Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-08-29 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 26, of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1792.
[Whole No. 348.]
Treasury Department,
August 20th, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the 13th day of October next inclusive, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December 1793, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts, and the Port of West-Point, in the State of New-York.
The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the following articles, viz.
 One pound of bread or flour,  One pound of beef, or \frac{3}{4} of a pound of pork,  Half a gill of rum, brandy or whisky,  One quart of salt,  Two quarts of vinegar,  Two pounds of soap,  One pound of candles.  per 100 rations.
The proposals may be made for both of the above-mentioned Posts, or separately, for Springfield and West-Point.
Treasury Department,
August, 20th, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury until the fourth day of October next inclusive, for the supply of the following articles of Clothing for the Troops in the service of the United States—viz.
FOR THE INFANTRY AND ARTILLERY.
 4608 Hats 18460 Shirts  4608 Coats 7956 Pair of Socks  4608 Vests 4608 Blankets  8668 Woolen Overalls 4608 Stock  9216 Linen Overalls 4608 Stock Claps  18376 Pair of Shoes 4608 Pair of Buckles 
FOR THE CAVALRY.
 360 Caps 720 Pair of Stockings  360 Coats 1440 Shirts  360 Vests 360 Blankets  360 Pair of Leather 360 Stock  (Breeches 360 Stock Claps; also,  720 Pair of Boots 1200 Rifle Shirts, to be  360 Pair of Spurs (made of Russia Sheeting. 
The above Clothing to be delivered either in New-York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, at the option of the contractor or contractors, on or before the 15th day of June, 1793.
The proposals may comprise the whole of the before-mentioned Clothing, or any one or more of the component articles; to be furnished agreeably to patterns or specimens, which will be shown at the War Office. Good security will be required for the punctual and faithful performance of the contract. The payment will be on the delivery of the Clothing, or, if necessary, such reasonable advances will be made as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem expedient.
War Department,
August 6, 1792.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the Military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are intitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of March 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of September 1792, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within the States respectively, under the usual regulations, viz.
Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers.
1st. The certificate given by the State, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which as such he is annually entitled.
2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form:
A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of _____ in the state of _____ and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited) That he served _____ (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the _____ and county of _____ and has resided there for the last _____ years, previous to which he resided in _____
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeably to the following form:
I, A. B. of _____ county of _____ state of _____ do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of _____ my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of _____ my pension for six months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and ending the fifth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
Signed and sealed in the presence of _____
Witnesses. Acknowledged before me, Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim.
By command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
The Printers in the respective States are requested to publish the above in their newspapers, for the space of two months.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
No. III.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. THE intelligent and disinterested part of mankind will form a judgment of the understanding and information of a people, by the characters of those they delegate to transact their important concerns; public men are placed in a conspicuous situation—and naturally attract the attention of the observing world. Every modest man, who feels his incompetency to filling a public post with honor and advantage to his country, and reputation to himself, will shrink from such an appointment.—But is it not true that we often see the places which ought to be occupied by persons of the first abilities, possessed by men, who have the address to conceal their incapacity by an invincible silence in public? Such men are loquacious when it would be happy for their country if they were tongue-tied—and by a pertinacious adherence to taciturnity, when they ought to be explicit in giving their reasons for their votes, effectually deceive their constituents. If facts did not warrant this statement, it would be thought impossible that the people could ever be imposed on in such manner, as to elect for representatives, men who never assign any reason for their opinion on any point of political discussion whatever.
Let it not be inferred from what is here suggested, that the writer considers a talent for public speaking, or declamation, as an indispensable qualification in a representative; he is well informed that some gentlemen who were members of the House of Representatives of the United States distinguished themselves greatly in committees by the soundness of their judgments, and their universal acquaintance with books and men, who never made a set speech in Congress; and it was generally very easy to assign a reason for their conduct on most occasions, especially on important questions; but could the same be said of every silent voter, it does not follow that oratory or the power of persuasion is not of the highest importance in a free public assembly—the circumstance just mentioned is a proof to the contrary; for those who do not speak themselves, are undoubtedly influenced in their decisions by the best reasons offered on each subject respectively, so far as they are men of candid and liberal minds.
It is further to be remarked, that the best and most argumentative speakers, are not the most talkative.
The Constitution of the United States is an invaluable treasure—it is worth the labor which it cost: The first abilities of this country were employed in framing it; and such abilities ought to be engaged in its support, and maintenance. Men of small powers, or weak intellects will never be found competent to the undertaking. We have seen wise and good men differ in their constructions of the Constitution—this will forever be the case in respect to all human compositions; how necessary then is it to have men of clear, discerning heads, and sound hearts, to draw the line of reason and justice—to distinguish between such a construction as would make the government a nerveless trunk—a body without a soul—and one that would clothe it with powers subversive of those very rights it was framed and adopted to defend! The rights of men—all that we hold in estimation as citizens, fathers, brothers—husbandmen, merchants, lawyers, clergymen, physicians, mechanics, artisans, seamen, labourers, or men of fortune—depend on a wise and energetic government; on carrying the powers of the constitution to such an extent as that the benefits expected from the social compact, supported by so great an expence, as is incurred, may be realized; believe it—this is not to be effected by medium, or ordinary abilities; or by men who have no opinion of their own—nor possess any funds out of which they can form one that is candid, and competent to the subject. I say nothing at present on political tenets—but the slightest reflection will serve to convince every one, that as there are various sentiments supported at the present time, very opposite in their nature—and each maintained with uncommon ardor by their several advocates, the importance of electing men of liberal mind, superior to party attachments, is greatly strengthened by the consideration.
In private life, we are extremely desirous to make the best selection of characters to decide on matters of reference—and if unhappily engaged in a law suit, it is not the ipse dixit of a lawyer, that he will do our business in the best manner, which induces us to engage his services—it is his reputation in the world, and the experience the people of that world have had of his abilities, that lead us to give the man a preference.
Let not the interest of our country be less dear to us; not every one that cries liberty, liberty, is a sincere friend to freedom, or that is equal to defending the rights of freemen.
C.
ON RIDICULE—AN EXTRACT.
