National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1793-06-29 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: (at No. 209, Market Street) Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, [THREE DOLLARS per annum.]
NUMB. 70 of VOL. II.]
SATURDAY, June 29, 1793.
[Total NUMB. 174.]
To the CITIZENS of the UNITED STATES.
THE late intelligence from Europe, contains matter of the most interesting nature that ever affected the civilized world; it exhibits to view an infant republic, struggling against the most scandalous association of despots that ever disgraced humanity; who, not contented with enslaving their own citizens, have attempted to involve the whole human race in the same wretched state of vassalage. Unfortunately for the world, a class of political Doctors have arisen in it, that preach the abominable heresy, that the mass of mankind have not virtue and abilities enough to govern themselves, and therefore, one time or other must submit to the government of princes, as though the latter were an order of beings exempted from the frailties and infirmities of human nature. These doctors carry their insolence so far as to tell you, that the government of kings resembles that of heaven, where every thing pays adoration and obedience to the deity, as the common father of all. If the descendants of public robbers and murderers can, through that channel, trace their pedigree to heaven, then kings may be of divine extraction, but with submission to these holy Apostles of despotism, as I do not pay homage to such deities, I pray God to preserve me from their government.
The want of unanimity, which frequently occurs in the councils of republics, and the aspiring views of ambitious demagogues, give rise to partial evils, these being often caused by the emulators, and magnified by the minions and sycophants of the neighbouring court, have cast in history, a dark shade on the picture of republics; but turn to the next page, and reverse the picture, when the ghastly shape of monarchy, in the horrid form of robbery, extortion, assassination, dungeons, poisonings, murders and massacres, presents itself to your view, and fills the feeling mind with pity and indignation—pity for the sufferings of the unfortunate victims of despotism, and indignation at the monsters in the shape of men, that execute the tyranny.
The revolution in France exhibits a scene unequalled in the annals of the modern world, taking in the magnitude of the object, the hazard of the enterprize, and the boldness of execution.—The fire of liberty, kindled in America, having been wasted into France, consumed, in one blaze, the ancient despotism of the government; has began to spread beyond the limits of that nation, and warm the frozen hearts of the slaves of Belgia.—Alarmed at its progress, the despots of Europe have formed a combination, to extinguish a fire so pernicious to their power; and should they succeed in their wicked designs against France, can America think herself safe? Do they not consider this country as the school of liberty, as the nursery of freedom? France, yielding to their power, will they not lay the axe at the root of the tree of liberty, and strike with their united arms our infant republic. The domestic enemies to your freedom, are so sensible of this, that every misfortune that befalls France is a buoy to their hopes.
The affairs of France is a touch stone by which you may try the attachment of men to your freedom.—Suspect the man that attempts to dampen the ardor of your friendship to France, to whom you are not only bound by the sacred tie of gratitude but connected by the force of political sympathy & the pressure of common danger. I do not mean to suggest an idea of our joining France in the present war—our situation renders it unpolitic, and our distance from the seat of war useless; but these observations are intended to call the attention of my fellow citizens to the true state of their political situation, that they may prepare their minds for the worst, and be on their guard against foreign & domestic enemies. Fortunately for the cause of humanity, the late dark conspiracy against freedom, has not closed with a fatal catastrophe as was first expected: and that Dumourier, the author of, and principal character in, the intended tragedy, has quit the scene with the same success and precipitancy as the celebrated American traitor, so conspicuous in the annals of infamy, and that the French army, uncorrupted by Austrian gold, and undismayed by the treachery and desertion of their general, with the national convention, have rallied round the standard of liberty, and
have determined to defend their country or be buried under its ruins.
WILLIAM TELL. Essex, 15th June, 1793.
Abstract of foreign Intelligence, with remarks.
[From the Boston INDEPENDENT CHRONICLE of June 20.]
By the last accounts, the situation of the French armies, it will be remembered, was not thoroughly understood, either upon the Rhine, of which the cities of Meatz and Landau, are the principal fortifications; or in Flanders, of which Lisle, Valenciennes and Conde, are the garrisons. It was not even certain, whether the defection of their late general, DUMOURIER, had not extended its baneful influence to these places, so as to facilitate their surrendering to the Austrians, of which the British papers had announced the probability. Nothing of this nature however, appears to have taken effect, by the present intelligence.—On the other hand, the numbers of the troops in either of them, were supposed by the national commissioners, sufficient to hold a long and obstinate siege, if not wholly to frustrate the intentions of the German army. The battalions of France were recruiting fast on the frontiers, and the soldiers discovered in their daily skirmishing, and in some actions of magnitude, the most heroic courage. Heroic we call it—because the official accounts of the prince of Saxe Cobourg acknowledges it to have been obstinate—an expression of the utmost force in the mouth of an enemy. The French indeed like the Americans, have washed away the stain of imputed cowardice, with the blood of their enemies.
It appears by these papers, that the Germans are negotiating by proclamations, which change the ground in favour of the French, as the difficulties in the way of entire subjugation, augment. What, for example, is more opposite than the declarations of the duke of Brunswick and the prince Cobourg—One was to burn and destroy Paris, if even one of the royal family was injured. The latter wishes for peace upon the terms and stipulations of the first constitution which the people had adopted, and which abolishes all the privileged orders.—It was just so in America—In the first place, unconditional submission was offered—then conditional; and afterwards unconditional independence.—Pray heaven, the event may be the same with the French, as the happiness of the world, perhaps the existence of civil liberty, even here, depends upon their maintaining their freedom.
In one of the English papers, it is said, that the Germans have lost by action, sickness, death and desertion, at least a third of their army, since the campaign opened in February last.
It is certain at any rate, that some of the battles were severe and bloody; and every body knows the dangers the health of soldiers is exposed to by their being early in the field.
The accounts of the commissioners, three of whom have tarried in the garrison of Mentz, are very favourable, and their presence will, no doubt, inspire the soldiers with courage.
The vigorous proceedings of the convention, in the punishment of the aristocrats, and the suppression of the rebels in Brittany, promises much to the future security of the republic.
It has been the policy of such characters, consisting of the old nobility, or their friends and dependants, to plead the constitutional authorities, to confound and disorganize every thing. But most of these persons have been seized, their intrigues discovered, and their conspiracies suppressed.
The combination of powers is more in name than reality. One of the aids du camp of general Dumourier, has declared at the bar of the Assembly, that the enemies of France disgrace. It is very certain that every league of despots to conquer their enemies, has hitherto proved to be abortive, from the effects of various and discordant interests, which do not fail to appear upon any material disappointment.
The prospect of famine in France, with which the British appear to have flattered themselves, is not now spoken of, by which we may conclude, that all their hopes of such a dreadful calamity is nigh at an end. The policy of the British cabi-
net indeed seems to lie in trying to starve the women and children of France, in order to conquer the men. But while they are thus meditating all manner of evils by fire and sword, death and pestilence, to ruin the cause of liberty in France, they are arrested by distresses of a touching and peculiar nature, in their own country.
