Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-09-26 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 34, of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1792.
[Whole No. 356.]
FROM THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER.
MR. DUNLAP, THE public have been lately amused with some criticisms in the United States Gazette, upon the political character and conduct of the Secretary of State. The charges exhibited against him, in substance, amount to this: 1. That he was always inimical to the present government, and has in a particular manner shown it since he came into office, by the freedom with which he has censured public measures. 2. That he has abused the trust reposed in him, by conferring the appointment of translator of foreign languages, in the department of State, worth 250 dollars per annum, upon Mr. Freneau, Editor of the National Gazette. This appears to be the sum of the charges: whatever else they contain is the figurative amplification of the writer only, and reducible to no distinct head.
To that respectable tribunal to whom they have been submitted, upon the facts and illustrations given, partial as they are, so far as it respects himself the decision might be left without a comment. His countrymen have been too long and too well acquainted with his talents, virtues, and services, to suffer loose and equivocal charges of this kind to lessen him in their estimation. But this attack has obviously something further in view, than simply to wound the fame of one deserving citizen. It is levelled at that free and manly spirit of enquiry, which has lately developed the principles, and demonstrated the mischievous tendency of some of the measures of government, and which it seeks to crush, a spirit of enquiry which the author supposes has been fostered and cherished by him. If a person of his note in the republican list, could be destroyed in the public confidence, its cause would be humbled, and the friends of monarchy triumph. An attack, therefore, upon this gentleman, must be deemed a direct but artful one upon principles, and in this view it becomes a matter of public concern, and merits particular attention.
What was his political conduct in early life, through the revolution, and to the adoption of the present government, though the period was momentous and eventful, and the several stations which he occupied such as presented him perpetually to the view of his countrymen, seems of no importance upon the present occasion. This long and honorable career has escaped the censure of the American, and I shall not review it for the sake of applause. I have alluded to it merely to shew, that if he has not kept pace, in all the revolutions of opinion, practised by those who now censure him, he has notwithstanding been always consistent with himself.
Before I proceed in reply to the first charge, to furnish the documents which it is presumed, will place his political sentiments in a satisfactory point of view, a previous general question should be noticed, which though not particularly connected with him, may be deemed of importance to the community: "Wherein was the merit or offence of a favorable or unfavorable opinion of the constitution, and to whom rendered?" It was a proposition of great extent, submitted as of right to every free citizen, and upon which he was bound to decide; to have shrunk from it would have been dishonorable, and a shameful abandonment of his duty. By what rule then, or upon what principle, shall a man be rewarded or punished, for the fair exercise of his judgment, especially when called on to give it, by obligations he could not resist, and upon a point, in which in preference to all others, the most unbounded freedom should be used? I had supposed that if his decision was a wise one, the benefits of the system were to be his compensation; if he erred, his own and the calamities of his country, the punishment; that the question involved in it, neither in the origin, nor its consequences, considerations of a personal nature, and that of course the conduct of no man, in relation to this object, be it what it might, merited reward or punishment. I could wish that those political calumniators, who are acquainted with the transactions on the great theatre, would solve this problem; for to me it seems indispensably necessary that those who arraign a fellow-citizen, before the bar of the public, should at least demonstrate that the charge with which he is accused, contains in it something criminal.
It will be remembered that at the time the constitution was formed, and whilst under discussion in the State conventions, Mr. Jefferson was in France the minister of America. That of the train of events which brought about the important crisis of a general convention, as of those which followed it, he was an interested, but a distant spectator. *The nature of the trust reposed in him by the public confined him to the spot. The only part he could bear in the cares of that momentous period, was to unite with his fellow citizens in the most fervent wishes, that their labors might be successful, and redound to the advantage of their common country.
What his sentiments were on the subject of the constitution, and that of government generally as connected with it, will be seen by the following extracts taken from his letters addressed to a particular friend, at the time of their respective dates, and in the course of a
very interesting and confidential correspondence. As he could not have foreseen that in any possible event, they would be laid before the public, they must be considered as the free and spontaneous effusions of his heart. From that friend I have received them, and will if any doubt should be suggested of their authenticity, immediately make them accessible to others. To Mr. Jefferson, whose approbation to this measure, has neither been asked nor obtained, some apology for the freedom is due: to the confidence however which his own conduct has inspired, that it was never his wish, his sentiments, upon this or any other subject of a public nature, should be withheld from his countrymen, it is to be attributed.
Paris, Dec. 20, 1787.
"The season admitting only of operations in the Cabinet, and these being in a great measure secret, I have little to fill a letter. I will therefore make up the deficiency by adding a few words on the constitution proposed by our convention. I like much the general idea of framing a government which should go on of itself peacefully, without needing continual revenue from the state legislatures. I like the organization of the government into legislative, judiciary, and executive. I like the power given the legislative to levy taxes. I am captivated by the compromise of the opposite claims of the great and little states, of the latter to equal, and the former to proportional influence. I am much pleased too with the substitution of the method of voting by persons, instead of that of voting by states: and I like the negative given to the executive with a third of either house, though I should have liked it better, had the judiciary been appointed for that purpose, or invested with a similar and separate power. There are other good things of less moment. I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land, and not by the law of nations. To say that a bill of rights was not necessary because all is reserved in the case of the general government which is not given, while in the particular ones all is given which is not reserved, is surely a gratis dictum, opposed by strong inferences from the body of the instrument, as well as from the omission of the clause of our present confederation, which had declared that in express terms. It was a hard conclusion to say because there has been no uniformity among the states, as to the cases triable by jury, because some have been so incautious as to abandon this mode of trial, therefore the more prudent states shall be reduced to the same level of calamity. It would have been much more just and wise to have concluded the other way, that as most of the states had judiciously preserved this palladium, those who had wandered should be brought back to it, and to have established general right instead of general wrong. Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and that no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. The second feature I dislike, and greatly dislike, is the abandonment in every instance of the necessity of rotation in office, and most particularly in the case of the president. Experience concurs with reason in concluding that the first magistrate will always be re-elected if the constitution permits it. He is then an officer for life. This once observed, it becomes of so much consequence to certain nations to have a friend or a foe, at the head of our affairs, that they will interfere with money and with arms. A galloman, or an anglooman, will be supported by the nation he befriends; if once elected, and at a second or third election out voted by one or two votes, he will pretend false votes, foul play, hold possession of the reins of government, be supported by the States voting for him, especially if they are the central ones, lying in a compact body themselves, and separating their opponents: and they will be aided by one nation of Europe, while the majority are aided by another. The election of a President of America some years hence, will be much more interesting to certain nations of Europe, than ever the election of a King of Poland was. Reflect on all the instances in history ancient and modern, of elective monarchies, and say if they do not give foundation for my fears. The Roman emperors, the Popes, while they were of any importance, the German emperors till they became hereditary in practice, the Kings of Poland, the Dey of the Ottoman dependencies. It may be said that if elections are to be attended with these disorders, the seldom they are renewed the better. But experience shews that the only way to prevent disorder is to render them uninteresting by frequent changes. An incapacity to be elected a second time would have been the only effectual preventative. The power of removing him every fourth year by the vote of the people, is a power which will not be exercised. The King of Poland is removable every day by the Diet, yet he is never removed—Smaller objections are the appeal in fact as well as law, and the binding all persons legislative,
executive and judiciary by oath to maintain that constitution. I do not pretend to decide, what would be the best method of procuring the establishment of the manifold good things in this constitution, and of getting rid of the bad. Whether by adopting it in hopes of future amendment, or after it has been duly weighed and canvassed by the people, after seeing the parts they generally dislike, and those they generally approve, to say to them "we see now what you wish. Send together your deputies again, let them frame a constitution for you, omitting what you have condemned, and establishing the powers you approve. Even these will be a great addition to the energy of your government; at all events I hope you will not be discouraged from other trials, if the present one should fail of its full effect. The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in thirteen States in the course of 11 years is but one for each State in a century and a half, nor will any degree of power in the hands of government prevent insurrections. France, with all its despotism and two or three hundred thousand men always in arms, has had three insurrections in the three years I have been here, in every one of which greater numbers were engaged than in Massachusetts, and a great deal more blood was spilt. In Turkey which Montesquieu supposes more despotic, insurrections are the events of every day. In England where the band of power is lighter than here, but heavier than with us, they happen every half dozen years. Compare again the ferocious depredations of their insurgents with the order, the moderation, and the almost self-extinguishment of ours. After all, it is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail. If they approve the proposed convention in all its parts, I shall concur in it cheerfully, in hopes that they will amend it whenever they shall find it work wrong. I think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural; and this will be as long as there shall be vacant lands in any part of America. When they get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, they will become corrupt as in Europe. Above all things I hope the education of the common people will be attended to; convinced that on their good sense we may rely with the most security for the preservation of a due degree of liberty."
[To be concluded in our next.]
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
THE writers against government, like the Pharisees of old, seem to make up a very good mouth, thanking God that they are not as other men. It is very probable they are right, and we may with good cause thank God that he has not made all other men like them—for in that case the world would be turned topsy-turvy. These writers affect to be the friends of the people, champions of republican liberty, and men of more purity than those who hold offices, or who wish to support good order—that is to say, they pretend to be better than the rest of mankind. If the sun were to shine into their dark holes, their bragging pretensions would perhaps expose them to ridicule. In another country, the garret-scribblers talk big as long as they lie concealed. It would be pleasant to see their lean host marshal'd. Those who give law, as far as dictating and finding fault will go, to nations; who affect to sit in judgment on kings, and to say to power, thus far (not very far) shalt thou go, and no farther, would certainly laugh at one another, and themselves if they were brought together. The thrones of these gazette kings are placed up three pair of stairs: they descend from their power when they shew themselves in the street. This is certainly true of the greater part of the scribblers in one foreign city, and a great city it is. As our party writers have adopted the polite style of their Grubstreet progenitors, there is room to believe that they are their peers in rank and dignity. Instances are not wanting to countenance the opinion that some of the most audacious slanderers of government are not more respectable. A boy of 16 has been known to write political pieces in a gazette in which he chattered about men in high office like a magpie. Besides, men who have character, are the most cautious how they attempt to take it away from others. But the man who never had any, or having had some, has lost it, can write abusively against public men without measure, and without any feeling to check him—for he cannot make the case of the man he rails at, his own. He is more likely than a good man to believe ill of his adversary, and he can abuse him therefore with a better conscience. For when he sees a man in a public place, which is exposed to dirty temptations, he takes it for certain, judging from his own heart, that he has basely yielded to them. Let a man, having nothing to do with the government, but standing impartial, read the base aspersions which have lately been thrown on public men and measures, he will say, if he has a good heart, that he had rather be the subject than the author of them—he will say that those hearts which could nurse such suspicions, and those men who could publish them without proof, have shown what and who they are.
Z.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO, I HAVE heard it remarked, and I believe with a great deal of truth, that the newspaper called the National Gazette, contains more scurrility against the general government, than all the other public papers in this city put together. And as it respects the editor of that paper, I am not at all surprised—I have always considered the person as inimical to good government, who wrote for a paper called the Freeman's Journal some years ago. But must confess I feel some uneasiness for the reputation of the Secretary of State, when I see such circumstances brought forward by two of your correspondents, as must naturally induce a belief, that Mr. Freneau and his paper are probably retained by him, with the view of promoting certain political purposes.
Either the Secretary supposed that these circumstances would not have been attended to, or admitting his views to be perfectly upright, he may consider them as trifles and of little consequence; but every public officer ought, if possible, on all occasions, to conduct himself in such manner, as at least to give no probable cause for suspicion. And Mr. Jefferson must certainly conclude, when he comes to reflect on this business, that some respect is due to the opinions of a people, who set a high value on that government, which is justly esteemed the best in the world; and I have therefore but little doubt, that he will oblige the interpreter either to leave the office, or to construe in better language.
AN OBSERVER.
FROM THE ALBANY REGISTER.
MR. BARBER, Through the medium of your paper I beg leave to put the following queries to the audacious John Cannon, chairman of a pompous meeting of some licentious characters, of the interior counties of Pennsylvania, at Pittsburgh, the 22d of August, 1792.
Query 1st. As you avow in the face of the union—in the face of law, decency and common sense, your intention of opposing the excise system, do you seriously suppose that the whole strength of the union, in men and money, is to be devoted to the protection of the very counties you assume to represent, and that you (of all the people in America) should dare to oppose the government which protects you?
Query 2d. Do you suppose, that your stupid resolutions are to influence the measures of the nation? Recollect Sir—you are not acting upon the local ideas of a State as heretofore; but compare your measures with a general national system.
