National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1793-07-24 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: (at No. 209, Market Street) Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, [THREE DOLLARS per annum.]
NUMB. 77 of VOL. II.]
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 1793.
[Total NUMB. 181.]
From the VIRGINIA GAZETTE, of July 11.
HAVING been called from the country to the towns of Richmond and Petersburg a few days since, I could not help observing about a half dozen paper dealers in each place, with as many British traders and factors, among whom were some of the most notorious of the old tories, whispering to each other with unusual earnestness: upon enquiry I found the subject which engaged their attention grew out of some late publications from the press respecting the official conduct of the secretary of the treasury; I observed too that instead of confining their whispers to themselves, they had several stories at their fingers ends, which they industriously pressed upon every respectable character from the country, and related them with an uniformity, which must necessarily have been the effect of previous concert—I remarked that they said little respecting the actual conduct of the gentleman at the head of the treasury department, and manifested rather a suspicious anxiety to divert the public attention from the investigation of that subject ; and to amuse it with some little stories respecting the characters of the persons who were the real or supposed agents in bringing the subject into public discussion.
Two topics were particularly pressed, the one, that the motive of enquiry did not spring from a disinterested zeal for the public good, but from personal dislike and a previously concerted system of persecution against the treasury officer; the other, that Mr. Jefferson was the scourge of all opposition to the treasury administration, and the instigator of the enquiry from its inception to its termination. These appearances made considerable impressions upon my mind, and these stories smelling rather rankly of slander and of malice, I determined to satisfy myself as to the real circumstances which attended the commencement of the enquiry, and which have by some means been carefully kept from the public view. I have since done so, & to receive the information I have received sufficiently interesting to obtain a place in your useful paper.
I cannot help indulging myself, however, with a few prefatory remarks upon the subject as it presents itself to me.
1st. That the paper dealers, British traders, and old tories, should become the combined champions and supporters of the present administration of the government of the United States, which professes to intend the good of the whole American people , is a circumstance as unnatural as it is ominous and menacing.
2d. That the attempt to support the present administration by deception and concealment, evinces its viciousness and partiality, and ought to invigorate public investigation.
3d. That attempting to obstruct the public enquiry into the official conduct of the treasury officer, by feeding its attention with malicious insinuations against the characters of individuals, is an insult upon the public understanding, and evidences a conscious baseness in the cause, which stoops to such pitiful artifices.
4th. That a conscious rectitude is displayed by the opposite party, in disdaining all artificial expedients, and in calling aloud to the public, " to attend to the subject of enquiry itself ," and always pointing to the most authentic document data for its information.
5th. That applauding an officer for concealed deviations from the obvious injunctions of the LAW, is subversive of the sanctity of its obligations, and inculcates a dangerous disaffection from the constitution, by consenting to a radical revolution in the government, which in theory, is made a government of LAWS, but by practice, rendered a government of MEN.
6th. That the idea of pecuniary profit or loss to the public, is contemptible, when put into competition with the found obligation of LAW.—That the officer who disregards this obligation, subverts the constituted tribunal of decision, and usurps its legitimate authority.—That such usurpation contains in itself the essence of criminality.
I will now furnish a statement of facts essentially conflicting with the most accurate information I have been able to collect.
That the paper dealers, British traders, and old tories, sensible of the favours they receive from the present administration , and believing that they can no longer support the one nor retain the other , than they
are able to cajole and deceive the remaining classes of the community, are constantly engaged in fabricating the most indecent falsehoods: That Philadelphia is the great centre of concert; that from the mint established there is issued all this base counterfeit coin, which is distributed amongst their feudatories in every petty town and corporation in America; that the stories in circulation here were probably coined in the same mint, as they bear its appropriate stamps of counterfeit and baseness . That Mr. Jefferson is the object of the aversion of these descriptions of men, not because of any possible objection to his character as a man, but because of his known regard for REPUBLICANISM, the inviolability of laws, and equality in the social rights of man, and because of his pointed refusal to become a guest at the various scrip-reals which have been delicately cooked up, and upon which the scrip-gentry have fattened surprisingly, whilst he remains as lean as honesty. That Mr. Jefferson has at all times conducted himself with the most refined delicacy respecting legislative subjects: that he rarely expressed his opinions upon them, and never during their pendancy before Congress. That he never discovered the presumption of insisting upon the inalienability of his political opinions, nor has his distrust of the talents or the integrity of the Virginia delegation, been sufficient at any time to justify the intrusion of his counsels upon their deliberations; that in short, he has at all times rigidly observed the valuable lesson, of attending to his own business without intermeddling with that of others. As to the particular circumstance of the enquiry into the official conduct of the treasury officer, it was rather accidental than designed, and commenced in the following manner:
On the 20th of November, 1792. Mr. Dayton, probably in concert with the Secretary of the Treasury, moved a resolution for referring to him, to report a plan for reimbursing the loan made of the bank of the United States; that on the 30th of the same month a report was made conformably to the resolution; that this report was, as is usual, referred to a committee of the whole house for examination; that before it was acted upon in committee, a motion was made for discharging the committee without examining the subject & a resolution accompanying the motion, was proposed; that a bill be prepared agreeably to the Secretary's report—This motion was opposed as containing an unusual precipitation, and not warranted by the state of information before the house; but upon the assurance of the mover, that the bill was a thing of course, and required to be passed by the 1st of January, 1793, and that the full text information should accompany the bill when reported, the opposition was withdrawn, and the motion agreed to.—That a bill was shortly reported, referred to a committee of the whole house, and was acted upon the 24th of December.—That in the course of the investigation, a suggestion was made of the want of information, which seemed pretty obvious, which was followed by a motion from Mr. Parker—"That the treasury officer be directed to lay before the house, an account of the application of the monies borrowed at Antwerp and Amsterdam."—This resolution may be deemed the inception of the enquiry into the official conduct of the Secretary of the treasury; that on the 26th of the same month, another motion for information was offered by Mr. Giles, more comprehensive in its requisitions, and definitive in its objects; but on a cry of 'order,' the subject being then under debate, the motion was with-held 'till the next day, and then renewed and carried—For a further explanation and corroboration of this statement of facts, I was referred to the resolutions before mentioned, the report of the Secretary of the Treasury upon the plan for reimbursing the loan of the bank of the United States, and a sketch of the debates of the House of Representatives upon that subject, taken from Fenno's paper.
From the view of the subject, which these papers have presented to my mind, I have come to the following conclusions:
1st. That the enquiry into the official conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury was casual and not premeditated, and of course could not have originated in a motive of systematic persecution.
2d. That Mr. Jefferson could not have been the instigator of that measure, it having obviously commenced in the usual course of debate, and in his absence.
