his support, we may hope, for a continuance of our prosperity, and for permanent public happiness."
"We live in a country that naturally excites the mind to enterprize: giving encouragement to industry, and to that spirit of commerce, which tends to command a friendly intercourse amongst all the nations of the earth, to improve in the arts, and to render more valuable and important the vast variety of blessings which we possess."
"I have directed the Secretary to lay before you, such acts and proceedings of the Congress of the United States, as have been forwarded to me. Among them, is an act for regulating the Militia of the States. That act appears to me to be quite consonant to the constitution of the General Government, and I shall, as Commander in Chief of the Militia of this State, take every measure within my power to render the Militia respectable under it."
"There is also another act providing for the proportion of Representatives to be sent from the States to Congress. Your attention will be immediately called to the forming districts from whence they are to be elected in this State.—You will in this business be pleased to consider, that having the districts so formed as to give a center of communication to the inhabitants of each, will have a tendency to promote harmony and unanimity in their proceedings."
Philadelphia, June 16.
The last accounts from Europe inform, that Dr. Willis has pronounced the Queen of Portugal to be in a state of convalescence—on which account there were great rejoicings in Lisbon.
The report lately circulated in print, of the death of Mr. M c GILLIVRAY, appears to be without foundation.
The Marquis Vaudreuil, Lieutenant-General of the Naval Forces of France, returned the following haughty answer to the letter of M. Bertrand (the late Minister of Marine) to recall him to his place, on condition of his retracting his signature of protest as member of the late National Assembly of France:
"I have hitherto," said he, "published my opinions and principles upon all occasions; and do you call on me to retract them, at the very moment when GOD is arming all the powers of Europe to avenge the ALTA and the THRONE."
A snake was lately seen in Wrentham, Massachusetts, by a Mr. John Frost, which he judged to be 13 feet long, and 12 inches in circumference. Mr. Frost encountered the snake with a stick, but was obliged to retreat behind a tree, when the snake luckily disappeared.
The English House of Commons having, on the 23d of April last, resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the means for abolishing the African Slave Trade, Mr. Dundas submitted a variety of propositions for the gradual abolition, and after considerable debate the committee rose and reported progress.
On the 25th of the same month the House again resolved itself into a committee on the same subject. Mr. Dundas moved his first resolution, "That it shall not be lawful to import any African Negroes into any British Colonies or Plantations, in ships owned or navigated by British subjects, at any time after the first day of January 1800."
Lord Mornington moved to strike out "1800," and insert "1793."
After much debate a division took place on Lord Mornington's motion, "that the trade should cease on the first of January, 1793," which was negatived by a majority of 49—the numbers being
For it, 109 Against it, 158
The committee rose and reported progress.
The public good is the supreme law—this is the basis of a republican government—the grand difficulty always has been, how this shall be most effectually secured and promoted. Different patriots, of equal worth and abilities, have differed as to the means—but this consideration weighs nothing with CHRONUS, who says, every man who does not adopt his plan, is a fool or a knave.
It is a silent though persuasive eulogium on the operation of the measures of the general government, that they have produced throughout the union as great a degree of tranquility and apparent prosperity, as ever were enjoyed by the people of this country at any period since its first settlement—and as an happy indication that the people are generally satisfied with the conduct of their civil rulers, it may be noticed with satisfaction, that in respect to the truly republican state of Connecticut, the freemen thereof have placed on their nomination-list of members of Congress, every one of the representatives who have served them in the present and preceding Congress.
Those eagle-eyed politicians who see blemishes in the sun, say they are determined to have a change of men and measures; but the above circumstance does not do much credit to their spirit of prophecy at least.
Beware of that man who pretends to infallibility—you will find such an one a slave to his own opinions, and a tyrant in respect to those of persons who differ from him.
Times of confusion and anarchy afford the only opportunities to men of no industry, property or principles, in which they stand any chance of mending their condition. The United States have happily passed through this period of degradation and distress—but certain writers appear extremely solicitous to set us afloat again, that they may enjoy the pleasure of wrecking the public tranquility preparatory to a scramble among the ruins which their storms shall have made.
If a majority of the Legislature of the United States, through four succeeding sessions, have uniformly been opposed in their measures by the wisest and best members, it follows that the people are totally unqualified to exercise the most important of all republican rights, that of election.
What measure of government has not met with opposition?—It is as evident as any object of sense can be, that however wise, honest and patriotic, the minority is now, always was, and always will be, that the perfection of their system was to do nothing. This is certainly the surest way to escape censure; it is something more, for the negative qualities of the minority are always positive virtues, till they are unfolded in action.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
6 per Cents, 22/ 3 per Cents, 13/ Deferred, 13/3 Indents, 13/ Final Settlements, 18/6 Half shares Bank U. S. 65 per cent. prem. Shares Bank North-America, 17 ditto.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Sloop Sally, Franklin, Maryland
The Newport, Robinson, of Rhode-Island, with flax-seed, was spoke with by the London Packet, Frazer, leaky, and had thrown part of her cargo overboard.
