National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-09-05 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
VOL. I.
WEDNESDAY, September 5, 1792.
NUMB. 89.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, BY THE LAST ARRIVALS.
MADRAS, March 8.
Grand Army.
WE are extremely sorry that our utmost endeavours have not yet enabled us to lay before our readers the particulars of the treaty of peace concluded with Tippoo: however, whilst the mind is kept in suspence as to the general detail, enough has transpired to demonstrate that no peace ever reflected more splendor on the arms of Great Britain, or securing more permanent advantages to her interests—A peace that has so effectually embraced the different ideas of opposite parties, that it cannot fail of ensuring the highest approbation of all.
In the present instance we have greatly triumphed.—The valor of our troops has been displayed to more essential purposes, and their gallant exertions have been crowned with the most brilliant success: they have elevated the English name in India to the utmost height of glory, and directed by the wisdom, and emulating the ardor of their brave leader, have dictated a peace to the enemy, under the besieged walls of his capital—A peace which in its consequences will be productive of a vast influx of wealth to their country.
Hitherto, or at least for a number of years past, mistaken policy had shut up trade on the Malabar Coast, but the partition treaties restores it to freedom, and opens the richest views to commerce, which in itself is of more real benefit than the acquisition of an empire.
In our last courier we anticipated the arrival of the hostages in camp—It was on the 27th, instead of the 24th, ult. that the important event took place—about twelve o'clock the works of the fort of Seringapatam were crowded with an innumerable multitude of people; and the Sultan was plainly discovered amongst them.—In a few minutes afterwards the young princes made their appearance, they were conducted from the island to a large pavilion pitched for their reception, near Sibold's redoubt, about a mile from the fort.
Here they were received by Sir John Kenneway, who attended them, accompanied by an escort, to head-quarters.
On entering the camp, they were saluted with nineteen guns; and the part of the line they passed was under arms, & the officers saluted.—Lord Cornwallis saluted them in his tent, which was guarded by a battalion of Sepoys; and they were then formally delivered over to his Lordship, by Gullum Ally Beg, the Sultan's Vackeel, as hostages for the due performance of the treaty.
The scene was grand and affecting, and impressed all present with those feelings which are not easily delineated.
It was a proud scene to the conquerors—It was the most humiliating to the vanquished.
An awful silence for a moment prevailed, and every one seemed absorbed in the tumult of ideas which the occasion naturally called forth.
At length Gullum Ally approaching Lord Cornwallis, and under much agitation, addressed his Lordship in the following emphatic words: "These children," said he, pointing to the young princes, whom he then presented, "were this morning the sons of Sultan my master—their situation is changed, and they must now look up to your lordship as their father,"—and the tender and affectionate manner in which his lordship received them, seemed to confirm the truth of the expression.
The attendants of the young princes appeared astonished at what they saw, and their countenances were highly expressive of the satisfaction they felt in the benevolence of his lordship.
Before they took their leave, his lordship presented a gold watch to each of them, as a mark of his regard.
The next morning his Lordship made them a visit at their tents, which are pitched near to the left of Tippoo's redoubts.
His lordship alighted at the end of the avenue, and walked up to the tent, saluted as he passed by the Prince's guards.
They met his lordship at the entrance, and by their respectful behaviour, shewed that they held in pleasing remembrance the kind attention his lordship had shown to them.
At the extremity of the tent, and some what elevated, a number of chairs were placed; here his lordship seated himself with the eldest prince on his right hand, and the younger on the left.
Sir John Kenneway sat on one side of the Princes and Mr. Cherry on the other, as his lordship's interpreters. The Vackeels of Tippoo of whom one was the person sent some time ago on an embassy to Constantinople, and those of the Nizam and Marrattas arranged themselves in the same order; so that the whole formed a semi-circle: after a conversation of about an hour, in which the Constantinople Ambassador bore a considerable share his lordship embraced the princes and gave to the eldest a fusée richly mounted, and to the youngest, an elegant case of pistols, and in return each of them presented his lordship with a sword beetle and Ottar were then brought in, and his lordship immediately afterwards withdrew, leading a prince in each hand, to the extremity of the rich carpet which was spread on the ground and embraced them with the utmost cordiality. They remained on the spot some time, paying their compliments to the gentlemen of his lordship's suite, who saluted them.
They are very fine boys; the eldest is about eleven years of age, and appears to be very quick, shrewd, and penetrating: he addressed his lordship in a very pertinent speech, with a great deal of propriety and without any kind of confusion or embarrassment, and in the same manner, on being desired by Gullum Ally, he repeated some passages from the Koran.
The youngest is remarkably handsome; his features are very regular and expressive, and his countenance is mild and open, he is about seven years of age—They are both very graceful, perfectly correct in their manners, and appear extremely well bred.
The cavalry under Colonel Floyd have marched to a situation about fifteen miles from Seringapatam, on the road leading to Outtra Droug. It is said that the Bombay army will march in a few days towards the Ghauts, and it is expected that the grand army will not remain much longer at Seringapatam, as Tippoo has sent orders to his different Killedars, in conformity to the terms of the treaty, to deliver up the forts in their possession to the troops of the allies.
The importance of the post which general Meadows carried on the night of the 6th and 7th ultimo, appears from a variety of circumstances. Two thousand infantry and fifteen hundred cavalry, under the command of Sain Ameer, an officer next in rank to Common O'din Khan, were assigned for its defence.
A Glacis, two ditches, with seven guns within, and three without, formed the strength of the Durgaw redoubt, which was reinforced the evening of the assault with Lally's corps.
When Tippoo committed this strong hold to a chosen body of men, his charge to them seemed to impress on their minds the idea, that the event of the war and his own fate must depend upon their powers.
The disposition was ably made on his part, nor did they, whom he had selected for this important service, betray their trust or fail in the execution of their duty.
Our gallant general made the first onset with a vehemence and rapidity, which were irresistible. The outworks and entry were at once carried, and the commander Said Ameer fell on the spot, proving by his exertions his fidelity to his master. The assault was carried forward with equal spirit and resolution to the center of the works which was full of the enemy's best troops, who turned one of their guns upon the Gorge, and with much execution fired grape and musket shot upon the assailants, tho' thrice repulsed by superior numbers, and a heavy fire from the inner Gorge; yet none of our men ever quitted the cover of the Gorge, or repassed the little gateway by which they entered.
At a critical period, Major Dirom threw himself into the foremost ranks; encouraged and rallied the men; and along with Captain Wight led them on a new to the charge. When the Major advanced opposite to the Gorge, Captain Gage on the right, and Captain Wight on the left, took possession, each of them of a banquet, whence they fired into the redoubt, with great effect.
