National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-07-28 00:00:00

National Gazette.
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VOL. I.
SATURDAY, July 28, 1792.
NUMB. 78.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
Observations on a Clause in "the late Act for the sale of vacant lands within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania."
THE CLAUSE.
Sec. 4. "THERE shall be granted to him [the applicant] a warrant for any quantity of land within the said limits, not exceeding 400 acres."
Is it the meaning that each warrant shall contain but 400 acres; or that each applicant shall take but 400 acres; that is, one warrant and no more?
The officers of the land-office say, that by the advice they have taken, they are authorized to grant only 400 acres to any one person. I say, the words are restrictive of the quantity of land in each warrant, and not of the quantity grantable to any one person by more than one warrant.
There is good reason to restrict the quantity of each warrant, not only as securing reasonable fees to the office to answer the expenses of the commonwealth in supporting offices for these sales; but also as ascertaining reasonable bounds for a plantation, within which by the terms of the act a settlement must be made in a certain time, under forfeiture of title. But no good reason can be given to restrict the purchasers to 400 acres each.
The fact is, the commonwealth could have had in view but three objects, the disposal of the lands, the improvement of the country, and the accommodation of the poorer emigrants.
The land is best disposed, by letting all men purchase what they chuse. The improvement is best promoted by letting all men improve and settle as many tracts as they think proper. The poorer emigrant is best served by giving land to those who are best able to assist him to improve and settle. Where reason, and public interest, and convenience favour the construction of a law, in cases dubious, let that prevail.
Had it been the intention of the legislature to preclude an appropriation of more than 400 acres by any one person, surely the prohibition would have been more distinct and certain. By the act of April, 1784, for the disposal of lands within the purchase of 1768, it is provided that 'the quantity of land granted to any one person shall not exceed 400 acres.' Here the words are clear, yet it is notorious, and was well known to every officer of government and to the members of the legislature who had any thing to do with land in this purchase, that the clause was evaded, by the same person taking out several warrants for his own use in real or fictitious names; and the evasion in conscience was justifiable, because the law in this particular was unjust, many persons having by themselves and others made improvements or made purchases of improvements which they would wish to appropriate and secure by warrants.
But the legislature knowing these evasions why not, at least in the unimproved land, make use of the words as strong as in the former case, and express themselves in so clear a manner that the board of office need not doubt, and consult the opinion of the governor's secretary, or attorney general on the subject?
If it is the meaning of the law that no individual shall appropriate more than one warrant, an evasion by using a fictitious name, or the real name of a person for the use of one who has already had his quantity, must not only, if the fact can be established, avoid the warrant, but, as a fraud upon the public, be a misdemeanor and punishable with fine and imprisonment. This is a high consequence to found on such inexplicit words as, according to the meaning put upon them by those from whom I differ, they must be considered.
It is not from any abstract motive of canvassing a law point that I make these
observations, but I feel what I think a grievance from the opinion given. Having several unsatisfied warrants on which by this act I am entitled to have new warrants, I am told at the land-office that but one can be granted, which is in effect that but one warrant can be satisfied. This I take to be by no means within the intention of the law.
An Applicant to the Land Office.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS:
Extracts from French papers, printed at Paris.
Rome, April 18th "Some days ago, his holiness the Pope summoned a convocation of the French (emigrant) ecclesiastics residing in this city, particularly those of the church of St. Louis. At this convocation the Abbe Goulard addressed his holiness, in the name of his brethren, as follows:—"Your holiness fees at his feet those of the French clergy, who in their various stations have openly confessed their belief in Jesus Christ. Neither promises nor threats have been able to estrange us from the chair of St. Peter or from your august person. God, in his wisdom and goodness, has reserved to us a Pontiff, who in the most stormy times, has ever set an example of that serenity and strength of mind, which virtue alone can give—a pontiff, whose example ought to enlighten and encourage our steps, and whose tender feelings will collect his dispersed flock when the tempest is over. We shall have reason a thousand times to bless this transient tempest which has driven us from the bosom of our country to find a harbour in your paternal city, if we, and others of your faithful brethren can only forget those who have unfortunately gone astray. Your reiterated favours are so much the more dear to us as they are the precious pledge of our communion with your holiness, and a sensible proof of the purity of our faith, and of the approbation with which you regard our conduct.—May heaven (which now testifies to the sincerity of our veneration for your character, to our gratitude, and the eternal attachment we have sworn to your holiness) restore to you an hundred fold the consolations you have poured into our bosoms—may the conversion of our deluded brethren yield an ecstasy of joy equal to the afflictions you have suffered from their taking the wrong path; and may God take from our days in order to prolong a life so useful as yours to the church in general, and particularly the Gallican—Holy father, give us the full measure of your blessings, and grant us your apostolical benediction, which we earnestly pray for, &c."
"The reception given by his holiness the Pope to the disaffected French clergy, the favour and succour he has shown them, is scarcely more than moderately indemnifying them for the critical situation into which they have plunged themselves.—There is scarcely any body here, however, who is not convinced, that the religious affairs of France would have been long before this time perfectly compromised, if the Pope, instead of keeping an obstinate silence, had deigned to act the mediator and propose terms of accommodation. But his perfidious advisers have persuaded him that the opposition of the whole body of the clergy would be the sure means of effecting a counter revolution, and the only means of preserving the prerogatives of the court of Rome. In consequence of this system the Pope has left the French clergy to chuse the disagreeable alternative of persecution or schism. In other respects, his system is neither conformable to sound policy or the principles of religion—history informs us that whenever a government compels the people to embrace what are called or-
thodox principles, or to renounce the rights of freemen, they do not hesitate to secede to the religion of nature, which informs them that mankind did not come into this world to be slaves—Persecutions against the French are increasing here every day. The state Secretary issued an edict some weeks ago to all inn-holders, and keepers of furnished lodgings, to deliver in, within eight days, the names of all Frenchmen residing in Rome. The government is now resolved to banish them (the revolutionists) from the country; and it will not be safe for them to be found here after the first of May.—The governors of the frontier towns of the ecclesiastical territories have also received orders not to suffer any Frenchman to pass without a positive written permit from the court. In consequence of this order, three carriages, full of French, have been obliged to return to Viterbo. Such treatment, as much contrary to the rights of nations as to christian charity, is not likely to conciliate the minds of the French nation to the court of Rome.—As to other matters, we are taught to have no doubt of the success of a counter revolution. Great rejoicings took place when news came that the Jacobin clubs had the ascendancy at Paris, that there were factions and divisions in the assembly, and troubles in the provinces. We are also convinced, that if France were but tolerably united in sentiment, the combined powers would never dare to attack her; but by being in a state of anarchy, that she will destroy herself and become the easy prey of foreigners, who will find it their interest to re-establish the clergy in all their rights, possessions, privileges, and prerogatives. If this view of France be just, their hopes will probably be gratified. It is thought to be just in Rome, as well as in many other places of Europe, because the state of the country is only judged of by the aristocratical newspapers, with which we are supplied to profusion. As we are sure they circulate freely in France, they are thought worthy of credit; and it is supposed that the National Assembly have not the power to punish those people who openly preach up revolt from, and contempt of all legal authority. We cannot conceive why the friends of liberty give their enemies so many opportunities to injure their cause. They depend too much on impartial justice, not considering that in a revolution, which has to struggle with so many prejudices, and with such a variety of jarring interests, it is dangerous to reckon too much upon the general principles of liberty."
