Gazette of the United States & evening advertiser. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1794-01-03 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States  AND  EVENING ADVERTISER.
[No. 19 of Vol. V.]
FRIDAY, January 3, 1794.
[Whole No. 477.]
NORRIS-COURT, Back of the New Library, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets.
George Rutter, RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public in general, that he continues carrying on the business of Sign and Fire-Bucket Painting, Likewise, JAPANNED PLATES, for doors or window-shutters, done in the most elegant manner, and with dispatch. Orders from the country will be thankfully received, and duly attended to. December 30, dtf
Just published, And to be sold by Stewart & Cochran , No. 34, South Second-street,
THE United States Register, For the YEAR 1794; Containing, besides accurate and complete lists of all the Officers in the general, and the principal Officers in the particular governments, a variety of information, useful for all classes. dtf
ROBERT CAMPBELL, No. 54, South Second-street, Second door below the corner of Chestnut-street, HAS IMPORTED, By the late arrivals from Britain and Ireland, A large and general Assortment of New Books and Stationery, Which will be disposed of on the lowest terms. Dec. 23. mw&f tf
NEW BOOKS.
Now opening for Sale, By M. CAREY, No. 118, MARKET-STREET; A large and valuable collection of BOOKS, imported from London in the Mohawk. Dec. 19.
Parry and Musgrave, Goldsmiths & Jewellers, No. 42, SOUTH SECOND-STREET, HAVE FOR SALE, An elegant Assortment of SILVER & PLATED WARE, JEWELLERY & fine CUTLERY, Which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. Devices in hair, Miniatures set, and every thing in the gold and silver way, done as usual. December 24. mw&f tf
NOTICE
IS hereby given, to the MEMBERS of the INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH-AMERICA, That the third Instalment, being Two Dollars on each share of the Stock, is to be paid, agreeably to the Constitution, on the second Monday [the 13th day] of January next: And a General Meeting of the Stockholders is to be held on the succeeding day, for the purpose of choosing Fifteen Directors, examining into the Situation of the Company's Affairs, and making such additional Rules and Regulations as they shall judge necessary.
EBENEZER HAZARD, Secretary. Dec. 16. mw&f t3. 1J
MONEY borrowed or loaned, accounts stated or collected, employers suited with domestics, house rooms, boarding and lodging rented, let or procured—soldier's, mariner's, or militia men's pay, lands and claims on the public; shares in the banks, in the canals, and the turnpike road: certificates granted by the public, and the old and late paper monies; notes of hand, bills, bonds and mortgages, with or without deposits—Bought, sold, or negotiated at No. 8, in South Sixth-street, below Market-street by FRANCIS WHITE, Who transacts business in the public offices for country people and others, by virtue of a power of attorney, or by personal application. December 11. d
E. OSWALD, No. 156, Market-Street, South, AT the request of a number of friends, proposes publishing THE INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER, twice a week, viz. Wednesdays and Saturdays—to commence in January next, if sufficient encouragement offers.
It will be published on Paper and Types equal to its present appearance. The subscription 3½ dollars per ann.
Advertisements not exceeding a square, will be inserted 4 times for 1 dollar—every continuance one fifth of a dollar. Those exceeding a square, in the same proportion.
Excellent CLARET, In hogheads and in cases of 50 bottles each. A few cases Champaigne Wine; MADEIRA, In pipes, hogheads and quarter casks, FOR SALE BY JOHN VAUGHAN, No. 111, South Front-street. Jan. 2, 1794. dtf
NOTICE.
BEING desirous of closing various commercial concerns, and that all powers heretofore granted relative to the same should be revoked, and public notice of it given, to prevent any possible mistake; I, the subscriber, do hereby make known to all whom it may concern, that all powers and letters of attorney, of every nature and extent, granted by me to any person or persons, prior to the 21st day of July last, to act for me or in my name in AMERICA, are revoked and made void.
JAMES GREENLEAF. New-York, Jan. 1, 1794. dtw
TO THE PUBLIC.
THE undersigned committee, appointed by "THE SOCIETY for the INSTITUTION and SUPPORT of FIRST-DAY or SUNDAY SCHOOLS in the city of Philadelphia and the district of Southwark and the Northern Liberties," to solicit further subscriptions for the support of the schools which the said Society have established, take the liberty to represent to their fellow citizens—
That, although the schools were suspended during the period of the late awful calamity with which our city and suburbs have been afflicted, they are now again opened for the free admission and education of poor children.
That, the necessity and reasons for the establishment of these schools are increased, from the circumstance of the late distress having left a number of Orphans destitute of all the means of education, save what the hand of benevolence may administer.
