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National Gazette.
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VOL. I.
MONDAY, June 4, 1792.
NUMB. 63.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
An investigation of the Causes, which produce the Bilious and Remittent Fevers.
Addressed to the Medical Society of Delaware State.
[Continued from our last and concluded.]
Sec. 3. I SHALL endeavour to prove upon the principles of inductive reasoning, that the effects resulting from the combined operations of the causes of the second section, are the causes which produce those fevers specified above.—It is a position I believe in medicine universally granted, that the living existence is supported by the constant operation of certain causes acting on a certain principle of life inherent in animals.*—It is also granted that the human body is continually tending to putrefaction†; it is consequently always undergoing a change, and in the course of seven years, according to Mr. Locke, the human body suffers a total change‡.
I conceive that these different states may be influenced materially by a total or partial privation, or by an excessive application of causes, for it is proved (from facts indisputable) that the living principle may soon be exhausted, by the constant application of excessive stimuli; and also, that life may be prolonged by the administration of the proper kinds of stimuli.
Hence it seems that this principle of life inherent in animals, (called by Dr. Brown the excitability) is the fulcrum upon which the beam of health turns, and from a strict observance of the weight at the end of the lever, we might ascertain to a mathematical exactness, on which side the deficiency lies; therefore the avenue to the clear perception of truth, appears to be opened, and the aid of the skilful physician might with undoubted certainty soon restore the equilibrium of health.
It has been observed in the first section, that twenty-seven parts of dephlogisticated and seventy-three parts of mephitic air, compose the atmosphere. It should have been added, when the mercury in the thermometer stands at 63 it would constitute a natural healthy atmosphere, when uninfluenced by any hurtful powers:—but as the accumulation of the matter of fire raises the mercury in the thermometer, above that healthy temperature just specified, the air is proportionally rarefied, consequently the excessive heat stimulates the human system, directly in that ratio to its degree, and produces a kind of indirect debility, in the latitude 40 N. similar to that debility produced by excessive fatigue, but in certain situations nearer the equator, the consequences resulting from the accumulation of the rays of heat from the Sun, appear to be greater.
Dr. Lind observes, in "Port Mahon, near the island of Rathian, ships lie in a basin of water so environed with high mountains, that the wind can have no access to them. The stagnant air thence becomes so unwholesome, that men after being there a few days, are suddenly seized with violent vomitings, headaches, delirium, &c. and in two or three days more the dissolved mass of blood issues from every pore§." "Doctors Macbride, Boisien, and Pearson, conclude, that a light atmosphere will hasten putrefaction, and a heavy one will retard it; from this they conclude that putrefaction is more rapid in large cities than in the country||." From these facts and observations, we should, I presume, be justifiable in inferring, that heat when applied to the human body (in proportion to its degree above 63) produces
sometimes a kind of indirect debility different from that indirect debility which constitutes actual disease, and sometimes produces actual disease from its excessive indirect effects different from that indirect debility which may be restored by the salutary effects of profound sleep.
In those situations on the globe mentioned above, where the balance of the atmosphere is destroyed, either from the accumulation of the matter of fire alone, or from the circumstances attendant thereon, mentioned in the second head of Sect. 2, it renders the air insufficient from its directly debilitating effects, to support animal health||, and lively combustion, &c.¶ which a natural atmosphere would produce; hence, this destruction of the dephlogisticated principle of the atmosphere, acting as a directly debilitating power, on the indirect debility already established in the animal fibre, in consequence of the excessive stimulating power of heat: These causes acting in conjunction with the debilitating power of moisture, constitute a kind of debility, denominated by Dr. Brown a mixed debility, and which I conceive, lays the foundation of bilious and remittent fevers.
Moisture is water in a state of vapour diffused through the atmosphere. It serves as a great conductor of heat and of electricity, and supports these substances equally diffused. Hence we see those people who inhabit the foggy situations, complain much of chilliness, of languor, and of debility; unfortunately this moisture is not a direct consequence of the accumulation of the caloric principle or matter of fire in the atmosphere, but an indirect consequence, (owing to certain circumstances) otherwise it would in some measure counteract the debilitating effects of heat, by partially converting it into a latent or quiescent state. That moisture is a great conductor of heat, and of course a directly debilitating power, has been clearly proved by experiments in the Torricellian Vacuum *.
Also that a moist atmosphere serves as a conducting medium for electricity is proved by facts indisputable, for in damp, moist weather, the electrician is generally baffled in attempting to collect the electric fluid†: it is also observed by philosophers, that in those moist regions of the earth, at the time of the existing fogs, there is very little lightning and thunder, supposing it serves as a medium through which the electric matter passes from the earth to the atmosphere, and vice versa.
May not moisture serve as a power to convert partially the matter of fire derived from the Sun into a latent state, thereby depriving it of its necessary stimulus, to excite into action the diffused electric fluid‡, which electric fluid, when concentrated, might restore in some degree the balance of the atmosphere, by converting the different airs into new substances, as nitrous acid, vol. alkali, &c. and thereby obviating in an eminent degree, those diseases which afflict the inhabitants in the different situations specified above.
May not moisture prove the cause of those fevers in another way, independent of its being a conductor of heat and of electricity? For as inflammable air is generated under the circumstances mentioned in Sect. II, and from its great levity ascends in the day time together with the insensible exhalation from the earth, but when the rays of the Sun are subducted, this insensible exhalation is condensed into dews and fogs, and from its specific gravity in those new
forms, it descends and repels before it, down to the surface of the earth, the great volume of inflammable air; for it is incontestibly proved by the experiments of Richard Kirwan, F. R. S. that water and inflammable air will not unite even by agitation§. Hence this may perhaps resolve many phenomena attending the evening air in different climates and the reason why it is more pernicious to health than the morning air.
When the temperature of the air suddenly changes from many degrees above to many below 63 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer, it may then I conceive prove an exciting cause of those diseases, if indirect debility is already established in the animal fibre; but if there is only a predisposition to indirect debility, it will prove a remedy in reducing the excessive excitement, and restore the body to its healthy point; if the cold increases gradually it changes the type of those fevers: I therefore presume that cold is not generally, but may at times prove an accidental cause, for it is very seldom in this latitude, that the temperature of the evening air, at the season of the year in which these epidemics prevail, is below 63 degrees.
If these facts and observations which I have adduced should sufficiently establish firm and just premises, and if the reasons that I have offered be completely inductive of the justness of their consequences, they will I presume satisfactorily explain the causes of the bilious and remittent fevers, for "no more causes of natural things ought to be admitted than are true and sufficient to explain the phenomena." How then can we admit into the causes of the bilious and remittent fevers, the celebrated marsh miasma , a substance sui generis , a substance that has never been proved analytically or synthetically to exist. This miasma is supposed by some to be animalcula or organic bodies, by others, inorganic or corporeal substances. Let us then survey with one glance this subject and the arguments which have been adduced and place to our imagination those causes on a smaller scale; for example, place a vegetable in a small vessel subject to all the causes and circumstances above enumerated: let us then analyse the atmosphere that surrounds this substance, after fermentation, and the new produced matter resulting from fermentation, and comparatively estimate them with those consequences flowing from like causes and like circumstances on the larger scale, and see in what degree the results differ.
