Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-04-16 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 101, of Vol. II.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1791.
[Whole No. 205.]
Discourses on Davila.—No. 30.
THE Hugonots lay siege to Poitiers. The Duke of Guise resolves to throw himself into it to succour the garrison. This young Prince, the object of the hopes of the Catholics, proposed to himself to become one day their Chief, by imitating thus, at the beginning of his career, by an illustrious and memorable example, the glory of his father; who, by the defence of Metz against the forces of the Emperor Charles the Vth. had prepared his way to the highest power and most brilliant reputation.
The Duke of Anjou proposes to raise the siege by a diversion—he assembles his army, and leads it to Chatellerault. The Admiral raises the siege of Poitiers, and obliges the Duke of Anjou to raise that of Chatellerault. The Duke of Guise, however, by his activity in defence of Poitiers, and his frequent sallies, came out of it covered with glory and applause; the whole Catholic party began to consider him as the support of religion, and the worthy successor of the power of his father. Sansac in vain lays siege to la Charité. The Earl of Montgomery defeats the Royalists in Bearn, surrounds Terfide, and takes him prisoner. The Duke of Anjou comes to Tours, to consult with the King his brother, and the Queen Mother: The Duke of Guise came there also, shining with honor and glory for the great actions by which he had signalized himself at the defence of Poitiers. They all deliberated on the means of pushing the war, and the Duke of Guise, coming in the place of his father, was then admitted for the first time into the secret council: he owed this favor to the splendor of his birth, to the services of his father, to his own valor, to the protection of the Cardinal of Lorraine his uncle, but above all to the implacable hatred which the King had conceived against the Admiral. After the death of the Prince of Condé, at the battle of Bassac, Charles had entertained hopes that the Calvinistical party, no longer supported by the authority of a Prince of the blood, nor of a General capable by his reputation and his valor of supporting the weight of so great an enterprise, would separate and disperse, or at least incline to submit. But he saw, on the contrary, that the policy of the Admiral had re-animated the forces of his party; that his valor and his ability, by availing himself of the name of the two young Princes of the blood royal, had preserved union among the Calvinists, caused greater commotions, and exposed the State to dangers more terrible than any which had been before experienced. He therefore caused the Admiral Coligni to be declared a rebel, by an arrest of the Parliament of Paris, which was published and translated into several languages. They dragged him in effigy upon an hurdle, and attached him to a gibbet in the place destined to the execution of malefactors: they ordained that his houses should be razed to the foundations, and his goods sold at auction. From this time the King resolved to pursue the Admiral to death, began to elevate and favor the house of Lorraine, and above all the Duke of Guise, who, burning with ardor to revenge the death of his father, did not dissimulate the implacable hatred he bore to Coligni. The Admiral continues the war with vigor. The Duke of Anjou, whose army had been reinforced, seeks a battle: the Admiral endeavors to avoid it. At length he prepares for it, forced by a mutiny of his own army who demand it: he endeavors nevertheless to retire: the Duke of Anjou pursues him, and joins him near Moncontour: the two armies come to action on the plains of Moncontour, and a bloody battle ensues; victory remains to the Duke of Anjou, with a great carnage of the Hugonots. The party is discouraged; but the Admiral, although dangerously wounded, raises their spirits, and persuades them to continue the war. The Princes and the Admiral abandon the whole country, except Rochelle, Angoulême, and Saint Jean d'Angeli.
Their design was to join the Earl of Montgomery—a resource which fortune seemed to have reserved to re-establish their forces and repair their losses. After that junction, they intended to remain in the mountains until the Princes of Germany and the Queen of England should send them succours. They founded, moreover, some hopes on the Marshall of Damville, Governor of Languedoc, who for some time appeared inclined in their favor, and with whom they maintain a secret intelligence. While the Constable lived, Damville had held a distinguished rank in the Catholic party, and had shown himself a declared enemy of the Hugonots. His jealousy against Francis of Montmorenci, his elder brother, who was connected in friendship with the Prince of Condé and the Colignis, his relations, had inspired him with this hatred of the Calvinists; which had been fomented by the esteem which the Guises professed for him, and the favors they procured him. Able and profound in dissimulation, according to conjectures, they had employed all possible artifices to retain him in their party, and by his intervention to attach to them indissolubly, the Constable, who discovered much predilection and partiality for Damville, whom he believed superior in courage and abilities to his other children. The Queen Mother made him the same demonstrations. Obligated, during the minority of the King, to manage the grandees, she employed the Marshall Damville to preserve her attachment of the Constable; but, after his death, all these motives and considerations ceased. The Queen, who had no longer occasion for Damville, gave herself little trouble to reward his services. The Guises, far from showing him the same regard, employed the management and persuasions of the Cardinal of Lorraine, who was now very highly in favor with Charles IXth. to deprefs and disserve the Marshall, as a sprout of an house which had been long the object of hatred and jealousy to that of Lorraine. Damville soon perceived this change: the death of his father put an end to his differences with his elder brother, who was not less exasperated than himself at the refusal of the office of Constable, possessed so long by their father, and which they had solicited more than once. He began to make advances to the friends and relations of his family, and sought to renew an intercourse with the Admiral, to whom he intimated secret, though uncertain hopes. This motive had hindered him from succouring Terfide in Bearn, and from taking from the Hugonots the places which they held in Gascony and Languedoc. He was the more inclined in favour of the Calvinists, as he saw the Admiral already advanced in years, and every day exposed to evident dangers. If this nobleman should die before the Princes were of an age to command, Damville hoped to succeed him in the command of the Calvinistical party:—finally, he dreaded, that if the King and the Guises should overbear the Princes, the Admiral and all the Hugonots, they would then turn their efforts against the family of Montmorenci, which would remain alone of all the ancient rivals, who had inspired him with jealousy. These dispositions did not escape the penetration of the Admiral. Excited by such hopes, he persuaded the Princes to abandon the flat country, and retire with a small number of troops into the mountains of Gascony and Languedoc. The Duke of Anjou besieges and takes Saint Jean d'Angeli, and loses much time and many soldiers: he falls sick and retires first to Angers, and then to Saint Germain. The
Princes join the Earl of Montgomery, and reinforce their troops in Gascony. They pass the winter in the mountains, and descend into the plains in the spring: they pass the Rhone, and extend themselves into Provence and Dauphiny. They march towards Noyers and la Charité, with the design to approach Paris. The King sends against them an army under the command of the Marshall de Cossé, a general of little activity, and who desired not the ruin of the Hugonots. From a fear of confiding his armies to noblemen, whom their elevation, their power and their animosities, or the great number of their partisans, had rendered suspected by him, the King committed the conduct of it to a General, who, persisting in his ordinary inclination, gave the Hugonots a favorable opportunity to revive. This resolution was also attributed to the policy of the Duke of Anjou, who dreaded that some other General might take away the fruit of his labors and victories. It is pretended that such motives engaged him to inspire the King with suspicions against all the other Princes and Generals, and to prefer, to them, a man whom he considered as incapable of gaining any great advantages.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
THAT the legislature has a right to instruct the Senators of the State in Congress, is an assertion made to vindicate the conduct of some particular State Assemblies.