That, former experience has, most pleasingly, verified the fondest hopes of the friends of this institution, with regard to the progress and advancement of the children, who have heretofore been under its care, in the useful branches of education which it has afforded. Referring to this fact, and to the address to the public, on this subject, published in the newspapers of this city in the third month last, when about eight hundred and twenty children of both sexes had partaken of the benefits afforded by the Society, and about three hundred and twenty more were then actually receiving instruction in their schools, it now only remains to be observed, that the funds of the Society are greatly insufficient to carry on their benevolent designs, and that the committee formerly appointed to solicit subscriptions, conceived it necessary to decline their applications to their fellow-citizens for their assistance in favor of these schools, in order that there might be no interruption from them to the solicitations then made in behalf of their unfortunate brethren from Cape-Francis.
The public aid is now therefore earnestly solicited to support a charitable establishment, calculated upon the principles of public and private good. The annual subscription for a member is but One Dollar; and it is presumed that so small a sum per annum cannot be better disposed of, by those who can afford it, than by bestowing it as the price of the diffusion of useful knowledge among the poor and friendless.
Subscriptions and donations will be gratefully received by the undersigned committee on behalf of the Society:
  Peter Thompson,  Ebenezer Large,    Thomas P. Cope,  Jacob Cauffman,    Joseph Price,  James Todd,    Edward Pole,  Joseph James,    James Hardie,  Jonathan Penrose,    William Innis,  George Meade,    Benjamin Say,  John Peat,    Nathaniel Falconer,  John McCree,    Francis Bailey,  Robert Ralston,    Jesse Sharpless,  Thomas Armat,    Samuel Scotton,  George Williams,    Peter Barker.  Jan. 1.  
OBSERVATIONS
ON THE RIVER POTOMACK, THE COUNTRY ADJACENT, AND THE CITY OF WASHINGTON.
(Continued from our last.)
Upon examining the ground within the above described limits, and taking into consideration all circumstances, the President fixed upon the spot upon which the city has since been laid out, as the most proper for erecting the public buildings which are authorised to be prepared by the foregoing act.
But the eastern branch being made one of the boundaries, within which the district of ten miles square was to be laid out, an
amendment to the preceding act was thought necessary, so as to include a considerable part of the said branch, and the land on the north-eastern side of it, within the said district of ten miles square. A formal act for that purpose was accordingly passed on the 3rd day of March, 1791.—By this means the Commissioners were enabled so to lay off the district of ten miles square, that the center thereof is made the center of the spot on which the city is laid out, as nearly as the nature and form of the ground of the city will permit. The district of ten miles square thereby includes the river Potomack for five miles above and the like distance below the middle of the city; and extends in the state of Virginia about three miles over the river.
The whole area of the city consists of upwards of four thousand acres.—The ground, on an average, is about forty feet above the water of the river. Although the whole, when taken together, appears to be nearly a level spot, yet it is found to consist of what may be called wavy land; and is sufficiently uneven to give many very extensive and beautiful views from various parts of it, as well as to effectually answer every purpose of cleansing and draining the city.
Two creeks enter the city, one from the eastern branch, the other from the Potomack, and take such directions as to be made to communicate with each other by a short canal.—By this means a water transportation, for heavy articles, is opened into the heart of the city.
No place has greater advantage of water, either for the supply of the City or for cleansing the streets, than this ground. The most obvious source is from the head waters of a creek which separates the city from George-Town.—This creek takes its rise in ground higher than the City, and can readily be conveyed to every part of it.—But the grand object for this purpose, which has been contemplated by those best acquainted with the country hereabouts, and the circumstances attending it, and which has been examined with an eye to this purpose, by good judges, is the Potomack. The water of this river above the Great-Falls, 14 miles from the city, is one hundred and eight feet higher than the tide-water. A small branch, called Watt's-Branch, just above the falls, goes in a direction towards the city. From this branch to the city a canal may be made (and the ground admits of it very well) into which the river, or any part of it, may be turned and carried through the city.—By this means the water may not only be carried over the highest ground in the city—but if necessary over the tops of the houses. This operation appears so far from being chimerical, that it is pronounced by good judges, who have examined the ground through, and over which it must pass, that it may be effected for perhaps less money than it has and will cost the Potomack company, to make the river navigable at the Great and Little Falls, and to clear the bed of the river between them.
Should this be effected, the produce of the country will naturally be brought thro' it; and the situation afforded thereby for mills and manufactories of every kind that require the aid of water, will be most excellent, and commensurate with any object.
The public buildings for the accommodation of the Congress and the President of the United States, are begun, and progress with much spirit. They are on a scale equal to the magnitude of the objects for which they are preparing; and will, agreeable to the plans which have been adopted, be executed in a style of architecture, chaste, magnificent and beautiful. They will be built with beautiful white stone; which is pronounced certainly equal, if not superior, to the best Portland stone, by persons who have been long experienced in working the first quality of Portland stone. The quantity of this stone is fully equal to any demand that can arise from it. That used for the public
buildings is from an island about 40 miles below the city, which has been purchased by the Commissioners, and from which, and a tract of land lying on the river in the neighborhood of it (the right of getting stone from which, for 20 years, has also been purchased by the commissioners,) it is supposed that enough of this stone may be obtained to answer every demand, however great.
