Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-06-13 00:00:00

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[No. 4, of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 1792.
[Whole No. 326.]
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RUN AWAY from the subscriber, living in Kent County, and State of Maryland, on Sunday the 27th May last, a NEGRO MAN, named HARR; about 40 years of age, about five feet nine inches high, has a scar over one of his eye-brows, and when talking, hangs his head on one side, and looks up—had on and took with him the following cloaths, viz. a fearnought coat, a black and white kersey coat, cut round, a white kersey jacket and breeches, two pair of yarn stockings, the one pair lately footed, and the other not, two ozanburgh shirts, each pieced on one side, two pair of tow-linen trowseis, one pair patched with new tow-linen down the fore parts, and an old felt hat.
Whoever takes up said Negro, if out of this State, and secures him in gaol, shall receive FOURTEEN DOLLARS reward—and if taken within this State, and secured as aforesaid, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS reward; and it brought home, reasonable expenses will be paid by PEREGRINE LETHRUBY.
Chester-Town, June 4, 1791. (ep 8w)
THE following sections of the act entitled, "An act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers, and for other purposes therein mentioned, are republished for the information of all persons, who, on the 20th day of June next (1792) shall be possessed of WINES.
“Sect. 10. AND be it further enacted, That all Wines which after the said last day of June next, shall be imported into the United States, shall be landed under the care of the inspector of the port where the same shall be landed, and for that purpose, every permit for landing any Wines, which shall be granted by a Collector, shall, prior to such landing, be produced to the said inspector, who, by endorsement thereupon under his hand, shall signify the production thereof to him, and the time when, after which, and not otherwise, on pain of forfeiture, it shall be lawful to land the said Wines. And the said inspector shall make an entry of all such permits, and of the contents thereof, and each pipe, butt, hoghead, cask, case, box or package whatsoever, containing such Wines, shall be marked by the officer under whose immediate inspection the same shall be landed, in legible and durable characters, with progressive numbers, the name of the said officer, and the quality or kind of Wine as herein before enumerated and distinguished. And the said officer shall grant a certificate for each such pipe, butt, hoghead, cask, case, box or package, specifying therein the name or names of the importer or importers, the ship or vessel in which the same shall have been imported, and the number thereof, to accompany the same wherever it shall be sent. And if any pipe, butt, hoghead, cask, case, box or package, containing Wine, shall be found without such marks and certificates, the same shall be liable to be seized, and the want of such marks and certificates shall be presumptive evidence, that such Wine was unlawfully imported and landed.”
“Sect. 11. And be it further enacted, That every person, who shall have in his or her possession, Wines which are intended for sale, in quantity exceeding one hundred and fifty gallons, shall prior to the said last day of June next, make entry thereof in writing at some office of inspection in the city, town or county where he or she shall reside, specifying and describing the casks, cases, boxes and other packages containing the same, and the kinds, qualities and quantities thereof, and where, and in whose possession they are; and the officer of inspection, at whose office such entry may be made, shall, as soon as may be thereafter, visit and inspect, or cause to be visited and inspected, the Wines so reported, and shall mark, or cause to be marked, the casks, cases, boxes and packages containing the same, with progressive numbers, with the name of the person to whom the same may belong, the kind or kinds thereof, and words “Old Stock,” and shall grant a certificate for each cask, case, box or package containing such Wine, describing therein the said cask, case, box or package, and the Wines therein contained, which certificate shall accompany the same, wherever it may be sent. And if any person who may have Wines in his or her possession for sale, shall not, prior to the said last day of June next, make entry thereof, as above directed, he or she, for such omission or neglect, shall forfeit and pay the value of the Wine omitted to be entered, to be recovered with costs of suit, for the benefit of any person who shall give information thereof, and the Wines so omitted to be entered, shall be forfeited.” (ept29)
WHEREAS it appears, by the proceedings in a certain cause now depending in the High Court of Chancery in England, wherein William Welby is the plaintiff, and John Porter (the executor of Thomas Bradley, deceased) is the defendant—that Henry Webb was put out apprentice by the Greenwich School, for the sea service, in or about the year 1775, and who was then of the age of 14 years, or thereabouts, and sailed from England in the year 1776, to some part of North-America, in the ship or vessel called the Artemisa, Captain Llewellyn, formerly a Spanish Trader, and at that time a Navy Victualler or Transport, in his Majesty's service. And whereas it appears that the said Henry Webb deserted and run away from the said ship or vessel, and entered on board a certain privateer or vessel, called the Revenge, or Vengeance Privateer, of which one John Dean was then master or commander, then lying in New-York, in North-America; and that the said Vengeance Privateer, on or about the 6th of November, 1779, sailed from New-York aforesaid to Savannah, and arrived at such last mentioned place in or about the month of March, 1780, and sailed from thence in the said month of March, or in the month of April following, to some port or place in America, but to what port or place is not known; and that in the Month of May, 1780, the said ship or vessel was seen at Barbadoes, in the West-Indies, but the said Henry Webb hath not since been heard of, and is supposed to be dead, it having been reported that the Tender belonging to the said ship or vessel called the Vengeance, which ship was then commanded by Captain Knowles, with a number of her men, to the amount of 20, or thereabout (and among whom the said Henry Webb is supposed to be) were taken by the enemy, and carried into Philadelphia.
NOW, in pursuance of an order made in the said cause, bearing date the 3d day of December, 1790, any person or persons who can give any account or information touching the said Henry Webb, or of the said ship Vengeance, or whether the said Henry Webb is living or dead, and if dead, when and where he died, are required to give such account or information to WILLIAM WELLER PEPYS, Esq. one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers, in Symonds-Inn, Chancery-Lane, London, on or before the 6th day of November, 1792—and such person or persons will be rewarded for their trouble by applying to Mr. SAMUEL NAYLOR, the solicitor in the cause, at No. 4, Great Newport-Street, London; or to the Rev. JOHN STANFORD, No. 46, William-Street, New-York; or to JOHN PRETTYJOHN, Esq. Bridge-Town, Barbadoes.
(3w12w) W. W. PEPYS.
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June 1. (ep1m & 12wam)
PHILADELPHIA.
At a meeting of the Committee appointed by the American Philosophical Society for the purpose of collecting and communicating to the Society materials for forming the Natural History of the insect called the Hessian-Fly, as also information of the best means of preventing or destroying the insect, and whatever else relative to the same may be interesting to Agriculture:
RESOLVED that, for obtaining information of the facts necessary for forming the natural history of this insect, before its entire extirpation from among us, it be recommended to all persons whose situation may have brought them into acquaintance with any such fact to communicate the same by letter addressed to Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Secretary of State to the United States.
And that the proper objects of inquiry and information may be more particularly pointed out, the following Questions are proposed.
Section 1. In what year, and at what time of the year, was this animal observed for the first time? Does it seem to have made its appearance in this country only of late years, or are there any reasons for supposing that it was known in any part of the United States previously to the commencement of the late revolution?
