Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-11-19 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69. HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 59, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1791.
[Whole No. 267.]
PHILADELPHIA.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
RESOLVED, That the following Acts and Resolutions be published for the information of the Stockholders of the Bank of the United States, and such persons as may have to transact business with the Bank.
THAT the Bank shall be opened on every day (Sundays, Christmas-day, and the fourth of July, excepted) at nine o'clock in the morning, and so remain until four o'clock in the afternoon.
That discounts for the present, and until altered by a quarterly or special meeting of the Board of Directors convened for that purpose, shall be made at the rate of six per cent. per annum; and that all bills or notes offered for discount, shall be delivered into the Bank on Monday or Wednesday, and laid before the Directors, together with a state of the funds of the Bank every Tuesday and Thursday, on which days the discount shall be settled, and shall be made known on the next succeeding days.
That discounts shall be made for the present, and until altered by a quarterly or special meeting of the Board of Directors convened for that purpose, upon personal security only with at least two responsible names, for a term not exceeding sixty days, and that three days of grace be allowed on all bills or notes payable to the Bank, and that the discount be taken for the same.
That bills or notes left with the Bank shall be presented for acceptance, and the money collected or demanded, free of expence; Provided nevertheless, that in case of non-payment and protest, the charge of protest shall be paid by the person lodging the bill or note.
That payments made at the Bank shall be examined at the time, and no error suggested afterwards shall be corrected.
That the payment of the portion of the capital stock, consisting of specie, which will be due on the several shares subscribed on the first Monday in January next, be made at the Bank—but that the portion consisting of public debt, which will be due on the several shares subscribed, on the first Monday of January next, may be made at the option of the Stockholders, by transferring the same to the President, Directors, and Company of the Bank of the United States, at any time on or before the first Monday of January next, either upon the books of the treasury, or upon the books of any of the Commissioners of Loans for any of the United States.
That the form of the power for voting by proxy at any election, be:
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That of do hereby appoint to be substitute and proxy for and in name and behalf, to vote at any election of a Director or Directors of the Bank of the United States, as fully as might or could were personally present.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set hand and seal, this day of in the year
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
That the form of the power for voting by proxy respecting the enacting, repealing or amending Bye-Laws, Ordinances and Regulations, be:
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That of do hereby appoint substitute or proxy, to represent at all meetings of the Stockholders of the Bank of the United States, and in name and behalf, to vote respecting the enacting, repealing or amending such Bye-Laws, Ordinances or Regulations, as may be deemed necessary and convenient for the government of the said Bank.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set hand and seal, this day of in the year
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
That the form of the power for selling, assigning and transferring Bank Stock, be:
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That of do hereby constitute and appoint true and lawful attorney, for and in name and behalf, to sell, assign and transfer unto any person or persons, the whole or any part of share unto belonging in the capital or joint stock of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, and for that purpose to make and execute all necessary acts of assign-
ments and transfer, and furthermore one or more persons under to substitute with like full power.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set hand and seal, this day of in the year
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
That the form of the power to receive Dividends be:
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That of do hereby constitute and appoint lawful attorney for and in name and behalf, to receive and give receipts for all dividends now due, or which may grow due on share to belonging, in the capital or joint stock of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set hand and seal, this day of in the year
Sealed and delivered in the presence of
That the Bank shall receive and pay all specie coins, according to the rates and value that have been or shall hereafter be established by Congress.
That the lawful possession of a certificate for a share in the Bank of the United States, issued by the persons appointed to receive subscriptions to the said Bank, and accompanied by an assignment thereof, shall be deemed a sufficient authority for the transfer at the Bank of such share to the person to whom the same shall have been thus assigned.
That the delivery to THOMAS WILLING, President of the Bank of the United States, of a certificate of public debt, bearing an annual interest of six per cent. and standing upon the books of a Loan-Office in any of the States, accompanied with a power of attorney authorizing the said THOMAS WILLING, or his substitute, to transfer to the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, the whole, or the part, of the stock expressed in such certificate, shall for so much as may be thus transferred, be deemed a payment pursuant to the charter of the said Bank, and on account of the first and second payment in the public debt, which will become due upon Bank shares on the first Monday in January next, provided that the delivery of the said certificate and power of attorney be made to the said THOMAS WILLING on or before the said first Monday in January—and that satisfactory evidence be given to the Directors of the said Bank, of the completion of such transfers, on or before the first Monday in March next.
That the Bank receive transfers of any of the public debt in trust for such persons as may require the same.
That in all cases when thereunto required, that the Bank accept powers of attorney for receiving interests due, or to grow due upon any of the public debt, and hold the same at the order of the proprietor, free of charge.
Resolved, That it will be expedient to establish Offices of Discount and Deposit in the several cities of Charleston and New-York, and towns of Baltimore and Boston, and as soon as may be after the first Monday of January next, upon the following plan:
Article 1. The Directors of the Bank of the United States shall appoint a number of Directors, not less than nine for each department, a majority of whom shall constitute a board.
Art. 2. The Directors for each department shall choose one of their number for President.
Art. 3. The Directors of the Bank of the United States shall appoint the Cashiers of departments.
Art. 4. The Directors of departments shall appoint their respective Tellers, Clerks and Servants, and the securities by them given shall be approved by the Directors of the Bank of the United States.
Art. 5. The Directors of departments shall be annually appointed, but not more than three-fourths of whom, exclusive of the President, shall be eligible for the next succeeding year.
Art. 6. The compensation to the President, Tellers, Clerks and Servants of departments, shall be established by the Directors of the Bank of the United States.
Art. 7. The manner of keeping, stating and rendering the accounts of the departments, shall be prescribed by the Directors of the Bank of the United States, and the observance of the rules established shall be enforced by the Directors of the Bank of the United States, to whom accounts of departments shall be rendered.
Art. 8. That part of the capital stock of the Bank which consists of the public debt of the United States, shall not be divided, but the departments shall discount upon such part of the specie capital of the said Bank as the Directors shall apportion to them, with such part of the deposits as shall be lodged with them from time to time, as the Directors of departments shall judge safe and expedient.
Art. 9. All notes issued at the departments shall be signed and countersigned by the President and Cashier of the Bank of the United States—shall be made payable at the respective departments from which they are issued, and shall be delivered to the Cashier of the department, who shall give duplicate receipts for the same, one of which is to be lodged with the President of the Bank of the United States, and the other with the President of the department.