Query 3d. Can you be so mean and short sighted as to suppose, that the union at large are to pay the expence of your protection (which will cost it more than all your possessions are worth) and that you are to be exempted from a share of that burthen, to say nothing of the direct advantages you receive from the vast sums of national property which are expended every campaign among you?
Query 4th. Are you so lost to all sense of shame, as to avow in the face of the world, that you are so beastly attached to that filthy liquor, called "whiskey," "that if the excise continues it will bring immediate distress and ruin on the western country." In your wise preamble you jesuitically assert, that you mean to pursue no other than legal measures, to obtain what you call redress; but in your last resolve you give the lie direct to this assertion, by illegally pronouncing "your vengeance against excise officers which the laws of your country have established among you; and declaring all persons your enemies who have any dealings with them."
Finally, have you the presumption to think, that the scattering inhabitants in the wilds of two or three back counties of Pennsylvania, are to dictate laws to the rising empire of America,—G—d forbid—blush! John Cannon, and when you appear again recollect with a little modesty, that you represent, but in part, a mere speck on the map of America, and not one hundredth part of the inhabitants of the United States.
Should your daring measures pass by with impunity, I sincerely hope the rest of the union, who are paying heavy duties to protect you, will withdraw their protection, and leave you to defend your scalps and drink whiskey at your leisure. Your western counties have long enjoyed the reputation of being the most turbulent and licentious people in America. It is hoped as education increases among you, that the rising generation will not only enlarge their ideas on a national scale, but that they will become more liberal and civilized.
A NORTHERN MAN.
An electioneering address published in the Carlisle paper contains the following characteristic observations.
IT matters little to the public who presides in the Senate: They do not choose to let the public know any thing about the reasons of their political conduct; the public therefore may trouble themselves little about them, except it be to watch them with a jealousy, and try to get rid of them as soon as possible; it is but little good ever they did, and but little good they can do, but they may do much evil; there are however valuable characters shut up in their Divan. We sincerely wish them released.—Pennsylvania wanted a Senator this last session; we pray a greater evil may never befall her.

Foreign Affairs.
WARSAW, July 4.
THE last accounts from the army of Prince Joseph Poniatowski, mention his being now posted near Dubno. In his march from Ostrog, his rear-guard was continually engaged with the enemy, by which the Russians lost 200 men, and our troops about 40.
JULY 13.
We have received accounts here that the Polish army under Prince Joseph Poniatowski, near Polonnoc, has suffered a great loss from the Russians.
On the 7th inst. the Polish army, consisting of 25,000 men, approached the Russians, whose numbers we have no accounts of. Prince Poniatowski was just absent; thus the army was without a head. The Russians no sooner appeared, but the Polish National troops were immediately struck with a panic terror and put to flight.
Two Polish Generals, either thro' inclination or fear, went over to the Russians. A reinforcement of 20,000 men for this army was on the march, and it is much apprehended they will meet with the Russians unprepared.
The loss of our defeated army consists of the whole field equipage, 49 guns, 227 bags of gunpowder, 1475 firelocks, 50,000 cartridges, 24,000 sacks of flour, 5,000 sacks of oats, 25 cart loads of hay, 2800 pieces of cloth, 470 ammunition waggons, and the chest of war; 1737 men were killed, 439 wounded, and 1247 taken prisoners. This affair cost the Russians nothing, since the Polish army made no resistance.
On the 10th July the King and the whole corps de reserve that was encamped in the adjacent districts, marched and fixed their camp in the neighbourhood of Prague (in Poland) on the opposite banks of the Vistula.
BRESLAW, July 21.
The report of the defeat of the Polish army commanded by Prince Poniatowski, is not confirmed, and from the accounts which have been received, it seems to be a false one, as they mention nothing neither of the absence of Prince Poniatowski the treason of one or more of the generals, or the total defeat of the army.
GLASGOW, July 28.
The new gaol at Ipswich is divided into four parts; one for debtors, another for convicts, a third for felons, and a fourth for women. They have separate cells, and are provided with a comfortable dress at the expence of the county; each has a bedstead, straw, mattrass sheet, blankets, and coverlid. From the structure of the building no gaol distemper can possibly arise, and every prisoner on his entrance is obliged to strip and be bathed before he is apparelled with the cloathing of the house; nor are strangers admitted to see them.
PARIS, August 3.
The authenticity of the Duke of Brunswick's declaration is no longer questioned; but it has not produced the union which all rational men consider as our only means of defence. On the contrary, the two parties are as eager in reviling and calumniating each other, as if they had no common enemy. To their activity, in this respect, may, I presume, be attributed the idea of a letter which the Jacobins affirm to have been written by the king to the duke of Brunswick, inviting him to Paris, and which the Feuillants assert is a forgery by the Jacobins, intended to be produced at some convenient opportunity, to delude the people, and serve as a pretext for seizing the whole executive power into their own hands. It is our good fortune that these plots, if they have any foundation in truth, are too much talked of to succeed.
M. Robertspierre moved the Jacobins that to save their country there should be a new national convention, to be chosen by the primary Assemblies, to exist for one year, neither the Assemblée Constituante, nor the present Assembly, to be eligible to it, and this convention to have the whole power.
Another member proposed, that a Dictature of twenty-one should supercede both King and Assembly, chuse ministers, appoint generals, and conduct the war.
Such are the questions that now agitate the public mind; but I see a probability in the present tumult, of order. The Jacobins say, they have no more than 45 or 46 members in the National Assembly, upon whom they can depend. All the rest are either intriguers or touched by moderantism; be it so, we are likely at least to have a confirmed majority on one side, and for the sake of experiment, I care not on which side; for I desire them only to confront their foreign foes and postpone for the term of war at least, all questions merely accessory.
The National Assembly to the National Guards of Paris, and to their brothers in arms, the National Guards of the several Departments of the kingdom, come to Paris in order to repair to the camp at Satory, or to join the armies on the frontiers.
