Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-05-01 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 96 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1793.
[Whole No. 418.]
LAW OF THE UNION.
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
AN ACT to regulate Trade and Intercourse with the Indian Tribes.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That no person shall be permitted to carry on any trade or intercourse with the Indian tribes, without a licence under the hand and seal of the superintendent of the department, or of such other person, as the President of the United States shall authorize to grant licences for that purpose; which superintendent, or person so authorized shall, on application, issue such licence, for a term not exceeding two years, to any proper person, who shall enter into bond with one or more sureties approved of by the superintendent, or person issuing such licence, or by the President of the United States, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, payable to the United States, conditioned for the true and faithful observance of such rules, regulations and restrictions, as are or shall be made, for the government of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes. The said superintendents, and persons licenced as aforesaid, shall be governed, in all things touching the said trade and intercourse, by such rules and regulations, as the President of the United States shall prescribe.
And be it further enacted, That the superintendent, or person issuing such licence, shall have full power and authority to recall the same, if the person so licenced shall transgress any of the regulations or restrictions, provided for the government of trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and shall put in suit such bonds, as he may have taken, on the breach of any condition therein contained.
And be it further enacted, That every person, who shall attempt to trade with the Indian tribes, or shall be found in the Indian country, with such merchandise in his possession, as are usually vendored to the Indians, without lawful licence, shall forfeit all the merchandise, offered for sale to the Indians, or found in his possession, in the Indian country, and shall, moreover, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and to imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, at the discretion of the court, in which the trial shall be: Provided, That any citizen of the United States, merely travelling through any Indian town or territory, shall be at liberty to purchase, by exchange or otherwise, such articles as may be necessary for his subsistence, without incurring any penalty.
And be it further enacted, That if any citizen or inhabitant of the United States, or of either of the territorial districts of the United States, shall go into any town, settlement, or territory belonging to any nation or tribe of Indians, and shall there commit murder, robbery, larceny, trespass or other crime, against the person or property of any friendly Indian or Indians, which, if committed within the jurisdiction of any State, or within the jurisdiction of either of the said districts, against a citizen thereof, would be punishable by the laws of such State or district, such offender shall be subject to the same punishment, as if the offence had been committed within the State or district, to which he or she may belong, against a citizen thereof.
And be it further enacted, That if any such citizen or inhabitant shall make a settlement on lands belonging to any Indian tribe, or shall survey such lands, or designate their boundaries, by marking trees, or otherwise for the purpose of settlement, he shall forfeit a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and suffer imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, in the discretion of the court, before whom the trial shall be: And it shall, moreover, be lawful for the President of the United States, to take such measures, as he may judge necessary, to remove from lands belonging to any Indian tribe, any citizens or inhabitants of the United States, who have made, or shall hereafter make, or attempt to make a settlement thereon.
And be it further enacted, That no person shall be permitted to purchase any horse of an Indian, or of any white man in the Indian territory, without special licence for that purpose;
which licence, the superintendent, or such other person as the President shall appoint, is hereby authorized to grant, on the same terms, conditions and restrictions, as other licences are to be granted under this act: Provided also, That every person, who shall purchase a horse or horses, under such licence, before he exposes such horse or horses for sale, and within fifteen days after they shall have been brought out of the Indian country, shall make a particular return to the superintendent, or other person, from whom he obtained his licence, of every horse by him purchased, as aforesaid, describing such horses, by their color, height, and other natural or artificial marks, under the penalties contained in their respective bonds. And every person, purchasing a horse or horses, as aforesaid, in the Indian country, without a special licence, shall, for every horse thus purchased and brought into any settlement of citizens of the United States, forfeit, for every horse thus purchased, or brought from the Indian country, a sum not more than one hundred dollars, nor less than thirty dollars, to be recovered in any court of record having competent jurisdiction. And every person, who shall purchase a horse, knowing him to be brought out of the Indian territory, by any person or persons not licenced, as above, to purchase the same, shall forfeit the value of such horse; one half for the benefit of the informant, the other half for the use of the United States, to be recovered, as aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, That no agent, superintendent, or other person authorized to grant a licence to trade, or purchase horses, shall have any interest or concern in any trade, with the Indians, or in the purchase or sale of any horses, to or from any Indian; And that any person, offending herein, shall forfeit one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned, at the discretion of the court, before which the conviction shall be had, not exceeding twelve months.
And be it further enacted, That no purchase or grant of lands, or of any title or claim thereto, from any Indians or nation or tribe of Indians, within the bounds of the United States, shall be of any validity, in law or equity, unless the same be made by a treaty or convention entered into pursuant to the constitution; And it shall be a misdemeanor, in any person not employed under the authority of the United States, in negotiating such treaty or convention, punishable by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and of imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, directly or indirectly to treat with any such Indians, nation or tribe of Indians, for the title or purchase of any lands by them held, or claimed: Provided nevertheless, That it shall be lawful for the agent or agents of any State, who may be present at any treaty, held with Indians under the authority of the United States, in the presence, and with the approbation of the commissioner or commissioners of the United States, appointed to hold the same, to propose to, and adjust with the Indians, the compensation to be made for their claims to lands within such State, which shall be extinguished by the treaty.
And be it further enacted, That in order to promote civilization among the friendly Indian tribes, and to secure the continuance of their friendship, it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States, to cause them to be furnished with useful domestic animals, and implements of husbandry, and also to furnish them with goods or money, in such proportions, as he shall judge proper, and to appoint such persons, from time to time, as temporary agents, to reside among the Indians, as he shall think proper: Provided, That the whole amount of such presents, and allowance to such agents, shall not exceed twenty thousand dollars per annum.
And be it further enacted, That the superior courts of each of the said territorial districts, and the circuit courts, and other courts of the United States of similar jurisdiction in criminal causes, in each district of the United States, into which any offender against this act shall be first brought, or in which he shall be apprehended, shall have, and are hereby invested with full power and authority, to hear and determine all crimes, offences and misdemeanors against this act; such courts proceeding therein, in the same manner, as if such crime, offences and misdemeanors had been committed within the bounds of their respective districts: And in all cases, where the punishment shall not be death, the county courts of quarter-sessions in the said territorial districts and the district courts of the United States, in their respective districts shall have, and are hereby invested with like power to hear and determine the same.
