Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1789-09-26 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
[No. XLVIII.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1789.
[Published on Wednesday and Saturday.]
THE TABLET.—No. XLVIII.
SUBJECT OF NO. 47 CONTINUED.
“THE UNION OF THE STATES SHOULD BE THE FIRST “ARTICLE IN THE POLITICAL CREED OF EVERY “AMERICAN.”
IN our last we endeavored to shew that no political evil was to be apprehended from the pretended diversity of southern and eastern interests. It will be found that there is as little to be apprehended from other supposed causes of division. The universal freedom in religious matters, which is not only allowed by the government, but incorporated into the constitutions of the States, has rendered the people of this country less liable to discord on that account, than any other nation. The diversity of manners and customs is becoming less every day. The national government will contribute to hasten this progress, and to fix a standard for manners and language. The commercial intercourse of the States is increasing. Nothing unites men more than a concurrence in common sentiments and objects of pursuit. Every American holds liberty nearest his heart, and depends on the aid of every other American to defend it. There is no country where the people are so well agreed in their first maxims, or so deeply impressed with a sense of the importance of them.
If we consider the state of some of the most orderly governments in the world, we shall find that they are much less homogeneous than our own. France is actually divided into several distinct provinces—and they are still more divided by distinct laws and customs, and even by a different language. We are better acquainted with the British kingdoms: If the diversity in question is incompatible with a common government, then the prosperous state of that country will prove that there is no such diversity: Yet the fact is that the narrow territories of Britain and Ireland are inhabited by a people, in different stages of civilization—who speak several different languages—who glory in the victories obtained by their ancestors when mutually hostile, and whose remembrance of former injuries is embittered by mutual scorn and national hatred. Till lately their interests have been sacrificed to commercial monopolies, and their rights as men abridged by a policy which continued to be jealous after it had ceased to be vindictive. Their customs, manners, and principles of government, and religion, are, apparently, the least likely to assimilate together. The Scotch Highlanders, the people of the isles; the Welch, the wild Irish, and the English, the oppressed Catholics, the persecuted Jacobites, the Dissenters and Episcopalians are surely more unfit to become one people than the citizens of the Southern and Northern States: Yet all these people are approximating, and it is a question whether in a course of time, not very remote, there will remain any traces of discrimination. That event is of the less importance, as, in fact, with all the supposed diversity of interests and opinions, that kingdom is one of the most prosperous and best governed of any in the world. It is certain that it has been believed in that country, and many seemed to derive a malignant pleasure from the belief, that the people of America, too independent, were so unfortunately circumstanced that they would not govern themselves. If we did not know that the passions and prejudices of men make them blind to the most obvious truths, we should wonder how Englishmen could be duped by an hypothesis which is so abundantly refuted by their own experience. If the Americans cannot preserve their national government, it is not because they are too unlike to assimilate, or that they want the acuteness and vigor of mind to perceive and establish the principles of a wise government.
It is because habit, which is nature to an enlightened people, and is more, is necessity to an ignorant one, has not acquired its ordinary authority over the mind. We have been accustomed to distinct, independent governments: We have not been used to think nationally—to consider ourselves as an indivisible whole: Other nations reverence the antiquity of their institutions—even those which are oppressive are borne without repining, and almost without pain, because they are used to bear them: The neck, grown callous, is no longer galled with the yoke. Antiquity and state craft have involved the powers and principles of government in mystery. The veneration of the public is heightened by obscurity, and tho' a magistrate, who should usurp power, would probably be ruined, yet opposition to lawful authority would strike the people with horror.
In this country things are on a different footing. We have seen the beginning of our government. We have demolished one, and set up another, and we think without terror of the process. It has neither antiquity, nor mystery. Instead of
being protected, almost every good man has aided in propping a tottering authority. He has felt the weight of his individual strength and counsels. Government has leaned upon the people, and a wise and virtuous people have adopted a Constitution worthy of themselves. Already it has procured us the respect of Europe. Let us learn to reverence it as the glory and safeguard of our country. Every people has a partial fondness for their own country. National pride and prejudice are found to be as strong, and unchangeable in favor of the most wretched territory, as of the most fertile and salubrious.
Tho' nature has covered the earth with barrenness, and the air with pestilence, and tho' society is still more cursed with despotism, the people will retain reflections on their country, as the cruelest of all insults, and will consider an exile from it as the most deplorable of all misfortunes. How well then should a people love their country, which they govern and nature favors! Reason and time will concur in making the Americans reverence and love their government. Before this shall be effected, the danger to the national government will not spring from the diversity of manners, customs and interests. Almost every event of our history has contributed something to dispose the public mind to enthusiasm. The ruin of most republics has been caused by fits of honest frenzy, during which they destroy the pillars of their own security. The more diverse and hostile the interests and opinions of the people are, the less are they all liable at the same moment to the agency of this cause. For in this case, the torrent of enthusiasm would be confined within the channel which it might first take. The ray in passing thro' another medium would be refracted and finally lost. Opposite and equal forces would destroy each other. But our people reason and act so nearly alike, that they will be heated at the same moment. They are all conductors for the electrical fluid, which passes so unaccountably thro' the mind, and communicates so intense an heat in its passage.
It is not intended to deduce from hence that the national government will not endure. It is merely to expose the fallacy of the opinion, that we are too unlike, and too much divided in point of interests to maintain one national government. This opinion has long been painful to the patriotism of many sensible men.
It is equally to be hoped that the great extent of the country, the good sense of the people which is every day more and more enlightened by science, and the wise and prosperous administration of the government will be found sufficient to give it stability.
AUTHENTIC INFORMATION.
Every Citizen of the World—every friend to the rights of mankind—and more especially every citizen of the United States, must feel interested in the important Transactions in the Kingdom of France:—The following AUTHENTIC and judicious JOURNAL OF EVENTS, as they transpired from day to day, at the crisis of the glorious Revolution, will afford our readers a more competent idea of matters, than has yet been published.
Extract of a letter from Paris.
“THE capture of three French merchantships by the Algerines under different pretexrs, has produced great sensation in the seaports of this country. The scarcity of bread begins to lessen in the southern parts of France, where the harvest is commenced: Here it is still threatening, because we have yet two or three weeks to the beginning of harvest.
“The reunion of the orders took place on the 27th June. Within the Assembly matters went on well; but it was soon observed that troops, and particularly the foreign troops, were on their march towards Paris from various quarters, and that this was against the opinion of Mr. NECKAR. The Marshal de Broglio was appointed to command all the troops within the Isle of France.—Some of the French guards were soon arrested under other pretexrs, but in reality on account of their dispositions in favor of the national cause. The people of Paris forced the prison, released them, and sent a deputation to the States General to solicit a pardon. The States by a most moderate and prudent arrest recommended these prisoners to the King, and peace to the people of Paris. Addresses came in to them from several of the great cities, expressing sincere allegiance to the King; but a determined resolution to support the States General.