From our knowledge of the component parts of the atmosphere, and of the properties of vegetable matter; from our complete knowledge of the effects of heat and of moisture on those substances and the effects flowing therefrom, I am justified, I presume, in denying (but with all deference due to the opinions of the great fathers of physic) the existence of marsh miasma . If marsh miasma is not to be found here where shall it be sought for? Is it to be found in the imagination of its votaries?
Let me recommend with submission to the Dogmatists in this doctrine to publish a manifesto and then resign.
§ See Philosophical Transactions , vol. 72. Philadelphia, May 25, 1792.
THE DRUM.
"I HATE that drum's discordant found, Parading round, and round, and round; To thoughtless youth it pleasure yields, And lures from cities and from fields To sell their liberty for charms Of tawdry lace and glittering arms: And when ambition's voice commands, To fight, and fall in foreign lands. I hate that drum's discordant found, Parading round, and round, and round, To me it talks of ravag'd plains, And burning towns, and ruin'd swains, And mangled limbs, and dying groans, And widows' tears and orphans' moans; And all that Misery's hand bestows, To swell the list of human woes!"
AUTHENTIC.
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
At the first Session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
An ACT authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain Lands to John Cleves Symmes, and his Associates.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, That the President of the United States be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to issue letters patent in the name and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to John Cleves Symmes and his associates, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, such number of acres of land as the payments already made by the said John Cleves Symmes, his agents or associates, under their contract of the fifteenth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, will pay for, estimating the lands at two thirds of a dollar per acre, and making the reservations specified in the said contract.
And be it further enacted, That the President be and he hereby is further authorized and empowered, by letters patent as aforesaid, to grant and convey to the said John Cleves Symmes and his associates, and to their heirs and assigns in fee simple, one other tract of one hundred and six thousand eight hundred and fifty seven acres, with the reservations as aforesaid:—Provided, That the said John Cleves Symmes, or his agents or associates, or any of them, shall deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury, within six months, warrants which issued for army bounty rights sufficient for that purpose, according to the provision of the resolves of Congress of the twenty third of July, and second of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven; but in case, so many warrants should not be delivered, then the letters patent last aforesaid to be given for such number of acres, as shall be in proportion to the warrants so delivered.
And be it further enacted, That the President be and he hereby is authorized and empowered, by letters patent as aforesaid, to grant and convey unto the said John Cleves Symmes and his associates, their heirs and assigns, in trust for the purpose of establishing an academy and other public schools and seminaries of learning, one complete township, conformably to an order of Congress of the second of October, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, made in consequence of the application of the said John Cleves Symmes, for the purchase of the tract aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, That the several quantities of land, to be granted and conveyed as aforesaid, shall be included and located within such limits and lines of boundary, as the President may judge expedient, agreeable to an act passed the twelfth day of April one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, "for ascertaining the bounds of a tract of land purchased by John Cleves Symmes."
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
RICHARD HENRY LEE, President pro tempore of the Senate.
Approved, May fifth, 1792.
G. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
* See Dr. Brown's Elements of Medicine.
† See Crawford on animal heat, &c.
‡ See Locke on Identity.
§ See Dr. Lind on hot climates, p. 116.
|| See the Medical Commentaries, vol. II.
p. 144 and 145.
|| See Mr. Goodwin on respiration.
¶ See Crawford on animal heat and combustion.
* See the new experiments upon Heat by colonel Sir Benjamin Thompson Knt. F.R.S. in the Philosophical Transactions , vol. lxxvi.
† See Cavendish, Franklin and others.
‡ See Viscount Mahon on Electricity.

Continuation of the most important FOREIGN NEWS, by the late arrivals from Europe.
March 24.—April 3.
PARIS, March 24. A decree this day unanimously passed the national assembly that the mulattoes and free negroes in the West India Colonies ought to enjoy the rights of active citizens in the same manner as the whites—Colonial assemblies and municipalities to be elected according to prescribed forms—an equality of political rights to negroes and mulattoes, a right to vote in all electoral assemblies, and eligible to all places, under certain prescribed qualifications; three civil commissioners to be appointed for St. Domingo, Martinique, Guadalupe, St. Lucia, and Tobago; with authority to dissolve or suspend the present colonial assemblies, and send them to France; to call out the public force as often as they shall think proper, &c.—several other powers are to be conferred upon the commissioners, who are to be nominated by the king.
Copenhagen, March 25. The Royal Resolution has now finally passed in Denmark, that from the commencement of 1804 the slave trade shall be entirely abolished in the Danish possessions in the F. & W. Indies. This measure appears at once to unite wisdom and humanity; it abolishes a traffic founded in injustice and supported by cruelty, but in allowing the space of ten years to intervene, observes the necessary moderation and precaution, and prevents those evil consequences which might result from an outrageous zeal, and precipitate conduct on such an occasion.
London, March 27. A messenger has been recently dispatched to Rome by order of the Empress of Russia, with an answer to the pope's address relative to the French seizure of Avignon, and the Comtat de Venaissin. It is said, she promises his pontifical Holiness to do all in her power to restore to him what he has been deprived of by the new government of France.
The new king of Hungary has made a declaration, importing, that the situation of things would not permit him to enter into the views of the German Princes, relative to the recovery of their rights in Lorraine and Alsace; and refusing to interfere in any respect in the affairs of France, or affording assistance to the French Emigrants. In consequence of this declaration, the troops who were upon the march towards the frontiers, have received orders to return.
A commercial treaty has lately been renewed between the Empress of Russia and the Chinese. This trade is carried on by land from Petersburg, Moscow, &c. to Pekin, by means of Caravans which traverse the vast continent of Europe and Asia, and rarely perform the whole immense journey to and from in less than three years. The balance of this trade, in favour of Russia, is estimated at four millions of roubles, a year.
Francis I. king of Hungary, and successor of Leopold 2d. in the imperial dignity, gives but small hopes of long life, being subject to a debility of constitution which renders it improper for him to make any violent exertion either of body or mind. In such circumstances little is to be expected from his government. The greater part of the management of governmental affairs, it is thought, will devolve to the Dowager, his mother.
The successor of the Emperor has already signified to the king of Prussia his intention of adhering to the agreements entered upon in the conference at Pilnitz. His sentiments with respect to French affairs are yet dubious; some have affirmed that he is attached to the old system of despotism, and others that he has expressed himself in a manner which precludes all hopes of his interference in favour of the emigrants.
In consequence of the death of the Emperor, and the character of his successor, a considerable accession of influence will be derived to the king of Prussia, who may henceforth be expected to take a leading part in the affairs of Germany.