And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the President of the United States, and for the governors of such territorial districts, respectively, on proof to them made, that any citizen or citizens of the United States, or of the said districts, or either of them, have been guilty of any of the said crimes, offences or misdemeanors,
in any town, settlement, or territory belonging to any nation or tribe of Indians, to cause such person or persons to be apprehended, and brought into either of the United States, or of the said districts, and to be proceeded against in due course of law. And in all cases, where the punishment shall be death, it shall be lawful for the governor of the district, into which the offender may be first brought, or in which he may be apprehended, to issue a commission of oyer and terminer to the superior judges of the district, who shall have full power and authority to hear and determine all such capital cases, in the same manner, as the superior courts of such districts have, in their ordinary sessions: And when the offender shall be brought into, or shall be apprehended in any of the United States, except Kentucky, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, to issue a like commission to any two judges of the supreme court of the United States, and the judge of the district, in which the offender may have been apprehended or first brought; which judges, or any two of them, shall have the same jurisdiction in such capital cases, as the circuit court of such district, and shall proceed to trial and judgment, in the same manner, as such circuit court might or could do.
And be it further enacted, That all fines and forfeitures, which shall accrue under this act, shall be, one half to the use of the informant, and the other half, to the use of the United States, except where the prosecution shall be first instituted on behalf of the United States, in which case, the whole shall be to their use.
And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent any trade or intercourse with Indians living on lands surrounded by settlements of the citizens of the United States, and being within the jurisdiction of any of the individual States.
And be it further enacted, That all and every other act and acts, coming within the purview of this act, shall be, and are hereby repealed.
And be it further enacted, That this act shall be in force, for the term of two years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of Congress, and no longer.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN LANGDON, President pro tempore of the Senate.
APPROVED MARCH 1, 1793.
GEO. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
ABRIDGEMENT OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION OF FRANCE.
THE object of all union of men in society, being the maintaining of natural, civil, and political rights, these rights ought to be the basis of the social compact. The acknowledgment and declaration of them ought to precede the constitution which assures the guarantee of them.
Art. 1. Natural, civil, and political rights, are liberty, equality, security, and property, the social compact, and resistance of oppression.
Art. 2. Liberty consists in the power of doing every thing which is not contrary to the right of another. Thus the exercise of this natural right has no other limits than those which secure to the members of the same society the enjoyment of the same rights.
Art. 3. Every citizen ought to submit to the law, which is the expression of the general will. Whatever is not forbidden by the law, cannot be prohibited; and none can be constrained to do what it does not enjoin.
Art. 4. Every man has the liberty of manifesting his thoughts and his opinions.
Art. 5. The liberty of the Press, and every other means of making known his sentiments, cannot be forbidden, suspended, or limited.
Art. 6. Every citizen is free in the exercise of his religion.
Art. 7. Equality consists in the enjoyment of the same rights by every citizen.
Art. 8. The law is equal to all, whether it protects or punishes.
Art. 9. All citizens are equally admissible to all appointments. Free people know no other motive of preference than the pre-eminence of talents and virtue.
Art. 10. Security consists in the protection granted to all the citizens, for the preservation of their persons, of their fortunes, and of their rights.
Art. 11. None can be accused, stopped, or detained, but in cases specified by the law, and according to the forms it has prescribed.
Art. 12. The citizens against whom arbitrary acts may be exercised, have the right to resist them by force; but every man accused or arrested in virtue of the law, ought to obey it instantly. He renders himself guilty by resistance. (N.B. a mistake in the order.)
Art. 13. Those who solicit, expedite, execute, or cause to be executed, arbitrary orders, are guilty, and ought to be punished.
Art. 14. Every man ought to be presumed innocent, till he has been declared guilty; if it is found necessary to arrest him, every rigor not requisite to secure his person ought to be severely interdicted by law.
Art. 15. None can be punished but in virtue of a law established and promulgated anterior to the crime, and legally applied.
Art. 16. Every law which punishes crimes anterior to its promulgation is an arbitrary act. Every retrospect effect of law is a crime.
Art. 17. The law ought only to inflict necessary punishment proportioned to the crimes and useful to society.
Art. 18. The right of property is, that every man may dispose of his substance, his talents and his industry.
Art. 19. No kind of labour or industry is prohibited to citizens, who may buy, sell, or transport it freely.
Art. 20. A citizen, however, cannot sell himself, his person not being alienable property.
Art. 21. None can be deprived of his right of property, but when public necessity, legally proved, evidently demands it, and on condition of a just and previous indemnity.
Art. 22. No contribution can be levied but for the public good; all citizens have a right to assent to its establishment.
Art. 23. Public instruction is necessary to all.
Art. 24. Public succours are a debt due from society.
Art. 25. The security of these rights is an act of sovereignty.
Art. 26. Sovereignty is one, indivisible, and imprescriptible.
Art. 27. It resides essentially in the people. Each citizen is equally entitled to exercise sovereignty.
Art. 28. No individual, or any union of citizens can arrogate to themselves the exercises of sovereignty.
Art. 29. The social compact cannot exist where the limits of power are not exactly fixed, and where agents are not made responsible for their conduct.
Art. 30. All citizens are obliged to be aiding to the law.
Art. 31. Men united in society ought to have a legal means of resisting oppression.
Art. 32. There is oppression when the law violates natural right. There is oppression when the law is violated by the public functionaries. There is oppression when arbitrary acts violate natural, civil and political rights of citizens. The manner of resisting oppression ought to be prescribed by the constitution.
Art. 33. The people have the right of changing the constitution. One generation has no right to subject to the constitution, future generations.
After the recognition of these rights, on which the government is founded, the French Nation is declared to form one indivisible Republic.
The division into departments is retained; each department is divided into communes or districts, and each commune into municipal sections and primary assemblies.
Primary Assemblies.
In the primary assemblies, every man aged 21 years has a right to vote, provided that his name is inscribed on the civic table, and that he shall have resided one year in France.
