Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-08-31 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 36, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1791.
[Whole No. 244.]
FRANCE.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, ON THE FLIGHT OF THE KING AND ROYAL FAMILY. (CONTINUED.)
Friday Morning, June 24.
A Deputation from the district of Clermont stated fresh particulars relating to the capture of the King.
M. Damas undertook by order of M. Bouille, to protect his flight; but, abandoned by his dragoons, he was himself obliged to fly.
The King had a passport, of which this is a copy:
"On the part of the King."
"To all officers, civil and military, charged with the superintendence and maintenance of public order in the different departments of the kingdom:
"We enjoin you to suffer to pass, without interruption, the Barons de Kortz, going to Frankfort, with two children, a woman, a valet-de-chambre, and three domestics, without giving or suffering her to receive any hindrance.
"This passport to continue in force for one month only.
"Given at Paris, June 5, 1791.
(Signed)
LOUIS.
"By the King,
(Signed)
MONTMORIN."
M. Montmorin was ordered to the bar, to state by whom and how this passport was granted. He endeavored to exculpate himself, by saying, he had been surprised.
Friday Night.
The sitting was opened by the report of the Commissioners charged to examine the conduct of M. Montmorin with respect to the King's passport.
The Commissioners stated, that having examined the registers, they had found that the passport had been obtained at the request of M. Simolin, the Russian Ambassador in France.
A deputation of the Municipality of Paris presented to the Assembly the two citizens who stopped the King.
M. Duquet then gave the following recital:
"I am the Postmaster of Sainte Menehould, formerly a dragoon in the regiment of Conde. My comrade, William, was formerly a dragoon of the Queen's regiment.
"On the 21st of June, at half past seven o'clock in the evening, two carriages and eleven horses baited at my house—I thought I recognized the Queen; and perceiving a man at the back part of the carriage, on the left, I was struck with the resemblance of his countenance to the King's effigy on an assignat of 50 livres.
"These carriages were conducted by a detachment of dragoons, which succeeded a detachment of hussars, under pretence of protecting a treasure. This escort confirmed me in my suspicions; particularly when I saw the commander of the detachment speak with great animation to one of the couriers. However, fearing to excite false alarms, being alone and having no opportunity of consulting any one, I suffered the carriages to depart.
"But seeing immediately the dragoons making preparations to follow them, and observing that, after having asked horses for Verdun, the carriages took the road to Varennes, I went a cross road, in order to rejoin them.
"I arrived before them at Varennes. It was eleven o'clock at night, very dark, and every one gone to bed. The carriages were stopped in a street, by a dispute which had taken place between the postilions and the post-master of the place. The post-master was desirous that they should stop and refresh their horses according to custom. The King, on the contrary, was desirous to hasten his departure.
"I then said to my comrade, 'Are you a staunch patriot?' 'Don't doubt it,' replied he. 'Well (said I) the King is at Varennes. He must be stopped.' We then alighted, and reflected, that in order to secure success to our plan, it was necessary to barricade the street and the bridge by which the King was to pass.
"My companion and I then went to the bridge of Varennes; fortunately there was a carriage there loaded with furniture—we overturned it, so as to render the road impassable; we then ran to seek the Procureur de la Commune, the mayor, the commandant of the national guard, and in a few minutes our number increased to eight men, who were all hearty in the cause.
"The commander of the national guard, accompanied by the procureur, approached the carriage, asked the travellers who they were, and where they were going? The Queen answered that they were in a hurry. A fight of the passport was then demanded. She at length gave her passport to two guards of honour, who alighted and came to the inn.
"When the passport was read, some said it was sufficient—we combated this opinion, because it was not signed by the President of the National Assembly, as it should have been. If you are a foreigner, said we to the Queen, how came you to have sufficient influence to have a detachment to follow you? How come you, when you passed through Clermont, to have sufficient influence to be followed by a first detachment?
"In consequence of these reflections, and our perseverance, it was determined that the travellers should not proceed till the following day. They alighted at the house of the procureur.
"Then the King said to us, 'I am the King! These are my wife and children! We conjure you to treat us with that respect which the French have ever shown their Kings!'
"The national guards immediately came in crowds, and at the same time the hussars arrived sword in hand—they endeavored to approach the house where the King was, but we let them know, that if they persisted in taking him away, they should not tear him from us alive.
"The commander of the national guards had the precaution to bring up two small field-pieces, which he planted at the upper end of the street, and two others at the lower end, so that the hussars were between two fires. They were summoned to dismount. M. Jouglas refused; he said, that he and his troop would guard the King; he was answered, that the national guards would guard him without his assistance. He persisted in his resolution; upon which the commander of the national guards gave orders to the gunners to form their ranks, and to fire. They took the matches to their hands—but the cannons were not then loaded.
"In a word, the commander of the national guards, and the national guards, acted so judiciously, that they contrived to disarm the hussars. The King was then made a prisoner!
"Having thus fulfilled our duty, we returned home, amidst the applause of our fellow-citizens; and we are come to lay before the National Assembly the homage of our services."
The President congratulated these brave citizens on the eminent service they had rendered to their country.
The meeting was then suspended.
Saturday, June 25.
The Assembly passed the following decrees:
1. The King, on his return to the Chateau des Thuilleries, shall have provisionally, a guard subject to the direct order of the commandant general, who shall be responsible for its conduct.
2. There shall be likewise given to the presumptive heir, a guard, under the order of the commandant general, and a governor, who shall be nominated by the National Assembly.
3. That all those who accompanied the Royal Family shall be arrested and examined, and that the King and Queen shall be heard in their vindication, that such measures shall be adopted in consequence as may be judged proper.
4. That a guard shall likewise be appointed previously for the King.
5. That, till it shall be otherwise ordained, the minister of justice shall be authorised, as he has already done since the flight of the King, to affix the seal of the state to the acts of the legislative body.
6. The ministers, and the commissioners of the King, are authorised to exercise, being responsible, the functions of the executive power.
Monday, June 27.