“On the 8th of July they voted an address to the King to remove the troops. This piece of
masculine eloquence, written by M. de MIRABEAU is worth attention. The King refuses to remove the troops, and says they may remove themselves, if they please, to Noyeos or Soissons.
9th. They proceed to fix the order in which they will take up the several branches of their future Constitution, from which it appears they mean to build it from the bottom, confining themselves to nothing in their ancient form but a King. A declaration of rights which forms the first chapter of their work, was then proposed by the Marquis de la FAYETTE—this was on the 11th.
“In the mean time troops to the number of about 25 or 30,000 had arrived, and were posted in and between Paris and Versailles. The bridges and passes were guarded. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the Count de la LUZERNE was sent to notify Mr. NECKAR of his dismissal—at midnight he set out for Brussels. This was not known till the next day (12th) when the whole ministry was changed, except VILLEDEUIL of the domestic department, and BARENTIN GARDE DES SCEAUX.
These changes were as follows: The Baron de BRETEUIL, President of the Council of Finance, and De la GALAITIERE, Comptroller General in the room of Mr. NECKAR—the Marshal de BROGLIO, Minister of War, and FOULON under him in the room of PUY-SEGUR—M. de la VAUGUYON, Minister of Foreign Affairs, instead of M. de MONTMORIN—De la PORTE Minister of Marine, in place of the Count de la LUZERNE—St. PRIEST was also removed from the Council.
“The news of this change began to be known in Paris about 1 or 2 o'clock. In the afternoon a body of about 100 German cavalry were advanced and drawn up in the place Louis XV. and about 300 Swiss posted at a little distance in their rear. This drew people to that spot, who naturally formed themselves in front of the troops, at first merely to look at them; but as their numbers increased, their indignation arose: They retired a few steps, posted themselves on and behind large piles of loose stones collected in that place for a bridge adjacent to it, and attacked the horse with stones. The horse charged, but the advantageous position of the people, and the showers of stones obliged them to retire, and even to quit the field altogether, leaving one of their number on the ground. The Swiss in their rear were observed never to stir. This was the signal for universal insurrection, and this body of cavalry to avoid being massacred, retired towards Versailles. The people now armed themselves with such weapons as they could find in armorer's shops and private houses, and with bludgeons, and were roaming all night, through all parts of the city, without any decided and practicable object. The next day (13th) the States press on the King to send away the troops—to permit the Bourgeoisie of Paris to arm for the preservation of order in the city, and offered to send a deputation from their body to tranquilize them: He refuses all their propositions. A committee of magistrates and electors of the city are appointed, by their bodies, to take upon them its government. The mob now openly joined by the French guards, force the prisons of St. Lazare, release all the prisoners, and take a great store of corn, which they carry to the corn market: Here they get some arms, and the French guards begin to form and train them. The city committee determine to raise 48,000 bourgeois, or rather to restrain their numbers to 48,000.
“On the 14th they send one of their members (M. de CORNEY) to the Hotel des Invalides, to ask arms for their Garde Bourgeoisie: He was followed by, or he found there a great mob: The Governor of the Invalides came out, and represented the impossibility of his delivering arms without the orders of those from whom he received them: De Corney advised the people then to retire, retired himself, and the people took possession of the arms. It was remarkable that not only the invalids themselves made no opposition, but that a body of 5000 foreign troops, encamped within 400 yards, never stirred. M. de Corney, and five others, were then sent to ask arms of M. de LAUNAI, Governor of the Bastille: They found a great collection of people already before the place, and they immediately planted a flag of truce, which was answered by a like flag hoisted on the parapet: The deputation prevailed on the people to fall back a little, advanced themselves to make their demands of the Governor, and in that instant a discharge from the Bastille killed four people of those nearest to the deputies:—The Deputies retired, the people rushed against the place, and almost in an instant were in possession of a fortification, defended by 100 men, of infinite strength, which in other times had stood several regular sieges, and had never been taken. How they got in has as yet been impossible to discover: Those who pretend to have been of the

party, tell so many different stories as to destroy the credit of them all. They took all the arms, discharged the prisoners, and such of the garrison as were not killed in the first moment of fury, carried the Governor and Lieut. Governor to the Greve (the place of public execution) cut off their heads, and sent them through the city in triumph to the Palais Royal.
About the same instant a treacherous correspondence having been discovered in M. de FLESSELLES, Prevost des Marchands, they seize him in the hotel de ville, where he was in the exercise of his office, and cut off his head. These events carried imperfectly to Versailles were the subject of two successive deputations from the States to the King. (15th.) The King went about 11 o'clock, accompanied only by his brothers to the States General, and there read to them a speech, in which he asked their interposition to re-establish order—he returned to the Chateau a foot, accompanied by the States: They sent off a deputation, the Marquis de la FAYETTE at their head, to quiet Paris: He had the same morning been named Commandant en chef of the milice bourgeoise, and Mons. BAILLY, former President of the States General, was called for as Prevost des Marchands. The demolition of the Bastille was now ordered and began: A body of the Swiss guards of the regiment of VENTIMILLE, and the city horse guards join the people: The alarm at Versailles encreases instead of abating: The foreign troops were ordered off instantly: Every Minister resigned: The King confirmed BAILLY as Prevost des Marchands, wrote to Mr. NECKAR to recall him—sent his letter open to the States General to be forwarded by them, and invited them to go with him to Paris the next day to satisfy the city of his dispositions. (16th.) The King came to Paris. Omitting the less important figures of the procession, I will only observe that the King's carriage was in the centre, on each side of it the States General in two ranks afoot—at their head the Marquis de la FAYETTE as Commander in Chief, on horseback, and Bourgeois guards before and behind. About 60,000 citizens of all forms and colors, armed with the muskets of the Bastille, and Invalids as far as they would go—the rest with pistols, swords, pikes, pruning hooks, scythes, &c. lined all the streets through which the procession passed. The King landed at the Hotel de Ville—there M. BAILLY presented and put into his hat the popular cockade, and addressed him, and delivered his answer to the audience. On their return the popular cries were "VIVE LE ROY, ET LA NATION": He was conducted by a garde Bourgeoise to his palace at Versailles.—Letters written with his own hand to the Marquis de la Fayette, remove the scruples of his position. Tranquility is now restored to the capital: The shops are again opened: The people resuming their labors, and if the want of bread does not disturb our peace, we may hope a continuance of it.