THE effect of ridicule cannot but be powerful among the young and inexperienced. It is a remark often made, that the man is found to degenerate from the excellence
which distinguished him when a boy. In the walks of literary life, instances are frequent of those who, though they were the boast of their school, appear with no superiority of merit, when they are introduced into the world. To ridicule, for the most part, they owe their degradation. Their pre-eminence excites the envy of their cotemporaries, who naturally endeavor to obscure that lustre, which burns them with its blaze. They at first value themselves on those talents or acquisitions, of the worth of which their companions have no adequate conception. Their remarks are attended to with a sneer. A nickname, the usual production of envy, is appropriated to them. They are shunned, as involving their companions in their own absurdity and consequent disgrace. This last is more than they can bear. They lay aside the appearance of virtuous emulation, and the reality soon follows. They studiously unlearn all that rendered them truly valuable; and when they have debased themselves to a certain pitch, they are received with open arms, and are united with their company by the strong assimilation of congenial natures.
Genius, virtue, learning, are often distinguished by a delicacy of mind, which wears the appearance and produces the effects of infirmity. They are easily overruled if not convinced, by the noisy antagonist, who makes up in clamour what he wants in argument, and gains the victory by dint of leathern lungs and nerves of iron. A horse-laugh, set up by a circle of blockheads, would overpower the best poet or philosopher whom the world ever admired. The man of modest merit can not stand the attacks of scoffing ridicule; and wisdom has ever sought the shade, where the impertinence of the great or little vulgar seldom intrudes. Cruel as it is to distress sensibility, and injurious to mankind to render worth contemptible, we often observe persons of character joining in the laugh against modesty and merit. In the moment of social enjoyment, we do not give ourselves time to reflect on the consequence of our mirth; and perhaps with kind intentions of promoting convivial happiness, we often hurt the feelings and interests of individuals, as well as the most important ends of society."
Foreign Affairs.
ROUEN, (France) June 7.
THE second instant, when a young couple who were going to be married in a few days, were taking a walk in the park of Rambouillet and were talking of their approaching happiness, they were both struck by a flash of lightning and killed on the spot. The lightning had penetrated the body of the young man in such a manner, that in less than an hour's time the corpse was in a state of the utmost putrefaction, and it was found necessary to bury both without delay.
PARIS, June 9.
A Joan D'Arc has lately presented herself to the National Assembly. She demands to be sent to the frontiers to expel the Austrians, as her great predecessor did the English from the territories of France. The majority of the members did laugh heartily.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, JUNE 6. P. M.
Nothing of importance occurred in this sitting, but the offer of some Englishmen to fight, as volunteers, in the cause of the French. Honorable mention was directed to be made of their offer, which was referred.
Henry Vigier was formally accused of carrying on a correspondence with the enemy, by the committee of circumlocution.
JUNE 7. The whole of this sitting was employed in settling the mode of forming and organizing the camp of 20,000 men desired to be raised to preserve the internal tranquility of the capital.
No one is to be admitted into this corps without a certificate of patriotism from the municipality.
Should the number of persons offering as volunteers in each canton exceed the number it is to furnish, the volunteers are to chuse from among their number those that are to be admitted.
JUNE 8. Doctor Priestly, so well known by his valuable writings, and especially for his attachment to the
French Constitution, sent his son to present his respects to the Representatives of the French nation. The young man was admitted at the Bar, and in a discourse, written with energy, he asked to be adopted by the nation, and to become a French citizen; a title, he said, the most enviable, and far superior to the honor attached to the arbitrary power of Kings.
He was admitted to the honors of the sitting, amidst loud plaudits.
M. Francois, of Nantes, who presented him to the Assembly, asked a decree of the Assembly, adopting the young man. The request was put by a member in the form of a motion, directing the committee of legislation to report, in three days, the draft of a decree for that purpose.
The consideration of the organization of the new corps, was resumed.
An article which was adopted, decrees, that the volunteers shall come equipped and armed at the expence of their respective departments.
It was decreed to consider, as counterfeiters of coin, those who issue notes of hand without funds to call them in.
LONDON, June 6.
To the KING'S Most Excellent Majesty, The humble ADDRESS of the LORDS SPIRITUAL and TEMPORAL, and COMMONS, in Parliament assembled.
"Most Gracious Sovereign, "WE, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons of Great Britain, in Parliament assembled, have taken into our most serious consideration your Majesty's Royal Proclamation, which has, by your Majesty's command, been laid before us: And we beg leave to testify to your Majesty our warm and grateful sense of this fresh proof of your Majesty's constant solicitude for the welfare and happiness of your people. We cannot see, without indignation, the attempts which have been made to weaken, in the minds of your Majesty's subjects, the sentiments of obedience to the laws, and of attachment to the form of government, civil and religious, so happily established within this realm. The advantages which, under the government of your Majesty and your illustrious ancestors, have been derived from legal and well regulated Freedom, and the unexampled blessings which we actually enjoy, afford to your Majesty's subjects peculiar motives to reflect, with gratitude on their present situation, and to beware of those delusive theories which are inconsistent with the relations and duties of all civil society. And we deem it, under the present circumstances, the peculiar duty of every good citizen to discourage and counteract every attempt, direct and indirect, against public order and tranquility. We are confident that the sentiments which we now express to your Majesty, are the general sentiments of the Nation: They must feel, with us, that real liberty can only exist under the protection of law, and the authority of efficient and regular government; and they have seen, by happy experience, that the mixed form of our Legislature comprehends and provides for the various interests of the community, through all its several descriptions: and maintains and preserves those gradations of property and condition, which furnish the great incentives to useful industry, and are equally essential to the vigor and exertion of every part, and to the stability and welfare of the whole. They therefore know that the collective strength and prosperity of the empire, its wealth, its credit, and its commerce, as well as the only security for the persons, the property, and the liber-

ties of each individual, are essentially connected with the preservation of the established constitution.
"Impressed with these opinions, we think it our duty to assure your Majesty of our firm determination to support your Majesty in the resolution which your Majesty has adopted; and we are fully persuaded, that every exertion which may be necessary will be seconded by the zeal and gratitude of a free and loyal people."
Mr. Williams, a mason, of the county of Glamorgan, and a Welsh bard, fired with the noble spirit of enterprise, is meditating an expedition to North America, in search of the colony of his countrymen which sailed thither with Madog ap Owen Gwynedd, a Prince of North Wales, who, according to oral tradition, landed on the banks of the Mississippi, in the year 1170, which was 322 years previous to the discovery of America by Columbus.
The concert of the Kings stands some chance of being embarrassed, if not defeated, by the jealousy of the German States. The Kings of Hungary and Prussia have not addressed them in the most conciliating terms, and some of the Electors begin already to see, that if the Kings should triumph over the independence of France, their own independence must be the next sacrifice.