M. Tronchet gave, in the name of the three Commissioners appointed to receive the declarations of the King and Queen, the following account of the manner in which they had executed their commission:
"For the purpose of executing your decree of yesterday, M. Dandre, M. Duport, and I, met; and, about nine in the evening, proceeded to the Thuilleries. We were introduced into the King's apartment, where we found him alone. After having read to him your decree, I judged it necessary to remark, that the declaration of his Majesty should refer according to the intent and meaning of the decree, as well to all the transactions of the 21st of June, as to the occurrences connected with them, whether of an interior or posterior date. The King answered, that he did not understand submitting to interrogatories; but that he would deliver in a declaration conformably to the requisition which had been made to him by the National Assembly. We then took his declaration, to every page of which he had set his signature. We went afterwards to the apartments of the Queen, whom we found, with Madame Elizabeth, preparing to sit down to table; but, the latter informing us that her Majesty could not then receive us, because she was going to the bath, we desired her to appoint another hour; and she fixed upon eleven this morning. Of course, we retired; but, re-urging at the time prescribed, were introduced into the bed-chamber, where the Queen was without any attendant whatever. We then read to her the decree of the National Assembly, subjoining to it the same observation which we had made to the King. She dictated to us her declaration, and, having afterwards heard it read over, put her signature to every page of it."
DECLARATION OF THE KING.
"I observe, Gentlemen, by your commission, that nothing like an interrogatory is meant; but I am desirous of complying with the wishes of the National Assembly, and I shall never decline publishing the motives of my conduct. The motives for my journey were the outrages and the threats offered to my family and to myself on the 18th of last April! Subsequent to that period, I and my family have frequently been insulted and menaced in several writings; and the authors of these have remained unpenalised. I conceived that the safety of my family, and of my own person, forbade me to continue any longer in Paris. I wished to leave it; and it was for the purpose of departing with less interruption, that I preferred the night-time. My intention never was to quit the kingdom. I had not concerted any measures whatsoever, either with foreign powers, or with the French emigrants beyond the kingdom. The circumstance of apartments having been prepared for my reception at Montmedy, may be adduced as a proof that I had no design to pass beyond the frontiers. I chose this place, because, as it was fortified, my family might have remained there in security; and because, being thus near the frontiers, I should have been more at hand to resist every attempt to invade France. Here, in the case of an invasion, I could immediately have presented myself in the post of danger. In short, I chose Montmedy even in the moment when I might have chosen any other retreat. One of my principal motives was to re-establish the vigor of the government, and to render myself secure. Had I felt an inclination to depart from the kingdom, I should not upon the very same day, have sent my declaration to the National Assembly, but I should have waited for the moment of my having passed beyond the frontiers. I always adhered to the desire of returning to Paris. It is in this sense that the last expressions of my memorial should be understood:— Frenchmen, and above all, citizens of Paris, what pleasure shall I feel to be among you! I had not, in the carriage, more than the sum of 13,200 livres in gold, and 560,000 livres in assignats; and these were inclosed within the port-folio which has been returned to me by the department."
"I did not communicate my intentions to Monsieur until within a short time previous to my departure; and he only proceeded into a foreign State with the intention of returning to Montmedy, but without taking the same road. Several days before I had ordered the three persons who attended me, to provide themselves the dresses of couriers, in which they might bear my dispatches. It was not until the preceding evening that I told them they were to accompany me. I only took a passport for going out of the kingdom, because none is granted at the Office for Foreign Affairs for the interior parts of the kingdom: neither was the road marked out even at all pursued. I never made any other protestations than those which I addressed to the assembly on the day of my departure; and these do not bear so much upon the ground-work of the principles of the constitution as upon the form of sanctions, upon the deficiency of that freedom which I ought to enjoy and upon the point, that as the constitutional decrees were not presented to me in one mass, I could not possibly judge of them in a collected view, and altogether. The principal part of this memorial rests upon the defect of the administrative and executive measures. I was sensible, during my journey, that the public opinion was decidedly in favor of the constitution. I did not conceive that I could fully have ascertained the nature of this public opinion at Paris; but upon the road, and in consequence of all the elucidations, which, as the result of my enquiries, flashed upon my mind, I became convinced, as I now am, how indispensably necessary it is even for the constitution to give power to those officers of the state who are appointed for the maintenance of public order. As soon as I could ascertain the
nature of the public opinion, I did not hesitate to sacrifice my personal interests to the welfare of my people, this being the great object of all my wishes and desires.
"I shall willingly forget all the unpleasant circumstances that I have experienced, to secure the peace and the happiness of the nation."
[The King, after reading this declaration, observed, "That he had omitted to add, that his Son's Governess, and the Ladies in his suite, were apprized of his departure but a short time only before it took place; and the King signed it with us.]
(Signed) LOUIS,
TRONCHET, DUPORT, DANDRE,"
DECLARATION OF THE QUEEN.
"I declare, that the King being desirous of quitting Paris with his children, nothing in nature could have dissuaded me from following him; for, that I never will consent to quit him, my whole conduct for these two years past, has given sufficient proofs. I was confirmed in my determination to follow him, from the confidence and persuasion which I had, that he would never quit the kingdom. Had he been so inclined, all my influence would have been exerted to prevent him. The Governess of my daughter, who had been indisposed for five weeks did not receive orders for departure till the evening preceding. She had not even taken any clothes with her—I was obliged to lend her some—She was absolutely ignorant of our destination. The three couriers neither knew the destination nor the object of the journey—they were supplied, from time to time, with money upon the road, and received our orders as we proceeded. The two femmes de chambre did not receive orders till the moment of our departure—One of them, whose husband was in the Palace, had not an opportunity of seeing him. Monsieur and Madame separated from us, and took the road to Mons, only to avoid embarrassment, and to prevent delay from the want of horses upon the road—They were to rejoin us in France. We went out of the Palace by passing through the apartment of M. Villequier; and that we might not be perceived, we went separately, and at some distance of time from each other."
[After reading over this declaration to the Queen, she acknowledged it to be such a declaration as she intended to make, and signed it with us.] (Signed)
MARIE ANTOINETTE,
TRONCHET, DUPORT, DANDRE."
The Declaration being read, M. Tronchet said, "The King is desirous to have a duplicate of these declarations; without doubt, the assembly will authorise us to deliver them."
The assembly complied with the request, and ordered the declarations to the committee which shall be appointed to make a report on this affair.
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, TO THE FRENCH.
A PROCLAMATION.
Decreed in the sitting of June 22, 1791.