The primary assemblies shall be so distributed in each department, that none shall consist of less than 400, or more than 900 members; in each of these a select committee is to be chosen by ballot, consisting of as many members as there are fifties of citizens in the assembly.
In this committee, he who has the majority of votes shall be president of the assembly; the three next on the list shall be secretaries. The duty of the select committee is to keep the records, and to arrange and submit the business to the assembly.
All elections are to be carried on in those assemblies. The intermediate, or electoral assemblies, have no place in this code. The elections are to be made by what is called a double scrutiny; each gives in a signed list of candidates equal to the number of places to be filled. These bulletins, or lists of presentation, as they are termed, are sent to the administration of each department. They select a triple number of those candidates who have most votes, and from those sent back to the primary assemblies; a definitive election is made, each citizen giving in as before a list of the candidates to whom he gives his preference.
In the deliberations of these assemblies, the same mode is to be followed as in the elections. The question is to be shaped so as to be answered by a simple negative or affirmative. On the day appointed for the decision, each citizen gives in a bulletin, or slip of paper, inscribed with his name, and the word yes or no . These are to be transmitted from the district to the department, where the general result is to be ascertained.
(To be concluded in our next.)

Foreign Intelligence.
RIGA, (Russia) Feb. 1. ACCORDING to the last letters from Petersburg, the admiralty has received orders from her Imperial majesty to equip for the ensuing spring ten ships of the line, besides the six which are already fit for sea, of which thirteen are at Revel and two at Cronstadt. To man this fleet, admiral Tschitschagoff will levy 40,000 marines and sailors.
MADRID, Feb. 14. The most extraordinary and energetic exertions take place in all our ports. The officers of the marine have all received orders to repair to their posts, with all possible speed. Our naval armament will be ready for sea in eight days. The public voice points out M. Langara, d'Arizabel, and Mazaredo, as the most eligible for the command of it. The indignation of the people upon the first intelligence of the death of Louis, was extreme. The French residents here were obliged to conceal themselves to avoid the popular fury; and their indignation was, if possible, increased, when they were told the Convention had refused the King's mediation.
BERLIN, Feb. 16. His royal highness Prince Henry of Prussia, has caused to be erected in the palace of Rheinsberg, a monument, in honor of the noble Lamoignon de Malesherbes, the friend and faithful servant of the unfortunate Louis XVI.
VIENNA, Feb. 11. The following is an exact statement of the Imperial troops about to open the campaign against the common enemy of the House of Austria and of the Empire;—they are divided into four armies: The first, under the Command in Chief of Field-Marshal Prince de Saxe Cobourg, consists of fifty-three battalions of infantry, and twenty-two divisions and an half of cavalry. The 2d, under the command in chief of Gen. Prince de Hohenlohe, of 27 battalions of infantry, and 19 divisions of cavalry. The 3d, under the command in chief of Gen. Count Wenzel Colloredo, of 29 battalions of infantry, and 19 divisions of cavalry: And The 4th, under the command in chief of Gen. Count Stain and de Vins, of 18 battalions of infantry, and 7 divisions of cavalry.
Total number of battalions of infantry, 127—of divisions of cavalry, 67 1-2.
NETHERLANDS. Letter from General de Pirch to Maj. Gen. Count de Brandwike. "Sir, Venlo, March 2. "I send you an account of Gen. de Clairfayt. As it must give universal pleasure, I have embraced the earliest opportunity of transmitting it to you with a request, that you will communicate it also wherever you may think proper. Our arms perhaps will have the same success to-morrow; for the advanced posts will be attacked, and we shall then endeavor to get possession of Ruremond, I am, &c."
(Signed) "DE PIRCH." Official dispatch from Gen. Clairfayt. "This day has been perfectly fortunate for the Imperial troops. Last night we crossed the Roer, and drove the enemy both from the quarter of Duren, and that of Judiers; to the distance of one league and a quarter beyond Aldenhoven. The loss of the enemy in killed and wounded, including prisoners, to the number of 600, amounts on the whole to 2000 men. Twelve cannons, thirteen ammunition waggons, and their military chest also fell into our hands."
"His royal highness the Archduke Charles attacked in person, this afternoon, with the advanced guard, some batteries where there were nine cannons, and took possession of them."
"Our loss amounts only to ten killed and forty wounded. We particularly regret, among the former,
Col. de Pfortzeim and Capt. Mesmanchiers."
"You will be so kind, General, as to communicate this account to his serene highness the Duke of Brunswick."
"At Head Quarters General, of Aldenhoven, March 1st, 1793. (Signed) "CLAIRFAYT." To Major General Barour de Wenckheim."
AMSTERDAM, Feb. 15. By letters from Germany, the position of the Imperial and Prussian troops is an uninterrupted line from Deux Pons to Cleves, and is supported in the rear and centre by the army at Coblenz, making altogether about 150,000 men.
DUBLIN, March 12. The Lloyd's lists of the last British mails continue to give a disagreeable register of vessels captured by the enemy; the distress occasioned by which is but poorly assuaged by the taking of three merchant ships and half a dozen paltry privateers by his majesty's ships of war in the British channel.
Sixty merchant ships under the convoy of two frigates from London down channel, having lain too, in the night of the 14th of last month, under the Isle of Wight, two French privateers stole in among them and took several by boarding them.
What a sad reverse of character have the volunteers of Ireland experienced in a few years!—In 1780 they were courted, thanked, admired, applauded—now, they are insulted, despised, degraded, proscribed.
His Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and Council have issued a Proclamation, offering a reward of 100l. for apprehending the person or persons who posted a seditious libel entitled "Society of United Irishmen" on the door of the House of Lords, on the 1st of March instant.
FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION. MARCH 3.
Letter from Gen. Miranda to the Minister at war, dated Head Quarters, at Hecton, Feb. 25.
"Maastricht being invested according to the orders I received, by a body of 12,000 men on the left banks of the Meuse, and by 6000 on the right, we proceeded to form the works and batteries necessary for the bombardment. The whole have been happily terminated the 23d, on the heights of Konwenberg, and with the loss only of three men killed, notwithstanding the constant fire kept up from the garrison."