The war with France is the cause of much more apprehension in Germany than the Brussels Gazette would give reason to believe. The alarm has been felt even at Ratisbonne, which several persons of distinction left on the first news of the declaration of war.
So heartily is the French Revolution detested at Rome, that to have been an enemy to it, is sufficient to secure a man the reputation of every virtue, even after his death.
We are sorry to say, it is but too evident that the despots of Germany have a perfect understanding with the Empress of Russia in the attack which she makes on the constitution and territories of the republic of Poland. We understand that the King of Prussia, who was the first Prince made acquainted confidentially with the changes intended in the system, as far back as the year 1788, now abandons the republic to its fate, and so far declares himself against her, as to refuse the auxiliary troops stipulated by the last treaty, in case of an attack on the side of Russia—under the pretext that that treaty is of an anterior date to the new constitution of the 3d of May, 1791.
The situation of the French emigrants, appears to be as hopeless as ever. The commanders of the Prussian and Austrian troops will neither act nor communicate with them. They will not even suffer their troops to converse with those collected by the emigrants. The latter are at least as much divided among themselves, as the Jacobins and their opponents at Paris.
General Benedict Arnold (better known during the American war by the name of one Arnold) was admitted to a conference with the minister on Tuesday last. This gentleman, if we mistake not, went over to the continent two or three years ago, with a number of American Loyalists, to form the settlement of New-Brunswick, from which he has lately returned.
General Arnold is about to petition government for a compensation for his losses, or to promote his rank, and give him active employment in any situation befitting his abilities.
It is said that when the Rt. Hon. Secretary first saw Mr. Thomas Paine's letter to him, he consulted Mr. Burke about answering it, but obtained a severe rebuke from the apostate statesman. "What the Devil, says he, don't you think I would answer my own letters first, if I could, before I'd touch your's?"
When the SECRETARY'S Secretary obtained the first paper with Mr. Paine's letter in it, he called his patron at the bottom of the stairs. "Wha wants me?" cries the Principal. There's Paine's epistle to you Honor—For the first time in his life he did na come when called, but exclaimed, "The Devil burn the letter and the author together—I would
they had boath been strawngled in their birth." He returned to his sul-len studies and there remained all the day.
Extract of a letter from Paris, May 25. "Yesterday M. de la Chemaye, commandant of the National Guards, was nearly torn to pieces by the mob, for having attempted to prevent some hot headed furious democrats from insulting the Queen under her own windows."
WHIG CLUB OF ENGLAND.
Tuesday the monthly meeting of this Club was held at the crown and anchor tavern, at which the Rt. Hon. Lord Petre was in the chair. After dinner they commenced their festivity by constitutional toasts. The health of Mr. Fox in particular was drank with the warmest and most general enthusiasm.
Mr. Fox said, he could not pass over the very marked compliment which they had paid to him without returning his grateful thanks. He need not tell the company what they all knew, that of late the question of Reform in the representation of the people had been revived.
However warmly he wished for a moderate reform in the system of our representation, he did not agree that under all the obvious circumstances of the day, the present was the proper season for the agitation of the question—but being agitated, he could not withhold from it his zealous support.
After this, many distinguished characters were drank to with gratitude for their services and attachment to the cause of the constitution.
The next meeting was appointed for the 6th of September next, on which day George Byng, Esq. will be in the chair.
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 15.
THE PROROGATION.
At a quarter after three o'clock his Majesty arrived at the House of Peers, and being seated on the Throne, with the usual formalities, the Duke of Leeds bearing the Sword of State, and Lord Sydney the Cap of Maintenance, Sir Francis Molynex was sent to the House of Commons, to command their immediate attendance upon his Majesty.
The Commons being come accordingly, their Speaker addressed his Majesty to the following purport:
"That his faithful Commons not content with having carried into effect a bill, the principle and tendency of which was highly interesting to public credit, and to the prosperity of the Kingdom had also made provisions for preventing the future permanent increase of the national debt, by having resolved that on all future loans means should be found for their discharge, which operation it was the hope of the Commons no necessity would ever prevent; as by such provision his Majesty's loyal subjects would be guarded from those difficulties in which they had been involved, and which could only have been supported by that public spirit and patriotic zeal, which pervaded all ranks of his Majesty's people. Other objects had also occupied the attention of the Commons, who had the satisfaction of releasing his Majesty's subjects from several of the burthens under which they had labored. The Commons had also taken measures to promote the commerce, the manufactures and the revenue of the empire. He assured his majesty of the determination of his faithful Commons to maintain the happy constitution of the country, from which the people looked for an increase of their blessings, and for the security and continuance of those of which they were actually possessed."
"The Commons also trusted that the giving to Juries the right of deciding on all cases of libels, would be highly advantageous, as it gave uniformity to the law, and security to the property, the lives and liberties of his Majesty's subjects. He declared the sense of the Commons of the enjoyments arising from the present form of government, the preservation of which they were fully convinced was determined to be persevered in by a great and loyal people. He concluded by saying he held in his hand the National Debt future
Loan Bil, to which his Majesty's faithful Commons prayed his Royal Assent."
The Clerk having taken the Bill to the Table, it received the Royal Assent, in the usual forms.
After which his Majesty was pleased to deliver the following most gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament:
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I cannot close the present session of Parliament without returning you my particular thanks for the attention and diligence with which you have applied yourselves to the dispatch of the public business, and especially to the important objects which I recommended to your consideration.
Gentlemen of the House of Commons,
The readiness with which you have granted the necessary supplies, and the fresh proof which you have given of your constant affection for my person and family, in enabling me to provide for the establishment of my son, the Duke of York, call for my warmest acknowledgments. I have also observed, with the utmost satisfaction, the measures which you have adopted for the diminution of the public burthens; while you have, at the same time, made additional provision for the reduction of the present national debt, and established a permanent system for preventing the dangerous accumulation of debt in future.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I have seen with great concern the commencement of hostilities in different parts of Europe. In the present situation of affairs, it will be my principal care to maintain that harmony and good understanding which subsist between me and the several belligerent powers, and to preserve to my people the uninterrupted blessings of peace:—And the assurances which I receive from all quarters, of a friendly disposition towards this country, afford me the pleasing hope of succeeding in these endeavours.
The recent expressions of your uniform and zealous attachment to the established government and constitution, leave me no room to doubt that you will, in your several counties, be active and vigilant to maintain those sentiments in the minds of my faithful people; and I have the happiness of receiving continued and additional proofs of their just sense of the numerous and increasing advantages which they now enjoy under the protection and distinguished favour of providence.