I will let the question of right alone, because I have long arguments—and so I believe your readers do. A man has a right to do a great many unwise things: He has a right to spend his estate—or if he should not, to cut off his children with 5 s . a piece—and some maintain that he has a right to beat his wife. By doing either he would disturb the peace and happiness of his family, and so far as their consent would go, the world would cheerfully give him a right to hang himself. Without touching the question of right in a legal sense, no wise Assembly will do a very mischievous act—we speak accurately enough in common when we say that they have no right to do it.
What is the tendency of an Assembly voting and giving instructions to their Senators against the proceedings of Congress? When I scribble in your Gazette, I barely obtain notice—the readers glance a careless eye over the page—and even if it amuses, it is soon forgotten: A few ideas may be laid up by some—but they are received without any authority, and retained without knowing whence they came—a memorial from a town, and especially from a great city, has weight—each individual receives it as the opinion of a great many individuals, and therefore respectable—still they are only individuals, whose opinion he may dispute, because he never authorised them to decide the matter for him.—The case is far otherwise with a representative assembly: They are chosen to enquire, to decide, and to enforce their decisions; their doings are published, not as problems for dispute, but as solemn judgments to put an end to it—and this work of judging, the citizens commonly let them pursue without taking any part in it on ordinary occasions; they mind their business, and leave their servants to do their duty, in making laws for them. In a free country, the legislature will possess the entire confidence of the people—they will not only make their laws, but in most cases, regulate their opinions. Men cannot act as a society but by their representatives, and there are reasons deduced from the nature of man, which will shew that these representatives cannot long govern a free society, without the trust and confidence which has been noticed.
Is not the tendency of the resolutions of state assemblies censuring the acts of Congress; destructive of this confidence, and of consequence of the peace and safety of government? What is it but resorting to the confidence of their constituents, to weaken and destroy that which is placed in Congress? It is an attempt by means of the influence and authority of the legislature of a state, over the minds of the people, to throw them into the scale against the general authority of the Union. It breaks asunder the very ties of society, and incites one part against another, by setting the fundamental principal of social union, in opposition to itself: Some will answer that it is true, state-remonstrances against Congress have this tendency—but they will say, the interests and opinions of the people of a state are matters of fact, which it is very proper Congress should know—and that a remonstrance from the state legislature, conveys this information. To prove facts, and to establish arguments, Congress should resort to the authority of truth, not of a state. A measure that is likely to effect men's interests will be remonstrated against by private persons, and their facts and arguments will be brought to
the test of truth. If the people should overlook or neglect their interests, their members in Congress may be supposed watchful and active enough to assert them. But when a state interposes to stop a measure, will it be pretended that it is to represent facts or arguments merely, or to overawe Congress—some late events remove all doubt.
To be continued.
From the NEW-YORK DAILY ADVERTISER.
IT is a very rare occasion indeed to see a fashionable practice receive such an improvement as to become a real utility, and to challenge the approbation of every discreet and reflecting person.—Wealth judiciously applied is treasure indeed—But I must remark that, the jollity of clubs;—the selfish pursuits of new-fangled societies—and the interchange of polite attentions among those wealthy citizens who reciprocate splendid civilities in order to pamper and gratify each other, come in no shape within the pale of such a reflection. The festivity ordinarily attendant on marriages in this city, has never till yesterday, as far as I know, penetrated into those doleful habitations
Where wants and debts and sicknesse devour, And heart-enslaving freedom's quite shut out.
The uncommon method, which I am well informed Mr. Alexander Robertson took to honor the nuptials of his daughter gave rise to these thoughts, and furnish a lesson well worthy of record, and highly deserving of imitation.
The following statement while it exhibits Mr. Robertson's MANNER OF MAKING MERRY, will illustrate without the aid of further commentary, those sentiments which cannot fail touching every heart alive to the impulses of a disinterested benevolence. To cheer the hearts of the sick in the Alms House, and the hapless Debtors in Jail:
150 Loaves of Bread, 300 lb. of Beef, 130 lb. of Cheese, 3 barrels strong Ale, 3 barrels of Apples.
These items I conceive evince a spirit of ingenious humanity:
'Blush grandeur, blush, ye proud withdraw your blaze, 'Share, if ye dare, your wealth;—if not, give praise.'
Friday, April 8. OLD TIMES.
Extract from the reports of the London Humane Society.
TWO of his Sicilian Majesty's gallies being on a cruise, pursued and took an Algerine vessel of 20 guns and 100 men. The prize was sent to Naples, and whilst lying under guard at the Mole, a young gentleman then bathing, was seized with the cramp, and immediately sunk, in the presence of numbers who did not attempt any thing for his relief. One of the Algerine sailors who was standing on the gunwale of the prize, instantly jumped into the water, and having laid hold of the body in its rise, tied one end of a handkerchief round the shoulder, the other end of which he fastened to his own, and swam with it to shore. The drowned person was recovered by proper applications; and the Marquis de Palluchi, whose son was thus preserved, being introduced to the King, threw himself on his knees, and requested the liberty of the gallant Algerine. His Sicilian majesty's reply was truly noble. "Your request, Sir, (said he) is both reasonable and humane; the Moor is your's, and you may dispose of him as you please. The remainder of the crew are mine, and by the laws of war perpetual slaves: but they are free from this moment. Ten righteous men would have saved Sodom from the wrath of the Almighty, and shall not one gallant and humane man, who has risked his life for an enemy, and restored to me so valuable a subject, merit the pardon of a few companions? Next day an order was published for their release, and they departed amidst the acclamations of the populace.
A N E C D O T E.
ON the arrival of one of the last Indians in England, a monkey, in the absence of his master (one of the officers) amused himself with throwing from the cabin into the custom-house officers boat, rolls of silk, to the value of 100 l . which were intended to be sent on shore by a different conveyance. The silk was of course seized, and the offender hanged at the yard-arm for his ingenious imitations.

CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, Feb. 8.