3d. That the enquiry commenced upon
the first occasion which was offered during the session, and that this occasion was not sought for, but was offered by the uniform supporters of treasury influence.
4th. That in the whole progress of the bill which gave rise to the enquiry, a suspicious precipitation , is obviously discoverable.
5th. That Congress were debating in the dark, it being unknown whether the money to be disposed of by the bill under consideration, was in Europe or America, the extent of the previously existing authorities to borrow, nor the application of the borrowed monies which had been expended, nor the situation of such as remained unapplied.
6th. That it is not inferable from the secretary's report, that the borrowed money unapplied, was drawn to America, or any one florin of it.
7th. That from the sketch of debates, it is perceivable, that it was then understood in the House of Representatives, that the money in question was borrowed under the act of the 4th of August 1790, and under the act of the 12th of the same month and stood then appropriated to the payment of the debt to France, but for certain reasons for some time mystically concealed, and at length sparingly and reluctantly disclosed, that its original destination had been varied, that this variation was not sanctioned by the authority of LAW, but most probably arose from an unfortunate miscalculation, springing from a too fond indulgence of the pleasing hope that the duke of Brunswick would shortly thereafter erect the revered standard of despotism in the heart of Paris. *
It is here worthy of remark that in the very report made pursuant to the last resolution, this same sum of money is thus described, "There is due to the sum drawn for applicable to the purchase of the public debt," by which manoeuvre it becomes transferred from the act of the fourth to the act of the twelfth of August, in a subsequent report upon anticipating this query—Has the money drawn for been so applied? it is said no, but it was "the instrumentality of making purchases," and in the last page (22) of the last report upon the subject when it is made chargeable upon the unexpended revenue, it is thus described, "Balance of foreign fund not specially applied and subject to disposition:" strange transformations of an item of figures, which one would have thought capable of the most definite and unchangeable certainty.
8th. That 34 members of the last Congress were found willing to vote a new foreign loan for 2,000,000 dollars, to pay the least, upon the mere "ipse dixit" of the treasury officer and without any competent understanding of the subject, that it was the singular fate of the same proposition, upon due information reluctantly furnished, to meet with an unanimous negative.
I cannot accurately estimate the advantages accruing to the few who are favored with playing a hand in the complicated games, of paper tricks, of loans, of jobs, of bill drawings, of prompt disobedience of laws, of deceptions, &c. &c. But it may be confidently asserted that the interest of the great bulk of the people will at all times be promoted by
Dinwiddie, July 3, 1793.
* The miscalculation respecting the fate of French affairs and the operations of the duke of Brunswick, is slightly hinted at by the secretary in one of his reports, but would be easily understood, I am told, by reference to the official correspondence between the secretary of the treasury and Mr. Short, our agent in Holland, which has however been deemed too precious for the profane eye of the public.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
EXTRACT from an ORATION delivered at Federal Point, near Philadelphia, on the FOURTH of JULY, 1793, by ELIJAH PALMER, citizen of Pennsylvania; and published by request of those who heard it.
Friends and fellow citizens!
THE age of reason and philosophy has at length arrived, and begins to illuminate the world! While that veil of darkness, which spread itself over all nations, was faithfully preserved by the pious alliance of CHURCH and state, the earth wore a wretched aspect, and humanity wept for the miseries of man. But when enlightened men began to examine the causes of human wretchedness, and by
their efforts had penetrated the secret corruption of royal courts, the pillars of despotism were shaken to the foundation. King-craft and priest-craft, those mighty enemies to reason and liberty, were struck with death by the genius of 1776. For seventeen years they have been decaying under the influence of a mortal wound, and now in the last stage of their existence, like a drowning man catching at a straw, one more desperate effort is making to preserve them from inevitable destruction. But they are summoned with a mighty voice to the dark abodes of oblivion. "to which I with them a speedy and unobstructed passage," never more to rise again to scatter mischief among deluded nations.
In this view of the subject, and considering the consequences, it is impossible not to admire the manly firmness which dictated the declaration of American Independence. Those bold patriots deserve and will undoubtedly obtain the thanks and applause of all posterity. How much is it to be lamented, that any whose names we see affixed to that great instrument, should at this day afford good ground of suspicion, that their political principles are directed to the total destruction of liberty and equality. But the genius of liberty is rousing from slumber, and will eventually emancipate the world. Beware, ye American aristocrats! your principles and efforts are leading you to a precipice, from which the just resentment and indignation of an injured people will hurl you into eternal infamy. Civil and religious oppression will not gain much ground in the American world, tho' attempts are making to effectuate both. If the cause of France, which is the great cause of human nature, should succeed, then farewell kings, aristocrats, and the long catalogue of clerical impositions—impositions which have robb'd man of his greatest dignity, and closed every avenue of independent reflection. Indeed, had it not been that the clergy gained a complete ascendancy over the minds of men, the civil oppressions of the world would long since have tumbled into ruin. But living on the spoils of the people, it was easy for these impostors to preach up the beauty and excellency of humiliating poverty; that they themselves might riot upon the luxuries of the earth. And thus while they degraded the human character and sealed on the iniquitous profits, they aided the already too potent arm of the civil tyrant, and prepared every living creature for the completest slavery.
How lamentable is it, that religion, which ought to unite all hearts, should so often be made use of as a cloak for the commission of the greatest crimes, and by those very men too, who have so often imposed themselves upon the world as persons of superior sanctity and virtue. I do not mean to insinuate in this place that there are not virtuous and upright individuals among this body of men; but, take them as a body, they have done infinite mischief, and many of them merit the curses of the present and all future ages. In justice, however, to the American clergy, it ought to be observed, that in effecting our revolution, many of them by their precepts and example afforded great service, and were truly valuable members of the community. I wish it could be said at this day, that none of them assumed the mysterious carriage and imaginary dignity of an European bishop.*
But the enlightened friends of humanity may congratulate each other upon a glorious prospect. The empire of reason will soon sweep from off the earth this bundle of nonsense and oppression, and permanently fix the attention of the human mind upon a point essential to its dignity and happiness. Already have the two revolutions of America and France awakened in the intellectual world a new energy of thought, and turn'd the pursuit of man upon scientific principle into the path of liberal discussion. Previous to these great events—events unparalleled in the history of ages, every pursuit of man was tinctured with the despotism of church and state. Scarcely a single art or science could be independently investigated without fear & trembling; at least it was first to be enquired
* In the state of Connecticut the thought generally to have deviated from the revolutionary principles of 1776, the clergy in Connecticut (says Mr. Morse) have hitherto preserved a kind of artificial balance in the very democratic government of that state; which has been operated as a check upon the sovereign spirit of republicanism." [Morse's Gazette]

how the proof of any proposition would affect the power and influence of those two holy sisters, who subjugated the earth in perpetual bondage. The rights, dignities, and essential privileges of the human race were buried in the guip of royal and clerical avarice and deception. But these days of fanaticism and oppression are vanishing away, and the philosophy of the human mind is making deep researches, to develop the nature of those principles, which will afford a permanent hope to the wretched in every part of the world.
