National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-08-22 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
VOL. I.
WEDNESDAY, August 22, 1792.
NUMB. 85.
An accurate Table of the DUTIES payable on GOODS, WARES and MERCHANDIZE imported into the United States, from the 1st July 1792.
The 1st column shows the Duty when imported in American, the 2d. when in Foreign vessels, ** For articles not mentioned in the Alphabet look below among free goods, wares &c.
   A. F.     ALE, beer, & porter in casks per gal. Cents per gallon in bottles—2 cents per doz. and also per gallon. 8 8 1-2   Anchors per cent. ad. val. 8 8   Anniseed 10 11   Arms—fire and side arms 15 15 1-2   Artificial flowers, feathers and ornaments for head dresses 10 10 1-2   Balls, Balsams, &c. see cosmetics—Bonnets and caps, see hats   Books printed for sale come within the description of non-enumerated articles—viz. ad. val. 7 1-2 8   Blank books 10 11   Boots per pair—cents per pair 50 55   Brass manufactures, wire and teutenaque excepted—per cent ad. val. 10 10 1-2   Bricks and tiles 10 11   Brushes 7 1-2 8 1-4   Buckles, shoe and knee 10 11   Buttons of every kind 10 10 3-4   Cables and tarred cordage per cwt. A. 18c F. 19c. Untarred cordage and yarn, cents per cwt. 225 240   Cabinet wares per. ct. ad. val 10 10 3-4   Cards, playing cards per pack cents per pack 25 26   Wool and cotton do. per doz. 50 55   Cambricks, per ct. ad. val. 7 1-2 8 1-4   Candles of tallow, cents per lb. A. 2 F. 2 1-5—Spermaceti and wax per lb. A. 6 F. 6 3-5   Canes, walking sticks and whips per ct. ad. val. 7 1-2 8 1-4   Caps and bonnets—see hats   Carpeting and carpeting 10 10 3-4   Cheese cents per lb. 4 4 2-5   China wares per ct. ad. val. 15 16 1-4   Chintzes, coloured calicoes, and all printed, stained and colored goods or manufactures of cotton or linen, or both 7 1-2 8 1-4   Chocolate, cocoa, coffee &c see groceries   Cloathing ready made 7 1-2 8 1-4   Clocks and watches 10 11   Coal—cents per bushel 4 1-2 4 4-5   Cordage, tarred and untarred, see cables. Twine and pack thread, cents per cwt. 400 430   Coaches, chariots, phaetons, chairs, solos, or other carriages, or parts of carriages per ct. ad. val. 15 1-2 17 1-20   Colours, painters, whether dry or ground in oil, except those commonly used in dying 15 16   Copper, manufactured (except in plates, pigs and bars) 10 10 3-4   Cosmetics, also balls, balsams, powders, pastes, ointments, oils, waters, washes, tinctures, essences, or other preparations, commonly called sweet scents, odors, perfumes, or cosmetics; and powders, or preparations for the teeth or gums. 10 10 1-2   Cotton or linen manufactures, see chintz. Cotton, raw; cents per lb. 3 3 3-10   Drugs, medicinal, except those used for dying, per ct. ad. val. 10 10 3-4   Earthen and stone wares, per ct. ad. val. 10 11   Fans, feathers and artificial flowers per ct. ad. val. 10 10 1-2   Floor cloths and mats 10 10 1-2   Fringes, used by upholsterers, coach makers and saddlers 15 15 1-2   Fruits of all kinds—see groceries   Gauzes, per cent. ad. val. 7 1-2 8 1-4   Geneva, comes under the head of Spirits   Glass and all manufactures of glass, black quart bottles excepted, ad. val. 15 16 1-4   Glauber salts, 3-4 per cent. ad. val. and also per cwt. 200 200   Gloves of leather per ct. ad. val. A. 10—F. 10 3-4. all other gloves and mittens ad. val. A. 10. F. 10 1-2   Glue, per cent. ad. val. 15 15 1-2   Gold and silver plated ware & gold and silver lace 10 11   Goods, wares and merchandise, imported directly  
   from China or India, in Foreign vessels, (except teas, china ware, and all other articles, liable to high duties 12 1-2   Goods intended for re-exportation, see under the word merchandise amongst the free articles at the end of this list   Goods not enumerated and described in this list, per cent. ad. val 7 1-2 8   Groceries—viz. Chocolate, cocoa, coffee, capers, cloves, cinnamon, com fits, currants, dates, figs, fruits of all kinds, such as oranges, lemons &c. ginger, mace, mustard, olives, oranges, oil, nutmegs, plumbs, prunes, raisins, ad val. 10 11   Gun powder 10 11   Hair powder 15 15 1-2   Hats of beaver, felt or wool, or a mixture of any of them 10 10 3-4   Hats—all other hats, caps, and bonnets 10 10 1-2   Hemp, cents per cwt. 100 105 2-5   Jewelry and paste work per cent. ad. val. 10 11   Indigo, cents per lb. 25 27 1-2   Iron, cast, slit, and rolled, and generally all manufactures of tin, pewter, or copper, or of which either of these metals is the article of chief value, not being otherwise particularly enumerated, iron wire excepted, per cent ad. val. 10 10 3-4   Iron, steel or brass manufactures &c.—see manufactures   Laces and lawns, per cent ad. val. 7 1-2 8 1-4   Laces, lincs, fringes, tassels and trimmings, used by upholsterers &c. 15 15 1-2   Lamp black 10 11   Lead and all manufactures of lead, or in which lead is the chief article 1 1 1-10   Leather tanned or tawed, and all manufactures of leather, or of which it is the article of chief value, not otherwise particularly enumerated 10 10 3-4   Linnen and cotton printed—see chintz. Linnen not printed 7 1-2 8   Looking glasses 15 16 1-4   Malt, per bushel 10 11   Mats and floor cloths, per cent ad. val. 10 10 1-2   Marble, slate and other stones, bricks, tiles, tables, mortars and other utensils of marble or slate, and generally all stone or earthen ware 10 11   Manufactures—tin, pewter & copper, and of leather not otherwise enumerated 10 10 3-4   Of iron, steel, and brass, brass and iron wire excepted 10 10 1-2   Medicinal drugs except those used in dying 10 10 3-4   Millinary ready made 10 10 3-4   Molasses, per gallon 3 3 3-10   Muskets, pistols, and other fire arms, swords, hangers, cutlasses &c. per cent ad. val. 15 15 1-2   Muslins and muslinets 7 1-2 8 1-4   Muslin in flour 10 11   Nails per lb. 2 2 1-10   Nankeens, per ct. ad. val. 7 1-2 8 1-4   Ointments, oils, and odors, as cosmetics, per ct. ad. val. 10 10 1-2   Oil sweet, Florence, &c. oils 10 11   Pack-thread and twine per cwt. 400 430   Paint—see colours   Paper writing and wrapping ad val. A. 10—F. 11 sheathing and cartridge A. 10. F. 1 0-2   Paper hangings 15 16   Paste boards, parchments and vellum 10 11   Paste work &c. see jewellery   Pewter manufactures 10 10 3-4   Pepper per lb. A. 6. F. 6 2-5   Pimento per lb. A. 4. F. 4 2-5   Pickles of all sorts, per ct. ad val. 10 11  
