Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-09-15 00:00:00

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[No. 31, of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1792.
[Whole No. 353.]
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FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES
MUCH declamation has been indulged against certain characters, who are charged with advocating the pernicious doctrine that "public debts are public blessings," and with being friends to a perpetuation of the public debt of the country. Among these characters, if the Secretary of the Treasury has not been named, he has been pretty plainly alluded to. It is proper to examine what foundation there is for those charges.
That officer, it is very certain explicitly maintained, that the funding of the existing debt of the United States would render it a national blessing.—And a man has only to travel through the United States, with his eyes open, and to observe the invigoration of industry in every branch, to be convinced, that the position was well founded.—But whether right or wrong, it is quite a different thing from maintaining, as a general proposition, that a public debt is a public blessing.—Particular and temporary circumstances might render that advantageous, at one time, which at another might be hurtful.
It is known, that prior to the revolution, a great part of the circulation of the country was carried on by paper money; that in consequence of the events of the revolution, that resource was, in a great measure, destroyed, by being discredited, and that the same events had destroyed a large proportion of the monied and mercantile capital of the country, and of personal property generally. It was natural to think, that the chasm created by these circumstances required to be supplied; and a just the-
ory was sufficient to demonstrate, that a funded debt would answer the end.
To infer, that it would have such an effect was no more to maintain the general doctrine of "public debts being public benefits," than the saying, that paper emissions, by the authority of government, were useful in the early periods of the country, was the maintaining, that they would be useful in all the future stages of its progress.
But to put the matter out of all doubt, and to shew how destitute of candor the insinuations against the Secretary of the Treasury, on this head, have been, I have extracted, and shall insert here some passages from three of his reports to the House of Representatives; by which it will be seen, that his conduct as well as his language have been in uniform opposition to the doctrine charged upon him. The length of these reports, it is probable have prevented many well disposed persons from being acquainted with their contents; the presumption of which emboldens the calumniators of public characters and measures to make assertions, of the falsehood of which, the mere perusal of official documents would convict them.
Extract from a report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of a provision for the public debt, presented the 14th of Jan. 1790.
"Persuaded as the Secretary is, that the proper funding of the present debt, will render it a national blessing; yet he is so far from acceding to the position, in the latitude in which it is sometimes laid down, that "public debts are public benefits," a position inviting to prodigality, and liable to a dangerous abuse, that he ardently wishes to see it incorporated, as a fundamental maxim, in the system of public credit of the United States, that the creation of debt should always be accompanied with the means of extinguishment. This he regards as the true secret for rendering public credit immortal.—And he presumes that it is difficult to conceive a situation, in which there may not be an adherence to the maxim. At least he feels an unfeigned solicitude, that this may be attempted by the United States, and that they may commence their measures for the establishment of credit, with the observance of it."
Extract from a report of the Secretary of the Treasury on Manufactures, presented the 5th of December, 1791.
After using several arguments to illustrate the operation of a funded debt as capital, the Secretary concludes thus:—"There are respectable individuals, who, from a just aversion to an accumulation of public debt, are unwilling to concede to it any kind of utility, who can discern no good to alleviate the ill with which they suppose it pregnant; who cannot be persuaded, that it ought in any sense to be viewed as an encrease of capital, lest it should be inferred, that the more debt the more capital, the greater the burdens the greater the blessings of the community."
"But it interests the public councils to estimate every object as it truly is, to appreciate how far the good in any measure is compensated by the ill, or the ill by the good, either of them is seldom unmixed."
"Neither will it follow, that an accumulation of debt is desirable, because a certain degree of it operates as capital. There may be a plethora in the political, as in the natural body; there may be a state of things in which any such artificial capital is unnecessary. The debt too may be swelled to such a size, as that the greatest part of it may cease to be useful as a capital, serving only to pamper the dissipation of idle and dissolute individuals; as that the sums required to pay the interest upon it may become oppressive, and beyond the means which a government can employ, consistently with its tranquility to raise them: as that the resources of taxation, to face the debt, may have been strained too far to admit of extensions adequate to exigencies, which regard the public safety."
"Where this critical point is, cannot be pronounced; but it is impossible to believe, that there is not such a point."
"And as the vicissitudes of nations beget a perpetual tendency to the accumulation of debt, there ought to be in every government a perpetual, anxious and unceasing effort to reduce that, which at any time exists, as fast as shall be practicable, consistently with integrity and good faith."
Extract from a report of the Secretary of the Treasury, relative to additional supplies for carrying on the Indian War, presented the 16th of March, 1792.
"The result of mature reflection is, in the mind of the Secretary, a strong conviction, that the last of the three expedients, which have been mentioned [that was the raising of the sum required by taxes] is to be preferred to either of the other two."
"Nothing can more interest the national credit and prosperity, than a constant and systematic attention to husband all the means previously possessed for extinguishing the present debt, and to avoid, as much as possible, the incurring of any new debt."
"Necessity alone therefore can justify the application of any of the public property, other than the annual revenues, to the current service, or the temporary and casual exigencies of the country—or the contracting of an additional debt, by loans, to provide for those exigencies."
"Great emergencies indeed might exist, in which loans would be indispensable. But the occasions which will justify them must be truly of that description."
"The present is not of such a nature; the sum to be provided is not of magnitude enough to furnish the plea of necessity."
"Taxes are never welcome to a community; they seldom fail to excite uneasy sensations more or less extensive—Hence a too strong propensity, in the government of nations, to anticipate and mortgage the resources of posterity, rather than encounter the inconveniences of a present increase of taxes."
"But this policy, when not dictated by very peculiar circumstances, is of the worst kind—its obvious tendency is, by enhancing the permanent burdens of the people, to produce lasting distress, and its natural issue is in national bankruptcy."
"It will be happy, if the councils of this country, sanctioned by the voice of an enlightened community, shall be able to pursue a different course."
Here is example added to precept—in pursuit of a doctrine, the opposite of that which is charged upon him—the Secretary did not scruple to hazard the popularity of his administration with a class of citizens, who, as a class, have been among the firmest friends of the government, and the warmest approvers of the measures, which have restored public credit.—The circumstance indeed has been a weapon dexterously wielded against him by his enemies, who in consequence of the increase of duties proposed have represented him as the oppressor of trade. A certain description of men are for getting out of debt; yet are against all taxes for raising money to pay it off. They are amongst the foremost for carrying on war, and yet will have neither loans nor taxes.—They are alike opposed to what creates debt, and to what avoids it.