April 20. "After the return of the Abbe Maury from the Diet at Frankfort, he is promised a Cardinal's hat. He has on a sudden become a prodigious favourite with the court, from what cause it is difficult to conjecture, unless the puerile vanity of the holy father has given way to the Abbe's servile adulation. A Pasquinade has just appeared on this subject, a translation of which I now send to you—"Rome is in mourning, O Pius the sixth, now that you are loading with favours a man, whom religion, learning, and his country equally disavow—deign then to listen to Pasquin, and acknowledge your error. As the organ of public opinion, I am more infallible than yourself—Born of an obscure family, Maury had the baseness to blush at his origin—educated from his youth upwards in the arts of intrigue and hypocrisy, he grew ambitious of the honours of the academy and the wealth of the church. According as either was prosperous he courted the atheistical Alembert or the Jesuitical Beaumont. He preached up atheism and calumniated philosophy. Convinced of the weakness of his abilities, he removed his rivals from the sacred tribunal by the most infamous accusations—In the heat of brutality he has endeavoured to seize by force the favours of unsuspecting beauty and innocence, and has been known to assume the
character of an assassin to be received as a lover.—Decorated with literary titles, obtained by the basest apostasy, enriched by the wealth of a church which he had treated with the blackest ingratitude, still his ambition was unsatisfied: always imitating the serpent which to raise itself, must creep, he became the defender and patron of slavery, and hired out his pen to a despotic minister—this vile supporter of tyranny was invited by the disaffected clergy of France to intrude himself among the representatives of a people who are determined to be free, &c.—Such is the portrait of the Abbe Maury.—O Pius, we pardon you, your effeminate luxury, your hypocritical pilgrimages, your insolent profusion and your antichristian policy—but who can, without indignation, see a traitorous Judas elevated to apostolical dignity, and the Roman purple disgraced by a pope who is only deserving of the purple of the galley slaves."
Turin, April 25. "Notwithstanding the pacific assurances given by this court, in respect of the affairs of France, there is every reason to mistrust its obscure policy. A whole year has now been spent in completing the troops of the line, and besides these the provincial regiments are arming. These regiments form in the whole an army of 15 or 16,000 men, and are so organized that the whole of them may be collected in a few days. The garrison of Nice is considerably augmented. Considering the exhausted state of our treasury, however, there is reason to think that all these preparations may be solely meant for internal defence."
St. Petersburg, April 18. "The grand duke of Russia seems to be progressing exactly in the steps of his unfortunate father, and unless the grand duchess should possess a heart replete with all the benign virtues, he will one day experience the fate of Peter the 3d. He himself expects it, anticipates it, and is therefore deeply chagrined. He now keeps, in quality of mistress, mademoiselle Nelidoff, one of the maids of honour to the grand duchess, one of the ugliest and most peevish creatures in the world. Such qualifications are not the most proper to soften the temper of a prince, who is every day becoming more and more gloomy, ferocious, and forbidding. He has no longer confidence in any body: the courtiers hate him; the military, that are immediately under his command, are disgusted with his strict attention to trifles and unrelenting severity; the guards despise him; in one word, the day that he mounts the throne, endless revolutions will be the consequence, and will no doubt put a period to the brilliant career, that has distinguished the reign of Catharine. Such a prospect adds to the chagrin of the grand duke. He is vexed at his own insignificance; he is continually quarrelling with the empress, his mother, and even goes so far as to threaten her. His ill usage of his consort, the grand duchess, has occasioned a remonstrance on her part to the empress. Touched at her statement of matters, the empress caused the grand duke to come into the city from his country residence. She then held a conversation with him, besitting a mother and a sovereign; but the duke replied to her neither like a son nor a subject. He used arrogant language, in the style of a man who is fully convinced of his own importance, and badly supports his own insignificance. When he returned to his chamber, all who came near him were sure to feel the effects of his chagrin. He complained of being surrounded with spies and traitors; and mentioned more than once that people were around him who were plotting to depose him as his father had been before him, but that, previous to any such event taking place he would send at least a dozen persons to the other world, whom he knew to be his enemies. He sent orders to madam Benkendorff (the duchess's companion) to pack

up and depart from Russia immediately, and to mortify the duchess the more, he sent after her two French gentlemen, one who had acted as her lecturer, the other her drawing-master. He suspected that they both entertained French revolution principles, and had represented the National Assembly affairs in a more favourable light to the duchess than he wished should be done.—His children, however, entertain very different sentiments, and interest themselves much in the success of the patriotic cause. Those who have the care of their education are enlightened characters, and make it a point that nothing shall be concealed from the young princes. It is highly probable therefore that the rising family will one day be a blessing to Russia; but this is at a distance, and even this will be dearly bought, if the grand duke is to govern during the interim, who both hates the French nation, and is universally hated.—As I mentioned before, there is no doubt but we are on the verge of a revolution of great characters, which will involve many others. The grand duke is dreaded by the empress; and he, in his turn, is suspicious of her: and the death of prince Potemkin has not added to the confidence he before reposed in his mother. It is generally thought that if his suspicious and distrustful temper had not banished all those from about his person who were entitled to serve him, he would have been already at the helm of empire; but the natural course of events, in all probability may soon give him the reins, without the commission of a crime to obtain them. The health of the empress is daily on the decline; her whole frame is bent forward, which much alarms the courtiers, who dread nothing so much as revolutions.