CITIZEN SOLDIERS, The Representatives of the people, whose lively solicitude watches unceasingly over all parts of the kingdom, think it their duty to inform you yourselves of the dangers that threaten you. The enemies of the constitution redouble their efforts to destroy your force by dividing it. It is in the name of that liberty which you adore; it is in the name of the law, to which you have sworn to be faithful, that they have the audacity to sow so fatal dissensions among you. Artfully perverting every circumstance, reviving every prejudice, inflaming every mind, they strive, from district to district, from division to division, to lead you on to actual crimes, and make you turn your arms against one another. They want to introduce among you anarchy and civil discord, those terrible precursors of despotism; they wish to deliver you, without defence, to the powers leagued against your liberty, your independence, and your happiness. "Citizen soldiers, mark the precipice over which they wish you to fall. The representatives of the nation have shewn it to you; they have no more fears on your account. Your patriotism, your fidelity, the interest of your country and your own, all assure them, that apprized of the perfidious plots against your safety, no force will be able to vanquish you, because no seduction will be able to disunite you."
PROCLAMATION by the King, for the maintenance of public tranquility.
The King cannot see, without profound indignation, the acts of violence by which the public tranquility for several days past has been disturbed in the Capital, individual liberty outraged, the safety of persons and property endangered. His Majesty would think himself the accomplice of such excesses, if he suffered them in silence to be committed before his eyes, and the blood of Frenchmen to be sprinkled, to use a strong expression, on the walls of his palace, on the gates of the National Assembly. If armed men are capable of forgetting that there exist laws, the guardians and protectors of liberty and lives of citizens, his Majesty will never forget that he is invested with the national power, but to maintain the execution of those laws. He has already directed the minister of justice to denounce to his commissioner in the criminal tribunal, the crimes perpetrated yesterday. He has today enjoined the department, the municipality, all public officers, civil and military, to employ all the means given them by the constitution, to re-establish order and peace. He invites all the citizens to concord, to respect for the constituted authorities, to zeal for maintaining tranquility; and in case of its being disturbed afresh he enjoins all the friends of their country and of liberty to give force to the law.
At Paris, July 31st, 1792, fourth year of Liberty.
(Signed) "LOUIS." (Underwritten) "CHAMPION."
The general council of the department of Morbihan, have prohibited the circulation (till the national assembly ordered otherwise) of thirteen incendiary newspapers.
M. Luckner's army has marched towards Metz. That of M. La Fayette has marched through Sedan.
This morning the capital was on the point of being a scene of confusion and bloodshed—on account of the populace receiving information that there were a large quantity of arms concealed in the Kings Palace; they had assembled in vast numbers in the fauxbourg St. Antoine, &c. but the virtuous PETION arriving and assuring them to the contrary, they dispersed without any bad consequences.
The present plan of the Jacobins adopted in their cavern on the 25th ult. is as follows:
1. To suspend the King. 2. To form an Executive Council instead of him. 3. To abolish the Civil List forever, and that all the King's expences and those of his family shall be defrayed by the National Treasury. The quantum to be fixed every year by the National Assembly. Those accounts to be published yearly. That this plan be sent, not to the 83 Departments as was at first intended, but to the 44,000 Municipalities of the kingdom.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY,
JULY 24.
M. Montesquiou appeared at the bar. He plainly informed the august Diet, that the King of Sardinia has 70,000 troops ready to march, who receive war pay.
M. Montesquiou said that his army consisted of only 94 battalions for the defence of all the Southern Departments, and that 32 battalions only could be employed in the campaign.
M. Guerin said that he would denounce to all good citizens any man who should maintain that the King ought not to be deposed. "Then you may denounce me," cried M. Boulanger.
Read a letter from the war minister, containing information that the Austrians are extending their lines at Bayay, with a view to intercept all communications with Maubeuge, that the towns threatened with an attack are fortifying night and day, and that M. Dillon has held a council of war at Valenciennes on the operations most proper to be adopted at this critical moment: that the fire has consumed in that town all the camp implements, and that some men have been arrested on suspicion of being incendiaries.
M. Duhamel declaimed loudly against the treachery of the executive power.—Adjourned.
JULY 25.
On the motion of the military committee it was decreed, that every commander of a fortified place, who shall surrender before a practicable breach is made in it, or without sustaining at least one assault, if there be an interior entrenchment, shall be punished with death.
That fortified places being the property of the whole nation, in no case can the inhabitants or administrative bodies of such places require the commander to surrender, on pain of being treated as rebels and traitors to their country.
The following extraordinary case was referred by one of the criminal tribunals to the Assembly:
"A woman, two months gone with child, had run some melted lead into her husband's ear, who instantly expired. The culprit made the most ample confession, and excused herself by saying, that she loved her husband tenderly, but that she could not resist the inclinations of a woman in her situation."
"We have consulted the Faculty on this point, and they have unanimously declared, that the LONGINGS of a woman with child might be such as to induce her to commit so horrible a deed, without her own volition."
"We request the Assembly to direct us how to proceed upon this subject."
JULY 26.
The Assembly decreed, that a Legion composed entirely of foreigners, should be raised under the name of Legion Blanche Etrangers. It is to consist of 2622 men, of whom 500 are to be mounted on horseback.
M. Gaudet, in the name of the commission of public safety, presented the project of an address to the King, requesting him, "in the name of their common country, and from regard to his own interest, to banish from about his person, all those who are the objects of public mistrust, and the cause
of the present alarming and fatal activity."
M. Brissot then rose, and in a long and eloquent speech, deprecated precipitation, which according to him would produce a civil war.
He observed, that the King ought not to be tried, until all France should be convinced of his perfidy.
He concluded by moving: 1st, That the committee should bring in a report concerning those cases in which a Sovereign might be considered as having abdicated his Royalty: and 2dly, Whether an abdication had now really taken place? He recommended an address to the nation.
Mr. Arena moved that the late ministry be punished, without excepting one individual, as being guilty of having betrayed the nation.
LONDON, July 19.
The Court of Vienna is said to have insisted on the dismissal of Calonne, from the Councils of the French Princes, on account of the general detestation in which he is held in France.
The Cardinal Archbishop of Turin has published, by order of his Court, a pastoral letter, to invite the people to pray for the success of the Piedmontese arms against a nation equally the enemy of God and of Kings.
The Ambassador from the United States of America to the British Court arrived on Friday night, with a numerous suite, and has taken up his residence at the Royal Hotel, St. James's.
Two standards belonging to Tippoo Sultan's army, and taken by Lord Cornwallis before the walls of Seringapatam, have been sent home by his Lordship as a present to Lord Pembroke.
The Austrians and Prussians have, it is said, finally determined to form immediate arrangements for advancing to Paris, which they are resolved to capture on or before the 23d of October next.