The BANK BILL under consideration.
MR. VINING
APOLOGIZED for rising to offer his sentiments on this subject, which had been already so ably discussed; but considering the nature of the objections as arising from constitutional principles, it had acquired an importance which would justify his troubling the house with some remarks. He began by noticing the leading argument of Mr. Madison, respecting the sense of the continental convention, on the power proposed to be exercised by Congress in this bill. He shewed that the opinion of the gentleman, in this instance, was, if not singular, different from that of his cotemporaries; at least a similar objection had not been started by those gentlemen of the Senate, who had been members of the convention; but granting that the opinion of the gentleman from Virginia, had been the full sense of the members of convention, their opinion at that day, he observed is not a sufficient authority for Congress at the present time to construe the constitution by.
Mr. Vining, in explaining the powers proposed by the bill to be given to the corporation of the bank, adverted to the particular power of "making rules and regulations not contrary to law." He shewed that this term law , means the common law —and alluding to the enquiry of Mr. Madison, what law was intended by this clause? who, in answering his own question, had said, that if the laws of the United States were intended, the power contemplated was dangerous and unconstitutional, as those laws were very few in number,
Mr. Vining observed, that the restriction contended for by the gentleman as the result of his objection, would annihilate the most essential rights and privileges of the citizens of the United States. He then observed a corporation is nothing more than constituting a body with powers to effect certain objects in a combined capacity which an individual may do in his individual capacity—agreeable to the usage and customs of common law .
Adverting to the act by which the United States became a free and independent nation, he said, from that declaration, solemnly recognized at home and abroad, they derive all the powers appertaining to a nation thus circumstanced, and consequently the power under consideration. He traced the origin of corporations to the time of Numa—the first of which was for agricultural purposes, they were afterwards extended to other objects—and from that day to this, said he, all civilized and independent nations have been in the practice of creating them, and what do they amount to but this, enabling a number of persons in a combined capacity to do that to a more certain effect that an individual may do—but subject to the controul of common law , in all its regulations and transactions.
On the doctrine of construction as applied to the constitution; he observed, that on some occasions the constitution is like the sensitive plant, which shrinks from the smallest touch; on others, it is like the sturdy oak which braves the force of thunder. He referred to the act containing the power of removability—in which the utmost latitude of construing the constitution was contended for and adopted; and, said he, the funding system cannot be defended on any other principle than that of implication.
He then enquired, of what right does this incorporation deprive a single citizen? And can an act possibly meet the disapprobation of a single person which does not infringe his rights, and which puts money into his pocket? I think not. He insisted that the power of Congress alone was equal to establishing a bank competent to creating a currency which shall pervade all parts of the union; the paper of the State banks cannot circulate beyond the bounds of the particular States.
From the restrictions to the government contended for by the opposers of the bill, he similized the constitution to a horse finely proportioned in every respect to the eye, and elegantly caparisoned, but deficient in one, and the most essential requisite, that of ability to carry the owner to his journey's end; he had rather, he said, mount the old confederation, and drag on in the old way, than be amused with the appearance of a government so essentially defective.
NEW-HAVEN, March 30.
Extract of a letter from the Rev. Mr. Holmes of Georgia, dated March 3d, to the publisher of this paper.
"We have no news of importance, else I would have communicated it with pleasure to the printer of the New-Haven Gazette—We are in a state of perfect tranquility in regard to our Creek neighbours; even your friend —, who anticipated so much danger, is under no apprehension from this quarter. Several Indians have repeatedly been down of late to trade with our merchants, without insult or injury on either side. Our winter has been very severe for this climate; in one instance we had a snow storm which lasted for three hours, and though it did not whiten the ground here, in many places in the vicinity, the snow was two or three inches deep, which was considered very extraordinary. The mercury, however, by Farenheit's thermometer has never fallen below 17° above 0: In Connecticut, I am informed, it has fallen 15° below 0—What a surprizing difference in our climates! Our spring has been very temperate; vegetation comes on rapidly; we have peas very forward in our gardens, and our peach trees are in full bloom."
ter of the New-Haven Gazette—We are in a state of perfect tranquility in regard to our Creek neighbours; even your friend —, who anticipated so much danger, is under no apprehension from this quarter. Several Indians have repeatedly been down of late to trade with our merchants, without insult or injury on either side. Our winter has been very severe for this climate; in one instance we had a snow storm which lasted for three hours, and though it did not whiten the ground here, in many places in the vicinity, the snow was two or three inches deep, which was considered very extraordinary. The mercury, however, by Farenheit's thermometer has never fallen below 17° above 0: In Connecticut, I am informed, it has fallen 15° below 0—What a surprizing difference in our climates! Our spring has been very temperate; vegetation comes on rapidly; we have peas very forward in our gardens, and our peach trees are in full bloom."
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
To ELLA.