It seems by the immense floods of paper, and the former extension of credit, that they have raised the quantity of their bills out of all proportion to the money which represents them. This circumstance, and the alarm it has occasioned among the bankers, together with the stoppage of exports to France, have checked their manufactures, and have inundated the merchants with goods for which they have no vent. In consequence of this, all trust and confidence between man and man is totally at an end, that credit, (the main spring of the British commerce) is almost wholly at a stand—Failures, in number and amount, beyond imagination, have taken place in consequence; and all persons are ruminating with astonishment, upon the novelty and distress of their situation, and upon the means of relieving it. Hitherto the only expedient proposed in parliament, is worse than the evil it is intended to correct. For it obliges the borrower to deposit goods to twice the amount of the sum he receives, and thus reduces him to the necessity of giving the most exorbitant premium for the money he may take; as the most of these commodities to be deposited, are articles of trade, which he has acquired upon credit, at the customary interest of 5 per centum a year. The government after all this, gives nothing but paper, which is still adding to the mass by which credit has been oppressed, and the present evils created.
But if we have not these particulars detailed at full length in their parliamentary debates; the letter of Gen. Cobourg is the strongest evidence of some calamity existing among the belligerent powers, of a very serious nature; for he has confessed that the war with France has "shaken Europe itself to the foundation." A confession which never would have been made by him, but upon the fullest conviction and the clearest evidence.
Two French privateers were taken and sold for two hundred and fifty pounds, which had captured prizes from the British to the amount of thirty thousand pounds sterling.
It is said in one of the English papers that Dumourier had deposited two hundred thousand pounds in the British funds. It was never known what Duche the Chaplain of Congress received for his treachery, but Arnold it was supposed got about 20,000 pounds sterling for his attempt to betray the garrison at West Point.
The French have six millions of livres allotted for secret service money, the ensuing campaign; no doubt to counteract the British project of corruption. This circumstance may turn the tables, and contribute to defeat their enemies with their own weapons.
There is a very remarkable circumstance in the British, which cannot fail of striking the mind of every American as a most prominent and distinguishing feature in their national character: Their opposition to the French, is so great, that they would not go even to Heaven itself, if the French were upon the same road with them—this is fully exemplified in all their daily publications; for every newspaper teems with the most cruel reproaches against the French for their zeal in defence of their cause, and the resolution with which they support it; Whereas formerly, these very Frenchmen were represented by them as slaves, unworthy the character of men, and the objects, on that account, of their utmost scorn and indignation.
The French, on the other hand, seem to invigorate in their efforts, and to strengthen in their resolutions.
Blancheland, the late governor of St. Domingo, has been convicted of treason against the republic, after a trial of 48 hours, before a jury, by the unanimous suffrages of the court; and yet, the aristocrats of France, scattered over England and America, and who have no other employment, are racking their inventions to give a false colour to this, and every transaction of moment, to excite the prejudice of the honest and unreflecting, against the French; just as the American refugees at New-York and in England, in the late war, were fabricating every calumny to
defame their own countrymen, of which every American is fully sensible.
The most alarming consequences were apprehended at Manchester, among the manufacturers, who were out of employment on account of the war. In Scotland it was said no less than 160,000 persons were deprived of the means of support, from the same cause.
On the whole, the Russians stand aloof—the Dutch are inactive as usual, the Spaniards counting their beads, and trembling for the fate of their galleons—the Prussians remote, cautious, and occupied with their late acquisitions in Poland—the Austrians alone fighting this campaign, as the Prussians fought the last—and the British employed, as we have stated, in bombarding the French by paragraphs, and destroying them with their paper artillery.
Some accounts mention a duel between the duke of York and a son of the prince of Orange. As indifferently as we think of their intellects, we can scarcely believe they have given this proof of their folly.
By these last accounts, Dumourier was making his way to Vienna, in the interior of Germany; and a great distance from France. So that this illustrious traitor has suspended his visionary project of a counter revolution, at least, for the present. We anxiously wait for further information, which will be communicated, the moment we receive it.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
MR. FRENEAU.
THERE is an axiom laid down in private life, and another in politics, which have some similarity, and may conjunctively apply to the state of Georgia, at this awful juncture of her fate, in which it is possible the fate of the United States may be involved. The private axiom is, that the cuckold is the last man in the parish who perceives his own horns: the public one, that no man can tread down the bulwark of liberty except he is popular in the extreme.
The state of Georgia has been repeatedly injured and insulted in the grossest manner by the federal government, but such is the artful knavery of the aristocratic junta here and the strange stupidity of too many of the yeomanry, that a great name gilds every pill, which, however noxious, is swallowed with avidity.
It is high time the United States should enquire what sort of government they are under—Is it republican? Is it aristocratical—or, is it monarchical?
It is not republican. If it was, we should not have seen such a Proclamation* as appears by the public prints to have been done at the city of Philadelphia on the 12th of December last, offering 500 dollars reward for each of the persons concerned in killing certain Indians of the Cherokee nation.
The infant state of Georgia swallowed the federal constitution, with so voracious an appetite that like the glutton with his oysters, she took not time to examine whether they were milky or not, till they produced such a nausea, as to incline the poor wretch to a hearty fit of puking when he had not the power of disgorging.
There were not wanting at that period in Georgia characters of duplicity who wished for the establishment of a government wherein sycophancy and some other reptile qualities of the mind would exalt them into public consequence, wherein they might turn their abilities to the best advantage possible—and to deceive the ignorant majority they whispered in their ears, that "nothing but the adoption of the federal constitution could save the state from political damnation." Two only in the convention opposed its adoption, but so badly did they manage the matter, that notwithstanding their opposition, the vote passed the house on the fatal morning, ne mine contradicente .
At that day the bulk of the people of Georgia, might have been aptly compared to a child agreeing to burn its finger for a ginger cake. The child had not sense enough to discover that the smart was to continue after the finger was withdrawn from the blaze. The Georgia convention (a very few excepted) had just as much political knowledge as would balance the child's ideas of the effects of fire.
The state of Georgia, a frontier, had, for many years suffered grievously by the depredations of the Indians. The federal constitution came forward in the garb of
* See National Gazette, No. 118.

an artful gallant addressing an innocent and unsuspecting girl, whose fortune, not her person or mental accomplishments, was the object of his affection. The deceived multitude expected it would afford them ample protection against their savage neighbours.
And it is with a vengeance we are protected!—A few federal troops are stationed on our frontiers to give protection to the Indians and punish any citizen of Georgia who shall presume to kill one of them, altho' of a party who had just embraced their hands in the blood of his wife and children, burnt his habitation, and carried off as much of his stock and furniture as they could lay hold of or manage.
Ye demi-gods of federalism, do no visions haunt your slumbers of the distresses endured on our frontier?—Surrounded by minions, sycophants and parasites (the first of which are the marks of royalty) the glare of your borrowed plumes has so dazzled the eyes of the astonished multitude, that it has, in fact, become difficult to persuade them that you are not infallible!
Is it possible you can really conceive or suppose the Creek Indians to be at amity with the United States, when a very slight exertion might have procured you authentic information that the Cherokees, as well as the other great and respectable allies of the United States, the Creeks, helped to defeat the two generals Harmar and St. Clair?