The cries of millions of innocent sufferers are calling aloud upon reason and philosophy to come forth to their aid, and lead them with a powerful hand to the land of light and joy. And it is a matter of unusual consolation, that the two great events, previously mentioned, have so far contributed to stimulate reflecting men to investigate the principles of nature, as lead to a hope, that a lasting source of felicity may be established for the great family of mankind. Not much longer shall superstition's impostors dictate the truisms of man's industry: but the principles of government, religion, literature, and morals shall receive that candid and impartial discussion, which the nature and importance of the several subjects require. Already great improvements have been made, and tho' many are in dread of innovations, yet I conceive no good ground of apprehension has been shown on these subjects.
The philosophy of this age teaches the most pure & unadulterated morality; and stripping religion of its mysteries and external trappings, will present it to the view of the human mind in more beautiful and attractive charms: so that in every point of view these great political events will serve to ameliorate the condition of the human race.
Abstract of Intelligence by the last arrivals, (to May 24.)
London May 10. M. Dumourier has transmitted to the States General of Holland the obligations of six Dutch merchants to pay him 4,000,000 florins, or 35,000, as soon as he should have taken Breda and Maestricht, for the purpose of producing a Revolution in the United Provinces. Their offence in making such an agreement, and his in surrendering it, after he had attempted to benefit by it, are, at least, rival treacheries!
On Sept. 21, 1792, the Spaniards were still in possession of Nootka Sound and country, and shewed no disposition to give it up; in consequence of which the British governor that had been sent out to take possession, was returning home. The ministry choose to put up with this insult rather than interrupt their present project of conquering France. His majesty, God bless him, is titled king of France , and why should he not be so in reality?
The coasts of Italy swarm with French privateers, whose cruises have already proved so successful, that they have very lately sent into Marseilles upwards of 40 Spanish, Dutch, and British vessels; most of them with very rich Levant cargoes.
The law suits relative to the St. Eustatia prizes, taken by Lord Rodney in the late American war, are wholly finished. A curio seems to have attended that affair. His lordship died so poor that his body was buried by public charity; and upon division of the nett prize-money to the innumerable claimants, it appears that each common sailor is entitled to precisely one farthing; the bulk of this immense property, to the amount of nearly one million sterling, has been previously shared among the vultures of Westminster Hall and Doctors Commons.
The failures in England since the breaking out of the present war, are estimated at 20 millions sterling, a sum exceeding one half of the current specie of the British empire.
The Grand Seignor, at Constantinople, has issued a proclamation, enjoining his subjects to a strict neutrality in their conduct towards the powers now at war; and to shew no marks of partiality in favour of one side or the other!
According to advices from Algiers, peace will be speedily re-established between the Algerines and the Dutch. Great preparations are making at Algiers for war, probably to join the league against France.
The following is a letter from Gen. Custine, to the National Convention, dated April 28.
"I am informed by a sure communication, that in the sortie that took place on the 11th, the Hussars and Saxons sustained considerable loss near Mentz, but they endeavored, according to their custom, to conceal it from us by carrying off their dead. Our army occupies an advantageous position at Welselen, near Fort St. Aubin, impossible to dislodge them from it.
This position prevents the enemy from reaching their trenches before Mentz. On the 15th and 16th they attempted new attacks without success. By their own account they lost 2000 men. They have a village on the 18th there was a very brisk trade on both sides; and another
has just now taken place while I am writing. I do not know the issue of it, but the success of the troops of the Republic justifies the idea I have always had of this post, and I hope that Mentz will be the grave of the German armies."
Letter from the minister of the French republic to the Secretary of the United States of America.
"Philadelphia, Feb. 6. 1793,
Second Year of the Republic
"IN conformity to the orders I have just received, I am eager to notify to the Government of the United States, in the name of the provisional executive council, charged with the administration of our government, that the French nation has constituted herself a Republic.
"This notification would have been accompanied with fresh credentials, if the basis which ought to be established on this head had been finally regulated, and if the executive council had not chosen rather to manifest, as soon as possible, the resolutions taken by the whole nation, of declaring the abolition of royalty, and the creation of a republic in France. Independent of the interest which this great determination of a nation, that has given her concurrence to the defence of liberty, and establishment of Independence, ought to inspire here, it will double also be considered by the United States, as a new pledge of the close friendship which subsists between the two nations. In this persuasion, the executive council of the French Republic has charged me to assure your government of her dispositions, which are likewise those of my nation, to rivet the ties of our friendship with you, and to multiply between the two nations commercial connections of reciprocal utility.
"I congratulate myself upon being able to transmit to you the expression of sentiments in which I participate to the utmost extent, and of which my conduct shall never cease to bear an invariable testimony. (Signed) " TERNANT.
Answer of the American Secretary of State to the Officer of the French Ministry.
Philadelphia, Feb. 23, 1793.
SIR,
I HAVE laid before the President of the United States your notification of the 17th instant, in the name of the provisional executive council, charged with the administration of your government, that the French nation has constituted itself into a Republic. The President receives with great satisfaction this attention of the executive council, and the desire they have manifested of making known to us the resolution entered into by the National Convention, even before a definitive regulation of their new establishment could take place. Be assured, Sir, that the government and the Citizens of the United States view with the most sincere pleasure, every advance of your nation towards its happiness, an object essentially connected with its liberty, and they consider the union of principles and pursuits between our two countries as a link which binds still closer their interests and affections.
We earnestly wish on our part, that these our mutual dispositions may be improved to mutual good, by establishing our commercial intercourse on principles as friendly to natural right and freedom as are those of our governments.
I am, with sincere esteem and respect, Sir, &c. TH. JEFFERSON.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
By His Excellency JOHN HANCOCK Esq Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the governor of this commonwealth, has this day been served by John Brooks, Esq. marshal of the federal court of the United States, with the following writ, viz.
"William Vassall, Complainant, Versus The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Defendant
Greeting,
"FOR certain causes offered before the supreme court of the United States, holding pleas in equity, WE command and strictly enjoin you, that, laying all other matters aside, and notwithstanding any excuse, you be and appear on behalf of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, before the said Supreme court of the United States holding pleas in equity, on the 5th day of August next ensuing, at the city of Philadelphia, being the seat of government, to answer concerning those things which shall be then and there objected to the said Commonwealth; and do further and receive on behalf of the said Commonwealth what the said court shall have considered in this behalf; and this you may in no
wise omit, under the penalty of four hundred dollars.