Then the Lord Chancellor, by his Majesty's command, said,
My Lords and Gentlemen,
It is his Majesty's royal will and pleasure, that this parliament be prorogued to Thursday the 30th of August next, to be then here holden; and this parliament is accordingly prorogued to Thursday, the 30th day of August next.
JUNE 16.
On his Majesty's return to the Palace yesterday, a Privy Council was held, which was attended by Mr. Pitt, the two Secretaries of State, the Duke of Leeds, Lord Sydney, &c. when Lord Thurlow laid the Seals of his office at his Majesty's feet, addressing the King in a most feeling speech, representing the unfeigned state wherein he had resigned his commission, which he had held since June 2, 1778. His Majesty seemed affected on the occasion, on which Lord Thurlow immediately withdrew, and the Seals were put in the commission of Lord Chief Baron Eyre (who was sworn in one of his Majesty's Privy Council) Sir W. Althurst, Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, and Sir John Wilson, Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, who kissed the King's hand on their appointment, and retired with the Seals of Office.
CHINESE EMBASSY.
The Embassy from this country to China has the advantage, as every public undertaking should, of much deliberate and laborious preparation.
Among other circumstances, the provision of interpreters should be noticed. Sir Geo. Staunton had heard, that some Chinese, brought over by the French Missionaries, were, last summer, in an Italian convent, to which they had gone from France. He went over to Italy himself; discovered their residence, and obtained leave of the Pope to bring them to England. Two of them are now in his house in Harley-Street, and two more are daily expected. They are engaged, at present, in learning English, and qualifying themselves other wise for the office of Interpreters to the Embassy. Some little Chinese is also learned from them.
These men are deeply initiated and interested in the mysteries of the Church of Rome, and were, therefore, the more readily parted with by the Pope that they might serve his cause in China.
The number of persons accompanying this embassy will be much greater than was expected. The troops and seamen alone will be seven hundred, so that the purposes of protection, as well as of dignity, will be sufficiently provided for.
Among the gentlemen engaged for this occasion are artists of every class, with such instruments as they require.
Their voyage from Portsmouth, will commence sooner than August.
We have been favored with a sight of some new military institutes by Tippoo Sahib. The substance of the work is thought to be well enough, but the preface is the curiosity. After implying, that heaven vouchsafes by his will, it calls him "the flower in the garden of creation; the pearl in the sea of sublimity; and tells, that he intends to erect a pyramid of the heads of his enemies, which it will cost thought a thousand years to reach the top of."
BASSETERRE (St. Christopher's) August 6.
On Wednesday the 1st inst. most of the ships in this road were preparing to depart for Europe; but from the multiplicity of business to be done on that day, none of the Commanders could get on board before the evening, when from the very strong wind and heavy swell which then prevailed, every effort that was made to get the ships under way proved fruitless. In the morning of Thursday, a most distressing scene presented itself, for the wind which had lifted in the course of the night from the North to the West, South-West and South, blew a violent gale, which precluded every endeavor to get to sea. In this dreadful situation most of the vessels dragged their anchors, and for some time it was expected that none of them would ride out the storm. The brig George and Margaret, Capt. Althington, the Isabella, Captain Carnegie, were stranded; as also the sloop Indian Castle, Capt. Basken, the Schooner Friends, Captain Pawson, and the Schooner Friends, Capt. Lifford: these vessels were providentially drove so near the shore, that the respective crews got to land without any lives being lost. All the sugars on board the ship and the brig, and some on board the smaller vessels, are lost. The Friends is gone to pieces; the others now lay stranded.
About eight o'clock in the morning, the ship Britannia, fully loaded, and passengers on board, parted her cables and struck on the bar about 200 yards from the shore; at which time a boat with much difficulty got alongside. Joseph M. Woodyear, Esq. who was one of the passengers, got in the boat, not with a view to personal safety, but for the purpose of making a hazardous attempt to carry a rope to the shore, which was made fast to a raft that had been previously constructed; the rope unfortunately broke as soon as he got to the shore, and although several attempts were made to get the boat off again, none of them proved successful.
The ship sustained the fury of the boisterous waves from eight till about ten o'clock, when she began to go to pieces; and then the most grievous scene presented itself to the spectators on shore—the more so, as not the least assistance could be given to the unfortunate sufferers. Attempts were made by some of the crew to reach the shore, in which several perished—a few were saved. The Captain, with a few others, continued on the wreck till three o'clock, when he was so exhausted, that he either lost his hold or quitted the wreck—the most vigorous endeavors were now made to rescue him from the watery grave—he was brought on shore, but so far spent, that every means used for his recovery proved ineffectual. Mrs. Moore and her two children, and three soldiers, with two women and a child, were passengers, all of whom perished, except one soldier, with several of the crew. There were 32 people on board, of which only ten survived—the bodies of all the others were found and interred on Friday last.
Captain Woodyear was a gentleman deservedly esteemed in life, and very generally lamented in death. He has left a widow and three children to bewail his untimely end.
The brig _____, Capt. Satterthwaite, is
stranded at Old Road, and a negro man drowned. The ship Sarah and Ann, Capt. Clivers, was lost on the reef at Nevis, on Wednesday night, and two of the seamen drowned. She was ready to sail for London; the passengers on board were providentially saved.
From Dominica, we hear that a ship and several small vessels were on shore at that island.
At Antigua, several small vessels are on shore.
At St. Eustatius, a large Dutch ship, with upwards of 400 hogsheads of sugar, is gone to pieces, the whole of the cargo lost. Several small vessels totally lost. A Spanish brig which lay in that Road, put to sea in the gale and foundered, and all the people, the Captain excepted, drowned; the Captain's wife and two or three children drowned.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in St. Bartholomew, to his friend in Nevis
"On the first instant, the wind blew strong from the North all day, and the sky had every ominous appearance; about ten o'clock at night the wind increased, and continued to do so from the same point, till four the next morning—a short calm succeeded, when the wind blew from the south with redoubled force, and I expected that every moment would be our last—but thro' the mercy of God, my house stood unmoved amidst the general wreck."
"When day-light permitted me to creep out, Oh God! Oh God! who can tell how I felt? Every vessel in the harbor, to the amount of ten, were driven on shore: not one escaped but Col. Gumb's boat from Anguilla. Not a house to be seen up the Bay, except Dawes's, and one or two more!"