   Pictures and prints 10 11   Powder, gun powder per cent ad. val. 10 11   Powder, hair powder—see hair-powder as a cosmetic; see cosmetic   Porter; see ale, beer &c.   Printed books, see books, printed goods, see chintz.   Saddles, per ct. ad. val. 7 1-2 8 1-4   Sail cloth 10 10 1-2   Salt per cwt. not exceeding 56 lb. weight 12 13 1-5   But to calculate the additional duties on salt imported in foreign vessels; you must work thus—ex. gr. Suppose a cargo of 5000 bushels, and that the whole weighs 350,000 lb. then if imported in an American vessel, 12 cents for every 56 lbs. gives 750 dols.   if in a foreign vessel the additional duty is 1 1-5 p. bushel on the 5000 bushels without having any reference to the weight which gives 60 dols.   Total 810 dols.   Satins and other wrought silks per ct. ad. val. 7 1-2 8 1-4   Shoes and slippers of silk, per pair 20 21   Other shoes and slippers for men and women, dogs & gelothoes 10 10 7-10   Ditto for children 7 7 7-10   Snuff, per lb. 10 11   Soap 2 1-5   Spirits distilled from grain   1st. proof 28 29 1-5   2d. do. 29 30 1-4   3d. do. 31 32 3-10   4. do. 34 35 1-5   5. do. 40 42   6. do. 50 52 1-2   Other Spirits,   1st. 25 26 1-5   2d. 25 26 1-4   3d. 28 29 3-10   4th 32 33 1-2   5th. 38 40   6th. 46 48 1-2   Spikes, per lb. 1 1 1-10   Stockings per ct. ad. val. 10 10 1-2   Stone and earthen ware 10 11   Sugar per loaf A. 5. F. 5 1-2   Brown A. 1 1-2. F. 1 1 3-20   all other sugars per lb. 2 1-2 2 3-4   Sugar candy per cent ad. val. 10 11   Tables of marble and slate 10 11   Tassels and trimmings used by upholsterers, coach makers and saddlers, per ct. ad. val. 15 15 1-2   TEAS imported from China and India.   Bohea, per lb. 10 15   Souchong & other black teas 18 27   Hyson 32 50   Other green teas 20 30   From Europe A. F.   Per lb. 12 15   21 27   40 50   24 39   From other places.   Per lb. A. F.   15 16 1-2   27 29 7-10   50 55   30 33   Tiles and bricks per ct. ad. val. 10 11   Tin manufactures 10 10 3-4   Tinctures class with cosmetics 6 6 3-4   Tobacco manufactured per lb.   Toys—viz. dolls dressed and undressed &c. per ct. ad. val. 10 10 1-2   Twine and pack-thread per cwt. 400 430   Vellum and paste board, and parchment per ct. ad. val. 10 11   Velvets and velverets 7 1-2 8 1-4   Wafers 15 15 1-2   Walking sticks, whips and canes 7 1-2 8 1-4  
   Watches and clocks 10 11   Wares of tin, pewter, stone, &c. are ranged under their respective heads   Waters and washes; see cosmetics   Wines viz. Madeira, London particular per gallon 56 59 1-2   Do. Lond market 40 38   All other Madeira wine 40 43   Sherry 33 35 1-2   St. Lucar 30 32   Lisbon & Oporto 25 27   Teneriff and Fayal 20 22   All other wines (not to exceed 30 cents per gallon in American or 32 in Foreign vessels) to pay 40 per cent ad valorem, also 2 cents per gallon additional. 40 40   Yarn untarred; see cordage   All other goods, wares, and merchandise, not before particularly enumerated and described are liable to a duty of per cent ad. val. 7 1-2 8  
The following Articles are FREE OF DUTY. VIZ.  Philosophical apparatus, specially imported for any seminary of learning, books of persons coming to reside in the United States, also their cloaths, household furniture and tools or implements of trade or profession of such persons. Wood of all kinds. Brads and iron wire, bullion, colours drugs and woods, used in dying, copper in pigs and bars, furs of every kind undressed, raw hides and skins, old pewter, plaster of Paris, lapis calaminaris, salt petre sea stores, and sulphur and wool unmanufactured. All merchandise, goods, and wares, intended to be re-exported to a foreign port or place, in the same ship or vessel in which they shall have been imported; and all articles of the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States.
Drawbacks not payable until 6 months after exportation, nor until a certificate in writing is produced, by the exporter, from two reputable merchants at the foreign port or place where landed, together with the oath of the master and mate certifying the delivery thereof; except distilled spirits, in which a certificate from an American consul, if such there be; or from two American merchants, residing at such foreign port: or if there be neither, then a certificate from reputable merchants of the place, and the oath of the master and mate as above, and an oath is further required that on diligent search no such consul or American merchants could be found resident there. Goods ad valorem, to be valued by adding twenty per cent. to the actual cost, if from the Cape of Good Hope or beyond, and ten per cent from any other place, exclusive of charges.
The Duties of Tonnage, besides the foregoing Imposts are, viz.
   The tonnage to be paid in ten days after entry, and before clearance, on vessels of the U. States, from foreign ports cents 6   On vessels built in the United States after the 20th July, 1789, but owned by foreigners, duly recorded 30   All other vessels 30   Every vessel employed in transporting goods coast-ways, except they be built in and belong to citizens of the United States, on each entry 50   Vessels built in and belonging to citizens of the United States, in coasting trade, or fishery, pay once a year, if licenced, and if not licenced, they pay with goods taken in one state to be delivered in another, except the adjoining state, on each entry 6  
PORTS OF DELIVERY.