Major Dirom was knocked down, lieut. Robertson of his majesty's 76th regiment, on his right hand killed; lieut. R. Campbell of the 36th, on his left severely wounded, and many of the brave soldiers fell on every side.
Happily Dirom soon recovered himself, and Wight, who was ready to have taken his place, resumed his post on the banquet, whilst the Major once more succeeded in rallying the men, and no sooner returned to the assault, than the enemy failed on every hand, broke, gave way, and most of them leaping over the embrasures into the ditch, left us in possession of this important redoubt.
Tippoo has in part fulfilled the terms of the recent treaty of peace, not only in the delivery of his two sons as hostages, but also in a partial payment, of the sum stipulated in the treaty to be paid by him.
On the second instant, one Crore and thirty Lacks of Rupees were sent out of the garrison to head-quarters, which his lordship directed Hoare, paymaster of the army, to take charge of.
Our centinels continue at our posts, about five hundred yards from the wall of Seringapatam, and not more than five yards from his, who are generally mounted at the time our's are, and with great regularity.
AIX LA CHAPELLE, June 14.
The friends of the French revolution in this country have some hope that a change favorable to its interests will take place in the court of Berlin. This hope is founded on two incidents—the first, the march of the Russian troops into Poland; the other, the insincerity of the Prussian court, which at first appeared more earnest in the quarrel of Austria than at present.
The greatest part of the Prussian army is, however, at this time in motion. The Duke of Brunswick, who is commander in chief, will repair to Coblenz, where every thing is prepared for his reception, at the latest on the 2d of July. The combined armies, it is expected, will be ready to act by the end of that month.
National Legislative Assembly, June 16.
M. Pastoret made a report, in the name of the committee of public instruction, on the plan of Mr. Palloy, for raising a national monument on the ruins of the Bastille, and the Assembly decreed,
"That there should be raised on the site of the Bastille, a square, to be named, The Square of Liberty—there shall be raised a column supporting a statue of liberty—the first stone to be laid on the 14th July next, by a deputation from the National Assembly."
The plans presented by M. Palloy are referred to the executive power, which shall appoint the artists of the capital and the departments to assist in the execution of the present decree.
"The National Assembly wishing to give M. Palloy a testimony of gratitude, grant
him a portion of land on the side of the Bastille."
June 17. The Assembly, after reading several petitions, decreed, that all citizens, the public functionaries, persons of 60 years of age, and infirm excepted, shall be bound to do duty personally in the National Guard. The military committee was appointed to draw out a proper plan for carrying this decree into execution.
LONDON, June 19—23.
The gazette contains a proclamation from his Majesty, permitting, agreeable to the powers, and under the restrictions of the several acts, the importation of sugar and coffee into the ports of Exuma, St. George, and Pembroke, in the Bahamas.
The Prussian cabinet has formally engaged to defend the present constitution of Holland, to guard it against the innovating spirit of the French, and to maintain the dignity of the Stadtholder, and all the prerogatives annexed to his station.
The fleet fitting out by Russia, to act against the French, consists of twelve ships of the line, and a proportion of frigates.
The Elector of Bavaria has, in consequence of a long conference with the Imperial minister, given up the plan of neutrality, and joined the league of Austria, Prussia and Sardinia, against France; and it is intended to gain time, till sufficient Austrian and Prussian troops arrive to protect the estates of the Palatine; those estates are fortifying towards the Rhine; the Rhine fortress at Manheim is furnishing with 200 pieces of cannon, and every exertion is using to put the place in a formidable state of defence.
The Diet of Poland have adjourned, after having considered the conduct of the war without reserve to the king, whose virtues and talents certainly render him worthy of the trust. The best accounts are received of the Polish army: They advance to meet the army in the highest spirits and with the utmost regularity, and are every where received by the inhabitants as brothers, and are even furnished with provisions and forage without any expence.
We are favored with the following extract of a letter from Lisbon, dated May 23. "Her majesty of Portugal continues very ill; there is a degree of obsequy in her, which, Dr. Willis says, he never met with in any subject he ever had under his care; he has had little or no success, and the people in general begin to despair."
A report has been very current this morning, that a meeting took place last night between lord Lauderdale and general Arnold, in which the latter was killed; but we have not yet been able to learn to what degree of credit this rumour is entitled.
A letter from Strasburg, by this day's mail, states that Francis, king of Hungary, died of a hemorrhage, by which he had been some time attacked: This however, wants confirmation.
The city of Antwerp still persists in its opposition to the government of the house of Austria.
The martial law lately proclaimed, and rigorously enforced there, has tended not a little to increase the number of the dissatisfied.
On the 24th ult. sentence was passed on the remainder of the conspirators concerned in the assassination of the late king of Sweden. Counts Horn and Ribbing to lose their right hands and heads, to be deprived of their honors, degraded from the rank of nobles, and their property to be confiscated. Ma or Hartmandorff to be broke, and imprisoned for one year. The Counsellor of the Chancery, Engstrom, to be deprived of his nobility and post, and to suffer perpetual imprisonment; his brother to lose his place of Secretary. The Secretary Liljebrade to be fed one week on bread and water. Major-general Pichlin to be confined in the fortress of Marstrand, and his behaviour to be reported to the king every six months by the commandant of the fortress. The senator Ahlgreen, Enhorning, the Notary, and the bailiff, Mordel, have been pardoned. All those condemned have claimed the respite of thirty days allowed them by law, to put in an arrest of judgment, or petition their sovereign for pardon.
The Empress of Russia has a great regard for the welfare of the Poles; and because they cannot swallow happiness fast enough, she is determined to push it into their mouths with the bayonet! What a good and disinterested creature she must be!

At a Meeting of sundry Inhabitants of the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, held at Pittsburgh, on the 21st day of August, 1792.
Present, John Canon, William Wallace, Shebazar Bentley, Bazel Bowel, Benjamin Parkerson, John Huey, John Badolet, John Hamilton, John M c Clelland, Neal Gillespie, David Bradford, Thomas Gaddis, David Phillips, Albert Gallatin, Matthew Jamison, James Robinton, James Stewart, John Smile, Robert M c Clure, Peter Lisle, Alexander Long, Samuel Wilson, and Edward Cook.
Colonel John Canon, was placed in the Chair, and Albert Gallatin appointed Clerk.
The Excise Law of Congress being taken under consideration and freely debated, a committee of five members was appointed to prepare a draught of Resolutions, expressing the sense of the meeting on the subject of said Law.
