National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-11-28 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
[NUMB. 9 of VOL. II.]
WEDNESDAY, November 28, 1792.
[Total No. 113.]
[From Mr. Williamson's Speech in the House of Representatives, on Monday Nov. 19, on his motion to prepare Bills "for the relief of infirm seamen" and "for promoting commerce by increasing the number of native American seamen."]
MEASURES have already been taken by Congress, for increasing the number of our shipping; but no effectual and general measure has been adopted for increasing the number of native American seamen. Every gentleman in my hearing knows, that there are always a considerable number of foreigners employed on board American vessels; but none of us could have expected, and some of us may not have heard of the injury and insults to which our commerce has been exposed, from having British seamen on board our ships.
A Schooner called the David and George belonging to Portsmouth in Virginia, and commanded by captain Goffigan, lately touched at Sierra Leona on the coast of Africa; she was navigated by eleven persons. Three of that number who had been on shore, informed captain Wickham who commanded an armed vessel, that they were British subjects. Captain Wickham went on board the American vessel and claimed the three seamen, he also claimed wages for them. Captain Goffigan refused to deliver the men, and declared with truth that nothing was due them. Cap. Wickham took the men by force, and by the same regulation he went into the hold, and took as much of the cargo as he thought fit, under the cover of a substitute for wages. Captain Goffigan complained of this violence and robbery to Mr. Clarkson, who is governor of the province. The governor replied, That he should have done the same thing, and that he had orders from his Superiors so to act in such cases.
The ship Illustrious President belonging to Virginia commanded by captain Butler, touched some time ago at Madeira in her passage to the East Indies. The British frigate Hyena, commanded by captain Hargood, lay at that time in the road. Seven of Captain Butler's sailors by letter or other means informed captain Hargood that they were British subjects. Cap. Hargood sent to take the men by force from on board the American ship, and he would infallibly have taken them with him, unless the governor of the island remembering what he owed to the honor of his nation and to every ship under his protection, had interrupted his authority.
The ship Fame belonging to Philadelphia, commanded by Walter Sims on her way to the East Indies, lately touched at Table Bay, the Cape of Good Hope. Captain Blith who commanded a ship of 20 guns, then lay in the road. One of captain Sims's sailors, a native of Scotland, offered his service to captain Blith, calling himself a British subject. That very man in Philadelphia, had taken the oath of allegiance to the United States; but the British claim was best; for captain Blith's ship was strongest. He took the man, sent an officer on board the American ship, who took the liberty of opening the after hatch, searching the hold and looking out a chest and cloaths. Captain Blith justified those acts of violence, by saying, That he had printed instructions to take all who called themselves British subjects.
These are a few out of the numberless cases in which our ships have been robbed of their seamen, and they are samples of the manner in which we shall be constantly treated, while we depend on foreigners to navigate our ships. If these cases had terminated in threats and abusive language, to which our flag is too much accustomed, it might have been questioned whether the nation of the offending party was to blame. When you are told by one officer and another, that he is instructed
to distress our trade, we should, if possible, deprive them of the present excuse. It is not our business to enquire the cause of those strange phenomena. By a violated passion for British goods, we are universally clothed in the manufactures of that nation. Our debts increase every year, and we labour to make her rich while we are becoming poor. We pour our treasures into her lap more than any other nation under the sun. Observe the rewards! I say nothing about her measures on our western frontier, but our trading ships are boarded and plundered at discretion by her ships of war. Such marks of contempt! and Great Britain, whose commerce we cherish, is the only nation that treats us in this manner. Perhaps it is conjectured, that Americans are of that species of animals whose favour is increased by rough treatment; be this as it may, it is our duty to consider of the safest and surest mode of extending our commerce. After we have been told, that an American vessel having sailors on board, who chance to have been born in the British dominion, is subject to be deprived of her hands, robbed of her property, and turned adrift without help, it can hardly be necessary to adduce other arguments in favour of native American seamen, but other strong and conclusive arguments in favour of the measure, present themselves. The merchant's property in critical situations, or in distant or obscure parts of the world, is always most safe when his ship is navigated by men who uniformly strive to return to their native home, and whose hopes and happiness center in that country to which their ship belongs. The crew of a French brig some months ago, murdered their captain and mate on our coast; that misfortune, in all probability, would not have happened, if the seamen had been natives of France. Two of them only were of that kingdom. Is it necessary to add, that a powerful body of seamen, at some future day, may save us from the vast expence and danger of a standing army. Upon this single argument of native seamen, we might rest the question. It needs neither support nor illustration. I shall therefore presume, that it is our duty as soon as possible, to provide against the daily operations of pride or injustice—to furnish the merchant with seamen, of whom he cannot be robbed except by open declaration of war. With seamen in whom he can trust—with men, who actuated by those passions which are inseparable from the human breast, the pride of nation & the love of country, may serve him in every part of the world To furnish the nation with a safe and strong bulwark against foreign tyranny and invasion.
[Remainder in our next.]
[IT has been an observation of some standing, that if the Western Indians had a printing office among them, many truths would be brought to light, that for want of such a medium of information on their part, must remain in obscurity. As an instance of what Indian writers might produce, we copy from the Knoxville Gazette of October 22. the address of the Cherokee Indian chief HANGING MAW, to his friends and brothers, the Printers of that paper, containing a talk to Mr. William Cocke, of Mulberry Grove—previously addressing the printers as follows: "I have no money to send you, but I will give you two pounds of beaver for it, if you will put this talk upon paper, like William Cocke's, that it may be heard a great way off as well as his." William Cocke of Mulberry Grove! I am going to give you a talk, and it shall be short, for those who talk much do not tell the truth, I suppose you wish it to be thought that you are a man and a warrior, and you make long talks, and get them printed in the Knoxville Gazette, that they may be seen and heard a great way off. The talk you have made is not your own talk—you
stole it; Brackenridge had the same talk before. William Cocke! What have you to talk about treaties. You know nothing about them; I have heard your talks before; they are all like nothing. You suppose the goods given at the treaty, and those which were to be paid every year to my people, were given to you by our friendship. I told you that you knew nothing about the matter—they were the price of our lands, promised in fair and open treaty. You got a great quantity of lands, worth an hundred times as much as you gave for them. You have a heart like a squaw, and talk like one: You say fear is the best and only assurance of the friendship of an Indian. This is the language of a bad heart: Why say an Indian? The Great Man above made us all of one clay, both red and white people, and gave to some the hearts of men, and to others the hearts of Squaws. Yours is of the latter sort, or you would not talk such hard talks, and say all the Cherokees must be killed, because some of them are bad men, and go to war.