In the first case, their meaning is not difficult to be divined—in the last it would puzzle any man not endowed with the gift of second sight to find it out—unless it be to quarrel with and pull down every man who will not consent to walk in their leading strings; or to throw all things into confusion. FACT.
Foreign Affairs.
PARIS.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, June 18.
The President announced the following Letter from M. La Fayette to the National Assembly.
Entrenched Camp of Maubeuge, June 16, 1792, 4th Year of Liberty.
"GENTLEMEN,
"A T the moment, too long delayed perhaps, at which I am going to call your attention to great public interests, and point out among our dangers the conduct of a ministry which my correspondence has long since accused, I am informed that unmasked by its divisions, it has sunk under its own intrigues; for, undoubtedly, it is not by sacrificing three colleagues, from their own insignificance the mere creatures of his power, that the least excusable, the most noted of these ministers, will have cemented in the King's council his equivocal and scandalous existence.
"It is not enough, however, that this branch of the government should be delivered from a baneful influence. The public weal is in danger: the fate of France depends chiefly on her representatives; of them the nation expects her salvation. But, when she gave herself a constitution, she prescribed to them the only course by which they can save her.
"Persuaded, gentlemen, that the Rights of Man are the law of every constituting assembly, a constitution once formed becomes the law of the legislators appointed under it, it is to yourselves that I am bound to denounce the too powerful efforts now making to carry you beyond the rule which you have promised to follow.
"Nothing shall hinder me from exercising this right of a freeman, from fulfilling this duty of a citizen; neither their momentary errors of opinion; for what are opinions when they deviate from principles? nor my respect for the representatives of the people; for I respect still more the people themselves, of whom the constitution is the will supreme; nor the favor you have constantly shown to me; for that I wish to preserve as I obtained it, by an inflexible love of liberty.
"Your circumstances are difficult; France is menaced from without, and agitated within. While foreign courts announce the intolerable project of attacking our national sovereignty, and thus declare themselves the enemies of France, internal foes, intoxicated with fanaticism and pride, en-
tertain chimerical hopes, and fatigue us still more with their insolent malignity.
"You ought, gentlemen, to suppress them, and you cannot have the power to do so, without being yourselves constitutional and just.
"You desire to be so without doubt, but cast your eyes on what passes in your own body, and all around you.
"Can you dissemble that a faction, and, to avoid vague denominations, that the Jacobine faction has occasioned all the disorders. It is that faction to which I loudly impute them. Organized like a separate empire in its metropolis and its affiliations, blindly directed by certain ambitious chiefs, this forms a distinct corporation in the midst of the French people, whose power it usurps by subjugating their representatives and their mandatories.
"It is there that, in public settings, love of the laws is denominated aristocracy, and their infraction patriotism. There the assassins of Desilles receive triumphs—the crimes of Jourdan find panegyrists—there also the recital of the assassination that stained the city of Metz, excited internal acclamations of joy.
"Can it be believed that they will escape reproaches by sheltering themselves under an Austrian manifesto, in which these sectaries are named? Are they become sacred because Leopold has pronounced their name? And because we have to fight with foreigners, who presume to meddle in our quarrels, are we released from the duty of delivering our country from domestic tyranny?
"What import to this duty either the project of foreigners, or their connivance with counter-revolutionists, or their influence on the lukewarm friends of liberty? It is I who denounce this sect; I who, without speaking of my past life, can answer to those who feign suspicions of me; "approach in this critical moment, in which every man's character will soon be known, and let us see which of us, most inflexible in his principles, most firm in his resistance, will best brave the obstacles and the dangers which traitors wish to hide from their country, and which true citizens know how to calculate and encounter for her sake."
"And how should I longer delay to fulfil this duty, when every day weakens the constituted authorities, and substitutes the spirit of a party for the will of the people; when the audacity of agitators imposes silence on peaceable citizens, and supplants useful men; when devotion to a sect is made the substitute of all public and private virtues, what in a free country ought to be the austere and only means of arriving at the first functions of government?
"It is after having opposed to all obstacles and all snares the courageous and persevering patriotism of an army, sacrificed perhaps to combinations against its leader, that I can now oppose to this faction, the correspondence of a ministry, the worthy production of its club—a correspondence of which all the calculations are false, the promises vain, the information fraudulent or frivolous, the councils perfidious or contradictory; where, after having pressed me to advance without precaution, and to attack without means, they began to tell me that resistance would soon be impossible, when my indignation repelled the dastardly assertion.
"What remarkable conformity of language, gentlemen, between those factious men who avow their aristocratic spirit, and those who usurp the name of patriots. Both wish to subvert our laws, rejoice in disorders, rise up against the authorities conferred by the people, detest the Na-

tional Guard, preach indiscipline to the army, and sow sometimes distrust, sometimes discouragement.
"As for me, gentlemen, who espoused the American cause, at the very moment when its ambassadors declared to me that it was lost*; who thenceforward devoted myself to a persevering defence of liberty, and the sovereignty of the people; who, on the 11th of July, 1789, on presenting to my country a declaration of rights, dared to tell her— For a nation to be free, it is sufficient that she wills it ; I come now, full of confidence in the justice of our cause, of contempt for the cowards who desert it, and of indignation against the traitors who would sell it; I come to declare that the French nation, if she is not the most vile in the universe, may and ought to resist the conspiracy of kings formed against her.
"It is not, undoubtedly, in the midst of my brave army, that timid sentiments are permitted; patriotism, energy, discipline, patience, mutual confidence, all the civil and military virtues I have found in it. In it the principles of liberty and equality are cherished, the laws respected, property sacred; in it neither calumnies nor factions are known; and when I recollect that France has several millions capable of becoming such soldiers, I ask myself to what pitch of debasement would an immense people be reduced still stronger in their natural resources than in the defences of art, opposing to a monstrous confederation the advantage of combinations directed to a single object, for the base idea of sacrificing their sovereignty, of covenanting for their liberty, of submitting their declaration of rights to negotiation, to appear one, of the possibilities of the issue that is rapidly advancing upon us.
"But in order that we, soldiers of liberty, may fight with efficacy, or die with profit to our cause, it is necessary that the number of the defenders of our country be speedily proportioned to that of their adversaries; that stores of all sorts be multiplied, and facilitate all our motions: that the comfort of the troops, their equipage, their pay, the provisions for their health, be no longer exposed to fatal delays, or pretended savings, which always turn out the direct reverse of their object.