Besides the buildings for the accommodation of the government of the United States, a very superb hotel is erecting, the expence of which is defrayed by a lottery, the hotel being the highest prize.—This building, with its accommodations and dependencies, will perhaps be equal to any of the kind in Europe.
The original proprietors of the land on which the city is laid out, in consideration of the great benefits which they expected to derive from the location of the city, conveyed, in trust, to the Commissioners, for the use of the public, and for the purpose of establishing the city, the whole of their respective lands which are included within the lines of the city, upon condition, that, after retaining for the public the ground of the streets, and any number of squares that the President may think proper for public improvements or other public uses, the lots shall be fairly and equally divided between the public and the respective proprietors.
By this means the public had a possession of more than 10,000 lots, from which funds are to be raised, to defray the expence of the public buildings, (in addition to 192,000 dollars* given by the states of Virginia and Maryland for that purpose) and to effect such other things as it may be incumbent upon the public to do in the city.
Between three and four thousand lots have been sold by the commissioners, and the average price at their public sales has exceeded two hundred and forty dollars a lot. The price of lots has already risen very much, and a great increase of price is still expected, as the object comes to be more investigated, and better understood.
After furnishing very ample funds for the accomplishment of every object in this city, on the part of the public, a large surplus of lots will remain the property of the city, which hereafter may, and undoubtedly will be so applied, as to defray the annual expences incident to the city; and the citizens, and their property, will be forever free from a heavy tax, which is unavoidable in other large cities.
Among the many advantages which will be derived to this city over almost all other large cities, from the circumstance of its being originally designed for the capital of a great nation, may be ranked, as the foremost; the width of the streets, (none of which are less than ninety feet, and from that to one hundred and sixty,) and the attention which will be paid to levelling or regulating the streets upon a general principle, in the first instance, in such a manner as to avoid any future inconvenience to such buildings as may be erected in the early establishment of the city, and to give that declivity to them, in the several parts of the city, which will readily and effectually carry off all filth in the common sewers. These circumstances are of the highest importance, as they affect the health and the lives of the inhabitants.
Besides the advantage which the city of Washington will have, from its being the seat of government of the United States, from its being within a few miles of the center of the territory of the United States, from north to south, and nearly the center of population, and from the immediate commerce of the Potomack, it will receive an immense benefit from its intercourse with the country West of the Allegany mountains, through the Potomack, which offers itself as the most natural, and the
* Virginia 120,000, and Maryland 72,000.

nearest channel of commercial intercourse with that extensive and rich country.
At present, the land-carriage between the navigable waters of the Monongahela (a fork of the Ohio) and the navigable waters of the Potomack, is less than 40 miles; and a good waggon road is open between the two waters. Men of judgment on the subject of inland navigation, have examined the ground between the highest branches of the Potomack, and those of the Ohio, and have been decidedly of opinion, that the land-carriage between the two places where boats may come to each, can be reduced to fifteen miles; and they have found nothing to convince them, that these waters may not, hereafter, be made to communicate with each other.
The settlers on the Ohio and Mississippi, will of course carry their heavy produce to a market down those rivers; but their returns will be most natural through the Potomack, for they cannot ascend the Western Waters, without great expense or much loss of time; the current there being so rapid, that a sharp boat with six oars can scarcely ascend fifteen miles a day.
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
To the Editor of the General Advertiser.
Sir,
I have observed in some of your late papers certain strictures on a speech of one of the Members of Congress from Massachusetts, which I consider both harsh and unmerited, and tending to prevent that freedom of debate which has been so wisely provided for.
The writer's opinion and inferences are by no means worthy of notice, otherwise than as they shew a disposition to pervert the truth, and abuse the liberty of the press. That Member's character as a friend to genuine liberty and good government, is too well established to be affected by such misstatements and scurrility, as is contained in the paper of Monday; neither is such a mode of writing calculated to make a favorable impression on the minds of many of your readers.
Paris of a sentence, or even of a speech, may be so stated by designing partisans as to appear very exceptionable, and this is believed to have been the case in the present instance; because, independent of the known principles of the member, some people of character who were present, declare they heard no expressions that would bear the construction which has been attempted.
Gracchus says "he would be unfaithful to his country, to let such sentiments pass unnoticed;" in this he claims some merit to himself, while he pays but a poor compliment to his friends in Congress, who let such expressions as he has stated, pass without reprimand; and to be a useful watchman, he ought to pay more attention to his recitals.