No vessel not wholly belonging to a citizen or citizens of the United States, shall be admitted to unload at any port or place, except the following, viz.  New-Hampshire; Portsmouth. Massachusetts; Portland, Falmouth, New-Bedford, Dighton, Salem, Beverly, Gloucester, Newburyport, Marblehead, Sherburne, Boston and Charlestown, Bath, Frenchman's-Bay, Plymouth, Wiscasset, Machias, Penobscot. Rhode-Island; Newport and Providence. Connecticut; New-London, New-Haven, New-York; New-York.

Maryland; Baltimore, Annapolis, Vienna, Port-Georgetown, Potomac, Chelertown, Nottingham, Cedar Point, Town-Creek, Nanjemoy, Digges Landing, Snow-Hill, Carrollburgh.
Virginia; Alexandria, Kinfaile, New-Port, Tappahannock, Port-Royal, Fredericksburg, Urbanna, York-Town, West-Point, Hampton, Bermuda-Hundred, City-Point, Rocket's-Landing, Norfolk, Portsmouth.
North-Carolina; Wilmington, Newbern, Washington, Edenton and Plankbridge.
South-Carolina; Charleston, Georgetown, Beaufort.
Georgia; Savannah, Sunbury, Brunswick, St. Mary and Frederica.
Nor shall any vessel from the Cape of Good-Hope, or beyond the same, be admitted to enter, except at the ports, in the above lists, which are distinguished by ITALICS.
Table with 3 columns: Item, Dls., Cts. Includes sections for 'Fees to Collectors and Naval Officers' and 'Fees to Surveyors'.
[From the General Advertiser.]
A Table of the principal Restrictions, Impositions and Prohibitions sustained by the United States in their trade with the British dominions, and those sustained by Great-Britain in her trade with the United States. From the 7th No. of a brief Examination of Lord Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the United States.
GREAT-BRITAIN
PROHIBITS American vessels from entering into the ports of several parts of her dominions, viz. the West-Indies; Canada, Nova-Scotia, New-Brunswick, Newfoundland, Cape-Breton, Hudson's Bay, and her East-India spice market.
She imposes double light money on American vessels in most of her ports.
She prohibits the navigation, ad libitum, of American vessels, by native or other seamen.
She prohibits the employment of American built ships by her own citizens in many branches of trade, upon any terms.
She charges a duty on American sail-cloth made up in the United States for British ships.
She prohibits the importation of goods from several parts of her dominions into others in American vessels, upon any terms.
She prohibits the importation of goods into Great-Britain by American vessels from any other country than the United States.
She prohibits the importation into Great-Britain from the United States, by American vessels, of all goods not produced by the United States.
She prohibits the importation of any goods previously brought into the United States, from the said states into Great-Britain, even in British vessels.
She prohibits the exportation of several articles from Great-Britain to the United States.
She lays duties of various rates upon the exportation of many articles to the United States.
She prohibits the importation of all manufactures from the United States, into her European dominions, and her colonies, unless it be some very simple preparations and decorations, requisite to her navy, shipping, and manufactures.
She imposes very considerable duties up-
on some of the agricultural productions of the United States, and excludes others by duties equal to their value.
She prohibits for considerable terms of time, some of the principal agricultural productions of the United States, and others at all times.
It is understood that by treaty she grants some favors, which are not extended to the United States.
She prohibits the importation of some American articles in American ships, or any but British ships, into her European dominions.
She does not permit an American citizen to import goods into some of her dominions, and to sell them there, even in British vessels. In other parts of her dominions she lays an extra tax on him, or his sales.
She imposes heavy duties on certain articles of the produce of the American fisheries, and insupportable duties on others in some part of her dominions: and in other parts, she prohibits their importation.
She prohibits the consumption of American articles, of which she permits the importation.
She prohibits the importation of American articles from foreign countries into the British dominions, even in her own ships.
THE UNITED STATES
ADMIT British vessels into all their ports, subject to a tonnage duty of 44 cents, or 24 sterling pence more than American vessels, and an addition of one tenth to the amount of the import accruing on their cargoes.
They do not impose extra light money on British vessels in any of their ports.
They admit the navigating of British vessels by native or other seamen, ad libitum.
They admit the employment of British built ships, by their own citizens, in every branch of trade, upon the terms of 44 cents extra per ton, and one tenth extra on the import arising from their cargoes.
They do not charge a duty on British sail-cloth made up in Great-Britain for American ships.
They admit the importation of goods from any part of their dominions into another, in British vessels, on the terms of 44 cents per ton extra on the vessel.
They admit the importation of goods into the United States, in British vessels from every country whatever.
They do not prohibit the importation into the United States from Great-Britain, by British vessels, of any goods not produced by Great-Britain.
They do not prohibit the importation of any goods previously brought into Great-Britain, from that kingdom into the United States, in either British or American bottoms.
They do not prohibit the exportation of any article from the United States to Great-Britain.
They do not lay a duty on the exportation of any article whatever to Great-Britain.
They do not prohibit the importation of any manufacture whatever from Great-Britain.
They impose moderate duties (lower than any other foreign nation by 2, 3, and 4 for one) on the produce and manufactures of Great-Britain, except in a very few instances, and exclude scarcely any articles, by duties equal to their value.
They prohibit none of the agricultural productions of Great-Britain or her dominions.
They treat Great-Britain as favorably as any nation whatever, as to ships, imports and exports, and in all other respects.
They do not prohibit the importation of any British article in British vessels, or any but American vessels.
They permit a British citizen to import goods to all their ports, in any vessels, and to sell them there without any extra tax on him, or his sales.
They impose only five per cent. on the produce of the British fisheries (which duty is drawn back on exportation) and admit every article derived from them.
They do not prohibit the consumption of any British article whatever.
They do not prohibit the importation of British articles from foreign countries in any ships.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
NUMBER II.
TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
IT is the hackneyed practice of some writers, to confound the abuses of administration, with the principles of government; and it is chiefly owing to the deceitful puffing of this class of writers, that many true friends of the People have been provoked to an investigation of those unfound doctrines, in order to expose their fallacy and shew to their fellow-citizens the necessity of keeping a constant watch upon the proceedings of their public servants, and of selecting virtuous men for their representatives. If Congress have done a great many good things since the adoption of our present excellent constitution, it was no more than their duty, and their constituents will reward those who best deserve their suffrage by re-electing them. But, that much, too much of the good has been cancelled by bad measures, and that a necessity
exists of rejecting some characters, will not be attempted to be denied by any honest man. Of the 65 Representatives and 26 Senators, who composed the first House, several of them have made such independent fortunes, that they now wish to decline serving any longer in public life. Had they gained those immense fortunes by any regular, honest line of industry, no censure would have been passed upon their conduct; but when their deceived, insulted, plundered constituents had seen and proved their baseness, what breast did not then burn with indignation, to see the government partially administered by men engaged in speculation. Here I presume, it will be demanded by the scribes of the junto, "Name them, name them." This demand I will here reply to by a very simple, and safe advice, to my fellow independent electors of the United States. Look around you from New-Hampshire to Georgia, and view those of your Representatives who have leaped into immoderate wealth, by undue means. See others gaping for pensions from the Executive. Look back to others who voted through thick and thin to secure salaries from the public coffers, rather than trust any longer to the chance of being re-elected by their constituents. Recollect that some members of the Senate, as well as of the House, sold the permanent residence for the assumption, and the assumption for the residence. Mark those who voted for high taxes of import and excises, to support a war establishment, and extract the money from the people, in order to draw it into the pockets of notorious contractors, with whom it is more than probable they had secret connections, nay partnerships.
But the enemies of fair enquiry cry out against us, for attempting to convey this information; that we are workers in darkness, intriguers against government, fomenters of mischief, &c. &c. And again they say, that in proportion to the light and information of the people, there is the less danger. How inconsistent! The same men who approve of taxing knowledge, by heavy duties on books and newspapers; who stop the very current of information from reaching the people, have the effrontery to confess that a bitter spirit of party will inevitably attend such a situation and public spirit will expire in the rage of faction! Hear this, fellow-citizens of the United States—Your real friends and guardians are branded by the junto with the worst of epithets—you are told, that we live in lurking holes intriguing against government; and yet we thus publicly offer you our opinion, whilst your enemies are daily attempting to stifle your understandings and lead you step by step to destruction. They are the men who live in lurking holes—They are the men who formed a midnight club in New-York, for the purpose of plotting the ruin of this country; and had it not been for the opposition given by our real friends, we should already have had the ambitious few ranked into classes of Nobility, and the People set down at such a distance beneath the feet of the well-born, that it would have been in vain for any citizen of moderate circumstances to attempt holding up his head amongst three or four dozen robed highnesses, illustrious families &c. &c. It would have been lost labour for a tradesman or mechanic's son to have acquired an excellent education, for he could not have expected to be raised to those splendid stations, where virtue, learning, and abilities, should have commanded respect. Nothing would have gone down but Title, Rank, Family, &c. That the few who plotted this first essay against the republic at large, did it in the dark, and from their secret recesses at length brought forth the Monster, is a circumstance that disgraces the memory of the First Federal Senate. But that was not the only secret plot—how many bargains were struck out of Congress by members who voted against their consciences to purchase a corrupt vote in return. How many nightly meetings were held for the purpose of raising the price of certificates only at such times as best suited the private interest of the junto? How many virtuous measures proposed in Congress by the worthiest characters, have been negatived by the influence of speculators? How many unconstitutional acts have been attempted? and are not these things proper to be enquired into? Is it not fair that the people should be warned against re-electing such characters as will always betray them for mercenary ends? Yes, my fellow-citizens, it is proper to inform you of those things; it is proper to alarm you against such men and measures, and it is NOW TIME for you to act with that true republican spirit, which should never sleep in the breast of an independent federal elector. But there are other dangers to which you are exposed, of which you should also be aware. There are a set of writers, of no small ability, and of infinite subtlety, who are constantly assailing you with dishonest doctrines, contrary to the principles of sound policy, altogether incompatible with the spirit of freemen, and diametrically opposite to the true interest of the United States. Such are the doctrines published some time since, under the title of Discourses of Davilla, Publicola, An American, &c. &c. To the authors of those pieces, I am willing to give a just proportion of applause, for their abilities and industrious perseverance, if they were really actuated, as they say they were, by patriotic motives; but when you see writers of some ingenuity start up in defence of hereditary suc-
cession, standing armies, perpetual and increasing taxes, and who have attempted to choke the circulation of knowledge—then it is time to offer a hand in unmasking those fallacious arguments; thus, when you are told that a public debt is a public blessing, and whole folio pamphlets are written to prove it, let this be your answer—"An ingenious falsehood can never immortalize the name of its inventor; TRUTH alone can have a durable success: The laurels with which ERROR is crowned, have but the verdure of a day. [Bacon.] And in reply to the puffing paragraphist of a certain Gazette, I will quote a sentence from Hume's idea of a perfect commonwealth—"There are no characters so pernicious as political projectors, if they have power; nor so contemptible, if they want it." This sentiment is certainly applicable only to the junto, and not to me—I have proposed no political schemes; I barely confine my endeavours to the subject of free election and honest representation. Let the people always be secured in those, and they may defy the machinations of an host of machievilian, manufacturing, banking, speculating, or titulary projectors. The last mentioned party should not excite our abhorrence the less, because they failed in their attempt—Crimes should be estimated by the intention of the offender, not the consequences of the offence. Neither weakness in understanding nor obscurity in life, should shelter insolence or faction from the infamy they deserve; but such are the operations of the human mind, that we frequently overlook the baseness of the attempt, merely because it has failed of success, and congratulate ourselves upon our security, without giving vent to the honest indignation which should turn its vehemence against those who should endanger it. The laboured publications of sophistical writers, when narrowly examined, will be readily rejected; but it must give pain to every philosophic mind to see talents employed in the ruin of our country. I shall conclude this letter with a quotation from Bacon: "When a base soul, a mind too weak to discover the truth, knowingly assents to a falsehood, it obeys its instinct; but, that a PHILOSOPHER can become the apostle of an error, that he does not take for the truth, I doubt, and my reason is unanswerable: that it is the desire every author has of personal fame and glory! but, a renown acquired by error, is a phantom of glory, that is driven away by the first rays of truth and reason." By this personal fame, I presume, the author meant that kind of fame, which is pursued by men who have only in view their own aggrandizement and that of their family. Men who have in America ventured to advance an opinion, That a nation cannot be governed by free representation, but must be governed by corruption, and the well-born few. Such fame, however, is very distinct from the glory of a nation, and perfectly the reverse of what I understand by the words general welfare. That the last mentioned sentiment has been avowed by some persons of moined influence, is known to many; and with regard to the former, it is contained in the discourses of Davilla; where the practice is applauded in most enthusiastic language, of a nation flocking round an hereditary thing in a cradle, as a central sun that is to irradiate a circle containing millions of rational beings, all of whom are advised, nay, they may be obliged to bow the knee to it, and perform a sort of worship. Will Americans ever submit to such a state of degradation? That they never may is the sincere wish of Aug. 21. An Independent Federal Elector.