The Declaration of the Duke of Brunswick is said to be a composition entirely his own, and contrary to the opinion of Prince Hohenlohe, the General of the Imperial troops. The Duke was perhaps afraid that he should not meet with opposition enough in France to afford an opportunity for a full display of his military skill, and proposed a declaration to provoke the whole nation to unite against him.
The subscription towards the succour of the people of Poland is likely to be taken up in a way unprecedented in the history of England. Not merely corporations, public bodies and clubs—but the ladies have distinguished themselves in a cause so noble, and some of our most exalted women emulate the Duchesses of Marlborough in the cause of Maria Theresa.
A diabolical attempt has been made to poison the bread making for the Prussian army. The bakers had received for that purpose large sums of money, and as soon as the money was in their pockets they discovered the whole plot. Several Frenchmen were immediately taken up and committed to prison. They passed for emigrants. The attorney-general has given notice to Jordan the bookseller, publisher of Mr. Paine's Rights of Man, that his pleading GUILTY, will not entitle him to any more favour than he should have received, had he been convicted.
Angling is not confined to the watery element: a gentleman of the black rod, one evening last week, very dexterously contrived to cram a hook with a wire to it, through the key-hole of Mr. Francis's shop, the clothier, in Chester; where he caught about 30 yards of cloth, which he found means to drag through an aperture at the bottom of the door.
The government of this country, in the whole of their conduct with regard to the revolution in France have maintained a system of strict neutrality. They have equally forbidden to interfere in their internal government, or take advantage of their distresses. They have likewise taken care not to pledge themselves by any tie to their support, or afford any claim which might render their assistance necessary.—In short they have left the French to legislate for themselves.

AUGUST 7.
Extract of a letter from Coblentz, July 28.
This court has exhibited for some days past, the most active and interesting scene that can be imagined, by the assemblage of a greater number of sovereigns and princes than perhaps were ever collected before on any occasion. The elector, ever distinguished for hospitality and magnificence, has had the satisfaction of entertaining at once, the king of Prussia, the duke of Weymar, the archduke Charles, the French Princes, the prince of Prussia, the prince of Baden, the prince of Wirtemberg, prince Augustus of England, the prince of Nassau, &c. and, besides these, many of the most distinguished characters in their different lines of war and politics.
The king of Prussia came down the Rhine from Mayence, after the conference there held with the emperor. The elector of Treves went to meet his majesty in the barge of state, accompanied by his whole court, in the highest style of magnificence. The two barges being arrived near each other, the English sea officer, sir Sidney Smith, who accompanied the elector, went forward in a small boat, and the ceremony being adjusted, the two sovereigns met on the majestic Rhine, whose banks were covered with the different corps of French emigrant troops, now, for the first time, formally permitted to appear under arms.
Preparations are making to enable the Prussian army to move forward. It is, at present, encamped on the French side of the Rhine, which it crossed in three columns, over a bridge of boats and two swing bridges, built after the model of the floating bridges on the coast of Fomerania. The Duke of Brunswick's Manifesto, it is expected, will strike such a terror into the minds of the inhabitants of France, that they will not suffer the army or the national guards to make any resistance, since it cannot be sufficient to defend them, and can only draw on them the threatened vengeance of military execution.
The Austrian army, under the command of the Prince Hohenloe, has crossed the Rhine at Swerzingen, near Manheim, and will proceed to invest Strasbourg without loss of time.
His Royal Highness Prince Augustus, of England, dined with the King of Prussia in camp yesterday, and afterwards took leave of his Majesty, previous to his Hanoverian attendants; he was attended by all the English young men of distinction here; Lord Borigdon, Lord Granville Gower, the Hon. Mr. Frederick North, Sir Sidney Smith, Mr. Jenkinson, member of the British Parliament, Captain Colby, &c. &c.
STATE PAPER.
Additional Declaration of his Most Serene Highness the Reigning Duke of Brunswick and Lunenburgh, addressed to the inhabitants of France.
THE declaration which I have addressed to the inhabitants of France, dated Quarters General at Coblentz, July 25, must have sufficiently made known the firm resolves of their majesties the Emperor and the King of Prussia, when they entrusted me with the command of their combined armies. The liberty and the safety of the sacred persons of the King, Queen and Royal Family, being one of the principal motives which have determined their Imperial and Royal Majesties to act in concert; I have made known, by my said declaration to the inhabitants of Paris, my resolve to inflict on them the most terrible punishments, if the least insult should be offered to his Most Christian Majesty, for whom the city of Paris is particularly responsible.
Without making the least alteration in the 8th article of the said declaration of the 25th inst. I declare besides, that if, contrary to all expectation, by the perfidy or baseness of some inhabitants of Paris; the King, the Queen, or any other persons of the Royal Family, should be carried off from the city, all the places and towns whatsoever, which shall not have opposed their passage, and shall not have stopped their proceedings, shall incur the same punishments as those inflicted on the inhabitants of Paris; and the route which shall be
taken by those who carry off the King and Royal Family, shall be marked with a series of exemplary punishments, justly due to the authors and abettors of crimes for which there is no remission.
All the inhabitants of France in general are to take warning of the dangers with which they are threatened, and which it will be impossible for them to avoid, unless they, with all their might, and by every means in their power, oppose the passage of the King and Royal Family, to whatever place the factions may attempt to carry them. Their Imperial and Royal Majesties will not allow any place of retreat to be the free choice of his most Christian Majesty (in case he should comply with the invitation which has been made) unless that retreat be effected under the escort which has been offered.
All declarations whatsoever in the name of his most Christian Majesty, which shall be contrary to the object which their Imperial and Royal Majesties have in view, shall consequently be considered as null and without effect.
Given at General Quarters at Coblentz, July 27, 1792. CHARLES GUILLAUME FERDINAND, Duc de Brunswick Lunenburgh.
Philadelphia, Sept. 26.
At a conference held at Lancaster, on the 20th day of September, 1792, for the purpose of proposing to the consideration of the citizens, the names of suitable persons to represent this State in the Congress of the United States, and to serve as electors of a President and Vice-President.
Conferrees attended from Philadelphia, county of Bucks, Chester, Lancaster, York, Berks, Northampton, Montgomery, Dauphin, and Delaware.
Friday, Sept. 21. The gentlemen present having conferred together, and so far as was in their power collected the sentiments of the good people in this commonwealth, as to the most suitable persons to serve in the capacities aforesaid, it was agreed to propose to the consideration of their fellow-citizens, the following ticket for members of Congress.