AN OBSERVER.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
According to the "opinion" of a writer in the General Advertiser, "on the conduct that America ought to adopt in future"—it appears that the wisdom of this country would be evidenced in the first place, by throwing every thing into confusion among ourselves, and in the second, by immediately plunging into a war with all the world—our agents at home and abroad are to be dismissed—and all the measures which have given prosperity to our country, and secured that prosperity by peace and domestic tranquility, are to be subverted and overturned. If this is the way to preserve our name in existence as a nation, if this is the way to enable us to help our friends, preserve our peace, our liberties, and our independence—then the modern doctrines of volunteer quacks in politics which run counter to the experience of man in all past ages, ought to prevail—In vain have the people of America fought for freedom, deliberated on the best measures to secure the inestimable jewel, and established a just, wise and competent government as the only mean conducive to that object—if, the nature of our species is inverted, and confusion and every evil work is the only preparative to peace liberty and safety—the politics of maniacism will not prevail, for the partisans of disorganisation are not like Sampson, willing to be crushed themselves in the ruins they contemplate with so much pleasure—Our Councils will not be influenced by hairbrained politicians who, reflecting on the fortunes which have been accumulated in the convulsions of Europe, are anxiously desirous of trying their hand in this happy retreat of freedom and peace.
Y. Z.
From the COLUMBIAN GAZETTEER.
OBSERVATIONS.
The coldest day in December, 1789, in this city, was the 20th of the month—the Thermometer was 21 degrees. Friday morning last being 10 1-2 degrees colder. In Jan. 1790, the coldest day was 20 degrees—in February 9 degrees—in March 6 degrees. By this the coldest day in the winter of 1790, was 4 1-2 degrees colder than Friday morning last.
The coldest day in Philadelphia, in Jan. 1789, was 18 degrees—in February 10. 7 degrees—in Jan. 1790, 12 degrees—in Feb. 6 degrees—in March 3 deg. in Dec. 6 degrees.
In Philadelphia, in Jan. 1791, 8 deg. in Feb. 5 deg.—in March 2 deg.
From the above remarks, being all I could collect, we may not expect to experience but very little colder weather in the course of this winter, than was experienced the last week.
G. BAKER.
New-York, 28th Dec. 1793.
TRENTON ACADEMY.
On the 23d & 24th ult. was held the examination of the several schools in the Trenton Academy. The scholars who had been studying Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and Book-keeping, exhibited such proofs of attention and improvement, as were very satisfactory to the trustees and visitors. The Grammar school, under the care of Mr. Whiteside, was examined in presence of the Governor of the State, the Hon. Isaac Smith, the Rev. Mr. Armstrong and Samuel W. Stockton, Esq. who expressed their approbation at the proficiency of the students, several of whom distinguished themselves for their progress in the mathematics and natural philosophy.
A number of the students of this academy have been fitted, from time to time, to enter the junior class in Princeton college, with credit to themselves and their tutors. Others have been qualified for the mercantile and mechanical branches of business, which are here particularly attended to—and all, whose morals are unimpeached, and who have made sufficient proficiency, are entitled to a certificate, under the seal of the corporation, setting forth the branches of literature which they have successfully studied.
Such is the healthfulness of the city of Trenton, that not an instance of mortality has happened since the first establishment of this academy, among the many scholars who have come hither to pursue their studies. This circumstance, added to the eligibility of its situation, being on the post and stage road from Philadelphia to New-York, and the cheapness of boarding, renders it a desirable place for persons at a distance to send their children for the rudiments of their education.
There are at present about eighty scholars in the several schools: the house is in complete repair, and would accommodate a much larger number with convenience.
As the schools are under good regulations, and will be carefully attended to by the trustees and visitors, it is hoped those who may think proper to send their children to this seminary will not be disappointed in their expectations.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
To the SIEUR GENET, MINISTER OF FRANCE.
WHENCE is it, Sir, that you alone, among the diplomatic characters in America, have been selected as the notorious object of public animadversion? Interesting to yourself, as it is to Americans, this question Mr. Genet, demands your attention.
In answer to this question, will you, in the spirit of calumny and self-admiration, presume to say, that the American press, devoted to the cause of despotism, persecutes you as the martyr of liberty? Instead of thus yielding to the seductions of passion, rather, Sir, for once, render homage to the simplicity of truth, and reflect whether a more correct answer may not be given! Shall I mention one for your consideration? Yet deem it not singular, that a person unpractised in the insidiousness of Courts, unversed in the sophistry of St. Omers, and unambitious of rivaling you in artifice, should give an answer very different from yourself, an answer which is plain, simple, palpable. You alone, among the diplomatic characters in America, have notoriously offended against diplomatic propriety.