Sec. 2. At what time of the year has this insect been observed in the Egg-State? At what time in the Worm-State? And at what time in the Fly-State? How long does it remain in each of these several states? Does it pass through more than one generation in the course of a year? If it does, which generation of the insect is it that proves most injurious?
Sec. 3. What kind of Wheat does this insect prove most injurious to? Has it ever been seen on, or has it proved destructive to, the Spelts? Does it ever injure the roots of the wheat, &c? Has it ever been seen in the flowers? Does it affect the leaves? What part of the stalk is it chiefly confined to? Has it ever been known to attack the grain, or to be transported with it? In what manner does it seem to operate its injurious effects? At what season are these effects first observed to commence?
Sec. 4. Does it ever injure the Spring-wheat, the Barley, the Buck-wheat, and the Oats? Does it injure the Rye or the Indian-corn? If it does, on what part of these several vegetables does it chiefly reside? Does it inhabit any of the Grasses, or other smaller vegetables, which we cultivate in our fields, our meadows, gardens, &c? If it does, what are the names of these grasses, &c? And on what parts of these vegetables does it chiefly re-
side? Has it ever been observed, in any of its stages, in their flowers? Has it ever been known to injure their seeds? Does it appear to be most destructive to the grasses, &c. of the more wet, or to those of the more dry, soils? Has it ever been observed upon any of the larger trees or shrubs of the forest, garden, &c? If it has, what are the names of these trees and shrubs? And what parts of them does it commonly affect?
Sec. 5. Does this insect seem to have committed greater depredations on the different grains, but particularly on the wheat, when sown in one soil than when sown in another? Thus, for instance, is it ascertained whether this animal has proved most destructive to wheat which has been sown in a light and loose soil, or to that which has been sown in a strong and heavy soil? Do its ravages appear to have been greater or less upon the wheat of land which has been recently manured, than upon the wheat of land that has never been manured at all, or which has not been manured for a considerable length of time? N. B. All the queries of this section have also a reference to the Rye, the Oats, the Barley, &c.
Sec. 6. How far has the Bearded-wheat escaped the injuries of this insect? Which variety of the Bearded-wheat, the Yellow, the Red, or the White, has been observed to be most exempt from its injuries? Has any variety or species of the wheat entirely escaped the ravages of this insect?
Sec. 7. Is it possible to ascertain, with any degree of certainty, the extent of country which this insect has traversed in a year, or in any other given period of time? Are its movements rapid? Does it appear that the progress of the insect has been, in any degree, retarded, or obstructed, by rivers, by mountains, &c? Does it appear that it has pursued any general or fixed route through those countries, in which it has been observed, as to the North, the South, &c? How far to the North has it been observed; How far to the South? How far to West?
Sec. 8. Have any experiments been made to demonstrate the degree of cold which this insect, in the different stages of its existence, is capable of supporting? Is it good for other animals?
Sec. 9. What means have been found most successful for preventing the injuries committed by this insect? How far has the practice of rolling the wheat and the rye in the autumn and in the spring been found of service? Have any good consequences resulted from the practice of sowing the grain close in the spring time? Has the practice of keeping the grain of the wheat, &c. (previously to its being sown) in infusions of the Elder, and of other vegetables, been found of any service?
And while the committee ask, with earnestness, information from every person who can answer any one or more of the preceding questions, they address themselves in a peculiar manner to those on whose farms this insect has appeared, praying that they will give them such details as they can give with certainty, regardless of the style or form of their communications, since it will be the duty of the committee to reduce all the facts received from different persons into an orderly narrative, to be reported to the Society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, } Committee. JAMES HUTCHINSON, CASPAR WISTAR, Philadelphia, April 17, 1792.
FROM THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
REFLECTIONS on the STATE of the UNION. Concerning the manufactures of the United States, as they affect the mercantile interest.
(CONTINUED.)
MANY of the ship holders and merchants trading with foreign countries, suppose, but it is believed erroneously, that they have no interest in the promotion of manufactures. It is known that Great Britain with seventy millions of acres of cultivated land, ships fourteen millions (her whole exports being near twenty millions) in her own manufactures. The foreign trade of that kingdom, without manufactures, would manifestly be neither so great nor so various—for the value of the produce manufactured is increased from one hundred to ten hundred per cent. as is also that of the imported raw materials, which constitute a great portion of their trade. The foreign commerce of the United States, is already enriched by manufactures. Ships, boats, oars, and handspikes, bar iron, steel, nail rods, carriages of all kinds, hats, shoes, cordage, candles, soap, oils of several kinds, starch, hair powder, distilled spirits, malt liquors, cabinet ware, plate, puncheon packs, gunpowder, potashes, bricks, chocolate, mustard, tow linens, sail cloth, potter's ware, fadley and harness, wool and cotton cards, paper and paper hangings, tanned leather, books, snuff, manufactured tobacco, and iron manufactures are now frequently exported to foreign countries. Coastwise there is also a great trade in these and many other manufactured articles, and in raw materials and provisions for the manufacturers within the United States.
An argument of great importance to the ship holders, exporters, and underwriters, and, indeed to the cultivators of the earth, in support of manufactures is to be drawn from their tendency to promote in an easy, certain, safe, and cheap way, the naval capacities and strength of the United States. The transportation of provisions, coal, raw materials, and other articles from the southern and middle states to the northern, and the diffusion of the manufactures,
to the towns on the coast, throughout the union, already employs many vessels. The rice, indigo, cotton, hemp, flax, iron, hides, furs, tar, pitch, turpentine, rosin, wax, tobacco, wood and timber, flour and grain, shipped from the states, on, and to the southward of the Chesapeake, for the manufacturers in the middle and northern states, give employment at this time to a very respectable portion of our tonnage. This cannot be doubted, when it is remembered that our coasters are 110,000 tons, though our vessels in all the foreign trades probably do not much exceed 150,000 tons; and the former are entirely out of the reach of foreign restrictions, consequently (with the fishing vessels) are our most certain dependence. The weight of this circumstance, will be not a little increased by the recollection that the coasting trade is uncommonly interesting to a nation without transtmarine colonies or dominions.
When we consider the fisheries as one of the modes of creating the powers of offence and defence at sea, and that our agriculture and commerce, must therefore be supported and defended by our fishermen, and fishing vessels, among other means, it will be satisfactory to the cultivators, and merchants, that they will be promoted by the success of our manufactures. Skins and furs of sea animals, whalebone, and the head matter of the whale, are used by various manufacturers for leather, hats, whips, candles, &c. The oils are used by leather dressers, shipbuilders, &c. and instead of candles.
It will be unnecessary to adduce to our mercantile citizens any arguments to prove, that the United States generally pay a premium on the bills purchased for their remittances for European manufactures. The exports, sales of vessels, their outward freights and the sales of lands, to foreigners, are the ordinary means applied to the payments for our imports, after deducting that part of them which, belonging to the emigrants, is not to be remitted or paid for. It is interesting to ascertain the reasons for our continuing to lose by the course of exchange. The principal cause probably is, that we draw so very large a proportion of our manufactures from one nation, that there is constantly a double demand for bills on that country. It is of importance to discover how this is to be remedied. The other European nations have had the eight years of the war almost exclusively and the nine years of the peace in a fair competition and do not supply us with manufactures equivalent to half of the stated value of the shoes made by ourselves! It appears then, that our own exertions only, can retrieve our merchants from this annual loss, on their remittances for several millions of dollars.