The demolition of the Bastille is going on, and the milice Bourgeoise organizing and training.—The ancient police of the city is abolished by the authority of the people.—They believe still that 3000 people have fallen victims to the tumults of Paris.—We cannot find with certainty that any body has been killed but the three before mentioned, and those who fell in the assault or defence of the Bastille. How many of the garrison were killed no body pretends to have ever heard:—Of the assailants, accounts vary from 6 to 600—the most general belief is, that there fell about thirty. There have been many reports of instantaneous executions by the mob, on such of their body as they caught in acts of theft or robbery: Some of these may perhaps be true:—There was a severity of honesty observed of which no example has been known: Bags of money offered on various occasions, through fear or guilt have been uniformly refused by the mobs.—The churches are now occupied in singing "De Profundis" and "Requiems for the repose of the souls of the brave and valiant citizens who have sealed with their blood the liberty of the nation." M. de MONTMORIN is this day (19th.) replaced in the department of Foreign Affairs, M. de St. PRIEST is named to the Home Department. (21st.) M. NECKAR had left Brussels for Frankfort before the Courier got there—We expect, however, to hear of him in a day or two. M. le Comte de la LUZERNE has resumed the department of the Marine this day.
(23d.) The spirit of tumult seemed to have subsided, when yesterday it was excited again by a particular incident: M. FOUILLON, one of the obnoxious ministry, who, as well as his brethren had absconded, was taken in the country, and as is said by his own tenants, and brought to Paris. Great efforts were exerted by popular characters to save him: He was at length forced out of the hands of the garde Bourgeoise, hung immediately, his head cut off, and his body drawn through the principal streets of the city. The Intendant of Paris, M. de CHAUVIGNY, accused of having entered into the designs of the same ministry, has been taken at Compeigne, and a body of 200 men on horseback are gone for him.
I just now learn that BERTIER DE CHAUVIGNY was brought to town in the night, and massacred immediately.
PARIS, JULY 30.
In the storming of the Bastille, the Governor, the door-keeper, with two or three others, were massacred. Mr. Fouillon, Intendant, has been kept three days, with no other food but HAY before him, and afterwards was hanged by the populace at one of the cords which suspend the reverberes (lights) in the streets. The particularity of the HAY put before Mr. Fouillon, comes from an answer he made a few days since: Being told the people had no bread, he replied, "Let them eat hay." He is the same who had proposed to emit 100 millions, tournois, in paper money. The Lieutenant de police, of Paris, has been hanged; as well as Madame de Polignac's [the Queen's favorite] chamber maid. The Comte d'Artois, M. de Polignac, and hundreds more have fled. All the country is in arms, the people having broken open all the arsenals in the kingdom. We are here under military duty, wearing the cockade of Union, white, rose, and blue. Unwilling to suffer any troops in the town, we have done more, we have fired from the fettes upon a small vessel bringing some artificers: We will not suffer any soldiers.
The National Assembly received a long letter in English yesterday, from that mad bigot, LORD GEORGE GORDON.
M. Neckar arrived at Versailles on Tuesday evening last, and this morning he came to the Hotel de Ville, where he was received with every mark of joy and satisfaction. He was escorted from the bridge at Sèvres by a large party of horse of the Paris militia, who also returned with him to the same place.
On Tuesday last the Marquis de la Fayette performed the ceremony of incorporating the French Guards, under the appellation of Gardes de la Nation , by which they are henceforward to be distinguished.
LONDON, JULY 31.
The spirited proceedings of the States General and the Parisians, had their effect. The Ministers and advisers of the King trembled in the palace.
From Benjamin we learn, that on the news of M. NECKAR's recall, the inhabitants of that large town, the seat of a parliament, agreed to testify their joy by a public feast, when M. DE MESME, a Counsellor in the Parliament, offered his country seat, near Vason, for that purpose. About forty or fifty of the principal citizens assembled there; and, in the midst of the festivity of the day, they were all blown up into the air, by means of several barrels of gunpowder, which had been previously placed in the apartment under the saloon, for the above horrid purpose. The explosion was head for several miles distant from the tragical scene, and they were all either killed or shockingly bruised.
In the mean time, the master of the house had disappeared, and the enraged populace flocked to the spot, and leveled the house to the ground, as well as many country seats belonging to his friends or relations.
The National Assembly immediately addressed the King to give directions to the Ambassadors at the several Courts, to get him delivered up, in whatever country he might take refuge, in order that he might be conveyed to Paris, to receive the punishment due to his enormous crime.
It was reported and generally credited, in the French houses last night, that Prince Lambesc had been pursued by the populace, and burnt in his carriage.
It was said that the Queen and the Dauphin had retired to the convent of Val de Grace.
Among the fluctuating reports of last night, one was, that the Count de Artois had quitted Brussels, and had solemnly erected the Royal Standard , in French Flanders; that he was attended by the Prince de CONDE, the Duke de BOURBON, and many other eminent persons; and that the Marshal de BROGLIO had joined him with a small body of forces which he had collected, and was looked up to as second in command, and the man who was to model their forces, which were hourly encreasing.
The Count was further said to have published a manifesto, in which he declares his intention to be solely directed to the public peace, and the rescuing his Majesty's person from the hands of "those Rebels who now detain him."
This report we considered as too important to pass over, at the same time we can not vouch for its authenticity.—At a late hour last night no official account was received.
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, June 8.
Yesterday the Portuguese Squadron brought in a large French ship of 500 tons, from Martinico, laden with coffee, sugar, cotton, indigo, &c. for Marseilles, which they retook from an Algerine corsair, after a smart engagement, off Algiers. The force of the latter is not mentioned; but she escaped, tho' the Squadron consists of a ship of the line of eighty guns, a frigate, a cutter and a brig. Being refused shelter here, on account of the plague at Algiers, having thirteen Algerines on board, they proceeded immediately with their prize to Lisbon."
The letter which follows was addressed by the Prime Minister of Denmark, to the Danish Consul General at Leghorn, and dated the 23d of May.
"SIR, "It is with peculiar satisfaction I am able to inform you, that Denmark, will in no wise be interested in the present war, and her neutrality is absolutely admitted, so that her flag will enjoy the same advantages as in times of profound peace.—I beg you will cause this information to be made public throughout the country in which you reside, for the purpose of removing doubts which might make the navigators of our own nation, and all her merchants and underwriters in general, afraid to have any concern in ventures under our flag. I am, &c."
BERNSTORF.
Tippo Sultan continues to augment and discipline his forces. This relief, Prince is preparing a storm, which will soon burst on the Carnatic.
The dissention which has for a long time subsisted between Lord Cornwallis and Sir Archibald Campbell, is the cause that the latter resigned a situation which he could not honorably hold consistent with his own feelings.
The officers of the East India ships, in general, who have lately arrived from Bengal, complained that the trade there is entirely ruined. The articles of merchandise which formerly fetched eighty and a hundred per cent. they were glad to dispose of at five and twenty per cent. under prime cost. This, they say, is occasioned by the heavy taxes which the Governor General has imposed upon shops, and upon every species of merchandise; and still more by the vexatious severity with which those taxes are exacted. The English merchants, harassed and disgusted with those proceedings, are selling off their goods, and shutting up their shops as fast as possible. At the sales in Bengal, articles of English manufactures are now sold 50 per cent. cheaper than in Britain.