Behold the salutary effects of a royal mandate appearing in form of a proclamation! The prefatory part of it is sufficient to condemn the residue. Authentic information could not have been received, because to be authentic it was necessary it should be true. Hark then to the voice of truth:
A militia officer, living on the western frontier of Georgia, had some horses carried off by a party of Cherokee Indians. A few of his neighbours were killed, several houses burnt, and a considerable quantity of stock carried off from various people by those respectable aborigines of this ill-fated country. He collected a few of his militia, pursued the murderers, passed several Indian towns without molesting any of the inhabitants, and finally arrived at that in which the hostile savages had taken refuge. This hostile town he laid in ashes, as any other good soldier would have done under like circumstances, killed as many of the red men as he could come at there, and then returned home, passing again in the most peaceable manner thro' their towns, when he had it in his power to annihilate them and their inhabitants.
This officer had been generally active in suppressing the violent attempts of the Indians, which thwarting the views of a few of our oligarchical gentlemen, he was marked out as a proper object on which to try the validity of the proclamation. He was taken into custody by the federal marshal for the district of Georgia, when he chose to go forward to trial, conscious of his innocence, rather than yield to the solicitations of his friends; one hundred and fifty of whom presented themselves, and offered to release him by force.
This, with the court-party, will be an additional instance of the lawless disposition of the Georgians. But they are mistaken: it was only a resuscitation of that patriotic spirit which gave birth to the two battles of Lexington and Bunker's hill, and paved the way to those exalted stations in which some now are, who seem to forget that their consequence is wholly and totally from the people, and that from the current of their breath it derives its existence only.
As an extenuation of the conduct of the federal government towards the United States generally, and the state of Georgia particularly, it cannot be denied but that the people wear the yoke so tamely, that the plain inference to be drawn is, The Almighty originally intended them for slaves, and therefore did not endure them with mental faculties to support such a government as they had been tantalized with.
Solomon slept with his fathers—Rehoboam ascended his throne—he took bad counsel, which Jeroboam availing himself of, rent the kingdom in twain. It is possible, nay it is more than probable, that a duplicate of the transactions of those days may be copied into the pages of American history, when certain heads, which are now warm, are repoling in the dust.
A CITIZEN OF GEORGIA. Wilkes County, April 15, 1793.
NEW-YORK, June 25.
Copy of a letter from a gentleman in Wilmington, N. Carolina, to the printers of the Daily Advertiser, dated June 16, 1793.
“On Thursday last was brought into this port, an English sloop called the Providence, from Montego Bay, James Robertson, master, a prize to the French privateer Le Vainqueur de la Bastille, Francois Henry Hervieux, commander—since when the privateer has arrived.
“It appears that the Vainqueur de la Bastille, late the Hector of Philadelphia, was purchased in Charleston by captain Hervieux (an officer in the French navy) who having through the medium of the consul of the French Republic, residing in Charleston, procured a commission for his vessel, armed her, and having caused the American papers belonging to the Hector
to be deposited in the custom house in Charleston, failed on a cruise.
“That between Cape Fear and Cape Romaine, at the distance of four and an half leagues from land, he fell in with the Providence, which he captured after having chased her some time.
“Since capt. Hervieux's arrival, it having been rumoured that a certain Gideon Olmstead, formerly the owner of the Hector, had acted as an officer on board the French privateer, at the time of the capture of the sloop; although an American citizen, two magistrates of the county, in pursuance (as they supposed) of the proclamation of the President of the United States, thought proper to issue their warrant for the apprehending of said Olmstead—and upon examination, conceived the evidence to be of a nature, and his case and situation such as deserved to be submitted to the cognizance of the federal judiciary. They accordingly caused Mr. Olmstead to enter into a recognizance in the sum of two hundred pounds, for his appearance at the next district court, to be held for the district of North-Carolina, on the first Monday in July next.
“Captain Hervieux is acknowledged to have treated his prisoners with unusual generosity; nor have they since their arrival in the harbor, been at all restrained of their liberty.
“The captain of the British sloop, taking advantage of this indulgence, availing himself of the countenance and support he has received in this town, and by advice of counsel, has instituted an action of trespass against the commander of the French privateer and Mr. Olmstead, in the sum of two thousand pounds, upon pretence that the capture was illegal.
“Vexatious as is this suit, it will certainly be productive of the most serious inconveniences to captain Hervieux, (who is still in the custody of the sheriff) and will probably discourage that liberality in others which has prompted his conduct in this circumstance; since far from releasing their prisoners with speedy humanity, caution will teach the French cruisers in future, the necessity of confining (at least) their English captives, 'till they reach the territories of the French Republic, or until the chance of war shall bring them relief and liberty.”
By the arrival of the snow Pallas, captain Avery, yesterday afternoon, from London, we have received English papers to May 9, from which we have selected the following:—
BRUSSELS, May 1.
By private letters we are informed, that Nantz has surrendered to the victorious arms of the counter-revolutionists. The same letters announce, that Philip Egalite was carried back to Paris, those who were carrying him to Marcellles being afraid of meeting the Marquis de la Fayette upon the road.
LONDON, May 7.
From Tuesday's London Gazette. TOURNAI, May 3.
On the 1st instant, the French attacked the advanced posts of the left wing of the combined army, but were repulsed in all their attempts. On the same morning the French also attacked the advanced posts on the centre, but were there likewise repulsed: They suffered in these several engagements a considerable loss both of men and cannon.
We have this day received letters from Brussels, dated the 3d instant, in the afternoon, one of them inclosing the following letter that moment come to hand.
MONS, May 1.
“We have taken by assault the mountain of Ausin, one league distant from Valenciennes, which was strongly fortified with cannon, and intercepted the communication of the four roads. We have taken several prisoners, and we are assured 40 or 50 pieces of cannon. However this may be, it is certain that we have possession of the mountain; so that we can keep a check on the camp of Farners, and get possession of Valenciennes with more facility.”
Extract of a letter from Dover, May 5.
“The captain of the packet from Ostend, just arrived, reports, that a messenger arrived at Ostend from the armies yesterday afternoon, who brought an account of an action, in which the French had sustained a considerable loss. The Duke of York was engaged in it; but particulars are not stated.”
The whole capture of the Spanish galloon was on Saturday last adjudged to the captors, and the Spanish ambassador has assented to it, after a minute investigation on the subject. Lord Hood will be entitled to a share, as commander in chief of the fleet which made the capture; and it is said that his proportion alone will amount to 60,000. sterling.
Lord Hood, as commander in chief of the Mediterranean fleet, comes in for a 16th of this prize, whatever it may turn out to be, and all other captures made by the ships under his orders, which must nett his Lordship a very capital fortune.
In consequence of the cargo of the rich recaptured Spanish ship being allowed by the government as an entire prize, a troop of light horse was dispatched from Lon-
don on Monday last to Portsmouth, to escort this immense wealth directly to town.
The French Convention have voted to their minister at war, the enormous sum of 52,800,000 livres, or about 2,300,000. to provide subsistence for the armies.
Brussels Gazette Extraordinary.
May 2, 1793.
“The French came to attack us yesterday in force. They were at first repulsed from St. Sauve. There is reason to believe that their intention was to turn the left wing of our army.
“It was determined to make the second line march by Sebourg, Couches and Preseine. Couches has been burnt—The enemy were beaten, and pursued as far as Farners.