Art. 10. All notes which shall have become unfit for circulation, shall be cancelled by the President and Directors of departments, and immediately thereafter transmitted to the Directors of the Bank of the United States, who shall cause the said departments to be credited for the same.
Art. 11. The respective departments shall, once in every week, make out and transmit to the Directors of the Bank of the United States, a distinct abstract of the state of their funds—which abstract shall ascertain the amount of the debts and credits of the department, the amount of notes issued by the department and then in circulation, the amount of cash on hand—and shall likewise distinguish in the account of cash on hand, how much thereof is in specie, and how much in the several kinds of Bank notes.
Art. 12. That the continuance of the said departments shall be at the pleasure of the Directors of the Bank of the United States—but none of the foregoing regulations shall be rescinded, unless at a meeting of a majority of the whole number of Directors, after a notice given for that purpose at a preceding meeting.
By order of the Board of Directors, THOMAS WILLING, PRESIDENT. Countersigned, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
Some inaccuracies having occurred in those publications of the Bye-Laws of the Bank of the United States, which have already appeared—an authentic copy will be published in the next number of this paper, pursuant to orders of the Directors.
EXTRACTS.
ON THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH.
FREEDOM of speech is the privilege of man; the peculiar privilege of an American; but I do not say that it is never abused; it is abused when virtue is drawn in a forbidding, and when vice is painted in a seducing light; it is abused when truth is obscured by dark shades, and when falsehood is dressed in the most captivating colours; it is abused when liberty is exhibited bound in chains, and when tyranny is placed in a pleasing point of view, embellished with every ornament which can dazzle and delude. To drop the pencil—he, surely, whatever be his rank in life, whatever be his post in society, discovers neither wisdom nor benevolence, who endeavors, as a politician, to loosen the bands of morality; and as a moralist, to weaken the ties of religion.—Such a man, whatever be his rank in life, whatever be his post in society, is not a friend to mankind—nor himself.
Of Prohibition with respect to the Exportation of GOLD and SILVER.
COULD Spain and Portugal have succeeded in executing their foolish laws for hedging in the cuckow, as Locke calls it, and have kept at home all their gold and silver, those metals would, by this time, have been of little more value than so much lead or iron. Their plenty would have lessened their value. We see the folly of these edicts; but are not our own prohibitory and restrictive laws, that are professedly made with intention to bring in a balance in our favour from our trade with foreign nations to be paid in money, and laws to prevent the necessity of exporting that money, which, if they could be thoroughly executed, would make money as plenty, and of as little value. I say, are not such laws akin to those Spanish edicts; follies of the same family?

By Authority.
PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 19.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS a Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States, and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, was made and concluded the second day of the Month of July last; and whereas I have by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, in due form ratified the said Treaty: Now to the end that the same be observed and performed with good Faith on the part of the United States, I have ordered the said Treaty to be herewith published, And I do hereby enjoin and require all Officers of the United States, civil and military, and all other Citizens and Inhabitants thereof, to govern themselves according to the said Treaty, as they will answer the contrary at their Peril.
(L.S.) GIVEN under my Hand and the Seal of the United States, in the City of Philadelphia, this eleventh day of November, in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the sixteenth Year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States. G. WASHINGTON.
By the President, TH. JEFFERSON.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS a Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, was made and concluded on the second day of the month of July last, by WILLIAM BLOUNT, Governor in and over the Territory of the United States south of the River Ohio, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District; who was duly authorised thereto, on the one part, and the Chiefs and Warriors of the Cherokee Nation, whose names are hereunto signed, on the other part; which Treaty is in the Form and Words following:
A TREATY of Peace and Friendship, made and concluded between the President of the United States of America, on the part and behalf of the said States, and the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors of the Cherokee Nation of Indians, on the part and behalf of the said Nation.
The Parties being desirous of establishing permanent Peace and Friendship between the United States and the said Cherokee Nation, and the Citizens and Members thereof, and to remove the Causes of War by ascertaining their Limits, and making other necessary, just and friendly Arrangements: The President of the United States, by William Blount, Governor of the Territory of the United States of America south of the River Ohio, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District, who is vested with full powers for these purposes, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate of the United States: And the Cherokee Nation by the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors representing the said Nation, have agreed to the following Articles, namely;
ART. 1. There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between all the citizens of the United States of America, and all the individuals composing the whole Cherokee nation of Indians.
ART. 2. The undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, for themselves, and all parts of the Cherokee nation, do acknowledge themselves, and the said Cherokee nation, to be under the protection of the United States of America, and of no other sovereign whatsoever; and they also stipulate that the said Cherokee nation will not hold any treaty with any foreign power, individual State, or with individuals of any State.
ART. 3. The Cherokee nation shall deliver to the Governor of the Territory of the United States of America, south of the River Ohio, on or before the first day of April next at this place, all persons who are now prisoners, captured by them from any part of the United States: And the United States shall on, or before the same day, and at the same place, restore to the Cherokees, all the prisoners now in captivity, which the citizens of the United States have captured from them.
ART. 4. The boundary between the citizens of the United States, and the Cherokee nation, is and shall be as follows: Beginning at the top of the Currahee mountain, where the Creek line passes it—thence a direct line to Tugelo river—thence North East to the Ocunna mountain, and over the same along the South-Carolina Indian boundary to the North-Carolina boundary—thence North to a point from which a line is to be extended to the river Clinch, that shall pass the Holston at the ridge which divides the waters running into Little River, from those running into the Tennessee—Thence up the river Clinch to Campbell's line, and along the same to the top of Cumberland Mountain—thence a direct line to the Cumberland River where the Kentucky road crosses it—thence down the Cumberland River to a point from which a South-west line will strike the ridge which divides the waters of Cumberland from those of Duck River forty miles above Nashville—thence down the said ridge to a point from whence a South-west line will strike the mouth of Duck river.
And in order to preclude for ever all disputes relative to the said boundary, the same shall be ascertained, and marked plainly by three persons appointed on the part of the United States, and three Cherokees on the part of their nation.