ST. KITTS, July 19. A vessel bound from England to Dominica, fell in with a ship dispatched by Lord Cornwallis from the East-Indies, with the glorious news of the defeat of Tippoo, and the surrender of his capital. The Captain of the Indiaman hailed the above vessel, and desired her commander to come on board, which he did, and found there Lord Cornwallis's aid-de-camp, who wrote a short letter to Governor Orde, and enclosed him the Madras Gazette with the particulars. A gentleman whose veracity may be depended on, has arrived here from Dominica: he saw the Gazette, which mentions, "That Lord Cornwallis pushed on the siege with the greatest vigor. The alacrity of the army in general, and the alertness with which the approaches were carried on by General Meadows, was such, that notwithstanding every inch of ground was bravely and vigorously defended by Tippoo, who commanded in person every post of danger, the enemy were drove from all their out-works, and the Sultan and garrison were confined to the citadel, from whence he offered to accede to any terms of peace Lord Cornwallis might dictate. Seringapatam surrendered by capitulation. Tippoo gave up half his dominions, and upwards of three millions of pounds sterling. The day after the treaty was signed, the Sultan, with his two sons, one of 11 years old, and the other 7, marched through the British army, which was drawn up to receive him—he had a melancholy but soldierly look—he went up to Lord Cornwallis, and delivering his two sons to his lordship as hostages for the performance of the treaty, said, He hoped his lordship would be a father to them. In the general orders the day after the treaty, his lordship, after the usual thanks to the army, mentions Tippoo's gallantry in defending his capital in very honorable terms. A day

or two after the surrender of Seringapatam, Lord Cornwallis visited the two Indian Princes, and presented one of them with an elegant fufee, and the other with a case of pistols, with which they seemed highly pleased. Seringapatam, with all the Mysore country, is to be restored to Tippoo; but all the extensive and luxuriant country between the Ghauts and the British settlements, remain with the English—the Allies are to have the provinces bordering on their dominions. All the petty princes are restored to their former rights.”
On Saturday last the wind shifted suddenly due south and blew a strong gale, with a heavy swell. The ships in general either parted or dragged—the brig Hope, Captain M c Millan, parted two cables, but fortunately brought up with a third. The ship Stanley, Capt. Hawes, dragged into shallow water, but by the assistance of another anchor she was secured. It proved not so fortunate with the ship Thomas, Capt. Barret—she had about 500 hogheads sugar on board, and was to have sailed for London in a few days; she parted one anchor, and dragged the other, till she struck on a small reef near the shore—Capt. Barret then cut away his mizen and main masts, when she brought up and rode for some time, and there were great hopes of saving her; but her anchor again coming home, she fell on the reef broadside—the Captain then cut away the foremast, and got over the reef—she then seemed to lay pretty easy in the sand, and it was expected a great part of her cargo would have been saved; but about two o'clock next morning she split and went to pieces, and the whole cargo is entirely lost. No lives have been lost, owing to the generous and well-timed assistance rendered by Capt. Cato, (of the man of war's tender) who took in the crew about five minutes before the ship went to pieces. We think it but justice to add, that the boats of his Majesty's frigates then laying here, rendered every assistance in their power to the distressed vessels, particularly to Capt. M c Millan. Two other small vessels were forced on shore.
PHILADELPHIA.
AUGUST 22, 1792.
The governor of the State of New-York has issued a proclamation (dated August 16) offering 500 dollars reward for the apprehending Jacob Valentine, lately of Herkemer county, labourer, who has absconded and is charged with having murdered an Indian chief of the Onondaga nation, on the 27th of July last.
Extract of a letter from Havre-de-Grace, June 17. “With respect to our markets, little alteration has taken place for some time past, but our exchanges with all foreign places have risen considerably; that on London from 14 to 19, and is still on the rise. News is just received in town by private letters, that on the 12th instant a general engagement took place between the Austrians and the French army under General de la Fayette, in which the Austrians were beaten with a loss of two thousand men left on the field of battle, besides some prisoners taken by the French, with eighteen pieces of cannon. This intelligence was confirmed in a Paris paper of the 14th. The engagement happened not far from Namur, near which place the enemy were in great force, as a false march towards it was made to mislead them. About the 10th or 11th of June, instant, the minister of war, of contributions, and of the interior were displaced. M. Dumourier, former minister of foreign affairs, has been placed at the head of the war department. M. Jaillet is made minister of foreign affairs, and M. Moulde is placed at the head of the interior. About the same time, M. Gouvion was killed in a skirmish, by a rebounding cannon ball. The Prince of Liege is dead. M. Custines replaces General Rochambeau. The Polish army effectually opposed an attempt of the Russians to cross the Dniester, the latter having been obliged to return to their encampment.”
[From a Correspondent.]
As the fall season is nearly approaching, when the merchants will be obliged to calculate two and an half per cent. additional duty on most articles of import, agreeably to the law passed in the last session of Congress, it may be serviceable to many persons to be relieved from the slavery of calculation. The table* I now send for publication, may be depended upon as being accurate. The present government of the United States is not yet arrived at its fourth year of existence, altho' we have had three different import laws; and, from appearances, we may expect every year to produce additional ones. This occasions a variety of pamphlets, tables, and lists of duties, with explanations ad infinitum , to be published both from the authority of the individual printers, and from the treasury department. In order to remedy, or rather to simplify this defect, and exhibit the whole clue of the labyrinth at one view, I have thought proper to compose the table above-mentioned for the National Gazette. Should it be discovered to be erroneous in any point, I will venture to say that such discovery must be upon a different construction of all the three import laws already passed, to any construction which would naturally be put upon them by a plain trader from common and natural calculations. A. B.