It may not be improper to take a view of the article of distilled spirits as a commodity which we are capable of manufacturing to any extent, and which will be an aid to agriculture, and an object of coasting and foreign trade. We have imported, in a single year, above eleven millions of gallons of foreign spirits and molasses. If one million of gallons of the latter were used in substance, then our imports of spirits and ingredients made into spirits, would stand at ten millions of gallons. The value of these, as they cost the country may be fairly taken at one third of a dollar on a medium, and will give 3,333,333 dollars, which is above one sixth part of the annual value of our exports. As five millions of bushels of grain would be consumed in the manufacture of a quantity of spirits equal to what was imported, in the form of spirits or ingredients employed to make them, there is no occasion for argument to prove, that the landed interest would be benefited by the manufacture of grain liquors (or fruit liquors) in lieu of the ten millions of gallons drawn from foreign sources. And in regard to the mercantile interest, it may be observed, that the supply of a foreign commodity is always precarious, and accordingly the disturbances in the several parts of the French empire, and the loss of their vintage, have deprived us of the usual importation of their brandies since the last autumn, and of the accustomed supply of molasses from the crop of 1792 of their principal colony. These two defalcations will probably amount to some millions of gallons, and must produce a void in a considerable branch of our foreign trade, for we shall not have it in our power to import the brandies and molasses, nor to export the returns for them, which have employed many thousand tons of shipping, and a considerable part of our mercantile capital and industry; nor shall we be able to export distilled spirits, manufactured from molasses, which has also employed our vessels, private funds and industry. How are the merchant and ship holder to be relieved under these injuries to their business? Manufacturing distilled spirits and malt liquors from native materials will afford considerable relief. Their capital and vessels may be employed in purchasing and transporting from the rivers and bays of the United States to the distilleries and breweries a part at least of the requisite quantities of grain, hops, fuel, and lumber, and of the manufactured liquors to domestic or foreign markets. Nor is this a mere probability. It is already an existing fact. The manufacture of grain liquors in the town of Providence (in Rhode Island) alone, in the first three months of the present year, was equivalent to 12,056 cases of geneva per annum. If the Dutch import grain from the north of Europe, to make and distribute gin from Archangel to Canton, which

is really the case, it cannot be doubted that the United States, which have the greatest surplus of grain of any country upon earth, which are rapidly increasing it, which are further from their consumers than any nation exporting grain, which have the lumber to make the casks for it, and the shipping to transport it, and are themselves great consumers of malt liquors and distilled spirits, it cannot be doubted that a nation thus circumstanced, must be able to manufacture those articles with facility and advantage to any extent of the demand. The benefits to foreign trade from the manufacture of ships, cordage, sail cloth, and anchors, as necessary instruments, and from those articles and pots, soap, candles, steel, carriages and other articles, for sale to foreigners here, or as payments or remittances to them abroad are already too obvious to need more than to be enumerated: but too much attention cannot be given to our situation, qualifications, and prospects in regard to the home manufacture of liquors, considering the disturbed state of the sugar islands, the increased consumption and prices of all the productions of the cane, the impediments to the ordinary importation of slaves, the objections to the slave trade which are appearing in different quarters, the immense population of the manufacturing countries of Europe, and their consequent necessity to employ in the culture of grain the lands they recently appropriated to the vine, as well as the impossibility of their sparing for the making of liquor all the barley, rye, and oats, which were formerly consumed in that manufacture.
There is also a considerable portion of foreign trade created by the importation of raw materials and other necessaries for the employment and consumption of the manufacturers. Cotton, hemp, bar iron, sheet iron, copper and brass in pigs and sheets, lapis calaminaris, lead, pewter, wire of every metal, woolen, cotton, and linen yarns, hempen yarns, hides, skins, and furs, wool, paper for books and hangings, dyers colours, and some others, varnish, printing types, bullion for gold and silver smiths, gold and silver leaf, glue, mahogany, and other cabinet woods, molasses, and crude sugars for distillers and refiners, manufacturers tools and implements, such as vices, screwplates, anvils, hammers, axes, hatchets, knives, awls, pincers, grindstones, batters bowstrings, &c. glass plates for looking glass makers and coach makers, calicoes and linen for printing, morocco skins, and many other commodities which are expended in the workshops or families of our manufacturers, including foreign articles of apparel, furniture, food, and drink.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
THAT the cause of truth will not suffer from a free discussion, is an useful and important maxim. But, like maxims in general, it must be understood only in a limited sense. Its first establishment seems to have arisen from a laudable design of discouraging the interposition of civil and ecclesiastical power in matters of opinion. Such interposition no doubt tends to retard the progress of knowledge, and exclude improvement from the world. But supposing full liberty to speak and write on every subject, it appears obvious from the situation in which mankind must forever exist, and from the immutable and various structure of their minds, and the principles of their hearts, that this liberty may be used in a way unfavorable, at least for a time, to the cause of truth—and that a discussion in this sense free, may take place, by which error shall be propagated. Were all men endowed with the penetrating understandings, and did all possess the acquired knowledge of the Newtons and Lockes of our species, and were all equally capable as they of separating error from truth—were we especially all free from the bias and impetuosity of passion, the preceding maxim would be more strictly true. But while mankind in general are far inferior to individuals in mental faculties and treasures; a few of the latter may, and the more artful and active they are, the more successfully, abuse their superiority to the delusion of multitudes. While the passions have so much power in the human breast, those opinions which flatter the indulgence of them, will be propagated with peculiar facility. Besides, from a variety of circumstances, as the inattention and silence of her friends, in some instances from their inferior abilities, and frequently from their inferior wealth, rank, power or fame, &c. TRUTH may remain unsupported on the field of battle; all her forces may not be brought forward, or the contest be decided more from some accidental circumstances, than the real strength of the parties.