And in order to extinguish for ever all claims of the Cherokee nation, or any part thereof to any of the land lying to the right of the line above described, beginning as aforesaid at the Currahee mountain, it is hereby agreed, that in addition to the consideration heretofore made for the said land, the United States will cause certain valuable goods to be immediately delivered to the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, for the use of their nation, and the said United States will also cause the sum of one thousand dollars to be paid annually to the said Cherokee nation.—And the undersigned Chiefs and Warriors, do hereby for themselves and the whole Cherokee nation, their heirs and descendants, for the considerations above mentioned, RELEASE, QUIT-CLAIM, RENOUNCE and CEDE, all the land to the right of the line described and beginning as aforesaid.
ART. 5. It is stipulated and agreed, that the citizens and inhabitants of the United States, shall have a free and unimolested use of a road from Washington district to Mero district, and of the navigation of the Tennessee River.
ART. 6. It is agreed on the part of the Cherokees, that the United States shall have the sole and exclusive right of regulating their trade.
ART. 7. The United States solemnly guarantee to the Cherokee nation, all their lands not hereby ceded.
ART. 8. If any citizen of the United States, or other person not being an Indian, shall settle on any of the Cherokee's lands, such person shall forfeit the protection of the United States, and the Cherokees may punish him or not, as they please.
ART. 9. No citizen or inhabitant of the United States, shall attempt to hunt or destroy the game on the lands of the Cherokees,—nor shall any citizen or inhabitant go into the Cherokee country, without a passport first obtained from the Governor of some one of the United States, or territorial districts, or such other person as the President of the United States may from time to time authorise to grant the same.
ART. 10. If any Cherokee Indian or Indians, or person residing among them, or who shall take refuge in their nation, shall steal a horse from, or commit a robbery or murder, or other capital crime, on any citizens or inhabitants of the United States, the Cherokee nation shall be bound to deliver him or them up, to be punished according to the laws of the United States.
ART. 11. If any citizen or inhabitant of the United States, or of either of the territorial districts of the United States, shall go into any town, settlement or territory belonging to the Cherokees, and shall there commit any crime, upon, or trespass against the person or property of any peaceable and friendly Indian or Indians, which it committed within the jurisdiction of any State, or within the jurisdiction of either of the said districts, against a citizen or white inhabitant thereof, would be punishable by the laws of such State or district, such offender or offenders, shall be subject to the same punishment, and shall be proceeded against in the same manner, as if the offence had been committed within the jurisdiction of the State or district to which he or they may belong, against a citizen or white inhabitant thereof.
ART. 12. In case of violence on the persons or property of the individuals of either party—neither retaliation or reprisal shall be committed by the other, until satisfaction shall have been demanded of the party of which the aggressor is, and shall have been refused.
ART. 13. The Cherokees shall give notice to the citizens of the United States, of any designs which they may know, or suspect to be formed in any neighbouring tribe or by any person whatever, against the peace and interest of the United States.
ART. 14. That the Cherokee nation may be led to a greater degree of civilization, and to become herdsmen and cultivators, instead of remaining in a state of hunters, the United States will from time to time furnish gratuitously the said nation with useful implements of husbandry, and further to assist the said nation in so desirable a pursuit, and at the same time to establish a certain mode of communication, the United States will send such, and so many persons to reside in said nation as they may judge proper, not exceeding four in number, who shall qualify themselves to act as interpreters.—These persons shall have lands assigned by the Cherokees for cultivation for themselves and their successors in office—but they shall be precluded exercising any kind of traffic.
ART. 15. All animosities for past grievances shall henceforth cease, and the contracting parties will carry the foregoing treaty into full execution with all good faith and sincerity.
ART. 16. This Treaty shall take effect and be obligatory on the contracting parties, as soon as the same shall have been ratified by the President of the United States, with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States.
IN WITNESS of all and every thing herein determined between the United States of America, and the whole Cherokee Nation, the parties have hereunto set their hands and seals, at the treaty ground on the bank of the Holston, near the mouth of the French Broad, within the United States, this second day of July, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
WILLIAM BLOUNT, L.S. Governor in and over the Territory of the United States of America south of the River Ohio, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Southern District.
  Chulecoah, + or the Boots, L.S.  Yonewatleah, + or Bear at home, L.S.    Squallerutah, + or hanging Maw, L.S.  Long Will, + L.S.    Ocunna, + or the Badger, L.S.  Kunofsekke, + or John Watts, L.S.    Enoleh, + or Black Fox, L.S.  Nenetooyah, + or bloody Fellow, L.S.    Nontuaka, + or the Northward, L.S.  Chuquilatague, + or Double-head, L.S.    Tekakifka, + L.S.  Hoolaquah, + or big Acorn, L.S.    Chutloah, or Kingfisher, L.S.  Toowayelloh, + or bold Hunter, L.S.    Tuckaseh, + or Tarrapin, L.S.  Jable-gonoyehka, + or middle striker, L.S.    Kateh, + L.S.  Kinnefah, + or Cabin, L.S.    Kunnochatutloah, + or the Crane, L.S.  Tulloche, + or two killer, L.S.    Cauquillehannah, + or the Thigh, L.S.  Kooloulke, + or stopp still, L.S.    Chequottolonch, + or yellow Bird, L.S.  Kultateh, + L.S.    Chickatawtehe, + or chick-afaw killer, L.S.  Auquoutague, + the little Turkey's Son, L.S.    Tufkegeteh, + or Tufkega killer, L.S.  Talohteske, + or Upsetter, L.S.    Kultateh, + L.S.  Chéakoneke, + or Otter Lifter, L.S.    Tinkhalene, + L.S.  Keshukaune, + or she reigns, L.S.    Sawutteh, + or slave catcher, L.S.  Toonauaitoh, + L.S.    Aukuah, + L.S.  Tééteki, + or common Disturber, L.S.    Otenaleh, + L.S.  Robin Mc. Clemore, L.S.    Kenotetah, + or rising Fawn, L.S.  Skyuka, + L.S.    Kanetetoka, + or standing Turkey, L.S.   
JOHN THOMPSON, Interpreter. JAMES CAREY, Interpreter. Done in presence of DAN. SMITH, Secretary of the Territory of the United States, south of the River Ohio.
THOMAS KENNEDY, of Kaintuckey. JAMES ROBERTSON, of Mero District. CLAIBORNE WATKINS, of Virginia. JOHN M. WHITNEY, of Georgia. FAUCHE, of Georgia. TITUS OGDEN, of North-Carolina. JOHN CHISHOLM, of Washington District. ROBERT KING. THOMAS GEGG.