The ship Castle Douglas was to sail about the 1st of May from London for Philadelphia.
ADVERTISEMENT.
I DO hereby give notice to all persons, not to credit any person or persons whatever on my account, otherwise in my name, or on my credit, without special order from under my hand authorizing the same, as I am determined not to pay any debt or debts contracted without such order being produced.
THOMAS JONES.
Frederick-Town, June 5, 1792. (cp4w)
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber in February last, a NEGRO LAD, named PHIL, about 20 years of age; had on when he went away, a round jacket, a pair homespun breeches, and a tow shirt; the fellow has a yellowish complexion, his height about five feet six or seven inches, very square made; has a mark along side of his nose, and one of his insteps has been burnt, which causes the sinews to draw.
Whoever takes up said Negro, and secures him in any jail, so that I may get him again, shall receive the above reward, and have all reasonable charges paid.
ROBERT PEARCE.
Head Sassafras, June 16, 1792. (*ep1m)

PARIS. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, FRIDAY, MARCH 23.
THE Minister for Foreign Affairs communicated the following Letter from the Canton of Bern to the King:
"SIRE,
"The oldest Swiss regiment in France which has remained invariably faithful to its duty for more than a century, and whose conduct has been always irreproachable—the Regiment of Ernst—has just experienced at Aix the most cruel of misfortunes. Assailed by numbers greatly superior, retrained in its means of defence by the new law which it had sworn to observe, and betrayed, perhaps, by him whose duty it was to protect it, the regiment was compelled to lay down its arms in an open war against your Majesty's declared enemies, it would not have quitted them but with life. We will not distress you, Sire, by detailing the particulars of the perfidy and atrocity which marked this disastrous event, and we will not attempt to describe to you the deep impression of grief which it has made on us and all our people.
"Under these circumstances we have but one course to take—that of recalling our regiment, whose services can be no longer useful to your Majesty.
"The honour of the regiment, and the protection which we owe to it, oblige us to withdraw it from a country where the treaties on the faith of which it came there, are violated with impunity. We therefore expect of your justice, Sire, that you will be pleased to give orders, that, after restoring to the regiment of Ernst the arms and the property of which it was despoiled by an unjust and illegal act of violence, a route may be marked out for it, by which to withdraw into its own country.
"Deign, Sire, to call to mind that our troops have often merited the favors with which the Kings your predecessors, as well as your Majesty, have honoured the Swiss nation in general, and our Republic in particular.
"We will add no other motive for obtaining that this regiment may cross the kingdom by the shortest, the most commodious, and the safest road, and be allowed to leave it with honour.
"Constantly animated with the same attachment, Sire, to your person, we shall not cease to put up prayers for your happiness, and that of your kingdom."
The Assembly referred it to the Executive Power to negotiate for the continuance of the regiment in the French service.
In consequence of new disorders at Brie-Comte-Robert, which threatened to cut off the regular supplies of provisions from Paris, the Assembly authorized the Executive Power to station two battalions of troops of the line within the distance of their place of sitting prescribed by the Constitution.
The remaining articles on the sequestration of the property of the emigrants were decreed.
The Minister for the Home Department stated, that by accurate accounts transmitted to his office, there was a sufficient quantity of grain in the kingdom, or bargained for, to be delivered at the several ports, to supply the consumption till after harvest, and that the only things that could occasion local scarcity were forestalling in order to export, and preventing the free circulation.
Evening Sitting.
The Minister for Foreign Affairs laid before the Assembly a copy of a Treaty concluded by Monsieur and M. D'Artois with the Prince of Hohenloe, and the Prince of Battenstein, for a regiment of infantry, and another of cavalry, to be employed by subsidy in the service of France; and a copy of a letter to these Princes from the Circle of Franconia, warning them, with menaces in case of non-compliance, not to furnish troops to the French Princes, nor to suffer the French Emigrants to assemble in arms, or in any considerable number, in their States.—Referred to the High National Court at Orleans.
CIRCULAR LETTER
Of the new Minister at War to the Army.
"COMRADES,
"IN becoming Minister, I shall not cease to be a citizen-soldier. It is with you, it is by you, that I shall defend the cause of liberty and of equality, which unite all citizens as brothers, and which can never be modified but for the public good. It is thus that in our state we become in our turns superior to one another; as it is necessary to give command, that we may give direction to the general force and will. Be thereon obedient to your chiefs, because the common interest requires it of you, and the public welfare depends on it. I shall never separate myself from good citizens, and the love of liberty shall never depart from my bosom. In the department of the North, a part of the electoral body called me to the Legislature, and I obtained at Paris a flattering proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens when they appointed me commandant of the Fourth Legion. I call to recol-
lection these titles with more pride than the slaves of despotism think of theirs, and I recall them only as the means of acquiring anew public esteem and confidence, which are the only rewards of the friend of Liberty and the Laws.