“Four divisions of Braco drove them from Saten, and took from them six cannon, with their horses.
“About one P. M. the firing ceased, but it began again in the right wing of the army about three, and was still continued till seven.
“The corps under general Clairfayt, are still in pursuit of the enemy. Our loss is estimated at almost 200 men. Our chas- seurs suffered greatly, and would have been dispersed, had it not been for the support of the cavalry.
“The French have lost a number of men. Besides thirteen ammunition wag- gons, we have taken from them 8 pieces of cannon, of which four are 4 pounders, two 2 pounders, and one 12 pounder, together with a 14 pound howitzer.
“We wait for more circumstantial de- tails of this affair.”
A very important action took place on the 1st inst. between a part of the combined armies and the French.—On the morning of the 1st, the French advanced a considerable body of troops against the corps of Prussians under general Knobelsdorf, occupying the post of Maulde, and likewise against the body of Austrians occupying the important post before Conde. The relief of that place was evidently the object of the French. They meant by advancing against the Prussian general and the advanced corps of the Prince of Saxe Cobourg's army, to keep them in check, while they made their chief attack upon the Austrians, under cover of a large wood of which the French were in possession. They commenced their attack at five in the morning, and between that and evening made four different attacks, the last of which, the most vigorous, commenced at three, and was not over till between six and seven in the evening. The Austrians stood all the different attacks with the utmost bravery and firmness. The greatest part of them were engaged with musketry in the wood. General Knobelsdorf detached several corps from his post to their assistance, which he could do with the greatest safety, as he was supported by two battalions of British from Tournay. The French were at length completely repulsed, and several pieces of cannon were taken.
The loss was considerable on both sides. The French were greatly superior in numbers. They retreated in confusion to Farners. It was supposed that the consequence of this victory on the part of the allies must be attended with the fall of Conde.
The Paris letters received yesterday, are dated the 30th ult. They state that the city was perfectly tranquil, and that nothing new had occurred. The triumph of the Jacobins on the acquittal of Marat was unbounded. In Brissot's Journal this acquittal is mentioned as the ruin of France.
The French have sent out all the ships of war they can muster to protect the coast of Brittany; so fearful are they of succour being sent from this country to the royalists in that quarter.
The French are said, from very good authority, to have forty sail of the line now at and ready for sea, tolerably well manned, and in decent condition for service.
Accounts have been received from Jersey, of the date of the 29th ult. It appears that on the 23d, a French fleet, under convoy of three frigates of considerable force, stood very close in with the island, which occasioned the alarm gun to be fired, and the beacons to be lighted. The French, however, towards the evening stood away, without attempting any descent. One or two of the French ships stood so close in, as to fire upon some of the batteries on shore. It was this cannonading, and the signals of alarm from the island of Jersey, which led the Lieut. Governor of Guernsey to conclude that a descent had actually been attempted, and induced him to dispatch some intelligence to England. The 11th and 12th regiments, which sailed from Plymouth for the relief of the island, will probably return to their former quarters, upon finding it in a state of security.
It is reported, that the commissaries from the National Convention have ordered all the English merchants residing at Dunkirk, to quit that town in less than 24 hours from the 1st inst.
EXETER, May 8.
Extract of a letter from Lord Sheffield to the Mayor of that City.
“House of Commons, 4th May, 1793. “I have enclosed some regulations and rules which the commissioners intend to adopt, or nearly the same. I urged the necessity in a meeting (which is this moment broke up) of sending to the country immediately some sketch of our general intentions, and I hope the enclosed will be found useful at Bristol.
“All persons who mean to derive any advantage from Excise Bills to be granted under the act of Parliament which is expected to pass in two or three days, must cause them to be delivered to the office of the commissioners for issuing Excise Bills, at Mercer's Hall, London, on or before Monday the 13th inst. at 12 o'clock at noon, letters sealed up containing the name and residence of the party, the sum he requires, the goods or other securities he means to deposit, and if at a distance from London, the name of the person to whom the Excise Bills are to be delivered. Applications to the board to be kept as secret as possible, and all applications not approved, or which do not come within the scope of the act, or the regulations of the board, shall be returned to the parties, without the same being entered in the books of the commissioners.
“Except on particular occasions, not less than 500l. or more than 5000l. security will be accepted from one individual. “The smallest sum to be advanced to any individual will be 4000l. “This last is a new clause in the bill. “Not more than fifty per cent. will be admitted on manufactured goods, and sixty per cent. on raw materials.”
[Translated and published at the desire of the writer.]
Copy of a Letter from J. L. COTELLE, an inhabitant of Cayes, to Citizen GENET, dated Chestertown, June 9, 1793.
CITIZEN GENET, minister of the French republic to the United States of America, in Philadelphia.—Citizen minister, I have seen with equal indignation and surprise the letter* written to you by the Civil Commissioners, Santhonax and Polverel, and am no less affected that out of complaisance to them you have caused it to be inserted in the American newspapers. Its object seems to be to raise the same prejudices among the Americans that these gentlemen availed themselves of in St. Domingo, against those emigrants whom their blind indignation pursued to these hospitable shores. The character you have to sustain ought to ensure your impartiality; and since the civil commissioners stand so much in awe of the public opinion of this country, as to endeavour to bewilder it by fallhood and slander, I flatter myself that you will not be offended with the publication of this letter thro' the same channel which conveyed yours to the world.
Let the American people know then, that the far greater number of the St. Domingo emigrants have been under the necessity of flying from the odious and absurd tyranny which is enforced in that unhappy country under the sanction of the new republic of France. Many of them, and myself of the number, have been compelled to escape individually from a proscription the most unnatural, executed without discrimination, and the most unbridled licentiousness. They who know it not ought to be informed, that the first constituting national assembly, in order to alleviate in different parts of the French dominions, those troubles which were inseparable from a great revolution, authorized the executive to appoint civil commissioners, whose business it was to employ the most persuasive means to recall exasperated or misinformed minds to that love of peace, union, and equality, which in future should be the principal foundation of the new social contract of France.
By the late revolutionary events of France, those civil commissioners of St. Domingo transformed themselves into absolute dictators, and set themselves above all laws.—An authority so absurd and exorbitant, it is well known, can be no further tolerable in times of public confusion, than as it is in some sort conformable to justice and impartiality, and calculated to crush such factious combinations as would disturb the public peace. But what name shall be given to it when only employed in fomenting the most contemptible cabals, of which it declares itself the avowed protector? Such, however, has been the part acted by the commissioners Santhonax and Polverel in St. Domingo, sent thither with only the humble title of conciliatory commissioners, to organize the colony according to the decree of April 4th, 1792, which grants equality of condition to all free men of colour. It has been their constant endeavour to add fuel to the flame of anarchy, in obstinately contemning that decree, and trampling under foot that equality which was decreed simply with a view to throw into the hands of the mulattoes, by any means how violent soever, every branch of the administrative and governmental authority of the colony. So far from that, the decree forbade them re-establishing the constituting authority, in taking it even for the basis of their operations. It simply empowered them to create, of a new, a colonial assembly by the legal and constitutional method of a primary assembly. Supposing circumstances to have
* See National Gazette of June 1.