Adjourned to 10 o'clock to morrow.
22d of August 1792.
The members of the meeting having met according to adjournment, the committee appointed yesterday made report, which being read twice and debated by paragraphs, was unanimously adopted as followeth, to wit.
Strongly impressed with a sense of the fatal consequences that must attend an Excise, convinced that a tax upon liquors which are the common drink of a nation operates in proportion to the number and not to the wealth of the people, and of course is unjust in itself, and oppressive upon the poor; taught by the experience of other countries that internal taxes upon consumption, from their nature, never can effectually be carried into operation, without vesting the officers appointed to collect them with powers most dangerous to the civil rights of freemen, and must in the end destroy the liberties of every country in which they are introduced; feeling that the late excise law of Congress, from the present circumstances of our agriculture, our want of markets, and the scarcity of a circulating-medium, will bring immediate distress and ruin on the Western Country. We think it our duty to persist in our remonstrances to Congress, and in every other legal measure that may obstruct the operation of the law, until we are able to obtain its total repeal.
Therefore, Resolved, that David Bradford, James Marshall, Albert Gallatin, Peter Lisle, and David Phillips, be appointed for the purpose of drawing a remonstrance to Congress stating our objections against the law that imposes a duty upon spirituous liquors distilled within the United States, and praying for a repeal of the same, and that the Chairman of this meeting be directed to sign the same in the name of the meeting, and to take proper measures to have it presented to Congress at their next sessions.
Resolved, That in order that our measures may be carried on with regularity and dispatch, that William Wallace, John Hamilton, Shebazar Bentley, Isaac Weaver, Benjamin Parkerson, David Redick, Thomas Stokely, Stephen Gaper, and Joseph Vanmetre, Andrew Rabb, Thomas Gaddis, Alexander Long, William Whiteside, John Oliphant, Robert M c Clure, and James Lang, and Thomas B. Patterson, James Stewart, Samuel Johnson, William Plumer, and Matthew Jamison, be respectively appointed committees of correspondence for the counties of Washington, Fayette and Allegheny, and that it shall be their duty to correspond together, and with such committee as shall be appointed for the same purpose in the county of Westmoreland, or with any committees of a similar nature that may be appointed in other parts of the United States, and also, if found necessary, to call together either general meetings of the people in their respective counties, or conferences of the several committees.
And whereas some men may be found amongst us, so far lost to every sense of virtue and feeling for the distresses of this country as to accept offices for the collection of the duty;
Resolved therefore, That in future we will consider such persons as unworthy our friendship, have no intercourse or dealings with them, withdraw from them every assistance, and withhold all the comforts of life which depend upon those duties that as men and fellow-citizens we owe to each other and upon all occasions treat them with that contempt they deserve, and that
it be and it is hereby most earnestly recommended to the people at large to follow the same line of conduct towards them.
On motion, Resolved, That the minutes of this meeting be signed by the chairman, attested by the clerk, and published in the Pittsburgh Gazette.
JOHN CANON, Chairman. Attest. Albert Gallatin, Clerk.
WARSAW, June 2d.
Yesterday an express from Prince Joseph Poniatowski arrived with the following account, dated at Wiemca the 27th of May, "Lieutenant Golcowski of the national cavalry, occupying an out post with 300 men, perceived a body of 2,000 Russians approaching, who first began the attack, while Golcowski having returned the fire, charged the enemy sword in hand, with such impetuosity, that their line was completely broken. A general action then began, which lasted two hours and a half. Notwithstanding so great a superiority of numbers, the field of battle remained to our troops; 300 Russians were left on the spot; our loss is 40 killed and 24 wounded. This body of the Russians was chosen from the nation called Czarnomorce, bordering on the Black Sea, reckoned the bravest: It is they who took Berezina, near Oczakow, and who led the van in storming Ismailow. Elated with former success, and trusting to their numbers, they marched down with seeming contempt, and little expected such a warm reception from a handful of Poles."
Our different divisions are marching to Lithuania and to the Ukraine, with the greatest expedition and alacrity. They had not a single deserter. In Lithuania we see the greatest ardour for defending their liberty and independence, even their ladies strive to encourage the youth to noble actions; instead of cries and tears, unworthy of free women, they collected among themselves 1500 ducats at Wilora, for the expences of the war.
We hear from the district of Rzeczyca, that the Russians have entered on that defenceless side, and began to carry off all the peasants and their families into slavery, to people their deserts. Such are the proofs of the friendly assurances given in the Empress's declaration.
LONDON, June 19.
On his Majesty's return to the palace yesterday, a privy council was held, which was attended by Mr. Pitt, the two Secretaries of State, the Duke of Leeds, Lord Sydney, &c. when Lord Thurlow laid the seals of his office at his Majesty's feet, addressing the King in a most feeling speech, representing the unfeigned state wherein he had resigned his commission, which he had held since June 2, 1778. His Majesty seemed affected on the occasion, on which Lord Thurlow immediately withdrew, and the seals were put in the commission of Lord Chief Baron Eyre (who was sworn in one of Majesty's Privy Council) Sir W. Athurst Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, and Sir John Wilson, Knt. one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, who kissed the King's hand on their appointment, and retired with the seals of office.
A gentleman who arrived in town yesterday afternoon from Ostend, mentions that the Austrian army, to the amount of 17,000 men, under the command of General Beaulieu, had marched from Tournay, on Thursday last, and General Luckner's army was known to be in motion at the same time; that a violent cannonade was heard at Ostend on Friday, and that just on the departure of the packet, the Grefier received an express from the Governor of Mons, with an account of the Austrians having taken 14 pieces of cannon and 2 howitzers in this action. The particulars of which were hourly expected.
There have been frequent skirmishes between the Cossacks and the Polish national cavalry; but the Russian forces have not advanced on either side, more than a league into the territory of the republic. The Polish army was expected to have its complete number, an hundred thousand men on the 30th of May.
The King of Prussia has a serious dispute with the Circle of Franconia, who not only persist in their neutrality towards France, but will only permit the passage of two regiments of Prussian Hussars through their dominions.
In Poland, whose revolution we rejoice in, and the hostility commenced against which we are confident every Englishman considers with indignation, there is an enthusiasm which promises success to a glorious cause—an enthusiasm which we hope may not end until the power of a neighbouring, of a restless, and an ambitious despot, shall be so far crippled as to render its baneful effects less destructive to the peace of Europe, and less subversive of humanity.