"I add to the expression of my particular sentiments, my dear Comrades, the hope which I receive from the patriotism of our Legislators, and the steady mind, the unalterable resolution which the King, our Chief, manifests never to cease to support our Constitution.
"DE GRAVES."
Bank of the United States,
RESOLVED, That the specie proportion of the third payment due on the first Monday of July next, on each share of the Bank of the United States, may be made at the Bank, or at any of the offices of discount and deposit; and that transfers of public debt on account of such payment, may be made on the books of the Treasury of the United States, or in the office of any of the Commissioners of Loans in any of the States, certificates of which transfers to be deposited in the office in which the specie proportion of such payment shall be made.
Resolved, That the transfer books be closed fourteen days previous to the first days of July and January of each year.
By Order. JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
NEW TEAS.
IMPERIAL HYSON and SOUCHONG, Of the very first quality, and latest importation from Canton, via New-York, by retail, at
No. 19, Third, between Chestnut and Market Streets.
A LOTTERY,
TO raise the sum of £ 750 for the purpose of repairing the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New-Brunswick, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, passed November 1791.
S C H E M E.
Table with 4 columns: Prize, Dollars, Prizes, Dollars. It lists various prize amounts and the number of tickets.
This Lottery is composed of 5334 Tickets, not two Blanks to one Prize, and subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. which is more favorable to adventurers than any Lottery yet offered to the public—and it being of such evident utility, that it cannot be doubted but the undertaking will meet with the most liberal support.
The drawing will positively commence on the second Monday in July, or sooner if the Tickets are disposed of, in the city of New-Brunswick, under the inspection of Col. John Bayard, President of said city; James Parker, Esq. Mayor of the city of Amboy; and Archibald Mercer, Esq. Deputy Governor of the Manufacturing Society of New-Jersey.
Tickets to be had of the following persons, who are duly appointed Managers, are under oath, and have given security for the faithful performance of their duty.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid immediately after the drawing of the Lottery.
JOHN PARKER. PETER KEENON. ANTHONY W. WHITE. Managers.
N. B. Those prizes which are not demanded within six months after the drawing of the Lottery, will be considered as a generous donation to the Church.
** Adventurers in the above Lottery have a chance of more than 3 per cent. per month for their money. To accommodate all those who may be disposed to purchase Tickets, letters directed to P. KEENON, Manager, and Postmaster, at New-Brunswick, and enclosing good bills, will be attended to, and Tickets forwarded on receipt of such letters.
New-Brunswick, April 20, 1792.
TO BE SOLD AT PRIVATE SALE,
At any time between this date and the first day of July ensuing, A very valuable FARM,
PLEASANTLY situated, and bounded on the East by the river Delaware, 17 miles above Philadelphia; containing 203 acres, 40 whereof is first rate Timothy Meadow, which may be watered in a dry time; 25 acres, a rich low bottom, may be made very good meadow at an easy expence. The upland lays in the lap of about 50 acres of rich out marsh, from which (by an easy ascent to the cleared fields) 130 acres of excellent upland meadow may be made, at a moderate expence; 30 acres of woodland. A never failing stream of water runs through this tract, on which is a seat for a mill, and in which is good sport with the net and hook; plenty of rabbits and small game; and on the flats, abundance of wild ducks in the season. A good mansion-house, garden, and necessary out-buildings; an orchard of the best kinds of apple, pear, peach and cherry trees, bearing; a crop of wheat and rye in the ground, and a spring crop putting in. Apply to PETER LE BARBIER DU PLESSIS, Esq. No. 86, Chestnut-street, Philadelphia; Mr. HUMPHREY WATERMAN, at Neshannoy Ferry, on the Bristol road; or to Doctor TOMS, at Neshannoy Ferry, Bucks County. The purchaser, paying one third of the price down, may have a term of years to pay the residue, paying the interest. May 5. (cp. it.)
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, on Monday the 6th current, a NEGRO MAN named ROBIN, is 55 years of age, stout made, and bred a farmer; one of his thumbs much swelled; is 5 feet 6 inches high; had on when he went away a big purple coloured cloth coat, a short linen coat, a pair of fustian breeches, a ruffled shirt, an old beaver hat, with shoes, stockings and buckles, all good. Also, a young NEGRO BOY named SAM, is 19 years of age, stout and well made, 5 feet 9 inches high, much marked with the small-pox; had on when he went away, a big blue coat, a brown short coat, overalls of a mixed cloth, full of stockings, a new wool hat, new shoes and buckles. Whoever will secure said Negroes in any gaol, or bring them to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. Morris-Town, April 17, 1792.