These reflections are general, and will apply to any time and any subject. There is, however, a particular propriety in bringing them forward to public attention at present, when errors and vices are rapidly imported from Europe, or spring forth like noxious weeds from the luxuriance of our native soil. To speak plainly, some of our publications begin to insinuate, or assert, tenets equally inimical to truth, religion, and the essential interests of man.—If the preceding observations are just, these tenets, notwithstanding their absurdity and dangerous tendency, might probably find a welcome reception from some of our citizens, even after a free and open discussion. Yet, so vastly superior is the evidence in favor of the venerable and important truths of religion to the subtleties of scepticism, that it must, if fully heard, overcome the power of ignorance and of passion. But when arts which the friends of truth disdain; and riddle, which tho' no test of truth, may destroy its influence, are employed in the cause of error—this is not fair discussion.—When histories, travels, and all the variety of periodical publications, even down to newspapers, are studded with insinuations and assertions, with fly hints, and warm invectives against religion and its ministers, under the titles of enthusiasm, superstition and priests—this is no discussion at all. For it is ranking pretended,
with the real abuses of religion, imputing to it those errors which in its own nature it tends to prevent; and doing it too in such a way, that all that is said must pass in general unanswerable and uncontradicted. Religion, morality, and the welfare of society, may be deeply wounded by these unheeded but poisonous arrows. These methods, united to the licentiousness of courts, and some other causes, have been more or less successful through Europe. The friends of their country, reason, and christianity, ought, by discouraging or answering, as far as their nature will admit, such publications, to stop in America the most gloomy and debasing, absurd and pernicious of all tenets, from being diffused. Many of the advocates for this fashionable scepticism call themselves philosophers, and profess the warmest benevolence to mankind. But is it possible, (I ask not those whom the pride of learning and opinion, a rage to distinguish themselves from the vulgar, the recklessness of bold impiety or licentious lives have rendered deaf, but those who calmly think for themselves) is it possible that the happiness of the human race can be increased by subverting their belief of those opinions which comfort and support them in every calamity and distress—by destroying those views and hopes which give prosperity its value, and life its most rational and exalted joys? Will the interests of society be promoted?—will the rights of individuals be more regarded, when the strongest barriers against the violence of the passions are thrown down—when the tribunal within our breasts, and the venerable sanctions of religion, are disregarded—when the existence of the Author of the Universe is denied?—It cannot be. When a man renounces christianity, if he has feeling and cool reflection, he must become a prey to doubt and gloomy anxiety. Not one in a thousand however stoop, I believe, at such renunciation. And when he denies the immortality of the soul, and abandons the universe to an inexplicable chance, he is degraded in his own eyes, and in those of every one who embraces his creed—right and wrong cease to exist.
Were it possible that a whole nation should become so credulous and corrupt as to believe with some celebrated philosophers, we should thus exclaim—Every restraint, adieu! Unbounded ambition, avarice and sensuality, advance and enter! Here is your kingdom! Cunning and power, here you may triumph without a rival!—The reign and triumph would indeed be short—all the fierce and ravenous monsters of the deserts would be collected in a single den.
CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1792.
On the motion to enhance the duty on imported hemp and cordage, and to strike out imported cotton from articles exempted from duty.
MR. BOURNE said he hoped this encrease would not be agreed to—the navigation of the United States would suffer by it—as the supply furnished by the cultivation of that article, was not competent to the demand.
Mr. White said that on the principle of uniformity, he thought this duty ought to be raised; but when it is considered that many of the duties are designed to encourage the manufactures of the United States, he thought that equal attention should be paid to the agricultural interest, an interest as important as any other at least.
Mr. Williamson supported the amendment—he said the independence of the United States, in respect to its navigation, was so important an object, that he conceived every thing ought to be done to effect it. Among others, proper encouragement should be given to the raising of hemp, especially when it is considered that we have a greater proportion of land than any other country—that experiments have proved that it can be raised to advantage; that it will, if duly encouraged, conduce to rooting out the cultivation of tobacco, which impoverishes the soil, and is a mere article of luxury. He was at a loss to account for the omission of this duty in the first instance.
Mr. Parker supported the amendment—he enlarged on the good policy of affording this encouragement—he said if the gentleman who moves to disagree to the amendment, had proposed to reduce the duty on canvas, he thought it would be more consistent; and in this case he should be willing to relinquish this enhanced duty on hemp.
Mr. Goodhue said he should agree to the enhanced duty.
Mr. Lawrance opposed it, principally on account of its being a tax on a raw material, and a very essential one too to the navigation and commerce of the United States.
Mr. Madison offered some remarks in favor of the enhanced duty.
The amendment was agreed to.—Foreign cotton being inserted among the articles to be exempted from duty.
Mr. Macon moved that it should be struck out—he thought it best that the duty should be continued. Great quantities, he said, were raised in the southern states, for which they could not find a market.
Mr. Ames opposed the motion—he said there were manufactures carried on in the United States which required foreign cotton—some things could not be manufactured without cotton of a particular staple. He further remarked, that the encouragement to the raising of cotton depends on the manufactures formed from it—hence he inferred that this very encouragement is suspended on a due attention to the manufactures.
Mr. Steele stated sundry particulars to show that the cotton raised in the southern states was adapted to every species of manufactures; and depending on encouragement from government, the farmers of North-Carolina had gone largely into the cultivation of that article. It is well known, said he, that the situation of the three southern states is favorable to the raising of hemp and cotton—and on the principles of reciprocity, he thought it but just and equal to extend encouragement to the agricultural interest of those states.
Mr. Baldwin observed that he could have wished the gentleman had mentioned the particular species of cotton which was so necessary in the manufactures, that could not be procured from the southern states. He said that there were two sorts of cotton raised there; one of a short, the other of a long staple; and under due encouragement, they would in a few years raise every description of that article.
Mr. Fitzsimons, Mr. Murray and Mr. Kittera, supported the motion for striking out the article.
Mr. Page, in favor of the duty, observed, that the gentleman (Mr. Ames) who had expressed his fears that American cotton would not suit the manufacturers, might lay aside his fears; for he knew from experience the contrary—that even if what had been said of the cotton of the United States were true, he knew that there was reason to believe that the cotton of the West and East-Indies would grow even in Virginia—that both had been lately introduced into that state. Such fears, he said, might upon examination perhaps be traced to the same origin with some formerly introduced into Virginia—that the sheep of America were only useful as food, their wool being unfit for the woollen manufacture. He added that he well remembered it was with difficulty some people were convinced that the salt water of America would yield salt. He said, for his part, he should as easily be persuaded that the fish of the United States were unfit for food, and as incapable of being cured so as to be merchantable, as that the cotton of America was unfit for the cotton manufactures; he therefore advised the worthy member to be upon his guard against such insinuations.
As to himself, Mr. Page declared he had no idea that any member of either House could wish to injure the interests of any of the states; but he said he was authorised to suppose that as the manufacturers in general were foreigners, they had their prepossessions and prejudices, which might give rise to the opinions entertained by some gentlemen respecting the unfitness of our cotton for manufacture; but he averred that whatever gave rise to them, they were ill founded, as he had often seen and worn in the late war, cotton cloth and stockings, as good and fine as ever had been imported. As to encouraging the manufactures, however, said he, I have ever thought it foreign to the business of Congress, and if not so, a mere taking from one hand and giving to another—a delicate affair, which might be misunderstood and misapplied—however, as it
is thrown in before us, I take my share for my constituents.
As to the fears of the member from Pennsylvania (Mr. Kittera) that the culture of cotton may injure the farmer, Mr. Page said he could assure him that he had found cotton a good preparative for wheat, and that lands where he lived, which had been worn out in tobacco, yielded excellent cotton, and left the ground in fine order for wheat, and that cotton, if properly encouraged, would be a good substitute for tobacco.
STOCKHOLM, April 3.
SOME of the persons taken into custody resolutely declared that the King had merited his fate, and that there were an hundred persons eager to contend for the honor of giving him the mortal blow, for the welfare of mankind.