Marseilles, April 19. The true patriots in Marseilles are a great majority of its inhabitants; but they are timid, and the primary assemblies have the assurance to intimidate their antagonists who are not friends of anarchy. Whoever is not a republican and anti-royalist is, with them, an aristocrat; and this word, like the head of Medusa, petrifies all minds.
NEWBURYPORT, July 18.
Several newspapers of the past and present week have prematurely mentioned Mr. Perkins of this town being sent for to Philadelphia, for the purpose superintending the coinage there. Mr. Perkins' abilities in that line are fully adequate to such an appointment, as the specimens he has exhibited in coining amply testify. Instead of the former method of performing the business, he has invented a new machine, which cuts the metal into such circular pieces as are wanted, and gives the impression at the same time—its motion is accelerated by a balance-wheel, and more than one third of the time and labor thereby saved. He has also constructed another machine, of his own invention, for milling or lettering the edge, by which a boy can mill sixty each minute. Were it found necessary, he would apply steam to perform the most laborious part of the business. But what is of more importance, and will be found to be of more utility than all the foregoing, is, a check, which he has invented, for discovering counterfeits. This is so contrived, as that one eighth of a minute is sufficient to determine, without the possibility of a mistake, whether a piece of money is genuine, or not; and any town or merchant can be supplied, at a small expense, with said check, and then rest assured that an imposition will be absolutely impossible.
ALBANY, July 19.
Gentlemen who reside on the military lands, in the county of Herkemer, inform us, that that tract of country contains a very great proportion of rich land, well watered, and timbered—That there is already a considerable number of settlers there, and that it bids fair to be peopled as rapidly as any part of America—That 16 bushels of salt are daily manufactured at Major Danforth's works, at the salt-springs—and that Mr. Isaac Van Vleck, formerly of Kinderhook, is erecting other works at the same place, for carrying on the like manufactory—That, whenever sufficient works shall be erected at these springs, a thousand bushels of salt can be made every day—That it now sells there at 5s. per bushel—That its weight is about 56lb. to the bushel; and equal in quality (by the pound) to that of Turk's-Island—That the salmon-fishery in that country, must become an object of great importance, as that fine fish (the salmon) abounds in their lakes and rivers, in the spring and fall: that it is not uncommon for a party to spear 20 or 30 in an evening, from 14 to 30lb. each; that if the rivers were cleared and seines made use of, some thousand barrels might be caught in a season; that they are equal to the salmon of Connecticut river—That a boat
loaded with salt, going to Niagara, where it sells at 24s. per bushel, was lately seized by the British at Oswego.
On Monday last, the sale of fifty acres of each of the military rights (on which the expence of survey had not been paid conformably to law) commenced at the city-tavern in this city. The lands fell in general at from 1s. to 3s. per acre; but some have sold as high as from 8s. to 12s. It is expected the sales will not be completed this week.
WILLIAMSBURG, July 5.
Yesterday being the anniversary of American independence, was celebrated at the University in this city, in a manner highly grateful to all who take an interest in the liberties of mankind, or who are friends to literature.
Mr. Mercer, and Mr. Edwin Burwell, delivered, each, an Oration on the blessings flowing from the revolution, and in commemoration of those heroes whose blood has sealed this great event, and on the superiority of republican government.
The nature of the subject, and the greatness of the occasion, excited a fire in the style, and produced a degree of animation in the manner of delivering these performances truly becoming—whilst the soundness of the doctrines, and the elegance of their diction, satisfactorily evinced the attention and success of the Professors, in inculcating a knowledge of government and polite learning.
Mr. Thompson, a fellow-student, in a discourse soundly logical and highly ingenious, founded on a knowledge of the history of nations, pointed out the dangers which threaten our freedom from the prospect of increasing luxury, with some advice, that by a purity of morals we may preserve a purity of government.
Nothing surely can tend more to preserve the spirit and ardor for liberty, than this mode of celebrating the day, at the same time that it gives to the public an opportunity of discerning the state of our seminaries, at least as to the cultivation of politics and Belle Lettres , which, in our country, are branches of such high utility. It also promotes an useful emulation. Principles, too, imbibed whilst the heart is warmed by youth, are scarcely to be removed by time. Thus, if we would continue free, let our Universities be the nurseries of our liberties, and, as our government depends on opinion, they will never be in danger.
PHILADELPHIA.
JULY 28, 1792.
Wednesday last arrived here the brig Betsey, Captain Henry White, from Plymouth, in England, which port he left on the 7th of June. Though this brig is, by several days, the latest vessel from Europe, Capt. White brings no very interesting intelligence.—At Plymouth he was not able to learn any thing of French affairs—The British, he says, were disarming their ships, and discharging their seamen. He spoke the ship Pigou from this port to London on the 1st July, in lat. 50, all well.
We are informed that the spirit of personal contention respecting the late election in New-York, is fast subsiding away—and that those whose feelings have been the most alive on the occasion, are now determined to wait the decision of the legislature.
In the Columbian Centinel of the 14th instant, the public are requested to suspend their opinion respecting the conduct of Mr. Skinner and Capt. Hickman, owner and master of the American Schooner Dolphin; who was charged with enticing and carrying away a number of Negroes from Martinico—as from inspection of papers in the hands of persons in Boston, concerned in that vessel, it is supposed some great misunderstanding or misrepresentation has taken place in that business.
Late information from Spain, by private letters, mention that "the Count d'Aranza has given permission to the Jesuits to return to that country, as individuals, without meaning to countenance them as a religious society. They each have received during their exile, 'tis said, one fourth of a dollar per day, from the king; that will be for the future, in a great measure expended in the kingdom. As scientific and literary men they must be an acquisition to Spain."