Thomas Fitzsimons, Thomas Scott, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, William Irvine, James Armstrong, Thomas Hartley, Daniel Heister, John W. Kittera, Henry Wynkoop, William Bingham, William Findley, Samuel Sitgreaves, Peter Muhlenberg.
And the following ticket for electors of a President and Vice-President, viz.
James Ross, of Washington; Robert Coleman, Lancaster; Henry Miller, York; John Boyd, Northumberland; William Henry, Northampton; Thomas Bull, Chester; John Wilkins, jun., Allegany; Cornelius Cox, Dauphin; David Stewart, Huntingdon; James Morris, Montgomery; George Latimer, Robert Hare, city and county of Philadelphia; Joseph Heister, Berks; Hugh Lloyd, Delaware; Robert Johnson, Franklin.
By order of the meeting, GERARDUS WYNKOOP, Chairman. Attest, THOMAS ROSS, Secretary. (copy.)
The anniversary commencement of Yale College was celebrated at New-Haven on Wednesday the 12th instant, with the usual formalities—after the exercises of the day were finished—the degree of Bachelor was conferred on thirty-four, and that of master of Arts on twenty-one gentlemen.
The honorary degree of master of arts was conferred on the honourable William Hillhouse, Esq. and on Daniel Dewey, Esq.
The degree of doctor of laws on the hon. Henry Marchant, judge of the district of Rhode-Island—and the hon. John Worthington, of Massachusetts—and the hon. Oliver Wolcott, lieut. gov. of Connecticut.
The rev. doctor CLAGGETT, of the state of Maryland, was consecrated bishop for that state in New-York, by the right reverend Samuel Provoost, on Tuesday, last week.
The electors of the city and county of Philadelphia, are notified by the sheriff to meet on Thursday the 9th day of October next, to chuse five persons for representatives for the city, five persons for representatives for the county, and one person for commissioner; and at the same time to chuse thirteen persons for representatives of this state in Congress.
A letter from Savannah, says that the Indians are at peace, but will on no terms consent to running the lines agreeable to treaty.
On Tuesday evening the following gentlemen were elected managers of the stock, to be employed in establishing the manufactures of maple sugar, and pot-ash, and in promoting agricultural improvement in Northampton county, in this state, viz.
TIMOTHY PICKERING, president. HENRY DRINKER, treasurer. SAMUEL PLEASANTS, SAMUEL HODGDON, and SAMUEL M. FOX, secretaries.
The proposed manufactures are to be established on a large body of rich land, near the Delaware.
The following is a statement of the quantity of rice shipped from Charleston, South-Carolina, from the 15th of December 1791, to September
1792, viz. One hundred and eight thousand five hundred and sixty-seven tierces. The nett weight of each tierce may be averaged at five hundred and fifty weight.
A petition will be presented to Congress, at their next session, praying them to take into consideration the impropriety of officers acting under the excise law being proprietors of stills, or any way interested in a still or stills.
Virg. Paper.
At the last Court of Quarter Sessions for the county of Chester, in this State, Joseph Evans and Robert Fletcher, with several others, were indicted for a riot, assault and battery on Jacob Humphreys, who was in the execution of his office under what is commonly called the "Excise Law" of the United States.
The other defendants had not, at the time of the trial, been taken.
The jury convicted both the defendants, and Fletcher was fined 50l.
Abstract of European intelligence by the British packet Antelope, in 35 days from Falmouth, arrived at New-York last Thursday.
It is said in the foreign prints, that a cessation of hostilities is agreed upon between the Poles and Russians—a number of volunteers have left Ireland to join the French armies—The Austrians have left Bayay, the only French place they were in possession of—A manifesto of the French emigrant princes has been circulated in the frontier towns of France; it recommends an oblivion of past grievances, proposes a form of government similar to that of Great-Britain, king, lords and commons; the estates and titles of the nobility to be restored, &c. About the 4th August the Prussian army was to enter France. A plot to assassinate the new emperor of Germany, is said to have been discovered at Frankfort. Several recent skirmishes have taken place between the French and Austrians, in which the former have been generally successful. Three hundred thousand men are on the banks of the Rhine, &c. &c. An act of re-confederation has been signed at Wilna, in Poland, under the auspices of the empress of Russia. A great part of the Russian army was within 30 leagues of Warsaw.—The elector of Mayence has suggested to the minister plenipotentiary of France, at his court, in a note, whether in the present posture of affairs it would not be better for him to retire from that country in which he cannot be assured of perfect safety, or be received in the character of minister.—A subscription for the king of Poland is opened in England, which it is expected will amount to a large sum—James Napper Tandy, Esq. of Dublin, lately subpoenaed the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in the court of Exchequer, but the plaintiff's attorney refusing to declare the cause of action, after considerable argumentation by Mr. Butler, another of the plaintiff's attorneys—the court ordered the business to stand over to the next term, for further argument.—The academy of Sciences at Paris have allotted the prize of 1200 livres to Dr. Herschel for his astronomical discoveries.—Among other presents to the emperor of China, which are to be carried by Lord Macartney, are a pair of Globes, the most magnificent ever executed in England; on the celestial globe are inserted 5864 stars of seven different magnitudes, on a beautiful enamelled ground, each magnitude is distinguished by gold, silver, and different coloured foils. The terrestrial Globe is accurately laid down, and beautifully illuminated—they are mounted in gold and silver.
The French resident in Constantinople, according to a letter from that city, declared in confidence that an army of 100,000 Turks will shortly march into Hungary; this would be a powerful diversion in favor of the French cause. The loss by the fire at Valenciennes is estimated at 200,000 livres—it is pretty fully ascertained that this misfortune was not occasioned by accident.
The French possess great advantages over the Austrians in the superiority of their artillery; to this is to be attributed the great loss of the latter where the former have experienced very little loss at all. It is said that the National troops of France have given such proofs of their spirit, discipline and bravery, particularly in the affair of Orchies, that they are more dreaded than the troops of the line.
Great tumults have recently prevailed in Paris; M. D'Espement, and M. Champion one of the present Ministry have been very roughly treated by the populace—the former had his clothes torn off his back and was so badly wounded that his life is in danger. They were rescued by the guards. The concussion of parties still exists in Paris; the Feuillants keep their hold round the King. The Jacobins are enraged at seeing a new Ministry of Feuillants.—The suspension of the executive power being proposed in the committee of twelve; M. de Montesquieu said, "If you move to suspend the King, I will answer, that the next day you will neither have officers nor soldiers in your army."