The following changes have taken place in the French ministry:
M. Dumourier, late minister for foreign affairs, is appointed war minister, in the place of M. Servans; and M. Mourgues is minister of the interior department, instead of M. Rolland. M. Claviere has left the office of minister of public contributions, but his successor is not yet appointed. M. de Lallyac, the French Minister at the court of Deux Points, succeeds M. Dumourier as minister for foreign affairs.
The French king announced these alterations to the National Assembly, on Wednesday last, upon which a decree was passed declaring, that the ministers carried with them from office the regrets of the nation.
JUNE 23.
The Capt. of a French packet, which arrived on Wednesday night at Dover, brings intelligence that a general action has taken place between the French and Austrian armies, that it was a hard fought battle attended with very great slaughter, the Austrians having 10,000 killed and wounded, and the French upwards of 5000, but that the victory was greatly in favor of the French.
Menen and some other places are taken by the French, and they were besieging Mons, which they expected to carry.
ADDRESS OF THE KING OF POLAND TO THE ARMY.
"By virtue of the constitution, enacted 29th March, 1792, the supreme and general command of all the forces of the republic is entrusted to us in the following terms—(Here the act of Legislature is recited): Thus is the defence of our dear country confided to Us and to You. The enemy that invades it is well known to every Polelander. So many injuries, misfortunes, and humiliations heaped upon us by Russia, call to God and your courage for vengeance. The war is no sooner declared than begun, without the least justifiable motive. Some degenerate Poles, rebels to their country, have lent a pretext for it. They wish, with foreign aid, to restore the ancient anarchy, subjection, and insignificance, which your King at the head of a virtuous Diet, has luckily banished from the Polish territories. Brave countrymen! we are now called upon to maintain our possessions, our honor, and our liberties—to defend our brethren, to revenge so many wrongs, which we and our forefathers have suffered, and to protect the honor of your King, who confederates, with pleasure and sincerity, the remnant of his old age to his country. The nation longed to have a respectable army, but anarchy and foreign influence always opposed it; at last, by cheerful offers, it is raised to have in you its defenders, the improvement of whose condition was not forgotten by the present government. It was proper to add regularity and discipline common and necessary in all armies, to the courage of Poles, which though they may seem new to you, are not the less requisite for the strength, order and glory of the army. To execute those regulations shall be the duty of your commander, and to obey them, ought to be your ambition—we all must obey the laws, and you those who execute them. The army we have opposed to us, owes its strength to a blind obedience and submission to orders. Endeavour to surpass it even in this, and then neither its numbers, nor its bravery, will be able to intimidate the Poles. It is true Russian troops have been accustomed to despise the Polish soldiers, but you have now an open field to deserve a more honorable opinion in future. Your country, for whose independence we are going to fight, your King, whose steps are directed by justice, shall value and reward your merit and valor—you may be sure of being amply repaid for the hazard of your lives, by the gratitude of your countrymen, by the acquisition of glory, and by the hands of your King."
Therefore, as your King and your commander, he recommends to you most earnestly to unite good conduct to obedience—fortitude to courage—and love of your country to loyalty.
We recommend to the commanding officers vigilance and attention, exemplary temperance and courage, vigor and justice on every occasion.
The army of a free nation, thus qualified with a good cause on their side, cannot fail to find their support in the powerful arm of the Omnipotent. You serve for honor—let it be your guide: the honor of a Polish soldier is of the highest importance, because it is a pledge of the allegiance to his country, to which he owes all.
Do not suffer a traitor among you (should any unfortunately be found) and the safety of your country will be your own work. In every danger remember and think of your dear country; our life is the least thing that we can offer her. Your common father, your King, and your commander, gives you forever this word of command—Children! Let us either live free and respected, or die with honor. Given at Warsaw, May 25th, the twenty-eighth year of our reign.
(Signed) STANISLAUS AUGUSTUS, REX.
BOSTON, August 27.
Extract of a letter dated Macao, 17th December, 1791, to a gentleman in this town.
"Captain Kendrick had his vessel attacked on the coast, and the natives got possession of his deck; however, after killing about forty natives, they recovered her; the natives had so far possession, that they handed over into their canoes, iron, copper, guns, &c. without leave or licence. I forgot in my last to mention to you I discovered seven islands in the South Seas, which I am sure from an examination of the different voyages from the year 1400 to the present date, all my charts, and globes of modern date, were never discovered before; they are between the Marquesa's and the Sandwich isles. My journals being on board, puts it out of my power to transmit you by the present conveyance their particular latitude and longitude. However, the French ship I mentioned to you in my last, arrived here from the N.W. saw three of them, and claim'd them as a new discovery; but on examining my journals, the isles they had seen were the same we had seen a month before them."
We farther learn, that the natives of the N. West got possession of the brig Washington, Capt. Kendrick, who killed sixty of them before he could recover, his vessel—and that the two seamen of the Columbia, Captain Gray, who were massacred on that coast, did belong to Nantucket, by the names of Folger and Barnes.
That our countrymen are not allowed to sell their furs in China, is certain—and its equally certain it's not as has been said, through the British influence—as we find they equally suffer—in the London price current of the 20th April, the General Coote, Capt. Baldwin, from China, entered fifteen cases of sea-otter skins, bro't from Canton.
PITTSBURGH, August 25.
Extract of a letter from the Rev'd Mr. Heckenwelder, Indian Missionary, to the Rev'd Daniel Story, Marietta, dated Fort Washington, July 26, 1792.
"A day or two after our arrival at this place we had news from Port Vincent, that one or two of our flags had been killed; and since that, this news has been confirmed by two men who had been taken prisoners by the Indians, the first in general Harmar's expedition, and the other on the 4th day of November last.—These men give the particulars of the whole, as told them by the Indians themselves, viz. that they were first taken and brought into the towns, and after knowing their errand, the Indians put them to death."
[These flags were sent for the purpose of making one more attempt to bring about a peace with the savages—their fate, we adduce, as a palpable and public instance of savage honor and benevolence, and as a proof of the value of treaties with those who disregard the first principles of them, so far as to murder the very agents sent to establish them.]
Thursday last arrived here from the eastward, a detachment of about 300 men, under the command of Captain Mills.
And the same day a company of men from Virginia, commanded by Captain Smith.
NEW-YORK, August 28.
MANUFACTURING SOCIETY.
On Wednesday the 22d instant arrived at the town of Patterson from Newark, a respectable number of gentlemen, directors and friends of the manufactory. They proceeded to examine the several works, and viewing the machinery for carding, roping and spinning of cotton, they expressed their entire approbation, as the works far exceeded their most sanguine expectations.—We are happy to inform our readers that this undertaking promises fair to be beneficial to the proprietors, and of great utility to the community at large.
