Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-03-30 00:00:00

J. Rogers
Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 87 of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1793.
[Whole No. 409.]
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY EVENING, March 1.
Substance of the observations made by Mr. W. Smith, on the debates on the following resolution, viz.
RESOLVED, that the Secretary of the Treasury has omitted to discharge an essential duty of his office, in failing to give Congress official information in due time of the monies drawn by him from Europe into the United States; which drawing commenced in December, 1792, and continued till January 1793, and of the causes of making such drafts.
Mr. Smith said, that after the vote which had just prevailed by so considerable a majority on the preceding resolutions, the committee could not with any propriety criminate the Secretary of the Treasury for failing to give the information alluded to, because by that vote it had been established that the Secretary had only acted under the authority of the President, and conformably to his instructions; if there had been any omission to communicate information to Congress, that omission was surely not chargeable to the Secretary. But it had been already clearly shown by documents in the possession of the house that the necessary information had been communicated. The Treasurer's accounts which had been from time to time laid before the house, exhibited the amount of monies proceeding from the sale of bills, and the Secretary's report of 1791, conveyed full information of the drawing. It was true there was a sum of about 600,000 dollars, the proceeds of bills which, as had been remarked by a gentleman (Mr. Madison) did not appear in the Treasurer's account, but this was owing to the sales of the bills by the bank not having been closed at the time the last quarterly account was rendered, and consequently that sum could not appear in the treasurer's account. [Mr. Madison said he had not meant to blame the treasurer.]
Mr. Smith then said, The gentleman, however, had attributed misconduct to the Secretary, for withholding information of the amount of monies in the treasury, accruing from foreign loans, when directed by the house 19th January, 1792, to report whether the existing revenues were adequate to face the additional expense of the Indian war. Mr. Smith could not forbear expressing great surprise at this remark of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Madison) when he recollected what had been just before said by the same gentleman in support of the former resolution. The gentleman on that occasion, in his attempt to disprove the right of the Secretary, ex-officio to superintend the monies derived from the foreign loans, had endeavored to establish a nice distinction between the ordinary internal revenues of the country and the resources resulting from foreign loans. The law constituting the Treasury Department, he had said, gave the Secretary power only over the revenues, which embraced only the ordinary resources, whereas loans were distinct things, the management of which was specially entrusted by law to the supreme magistrate, and in relation to which the secretary could exercise no authority whatever that was not derived from the President. The gentleman now argued that the secretary was blameable in not giving information of the state of these extraordinary resources, which were not within his department, when only called upon to state the amount of the ordinary revenues, which were within his department. He left it to the gentleman to reconcile this contradiction; for certainly his doctrine was erroneous on a former occasion, or it must be so now; if the monies obtained from foreign loans were to be deemed the revenues of the country, then they fell of course under the management of the head of the treasury department, and it was wrong in the gentleman, to impute misconduct to the secretary for exercising a legal authority; if on the contrary those monies were viewed as an extra resource, and not within the purview of the secretary's functions, then it was wrong to censure him for not communicating a state of those monies when required only to report the ordinary revenues.
Without admitting the soundness of the distinction set up by the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Smith said that it was never in the intention of the house, nor in the idea of any individual member, to call for a state of the monies proceeding from the foreign loans, when they passed the order of the 19th January, 1792.
That order was in these terms, "Ordered that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before this house, such information with respect to the finances of the United States, as will enable the legislature to judge whether any additional revenue will be necessary in consequence of the proposed increase of the military establishment." This call was fully complied with, for the secretary laid before the house an estimate of the internal revenues, which unquestionably were the only
revenues in contemplation of the house at the time, and the house being satisfied that they were incompetent, laid additional duties.
The house knew as well as the Secretary that loans had been made, and that monies had under them, been drawn into this country; but they knew that those monies had been specially appropriated to the sinking fund, and it never entered into the ideas of any member to divert them from that beneficial object, in order to apply them to the current service: 'Twas not to be presumed that the secretary would have recommended such a diversion.
To impute blame to him for not communicating the amount of monies drawn from time to time, there must have been some law or order of the house requiring the communication, or it must have been necessary to some object depending before the house. What law or order of the house made it necessary? None: The law authorized the loans and prescribed their objects; the rest was mere executive business; and no communication was necessary to any measure depending before the House.
But though the Secretary would not have been censurable for omitting to give the information, the truth was, that the President's speech of 8th December 1792, the secretary's report of 25th Feb. and the act of the 3d of March 1791, were conclusive proofs that the legislature knew that the proceeds of the loans were in a train of being brought to the United States, and the accounts of receipts and expenditures presented the first week of the session informed the house that a large sum had been drawn for, and the treasurer's quarterly account contained further information on the subject, all which was prior to any call of the house for such information. Hence Mr. Smith deduced, that it was not a fact that the secretary had failed to give the information, as stated in the resolution, and that even had he so failed, he would not have been censurable for a breach of an essential duty of his office.