"A GRAND offence has just been committed. The National Assembly was near the conclusion of its long labours! the constitution was almost completed: the tumults of the Revolution were about to cease; and the enemies of the public welfare were eager, by a single crime, to sacrifice the whole nation to their vengeance. The King and the Royal Family were carried off on the 21st instant.
"But your Representatives will triumph over all this obstacle. They estimate calmly the extent of the duties imposed upon them. The public liberty shall be maintained; conspirators and slaves shall understand the intrepidity of the French Nation, and we make, in the name of the Nation, a solemn engagement to revenge the law, or die!
"France would be free, and she shall be so. It is intended to make the Revolution recede, but it recedes not.—Such, Frenchmen, is your will—it shall be accomplished. It is necessary to accommodate the law to the state of the kingdom. The King, in the Constitution, exercises the power of the Royal sanction over the Decrees of Legislative Body. He is the Head of the Executive Power, and, in that capacity causes the laws to be executed by responsible ministers.
"If the first officer of the public deferts his post, or is carried off against his will, the Representatives of the Nation have the right to supply his place.—The National Assembly has, in consequence, decreed, That the Seal of State, and the signature of the Minister of Justice, shall be added to all its decrees, to give them the character of laws. As no order of the King would have been executed, without being countersigned by the responsible Minister, nothing was necessary but a simple delegation by the Assembly to authorise him to sign the orders, and those only issued by them. In this circumstance they have been directed by the constitutional law relative to a Regency, which authorises them to perform the functions of the Executive Power until the nomination of a Regent.
"By these measures your Representatives have insured order in the interior part of the kingdom, and to repulse any attack from without, they add to the army a reinforcement of three hundred thousand National Guards.
"The citizens then have, on all sides, the means of security. Let them not be overcome

by their surprize; the Constituent Assembly is upon its duty; the constituted powers are in activity; the Citizens of Paris, the National Guards, whose patriotism and fidelity are above all praise, watch round your Representatives; the active citizens throughout the kingdom are in arms, and France may wait for its enemies.
"Are they to fear the consequences of a writing, forced before his departure, from a seduced King: It is difficult to conceive the ignorance and blindness that have dictated this writing, which may deserve to be further discussed hereafter; at present, your Representatives content themselves with examining some particular sentiments."
"The National Assembly has made a solemn proclamation of political truths, and of rights, the acknowledgment of which will one day produce the happiness of the human race; to engage them to renounce this declaration of rights, the theory of slavery itself has been presented to them."
"Frenchmen! we have no fear in recalling to your memories the famous day, the 23d of July, 1789—that day, on which the Chief of the Executive Power, the first public functionary of the nation, dared to dictate his absolute will to your Representatives, charged by your orders to form a Constitution. The National Assembly lamented the disorders committed on the 5th of October, and ordered the prosecution of the persons guilty of them; but, because it was difficult to discover some rioters amongst such a multitude of people, they are said to have approved all their crimes.—The nation is, however, more just. It has not reproached Louis XVI. with the violences that have occurred under his Reign, and those of his ancestors!"
"They are not afraid to call to your recollection the Federation of July. What are the statements of the persons who have dictated the letter of the King, with respect to this august act? that the first public functionary was obliged to put himself at the head of the Representatives of the Nation, in the midst of the Députés of all the kingdom. He took a solemn oath to maintain the Constitution. If the King does not hereafter declare, that his good faith has been surprised by seditious persons, he has, of course, announced his own perjury to the whole world! Is it necessary to go through the fatigue of answering the other reproaches of this letter?"
"The King is said to have experienced some inconveniencies in his residence at Paris, and not to have found the same pleasures as formerly; by which it is implied, no doubt, that a nation ought to regenerate itself without any agitation, without disturbing for an instant, the pleasures and the indulgencies of courts. As to the addresses of congratulation and adherence to your decrees, these say they, are the work of the factions.—Yes—no doubt—of TWENTY-SIX MILLIONS of the factions. "
"It was necessary to re-constitute all powers because all the powers were corrupted, and because the alarming debts accumulated by the despotism and the disorders of government, would have overwhelmed the nation. But does not Royalty exist for the people? And if a great Nation obliges itself to maintain it, is it not solely because it is believed to be useful? The Constitution has left to the King this glorious prerogative, and has confirmed to him the only authority which he should desire to exercise. Would not your representation have been culpable, if they had sacrificed twenty-six millions to the interest of one man?"
"The labour of citizens supports the powers of the State; but the maxim of absolute power is, to consider the public contributions as a debt paid to despotism. The National Assembly has regulated its expenses with the strictest justice: they thought themselves bound, when acting in the name of the Nation, to act munificently; and when they were to determine what part of the public contributions should be allowed to the first functionary, thirty millions were allotted for him and the Royal Family; but this is represented as a trifling sum! "
"The Decrees upon the subject of peace and war, have taken from the King and his Ministers the power of sacrificing the people to the caprices of courts; and the definitive ratification of Treaties is reserved to the Representatives of the Nation. The loss of a prerogative is complained of. What prerogative? That of not being obliged to consult the National will, when the blood and the fortunes of citizens were to be sacrificed. Who can know the wish and interests of the Nation better than the Legislative Body? It is wished to make war with impunity."
But have we not had, under the ancient Government, sufficient experience of the terrible effects produced by the ambition of Ministers?
"We are accused of having despoiled the King in forming the judicial power, as if the King of a great Nation ought to appear in the administration of justice, for any other purpose than that of causing the law to be observed, and its judgments executed. It is wished that he should have the right of granting pardons, and chang-
ing punishments; but does not all the world know, how such a right would be exercised, and upon whom the benefit of it would fall? The King could not have exercised it by himself; and having prohibited Royal despotism, it was natural to prohibit that of the Ministers."
"The necessity of circumstances has sometimes obliged the National Assembly to meddle, contrary to its inclination, in the affairs of administration. It ought not to act, when the government remained in blameable inertness? It is, therefore, necessary to say, that neither the King nor the Ministers have the confidence of the nation!"
"The Societies of Friends of the Constitution have supported the Revolution; they are more necessary than ever, and some persons presume to say that they govern the administrative bodies, and the empire, as if they were the deliberating bodies!"