"Above all, it is necessary that the citizens rallied around the constitution be assured that the rights which it guarantees will be respected with a religious fidelity, that shall drive its enemies, concealed or public, to despair.
"Reject not this wish: it is that of the sincere wish of the friends of your legitimate authority. Assured that no unjust consequence can flow from a pure principle, that no tyrannical measures can serve a cause which owes its force and its glory to the sacred basis of liberty and equality, make criminal justice resume its constitutional course; make civil equality, and religious liberty, enjoy the entire application of their true principles.
"Let the royal power be untonched, for it is guaranteed by the constitution; let it be independent, for its independence is one of the springs of our liberty; let the king be revered, for he is invested with the national majesty; let him have the power of choosing a ministry that wears not the chains of a faction; and if there be conspirators, let them perish by the sword of the law.
"In fine, let the reign of clubs, annihilated by you, give place to the
reign of the law, their usurpations to the firm and independent exercise of the constitutional authorities, their disorganizing maxims to the true principles of liberty, their delirious fury to the calm and steady courage of a nation that understands its rights and defends them: in fine, their factious combinations to the true interests of our country, which, in this moment of danger, ought to unite all those to whom her subjugation and her ruin are not objects of atrocious joy, or infamous speculation.
"Such, gentlemen, are the representations and the petitions submitted to the national assembly, as they are to the king, by a citizen, whose love of liberty will never be honestly questioned; whom the different factions would have less, if he had not raised himself above them by his disinterestedness; whom silence would have better became, if, like so many others, he had been indifferent to the glory of the national assembly, and the confidence with which it is of importance that it should be surrounded; and who cannot better testify his own confidence, than by laying before it the truth without disguise.
"Gentlemen, I have obeyed the dictates of my conscience, and the obligations of my oaths. I owed it to my country, to you, to the king, and above all, to myself, whom the chances of war do not allow to postpone observations that I think useful; and who wish to believe that the assembly will find in this a new homage of my devotion to its constitutional authority, of my personal gratitude, and of my respect.
(Signed) FAYETTE.
JULY 10.
RESIGNATION OF THE MINISTRY.
M. Joly now rose, and signified in the name of all the ministers, "that having come into administration with the express intention of serving the state, and seeing it to be impossible to be of any further advantage to it, they had all given in their resignations."
(Loud and reiterated plaudits from the Galleries.)
STATE OF THE EMPIRE.
M. Lamourette proposed: 1st. To order Arms, Provisions, and Ammunition to be got ready immediately for 450,000 men. 2d, To send Commissaries to the Frontiers. 3d, To Decree jointly with the King an act of oblivion relative to the Commotions of June 20.
JULY 12.
Extraordinary Tribunal in the Castle of the Thuilleries.
Complaint having been made to the Assembly, that several judges of the peace had exercised an unconstitutional authority in the King's palace, the Executive Power and Accusateur Public were desired to report the steps taken, in order to bring them to justice.
BADGES OF DISTINCTION.
In consequence of a report from a Committee, it was resolved that the members of the Assembly, and the administrators of the districts and departments, should wear, while on duty, certain characteristic and emblematical badges, in order to distinguish them from their fellow citizens.
LETTER FROM THE KING.
"M. LE PRESIDENT,
"I have instructed the minister of justice to transmit to the National Assembly, in compliance with the VIIIth Article of the II d Section of the IVth Chap. of the Constitution, the Proclamation issued by me, in consequence of the Arrest of the Department, in regard to the provisional suspension of the Mayor and Procureur de la Commune of Paris.
(Signed) "LOUIS. (Counter-signed) "DE JOLY."
M. PETION
Now appeared at the bar, amidst the acclamations of the members and the spectators.
He demanded that the Assembly should judge rigorously between him and his persecutors. The department, conscious of its own unpopularity, and envious of the confidence which the people reposed in the municipality, had always endeavored to mortify the magistrates of the people. It had continually oppressed and u-
surped their powers, and had ever been ambitious to be the creatures of the Court, rather than the servants of the Nation.
Hatred and vengeance were companions in every paragraph of the late Arrest: it was filled with calumny and untruth; it has accused him of negligence, and libelled the inhabitants of the Fauxbourg St. Antoine, as a set of men suspected of robbery!
Of what had this department to complain? Had a single person fallen by the hands of the people? What did it lament? That a martial law had not been proclaimed? That a croud of citizens had not perished? That a civil war had not taken place?
As to the confirmation of their sentence by the King, M. Petion said, no one need be astonished at it, for the department had supported the executive power, and the executive power in its turn, now supported the department. (Loud plaudits from all parts of the Assembly.)
M. Petion was admitted to the honors of a Seance.
JULY 18.
THE KING OF GREAT BRITAIN.
A letter was read from the French minister at London, containing a note, in which his majesty declines the interposition of his good offices with his allies on the continent, in regard to the affairs of France, but promises, for his own part, to observe the strictest neutrality.
EVENING SITTING.
The secretaries read the papers sent by the department de l'Ardeche, from which it appeared, that M. du Saillant, and a Count de Combet, were agents to the French Princes, and that their business was to create insurrections in the Southern Provinces. The Catholics were to rise against the Protestants; the Royalists, who are for the old monarchy, against the Patriots; and in short, the whole of the Southern Provinces was to become an immense burying ground. The letters of the king's brothers, directed to M. du Saillant, left no room to doubt the existence of this conspiracy, which is now entirely laid open. The generals and commanders are named. Their different tasks are allotted them, and the routes they were to take delineated. The Princes inform the confederates, that one of them is immediately to set out for Spain, and from thence to advance to take the command of the army of the south, with a view to restore the old monarchy, and also the priests and nobles.
A decree was passed to sell all the episcopal palaces with the gardens and grounds belonging to them. This is expected to produce eleven millions of livres. The bishops who have taken the oaths are to receive a compensation in money.
The Assembly sent a deputation to attend the funeral of the celebrated American PAUL JONES, who died yesterday at Paris. It was objected, that he was a Calvinist, but the objection was overruled.
JULY 21.
The order of the day called the attention of the Assembly to the discussion of the denunciation against M. la Fayette.
M. Lacource, after a violent declamation against the conduct of that General, concluded with demanding that he should be put in a state of accusation.
His speech was demanded to be printed.