It had been said by a member from Pennsylvania (Mr. Findley) that the lateness of the information from the secretary, made it inconvenient to go into an enquiry of his official conduct so near the close of the session. To this, Mr. Smith replied, that he did not expect such a remark from that quarter of the house. If the gentleman had not been prepared for the enquiry or thought it an improper season to enter upon it, why did he second the motion for bringing forward the charges? If suspicion had so long existed against the integrity of the secretary, why was not information called for at the beginning of the session? Why was the call delayed till the session was within a few weeks of its termination?
It was admitted that the secretary had obeyed the order of the house with wonderful alacrity and promptitude; it was indeed strange that the gentleman, who brought forward the charges should be the first to complain that there was not time for their consideration.
Mr. Smith concluded by noticing the observation of Mr. Mercer and Mr. Madison, that the opinion of the house on the preceding resolutions would not change the truth of facts, and that the public would ultimately decide whether the secretary's conduct was criminal or not. This, said Mr. Smith, was like the conduct of a prosecutor, who having chosen his jurisdiction, and being nonsuited, wished to appeal to another tribunal; why were the resolutions brought before the house? Was it not to substantiate the truth of them by a vote? And had the prosecution succeeded, would the secretary have had an appeal to the public? No, the resolutions would have been sent to the President, and the secretary would have been removed, disgraced, and ruined forever, without appeal.
(Debate to be continued.)
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
An account of the fate of Colonel HARDIN, Major TRUEMAN, and several other persons, who were killed by the Indians, while bearing Flags of Truce to the hostile Tribes—as contained in a Letter from WILLIAM GOFORTH, Esq. of Cincinnati, Western Territory, to a Gentleman in this City.
ON the 8th January, 1793, William Smally, who had accompanied Major Trueman on his embassy to the Indian Nations, was before me, and gave me the following account of his journey, to wit.—That they left Fort Washington about the 26th or 27th of May, 1792—that they were bound to the Maumee towns, but fell about 60 miles below said towns, near to the town of Glaize, which is situated on a point of land formed by the Maumee and Glaize rivers; that when they left Fort Washington, their company consisted of Major Trueman, himself, and the Major's waiter; that about 30 miles before they arrived at the aforesaid town of Glaize, they fell in with three Indians, one an elderly man, the other a young man, and the third a boy of about 12 or 15 years of age, who were encamped on their hunting ground by the side of a little trace; the Indians asked them to encamp with them (this was soon about two hours
high, being the eighth day after they left Fort Washington) telling the Major they would go into the town with them the next morning; the Major agreed to encamp with them; they made a supper of chocolate, and asked the Indians to partake with them; that all three of the Indians eat supper with them, and appeared very friendly; that Major Trueman informed the Indians of the business they were on, and read over the speech to them, which he (Smally) interpreted to them, and with which they appeared to be pleased; but said they were none of the Chiefs, and could not tell how it would be approved of, and that they must go into the town. Major Trueman and the oldest man sat and talked and smoked till near midnight—that the Indian seemed very cheerful and jocular—after which the Major wishing to lay down, the old Indian spread a skin for the Major, and for each of them; the Major and the waiter laid down; he (Smally) himself sat up some time talking with them; after which the old Indian told him to ask his Captain if he would be willing that one of them should be tied, saying the two boys would be afraid, they could not sleep, seeing there is three of you and but two of us, counting the Indian boy, as of no consequence; that he then informed the Major what the Indian had been saying, on which Major Trueman told him to inform them that they might tie his waiter; the Indian then tied the waiter, girdling his elbows backward, and made them fall with an old hoop, and tied his feet across each other with a bridle; the waiter then lay down, after which the old Indian came and sat down by him, and began to talk again with great seeming friendship and cheerfulness; that he then asked Smally to go and scrape some bark off a small beech bush which was about two or three rods from the fire, but within the light of it, in order to mix with his tobacco for smoking; that he went and scraped the bark, and brought it to him, and then laid down with his head within about a foot of the Indian's thigh; that the Indian then took up his gun and set it on the breech, and was observing what an ugly gun it was, and said it was so bad he could hardly kill any deer with it; that he happened to turn his head about (but cannot say for what cause, whether to look about or to spit) that his head being turned, the Indian immediately brought down the muzzle and shot Major Trueman—the ball entered his left breast, and came out at the small of the back, which killed him immediately; the Major only just time to hear him teich one groan; that he himself jumped up and ran, and got behind a large sapling, the young Indian man then took up his gun to shoot him—that he stood behind the tree and begged and reasoned the case with him, the young fellow, for about two minutes, as near as he can recollect; that the Major's waiter, who had been tied, started and broke the old hoop with which his arms had been pinioned, and got his feet loose and ran; that the old Indian ran after him, and brought him back to the fire; a scuffle ensued, when the waiter cleared himself and ran off again; the old Indian caught him, and brought him back a second time, during which time the young Indian was trying to shoot him (Smally) the old Indian then called to the young Indian man to come and shoot the waiter, saying he was stronger than he was; that the young man, after being called several times, ran up and shot him; the old man then ran up to the fire and called to him, who was on the opposite side at but a small distance, and within the light of the fire; that he called to him to come up to him; that Smally told him if he came there, he would kill him; he answered, he would not hurt him; he told him that a little while ago he had told him he would not hurt any of them—but that now he had killed them; that he then went