"Frenchmen! all the powers are organized; all the public functionaries are at their posts; the National Assembly watches over the safety of the State; may you be firm and tranquil! One danger alone threatens us.—You have to guard against the suspension of your labours—against delay in the payment of duties—against any inflammatory measures, which commence in anarchies, and end in civil war. It is to these dangers that the National Assembly calls the attention of the citizen. In this crisis, all private animosities and private interests should disappear."
"Those who would preserve their liberty, should show that tranquil firmness which appalls tyrants. May the factions, who hope to see every thing overturned, find order maintained, and the Constitution confirmed, and rendered more dear to Frenchmen, by the attacks made upon it! The Capital may be an example to the rest of France. The departure of the King excited no disorders there; but to the confusion of the malevolent, the utmost tranquillity prevails in it."
"To reduce the territory of this empire to the yoke, it will be necessary to destroy the whole nation! Despotism if it pleases, may make such an attempt— It will either fail, or at the conclusion of its triumphs, will find only ruins! "
This Address was unanimously approved by the Assembly, and ordered to be sent to all the Departments.
L I S L E, June 7.
THE National Guard in the village of Lesquin stopped an ecclesiastic, who had a considerable quantity of louis-d'ors, and one bag of silver, in his carriage, the whole weighing 160lb. besides this, a quantity of affignats, and some rouleaux of Louis, were found upon his person. This money is said to have been the first payment of a million to be furnished by the late Abbot of St. Bertin to the Cardinal de Rohan, to hasten the passage of the Rhine. Thus the counter-revolution has received another pull-back.
P A R I S. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, June 27.
The Conquerors of the Bastile again came to renew their oath.
M. Trencher, who had just received a note from the King, said that his Majesty desired to see the Commissioners at eleven o'clock; but, he added that the Commissioners did not think it proper to comply with this desire without the orders of the Assembly. The Assembly ordered them to wait on the King.
In half an hour the same deputy returned, and said that the Commissioners had found the King in his bed-chamber, who told them that he had sent for them to add that he had forgotten, in his declaration to mention his having given orders to M. Bouille to protect him on his journey to Montmedi.
The Commissioners having told the King that the Assembly was informed of this circumstance, his Majesty replied, "I knew not that these orders were known. I have nothing more to add; my only intention was to inform you that I had given those orders."
M. Desmuniers then made his report, in the name of the Committee of Constitution, on the forms to be observed in the choice of a Governor to the presumptive heir of the crown. One article alone was productive of debates. This was "whether the Members of the Legislature should be eligible to this office."
It was at length determined in the negative.
Art 1. Previously to the nomination of a Governor to the presumptive Heir of the Crown, a list of the citizens qualified for that office, shall be drawn up.
Art. 2. The members of the National Assembly, divided into Bureaux, shall make the necessary scrutiny. Two Secretaries shall add together the scrutinies of all the Bureaux. The list of those who are qualified shall be reported to the Assembly, and shall be printed.
Art. 3. The Election shall be by a plurality of votes. The votes may be not only for any of those on the list, but for any one citizen. No Members of the National Assembly shall be elected.
Art. 4. The Governor appointed shall, before the Assembly, take an oath to watch over the
life, and to promote the health of the presumptive heir, and to be responsible for his person.
Art. 5. All persons in the service of the presumptive heir shall be under the orders of the Governor.
Art. 6. The National Assembly will immediately apply themselves to the formation of a plan of education for the presumptive heir, in pursuance of a former decree.
At the opening of the evening sitting, a letter from Dunkirk was read, giving information that the officers of the regiment Colonel-General, had run away to Furus, and had taken with them the colours, and the whole baggage. They had also attempted, but in vain, to corrupt the soldiers, and to entice them to desert.
A Monk was to be their treasurer. His apartments have been searched, and in them were found 50,000 livres in silver; 200,000 livres going beyond the frontiers, were also intercepted. The trunks of the fugitive officers have been seized, and therefore it is supposed they will soon be shirtless.
L O N D O N, June 30.
A Special Messenger arrived at the Imperial Ambassador's on Saturday last, who is one of the Emperor's body-guards; he was only seven hours on his passage from Ostend. A long conference took place between Mr. Pitt and his Excellency on Monday, in consequence of the dispatches he brought over. The report is, that they contained information that the Emperor has been prevailed on again to join his forces with those of Russia against the Porte—that the Danes have determined to join Russia in disputing the passage of the English fleet up the Baltic; and that Sweden has determined, in case of a rupture between Russia and this country, to re-commence hostilities against the former.
The French East-India company, notwithstanding the general depression of their country, maintain their credit in the most exemplary manner; to one house alone, a few days back, they remitted in one bill, no less a sum than 40,000l.
J U Y 7.
Baron Horix, Referendary of the Chancery of the Empire at Vienna, has just published a work, which is much spoken of. Its object is to prove, that every citizen of Germany, who was born free, has, by virtue of such freedom, a right to aspire to any public employment or charge whatever;—and that the exclusive right which is claimed by the Nobility, has no other foundation, than barbarous prejudice sanctioned by ignorance.
We seem to have at length reached the happy era, when all the Gothic governments throughout Europe, are to vanish, and make room for governments founded on justice and reason, and conformable to the grand objects, for which societies were originally instituted. Despotism and Feudality are now at their last gasp. Mankind are determined to be no longer led like a herd of brutes. In lieu of an unnatural instinct, they have substituted the light of reason, which now brings forth to view those rights, that have been too long concealed from the eyes of the people, and of those who govern them.
A certain and infallible method of preserving French beans, potatoes, and other tender vegetables from being injured by the spring and summer frosts:—Before the sun rises, wash off all the white frost from the plants with a watering-pot of common pond or spring water. The above has been tried this summer and had the desired effect.
A gentleman aged upwards of 60, was, and had been for some years, violently afflicted with the stone and gravel in the bladder and kidneys; he was advised to eat raw onions, and drink the juice of the sourest crab apples, particularly in the mornings, and to use as much of both as his stomach and constitution would bear at all times in the day; by continuing the use of these things about a year, he was perfectly cured, and remains so to this day without any return of the complaint, and can now attend his business, which before he could not, from the extremity of the pain. For those constitutions that cannot so well bear the strong acid of the crab apple, may be substituted in its room a jam or conserve made of the blackberry in its unripe state, while it is of a red colour; let the juice or pulp be passed through a sieve after the berries have been boiled in a covered jar set in a kettle of water for five or six hours over the fire; to every quart of the pulp or juice, thus boiled, add two pounds of lump sugar, boil and skim it, and so keep for use.—Dose, a tea spoon full at night, or oftener, if the constitution will bear it.