NO skill I boast, no forceful art, To shake the nerves of ELLA's heart; Save such as from the Thrush's throat, Is usher'd in her feeble note, When sitting on the hawthorn bush, She whistles to her fellow Thrush. But ELLA, dost thou think to find, Hid in my lines, the artful, flattering mind? Far from the tow'ring city was I rear'd, Where pois'nous flattery ever vig'rous grows; In earliest youth my Parents I rever'd, To what their virtue taught, my spirit bows: Here have I liv'd and heard sweet Nature's voice, Where Brandywine rolls on with rushy-noise; The stream from many murm'ring rills supplied, Along a curving channel pours his tide; 'Ere long the flood its mazy windings leaves, And swift from cliff to cliff down dash the waves; Now sweeping round beneath a lofty hill, With rapid force it whirls full many a mill. Below, the smoother current, spreading wide, Full freighted Barks along its bosom glide; Above, the trees their verdant branches spread, And o'er the tinkling stream throw their deep shade; Here oft entranc'd—I've slowly stepp'd along, And heard the Robin's solitary song; Touch'd by his thought-exciting note, I cast my tear-wet eyes around, Beheld the richly flower'd ground, Whilst borne on zephyrs airy wing, The spirits of the blushing Beauties float; And over swelling hill, and delving dale, Their sweetest odours fling, Upon the bosom of the flowing gale; Then fading, sink in earth, And when the Spring returns again come into birth. But Man, when some few hasty hours have flown, Drops in the yawning grave, Nor lives again on Life's e'er changing wave; Where throbs of anguish tear the feeling breast, And from the heavy lid steal nature's healing rest; But, "pleasing, dreadful thought!" mounts into worlds When the rosy-color'd morn! Came lightly tripping o'er the hills, Dancing on the dimpling rills, And lucid pearls pour'd from her dewey horn: Here have I heard the warbling Lark awake The voice of Echo, sleeping in the brake, And as the heaven-taught bird pour'd out his soul, The list'ning Fairy half his music stole, And blew the thrilling sounds from grove to grove, Till nature seem'd to breathe but harmony and love. The soft-eyed Turtle breath'd her plaintive note, Soul-tend'ring notes! which on clear aether float, And oft prophetic, tell the tardy swain, To shield his harvest from the coming rain. When the creative God of Day, His flaming Car drove down the Western sea, And sober Evening's twilight grey, Borne on the wings of Time had pass'd away. Along the curling wave in radiance bright, The fair Moon shot her silver shafts of light, And all was silent as the cave of Death, Where shadowy beings walk, Who ne'er presume to talk, Nor ruffle silence with a founding breath: There have I stood, and wrapt in Thought sublime! Mark'd the quick flight of light'ning-footed Time! Or gaz'd with rapture on the worlds on high, Till my full soul would breathe th' extatic sigh, And the big pearl start from my glitt'ning eye. While late I press'd my downy bed, And sleep her poppies bound around my head, A heav'nly Phrenzy seized on my soul, And swift as lightnings dart from pole to pole, A host of Beauties rush'd upon my sight, By Fancy, clad in changeful robes of light! I saw again the verdant grove Its wild, luxuriant foliage move, And heard the plummy Songsters shout their love. I heard again the dashing wave, Its wild and rocky borders lave. I saw thy Spirit, like the Bird of Jove! On never-failing wings, mount to the sky; With eyes of light'ning pierce the realms above, And hail the GOD OF MUSIC, thron'd on high. Charm'd with thy air, he gave a heav'nly Harp, And bade thee pour the music sweetly sharp; Then sweep the golden strings, And rouse the deeper tones—and form the awful Pause, That opens the sacred springs Of joy sublime, and wafts the spirit up to Nature's Cause! Then wake the swelling sounds to roll In bursting floods of harmony upon the panting soul. He, o'er thy form a sky-dipt mantle threw, Where silver stars glow'd on th' ethereal blue; And bade thee to old Earth descend, and take Thy Lyre, and from the strings the sleeping Music wake. I saw thee in the shady Grove alight, Whose woven branches caught the blaze of light; Thy rosy fingers careless swept the Lyre, And drew the music-breathing Spirit from each wire. Lur'd by the sounds of thy sweet Strings, The feather'd Warblers dropp'd their wings,
And listen'd to thy melting tone, Still more enchanting than their own! Borne on the undulating breeze, Thy heaven-taught Notes my Spirit seize, And waft it to the sky: Now sweetly soft they ling'ring die; Now in awful solemn found, Float on the Air around; The deep majestic bale most sweetly clear, Now bursts upon my ear; And where the rushing Waters roar, "It winds in wild'ring echoes down the dashing shore."
The thrill of rapture darting through my breast, My nerves with heav'nly anguish shook, And I awoke! But found no fiction broke upon my rest; For now the truths unfold, In thy nervous Song is told, What e're I heard, or saw, and as I read, "my soul, my ELLA, "Seraph, opens the Skies." Delaware, April 10, 1791. [fancy rise,]
NEW-LONDON, April 1.
Extract of a letter from a foreign correspondent, to the editors of this paper, dated Jan. 21, 1791.
"IT is with great pleasure I learn that the inhabitants of your country have grown more industrious and temperate, and have left off the excessive use of Rum. It is also highly pleasing to observe the number of useful inventions of several kinds—the rapid progress making in manufactures, and the perfection to which some of them are brought; particularly maple sugar, coal mines, lead and copper; and the Bolton sail duck; and the cotton and silk manufactures, &c. The water machines for spinning 3 or 4000 threads of cotton, flax, and long wool (of which I perceive there are models in Philadelphia) will doubtless soon be constructed, and begin to work. These will enable them to make a rapid progress indeed, and I apprehend nothing will promote the general interest of the country, and the interest of the farmers, more than such a progress in manufactures.—Wonderful is the coincidence of events in favor of your country.—This machine, I think, was invented by Arkwright, about the beginning of the late war, and hath since been brought to great perfection.—This hath led to the invention of the other machines for spinning flax and long wool. This happening at a time, fixed in the decrees of heaven, when a great nation which had been dependent, and not allowed to erect manufactures, without discouraging and embarrassing circumstances, was freed from the galling yoke, seems to point out a particular providence; as if directed chiefly for the benefit of a country which had but a few hands to spare from the culture of the land, that it might be able, with those few hands, to supply itself with necessary and decent cloathing, and be no longer dependent either in name or in fact .—You have a most brilliant prospect before you.
"Amazing is the progress England has made in the manufacture of cotton since the invention of the machine above mentioned. So great a quantity of cotton cloth is made there, and it is now so cheap, and so commonly worn by rich and poor, that it hath nearly annihilated the use of silk. Some of the articles are brought to such perfection, that the English East-India company exports a great quantity of them, even to China; and if the Chinese do not make themselves masters of this invention, this trade will become a great object in so populous a country. From all this you may plainly perceive what it will be possible for your countrymen to do in time, and what they ought to do without delay.—The manufactures of England are the principal source of her great wealth and strength, and the chief basis of her navigation. Experience I think has furnished sufficient evidence to prove that you will never grow rich merely by agriculture, navigation and commerce. It is weak to suppose the farming business cannot be overdone.—It is certainly overdone when the produce of the land and labour of the farmer far exceed the demand of every foreign and domestic market; and when, through its abundance, he is unable to procure a living price for it. You ought not to depend, so much as you have done, on foreign markets . What is it that renders land in Europe so valuable to its proprietor beyond any thing of the kind in America? It is the number of the manufacturing towns in the neighborhood of every farmer, to which he can carry his produce, and where he is sure to receive such a price, as will enable him to pay his rent, and yet maintain his family.—This certain market and good price, also give effectual encouragement to the high cultivation of land which prevails in some countries, but especially in England. Your land will never be so valuable as land of equal goodness is there, until you can find markets as certain and as good as their's. But this you must never expect until the number of your manufacturers bears as just a proportion to the number of your farmers."
(To be continued.)
LONDON, January 26.
In consequence of the premiums offered by the Hon. Board of Trustees, at Edinburgh, two pieces of cotton were completely bleached in five hours; one piece of linen in forty hours and a half, and another in forty-eight hours and a half,

all completely whitened without exposure to the sun and air. The judges have declared the colour to be as perfect as can be given to goods of the same quality, and that the strength and texture were not at all injured or weakened. Several other experiments are making both in Ireland and Scotland, with respect to this important discovery.