"Witness the Hon. John Jay, Esq. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, at Philadelphia, the eleventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, and of the American Independence the seventh.
SAMUEL BAYARD. Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States.
And Whereas, it being a matter in which the inhabitants of this free commonwealth are deeply interested, and which will require the consideration of the general court, at an earlier time than that to which they stand adjourned:
I have therefore thought fit, by and with the advice of the council, to convene the general court, upon Wednesday the eighteenth day of September next, at 10 o'clock, A. M. and they are accordingly to meet at that time, at the State House in Boston; and all the members of the said court are required to take notice, and govern themselves accordingly. And the sheriffs or deputies, and the constables of the several towns within the same, are hereby directed, to cause this proclamation to be forthwith published, and posted within their respective precincts.
Given at the Council Chamber in Boston, this ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America.
JOHN HANCOCK. By his Excellency's command, JOHN AVERY, jun. Sec'y.
PHILADELPHIA.
WEDNESDAY, July 24.
EXTRACT from a New York Paper.
"The President's late Proclamation has put this country, no doubt undesignedly on his part, in an ignominious as well as dangerous situation. It cannot be denied that the British are now seizing indiscriminately every American vessel they can find with French property on board, and, in the European seas, provision vessels destined for the ports of France: that they will condemn the property they so find, is certain; that they will condemn many of the vessels too, there can be very little doubt. What if this Proclamation is found to be their only justification? Can there be then a moment's doubt in the President's mind that it should be recalled. When we find the name of the first magistrate of our country to the reservation of a special pleader, we know his prudence has been surprised; and the work is disrespected, because the drift of it is discerned."
Extract of a letter from Boston, July 15.
"Some persons censure governor Hancock for calling a meeting of the General Court on the summons of the Federal Judge, on the score of its being expensive. These are tories and enemies to all free government and the rights of the people. But who were the cause of this expense? - not the Governor or his proclamation; but the officers of the federal government who could have served their Mandate at two different times since the date of it (Feb. 11) and at both periods when the General Court was in session, when the business might have been determined without extra expense. But setting aside this, what are 3, 4, or even 10,000 dollars, when weighed in the scale with the sovereignty of the commonwealth of Massachusetts? - The truth is, the vortex of the federal government, the funding system, or more properly the army confiscation act, has bred up a set of men to riot in luxury, on the hard earnings of the war-worn soldier, and the industry of the honest merchant, and who seem to aim at the destruction of our liberties, either by open assault, by bribery and corruption, or by confusing us with their accursed schemes. They will find us, however, firm, resolute, and united. The strong arm of freedom gave support to the federal constitution, and the arm and voice that made it, have power to amend it, and the sooner we set about the work, the better will it be for us."
Letters from the territory South of the Ohio say, that it is not thought the Spanish government have any hand in exciting or aiding the Indians to depredations on our frontiers; but on the contrary, that the governor of Louisiana has written to them to pursue a peaceable line of conduct; in consequence of which the Cherokees, Creeks, and some other tribes of Indians had agreed to pay a visit to Philadelphia, this summer, to fix on the terms of a substantial peace with the government of the United States; or in other words, to receive two or three and twenty thousand dollars, and when those are expended, take up the hatchet again to procure a new treaty."
Dublin newspapers are received in this city to the 25th of May; all of which corroborate the accounts of the success of the French arms over the combined forces.
The accounts by a late arrival from Amsterdam are to the 19th of May, but no newspapers later than to the 16th. According to these, in the battles of the 11th and 13th of March, Saxe Cobourg had killed of his army 4 staff officers and 27 others of distinction, 937 privates, and 525 horses - The wounded were 1 general, 8 staff, and 80 other officers, 2883 men, and 330 horses - prisoners taken by the French, 20 officers & 25 privates - missing 43 officers, 400 men, and 12 dozen of horses. There are no free papers now printed in Amsterdam or any part of Holland. Even the Leyden Gazette has become a corrupted source, every sheet of which, and other papers, is examined by the Stadholder's Licencer previous to going to press. Those papers mention that the court of Denmark had refused to acknowledge Monsieur, the king's brother, as Regent of France. It was also mentioned at Amsterdam, that the English were negotiating with the French for a peace. Upon the whole, we may fairly gather from the information received by the last vessels, that the French are much better provided with necessaries, of every kind, than the combined armies are, and consequently, they will be able to make a good stand against the petty princes, with all their dukes, kings, and emperors at their rear; for we don't hear much of those great heroes exposing their persons, often, in the front of the battle.
The Schooner Eagle, of Baltimore, has been taken by a Bermuda privateer, and sent as a prize into that island. She was bound to a port in French Hispaniola. The American captain and crew were taken on board the privateer, ironed, and otherwise ill treated.
The Proclamation of governor Hancock, inserted in this Gazette, must excite serious ideas in those who have from the beginning been inclined to suspect that the absorption of the state governments has long been a matter determined on by certain influential characters in this country, who are aiming gradually at monarchy.
"Federal jurisprudence has aimed a mortal blow at the sovereignty of the individual states, and the late decision of the supreme tribunal of the Union has placed the ridge-pole on the wide extended fabric of consolidation. The representatives of the free citizens of the independent state of Massachusetts, will no doubt cherish the spirit of investigation, and remonstrate on this subject with wisdom and firmness."
In the borough of Easton, Pennsylvania, a free negro man, of the name of Thomas Hercules, was on the 6th day of July instituted town-clerk of that borough, by a decided majority of votes. - This we mention as a proof of the growing liberality of the present age, when virtue and worth alone, and not mere colour, or rippity of rank and splendor, begin to recommend a man to places of trust and confidence.
Accounts from Algiers say, that strenuous endeavors have been lately made by the Spanish minister there to procure a peace for Portugal with the Dey, but without effect. Spain, however, has mediated more successfully for Prussia; the terms 70,000 sequins (140,000 dollars) attribute every two years, and consulatory presents. The war of this piratical State with Portugal operates much in favor of America: whenever a peace takes place, there will be nothing to prevent these rovers from infesting the Atlantic, and intercepting our European trade. There are many American captives yet in a state of slavery at and about Algiers, and were it not that they receive a small annual allowance from Congress, their situation would be intolerable. According to a late letter from Algiers, every nation are ransoming their prisoners, except the Americans, most of whose captives there have been eight or ten years in a state of bondage.
Fifty sail of large ships from Cape François arrived at Norfolk. Part of the wretched inhabitants of the Cape are arrived, and landed at Norfolk, destitute of every thing, and depending solely on the efforts of the public.