Extract of a letter from Paris, June 29.
"When the Royal Captives entered Paris, it is not a little remarkable, that of the immense multitude assembled from Neuille to the Thuilleries, no one pulled off his hat to the King. The soldiers too did not appear under recovered arms, but, on the contrary, with their muskets shoudered, thus shewing that they were not there to do honor to, but to ascertain the surety of, the Royal Family."

"The triumphal car, covered with laurels, contained M. M. Drouet, Mangin, and Guillaume, who arrested the fugitives."
"The King appeared tranquil; this is said to be occasioned by the consideration, that he had not sanctioned the decree precluding him to remove more than 20 leagues from the National Assembly."
On the 17th June last, at her house in Oldfields, in her 84th year, the Right Hon. SELINA  Countess dowager of Huntington. She was born 1707 , and was the daughter of Washington Earl of Ferrers ; was married, June 3, 1723, to the Earl of Huntington. Her Ladyship has been widow 45 years; and so long has a fine bust of her, by Kent, been placed on the tomb of her deceased lord, at Ashby-de la Zouch, co. Leicester, where, by her will, she has directed her own remains (dressed in the suit of white silk which she wore at the opening of a chapel in Goodman's fields) to be deposited in as plain a manner as possible; the coffin to be covered with black, and the officiating clergyman to receive 10l. for his trouble. Her very great religious concerns, as head of a very numerous sect in Great-Britain and Ireland are left by will in the hands of committees for managing them in both kingdoms. Her religious principles have been long since known, and her unbounded benevolence bore the best testimony of the purity of her intentions, having in the course of her life, expended above one hundred thousand pounds in public and private acts of charity. She has left 4000l. to be disposed of in charitable gifts, at the discretion of the Earl of Dartmouth, Sir Richard Hill, the Hon. Thomas Erskine, and her chaplain, Mr. Hawes, and a great part of her Ladyship's fortune for the support of 64 chapels, which she had established throughout the kingdoms.
June 23. At Binfield, Berks, after a long and painful illness, Mrs. CATHARINE MACAULY GRAHAM . She was the youngest daughter of John Sawbridge, Esq. of Ollantigh, Kent, and sister of John S. Esq. alderman of London. June 13, 1760, she married George Macaulay, M.D. Mrs. M. re-married, Dec. 17, 1773, the younger brother of the celebrated Dr. Graham, with whom she retired to a cottage in Leicestershire. She began her literary career with the "History of England, from James I. to the Brunswick line;" the first volume of which was published in 1762; the second 1765; the third, 1767; the fourth, 1769; the fifth, 1771; the sixth and seventh, 1781; and the eighth, 1783. "Thoughts on the Causes of the present Discontents, 1770." "A modest Plea for the property of Copy-right." "History of England, from the Revolution to the present Time; in a series of letters to a friend, the Rev. Dr. Wilson, Prebendary of Westminster, 1778," &c. — on which C. Loffi, Esq. published Panegyrical "Observations" the same year. A treatise on the "Immutability of Moral Truth, 1783," 8vo. "An address to the people of England, Scotland, and Ireland, on the present important Crisis of Affairs, 1775," 8vo. Her last publication was, "Letters on Education, 1790," 8vo. — The enthusiastic devotion paid to her, as a favorer of liberty, by the late Dr. Wilson, prebendary of Westminster, by setting up a statue of her, in the character of the Goddess of Liberty, in her life time, in the chancel of his church in Walbrook, which on his death was removed, is well known. "I looked to no purpose," says Mr. Pennant, in his 'History of London,' p. 322, "for the statue erected Divæ Macaulæ , by her devoted admirer, a former rector which a successor of his has most profanely pulled down."
PROVIDENCE, August 20.
Tuesday last the ship Lark, Capt. Bishop, arrived here from London.
On Capt. Bishop's arrival in the Downs, Mr. Thomas Lang, his first mate, and two seamen, were pressed, and carried on board the Buffalo man of war. The mate is an Englishman, but has been an inhabitant of this town 12 or 14 years, and has a family here.
ALBANY, August 18.
Extract of a letter from Sir Joseph Banks, bart. President of the Royal Society of London, to Samuel L. Mitchell, esq. Secretary of the New-York Agricultural Society, dated Soho-square, April 6, 1791.
"SIR, "I should not have so long omitted to thank you for your obliging letter of last autumn, and communications of the Hessian-Flies, in their torpid state, had I not found some difficulty in procuring an Italian book, which gives an account of the various insects destructive to the corn in the south of Europe, of which I thought it necessary to beg your acceptance, in order to enable you to see whether the destructive animal in question, is a native of Europe. — In England it does not exist; and no enquiry I have been able to make has hitherto given me reason to believe its existence in any part of Germany."
"By a light of the fly itself, I shall directly seem to know among what sort of insects it is ar-
ranged; and should any analogy lead me to be able to suggest any thing likely to be of use in preventing its increase, you may rely on my sparing no pains, on a subject that may lead to so desirable a purpose."
"I have a copy of the Italian work which you will receive by the Swan, &c. &c."
ADDRESS, From the National Assembly of France, TO THE Representatives of the People of Pennsylvania, in answer to one from the House of Representatives of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, voted the last session of the Legislature.
GENTLEMEN, NEXT to the favorable suffrages of the people of France, from whom the National Assembly derive their powers, there could be no incentive better calculated to encourage them to proceed, until they have finally completed their labours, than the approbation of the Representatives of Pennsylvania.
In the midst of the perplexing silence of those surrounding nations, who are blinded by prejudice or awed by despotism, it was grateful to the National Assembly, and affords a happy preface, to hear, resounding from afar, prompted by fraternal affection, the congratulatory voice of America.
We too are establishing (under the constitutional authority of a king) that liberty which you have been able to secure under governments of a republican form:—
Liberty, not derived from chartered grants or privileges, which subverts by the introduction of hereditary distinctions, that equality of rank, which in the social state is the unalienable birthright of man: and which, encroaching on the sacred sovereignty of the people, by pretensions founded on birth or adventitious rights, still exhibits, on the bold and resolute features of a regenerated nation, the scars of its ancient slavery.