We are informed, by private letters, that the Governor General and Council have judged it expedient to appoint collectors of the revenue in the territories of the Nabob of Arcot, under their own immediate direction, not only without the consent of the Nabob, but against a positive remonstrance from him, in which he declares his intention of appealing from the orders of the British government in India, to the British government at home.
It is easy to conceive what effect so strong a measure towards a prince, under our immediate protection, must have on the minds, and probably on the conduct of our other Indian allies, who are less dependent upon us.
There is no species of imposition on the public which it is of so much importance to expose, as imposition in the education of youth. The man who professes to sell ease and elegance in a pair of elastic spring garters, or health and longevity in a pair of breeches made on geometrical principles, imposes only on the ignorant and the credulous of his own time; but the man who imposes upon the public in the education of youth, lays up a stock of ignorance and credulity in the rising generation for future quacks and impostors to work upon.
Thursday the collection of music and musical instruments of the late Duke of Cumberland, were sold at auction by Mr. Christie. The celebrated violin, by Stainer, supposed to be the chief d'œuvre of the maker, was knocked off to Mr. Braidyll for one hundred and thirty guineas! Another by the same artist produced sixty-five guineas, and a violin by Amati for seventy. His Royal Highness's favourite tenor, which he deemed inestimable, was sold for fifty guineas, and a foreign organ, by Green, for seventy three. The cheapest instrument sold was a harpsichord, by old Kirkman, which only produced twenty-six guineas.
The villain who robbed the Rotherham mail, was so dextrous as to negotiate in London the French bill for 1231. 14s. (which was unfortunately due) in thirty-six hours from the time of committing the robbery.
Of the success of our troops in India many people speak confidently; we wish they may not be mistaken; but when we recollect the fate of Braddock and Burgoyne, we feel cautious in anticipating victory.
One of the objects of the bill to be brought into Parliament, by Mr. Milford, for the relief of Roman Catholics, is to permit gentlemen of that persuasion, to serve his majesty in the army and navy.
Extract of a letter from Paris, Jan. 14.
From the LEYDEN GAZETTE, of Jan. 21.
"Contrary to the expectations of our opposition Bishops, a majority of the Cures of Paris have taken the civic oath, on Sunday last, the 9th inst. The churches were never more crowded: The exhibition in them has varied according to the different conduct of the several ministers: It was easy to discover by the behaviour of the flock what the shepherd had been doing. The Cures who have shewn submission to the decrees of the National Assembly directed the ceremony to begin by hymns of joy and festivity, and patriotic sermons adapted to the occasion, previous to their taking the oath; while those in the opposition pronounced from their pulpits discourses, which at any other time would have made the people oppose the decree of the Assembly; but which at the present juncture have only raised the mob against themselves. Had it not been for the zeal and firmness shewn by the National Guard, the last would have paid with their lives for the imprudence of their conduct. The Cure of St. Sulpice was near falling a sacrifice to the fury of the people, while the Cure of St. Eustache, the King's confessor, was carried back to his home in triumph, in the midst of popular shouts. It should be observed that these parishes are the most wealthy and populous in the city. Next Sunday is the limit prescribed to those of the clergy who wish to take the civic oath: All our troops will be under arms. It is hoped that most of the Cures will by that time have made up their minds, and taken the resolution of following the example of the friends of peace. After this day all such as shall not have taken the oath, are ipso facto to be deprived of their benefices, according to the meaning of the decree."
Extract of a letter from Paris, dated Jan. 31.
"The agitation and discordancy of opinions here, respecting our revolution, forebode serious evils. The almost entire unanimity of the Bishops and parochial Clergy in refusing to take the civic oath, will have an extensive influence. The whole number of Bishops in the kingdom is about one hundred and thirty, of these one hundred and twenty-five have protested against the decree of November 27, respecting the Ecclesiastical constitution. The Cures, or rectors of parishes, in general, and almost all our Clergy-
men, adhere to the Bishops in rejecting the oath. Only two clergymen of note have yet taken it; the Abbé Poitier, an eminent preacher, who has since retracted; the other is the Rector of the parish of St. Eustache, and confessor to the King. It is confidently asserted, that to prevent the unfavourable impression, which might be the consequence of so general a rejection of the oath, many Laymen have been employed to perforate priests and take it.
The day on which it was to have been administered, the Rector of St. Sulpice, the largest Parish in Paris, said to contain 200,000 Souls, narrowly escaped being murdered by an enraged multitude. Two Parish Priests, one of them near Rheims, have been actually put to death. Such is the spirit prevailing in cities and large towns. In most country parishes, the people would be outrageous, and insult their pastors for taking it. Many things are published in the daily prints to support public credit; but you may be assured, that the Assignats lose credit daily."
DUBLIN, Feb. 12.
The vast increase of our exports every year, is one of those self-evident truths of the augmentation of our trade and manufactures, owing, in a great measure, to the bounties and other judicious encouragements; as also, to the wise laws devised for such purposes. Thus, to extend our commerce, promote internal exertion, and to protect our coast and other fisheries, evince more true patriotism, than all the laboured harangues ever pronounced to serve the purpose of Party or Faction, in order to oust if possible an administration uniformly labouring for the national good; or, at least, who can be said never to have deviated from that unerring principle.
EXETER, Dec. 29.
On Friday last was slaughtered the large weather sheep lately belonging to Mr. Wreford. It weighed, when alive, sixteen score and sixteen pounds, which is exactly three hundred weight. Its length, from the nostrils to a perpendicular at the rump, was 4 feet 6 inches; and its height, at the shoulder, 32 inches. The four quarters, when dead, weighed eight score and thirteen pounds. Messrs. Swale and Youlden were to give ten guineas for the sheep if its mutton weighed 42 pounds per quarter; if under that weight to have the sheep for nothing; in consequence, the ten guineas became payable.
Philadelphia, April 16.
Some persons appear very much disgusted with the contradictory accounts of the situation of affairs in France: but so long as different interests exist, so long will the world be abused with contradictions. Time alone is to be depended on as an honest interpreter—he will do justice—and we must wait for this infallible umpire to decide. What are fifty years in the age of a nation?
The alarming incident of the sinking of the houses and streets in White-Haven (England) was occasioned by the Town's being undermined with coal-pits, which were not properly secured; as in other places—no account is given of any lives being lost.
The quality of Bohea Tea, has been much complained of within the last three or four years. In a late English paper this is accounted for, by the demand's being greater than formerly, and the Chinese to supply the market put in every kind of rubbish that used heretofore to be thrown away.