The exports of the United States for the year ending on the last of September, 1792, amounted to the enormous value of twenty million, five hundred and eighteen thousand, and fourteen dollars. - The value of goods, wares and merchandise exported from each state, stands as follows: New-Hampshire 181,407 dollars - Massachusetts 2,889,922 dols. - Rhode-Island 698,084 dols. - Connecticut 749,925 dols. - New-York 2,528,085 dols. - New Jersey 23,524 dols. - Pennsylvania 3,820,646 dols. - Delaware 133,972 dols. - Maryland 2,550,258 dols. - Virginia 3,549,499 dols. - North Carolina 503,294 dols. - South Carolina 2,430,425 dols. - Georgia 458,973 dols. - Total, dollars 20,518,014. The gross amount of duties, for the different states, stands thus: New-Hampshire 7,677 dols. and 35 cents - Massachusetts 155,247 dols. 96 cents - Rhode-Island 20,691 dols. 53 cents - Connecticut 80,074 dols. 65 cents - New-York 161,483 dols. 90 cents - New-Jersey 2,186 dols. 20 cents - Pennsylvania 158,291 dols. 81 cents - Delaware 6,705 dols. 39 cents - Maryland 60,557 dols. 7

cents—Virginia 14,215 bolls. 9 cents—N. Carolina 20,097 bolls. 5 cents—S. Carolina 90,671 bolls. 93 cents—Georgia 8,089 bolls. 41 cents—Total gross amount of duties. 853,189 bolls. 55 cents.—Total nett amount of duties 789,073.
Total amount of Tonnage and Tonnage Money, paid on foreign and home vessels in the several states.
New-Hampshire 3,726 tons—281 bolls. 20 cents. Massachusetts 47,569 tons—4,954 bolls. 30 cents. Rhode 5,728 tons—473 bolls. 54 cents. Connecticut 8,305 tons—1,083 bolls. 41 cents. New-York 26,059 tons—7,508 bolls. 23 cents. New-Jersey 2,083 tons—125 bolls. 1 cent. Pennsylvania 23,551 tons—4,800 bolls. 81 cents. Delaware 771 tons—116 bolls. 8 cents. Maryland 17,945 tons—3,423 bolls. 48 cents. Virginia 30,043 tons—9,397 bolls. 62 cents. North-Carolina 9,149 tons—1,707 bolls. 60 cents. South-Carolina 15,201 tons—4,543 bolls. 30 cents. Georgia 5,085 tons—1,875 bolls. 97 cents.—Total amount of foreign and domestic tonnage, 195,215 tons—ditto tonnage money, 40,360 bolls. 56 cents and an half.
We learn by a vessel from Port a Paix, in French Hispaniola, that the Spaniards from San Domingo, taking advantage of the troubles at the Cape, had taken Fort Dauphin (a little to the westward of Monte Christo). The garrison being 50 men, defended it bravely, but were at length obliged to surrender to superior numbers. We are informed by the same vessel that about one fourth of the town at the Cape is still standing; the commissioners were about one mile from the city, much in want of ammunition, three magazines having blown up during the conflagration.
An English frigate of 36 guns is carried into Cape François, prize to the America, a French 74: Another 74 and a 44 gun ship lay at the Cape the 28th of June, to protect such vessels as were not ready to go to sea.
Accounts are received from New Providence, by way of Charleston, that a French fleet of considerable force had fallen in with the British outward bound fleets for the East and West Indies, sometime about the latter end of May, off Cape Finisterre, in Spain, and captured one hundred and sixty sail, then under convoy of two men of war and four frigates, the principal convoy having left them in a more northern latitude. This news was confirmed by the arrival of a French frigate at the Cape in 35 days from Brest, also by accounts from Jamaica, and from another quarter.
The sloop Alexander Hamilton on her passage from Aux Cayes to Baltimore (an American vessel) was taken and carried into New Providence—the cargo ordered to be landed as French property; the vessel given up and since arrived at Charleston. Several other vessels have very lately been carried into Providence (the old nest of pirates) and treated in the same manner. Many of the vessels are detained, exclusive of their cargoes.
A French East India ship with a rich cargo, has arrived in Long island sound. Having spoken a vessel before she arrived in the European latitudes, and finding war had been declared she altered her course for North America.
On Monday the 24th of June, being the anniversary of St. John the Baptist, the Brethren of Lodge No. 10. of ancient York Masons met at Georgetown in Sussex county and State of Delaware, also several visiting Brethren, to commemorate said festival, where the greatest order and decorum was observed—A sermon suitable to occasion was delivered by our Rev. Brother Phillip Hughs:—Brother David Hall was on that day installed as worshipful Master of said Lodge.—On the subsequent day the Brethren attended the burial of Brother Jaquez Seiff, who was unfortunately drowned in attempting to land from on board the ship Industry Capt. Cassin; a sermon adopted to the occasion was delivered by the Rev. Brother above mentioned.
The brig Georgia Packet, Burrowes, and the schooner Peggy, packets in the Charleston trade, that left this place in May and June last, did not reach the bar, the former till about six weeks from her leaving the Capes of Delaware; the latter, 21 days; a strong southwest wind blowing the whole time without intermission, and the current setting 3 or 4 knots north-eastward directly against them.
The French fleet that is said to have captured the 160 sail of British merchantmen off Cape Finisterre, is mentioned in another paper to have consisted of 9 sail of the line, several frigates, and a number of large privateers of from 24 to 36 guns.—A letter from the Havanna to a merchant in Charleston, confirms the same news; it was generally believed in Charleston, when the last vessels left there.
"The Americans (says a Jamaica paper) seem to be in a state of preparation for war—The fortifying and arming of the harbour of Charleston by the executive of South-Carolina indicates a fear of hostilities—with whom?—have the Indians a navy?" [No—but there are other savages that have.]
The American brig Betsey, Capt. Clarke, bound from St. Bartholomews to Hamburg, with Dutch property and one passenger, was captured by a French privateer polacre, the Sans Culotte of Nantz, off the Western Islands.—The passenger is said to be a Swede, and was kept prisoner on board the privateer. Captain Clarke was allowed to stay with his brig. It is supposed the cargo will be condemned. Capt. Clarke came to town on Monday last—The prize was at Mué Fort, and the privateer coming up the river after her.—The privateer Sans Culotte, of Nantz, has also captured the ship Flora, of Glasgow, bound to Antigua, worth 30,000. sterling; also a Bremen brig and a Portuguese brig.
A vessel in 20 days from Port-au-Prince, brings no intelligence of the capture of Fort Dauphin by the Spaniards, as mentioned above.
The Pennsylvania and Maryland canal committees have had a meeting and passed several resolutions for the incorporation of companies for the purpose of opening the navigation of the Susquehanna from Wright's Ferry to the Maryland line, and for connecting the Delaware and Chesapeake bays by a navigable canal.
Extract of a letter from Dublin, April 23.