required that all the public functionaries, generally known to be disaffected, or only suspected of disaffection, should be recalled, pursuant to the powers which no one ever disputed the commissioners had a right to exercise, the same decree in authorizing a provision for successors, understood without doubt, that it should be by constitutional means. It certainly never meant, that they themselves should appoint officers that ought only to be nominated by the jurisdiction, or that they should violate all the formalities prescribed by ancient as well as modern laws, to confer the sacred character of judge, or that like the Sultan of Turkey, they should usurp the sacred rights of citizenship, or appoint any others for judges except men whom the people esteemed and had confidence in.
If it should be proved that the commissioners have suffered the assemblies of the communes to elect municipal officers, there are grounds to say that it would have been equally easy to assemble them for the election of all other public officers, whose nomination is constitutionally vested in the people. The assembly of the communes might even have appointed delegates to form another colonial assembly and send deputies to the convention. But perhaps the mulattoe party, of which the civil commissioners have declared themselves the patrons, were not the prevalent one, or perhaps it was the intention of these legislators that neither party should get the better of the other, but to suspend them both, and the rights of both, in perfect equilibrium.
However, there is not much to complain of on this head: for, by the first nomination, to which the mulattoes assented, there was not a single municipal jurisdiction in the colony where they were not admitted, notwithstanding that at this period, in most of them the whites had a majority; and this is a sufficient proof of the submission of the latter to the decree of the 4th of April, and of their desire to concur by all possible means in re-establishing peace. The civil commissioners, then, will always be under the reproach of having been the first instigators of our late troubles, and, as far as concerns the citizens, having tyrannically usurped all the powers of government, and in order to appropriate them to themselves, constantly opposed the appointment of delegates, either to form a new assembly, or to be sent to the convention.
Such, citizen minister, are the truths which the civil commissioners have not imparted to you in their letter, and which are nevertheless necessary to be disclosed to the Americans. They ought also to be informed that the great crime of the commune of Port-au-Prince was, their demanding the formation of a colonial assembly, and for having against their inclination, tho' authorized by the decree of the 4th of April (as it authorized all the other communes of the island) proceeded to the nomination of its deputies for this assembly and to the national convention. It may be necessary to add, that the community of Cayes had expressed the same wish for the formation of such an assembly, and for sending delegates to the national convention.
This object of the whites was to enforce that law of equality, which they had long wished for to no purpose; an equality which could no longer be realized, since the mulattoes, grown richer than the whites by pillage and robbery, had inclined the balance of wealth to their side.
Such are the real motives of that general proscription of the white citizens most devoted to the revolution. This conduct of the civil commissioners, doubtless, conceals another design which the mulattoes may not be aware of, but the effects of which they may yet feel as well as the whites; this is no less than a plan for the general emancipation of the slaves.
After having fomented the troubles, given strength to anarchy, aided the revolts of the slaves, and reduced to ashes the produce of the colony; and having, consequently, ruined the national concern for the preservation of this invaluable possession, would it now be very difficult to persuade all France that the only means to restore St. Domingo to prosperity is a general emancipation of the slaves?—Would it be difficult to persuade her that this is the only method whereby she can indemnify herself for the enormous expenses that will in future be incurred, and to no purpose?—or to assure her that such is the military skill of the civil commissioners Santhonax and Polverel, that it behoves her to know that the first was for a long time before his colonial dictatorship, hired editor to the lucidous revolutionary gazette of Prudhomme ; and that both Polverel and himself are both well known agents, I will not say of a particular sect, but of a faction, more inclined to disseminate its own particular principles than to assert the prosperity of French republicanism, established as it is on a basis more consonant to human reason, and therefore more solid than any other system.
The commune of Cayes, equally assembled under the authority of the municipality, took the liberty to make known to commissioner Polverel the constitutional representations advanced in their proceedings of the 29th of January last, and in an address made to him, relative to the deprivation and arbitrary imprisonment of certain citizens—He answered, a month afterwards, by a proclamation of the 4th of
March following. These are the two pieces that I subjoin hereto, by way of extract, submitting them to the decision of the people of America. They will be the best judges of the enormity of the crime imputed to the members of the abovementioned assembly (one of whose secretaries I was) and may form an opinion what credit is due to these gentlemen in the report they gave in of their subsequent operations against the town of Port-au-Prince; and finally they will best judge what respect our French demagogues pay to the eternal immutable principles of sacred equality and universal justice , under colour of which, they impose upon a too credulous and much abused people, like certain false priests who preach up mysteries they do not believe in, and a morality the austerity of which they well know how to relax when it affects themselves.
(Signed) J. L. COTELLE. Chesterstown (Maryland) June 9, 1793.
P. S. In transcribing the two pieces that accompany the above letter, I could not avoid adding several reflections on the second in order, which you are at liberty to retrench if you judge proper, or publish with my letter. If I could have gone to the expence of the impression, I would have given the whole entire, accompanied with an English translation, as I am not certain that merely at my requisition they would be inserted in the public papers.
I CERTIFY the above to be a true copy from the original, to be printed according to a request made of me in a letter from J. L. Cotelle, dated the 9th instant.—Philadelphia, June 13th. 1793. ESNAULT.
[The two pieces referred to will appear in future papers.]
PHILADELPHIA.
SATURDAY, June 29.
Extract of a letter from Augusta (Georgia) dated June 7.
"People in these parts seem determined to have their hands no longer tied up from exerting those abilities that God and nature have given them against Indian murderers, and incendiaries. Regular bodies of cavalry are formed and forming, under the auspices of the state Government, to carry retributive vengeance into the territories of those unprincipled destroyers, the savages. These bodies are arranged on such a plan as to relieve each other at proper periods, and by this means and with their sudden inroads, keep the enemy in a state of perpetual consternation. It is a fact that the federal troops in this state are laughed at by the Indians, and a whole company of them not so much dreaded as a single shirt man mounted on horseback."
Newspapers received from France contain the details of the whole of Dumourier's plot and treachery (they shall be successively communicated.) By these it will appear, that that infamous man had conceived the project of destroying the independence of his country from the moment he was placed at the head of affairs, by men as despicable as himself. T— whose presence is now tolerated in a free country where he is even received by persons, who appear to have forgotten all they owe to themselves: T—, whom the French court had employed in attempts to bribe those whom they wished to bring over to their interest, presented Dumourier to the king, as capable of directing him, and the choice shews, that he well knew how to select a villain.
Dumourier, of an intriguing and ambitious disposition, scarcely raised to the station to which he aspired, forgot his benefactors. He believed, that he could become all powerful, by wearing for a time the mask of patriotism; having succeeded in his first attempt, he determined to complete alone his ambitious plans; but he was soon brought low again by those whom he had forgot while fortune smiled.