"Poor Frank Savage, and his niece Polly Crawford, were knocked down into the sea, and killed immediately—both buried yesterday morning! Little Polly Savage has her thigh broken, and is very ill. Mrs. Duffield and her son are dangerously ill. Old Mr. Neale's brig foundered in the public bay—he was taken up dead yesterday, and buried in the evening; several of his negroes are dead, but found. There are about seventeen blacks and whites who are lost. There are fifty-six houses blown down in town. Mr. Bleaden's spacious house is half down—your house is saved. In the country there are not more than seven houses standing. For Heaven's sake let me hear from you."

BOSTON, August 18.
By Capt. Coffin, arrived here from Cadiz, we are informed, that General Bowles, the famous Indian Chief, is in close confinement in Cadiz Isle.
A revolution spirit is appearing on several of the West-India Islands. At St. Vincents, the Legislature have resolved to insist upon their right to Internal Legislation, in all matters relating to the Internal Government of the Colony.
UNION BANK.
The following gentlemen are chosen officers of the Union Bank, viz.
 HON. MOSES GILL, Esq. President.  ALEXANDER HODGDON, Esq. Cashier.  MR. NATHANIEL EMMONS, First Accountant.  MR. GEORGE BURROUGHS, Teller.  MR. ANDREW JOHONNOT, Messenger. 
DANBURY, August 18.
Yesterday Peter Farring, an Irishman, and John Sharp, a Mulatto, were convicted before the Hon. Superior Court in this town, of highway robbery, and sentenced to confinement and hard labor in Newgate prison during their natural lives. They took their departure for that place this morning.
ELIZABETH-TOWN, August 22.
It must be pleasing to the friends of New-Jersey, to find that several new manufactories are establishing; and that this hitherto oppressed state may yet rise to importance, and shine with splendor in the new constellation.
We hear from Paterson, that Major L'Enfant has prepared a plan of the town, which far surpasses any thing of the kind yet seen in this country.
Cotton manufactures in this country are becoming numerous; and it is the opinion of some, notwithstanding labor is higher than in Europe, that as we can have the raw material of cotton upon the same terms, or better than in England, it can be imported. The advantage of mills and other hydraulic machines will be a vast saving of labor.
SUNBURY, August 11.
FOR THE SUNBURY GAZETTE.
Mr. Kennedy,
As the flux is now raging with much malignancy, in many parts of this country, I take the liberty of publishing the following simple cure, which after an experience of its utility, for near 40 years, I will venture to recommend as a sovereign remedy.
Take two teaspoonsful of clean hickory or oak ashes, quite hot, in half a gill of old spirits, whisky or milk, morning and evening. It is seldom necessary to repeat it more than two or three days.
N. B. Let the patient observe at the time, to live on a flour diet altogether; and it would contribute much to the cure if a warm flannel was constantly wore next to the stomach. A Subscriber.
Philadelphia, Aug. 29.
The Ship Friendship, Capt. Brice, is arrived at New-York, from London, in 60 days passage. She brings papers to the 19th June—extracts from which shall appear in our next.
The ship George, of Boston, Silas Daggett, master, arrived in Hampton-Road, Virginia, the 17th inst. in 35 days from Cadiz—By him we learn, that the people of Spain having expressed great alarm and uneasiness at being kept in ignorance of what was doing in France, the Minister thought it best to allow them the liberty of speaking freely on political subjects; in consequence of which the French Constitution had become the subject of common conversation in all the coffee-houses and places of public resort:—That the King of Prussia had withdrawn his troops intended to act against France, in order to keep a watchful eye over the conduct of the Empress of Russia, with regard to Poland: That M. de la Fayette was carrying all before him—and that wherever he penetrated into the Austrian dominions, the people had declared in favor of the French Constitution.
James Napper Tandy, Esq. has been acquitted by a Jury in Dublin, on his indictment for challenging the Solicitor-General.
Very honorable notice is taken of the zeal and indefatigable exertions of M. de la Fayette, in a letter from Paris, in forming and disciplining the French army—that he may bring it to such perfection as to be an effectual barrier against the inroads of the Austrians or their allies. These incessant cares are however beginning to affect a constitution naturally strong, and a spirit replete with enthusiasm for the welfare and final establishment of the rights of mankind. M. de la Fayette eats little, and carries an example of temperance almost to extravagance. Sleepless nights and toilsome days are the lot of this active friend to mankind—and history will mark him out as one of those few extraordinary men who are born for the human race.
Last Saturday morning a fine female child was found in a cellar window at the corner of Effrit's Alley in Second Street.—The humane people in the neighbourhood took proper care of it.
The works of the late FRANCIS HOPKINSON, Esq. are now published, by Mr. Thomas Dobson of this city, in three volumes octavo. They consist principally of Miscellaneous Essays, Poems, and occasional writings, forming an entertaining and useful collection, little, if at all inferior to the most favorite authors from the other side of the Atlantic.
M. de la Fayette is now the best hope of France, and, considering the cause of France, of all the continent. May he be as successful for the old, as he was for the new world!
Four hundred passengers are arrived at New-Castle from Londonderry, in the ship Ann and Susan.
A ship is arrived at Charleston, (S. C.) from Ireland, with 350 passengers.
A Paris paper of June 9, mentions a late indisposition of the King and Queen; and at the same time their convalescence. The Prince Royal is also mentioned as very ill, and daily declining in health and spirits.
Capt. Egar, of the Molly, arrived last Thursday from Cape-Francois, in 12 days, with 22 passengers. The disturbances at the Cape have little appearance of ceasing. The Commander in Chief had given great disgust, by sending back the troops to Old France, which were sent out for the defence of the islands. The Mulattos are in the full enjoyment of liberty, but will not act against the Negroes, who continue as turbulent as ever. They made a very desperate attack on Fort Dauphin, about 3 or 4 days prior to Capt. Egar's departure from the island, but were repulsed with very inconsiderable loss on the part of the garrison, although the slaughter of the blacks could not have been under four or five hundred. This fort, which is situate between the Cape and Fort-Crispin, is of such consequence, that, had it been taken, the Cape must have inevitably fallen next. The Negro Camp is so near the Cape, that the noise of their firing is heard every night. All the plantations, except one or two, are destroyed by the Negroes, and on these they are constantly making repeated attempts.
Extract of a letter from Cape-Francois, July 28.
"One of the government Schooners brought yesterday into our port a Spanish Schooner, taken by her in Maribarouche River: the prize had on board four guns, 4 pounders; seven thousand weight of powder, four hundred cutlasses, and some muskets, which she was conveying to the rebel Negroes near the Cape.—The Captain was on shore treating with them; and the crew, consisting of 3 men, have been put in prison."