Catharine the 2d. Empress of Russia, whose ambition and enterprising spirit seems to be very little repressed by the infirmities of age, has probably some great object still in view—Whilst almost tottering on the brink of the grave, she looks eagerly forward to aggrandizement; and though her successes in the late war, and the advantages she obtained, might have sufficiently flattered her vanity, she meditates new enterprises which perhaps she will never live to see carried into execution. If we can credit report she proposes, in conjunction with Sweden, to have a powerful fleet soon afloat in the Baltic; and has already advanced to his Swedish majesty a considerable sum of money, by way of subsidy, to enable him to cooperate with her in this design. What this exactly is, we are not informed; but when we consider the present critical situation of Europe; and how much the powers of sovereigns have been shaken by some late events, we may readily conjecture that they relate to the affairs of Poland, or to those of France, and perhaps even to both. Catharine has long shewn an aversion to the progress of liberty. The privileges granted to the peasants in Poland
by the new constitution of that country, may extend, and incite her own subjects to claim like indulgencies.—Example is powerful and may here operate in a manner far from agreeable to a despotic prince. This she seems to be aware of, and no doubt wishes to counteract its effects. That her fears are awakened, may be easily collected from the proclamation which she has lately issued. After stating the dreadful consequences of subjects opposing the government of their rulers, she tells hers, that these bad effects have been displayed, in a fatal manner, in a kingdom once celebrated for its prosperity, but now for its misfortunes. Political evils, continues she, combined with a system of speculative philosophy, have overturned the ancient order of things to erect in its stead an order founded on principles inconsistent with the necessities of a great social and political body. The consequence is, that a nation once the richest and most flourishing in the world, when subject to the authority of a monarch, is fallen into poverty, discredited and contempt; and with difficulty exists under the pressure of numerous calamities. What a terrifying example to the nations of the earth, and especially to those who are indebted to their sovereigns for the prosperity of their situation! peace, eternal concord, and the respect of foreign nations!"
The misunderstandings between the Dutch colony at the Cape of Good Hope and the mother country are becoming worse than ever.—The causes of complaint on the part of the colony are, the recal of the popular governor, Vangrave; the transferring the garrison to the defence of some of the Asiatic possessions of the States; and the declared intention of the Stadtholder's Court to send commissioners to examine and punish those who have been active in promoting dissensions.—They have demanded that taxes should be discretionary, and all pecuniary aids such as they shall think proper to fix upon, otherwise they would repel force by force. The deputy governor had been obliged to retire into a fort, which he was putting into a state of defence.
Never was a more mortifying answer, than that given to Sir R. Ainslie, British ambassador at Constantinople, by the Turkish Grand Vizir, on the proposed interference and mediation of England, in the late war between Russia and the Porte.—This answer was read in the house of commons on the 20th of February.—The national and moral character of the English are therein treated with the utmost severity—they being represented as a race of syphophants and misers—worshippers of money—believers neither in God, nor his Son whom they pretend to worship—haters of truth and virtue—faithless to engagements—no religion but gain—avarice their only God—and the christian faith a mask for hypocrisy, &c. &c.
Dr. Priestly, as one of the sufferers by the late riots in Birmingham, attended the Warwick assizes, a few days since, to prove his claims on that county for indemnification. As soon as the populace of Warwick were apprized of his arrival, they collected and used him in the most indignant manner—stones and dirt were thrown at him, and nothing that resentment could dictate was unassayed to mortify and distress him.—In this instance, it is feared, religion will have a crack at philosophy's bones.
There are many symptoms in this country of a speedy return to barbarism, and there is little doubt, that the years are not far involved in the depths of time that will again see England "peopled with wolves, her old inhabitants;" if that is not already the case, under various cloaks and disguises.—A most curious weaving factory, at Manchester, where the whole process was carried on by machinery, has been burnt to the ground on the 15th of March, by certain persons who are inimical to all manufactures on such principles.—Two hundred guineas reward are offered for the perpetrators.
Painting and poetry have been called sister arts: But, if one might judge from the last wills and testaments of their respective favorites, they have no manner of connexion—No poet, from Homer to this day ever left legacies at all to be compared to those observable in Sir Joshua Reynold's will.—Ten thousand pounds to Mrs. Gwatkin—two thousand ditto to Miss Reynolds—three thousand ditto to Miss Reynolds—more! &c. &c. This is indeed enough to laugh poetry out of countenance!
The political characters of both the Abbe Raynal and Mr. Neckar, seem to be suffering a good deal, from the present French revolution. There are some men who can only engage in great events at an immense distance, and, as it were, in the background of futurity. The Abbe, seventeen years ago, thought rationally with respect to the equal liberties of man; but when he found the event had overtaken him, he lapsed into aristocracy, and became the nerveless slave of childish terrors. In Neckar, we see a penetrating philosophical mind duped by the advocates of religious superstition and imposture. The clergy found him too great a man not to be drawn over to their side, and therefore
accomplished their object in the same manner as they formerly did with Boyle, Locke, Newton, Addison, &c. in England. A layman advocating superstition, is always a choice morsel for the clergy.—But what are we to think of Mr. Neckar, when he declares himself a friend to the restoration of the old clergy in France on the following principle?— "The peasantry of France (said he) are miserable, and must necessarily be miserable; by destroying the influence of the clergy and the terrors they inculcated, the national assembly have taken away all that these poor people had left to support them under their misery—the blessings of religious consolation, and the hopes of a better hereafter!"
The two following paragraphs are translated from the Leyden Gazette.
"Such is the temper of the people of France at this time, that both republicans and aristocrats seem alike regardless of the dreadful consequences of civil commotions. The motto of both is— Success attend our cause, and no matter for the rest. —The republican thermometer, however, seems not to be high as that of the sticklers for the old government. These are every where fomenting internal troubles, principally by means of the priests, who are always, on such occasions, the instruments of popular deception; and upon these destructive agents, the counter-revolutionists rest their principal hopes of success."
"It is pretended here (at Leyden) by some, that only the meanest kind of paper is made in America, and not a sufficiency of a tolerable quality to supply even the demand for their newspapers—But the report of the Philadelphia manufacturing society states the number of paper-mills, in Pennsylvania only, to be forty eight. The treasury of the United States and the American banks make use of no other paper, even of the finest kinds, than what is made in their own country, and expressly for those purposes.—An astonishing number of books is now printed in America; and great quantities of paper-hangings are manufactured in Bolton, New-Jersey, and Philadelphia.—From the article of paper, let us pass to that of rum. Some will have it that the Americans must at all times depend upon the British islands for their principal supply.—Let us see—From the present state of this traffic, it appears, that if the whole mass of spirituous liquors consumed in the United States, was to be divided into 132 parts (including those distilled in the country) the molasses imported would furnish sixty of these parts, the rum, and other liquors, from the British, Danish, and other islands, thirty-seven; and the spirits distilled from fruits and grain in the United States, thirty-five. The rum imported from the West-Indies constitutes about one-fourth part of all the ardent spirits consumed in the United States, or re-exported to foreign countries. But it is not probable this will long continue to be the case, the distillation of grain and fruits increasing prodigiously in America. Should the British government refuse to admit any longer the flour and corn of the United States into their islands, as is proposed, America can easily do herself justice by encouraging her own home distilleries, and importing no more foreign spirits. Great Britain, which does not produce a superabundance of grain for her own and her W. India colonies' use, nevertheless brews up and distills 24 millions of bushels, yearly; so that it is not likely the Americans will throw away their surplus of grain rather than distil it into liquors."