towards him about half way, when he laid sit down—he answered he would not, for then he would run up and tomahawk him—the Indian answered he would not, and persisted five or six times that he should sit down; that he still refused, saying, do you sit down, and then I will; that he then sat down, and they reasoned the case for near a quarter of an hour—when he asked him what he had killed them for? He answered, their horses, and what they had; saying, if he had taken them to town, he should get nothing—that now he should get all. That the old Indian then got up and went and strip the Major; and the other went and strip the waiter; the old Indian then told the boy to go and scalp them, which he did, fetching the scalps to him, who threw them down by him, and told the boy to go and get a couple of little sticks, and bend them round like a hoop, and tie the scalps in and dry them. That he then took out all the things and looked them over, and burnt all the papers except the speech, which was fastened to the belt. After which they divided the plunder, and sat down till day-light, when they threw the Major into an old blanket, and after carrying him about sixty yards, threw him down by the side of an old log, and then carried his waiter, William Lynch, and laid him down by the Major, and threw the old blanket over them, and covered them with chunks and poles; they then returned to the fire and made some chocolate, and eat breakfast; after which they mounted, and went about six or seven miles to the old Indian's house, and stayed all that day; the next morning they sat out for the town of Glaize, where they arrived about two o'clock. That he stayed with the young Indian three or four days, when he and an Indian were sent to the King of the Delawares, Bankungahela, who told him he was sorry they had killed the men—that they ought to have brought them
to the town; and said, then if they did not like the message, they could have killed them there; they could not have got away from them. The King told him to stay at the house where he was, and not to go about, left the young Indians should kill him, till he could go down to where his Indian brother lived, of whom he had told him. [You will observe Smally had formerly been among the Indians, and was adopted, after which he had made his escape, and had been away several years.] In a day or two after this, the Shawanese Chiefs sent for him, who lived in the said town of Glaize. After he had told them what he could about the flag, they told him he might go back to the house where he stayed. That he continued about 14 or 15 days in the town; after which he went down to his brother, into whose family he had formerly been adopted, in the room of his adopted brother's brother, who had been killed; he lived there till the corn was laid by (by which is meant the finishing the killing of it) with his brother's wife, his brother being out a hunting; that he stayed there till after council about eight days: from this place, about 600 Indians started with a view to take Fort Jefferson, expecting to be joined by others to the amount of 600. By consent of his brother, who he made believe he should return, he set out for Detroit; being arrived there, he went to the commanding officer, and told him he wanted to get into the settlements in the United States—who informed him he should go in the first vessel going from thence; and at the departure of the boat, he gave him a pass and seven days provisions. The officer used him with a great degree of kindness, and ordered him to stay with the clerk of the Indian store till the vessel was ready. That the vessel in which he went proceeded to Fort Ontario; from which he went to Navy-hall, where General Simcoe lives, who behaved to him with as great kindness as it was possible for a man to do, giving him a pass and seven days provisions; from thence he passed through the Genesee country to Susquehannah, at New-Town Point; from thence to Violvey, where he lay sick a month at a Mr. Amos's, who treated him with great civility; from thence to Harris' Ferry, where he crossed, passing through Carlisle and Bedford to the Monongahela, at George-Creek, about 120 miles above Fort Pitt; from thence to General Wayne's head-quarters, at Logs-Town; and from thence to Columbia, the place of his residence and family—where he arrived the 30th December, 1792.
Mr. Smally farther relates, that while he was at the town of Glaize, he met with an Indian, who told him he had met with Messrs. Joseph Gerrard, Isaac Freeman, and a Mr. Lavara (as near as he can recollect the name) a Frenchman, who were also on an embassy to the Maumee towns. The Indian said they came across them about four days after they left Fort Washington; that they travelled with them about two days and a half, when they killed them in the following manner: First they tomahawked Mr. Joseph Gerrard, then shot the Frenchman, who was spreading out some things to dry; on which Mr. Freeman ran—that he himself shot at him and broke his arm—that he then came up with him and tomahawked him.
Mr. Smally also informs me, that he saw some of Colonel Hardin's things which were brought into the town of Glaize, which he deems the greatest of the Indian towns, (this Col. Hardin, with a Mr. Thomas Flinn, had also been sent on an embassy to the Indian Nations) but dispatched to the St. Dusky towns among the Wyandots. The Indians informed Mr. Smally that they were out a hunting when Col. Hardin came up to them in a plain with the flag; that after they got to camp, where they were altogether, they consulted what to do with them; that they were all for killing them but one, who insisted to take them to town and hear their message, and that they could but kill them when they got them there; but as the rest were for killing them, they shot Mr. Flinn through the head as he was sitting by the fire cooking; on which Colonel Hardin fled—an Indian pursued him—when the Colonel saw the Indian was like to come up with him, he turned and caught hold of the Indian's tomahawk; that while they were in the scuffle, another Indian came up and tomahawked the Colonel; that they brought the things into the town of Glaize, and sold some of them to the English.
Mr. Smally is of opinion that much the greater part of the Indians are for war. He lays he talked with Simon Girty near two hours, that he abused him a good deal about our army, that they were so easily defeated. He told Mr. Girty he had come out with a flag. Girty then asked him what Congress meant by sending out letters to the Girtys, offering them a pardon if they would come in; that he damned them, saying, I reckon when they get us in, they think to hang us. He asked Mr. Girty when he knew Congress to be guilty of such a treacherous trick as that? He answered, when they killed the Miamis.