Major L'Enfant laid before the meeting (which also met the approbation of the society, a plan of the town, which far exceeds anything of the kind yet seen in this country. The buildings of the manufactory, and the dwelling houses for the accommodation of the artists and workmen, are going on very rapidly, and it is expected from the spirited exertions of the workmen employed, that the whole will be compleated before the winter sets in.
CARLISLE, August 22.
A correspondent having seen a circular letter from a committee of Philadelphia, respecting the ensuing election for members of Congress, and electors of President and Vice-President, is much surprised to find a select few warned to meet at night and in a tavern, to take this matter into consideration, and is of opinion that public notice being given to the county, who might send delegates from each township, that so, such as pleased might attend at the court house in the day time, on some convenient day, would be a more eligible mode of consulting on such momentous business, which concerns not only this County, but the state at large.

PHILADELPHIA.
SEPTEMBER 5, 1792.
We hear, with great pleasure, that the sugar maple lands in New-York and Pennsylvania, have attracted the attention of European and American settlers of all ranks and descriptions. A number of French families, of ample resources for improving the country, are about to settle on the east branch of the Susquehannah. A manufactory of sugar and potash, in the hands of a number of citizens of Philadelphia, is about to be established on a rich body of sugar maple land on the Delaware. In short, it would seem, from the passion that has lately appeared for that species of land, that the whole of the sugar maple country will, in a few years, vie in cultivation and wealth with the oldest and richest counties in New-York and Pennsylvania. An acre of the maple land, in Northumberland county, which was of the first quality, yielded, in one year, nine and thirty bushels of wheat; and an acre of that which was of the lowest quality in Northumberland county, yielded twenty bushels of the same grain, in one year.
A writer in a daily paper says, that he is of opinion that of the causes which multiply diseases and principally occasion fevers in August and September, Melons may be reckoned foremost. In Paris at certain periods of the season, the police orders them to be thrown into the Seine, and at Madrid they are never suffered to come into the city, unless first examined by persons appointed for the purpose.
It is a strange jumble of ideas, says a correspondent, to suppose the present constitution of the United States to be unconnected with the preceding, or confederation, so called, and at the same time talk of discharging the debt contracted by the late government. In a letter of the 24th inst. addressed by Mr. Noagse, the Register, to Mr. Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury—he says, "I have the honor to enclose an abstract statement of the debt incurred by the late government, and which has been paid off by the present government."—This mode of expression would lead one to imagine that there have been sundry revolutions in this country; at least that the Register conceives so, when he thinks of different or former and present governments, unless by late government he means Great-Britain, and yet it can hardly be supposed he would have it understood that the treasury of the United States will take much pains to inform the people that they are discharging British debts.
Electioneering pieces begin to make their appearance pretty thick in several papers for members of Congress. A Worcester Elector amidst a great blaze of virtues and good properties which he has lighted up for a friend of his, recommends him for "fascinating humour," and his "modest aversion to public life;" and to another whom he holds up for a candidate, "that he is a right up and down honest man."
The public says a correspondent, must be strongly impressed with the impartiality of Penno's Gazette , when they see whole columns of it devoted to "Observation on the letters of a farmer, addressed to the Yomanry of the United States" whilst these letters themselves are carefully kept out of that immaculate Gazette, doubtless, because of that impurity of thought which impeaches the fair dealing of the Secretary of the Treasury with regard to national manufactures. But this one foled Editor patiently waits his reward, in the consolatory reflection of Satan to Job, "If thou dost well, shalt thou not be accepted."
The Bank of South Carolina (a Charleston paper mentions) was opened on the 27th ult.
The Ittburgh Gazette of August 25, contains the following notification from Capt. Faulkner: "Notice is hereby given, as an inspection office has been kept by Gen. Neville, at my house in Washington, I hereby inform the public that it shall be kept there no longer. Those who are uneasy and making threats, may give themselves no further trouble."
European intelligence is received in New York as late as June 27th. But the Editor of a paper there gravely tells us that he is obliged to omit it, with a variety of other matters, to make room for "Occurrences in the East Indies." !!!
At Concord in New-Hampshire, there has been a very severe tornado, which in its course tore to pieces many dwelling houses, barns, woods, &c. A man was caught up by the wind and carried eight or ten rods. It is remarkable that the force of the wind was not more than twenty rods in width.
On the eleventh ult. a very extraordinary storm, attended by the largest hail-stones ever remembered, happened in the same state, of which a gentleman gives the following account.
"The lumps of hail, that I examined, were of various sizes, but the largest were generally composed of as many as eight or nine lesser stones, congealed firmly together in one lump; these lesser parts were of different forms, some of the least were circular, no more than a third of an inch diameter, yet these were of the spheroid kind, happening so by their exposed parts sustaining in their deliquescent dissolution, or of the shape described; some had the appearance of an ellipsis with its conjugate and transverse diameters, delineated by the fingers of nature; others of the prismatice, some cylindric, and some conic, and in the components of each lump, all the forms resulting from the conic sections, were clearly discernible! I weighed some of these, which were over two ounces and an half."
"The French nation will be free, in spite of the number of dissensions fomenting even in their assembly, by the enemies to all liberty; the greatest, and the far greatest part of the nation being staunch to the constitution."
A meeting of a number of farmers and other respectable inhabitants of the county of Montgomery (Pennsylvania) was held on the 30th of August, when it was unanimously declared, that sufficient time had not been given to the inhabitants to attend a former meeting that had appointed a committee of conference; and that a majority of the county was not represented at said meeting; It was therefore unanimously resolved, that it is the opinion of this meeting, that public notice should be immediately given to the free men of the county, to attend at the house of Edward Parker, Perkioman Creek, on Saturday the 8th day of September next; thereby to have an opportunity to consult each other on the measures most proper to be pursued, in order to counteract any unjust encroachments that may, or have been made upon the rights and privileges of the free men of the county, by a small minority of said county.
** The Communication from Mr. Peale, respecting Mr. John S. Hutton, is unavoidably postponed till our next.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
CERTAIN Treasury Documents were lately published for the information of the community, without any precise designation of the purpose for which they were published. They were left to speak for themselves, with only a short introduction, denominating them "Authentic documents respecting the progress which has been made by the present government of the United States, towards extinguishing the debts contracted under the former government." A writer in this Gazette of Saturday last, under the signature of Mercator , has thought it to come forward, and, assigning what he conceives to be the object of the publication, endeavors to show, that the contrary of what was intended, is true.