Become more circumspect by this first fall, he felt the necessity of renewing his connection with intriguers, whose power he so sensibly felt when he was no longer their accomplice. At the same time he resolved to rake vengeance on the king, by whom he thought himself injured; with this view, instead of corresponding with him directly as the constitution required of commanders, he addressed his dispatches to the national assembly, and thus gave a clue to the treasons of the court, to which he was desirous, by making himself feared, to become necessary:—But the people pushed matters further than they wished—Dumourier T—, Ste Foi, &c. seeing the king undone endeavoured, some to collect the wreck of their dishonourable fortunes, others the means of attaining possession of the supreme power, and all finding the king no longer useful to their designs, abandoned him. T— went to England, he was empowered to offer Dumourier's services to the king; St Foi remained on the frontier to serve as an intermediate agent. The plot attempted by Dumourier was laid by T—, by him presented to lord Hawkesbury, and adopted by the council of George the III. Persuaded of
its infallibility this noted conspirator has come to America to continue his infernal manoeuvres, and covered with gold and crimes, a corrupter by trade, he comes to poison this growing empire, endeavour to introduce in it all the vices of courts, and to draw it into the league of despots combined against France. [Gen. Adv.]
"The repeated accounts (says a correspondent) that we receive, of the stopping and plundering of American vessels, by British armed vessels, is so gross a violation of that respect due to neutral powers, that if the government of the United States tamely submits to these insults, we may very shortly expect our sea ports will be plundered under pretext of searching for French property. Were such acts of hostility committed by any power on earth on British vessels, we should hear of that nation's demanding redress and restitution, as she did in the affair at Nootka Sound."
"The British subjects now residing in our country, may perhaps, laugh at the idea of America attempting to resent these injuries—but it may be well for them to recollect that America once defied the power of Great Britain; and though she may not have it in her power, to compel that nation by force of arms, to make restitution, she can seize British vessels and other property within her own territory, and can, as she did at the commencement of the late war, drive every British subject out of the country:—and it would require no great exertion on her part even to take Canada."
Extract of a letter from Savannah, dated June 6.
"The British here kept their king's birth day on the 4th, and drank toasts. Good manners should have taught them (considering where they are) to give the President of the United States previously to their king, queen, and royal family. The practice of publishing their toasts in American newspapers is little better than an insult to this country, where (to say nothing more) the part their nation has taken against the liberties of France must forever render it an object of popular execration."
Accounts from Kentucky to the 2d of June mention that 400 Indians had crossed the Ohio the latter end of May, some distance below Fort St. Vincent, 200 of whom were destined to attack the frontiers of Kentucky, while the rest were to enter the wilderness with a view to intercept emigrants and travellers.
Heads of Intelligence by late arrivals.
Several skirmishes had taken place on or near the French frontier, between parties of the republican troops and the Austrians. In these the French have generally been successful, and given the mercenaries of despotism a sample of what they may expect should their leaders presume to conduct them into the territories of the republic.—On the 30th of April Paris was in perfect tranquility, and nothing new had occurred: Marat had been acquitted: Several ships of war had been detached by order of the convention to protect the coast of Brittany from any succours being sent from England to support the rebels in that part of France. The combined armies near the northern frontiers of France could not act for want of their stores and magazines, which had not yet arrived. On the east, the French armies at Mentz and Landau effectually prevented the progress of the Prussians.—The French frontier was daily and hourly strengthening, the military in high spirits, and determined to carry the glorious cause through, or perish in its defence. The Empress of Russia had taken possession of a considerable part of Poland—She had attempted a justification of her conduct, with as much truth and justice as the king of Prussia for seizing on Dantzick: the king of Poland had been given to understand by the Russian minister that unless he attended the confederation at Grodno, Prince Louis of Wirtemberg would be appointed by the imperial court to succeed him on the throne of Poland; Stanislaus obeyed the mandate and was on his way to Grodno when the last accounts left Europe, to sanction the partition of his kingdom. The English minister at the court of Denmark had received orders from London to require the Danes to accede to the league against France; they, like the Swedes, had wished to avail themselves of the advantages of a neutrality, but as Sweden was evidently overawed by Russia, it was expected that the Danes would soon yield to the solicitations of the confederacy. The Dutch had begun to manifest a strong disinclination to the continuance of the war, and had intimated to England that a speedy peace was absolutely necessary. The war on the part of the German empire was carried on with difficulty; the emperor being obliged to borrow plate &c. of his subjects, to be coined, to be repaid at the end of six years, with an interest of four and an half, and a premium of four per cent. per annum.—The Austrian army near the French frontier were waiting for a body of heavy artillery, that they expected would carry all before it in their intended attack on France. Sixteen thousand horses were employed in drawing it thro' the low countries.
It was believed in England, when the last accounts came away, that a plan had
been agitated in the National Convention, for detaching Great-Britain from the general combination of powers, and two persons had actually arrived in London with letters preliminary to a negotiation.
The late Mr. Rumsey's steam-boat has been tried on the river Thames, and found to answer the intended purpose. The vessel is nearly of one hundred tons burthen, and was propelled against the stream by means of a column of water forced stern-ways in a horizontal direction thro' the keel, which is a hollowed trunk.
Several French frigates arrived at Cape Francois the 11th of June instant. On the 12th a British 20 gun ship was brought in there a prize to one of them. The French ship Jupiter of 74 guns has also captured and sent in the ship Ann of Glasgow, last from Philadelphia, with 1500 barrels of flour bound for the Bay of Honduras.
We hear from the northward that preparations are making at Westpoint to put that important post into a complete state of defence, to prevent any European attempts at a partition of the United States. It is added, that large quantities of lead are also purchasing by order of government in the different states, and all the spare cannon that can be found.—Individuals from Europe report, that if the leagued powers against France prove successful this campaign, America will soon be required to accede to the general confederation.
A letter from a merchant in London (dated May 1.) to his friend in New-York, has the following paragraph.
"I find the situation of things at home as well as abroad has brought Mr. Pitt to say very nearly as much as that he will treat with the convention, or the men of the day, if no better can be done. He is so much frightened at the home situation of things, that he will make terms with France, and next packet will confirm to you what I now write."
PROBATIONARY ODES of JONATHAN PINDAR, Esq.
(Continued.)
ODE VI.
To MIDAS.
Jonathan entreateth Midas not to starve the nation: proposeth a project for paying off the national debt through the INSTRUMENTALITY of the S——y of the T——y.
Sua fortuna faber
O Greedy Midas! I've long since been told Whate'er you touch'd is instant turn'd to gold; Thine alchymistic fingers, prithee, stop, Or thou'lt not leave us all a single sop.
Those fingers from thy birth have been employ'd With such well-tim'd precipitation, That had the sacred college tried, Thou'dst beat them all at tra substantiatio .
Briareus had an hundred hands, but thou hast more, Grasping at once this spacious globe around: One hand embraces the Chinese shore, Beyond Ohio's banks another's found.
Mountains and rivers, rocks and sugar-trees, Nankeens and China, green and Bohca teas Are instant turn'd to gold whene'er you please.
O spare, untouch'd, our codfish, rice and bacon, Or else the continent must be forsaken.
Midas, much service might'st thou do the state, Thy talents wert thou willing to exert; Relieve the people from a grievous weight And give reward where there has been desert.
My project may appear a little bold; But sure I am, 'twill pay off honest claims: Touch HAMILTON, and Knox, and FISHER AMES,
And turn the Speculators all to gold; Let Congress send them straitway to the mint, They'll pay our debts—or else the devil is in't.
|| The Vatican; consisting of the Pope and his Cardinals.