"Nothing but calamity is before us. It is supposed war will soon be declared against America by the crowned heads that are now against France. This may be only a supposition of the people, and yet it seems more than probable it will be the case. It appears in a little time emigration must be stopped, or I believe half of the people would go to America. Last week when I was in Belfast, no less than five failures took place, one of them for 50,000. a cotton manufacturing company. This one failure has thrown 300 men out of employ."
We have it in our power to give a direct contradiction of the English accounts of the capture of Nantz by the Brittany insurgents.—The privateer Sans Culottes (of Old France) left that city on the 28th of April, when such an event was not even feared, or thought of. The English date of its capture was on the 24th.
Accounts from New Providence say, that a number of Jamaica ships, homeward bound, have been captured by the French frigate, La Concorde.
The British news, published in most of the American newspapers, that 20,000 French had perished near Mayence in passing the Rhine, to escape the pursuit of the enemy, appears to be totally void of foundation.
Gen. Wayne, with the forces under his command had arrived at Fort Washington before the 27th of June. All expectations of a treaty with the savages in that quarter were given up, and the commander in chief had despatched an express to the President of the United States, soliciting orders for offensive operations.
This day, we are informed, comes on the trial of Captains Singleterry and Henfield, for entering and serving on board the French privateer Citizen Genet.
[Of the French Jacobins.]
The Jacobins of Paris have been the subject of much ignorant abuse. The simple fact and history is this: Early in the progress of the French revolution, a number of patriotic societies were formed at different places and under different appellations, to discuss the politics of the day, and propagate the principles of general liberty. One of these societies, called the Friend of the constitution, becoming numerous, rented a part of the old convent of the Jacobins, at Paris, for the purpose of their meetings. The discussions that took place there, and the occasional publications issued from thence, attracted the public attention so strongly, and co-incided so well with the sentiments of the people, that the constitutional society at the Jacobins soon became the largest and most important of the patriotic societies of France; and similar corresponding meetings, under the same appellation of Friends to the Constitution , were formed in most of the principal towns of the kingdom. The Jacobins, therefore (as they are called from the places of meeting of the Parisian society) consist of a large part of the French people, a decisive proof of their merit, and a full reply to the calumnies of their enemies. Mr. Edmund Burke has been pleased to call them traitors and regicides . In the common acceptance of those words the assertion cannot be true. The society of the Jacobins exercise no public function: they are not officers of state, legislative, executive, or judicial; they have no public trust imposed on them, and they do nothing but debate political subjects, and now and then direct the publication of a political discourse. As individuals, they are like the component parts of all other human societies, good, and bad, and indifferent; but if the good did not greatly preponderate, they never would have experienced the support of their fellow citizens, as they have done; nor would they have become the objects of hatred and dread to the despotic governments of their European neighbours."
The following gentlemen are proposed as candidates for governor of Pennsylvania,
at the ensuing election, viz. William Findley, Thomas Mifflin, F. A. Muhlenberg, and William Bradford.
We hear that governor Simcoe, of Upper Canada, has refused the United States leave to transport provisions thro' his government to support the Indian treaty; but has promised to furnish all that shall be wanted, without any expence to the United States. [ Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. ]
By the Sally, Captain Egger, from Cape Francois, which she left the 4th of July, we learn, that at that time about one fourth of the town remained standing, but entirely deserted by the white inhabitants, who had fled in every direction, to avoid the melancholy scene. A few negroes remained, who were employed in burying the dead. The Commissioners Santhonax and Polverel remained at Aude du Cap, a small distance from the town, attended by the mulattoes, negroes and other adherents. The commissioners had issued orders to one of the mulatto generals to disarm all the whites, as it was supposed peace could not be restored to the island until they were deprived of all power of interfering with the commissioners, whose express business was to enforce the decree of the Convention of France, granting certain privileges to the people of colour.
On the 27th of June a fire broke out at Augusta, in Georgia, which did damage, it was supposed, to the amount of 3000. their currency. Seven or eight houses were destroyed, a number of stores and out-houses, but fortunately no lives lost, altho' the fire broke out about midnight.
We learn from New Providence, that several privateers have been fitted out of that port, and that two or three of them are said to be the property of that immaculate character, captain Kidnapper, alias lord Dunmore, whose moral character and political honesty are too well known to need any encomium.—These privateers we are informed, have carried into New Providence twenty-two sail of American vessels, most of them belonging to the southern States—among which are, the John, of Norfolk; Robert, of Portsmouth; Governor Pinkney, of Charleston; Alexander Hamilton, and Pine, of James river; and a schooner of Baltimore. These vessels and their cargoes were mostly libelled—and as the D—l sits judge, little justice or equity can be expected in the course of their trial. We may therefore conclude that most of them have been condemned, & the proceeds no doubt pocketed by major Cudjoe, captain Kidnapper, and the rest of the fable crew. [ Virginia paper. ]
We learn that the number of inhabitants of Cape Francois, lately arrived in Chesapeake-bay, amounts to near 4000. The accounts already given to the public of the distresses of these unfortunate people, have not been exaggerated or perhaps equalled to their situation—and renders an exertion to relieve their present wants indispensably necessary. [ Ditto. ]
In Great-Britain the sums levied annually for public purposes, amount at present to a sum not less than twenty five millions of pounds sterling. The income of his majesty George the third, which has been regarded as not more than necessary for the maintenance of kingly dignity, may be reckoned, one way or other, at twelve hundred thousand pounds yearly. Supposing the average price of labour to be a shilling a day throughout Great-Britain, his majesty's expences consume the perpetual daily labour of above sixty thousand men.
Yesterday arrived here the ship Flora, of Glasgow, bound to Jamaica, and prize to the French privateer Sans Culottes. She is said to have a cargo on board worth 30,000. sterling; also her prize, brig Betsey.
The French privateer Little Democrat, of 14 guns, is now cruising off the Capes of Delaware. It is said the L'Ambuscade is to take a station off the Chesapeake.
Extract of a letter from New-York, dated Friday morning, July 19.
"News of this day is, that a privateer which sailed from Boston for Cape Francois to get a French commission, on her way hither took an English ship, which was retaken and with the privateer carried into Halifax by a British cruiser, and the privateer's crew hanged."
Ancient Apologue, not inapplicable to circumstances of the present period.
Once upon a time the sheep entered into alliance with the dogs, for their protection against the wolves. The consequence was, that the sheep remained in safety;—The wolves desisted from their attacks and all was peace.
After a time the wolves found means to persuade the sheep that the dogs were a useless burden and a needless expence. The dogs were dismissed and the wolves fell upon the sheep and devoured them.
[From a Country Printer.]