The Legislature of this State adjourned on Wednesday last—their next meeting will be on the third of August next; fifty-five acts have passed during this first sitting of the first session.
Died, the 8th inst. at Bordentown, N. J. JOSEPH BORDEN, Esq. formerly commissioner of Loans for the United States, for the State of New-Jersey: A steady friend to the liberties of his country, in the most trying times; a respectable citizen and an honest man.
A CORRESPONDENT SAYS
Some modern reformers of government extend their ideas so far, that they would not only reform us out of peace and tranquility in this world, but also deprive mankind of their dernier hope, the expectation of happiness in the world to come; hence the many indirect and open attacks upon revealed religion with which not only foreign newspapers, but even American publications are disgraced.
Have mankind yet to learn, that he who fears not God, will not regard man? The plan of subjugating America—and making a property of the lives and fortunes of our citizens originated in principles of infidelity. When Britain was virtuous, she felt the influence of honor and humanity—but when Hume, Mandeville, Bolingbroke and Voltaire formed a creed for British statesmen—the appetites of luxury, ambition and avarice absorbed the idea of right and wrong, and the whole contest with America was considered by them but as a game of hazard on their part, in which as individuals, they might gain much, but could lose nothing—such are the uniform effects of infidelity; immediate interest alone controuls the actions of such men—and it is by accident that they ever promote the public prosperity.
When it is considered that in a Lottery of 25000 Tickets, there are 24999 chances to one against drawing the highest prize, a most extensive group of long faces is portrayed to the fancy, when the fate of all the tickers is known.
We are informed that tickets in the New-York City Lottery have been sold for five dollars and three quarters each—a pretty speculation—more than 15 per cent. per month.
Wednesday last the ship America, Capt. Depeyer, arrived at New-York from London; and brings accounts to the 3d March. She sailed from the Downs in company with the Pigou, for Philadelphia—the Young Eagle for Bolton, and the Ann, Cowan, for Maryland. On the 2d March the ATION MILLS, London, were consumed by fire; there were in the Mills upwards of 4000 bales of corn, which were likewise entirely destroyed.
According to a late decision of the Court of King's Bench, the Law of England now is, That three days grace are to be allowed on Promissary Notes, as well as Bills of Exchange.
The Chamber of Commerce of Normandy, in France, to testify their grateful sense of the generous conduct of Capt. THOMAS HEMSON, an Englishman, towards a Capt. BOUIE, the crew of whose ship had mutinied and murdered the mate and cabin boy, have ordered a letter of thanks, and a gold medal to be sent to Capt. HEMSON.
The house of representatives of this Commonwealth, on the 8th inst. unanimously adopted an address to the National Assembly of France.
We are authorized to say, that the City-Hall and Dickinson-College Lottery will positively commence drawing on Tuesday next.
We are informed, that a plan has been adopted to give a spring to American Manufactures, on a scale, hitherto unattempted in the United States: A loan on the basis of the public securities, for this highly patriotic purpose, to a competent amount, we also hear, meets with the greatest encouragement.
Public Securities have lately risen very considerably in New-York.
The proprietors of the schooner FLY, intended as a constant packet between this place and New-Castle, on the Delaware, deserve much credit for their ingenuity in uniting in so small a vessel, every convenience usually met with in the best of ships. A cabin 18 or 20 feet long, of height sufficient for the tallest person; 12 births; a division, if desired, between the ladies' and gentlemen's apartment. Two entrances into the cabin, and a consequent draught of air, which must make it very pleasant in the summer season; with every other convenience that can be thought of, is found on board the FLY.—She is besides a well built, fast sailing vessel, and perhaps in every respect may stand as a perfect model for a fresh-water packet-boat.
FROM A BOSTON PAPER.
We are happy in being able to lay before our readers, the information contained in the following—more especially as we think it to be authentic, and as it effectually contradicts certain publications which have appeared in the papers, on the state of affairs in France.
Extract of a letter from Amsterdam, dated January 31, 1791. "In France, every thing goes on very well. The Assignats have risen to 15 and 16 per cent. above par. They have been enabled to commence the discharge of their debts by the sale of the lands of the clergy, which are, on an average, sold at one third higher than the appraisal."
MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY, APRIL 7.
  Prizes drawn, - - 2905   Blanks ditto, - - 6395   9300   Blanks and Prizes drawn, - - 15700 
Among the Prizes to be drawn at the above date, are, 1 of 10000, 2 of 3000, 3 of 2000, 1 of 1000, 3 of 500, 6 of 200, and 28 of 100.
MR. FENNO, IN the New-York Journal of 13th inst. the laudable, emulative spirit of two eminent Butchers in that city, in parading two fine Oxen of 1000 weight each, is very curiously complimented as "regaling the sight of roast beef epicures, and exhibiting the LUST of taste, and the pride of country!" On which one of your readers would observe—
If "lust of taste" and gluttony abound, Where'er an Ox shall weigh a thousand pound— How great those vices, where the Oxen weigh TWO THOUSAND EACH, in Market every day!
ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
 Brig Thomas, Ridley, N. Castle, on the Tyne, 49 days.  Sloop Alexandria, Monroe, Virginia, 6.  Do. William, Scott, Virginia, 5.  Schooner Polly, Jacobs, N. Carolina, 8.  Brig Nancy, Driggs, St. Johns.  Schooner Hero, Ramsey, Baltimore, 10.  Do. Sally, Norris, Virginia, 6.  Sloop Alexander Hamilton, Buron, do. 7.  Do. Polly, Beatty, do. 6. 
PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES.
  FUNDED DEBT.   6 pr. Cents 17 1/2 pr. £. 86 pr. cent.   3 pr. Cents 9 1/2 45 do.   Deferred 6 pr. Cents 9 45 do.   UNFUNDED DEBT.   Final Sett. and other Certificates 16 80   Indents 9 45 do.   N. and S. Carolina debts, 12 1/2 15 do. 
To be disposed of, BY PRIVATE SALE, A COLLECTION OF Scarce and Valuable BOOKS, In the HEBREW, GREEK, LATIN, FRENCH, and ITALIAN LANGUAGES—being part of a private Library;
Among which are the following:
 FOLIO. Euripides, Homer, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Plato, Lucian, Plutarch, Pausanias, Procopius, Eusebius, Nicephorus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Seneca, Pliny, &c.  Quarto. Pindar, Aristotle, Terence, Ovid, Cæsar, Suetonius, Juvenal, Manilius, &c.  Octavo & infra. Septuagint, Aristophanes, Longinus, Theophrastus, Epictetus, Hesiod, Orpheus, M. Antoninus, Phalaris, Isocrates, Polyænus, Lucretius, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Paternus, Florus, Lucan, Statius, Gellius, Ausonius, Vida, Buchanan, Boëtius, Poëtæ minores Latini, Callipædia, Strada, L. Valla, &c. 