NOW KNOW YE, That I having seen and considered the said Treaty, do by and with the advice and consent of the Senate of the United States, ACCEPT, RATIFY and CONFIRM the same, and every article and clause thereof: In Testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed, and signed the same with my hand.
L.S. GIVEN in the city of Philadelphia, the eleventh day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and in the sixteenth year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States. G. WASHINGTON. By the President, TH. JEFFERSON.
APPOINTMENTS.
November the 14th.
The President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, has been pleased to make the following appointments:
SECOND REGIMENT. Elijah Tisdale, Surgeon's Mate, vice Sumner, declined.
November the 15th.
SECOND REGIMENT. Micah McDonough, Ensign, vice Duff, declined—William Balch, Ensign, vice Sohier, appointed Lieutenant—George Demelar, Ensign, vice Miller, promoted.
November the 16th.
Nathaniel Rogers to be Marshal of the New-Hampshire district, vice John Parker, deceased.
Alexander Moore to be Surveyor of the Port of West Point, in Virginia, vice John Spotwood. Moore, who has resigned his appointment.
Charles Brown to be Collector of the Port of Georgetown, in South-Carolina, vice John Cogdell, who has resigned his appointment.
CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1791.
MR. GOODUE presented a petition from the merchants and distillers of the town of Salem, in Massachusetts, praying a reduction of the duty imposed on spirits of domestic manufacture, and an increase in that on foreign spirits, with sundry other modifications of the law. Referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Brown presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of the district of Kentucky, praying to be relieved from the operation of the excise law, until they shall have obtained the free navigation of the Mississippi. Referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, so far as it respects a temporary suspension of the excise law.
Mr. Fitzsimons called up the petition of a committee of the public creditors, who loaned money to the United States, between September 1777, and March 1778, and moved that it should be referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, for his opinion on the prayer of the petition.
Mr. Sedgwick observed that the subject of this petition had undergone a decision during the last session, when a petition of a similar nature was presented. Speculation, he said, had already taken a sufficiently ample range through the United States; and he hoped no new paths would be opened for its future walks. He would move that the prayer of the petition could not be granted.
Mr. Fitzsimons said, that the nature of the petition seemed to be misunderstood; he was as little disposed as any gentleman on the floor, to innovate in the funding system; he would not undertake to pronounce, that the petitioners were entitled to any relief, but he thought the Secretary of the Treasury did not consider this case as provided for under the funding law, in which case, he thought that the wisdom and justice of the house were interested in taking the same into consideration.
Mr. Gerry, after giving the history of the emission of the bills of credit in question, urged the propriety of doing equal justice to every class of the public creditors, and declared in favor of the reference to the Secretary of the Treasury, who would state facts, upon which the house could determine whether or no the prayer of the petition could be granted.
Mr. Sedgwick thought a sufficient provision had been made; that it was not the interest of the people to proceed any farther; this would only raise passions, that were now subsided, but had heretofore been productive of considerable mischief to the country; it would shew the people, that the house entertained doubts respecting the sufficiency of the provision; speculators would employ all their arts to draw the certificates out of the hands of the present holders; and he left it to gentlemen to determine whether such a scene of speculation would prove advantageous to the country; besides, he would ask, whether the required provision could be made without altering the system already established?
Mr. Gerry observed, that the objection, drawn from speculation, would prove an argument equally valid against funding, and even against the coinage of money, since gamblers would apply the coin to the purposes of gaming; it had been said, that many of the certificates in question had been loaned; but he would ask, whether, because a number of persons, not knowing their rights, had yielded them up, an argument could thence be drawn, why others, who understood their rights should not maintain them, or why the former should not be redressed? Ought the government to take advantage of the ignorance of the public creditors? he hoped not: the former memorial, to which the gentleman [Mr. Sedgwick] alluded, was very different from the present one, and contained many matters, which would have required a total alteration of the funding system.
Mr. Lawrance saw no necessity for a reference: a knowledge of facts could be obtained from the journals of Congress; as to applying to the Secretary for his opinion, this would only prove a source of embarrassment; better to take it up in committee of the whole, or in the house, without a knowledge of his opinion: when the scale of depreciation was applied to the public debt, it was unequally applied, some receiving interest on the nominal, others on the specie value; in the funding bill it was contemplated, that the former class should be allowed such in-

terest up to the close of the last year; and the only question now is, whether any alteration shall be made in the funding bill; whether one class of public creditors shall have a different measure of justice dealt out to them, from what others have had: he concluded with a wish that the subject should be taken up in committee of the whole.
The question, on the reference to the Secretary of the Treasury, was then taken, and lost: whereupon,
Mr. Lawrance moved, that the petition should be referred to a committee of the whole house.
Mr. Boudinot was of opinion, that the funding system had done ample justice, and that those who complied with it, have no reasonable ground of complaint: at the time of the passing the law, it had been said, that men would be forced by it to come in and subscribe, whether they would or not; a clause was therefore inserted in favor of non-subscribing public creditors, by virtue of which, the petitioners, who are of the non-subscribing class, consider themselves in the same situation as before the law was enacted; but an improper construction has been given to that clause, and therefore it is that the creditors complain: were any one of them to bring an action against the public officers, he would in his opinion, obtain redress: they applied to the House for redress; and the question was, whether they should be forced to subscribe, or be entitled to the benefit of their contract; he would not wish that any man should be forced to comply with the terms of the funding system against his will: he would have every man at liberty to accept or reject them at his pleasure; and he thought it unreasonable that any man should have his six per cent reduced to four, without his own consent.
Mr. Fitzsimons thought further information on the subject necessary, and therefore it was, that he favored the reference: one circumstance, he said, was unattended to by the gentlemen who had spoke on the subject; and that was, that the non-subscribing creditors must deliver up the original certificates, before they can receive their interest; but this they do not choose to do, because these certificates bear a promise of interest on the original value, and they would afterwards receive interest only on the reduced value.
The question being then taken on the commitment to a committee of the whole, and lost.
Mr. Sedgwick moved a resolution, that the prayer of the petition cannot be granted.
The question being called for, Mr. Barnewell observed that he, and probably some others of the new members, were not thoroughly acquainted with the subject; and therefore he wished the question might be postponed. The resolution was, in consequence, ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Lawrance then called up a petition of sundry inhabitants of the state of New-York, holders of certain bills of credit, issued in 1780. Referred to the Secretary of the Treasury, to consider and report his opinion thereon.