* See, for the Table, the first page of this paper.
From the KENTUCKY GAZETTE, July 21. An extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Washington, to his friend in this place, dated the 15th instant, mentions, that news has been received at St. Vincennes, by an Indian sent from Major Hamtramck to L'Anguille (the village destroyed by General Wilkinson last August) that a party of Shawanese had fallen in with, and murdered a party of three or four men, not very distant from one of our fortifications; that these men bore a flag; that the Indians conveyed the papers found in their possession to some white men, who could read; that these papers turned out to contain a talk from a Big Captain, which made the Indians regret their conduct. From this report, it is probable one of the flags sent out by General Wilkinson has been intercepted and cut off, but which is uncertain. There exists a strong presumption that Col. Harding was not of this party. There were three flags sent out—the first consisted of three men; the second, Major Trueman's, of the same number; and Col. Harding's, who was attended by one man only.
A letter from Paris (in the new French settlement) dated July 17, states, That intelligence had been received at Fort Jefferson, of the death of Major Trueman, Mr. Freeman, Debachi and Jarrat. That this information was brought by two prisoners, who were labouring in a cornfield, and made their escape. The one was taken prisoner at the time general Hamar was defeated—the other is William Duer, of Captain Buchanan's company of levies. They further inform, that on the 25th of June a party of Indians took eight men prisoners, who were making hay near Fort Jefferson; that when they had moved the prisoners some distance from the Fort, they divided them—four were given to the Chippewas, and four to the Shawanese: that the Shawanese burnt the four unfortunately assigned to them; that the Chippewas took theirs home, to the intent of making labourers of them; that the Indians are determined for war, and will not treat, but will kill every white person that attempts to go to them, either with or without a flag; that their present plan is to cut off the escorts of provisions destined to the out-posts, and by that means oblige the troops stationed there to surrender; and that for this purpose they keep two spies constantly out.
Official accounts received from Fort Washington, state, that, notwithstanding the pacific overtures of the United States, the Indians are for war, that Major Trueman and the first flag have been murdered at Glaice river; that Col. Harding's fate is doubtful, but hopes are entertained that he has escaped to Sandusky.
To the Colonists of St. Domingo, now residing in the United States of America.
My dear Countrymen,
THE advice which the Consul General of France caused to be inserted in the Gazette the 13th of this month, must necessarily, if not suspend, at least retard, the armaments of the continent intended for St. Domingo. This delay may produce misfortunes of the most serious nature to that colony, deprived, as it is at present, of the usual productions of its soil. We ought, my dear countrymen, to fly to the assistance of our brethren, and do every thing for them that our weak resources may permit: therefore, I call upon you to deposit each in proportion to his abilities, a pecuniary contribution in the hands of the Consul of France residing in the town which you inhabit, or the nearest to the place of your abode, requesting him to transmit what he shall have received, as soon as possible, to the Consuls of France residing in New-York, Philadelphia and Charleston, according to his distance from each of these three cities, who will remit the monies so collected, to him, among you, whom you shall have chosen in each of these three cities, for the purpose of dispatching vessels loaded with provisions for St. Domingo; and that every part of the colony may receive an equal proportion of the assistance, it would be proper that the monies sent to New-York should be appropriated to send assistance to the Cape, from whence some may be sent to the Northern Province.
What is collected at Philadelphia will be appropriated for Port-au-Prince, from whence the western part may be supplied, and what is collected in Charleston, will be appropriated for Les Cayes, from which place assistance will be distributed to the southern part. If on the arrival of the vessels, the places for which they shall be sent are sufficiently provided for, they shall be sent from thence to the parts of the island which suffer the most.
Such, my dear countrymen, are the reflections which my love for my brethren has inspired me with, and I am well persuaded that you will approve of the means which I have pointed out to give effect to a sentiment which is engraven on the heart of every one of us.
LOMBART.
P. S. I cannot sufficiently recommend expedition to you in depositing your contributions, so that the assistance may arrive before the winter, a time in which the most pressing wants are felt. Point out also the person whom you charge with the negotiation, so that those who may be judged the most proper may begin without loss of time to provide the intended supplies.
To the EDITOR of the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
SIR,
THERE are three modes of communication, upon the subject of the approaching election, contemplated by the citizens. The first is through the medium of a board of conferees, vested with the power of fixing the persons who are to represent us in Congress; the second thro' the medium of a committee of correspondence, employed to collect the names of all the candidates, without making a discrimination or selection; and the third is through the medium of the press, offering the sense of individuals, in the shape of a ticket, to the consideration of the public. The avowed object, and the probable consequences of pursuing the first of those modes, are sufficient to condemn it. When it was publicly declared by one of the sanguine advocates for the appointment of conferees, “that he should be ashamed not to be of a party,” may we not fairly infer, that his object, at least, is to frame a party ticket; and should the wealthy and powerful be able, thus industriously, to divert the current of popular elections into a new and unnatural channel, who does not anticipate the loss of that equality of privilege, the subversion of that community of rights which the language of republican governments attaches to the person of the humblest, as well as the proudest citizen?
The second mode does not, indeed, assume this inauspicious aspect; for, if the committee honestly execute their trust according to their own construction of it, their correspondence is nothing more than a vehicle of information; and their report of names can have no more effect in prescribing or influencing the votes of their fellow-citizens, than the publication of a directory, or any other alphabetical list of the inhabitants of the state. But, I am apprehensive that the delays incidental to a correspondence of this nature, may, at the present late hour, prevent its being extensively useful. The city and the neighbouring counties may derive a benefit from it, but the citizens of Luzerne and Washington will hardly hear of the list before they are called on to vote.
Hence it> Hence it is, Sir, that I am induced to adopt the third mode; and to present you with a ticket, which, after much impartial consideration, appears in my opinion, to comprize as great a portion of personal talents and integrity, of feeling and knowledge of the interest of the state, and of attachment and respect towards the Union, as Pennsylvania can furnish. In my distribution I have not attended, more than an impartial arrangement requires, to any rule founded on local situation; but, it will be allowed, that if the qualifications of the candidates are equal, the principle of representation justifies my giving to each part of the state a reasonable share in the formation of the ticket; and, it will be observed, that in doing this, I have selected those characters, who, not only at the present period, but throughout the revolution, have, in every political service, been honored, trusted, and employed by the neighbourhood in which they reside, and where their virtues and their abilities must certainly be best proved and known.