On the 4th instant, at 1 o'clock in the morning, the weather being fine, a French brig called the Grand Hannibal, 350 tons burthen, with a rich cargo, from St. Domingo bound to Marseilles, struck on a reef of rocks lying a considerable distance from the south-west end of the Bermuda islands. After striking she immediately backed off, and then went down in deep water, the rocks here rising perpendicularly out of the ocean. The captain, two ladies, and several children, who were passengers, perished—the rest, about twenty in number, saved themselves in the boat, and reached the main land, with only their sea cloaths on their backs. Every captain that navigates this part of the Atlantic, should endeavour to obtain a proper idea of the extent and danger of the rocks with
which this cluster of islands is surrounded, and when in the latitude of 32 degrees, 15 minutes, or 15 miles each side of that latitude, and sailing east or west towards the longitude of 64, should be particularly cautious of carrying sail in the night. These unfortunate people supposed themselves 80 leagues to the westward of Bermuda.
About the 1st June, by some accident, the woods in the neighbourhood of Shelburne took fire, and were still raging thro' the eastern part of the province on the 6th of July, when these accounts came away. This conflagration is said to have burnt up houses, barns, fences, crops, &c. to a great amount. Added to this misfortune, the season has proved so dry, that there was no prospect of any crops except turnips. "Such a season of dry weather (says a letter from Shelburne) has not been known here for a century: the very swamps are burnt up: the conflagration has not yet reached the town, but is still hovering about it."
By the latest advices from French Hispaniola, we are informed that the governor general Blanchelande has at length enforced the decree of the National Assembly, granting certain privileges to the Mulattoes, which has ever been opposed by a party in the island, and consequently almost wrought its total ruin. It is said that peace may now speedily be expected to be restored, and that the negroes will return to their duty.
Extract of a letter from Havre, dated May 18.
The declaration of war against the king of Hungary, it appears, was done with a view to fix the minds of the nation, to discriminate internal friends from lurking foes, to enforce discipline, and to get things on a respectable war establishment. So far matters seem proper: whether a serious invasion of the Austrian provinces was ever intended, is not clear. In future, we shall remain on the defensive, unless by some event forced to do otherwise, at least this is the opinion of people versed in the politics of the kingdom.—As to other matters, the Assembly has given a severe blow to stock-jobbing, by decreeing that the patriotic funds shall be under the direction of a constituted authority, and that no notes shall in future be emitted, except by the municipalities.—Advices from the frontiers inform us that it is pleasant to see how willingly people haste to those parts to assist in defending their country against any invasion, and to protect the constitution. It is not probable, however, that any thing very material will take place, in military affairs, till the combined armies have shewn themselves in the Austrian Low Countries."
The university of Leyden, in Holland, in order to throw all possible light upon a subject, on which several maritime nations are divided in opinion, has proposed the following question for discussion, 'Quaritur, quid ethica, tum philosophica, tum praesertim Christiana, praecepta de servitute?' —What are the precepts inculcated by moral and Christian philosophy in respect to slavery?—The best dissertation on this subject (not to exceed 40 pages) is to gain the prize. The dissertations are to be written in Latin and Dutch.
The following little incident (from a late French paper) will give some idea of the character of Francis II, king of Hungary and Bohemia.
"This morning the king, wrapped in an old riding coat, and a mean looking hat, went incog. to the wheat market, to hear with his own ears the complaints of the people, to observe the abuses of the government, and, if possible, fall upon some method of remedying them. He was in the midst of the crowd, when he happened to direct his eye towards a crowd of people that were hurrying to a public house, at a small distance. He asked, what was the matter? and was answered that three men were there who had been condemned to receive 50 lashes each, for speaking disrespectfully of the memory of the late emperor Leopold. The king went instantly to the public house, & desired to be admitted. The centinel refused. The king then made himself known, and the doors were in a moment thrown open. One of the men had already received ten severe lashes; he was then let down from the post to breathe awhile, for another flogging. The king observing this, ordered them to unbind the man that had been flagellated, at the same time advising him, in future, to observe moderation when the character of the late Emperor was the subject of his conversation. He then represented to the Colonel, who had arbitrarily inflicted this punishment, the impropriety of so severe a chastisement for so trifling a fault. "I have need of men in my army (said he) and by your treatment you make my subjects invalids; you are dismissed therefore forever from my service."
The English parliamentary debates put it beyond a doubt that the face of the government (whatever may be the sentiments of the people) is set against all innovations and constitutional reforms; and therefore, as far as prudent considerations will permit, the writings of Paine and the efforts of patriotic societies throughout the kingdom will be discouraged and discountenanced. On the 25th of May the master of the rolls made a motion in the British House of Commons that "An humble address of thanks be presented to his Majesty, expressive of the attachment of the House to his person and family, and their determination to exert themselves in opposing the wicked purposes of the seditious writings aiming to destroy the tranquillity of the kingdom." He conceived (he said) that the writings alluded to (Paine's Rights of Man, &c.) would have been, when first printed, treated with contempt by every man in the nation, and consigned with the contempt they merited, to oblivion; but though they were treated with contempt by the majority of the nation, it was notorious that there were societies which had pressed these seditious writings on the public, and with industry had distributed them throughout the country; and it was also known that correspondences had been held by those societies with foreign clubs, for the purpose of disseminating the most dangerous principles; no one could say that it was not the duty of administration to come forward and exert themselves in the maintenance of the tranquillity of the kingdom by endeavouring to counteract the poison of those publications. The people were happy ; why then were they to be insulted by a recommendation of the example of a neighbouring kingdom? that recommendation had however been propagated in the most dangerous way; it had been held out to every description of men, and had been disseminated in schools and public seminaries; it was then high time for the interference of government to prevent the evil that might arise.
A late Southern paper mentions, that a violent fever rages in Charleston. It is said to be of a kind which the physicians are, generally speaking, unacquainted with—and consequently in many instances, it baffles their endeavors to effect a cure. The mortality is very alarming, as the patient seldom lives more than three days from the first symptoms of the disease.
The Island of Martinico, according to letters from thence, has been for some time past in a state of ferment. The planters in general are of what are called the aristocratic party, who had influenced the greater part of the land-forces in the forts, barracks, &c. to revolt. In consequence of their outrages, two 74 gun ships of war were warped opposite the forts and brought their guns to bear thereon. This so intimidated the troops in Fort Bourbon that they sent in their acknowledgments—after some further time, those in Fort Louis did the same; and the regiments from both were sent on board a transport under protection of the two seventy-fours. The 12th of June was the day appointed for their sailing for France, but it was not expected the vessels in which they were embarked would leave the island before the 22d.