Delegated, as French missionary, to the constituted government of the American Republic, your mission, as relative to this government, was either a mission of peace, or a mission of perfidy. What then has been your conduct, as relative to the American government? Have not your proceedings, instead of evincing a Minister of peace, branded you as the Apostle of discord? And was such the purpose of the nation whom you claim to represent? No! Sir, however zealous you may be to calumniate the French nation by confounding them with yourself, we acquit them of the charge: Never can we believe that the republicans of France would approve a mission of perfidy. To do justice to the French people, we must then be careful to discriminate between them, and yourself. And, making this discrimination, we are constrained to regard some of your proceedings, Sir, as meriting no slight reprehension.
Could we totally abstract your diplomatic character from your proceedings, while you hold and abuse that character, we might regard your language as but the intemperate effusions of a self-admiring sciolist: And, in this abstracted view, the combination of fatuity and vanity, being regarded as innocuous, might afford matter of transient mirth. But when, in abusing your diplomatic trust, you claim that your language should be respected as the voice of France, the subject instantly assumes a very different aspect; and your published declarations, whether resulting from ignorance, vanity, fanaticism, or perfidy, become seriously interesting to the friends of true republicanism: For, whether you betray the republican cause, from ignorance, vanity, fanaticism, or perfidy, whether you betray it from want of wisdom, or from want of honesty, still, Sir, you injure the cause which you ought to benefit, and which, notwithstanding its being profaned by your professions of devotion, is precious and sacred to Americans.
"That you are not destitute of talent," has been already conceded in the address which I presented to you, through the Gazette, in consequence of the letter, of the 13th of August, which you wrote for the press, and sent to the President. My generosity, as one of the people, having made you this concession while there appeared some room for hoping that you would listen to the voice of instruction and reform, although your own conduct has since reduced you, in point of character, to be but a mendicant petitioner on the charity of public opinion, yet, while I scorn to despoil the beggar, I scorn to revoke my generous concession. But lest, from your proneness to eulogize yourself, you should abuse this concession to your own injury, let me remind you, that, in kind, as well as in degree, talents are various. And, as "you are not destitute of talent," so neither was an ancient noted incendiary, one trait of whose character seems not altogether inapplicable to yourself:—"Satis loquentia, sapientia parum."
Considering that a person in your station ought not to be so ignorant of classic literature as you profess to be of some of the most celebrated works on national law, although I do not question your professed ignorance, I now credit you as having the ability to understand a short sentence from Sallust: I, accordingly, omit giving you a version of this which I have just cited. And, leaving it to your own moments of temperate reflection, if ever you have any, I observe, that the character at large may be worth your attention. You may find it delineated by Sallust, in his history of the Catalinarian war. And, while you are meditating on this subject, let me urge you to reflect, that, however much or however long you may have abused our patience, yet the incendiary, who makes professions of virtue in the cause of vice, and boasts of patriotism for the purposes of sedition, will not eventually find more support in America than your prototype found in Rome.
The insidiousness of your professions, the illegitimacy of your doctrines, the audacity of your pretensions, have conspired to provoke and justify typographical strictures. Appearing before the American public in the novel and amphibious character of typographical Minister, your claims to public animadversion are various, urgent, and unrivalled. Whether we contemplate you as the soi-disant oracle of national law, as the expostulator of the American Constitution, as the exotic guardian of the sovereign people of the United States, as the public accuser of their constituted authorities; or whether we contemplate you as a diplomatic
Proteus transforming yourself into a multiplicity of shapes, and adopting such various forms as you may think adapted to aid your machinations—whether you adopt the form of epistolary correspondence, diplomatic communication, consular protestation, circular address to American committees of benevolence, circular instructions to French consuls, or any other form which anarchial zeal may suggest; still, Sir, we find no cause to deny you the character of which you seem so ambitious, the character of an Apostle of Discord.
You may affect a tremulous concern for the President, and, with the modesty peculiar to yourself, profess to the public, as in your letter to Governor Moultrie, your "grief at seeing General Washington, that celebrated hero of liberty, accessible to men whose schemes could only darken his glory." But in vain may you expect that such arts will delude the informed Americans. The weeping of the insidious crocodile deludes none but the ignorant.
If he has become the object of your piety, General Washington is fallen indeed. Are you so vain, Sir, as to imagine, that his, or his country's glory depends on you? Learn then to know thyself; and be assured, that it is not the breath of Genet, but the energy of truth, which swells the trumpet of fame.
After considering, that, in your letter of the 27th of October to the Secretary of State, you have charged President Washington with usurping power which the constitution does not allow him; when we further observe, that, through your subaltern Danner you profess, to the Executive of Massachusetts, an anxious sensibility lest hostilities should interrupt "the ever-dear fraternity" between "two nations yet sistrers," and that you also at the same time exhibit a manifesto against our National Executive; the language of such communications excites, in the American mind, at once, contempt and indignation. Are we to be duped, or terrified, from the maintenance of our own internal sovereignty, by the insidious professions, or menaces of a diplomatic or consular dictator? Will you, Sir, say, that there is danger of hostilities between France and America? If so, whence does this danger arise?—Whence, but from functionaries who, entrusted with affairs of France, abuse the confidence of an high-spirited people?—Whence, but from such persons as yourself?