A Catalogue is left at the Book-Store of Messrs Rice and Co Market-Street, where further particulars may be learned.
IMPERIAL, HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA
T E A S,
REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, and SPICES, &c.
Of the first quality—by retail,
No. 17,
Third Street, between Chestnut and Market Streets.
A few New-York LOTTERY TICKETS come to hand, for sale.

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
AT THE THIRD SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, on Monday the sixth of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety.
AN ACT to continue in force the Act therein mentioned, and to make further provision for the payment of Pensions to Invalids, and for the support of Light-Houses, Beacons, Buoys, and Public Piers.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the act, entitled, "An to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures and penalties accruing under the revenue laws in certain cases therein mentioned," shall be and is hereby continued in force until the end of the next session of Congress, and no longer.
And be it further enacted, That the yearly pensions which have been allowed by or in pursuance of any act or law of the United States, to persons who were wounded and disabled during the late war, shall for the space of one year from the fourth day of March next, be paid out of the Treasury of the United States, under such regulations as the President of the United States may direct.
And be it further enacted, That all expenses which shall accrue from the first day of July next, inclusively for the necessary support, maintenance and repairs of all light-houses, beacons, buoys, and public piers, shall continue to be defrayed by the United States, until the first day of July, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, notwithstanding such light-houses, beacons, buoys, or public piers, with the lands and tenements thereunto belonging, and the jurisdiction of the same, shall not in the mean time be ceded to or vested in the United States, by the State or States respectively, in which the same may be, and that the said time be further allowed to the States respectively, to make such cession. Provided, that nothing in the said act shall be construed to limit or restrain the power of the President of the United States, to grant pardons for offences against the United States.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate
APPROVED, MARCH THIRD, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of State. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be, and he hereby is requested, to cause an estimate to be laid before Congress at their next session, of the quantity and situation of the lands not claimed by the Indians, nor granted to, nor claimed by any of the citizens of the United States, within the territory ceded to the United States by the State of North-Carolina, and within the territory of the United States north-west of the river Ohio.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, MARCH THIRD, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of State. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a mint shall be established under such regulations as shall be directed by law.
Resolved, that the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be engaged, such principal artists as shall be necessary to carry the preceding resolution into effect, and to stipulate the terms and conditions of their service, and also to cause to be procured such apparatus as shall be requisite for the same purpose.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, MARCH THIRD, 1791.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of State. THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State.
ANNAPOLIS, April 7.
To the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES.
SIR,
WE, the Faculty of St. John's College, beg leave to express the sincere joy which the honour of your presence in our infant seminary afforded us. In common with all those who superintend the education of youth, we must feel a lively gratitude to the defender of liberty, the guardian of his country, and consequently the great patron of literature. But as this seminary was begun since the united voice of free America called you to preside over its most important interests, and ensure to them the continuance of those blessings which your calm foresight and steady fortitude had been the happy means of procuring, it seems in a peculiar manner to look up to you with filial respect. That it dates its birth from this grand era, which has placed you at the head of fifteen distinct sovereign states united into one mighty republic, is regarded by its friends as an auspicious circumstance and flattering assurance of its future eminence and usefulness. To the friend of virtue and his country, the rise of colleges, where the youth of generations, yet unborn, may be taught to admire and emulate the great and good, must give a heartfelt delight, as they promise perpetuity to the labours and renown of the patriot and hero.
Our earnest prayers, that a kind Providence may constantly watch over you, and preserve a
life, long, indeed, already, if measured by deeds of worth and fulness of honours, but too short as yet for your country.
Signed in behalf, and at the request of the Faculty, JOHN M'DOWELL, Pr. March 26, 1791.
To the FACULTY of St. JOHN'S COLLEGE.
GENTLEMEN,
The satisfaction which I have derived from my visit to your infant seminary, is expressed with real pleasure, and my wishes for its progress to perfection are preferred with sincere regard.
The very promising appearance of its infancy must flatter all its friends (among whom I intreat you to class me) with the hope of an early, and at the same time, a mature manhood.
You will do justice to the sentiments, which your kind regard towards myself inspires, by believing that I reciprocate the good wishes contained in your address, and I sincerely hope the excellence of your seminary will be manifested in the morals and science of the youth who are favoured with your care.
G. WASHINGTON.
From the (London) MORNING HERALD.
EPITAPH for VOLTAIRE.
Mr. Editor,
AS your paper is particularly circulated in Paris, I send you for insertion the following Epitaph on Voltaire. It conveys, I believe, the general sense which all good men entertain of that celebrated character, who was alike admirable for his talents, and detestable for his abuse of them. If his enthusiastic admirers cannot disprove its allegations, let them adopt it, to decorate his tomb at their approaching celebration of his funeral obsequies.
HERE lie deposited The ashes of VOLTAIRE. This man
"In poetry was—much, In politics was—something, In religion was—nothing at all."
He was Chief of a herd of Freethinkers, Who affected the belief and practice of a certain system of Morality, Which they had the hardihood to maintain as superior to revealed religion.
But VOLTAIRE, to his own disgrace, And to the mortification of his followers, Did in his own person give the lie To their visionary hypothesis.
For,
Under the influence of this new-fangled Creed, He, like many others of the Confraternity, Became notorious For the want of HONOUR, The want of VERACITY, And the want of common HONESTY.
Reader, when thou reflectest, That among the highest orders of mankind The only restraint on POWERFUL TYRANNY, WILD DESIRE, MAD AMBITION and OPPRESSIVE Avarice, is RELIGION, And that among the subordinate ranks of thy Fellow-Creatures,
The same Principle
Is their great support and consolation under every species of adversity, Thou wilt perceive,
That the man who endeavors to invalidate its Authority, And diminish its influence, Is an enemy to the WELL-BEING and HARMONY of SOCIETY.
GALLAUDET and EWING,
No. 54, SOUTH SECOND STREET,
HAVE imported in the Lady Walterstorf , from London, Manchester and Adriana from Liverpool, and the Birmingham Packet from Bristol, a GENERAL ASSORTMENT of
SEASONABLE GOODS,
which they will sell on reasonable terms.—On hand for sale, a few hogheads of OLD JAMES'S RIVER TOBACCO. Philadelphia, April 9, 1791. 100 cpm
NOTIFICATION.