Port-au-Prince (says an authentic account) has been for some time occupied and governed by a rabble, without property, honor, or honesty, who have constantly opposed the decree of the National Assembly, giving the rights of active citizens to free Negroes and Mulattoes; to enforce this decree, and to pave the way for restoring order in the island, an expedition has been recently undertaken, with two 74 gun ships, and several smaller vessels, which left St. Marks the 22d of June, and after experiencing a variety of difficulties, anchored before Port-au-Prince on the 26th in the evening. Instead of summoning the town to an instant surrender, which it was tho't by many would have been a decisive stroke, the commander in chief of the expedition entered into a parley with the insurgent chief in the town, which gave many criminal characters an opportunity to escape. On the 5th of July the commander of the land forces on this expedition entered Port-au-Prince at 8 in the morning, at the head of several hundred volunteers—An hour after, the commissary entered with the national troops that had been encamped in the neighbourhood; and, at about 10, the army came in that had been assembled for a long time past at Croix des Bouquets. When these accounts left Hispaniola, perfect tranquillity was not yet restored in Port-au-Prince, every effort being made by the disorderly inhabitants to seduce the crews, and renew their lawless practices. A few days before the arrival of this expedition, Pralots, the commander of a gang of mercenary negroes, was to have attacked the camp of Troubordet, and destroy all by fire and sword in his way to Jacmel, where he was also to make an attempt—all avenues to escape being cut off, and every passage previously guarded, he was obliged to remain in Port-au-Prince, and was there seized.
The public are cautioned in the Virginia, Maryland, and other papers, to beware of purchasing Virginia military certificates, a considerable number having been lately offered for sale, which had every appearance of forgery.
A very considerable number of Irish emigrants have arrived in this and other states during the present month. Report says that the spirit of emigration is so prevalent in Ireland, especially in the northern and eastern parts, that the lower and middling classes would universally remove to this side of the Atlantic, could they find ships to bring them off.
The President of the United States, and his Lady, arrived on the 17th inst. in good health, at Mount Vernon.

On Wednesday evening the 25th instant, was held at the state-house, in this city, a meeting of a considerable number of citizens, on the subject of framing a ticket for Representatives in Congress, &c. when the following motion was agreed to.
"That a committee be appointed to report the names of suitable persons to serve as conferees in a general conference to be held by them and other persons from the several Counties in this Commonwealth, for the purpose of forming and proposing tickets with the names of proper persons to be voted for, at the next election to represent this state in the House of Representatives of the United States, and to serve as electors of President and Vice-President."
After appointing committees of conference and correspondence, the meeting adjourned to Friday evening the 27th instant, to determine on the report, naming the conferees, and on instructions to be given them.
There are some men in this country who are continually prating on the subject of TITLES. Even the title of the National Gazette is grumbled at by certain persons, who till lately have been great advocates for titular distinctions. We have been frequently admonished to alter, reject, or modify our title, to all which we shall only reply, pray, Messieurs Printers , take care of your own Titles.
Extract of a letter from Albany, dated July 17.
"There can be no doubt, from a concurrence of circumstances, but that the British at the posts, as well as the Indian tribes, influenced and directed by them, have been active in recommending peace to those nations adjoining the frontier of the United States more southerly. Nothing seems now to be wanting to make a firm system of pacification with the savages, but a fixed line of honest demeanour towards the hostile Indians, treating them as we ourselves in their circumstances and situation would wish to be treated. As it is more than probable a treaty will be formed ere long, the preservation of it must depend upon the vigour of government in seeing the terms carried into execution, and the infringers thereof punished."
[From Georgetown, Potomack, July 21]
On Sunday last the President of the United States arrived in this city from Philadelphia, and on Tuesday set out for his seat at Mount Vernon.
On Monday and Tuesday last the President of the United States, and the Commissioners of the Federal buildings, examined the plans for a Capitol, and President's House, to be erected in the City of Washington; several of considerable merit for each building, were presented. The premium for the best plan of a President's House was adjudged to James Hoban, from Charleston, South-Carolina, but no decision was given in favor of any plan for a Capitol: three or four of superior merit are under consideration, and it is expected that the Commissioners at their next meeting, (the 1st of August) will then make their election.
The Pittsburgh paper of the 21st instant, has the following paragraphs:—
"The Indians on Tuesday last (July 10) killed two men and one woman, and stole seven horses between the flats of Grave-Creek and Col. Shepherd's in Ohio county, Virginia: Lt. Gray and 14 of Capt. Paul's men followed them over the Ohio, as far as the head of Sunfish, but the Indians being on horseback: they returned without coming up with them. On Saturday last at Dilly's station opposite the mouth of Grave-Creek, the Indians came into one of the houses and killed four and wounded one; the number of Indians were supposed to be 20. It is thought they will strike this quarter. To-morrow morning we expect to start with a party to try to fall in with them."
Monday last arrived in town from the eastward, Capt. Stake's troop of horse, under the command of Lieut. Campbell.
And on Tuesday a detachment of between two and three hundred men, under the command of Major Alherton.
The same day Captain Faulkner's rifle company marched into town from Washington county.
Foreign News, from London Papers.
Brussels, May 18. Intelligence has been just received here, that the little town of Bayay, between Valenciennes and Meubuge, was yesterday taken by the Austrians, and 108 men, with 4 officers, who were there posted, made prisoners.
(The gazette likewise contains a proclamation, forbidding any of his Majesty's subjects serving at sea any foreign power, or sitting out privateers against any; also notice of the marriage of Prince Maximilian of Dresden, with the Princess of Parma; the delivery of the Queen of Naples of a Prince, and the appointment of Sir Lucas Pepys, as physician in ordinary to his Majesty, on the death of Sir Noah Thomas.)
May 25. This government has received an account, that general Sztaray, who had been quartered at Charleroy, to watch the movements of M. de la Fayette's army, having understood that a large detachment was posted at a place called Florenne, at no great distance from Philipville, he resolved to attack it, though his force was much inferior; M. de Gouvion's numbers being estimated at seven thousand, and those of
general Sztaray at but three. The French, after an obstinate resistance, in the end gave way, leaving 150 dead, several wounded, 3 pieces of cannon, and all their baggage and ammunition; the loss of the Austrians was four killed and twenty-two wounded. No more particular circumstances of this action are as yet received.