The Assembly upon deliberating, refused to comply with the request. A scene of noise and tumult followed.
M. Tournay gave his opinion for the accusation of M. la Fayette, whom he regarded as a traitor, or at least a conspirator who wished to domineer between the people and their enemies. It was demanded that the discussion should be closed.
M. M. Fauchet, Baziere, and Chabot, opposed the demand.
The debate became tumultuous; the spectators took part by applauding and hissing, and by encouraging or reviling the speakers, as they favored or disapproved of their opinions.
The tumult increased. The President complained that there was a spectator, who hissed behind him, and demanded that he should be arrested. The tribunes instantly were all in confusion. The President put on his hat, and order was slowly restored.
M. Brissot demanded the prorogation of the discussion.
M. Fauchet demanded the adjournment till M. Luckner should have given an explanation on what had been alleged, that M. la Fayette had proposed to him to march their two armies to Paris.
M. Gaudet read some information to this purpose, which he had gathered in the conversation with M. Luckner, whom he affirmed to have said, "I do not deny that it was proposed to me in the name of la Fayette, by M. Bureau de Puzy, who had been thrice President of the Constituent Assembly; I replied to M. Bureau, that M. la Fayette was master of his conduct and might do as he chose, but that if he marched to Paris, I should march after him, and counteract his designs by force; M. Bureau replied, 'But the life of the King is in danger.'"
M. Gaudet deposited the note containing this information on the Bureau, and signed it.
The President announced, that some citizens alarmed for the safety of the Assembly, demanded to be admitted, and likewise that a croud were advancing to the Thuilleries.
M. Petion appeared, and said, that he saw nothing in the neighbourhood of the Assembly to
occasion alarm, and that those citizens who wished to enter the Thuilleries, had promised to remain quietly at the gates.
Several members demanded the adjournment of the discussion, which was opposed by M. Huat. A tumultuous debate took place, in which the spectators joined.
The adjournment was pronounced, till further information should be obtained respecting the new denunciation.
JULY 22.
M. Lacroix observed, that the Assembly had not terminated their discussion of the accusation which had yesterday been made against M. la Fayette, and demanded that Mellis, Luckner and La Fayette should be bound to make positive declarations respecting the fact which had been brought forward; and M. Bureau should be summoned to the bar to give the necessary information of which he was in possession. This motion was adopted.
LONDON, July 19.
The TURKS.—We learn from the frontiers, that the Ottomans have cut to pieces 200 Austrian soldiers, who had marched to dispute with the Turks the harvest of a field that they had sown. If France had money to throw into the lap of the Sublime Porte, it might not be very difficult to spirit up again an irreconcileable hatred, only stifled by the exigencies of the time.
At Coblentz a Prussian soldier has been shot for having taken it into his head to preach liberty to two citizens. His body served afterwards as a stool on which the two citizens received each 50 blows with a stick.
The expences for his majesty's civil list for the last half year, ending July the 5th, as nearly as can be ascertained, are 946,538l. 8s. 7d. !!!
The Russians called the Defenders, have lately committed many outrages in Ireland. At Dundalk a dangerous riot was apprehended, when the speaker, accompanied by the gentlemen of the country, a troop of horse, and a company of foot, attended, ordered the riot act to be read, and exhorted the populace to disperse. This was ineffectual, and the soldiers were pelted with stones, &c. They were then obliged to fire in their own defence, when six of the insurgents were killed, several wounded, and ten made prisoners. The remainder instantly dispersed, & tranquillity was restored.
A letter from Coblentz, dated 7th July, has this passage: "The day before yesterday the Duke of Brunswick dined with Monsr. Count d'Artois and the Prince de Conde. Marshals Broglio and de Castres were of the party. His serene highness said with much modesty, 'I never expected to have dined with three generals who beat me, and still less to have the honor of commanding them.'"
M. Dufailant, the rebel aristocrat, has been driven from his fortress by the regulars, under the command of M. Delbignac, who ordered the village of St. Andre, in the interest of M. Dufailant to be burnt.
If we listen only to the fears or hopes of some, we must anticipate nothing less than the arrival of the Prussians at the gates of Paris. They will not amuse themselves, say the people, with besieging fortresses; their march will be direct, and their purpose executed with promptitude.
The President of the National Assembly, in just so many words, told them the other day, that Anarchy had reigned long enough, and that the rule of the Laws was now arrived. We are glad they have at length made the discovery, and hope it is not made too late to profit by it.
The Duke of Brunswick arrived at Coblentz on the 3d inst. and the Prince of Nassau, with a great part of the army on the day following—the Prussian Army under the command of the Duke of Brunswick, at Coblentz, comprises 51,870 infantry, and 23,098 cavalry—the third column of the Prussian Army, at Frankfort, consists of 6,501 infantry, and 1,464 cavalry—the fourth, at Manheim, of 7,477 foot, and 3,042 horse.
No situation can be conceived more embarrassing than that of a Minister interrogated by the Legislative body in Paris.—If his replies are circumstantial he is tedious—if they are brief, he holds them in contempt—if he wishes to obtain proper information before he replies, then he refuses to answer the representatives of people.
"I had rather be a Dog, and bay the Moon, Than such a Minister."
The salary of Dr. Willis, for his attendance on the Queen of Portugal, is 1000l. per month.
The case of the Queen of Portugal is not yet given up for lost, though the expectations of her perfect recovery are not very sanguine at present.
Two ships are lying at Deptford to take on board such American Loyalists as are going settlers to Upper Canada, and they are invited to embark by public notice from government. These vessels will sail for America without any delay, as soon as they get on board their stated number of passengers and their baggage.
* The Editor has been favored with the following remarks on this passage:
"There is one unfortunate phrase in M. de la Fayette's Letter to the National Assembly, which respect for his person and character induces a belief is an error, which a Translator might readily fall into.—M. de la Fayette speaks of "the very moment when its Ambassadors declared to him that it (the cause of America) was lost."
"The American Commissioners were, at the time alluded to, stiled in Paris, Ministres des Etats Unis . The French Ministry were called les Ministres without addition, and les Ministres , as le Roi could only mean the French King, and French Ministers. That the French Ministry thought the cause lost, is known; but it is hardly possible that the declaration in question, could have been made by the American Commissioners. It is therefore supposed that the article before the noun was les , which would make the sense complete and consistent with truth; but the article les , obliges the Translator to denominate Ministers, Ambassadors, and the antecedent confines their quality to Americans ."