He has also thought fit to enforce even among the Hindoos, a judicial observation of the Sabbath day; in consequence of which the indolent natives have added to their numerous holidays another of idleness.
NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER 26, 1789.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
In the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23.
The bill to recognize and adapt to the Constitution of the United States, the establishment of the troops on the frontiers, was brought in, engrossed and passed.
The appropriation bill was taken up in the committee of the whole, amended, and agreed to by the House. Ordered, that it be engrossed, and 100 copies of the estimates, on which the bill is founded, be printed for the use of the Members.
Mr. BLAND presented a bill to amend and explain the coasting act, which was read a first and second time.
The bill for altering the time of the annual meeting of Congress, was revised in committee of the whole; the first Monday in January was agreed to. This amendment was admitted by the House after the committee rose, and the bill ordered to be engrossed.
A message from the President, with the salary bill for the Judicial Department, was received, with his approbation and signature.
The House then went into a committee on the bill for regulating processes in the courts of the United States. After going through the same, adjourned.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24.
The engrossed bill to explain and amend the Coastng Act, was read a third time and passed the House.
The engrossed bill making appropriations for the services of the present year, was read and re-committed.
Mr. GERRY, of the committee appointed to prepare an estimate of the produce of the Impost and Tonnage for one year, brought in a report—It states that from the imperfection of the returns of the imports, exports and tonnage, received from the several States, the committee was not able to furnish a perfectly accurate account.—The report estimates the nett produce of impost and tonnage of the several States, as follows—
   Dollars. Cents.     New-Hampshire, 21,491 83   Massachusetts, 199,261 4 3/4   Connecticut, 72,450 17   New-York, 245,316 96   New-Jersey, 10,514 44   Pennsylvania, 361,405 23 3/4   Delaware, 5,654 94   Maryland, 211,539 83   Virginia, 186,470 33 3/4   South-Carolina, 144,839 83   Georgia, 8,141 42  
1,467,086—3 Amount of nett produce of impost and tonnage.—Laid on the table.
The report of the committee of conference on the subject of amendments to the Constitution was taken up: The committee advise to a concurrence in the amendments of the Senate, with some amendments.—One of which was, "The trial of all crimes shall be by a jury of the district in which the crime was committed"—this was further amended by inserting the words State and immediately before " district ." On the question for agreeing to the clause as amended, the Ayes and Noes were called for by Mr. Bland, and are as follows.
AYES. Messrs. Ames, Baldwin, Benson, Boudinot, Brown, Cadwallader, Carroll, Clymer, Contee, Fitzsimons, Foller, Gale, Gilman, Goodhue, Griffin, Hartley, Lee, Leonard, Madison, Moore, P. Muhlenberg, Parker, Partridge, Schureman, Scott, Scney, Sherman, Sylvester, Sinnickson, Smith, (M.) Smith, (S. C.) Stone, Thatchers, Trumbull, Vining, White, Wynkoop. 37.
NOES. Messrs. Bland, Burke, Coles, Floyd, Gerry, Groot, Hathorn, Jackson, Livermore, Matthews, Page, Van Ranselaer, Sumpter, Tucker. 14.
The House voted to reconsider the first article in their amendments, so far as to strike out the word " less " and insert the word more —so that the article now reads, "there shall not be more than one representative for every 50,000 persons. These amendments being agreed to—
Mr. MADISON proposed a resolution, that the President of the United States be requested to transmit to the Executives of the several States which have ratified the Constitution, copies of the amendments, also, to the States of Rhode-Island and North-Carolina—this was agreed to.
A committee consisting of Mr. Fitzsimons, Mr. Smith, (M.) and Mr. Baldwin, was appointed to ascertain the amount of the compensations due to the members and officers of the House, and the contingent charges of the present session.
In committee of the whole, on the bill making appropriations for the present year.—The bill proposes the following appropriations, viz.
   Dollars. Cents.     Civil List, 208,676 11   Department of War, 137,593 32   Towards discharging warrants issued by the late Superintendent of Finance, remaining unsatisfied, 93,463 26   Towards discharging warrants issued by the late Board of Treasury, remaining unsatisfied, 189,906 38   Towards paying the pensions of Invalids, 6017 81    It was moved, that the two articles for discharging warrants should be struck out, which was car-

Messrs. Bland, Boudinot, Brown, Burke, Carroll, Coles, Contee, Floyd, Gerry, Grout, Hartley, Hathorn, Heister, Jackson, Lee, Livermore, Madison, Mathews, Moore, P. Muhlenberg, Page, Parker, Van Rensselaer, Seney, Stone, Sumpter, Tucker, White. 28.
Messrs. Ames, Benion, Cadwallader, Clymer, Fitzsimons, Foster, Gale, Gilman, Goodhue, Lawrence, Leonard, Partridge, Schureman, Scott, Sherman, Silvester, Sinnickson, Thatcher, Trumbull, Vining, Wadsworth, Wynkoop. 22.
Adjourned till 9 o'clock to-morrow.
BOSTON, SEPT. 9.
PROGRESS OF MANUFACTURES.
In noticing the progress of manufactures in the United States, it ought not to be omitted, that Mr. WETHERLE, of this town, has lately erected at Dedham, Works for the Manufacture of Wire, &c. which promise to be advantageous. We also mention, that from native ore, which Mr. ROBERT POPE, of this town, manufactured into Wire, that ingenious artist has made a number of the true kerby  Codhooks , which have been pronounced by gentlemen of Marblehead and Cape-Ann to be greatly superior to any imported: Numbers of them were used the late season, and Mr. Pope has orders to manufacture a quantity sufficient for the next.
A few years since there was not a Paper-Mill in Connecticut—now there is annually manufactured there, above 5000 reams, besides pasteboard, &c. In this State, mills are continually erecting.
Five thousand yards of Cloth have been manufactured in Hartford manufactory, from Sept. 1, 1788, to Sept. 1, 1789—some of which has sold for five dollars pr. yard.
Very handsome Waistcoat Patterns, of fine leather, have lately been manufactured here, and promise, from their neatness, strength, and the durability of the colors, to be much worn.
WESTERN POSTS.
We have it from good authority, that THE PRESIDENT of the United States has lately dispatched Capt. GUYON, formerly of the American Artillery, to Canada , to inquire of Lord DORCHESTER, whether he has orders to surrender to the United States, the Posts within the territory thereof, now garrisoned by British forces; and if he has not, that he write to Europe, that he be immediately furnished therewith. This intelligence, if authentic, of which we have not a doubt, must give great satisfaction to the people of the United States, who have too long lamented that the weakness of their government subjected them not only to a national indignity , but to a very great loss in their fur and other trades. In the potent arm of the Executive they now rest their hopes.
[Massachusetts Centinel.]
NEW-YORK, SEPTEMBER 26.