M. Champion, the minister of the interior department, was wounded in the head with a sabre, of which he lies dangerously ill—The assassin was taken, his name is Hyon, a furious Jacobin.
M. Brissot de Warville, in a speech in the National Assembly, when he came to examine the different propositions lately agitated "for suspending the King, for appointing a dictatorship, for convoking the primary assemblies, in order to taking their opinion on reforming the constitution."—Of each of these he disapproved, as highly dangerous, and proposed that an address to the people should be prepared, to warn them against believing that any such were in contemplation, or fit to be adopted. This motion was agreed to.
On the 8th of August Mr. Pinckney, the American Minister, had his first audience of the King of Great-Britain—when he delivered his credentials. He was introduced by Mr. Dundas, one of the principal Secretaries of State,
and conducted by Mr. Cotterel, Deputy Master of the Ceremonies.
The Elector of Saxony has joined the league against France.—An order has passed the National Assembly for clearing the nunneries and monasteries which had continued to be occupied by the religious orders—that those buildings might be appropriated to the accommodation of the troops.
The merchants of London lately gave an elegant entertainment to Mr. Bond, the British Consul, in testimony of their sense of the essential services rendered by him to the British mercantile interest in the United States of America.
Monday last arrived the ship George Barclay, Capt. Collet, from London, which she left the 11th of August, ult. but made the passage from land to land in 28 days.
The following ladies and gentlemen came passengers in the George Barclay:—Mr. Cox, his lady and child; two Miss Butlers; Miss Davis; Miss Manley; Mr. Michael Roberts; Mr. Pratt, and several in the steerage—in the whole 22 passengers.
Five performers from the London and Dublin theatres, are to make their first appearance this evening, at the theatre in Southwark.
The person who was lately committed to goal on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of Elizabeth Reeves, having been examined by the proper authority, nothing appeared against him to confirm the suspicion—he was accordingly discharged.—It is proper therefore that the public should be notified that the proclamation of the supreme executive of this commonwealth remains in force.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
It is positively asserted, that the people in one vicinity in the United States, who opposed the collection of the excise, have never paid a state tax since the late war! 'Tis not this, that, or the other mode of revenue, which they would oppose, but the payment of any and all public dues. Not to execute the laws among such people, would be to abandon the maintenance of civil society, and to reduce a free and civilized nation to a state of nature. Mail.
The world is frangely fettered by custom even in matters which their own senses are daily teaching them to understand. The writers against the excise cunningly avail themselves of the ancient aversion to this tax to raise an hue and cry against the law of Congress. The word is worth more to their purpose than all the arguments they have been able to conjure up. They carefully remind us of the expression of the old Congress, that an excise is the abhorrence of free States, and they add that it is odious even in monarchies. But they avoid pointing out the odious parts of an excise system. It would not suit their views to confess that the law in this country is well guarded against abuse; that officers are not to break open houses and the mode of trial is not arbitrary nor summary. Will names therefore be sufficient always to scare a discerning people? Will old prejudice outweigh demonstrative experience? We have had trial of an excise and we know it is not the man eater that it was represented to be. States most justly zealous for liberty have had excise laws these forty years. It is the interest of the people to know the truth, and every day is teaching them that an excise is one of the fairest and least oppressive taxes that can be laid.
MR. FENNO,
THE writer of the paragraph in your paper of the first instant, who mentioned the duty on nails as being one cent per pound, had reference to the duty laid by the former law of Congress—not advertising to the duty of two cents laid by the act which took place the first of July last.
Mr. DUNLAP having called on the Editor with a request as from the author of the publication which appeared in his paper of Saturday last, that it might appear in this Gazette; in compliance with that request (though anonymous) the republication is begun this day—This circumstance must apologize to the author of CATULLUS for deferring his third essay till Saturday, when it shall be published without further delay.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
  Ship George Barclay, Collet, London   Brig Little Sarah, Thomas, Jamaica   Good Intent, Pearce, Antigua   Active, Foster, Gion   Henricus, Jager, Amsterdam   Sch'r Eagle, Wilson, Charleston   Sloop Abby, Ames, Boston   Abigail, Allen, Curacoa   Newbern Packet, —, Cape-Francois   Polly, Norris, St. Croix 
PRICE OF STOCKS.
  6 per Cents, 24/ Int. off.   3 per Cents, 13/   Deferred, 13/6   Full shares Bank U. S. 49 per cent. prem.   3/4 shares, 60 
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM the subscriber, on the night of the 18th instant, from the inclosure of JOHN CLARK, of Trenton Township, Hunterdon county, New-Jersey, a Chestnut Sorrel MARE, about nine years old, fourteen and an half hands high, bald faced, white feet and eyes, a bunch on her left and near side; occasioned by a hurt, small long neck, thin mane, shortish tail, shod all round: Whosoever will take up said Mare, and return her either to JOHN CLARK, of Trenton, RICHARD VARIAN, New-York, or the subscriber in Danbury, Fairfield county, State of Connecticut, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD for the Mare and Thiel, or FOUR DOLLARS for the Mare only.
JAMES TROWBRIDGE.
Trenton, (N.J.) Sept. 18, 1792.

BOWEN'S EXHIBITION OF Wax-Work & Paintings, AT the House lately occupied by Mrs. PINE, in Eighth-street, is now ready for the entertainment of the Public. Among a great variety of Paintings, are a number of ITALIAN & FRENCH PIECES, which are new and very pleasing. Also, a large collection of NEW WAX FIGURES.
The Exhibition is open every day, from nine o'clock in the morning, until nine in the evening. Admittance HALF A DOLLAR for Ladies and Gentlemen, and half price for Children. Tickets for the season, (not transferable) TWO DOLLARS. For Sale, at the Exhibition Rooms, LIKENESSES of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, in Wax, And a variety of Elegant PRINTS in Frames. Sept. 21.
The SUBSCRIBERS to the Universal Tontine Are informed, that a general meeting is to be held at the State-House in this city, on Saturday the 3d day of November next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. agreeably to the sixth article of their association. By order of the Agents, EBENEZER HAZARD, Sec'y. Philadelphia, Sept. 15, 1792. (ep3N)
BOOKS, PRINTED AND SOLD BY MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia. AMERICAN MUSEUM, from its commencement in January 1787, to June 1792, in eleven vols. Price, neatly bound and lettered, seventeen dollars and three fifths.