"Some allowance is ever to be made to court writers and court printers on the score of rank and high connexion. The to of the federal government being strikingly monarchical , its writers will of course assume something in that way . Hence, the peculiar style of arrogance and insolent menace frequently observable in their newspaper lucubrations, which if it does not prove them men of prudence , renders it
highly probable that most of them have been put in good heart with the prospect of a treasury luncheon .—In one or two late papers of your city (not to mention Federal Gazette of June 15) a sort of unusual threatening language has been held forth against the liberty of the press, with ***** and hints to certain editors not to admit strictures upon certain great characters, or *****—Can it possibly be that these gentlemen, (if their hints are slighted) mean to bear down upon us with their pislereroes , their muckle-whangers, blazi g-irons, crab-ticks, blunder-bludgeons, and cutteau de cheeves!—! Gentlemen courtwriter, the American editors of free republican papers, know their duty; and ***** to the man or men that dare to interrupt them in the execution of it!"
Parody, for the 14th of July.
[Written by a Lady.]
FRENCHMEN, this glorious day, this hallowed ground Shall never be forgot; to the Bastille, The fescue of freedom, Gallia's sons shall come Shall tread where heroes and where patriots trod, To worship as they walk!
The day of freedom now begins to dawn, Red in its rise. Heaven opens: and behold The hours of glory and the morn of MEN Ascending o'er the globe. An era new, The last of ages now begins to roll, The reign of Liberty. The Goddess comes Down from high heaven; her garments dy'd in blood:
The sword resurgent in her lifted hand. She looks: and fixes, never to remove, Her waving banner o'er the Gallic land. The guardian of the globe, she gives the law:
She calls the winds, the winds obey her call, And bear the thunder of her power, to burst O'er the astonished slaves, and carry fate To kings, to tyrants, and set free the world. Above the Grecian or the Roman name, Unlike the great destroyers of the globe, She fights and conquers in her own great cause.
Her song of victory the nations sing: Her triumphs are the triumphs of mankind!
[French Poetry continued from our last.]
à JONATHAN PINDARE.
SUBLIME Jonathan! je voudrais te connaître Mériter par mes sons, de rappeller frere, cousin; Heureux de me trouver a cote d'un grand maître, Et courir avec lui dans ce noble chemin.
Temoins, ta cinquieme Ode,* avec sa metaphore, Dont la male caute, peint le grand en petit, Crois, que je la relis, et la relis encore Et plus je la parcours, plus j'y trouve d'esprit.
Mille et mille sentiers nous conduisent a Rome, Pour moi j'aime le court, et je vais sans facon, D'un seul trait, si je puis, je terrasse mon homme, Quand les horreurs du crime, en disent la raison.
De milliers de grands mots, dont ton discours abonde
Ne sauraient: obtenir, ni graces ni douceurs, C'en est pas le matin, qui ne mord pas et gronde; Qui peut flechir le ton de ces deux imposteurs.
Je veux dire a K— cette grosse barrique, Moin-faite pour l'esprit, qu'a regorger de vin, Qu'on pour mieux situ veux semblable au dome-ique, Qui mange tout le jour, et du soir au matin.
Qu'attends tu d'un cochon, dont la gueule affamee oublie et son devoir, et la force de coeur; Je fais ce qu'autre fois en dit la Renomee Sur la maison de brique.... a present t son honneur.
Forgerons de Vulcain, deites infernales! Foudre du Vatican.... Bruntwick, Arnold, Moutier, Auriez vous pu former, par vos noi es cabales Un monstre corrupteur, ou un plus fourbe Esaiers;
Que ne l'est H— envers l'espece humaine Orphelins delaisés et vous, veuves, en pleurs, Si de vos maux cuisants, fentez toute la gene Cet ambitieux, imputez leurs horreurs.
* Il seroit difficile de trouver dans la poesie lyrique, tant des anciens que dans celle des modernes, ou meme ceux qui ont les plus justes pretentions au premier rang de cette partie de la litterature. vingt huit vers aussi jolis, aussi bien fait, et qui donnent une idee aussi claire du sujet comme on les trouve dans l' ode en question.
† Les conseils suivis de cette scavante bete furent la cause de la perte de la bataille de Germantown.
‡ Il est tres prouve qu'il donne souvent sa parole d'honneur, et qu'il manque de meme comme il a manque de soumettre les sauvages.
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New Pennsylvania MILITIA LAW.
[Continued from our last.]
Article 5. Every General Court Martial shall consist of thirteen members, all of whom shall be commissioned officers, and of such rank as the case may require, and these thirteen shall choose a President out of their number, who shall be a field officer.
Article 6. Every Regimental Court Martial shall be composed of five members, all commissioned officers, who are to choose one of their members a President, not under the rank of a Captain.
Article 7. In any Court Martial, not less than two thirds of the members must agree in every sentence for inflicting any punishment, otherwise the person charged shall be acquitted.
Article 8. The President of each and every Court Martial, whether general or regimental, shall require all witnesses, in order to the trial of offenders, to declare, on oath or affirmation, that the evidence they shall give, is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and the members of all such courts, shall take an oath or affirmation, which the President is required to administer to them, that they will give judgment with impartiality.
Article 9. All members of any Militia, called as witnesses in any case, before a Court Martial, who shall refuse to attend and give evidence, shall be censured or fined at the discretion of the court.
Article 10. No officer or private man, being charged with transgressing these rules, shall be suffered to do duty in the regiment, company or troop to which he belongs, until he has had his trial by a Court Martial, and every person so charged shall be tried as soon as a Court Martial can conveniently be assembled.
Article 11. If any officer or private man, shall think himself injured by his Lieutenant Colonel or the commanding officer of the regiment, and shall upon due application made to him, be refused redress, he may complain to the Brigadier General, who shall direct the Inspector of the brigade to summon a General Court Martial, that justice may be done.
Article 12. If any inferior officer or private man, shall think himself injured by his Captain or other superior in the regiment, troop or company to which he belongs, he may complain to the commanding officer of the regiment, who shall summon a Regimental Court Martial, for doing justice according to the nature of the case.
Article 13. No penalty shall be inflicted at the discretion of a Court Martial, other than degrading, cashiering or fining.
Article 14. The commanding officer of the Militia for the time being, shall have full power of pardoning or mitigating any censures or penalties ordered to be inflicted on any private or non-commissioned officer, for the breach of any of these articles, by a General Court Martial, and every offender convicted as aforesaid by any Regimental Court Martial, may be pardoned, or have the penalty mitigated by the Lieutenant Colonel or commanding officer of the regiment, excepting only where such censures or penalties are directed as satisfaction for injuries received by one officer or private man from another, but in case of officers, such sentence to be approved by the Commander in Chief, or the nearest general officer of the Militia, who are respectively empowered to pardon or mitigate such sentence, or disapprove of the same.