Mr. Genet! will you, while Minister of France, pretend to be ignorant, that your Masters have represented federalism as the evil genius of anarchy, of rebellion of royalism, as a monster threatening destruction to the unity and indivisibility of the Republic? Did you then, in ordering Danner to denounce the President, purpose to excite in America the very spirit which has been excited at Marfeilles, at Lyons, at Toulon? Speak, Sir! what was your purpose in that insidious denunciation?—What, but to divide and command the American People? Accordingly, the moment of our national dismission, would have been the moment of your congratulating yourself as Dictator over America.
Not to particularise all the insidious communications which you have been eager to publish, and without now remarking on the illegality of the doctrines which they contain, the publications already noticed, especially those relating to the affair of Duplaine, sufficiently brand you as the Apostle of Discord. And, on reviewing the conduct of our public functionaries, and considering your various insinuations and direct charges against them, the mind is impressed with one concluding sentiment.
To be the FIRST OF WARRIORS, and yet to be accused for being the FRIEND OF PEACE, is the peculiar honor of Washington; an honor worthy the FIRST FUNCTIONARY OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC IN THE UNIVERSE. Formanifesting himself to be the vigilant friend of peace, as well as the firm assertor of our national sovereignty, he is honored by the approving voice of his country, and has shared, with other officers of our government, in your calumnies, and in your honorable hatred.
ALFRED.
AMERICA.
JAMAICA, Nov. 9.
Undecided Engagement.
Extract of a letter written on board the privateer brig Eagle, Captain Ogie dated at Cape Nichola Mole, October 28.
"Last Thursday noon, while in company with the sloop Susan, Capt. Young,
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we saw a vessel to windward, which after a short time appeared to be a ship, & was thought by Capt. Young, who was dining on board us to be the King Grey. He accordingly went on board his own vessel, and hoisted the private signal for that ship but shortly afterwards hailed our captain, and told him she was a merchant vessel, and we consequently kept for her till within musket shot, the Sufan on her bow, and we on her broadside.
"Capt. Young having fired a gun at her, and hoisted English colours, the ship hoisted National colours,—we then hoisted ours and gave her a broadside, which was warmly returned, when a very heavy cannonade ensued, and continued about an hour and an half, at the end of which the Sufan bore away.
"About ten minutes afterwards, we also, finding her too heavy, bore away, and the ship went in pursuit of the Sufan, a very dull sailor, with whom she soon came up, and pouring a very heavy shower of shot, obliged her to strike.
"Two boats were dispatched on board of Captain Young, and the ship made after us, and was coming up very fast, when a shoal obliged her to haul up, and gave us some advantage; she was however, about dusk within musket shot of us, and fired 40 or 50 balls at us, which did considerable damage, but the darkness increasing, she fortunately lost sight of us.
"We now got fixed upon a rock, and remained there, it blowing hard all the time, and in momentary expectation of being dashed to pieces, till half past 11, when we got off, and immediately proceeded to this place to refit.
"Our sails, rigging, &c. were greatly damaged, and we received several shot in the hull, two or three between wind and water; one ball in particular went directly thro' the magazine, and shattered a barrel of powder to pieces, but providentially did us no other injury.
"The ship had 18 long 12 and nine pounders, and 200 men. We lost but 1 man in the action."
NEW-YORK, January 1.
Bermuda, Nov. 29.
WE, the Masters of American vessels captured by the different Bermudian privateers on our passage from the West Indies, request it as a favor of you to publish this our situation, as the most speedy method we have to make it known to our owners and fellow-citizens, in case any of our letters share the same fate of all others that fall into the privateers hands, viz.
 1. Ship Robert, West, vessel and cargo condemned.  2. Schooner Fair Lady, of Philadelphia, Lillibridge, the cargo condemned on the oath of a boy.  3. Brig Phoebe of Philadelphia, Williams, the cargo condemned.  4. Schooner York, of New York, O'Brien, libelled.  5. Schooner Betsey, of Ipswich, Kimman, ditto.  6. Brig Sukey, of Charleston, Earl, do.  7. Sloop Crisus, of New-Haven, Bill, do.  8. Sloop Amelia, of Philadelphia, Williamson, having come in dismasted, and a pass on board from a British port, on conditions of signing an indemnifying bond to the owners of a privateer, and repairing all damages himself.  9. Sloop Polly, of Philadelphia, Smith libelled.  10. Schooner Atalanta, of New-London, Skinner, do.  11. Schooner Willing Maid, Wallace, do. 
Note. When we arrive at the Bermudas, and after anchoring in the stream a short time, are boarded by a crew of Bermudians from the shore.