Mr. Baldwin called up the petition of General Jackson, relative to the Georgia election; which, after some debate, was referred to the committee heretofore appointed to report a regular and uniform mode of proceeding in cases of contested elections.
Adjourned.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17.
Mr. Hartley, member for Pennsylvania, and Mr. Schoonmaker, from New-York, took their seats this day.
Sundry petitions were presented, read, and committed.
Mr. Lawrance laid the following resolution on the table,
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill for extending the time limited for settling the accounts between the United States and individual States.
IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE,
On the bill directing the mode in which, certain evidences of the debt of the United States which have been lost or destroyed, may be renewed—
Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair—
The bill was read. Mr. Sedgwick moved that the words, lost or , should be struck out of the first clause—He said that the provisions in the bill to guard against imposition on the public in cases of lost certificates, did not appear to him to be adequate to the purpose—and this was not only his opinion, but that of every gentleman who was on the committee who had reported the bill in the above form, agreeable to orders of the House. He called on those gentlemen who were in favor of retaining the words, to devise a mode by which the public might be secured.
Mr. Lawrance was opposed to the motion—He thought the bill itself contained competent provisions in the case; he pointed out several other particulars which might be attended to in the process of this business, that would afford sufficient security—such as the checks which would ascertain that the certificates, which it was said were lost, had existed—reference to the lost certificate might be contained in the renewed certi-
ficate—a procrastination for a considerable time of the payment of the interest, &c.
Mr. Sedgwick replied, that the difficulties would not, in his opinion, be obviated by what the gentleman had suggested. The committee had applied for information to the Officers of the Treasury, who were decidedly of opinion that no adequate provision against deception could be devised in respect to the renewal of lost certificates. Considerable debate occurred on the motion, which was finally agreed to, and the words lost or struck out. Sundry other amendments were agreed to by the committee—they then rose, and the Chairman reported them to the house.
On motion to agree to the first amendment, Mr. Bourne (R. I.) said he hoped that it would not be agreed to, as he conceived the bill in its present form would not afford the relief proposed in any degree—because, he observed, that there were very few cases in which positive evidence of the destruction of a certificate could be produced.
Mr. Sedgwick observed that, most undoubtedly, strong presumptive evidence would answer in every case, which would come before the person appointed to judge on those occasions.
Mr. Sney was opposed to the amendment—he said it made a discrimination between two classes of unfortunate persons, which was not warranted in reason or justice. If this amendment should be agreed to, he should think himself obliged to vote against the bill altogether.
Mr. Sheredine and Mr. Murray spoke also against the motion to agree to the amendment.—An adjournment being called for, the house rose without taking the vote.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18.
Mr. White presented the petition of Philip Bouff, praying that a lost or destroyed certificate, his property, may be renewed.
Mr. Vining presented a petition from the branch pilots of the river and bay of Delaware, stating certain disadvantages which they labor under, on account of the suspension of a certain law of the state of Pennsylvania, in their favor; also on account of the reduced rates of pilotage, which were established upwards of 30 years ago—read and referred to the committee appointed to report a bill for the regulating of pilots, &c. in the bays of Chesapeake and Delaware.
Mr. Lawrance presented the representation and petition of John Franklin, praying compensation for a quantity of mahogany, &c. used in the public service during the late war—read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Boudinot presented the petition of James Weeks, praying compensation for loss sustained on a vessel destroyed during the late war, to promote the public interest; laid on the table.
Mr. Page reported a bill apportioning the representation of the people of the United States according to the first enumeration, which was read the first and second time, and referred to the committee of the whole house, on Monday next—to be printed in the interim; By this bill New-Hampshire is to have 4, Massachusetts 15, Rhode-Island 2, Vermont 2, Connecticut 7, New-York 11, New-Jersey 5, Pennsylvania 14, Delaware 1, Maryland 9, Virginia 21, Kentucky 2 after next June, North-Carolina 11, and Georgia 2 Representatives in the Congress to be chosen after March 1793; South-Carolina according to the census after it is completed.
Sundry petitions were read, and committed to the Secretary of War to report thereon.
A message was received from the Senate by Mr. Secretary Otis, communicating to the House a letter from the President of the Assembly of the Colony of St. Domingo to the Congress of the United States.
The Speaker communicated a letter from the Treasurer of the United States enclosing a copy of his Indent account; these were read and laid on the table.
The amendments proposed by the committee of the whole to the bill directing the mode of renewing certain certificates of public debt which have been lost or destroyed—were taken into consideration, and after considerable debate accepted by the House; but the question for engrossing in order to the third reading being put was negatived, and the bill consequently lost.
Mr. Ames of the committee to whom the petition of James Jackson was referred brought in a report which was read, and laid on the table. This report had reference to the mode of procedure in investigating the subject of the contested election.
The memorial of the commissioned officers serving in the army of the United States, respecting the reduction of their pay, &c.—was read and referred to a select committee, consisting of Messrs. Lawrance, Williamson, and Kitchell.
The standing committee of elections, reported on the letter from the Executive of the state of Maryland, respecting the resignation of William Pinckney, and the election of John Francis Mercer in his stead—the report was that John F. Mercer was duly elected. The report was read and laid on the table.
The petition of Capt. Jonathan Haskell, respecting a sum of money received by him on the public account, and which he had lost, was read and committed to the Secretary of War, to report a state of facts relative thereto.
The petitions of Josias Clapham, Daniel Robbins, Philip Bouff and Phineas Ware, praying that certain lost or destroyed certificates may be renewed, were read, and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
Mr. Fitzsimons, of the committee on the petition of Stephen Zacchary, reported a resolution for the appointment of a committee to bring in a bill to grant relief pursuant to the prayer of said petition. Adjourned till Monday.
The Speech and Oath of the King of the French, spoken in the National Assembly, on the 14th Sept. 1791, for the Acceptation of the Constitution.
GENTLEMEN, I COME here solemnly to confirm the acceptance I have given to the Constitutional Act; in consequence—I SWEAR TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE NATION AND TO THE LAW, and to employ all the power which is delegated to me to maintaining the Constitution decreed by the Constituent National Assembly, and causing the laws to be executed. May this great and memorable era, be that of the re-establishment of peace and unity, and become the pledge of the happiness of the people and of the prosperity of the empire.