This action certainly cannot be justified, but it is at the same time, a striking and dreadful lesson to Sovereigns, who think to sanction tyranny by law, and regard the rest of men as a vile herd, whom they may dispose of at their pleasure.
LONDON, March 1.
GERMANY.
The Elector of Mentz, as Great Chancellor of the Empire, will issue summonses to the Electors, within a month, and the day fixed for the election of an Emperor, must be within three months of that time. The circumstance of the late Emperor's son not being elected King of the Romans during his father's life time will not obstruct his election as has been supposed. The case has happened frequently.
When the throne becomes vacant by the death of the reigning Emperor, and no King of the Romans has been previously chosen, the Elector Palatine, and Elector of Saxony, have the title of Vicars of the Empire, in right of their respective offices; the one of Count Palatine, the other of Arch-Marshal of the Empire. The Emperor, in his capitulation, constantly engages to ratify and confirm, in the fullest manner possible all acts performed by the Vicars General, during the time of the interregnum.
Though the Empire be elective, yet it is so rather in words than in fact. From the time that Albert II. of the House of Austria, was chosen Emperor in 1438, the Imperial dignity has continued in the House of Austria, in which the order of primogeniture has always determined the Electors.
With regard to the King of the Romans (which, by the bye, is a mere title) if he is chosen before the demise of the Emperor, he succeeds to the Empire without any other election; if not he has all the forms to go through, and though requiring time, yet they are founded upon rules from which there is seldom any variation.
It is a mistake to suppose that strings for the shoes are a modern invention. The Beaux of Sr. Bartholomew's and Bridewell hospitals have worn them time out of mind; and that they were fashionable when Butler wrote his Hudibras, is proved by the following distich in his address to the widow;
Madam, I do as is my duty, Honor the shadow of your shoe tie.
There never was an instance where public curiosity was so universally excited, as by the expectation of hearing Mrs. Siddons recite Collins's beautiful Ode to the Passions, at her Benefit, on Monday evening. This admirable composition allows our favourite an opportunity of crowding the varieties of her expression into a space, where all the merits of her countenance and action may at once be comprehended at a single view.
Great Britain is now flourishing in arts and commerce, and reaping the fruits both of her own industry and the destruction of her neighbours.—In this elevation of fortune, and external security, it will be political wisdom to guard against these internal passions, which excels of prosperity is wont to generate. It will be wisdom to anticipate, by partial and gradual reformation, those evils which might otherwise arise from a general convulsion. The most brilliant ge-

niuses on the opposite sides of the House of Commons, are both equally pledged to do every thing in their power to effect a Parliamentary Reformation. Mr. Pitt and Mr. Fox are united in this declared determination.
It was well remarked, as is observed by an able and judicious friend to civil and religious liberty, by Mr. Fox, "that not only the established church, but the constitution itself, stands materially indebted for a great proportion of its rectitude, vigor, and beauty, to rational innovations. Improvements may be grafted, without tumults or disturbances, on the forms of an excellent constitution; where as other countries, wanting those forms, and being under the necessity of erecting a new constitution on the ruins of an old one, cannot acquire liberty without setting every thing afloat, and making their escape from slavery through the shoals and quicksands of anarchy."
L I V E R P O O L, April 14.
A gold medal has been adjudged by the Agricultural Society of Paris to M. Morcan, of Brillou, near Bar le Duc, who though poor, and the father of six children, has brought up a child which he found, on the highway perishing with cold and disease.
C H A R L E S T O N, May 29.
A correspondent informs, that Messrs. Hallam and Henry, of the New-York Theatre, are expected here shortly, for the purpose of erecting a house and exhibiting their performances the ensuing winter. Such gentlemen, therefore, as wish to subscribe to this company, which was formerly Mr. Douglas's, will shortly have an opportunity of doing so.
General Jackson has declined serving as a representative of the state of Georgia in Congress.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Augusta, dated May 23.
"By a gentleman from Rock Landing, we have received advice of General M'Gillivray's arrival there, with a number of the upper chiefs; but, in consequence of two white men being murdered some little time back, they have all returned to the Creek nation, in order to hold a grand council to decide this business, which will in all probability detain the running of the lines for these three months."
Married, the 6th instant, the Hon. Thomas Wadsworth, a senator of Ninety-Six district, to the amiable Miss Lamb, late of Boston.
C O L U M B I A, May 8.
On Saturday the 28th of last month, as Commodore Gillon, in company with Major Butler, was returning to his seat on the Congaree from Col. Thomlon's plantation, his horse took fright and ran away with a chair. The commodore jumped out and unfortunately broke his leg. He was taken to the house of Mrs. Hart, who lives near the place where the accident happened, and attended by Dr. Leuthold and two other gentlemen of the faculty. Several splinters were extracted. Both the bones were broken and had forced their way through the boot.
Sunday last one Gardner Williams was shot dead by a person of the name of Massey, on his plantation about 16 miles from town. Massey is not yet apprehended.
MAY 15. On Saturday last the federal circuit court was held here, when their honors judge Iredell and judge Bee were present. The court adjourned to Monday ten o'clock.
Wednesday last William Massey, who killed Gardner Williams a few days since, surrendered himself to John Wilson, Esq. justice of peace, and was by him committed to Camden gaol, in order to taking his trial the next session.
A N N A P O L I S, (M.) May 31.
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated May 30.
"From what I could learn, there seemed to be a division among the republicans in favor of Clinton for the office of vice-president. The present incumbent, tis generally thought, would think better of the people by mixing a little with them. He would find they were mild, amiable, and not disposed to riot; that, in fact, no
danger is to be apprehended from them to any of the salutary objects of society. By being under the government of the law, administered by others, without the prospect of wielding any other rod of authority than an ordinary walking cane, he might gradually feel with them, and look with an eye of jealousy toward those who live on public taxes, and despise the source from whence they are drawn."
A L B A N Y, June 4.
The president and directors of the Bank of New-York have, in the polite terms, tendered the services of their Bank to the Bank of Albany, offering to receive and exchange our paper without any particular limitation—Hence the immediate advantages and utility of our Bank, must be obvious to every man of the smallest reflection.
The warmest advocates for our Bank, last winter, did not anticipate such a close connection with the Bank of New-York, before ours should be in full operation.
A convenient house for the Bank, and all other matters, being nearly in readiness, it is supposed discounting will commence by the middle of next week.
By letters from New-York, it appears that 1200 shares are subscribed to the northern and western canals—which added to the mighty exertions of the whole northern enterprise, Schenectady included, the aggregate number of shares subscribed amount to 1425—whereas 1000 shares would have been sufficient to have set the whole of both canals in motion; which in their ultimate consequences, will enrich and animate the whole state, and greatly benefit our new Bank.
As the choice of Directors for the Bank will take place on Tuesday the 12th inst. I have to recommend the following gentlemen as Directors for the year ensuing—Stephen V. Renfellaer, Philip Schuyler, Abraham Ten Broeck, John Maley, Daniel Hale, James Caldwell, Cornelius Glen, John Stevenson, Jeremiah Van Renfellaer, Goldsborough Banyar, John Taylor, Leonard Gansevoort.