It is expected that Congress will adjourn this day, to meet the beginning of JANUARY.—May America never see a less enlightened, patriotic, and independent Legislature:—It is but just to observe, that punctuality and constancy have marked their attendance at the hours of business—that patience, perseverance, and dignity, have distinguished their labors in the public service—and candor, liberality, and free disquisition presided in their debates. The public mind appears to be tranquilized, and waiting with calmness the operation of the laws, that have been enacted—And if an attention to the rights and privileges of the people, united to a concern for the energy and honor of the people's own Constitution , can ensure the confidence of the States, there is the fairest prospect of the Government's being rooted in the affections of the citizens of America.
The citizens of New-York WISH THE HONORABLE LEGISLATURE ALL POSSIBLE HAPPINESS, and that on their return to their Constituents, they may be kindly accepted by the multitude of their brethren, which, next to conscious approbation, is the highest reward of patriotism.
THE CONTRAST.
FROM hostile fields, where mercy prostrate lies, We shout returning victors to the skies; But patriot Sages, skill'd in arts of peace, Whose godlike labors, happiness encrease, Too often find, that where they merit fame, The blasts of envy echo to their name.
What a train of pleasing ideas rushes upon the mind of every American, in contemplating the effects of the late glorious Revolution. With respect to our own countrymen, there is no doubt that a conscious dignity pervades the bosom of every freeman, to which in our dependent State they were strangers: When we cast our eyes Westward, Northward, and Southward, we behold a boundless theatre, on which a numerous race of
happy and enlightened citizens, are to exult in all the blessings of Liberty and good Government—Virtue, Science, and Peace unite their beneficent influences to render the present and future condition of human nature, more eligible than it has ever been in any former period:—Europe from America has caught the sacred flame of Freedom: It has kindled in to a blaze—it has illuminated their darkness, and where tyranny erected her throne, and bigotry, ignorance, and superstition supported her infernal reign, the sun of a glorious day has arisen—and Liberty rejoices in the divine light and refulgent beams.
The foundations of tyranny are laid in ignorance; and the superstructure is supported by the same means—knowledge and freedom go hand in hand.—The state of darkness in which the eastern world has long been plunged, has prevented many of those kingdoms from succeeding in their efforts to obtain the just rights of human nature. In modern times, if the resistance of the people to the tyrants that oppress them, should prove unsuccessful, it will generally be found owing to traitors among themselves; and the danger from this quarter arises from the too general want of all principle, and the predominant love of money among all ranks of people.
FACTION, properly speaking, is the offspring of disappointment, pride, inordinate ambition, and the whole train of the malevolent passions: Its object is in the first place the promotion of its own individual advantage, without any regard to that of the community at large: To attain this object, there are no considerations, however sacred, which will not be sacrificed—characters will be defamed—measures reprobated—jealousies excited, and the public confidence in their rulers will be assailed, and destroyed if possible—till its views are accomplished: When SELF is not the prime motive to faction, a vindictive spirit of revenge often designates its baneful manœuvres—disappointed in its aspiring ambitious schemes, it precipitates its votaries into all the excesses of a wild, blind, and implacable enmity to its successful rivals, and nothing short of involving the body politic in that anarchy and confusion which may afford a favorable opportunity to carry its designs into execution, will check the progress of its accursed machinations.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Ireland.
“During the months of May and June last, nine or ten American vessels have failed from Belfast, Newry and Derry, chiefly bound to the Delaware and New-York, and took with them upwards of two thousand emigrants from the north of Ireland, almost the whole of them first advancing their passage money, and not going out as redemptioners, as was heretofore the case—many hundred useful artizans and tradesmen went in these vessels; and such was the ardor of the people of the north of Ireland to get to America, that there was a great overflow for each ship, and some were even disappointed in getting passages for want of more American vessels to take them, for it is a well known fact they will not go out in any Irish vessel, or with an Irish captain, when an American offers, from a supposed better treatment from the latter.”
THEATRICAL.
The highly raised expectations of the public drew a crouded audience to the Theatre on Thursday evening; nor were those expectations disappointed. The entertainment was various, novel, animated, and entertaining: The performers exerted themselves with uncommon spirit, and were rewarded with unequivocal marks of applause and approbation.
ARRIVALS.—NEW-YORK.
Wednesday Sloop Amphion, Barry, Montego Bay, 31 days; Sloop Trial, Barnard, Port au Prince, 31 do. Schooner Peggy, Doddy, Charleston, 12. do. Brig Cato, Gardiner, Hamburg, 77 do. Brig Maria, Coffin, Cape Francois, 17 do. Thursday Snow Polly & Nancy, Skinner, Liverpool, 70 do. Schooner Sydney, Todd, St. Martins, 24 do. Sloop Catherine, Snell, Charleston, 12 days.
PRICE CURRENT.—NEW-YORK.
 Jamaica Spirits, 5/3.  Antigua Rum, 4/6.  St. Croix, do. 4/6.  Country, do. 2/10.  Molasses, 2/2. a 2/1.  Brandy, 5/9.  Geneva, 5/3.  Do. in cases, 28/.  Muscovado Sugar, 7/8. a 7/2.  Loaf, do. 1/3.  Lump, do. 1/1½.  Pepper, 3/.  Pimento, 1/9. a 2/.  Chocolate, 1/2.  Cocoa, 7/5. a 8/.  Coffee, 1/8. a 1/9.  Indigo, (Carolina) 4/. a 6/.  Rice, 24/. a 23/.  Superfine Flour, 4/8.  Common do. 4/3. a 4/5.  Rye do. 26/. a 27/.  Indian Meal, 1/8.  Rye, 49/. pr. buh.  Corn, (Southern) 4/.  Do. (Northern,) 4/3. a 4/6.  Beef, first quality, 4/8. a 5/.  — Second quality, 4/16.  Pork, first quality, 8/16.  — Second quality, 7/16.  Carolina Tobacco, 34½. a 5d.  Virginia —, 4d. a 5d. 
ried. The committee then rose, and the chairman reported the bill, which it was ordered should lie on the table.
A message was received from the President of the United States, with the bill for allowing compensation to the President and Vice President, to which he has been pleased to affix his approbation and signature.
A message was received from the Senate informing the House, that the President has returned to the Senate the Judiciary Act, and the Resolve for the safe keeping of prisoners in the goals of the several States, both of which has received his approbation and signature.
In committee of the whole, on the bill for making provision for the Invalid Pensioners of the United States—The committee having considered the same, rose, and the bill was re-committed.
In committee of the whole, on the bill for regulating processes in the Judicial Courts.
This bill proposes that writs and processes shall issue in the name of the President of the United States.
Mr. STONE moved, that “the President of” should be struck out.—This was carried in the affirmative.
A clause was proposed for insertion, by which debtors should be enabled to avail themselves of the insolvent acts extant in the respective States.—This was negatived by a large majority.—The adoption of this clause was urged by Mr. BURKE, and Mr. JACKSON, from the peculiar situation of persons indebted to British and other foreign merchants.