What right had Mercator to suppose, that any thing more was intended, than simply to inform the public, that befides a punctual payment of the interest on the debt, from the period, at which measures were matured to begin that payment, a considerable sum of the Capital of the Debt has been extinguished, and that a further sum will be extinguished by a provision already made? —leaving them to this very natural inference, which will be drawn by every candid mind, that the Government has been as attentive as circumstances would permit, at so early a period, to the extinguishment of the debt.
But admitting Mercator to be right in his suggestion of the object, it is presumed, that a liberal construction of all circumstances will justify the position, that the present Government has reduced the debt of the former Government to the extent expressed in the documents which have been published. This will result, if it shall appear that provision was made for the interest, as early as was reasonably practicable. To have paid the interest from that period, and to have sunk so much of the capital in addition, is in fair construction, to have reduced the debt to the extent of the capital sunk.
When Mercator undertook to suppose an object, which was not declared, he ought to have taken care to be better informed and more accurate.—When he undertook to state an account with the treasury department, he ought not only to have selected just items, to have adverted to dates, times and possibilities, but he ought to have stated the whole account.
This he has not done; on the contrary he has both misrepresented and suppressed facts. He has shown, in the true spirit of a certain junto (who not content with the large share of power they have in the government, are incessantly laboring to monopolize the whole of its power, and to banish from it every man who is not subservient to their preposterous and all-grasping views) that he has been far more solicitous to arraign, than to manifest the truth—to take away, than to afford consolation to the people of the United States.
The following particulars are proofs of his want both of accuracy and candor.
First. He charges the treasury department arrears of interest, which accrued prior to its existence, that is, from the first of August 1789; whereas the department was not instituted till the 2d of September, nor organized till about the 13th, when I am informed the Secretary of the Treasury entered upon the duties of his office.
Secondly. He takes as the standard of his calculation, the whole amount of the annual interest on the whole amount of the public debt, as it exists under the present funding system, including all the arrears of interest made principal, and the 21,300,000 dollars of assumed debt—whereas the arrears which did actually accumulate to the end of the year 1790, were only on the principal of the foreign and domestic debt, and fall short more than a million of dollars of the sum he states.
These simple facts prove the fallacy of his statement.
But the principle, upon which he proceeds, is not less absurd, than his calculations are fallacious.
With as much propriety might an execu-
tor be charged with increasing the debts of his testator, by suffering the arrears of interest on his bonds and notes to accumulate while he was collecting, arranging and disposing of the effects; to discharge the debts of the estate; as the present government, or if the phrase is preferred, the present treasury department, may be charged with those arrearages, which unavoidably accrued, during the preparatory measures for bringing the resources of the public estate into activity. With as much reason might it be charged with the 13,000,000 of interest, which accumulated under the imbecile system, the old confederation, to which, if not to worse,—a dissolution of the Union!—the designs of the junto evidently point, or tend.
When, proceeding upon grounds so loose and unjust, Mercator makes the extraordinary declaration, that the secretary of the treasury "has produced an actual addition to the public debt of more than one million and a half of dollars," is it not palpable, that in the most malignant spirit of party, he is endeavoring to destroy the public confidence in that officer, no matter how unfair the means, as one link in the chain of measures by which the domineering aims of his party are to be effected, or the cause of confusion promoted? Is it not clear that in the language and conceptions of Mercator , to provide for a debt, and to "produce" it, amount to the same thing?
To form a still better estimate of the spirit by which he is actuated, let there be a review of some leading facts.
Congress met under the present government on the first of April, 1789. To put it in motion they had a vast and very arduous work before them. This was of course a primary object; a provision for the debt a secondary one. It was natural then that the first session should have been exhausted in organizing the government, and that a systematic provision for the debt should be postponed, as in fact it was, to the second session. A temporary and partial provision of revenue only was accordingly made, by very moderate duties of impost, far short of an adequate fund for the support of government, and the payment of the interest on the debt, to take effect on the first of August, 1789; which was as early as the law could be promulgated throughout the union, and the subordinate executive arrangements made for carrying it into execution.
It has been stated, that the treasury department began to be in activity on the 13th of September. Congress adjourned on the 29th of that month, after having instructed the secretary of the treasury to report concerning the debt at the ensuing session. It is to be recollected that without an order of the house that officer can propose nothing.
'Tis evident then, that there was no responsibility on the side of that department, for the accumulation of interest on the debt until at earliest the second session, which began on the 7th of January, 1790.
On Thursday, the 14th of January, the secretary of the treasury submitted to the House of Representatives, according to order, the plan of a provision for the public debt, comprehending an additional provision of revenue for the purpose of facing the interest. But it was not till the 4th of August, that the principles of a provision for the debt were determined by law, nor till the 10th of the same month, that a supplementary fund was established for paying the interest upon it; and from considerations of an obvious nature, the commencement of this fund in operation was deferred to the first of January following.
Here again 'tis manifest, that there was no responsibility in the treasury department, for the accumulation of interest up to the period from which it has been punctually paid, namely, the first of January, 1791; because it was not in the power of that department to have accelerated a provision for it. Nor will any blame justly light upon Congress for the moderate delay which ensued. It was their duty to bestow much deliberation upon the subject—Much difference of opinion, much lengthy discussion, a considerable loss of time, were to be expected in relation to a subject so momentous, so perplexing, touching so differently so many chords of passion and interest.
The law providing for the debt having passed—the secretary of the treasury immediately seized the opportunity which was afforded, by an unappropriated surplus of revenue to the end of the year 1790, to make an impression on the debt. He proposed, that it should be applied to purchases of the debt, at its market prices, which was agreed to by Congress, and has been carried into execution as far as circumstances have hitherto permitted.
This was certainly the best application that could have been made of the fund. It was equally the interest of the government and of the public creditors:—Of the government, because it was a clear gain of all the difference between the sum of specie paid and the sum of debt redeemed, which is already 514,891 dollars and 69 cents, and will be more when the remaining sum appropriated comes to be applied to further purchases; because it was a clear saving to the nation of all the difference in price which was paid by foreigners in their purchases, in consequence of the competition of the government, in the market, as a pur-
chaser. It is well known to every well informed man, that the rapid appreciation of the debt was materially owing to that circumstance, and of course the saving to the nation by it has been very considerable.—The measure in question was equally beneficial to the public creditors—because if the fund applied to purchases had been apportioned among them in payment of interest, it would have been a mere pittance; but applied as it was, it gave a rapid spring to the whole value of their stock.