London, May 29. A report is prevalent in the higher circles, that the Duke of Portland, with all his interest, means to act in future with the Minister.
Lord Thurlow is likely to continue the seals, though not to act as a Cabinet Minister, for some time; a certain personage having requested him to hold them until he had gone through all his decrees on causes completely heard.
The city of London yesterday voted an address of thanks to the King for his proclamation.
Light-houses.—Very considerable improvements are to be made in the light-houses along the coast. The patent lamps are to be generally adopted, and the North-Foreland light-house is to be heightened 22 feet.
Last week Capt. Hartwell made a survey of the light-houses upon the coast of Kent and Sussex, in consequence of which the above important alterations are to take place.
It is reported, that intelligence was this morning brought to town by the Dover mail, said to have been received there just before the coach set off, stating that the Queen of France had been murdered: but reports of this kind having been frequently circulated without any foundation, we must content ourselves for the present by simply stating the report, without vouching in any way for its authenticity.
The Chancellor, it is now said in the higher circles, will remain in office. The utmost efforts have been made at Buckingham-house, to reconcile him with Mr. Pitt, and they are at last likely to be successful.
On Friday the 25th, in the 74th year of his age, died, the Right Hon. GEORGE BRIDGES RODNEY, Lord Rodney, Baron Rodney, Rodney of Stoke, Somersetshire, Baron and K. B. an Admiral of the White, and Vice-Admiral of England: His Lordship is succeeded in title and estate by his eldest son, the Hon. George Rodney, who married April 10th, 1781, Martha, daughter of the Right Hon. Alderman Harley, and his issue.
In honor of the memory of Lord Rodney, several vessels in the dock have their colours half mast.
Lord Rodney, on the morning of his death, walked out in the most perfect health, returned to dress for dinner about four o'clock, when he received a paralytic stroke, and expired almost instantaneously.
[The following is from the Leyden Gazette.]
"The friends of France, and her renovated liberties, are not without hopes that as soon as the executive department is filled with proper officers, the interior tranquility of the kingdom will be restored. The troubles in the districts have been for a long time past rather increasing than otherwise; and no sooner do we hear of riots being quelled in one place than fresh accounts of tumult and disturbance arrive from others. There seems, in fact, a train of powder spread over the face of the kingdom, which menaces a general explosion, if the wisest measures are not adopted to prevent it. Paris had always, heretofore, the character of the most peaceable and well ordered capital in Europe. It is now the resort of emigrants, who are returning from all parts of the continent, and of consequence the population exceeds all calculations heretofore made. Ecclesiastics swarm throughout the city, although no longer distinguished by their sacerdotal vestments; and among these are sixty thousand of the non-juring party. Persecuted in their own provinces, and badly paid, they flock to the capital, where they enjoy some kind of relief in the midst of the immense host of the human race that cover the soil of this great city."
A late Boston paper makes heavy complaints of the great number of quack-doctors who are swarming up and down that state, "seeking whom they may devour." The writer states their whole qualifications to be, "a phial of brandy, a small bundle of roots and herbs, six or eight months study, a number of old latin phrases, and a few technical terms." He advises them to wear a sword at their sides to shew they have a commission to kill—perhaps the remaining part of his advice will not be so well relished by these sprouts of Esculapius—that they "ought to be confined to a close room, and fed on jalap, cat-mint tea, and water-gruel; and if found guilty of taking fees to be sentenced to perpetual slavery in Castle-William."
[If a judgment may be justly formed from the various Toasts that have been drank this year on the fourth and fourteenth of July, the republican spirit is very fast rising in this country, to re-assume its former elevation on the political thermometer; and the cause of France, if an opinion may be formed from the universal effusions in favour of the patriotic cause, is become in a great degree our own: As our narrow limits do not allow us to copy all the various TOASTS
drank in favour of republicanism and the rights of man, we for the present insert the following from Bennington, as a sample of undistguised patriotism and honest simplicity.]
Bennington (Vermont) July 13.
Wednesday last week, being the ever memorable fourth of July, the federal officers stationed in this place, ordered their company to parade at 5 o'clock afternoon, and after performing sundry manœuvres, marched them with a piece of artillery from the meeting-house to MARS HILL, in front of the court-house, at sunset they began a discharge of eight cannon on the military parade.—Between which were proclaimed the eight following laconic and sentimental toasts.
 1. The birth day of American independence.  2. The legislature of the United States; may patriotism actuate and wisdom guide them.  3. The President of the United States; God Almighty bless him!  4. The four federal regiments; may their expedition be glorious.  5. Major-general Anthony Wayne; may his prudence equal his courage.  6. The memory of the unfortunate heroes who fell at the "flight" of St. Clair; rest to their souls.  7. The revolution of France; may they support it.  8. The temporal and eternal felicity of all mankind. 
The company were then dismissed, and the officers joined a reputable number of young gentlemen of the town, at the county house, and on the discharge of seven guns, the fifteen following liberal toasts were given alternately, by the citizens and officers.
 1. Citizens. The federal company of Vermont; may their character shine so conspicuous as to be beyond encomium.  2. Officers. The citizens of Vermont; may their industry ever be blest with plentiful harvests.  3. Cit. A glorious war, and an honorable peace.  4. Off. His Excellency Governor Chittenden; may his decline of life be peaceful, and his exit to immortal glory sure.  5. Cit. May the hostile savages yield to the American arms.  6. Off. The militia of the United States; may it prove the nursery of heroes.  7. Cit. May the gallant American warriors return safe crowned with laurels; and meeting in the arms of the deserving fair, rest from their toils.  8. Off. To the patrons of industry and science; the olive shade and domestic felicity.  9. Cit. May the Elysian fields be the portion of all heroes.  10. Off. The venerable clergy of all denominations.  11. Cit. May he embrace the fair who dares enter a breach.  12. Off. The fair creation! may their virtues imbue more hearts than their beauties.  13. Cit. The American constitution; may it never depart from its original purity.  14. Off. May an honest citizen never wear an empty purse.  15. May conviviality increase with wine—and wine increase with conviviality. 
In compliment to a gentleman present, from the British army, was given by the federal officers—"The officers of the British army: they are Englishmen, and brothers." The circle retired forgetful and happy.