I am glad to hear you talk hard of your great father, the President, & of the United States with respect to Indian affairs. He will see you talk like a squaw, and that you know nothing about what is good for him to do.
You tell the little talks of your bad men, who talk when they ought not, as you do, to make themselves great men, as if they were the head men and councils of the whole nation, and you add a number of lies to your talks out of your own head, and you have put them upon paper, and have sent them a great way off, to make our beloved father, the President, and all his beloved men think that all the Cherokees, men, women and children are bad, and ought to be laid on the ground.
You are not a man and warrior; but to make people believe you are, you talk of having killed Keanna. You said you did it by good fortune; but remember it was in the time of peace, and you did not know but he was a good man when you killed him. You also murdered my beloved brother, the Tassel, or some of your people, with hearts like yours, did it; in time of peace too; these are not the actions of men and warriors.
I suppose you will put more of your talks on paper. I will not answer them any more. You are but a boy and talk for yourself. Our great father, the President, did not tell you to speak to us, and he will not hear your talks, nor will we hear them any more; they are like the talks of a Muth man.
We understood that your government was a good one, and your laws just, and that your father the President, and the men whom he appointed as warriors and counsellors, were to see those laws executed. We never heard that you, William Cocke, have been chosen a warrior or a counsellor, since the battle of the Long Island, and I know he will not listen to any of your talks. He has sent a beloved man to hold talks with us. This man is like himself and has a good heart and I know our great father will listen only to his talks, nor does he allow me to hear any other.
This talk I have delivered in the beloved town of Chota, October, 1792.
HANGING MAW.
FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON, Sep 29.
There are few cases in which a concealment of truth can be even of a temporary advantage; and under the conviction of this truth, nothing has been concealed by us of the enormities practised in Paris, where the fact was well and fairly supported. That most of our public prints, however,
abound with accounts of shocking excesses in France which never existed, & are entirely the creatures of slanderous invention, is but too true. There are French emigrants at this hour in London, to the amount of several hundreds, among whom there are many, it can be incontestibly proved, that are hired (by whom we shall not say) to blacken the cause of France, and by representing the patriotic party as a set of infernals, to make them odious to the freemen of this island, the king, and the government, for purposes that none can be at a loss to develop.
A proposition has been made to the Jacobin assembly, that in case Louis the 16th, and his wife, Maria Antoinette, should upon trial be found guilty of the crimes they are charged with, that they be sentenced to die on the scaffold; but that instead of carrying the sentence into execution, it shall be left to their own choice to name the country to which they would prefer being sent to pass the remainder of their lives in banishment. This it is thought, will be a sufficient punishment for the royal traitors, without the nation subjecting itself to the odium arising from a prejudice in weak minds, that there is something sacred in royalty and that the blood of a crowned traitor cannot be shed without a crime.
A court martial commenced on board the Duke, in Portsmouth Harbour, on Wednesday the 12th instant, on a charge of mutiny on the 28th of April, 1787, on board the Majesty's armed vessel Bounty, for running away with the ship and deserting his majesty's service against Joseph Coleman, Charles Norman, Thomas Mackintosh, Peter Haywood, Isaac Morris, John Milward, William Muspratt, Thomas Birkett, Thomas Ellison, and Michael Byrn. The evidence for the prosecution closed on Friday night the 14th instant and the court indulged the prisoners till Monday to give in their defence, and on Tuesday took the whole into their consideration, when they were pleased to pass sentence of death on Haywood, Morris, Milward, Muspratt, Birkett, and Ellison, the two first of whom the court recommended to mercy. Coleman, Norman Mackintosh, and Byrn, were acquitted and discharged. Mr. Haywood is an accomplished young gentleman, genteelly connected, with a fortune of 30,000 fallen to him since he has been in confinement.
Upwards of five hundred French refugees arrived last week from France, at and near Lewes; near eighty of them priests, and among them the bishop of Avranches, who, with some of his brethren, escaped out of France with great difficulty, having been hunted from place to place, and hardly escaped the fangs of the irritated people.
The king, during the tumult in Paris on the 2d of September was placed in an interior apartment of the Temple, that the populace might not be irritated by the sight of him, and was attended constantly by one national guard. The people once approached the temple, the guard of which unloaded their guns, reversed their bayonets and contented themselves with placing the barrier of a blue ribbon upon the gates, with an inscription, intreating that it might be respected. Some of the populace, after kissing this ribbon, and declaring their resolution not to violate that barrier, obtained permission to carry the head of Madame Lamballe under the window of the queen, to shew as they said, "the dreadful result of all plots against the people." The crowd then withdrew, and the Temple has not been since menaced.
In Paris, the women as usual, are among the most ardent in the display of patriotic actions. From five hundred to a thousand work during the whole day, in public places, preparing knapsacks and other articles for the army. This service is en

tirely voluntary, and they pursue it with readiness, which even the frequent applications of the populace do not divert. The wives of many respectable persons are thus employed.
Coblence, Sept. 2.—“The emigrant French princes in a fit of despair, have formed a design to hire ruthians to attempt an insurrection at Paris, and to assassinate Louis the 16th and his family. Such a step they imagine, by the blame being thrown on the patriotic party, will route every power in Europe to attack France, in a general combination; and that even England will throw aside the masque, and become a party.”
Paris, Sept. 17.—The enemy are now planing, by their emissaries, to plunder and let fire to Paris. By fomenting hatred between individuals, they wish to bring about a general state of confusion. Let it be our main object then to preserve and indicate unanimity, by which we may give liberty to Europe. In this capital there are five or six hundred men in the pay of the Duke of Brunswick and the French princes. Severe measures are taking against them, and their persons will soon be secured.