1st. Where there are passengers on board they order the baggage on deck, and open all trunks, cases, or any package or bundle, beds, &c. that they do find on board said vessel, and take therefrom all books, papers, money, watches, trinkets, plate, and cloathing in part, &c.
2d. They then proceed to search them personally, without discrimination of age or sex.
3d. Then turn them on shore to the Commissary of war, and proceed to haul the vessel to the wharf: they then commence unloading her, at their own discretion, starting, boring, breaking, and destroying many things before them, at the same time turning the crew on shore, and enlisting them on board their privateers.
They will not permit the master, nor
any person belonging to the vessel, to remind them of the destruction of the said vessel or her cargo; but threaten destruction to the master, which some have felt the effects of on this island. Nay they demand the master's money, dispossess him of his vessel, and no provision made for him. All this is done by the owners of the privateers, not under the inspection of the Marshal, and before any condemnation takes place.
Therefore we pray you will not neglect to give this a speedy publication in your papers; in doing which you will oblige,
Dear Sirs,
In behalf of the whole,
Your very humble servants, ROBERT LILLIBRIDGE, JOHN EARLE, WM. WILLIAMSON, JOHN SMITH, M. MARTINEAU, Supercargo of the Schooner Fair Lady.
Signed in New York, 28th Dec. 1793. THOMAS O'BRYAN.
It appears by Mr. Rittenhouse's observations in Philadelphia, that, the summer past, the Thermometer was at and above 80 deg. 26 days in August and 9 in September; which makes 35 days in those two months only. I have not seen any observations for May, June and July last; but probably the heat was at and above 80 deg. eighty or ninety days in the whole season: an instance without precedent in America.
Extract from the Quebec Gazette of the 12th December.
Friday morning died the Hon. William Smith, Esq.; one of his majesty's executive council, speaker of the legislative council, and chief justice of the province of Lower Canada.
Mr. Smith was eminently distinguished both for the strength of his mental faculties and the extent of his acquired talents, and was a character of which there are few examples, possessed of a tenacious memory, quick conception and sound judgment, great classical, historical and legal learning, and unwearied in his application and attention to business, he was in the executive government, in the senate, and in his judicial capacity, a man of the first abilities, a public speaker of the first rank, and undeniably the greatest law character that America has produced.
To what he was in public he was equal in private life, where the excellence of his understanding appeared in the brilliancy of his conversation and writings, and the goodness of his heart in every instance of his conduct towards his family, his friends and society—he died revered by those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance, regretted by all, as a public and irreparable loss—His remains were interred on Sunday, and were attended to the grave by his royal highness Prince Edward the ben. the members of the Legislative and Executive Councils, and of the House of Assembly, the officers of Government civil and military, the officers of the garrison, and the most respectable and numerous concourse of citizens ever witnessed on a similar occasion.
PITTSBURGH, Dec. 28.
Extract of a letter from Fort Washington dated Nov. 14, 1793, to a gentleman in this town.
"I received a letter a few days ago from the Falls, informing me that an expedition is there preparing against Louisana, under the command of the well known Gen. Clarke, who (says my informant) is appointed a major-general in the armies of France, and commander in chief of the French Revolutionary Legion on the Mississippi, &c. That a paymaster is actually arrived with cash, and also some French artillery officers,—40 odd boats on a new construction are to be built at that place, as soon as possible—that blank commissions are sent to the General to be filled at his pleasure—that the Legion is to be on a life establishment, the same as in France—that public plunder is to be relinquished to the troops, and they are to receive lands in the conquered country consonant to grade, and that after the war they shall not be liable to be called out of the country, but are to garrison it."
BOSTON, Dec. 25.
The prospect of peace, was the report of yesterday. Although we could not trace it to any source to be relied on, we shall nevertheless give it as we heard it.—It is, that the British packet had arrived at Halifax, from England, and that letters had been received at Halifax, by the pac-
ket, from Brook Watson, Esq. Paymaster-General of the Duke of York's army, in the Netherlands, informing that the National Convention of France had named Commissioners to treat with the Combined Powers as to the object of the combination and invasion of France, and what might be the preliminaries on which a treaty of peace might be concluded; that, in consequence of the answer given, Mr. Watson was of opinion that a peace would take place in the spring. Something about the surrender of Brest was also reported; but treated as idle.
There was also a report that Commissioners had left Brest, and had arrived in England, for the purpose of agreeing on the surrender of that port on the same conditions with that of Toulon.
The packet is said to have left England the 16th October.
DECEMBER 26.
The vessel which arrived at New-York from Cadiz, we are informed, was sent by Mr. Humphreys, our minister at Portugal. She was insured at 30 per cent, vessel, cargo, and crew; and a dollar was paid for every letter she brought.
Mr. Humphreys, we likewise are informed, was on his way, at the date of his letter to Mequinez, in the empire of Morocco, in order to effect if possible, a peace with the Algerines.
NEW-LONDON, Dec. 26.