"Our batteries being to commence firing yesterday at noon, I sent summonses to the Commandant General, and to the Magistrates. The answer of the Prince of Hesse, Governor of the place, was a refusal. He gave me to understand verbally by Col. Amaudin, that he had found the said summons very strange, as he did not know that the Dutch nation had declared war against France, and that if I permitted him he would send a courier to their High Mightinesses to request directions on that head."
"Our fire commenced in the night, supported by another battery of mortars erected before Wick, and soon after the town appeared to be on fire. The enemy found means to extinguish it, but at six this morning it was again in flames, and is burning at this moment."
"While we were investing the place, the enemy to about 1200, made two sorties, one towards Wick, and the other by the gate of St. Peter. Our troops easily repulsed them, with loss on their part, while we had not a man killed."
"I am in haste to terminate this operation, that I may execute others more essential, with which I am charged by Gen. Dumourier, as I had the honor to inform you in my last dispatches. MIRANDA."
Letter from Gen. Dumourier to the Commissioners at Brussels.
Head Quarters, at Haven-Bergen, Feb. 26.
"I announce to you, that we have this night taken the fort of
Klandert. The garrison after holding out eight hours, made their escape. They consisted of 150 men, 73 of whom we have made prisoners. We had only two wounded. An unfortunate woman has been killed in the town. I shall give some indemnification to her family. We found in the fort a great number of cannons, 24 18, and 12 pounders.—Williamstadt will be attacked this night, and taken, notwithstanding the number of frigates by which it is defended, and which we shall oblige to retire. I wish to harass you every day with the account of some new success. This, though of great utility for my plans, not being of the same importance as the capture of Breda, I have not sent a courier to Paris, and I only beg that you will transmit this intelligence to the Convention. DUMOURIER."
"P. S. On the 28th, the day after to-morrow, I shall march against Gertruydenberg."
Letter from the Minister at War. Paris, March 5.
"I think it my duty to inform you, that I learn by a letter which I have received from Gen. Valence, that the Prussians, to the number of 25 or 30,000 men, have advanced to the Roer to relieve Maastricht, and that the movement of the enemy has induced Gen. Miranda to suspend the bombardment of the place. This event, of little importance in itself, may only oblige us to attack it in form, and retard us sometime longer. Such is the precise truth of intelligence, which may be considered as of more importance than it deserves, and on which it is my duty to fix the opinion of the National Convention."
Paris is now in the most profound tranquility. The plans of the insurgents, or more properly of their instigators, are compleatly defeated, at least for the present. The examination now rigorously going on, will probably bring some of the latter to punishment.
LONDON, Feb. 22.
Those who speak so coolly of the ease with which Holland may prevent the entrance of an enemy by laying the country under water, reason in much the same way as the Irishman in Joe Miller, who said, he did not much fear being condemned to be hanged, for he could any time save his life by cutting his throat in jail.
It is said, as a proof of the popularity of the war, that 1500 recruits were raised last week in Manchester. Alas! is it not rather a proof, that the war has already suspended the looms of Manchester.
The great house which stopped a few days for near half a million of money, goes on again with additional credit and respectability, from its being ascertained that its real property was very great, after all the claims upon it were discharged.
His royal highness the Duke of York is to command the whole body of the Hanoverian army, as well as to be commander in chief of the British forces serving on the continent.
Wednesday made the one hundredth day of Mr. Hastings's trial. The trial was thinly attended yesterday, and the Hall about 40 o'clock was so cold, that the gallery benches were soon deserted.
The French bend the whole of their force in fitting out privateers against this country, but hitherto they have not met with much success; the convention encouraged this system as much as possible, and bounties are offered for fitting out privateers.
Saturday about 270 of the royal artillery embarked on board the Woolwich, of 44 guns, Capt. Parker, at Spithead. One company are to be landed at Gibraltar, the remainder are for the windward islands.
Dumourier's last letter to Lord Auckland, it is said, has a smack of that joke which he sometimes mixes with the most serious matters. He says, "As you do not think it consistent with your dignity, to travel in this unpleasant weather to meet me in the fswamps, I shall come to you. We Republicans can travel in all weathers; and I dare say,
you will not disdain my propositions, when I shall renew them on the Exchange of Amsterdam."
The inundations, as far as they have taken place in Holland, have been productive of a general discontent. In the province of Utrecht the measure found a serious opposition, and to say with what foundation we need only add, that the land thus covered, will be at least 5 years, before it recovers in any degree its vegetative powers.
The patriots of Holland are sufficiently numerous to be formidable, but that they are divided among themselves. The object of one party is merely the expulsion of the Stadtholder, without any further change in the government. The other and more numerous party, wish for a government on the model of the French republic. Quere, Will they not unite?
We very properly execrate the savage and ferocious practice of a mob parading the streets of Paris with the heads of those they have decollated; yet the Legislature of this country, less than fifty years ago, decreed, That the heads of three men should be exhibited upon one of the city gates, for the contemplation of every civilized passenger—the admiration of every foreigner—and the gratification of those strong-beaked birds that feast on blood! In this situation, as a mark of national civilization, one of the heads remained full forty years.
Letters from Ireland relate, that the great question of Parliamentary reform has been lost there by a majority of eighty-eight. The previous question was moved upon a resolution proposed by the advocates for reform. A considerable ferment has begun to prevail in that kingdom, and the volunteer corps in the North are increased from 600 to 800 men each.
It is reported that government have received the disagreeable intelligence, that two thousand dissenters were openly in arms at Belfast, under the command of a Mr. Fitzgerald, and, as is believed, with the advice of several of the Dublin contenders for popularity.
MARCH 7.
The Dolphin packet, Capt. Flynn, and Prince of Wales, Capt. Hearn, arrived at Harwich yesterday with the mails, and several passengers, to the number 120; amongst others were, Mr. Hope, of Amsterdam, and Mrs. Williamson Hope, with her children. Before they set sail, they had the pleasure of seeing the guards who had arrived safe, and landed at Helvoet-sluis on Saturday evening, reviewed by his royal highness the Duke of York and the young Prince of Orange.