WE the subscribers, weavers of the city of Philadelphia, attended this day, Thursday May 24th, at Mr. Pearce's cotton manufactory No. 13 Penn street, to view his machinery; most of us are Europeans, and do all agree, that his abilities in mechanism are superior to any we ever saw, especially in his double loom, in which one man can weave two pieces at the same time, 42 inches wide, with equal facility to one piece in the common loom; this useful loom when examined appears simple, the art of working it soon attained, and the extra expence very small; his machines for carding and roving are excellent, and all the rest of the utensils prepar'd for the business are contriv'd with great judgment, the whole of which we hope will soon come into general use, and be found of great utility in the United States.
  George Storey  William Wadsworth,    Francis Storey  John Kelty,    Hercules O' Connor  John Fletcher,    David Napier  Allen Mc' Cay,    William Waddle  Thomas Robison,    John Maxwell  Isaac Reighly,    James Darrugh,   
** The above being intended for a public good, it is requested the Printers of the newspapers will insert it throughout the United States.
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PHILADELPHIA.
JUNE 4, 1792.
The Hon. TRISTRAM DALTON is appointed Cashier of the Mint of the United States.
By accounts from West-Florida, the sugar cane is contemplated in that province as a considerable object of cultivation, for which the soil and climate is said to be very proper. Fortifications are erecting for the protection of New-Orleans, which is to be surrounded with a deep ditch; and the Bay of St. John is to communicate with the Mississippi by means of a navigable canal.
Since the departure of Gen. Bowles from among the Creek Indians, every thing seems to have been quiet in those parts. By the last advices Gen. M c Gillivray had not yet attended the meeting at Rock-Landing, having been prevented by the uncommon high freshes in the Oakmulgee river—He was expected, however, when the accounts came away, in a few days with 1500 of the Creek Nation, to carry into full effect the treaty with the United States.
Letters from Petersburg (Virginia) say, that "enough has transpired relative to the negro insurrection on the Eastern Shore to render it necessary that the citizens should guard against such an event in future. Discoveries, it is said, have been made of arms, &c. in the possession of the negroes, and from the confession of some of them, they have long had it in contemplation to make an attempt of the kind."
Accounts from Winchester, Virginia, say, that a party of Indians killed a man and his wife on Elk River in the county of Harrison, on or about the first of May.—There were only four families settled at this place, who upon the event moved off, and arrived safe in a neighboring settlement. Some other murders and depredations have been committed near Fort Jefferson, and about the mouth of Kentucky river.
On Thursday last arrived here the ship Harmony, Capt. Alhmead, in four months from Calcutta, in India. This ship brings accounts of the operations of the English armies to about the 20th of January. At that period nothing very material seems to have taken place in the operations of either power, in addition to preceding accounts. Lord Cornwallis had established a magazine of stores, &c. about forty miles from Seringapatam; which place it was expected would be attacked the latter end of January. A detachment of Tippoo Saib's forces was defeated the latter end of December. A few fortresses, stiled rocks, in one of the accounts, had been taken from Tippoo—In that of Pinigra, one half of the garrison were put to the sword, after the place was carried by assault, for having previously fired on a flag of truce, who was sent to demand a surrender—The English India prints represent the military affairs of England in that country as in a most prosperous situation, and the capture of Seringapatam, as a matter almost reduced to a certainty—Those who were readers of the Royal Gazette, printed in New York during the late war, will on such occasions know how to make the necessary allowances for exaggeration.
We hear from South-Carolina, that the extraordinary swell of the rivers in that state, in the month of April, has destroyed immense quantities of Indian corn that were stored at the different landing-places, for market.—This, it is said, will occasion a demand for corn from the northern States till their next crop comes in.
The state of the votes for governor of New-York is not yet published. It appears that the issue of no election since the peace has engaged the attention or interested the feelings of the citizens of that State, more than the present.
On the 24th ultimo, the Governor of the state of New-York issued a proclamation, offering a reward of five hundred dollars, to any person or persons who shall apprehend and deliver up to justice a certain John Ryer, the murderer of the late deputy-sheriff, Smith, of Westchester county.
An extract of a letter appears in the Pittsburgh Gazette (of May 26) dated Reed's Station, May 22, as follows: "This morning about sunrise, Reed's block-house was attacked by the Indians; and one Gasper Redick and a child of John Harbeson's killed, and Harbeson's wife and two children taken prisoners, and one of the levies wounded: This news I received about four o'clock, and immediately set off for this place with eleven men; since my arrival here I am informed that John Currie's house is burnt and his cattle killed, and a Mr. Millen's house, up Puckety, was seen on fire. The number of Indians is said to be about forty."
On the 23d. three hostile Indians were discovered on the road to Fort-Franklin, about twelve miles from Pittsburgh; upon

information being given to major Smith, he ordered out a party of forty soldiers, accompanied by a small party of volunteers from the town—Neither of them had returned when the post left Pittsburgh.
On Thursday last major-general Anthony Wayne, commander in chief, set out from this city to join the army to the westward.
The PRESIDENT of the United States has returned to this capital from his tour to Virginia.
We can assure the public (says a daily paper) from good authority, that the bank of the United States in this city has lately made a loan to the government of five hundred and twenty three thousand five hundred dollars, at a rate of interest of five per cent. per annum, free from charges, and redeemable at the pleasure of the United States.
A small body of Indians, not certainly known to consist of more than four or five have made their appearance at the French settlement of Gallipolis on the Sciota river. Discovering two Frenchmen at work in a field, they took one prisoner and pursued the other to the town, firing several muskets at him, but without effect. This (it is said) has given a shock to the infant colony from which it will hardly recover. Some of the Inhabitants are already gone, and many more are preparing to leave the place.
The annual convention of Universal Salva-tionists met in the city on the 15th. ult. and adjourned on the 29th. Information is given in their address, that the number of their churches in the United States has increased to fifteen, exclusive of twenty five that have not yet met in convention.—They represent their Society, in general, to be in a flourishing state, and great numbers continually coming over to their persuasion, even in the most distant parts of the Union.—Their next annual convention in this city is to be held on the 25th. of May 1793.
Commodore Manley (well known for his bold exertions on the watery element during the late war) has obtained an half-pay pension of 30 dollars per month, from the United States for life.
We are informed by a person from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, that there is little or no foundation for the accounts, re-published here from a Petersburg paper, relative to an insurrection of the negroes in Northampton and Accomack counties. The whole story is said to have originated from some suspicious words overheard among some of the blacks, which were far from proving any general intention amongst them to disturb the public tranquility.
"It is with pleasure we can inform our readers, (says the Albany Gazette) that a load of HEMP, arrived in this city, on Tuesday last, which was raised at the south end of the Cayuga Lake, near the Pennsylvania line, and was brought by water all the way from thence to Schenectady.—This we believe is the first instance of any produce, raised on that beautiful lake, being brought to our market."