IN every point of view, the present crisis is highly interesting; it is devoutly to be wished, and the public voice is for honorable Peace with all the World.
"The ear is pain'd, The soul is sick with every day's report, Of wrong and outrage with which this earth is fill'd."
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. ——— Lands interested by a narrow frith, Abhor each other. Mountains interposed, Make enemies of nations who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one."
PHILADELPHIA,
JANUARY 3.
APPOINTMENT.
Edmund Randolph, to be Secretary of State, in the room of Thomas Jefferson, resigned the 31st. ult.
Extract of a letter from Baltimore.
"An American vessel is just arrived from Havre de Grace. Nothing has as yet been published. It is however reported, that every thing in France is in the best situation; It is even said that Great Britain and Prussia have been detached from the Combination of Powers, and that wagers have been laid respecting a peace."
The first day of January was, among the Romans, consecrated to Janus, by an offering of a cake made with new meal, and new salt, with new frankincense and new wine. On this day, a beginning was made of every intended work; the consuls took possession of their office, and with the flamins [priests] offered sacrifices and prayers for the prosperity of the empire. All animosities were suspended, and friends gave and received New-Year's Gift. This practice of making presents is still continued; though the best part of the Roman customs, the suspension of all animosities, seems to have fallen into disuse. Am. Minerva.
A list of all the arrivals at the port of Philadelphia, for the year 1793. 163 Ships, 288 Snows and Brigs, 599 Schooners and Sloops. Clearances for the same period. 143 Ships, 258 Snows and Brigs, 690 Schooners and Sloops.
Married at Trenton, Mr. GEORGE ROZELL, to Miss SALLY AXFORD, both of that place.
At Brunswick, N. J. ELISHA AYRES, attorney at law of Morristown, to Miss HANNAH DENNIS, daughter of John Dennis, Esq. of Brunswick.
At New-York, Mr. JOHN SMITH, merchant, to Mrs. AGNESS WETZELL, eldest daughter of General William Malcom, both of that city.
Died, at Baltimore, Mrs. HENRIETTA WILLIAMSON, the amiable consort of Mr. David Williamson of that town, merchant.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Friday Jan. 3, 1794.
The petition of Thomas Claxton, Assistant Door-Keeper, was read a second time—and provision ordered, pursuant to the prayer thereof, to be paid out of the fund appropriated to defray the contingent expenses of the house.
Some other petitions were read referred.
The house then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Trumbull in the chair, and took into consideration the Report of the Secretary of State, relative to Foreign Commerce.
Mr. Madison, after some introductory observations on the State of the Commerce of the United States previous to the adoption of the constitution, and subsequent to that period—read a number of resolutions, the substance of which are contained in the Secretary's report: Their principal object is to provide for an enhancement of the Duties of Import on sundry goods, imported from countries, with which the United States have no Commercial Treaty; also, on the Tonnage of vessels of those Countries.—These resolutions being read the committee rose & reported progress—and after considerable debate on the question for an early, or distant day to be assigned for their discussion, the house determined on next Monday week.
Mr. W. Smith moved the following resolution, viz. That the Secretary of the treasury, be directed to report to this house, a comparative view of the foreign tonnage employed in the commerce of the United States, in the years 1790, 1791, and 1792.
2d. That he report the actual state of the American tonnage employed in the commerce of the United States, with foreign nations, for one year.—These resolutions were agreed to.
On motion, it was resolved, that the resolutions brought forward by Mr. Madison, should be printed.
Mr. Fitzsimons, laid a motion on the table, for the appointment of a committee, to report a bill providing for the regulation of pilots, and the preservation of light houses, &c. in the bay of Delaware.
In committee of the whole, on the bill providing for the renewal of lost certificates of a certain description—Mr. Trumbull in the chair.
The bill was read by the clerk—and considered by paragraphs.—The first provides for the renewal of loan office certificates and final certificates, which have been destroyed by accident—after some objections to the principle of the bill, it was moved that this paragraph should be struck out.—This motion was negatived—The committee then rose and reported progress and the house adjourned.
FROM A CORRESPONDENT.
In confirmation of the assertion that Great Britain made the truce between the Algerines and Portugal, it has been alleged, that Great Britain is the guarantee of that truce. But it is known that the latter fact comes from the same source as the former, a source which is not only questionable, but which derived its information from doubtful authority; whereas the intelligence of a contradictory nature is not only more recent but comes from higher authority, & denies the agency of that nation or the guarantee. The refusal of a convoy is part of the same story with the former, and depends upon the same authority. Another letter in town declares, that the improper manner in which it was asked was the sole cause of any difficulty; see a letter published in this paper on Wednesday last.
There are not wanting those who wish to plunge this country into a war with Great Britain. Exaggerations and misrepresentations will be useful weapons in their hands; but the calm and the candid require facts well authenticated before they form opinions.
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