JULY 27.
A violent remedy is talked of for the indisposition of the Queen of Portugal. This is the leading her Majesty into a temporary building erected in a large piece of water, into which she is to sink immediately upon her entrance, and to be taken out by persons provided for that purpose.
As fast as the French army under Luckner, and that lately commanded by Fayette, retire, the Austrians press on to take their ground, and are now forcing their route, by Bayay, towards the interior part of the kingdom.
The Elector of Saxony is said to have joined the league against France, and furnishes the allied powers with 24,000 auxiliaries.
The Duke of Brunswick has issued a proclamation, forbidding, on pain of death, every Prussian from entering the camp of the French emigrants, and every French emigrant from entering the Prussian camp. The Chevalier de Nauldes, either not having heard of the proclamation, or imagining that the penalties would not be rigorously inflicted, attempted to enter the Prussian camp, and was shot dead by the centinel. Count d'Egmont is to command the right wing of the army of the Princes, but it is not resolved that this army shall act at all.
A warrant has just received the royal signature, for issuing from the Treasury the sum of 2000l. to the Trustees of the Protestant Dissenting meeting-house at Birmingham, as a full compensation for the losses and damages sustained by the destruction of that edifice during the late riots there.
Saturday, an officer arrived at the Admiralty Office with letters from Lord Hood in the grand fleet, which were dated off Ushant, the 16th inst where the fleet was then lying, and all well.
The camp at Bagshot, under the command of the Duke of Richmond, is now formed, and the different regiments are arriving daily. The King goes occasionally; the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Gordon, Lady Susan, and several persons of fashion, are now at the camp.
One of the assassins of the late unfortunate Dillon was executed at Lille on the 13th inst.
A fort of revolution has taken place at Constantinople. The sublime Porte has established a Privy Council with jurisdiction in all political matters, without which the Grand Vizier, cannot act. Despotism is thus somewhat shaken even in her favorite seat.
RICHMOND, September 5.
We are credibly informed that about 100 Indians lately made an attack on Gallipolis, a French settlement on the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of the Great Kanawha, which continued for some time. The Indians, after destroying the standing corn, killing four or five, and doing other mischief, retreated. About the same time two young women, named Morris, of Kanawha country, were killed.
BALTIMORE, September 7.
M. Merlin, at the Tribune of the Jacobins, in Paris, made use of the following expression; "Is there not one worthy citizen to be found, who shall plunge a poniard into La Fayette's Body?"
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 1.
On Wednesday last the Bridge in the centre of this town was finished. The completion of a work of so much elegance and public utility was thought worthy of public notice, and was accordingly celebrated on the day following. The chartered military companies, under the command of Col. Tillinghast and Whipple, paraded on the Bridge a little before noon. At twelve o'clock fifteen cannon were discharged upon the Bridge, which was adorned with an equal number of flags, and several manual firings were also performed. The military companies then escorted his Excellency the Governor, and a large number of respectable citizens, with the master-builder and mechanics of the Bridge, to Federal-Hill, where, having partaken of a cold collation, the discharge of cannon echoed toasts:
This Bridge is built on the model of that which connects Boston and Charlestown. Though much inferior to that in length, it is inferior to none in strength and beauty. It is 120 feet long, having a draw 22 feet. It is 56 feet wide, with chinefe fence at the sides, and palisaded 8 feet from each side. It is lighted by 6 lamps, which were constructed by Major Burrill, of this town, and are suspended on posts, whose golden tops will long witness the taste and generosity of those young gentlemen at whose expence they were gilt.
This very necessary piece of work has been executed by Mr. Whiting, of Norwich, under the agency of John Dorrance, Esq. in the course of a few months, much to the satisfaction of the public.
We are informed that Mr. Whiting is applied to respecting the Bridge to be erected from West-Boston to Cambridge.
NEWPORT, (R. I.) Sept. 3.
On Friday morning last, this town sustained a very heavy loss by the death of Mr. DANIEL ROGERS, in the 40th year of his age.
As a merchant and man of business, enterprise, industry and punctuality marked his conduct; in his temper and disposition he was humane and benevolent, and in his manners affable and polite; as a husband, father, brother, friend and master, few perhaps excelled him: these virtues soon gained him general esteem, and induced the freemen of the town, in April last, to call him forth for one of their representatives to the General Assembly, and at their late choice to re-elect him to sit in the ensuing October session.
The anxiety and concern for his recovery, apparent on every countenance, during a long and severe illness, demonstrated the sensibility of his fellow-citizens, and the part they shared in his sufferings; as did the great number of all ranks and denominations, paying the last tribute to his memory, by their attendance at his funeral, on yesterday evening, discover how sincerely they lament his untimely exit.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
TO ARISTIDES.
THOUGH there would be no great hazard of mistake in inferring the writer of the paper under the signature of Aristides from "the appropriate and prominent features" which characterise the style of that paper; yet I forbear to imitate the example which has been set, with too little decorum, by naming or describing the supposed author. The similitude of style, or any other circumstance merely probable, is too slight a foundation for so improper a procedure.
Peculiar circumstances which it is not necessary to explain, uniting with the conjecture which is indulged respecting the real Aristides , lead to a charge of the original party to the charges. The discussion will be taken up and pursued by one, who is willing to be responsible for the allegations he shall make, and who consequently will not refuse to be known, on proper terms, to the officer concerned. It is however not meant to invite enquiry on that head. It is most advisable that none should be made. For any public purpose, none will be requisite. For any personal one, none will be proper. What shall be said, will merely apply to public conduct, and will be supported by proof and argument.
Why then, it may be asked, the intimation of a willingness to be known, if required? The answer is, merely to put an end to the epithets "cowardly assassin," "striking in the dark," and other tropes and figures of a similar nature. Some rhetoric may be spoiled, but the elucidation of truth will be promoted.
It occurs at once to an observant reader, that Aristides passes over in total silence, the leading article of charge brought by the American against Mr. Jefferson—namely, That he is the institutor and patron of a certain Gazette published in this city, the object and tendency of which are to vilify and depreciate the government of the United States, to misrepresent and traduce the administration of it, except in the single department of which that gentleman is the head; implicating in the most virulent censure the majorities of both houses of Congress, the heads both of the treasury and war departments, and sparing not even the Chief Magistrate himself; that in the support of this paper, thus hostile to the government, in the administration of which he holds so important a trust, he has not scrupled to apply the money of that very government; departing by this conduct from the rules of official propriety and obligation, and from the duty of a discreet and patriotic citizen.