A STOCKHOLDER.
B A L T I M O R E, June 6.
Yesterday the District Court of the United States was opened at the court house in this town, when a well-adyged charge was delivered by the Hon. Judge Paca to the jury, and proceeded to business—after which they adjourned till 10 o'clock this day.
Y O R K, (Pen.) June 6.
Yesterday arrived at this place, on his way to the Westward, his Excellency Major General Anthony Wayne.
FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE.
OYEZ! OYEZ! OYEZ!
Hear! hear! hear, and attend!
ATTEND, ye Englishmen, ye Irishmen, ye Scotchmen! ye High-Dutch, ye Low-Dutch! ye Middle-Dutch! ye Frenchmen, ye Spaniards, ye Portuguese! ye Russians, ye Prussians, ye Hellenians! ye Swiss, Savoyards, and Piemontese! East-Indians, West-Indians, and Wild-Indians! Turks, Jews, and Algerines, attend!—attend, ye foreigners, from every country, and from every clime! attend to my words, if you wish to save your bacon. You will be all hanged like rogues, if you do not pack off, bag and baggage, and disappear from the territories of the United States, before the next meeting of Congress! for—
Lo! and behold!
Here is John Fenno come all the way from Boston, to lodge informations against you. This very morning, in the Gazette of the United States, he swears (and who dares disbelieve him when he swears?)—that you foreigners are a set of rebellious turbulent dogs, a pack of run-away slaves, who are come here to overturn the government! *
It is happy for you, that Congress are not now sitting; or who knows, but John Fenno might have influence enough to get you all transported to Botany-Bay, or some of the desert islands in the Southern Ocean? Luckily the Legislature is now in recess: make hay, therefore, while the sun shines: scamper off as quick as you can, while you are at liberty to choose the place of your future abode: but be sure you write beforehand to all your ragged turbulent friends and acquaintance in your respective countries, to caution them against coming here, to disturb the peace of America, by writing against the government!
Saturday, June 9.
OH LA!
* His words are, "The abusers of government... a majority of them are persons from other countries, who having lately escaped from bondage, know not how to enjoy liberty!"
THE paragraph alluded to in the above, which appeared in our last, is a literal transcript from the Newark Gazette, and is marked as a quotation in the Gazette of the United States. The Editor
hereof knows not the author, and therefore the assertion that they are "his words," is a mistake.
From a full conviction that the information is WELL FOUNDED, and that it is useful and important that the people should be disabused in respect to the authors of many of those publications which hold up the administrators of our government as a knot of knaves; and exhibit the people of the United States to the world, as the miserable dupes of the worst characters among them—the information was made.
The foregoing, from the National Gazette, is a specimen of the polite and candid manner in which the Editor of this paper has had the honor of being repeatedly noticed in that Gazette, and in some others, conducted on equally tolerant principles.
The writer has evidently two objects in view—one is, to stigmatize "JOHN FENNO" as inimical to foreigners; the other, to check the freedom of the press. With respect to the first, "JOHN FENNO" considers no man as a foreigner who has chosen this for his country, and is interested in its late; and as to the second, the attempt shall not succeed. The author of the Newark paragraph may be satisfied by "the roaring, that he has hit right."
N. B. None but mutilated extracts from the Gazette of the United States, have hitherto appeared in the National Gazette.
EXTRACT from "Notes on the State of Virginia."
BY MR. JEFFERSON.
"IT is for the happiness of those united in society, to harmonize as much as possible in matters which they must of necessity transact together. Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent. Every species of government has its specific principles. Ours perhaps are more peculiar than those of any other in the universe. It is a composition of the freest principles in the English Constitution, with others derived from natural right and natural reason. To these, nothing can be more opposed than the maxims of absolute monarchies. Yet, from such we are to expect the greatest number of emigrants. They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty."
Philadelphia, June 13.
The oldest inhabitant of Pennsylvania does not remember weather in the month of June equally unseasonable.—Monday morning at six o'clock, the Mercury in the thermometer stood at 50 degrees, within 18 degrees of the freezing point, and 40 degrees colder than it was in this city on the 31st of May, at three o'clock, P. M.
We are sorry to learn, that Capt. Montfort, and a soldier of the first regiment, being lately a short distance from Fort Jefferson, were killed and scalped by the Indians, parties of whom are constantly hovering round that post, so that it is dangerous to venture out of sight of it.
This happened at the same place where Capt. Shaylor's son was killed last February.
Now is a favorable occasion for the occupiers of sugar-maple lands, to make an universal effort. The present is the season. The ensuing six weeks ought to be made the best use of. Let every family make a hoghead, a barrel, a keg; according to its ability. There seems to be little doubt that the price of sugars will be more than two sixteenths, probably near three sixteenths of a dollar per pound, according to the quantity and quality, through the ensuing year.
Col. Edward Wiggleworth, is appointed Collector of the Customs, for the port of Newburyport, in the room of Stephen Crops, Esq.
A southern paper informs that the bulk of the materials, for the public buildings of the intended Federal City have been contracted for and are preparing, and that the walls of the first story of both the Congress house and the President's house will, certainly, be completed in the present summer and ensuing fall.
His Excellency John Hancock, is re-elected Governor, and the Hon. Samuel Adams, Lieut. Governor of the State of Massachusetts.
Passengers in the ship Delaware, from Charleston:
 Mr. Hazlehurst & family, Mr. Davis,  Mr. De Saussure & family, Dr. Rush,  Mrs. Heyne, Mr. Roe,  Miss Sproat, Mr. P. Prioleau,  Mr. Mitchell, Mr. I. Prioleau.  Mr. Warrington, 
"There is a morning of reason rising upon man on the subject of government, that has not appeared before. As the barbarism of the present old governments expires, the moral condition of nations with respect to each other will be changed. Man will not be brought up with a savage idea of considering his species as his enemy, because the accident of birth gave the individuals existence in countries distinguished by different names; and as constitutions have always some relation to external as well as to domestic circumstances, the means of benefiting by every change, foreign or domestic, should be a part of every constitution."
"I do not believe that the people of England have ever been fairly and candidly dealt by.—They have been imposed upon by parties, and by men assuming the character of leaders. It is time that the nation should rise above those trifles. It is time to dismiss that inattention which has so long been the encouraging cause of stretching taxation to excess. It is time to dismiss all those songs and toasts which are calculated to enslave, and operate to suffocate reflection. On all such subjects men have but to think, and they will neither act wrong nor be misled. To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. If such a case could be proved, it would equally prove that those who govern are not fit to govern them, for they are a part of the same national mass." Paine's Rights of Man.
By the Sandwich Packet, Capt. Dillon, arrived at New-York, accounts are received from Europe to the 26th of April—they state that the National Assembly has accorded with the general anticipation, by passing a decree in the sitting of Friday antecedent to the 26th of April, which sanctions the hostilities of France with the king of Bohemia and Hungary—and that a deputation of twenty-four members should carry the Decree to the King for his sanction.