A country, fit to receive and nourish the seeds of this precious liberty, was only to be sought for in the trans atlantick world: — 'Twas there, amongst an infant people, pure, and uncorrupt, that the higher virtues were to be found, suitable to carry into effect, those speculative truths, against which ignorance and habitual error have waged continual warfare; — Truths, which from the pride and arrogance of the feudal system, have been disdainfully inserted in the list of Utopian opinions, fit only for the dreams of the philanthropist, and not for the practical purposes of government. — After the successful experience of America, it was still difficult to copy the example and introduce among the degenerated nations of Europe, this invaluable discovery of the new world; it required the enlightened energy and unremitting efforts of a numerous people, to support a doctrine which was combated by such powerful enemies, and opposed by such inveterate prejudices. But at length the revolution is effected, and already do the rights of man, engraven on the most durable materials, adorn the temples of liberty in the two hemispheres.
France is fully sensible of the benefits she has derived from the influence of your example: she gratefully remembers that it was in the bosom of Pennsylvania, distinguished for her wisdom, that the legislators of America first announced to the world, the true principles of the social system.
May the citizens of that glorious and happy country, discover in the Decree of the National Assembly*, the sentiments by which the first friends of their independence continue to be animated: — May this act of the people of France, more closely uniting the two nations by the kindred tie of congenial principles, encrease their mutual relationship, cement their interests, and perpetually recall to their recollection, that they are reciprocally indebted to each other for the recovery of their freedom.
By order of the National Assembly of France, J. V. Bureaux Pusy, President. Paris, June 6, 1791.
* For the Decree see our last Gazette.
Philadelphia, August 31.
Last Sunday evening a stable in Laurel Court, near Spruce-street, was burnt. The exertions of the citizens, the weather being calm, prevented the flames from spreading. It has been suggested that this accident was occasioned by sparks from a cigar, with which it has become very fashionable for negroes, lads, and even children, to illuminate their mouths after dark — The ill policy of erecting wooden buildings in the heart of a populous city, is continually flitting on the public mind.
Four thousand emigrants have embarked at Londonderry this season, for the United States.
A bill has passed the House of Representatives, granting 1500l. for the relief of Dickinson College. — A motion to add these words, "and of the Trustees of the College, charitable School, and Academy of Philadelphia," was negatived.
The Empire of Russia, according to the last and best geographical charts, contains 330,506 square leagues, of which 263,349 are in a temperate climate, and 67,157 in a cold climate — so that the Russian territories comprise one 28th part of the globe.
By the last Georgia Gazettes, it appears that General Jackson is canvassing the election of General Wayne. Mr. Jackson has published a number of affidavits, to shew that bribery and false returns were among the expedients adopted to carry the election against him. In the presentment of the Grand Jury of Chatham, this election forms the most conspicuous article in the list of grievances. We may therefore expect there will be business for the committee of elections in the next Congress.
Some late paragraphists in the English papers have compared M. La Fayette to Cromwell — but with what justice, time will elucidate. Two years experience have however afforded no traits in his character and conduct to justify such a comparison, except his bravery and firmness. Among the numerous instances of patriotic intrepidity and consistency, which the late crisis produced, this great character stands unrivalled — his promptitude and decision on this emergency, in taking such measures as the soundest wisdom, and most consummate prudence could dictate, evince that the vigor of his mind, and his political resources, are adequate both to the high station he fills, and the most trying exigencies that can occur.
An eminent and experienced physician of New-York, whose observations appear in the Daily Advertiser of that city of the 26th inst. speaking of the effects of ripe fruits in their season upon the human frame, convinced of their safety and real utility, says, that he has never failed to recommend them even in those cases wherein they have been supposed to do harm.
They are easy of digestion, friendly to the stomach and bowels, and ranked among the most delicious cordials.
From their aperient and saponaceous quality, they temperate the bile, and any acrid humour in the first passages, and gently evacuate them; and by these means become THE BEST PRESERVATIVES AGAINST DYSENTERIES, which from an erroneous opinion they have been charged with being the cause of.
From a full persuasion of their good effects, I have always, says he, permitted their use in this complaint, and in putrid fevers, with success; and once obtained the most speedy relief to an elderly man at Newark, in the last stage of an acute and putrid Dysentery, by a free indulgence of ripe peaches.
"It is for the interest of those persons who now possess the public stock, to turn their attention to commerce, and to give a helping hand to that branch on which their whole property depends: It is bad policy for them to retire on their 6 per cents. and to think that their interest will support them. For if the monied men retire from trade, who is to carry it on? Or who is to pay the reckoning? — If they are all to live on the revenue, who is to furnish the means? — If they are all to receive and none to pay, from whence is the money to arise? — If they are all stock jobbers, and none merchants, who is to settle with the Collectors? — If nobody calls on him, and his office is deserted, it is needless to look to the treasury, or deposit notes in the loan-office. A few needy individuals in trade, are not equal to discharge the burden, and if the monied men desist from lending a helping hand, and heave the business on the shoulders of others, it is probable the revenue will fall vastly short of answering their quarterly demands. Bost. Ind. Chron.
The sums, stated to be the amounts of the balances of accounts against the United States, in respect to this state and that of South-Carolina, are the whole advances of those states during the war, deducting certain sums in paper-money, received by them from the Continental Treasury. These balances and sums received by the states, will form the aggregate expence of the purchase of freedom and independence.
Died at Brest, on the 10th June last, the celebrated M. de la Motte Piquet — a great loss to the French navy.
ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
  Brig Industry, Brutler, Savannah   — Fame, Swaine, Honduras   — Ceres, Ives, Londonderry.   — Active, Egar, Bayonne   Schooner Industry. Siles, Cape-Francois 
PRICE CURRENT. — PUBLIC SECURITIES.
  FUNDED DEBT.   6 pr. Cents 21/2 21/3 pr. £. 106 3/4 pr. cent.   3 pr. Cents 12 3/4 12 1/2 62 do.   Deferred 6 pr. Cents 12 3/8 12 1/2 63 3/4 do.   UNFUNDED DEBT.   Final Sett. and other Certificates 20/6 109 3/4 do.   Indents 12 1/2 62 3/4 do.   N. and S. Carolina debts, 15/6.   Bank Subscriptions, 185 Dollars. 