*1* JONATHAN PINDAR's compliments to JOHN FENNO and his correspondent, the Parody-Man—wishes them both a soul-refrigerating smell of the President's kitchen on or about the eleventh of February next—Jonathan hereby (in due form) exculpates the Editor of the National Gazette from the horrid and damaging charge of writing the PROBATIONARY ODES.
For PORT AUPRINCE,
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BETSEY,
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POT AND PEARL ASHES.
TO THE PUBLIC.
HAVING attended carefully to the result of several comparative experiments, which were made to ascertain the nature and merits of Samuel Hopkins process for manufacturing pearl ashes or calcined alkaline salts, we are of opinion, that by his method wood ashes may be made to yield a quantity of pearl ashes of a very fine white colour, equal in weight and strength to the black or uncalcined alkaline salts which are obtained by the ordinary method of leaching and boiling down the black leys, so that the manufacturer who adopts this method, will probably gain all the weight which is lost by the ordinary process of calcining, and may effect the calcination in a much easier manner. We also examined a furnace erected according to the directions of Samuel Hopkins, and were present during part of a process, which was conducted in it, and believe it to be so happily constructed as to effect the calcination of wood ashes, and evaporate the leys without more fuel than is used to boil down the leys only by the common method.
* David Rittenhouse. † Benjamin Ruff. ‡ James Hutchinson. Benjamin Say. || Calper Wister, jun. John Penington.
June 17, 1793.
In addition to the foregoing certificate, I conceive it proper to inform the public in what respect my process differs from the usual method, and to offer some directions to such as may incline to adopt it.
1st. This process consists in calcining common house or field ashes in a furnace of a peculiar construction so contrived, that the same fire that boils down the leys calcines the ashes; hence it appears there is not a greater consumption of wood in this new process than is necessary in the former, in obtaining black salts, and the ashes from the wood for boiling saved, which was before much lost, occasioned by the strong draught necessary to keep the kettles boiling.
2d. It is recommended to such as may adopt this method, to pay particular attention to the first part of the process, viz. calcining the ashes properly; for this being carefully performed, the subsequent steps become easy and less liable to fail.
3d. The ashes should be spread over the hearth of the furnace not more than one inch and an half thick, direct a lively blaze on them until they become red hot, keeping them frequently stirred, and the dampers well closed.
4th. In order that the workman may know when his ashes are sufficiently burnt until he becomes enough perfect in the business, from other circumstances, a small parcel may be taken out and put in a glass with water, if the ashes settle quickly after stirring them, and the leys appear colourless, they are fit for drawing into the ash pit; if they are calcined longer the quantity may be diminished.
5th. After the fires begin to burn, every part of the furnace should be kept as close as possible, the door of the ash pit and hearth, and that for introducing the ashes on the hearth, should be made to shut complete, for I have reason to believe a great draught of air carries off much of the salts.
6th. Great care should be taken not to put more ashes into the furnace than I have directed above; it has been found by experiments that when much more have been put in, the salts are not so white nor the quantity so great. I believe it was for want of attention to this circumstance and allowing too great a draught of air, that some who attempted my process have not been so successful as was expected.
7th. The ashes are drawn from the ash pit the next day; after calcining and put into leach tubs, the leys drawn from them after settling are boiled down, the salts kept well stirred in finishing off, until they become perfectly white.
* President of the American Philosophical Society. † Professor of the Institution and Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, formerly Professor of Chemistry. ‡ Professor of Chemistry in the University. || Adjunct Professor of Anatomy, Surveyor &c. in the University, formerly Professor of Chemistry in the College. The other two whose names are without references, are physicians of this city.
8th. If the salts should not become the colour as is described in the first instance, through an imperfect calcination, they may be dissolved, settled, and boiled down again.
The advantage arising from this process may be comprised under the following heads.
1st. By calcining the ashes before the leys are drawn from them, we obtain as great a quantity at least of pearl ashes, as of common black salts; pearl ashes generally sell when at market at 50l. per ton: the highest price for black salts is 25l. per ton, and if converted into pearl ashes, it requires as much more labour and fuel as in the first instance, and a loss from 25 to 30 per cent.
The foregoing observations are intended for such as are or may be engaged in the manufacturing of pot and pearl ashes; they will easily understand the terms I have employed; for the information of others it may not be amiss to explain, what is meant by black salts, pot ashes and pearl ashes.
2d. Black salts are made by boiling down the leys from common wood ashes, until they are perfectly dry.
3d. Pot ashes are made by melting the black salts in a very strong fire, and lading it out into coolers.
4th. Pearl ashes are made by putting the black salts into a furnace prepared for that purpose, and throwing a strong blaze on them; this operation is called scorching; they are then dissolved in water, settled and boiled down again, returned back into the furnace and calcined until they are sufficiently white: Pot ashes made from calcined ashes are allowed to be much superior to those made in the common mode.
I expect the names and characters of most of my fellow citizens that have signed the foregoing certificate are well known; they are allowed to be well acquainted with chemistry. A furnace was erected for one of them, who kindly undertook to make the necessary comparative experiments, according to my directions; the result of which is already set forth.
SAMUEL HOPKINS.
6th Mo. 22d, 1793.
I DO certify, that I have erected a small furnace, in the suburbs of this city, on the patent method, for the purpose of manufacturing pot and pearl ashes, which I find to consume on an average no more than one cord of wood per week; two hands will calcine 20 bushels of ashes per day, and bale down the leys therefrom in the same time, which if well calcined will produce pearl ash the first boiling. The leys are not so apt to boil over as those in the common method.—The expense of the said furnace, exclusive of the boilers, did not exceed ten pounds currency.
JOHN REES.
Philadelphia, June 20, 1793.
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) May 17.
A gentleman on the South Fork of Saluda river, in a letter of the 23d ult. sends his correspondent in this city the following description of an extraordinary animal which has been lately discovered on the Bald Mountain, and on other mountains in the Western Territory:—
This animal is between twelve and fifteen feet high, and in shape resembling a human being, except the head, which is in equal proportion to its body, and drawn in somewhat like a tarapin; its feet is like those of a negro, about two feet long, and hairy, which is of a dark dun colour; its eyes are exceedingly large, and open and shut up and down its face; the hair of its head is about six inches long, stands straight like a negro's; its nose is like that of a human species, only large, and inclined to what is called Roman.
These animals are bold, and have lately attempted to kill several persons—in which attempts some of them have been shot.
Their principal resort is on the Bald Mountain, where they lie in wait for travellers—but some have been seen in this part of the country. The inhabitants of this place call it Yahoo: the Indians, however, give it the name of Chickly-Cudly.
A FEW COPIES OF THE TRANSACTIONS Of the Society instituted in the State of New-York, for the promotion of AGRICULTURE, ARTS, and MANU- FACTURES, May be had at this Office. [Price HALF a DOLLAR.]