From the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
THE Editor of the "National Gazette" receives a salary from government:—
Quere —Whether this salary is paid him for translations; or for publications, the design of which is to vilify those to whom the voice of the people has committed the administration of our public affairs—to oppose the measures of government, and, by false insinuations, to disturb the public peace?
In common life it is thought ungrateful for a man to bite the hand that puts bread in his mouth; but if the man is hired to do it, the case is altered. T.L.
[The above is beneath a reply. It might be queried, however, whether a man who receives a small stipend for services rendered as French translator to the department of state, and, as editor of a free newspaper, admits into his publication impartial strictures on the proceedings of government, is not more likely to act an honest and disinterested part towards the public, than a vile sycophant, who obtaining emoluments from government, far more lucrative than the salary alluded to (by undermining another who was in possession of the employ) finds his interest in attempting to poison the minds of the people by propagating and disseminating principles and sentiments utterly subversive of the true republican interests of this country, and by flattering and recommending every and any measure of government, however pernicious and destructive its tendency might be, to the great body of the people.—The world is left to decide on the motives of each.]
O D E III.
[Note well—the following is to be sung or said as occasion may require.]
SINCE the day we attempted the NATION'S GAZETTE
Pompelo's dull printer does nothing but fret; Now preaching And screeching, Then nibbling And scribbling, Remarking And barking, Repinning And whining, And still in a pet
From morning till night with the Nation's Gazette.
Instead of whole columns, our page to abuse, Your readers would rather be treated with news;
While wars are a-brewing And kingdoms undoing, While monarchs are falling And princesses squalling, While France is reforming And Irishmen storming—
In a glare of such splendour, what nonsense to fret
At so humble a thing as—the Nation's Gazette!
No favours we ask'd from your friends in the east; On your wretched soup-meagre I left them to feast—
So many base lies you have sent them in print That scarcely a man at our paper will squint:
And now you begin With a grunt and a grin. With the bray of an ass, And a visage of brass,
With a quill in your hand and a lie in your mouth To play the same trick on the men of the south.
One National Paper, you think, is enough To flatter and lie, to pallaver and puff; To preach up in favour of monarchs and titles, And garters, and ribbons, to prey on our vitals: Who knows but our Congress will give it in fee And make Mr. Fenno the grand patentee!
Then take to your scrapers Other national papers— No rogue shall go snacks, And the NEWSPAPER-TAX Shall be puff'd to the skies As a measure most wise—
So a spaniel, when master is angry and kicks it Sneaks up to his shoe, and submissively licks it.
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Quicquid agunt Homines, nostri, Farrago libelli! Juvenal.

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.]
THE subsequent short, tho' melancholy narrative cannot fail of exciting the sympathy of the brave and good wherever it may be read, and wherever the fate of the three amiable youths may be disclosed to the heart and eye of sensibility.
ROBERT SEVIER and WILLIAM SEVIER were twin-brothers, "lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths were not divided." They with Valentine Sevier, their brother, were sons of Col. Valentine Sevier, of North Carolina.
On the 15th day of January last, influenced by motives of humanity, they lent their voluntary aid to Cap. Rice, whilst endeavouring to stem the current of Cumberland river, with all his numerous family, and the small remains of a humble property, in order to escape the unrelenting barbarity of savage foes whose insidious plans, while skulking in the woods along the river, were too successful in lopping off from human existence at one fire, and at the same instant, the above named amiable twin-youths and fraternal friends. VALENTINE SEVIER, their brother, fell by the fire of the savages the next day; who had gone upon a different route, to render a service equally humane and generous. Ye men of sympathy, what must be your feelings for the keen distress of a father, in a few hours deprived of three promising sons, not yet arrived to the prime of manhood, and who promised to be his stay and support in the decline of life. Notwithstanding the provocation, however, it is hoped the friends of the deceased will manifest such a share of magnanimity, as not to take vengeance on the innocent for the ferocious act of the guilty, and what may possibly be held justifiable in their mode of warfare. The following stanzas were occasioned by the foregoing melancholy event, and may be considered as a small, inadequate tribute to the memory of deceased worth and virtue:
IN the same hour two lovely youths were born, Nature with care had moulded either clay: In the same hour from this world's limits torn The murderous Indian feiz'd their lives away.
Distress to aid, impell'd each generous breast, With nervous arm they stemm'd the adverse tide, In friendship's act encounter'd death's arrest, Blameless they liv'd in honour's path they died.
But ah! what art shall dry a father's tears— Loft, early lost!—no art beguiles his pain; Clouds shade his fur, and grief's advance with years; Nature gave joys, to take those joys again!
Thou, that shalt stray to these sequester'd streams, When times to come their story shall relate— Let the fond heart, that native worth esteems, Revere their virtues and bemoan their fate.
On the Aristocratical tendency of Chancery Courts. [From a New-York paper.]
One thing enumerated by Congress as a grievance, and as an infringement of our rights by the king and parliament of Great Britain, was their depriving us, in many instances, of trial by jury. In this particular, we are no better off now, than before. The same aristocratical principles of the British government are interwoven in our government. In all controversy of common law, juries are the sole judges of law and equity; but of what value is their decision, or the privilege of trial by a jury in civil cases, when as the option of either party, the decision of a jury can be removed into a court of chancery, where the verdict of a jury of our peers, may be reversed by the chancellor, and from his decision to a court of error? This appears to me a perfect jargon, and a complicated piece of nonsense. If it be right and just, that a person shall be compelled to give evidence against himself, as is the case in courts of chancery; why not the same practice be admitted in common law; if it be unjust to compel any person to evidence against himself in common law procedure, why suffered to be compelled in any court whatever? I can see no valuable purpose it can be to have our laws so complicated, unless it be, first to multiply law proceedings, procrastinate and delay justice, multiply cost, and give the aristocratical party very great advantages over the commonality. Therefore, I am of opinion, that the court of chancery ought wholly to be abolished, as a glaring instance of oppression and partial administration of justice, and openly calculated to maintain an arbitrary aristocratical influence and decision of law over the commonality. It may be insisted on, that as courts of chancery are open to the poor, or middle sorts of people, as well as to the rich, it is just; I answer, that the excessive expence attending chancery suits, is an effectual bar to all, except those that have long purses; therefore, if the plaintiff or defendant be in slender circumstances, they had better lose the suit in common law, than to pay a cost more, or as much as the matter in question is worth: Besides, in respect of what may be called a jury of our peers, I conceive it is to be men of the same vicinage and men of the like circumstances in life. Are chancellors men of the like conditions in life with the poor or middle class of people? I answer, no; but on the contrary they are the peers of the great, and the opulent. If in decisions of law, is it likely that partiality should ever appear, to have it in favour of commonality? The probability is so small, that it hardly admits of a possibility—but if there is any, it is sure to be in favour of their own class. But if all men are born to equal rights in a community, why two modes of law-decision: one for the rich, and the other for a different class of men? This is one of the dregs of the British constitution, and ought to be objected to as nugatory, mockery, and defraud; and if there be a controversy in common law and one of the party be of the common branch, and the other be of the higher class, the jury ought to be composed of each class one half, as near as might be.