The English ministry have taken uncommon pains to new to their country, that Mr. Thomas Paine was the peculiar object of their attention; but whether the liberties that were taken with his person and property did not as grossly violate the principles of their constitution, as the most daring doctrines of the republican writer himself, is a question likely to come very speedily to issue. It certainly was not the soundest way of giving the lie to his objections against their system.
St. Sebastian, (Spain) Oct. 1.—“An army of twenty thousand men is expected here in a few days; and large bodies of men, besides, are to be stationed in the neighbourhood of this place; their object is not generally known, but supposed merely to be in readiness in case of an invasion. Vast numbers of French non-juring priests are daily arriving here, generally destitute of every thing but the cloaths on their backs, and find protection and support from the inhabitants.”
Paris, Sept. 23.—Tranquility is restored at Orleans, after the disturbances that had like to have taken place on account of the exportation of grain. One cart was only plundered by the populace, and the driver killed. Martial law was then proclaimed, which restored order.
The intentions of Spain with regard to France are no longer doubtful, and there is no doubt we shall soon be attacked from that quarter.
It has been unanimously decreed in the National Convention, that Gen. Montefquieu should be deprived of his command, and suspended, for having clandestinely transmitted to the court of Turin a plan of the devices through which an invasion of France might be attempted; and for reporting the king of Sardinia's army to consist of 60,000 men, when it was no more than thirty thousand.
Sept. 24.—The enemy on the frontier are in a state of starvation. Gen. Dumourier has evacuated Chalons, by way of precaution, as he was certain of more speedy and greater success. He was well satisfied with his present position, when the last accounts came away.
The Swiss in revenge for the massacre of their guards on the 10th of August, it is said, mean soon to invade France.
Several of the royal jewels, &c. have been recovered. It appears that many persons of note were concerned in carrying them off. Two men that were condemned to death for being concerned in this theft, have made several discoveries, on condition of being pardoned.
Notwithstanding the Duke of Orleans, with affected humility, has assumed the name, Monsieur L'egalite (Equality) the nation will never trust him, from a conviction, that a man who has once been a nobleman, or his veins infected with royal blood, can never be a sincere friend to the people.
London, Sept. 27.—The empress of Russia, having obliged king Stanislaus to renounce the new constitution of Poland, and leaving him no alternative but that, or to be overwhelmed with her forces, that philosophical prince, and friend to mankind has thought proper to comply, rather than that his subjects should be slaughtered by the forces of the northern barbarian. Of the precise terms insisted upon by the empress of Russia, we are not yet fully apprised; but we know, with some degree of certainty, that she has not lost sight of private interest, and the future aggrandizement of her own family. She states as a principal article, that the succession of the throne of Poland shall be settled on Prince Constantine Paulowitz, second son of the Grand Duke of Russia, and his heirs male. This plan, if it takes place, of which there is little doubt, will free Poland from the dread of being dismembered by a second partition; and if the constitution be not entirely annulled, but subjected to certain modifications, the Poles, provided their future sovereign imbibe their political principles, may yet enjoy some share of that freedom which their present enlightened prince wished to secure to them. They will, at any rate, have the
pleasure of reflecting, that one of the first nations of Europe has not beheld their misfortunes with insensibility; and that, had they been able to continue their resistance, they would have met with all that support from the generosity of Britons, which was in their power as individuals to give.
The Empress having gained her point over Poland, will now be enabled to join the confederacy formed against the French nation. That this is her intention, appears from her recent orders to the French charge des affaires at Petersburg to quit her dominions as soon as possible. It may be expected, therefore, that she will join her troops to re-inforce those of the Emperor and the king of Prussia, who have hitherto been rather dilatory in their operations, and who perhaps have retarded them, either from an apprehension of the defection of their troops, or in hopes of this assistance. The moment, however, is now arrived, when it becomes them to prosecute more vigorous measures, especially as they may, at present, attack France with more colour of justice than they could have done a few months ago.
Paris, Sept. 24.—The following is the account given of the method the Royal family take to pass their time in the Temple.
Louis XVI. takes a book, quits it, takes another: makes notes with a pencil, and explains latin passages to his son, chusing especially such passages as are analogous to his present circumstances.
Maria Antoinette makes her children read and recite dialogues with intonations and gestures, which shew that listeners were known to be at the doors. Within the last few days, the valet de chambre of the ci devant Duke de Coigny was at her door in the disguise of a Sans Culotte.
Elizabeth teaches cyphering and drawing to her niece; afterwards each takes a book, and then they have dialogues. The family is very fond of dialogues. They dine, and the dinner is always exquisite.
After dinner, some parties at piquet and some stratagems to talk to the commissioners, in order to interrogate them, which interrogations are intermittent. They then take up books, and sometimes walk with airs of majesty, and with the greatest indifference as to little mortifications.
At night the wife of Louis XVI. reads aloud; amongst other things the letters of Cecilia; sometimes she reads of an unhappy count, with the daughter of a prince of a great family, who shares his unhappiness, and will ally herself to him in order to revenge it. Enigmas are proposed.—Those of Mercury are guessed at. Equivoques are made. They draw cards and see sometimes rain, sometimes storm, sometimes calm weather.
In general they talk in cyphers; ‘I have seen 8; and I 11; and I even 19.’ The widow of the Civil List said, four days since, to her sister Elizabeth. ‘You told this morning, a great story with reflection.’ Elizabeth replied, ‘You would talk by multiplying to by 10.’
A decree has passed, that the asylum of every citizen shall be inviolable during the night. From sun-set to sun-rising no person can be arrested except for capital crimes, and no execution can take place without the presence of the justice of peace of that district.—Should these formalities be violated, every citizen may use such means of defence as are in his power.
The commons of Paris have addressed the female citizens in the following manner:
Female Citizens, “The council-general of the commons think it their duty not to leave your patriotism in idleness. Your hands will not disdain to concur in the deliverance of your country. Tents are necessary for the camp at Paris. These tents are not yet made. The time presses. Will you refuse to hasten the safety of the capital? It is to the men that is reserved the task of defending you—To you we give the glorious offer of participating with them. Hasten in preparing the tents and equipage for the camps. It is by this means that you will serve your country—that you will do yourselves honor, and contribute to the salvation of the public cause.”