BY ORDER OF THE MANAGERS.
The MANAGERS of the
New-Haven Wharf Lottery,
HAVING sold what Tickets remained on hand, pledge themselves to the public, that the Drawing said Lottery will commence, in the Representatives' Chamber, in the State House in New-Haven, on Monday the 12th of September next, at ten o'clock, A. M.
New-Haven, August 16, 1791.
A few Tickets in the above Lottery (and the only ones now unfold) may be had of the Subscribers, if soon applied for.
STEPHEN AUSTIN & Co.
Corner of Front and Pine-streets.
Philadelphia, August 27, 1791.

Charlestown (Mass.) Lottery.
THE MANAGERS of said LOTTERY present to the Public the following
S C H E M E
OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CLASS, Consisting of 7000 Tickets, at THREE DOLLARS each, 21,000 Dollars.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 2500 Dolls. is, 2500. Rows include 1, 15, 20, 20, 40, 60, 70, 80, 2008.
Table with 3 columns: 2335 Prizes, Deduction, 17872. Rows include 4665 Blanks, 3:28.
7000 Tickets, Amount, 21000
This Class will commence drawing on or before the 1st of September.
Tickets may be had of the several Managers in Charlestown, and at the usual places in Boston.
THOMAS HARRIS, MATTHEW BRIDGE, SAMUEL SOLEY, Managers.
Charlestown, May 25, 1791.
HAZARD and ADDOMS,
No. 173, Market-Street, HAVE TICKETS in the above, and in the Massachusetts Second SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY, for Sale.
PHILADELPHIA, 20th July, 1791.
THE Commissioners appointed to receive Subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, do hereby, agreeable to law, inform the Stockholders of the said Bank, that an election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the City-Hall in Philadelphia, on Friday the 21st day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the morning.
THOMAS WILLING, DAVID RITTENHOUSE, SAMUEL HOWELL.
PUBLIC SECURITIES,
BOUGHT and SOLD, on COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON, Chestnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97. MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL,
AND NEW-HAVEN LOTTERY TICKETS,
To be had at the same place.
Public Notice is hereby given,
to all whom these presents shall come, or in any wise concern, That JAMES GARDNER, late of Wilmington, North-Carolina, deceased, did make four promissory notes payable to SAMUEL JACKSON, of Philadelphia, Merchant, all bearing date the 19th July, 1785, one for three hundred and seventy-one pounds, payable in six months...
These are the refore to caution all persons from purchasing said notes as they will not be taken up.
THOMAS WRIGHT, ROBERT SCOTT, M. R. WILLKINGS, Executors.
Wilmington, North-Carolina, 27th May, 1791. (e p 3 m.)
WAR DEPARTMENT,
MAY 30, 1791.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of March, 1791, and which will become due on the 4th day of September ensuing, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within the States respectively, under the usual regulations, viz.
1st. The certificate given by the state, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which such he is annually entitled.
2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form: A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of in the state of and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited) That he served (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the and county of and has resided there for the last years, previous to which he resided in
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeably to the following form:
I, A. B. of county of state of do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for six months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and ending the fourth day of September of the same year.
Signed and sealed in the presence of
Witnesses.
Acknowledged before me,
Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim.
By command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
ADVERTISEMENT.
BY late arrivals from France, the Editor has received from No. 10 to 31, both inclusive, of a Publication which comes out twice a week in Paris, entitled, "CORRESPONDANCE NATIONALE." From No. 1 to No. 10, have been shipped, but are not yet come to hand. Any person who may incline to subscribe for this work, which appears to be ingenious, impartial and patriotic, may be furnished with the numbers as they arrive by applying to the Editor of this Gazette.
MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY.
CLASS II.
THE MANAGERS of the STATE-LOTTERY assure the Public, that the second Class of the SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY will positively commence drawing on the day appointed, viz. On Thursday the 13th of October next, or sooner, if the Tickets shall be disposed of. As the Managers have in their several monthly Lotteries commenced drawing at the hour assigned, so they are determined to be equally as punctual in this.
S C H E M E. NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
25,000 TICKETS, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. for the use of the Commonwealth.
Table with 3 columns: PRIZES, DOLLARS, DOLLARS. Rows include 1 of 10000 is 10000, 2 of 3000 are 6000, 3 of 2000 are 6000, 6 of 1000 are 6000, 10 of 500 are 5000, 30 of 200 are 6000, 80 of 100 are 8000, 90 of 50 are 4500, 100 of 40 are 4000, 120 of 30 are 3600, 161 of 20 are 3220, 200 of 10 are 2000, 7585 of 8 are 60680.
8388 Prizes. 16612 Blanks. 125000
25000 Tickets.
TICKETS in the above CLASS may be had of the several MANAGERS, who will pay the prizes on demand; of the TREASURER of the Commonwealth; of JAMES WHITE, at his Book-store, Franklin's Head, Court-street—and at other places, as usual.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. DAVID COBB, SAMUEL COOPER, GEORGE R. MINOT, JOHN KNEELAND, MANAGERS.
Boston, April 14, 1791.
New-Haven Wharf Lottery.
THE Legislature of the State of Connecticut, at their session in December last, granted a Lottery for the purpose of extending Union Wharf, in the harbour of New-Haven, to the channel; and appointed the subscribers managers, who having given bond for the faithful discharge of their trust, present the public with the following
S C H E M E.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of 10,000 Dollars, is 10,000. Rows include 1 of 5000 is 5000, 1 of 4000 is 4000, 2 of 2000 are 4000, 4 of 1000 are 4000, 5 of 500 are 2500, 12 of 200 are 2400, 30 of 100 are 3000, 45 of 50 are 2250, 50 of 40 are 2000, 61 of 30 are 1830, 100 of 20 are 2000, 140 of 10 are 1400, 5390 of 8 are 43,120.
5842 Prizes. 11658 Blanks. 87500
17500 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, is
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
Subject to a deduction of twelve and a half per cent.