On asking Mr. Smally what he thought respecting the numbers of the Indians at war with us, he said he could only form a judgment from the report of the Indians—they say they expect at the next battle to have 8000; but he much questioned if they could raise more than 5 or 6000 among the confederated nations at war with us. Mr. Smally seems of opinion that the British are not at this time active to assist the Indians in the present war; he believes they only give them yearly what they had agreed to give them at the peace with the United States; but whether this should be considered strictly as presents, or as

yearly allowances for the benefits of their trade, Mr. Smailly does not presume to say.
Mr. Smailly was not brought before me by virtue of any legal authority; but hearing of his return, and understanding by his neighbors that he was a sober man, on whose relation confidence might be placed, I wished to have that relation from himself, and accordingly asked a certain Hall, of the militia, one of his neighbors, to desire him to come down, which he accordingly did, when I took down the account in writing, as he related it—and I believe you may rely upon the truth of the facts, so far as his memory could serve.
I understand Congress have in a public manner condoled with and provided for those families who have been bereaved by the late unfortunate embassies; such conduct, in my opinion, does honor and gives dignity to government; and I flatter myself that government will take measures that this poor man, Mr. Smailly, shall be justly paid, agreeable to his agreement made with Major Trueman, who is now dead, and unable to perform it himself. The justice of government cannot be doubted—neither would I throw out the most distant hint or insinuation that any of the public officers would be guilty of the least degree of chicanery, by withholding the money from whom it is due, in order to force them to take orders and goods from any trader, at the advance of an hundred or hundred and fifty per cent. or higher, from any motives whatever. But the fact is, that it often happens that the troops of militia, when their money is earned, are, for want of the paymaster's being in cash, obliged to take a due-bill on government, which is finally paid with the greatest justice; but the poor men cannot think of going to Philadelphia for it; and as they are in want, they part with their due-bills to the traders at almost any rate, rather than run the risk of losing the paper, and getting nothing. These things greatly reduces the idea of the pay of government; and on these accounts, you may rely upon it our country bleeds, and makes it more difficult to get, or raise the price of volunteers on all occasions.—Farewell.
Foreign Affairs.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
SUNDAY, January 13.
KERSAINT, after sundry prefatory remarks, reported in the committee of defence as follows:
1st. The minister of the marine shall issue orders to all the ports, to arm 30 sail of the line and 20 frigates, exclusive of 21 ships of the line and 32 frigates already in commission, which will increase the naval force of the republic to 52 sail of the line and 52 frigates, which shall be also victualled.
2. Twenty-five ships of the line, 5 of 100, 6 of 80, 14 of 74 guns, 29 frigates, 9 of which shall mount 40 24 pounders, and 12 of 36, 18 pounders; 20 cutters and 6 bomb vessels, shall be put upon the stocks; and all necessary repairs shall be made to put all the ships of the republic in a state to keep the sea.
3. The executive council shall take the most expeditious measures to secure the armaments of the coasts, and put them in a state of being employed in the ensuing spring; 100 battalions in the maritime departments, or those which are contiguous to them, shall be appointed to them for their defence.
4. Registers shall be opened in the municipalities, to inscribe the names of young persons from 16 to 21, who shall be free from all infirmities, to serve the republic by sea.
5. The committee of marine shall present the plan of a decree for the number of volunteers who may present themselves for the sea service, and to regulate the quota of the 84 departments in proportion to their population, observing that this levy shall not exceed 200 men for the interior departments.
6. The committee of war shall present immediately its opinion on the means least burthensome, of preparing the armament of 100 battalions, for the defence of the coasts.
7. To assure the execution of these measures of general defence, the national treasury shall furnish the sum of 30 millions as an extraordinary fund, to support the war, and which shall be at the disposition of the minister of the marine.
The convention moreover charges its committee to present, without delay, the state of the expences necessary for the extraordinaries of the marine, in case of war, in order to make provisions accordingly.
8. Orders shall be issued to the national founderies to cast 600 iron 36 pounders, 800 24 pounders, 600
18—400 12—and 300 8 pounders, proper for the service of the sea and the coasts, and 400 caronades of 36 pounds.
9. The diplomatic committee shall make a report upon the situation of the different agents of the republic abroad, it being inconsistent with the dignity of the republic that many of them should remain in their present situation.
10. The executive council shall present to the convention a memorial upon the respective interests of the French and English nations, and the defence of their liberty; and this memorial approved by the convention, and sealed with the seal of the republic, shall be addressed to the English nation and government.
All these articles were decreed, excepting the 9th and 10th, which were adjourned to the 16th, to be discussed at the same time with the Plan of the decree presented by Brissot in the name of the committee of general defence.
11. Commissioners from the convention shall be sent to all the ports and arsenals of the republic, and to the maritime departments, to acquaint the French marines with the cause and object of the war, with which France is threatened, and shall take a list of the number of such men as are capable of serving their country in the naval department. They shall receive the volunteers who shall first offer; they shall assure the inhabitants of the coasts, and the mariners, that the republic will take care, during their absence, of their wives and children; their pay shall be augmented, and a considerable share of the prizes shall devolve upon them.