FOR CONGRESS.
Charles Thomson, William Findley, Frederick A. Muhlenberg, Edward Tilghman, William Montgomery, Daniel Heister, John Smilie, Thomas Hartley, William Irvine, John W. Kittera, Andrew Gregg, Peter Muhlenberg, John Barclay.
I am persuaded that the impartiality and patriotism of your brother printers, will lead them to promote the circulation of the various tickets, that shall be published on this important occasion; and, therefore, I commit the result of my reflections to the public, with this wish, that those who have thought upon the subject, will either impart a better opinion, or candidly adopt the one which I have declared.
A REPUBLICAN.
August 20, 1792.
[From the Independent Gazetteer.]
To the Mechanics and Manufacturers. YOU may remember, that during the first session of Congress, whilst Mr. Duer was assistant Secretary, propositions were made to you from the department, in order to discover the situation and fe-
crets of your various employments, under a pretence, that the Secretary of the Treasury wished to bring before Congress some plan for your benefit and encouragement; The information so acquired by the Secretary enabled him to bring forward a lengthy report on manufactures, to be introduced at the National Manufactory; But will not this scheme ruin you? This question merits your attention; and as you called public meetings to procure this information for the Secretary—you should now call meetings to enquire whether you have not been duped in this business—there are no doubt some mean spirited men among you, who are humble dependants on the well-born of Mr. Adams; but there certainly will be found a sufficient number of friends to the rights of man in every trade to form a society: let committees be appointed by each particular society, to represent the whole mechanics and manufacturing interest, and act accordingly. Should this take place, the mechanics and manufacturers will acquire that weight and respectability they ought to have amongst us, and this respectable class of citizens will no longer be made the tools of faction for electioneering purposes.
A MECHANIC.
Phila. Aug. 18.
To the Editor of the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
SIR,
A FREE Press is a bulwark, and an independent printer a centinel of liberty—without centinels to alarm, no fortress is secure, but is liable, every moment, to a surprize. As a watchful centinel of Pennsylvania's rights, I make no scruple to address a few loose thoughts to you. To be, or not to be, seems to be the present question—Whether one faction shall govern, or the other—whether one party shall direct the minds, preside over the weal, and be the fathers confessors of the state, or the other—this is the great hinge upon which conferees, and committees of correspondence turn.—The citizens who are unbiased by party, and seek only the welfare of the state, view with indignation and abhorrence the tricks which both parties are playing to serve their own purposes; and applaud every endeavour to penetrate and expose their insidious designs. Will any one dispassionate man, who possesses but a grain of reason, believe that all the declamation and zeal of the conferees and committee men, proceed from public virtue and the true amor patrie? Like the ministerial and anti-ministerial parties of Britain, they bellow about public good, reform, &c. as they are in or out of office, and endeavor to make the mass of citizens dupes to their views; but I flatter myself there remains too much good sense in Pennsylvania to suffer tricks of this sort to pass without detection, and too much dignity to let them pass unheeded. I much approve of your correspondent Mirabeau's plan, and commend his candour and independence. He wishes, not only to think for himself, but, unlike conferees and committees of correspondence, he is willing to allow others the same privilege. His ticket does credit to his judgment, for it unites all interests, and I sincerely hope that it will meet with the deliberate consideration of the freemen of Pennsylvania. Would that I could call back again to earth the spirit of this great apostle of Liberty, Mirabeau, to animate me with the celestial fire of his genius, and true fervour of patriotism, that I might, with the lightning of his eloquence, and thunder of his argument, strike dead every insidious as well as open attempt upon our liberties, and blast the wretch, who, under the masque of public good, shelters baseness and treachery!
PHILO MIRABEAU.
[* * If the author of the piece signed JANUS will leave his name with the Editor, it shall appear on Saturday.]
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FIVE LETTERS, addressed to the
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August 21.

RINALDO'S COMPLAINT :
TO THE FAIR SHOPKEEPER.
[Imitated from Sappho's Ode]
CURS'D as a beggar's dog is he, The unlucky man that deals with thee Who still behind the counter sit, Steal our cash, and show your wit.
Whate'er you prais'd, with fly design, Whate'er you touch'd I wish'd it, mine— And homespun trash from Nabby's paws In your fair hands was Irish gauze.
'Twas this that made me look so sad At times ; and almost ran me mad, For, ere I well could count the cost My cash was gone, my credit lost.
My girls grew vain—their dres and show Alas! soon brought my pockets low, With English silks their shoes were bound, The news went all the country round :
With constant duns my doors were vext, My house with sheriffs was perplexed, My barber's bill I could not pay, I blunder'd, broke, and —ran away,
On the improbability of the mountains on the earth having originated from the rotation of the earth, producing a centrifugal force.
[Translated from the French]
THE motion of the earth around the sun is supposed by philosophers to proceed from an attractive and projective power combined, producing a uniform progress of the earth in her orbit. But it appears to me that the movement of a man walking upon the ground might as well be accounted for upon these two principles as the motion of the earth. The centrifugal and centripetal powers appear to me to have no more real existence in the void space of the heavens, than the imaginary circles of the zodiac and the equator. However capable these supposed laws may be of answering every purpose, they are in fact nothing more than a mere scaffolding, imagined by men of genius, whereby to erect the fabric of natural science, but which never yet enabled them to penetrate into the sanctuary of nature, any more than the scaffolding which we make use of in building our churches, enables us to penetrate into the spirit and efficacy of true religion. These combined powers have no more to do in causing the courses and motions of the planets than the circles of the sphere are concerned in limiting their various degrees of eccentricity. In fact, these supposed powers are no more than mere signs, invented to account for objects they ought to represent, the same as other arbitrary signs, of human invention.