The committee having gone through the bill, and agreed to sundry amendments, rose, and the chairman reported the same—which were immediately taken up in the House.—The first amendment being read, respecting striking out the “the President of”—Mr. BENSON objected to it, and from a variety of considerations enforced the propriety of retaining the words in the bill—This opposition to the amendment produced a warm and animated debate—And the question for agreeing to it was finally determined by Ayes and Noes as follow—
AYES. Messrs. Bland, Burke, Coles, Contee, Floyd, Gerry, Griffin, Grout, Hartley, Hathorn, Heister, Jackson, Lee, Livermore, Madison, Matthews, Moore, Muhlenberg, Parker, Scott, Seney, Stone, Sumpter, Tucker, White. 25.
NOES. Messrs. Ames, Baldwin, Benion, Clymer, Fitzsimons, Foster, Gale, Gilman, Goodhue, Lawrence, Leonard, Partridge, Sherman, Silvester, Sinnickson, Thatcher, Vining, Wynkoop. 18.
The other Amendments being acceded to, it was ordered that the bill be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.
The House took up the bill for making appropriations for the services of the present year.
The amendment proposed in committee of the whole, by striking out the sum appropriated for the discharge of warrants, issued by the late Superintendent of Finance, was agreed to by the House.
The next amendment proposed, by striking out the sum appropriated for the discharge of warrants issued by the late Board of Treasury, was disagreed to.
The bill was then passed to be engrossed for a third reading.
The report of the committee on the memorial of JOHN WHITE, late Continental Commissioner of Accounts, was taken up, and a resolution passed in favor of the memorialist.
The engrossed bill for making appropriations was brought in, and passed to be enacted.
Mr. BOUDINOT introduced a motion to the following purport—Resolved, that a joint committee of both Houses be appointed to wait on the President of the United States, to request that he would be pleased to recommend a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by the people of the United States, to acknowledge the favors bestowed upon them by Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of Government calculated to promote their prosperity and happiness. This was adopted, and a committee appointed consisting of Mr. BOUDINOT, Mr. SHERMAN and Mr. SILVESTER.
A bill to provide for the payment of the military invalids was read a first and second time, and ordered to be engrossed.
The report of a committee was read, to whom was referred the several petitions which had lain on the table—These petitions the committee recommended should be referred to the several departments to whose cognizance they specially belong; the heads of which are to report thereon.
A message was received from the Senate, with the amendments to the constitution as last amended by the House, in which the Senate has concurred.—Also, the bill for altering the time of the annual meeting of Congress—Concurred.—Also, the bill to regulate processes in the Courts of the United States—The Senate concur in all the amendments proposed by the House to this bill except the first.—This amendment was to strike out the words “The President of.”—It was moved that the House should adhere to their amendment. This occasioned a debate—when the Ayes and Noes being demanded, were as follow—

CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine.
AN ACT for registering and clearing VESSELS, Regulating the COASTING-TRADE, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That any ship or vessel built within the United States, and belonging wholly to a citizen or citizens thereof, or not built within the United States, but on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, belonging, and thereafter continuing to belong wholly to a citizen or citizens thereof, and of which the master is a citizen of the United States, and no other, may be registered in manner hereinafter provided, and being so registered, shall be deemed and taken to be, and denominated, a ship or vessel of the United States, and entitled to the benefits granted by any law of the United States, to ships or vessels of the descriptions aforesaid.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the person or persons claiming property in any such ship or vessel, in order to entitle her to the benefits aforesaid, shall cause the same to be registered and shall obtain a certificate of such registry from the collector of the district to which such ship or vessel belongs, in manner hereinafter directed, which certificate, attested by the secretary of the treasury, under his hand and seal, and countersigned by the collector, shall be in the form following, viz.
"IN pursuance of an act of the Congress of the United States of America, entitled, "An act for registering and clearing vessels, regulating the coasting trade, and for other purposes," [here insert the name, occupation and residence of the subscribing owner] having taken and subscribed the oath or affirmation required by said act, and having sworn or affirmed, that he together with [names, occupation and residence of non-subscribing owners] is (or are) sole owner (or owners) of the ship (or vessel) called the [ship's name] of [place to which the ship or vessel belongs] whereof [master's name] is at present master, and is a citizen of the United States, and that the said ship (or vessel) was [when and where built] and [name of surveying officer] having certified to us, that the said ship or vessel, has [number of decks] and masts, that her length is [blank] her breadth [blank] her depth [blank] and that she measures [blank] tons, that she is [here is described the vessel and how built] has [blank] gallery and head: And the said subscribing owners having consented and agreed to the above description and measurement, and having caused sufficient security to be given as is required by the said act, the said [kind of vessel and name] has been duly registered at the port of [blank] Given under our hands and seals of office, at [port] this [blank] day of [blank] in the year [words at full length]. And the said collector shall transmit to the secretary of the treasury a duplicate of every such certificate so granted. And it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury to transmit to the collectors of the several ports of the United States, a sufficient number of certificates attested under his hand and seal, leaving the blanks to be filled up by the collectors respectively.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That to ascertain the tonnage of all ships or vessels, the surveyor or other person appointed by the collector to measure the same, shall take the length of every vessel, if double decked, from the forepart of the main stem, to the after part of the stern post above the upper deck, the breadth at the broadest part above the main wales, and half such breadth shall be accounted the depth of every double decked vessel; he shall then deduct from the length three-fifths of the breadth, multiply the remainder by the breadth, and the product by the depth, dividing the product of the whole by ninety-five, the quotient shall be deemed the true contents or tonnage of such ship or vessel. To ascertain the tonnage of every single decked vessel, he shall take the length and breadth, as directed to be taken for double decked vessels, and deduct three-fifths in like manner, and the depth from the under side of the deck plank to the ceiling in the hold, and shall multiply and divide as aforesaid, and the quotient shall be deemed the true contents or tonnage of such single decked vessel.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the port to which any such ship or vessel shall be deemed to belong, agreeably to the intent and meaning of this act, shall be the port at or near which the husband or acting and managing owner or owners of such ship or vessel usually resides or resided: And the name of such ship or vessel, and the place to which she belongs shall be painted on her stern, on a black ground with white letters of not less than three inches in length.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel owned in whole or in part by any citizen of the United States, usually residing in any foreign country, shall during the time he shall continue to reside, be deemed a vessel of the United States, entitled to be registered by virtue of this act, unless he be agent for, and partner in, some house or co-partnership, consisting of citizens of the United States.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That no registry shall be made or certificate granted, until the following oath or affirmation be taken and subscribed, before the officer herein before authorized to make such registry and grant such certificate, [which oath or affirmation such officer is hereby empowered to administer] by the owner of such ship or vessel, if owned by one person only, or in case there shall be two or more owners, then by any one of such owners namely, "I [blank] of [place of residence and occupation] do swear or affirm, that the ship or vessel [blank] of [blank] [take the description from the certificate of the surveyor or other person authorized by this act] was built at [blank] in the year [blank] or was the entire property of [blank] on the sixteenth day of May one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and hath continued to be the property of a citizen or citizens of the United States, that [blank] the present master, is a citizen of the United States, and that I, [blank] and [the other owners names, occupation, and where they reside, viz. town, place, county and state, or if resident in a foreign country, being an agent for, or partner in any house or co-partnership] am or are sole owner or owners of the said ship or vessel, and that no other person whatever hath any property therein, and that I the said [blank] [and the other owners if any] am or are truly a citizen or citizens of the United States, and that no foreigner, directly or indirectly, hath any part or interest in the said ship or vessel."