This work, which is now conducted on an improved plan, containing the best pieces published for and against the proceedings of government, will be found to contain at least as great a variety of political, agricultural, and miscellaneous essays, as any ever published in America. Perhaps in no one work are so many valuable documents respecting the history of this country, collected together. His Excellency the President of the United States, has declared of it, that "a more useful literary plan has never been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement." The subscription is two dollars and a half per ann. Gentlemen in the country who wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to give commission to friends in the city to subscribe for and receive it. Any of the back numbers may be had in order to complete sets.
2. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on Nursing and the management of Children. "We recommend these letters to the perusal of those to whom they are particularly addressed." Monthly Review, vol. 38, p. 101. Price, bound, 62 cents. 3. Duncan's Elements of Logic---75 cents. 4. Beauties of Fielding---50 cents. 5. Beauties of Blair---50 cents. 6. Ladies' Pocket Library, containing Miss More's Essays, Gregory's Legacy, Lady Pennington's Advice, Marchioness of Lambert's Advice, Swift's Letter to a newly married Lady, Mrs. Chapone on command of Temper, More's Fables for the Ladies, Price 6/6. 7. Smith's History of New-York. Price a dollar and a quarter. 8. Elements of Moral Science, by James Beattie, L.L.D. professor of moral philosophy and logic in the Marischal College, Aberdeen---Price three-fourths of a dollar. Of this book the Critical Reviewers (vol. 69, p. 628) say: "We have seen nothing on these subjects more plain, more perspicuous, or more generally useful." N. B. It is introduced into the University in Philadelphia. 9. Beauties of Poetry. Price four-fifths of a dollar. 10. Blair's Sermons. Price two dollars. 11. Necker's Treatise on the importance of Religious Opinions---Price four-fifths of a dollar. 12. Examination of the Observations of Lord Sheffield on American Commerce---Price, on very fine paper, 5 8ths of a dollar. 13. The Constitutions of the several United States, with the Federal Constitution, &c. Price five-eighths of a dollar. 14. M'Fingal. Price three-eighths of a dollar. 15. American Jest Book. Price three-fifths of a dollar. 16. Garden of the Soul. Price half a dollar. 17. The Deway Translation of the Vulgate Bible, in quarto---Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/6---plain, six dollars. 18. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum---Price a quarter dollar. 19. Think well on't. Price a quarter dollar. 20. Christian Economy. Price a fifth of a dollar. 21. History of Charles Grandison, abridged---Price a sixth of a dollar. 22. Poems by Col. Humphreys---Price a third of a dollar. 23. Select Poems, chiefly American---Price a sixth of a dollar.
Said CAREY has for sale, a large assortment of Books, European as well as American editions, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. Country gentlemen, who favor him with commands, may depend upon being supplied in the most satisfactory manner. A liberal allowance to such as purchase quantities for public libraries, or to sell again.
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.)
Universal Hymn Book. To be Sold by THOMAS DOBSON, and other Booksellers in Philadelphia, A Collection of PSALMS, HYMNS, and SPIRITUAL SONGS; selected from different Authors, and published by Order of the Convention holding the Doctrine of the Salvation of all Men, met in Philadelphia, May 25, 1791. Price of a single book, bound, 3 8ths of a Dollar, with good allowance to those who take quantities, August 4. (ep1f.)
NEW-BRUNSWICK Church Lottery.
THE peculiar circumstances of a gentleman who had undertaken to dispose of a proportion of the tickets in the New-Brunswick Church Lottery, having, in his opinion, rendered it inconvenient for him further to proceed in the sale thereof, between eleven and twelve hundred tickets are unexpectedly returned to the Rector, Church-Wardens and Vestry-men. This lays the Managers under the necessity of further adjourning the drawing of the Lottery, until the fifteenth day of October next, that they may have time to transmit these tickets to the parts of the state where they are applied for, and receive the returns. As there are but few tickets besides these remaining on hand, all persons who are disposed to promote the pious object of this Lottery, or to take a chance for the prizes therein, are requested to supply themselves by the first of October; and the gentlemen appointed to dispose of them, are desired to return those to the Managers which then remain unfulfilled, to answer the applications of some gentlemen in the neighbourhood, who are postponed to this resource for a supply. And notice is hereby given, that the tickets not returned to the Managers by the eighth day of October, will be considered as at the risk of the holders. N. B. ROBERT MORRIS, Esq. of New-Brunswick, is duly chosen one of the Managers of the said Lottery, and has given security and qualified agreeably to law. (ep101)
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. 2.425, dated December 1, 1782, payable to Thomas Greenwood, for £23 16s. principal—No. 22.399, dated January 1, 1785, payable to Nathaniel Partridge, 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 3s. 3d. principal—One Indent Certificate for Four Dollars, and a New-Hampshire Certificate for about £12 payable to John and Daniel Jenks; 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. (ep1f)
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, } Executors. THOMAS JOHNS. (entO)
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. (e03m 14 Jul) B. STODDERT.
George-Town.
A Number of LOTS in every situation which may be desired in City of WASHINGTON, will be offered for sale by the Commissioners, on Monday the 8th day of October next. One fourth part of the money to be paid down, the residue in three equal annual payments, with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid. JOHN M'GANTT, Clerk to the Commissioners. June 2, 1792. [ep1f]
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, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts hereafter mentioned, viz.
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 Cayahoga, and at the said Head Navigation. 6. At any place or places from the said Head Navigation to the mouth of the said River Cayahoga, 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 Cayahoga 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. At any place or places from Fort Hamilton to Fort St. Clair, and at Fort St. Clair. 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 Cayahoga. 18. At any place or places from the mouth of the said River Cayahoga 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 Jadagheque Lake, and thence over to and at the said Jadagheque 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 Ouitanun, and at Ouitanun. 28. At any place or places from Ouitanun, 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 thereof. 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 jill 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 depositions of two or more credible characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining 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. Prisons 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.
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, 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 3/4 of a pound of pork, Half a jill 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 Stocks  9216 Linen Overalls 4608 Stock Clasps  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 Breeches 360 Stocks  720 Pair of Boots 360 Stock Clasps; also, 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 shewn 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.
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