This is the leading and main charge which has been brought by the American against Mr. Jefferson, which he supports in several ways.
1st. By direct proof of an official connection between the Secretary of State and the Editor of the National Gazette —coeval with, or rather antecedent to the first establishment of that paper.
2d. By the suggestion of his being opposed to the present government of the United States, while it was under the consideration of the people.
3d. By the suggestion of his being opposed to the principal measures which have been adopted in the course of its administration, particularly those relating to the finances.
The object of the above recapitulation is to shew the true original state of the question; in order that it may be clearly seen how entirely Aristides , in his defence, loses sight of the principal point, and contents himself with an indirect endeavor to involve it in uncertainty, by disputing or denying some positions which form only the collateral evidence.
It will now remain to see how the charges of the American have been and can be supported.
As to the connection between the Secretary of State and the Editor of the National Gazette , neither of the following facts can or will be disputed. If any of them should be denied, it will be proved beyond the possibility of doubt.
1st. That the Editor of the National Gazette is a Clerk in the department of State for foreign languages, and as such, receives a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year.
2d. That he became so antecedent to the establishment of his Gazette, having actually received his salary from the 17th August, 1791, and not having published the first number of his paper till the 31st of October following.
3d. That at the time he became so, there was another character, a Clerk in the same department, who understood the French language; and that the Editor of the National Gazette is a translator of that language only.
4th. That the appointment was not made under any special provision, marking out a particular Clerkship of the kind, its duties, or its emoluments; but under a general authority to appoint Clerks, and allow them salaries, not exceeding the average of 500 dollars to each.
5th. That the Editor of the National Gazette , immediately preceding the establishment of that paper, was the Superintendent or conductor of a paper belonging to Childs & Swaine, printed at New-York.
These are the facts: The conclusion is irresistible. The secret intentions of men being in the repositories of their own breasts, it rarely happens, and is therefore not to be expected, that direct and positive proof of them can be adduced.
Presumptive facts and circumstances must afford the evidence; and when these are sufficiently strong they ought to decide.
We find the head of a department taking the Editor of a Gazette into his employment, as a clerk, with a stated salary—not for any special purpose, which could not have been accomplished otherwise; for he had, at the time, in his department, a clerk who was capable of performing the very service required, and could without difficulty have procured others similarly qualified; nor from any particular necessity arising from a too limited allowance, or any other cause; for he had it in his power to allow an adequate compensation to a character who might have been regularly attached to the department.
The very existence of such a connexion, then, is alone a sufficient foundation for believing, that the design of the arrangement was to secure an influence over the paper, the Editor of which was so employed. But the circumstances which attend it explain the nature of it beyond a doubt. That which has been just mentioned, namely, there having been previously a clerk in the department qualified to render the service, is a weighty one. The coming of a new printer, from another State to in-
stitute a new paper—his having been appointed a clerk in the department prior to his removal to this city—his having been compensated before he was even present, to satisfy the appearance of rendering service; these circumstances give a point and energy to the language of the transaction which render it unequivocal.—There, perhaps never was a more flimsy covering for the pensioning of a printer. Some ostensible ground for giving him the public money was necessary to be contrived—the clerkship of foreign languages was deemed a plausible pretext—But no man acquainted with human nature, or with the ordinary wiles of political intrigue, can be deceived by it.
The medium of negotiation between the Secretary of State and Mr. Freneau, in order to the institution of his paper, is known, and documents are possessed which ascertain the person; but they are at present withheld, from considerations of a particular nature.—These are the more readily yielded to; because the facts, which have been stated, render it unnecessary to exhibit them.—Those facts prove, to the satisfaction of every impartial mind, that Mr. Jefferson is the INSTITUTOR and PATRON of the National Gazette .
As to the complexion and tendency of that Gazette, a reference to itself is sufficient. No man who loves the government, or is a friend to the public tranquillity, but must reprobate it as an incendiary and pernicious publication, and condemn the auspices under which it is supported.
In another paper, the charges which have occasioned so much umbrage to Aristides , will be more correctly stated and enforced. The precise terms of the advice which was given by Mr. Jefferson to Congress, respecting the transfer of the French debt to a Company of Hollanders, will be recited.
This characteristic trait in the political principles of that gentleman, will be submitted to the honest feelings not only of the great body of the yeomanry, to whom such affected appeals are so often made, but to honest men of whatsoever class or condition.
CATULUS.
Philadelphia, Sept. 15.
By the latest accounts from the Westward it appears that the Indians discover a temper directly the reverse of pacific—that they have sacrificed Col. Hardin and Major Trueman appears to be too true. That they have incessantly committed depredations on the frontiers—that within the bounds of the State of Kentucky alone between forty and fifty persons have been killed or made prisoners since last spring; and a party of 18 near Fort Jefferson who were making hay, were lately attacked—one only escaped—and four that were taken prisoners were burnt by the Shawanese.
By accounts from Albany it appears that the various plans of Bridges and Canals in contemplation by the citizens in that part of the State of New-York, are in a train of prosecution.—The recent examinations of the rivers, &c. have ascertained that the projected improvements in the interior navigation is much more practicable than was ever conceived of.
Tuesday last a young man was committed to the gaol of this city, on suspicion of his having been concerned in the murder of Elizabeth Reeve.
The State Gazette of Georgia, printed at Augusta the 25th August, says, that W. A. Bowles was hanged at Madrid the 7th June, at the common place of execution. This is probably premature, as accounts of Bowles' being at Cadiz subsequent to the 7th June, have been published.
By a public communication from Governor Telfair, to the Representatives in Congress of the State of Georgia, it appears that it will require One Million of Dollars to be assumed on account of that State, to cover its State Debts.
On Friday the 17th August, a fire broke out in Halifax, Nova-Scotia, which consumed six tenements and the Ordnance Laboratory before it could be got under. A Mr. Wellnor and his wife perished in the flames. The loss of property is said to be great.
The Pittsburgh Gazette of last Saturday contains no Indian intelligence.
Sunday the 26th August, three soldiers belonging to the Federal Army were shot at Pittsburgh, for desertion.
The British July Packet arrived at New-York, last Sunday, via Halifax.
Mr. JAMES CAREY, late printer and proprietor of a Dublin Newspaper , entitled the Rights of Irishmen , proposes publishing a daily paper in Richmond—to commence the first of October next.