The rise in the price of sugar at Paris had nearly been productive of the most fatal consequences in that city. At the sight of some hogheads of this commodity that were transporting out of Paris the women took the alarm, and beat upon the kettle drum. The national guard interposed, and happily no bad consequences ensued at that time; but the leaven of sedition still exists; and evil designing people have since taken all possible pains to procure a part of the citizens of Paris to march out armed with pikes, made for the purpose of murder and assassination. The Fauxbourgs of St. Antoine, St. Dennis, and St. Marceau offered to turn out upwards of 30,000 men armed with this weapon, to execute the wicked designs of intriguing characters; but were happily prevented by the friends of good order. [Leyden Gaz.]
Accounts from China (via Calcutta) say, a hurricane was experienced on part of the coast of that country in November last, which was attended with an immense loss of the coasting vessels, upwards of eleven hundred of which were wrecked and sunk, and about twenty thousand people perished. Such was the violence of this convulsion of nature, that a large Dutch ship in the harbour of Macao was obliged to have all her masts cut away, to prevent going on shore. We are informed from the same accounts, that the government of China has prohibited the sale of skins and furs, brought from the north-west coast of America, in all its ports; and has made it death for any one to purchase or wear them.
It appears by the newspapers from different quarters, that the public attention begins to be turned to the next election of representatives under the new apportionment. Much good advice is offered to the people on the importance of the occasion, and the rules by which they ought to chuse the men, who are to be entrusted with their
honor, their liberties, and their interests: As (1st) That they be men of independent minds and honest principles—2. That they be true friends to liberty and republican government—3. That they be not jobbers in paper—4 That they be not office hunters—Such men alone can have a common interest and feeling with the people, and be entitled to their confidence.
It is particularly worthy of notice (says a correspondent) that no denial has ever appeared of the direct and multiplied assertions, that members of the general government have carried on jobs and speculations in their own measures, even whilst those measures were depending . If these charges are true, can anything be more disgraceful to the councils of a free country, or more loudly call for the indignation of a virtuous people? If they are not true, why are they not denied, and, as far as the case will admit, disproved by appealing to circumstances which can be investigated? Instead of being denied, however, the public has been insulted with attempts to slur the matter over by mysterious and unmeaning paragraphs, the low virulence of personal abuse, or, what is worse, by suggestions that those who warn the people against speculating and stock-jobbing corruptions in the government, are enemies to the government and to the people themselves.
An attentive observer of human affairs, cannot fail reflecting upon the gradual abolition of superstitious opinions, even in countries where the light of knowledge is not suffered to enter, by means of books and writings. The Spanish nation, who are generally accused of idleness, have long lost the fruits of what little industry there was amongst them by that multitude of holidays which were continually occurring from the beginning to the end of the year. By a Bull just published, upwards of twenty festivals are suppressed, so that the artisan or labourer will now gain more than twenty days, in the year, for the support of himself and family—This wise policy never-theless disgusts the populace, who, for want of information, continue blind to their own interests. The Spanish priests, instead of reconciling the minds of the people to this wise political edict, are busy in fomenting their discontent, for reasons best known to themselves, but which the world may easily guess at. Another Bull has been published, which menaces the possessions of the clergy, and points particularly at holders of pluralities, and benefited incumbents. [Leyd. Gaz.]
When crowned heads manifest symptoms of wildness or inconsistency in their conduct (says an English paper) it is hoped their ministers will imitate what has recently been done by the queen of Portugal's council.—When that Princess began to testify an inclination to involve her nation in a mischievous and expensive interference in the affairs of their Gallic neighbours, they immediately sent for Mr. Willis, the celebrated mad Doctor, whose success is unparalleled in curing royal insanity.
Paine's Rights of Man. Mr. Paine's second part of "the rights of man" abounds with thoughts on government, no less excellent than new. There is no American newspaper but might, with credit to itself, now and then occupy part of a column with extracts from a work that so forcibly inculcates the genuine principles of rational and equal liberty. There are some, however, in the world who shun the wholesome atmosphere of this book with the same scrupulous caution that vipers would make use of insinuating clear of the delicious pastures of the Hibernian Isle .
Mr Paine's opinion of the nature of government.
"In the Constitution of Pennsylvania, as well as in the federal constitution of the U. States, there is no such thing as the idea of a compact between the people on one side, and the government on the other. The compact was that of the people with each other, to produce and constitute a government. To suppose that any government can be a party in a compact with the whole people, is to suppose it to have existence before it can have a right to exist. The only instance in which a compact can take place between the people and those who exercise the government, is, that the people shall pay them, while they chuse to employ them. Government is not a trade which any man or body of men have a right to set up and exercise for their own emolument; but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumeable. It has, of itself, no rights, they are altogether duties."
Altho' the late (English) prints from India announce the ruin of Tippoo Saib and his army to be an almost certain event; they at the same time do not scruple to assert that, "it is impossible to form any decided opinion as to the question of peace or war, altho' no doubt, a number of concurring circumstances seems to render the idea of a speedy peace extremely probable."
"A paragraphist asserts (says the FEDERAL GAZETTE) that the benefits of a sound state of public credit, and of the measures by which it has been established, are extended to the remotest parts of the Union. Pray let us examine who it is that thinks as this paragraphist does? Not the merchant, for he has been overburthened with additional duties altho' he petitioned against them; not the Farmer, for he petitioned against the excise, and instead of being redressed by the exertions of his Representatives he has been turned over, for his comfort, to an executive officer, who has sophisticated away his complaints—not the mechanic, for he is threatened with the establishment of manufactures with their exclusive privileges, and moreover he must furnish himself with military accoutrements that will cost 30 dollars, to fight, if called upon, against his neighbour—Not the people at large, for notwithstanding the fulsome attempts of the paragraphist to varnish over the corruptions and blunders of those who have guided our public affairs for the last three years, the people, I will maintain it, complain loudly & justly of the extravagant and ruinous measures that have been adopted, which had been previously calculated to enrich a few speculators, who not satisfied with the enormous wealth they had gathered from the spoils of the soldier, the widow and the orphan, are now approaching the honest trader, in the shape of a bank, to swallow up all his hard earned profits—it was not enough that additional duties should be laid to raise 523,000 dollars for keeping up a parade in the wilderness but 26,150 dollars interest is to be paid into the pockets of the stockholders of the bank of the United States for nominally advancing money to carry on the war on our "invaded frontiers:" in other words the bank will supply the paymasters with paper notes intermixed with a few hard dollars, to keep up the appearance of money, and for this our country is to be additionally taxed 26,150 dollars. The paragraphist may again and again daub over his patrons, who are the only persons that will join in his puffing opinions, but the people are not yet altogether so neglectful of their interest as to stand by quietly to be plundered—they will insist upon a change of men and measures whenever they feel themselves no longer able to endure them.,,"
The following is copied from the Madras Gazette. of Jan. 19.
Accounts are received by Government, of the entire defeat of one of Tippoo's principal detachments, commanded by a confidential General.
The following are the authenticated particulars which have yet come to hand.
On the 28th of December, Purseram Bhow, with a detachment of the Bombay army under Captain Little, fell in with a body of Tippoo's Forces, consisting of 10,000, Infantry, and 1500 Cavalry: which they routed with almost an incredible loss on the part of the enemy.