The people at Amsterdam and Rotterdam are in the utmost confusion.
The Stadtholder, however, seems to be unmoved and serene; and as some counterbalance for the ill fortune, at Breda, a courier arrived, a few hours before the packet sailed, with the important intelligence, "that Gen. Clairfayt had attacked the French at Venlo, and, after a desperate engagement, taken 600 prisoners, with their arms, and killed 2000 on the spot."
MARCH 9.
Repulse before Williamstadt.
The following particulars of the defeat of the French before Williamstadt, were communicated in a letter to a respectable merchant in the city, brought by the messenger which arrived yesterday from Holland. It is with an honest pride we have to state, that a part of our countrymen were actively engaged in so glorious a business.
Capt. Manley of the Syren, having previously concerted the business with the governor of Williamstadt, brought his ship to bear successfully upon the French army.—The French made an attack, in which they were much annoyed by the fire of the English frigate.
This, as it was unexpected, Dumourier was unprepared for. The garrison made a sally, and 700 of the French were killed by the fire of the garrison, and the Syren together.

The French fell back, but returned again to the attack—At this moment a sluice was opened, which had the desired effect—upwards of 1000 of the enemy were killed by the fire of the Syren, the spirit and vigour of the garrison, and the effect of the inundation. Dumourier found it in vain to persist. He abandoned his works, and retired to the distance of a league, up to the middle in water.
HAGUE, March 4. An account has been received of a complete victory gained over the French at Venlo, by Prince Frederick of Brunswick. The circumstances of this action are not yet accurately detailed; but it is said that 1500 Frenchmen are taken prisoners, with 22 pieces of cannon.
The siege of Maestricht is raised. The tide of the affairs of France begins to change. The immense force of the empire begins to get in motion, and its weight will be found irresistible.
Dumourier has withdrawn himself from before Williamstadt; it is conjectured, in consequence of the news of 2 such signal defeats as his colleagues have experienced. He has retired to the distance of a league from that fortress. If he is not expedited in retreating out of the Dutch territory, it is more than probable that his retreat will be entirely cut off; for the victorious armies of Clairfayt, & the two princes above named, will pour in upon him and surround him.
The effect this intelligence has had in Holland, is inconceivable. The people before were calmly determined to sacrifice their lives for their country, now they look forward to victory and revenge, for the unprovoked aggression of the French, and the evils which it has brought upon a part of their country.
DOVER, March 8. A person just arrived from Flushing, and who left that place yesterday, asserts it for a truth, that Breda has been retaken by the Dutch and Prussian troops.
HARWICH, March 8. Mr. Sylvester, one of his Majesty's messengers, arrived express this morning by the Prince of Orange Packet, from Helvoetsluy.
In consequence of Gen. Clairfayt's marching for the relief of Maestricht, the French have raised the siege of that important fortress.
A report prevailed in Holland previous to the sailing of the Prince of Orange Packet, that the Prussians had taken 100 pieces of cannon, and a large supply of ammunition that were on the road for the supply of Dumourier's army; and further, that the Duke of Brunswick had had an engagement with the French, and totally defeated them; in consequence of which between three and four thousand were taken prisoners, and left dead in the field.
The Austrians had attacked a body of French, detached across the Meuse to keep Juliers in check; upwards of 2000 were killed or taken prisoners, and the whole detachment put to the route.
Miranda, in his retreat to Ruremonde, lost 8 pieces of cannon.
Prince Frederick of Prussia had attacked Ruremonde, and had a complete victory, by which that important post had come into the hands of the Austrians.
Gertruydenberg has surrendered to the French, after 3 days bombardment, on the same terms as Breda.
The Prince de Cobourg has successfully attacked the French at Aix-la Chapelle, who after a vigorous resistance, in which 4000 men were killed, and 1,600 taken prisoners, were obliged to evacuate that place, and leave behind them 120 pieces of cannon, and a great quantity of military stores.
In addition to the foreign news already detailed, we have to state, that Gen. Beaulieu was marching to the attack of Liege, and that the French were in the utmost confusion.
The Stadtholder has given the command of the naval force to Admiral Koningbergen; and from the activity which prevails, it is probable Dumourier will not advance further into the country.
Domestic Articles.
KNOXVILLE, March 9. We learn, the reward offered by the President of the United States for apprehending the leader of the party who destroyed the Cherokee town of Tenehatote, has induced some persons to apprehend David McCloskey, of Tugelo, in Georgia. On his being apprehended, and until his arrival at Augusta, he considered it as a trivial affair; but upon his arrival there, the officers of government had him confined in heavy irons, and from thence sent to Savannah, to be tried before the federal court.
On Wednesday last the Hanging Maw visited the encampment of the federal troops, commanded by M. Rickard, on which occasion a federal salute was fired.
WILMINGTON, (Del.) April 27. Yesterday arrived at New-Castle, the ship American, Capt. Ewing, from Londonderry, in five weeks, with 253 passengers. Captain Ewing informs, that Capt. Sylvester, of the ship Washington, was to sail from Londonderry the 20th of April—and that Captain Jefferys, of the ship Wilmington, was to sail the same day from Belfast.
This morning passed this place, the PEmbuscade, a French frigate of 38 guns, the same which landed the French Ambassador at Charleston, S. C. We are informed she has brought up two prizes, the brig Little Sarah, mounting 14 guns, bound to Jamaica, taken off Senepuxent, and the ship Grange, bound to Liverpool, taken at the Brown, or rather brought back, it being within the limits of the United States.
CHARLESTON (S. C.) April 15. Yesterday PEmbuscade added to the number of prizes already sent in here, by the capture of the Dutch ship Succes, Lang, master, from Bremen, laden with dry goods, iron, &c.
A house of rendezvous for entering seamen for the French service, was on Saturday opened in Queen-street, at which the national flag was displayed the greater part of the day. In the evening, however, it was lowered, laid to be in consequence of orders from the highest executive authority.
Fort Johnson and other points of defence in our harbour, are ordered to be repaired and fitted up with artillery, &c. in order to prevent or repel any national insult, as well as all outrages against the established law of nations.