In consequence of this, tens of thousands of women, of all ranks, are in the churches, and making tents, knapsacks, gaiters, and other articles. And the work is animated with songs sacred to liberty.
London, Sep. 29.—The last accounts from major Houghton, the undaunted traveller in the interior of Africa relate, that after avoiding a conspiracy formed against his life, and recovering from a fever, caught by sleeping in an African forest, he was upon his road to Tombuctoo. From thence he will proceed to search for the mysterious city of Houffa, the population of which is said to equal that of London or Paris.
A young child has been presented to the Jacobin society in France, that repeated, before them, from memory, the chapter of the Declaration of the Rights of Men. A member of the assembly took occasion therefrom to propose a mode of education for youth wholly inimical to tyrannical and kingly government—and recommended that the children of all citizens should be obliged to take an oath, by every means in their power through life, to destroy tyrants, wherever found.
By the constitution of France, whoever has had ten children in lawful wedlock, whether the children be alive or not, is exempted from taxes.
Several hundreds of French priests, and nobility, have arrived at Jersey within this fortnight. Some of them are reduced to that degree of poverty, that they are obliged to teach French and Belles Lettres at six sous a lesson, and others are forced to hire themselves out as gardeners.
The Spanish government have it in contemplation to give encouragement and support to such French emigrants as may retire into the dominions of Spain, and will undertake to cultivate an extensive tract of ground called Sierra Molenos. We learn that they are to be supplied with necessaries for a year, and to be furnished with materials for building, and tools for husbandry; but that, after the expiration of the above period, they are to maintain themselves with the produce of the lands, which however are to be exempted from all taxes for a limited number of years.
To the Editor of the National Gazette.
SIR, FOR some time past I have been much struck with the different manner in which the monocrats and republicans in our city speak of the late commotions in Paris, and of the probable issue of the French revolution. The monocrats make no allowance for the resentments of a great people, suddenly emerging from the accumulated oppressions of three or four hundred years. In their sympathy with the king and queen, “they feel for the plumage (to use one of the striking similes of Mr. Paine) but have no pity on the dying bird.” To abate a little of this sympathy with their royal cousins , it may not be improper to state the following circumstances:
That the history of the outrages committed by the republican party in France comes to us chiefly through the channel of English or Austrian newspapers.
That the vindictive spirit of the French mobs was derived from the monarchy of France, which knew no mercy towards even the suspicion of treason.
That the outrages complained of, have arisen from that ignorance among the common people, which is an essential ingredient in monarchy.
That the balance against monarchy is almost beyond calculation with respect to murders. The whole number of persons who have been killed by the mobs in France do not amount, from the most probable accounts, to more than 5000, whereas the murders perpetrated by the monarchy of France, in cold blood , by means of the bastille, gaols, gib-bets, racks, wheels, gallies, &c. have amounted, at a moderate computation, to 10,000 a year, for several hundred years, and to 100,000 every fifteen or twenty years by means of war. To encourage the republicans of our country to continue their sympathy with their suffering brethren, and (to use the words of Judge Peters in his late excellent charge to a grand jury) to implore the aid of heaven in their favor, it may not be improper to state the following circumstances:
That the late outrages in France have effectually removed the only cause of the divisions in the nation, by destroying the sources of jealousy and treason.
That they have encreased the strength of the nation an hundred fold, by annihilating the monarchy of the country.
That they have laid a foundation for a great nation's asserting the original right of men to govern themselves.
That they have furnished an illustrious precedent to all the nations of Europe, not only to extirpate wicked kings, but to annihilate those absurd things called limited monarchies , and those most dangerous animals called good kings .
That the annihilation of the monarchy of France has cut the only sinew of hope to the American monocrats of establishing a limited monarchy in the United States, after it shall please God to take our beloved President to himself, or after the public debt is unfortunately paid.
I shall conclude this address by pointing out the craft of the friends of hereditary power in our country: They have lately discarded the idea of forming themselves into an aristocratic corps , but have united their influence to prepare the minds of the people of the United States for hereditary monarchy by connecting as much monarchical splendor, and as many monarchical forms as possible with the administration of the government, and by exciting the most gloomy apprehensions of
the dangers and convulsions which are to attend the future elections of a chief magistrate. A monarch, when thus foisted into our country, can create as many nobles as he pleases, and a house of lords, when thus formed, will be better scented than if they had sprung out of a hot bed, prepared by themselves. One word more, and I shall have done—The friends of monarchy suppose kingly government to be necessary, because mankind are too bare to bear a republican government. If they mean themselves only when they use the term bare , we will believe them; but if they do not, it is no forced construction of a monocrat's principles to say, that he considers all the citizens of the United States (himself excepted) as knaves or fools.
SIDNEY. Nov. 26.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
THURSDAY, Nov. 22.
The House having proceeded on, and adopted the resolutions agreed to by the committee of the whole on the President's speech, they were referred to select committees, except the last resolution (referred to the Secretary of the Treasury) for the redemption of the public debt, and for re-imbursing the loan made at the bank of the United States.
The House then, in committee of the whole, took into consideration, and debated by paragraphs the bill providing for the registering and recording of ships or vessels—After some debate, the bill was reported without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday next.
A message was received from the President of the United States, with an abstract of a supplementary arrangement made by him for carrying into execution the law for collecting duties imposed on spirits distilled from foreign and domestic materials within the United States; also respecting the subdivisions of the surveys, and an estimate of the amount of compensations, contingent expenses, and charges for collecting the aforesaid revenue; the amount of which was about 45,000 dollars. These papers were read, and ordered to be printed.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury, with the statement of the public accounts of the receipts and expenditures of the public revenue was referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday next.
The House, in committee of the whole resumed the consideration of the petition of Joseph Henderson, naval pay-master of Massachusetts—which, after some debate, was referred to a select committee.
Mr. Ames moved that a committee be appointed to bring in a bill for allowing Gen. Lincoln, Mr. Griffin, and Col. Humphreys, while employed as commissioners to settle a peace with the southern Indians. The motion was agreed to, and a committee appointed.
A letter was read from the Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing sundry reports on a great number of petitions referred to him during the last session.—Adjourned.