Philadelphia, November 19.
In classing the Senators from the state of Vermont, Mr. BRADLEY is of the class whose seats will become vacant at the expiration of four years, from March, 1791—and Mr. ROBINSON, of that whole seats will be vacated in six years,
A bill respecting Consuls and Vice-Consuls, and a bill to determine the time of choosing President and Vice-President of the United States, have had a second reading in the Senate of the United States.
In our last it was mentioned that the King of Spain had declared war against the Moors—it now appears that the sovereign of Morocco had been before hand in declaring war against Spain.
The letter from the King of France to the National Assembly, in which he accepts of the Constitution, is dated the 13th Sept. On the 14th he was to meet the National Assembly to ratify the celebrated instrument in their presence. The ceremony of the proclamation of the Constitution took place the 18th, in the Field of Confederation. The Mayor of Paris, preceded by Herald's, and surrounded by a numerous and brilliant troop of grenadiers, ascended the Altar of the Country ; arrived at the summit, he held up the Constitutional Code to the veneration of an immense multitude of citizens, who rent the air with shouts and acclamations of joy. At 5 o'clock, a superb balloon was raised, and in the evening the most brilliant illuminations took place in the Elysian Fields, &c. &c. The King and Queen, with the Prince Royal, visiting there, were received with enthusiasm, and shouts of Vive le Roi, and Vive la Reine , were heard from all quarters. The Aristocrats, it is said, are all in the utmost consternation at the King's accepting the Constitution.
Thus the National Assembly have brought their labors to a triumphant issue, by giving to the people of France a Constitution, in which, like that of the United States, the principle of improvement is infused; so that, if on experiment, it should be found inadequate to the preservation of "peace, liberty and safety," it is susceptible of being carried to the desired degree of perfection.
The subject of the disturbances in the French Colonies has occasioned much warmth in the National Assembly, according to the latest accounts. The intelligence we may expect to receive from France after the recent accounts from Hispaniola shall have reached Europe, will be peculiarly interesting; for notwithstanding the idea of distant Colonies as appendages to a government, has been lately philosophized upon, as disadvantageous, and pernicious to the parent country, it appears that very powerful interests are involved in the question as it respects France.
As a free government depends on the virtue of the people, and every degree of virtue owes its existence to light and information—the friends of our happy Constitution and the rights of the people, may be facilitated on the prospect which now presents of opening the channels of information to all parts of the Union. The President of the United States, with that promptitude and decision with which he delivers his opinion on every subject connected with the public welfare, has recommended this business to the serious consideration of the Legislature. And it may be depended on that every individual member of both houses, as well as every officer at the head of the executive departments, are fully impressed with this idea—that the people have a right to be fully informed of the transactions of their government, and of the reasons on which all its decisions are founded. This being the case, it is hardly possible that the public expectation should be again disappointed.
Extract of a letter from Port-au-Prince, dated Oct. 25.
"I have the pleasure of informing you, that peace is once more made between the Whites and Mulattoes, on Saturday last, the 22d inst. and yesterday 2500 of the latter marched with their arms into town, and paraded in company with the former before the church; at which time the inhabitants, with the officers of each party, entered the church, and sung Te Deum . How long the peace will last, is uncertain, as a number of the inhabitants are not well pleased. Upon what terms the peace is made, I cannot at present inform you."
The English newspapers are, according to some late accounts, divided into three descriptions—Ministerial, Anti-Ministerial, and Neutral—that is, those in favor of Administration, those against it, and those who are indifferent. In this account we do not find that there are any who are in favor of the people—What a set of venal wretches does this make of the Printers!—The same, or similar accounts, appear respecting the French papers—they are said to be licentious to the highest degree—the facts only, which they detail, are to be relied on—for in the collisions of party, right and wrong, truth and falsehood are merely convertible terms—Hence we are obliged to go to the Netherlands for impartiality and honesty—hence also the celebrity of the Leyden Gazette, which is now said to be the oracle of politics in the European world.
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FROM THE NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH CHRONICLE.
ON THE DEATH OF MR. JOHN BOUSH, Late Mayor of NORFOLK—a loss much felt and lamented. “Eheu, fugaces labuntur Anni!” “Lingua tua, Tellus & Domus & placens.” “Uxor.”
AGAIN mild comfort, airy cheering maid, Again descend! Thy votary claims thy aid. Thou art my only muse—girl of the sun-beam eye! Oh bend effulgent from thy cloudless sky, To where yon fair, young widow, wild and fad, Is led, half frantic, to her lonely bed. Soft dews exhal'd from heav'nly flow'rets bring, And shake them gently from thy silken wing: With time's dull pencil, every grief efface, And lull the horror of the last embrace. Then wide around, sweet maid, thy smiles extend— He whom she mourns, was every good man's friend; The poor, the rich, the bondmen and the free, In this dull, dark'ning hour have need of thee!
BOUSH, had a mind, where mercy would reside As at her home—an eye unrais'd by pride, A heart—friendship within and peace was at its door, A hand—that pour'd its bounties on the poor. His was a face, whence goodness threw around Her sweetest smiles—where “joy serene” was found, And where mild virtue lent its flarry ray To light his friends, along life's thorny way.
“SPIRIT so good, why would'st thou haste away, Why leave thy smiling friends, the cheerful day? Why leave thy FANNY in the world alone, And thy own body in the mould'ring tomb? Was it to ride upon the fleeting wind? Could'st thou in Ether purer blessings find? Was it to sail upon the curling cloud, Where fancied forms, in airy figures crow'd? Or would'st thou soar to where the fix'd stars shine, Nearer to view, how vast, a band divine Shap'd their bright orbs? Or in that mournful hour, Had'st thou a mandate from Almighty pow'r, To leave far off, the earth, the seas, the air, And bring before him, every poor man's prayer? Dazzled you'll stand, where every Saint has stood, But veil thee, with the blessings of the good; And while around celestial breezes fan, Be as thou hast been, fill the friend of MAN.” Norfolk, Oct. 20, 1791.
L I T C H F I E L D, (Con.) Nov. 9. Last Friday the General Assembly of this state closed the October session.