TICKETS in the NEW-BRUNSWICK LOTTERY, are to be had at the following places, viz.—Samuel Cooper's Ferry; at Burlington, of R. Pierson, Esq. Bordentown, of Mr. John Van Emburgh; Mount Holly, of J. Read, Esq. Trenton, of John Singer, Esq. Amboy, of James Parker, Esq. Elizabeth-Town, of R. Gray; Powles-Book, of Col. Smith and Judge Hunt; Cranbury, of William Throckmorton Spotswood; and of the Managers in Brunswick.
JUST ARRIVED,
In the Ship MOLLY, Captain PITT, from Lisbon, A FEW pipes and quarter-casks of LISBON WINE, far superior in quality to what is generally imported—And a few bales of the very best CORKS, TO BE SOLD BY
GEORGE MEADE,
WHO HAS ALSO FOR SALE, Choice three and five years old Bill of Exchange MADEIRA WINE, by the pipe or quarter-cask. London Market MADEIRA WINE, five years old, by the pipe or quarter-cask. Choice old SHERRY WINE, by the quarter-cask. MESS BEEF, of a superior quality, and such as is fit for an East-India voyage, put up in this city. Choice first quality BEEF, do. Ditto second ditto do. BOSTON BEEF, equal to any from that country. BURLINGTON PORK, of the first quality, and 114 Hlds. FLAX-SEED. &c. &c. Philadelphia, May 16, 1792 (epg1)
Stock Brokers Office,
No. 45, Great Dock-street, NEW-YORK, THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE and SALE of STOCKS ON COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch. Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States will be strictly attended to. LEONARD BLECKER. (t.f.) May 2.
BOOKS,
PRINTED AND SOLD BY MATTHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia.
1. AMERICAN MUSEUM, from its commencement in January 1787, to December 1791, in ten vols. Price, neatly bound and lettered, sixteen dollars. 2. 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. 3. Smith's History of New-York, from its first settlement to the year 1732. To which is annexed, a description of the country, with a short account of the inhabitants, their religious and political state, and the constitution of the courts of justice. Price a dollar and a quarter. 4. 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. 5. Beauties of Poetry, British and American, containing select productions of the most eminent British and American poets—Price four-fifths of a dollar. 6. Blair's Sermons, containing the whole of the three volumes of the British edition, in two—Price two dollars. 7. Necker's Treatise on the importance of Religious Opinions. Price four-fifths of a dollar. 8. Examination of the Observations of Lord Sheffield on American Commerce.—Price, on very fine paper, 5 8ths of a dollar. 9. The Constitutions of the several United States, with the Federal Constitution, &c. Price five-eighths of a dollar. 10. M'Fingal, an epic poem, a new edition in 12mo.—Price three-eighths of a dollar. 11. American Tell Book, in two parts, with two very neat engravings—Price, bound, three-fifths of a dollar. 12. Garden of the Soul, by Bishop Chalenor.—Price, bound in calf and lettered, three quarters of a dollar—plain, half a dollar. 13. The Doway Translation of the Vulgate Bible, in quarto—Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/2—plain, six dollars. 14. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum.—Price a quarter dollar. 15. Think well on't, or reflections for every day of the month. Price a quarter dollar. 16. Christian Economy, translated from a Greek manuscript, found in the island of Patmos, where St. John wrote the Apocalypse.—Price a fifth of a dollar. 17. History of Charles Grandison, abridged—Price a sixth of a dollar. 18. Poems by Col. Humphreys—Price a third of a dollar. 19. 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.
American Lead Manufactory.
STEPHEN AUSTIN, & Co. HAVE just now opened their LEAD-WAREHOUSE, two doors south of Walnut-street Wharf, adjoining their New Factory—where they have now made, and ready for sale, a general assortment of SHOT of all sizes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed a number of experienced English workmen, they warrant it to be equal in quality to any manufactured in Europe, and at a reduced price from the cost of imported. They also continue to manufacture all the above articles at Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addressed to either of the above Factories, will be thankfully received, and executed on the shortest notice. N. B. Wanted, industrious, sober, Labouring Men, at the said Mines, where constant employ, good wages, and other encouragements will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and houses for their reception. For further particulars enquire of Messrs. Moses Austin & Co. at their Factory in Richmond, or as above. Philadelphia, December 3, 1791. tf
TO BE SOLD BY THE EDITOR, A TABLE for receiving and paying Gold at the Bank of the United States, shewing the Value of Gold in Dollars and Cents, from One to a Thousand Pennyweights—according to the Act of Congress, ascertaining the Standard and Value of Gold.