The ship Succes, of Bremen, which was sent into this port on Sunday last, as a prize to the frigate PEmbuscade, has been restored to the Master for the original owners.
Philadelphia, May 1.
The Governor of this Commonwealth has issued two proclamations; One, corroborative of that issued by the supreme executive of the United States—declarative of the neutrality of the General Government in the present war; the other respecting the treaty shortly to be held with the hostile Indians—interdicting and prohibiting any hostile incursions into the Indian country, until the effect of the proposed Treaty shall be ascertained.
Monday afternoon the brig Little Sarah, a prize to the French Frigate PEmbuscade came up. By the account of a French officer on board this prize it appears, that the Grange was taken just in the bay, while under sail. It seems to be generally allowed, that she consequently cannot be considered as a lawful prize.
Capt. Hayes of the American Sloop Sally arrived Monday, says that the Frigate fired at her several times in the bay or river, we do not positively recollect which, to make her shew her colours and come to.
Sunday night the ship Mary, Capt. Colley, belonging to Newburyport, caught fire—which was not extinguished till the cabin and quarter-deck were consumed.
By authentic letters from Madrid of the 1st of March last, we learn that the King of Spain had, on the 27th of February, appointed his Excellency Don Diego de Gardoqui, to negotiate with the American Plenipotentiary.
Letters from Cadiz of the 9th of March mention, that the French had captured some Spanish vessels, and that there are orders at Cadiz to stop all French vessels in that harbour.
A soldier was lately shot at Legionville, for being concerned in a conspiracy to rob and murder two of the paymasters.
On the 8th of January last, Lunardi ascended in a balloon at Madrid, in the presence of their Catholic Majesties, the Royal Family, and a great crowd of people of all ranks. He changed the figure of his aerostatic globe to that of a temple in the clouds, adorned with columns and statues, afterwards he changed it to a Chinese building, with arches and statues, then to half temple and half Chinese building, and cast anchor at twenty miles from Madrid; he then proceeded to a vast height (almost out of sight)—at four o'clock he cast anchor again, at 38 miles from Madrid, where he stripped his balloon of about 700 yards of the linen with which he had made the above mentioned changes! He then set sail again, and at dusk landed near the city of Orcareco, 56 miles from Madrid. His aerial voyage last five hours.
On Monday the 15th inst. departed this life, in the 60th year of his age, the Rev. ROBERT SMITH, D. D. pastor of the Presbyterian church at Pequea, and on Wednesday following his remains were interred in the presence of a numerous concourse of people, of various denominations, amongst whom he was generally and highly respected. The Rev. Nathan Grier, of Brandywine, delivered an excellent eulogium of the deceased, and a very affecting address to the people upon the occasion, from 2d. Kings, 2, 12.
Extract of a letter from Bourdeaux, dated Jan. 20. "Grain is now very scarce here, and demanded at the prices below; also all articles of provision—and the demand likely to continue during the war, or until a plentiful crop supplies the real and imaginary wants. The value of the assignats have considerably depreciated lately, and exchange on England is now 5 1/2 per livre—uncertain and fluctuating. Articles of subsistence do not fluctuate with the exchange, though it is the thermometer for most others. This may be attributed to the system adopted by the government for procuring their supplies through agents of government, and not in the ordinary channel of commerce—wheat and flour are not higher now than in November, when exchange was 7 1/2 per livre, or thereabouts—Tobacco is ready sale, and not a great provision in market."
"There is a late decree of the Convention to arm immediately 30 sail of the line and 20 frigates, which added to the number already equipped of 22 sail of the line and 30 frigates, will make a considerable fleet—The sailors, carpenters, rope-makers, &c. &c. are classed as under the former government, and they have heretofore gone off without murmuring to the dock-yards, and I think they will continue to go, at least from this and the neighbouring places, without difficulty. The underwriters refuse all premiums of insurance. Exchange. London 15 1/2 a 1 1/2 livres. Amsterdam 29 1/2 a 30. Madrid 27."
 Wheat 23 a 24 per Boisseau.  Flour 52 a 55 per barrel.  Indian Corn 12 per Boisseau.  Rice 36 a 38 per Ct.  Tobacco 40 a 65 per ditto.  White Oil 57 a 55 per ditto.  Sperm. do. 82 a 85 per ditto.  Whale bone, short 160 a 200 per ditto.  Pot Ash 70 a 76 per ditto.  Pearl ditto 77 a 82 per ditto.  Beef 62 a 80 per barrel.  Pork 97 a 110 per ditto. 
Extract of a letter to Henry Drinker, Benjamin Rush, M. D., and Tench Coxe, of the city of Philadelphia, dated Cooper's Town, head of Susquehanna, April 9.
"Gentlemen, "Being convinced that you feel an interest in the manufacture of maple sugar, and that your wishes and exertions to prevent the destruction of the trees from whence it is produced, have been of public utility, we are encouraged to transmit to you the statement we have been able to make from actual observation, of the quantity of sugar which has been made this season in the former township of Otsego, and which was an entire wilderness in 1786. We find, upon a moderate calculation, that there has been made at least 160,000 lb. which, at 9d. per pound, is equal in value to 15,000 dollars. This plain demonstration of the importance of this article will, we hope, induce you to continue your endeavours to promote and encourage it; and we would submit to your consideration whether it is not an object of sufficient consequence to claim the encouragement of the legislature of your state." Signed, William Cooper Richard R. Smith, Reuel Williams, jun. Charles Francis, Lewis de Villers, Esda.
COMMUNICATIONS.
"The example of France (says a writer in the National Gazette) hath struck terror into all governments"—the indefiniteness of this expression, plainly implies that the writer considers all government as injurious; this is but an old objection of the enemies of public tranquility, new vamped. There are persons in the world to whom all government is intolerable.
The provision for paying the interest of the public debt has long been a grievance to persons of a certain description, because the discharging our obligations, involved the necessity of taxes and revenue; but these consistent politicians now take it in dudgeon, that the government will not involve the people in in calculable expence, by plunging them in an unnecessary war!