Sec. 7. Provided always, and be it further enacted, That whenever the owner or owners of such ship or vessel, usually resides or reside out of the district within which such ship or vessel may be at the time of granting the certificate of registry, that such owner, or where there are two or more owners, any one of them may take and subscribe the said oath or affirmation, before the collector of the district within which he usually resides, omitting in the said oath or affirmation the description of such ship or vessel as expressed in the certificate of the surveyor, and inserting in lieu thereof, the name of the port and district within which such ship or vessel may then be; and the collector before whom such oath or affirmation may be taken and subscribed, shall transmit the same to the collector of the district where such ship or vessel may be, upon the receipt whereof the said collector shall proceed to register such ship or vessel, in like manner as though the usual and regular oath or affirmation had been taken and subscribed before him.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor or other person, to be appointed in pursuance of this act, shall, previous to the registering or granting of any certificate of registry, as aforesaid, examine and measure such ship or vessel, as to all and every particular contained in the form of the certificate aforesaid, in the
presence of the master, or any other person to be appointed for that purpose on the part of the owner or owners, and shall deliver a just and true account in writing of the built, description and measurement of every such ship or vessel as are specified in the form of the certificate above recited, to the person authorized as aforesaid, to make such registry and grant such certificate thereof; and the said master or other person attending on the part of the owner or owners, is hereby required to sign his name also to the certificate of the surveying or examining officer, or other person duly appointed, in testimony of the truth thereof, provided such master or other person, shall agree to the several particulars therein set forth and described.
Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That when the certificate of registry aforesaid shall be granted, sufficient security by bond, shall be given to the collector in behalf of the United States, by the master and owner or owners, or by some other person or persons on his, her or their behalf, such security to be approved of by the collector, in the penalties following, that is to say; if such ship or vessel shall be above the burthen of fifteen and not exceed fifty tons, in the penalty of four hundred dollars, if exceeding the burthen of fifty tons and not exceeding one hundred tons, in the penalty of eight hundred dollars; if exceeding the burthen of one hundred tons and not exceeding two hundred tons, in the penalty of twelve hundred dollars; if exceeding the burthen of two hundred tons and not exceeding three hundred tons, in the penalty of 1600 dollars; and if exceeding the burthen of three hundred tons, in the penalty of two thousand dollars. And the condition of every such bond shall be, that such certificate shall not be sold, lent, or otherwise disposed of to any person or persons whomsoever, and that the same shall be solely used for the ship or vessel to which it is granted, and that in case such ship or vessel shall be lost or taken by an enemy, burnt, or broken up, or otherwise prevented from returning to the port to which she belongs, the certificate, if preserved, shall be delivered up within three months after the arrival of the master in any port or place in the United States, to the collector of the district where he shall arrive; and that if any foreigner, or any person or persons for his or their use and benefit, shall purchase or otherwise become entitled to the whole or any part or share of, or interest in such ship or vessel, and the same shall be within any district of the United States, in such case the certificate of registry, shall, within seven days after such purchase or transfer of property in such ship or vessel, be delivered up to the collector of the said district; and in case such ship or vessel shall be in any foreign port or place, or at sea when such transfer of interest or property shall take place, the said master shall, within eight days after his arrival in any port or place within the United States, deliver up the said certificate to the collector of the district where he shall arrive; and all the certificates so delivered up, shall be forthwith transmitted by the collector to the secretary of the treasury to be cancelled.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That whenever any ship or vessel registered in conformity with this act, shall in whole or in part be sold or transferred to a citizen or citizens of the United States, the former certificate of registry shall be delivered up to the collector, and by him without delay transmitted to the secretary of the treasury to be cancelled, and such ship or vessel shall be registered anew by her former name, and a certificate thereof shall be granted by the collector in like manner as is herein before directed.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That whenever any such ship or vessel shall in whole or in part be sold or transferred to any person or persons, the certificate of the registry of every such ship or vessel, shall be recited at length in the instrument of transfer or sale thereof, and in default thereof, such instrument or sale or transfer shall be void, and such ship or vessel, shall not be deemed or denominated a ship or vessel entitled to any of the benefits or advantages of a ship or vessel of the United States.
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That whenever the master or other person, having the charge or command of any ship or vessel registered in the manner herein before directed, shall be changed, the master or owner of such ship or vessel, shall deliver to the collector of the district where such change shall take place, the certificate of registry of such ship or vessel, who shall thereon endorse and subscribe a memorandum of such change, and forthwith give notice of the same to the collector of the district where such ship or vessel was last registered pursuant to this act, who shall likewise make a memorandum of the same in the book of registers, and transmit a copy thereof to the secretary of the treasury.
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That if the certificate of registry of any ship or vessel shall be lost or destroyed, the master or other person having charge of such ship or vessel, may make oath or affirmation before the collector of the district where such ship or vessel may arrive, who is hereby authorized to administer the same in the words and form following:—
"I, [blank] being master, or having charge of the ship or vessel called the [blank] do swear, or affirm, that the said ship or vessel hath been, as I verily believe, registered according to law by the name of [blank] and that a certificate thereof was granted at the port of [blank] but that the same is lost or destroyed (as the case may be) and that the same, if found again, and comes again within my power shall be delivered up to the collector of the port where it was granted; and that the master of said ship or vessel is a citizen of the United States; and that the said ship or vessel is, I believe, the entire property of a citizen or citizens of the United States; and that no foreigner has, to my knowledge and belief, any property or interest therein." And the said oath or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the collector before whom it was made, who is hereby required to register the said vessel anew by her former name, and take the security in manner herein before directed, and deliver the certificate of such registry to the owner or owners, if residing within his district, or if not residing there, to the master or other person having charge of said ship or vessel, that such certificate of registry is granted in pursuance of this act, instead of a former certificate of registry, which appears by such proof as this act requires, to be lost; and such certificate of registry shall have the same effect with the original, and the said collector shall, within three months, transmit a duplicate of the said certificate to the secretary of the treasury to be registered in his office, who shall notify the collector, who granted the certificate which was lost or destroyed, of the same, who is hereby required to cause a memorandum thereof to be made in his book of registers.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That if any ship or vessel, after having been registered in pursuance of this act, shall in any manner whatever, be altered in form or burthen, by being lengthened or built upon, or from one denomination to another, by the mode or method of rigging or fitting, in such case, such vessel shall be registered anew by her former name in manner herein before directed, as soon as the returns to the port to which she belongs, or to any other port in which she may be lawfully registered by virtue of this act, otherwise such ship or vessel shall not be deemed and considered as a ship or vessel of the United States.