If it was the centrifugal motion that threw up mountains upon the globe when it was in a liquid state, there ought in reality to be mountains upon the earth vastly higher than the Andes of Peru and Chili. The mountain Chimborazo, near the equator, & which is the highest we there know of, has only 3220 feet of elevation, or, according to others, 3350 (for the calculations do not exactly agree in this particular). This degree of elevation is less sensible upon the earth than the third part of a line would be upon a globe six feet diameter. Now, a mass of melted metal, cast in any proportion whatever, would exhibit accidental protuberances much more considerable on its surface, (in respect to its diameter) than any actual inequalities on the surface of the earth. Look at the roughness on a bit of the dross of iron : what horrid fissures and chasms then would have been formed on a globe of heterogeneous melted matter of nearly three thousand leagues in diameter?—According to Cassini, the moon, which is a much smaller globe than the earth, has mountains near three leagues in height—But what would have been those swellings and cavities, if we add to this heterogeneous mass in a melted state, a centrifugal force produced by the rotation of the earth on its axis ?
I believe this force, which must have acted with most energy at the equator, instead of forming a globe would have produced bodies similar to the glass plates or scales which we see blown up in the glass house.
The diameter of the earth is not greater under the equator than under the meridians ; nor are its mountains at or near
the equator more elevated than elsewhere. The celebrated Andes of Peru do not take their rise at the equator, but several degrees beyond it to the southward, and extending from thence to Peru, Chili, and the Magellanic regions, terminate at the fifty fifth degree of south latitude, near Terra del Fuego where they front upon the ocean in a promontory of eternal ice, of a stupendous height. In this whole extent, they have no opening till you come to the straits of Magellan, forming in all other places an immense bulwark, with pyramids of snow, inaccessible to men, beasts, and even to birds. On the contrary the mountains about the Isthmus of Panama, in the vicinity of the line, are not comparable to the Andes in height, and are even so far inferior, that Lord Anson, who coasted the whole of South America, relates, that when he came into this latitude he experienced the most violent heats "owing (says he) to the air not being any longer refreshed by the temperature of the atmosphere from the high mountains of Chili and Peru".
The highest mountains in Asia are constantly found out of the torrid zone. That vast chain of mountains called Taurus and Imaus begin in Africa at mount Atlas, about the 30th degree of north latitude, and traverse all Africa, as well as Asia, between the 35th and 40th degrees of north latitude, their summits being generally covered throughout the whole of this vast extent with snows that are never thawed, which circumstance of itself is proof of a very considerable elevation. Mount Ararat, which makes part of this chain, is perhaps of a greater height than any mountain of the world, if one may judge by the length of the time it took Tournefort, and other travellers, to ascend from the base to the foot of the snows which covered the summit ; or even from the distance at which it may be perceived, which is at least six days journey of the caravans, or about one hundred and twenty miles. The Pico of Teneriffe may be seen 40 leagues. The Happy mountains, in Norway, called by some the northern Alps, are seen 50 leagues at sea, and, according to a learned Swede, their height is three thousand fathoms. The Picos of Spitzberg, New Zealand, the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Glaciers of Switzerland, where ice is seen the whole year round, are very high, and for the most part remote from the equator. Neither are their directions uniformly parallel to this circle, as must have been the case, had the elevations of the earth called mountains been caused by the diurnal rotation of the globe; for, if the chain of mountains known by the name of Taurus extends, in the old world, from west to east, that of the Andes in the new continent runs from north to south. Other chains again have other directions.—But, if this supposed centrifugal power in the earth could heretofore raise mountains to the height we now see them, why is it that at this time it is not capable of elevating a straw into the air ? supposing this principle to exist, no body whatever could remain on the surface of the earth—"But bodies are fixed (says the Newtonian) by the centripetal force, that is, by the power of gravity."—I answer, if the power of gravity confines all bodies to the level of the surface of the earth, why did not the mountains themselves also obey this law, having been originally in a liquid state?—I suspect no answer can be made to this last difficulty.
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BOOKS,
Printed and sold by MATHEW CAREY,
No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia.
1. American Museum, from its commencement. This work, which is now conducted on an annual basis, from 1787, to June 1792, in eleven volumes. Price, neatly bound and lettered, Seventeen dollars and three fifths.
This work which is now conducted on an improved plan, containing the best pieces published for and against the proceedings of government, will be found to contain at least a variety of political, agricultural, and miscellaneous essays, as any ever published in America. Perhaps in no one work are so many valuable documents respecting the history of this country, collected together. His excellency the President of the United States, has declared of it, that "a more useful literary plan has never been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement." The subscription is two dollars and a half per annum. Gentlemen in the country who wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to give commission to friends in the city to subscribe for and receive it.
2. Smith's letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children. "We recommend these letters to the perusal of those to whom they are particularly addressed." Monthly Review. Vol. 38, Page 101. Price bound five eighths of a dollar.
Duncan's elements of logic. three fourths of a dollar.
4. Beauties of Fielding, 50 cents.
5. Beauties of Blair, 50 cents.
6. Ladies' Pocket Library—containing:—Miss More's Essays ; Gregory's Legacy ; Lady Pennington's advice ; Marchioness of Lambert's advice ; Swift's letter to a newly married lady ; Mrs. Chapone on command of temper ; More's fables for the ladies—Price 6/6.
7. Smith's History of New-York. Price a dollar and a quarter.
7. Elements of Moral Science, by James Beattie, LL.D. professor of moral philosophy and logic in the Marischal College, Aberdeen—Price three fourths of a dollar. Of this book the Critical Reviewers (vol. 69. p. 628) say : "We have seen nothing on these subjects more plain, more perspicuous, or more generally useful."
9. Beauties of Poetry, Price four fifths of a dollar.
10. Blair's Sermons, -Pricetwo dollars.
11. Neckar's Treatise on the importance of religious opinions. Price four fifths of a dollar.
12. Examination of the observations of Lord Sheffield on American Commerce. Price, on very fine paper, five eighths of a dollar.
13. The Constitutions of the several United States, with the federal Constitution, &c. Price five eighths of a dollar.
14. M c Fingal, Price three eighths of a dollar.
15. American Jett Books, three fifths of a dollar.
16. Garden of the Soul, half a dollar.
17. The Douay Translation of the vulgate Bible, in quarto. Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/2—plain, six dollars.
Said Carey has for sale, a large assortment of books, European as well as American editions, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms, Country gentlemen, who favor him with commands, may depend upon being supplied in the most satisfactory manner. A liberal allowance to such as purchase quantities for public libraries, or to sell again. May 17. 6m. 1a.w.
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