In the course of the session, many important matters came before the assembly, which were referred for further consideration to the assembly to be holden in May next. Among others, were the report of a committee on the petition of the sufferers in the seaport-towns, by the inroads and depredations of the British during the late war; stating their sufferings by loss of property to a mount of nearly three hundred thousand pounds; and an offer of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a quit-claim of the territory claimed by this state, south of Lake Erie; an act regulating the militia of this state; with others of less consequence. The bill for dividing the state in seven districts, each to choose one member of Congress, was taken back after considerable discussion.
L O N D O N.
Extract of a letter from Warsaw, dated August 17. TRANSACTIONS, exhibiting an instance of most abominable fanaticism, which happened lately in the city of Rawa, about 12 leagues from this place.
A reputable woman, widow of an apothecary, named Wilke, a protestant, and an old inhabitant of that place, having some business to transact at Warsaw, was presented by a friend with a doll for the amusement of her children; the oldest of which was a girl of 8 years old.
The children on receiving this doll, without any offensive intention, decorated the same by hanging a small effigy of the (so called) Mother Mary around its neck, which had been given them by a Monk.
A fanatic and enemy to the family, who was a subaltern in the grenadier regiment of Kalzinski, gave information of this innocent diversion—and complaining thereof to the board of civil and military commissioners, as being sacrilegious, who caused a criminal process to be issued against the poor widow, mother of the children, by which she was condemned, and sentenced to be beheaded.
Providentially Mr. Krapinski, a member of the Consistory of Dissenters at Warsaw, hearing of this unnatural proceeding, immediately presented a petition in favor of this unhappy woman, to the King and Sovereign Council; in consequence of which, a Salvus Conductus was granted to the poor widow, and orders given to the judge to stay the execution: Privilege was also granted her to appeal to the mixed Attestorial Court, to determine respecting her unhappy situation.
This court, although it preserved the life of the woman, nevertheless, pronounced the following inhuman sentence, viz. “That the unhappy mother should be compelled to chastise her own children in the presence of the instigator with a rod, so long, and until the blood should follow the rod!”—Of which punishment one of the children now lies dangerously ill. After the above sentence was executed, the doll was publicly burned on the 9th day of August, by the hand of the common executioner.
GEORGE MEADE
Has for SALE, at his Stores on WALNUT-STREET WHARF, A FEW pipes of 3 and 4 years old bills of exchange Madeira WINE, which he will dispose of by the pipe, hoghead or quarter cask. London market Madeira WINE, 5 and 6 years old. Old Sherry WINE of the first quality, by the hoghead or quarter cask. Three and 4 years old Lisbon WINE, of a superior quality to what is generally imported, by the pipe, quarter cask, or larger quantity. Choice old Coniac BRANDY, by the pipe, tierce, or larger quantity. A few quarter chests of first quality Hyson TEA. He has just received by the Pigeon, Lexey, master, from London, a few quarter casks of old Madeira WINE—And By the brig Mercury, Capt. Stevens, from Dublin, a few boxes of Irish LINENS, low priced and well assorted; a few bales of red and white FLANNELS, and some GLUE. A few boxes of Spermaceti CANDLES of the first quality, and Burlington PORK of prime quality. He has also to dispose of, a quantity of dressed White Oak STAVES. He means to keep a constant supply of First Quality Madeira and Lisbon WINES, and whoever is pleased to favor him with their custom, may be assured of being well served. He will, through the Winter and Spring, buy undressed HAND-SPIKES. He is purchasing FLAX-SEED and BEES-WAX, and will give the highest price for them. N.B. A few hampers of excellent London PORTER and Taunton ALE, just received, and to be disposed of. Philadelphia, November 16, 1791. (ep 6w.)
TO BE SOLD, BY JOHN CAREY, No. 26, PEAR-STREET, A COLLECTION OF Scarce and Valuable BOOKS,
Which may be seen every day, until five o'clock, p. m. Among them are the following: Folio. HOMER, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, Eusebius, Sozomen, Theodoret, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Paterculus, Pliny, Concordantia Lat., Concordantia Gr., Theſaurus Ciceronis, Biblia Junii and Tremellii, Bible de Martin, Wells's Maps, Scapulae—Phavorini—Martini—Hoffmanni Lexica, Vossii Etymologicon, Antiquit. Eccles. Britannica, &c. Quarto. Pindar, Cyropaedia, Bentley's Horace, Terence and Phaedrus, Ovid, Juvenal, Manilius, Ciceronis op. om. Cæsar, Suetonius, Julius Polliux, Hederici Lexicon, Vossii Ars Gram. Cluverii Geographia, Justinian Code, &c. Octavo et infra. Homer, Anacreon, Aristophanes, Longinus, Theophrastus, Heliod, Poetæ minores Gr., Isocrates, Phalaris, various editions of Horace, Virgil, Terence, and Ovid, Tibullus, Plautus, Lucan, Martial, Claudian, Val. Flaccus, Asinius, Buchanan, Sallust, Curtius, Florus, Justin, Val. Maximus, A. Gellius, Hist. August. Scriptores, English and French Translations of some of the Classics, a great variety of Greek and Latin Grammars, &c. &c. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. Rice & Co. Booksellers, Market-street, or of JOHN CAREY. October 31. (ep 1f.)
The First and Second Volumes of the HISTORY OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE, (To which is prefixed an accurate Map of the State) By the Rev. JEREMY BELKNAP, Are ready for Delivery to Subscribers—who may receive their Books on application to HAZARD & ADDOMS, at the Corner of Chestnut and Third Streets. The above two volumes contain the political history of the State, from its first settlement to the adoption of the present Constitution of the United States;—the third, containing a geographical description of the State, sketches of its natural history, &c. is in the press. ** A few copies of the first two volumes for sale—price 20s. November 5, 1791.
In the Press, and speedily will be published, HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS; Consisting of STATE PAPERS, and other authentic Documents, tending to elucidate the HISTORY OF AMERICA, and particularly of the UNITED STATES. By EBENEZER HAZARD, A.M. ** The price to Subscribers will be a Dollar for each Number, containing 160 large quarto pages; or Four Dollars and a Quarter for each Volume in Boards; to be paid as follows, viz. the first and second Numbers, or Volumes, to be paid for on delivery of the first; and each subsequent one (except the last) at the time of delivery. Subscriptions will be received, in this city, by THOMAS DOBSON, and HAZARD & ADDOMS, (who will exhibit specimens of the work) and in other places by the principal Booksellers there. Philadelphia, November 5, 1791.
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Lectures on Government & Law.