Extract of a letter from Fort-Knox (Vincennes) dated June 15, 1792.
"I am afraid, my friend, that we shall have a very ugly job on hand, with this Indian war. The Indians on this river are peaceable enough with a great deal of watching and coaxing—they come in here very frequently, and appear to have a great itch for scalping and plundering, and nothing, I imagine, but their concern for the prisoners we have, restrains them from taking up the hatchet."
"A few days ago, several Chiefs came in from Opeé, a place high up on the Illinois river, and, in their speech to Major Hamtramck, told him they were frequently invited and threatened by the Miami Indians to induce them to go to war against us, but that they had not, nor did intend to do it. That we must keep a good heart, for we should have a great many more to fight this year than we had the last—wished us success, and hoped we might give them a good drubbing. The Major enquired whether the British made them any presents—they replied, that the British gave them goods like stacks of hay, provisions, arms, ammunition, and every thing but big guns."
"Indeed, every intelligence we have received from the Miami villages, corroborate so far as to convince us that there will be double the number of Indians in the field this year, there was the last, and the British continue to supply them with every thing they want; so that I think a few of us will be apt to lose our hair."
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 11.
"The French nation will be free, in spite of the number of dissensions fomented even in their assembly, by the enemies to all liberty; the greatest, and the far greatest part of the nation, being staunch to the constitution."
"I have been once to the National Assembly, and was sorry to see the want of order that prevailed in the meeting of the representatives of so formidable and powerful a nation as France. Though there are many very eminent characters among the members, it is easy to perceive that they are divided into several interests: some wish to have entirely a republic, others more power and more confidence in the supreme executive; and others (who are the wisest) wish to preserve the constitution as received and as established: in fact, some are too moderate, and some too violent, and the greatest dissidence exists, and not without reason, since the desertion of some men who had even a great hand in the revolution: But notwithstanding all that, Liberty and the Rights of Man will prevail."
The Medical Society of the State of Delaware have announced the following question as a subject of prize dissertation, and invite the ingenious and learned of all nations to the competition—viz.
"What is the origin and nature of the noxious power which prevails especially in hot and moist climates during summer and autumn, and produces intermittent and remittent fevers, and certain other diseases? By what means may this infallubility of climate be corrected; and the diseases thence arising most successfully prevented and treated?"
The competitors for this prize are requested to observe, that the means of correcting this species of noxious climate, will be considered as the principal stress of the proposed question.
The premium to be awarded to the author of the best dissertation on the question proposed—The dissertation to be transmitted, free of charges, to the President of the Society on, or before the second Tuesday of May, 1795—It may be written either in the English, French, German or Latin language—The premium to consist of Three Hundred Dollars, or the value thereof in plate, at the option of the author, to be paid him or his order in six months after the adjudication—if none of the dissertations offered
shall be found to merit the premium, the Society reserve the power of withholding, and devoting it to some other important purposes.
A correspondent in the Delaware Gazette, observes that Mr. Dickinson's late donation of Fifty Pounds, to the premium offered by the Medical Society of the State of Delaware, while it demonstrates the liberality of that gentleman, is, at the same time, a proof of the rising importance of Science in our American Republics, and must serve as an earnest of its future diffusion and usefulness.
"A number of young farmers (says a correspondent) who are about to settle some new land, would wish to be informed in a point that immediately concerns them; and on which, before their removal, they would be glad to take the opinions of their fellow-citizens; whether a future Congress will persevere in the system of British politics, and will, after the policy of that nation, extend the Excise to Cider, Beer, Candles, and other necessary articles in a family? This question might, perhaps, with propriety have been addressed to those who have secretly influenced the measures of Congress, and who are now exerting every nerve to fill the new legislature with men devoted to avarice, and who will humbly pursue every measure dictated by their patrons." Nat. Gaz.
As avarice is the basest passion that can disgrace the character of our species, it is a most humiliating reflection that our public measures should in this early period of our existence as a nation, be controuled by men devoted to its influence.—A correspondent observes on the above paragraph from the "National Gazette"—that it conveys the most audacious imputation on the character of the people, who elected the members of Congress—it is little short of saying that the freedom of election is rather a curse than a blessing.—But who, enquires our correspondent, are the men who have made the members of Congress the tools of their avarice—and who are the men that have thus sold themselves to the worshippers of mammon? Let their names be exposed that the people may know them—till this is done, such innuendoes can pass for nothing better than the suggestions of a base mind.—The authors of insinuations like the foregoing, cannot be considered as friends of the people, of the union, or of the liberties of this country.—They may with propriety be stiled incendiaries, who scatter firebrands, arrows and death.
Reason should govern one man—it should govern all men—it is opposed by passion, which should not govern at all. When the enemies of government address the passions of the people, as they incessantly do, it is to prevent their being governed by reason—for the government of reason is fatal to party influence.
Perfect peace and tranquility are seldom long enjoyed by any society or community—the people of the United States appear to have the most favorable prospects that were ever presented to the sons of men of a long series of increasing happiness—but there are men among us who are determined to blast our hopes, and to turn our glory into flame and contempt.
These eagle-eyed politicians are so sharp-sighted, that they can see, as the man did thro' the telescope, things out of sight. Nay, they arrogate to themselves the attribute of omniscience, and judge not only of actions by their false conceptions of things, but even of the hearts of those who presume to have an opinion of their own, different from their's.
It is said, that "the ambition and avarice of some men are never to be satisfied."—Quere, whether those passions in any man or men, were ever satisfied? But unfortunately for the country, it is further said, "a few ambitious and avaricious men, have been for some time bending the whole power of the United States to promote their private views of ambition and wealth."—What a service would some men, who are entirely divested of these infernal passions, render their country, by pointing out with their finger of scorn, these men of ambition and avarice, who "act as if they wished to bring the whole wealth and power of the country under their feet."—Quere, whether the "men who have for some time been bending the whole power of the United States," may not be said to have it already sufficiently in their power to put "it under their feet?"—Quere—What sort of government is that where every law enacted by the legislature thereof ought not to be obeyed?—Quere—What is Republicanism?—What a pity M c Fingal's opinion is not reducible to practice!
You shall be vice-roys, it is true, But we'll be vice-roys over you.