In fine, they shall take every measure which they may judge necessary, both in the ports and on the coasts to insure the success of the war, and put the maritime frontiers of the republic in a respectable state of defence. They shall correspond on this subject with the committee of general defence, and shall give an account of their proceedings to the convention, which they shall arrange with the agents of the executive power and the ministers as they shall judge necessary, and all necessary power shall be vested in them for this purpose.
12. The marine committee shall instantly deliver in their report upon the letters of marque, and the regulations which shall be followed by those who shall fit out privateers in case of a war with England.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 16.
The present state of Paris was demanded.—Decreed.
Legendre observed, that the terrors with which the convention was inspired, were so many finesse to retard the sentence of Louis.
Marat conjured the convention not to be the dupes of a farce which had been acted for three hours.—Those who affected to be terrified to-day, are those who boasted a few days ago that they would carry their own measures into effect.—Their despair arises from this cause, that the brave men (the federates) who now guard this city, will reject the criminal principles they would suggest to them.
Huguet. A new massacre is on foot. All those who have leaned to the side of humanity and justice, are threatened with destruction.
Leharde. I have no doubt of the business of the federates here—proscriptions are openly handed about, and all those who have voted for an appeal to the people are to be poignarded.
It was decreed unanimously, that the fate of Louis should be instantly decided on.
Thibaut, bishop of Cantal. Yesterday I seized on a man who swore I was a royalist, and he would assassinate me. Of what nation are you? said I—I am, he replied, a Spaniard by birth, and am come, in the name of my nation, to demand the head of Louis the sixteenth to the end that a solemn alliance may be formed with your republic. (A violent agitation in the assembly.)
I with by this, continued Thibaut, to prove that the agitators are not
the Parisians, who have constantly respected the delegated authorities: No—they are men purposely brought hither.
Marat spoke of his patriotism, and braved those who now dreaded proscriptions and murder, and who were so bold a few days ago. The patriotic members, cried he, are not afraid of the menaces of the royalists. It has been said that certain of my colleagues, friends to Capet, are terrified at the idea of shutting the barriers, because it would be an obstacle to their flight: I demand that every member who shall quit Paris shall be declared infamous, and that beyond the barriers any one may put him to death.
SATURDAY, Jan. 19—at night.
Immediately on the negative of the question for delaying the execution of the sentence pronounced upon Louis being proclaimed.
Cambacérès said—"Citizens, by pronouncing sentence of death against the last king of the French, you have done an act the remembrance of which will not pass away, and which will be recorded by the graver of immortality in the annals of history. Public safety could alone prescribe to you that awful decree. Since it is passed, I stand up in the name of humanity, to call your attention to the person who is the object of it. Let us allow him every possible consolation, and let us take proper measures to prevent the execution of the national will from being sullied with any stain—I move, therefore, the following propositions:
1. The executive council shall be immediately summoned, and a copy of the decree which pronounces sentence of death against Louis shall be delivered them.
2. The executive council shall be charged to notify this decree to Louis in the course of the day; to cause it to be executed within twenty-four hours after it has been notified to him; to take every measure of safety and police which to them shall appear necessary during the execution; to be careful that no insult be offered to the remains of Louis, and to give an account of their diligence to the national convention.
3. The mayor and municipal officers of Paris shall be enjoined to suffer Louis to communicate freely with his family, and to have with him such priests as he may desire in his last moments.
These propositions were unanimously adopted, with an amendment by Brissot, that the executive council should not be called till 11 o'clock in the morning.
[The proceedings of Jan. 20, were published in our last.]
LONDON, January 12.
The squadron under the command of Admiral sir Richard King, now in the Scheldt, whence they sailed from the Downs some days since, consists of the Assistance of 50 guns, two frigates, a sloop, and two cutters. These command that mouth of the river, between the Isles of Zealand and Zoarse.
Government are making the most rapid preparations for war in every department.
The quantity of ordnance stores preparing is immense, both for land and sea service; and a large body of cavalry-artillery are shortly to be raised, the more effectually to protect the coasts against any attempts of an enemy.
War appears inevitable, and the nation seems only waiting till they are sufficiently prepared to strike a blow of consequence.
JANUARY 17.
The official accounts from Holland state that the admiralty of Amsterdam have ordered the immediate equipment, of some ships of war, and have opened the usual correspondencies with the other four admiralties, on the subject of their usual quotas of ships and men.
Lord George Gordon has found sureties for good behavior for fourteen years, required by sentence of the court of king's bench, and will be at large in the course of the present week. The sureties, we understand, are two Jews of consider-
able property in the city. The noble prisoner, we see, gains something by his election into the number of the chosen, and finds himself not abandoned by the whole world.
JANUARY 24.
The French executive council have given directions to all the officers commanding by sea or land in the service of the republic, to be careful not to be the first to commit an act of hostility against this country, unless it should hereafter appear the decided intention of the British cabinet to declare war against France.
On Saturday advices were received of the arrival of the Assistance man of war and the Iphigenia frigate, in the Downs, from Flushing; commodore Murray did not return in his ship, having been sent by our government to the King of Prussia, at Frankfort, with Lord Grenville's answer to M. de Chauvelin.