FRIDAY, Nov. 23.
The bill for re-imbursing certain extra expenses of the commissioners to the southern Indians, was read the first time.
A petition was presented from the inhabitants of Tarborough, Washington, &c. in North-Carolina, praying that an alteration might be made in the post-road thro' a part of that state; which was read, and referred to a committee on the post-office law.
According to the order of the day, the House, in committee of the whole, took into consideration the bill received from the Senate, for regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes—Mr. Sedgwick in the chair—After agreeing to several amendments, the committee rose and reported progress.
A petition, praying the renewal of lost certificates, was read and referred to the committee on that subject.
MONDAY, Nov. 26.
A memorial was read, from Capt. John Manly, late of the navy, and referred to the Secretary of War.—Several petitions were read, and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
A petition was presented from a number of persons, masters and owners of vessels employed in the coasting trade, complaining of the high duties and heavy office fees to which they are subjected, as being extravagant—and praying relief. The petition was read, and referred to the committee on the bill to regulate the coasting trade.
The bill for compensating the former commissioners, Messrs. Griffin, Lincoln and Humphreys, to the Creek Indians, was read a second time, referred to a committee

of the whole, and made the order of the day for to-morrow.
The bill providing for the registering and recording of ships and vessels was brought in engrossed, read a third time, the blanks filled up, and passed.
The House then, in committee of the whole, according to the order of the day, took into consideration the bill for regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes. Sundry proposed amendments were reported, agreed to, and adopted. The bill was ordered a third reading to-morrow.
A petition was read, from Warner Mifflin, on the subject of negro slavery, and recommending its abolition—Ordered to lie on the table.
A motion was made, that the Clerk of the House be directed to purchase, for the use of the House of Representatives, separate maps of the United States, and the individual states—Ordered to lie on the table.
On motion, a resolution was passed, as follows:
Resolved, That the commissioners for settling accounts between the United States and the individual states, report the time when they will be ready to make a final report; and whether any obstructions remain to prevent such final report.
PHILADELPHIA.
NOVEMBER 28.
The persons appointed by the legislature of the state of New-York for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, are as follows: Samuel Osgood, Edward Savage, Stephen Ward, John Bay, Jesse Woodhull, David Van Ness, Johannes Bruyn, Volkert Veeder, Abraham Yates, Samuel Clarke, and Abraham Ten Eyck.
On the thirty-first of October was experienced at Wilmington, N. C. one of the most violent gales of wind known for many years. Several vessels were drove ashore at Brunswick, the Flatts, and at Wilmington. All the pilot boats at the fort were beat to pieces, or drove very far above the high water mark, the tide having risen more than five feet above the level of the spring tides. Considerable damage was done to the wharves at Wilmington, many trees torn down, houses much injured, but, happily, no lives lost.
The persons chosen for electors of President and Vice-President of the United States in the state of Massachusetts, are as follows: Azor Orne, Francis Dana, Increase Sumner, Thomas Dawes, Samuel Holten, Moses Gill, William Shepard, Dwight Foster, Thompson J. Skinner, Ebenezer Mattoon, Walter Spooner, Solomon Freeman, William Seaver, Daniel Coney, Peleg Wadsworth, Nathaniel Wells. Part of the returns of Representatives to the next Congress from the same state: Fisher Ames, Benj. Goodhue, Samuel Dexter, jun. Artemas Ward, Theodore Sedgwick, Peleg Coffin, David Cobb.
The following paragraph is copied from the Portland (Massachusetts) Eastern Herald, of the 12th inst.:- "A ship has lately arrived at Wiscasset in 29 days from England. She brings an account that the Duke of Brunswick had advanced so far towards Paris, as that he had suffered the armies of France to surround him; and it was expected that he would never be able to return—without their leave."
"Nations that are awakening from their slumbers, and are anxious to emerge from that state of uncertainty and misery into which they have been plunged by fanaticism and tyranny, ought to endeavour thoroughly to comprehend the principal ideas, contained in that salutary, that sacred word, Constitution! This word, whether understood in a good or an evil sense, always has a prodigious influence upon the destiny of mankind. The constitution of a government is frequently compared to the constitution of the human body; and the abettors of aristocracy are fond of telling us that as there is a head, so there must be feet—This is doubtless true, in one sense; but would you, Messieurs Aristocrats, always be at the head, and make the people eternally the feet? It is the people that give life to the constitution of any country, as the blood that invigorates the body, must, for that purpose, pass through every part thereof, and be found in all by turns."
"Take heed, ye friends of truth, that ye do not misunderstand the constitution of nature, which is complete; which moves—and shall move—and move eternally, holding up the pattern of the great first cause to all true legislators—above all, be particularly careful not to confound this constitution of universal nature with the constitutional modes or acts of human government—a species of government which has ever been various, according to climate, education, manners, a multiplicity of personal interests, abuses sanctioned by time, and plans adopted by ignorance, by idolatry, or by inattention."
[M. Condorcet.]
Mr. William Longstreet, of Augusta in Georgia, proposes to the public an improvement upon his steam-engine, whereby, instead of from 30 to 90 strokes in a minute, it will, from the alterations he has made, strike 155 strokes in that time. He has also invented a method of constructing pumps, whereby an able bodied man can raise 1500 gallons of water to the height of 25 feet in the space of an hour—the pumps to last as long as any other wooden pumps whatever, and not weighing more than 200lb. when complete.
[From the Harrisburgh Oracle, of November 19.]
"A gentleman of veracity that left Detroit the 10th of October, and arrived here last week, informs, that the vast supplies brought to the garrisons of Detroit and Niagara indicated a firm determination of the British court to hold those posts in possession, unless compelled to give them up by force: that a constant and regular communication with the Indians is kept up, by which they are supplied with every necessary in abundance for carrying on the war: that the tribes in conflict with the United States, understanding the disposition of the Americans were for peace, were willing to come upon terms of reconciliation; for this purpose, a council was to have been held on the 1st of October, at the Wamees-town, about 60 miles from Detroit; but the determination of the council had not arrived when the gentleman left that place.