It is said, that "the civil wars of modern Europe have been distinguished not only by the fierce animosity, but likewise by the obstinate perseverance of the contending factions." The same remark will equally well apply to the civil wars of every age and every country—the reason is obvious—personal animosities put a keener edge on the spirit of resentment, and the desire of revenge, than general quarrels between different states, governments and kingdoms—the parties are likewise more fully apprized of the strength and resources of their respective opponents—this circumstance reduces them to a point of nearer equality, and serves to prolong the contest. Further, the parties generally contend for life, fame and fortune; the unfortunate principals of either side, always falling sacrifices to the vengeance of the victors. It is a circumstance to be noted, that in most civil wars, the ostensible motives are similar—thus religion was the object in the civil wars of France, which deluged that country in blood for one a century. The Protestant religion on one side, the Catholic on the other. And if Catharine, Empress of Germany, can excite a civil war in Poland, the enemies of the revolution will probably say, as well as its friends, that Liberty is their object.
On Tuesday the 21st inst. arrived at Boston, the Schooner Harmony, Capt. Drew, from Bourdeaux. By letters received per this arrival dated June 29th, we are informed that the young King of Hungary and Bohemia was dead, supposed by poison: That there were commotions in Prussia, which it was thought would operate in favor of the French revolution: That assignats have appreciated from 63 to 40 per cent discount: That, notwithstanding, business was almost stagnated; and the nation seemed in a state of anxiety for some great event: That desertions from the old troops of France had become more common than heretofore, owing to bad management in the Commissary and Quarter Masters' departments; but that the spirit of the people was very far from being in the least depressed.
At a Meeting of the Germantown Society for promoting Domestic Manufactures, on Monday last, the following Address was delivered by the President.
GENTLEMEN,
DID not your steady attention and exertions to promote American manufactures afford a pleasing assurance of your determined resolution to support them; I should not at this time call your attention to the schemes of some influential characters in the United States, which if carried into full effect, will tend to destroy the infant manufactures of our country. You are all acquainted with the proposition of the Secretary of the Treasury to establish national manufactories, and that at this moment he is pursuing his plan with unremitting attention. Should he be successful in this project, to what situation will you be reduced, who are personally engaged in manufactures? Will not the exemption from militia duty, and the exclusive privileges granted to the workmen of such factories, draw off your hands? Will not the prodigious capitals of monied men, invested in such establishments, enable them to monopolize all the raw materials, particularly in the important occupations of the hatter and tanner? Will not the exclusive privilege granted to the corporation of establishing lotteries to indemnify them for losses, enable the company to undersell and ruin every private citizen personally engaged in manufactures? Will not the arbitrary and unjustifiable interference of government in the private occupations of citizens discourage young men from acquiring the knowledge of any occupation in which they may be ruined by a combination of rich men enjoying the particular patronage and protection of government?
This subject and these questions merit your serious attention. As yet you have the power in your own hands, you ought to exert it to support your rights.
It is the slavish doctrine of some men, "that government has the whole property of citizens under its command, and that every law enacted by the legislature ought to be obeyed." No government on earth can be invested with power to violate those natural rights of man, the protection of which is the sole object of the institution of civil society, therefore, every attempt made by the legislature to destroy them, ought to be opposed by a free people.
The ambition and avarice of some men are never to be satisfied. A few such characters have been for some time bending the whole power of the United States to promote their own private views of ambition and wealth. Not content with the honorable name of citizen, they wish to introduce distinction of rank; not content with enjoying at their ease every advantage which our country can afford, or their wealth procure, they desire to interfere in the occupations, and to curtail the enjoyments of their fellow-citizens. They act as if they wished to bring the whole wealth and power of the country under their feet. May the early opposition of the PEOPLE of America to the unjust measures of these deluded men—may the glorious and blessed light of the French revolution, aided by the writings of the friendly clubs in England, tend to convince them of their errors, and bring them to regard the rights of men in every occupation, as sacred.
Published by order of the Society, THOMAS DUNGAN, Secretary.
MR. FENNO,
THE objections to the law passed by the Legislature of New-Jersey for incorporating the Society instituted for the promotion of Manufactures, contained in the above address, your readers may recollect to have seen in a performance signed Citus , which was published in the Gazette of the United States about the time that the law was enacted.—That speculation was first printed in hand-bills, and circulated in that State previous to the passing of the law.—Let it be remembered that the establishment in New-Jersey is a State business—that it is not a national institution—and that the citizens of that State are alone accountable for any consequences which may result from it.
It is to be presumed that the Legislature of New-Jersey knew what they were about when they passed the act of incorporation. Their constituents appear to think that the interest of the State has been consulted—and while the essential and lasting advantage of the people can be more effectually promoted by encouraging monied men to combine their capitals, and come forward in undertakings, which, for want of funds, have never yet flourished in this country—the modest declarations, and the charitable imputations of no disappointed partisan, will, I trust, have the least effect—unless, indeed, the declaimer happens not to be a citizen of NEW-JERSEY.
Died in New-York, on Tuesday last, Mrs. ANNA MARIA SETON, aged 36 years, after a tedious illness, the much beloved consort of William Seton, Esquire.
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Treasury Department, August 10, 1792. NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the twenty-ninth day of September next inclusive, for the supply of all Rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1793.