As it is therefore proved, that the treasury department is chargeable with no delay with regard to a provision for the debt, occasioning an unnecessary accumulation of interest; in a question of merit, respecting that department, which Mercator has raised, it will follow, that the department on account of the operations which have been advised by it, has an unbalanced claim of merit with the community.
1st. For all that has been or shall be saved by purchases of the public debt at the market prices.
2d. For all that has been saved to the nation for the more advanced prices given by foreigners in their purchases of the debt.
But there are other items of importance to be placed on the same side of the account.
1st. The saving resulting from the reduced rate on the new loans made for paying off the foreign debt.
2d. The positive gain of 1,000,000 of dollars by the institution of the Bank of the United States. The stock of the Bank being at an advance of 50 per cent, it is clear, that the government, by having become a proprietor to the extent of 2,000,000 of dollars, has by this single operation made an actual net profit of 1,000,000 of dollars; that is, it can get three millions for what will cost it only two.
I add nothing for any saving, which has accrued from the particular modification of the domestic debt, for two reasons; one because the subject being more complicated would require more illustration, and the other because the plan adopted by the legislature, though having the leading features of that proposed by the Treasury Department, differs from it in some material respects; a strong refutation of the idea, so industriously inculcated, that the plans of that department are implicitly followed by the legislature; and a decisive proof, that they have had no more weight than they ought to have had, that is to say than they were entitled to, from their intrinsic reasonableness in the unbiased and independent judgment of majorities in the two houses of Congress. The result of what has been said is this—that provision was made for paying the interest of the debt as early as could reasonably have been expected—that no negligence having happened, the arrears of interest which accumulated in the interval are properly a part of the debts of the former government and consequently that the sums which appear to have been absorbed are so much of the debts of the old Government extinguished by the new.
Mercator brings as a proof, that the public debt has increased and is increasing, "what he terms the present amount and increasing weight of the duties of impost and excise." Let facts decide the soundness of this logic—In the last session of Congress, the only excise duty which existed, was reduced upon an average fifteen per cent. The only addition which was then made to the imposts was for carrying on the Indian war, and by avoiding recourse to permanent loans for that purpose, to avoid an increase of the debt.—How then can that, which was done to avoid an increase of debt, be a proof that it has increased?
C I V I S.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS,
AUGUST 1792.
   D. H. Bar. Ther. Wind. Weather.     Wednesday, 22. 6 30. 1 64 N. E. Cloudy.   2 30. 1 78 do. Fair.   Thursday, 23. 6 30. 1 57 N. E. Fair   2 30. 0 79 E. do.   Friday, 24. 6 29. 9 67 S. Cloudy.   2 29. 75 73 do. do.   Saturday, 25. 6 29. 6 68 N. W. Fair.   2 29. 7 78 do. do.   Sunday, 26. 6 30. 0 58 N. W. Fair.   2 30. 1 75 do. do.   Monday, 27. 6 30. 2 59 S. W. Fair.   2 30. 2 80 do. do.   Tuesday, 28. 6 29. 9 70 W. Rain.   2 30. 0 80 N. W. Fair.  
Terres à Vendre
Dans un pays bien peuplé, —
SAVOIR, soixante cinq mille, trois cens, soixante et quatorze Acres, en une seule pièce, dans le canton le mieux peuplé de la Caroline Meridionale, le District de Ninety-Six. Ces terres sont situées dans une contrée agréable, et salubre, où les fièvres sont inconnues; à environ vingt lieues de Colombie, la Capitale, et contiguës à la ville de Cambridge, où il y a un College, et Cour supérieure. A environ douze lieues, il y a une bonne navigation; et il est très probable, que dans quelque tems on rendra navigable le Grand Salude, rivière qui arrose les terres mêmes. Elles sont agréablement diversifiées de coteaux et vallons charmans, propres à la culture du tabac, du coton, du maïs, et du petit grain; et dont une proportion considérable se peut aisément convertir en prairies fertiles. Il n'est peut-être gueres possible de rencontrer une pareille pièce de terre à vendre dans aucun autre des Etats Unis; et pour les conditions de l'achat, on les rendra très commodes.
S'informer à l'imprimerie de la Gazette Nationale. Sept. 5.

Mr. ADAMS, WHEN the funding system was under consideration in Congress, and the patriotic MADISON, and others urged the propriety of a discrimination; in order to do justice to the original public creditors, some of those opposed to a discrimination, declared, that if any application was brought forward, by the late army for a compensation for their services, none would be more ready than they to support it; and this was not only the language of some in, but also of many out of Congress; who from their interested situation, might probably be opposed to a discrimination; than which, no measure could have been more just and righteous.
It is unnecessary to recapitulate the solemn stipulations and promises of the government to their army, or their acknowledgement of the faithfulness of that army, these will remain on record, as long as the archives of our country shall endure. Nor is it necessary to repeat that a large proportion of the evidences of the dues of the soldier, were transferred to speculators, for a few shillings on the pound, because the government neglected to provide funds, for their proper security! And that the property so acquired by speculators, multiplied by a gain of from five to nine hundred per cent. profit, by the funding system, has enabled the present possessors to figure away in the funds and banks, in public lands, and in a variety of other speculations, to a latitude surprising, even to themselves. But where are those men, who earned this property, at the peril of their lives—and have never yet received an adequate consideration therefor, either from the public, or from those who are enjoying of it? Their hard earned dues, in many instances, they were compelled to dispose of for a trifle, to save themselves and their families from starving. What remained in their hands, at the time of funding, by that system, has a third part suspended from interest, for ten years; and a further injury is done them by not paying them at the time of funding, but funding such interest at three per cent.—This was much more than enough, for those who had purchased certificates at 2/6 on the pound. But to the original creditors, it was not only a real injury, but repugnant to the solemnly stipulated agreement made with them by government.
The members of the late army are now coming forward with memorials to Congress, in order to obtain that justice which has been solemnly and repeatedly promised to them; and which they feel confident their country, will never allow to be withheld from them. If upon investigation, it should appear that compensation, fully equal to the losses they have sustained, thro' the neglect of the government, cannot be made, without involving the community in much difficulty—can any honest man lay his hand upon his heart and say, that one third part of their dues can upon any principle of justice or equity, be suspended from interest for the term of ten years; or that they ought not to receive the interest that was due to them to the time of funding? The placing this third part on interest, and payment of the other reservation, will not add a single farthing to the public debt, solemnly contracted, and justly due; and it is presumed, that a wise and virtuous republic, will never wish to make a saving to itself, at the expence of the original public creditors—and from them alone, whose services and loans have been acknowledged in the most exalted strains that language can paint them.