He further says, that it was the general opinion, that the Indians would make peace on no other terms, than fixing the boundaries of the frontiers along the course of the Ohio. He had several hours conversation with Col. Brandt, on the subject, who, with about thirty warriors of the Six nations, were on their way to the council; but were delayed some time by the indisposition of Col. Brandt. Many of the warriors of the different tribes, he was informed, were willing that the boundary line should be so run as to include the towns of Calliopolis and Marietta, and the country immediately dependent on them; but it was thought the former opinion would prevail in the council.
[From a North-Carolina paper.]
The election of the President and Vice-President of the United States, it is expected will engage the earliest attention of our legislature—the dignity of the state, and the interests of the southern states, are greatly concerned in this business. There can be no division as to the President, but Mr. Adams and Governor Clinton are both mentioned in the middle as well as southern states as proper objects of the public suffrage—the conduct of the present Vice-President is so completely covered, by the secrecy and darkness of the transactions of the Senate, from the public eye, that we have no sufficient opportunity of forming a satisfactory judgment of him as a Vice-President—Governor Clinton has been long distinguished as a man of talents and patriotism.
Extract of a letter from New-York, November 23.
"The choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, in this state, having fallen, without exception, upon characters eminently republican, cannot but be highly agreeable to those friends of equal right in all parts of the Union, who for a long time past have observed with regret the silent progress of a certain set of well known ambitious characters towards the great idol of their wishes, a monied aristocracy. The constitution of this state is by far too republican for characters of such a cast, who, I foresee, will never be at rest, 'till by some means or other they can give it a sort of a twist towards monarchy; which has been one principal end to be answered in pulling down the governor, if that great and worthy object could have been successfully accomplished. One would think a rich man in every free country is in a capacity, to spend his time in a way perfectly agreeable to himself, and yet such as would not injure the well-being of his neighbour. Unfortunately, the matter, generally speaking, is otherwise, and no sooner do certain people, by cunning or good luck, amass exorbitant wealth, than the first thing they think of is mounting on the shoulders of their fellow creatures, and while they harrafs them almost out of existence, foolishly conceit themselves a superior race of beings."
Extract of a letter from an eminent house in Liverpool, to a gentleman in Baltimore, dated September 26, 1792.
"A good deal of the crop of grain in the northern counties is yet on the ground, and so very unfavorable has been the weather, that a considerable part of the harvest has been much injured. This has advanced the prices of prime wheat to 7/4 & 3/8 per cobs. and from the present appearance with respect to our own harvest and the state of European politics (as respecting France) we think it possible that the wheat may be admitted here at the
lowest duty at our next quarterly period, which is the 15th November; and that, if that should not be the case, then, there is a great probability of its being so on the 15th February next. There are enquirers here for seeds to proceed to America to load a boat, and so that it is probable that particulars in that article will turn to account."
ABSTRACT of an Estimate of the expenditures for the Civil List of the United States, together with the incidental and contingent expenses of the several departments and offices, for the year 1793, as reported by the Secretary of the Treasury to the House of Representatives.
President's salary, 25000 dollars—Vice-President's ditto, 5000—Chief Justice of the United States, 4000—Five Associate judges at 3000 dollars each, 15000 dollars—Amount of salaries to the judges of the several districts of the United States, 21,700 dollars—Amount of compensation to the members of the Senate, House of Representatives, and their officers, 143,591 dollars—Treasury department, 55,050 dollars—Department of State, 6300 dollars—Department of war, 16250 dollars—Board of commissioners for the settlement of accounts between the United States and individual states, 13,300 dollars—Amount of compensation to the Loan-Officers for 13 states, 13,350 dollars—Governor's salary, judges' salary, compensation to the other officers, and contingent expenses of the government of the western territory, 11,000 dollars—Amount of pensions, including that of the Baron Steuben, 5267 dollars, 73 cents—For incidental and contingent expenses relative to the civil-list establishment, 20,283 dollars, 66 cents—Total of the estimate of expenditures for the civil-list for 1793, 372,466 dollars, and 39 cents.
Additional estimate for making good deficiencies for the support of the civil-list establishment; for aiding the fund appropriated for the payment of certain officers of the courts, jurors and witnesses; for the support of light-houses; and for the establishment of ten cutters, and for other purposes—Total 92,599 dollars, 66 cents.
General estimate of the expenses of the war department for the year 1793—Pay of the legion of the United States, 304,308 dollars—Subsistence, 312,567 dollars 75 cents—Forage, 34,856 dollars—Cloathing, 112,000 dollars—Equipments for cavalry, 5000 dollars—Horses for cavalry, 5000 dollars—Bounty 15,240 dollars—Defensive protection of the frontiers by the militia, 30,000 dollars—Hospital department 25,000 dollars—Quarter master's department, 100,000 dollars—Indian department 50,000 dollars—Ordnance department, 23,835 dollars 32 cents—Invalids, 83,245 dollars 32 cents—Lease of the buildings occupied for the war-office, &c. 1,666 dollars 66 cents—Contingencies of the war department, 50,000 dollars—Total expenses of the war department for 1793, 1,171,719 dollars and 5 cents.
Comparative statement of expenditure and revenue to the end of the year 1793, as reported by the Secretary of the Treasury to the House of Representatives.
EXPENDITURE.
   Dols. Cts.     Amount from the commencement of the year 1791, to the end of the year 1792, as stated in a report to the House of Representatives of the 23d of January last 7,082,197 74   Additional appropriation for the war department per act of the 2nd of May 1792, for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers, &c. 673,500   Appropriations by an act of the 8th of May 1792, intitled, an act making certain appropriations therein specified 84,497 90   Monies requisite by estimate for the current service of 1793 1,616,785 10   Interest on the public debt for the same year 2,849,104 73   Total expenditure 12,306,175 47  
WAYS and MEANS.
   Net product of duties on imports and tonnage for the year 1791, as ascertained 3,493,195 18   Ditto for the year 1792, as estimated 3,900,000   Ditto for the year 1793, 4,000,000   Ditto of duties on home made spirits for one half year of 1791, 150,000   Ditto for 1792, 400,000   Ditto for 1793, 400,000   Surplus which will probably remain unexpended of the sums appropriated for the war department for 1792, 140,000   Total ways and means 12,393,195 18  
FOR THE NATIONAL GAZETTE.