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That the collector of every district where registers shall be made and certificates granted in pursuance of this act, shall progressively number the same as they shall be severally granted, beginning at the time when this act shall be in force, and continuing to the end of the present year, and thenceforth beginning at the commencement of every year, and shall enter an exact copy of every such certificate, with the number thereof, in a book to be kept for that purpose, and shall within three months transmit to the secretary of the treasury, a true copy, together with the number of every certificate which shall be by him so granted.
Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That every ship or vessel built within the United States after the fifteenth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, and belonging wholly or in part to the subjects of foreign powers, shall be recorded in the office of the collector of the district in which such ship or
vessel was built, in manner following, that is to say: The builder or of every such ship or vessel shall make oath or affirmation before the collector of such district, who is hereby authorized to administer such oath in manner following: I, [blank] of [here insert the place of residence, county, and state] shipwright, do swear, or affirm, that [here designate the kind of vessel] named [blank] having [number of decks] and being in length [blank] in breadth [blank] and measuring [blank] tons, having [blank] head, was built by me, or under my direction, at [place, county and state] in the United States, in the year [blank] which oath or affirmation shall be recorded in manner herein before directed, in a book to be kept for that purpose.
Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That a certificate of the said record, attested under the hand and seal of the collector of the district as aforesaid, shall be granted to the master of every such ship or vessel, in manner following: In pursuance of an act, entitled, "An Act [blank] collector of the district of [blank] in the United States, do certify, that the builder [name] of [place of residence, county and state] having sworn or affirmed, that the ship or vessel [here designate the kind of vessel] named [blank] is at present master, was built at [place, county and state where built] by him or under his direction, in the year [blank] and [here insert the name of the surveyor, or other person appointed by the collector, where there is no surveyor] having no certificate that the said ship or vessel has [number of decks] is in length [blank] in breadth [blank] and measures [blank] tons; and the said builder and master having agreed to the said description and measurement, the said ship or vessel has been recorded in the district of [blank] in the year [blank] Witness my hand and seal. this [blank] day of [blank] in the year [blank] which certificate shall be recorded in the office of the collector, and a duplicate thereof transmitted to the secretary of the treasury of the United States, to be recorded in his office.
Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor or other person to be appointed by the collector as aforesaid, is hereby required to deliver a true account in writing, signed with his name, of the built, description and measurement of every such ship or vessel, as specified in the form of the said certificate, of record of such ships or vessels, which accounts shall also be signed by the master, to the collector of the district where such certificate of the record shall be granted.
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That if the master or the name of any ship or vessel so recorded shall be changed, the owner, part owner or consignee of such ship or vessel shall cause a memorandum thereof to be endorsed on the certificate of the record, by the collector of the district where such ship or vessel may be, or at which she shall arrive, if such change take place in a foreign country, and a copy thereof shall be entered in the book of records, a transcript whereof shall be transmitted by the collector to the collector of the district where such certificate was granted, who shall enter the same in his book of records, and forward a duplicate of such entry to the secretary of the treasury of the United States; and in such case, until the said owner, part owner or consignee shall cause the said memorandum to be made by the collector in manner aforesaid, such ship or vessel shall not be deemed or considered as a vessel recorded in pursuance of this Act.
Sec. 20. And be it further enacted, That the master or other person having command of any ship or vessel recorded in pursuance of this act, shall on entry of such ship or vessel produce the certificate of such record, to the collector of the district, in failure of which the said ship or vessel shall not be entitled to the privileges of a vessel recorded as aforesaid.
Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That all the penalties and forfeitures inflicted and incurred by this act, shall, and may be sued for, prosecuted and recovered in such courts and be disposed of in such manner as any penalties or forfeitures inflicted, or which may be incurred for any offence committed against the United States, in and by an act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of the duties imposed by law, on the tonnage of ships or vessels, and on goods, wares, and merchandise, imported into the United States," may legally be sued for, prosecuted, recovered, and disposed of.
Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That from and after the tenth day of September next, every ship or vessel of the burthen of twenty tons or upwards, built within the United States, and wholly owned by a citizen or citizens thereof; or not built within the United States, and on the sixteenth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, wholly owned and thereafter continuing to be owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, but not registered, if defined from district to district, or to the bank or whale fisheries, shall, in order to be entitled to all the privileges of a ship or vessel belonging to the United States, employed in the coasting trade or in the fisheries be enrolled by the collector of the district where the owner, or one of the owners of such vessel may reside, and every vessel so enrolled, shall have her name and the name of the place to which she belongs painted on her stern, in manner directed by this act, for registered vessels, and such collector on due proof by oath or affirmation to him made by the owner, or one of the owners of such ship or vessel, of her name, burthen and denomination, and that she is of the description aforesaid, and the names of the owner or owners, and of the master thereof, and that they are citizens of the United States, and of the place or places of residence of such owner or owners, shall enroll in a book to be kept for that purpose, the name of every such vessel, her burthen, where built and denomination, the name or names, and place or places of residence of the owner or owners thereof, and that he or they, together with the master are citizens of the United States, a description of the built of such vessel as aforesaid, and the date of the enrolment, and shall also grant to the owner or owners, a certificate, containing a copy of such enrolment, and transmit to the secretary of the treasury a copy of every such certificate of enrolment, to be by him recorded: And whenever the property of such ship or vessel shall be changed in whole or in part, the person or persons who shall then be owner or owners, or one of them, shall make known such change to the collector of the district where he or they may reside, and such collector is hereby authorized and directed to grant a new certificate of the enrolment of such ship or vessel by her former name, to such owner or owners, upon his or their delivering up the former certificate, which shall be sent to the office of the collector from whence it was issued, to be cancelled.
Provided, That the master or owner of every vessel of less than twenty tons burthen, and not less than five tons, which shall be employed between any of the districts in the United States, shall cause the name of such vessel, and of the place to which she belongs, to be painted on her stern in manner directed by this act for registered vessels, and shall annually procure a licence from the collector of the district to which such vessel belongs, who is hereby authorized to give the same, purporting that such vessel is exempt from clearing and entering for the term of one year from the date thereof; and the master or owner of every such vessel shall give bond with sufficient security for the payment of two hundred dollars to the United States, with condition that such vessel shall not be employed in any illicit trade or commerce, and before any new licence shall be given for a succeeding year to the master of such vessel, he shall on oath or affirmation, declare that no illicit trade has been carried on in such vessel to his knowledge or belief during the time for which she was licensed.
(The remainder in our next.)