The action took place at Semogou; about one hundred and twenty miles to the northwest of Seringapatam, on the borders of the Bednor Country.
The general who commanded the Sultan's forces, ten guns, with the elephants, and all the camp equipage were taken.
Nothing is at present ascertained of our loss except that Lt. Ross of the Bombay establishment, and a handful of Europeans under his command, had fallen in the engagement.
By two French ships arrived at Norfolk, Virginia, in forty days from France, we learn—That as soon as Count Florida Blanca was dismissed from the court of Madrid, the Count d' Aranda, who accepted of the place of minister, went to the public jail of that city, and out of fifty-two state prisoners detained under the ill-grounded suspicions of Count Florida Blanca, or by the tribunal of policy, fifty were set at liberty without paying costs.—That the same had been practised at other places where the state inquisition had been introduced—That the Junta Suprema of State, is annihilated, and the Consejo Supremo of State is re-integrated.—That the King himself is to be President, and the Count d' Aranda, Vice President.—That the tribunal of policy created by the ex-minister, is also abolished, and another formed for the interior policy of Madrid and the Court. That there is no doubt that Spain will return to those principles from which she ought never to have deviated: to look upon France as a natural ally, whose friendship cannot be departed from without exposing herself to the same calamities she underwent before the treaty of Utrecht, and the introduction of a king of the Bourbon family—That the Count De Cifuentes, (who was President of Castille, and a friend to Florida Blanca) having died suddenly, the king appointed Don Juan d'Anzedorico, (an upright magistrate) as governor of that council, to the general satisfaction of the people of Madrid; That since the dismissal of Count Florida Blanca, (who is now retired near the town of Murica, in a convent of Franciscan Fryars) the Chevalier de Burgoon, and Mr. d'Artubay, the French Envoys, have settled at Court, and the Count d'Aranda has promised that every satisfaction shall be given to the grievances of the French nation, and of individuals. That such a sudden change in Spain, and the death of Leopold have cut off the head
and arms of the aristocratic party in France. The captains of the above ships further inform, that the affignats had taken a rise, and for a discount of 16 or 18 per cent. hard money may be had—That the king, the queen, and the prince royal of France, were the only persons allowed to wear mourning for the death of the emperor, who had, by his artful and hostile measures, incurred the hatred of the French nation; the fanatics and nobles excepted.—That Muly Azed, Emperor of Morocco, having marched against his brother, the negro Prince, was killed in the encounter, (some say, by his own people); and that the negro Prince was also wounded.—That the latter had been previously succoured by two Spanish frigates, who had landed at Santa Cruz, about 200 thousand dollars; a large train of artillery, and warlike stores of all kinds.—That the negro-prince and another called Santon are now contending for the empire of Morocco.
The following gentlemen are chosen by the freemen of the State of Connecticut to stand in nomination for election in October next, as Representatives in Congress, viz:
Jonathan Trumbull, James Hillhouse, Jonathan Sturges, Jeremiah Wadsworth, Amasa Learned, Benjamin Huntington, Stephen M. Mitchel, Tapping Reeve, Jonathan Ingersoll, Ather Miller, Uriah Tracy, and Zephaniah Swift, Esquires.
BOSTON, May 24.
The innumerable paragraphs in the papers, relative to the horrid devastations, and massacres committed on our frontiers, are just calculated to puff up the Indian war.
If the accounts be true, so far from being pleaded as apologies for prosecuting the war, they should rather lead to an enquiry, how it comes about, that the tribes of Indians who for so many years before were peaceable and quiet, are now in such violent commotion.
To judge of this Indian business, we should not consider it in its present stage, but carry our researches 18 month back & enquire by whose advice, and by whose influence we are now involved in this expensive, disgraceful and ruinous war. After this is done let the man or men be arraigned to answer for the consequences.
The British papers were formerly crowded with the accounts of riots, &c. (as they were then called) of the patriots of this country, in order to excite the resentment of that nation; but the whigs in England, were aware of the design, and instead of urging the war, were for changing measures, and bringing Bute, North, &c. to answer for their conduct. Instead of calling for troops to ravage America, impeachments were the cry to purge the ministry.
The additional burden thrown on our Commerce ought to be satisfactorily accounted for. It may be sport to some individuals, whose importance would be annihilated, should the war subside, but it is ruin to the great body of the people. It was expected, that the late long session, would have produced a decrease of duties, rather than an augmentation; and it is probable this would have been the case, had not the Indian war blasted the attempt.
The exorbitant salaries granted to the multitude of Federal Officers, together with the expenditures to carry on the Indian war, are heavy weights thrown on our Commerce. If excessive salaries are requisite, and the honor of the states is involved in the Indian war, why should not some part of the revenue arise from "additional" Tonnage on foreign bottoms? Why should the carrying trade be totally neglected, while the industrious American merchant has the mortification to find himself deprived of his freight by foreigners, and at the same time hamper'd in his trade by heavy additional duties. It must be allowed by every reasonable man that Commerce has already its full proportion of the weight of the government; some other source is therefore requisite, as we may strain this business beyond its bearings. Foreign Tonnage is a proper object of revenue and it would operate in a two fold ratio in our favour; it would raise a vast revenue, and at the same time would give encouragement and value to our own navigation.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS. May, 1792.
   D. H. Bar. Ther. Wind. Weath.     Monday, 28. 6 30. 1 58 N. E. Fair.   2 30. 2 77 do. do.   Tuesday, 29. 6 30. 2 59 S. W. Fair.   2 30. 2 80 do. do.   Wednesday, 30. 6 30. 2 63 S. W. Fair.   2 30. 1 86 do. do.   Thursday, 31. 6 30. 2 71 s.s.w. Fair.   2 30. 1 90 S. do.   Friday, June 1. 1. 6 30. 2 74 S. Fair.   2 30. 2 84 s.w. Cloudy.   Saturday, 2. 6 30. 1 63 s.s.w. Rain.   2 29. 9 76 s.w. do.   Sunday, 3. 6 29. 9 70 W. Cloudy.   2 30. 1 79 do. do.  

THE FAIR BUCKLE-THIEF.
[A true Story.]
A Country girl, from Flushing's coast, Of three miles round the pride and boast, 'To market came with early fruit, Apples that might the townsmen suit, With cabbage-head, and parsnip root.
With hat of straw and homespun gown, (Her Sunday suit) she came to town To see, and walk the city through, With leather strings in leather shoe, But sighing much for buckles new.
Six hours, and more, the patient stood And traded off whatever she cou'd; But cash was scarce, and times were hard, Her apples met with small regard, She did not get her due reward.
Her cash receiv'd—alas! how small— With pensive heart she left the stall— Look'd at her shoes, and curs'd the strings, Like mother Eve (as Milton sings) Impatient for forbidden things.
Arriv'd, at length, before a shop, Some glittering gew-gaws made her stop— There buckles hung, of various size, The diamonds dazzled on her eyes; And, pray, why mayn't she seize the prize?