The publication of "the private Life of BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Esq." is begun in London—it appears to be from the Doctor's own notes, and begins thus—
"My Dear Son, "I have lately amused myself with collecting some little Anecdotes of our Family, &c."
Wednesday the 5th instant was celebrated at Providence, the anniversary Commencement of Rhode-Island College. The procession, at half past ten o'clock, moved from College-Hall to the Baptist Meeting-house, where, after an introductory prayer by the Rev. Dr. Stillman, the exercises of the day began—these being finished, highly to the acceptance of a numerous audience, the Degree of Bachelor in the Arts was conferred on seventeen, and that of Master in the Arts on six candidates.
The Degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on the Rev. John Rippon, of London—the Rev. John Ryland, jun. of England—and the Rev. Benjamin Foster, of New-York. The Degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on the Rev. Perez Fobes, of Raynham—Mr. Benjamin West, of Providence—and the Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
At the Commencement at Dartmouth College, the 22d ult. the honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred on the Hon. JEREMIAH WADSWORTH—and that of Doctor of Laws on the Hon. SAMUEL LIVERMORE, and the Hon. JOHN PICKERING, Chief Justice of New-Hampshire.
ABSTRACT OF EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
Marshal Luckner was in Paris the 17th July—the public mind was greatly agitated in accounting for the motives of his being there.—The late apparent reconciliation of parties in the National Assembly turns out a temporary business, as violent debates still take place, and factions still distract the public councils.—M. Luckner left Paris about the 20th July—he is much dissatisfied with the decree which interdicts petitions from Generals of the armies.—The decree, which declares the country to be in danger, has been published with great ceremony in all parts of the city—and books were opened in which great numbers of citizens enrolled their names.—The Assembly have decreed that the army shall be reinforced, so as to make it consist of 450,000 men.—M. Duillaunt, the rebel aristocrat and several of his friends and followers have been cut to pieces, the persons legally authorized not being able to prevent their being massacred; the forts of Bannes & Jales are reduced to ashes.—On M. Dufailant were found papers which disclose an immense plot against the Constitution; by far the most extensive of any attempted against it. M. Dufailant in these papers is named Generalissimo of the South, in which the counter-revolution was to commence—copies of these papers were read in the Assembly, by which it appeared that M. Dufailant and a Count de Combat were agents to the French Princes, that the Catholics were to rise against the Protestants, the Royalists who are for the old monarchy against the Patriots, &c.—The Cure de Bannes was sacrificed by M. Dufailant and his troops.—Long and loud debates ensued on reading these papers, and it was decreed that fifty-seven persons were guilty of high treason.—Since the death of Dufailant quietness is restored to the South of France.—The anniversary of the French revolution was celebrated by the patriotic societies in London.—Accounts are received from Lord Cornwallis to the fourth of March, in which he speaks in high terms of the officers and soldiers of his army—but makes no mention of the death of Gen. Meadows.—The Amsterdam Gazette represents the partition of Poland as a matter fixed on—That notwithstanding the efforts of the nation, the unhappy fate of that country seems to be at length decided—Thus a people which had set an example to the civilized world, by establishing a government which has raised the human species, long depressed and humiliated by the iron hand of feudal despotism, to the rank assigned them in the original constitution of nature, are again to be made the sport of ambition, the miserable slaves of arbitrary power and lordly domination.—That the righteous governor of the universe may blast the designs of the despots of the earth, and yet interpose that power which is omnipotent to save, in favor of Poland, must be the ardent prayer of all good patriots.—The English army under Lord Cornwallis is now in possession of Hyder Ally's superb Tomb, and an elegant palace near Serin-gapatam—The Tomb is converted by the British General into an hospital for the sick and wounded of his army.
Paris, according to the latest accounts, is in a state of violent agitation; every thing appears to be guided by the impulse of the moment—the constituted powers despised, and the voice of faction allowed the utmost latitude that imagination can conceive—Great defections of the officers of the army continue.—Comparative accounts of the British Customs, Excise, &c. for the weeks ending the 21st of July 1791, and 1792.
   1791. 1792.   L. s. d. L. s. d.     Customs, 67,234 1 0 150,797 11 0   Excise, 300,456 0 0 329,550 0 0   Stamps, 16,269 0 0 21,254 0 0   Incidents, 13,486 4 0 9,317 17 0   397,445 5 0 510,091 8 0  
Increase for the week ending July 21, 1792, above its corresponding week in 1791, one hundred thirteen thousand four hundred seventy-four pounds three shillings!
The amount of the revenue in 1792, above 1791, has already considerably exceeded half a million!
On the 20th July, a fire broke out in the general hospital at Valenciennes. The buildings, which served as magazines for the camp equipage, were burnt. The sick in the hospital were happily rescued from the flames. This dreadful calamity, is said to have been the effect of treachery, part of a match having been found where the fire first broke out. Soon after the appearance of the fire, the Austrians advanced from Bayay to Jeanlin, within a league and a half of Valenciennes; but they were vigorously repulsed with loss.
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TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JUNE 28, 1792.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of the late Rev. ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, deceased, will be exposed to Public Sale on Thursday, the 11th of October next, at GEORGETOWN, on a credit of three years, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date—That valuable Seat of Land, in Montgomery county, called HAYES; the late dwelling plantation of the deceased, containing between six and seven hundred acres, the greatest part of which is rich, heavy timbered land, extremely well watered, and capable of affording a very considerable quantity of fine meadow;—Situated about 6 miles from the Federal City, and the same distance from George-Town, in a genteel neighbourhood, and a remarkable healthy part of the country. The improvements are, a very elegant two story Brick Dwelling House, (with four rooms and a passage, or entry, on a floor) and the necessary out-houses.
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TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JULY 6, 1792.
THE Subscriber offers for Sale, a Mill-Seat on Rock Creek, deemed by those who have examined it, equal to any in the United States. The Mill-House may be placed within one quarter of a mile of the river Potowmac, half a mile from the market house in Georgetown, and one mile from the President's square, in the city of Washington—on tide water, navigable for vessels of several hundred bushels burthen.—The stream is sufficient, the year round, to turn four pair of stones, and the fall may be made from 25 to 30 feet. It is unnecessary to dwell on the advantages of such a situation. The purchaser may be accommodated with a few hundred acres of land adjoining the Mill-Seat, if that should be an object.