There is no prospect whatever of a conciliation, and an immediate Declaration of WAR seems more certain than ever, for we can speak from the first authority, that our court is resolved not to acknowledge or receive M. Chauvelin, or any other person, as the accredited minister of the republic of France, the government of which, according to its own appellation, is merely provisional.
Domestic Articles.
BOSTON, March 20.
FROM PHILADELPHIA—MARCH 6.
"Congress is now adjourned, and the Members scattered—but very few of them remaining here.—The Session concluded favorably—the result of the investigation into the official conduct of the Secretary of the Treasury, was highly to his honor: Many of his letters to foreign agents, and to our ministers in Europe were read, in the course of the discussion, which discovered the great and enlightened statesman and Financier; and strongly impressed this idea on the mind, that the interest and honor of the United States are the supreme objects of his ambition and pursuit."
Dr. Jarvis, Messrs. Kingsley, Sewall, Gardiner & Jones, of this town, are appointed a committee to consider and report to the Legislature, the present session, how far this commonwealth is, either directly or indirectly, affected by a late decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of the United States, said to have been made by four of the Judges of the same, against the state of Georgia; or how far any state is constitutionally responsible on an action of debt, instituted by any individual of any other state: And also to procure and submit to the Legislature an authenticated copy of the case referred to, and the judgment thereupon—of the opinions and declarations of the Judges—and of all other circumstances respecting the same; in order that our true situation may be known and understood, and such measures adopted on this occasion, by this commonwealth, as its honor and interest may demand, and the peace and safety of the Union requires.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The Massachusetts Society for promoting Agriculture, to engage attention to the culture and preservation of Fruit Trees, offer a premium to the person who shall on or before the first day of July 1795, give a satisfactory natural history of the Canker Worm, of Fifty Dollars, or a piece of Plate, or a Gold Medal, of that value, at the option of the author. The history of this insect will be expected through all its transformations; at what depth in the ground, and at what distance from the tree, as well as the time when they cover themselves; at what season they rise from the ground, in the form of a winged insect and grub; on what part of the tree they usually deposit their eggs, as well as at what time their eggs become worms. If more than one satisfactory history of the worm shall be given before July 1795, that

first received by the Trustees shall be entitled to the Premium.
Also, a Premium of one hundred Dollars is offered to the person who shall on or before the first day of July 1796, discover an effectual, and the cheapest method of destroying the Canker Worm, and give evidence thereof, to the satisfaction of the Trustees.
It is required that the communications for which the above Premiums are offered, be delivered in, without names, or any intimation to whom they belong; that they be severally marked in such manner as each claimant shall think fit; the claimant sending with it a paper sealed up, having on the outside a corresponding mark, and on the inside his name and address.
By order of the Trustees, OLIVER SMITH, Corres. Sec'y.
FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE.
An immense number of peaceable and unarmed citizens were assembled in the Champ de Mars, at the altar of their country, to sign a petition relative to the dethroning of Louis the XVIth, after his flight. La Fayette at the head of his mercenary troops, after martial law had been proclaimed, ordered them to fire upon these citizens, and between twelve and fifteen hundred were killed.
Remarks on the foregoing, From London's (New-York) DIARY.
A CORRESPONDENT cannot but express his surprise at a paragraph in your paper of Saturday evening, stating the conduct of that excellent man, and firm friend to America, Monsieur De la Fayette.—An American, who was at the time mentioned, in Paris, is well assured of the misrepresentation of that account. All parties acknowledged, that it was entirely owing to the firmness, prudence and good conduct of Gen. La Fayette, that the mob, collected in the Champ de Mars, was dispersed with so little effusion of blood—after they had wantonly destroyed two persons, and were ordered repeatedly by the Mayor of Paris and the Municipality to disperse, without effect—Military law was proclaimed, and the guards fired first over their heads; which was returned with stones and shot.—A division then fired at the mob, and about thirty were killed and wounded; upon which they instantly dispersed, and the city was as quiet the evening after, as if no such circumstance had happened. From persons present on the ground, it is well known, that not a man, woman or child were killed, as are said in the account taken from the National Gazette, were killed. Your correspondent is fully satisfied, that the safety and good order of the city of Paris was owing as much, perhaps more, to the steady and patriotic conduct of Monf. de la Fayette, during his command there, than to any other cause whatever:—And surely, the inhabitants of America will not suffer the aspersions of the enemies of so tried a friend to the general liberties of mankind, and of this country in particular, to operate a moment on their minds.
Philadelphia, March 30.
The ship Dispatch, Capt. Benjamin Hodgdon, arrived here Wednesday, left Lisbon on the 20th of February. Captain Hodgdon informs, that while he was preparing his ship for sea, the pilot came on board, with intelligence that an express had just arrived from France, with an account of the declaration of war by that republic, against the different powers of Europe, that had refused to negotiate with, and acknowledge the republic of France, viz. England, Holland, Portugal and Sardinia.