1. At any place or places betwixt York-Town & Carlisle, in the state of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh, and at Pittsburgh, York-Town and Carlisle. 2. At any place or places from Pittsburgh to the mouth of Big Beaver Creek, and at the mouth of Big Beaver Creek. 3. At any place or places from the said mouth to the upper falls of the said Big Beaver, and at the upper falls. 4. At any place or places from the said upper falls to Mahoning, and at Mahoning. 5. At any place or places from the said Mahoning over to the Head Navigation of the River Cuyahoga, and at the said Head Navigation. 6. At any place or places from the said Head Navigation to the mouth of the said River Cuyahoga, and at the said mouth. 7. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Big Beaver Creek to the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence over to the Cuyahoga River, and thence down the said River to its mouth. 8. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth of the said River Scioto. 9. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of Scioto River and the mouth of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Great Miami, and from thence to the Rapids or the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids. 10. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Great Miami, up the said Miami to and at Pique Town. 11. At any place or places from Fort Washington to Fort Hamilton, and at Fort Hamilton. 12. At any place or places from Fort St. Clair to Fort Jefferson, and at Fort Jefferson. 13. At any place or places from Fort Jefferson to the field of action of the 4th of November, 1791, and at the said field of action. 14. At any place or places from the said field of action to the Miami Villages, and at the Miami Villages. 15. At any place or places from the said Miami Villages to the Falls of the Miami River, which empties into Lake Erie, and at the said Falls, and from thence to its mouth, and at its mouth. 16. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Miami River of Lake Erie to Sandusky Lake, and at Sandusky Lake. 17. At any place or places from the said Sandusky Lake to the mouth of the River Cuyahoga. 18. At any place or places from the mouth of the said River Cuyahoga to Presque Isle, and at Presque Isle. 19. At any place or places from Presque Isle to the stream running into Lake Erie from towards the Jadaghque Lake, and thence over to and at the said Jadaghque Lake, and thence down the Allegany River to Fort Franklin. 20. At any place or places from Presque Isle to Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf. 21. At any place or places from Le Beuf to Fort Franklin, and at Fort Franklin, and from thence to Pittsburgh. 22. At any place or places from the Rapids of the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash River, and from the mouth of the said Wabash River to the mouth of the River Ohio. 23. At any place or places on the East side of the River Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio River, to the mouth of the Illinois River. 24. At any place or places on the East side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the River Margot inclusively. 25. At any place or places from the said River Margot to the River Yazous inclusively. 26. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Wabash River up to Fort Knox, and at Fort Knox. 27. At any place or places from Fort Knox, up the said Wabash, to Ouittanon, and at Ouittanon. 28. At any place or places from Ouittanon, up the said Wabash, to the head navigation of a branch thereof called Little River, and at the said head navigation of Little River. 29. At any place or places from the said head navigation of Little River over to the Miami Village. 30. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Tennessee to Ocochappo or Bear Creek, on the said River, inclusively. 31. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Cumberland to Nashville, on the said River, and at Nashville. And at any place or places within thirty miles of said Nashville to the Southward, Westward or Northward thereat. Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on betwixt the public and the contractor. The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz. One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork, Half a pint of rum, brandy or whisky, One quart of salt, Two quarts of vinegar, Two pounds of soap, One pound of candles, per 100 rations. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at each of the said posts, for the space of at least three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is to be understood in each case, that all losses sustained by the depredations of the enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the prices of the articles captured or destroyed, on the deposition of two or more credible characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, attesting the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation is claimed. The contract for the above supplies will be made either for one year, or for two years, as may appear eligible. Persons disposed to contract will therefore confine their offers to one year, or they may make their propositions so as to admit an election of the term of two years. The offers may comprise all the places which have been specified, or a part of them only.
100 Dollars Reward. LOST on Cambridge Common, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of the 18th ult. a Morocco POCKET-BOOK, with a steel clasp, containing a number of valuable papers, among which were the following PUBLIC SECURITIES, viz. Massachusetts State Notes—No. 2425, dated December 1, 1782, payable to Thomas Greenwood, for £23 16s. principal—No. 22399, dated January 1, 1785, payable to Nathaniel Partidge, for £10 10s. principal—No. —, dated January 1, 1782, (an army note) payable to Timothy Howard, for £8 8s. 1d. principal—No. —, a Note (the number, date, and to whom payable, not known) for £3 0s. 3d. principal—One Indian Certificate for about £12 payable to John and Daniel Jenkins; also a number of Notes of Hand, one of which was for £572 given by Nathan Bond to Samuel W. Pomeroy (by whom it was endorsed) dated 1st May, 1792, and payable on the 11th August following; the others were all payable to the Subscriber. The Securities are checked at the different offices from whence they were issued, and the Notes of Hand by the different signers, they can therefore be of no use to any but the owner. The Subscriber hereby offers a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person or persons who has found the same, and will return them to him, or leave them with the Printer hereof, and no questions will be asked. ABRAHAM FOSTER. Salem, Massachusetts, August 1, 1792. (cp1)
Stock Brokers Office, No. 45, Great Dock-Street, New-York. THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE AND SALE of STOCKS ON COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch. Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States will be strictly attended to. LEONARD BLEECKER. May 2. (t.f.)
Ebenezer Hazard, STOCK-BROKER, HAS Removed his OFFICE to No. 128 north Second-Street, where he continues to purchase and sell on Commission, Certificates of debt of the United States, and Individual States, Bank Stock, Canal, and Turnpike Shares, &c. &c. Subscribers to the Universal Tontine who have not yet received their Certificates are desired to call for them. July 18. (cp1)
WHITE WAX MANUFACTORY. THOMAS JAMES, WAX CHANDLER, from London, respectfully informs the public that he has established a Manufactory of the above branch, at the upper end of Mulberry-Street, New-York, where Merchants, Captains of Vessels, Druggists, and Families, may be supplied with excellent and pure White Wax Candles, White Wax in Cakes, Tapers, Wax'd Lamp Wicks, Flambeaux, &c. warranted equal to any made in London, and twenty per cent. cheaper. Orders in this and the adjacent States, received by Mr. JOHN GOODEVE, Bridge-Street, Mr. WILLIAM FROBISHER, Fletcher-Street, and at the Manufactory, where families may be seen. N.B. Bees-Wax taken in payment, or bleached on moderate terms. New-York, July 19, 1792. (cp7w)
TERRITORY of COLUMBIA. JUNE 28, 1792. PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of the late Rev. ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, deceased, will be exposed to Public Sale on Thursday, the 11th of October next, at GEORGETOWN, on a credit of three years, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date—That valuable Seat of Land, in Montgomery county, called HAYES; the late dwelling plantation of the deceased, containing between six and seven hundred acres, the greatest part of which is rich, heavy timbered land, extremely well watered, and capable of affording a very considerable quantity of fine meadow;—Situated about 6 miles from the Federal City, and the same distance from George-Town, in a genteel neighbourhood, and a remarkable healthy part of the country. The improvements are, a very elegant two story Brick Dwelling House, (with four rooms and a passage, or entry, on a floor) and the necessary out-houses. HENRY TOWNSEND, BENJ. STODDERT, THOMAS JOHNS, Executors. (cp10)
TERRITORY of COLUMBIA. JULY 6, 1792. THE Subscriber offers for Sale, a Mill-Seat on Rock Creek, deemed by those who have examined it, equal to any in the United States. The Mill-House may be placed within one quarter of a mile of the river Potomac, half a mile from the market house in Georgetown, and one mile from the President's square, in the city of Washington—on tide water, navigable for vessels of several hundred bushels burthen.—The stream is sufficient, the year round, to turn four pair of stones, and the fall may be made from 25 to 30 feet. It is unnecessary to dwell on the advantages of such a situation. The purchaser may be accommodated with a few hundred acres of land adjoining the Mill-Seat, if that should be an object. B. STODDERT. (cp3m 14 Jul) The JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.