The public utility of extending this wharf, is too evident to require any comment, to those who are acquainted with the town and harbour of New-Haven; to those who are not, suffice it to say, that its beautiful situation is not surpassed, if equalled by any; being in the heart of a country, which may, with propriety, be said to be the garden of America. The harbour lays open to the sound but by reason of the flats, this wharf is necessarily extended to the channel, where ships can load and unload; and when completed, will be the most extensive and commodious wharf in America, the whole extent being about 3/4ths of a mile; and not only the mercantile interest of New-Haven and the towns adjacent, but the maritime interest of all the States will be benefited by it. The general wish that prevails in the minds of all classes of people, for the success of this enterprise, together with the very great advantage which this scheme holds out to adventurers (there being more capital prizes for the number of tickets than any yet published in America) induce the managers to believe the tickets will meet with a speedy sale.
The drawing will positively commence at the State-House, in New-Haven, on the 13th of September next, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid on demand, by the managers. Those prizes not called for in nine months after drawing, will be deemed as generously given for the use of the wharf, and appropriated accordingly.
MANAGERS:
JAMES RICE, MICHAEL TODD, JEREMIAH ATWATER, ELIJAH AUSTIN, JOSEPH DRAKE, JOSEPH HOWELL. New-Haven, April 14, 1791.
TICKETS in the above Lottery may be had at the Compting-house of Messrs. STEPHEN AUSTIN, and Co. corner of Front and Pine-Streets.
Who will pay the prizes which may be drawn by Tickets purchased of them in said Lottery.
Tickets in the Massachusetts Lottery that have drawn prizes, will be received in payment for the above tickets.
A FINE CHANCE FOR A YOUNG PRINTER.
FOR SALE,
A Printing Press and Types,
together with the right of publishing a PAPER, in good repute, the subscribers to which are continually increasing—The present number of its patrons is between seven and eight hundred. The types consist of BURGEOS, PICAS, and a sufficient quantity of larger letter to display advertisements to advantage. The situation is in the interior part of MASSACHUSETTS, in the centre of a populous and thriving community, and within 17 miles of an excellent Paper-Mill, where paper of every quality and size may always be had on short notice. Perhaps no country paper on the continent has a larger share of Advertisements than the one offered for sale. A very considerable profit also accrues from the sale of Blanks of all kinds, which are much used in the place—from the publication of Hand-Bills, &c. &c. It is a good situation, also, for a small Book-Store—and it is supposed the Book-Binding business might be carried on in the same place to advantage.
For further particulars, enquire of JOHN FENNO, at his Office, No. 69, High-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, Philadelphia.
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All persons concerned will be pleased to take notice that the following advertisement has been varied from that published in our paper of the 23d of March.
Treasury Department.
MARCH 22, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the first Monday in September next inclusive, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein mentioned, viz.
At any place or places, betwixt Yorktown and the state of Pennsylvania and Fort Pitt, and at Fort M'Intosh,
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Fort M'Intosh, on the River Ohio, and at Fort M'Intosh.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort M'Intosh and the mouth of the River Muskingum, and at the mouth of the River Muskingum.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence over to the Cayoga River, and down the said River to its mouth.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum, and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth of the said River Scioto.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of Scioto River, and the mouth of the great Miami, at the mouth of the great Miami, and from thence to the Rapids, on the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the great Miami, up the said Miami, to and at Piquetown, and thence over to the Miami Village, on the river of the same name which empties into Lake Erie.
At any place or places from the rapids of the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, thence up the said Wabash to Post St. Vincennes, at Post St. Vincennes, and thence up the said river Wabash, to the Miami village, before described.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Wabash river to the mouth of the river Ohio.
At any place or places, on the east side of the river Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio river, to the mouth of the Illinois river.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Miami river to the Miami Village.
At any place or places, from the Miami Village to Sandusky, and at Sandusky, and from Sandusky to the mouth of Cayoga river.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Venango, and at Venango.
At any place or places, betwixt Venango and Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf, betwixt Le Beuf and Presq' Isle, at Presq' Isle, and betwixt Presq' Isle and the mouth of Cayoga river.
At the mouth of Cayoga river, and at any place or places, on the route from Fort Pitt, to the mouth of Cayoga river, by the way of Big Beaver creek.
At any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the river Margot inclusively.
At any place or places, from the said river Margot, to the river Yazous inclusively.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the river Tennessee, to Ocochappo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusively.
Should any rations be required at any places, or within any districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on, betwixt the public and the contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork, Half a gill of rum, brandy or whisky, One quart of salt, Two quarts of vinegar, Two pounds of soap, One pound of candles, per. 100 rations.
ALSO, That Proposals will be received at the said office until the first Monday in September next, inclusive, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the state of Massachusetts, and the Post of West-Point, in the state of New-York.
The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the same articles as are above mentioned.
ALSO, That proposals will be received at the said office, until the 1st Monday in September next inclusive, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein-mentioned.
At the post on the river Saint Mary, at present commanded by Capt. Henry Burbeck.
At the post on the river Altamaha, at present commanded by Capt. John Smith.
At the post on the river Oconee, at present commanded by Capt. Joseph Savage.
At the post on the river Apalachec, at present commanded by Capt. Michael Rudolph.
At any place or places from the Rock Landing on the Oconee, up to the mouth of the main south branch of the said river, from the said mouth up to the source of the said main south branch, and from thence to the Currahee mountain.
At any other place or places within the state of Georgia which may hereafter be occupied as permanent posts by any troops of the United States.
And for rations deliverable on the march to such future posts.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at each of the said posts, for the space of at least two months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the same articles, as are above mentioned.
It is to be understood in each case, that all losses sustained by the depredations of the enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the prices of the articles captured or destroyed, on the depredations of two or more creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation is claimed.
The contracts for the above supplies will be made either for one year, or for two years, as may appear eligible. Persons disposed to contract will therefore confine their offers to one year, or they may make their propositions so as to admit an election of the term of two years.
The proposals may be made for the whole of the above posts together, or separately for Springfield, for West-Point, for Yorktown, and the seventeen places following it, and for the posts in Georgia; and they must specify the lowest price per ration, for prompt payment.
Blank Powers to receive the Interest, and for the transfer of the principal of public debt, agreeable to the Rules established in the Treasury Department: Also Blanks for abstracts of Certificates, to be sold by the Editor.
The JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.
A few copies of the CONSTITUTION of the United States, printed with Notes, may be had of the Editor.