Capt. Hodgdon cannot vouch for the authenticity of the foregoing important intelligence, as the ship, at the time of his receiving it, lay some miles below the town; but, from its being communicated to the pilot by Mr. John Bulkeley, a very respectable merchant of Lisbon, he is of opinion that it may be relied on.
We wait the arrival of the ships John Bulkeley, Capt. Wharton, and the Four Friends, Capt. Volans (which were to sail in two days after Captain Hodgdon) for a confirmation of this news, and the advices from England by the Packet, which Captain Hodgdon observed going into Lisbon.
The Portuguese were making great preparations for war: about 8000 troops had been ordered from Lisbon to strengthen the different garrisons of the kingdom.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Lisbon, received by the ship Dispatch, Capt. Hodgdon.
"We have just received advices from France, by land post, and from England by Packet, that the Republic of France had declared WAR against Portugal, Holland, Russia, England, and Sardinia."
By a letter brought by the James, to a gentleman of this city, dated Bristol, January 27, we learn, that Louis the XVIth was publicly beheaded, at ten o'clock on the morning of the 21st of said month:—He met his unhappy fate with the most dignified fortitude, declaring his innocence of the crimes alleged against him, expressed his perfect resignation, and a hope that his death might allay the ferment and distractions of his bleeding country, &c. &c.—Popular tumults and outrages immediately succeeded his execution.
on, and many members of the convention are said to have been sacrificed to the fury of an ungovernable and blood thirsty mob.—
Charleston paper.
Captain Joshua Barney, of the ship Samson, arrived at Baltimore from the Havana, which place he left on the 12th inst. informs, that the day before he sailed, the Spanish frigate Juno arrived there from Ferrol, in 28 days, with dispatches for the different Spanish governments. The advices by the Juno were, that the King of France had been decapitated—that hostilities had commenced between England and France, and that there was an hourly expectation of a declaration of war between France and Spain—that the Empress of Russia had acknowledged the republic of France, and declared herself her Ally. The Juno stopped but four hours off the Havana, and then proceeded to la Vera-Cruz, to prevent the sailing of a 74 gun ship and a frigate, which had gone down to take on board eight millions of dollars, till a further convoy should arrive.—Captain Barney also informs, that an embargo was to take place at the Havana the day he left it.
The above account of Russia's recognizing the French Republic, appears to be extraordinary; but when it is considered that Sweden, which is now in alliance with Russia, has (to use Mr. Kersaint's observation) taken the French Republic by the hand, and when it is also recollected that measures are said to be pursuing by the French Republic to instigate the Turks against Russia and Austria, it will be conceived that motives of policy and self-preservation may have induced the Empress to take this step. There are, however, considerations which abate the probability of the account. Russia, Austria, Prussia and England, are apparently on good terms. The Turks have suffered so much in the late war, that they will not slightly provoke their old enemy. England and Russia are connected by commercial considerations, and the crowned heads of Europe are persuaded that the suppression of French principles is a common cause to them. Should Russia be detached, one of the strongest links in the chain of the combination would undoubtedly be broken.
France, in case of a rupture with England, will, it is said, immediately declare her islands independent, sensible how inadequate her naval forces would be to protect them against the combined power of England, Spain and Holland. If this should be the case, we shall be immediately released from the guaranty stipulated in the treaty of alliance.
By the last courier from Port-au-Prince we learn, that an American vessel has been seized at Port-au-Prince on board 6000 muskets and 1000 pair of pistols, consigned to the worthy DE JEMECOURT. A few days more and the province of the West would have been ruined. It has been saved by the courage of the patriot Borel, who was so cruelly treated by the perfidious Blanchelande.
By the last letters from France we learn, that the Blanchelandes, and the Girardins were executed on the 4th of December. It is to be hoped, that their vile coadjutors, will not long delay experiencing the same fate.
Gen. Adv.
Mr. Ricketts, the celebrated horseman—has advertised that his unparallelled performances will commence at the Circus which he has erected, on Wednesday next at 4 o'clock, P. M.
The Hospital bill, before the Legislature, and which will probably pass, provides for the appropriation of 26,666 dollars for the improvement of that benevolent institution.
An horizontal windmill is said to have been invented by an ingenious mechanic at Paterson, New-Jersey; the description appears to agree very nearly with that of a mill, for an improvement on which, an ingenious mechanic at Boston lately received a patent.
M. Kersaint—in his speech to the National Convention on the probable war with Great-Britain, has sketched a plan of operations, which if carried into effect on the part of the French, with success, would go further to establish an universal empire than all the projects of Louis the XVIth, their former grand Monarque—but then, say the French, it would be the empire of Liberty and Equality.
A writer in a New-York paper, after dissecting the Comedy called the School for Scandal, says—"The uncommon popularity of the School for Scandal, appears to me a necessary consequence of its immoral tendency. Whatever chimes in with a general spirit of dissipation, will always be acceptable to a people of profligate morals. Nor is there a more effectual method of recommending the most fashionable crimes, than by thus blending them with such qualities, as are still amiable to the most dissolute. In every age and nation, men are immoderately fond of whatever stamps an odium on such characters, as are a tacit but living satire on their own manners."