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
  JUNE 1793.  D. H. Barom. Ther. Wind. Weather    Tuesday, 18. 6 30. 3 73 N. W. Fair.  3 88 do. do.  Wednesday, 19. 6 30. 3 77 S. W. Fair.  3 29. 95 81 do. do.  Thursday, 20. 6 29. 85 79 S. W. Fair.  3 29. 75 88 W. T. Gust  Friday, 21. 6 29. 7 75 S. W. Cloudy.  3 29. 5 85 do. do. rain.  Saturday, 22. 6 29. 75 58 N. Cloudy.  3 29. 8 78 N. Fair.  Sunday, 23. 6 29. 9 58 calm Fair.  3 29. 9 78 W. do.  Monday, 24. 6 30. 1 67 S. Cloudy.  3 30. 1 74 S.E. Rain.  
TO THE PUBLIC.
WHEREAS an attachment at the suit of Samuel Imlay and Nathaniel Imlay, executors of the testament and last will of Peter Imlay, deceased, has issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the state of New Jersey, against the lands of Garret Voorhees, late of the county of Middlesex, and state aforesaid, returnable to the first Tuesday in September, seventeen hundred and ninety-two.—Notice is hereby given to the said Garret Voorhees, that unless he appear and file special bail to the said action, judgment will be entered against him, by default, and the lands so attached sold for the satisfaction of such of his creditors as shall appear to be justly entitled to any demand thereon, and shall apply for that purpose, according to the form of the statute in such case made and provided.
By order of the Court, April 17. 1792. 17 HOWELL, Clk.
FOR SALE,
Thirteen Hundred and Sixty Acres of excellent
FARMING or TOBACCO LANDS,
LYING in the county of Amherst, in the state of Virginia, on one of the principal branches of James River, within six miles of the latter, from where it is navigable for boats of ten or twelve tons burthen.—Besides the advantages of these lands, for the farmer or cultivator of tobacco, they are supposed, from a small though successful experiment, made by the late colonel Cliftwell, to contain an abundance of metals, which, if not of a precious (as has been even supposed) are certainly of a very valuable kind. The better, however, to ascertain this fact, and place the purchaser on a safe footing, in so hazardous a business, as all those subterraneous researches, without the utmost certainty of an abundance of the desired ore, is supposed to be, every reasonable and necessary assistance or indulgence will be rendered those inclined to make the experiment, as well as every other necessary information given by the Editor of this gazette, in Philadelphia, or
JOHN NICHOLAS, Charlotteville, Virginia. June 8, 1793. 1796W
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I Have claims to about two hundred and fifty thousand acres of LAND in the state of Kentucky, in different parts of that country, some of which I know to be equal to any; all of which I am inclined to dispose of, either by entire sale, or by admitting one, or two partners, to whom the agency on the whole will be committed.
One fourth of the contract will be required in hand, either in cash, merchandise, or such assets as may be converted to active use; the residue may be apportioned in convenient instalments. The purchasers to give security, on the land, or otherwise, as suits them.
Knowing that there is a prejudice against the titles of land in that state, which is more general than just, I am willing to stipulate in the contract, that a discount, or deduction, shall be made, where any land may be lost, by reason of a defective title.
Any person inclining to such a purchase, is requested to write to me by post, in answer to whom, more particular information will be given. HENRY BANKS. Richmond March 20, 1793. 22W 1d.
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PRICE CURRENT.
Dollars. Cents. (100 Cents make 1 dollar.)
  ASHES, pot per ton 120d to 125d  —pearl ditto 134d to 140d  Bacon, flitches per lb 8 to 9c  —houlers do 7c  Beef, Boston per barrel 12d  —Country do 9d to 10d  Beer, American in bottles including bottles per doz. 1d 40c  —ditto per barrel 4d 67c  Bees wax per lb 26c 28c  Brandy, Coniac per gal 90c 100c  —common do 80c to 85c  Butter in kegs per lb 10c 12c  Cheese, Country per lb 8c 13c  —English 19c  Chocolate 15c 18c  Coal per bushel 24c 33c  Codfish per cwt 3d 53c  Coffee per lb 14c 16c  Copperas per cwt 1d 67c  Cordage, American per cwt 7d 67c 8d  Cotton per lb 26c 28c  Flax per lb 11c 12c  Flaxseed per bush. 90c  Flour superfine per barrel 6d  common 5d 67c  Bur-middlings, best 5d  Meal Indian per bbl. 3d 13c  Rye, do 3d 33c  Gin, Holland per case 4d 66c  —per gallon 80c 90c  Ginseng 20c 24c  Gunpowder, Fine glazed per qr e 4d  Grain, Barley per bushel 1d  Best shelled per bushel 2d 67c  Buckwheat per bushel 40c  Indian corn 60c  Jersey, do 63c  Oats 35c  Rye 60c  Wheat 93c to 120c  Hams per lb 9c to 10c  Hemp, imported per ton 120d 146d 67c  —American per lb 4c 5c  Hides, raw per lb 9c 11c  Hops 28c  Honey per lb 70c  Indigo, Carolina per lb 1d 1d 20c  —French 1d 20c 1d 67c  Iron, Bar per ton 84d  Castings per cwt 4d  Nail-rods per ton 101d 33c  Pig 24d  Sheet 173d 33c  Irons, fad 133d 33c  Lard hogs per lb 9c 10c  Leather, foal per lb 17c 20c  Myrtle wax per lb 12c  Molasses per gallon 44c 47c  Mustard, flour, in bot. per doz. 1d 20c  —second quality, per doz. 87c  Nails, 8d 10d 12d and 20d per lb. 10c  Oil, Linseed per gallon 66c  —Olive 87c  —per case 2d 50c  Pepper per lb 38c  Pimento 19c  Pitch per bbl 1d 73c 2d  Porter per cask 5d 33c  —London per doz 1d 60c  —Amer. bot. inclu. 1d 60c  Pork, Burlington, per bbl 14d 67c  —Lower county 13d  —Carolina 9d  Rice per cwt 3d 45c  Rum, Antigua per gal 1d  Barbadoes 87c  Country, N. E. 60c  Jamaica 1d 12c  Salt-petre per cwt 14d 33c  Salt, Allum, per bush 33c  Cadiz 25c  Lishon 27c  Liverpool 33c  Snake-root per lb 20c 42c  Snuff, per doz. bot. 4d 5d 60c  —per lb 33c 40c  Soap, Brown per lb 6c  —White 8c  Starch per lb 7c  Sugar, Havannah, white, per lb 17c 18c  —Brown 11c 12c  Muscovado per cwt 12d  Lump per lb 24c  Loaf, single refined, 24c  double ditto 33c  Tallow, refined, per lb 9c  Tar, New-Jersey 24 gal per bbl 1d  —Carolina, 32 gal 2d  Tea, Hyson per lb 93c 1d 28c  Souchong 50c 93c  Bohea 33c 36c  Tobacco, James River, best 4d 33c  Inferior 3d 33c  Old 4d 67c  Rappahannock 3d 33c  Coloured Maryland 5d 33c 8d  Dark 2d 40c  Long-leaf 2d 40c  Eastern-shore 2d 2d 23c  Carolina, new 2d 7c 3d  Old 3d 33c  Turpentine per bbl 2d 33c  Wine, Madeira, p. P. 176d 226d  —Lishon 120d 126d  —Teneriffe per gal 63c  —Sherry 90c to 1d 20c  
PRINTED BY CHILDS AND SWAINE, AT THEIR OFFICE NO. 209, HIGH-STREET, NEAR FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.