Colonel THOMAS PROCTER, Lieutenant of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, being necessarily absent from the city, his Excellency the GOVERNOR hath thought proper to authorise me to discharge the Duties of that Office until his return:—
NOTICE is therefore given, to the MILITIA of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties of said City, the Townships of Moyamensing and Passyunk, that they are to meet and exercise under their respective Officers on the following Days, viz.
 First Battalion on the 2d Day of May next,  Second Battalion on the 3d of do.  Third Battalion on the 4th of do.  Fourth Battalion on the 5th of do.  Fifth Battalion on the 6th of do.  Sixth Battalion on the 7th of do.  Seventh Battalion on the 10th of do. 
ELEAZER OSWALD, Lieutenant, pro tem. of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, April 6, 1791.
A few copies of the CONSTITUTION of the United States, printed with Notes, may be had of the Editor.
PINTARD and BLEECKER, PURCHASE and SELL all kinds of Certificates & Public Securities, On COMMISSION, at public and private sale, on the following terms:
ON the specie amount of all sales or purchases at auction, one eighth per cent.
On ditto of all sales or purchases at private sale, on all sums below 5000 nominal dollars, one-half per cent.; and on all sums above 5000 nominal dollars, one-fourth per cent.
For receiving interest at the Loan-Office, one per cent.
For making transfers at ditto, one dollar each transfer.
Such persons throughout the United States, as may be pleased to favor the subscribers with their orders, may rely on their being executed with punctuality, fidelity and dispatch, as considerable experience in the public stocks, together with extensive connections in the city of New-York and different parts of the continent, enable them to conduct their operations with peculiar advantages.
PINTARD & BLEECKER,
New-York, No. 57, King-Street.
March 15, 1791.
(97 1aw 6m)
WHEREAS HENRY WEBB, put out apprenticeship by the Greenwich School for the sea service, in or about the year 1776, who was then of the age of 14 years, or thereabouts, and sailed from England in that year to some part of North-America, in the ship or vessel called the Artemissa , and which said ship or vessel was at that time a Navy Victualler, Capt. Lewellyn, and which ship or vessel was also a Spanish Trader, and afterwards became such Transport in his Britannic Majesty's service as aforesaid; and whereas the said Henry Webb deserted and ran away from the said ship or vessel, and entered on board a certain privateer or vessel called the Revenge , or Vengeance Privateer , of which one John Deane was then master or commander, then lying at New-York in America; and the said Vengeance Privateer , on or about the 5th day of November, 1779, sailed from New-York aforesaid to Savannah, and arrived at such last mentioned place on or about the month of March or the month of April following, from thence to some port or place in America, but to what port or place is not known; and in the month of May, 1780, was seen at Barbadoes in the West-Indies: but the said Henry Webb hath not since been heard of, and is supposed to be dead, it having been reported that the tender belonging to the said ship or vessel called the Vengeance , with a number of her men, to the amount of 20, or thereabouts, and among whom the said Henry Webb it is supposed was one, were taken by an American vessel and carried into Philadelphia. If any person or persons will give any information of the said Henry Webb, or of the time and place of his death, to SAMUEL NAYLOR, Esq. No. 4, Great Newport-Street, near Long-Acre, London, or to the Rev. Mr. JOHN STANFORD, No. 33, John-Street, New-York, they shall be handsomely rewarded for their trouble. (97 1aw 3w)
FOR SALE,
In the City of New-Brunswick,
A Commodious TWO STORY HOUSE, almost new, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Raritan, together with a large Lot in the rear, and a very good Wharf immediately in front of the House. Said House is thirty-four feet square has four rooms on each floor, with entries between the same, and a good stone cellar under the whole.
Any person inclining to purchase may have possession the first day of May next, and know the price and terms of payment which will be made easy by applying to LEWIS FORMAN, in said city, or the subscriber in Borden Town. J. VAN EMBURGH.
N. B. If not sold, to be rented from 1st day of May next.
MANUEL NOAH, BROKER,
No. 91, Race-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, BUYS and SELLS
Continental & State Certificates, Pennsylvania and Jersey Paper Money, And all kinds of SECURITIES of the United States, or of any particular State.
MATTHEW M'CONNELL, IN CHESNUT-STREET, No. 66,
BUYS and SELLS all kinds of THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNION; has frequently occasion to NEGOTIATE INLAND BILLS OF EXCHANGE—and will receive Orders for making SUBSCRIPTIONS to the BANK of the UNITED STATES.
Philadelphia, March 30, 1791.
(96 tf)
MACHINERY FOR SPINNING FLAX, HEMP AND COMBED WOOL.
THE Subscriber hereby gives public notice, that he has obtained a patent for a spinning wheel and table, a movement for wetting the thread by conical cloth coated thimbler, and another for the same purpose, by a cloth coated roller, a leathern belt moved by rollers, for the purpose of the preparatory drawing of the fibers, and another leathern belt moved in like manner, by rollers, for the purpose of drawing the roved flax, hemp and wool, being improvements upon the mill or machinery of Kendrew and Porthouse of the town of Darlington in Great Britain.
This machinery, with the original mechanism on which it is grafted, being of the utmost value to the United States, the subscriber hereby offers to make and erect a complete mill or mills, including both the original works, and his above improvements thereon, for any individual or company, on terms to be by them agreed on; and to conduct the Manufactory either for a share of the profits, or stipulated wages. GEORGE PARKINSON, Philad. No. 65, Chesnut-Street, March 17, 1791. [93 6f]
TO BE SOLD,
THE SEAT OF THE LATE GOVERNOR LIVINGSTON,
situate about a mile from Elizabeth-Town, on the public road to Morris Town. The farm contains between 90 and 100 acres of land, 15 or 20 acres of which are wood land; there is also appertaining to the said farm about 19 acres of salt meadow. Particular attention having been paid to the cultivation of fruit; there is on the farm a very large collection of various kinds of the choicest fruit trees, &c. in full bearing; the house is large, convenient, well built and in very good repair.
Enquire of the Printer, for further particulars.
New-York, Jan. 1791.
80 3m
LOST,
BETWEEN this city and New-York, on the post road, two bundles containing the Gazette of the United States—No. 82—destined for New-York and Bolton. As they can be of no use, but as waste paper, except to the Subscribers, many of whom keep files of that publication, any person who can give information to the Editor, so that the whole or any part of them may be recovered, shall receive a generous reward. The two bundles contained 300 papers.