The shopman absent from his door, She seiz'd the buckles from his store, And off she walk'd, an easy gait, With lightened step, and look sedate, Things purchas'd at so cheap a rate!
But Argus , with his hundred eyes, Missing his buckles, in surprize, The fair retreating nymph attack'd, The buckles from the bag unpack'd, And quickly made her own the fact.
"Now (cry'd a merchant) honest Joe , "Come, take a kiss and let her go." "None I —(the surly shopman said)— "To jail shall go this country jade— "The debt to justice must be paid."
"How can you have so hard a heart? "Come, let this country girl depart— "Like Adam's wife , she went astray; "Her daughters all will have their way; "Men must not steal, but women may."
Loft was this logic on his ears, And vain were Blouzelinda's tears— And go she must—and go she must! But, if 'twas said the laws were just, Their mercy she was loth to trust.
Conducted to a junior 'squire (Whom all the neighboring girls admire) He ask'd her, "What she had to say "Why justice should not have its way "On nymphs by buckles led astray?"
"Alack (she cry'd) I cannot utter "A word—my foul's in such a flutter— "While you my mittimus prepare "Pray, let me take a moment's air; "These summer heats require some shade, "And nature, sir, must be obey'd"— So, stealing back, as fairies do, (The 'squire too modest to pursue)
Without a fall, She scall'd the wall, And left his worship reading LAW ! May 30.
The CONSTITUTION of the GERMANTOWN SOCIETY for promoting DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES
[Republished by desire of a customer]
WE the inhabitants of Germantown, desirous of doing every thing in our power to promote the prosperity and happiness of our neighbours, and of ourselves, do establish this society to countenance and support every kind of domestic Manufacture, consistent with our situation, ability and interest; we are induced to adopt this measure, from a firm belief, that it is the real interest of our country, as much as possible, to be supplied within itself, with all things convenient, or necessary to render life comfortable. And as we expect the assistance of our neighbours, with whom we are united in civil society, in times of public calamity, we should at all times endeavor to render their lives comfortable and happy, by encouraging them in some useful occupation, and not by a destructive foreign commerce, give employ to the manufacturers of Europe and India, whilst our fellow citizens are in want of bread.
Article 1.—The Society shall be called, The Germantown Society for promoting Domestic Manufactures.
Art. 2.—The Society shall hold quarterly meetings, on the third Mondays in February, May, August, and November, in every year.
Art. 3.—The third Monday of May in every year shall be the annual meeting of the Society, at which meeting a President, a Vice-President, Secretary, and a committee of Correspondence, shall be elected by ballot.
Art. 4.—The duty of the President shall be to preside at all meetings of the Society, regulate the debates, determine questions of order, and, in case of an equality of voices in any business, he shall have a casting vote. He shall subscribe all acts of the Society, and may call special meetings of the Society.
Art. 5.—The Vice-President in the absence of the President, shall have all the powers and authorities of the President. If the President and Vice-President be absent at any meeting of the Society, a Chairman may be elected pro-tem. by a majority of the members present.
Art. 6.—The Secretary shall keep fair and regular entries of the proceedings of the Society at
their several meetings, register the names of Members, and give public notice of the time and place of the meetings of the Society.
Art. 7.—The Committee of Correspondence, shall consist of six members. Whose duty it shall be, jointly or severally, to correspond with similar Institutions, or with individuals on the several objects of the Society; and they shall, at every quarterly meeting of the Society, communicate such information as they may have received or acquired, tending to improve the manufactures already established, or to the introduction of new ones, by which the people may be honorably and usefully employed.
Art. 8.—As the most unequivocal manner of encouraging American manufactures, consists in making use of them, and by that means creating a demand for them; it is expected that every Member, at the annual meeting of the Society, shall be clothed in the manufactures of his country, if not inconvenient to himself.
Art. 9.—Being of opinion that every manufacture, amongst us, should be supported by its intrinsic value, at the same time that it is patronized and encouraged by the real friends of their country; therefore, the Society shall never use its influence with government, to prevent foreign manufactures from being introduced; but on the contrary, shall exert itself to promote a free unlimited commerce, which is the true interest of every country.
Art. 10.—Every Member of similar Societies shall be regarded as a corresponding Member of this Society.
Art. 11.—The Society shall engage a store-keeper to receive and sell, on a low commission, any thread, woolen, linen, or any other domestic manufacture brought to him, by which every industrious member of society may have a safe deposit for the produce of his ingenuity and industry, and persons wishing to be supplied with American manufactures may know where to apply.
Art. 12.—Every Member of the Society shall subscribe this Constitution, which contains the fundamental laws of the Society; respecting which no alteration shall take place, except at the annual meeting; such alterations having been proposed at the preceding quarterly meeting.
Just imported in the ship Molly , Captain Pitt , from Lisbon —
A few Pipes and Quarter Casks of LISBON WINE , Far superior in quality to what is generally imported; and a few Bales of the very best CORKS , To be Sold by
GEORGE MEADE , Who has also for sale, Choice three and five years old Bill of Exchange Madeira Wine , By the Pipe, or Quarter Cask, LONDON MARKET MADEIRA WINE five years old by the pipe, or quarter Cask, Choice old Sherry WINE by the quarter cask Mels BEEF of a superior quality and such as is fit for an East India Voyage—put up in this city.
Choice first quality BEEF do. Do Second do. BOSTON BEEF equal to any from that country. Burlington Pork of the first quality, and one hundred and fourteen hds of FLAX SEED , &c. &c. May 16 2a. w. 1m.
THIS DAY ARE PUBLISHED, [In Octavo—Price 2/9.]
THE LAWS of the UNITED STATES , Passed at the First Session of the Second Congress.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY.
To which are added the Ratifications of the Amendments to the Constitution, by the several ratifying States; the Armistice between the United States and Great-Britain; and the Treaty of Peace and Friendship with the Cherokees, which, with those in the other octavo volume completes all the existing treaties.
Philadelphia, printed by CHILDS & SWAIN , Printers of the Laws of the United States, and sold by them, at their office, No. 209, Market- Street; also by the principal Booksellers in the city.
*** The Laws are sewed in blue paper, and are intended to be bound up with those of the next session, so as to make one volume, comprising all the Laws passed by the Second Congress, when a complete Index will be added for both sessions.
The LAWS of the Three Sessions of the First Congress, With a complete Index, in one volume octavo, may be had as above. Philadelphia, May 17th, 1792.
CHESTER TOWN & BALTIMORE STAGE S.
THE Eastern-Shore Stage, by way of Ches- tertown to Baltimore, starts regularly from James Thompson's, Indian Queen, Fourth-street, Philadelphia, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, mornings, precisely at 7 o'clock, and on the same mornings at 4 o'clock, from Mr. Grant's in Baltimore. The cultivation of the country, and goodness of the roads, together with the attention that shall be paid by the pro- prietors, will, it is hoped, be a sufficient induce- ment for a preference being given to this route. JAMES THOMPSON, ROBERT HODGSON,
N. B. Light Waggons for hire by James Thompson, at the Indian Queen.
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THIS work is intended to be printed in one volume octavo, estimated to contain between five and six hundred pages, and will be delivered to subscribers in boards at One Dollar and a half.