A correspondent informs us, that at a late meeting of the subscribers to the Universal Tontine, the principles of the institution were fully and fairly discussed; and it appeared that, notwithstanding the late pecuniary difficulties, near ten thousand shares had been subscribed in this city, exclusively of a number of shares disposed of by one of the agents in other states; and that there was a reasonable prospect that the society would be soon established upon an extensive, a permanent, and beneficial foundation. The amount of the deposits had been vested in six per cent. stock, at an advantageous price; and the agent employed to dispose of shares in other states, had given ample security for the faithful discharge of his trust. It is to be expected, that a very rapid subscription will take place before the 1st of July next, as after that day, the deposit is increased ten cents in each share.
Those who are acquainted with the principles and objects of this Tontine, cannot but recommend it to all persons who are desirous of securing an independence for themselves, or their children. The state of the subscriptions is fortunately such, as to preclude the idea of its being a subject of speculation, the subscribers in general meaning to retain their interests in the society; and as the articles declare that, at all events, the number of shares subscribed on the 1st of January next, shall constitute the capital of the Tontine, there can be no possibility of a premature dissolution of the Company.
Dunlap's Dat. Adv.
Extract of a letter from St. Georges, Grenada, to a gentleman in New-York, May 16.
"Just as I closed my letter of yesterday, a dreadful fire broke out in the Carenage of this town, and in the course of three hours every house there was burnt to ashes except three. The fire is not yet totally extinguished but is so far got under as to relieve the people in the bay from the dreadful apprehension of sharing the fate of the Carenage. The loss is estimated at, at least 100,000. sterling."
Opinions on government, especially those which are novel, should be scrutinized before they are received as truths; if on examination they turn out to be merely dogmatism, unsupported by facts or experience—nor justly deducible from either the positive or relative situation of society manners or things under any form of government whatever, it is to be presumed that they will not be swallowed like a quack nostrum, left we thereby take poison instead of wholesome medicine.
There are opinions sported now a days which are so extremely right, that they are attended with all the pernicious consequences of the reverse.
Just and equal laws have been considered as the only competent guardians of right and liberty; but an opinion has been lately set up, that any definite ideas of liberty, the sanctioned by the voice of the people, whether contained in written laws, or any other instrument, are not so safe a depositum, as that general sense of the rights of man which is impressed on human nature—and which supercedes the use or necessity of all expressed local agreements, covenants or charters whatever.
In the Price Current of this day, are forty variations from the last published in this Gazette.
* * Advertisements of one square, or less, will be published in this paper once for 50 Cents, and each subsequent insertion at 20 Cents.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
  6 per Cents, 22 3/4   3 per Cents, 13 3/4   Deferred, 13 3/8   Indents, 13 3/4   Final Settlements, 18 3/8   Half shares Bank U. S. 65 per cent. prem.   Shares Bank North-America, 17 ditto. 
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
  Ship Delaware, Art, Charleston   Brig Hannah, Latimer, Cape-Francois   St. George, De Cofla, Oporto   Polly, Reed, London   Sloop Commerce, Belcher, Cape-Francois   Lively, King, New-York 
By accounts from London, by the brig Polly, Captain Reed, we learn that a verbal account arrived in London on Sunday morning 15th April, brought by the Purser of the Gen. Coote Indian, from Bengal, that Tippoo Saib was surrounded on all quarters, his army deserting in great numbers, all resources cut off from him.—From these circumstances, there is little doubt but that he will be captured.
The ship Birmingham Packet, Capt. Simmons, for Bristol, cleared the Capes of Delaware (with a fine breeze) last Thursday morning.
The brig Peace and Plenty, Henry Johnson, master, of Newbury-Port, has arrived in London from St. Michael's; the vessel was so bad, and so totally decayed, that she was condemned, as unfit for service.
Charleston, May 23. Yesterday arrived the brig Benjamin, Brookhouse, Salem, New-England, 12 days; Schooner Betsey, Dunrey, Wilmington, N.C.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE.
Philadelphia, June 6, 1792.
THE Printers of Newspapers in the United States are desired to take Notice, That Mr. Francis Bailey, Mr. Daniel Humphreys, and Messrs. Spofford and Carey, of this City, have ceased to print Newspapers, and of course can receive none from the other Printers free of Postage. The Printers of Newspapers are therefore desired to discontinue sending their Papers to those Gentlemen, unless they should become Subscribers, on the footing of other Citizens.
As divers Printers in other Places may have discontinued their printing of Newspapers, the Postmasters in those places are desired to give Notice thereof in the Newspapers in which they usually Advertise; that the Newspapers sent to such former Printers may be discontinued, and the Public Mails be relieved from useless Burthens.
T. PICKERING.

PRICE CURRENT.—PHILADELPHIA.
Table with multiple columns listing various goods (e.g., Anchors, Alum, Brandy, Coffee, etc.) and their current market prices in Philadelphia.
NEW TEAS.
Imperial Hyson and Souchong. Of the very first quality, and latest importation from Canton, via New-York, by retail, at No. 19, Third, between Chestnut and Market Streets.
TICKETS in the NEW-BRUNSWICK LOTTERY, are to be had at the following places, viz.—Samuel Cooper's Ferry; at Burlington, of R. Pierson, Esq. Bordentown, of Mr. John Van Emburgh; Mount Holly, of J. Read, Esq. Trenton, Town, of R. Gray; Powles-Hook, of Col. Smith and Judge Hunt; Cranbury, of William Throckmorton Spottwood; and of the Managers in Brenfwick.
JUST ARRIVED,
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. MESS 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. Ditto second ditto do. BOSTON BEEF, equal to any from that country. BURLINGTON PORK, of the first quality, and 114 Hhds. FLAX-SEED. &c. &c. Philadelphia, May 16, 1792 (ep91)
TO BE SOLD AT PRIVATE SALE, At any time between this date and the first day of July ensuing, A very valuable FARM,
PLEASANTLY situated, and bounded on the East by the river Delaware, 17 miles above Philadelphia; containing 203 acres, 40 whereof is first rate Timothy Meadow, which may be watered in a dry time; 25 acres, a rich low bottom, may be made very good meadow at an easy expence. The upland lays in the lap of about 50 acres of rich out marsh, from which (by an easy ascent to the cleared fields) 130 acres of excellent upland meadow may be made, at a moderate expence; 30 acres of woodland. A never failing stream of water runs through this tract, on which is a leat for a mill, and in which is good sport with the net and hook; plenty of rabbits and small game; and on the flats, abundance of wild ducks in the season. A good mansion-house, garden, and necessary out-buildings; an orchard of the best kinds of apple, pear, peach and cherry trees, bearing; a crop of wheat and rye in the ground, and a spring crop putting in. Apply to PETER LE BARBIER DU PLESSIS, Esq. No. 86, Chestnut-street, Philadelphia; Mr. HUMPHREY WATERMAN, at the Washington, on the Bristol road; or to Doctor TOMS, at Neshannoy Ferry, Bucks County. The purchaser, paying one third of the price down, may have a term of years to pay the residue, paying interest. May 5. (ep.1f.)