AUTHENTIC.
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
At the first Session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
An ACT making certain appropriations therein specified.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be granted and appropriated the following sums for the following purposes, to wit:—For the discharge of a balance to the commissioners appointed under the act of Congress of the fifteenth of March one thousand seven hundred and eighty five, two thousand seven hundred and eighty seven dollars, and eighty eight cents: For additional salary to the first clerk of the commissioners for settling accounts between the United States and individual States, one hundred and eighty seven dollars and ninety one cents; For defraying the expense of printing certain public accounts, pursuant to the order of the House of Representatives of the thirtieth of December one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, eight hundred dollars; For discharging the accounts of officers of the courts of the United States, jurors and witnesses, in aid of the fund heretofore appropriated, seventeen thousand dollars; For making good deficiencies in former appropriations for defraying the expence of the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States four thousand six hundred and ninety five dollars, and fifty nine cents; For discharging certain accounts against the treasury department, to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, including a sum of six hundred dollars, for furnishing the supervisors of the revenue with screw presses, seals, and other articles, one thousand nine hundred and fifty five dollars, and sixty one cents; For a balance due to lieutenant John Freeman of the late Maryland line, on account of subsistence for the years one thousand seven hundred and eighty two and one thousand seven hundred and eighty three, forty one dollars and seventy five cents; For compensation of army accounts, and contingencies of his office one thousand three hundred and twenty nine dollars and sixteen cents; For additional compensations to the doorkeepers of the House of Representatives, pursuant to a resolution of the House, of the twenty fourth of March last, seven hundred dollars; for the discharge of such demands against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been ascertained and admitted, in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, five thousand dollars: All which said sums, amounting together, to thirty four thousand four hundred and ninety seven dollars and ninety cents, shall and may be paid out of the funds following, any, or all of them; namely; the surpluses which may remain of appropriations heretofore made, after satisfying the purposes of such appropriations; monies which have been paid into the treasury, in consequence of balances which have been found due from individuals, relating to transactions prior to the present government of the United States; the surplus, not heretofore appropriated, of the duties on imports and tonnage, which accrued to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one.
And be it further enacted, That so much of the aforesaid surplus of the duties on imports and tonnage, which accrued to the end of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, as may be necessary, shall be and is hereby appropriated, in addition to the provision heretofore made, towards defraying the expenses, which shall have been incurred in the execution of the act for raising and adding another regiment to the military establishment of the United States, and for making farther provision for the protection of the frontiers, within the limits of the sum of three hundred and twelve thousand, six hundred and eighty six dollars, and twenty cents thereby authorized: and towards reimbursing any sums, which may have been borrowed, or advances of money which may have been obtained for that purpose.
And be it further enacted, That a sum of fifty thousand dollars in addition to the provision heretofore made be appropriated to defray any expense which may be incurred in relation to the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations, to be paid out of any monies which may be in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated, and to be applied under the direction of the President of the United States who, if necessary, is authorized to borrow, on the credit of the United States, the said sum of fifty thousand dollars; an account of the expenditure whereof as soon as may be, shall be laid before Congress.
Approved by the PRESIDENT, May 8th, 1792.
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In the course of that work, will be introduced, in their proper places, such parts of the SECRET JOURNALS, as no longer require secrecy. As soon as 500 copies are subscribed for, the work will be put to press, to be delivered to subscribers, in numbers of 304 octavo pages each, at ONE DOLLAR, in blue boards. The Subscription money will not be required for the first Number, until the publication is begun; and on the delivery of each number, half a dollar will be expected in advance for the succeeding one. To non-subscribers, the price will be raised. SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received by the principal booksellers throughout the Union, and by the Editor.
JOHN CAREY. No. 26, Pear-Street, Philadelphia.
TO THE PUBLIC. THE Subscriber has it in contemplation soon to decline his present business—and having on hand a considerable quantity of superfine second and elastic cloths, together with a variety of other articles in his way, proposes to sell them at the following reduced prices, VIZ.
Best Superfine navy blue 34/. Ditto. ditto. Scarlet 35/. Common colours superfine 32/. Elastic stripes 9/. London buff and white cassimers 15/6. Ditto, coloured do. 15/. Yorkshire do. do. 13/6. Striped toiletens 14/. Ratineens 5/. Striped Nankeens: 3/4.
A variety of waistcoat shapes proportionably low Fancy buttons and trimmings do. London best silk hose, from 22/6 to 24/6. The above goods have been mostly imported from one of the first mercantile houses in London, and are of an equal quality to any imported into America; they will be sold per piece or smaller quantity as may best suit the purchasers, by the public's most humble servant, JOHN SHEPHERD. Any person disposed to purchase the whole of the above stock, may also have on reasonable terms his present dwelling house together with the store, a more eligible situation for business in the tailor's line is not to be found in this city. The advantage of this business being so well established by the proprietor will be very great, and from well known facts, needs no comment. A lease of six years may be had of the house. May 14. 2aw. tf.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD
RUNAWAY from the subscriber in November last 1791 a negro woman by the name of Alice about 25 years of age; she is a low well set wench f m-thing on the yellow complexion with a bushy head of hair something related to the East India molattoes, broad over the shoulders, has holes in her ears and rings in them when went away, she can spin and weave tolerably well, she has been at work in Milford and as high as Dover-Town in the Delaware state, in the month of May 1792. I expect she has made higher up. She at that time went by the name of Blake.—Whoever takes up and secures said Negro wench, so as the owner may get her again, shall have the above reward—Living in Accomack county, Virginia. 4times, 2 aw: CHARLES TURNSELL.
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