I do not pretend to say, that this would be considered as a just compensation, by the sufferers themselves, but I will venture to say, as a member of the community, and as one bound to pay my proportion of the public debt, wherever it is found to be justly due, that if such a measure would give satisfaction, honor and justice, as well as sound policy and good faith, unite in favor of its being done; and that so seasonably, as to insure its being done with some grace.
There are some who are already raising objections to the making compensation to the army, by suggesting that such a measure would open a wide field; that others have as good claims to justice; and that if the door be once opened, they will come forward, & we shall not know where to stop. This to be sure, is a very plausible objection, but can never have any great weight with those, who are just and honest, and mean to pay their just debts. If the public be as fairly, and by as solemn contracts, (yet unfulfilled) indebted to others, as to the late army, they are in duty bound to pay them: But this is no objection to the well founded claims of the army. And where can the public with more propriety, begin to do justice, than with those with whom they have so solemnly stipulated; and who have through the neglect of the government, lost so large a proportion of their just dues? which losses, by the funding system, have been sanctioned, to the aggrandizement of a few; while the many losers of the same property, are subjected to pay in duties on the necessaries of life which they consume, a part of the fruits of their daily industry, to ensure the payment of the interest quarterly, on an unreasonable gain.
If this meritorious class of men, are to be left in this situation, without compensation, in some way or other, for their services and losses in the public service, can any man rationally expect, that peace and prosperity can long beam in our land. Square, if you can, ye champions of modern justice and policy, things so unequal with immutable right, or with that constitution which among other things, has been reared expressly to establish JUSTICE.
George Town, June 2, 1792. A NUMBER of LOTS in every situation which may be desired in the city of Washington, will be offered for sale, by the Commissioners on Monday the 8th day of October next. One fourth part of the purchase money to be paid down, the residue in three equal annual payments, with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid. JOHN M. GANTT, Clerk to the Commissioners. July 25.
*** For sale at this Office, Sermons by the Rev'd Dr. William Linn, of N. York Price 5/7 1-2.
Prices Current at Philadelphia.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Includes items like Ashes, Bacon, Bees wax, Brandy, Butter, Coals, Coffee, Cotton, Flax, Flour, Grain, Hams, Hemp, Hides, Iron, Lard, Lead, Myrtle wax, Molasses, Nutmegs, Oil, Pepper, Pimento, Porter, Pitch, Pork, Rice, Robin, Rum, Salt, Skins, Snake-Root, Sugar, Tallow, Tar, Tea, Tobacco, Wine. Prices are listed in dollars and cents.
Society for establishing useful Manufactures.
NOTICE is hereby given to the holders of stock in the said Society, that the following arrangement has been made by the Deputy Governor and Directors thereof, by a resolution of the eighteenth day of May, 1792. The second instalment for the payment of shares in the stock of this Society, may be made in the following manner, viz. The amount of the said second instalment, being 20 13-100 dollars each share, may be paid in three payments, on condition that the lawful interest of 7 per cent. per annum, be calculated and paid with each proportionate part of the said payment, that is to say, on or before the thirtieth day of August next, the sum of 6 71-100, with the addition of 12 cents, being the interest of one month on 20 13-100 dollars—on or before the 13th of September next, the sum of 6 11-100 dollars, with the addition of 8 cents, being the interest for one month on 13 42-100 dollars—and on or before the 13th of October next, the sum of 6 71-100 dollars, with the addition of 4 cents, being the interest on the same for one month. The said payments are to be made at the following places, viz. In the city of Philadelphia, at the bank of the United States—at New-Brunswick, in New-Jersey, to John Bayard, or John Neilson, Esqrs—and in the city of New-York, at the bank of New-York, or either of the said places, which may be most convenient to the stock holders.
By order of the direction, JAMES GRIFFITHS, Clerk. July 24.
BOOKS,
Printed and sold by MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia.
1. American Museum, from its commencement, in January 1787, to June 1792, in eleven volumes Price, neatly bound and lettered, Seventeen dollars and three shillings. 2. Smith's letters to married women, on nursing and the management of children. 3. Duncan's elements of logic. 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. 8. Elements of Moral Science, by James Beattie, L.L.D. professor of moral philosophy and logic in the Marischal College, Aberdeen—Price three fourths of a dollar. 9. Beauties of Poetry, Price four shillings of a dollar. 10. Blair's Sermons, Price two dollars. 11. Necker's Treatise on the importance of religious opinions. Price four shillings 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'Fingal, Price three eighths of a dollar. 15. American Jest Book, three shillings 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, 5/2—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. 12.a.w.
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VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN, DAVID WILLIAMSON, Proprietors of the line of New-York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Bordentown. JACOB MYERS, AMOS HUTCHIN, NICHOLAS SCHENK, Proprietors of the line of N. York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Burlington. The Shrewsbury Stage will leave Philadelphia in the months of July and September, on every Sunday and Wednesday, and return on every Tuesday and Friday. In the month of August, it will leave Philadelphia on every Sunday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday and Saturday.
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LANDS FOR SALE,
IN a well settled Country. SIXTY-FIVE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR ACRES OF LAND, in one body, in the most populous part of the state of South-Carolina, in the district of Ninety-six—It is situated in a fine healthy climate, free from fever & ague, about sixty miles from Columbia, the seat of government. The land is contiguous to the town of Cambridge, where are a seminary for the instruction of youth, and a superior law court. It is at present within about thirty-five miles of good navigation, with a probability of having the river, called the Great Saluda, that flows along one side of the land, made navigable. The land is beautifully diversified into swells and vales, and is perfectly well calculated for the culture of tobacco, cotton, Indian corn, and small grain; a great proportion of it may be made meadow ground. There is not, perhaps, such a body of land, so circumstanced, for sale in any other of the U. States. The terms of payment will be made convenient to the purchaser or purchasers. Apply to the Printer. August 29.
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By E. OSWALD, (Price Eleven Pence) FIVE LETTERS, addressed to the Yeomanry of the United States:
CONTAINING some Observations on the Scheme of Governor Duer and Mr Secretary Hamilton, to establish National Manufactures; by a FARMER. This pamphlet, so highly interesting at this period, may be had at the following places: at Mr. Oswald's Printing-Office, No. 156, Market-Street; at No. 209, Market-Street; at Mr. Dobson's, 41, South Second-Street; at Mr. Galkins, 91, Market-Street; at Mr. Aitken's, 22, Market-Street; and at Mr. Young's S. W. corner of Chestnut and Second-Streets. August 21.
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