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. (t.l.) May 2.
JONES & BURROUGHS, STOCK-BROKERS,
STATE-STREET, BOSTON,
BUY and sell every kind of the Stocks of the United States, on Commission, by Private Contract, and Public Auction.—Those gentlemen who may be pleased to favor them with their commands, may rely on fidelity, secrecy and dispatch. Boston, March, 1792. (iaw3m)
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of Columbia.
A PREMIUM
OF FIVE HUNDRED 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. Drawings 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 brick-work composing the whole mass of the walls. March 14, 1792. THE COMMISSIONERS.
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of Columbia.
A PREMIUM
OF A LOT in this City, to be designated by impartial judges, and FIVE HUNDRED 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 TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY 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 accommodate 300 persons each. } these rooms to be of full elevation. A Room for the Representatives } 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.
Drawings 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 brick-work composing the whole mass of the walls. March 14, 1792. THE COMMISSIONERS.
GEORGETOWN (POTOWMAC).
THE SUBSCRIBER BATH OPENED A
House of Entertainment,
At the Sign of the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES, In that commodious House lately occupied by Thomas Beale, Esq. Mayor of this Town. He has furnished himself with a flock of the best Liquors, and will use every exertion to give satisfaction by procuring, in their season, the best of every species of provision, and having the same served up in the most neat and elegant manner. [raw11 Jul.] GEORGE H. LEIGH.
The JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.
Bank of the United States,
MAY 8, 1792. RESOLVED, That the specie proportion of the third payment due on the first Monday of July next, on each share of the Bank of the United States, may be made at the Bank, or at any of the offices of discount and deposit; and that transfers of public debt on account of such payment, may be made on the books of the Treasury of the United States, or in the office of any of the Commissioners of Loans in any of the States, certificates of which transfers to be deposited in the office in which the specie proportion of such payment shall be made. Resolved, That the transfer books be closed fourteen days previous to the first days of July and January of each year. By Order. JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
A LOTTERY,
To raise the sum of £ 750. for the purpose of repairing the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New-Brunswick, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, passed November 1791.
S C H E M E.
Table showing the distribution of prizes in the lottery, including the number of prizes and their respective values in dollars.
This Lottery is composed of 5334 Tickets, not two Blanks to one Prize, and subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. which is more favorable to adventurers than any Lottery yet offered to the public—and it being of such evident utility, that it cannot be doubted but the undertaking will meet with the most liberal support.
The drawing will positively commence on the second Monday in July, or sooner if the Tickets are disposed of, in the city of New-Brunswick, under the inspection of Col. John Bayard, President of said city; James Parker, Esq. Mayor of the city of Amboy; and Archibald Mercer, Esq. Deputy Governor of the Manufacturing Society of New-Jersey.
Tickets to be had of the following persons, who are duly appointed Managers, are under oath, and have given security for the faithful performance of their duty.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid immediately after the drawing of the Lottery. JOHN PARKER, PETER KEENON, ANTHONY W. WHITE, Managers.
N. B. Those prizes which are not demanded within six months after the drawing of the Lottery, will be considered as a generous donation to the Church.
Adventurers in the above Lottery have a chance of more than 3 per cent. per month for their money. To accommodate all those who may be disposed to purchase Tickets, letters directed to P. KEENON, Manager, and Postmaster, at New-Brunswick, and enclosing good bills, will be attended to, and Tickets forwarded on receipt of such letters. New-Brunswick, April 20, 1792.
FOR SALE, BLOOMSBURY,
THAT elegant SEAT at the Falls of Delaware, in the vicinity of Trenton, in New-Jersey, occupied for many years past by the subscriber; containing upwards of 200 acres of land, besides a tract of wood-land of about 185 acres, at the distance of two miles. The farm is divided by the main street leading from Trenton to Lambertown, and Philadelphia, into two parts, nearly equal in quantity; the eastwardly part being arable land, is laid off in convenient fields, and in good farming order. The other part, bounded by the said street on the east, and by the river on the west, forms a square; which, from the combined effect of situation and improvement, is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful and desirable seats in the state. The mansion-house is a handsome, well-finished brick building, 50 by 40, containing four rooms on each floor, with excellent cellars, and a two story brick kitchen; and commanding a very extensive and pleasing view of the river, both above and below, as well as including the falls, and also of Trenton and the neighbouring seats and improvements on both sides of the river. Among the out-buildings are a new stone coach-house and stables, sufficient to contain six carriages and ten horses, accommodated with a cutting and feeding room, and a capacious loft for hay; adjoining these is a very complete granary, rat proof, and a stone cow-house, upwards of 100 feet in length, containing thirty-one pawked stalls, over which is a roomy loft for hay, &c. Adjoining the court-yard of the mansion-house, is a garden of about two acres, extending towards the river, in the highest state of culture, and abounding with a rich collection of the choicest fruits of almost every kind, and several large asparagus beds, highly manured. At a convenient distance from the mansion-house, and nearly in the centre of the square, is a new, well-built, stone farm-house, accommodated with a large cheese-room, spring-house, garden, &c. a complete stone smoke-house, corncribs, waggon-house, a capacious ice-house, and every other necessary out-building. The ground is properly divided into small fields, all well watered, highly improved, and chiefly under the most approved grass. This square has produced annually, for several years past, upwards of sixty tons of the best hay, besides supporting through the summer season twenty to thirty horned cattle, and eight or ten horses. It contains also two bearing orchards of good fruit. The river abounds, in the proper seasons, with great plenty of all kinds of fish usually found in fresh water in this climate, and with a variety of wild-fowl; both of which may afford a pleasing amusement to the sportsman, as well as a convenient addition to the elegance and variety of his table. The whole of the land, except the wood-land, is inclosed and divided by good fences, great part of which is formed of red cedar posts, and rails of chestnut and white cedar. The purchaser may have the improved square separately, or the whole together, as may best suit him. There is an inexhaustible quantity of good building stone on the river shore. The purchase money, if well secured, and the interest punctually paid, will not be demanded for many years.
Any person desirous of viewing the premises, may be gratified on application to SAMUEL W. STOCKTON, Esq. of Trenton, or Mr. INALLMAN, who at present occupies the farm-house and part of the land—and may know the price on application to the subscriber, at No. 213, South Second-street, opposite to the New-Market, in Philadelphia. JOHN COX.
Twenty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber, on Monday the 9th current, a NEGRO MAN named ROBIN, is 55 years of age, stout made, and bred a farmer; one of his thumbs much swelled; is 5 feet 6 inches high; had on when he went away a big purple coloured cloth coat, a short linen coat, a pair of fustian breeches, a ruffled shirt, an old beaver hat, with shoes, stockings and buckles, all good. Also, a young NEGRO BOY named SAM, is 19 years of age, stout and well made, 5 feet 9 inches high, much marked with the small-pox; had on when he went away, a big blue coat, a brown short coat, overalls of a mixed cloth, full stockings, a new wool hat, new shoes and buckles. Whoever will secure said Negroes in any gaol, or bring them to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. Morris-Town, April 17, 1792.