It is too apparent, that the enemies of the public credit of this country, despairing of success in their machinations to overthrow the funding system, are now attempting to implicate the United States in the war raging between France and the combined powers, doubtless expecting in that event to be favored with an opportunity of executing their favorite plan by rendering the public burthens requisite for both objects, insupportable.—It is impossible that the people should not justly appreciate such politics.
The old Congress had the hardness to stamp on their paper money this injunction, mind your business; how well this applies to our volunteer statesmen, it is not difficult to shew; but modern politics contradict the old saying that what is every body's business, is nobody's business!
When success crowns our enterprises it is indicative of their having been planned in wisdom. The men who have been the principal agents in conducting the affairs of this country to a situation far more eligible and propitious than any age or nation ever before experienced, are, through the favor of Providence at the Helm at this critical juncture in the concerns of Europe. Let experience teach us wisdom, and inspire the people with confidence in those who have so long enjoyed their their approbation. If those who have done worthy for their country are rewarded with opprobrium and abuse; "the post of honor will soon be considered as confined to a private station."
A letter from a gentleman in Londonderry, to his friend in this city, dated March 18th, says, "It is scarcely possible to convey to you an adequate idea of the present state of Europe. All its Kings, all its Priests, are combined against the new republic of France, and ma-
ny hundred thousand of men are now in arms, to restore Kingly Power, and the influence of the Church in that country. None of the hostile powers have entered into this war with a greater zeal and acrimony than England, the people whereof, at any rate, a great majority of them, are as keen for exterminating Liberty in France, as they were formerly for subjugating the thirteen Colonies. The Scotch, however, are not so unanimous upon this occasion, as they were then: a great number in Scotland being against the war. As to Ireland, I think I may safely say, that two thirds of the people, in their present discontented State of mind, are completely adverse to the present system of English politics. As to the French themselves, if they were unanimous at home, they might be a match for all their enemies. Two of their Generals, Dumourier and Custine, are men of wonderful fortune and ability: But the questionable execution of their King, which has estranged many moderate men from their cause, and the horrible dissensions in Paris, conducted or excited by the execrable faction of Robespierre & Marat, have caused a doubt, at least a fear, that the really virtuous men among them, are too few and too weak to carry their upright intentions into effect. In the mean time, the government of Ireland is carrying on a high and strong hand in conjunction with the English minister—A man dare not speak, or scarcely think, for fear of the Secret Committee of the Lords, who have renewed all the arbitrary proceedings of the Star Chamber. Every man or body of men, who presume to talk of liberty, or a reform of a corrupt Constitution in Church and State, are prosecuted and persecuted, fined or confined, or both, after a very summary trial; and the Irish VOLUNTEERS, once the glory and the boast of their country, are now openly calumniated and proscribed."
LONDON, March 14.
A letter was received in town on Monday last, from Col. Grinfeld of the guards, who commands at Helvoet, dated Saturday the 9th inst. at noon—He states, that on that morning, Dumourier, after having fired upon the town of Williamstadt for 24 hours without intermission, with red hot balls, was resolved to make an attempt on the north of the town by water, for which purpose he embarked 13,000 of his men in boats—These boats were pursued and vigorously attacked by the Dutch armed boats, and every one of them sunk; not a single Frenchman out of the 13,000 escaped. A big story this.
SHIP NEWS.
 ARRIVED AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.  Ship American, Ewing, Londonderry  Brig Nancy, Harris, Martinique  Aurora, Cross, Charleston  Chester, O'Neal, Halifax  Sloop Sally, Haves, St. Croix  Supply, James, Bermuda 
Port of Norfolk, April 16, 1793.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Beacons are put down at the following places: Wiloughby-Point Beacon, in 4 fathom water. The light-house bearing from said Beacon, E. by S. 1-2 S. 5 leagues—Back river point, N. 1-2 W. 3 leagues—Sand Hill on old Point Comfort, the leading mark W. by N. a little northwardly.
Horse-Shoe Beacon, in four fathom water. The light-house bearing from said Beacon, S. E. distance 3 leagues—Crump's Hill bearing S. W. Back river, N. W. by W.—Willoughby's Bluff bearing W. by S.
Middle-Ground Beacon, in 4 fathom water. The light-house bearing S. by W. 1-2 W. distance 2 leagues—Smith's Island N. N. E. distance 5 leagues—The Horse-shoe Beacon W. 1-2 N. distance 3 leagues.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
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DEPARTMENT of STATE; to wit.
NOTICE is hereby given to persons interested in the property or the proceedings of CLAUDIUS PAUL RAGUETT, a citizen of Pennsylvania, lately deceased, at Bourdeaux, in France, that on application at the Office of the Secretary of State, they may receive information relative thereto, as transmitted by Mr. Fenwick, Consul for the United States at Bourdeaux.
GEORGE TAYLER, jun. Chief Clerk. Philadelphia, April 30, 1793. 31
Albany Glass-House.
The Proprietors of the Glass-Manufactory, under the Firm of
M'CLALLEN, M'GREGOR and Co.
BEG leave to inform the public, that they have now brought their WINDOW-GLASS to such perfection, as will be found, on comparison, to be equal, in quality, to the best London Crown Glass.
Having fixed their prices at a lower rate than imported Glass, they are induced to believe, that importations of this article will be discontinued, in proportion as their works are extended.—They propose to enlarge the scale of this business, and as the success of it will depend on the patriotic support of the public, they beg leave to solicit their friendly patronage in the pursuit of a branch which will interest every lover of AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.
All orders for WINDOW-GLASS, of any size, will be received at the Store of RHODES and MACGREGOR, No. 234, Queen-street, New-York, and at the Glass Warehouse, No. 48, Market-street, Albany, which will be punctually attended to.
WANTED, six smart active LADS, not exceeding 16 years of age, to be inducted as Apprentices, and regularly instructed in the various branches of Glass-Making.
Also, three Window-Glass Makers, to whom great encouragement will be given. May 1, 1793. ep12w

By Authority.
BY THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS it appears, that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, G. Britain, and the United Netherlands...
I HAVE therefore thought fit by these presents, to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those powers respectively...