THE Honorable JAMES WILSON, L.L.D. Professor of Laws in the College and Academy of Philadelphia, proposes to deliver, next Winter, two Courses of Lectures. One Course to begin on the Second Monday, the other on the Second Tuesday of December. WILLIAM ROGERS, Secretary to the Board of Faculty. Philadelphia, October 12, 1791. (eptD)
A Young Gentleman, of American birth and education (being a graduate) would for a liberal compensation engage as Tutor in a family, or take charge of an Academy, to teach the Latin and English Languages. He has had some experience in teaching, and trusts he can exhibit satisfactory recommendations. Any letters upon this subject, post paid, addressed to A—S—, and the care of the Editor hereof, prior to the 25th December, will be punctually attended to. October 22, 1791. [1aw]
ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEREAS it appears by the proceedings in a certain cause now depending in the High Court of Chancery in England, wherein William Webb is the plaintiff, and John Parker, (executor of Thomas Brady, deceased) is the defendant, that Henry Webb was put out an apprentice to the sea trade by the Greenwich School, in or about the year 1775, and who was then of the age of 14 years, or thereabouts, and sailed from England in the year 1776, to some part of North-America, in the ship or vessel Artillery, Capt. Lewellyn, formerly a Spanish trader, and at that time a navy victualler or transport in his Majesty's service—and whereas it appears that the said Henry Webb deserted and ran away from said ship or vessel, and entered on board a certain privateer called the Revenge, or Vengeance Privateer, of which one John Dean was master or commander, then lying at New-York, North-America; and that the said Vengeance Privateer, on or about the 5th of November, 1779, failed from New-York aforesaid to Savannah, and arrived at such last mentioned port in or about the month of March, 1780, and on the month of April following, to some port or place in America, but to what port or place is not known; and in the month of May, 1780, the said ship or vessel was seen at Barbadoes in the West-Indies, but the said Henry Webb has not since been heard of, and is supposed to be dead; it having been reported that the tender belonging to the said ship or vessel called the Vengeance, which ship was then commanded by Capt. Knowles, with a number of her men, to the amount of 201, or thereabouts, (and among whom the said Henry Webb is supposed to have been one) were taken by the enemy, and carried into Philadelphia.—Now, in pursuance of an order made in the said cause, bearing date the 31 of December, 1790, any person or persons who can give any account or information touching the said Henry Webb, or of the said ship Vengeance, or whether the said Henry Webb be living or dead, and if dead, when or wherefore he died, are requested to give such information to William Weller Pepys, Esq. one of the Masters of said Court, at his Chambers in Symonds's-Inn, Chancery-Lane, London; and such person or persons will be rewarded for their trouble by applying to Samuel Naylor, Esq. the Solicitor in said cause, No. 4, Great New-Port-Street, London; or to the Rev. John Stanford, No. 33, John-Street, New-York; or to John Prettyjohn, Esq. Bridgetown, Barbadoes. W. W. PEPYS.
JOHN PINTARD, SWORN BROKER & AUCTIONEER, PURCHASES and SELLS
PUBLIC DEBT of every description, on Commission, at the following rates: ON the specie amount of all sales at auction, one eighth per cent. On ditto at private sale or purchase, one-half per cent. On remittances, ditto. Receiving interest at the Loan-Office, one per cent. on the amount of the interest. For making transfers at ditto, seventy-five cents per transfer. Such persons as may incline to favor the subscriber with their orders, may rely on their being executed with punctuality, fidelity and dispatch. His long experience and extensive dealings in the public stocks, together with a well established correspondence throughout the United States, enable him to conduct his operations with peculiar benefit to his employers. JOHN PINTARD, New-York, No. 57, King-Street.
October 15, 1791.
TO BE SOLD, And possession given immediately, That pleasantly situated FARM
Whereon the subscriber now lives. IT lies on the road from Princeton to Brunswick, about a mile and a half from the former. It contains 213 acres, whereof 47 are woodland, upwards of 30 meadow, and 20 more may be made. Also a young orchard of 200 apple trees, besides a variety of peach and cherry trees, and a large garden; the whole under good fence. There are on the premises a two story stone house and kitchen, with an elegant piazza, the whole painted and finished. Also, a smoke-house, work-shop, granary, waggon-house; barrack cow-houses, two stories high and 60 feet long, and a good barn, with stabling. From the buildings there are charming views of Princeton, the neighbouring farms, and Monmouth hills. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber on the premises, or to ISAAC SNOWDEN, No. 141, South Second-street, Philadelphia. ISAAC SNOWDEN. Junior. Princeton, October 10, 1791. [ep 2m]
W. M'DOUGALL'S DANCING SCHOOL,
Is now opened at his School-Room, No. 28, Carter's Alley. HE returns his sincere thanks for the great encouragement he has experienced these eighteen years; hopes the reputation of his school for decorum and good order, as well as the performance of his scholars, will still enture him a respectable share of the public favor. A number of new Cotillions and Country Dances will be taught during the season. Those who please to honor him with the tuition of their children, may be assured, they will be taught in the most approved style, and that proper attention will be paid to their carriage and manners. A general practising for the improvement of the scholars, will be held at the New Rooms, every other Wednesday; when the employers, and strangers of genteel deportment, will be admitted. These practisings will be attended with no expence. N.B. An EVENING SCHOOL will be opened for grown Gentlemen, as soon as a sufficient number offer. Philadelphia, September 14, 1791. (t. f.)
Forty Dollars Reward.
LAST night was broke open the Store of the subscriber, at Bordentown, and stolen from the same the following articles, viz. One hair trunk, containing womens' wearing apparel; 1 small box, containing four clocks and one dozen teapots; 1 ditto containing one bottle green cloth coat, one striped vest and breeches, two shirts and a small bag with 36 dollars and 20s. to 30s. Jersey coppers; 1 keg containing a large bible, with other small books; 1 box containing 447 real ostrich feathers, some of them large and elegant, and of different colours; 2 barrels rye meal, branded Stout and Imlay; 1 barrel pork, 1 ream paper, and 1 dozen paste-boards.—Stolen at the same time, a large Batteau, with black sides. A reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the above property, so that the owners may have the articles again, or in proportion for part thereof; also a further reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the perpetrator or perpetrators, so that they may be brought to justice, by JOHN VAN EMBURGH. Bordentown, New-Jersey, Sept. 1, 1791. [eptf]
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