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1. At any place or places betwixt York-Town & Carlisle, in the state of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh, and at Pittsburgh, York-Town and Carlisle.
2. At any place or places from Pittsburgh to the mouth of Big Beaver Creek, and at the mouth of Big Beaver Creek.
3. At any place or places from the said mouth to the upper falls of the said Big Beaver, and at the upper falls.
4. At any place or places from the said upper falls to Mahoning, and at Mahoning.
5. At any place or places from the said Mahoning over to the Head Navigation of the River Cuyahoga, and at the said Head Navigation.
6. At any place or places from the said Head Navigation to the mouth of the said River Cuyahoga, and at the said mouth.
7. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Big Beaver Creek to the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence over to the Cuyahoga River, and thence down the said River to its mouth.
8. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth of the said River Scioto.
9. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of Scioto River and the mouth of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Great Miami, and from thence to the Rapids or the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids.
10. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Great Miami, up the said Miami to and at Pique Town.
11. At any place or places from Fort Washington to Fort Hamilton, and at Fort Hamilton. At any place or places from Fort Hamilton to Fort St. Clair, and at Fort St. Clair.
12. At any place or places from Fort St. Clair to Fort Jefferson, and at Fort Jefferson.
13. At any place or places from Fort Jefferson to the field of action of the 4th of November, 1791, and at the said field of action.
14. At any place or places from the said field of action to the Miami Villages, and at the Miami Villages.
15. At any place or places from the said Miami Villages to the Falls of the Miami River, which empties into Lake Erie, and at the said Falls, and from thence to its mouth, and at its mouth.
16. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Miami River of Lake Erie to Sandusky Lake, and at Sandusky Lake.
17. At any place or places from the said Sandusky Lake to the mouth of the River Cuyahoga.
18. At any place or places from the mouth of the said River Cuyahoga to Presque Isle, and at Presque Isle.
19. At any place or places from Presque Isle to the stream running into Lake Erie from towards the Jadagheque Lake, and thence over to and at the said Jadagheque Lake, and thence down the Allegany River to Fort Franklin.
20. At any place or places from Presque Isle to Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf.
21. At any place or places from Le Beuf to Fort Franklin, and at Fort Franklin, and from thence to Pittsburgh.
22. At any place or places from the Rapids of the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash River, and from the mouth of the said Wabash River to the mouth of the River Ohio.
23. At any place or places on the East side of the River Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio River, to the mouth of the Illinois River.
24. At any place or places on the East side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the River Margot inclusively.
25. At any place or places from the said River Margot to the River Yazous inclusively.
26. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Wabash River up to Fort Knox, and at Fort Knox.
27. At any place or places from Fort Knox, up the said Wabash, to Ouittanon, and at Ouittanon.
28. At any place or places from Ouittanon, up the said Wabash, to the head navigation of a branch thereof called Little River, and at the said head navigation of Little River.
29. At any place or places from the said head navigation of Little River over to the Miami Village.
30. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Tennessee to Occochohappo or Bear Creek, on the said River, inclusively.
31. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Cumberland to Nashville, on the said River, and at Nashville.
And at any place or places within thirty miles of said Nashville to the Southward, Westward or Northward thereof.
Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on betwixt the public and the contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
One pound of bread or flour,
One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork,
Half a gill of rum, brandy or whisky,
One quart of salt,
Two quarts of vinegar,
Two pounds of soap,
One pound of candles, } per 100 rations.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at each of the said posts, for the space of at least three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required.
It is to be understood in each case, that all losses sustained by the depredations of the enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the prices of the articles captured or destroyed, on the deposition of two or more credible characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation is claimed.
The contract for the above supplies will be made either for one year, or for two years, as may appear
eligible. Persons disposed to contract will therefore confine their offers to one year, or they may make their propositions to as to admit an election of the term of two years.
The offers may comprise all the places which have been specified, or a part of them only.
Treasury Department,
AUGUST 20th, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the 15th day of October next inclusive, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December 1793, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts, and the Port of West-Point, in the State of New-York.
The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the following articles, viz.
One pound of bread or flour,
One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork,
Half a gill of rum, brandy or whisky,
One quart of salt,
Two quarts of vinegar,
Two pounds of soap,
One pound of candles, } per 100 rations.
The proposals may be made for both of the above-mentioned Posts, or separately, for Springfield and West-Point.
Treasury Department,
AUGUST, 20th, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury until the fourth day of October next inclusive, for the supply of the following articles of Clothing for the Troops in the service of the United States—viz.
Table with 2 columns: Article, Quantity. Includes Hats, Coats, Vests, Woolen Overalls, Linen Overalls, and Shoes.
FOR THE CAVALRY.
Table with 2 columns: Article, Quantity. Includes Caps, Coats, Vests, Pair of Leather Breeches, Pair of Boots, and Pair of Spurs.
The above Clothing to be delivered either in New-York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, at the option of the contractor or contractors, on or before the 15th day of June, 1793.
The proposals may comprise the whole of the before-mentioned Clothing, or any one or more of the component articles; to be furnished agreeably to patterns or specimens, which will be shown at the War Office. Good security will be required for the punctual and faithful performance of the contract. The payment will be on the delivery of the Clothing, or, if necessary, such reasonable advances will be made as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem expedient.
War Department,
AUGUST 6, 1792.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the Military Invalids of the United States, to whom sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of May 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of September 1792, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within States respectively, under the usual regulations.
Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers.
1st. The certificate given by the State, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact valid, and ascertaining the sum to which such Invalid is annually entitled.
2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form:
A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of ... in the state of ... and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited). That he served ... (regiment, corps or vessel) ... the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the ... and county of ... and has resided there for the last ... years, previous to which he resided in ...
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeably to the following form:
I, A. B. of ... county of ... state of ... hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of ... my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of ... my pension for six months, as an invalid of the United States from the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and ending the fifth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. Signed and sealed in the presence of ...
Witnesses. Acknowledged before me,
Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of the respective offices, and also of the time the invalid died, whose pension they may claim.
By command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX; Secretary of War.
The Printers in the respective States are requested to publish the above in their newspapers, for the space of two months.
George-Town.
A Number of LOTS in every situation which may be desired in City of WASHINGTON, will be offered for sale by the Commissioners, on Monday the 8th day of October next. One fourth part of the money to be paid down, the residue in three equal annual payments, with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
JOHN M'GANTT, Clerk to the Commissioners. June 2, 1792. [cp11]