AND I DO hereby also make known, that whosoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations...
IN TESTIMONY whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents...
G. WASHINGTON.
By the PRESIDENT, Th: JEFFERSON.
JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, Book-seller, at the Stone-House, in Second Street, PHILADELPHIA, VOLUME VIII, OF ENCYCLOPEDIA:
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April 6, 1793. epim TICKETS In the FEDERAL CITY LOTTERY, May be had at SAMUEL COOPER'S Ferry.
City of Washington.
JANUARY 7th, 1793. A NUMBER of Lots in this City will be offered for sale at auction, by the Commissioners, on the 17th day of September next.
JOHN M. GANTT, Clerk to the Com'rs. Extract of an Act of the General Assembly of Maryland, concerning the Territory of Columbia, and the City of Washington.
"Be it enacted, That any foreigner may by deed or will, hereafter to be made, take and hold lands within that part of the said Territory which lies within this State, in the same manner as if he was a citizen of this State...
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IMPERIAL, HYSON & SOUCHONG Of the very first quality, and latest importation from Canton, via New-York, by retail, at No. 19, Third, between Chestnut and Market Streets.
By THOMAS JOHNSON, DAVID STUART, & DANIEL CARROLL, Esquires, COMMISSIONERS appointed by Government to prepare the Public Buildings, &c. within the City of Washington...
A LOTTERY FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
50,000 Tickets at 7 dollars, are 350,000 dollars, LIST OF PRIZES, viz. 1 Superb Hotel, with baths, out houses, &c. &c. to cost 50,000 1 Cash Prize 25,000 1 ditto 20,000 1 ditto 15,000 1 ditto 10,000 2 ditto 5,000 are 10,000 10 ditto 1,000 are 10,000 20 ditto 500 are 10,000 100 ditto 100 are 10,000 200 ditto 50 are 10,000 400 ditto 25 are 10,000 1,000 ditto 20 are 20,000 15,000 ditto 10 are 150,000 16,737 Prizes 33,263 Blanks Dollars 350,000 50,000
By this scheme at least the amount of the tickets will return to the fortunate adventurers, and yet the federal City will gain its object thereby, in a magnificent building designed both for public and private convenience.
Although some expense must necessarily attend the conducting of the lottery, (which expense will be taken from the principal prize) the Commissioners having agreed to present in return a sufficient quantity of excellent free-stone, together with the best adapted lots for the hotel and for the out-houses, the value of the lottery entire may be fairly rated at something more than par: In this important instance it will be found, on examination, to exceed all the lotteries that have ever been offered to the Public in this or perhaps in any other country.
The drawing will commence on Monday the 9th of September next, at the City of Washington. Tickets may be had of Col. Wm. Dickens, City Treasurer of Washington; Thayer & Bartlet, of Charleston, South-Carolina; Gideon Denison, Savannah; Messrs. James West & Co. Baltimore; Mr. Peter Gilman, Boston; and at such other places as will be hereafter published.
N. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given for the best Plan of an elegant and convenient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out houses, if presented on or before the 10th of April next; and a preference will be given to the Artist for a Contract, provided he be duly qualified to complete his plan.
S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City. March 6, 1793.
TO BE SOLD, Anoted covering Horse, OF THE HUNTING BREED.
HE was imported from England in November, seventeen hundred and eighty-six, and is now ten years old; he is a bright bay, with a blaze, fifteen hands one inch high, is well form'd, has a great deal of bone and strength, and his action equal to any horse. His colts are well approved of in the different parts of the State where he has stood, of which any person inclined to purchase can inform themselves. Enquire of the Printer. February 18, 1793.
Just published, By THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second-Street, A CASE,
Decided in the SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES, in which is discussed the Question, WHETHER A STATE IS LIABLE TO BE SUED BY A PRIVATE CITIZEN OF ANOTHER STATE? Price Half a Dollar.
Post-Road TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY.
THE public are hereby informed, that the Post-Road from Philadelphia to Reading, is continued to Sunbury and Northumberland; thence up the West Branch of the Susquehannah as far as Licoming; thence to the Painted Post (in New-York state, near the forks of the Tioga) thence to Bath (a town laid out on the Cohocton Branch of the Tioga) thence to Williamburg, at the forks of Genesee River.
Letters for this new route will be sent from the Philadelphia Post-Office every Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, with the mail for Reading. A weekly mail will also be carried from Bethlehem to Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne. General Post-Office, April 6, 1793. ADVERTISEMENT. WHEREAS A BRIDGE is to be built over Raritan River, at the city of New-Brunswick, in the state of New-Jersey...
An Ordinance for securing the punctual Payment of the Monies due on the Subscriptions to the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures.
WHEREAS doubts have heretofore arisen with regard to the power of the Society to annex any penalties to the non-payment of the installments, agreeably to the terms of the subscriptions. And whereas the Legislature at their last session, passed a supplement to the original law of incorporation, removing the said doubts, and fully authorizing the Directors to pass any ordinance they may think proper, to compel the punctual payment of the said subscriptions.
Sec. 1. Be it ordained, therefore, by the Governor and Directors of the Society for establishing Useful Manufactures, That if any subscriber or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the second payment of his, her, or their respective subscriptions, together with the lawful interest arising thereon, either to the cashier of the United States Bank Office of Discount and Deposit, at New-York, the cashier of the Bank of New-York, the cashier of the Bank of the United States, in Philadelphia, of John Bayard, Esq. in the city of New-Brunswick, in the state of New-Jersey, on or before the thirteenth day of April next...
Sec. 2. And be it further ordained by the authority aforesaid, That if any subscriber, or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the third payment of his, her or their respective subscriptions, together with the lawful interest arising thereon, on or before the thirteenth day of May next...
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NICHOLAS LOW, Governor. Passed at New-Ark, 20th February, 1793. (Counter-signed) ELISHA BOUDINOT, Secretary pro tempore.
BE IT KNOWN, that the proportion of specie which may be paid on the respective payments of every original share, by such Stockholders as prefer paying a moiety of said shares in specie, in lieu of deferred debt, is as follows:
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