Mr. FRENEAU
A QUERIST wishes to be informed whether any intimate exists between Publius of 1788 and Catullus of 1792? If so, whether they have or have not compared notes respecting the character of Mr. Jefferson? As Catullus was in possession of information in 1787, which is now used to assist in forming Mr. Jefferson's character, whether it was, or why it was not communicated to his friend Publius in 1788?
Mr. Jefferson was honorably mentioned by Publius in 1788, as a great political authority—an encomium which no other individual of America has received from the discerning pen of Publius.
In chapter 43, page 104, of the second part of the Federalist, Mr. Jefferson is thus spoken of, in treating of the maxim which requires a separation of the departments of power—The first example is that of the state of Virginia, a state which, as we have seen, has expressly declared in its constitution, that the three great departments ought not to be intermixed. The authority in support of it is Mr. Jefferson, who, besides his other advantages for remarking the operation of the government, was himself the chief magistrate of it. In order to convey fully the ideas with which his experience had impressed him on this subject, it will be necessary to quote a passage of some length from his very interesting notes on the state of Virginia, (page 195) and in the next chapter, page 107, he is again spoken of in the following terms, "The author of the Notes on the state of Virginia, quoted in the last paper, has subjoined to that valuable work, a draught of a constitution which had been prepared in order to be laid before a convention expected to be called in 1783 by the legislature, for the establishment of a constitution for that commonwealth. The plan, like every thing from the same pen, marks a turn of thinking original, comprehensive, and accurate; and is the more worthy of attention as it equally displays a fervent attachment to republican government, and an enlightened view of the dangerous propensities against which it ought to be guarded. One of the precautions which he proposes, and on which he appears ultimately to rely as a palladium to the weaker departments of power against the invasions of the stronger, is perhaps altogether his own, and as it immediately relates to the subject of our present enquiry, ought not to be overlooked."
The Querist concludes that the difference of character ascribed to Mr. Jefferson by Publius of 1788 and Catullus of 1792 (who has said with true Jeffersonian dexterity, that he was not "in office" in office) founded upon the same and a strict uniformity of conduct, arise from one of these two causes, or perhaps from both, his pecuniary and known regard for republican in 1788, was not so offensive to Publius, as it has now become to Catullus of 1792. The other is, that the people of America, persevering in the opinion which Publius then entertained of his greatness, conceive him to have better pretensions to a certain high office in the United States, in case of accidents, than Publius of 1788 or Catullus of 1792. An impartial bystander has just remarked, that all this calumny, mis-representation, and sophistry respecting Mr. Jefferson, will produce no effect upon the opinions of the people of America, particularly when time shall have performed his usual office, and presented to the world a naked state of facts; a second has remarked, that the calumniators of Mr. Jefferson could not have had the fear of God before their eyes; a third, that they must have been promoted and instigated by the Devil; a fourth, that there is full evidence of malice prepense; and it is not doubted but that the great jury of all America will render verdict against the culprits—GUILTY. Nov. 27.
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By public sale, on Friday the 14th of December next, at three o'clock P.M. at the house of Mabel Mills in Roads town, West-Jersey, Cumberland county, a house and lot of ground, late the property of Ananias Sayre, deceased, containing about nine acres situated in a place known by the name of Sa-re's cross-roads, West-Jersey, Cumberland county. It is in a very healthy, plentiful part of the country, and very beautifully situated at the north west corner of said cross roads. It is particularly well suited for a store, or a tradesman of any description. More need not be said in describing the place, as it is presumed any person wanting to purchase would first see the premises. Terms of payment to be made known at the time and place of sale—The sale to be made by
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Executor to the estate of Ananias Sayre deceased: Nov. 23. 1792. IAW.cw

To the Editor of the National Gazette.
YOU will oblige many of your subscribers by re-publishing from Mr. Claypoole's MAIL, the three different pieces that have appeared in that paper, relative to the visit of the Supervisor of the Excise to the western counties.
NUMBER I.
PITTSBURG, October 13
A Correspondent thinks it no small disgrace to the police of this country, that a Superior officer of government is obliged to come into it in disguise, as was the case lately with Mr. GEORGE CLYMER, of Philadelphia, the Supervisor General of Excise for the State of Pennsylvania. Until he came to Bedford, to prevent any rumour of his approach, he passed for Gen. Knox, about to pay a visit to the Western Posts; which by the bye might not be a mils for the minister of war, that he might the better understand the geography of the country, if possible; from Bedford Mr. Clymer took the name of Mr. Smith, until he came to M'Dermot's in the Glades. There leaving his horse for his servant to bring on at his leisure, he himself mounted the servant's horse, and rode behind the postmanteau, as the waiter of M'Dermot, who accompanied him to Pittsburgh, understanding him to be a paymaster coming in disguise with money to pay off the troops. On the journey nothing material happened, save at Cavatt's, where acting as a servant and riding down M'Dermot's horse and his own, he was ill treated by the hostler who called him an ill looking fellow, and said he did not know how to rub down a horse.
Arriving at Pittsburgh, and putting up at the sign of the Indian Queen (Andrew Watson's,) wearing a slouched hat so as to pass for an ordinary person, he the next morning by times went to Head Quarters, at the Quarter Master General's, and staid until evening, when returning to the tavern, accompanied by the Commander in Chief to protect him with his presence, some officers being in the house after night, contrary to general orders, and being whispered that general Wayne was coming, a hurly-burly, overturning chairs, &c ensued, which the supervisor mistaking for a banditti about to sally out upon him, retreated to Head Quarters. The next night he sent for his horses and changed his lodgings to the Bear; but it transpiring that he was an excise officer, the landlord not thinking it safe to entertain him, was obliged to give him a hint, and again he went to Head Quarters, until a secret lodging was provided for him, at Major Kirkpatrick's, the brother-in-law of the deputy excise officer for this district.
When an outrage on the dignity of the United States is come to such a head as this, that a gentleman in the execution of his trust is reduced to such humiliating circumstances, it is high time to look about and ask, who governs, the rabble or the laws?
NUMBER II.