A complete collection of the Reports into a convenient and portable volume has been sug- gested to the publishers by several Members of Congress and other gentlemen, and they are now determined to proceed on with the work, provi- ded a competent number of subscribers appear to patronize the undertaking.
Subscriptions are received by CHILDS and SWAIN , the publishers, No. 209, Market- street, Philadelphia, and by the principal Book- sellers in the United States.
May 24.
Philadelphia and Shrewsbury STAGE, By the route of BORDENTOWN.
THE subscribers inform the public, that from and after the third day of June next, (and to continue during the summer season) a boat sets off from the Crooked-Billet wharf, in Philadel- phia, on Sundays and Thursdays in the months of June and August: and on Sundays and Wed- nesdays in the months of July and September, and proceeds to Bordentown.
The next morning comfortable carriages run from Bordentown and Edington, in Shrewsbury; then meet, and exchange passengers at the half- way-house, known by the name of the Burnt Ta- vern , and return the same day to Bordentown and Edington, aforementioned: And on the days fol- lowing the boat sets out from Bordentown to Phi- ladelphia.
The proprietors flatter themselves this plan will particularly accommodate those who do not wish to be troubled with their own horses and carriages; and will at the same time afford them an agree- able variety, and make the journey more easy than travelling the whole distance by land.
The Fare from Philadelphia to Edington, for Passengers, - £.0 189 Goods per cwt. 6 Way passengers and way goods, in proportion. The public's most obedient, humble servants JOHN VAN EMBURGH, DANIEL LOTT. May 21st, 1792. 1aw.tf.
THE subscriber begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from Pennington to that noted tavern and ferry stand opposite to Easton, on the Sersey side of the Delaware .—He has provided himself with a good and safe set of ferry-crafts, and pur- poses keeping the best entertainment for man and horse. Every attention shall be paid to gentlemen travellers and others by the public's most obedient and very humble servant. THOMAS BULLMAN. May 8th, 1792. 6w1aw
This day is published and to be sold by FRANCIS BAILEY , No. 116, Market-street, and at the principal Booksellers in this city, (Price One Dollar)
A GEOGRAPHICAL CLOCK, Calculated for the meridian of this city; exhi- biting at one view the time of day or night in every part of the globe; with a full description in letter press of the clock and the planisphere of the earth, and a copious Index of all the principal Kingdoms, islands, and Cities in the world, with the longitude and latitude reckoned from the meridian of Phila- delphia.—A work not less curious than entertaining and instructive to those who are not acquainted with geography, as it clearly explains the fundamental principles of that science. Philadelphia, May 23d. 4t.1a.w.
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This day is published, by William Young, Book- seller, No. 52, Second-street, the corner of Chefnut-street, price 2-3ds of a dollar in boards,
A DEFENCE OF THE French Revolution.
And its ENGLISH ADMIRERS, against the ac- cusations of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke; including some strictures on the late production of Monf. De Calonne—
By JAMES MACKINTOSH. N. B.—Ditto with the French Constitution, as accepted by the King, 13th September 1791. Price in boards 3-4ths dollar. April 13. 3t.
*** A few Copies of the Report of a Com- mittee of Congress on the causes of the failure of the Western Expedition, under Major- General St. Clair, for sale at the Office No. 109, Market-Street.
*** For sale at this Office, Sermons by the Rev'd Dr. William Linn, of N. York. Price 5/7 1-2.
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE Subscriber has it in contemplation soon to decline his present business—and having on hand a considerable quantity of superfine second and elastic cloths, together with a variety of other arti- cles in his way, proposes to sell them at the following reduced prices—
 Best Superfine navy blue 34s.  Ditto ditto. Scarlet 36s.  Common colours superfine 32s.  Elastic stripes 9s.  London buff and white cassimers 15/6.  Ditto, coloured do. 15/.  Yorkshire do. do. 13/6.  Striped toiletens 14s.  Ratinees 3s.  Striped Nankeens 2/4. 
A variety of waistcoat fabrics proportionably low. Fancy buttons and trimmings do. London best silk hose, from 22/6 to 24s.
The above goods have been mostly imported from one of the first Mercantile houses in London, and are of an equal quality to any imported into Ameri- ca; they will be sold per piece or smaller quantity as may best suit the purchasers; by the public's most humble servant, JOHN SHEPHERD. No. 3 South Fourth-street.
Any person disposed to purchase the whole of the above stock, may also have on reasonable terms his present dwelling house, together with the store, a more eligible situation for business in the tailor's line is not to be found in this city. The advantage of this business being so well esta- blished by the proprietor will be very great, and from well known facts, needs no comment. A lease of six years may be had of the house. May 14. 2aw. tf.
FOR BRISTOL,
THE SHIP
Birmingham Packet , LEESON SIMMONS , Master;
A remarkable fast sailer, her cargo is all ready; nevertheless to accommodate those who may be disposed to put freight on board, it will be taken in. She will sail in a few days. The owners are determined that the ship shall leave Bristol with the first fall ships.
For freight or passag. apply to the Captain on board lying at Walnut street Wharf, or GEORGE MEADE.
Those who have goods on board are earnestly requested to enter them, take out their permits and give the necessary directions to their porter to attend the ship. May 16. 2aw
Washington, in the Territory of Columbia.
A PREMIUM
OF 500 dollars, or a medal of that value, at the option of the party, will be given by the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings to the person who, before the fifteenth day of July next, shall produce to them the most approved plan, if adopted by them, for a President's house to be erected in this city. The site of the building, if the artist will attend to it, will of course influence the aspect and outline of his plan, and its destination will point out to him the number, size, and distribution of the apartments. It will be a recommendation of any plan, if the central part of it may be detached and erected for the present, with the appearance of a complete whole, and be capable of admitting the additional parts, in future, if they shall be wanting. Draw- ings will be expected of the ground plans, elevations of each front, and sections through the building in such directions as may be necessary to explain the internal structure; and an estimate of the cubic feet of brickwork, composing the whole mass of the walls. THE COMMISSIONERS. March 14.
Washington, in the Territory of Columbia.
A PREMIUM
OF a lot in this City to be designated by impartial judges and 500 dollars; or a medal of that value, at the option of the party, will be given by the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings, to the person, who, before the fifteenth day of July 1792, shall produce to them the most approved plan, if adopted by them, for a Capitol to be erected in this city, and 250 dollars, or a medal for the plan deemed next in merit to the one they shall adopt. The building to be of brick, and to contain the following apartments, to wit. A conference room } Sufficient to A room for the Re- } accommodate presentatives } 300 persons each. A lobby or antichamber to the latter. A Senate room of 1200 square feet area. An antichamber or lobby to the last. 12 rooms of 600 square feet area, each, for committee rooms and clerks offices, to be of half the elevation of the former. Draw- ings will be expected of the ground plans, elevations of each front, and sections through the building in such directions as may be necessary to explain the internal structure, and an estimate of the cubic feet of brickwork composing the whole mass of the walls. THE COMMISSIONERS. March 14.
These rooms to be of full elevation.
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