Article 15. The Militia on the days of exercise, may be detained under arms, in duty on the field any time not exceeding six hours, provided they are not kept above three hours under arms at any one time, without allowing them a proper time to refresh themselves.
Article 16. No company or regiment shall meet at a tavern on any of the days of exercise, nor shall march to any tavern before they are discharged, and any person who shall bring any kind of spirituous liquors to such place of training, shall forfeit such liquors so brought, for the use of the poor belonging to the ward, district, or township, where such offender lives.
Article 17. All fines that shall be incurred by any breach of these rules, shall be paid into the hands of the inspectors of
the brigades to which the offenders belong, or to such other person or persons as he shall appoint and make known in general or brigade orders, as his agents or orators to receive the same, within three weeks after they become due; but in case of neglect or refusal to pay any of the said fines, the said Inspector shall cause the same to be collected and levied in manner herein after mentioned.
Article 18. The Rules of Discipline approved and established by Congress in their resolution of the twenty-ninth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine, shall be the rules of discipline to be observed by the Militia throughout this state; except such deviations from said rules, as may be rendered necessary by the requisitions of this act, or some other unavoidable circumstances, it shall be the duty of the commanding officer, at every muster, whether by regiment or single company, to cause the Militia to be exercised and trained, agreeably to the said rules of discipline.
Article 19. The Militia of this state whilst in the actual service of the United States, shall be subject to the same rules and regulations as the federal army, provided that upon any transgression or offence of a militia man, whether officer or private, against the rules and regulations of the federal army, the cause shall be tried and determined by a Court Martial of the Militia of this state, and that it shall be in the power of the Governor, or in case of his absence, or of the commanding officer of the Militia, to mitigate suspend or pardon any punishment to which any militia man may be sentenced by a general Court Martial.
Section XXV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no civil process shall be served on any commissioned, non-commissioned officer or private, at any regimental review or training of any company, or while going to or returning from the place of such review or training.
Section XXVI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the purpose of collecting and levying the fines that shall be incurred as well for non-attendance on days of exercise, as for neglect of performing tours of duty, and also all such fines as shall be imposed by Courts Martial, on persons belonging to their respective brigades, it shall and may be lawful for the several Brigade-Inspectors, to appoint one or more proper persons by warrant, under their respective hands and seals, to be Collectors of the said fines, and the said Collectors, by virtue of the said warrants, shall be authorised and empowered to call on every delinquent that shall be named in the lists to be furnished to them by the said Inspectors, and demand payment of the said fines, and of five per centum on the amount thereof, for their trouble in collecting the same; and on neglect or refusal of such payment, then the said Collectors shall proceed to levy the said fines with costs equal to those received by constables or sheriffs in similar cases, by distress impounding and sale of the offenders goods and chattels, lands and tenements, in like manner, and with like effect as the Collectors of taxes may or can do, by virtue of any law or laws of this Commonwealth: Provided, That in the case of seizure of lands or tenements, the same notice shall be given previous to the sale thereof, as is required in case of land sold by a sheriff, by virtue of a writ of venditioni exponas, and no process shall issue, to stay the execution of such warrant, unless in the case of the seizure of real estate: Provided always, That if any person shall think himself aggrieved in the seizure of his lands and tenements, he may enter an appeal before the Judges of the next Court of Common Pleas, for the proper county, and on the parties giving sufficient security, within fifteen days next after any lands or tenements shall be seized or distrained as aforesaid, to prosecute such appeal with effect, the Judges shall receive the same, and stay further process, and the said Judges shall return every such appeal on the first day of the next term, and the Court shall direct a trial by jury of the county, as in cases of debt, whose verdict shall be final and conclusive, and except in extraordinary cases, of which the Court shall judge, all such appeals shall be tried at the term to which such returns shall be made: Provided also, That in case real estate be sold as aforesaid, such sale shall be made by the sheriff of the county, who shall make a sufficient deed for the same; and if any Collector appointed by any Brigade
Inspector as aforesaid, and having accepted of his appointment, shall refuse or neglect to perform his duty, he shall for every such offence forfeit and pay, at the direction of the Courts of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, within this Commonwealth, any sum not exceeding forty dollars.
[To be concluded in our next.]
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RAN away from the subscriber, in Newton, the evening of the 5th instant, a Negro man named SOLOMON, about five feet two or three inches high, yellow complexion, speaks good English, can read well, and is an active smart fellow--had on and took with him, a new wool hat, linsay full'd coat, sundry vests, one striped pattern not made up, fustian overalls, new shoes, and sundry others not here ascertained.--Whoever will secure the above mentioned negro in any jail, so that the owner gets him again shall have the above reward and all reasonable charges, by JOHN DEWITT. Newton, Sussex County, New-Jersey, July 6. 1793. 4t raw
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. raw. 1y HOWELL, Clk.
Ten Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber on the 16th of June last, an apprentice lad named JOSEPH CURTIS, by trade a house carpenter, about 19 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, is left-handed, light brown hair, full faced; had on when he went away a brown broadcloth coat, with metal buttons, striped cotton waistcoat, and homespun linen trowsers, coloured. Whoever will take up said apprentice, and secure him in jail, so that his master may get him again, or bring him home, shall receive the above reward, and reasonable charges paid by WILLIAM COOKE. Bordentown, July 6, 1793. 1aw3w
JUST PUBLISHED.
And to be sold at the respective Book Stores of Joseph Crukshank and Thomas Dobson, and may be had at the Printing office, No. 209, Market-Street. [Price one eighth of a dollar.]
LETTERS, Addressed to the YEOMANRY of the UNITED STATES: Containing some Observations on Funding and Bank Systems: BY AN AMERICAN FARMER.
Shrewsbury and Philadelphia STAGE.
THE Shrewsbury and Philadelphia Stage, will commence to run regularly, on Thursday the fourth of July, to leave Philadelphia on that day, after which time, during the month of July, it will start from M'Kean and Van Emburg's wharf at Philadelphia (the next wharf below Arch street) on every Sunday and Wednesday & proceed to Bordentown--the land stage to proceed on the next morning to Edington, and to return on every Tuesday and Friday. In the month of August, it will leave Philadelphia every Sunday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday and Saturday. Fare for Passengers from Philadelphia to Edington -- two dollars & an half, For goods ditto -- ditto pr. cwt. one dollar VAN EMBURG & M'KEAN. SAMUEL FORMAN. Bordentown June 29, 1793. For freight or passage, apply to the masters on board, or to M'KEAN & VAN EMBURGH Who have for sale as usual at their stores on said wharf, pork, hams, flour, lard, butter, rye and indian meal, cheese, bar iron &c. &c. July 3. 1aw. 2m
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CHILDS AND SWAINE, AT THEIR OFFICE NO. 209, HIGH-STREET, NEAR FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.