Mr. CLYMER's answer to the above.
THE conduct of a revenue-officer of the United States, on a late journey through the western country of Pennsylvania, being grossly misrepresented in a Pittsburgh Gazette, as that he passed for a servant, personated other characters, &c to avoid being known; he begs leave to state some incidents, freely spoken of by him, when in that town, which must have given birth to the said misrepresentations.
He brought his own postmanteau, with his clothes and papers, into Pittsburgh, late on a Sunday night, leaving his servant a few miles behind, to follow in the morning, with a horse disabled from the loss of a fore shoe. The servant, after finding a smith, arrived the next morning about eleven o'clock, and not till after his master had dressed, and paid a visit. This was not to act the servant, for which there could be no occasion so near Pittsburgh, and where the people are reputed to be the most temperate of any in that country. Being in company with Mr. William M'Dermot of the Glades, he appears, in this instance, to him.
The name of Smith, was once mistakenly applied to him. He recollects, particularly, to have mentioned the occasion to Mr. Espey, of Bedford. He had an
open introduction from Mr. Espey on Mr. M'Dermot, with whom he travelled about sixty miles, and does not know, or believe, that his name was once alluded to the solitary road between the Glades and Pittsburgh.
His first lodgings at the town of Pittsburgh were taken in the night, and taken without choice; but being represented, and really found to be unsuitable, they were immediately changed for others, taken in the company of General Wayne; both these were in public houses. In the latter he would have continued altogether, had not Major Craig, (not Mr. Kirkpatrick) politely pressed him to take a bed at his house, which he declined until within two or three days of his departure from that town.
These changes were not made with a view to privacy, which he did not affect in any thing; on the contrary, making a formal communication of all his public objects, to most of the principal inhabitants of Pittsburgh, as he considered them, assembled for that purpose; and appeared in all parts of that town in company and alone, at all hours from 7 in the morning until 10 at night:—for this he may appeal to all Pittsburgh.
As to the tale of his personating Gen. Knox, it is only to be accounted for in this way:—A gentleman of the name of Knox, clerk in the office of the Secretary of War, charged with money for the pay of the army, passed through the country on the same days, though by another route, &c was mistaken for the Secretary of War.
He does not pretend to dissemble his apprehensions of danger to his person, in passing through that country; a danger which would have justified to any one in his predicament, any devices what ever to escape the rage of a people vehemently excited against the authority of Congress, in the instance of the Excise, and intended to a state of actual insurgency against the government of the union, openly, by a dangerous confederacy, composed of almost all the magistrates, other public officers, and clergy; but covertly, as apprehended, though with greater effect, by a character in Westmoreland, more influential than all the rest. A country, where some persons concerned in the revenue, had been barbarously and ignominiously handled, by bands of armed men, and where, as is in proof, even a military officer of the United States, having but a slight and accidental connexion with the excise, had been actually threatened, by men of some consideration, with being scalped; where the president of a state circuit court, expressly gave as one reason for declining to take the depositions of witnesses, pointed out to him in the case of a riot, the "odium" to be incurred by it. And finally, where the faint animadversions of the state courts upon offences committed against the laws of the union in such cases, have afforded a real encouragement to them. He thinks, to have adventured at all through a country so circumstanced, was more hazardous, perhaps, than to have taken an honorable chance in an Indian war.
The protection of an escort, which had been ordered to Bedford to take charge of a sum of money, destined for the pay of the troops, was, in his option, unasked; of which he did not avail himself. This escort was threatened with an attack on the road, upon his account; his coming being expected: Cornet Taylor is appealed to here. His friends, Mr. Woods and Mr. Espey, of Bedford, urging him not to keep with the escort, their advice was followed.
General Wayne, without the knowledge of this affair, and before he had mentioned his own apprehensions, ordered a party to attend his return. The party had orders to proceed with him as far as Bedford, but was dismissed after passing the Irish settlements of Westmoreland, forty miles short of Bedford.
These circumstances show, that danger was contemplated by others as well as by him.
He concludes with saying, that since the day he put his hand to the declaration of Independence, none have been so base as to accuse him of any want of spirit in the discharge of any of his public duties or trusts.
[No. 3, will appear in our next.]
For sale, at the printing office, a few copies of the first volume of the National Gazette.
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BANK OF THE UNITED STATES. Philadelphia, Nov. 20th 1792. THE stockholders of the bank of the United States are hereby informed, that according to the statute of incorporation, a general election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the bank of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the seventh day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon. And pursuant to the eleventh section of the bye-laws the stockholders of the said bank are hereby notified to assemble in general meeting, at the same place, on Thursday the eighth day of January next, at five o'clock in the evening. By order of the President and Directors. JOHN KEAN, Cashier. t. J. 5.
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So much for geography generally. With respect to the present plan, let it suffice to remark, that Guthrie's Geography has been long acknowledged to be the best in the English language; however, the account of America in it has, from obvious reasons, been very erroneous and defective. The errors of former editions will be corrected, and the defects supplied, by gentlemen of abilities, who have engaged to superintend this undertaking, and to avail themselves of all the information that can be procured, to render it the most complete edition extant.
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Terres à Vendre Dans un pays bien peuplé,— SAVOIR, soixante cinq mille, trois cens, soixante et quatorze Acres, en une seule pièce dans le canton le mieux peuplé de la Caroline Méridionale, le District de Ninety-Six. Ces terres sont situées dans une contrée agréable, et salubre à la fièvre sont inconnues; à environ vingt lieues de Colombie, la Capitale, et contiguës à la ville de Cambridge, où il y a un College, et Cour supérieure. A environ douze lieues, il y a une navigation; et il est très probable, que dans quelque temps on rendra navigable le Grand Salude, rivière qui arrose les terres mêmes. Elles sont agréablement diversifiées de coteaux et vallons charmans propres à la culture du tabac, du coton, du maïs, du petit grain; et dont une proportion considérable peut aisément convertir en prairies fertiles, il n'est peut-être guères possible de rencontrer une pareille pièce de terre à vendre dans aucun autre Etat Unis; et pour les conditions de l'achat on les rendra très commodes. S'informer à l'imprimerie de la Gazette Nationale. Sept. 5.
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