A French paper (Patriote Francois) says the National Gazette, gives us the following scale of Beings; beginning with the most sublime of all and descending to the lowest dregs of his visible and invisible creation;—viz.—God—Angel—A tyrant killer—a philanthropist—An honest man—A labourer—A slothful cowardly citizen—A monk—A faint—A hero—A king—The devil—(credit is given for the above scale to an English Republican.)
Only allow some people scope, They'll hang themselves, and find the rope.
Tuesday evening the Comedy of the Fashionable Lover, and the Comic Opera of No Song No Supper, were performed at the theatre, in New-York, by the Old American Company, for the benefit of the unfortunate widows and orphans whose husbands perished in the late storm; and upwards of 400 dollars raised for that benevolent purpose.
The President of the United States left town last Wednesday afternoon, on a visit to Mount Vernon.
RICHARD BLAND LEE, Esq. is re elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, for the state of Virginia.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the country to his friend in this city.
"I am disgusted with a set of scribblers who for some time past have infested the public peace—Not satisfied with enjoying the real and substantial blessings of liberty, they raise a deluge of complaints from the most insignificant sources, and pass the most childish and ridiculous censures upon their rulers—This is a species of madness and impertinence to which every free government is liable—There are every where some discontented wretches, urged on either by folly or private uneasiness, who cannot bear an hour of peace, because it is an hour of reflection, and discharge their venom through the dirtiest channel they can find—Like salamanders they can exist only in fire—Every disturbance is to them an opportunity of plunder—I think it the highest proof of the happy situation of our country, that these wretches with all the ingenuity of determined mischief and malice, can find no object to strike at, no abuse to complain of, that would give a man of common sense and candor a moment's thought—Levees, dress, titles, and trifes of this sort, compose the whole amount of our public imperfections and calamities—Happy country!"
COMMUNICATIONS.
While we are waiting to see what effects will be produced on a government which was brought into life and is kept in being by the free voice of the people, by making the citizens hate and fear it, it is natural to ask, what good is done, in common life by similar usage of individuals—Does a person make himself more willing to lend, to aid and assist each other by calling them rogues and rascals, would it secure his wife's virtue and delicacy for all companies to hear her slandered. Does it encourage good men to do worthily by denying them the praise of well doing—or does it add any thing to the force of censure by making it indiscriminate.—Does it not take away shame from public censures when they are so general that bad men may be sure to find themselves in company with good men. What good purpose is it expected to carry by keeping up an unceasing cry against Congress and the administrators of the government as rogues, speculators, monarchymen—will it make rulers mend their ways, or the citizens weary of their submission to the laws?
It is strange that so many men undertake to reform government, who neglect to reform their own private lives—Our heavenly minded men of no religion, dread the sliding of our public officers into venality—Ambitious men talk of equality, and our coxcombs and epicores of the true republican simplicity of manners—country corner votes from a gilded coach—and surrounded by a train of slaves in livery.—Men, who are embarrassed by debts, and who have long relied on their influence to get State laws passed to keep off their creditors, speak of the corrupting tendency of public debts. Corrupting indeed if a public is governed by knaves who refuse to pay them. Gamblers are in a cold sweat left speculators should be encouraged.—The creatures of an ambitious party affect extreme delicacy in regard to the influence of office. Yet they take their cue from them, and almost speak their words. They mind the whistle, & come and go like spaniels for bidding. These are the symptoms of purity, which many seem to make a flourish with, while they insinuate every possible foul suspicion against their opponents. Probably on weighing characters, the private lives and the public principles of the supporters of government, will not discredit the cause they have chosen to support.
If the friends of government take no pains to vindicate it, and very little to secure elections to honest and able federal men. If the enemies of government have the activity of evil spirits, and their slanders are spread into every corner of the union: The lapse of a very few years will show whether the government can stand, when good men will not take the pains to hold it up, or whether the most worthless men in society can lie it into the dust. Is it not to be lamented that too many of our best men are lookers on at the crisis of faction and intrigue, as if they had nothing to do with the event?
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Extract of a letter from the Western Territory, dated Feb. 7, 1793, to a gentleman in this city.
"I have taken the liberty to enclose you the copy of a commission from the Honorable WINTHROP SARGENT, Secretary of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio, now vested with all the powers of the Governor, to the persons therein named, with their resignations. As it is a matter nearly connected with the liberty of the Citizens of the United States, I should be glad you would procure them a place in one of the public papers."
By the Honorable WINTHROP SARGENT, Secretary in and for the Territory of the United States Northwest of the River Ohio, and now vested with all the powers of the Governor and Commander in Chief thereof.
To all persons who shall see these presents, Greeting:
KNOW YE, That we have authorized and empowered William Goforth, William Wells, William M c Millin, John S. Gano, and Aaron Cadwell, Esquires, Judges of the County Court of Common Pleas, for the County of Hamilton, during our pleasure: And do by these presents authorize and empower the said William Goforth, William Wells, William M c Millin, John S. Gano, and Aaron Cadwell, or a majority of them, to hold and keep a Court of Record in the said County, to be styled the County Court of Common Pleas—and therein to hold pleas of affizes, fieri facias, replevins, and hear and determine all manner of pleas, actions, suits and causes of a civil nature, real, personal and mixed, according to the constitution and laws of the territory.
IN testimony whereof we have caused our public Seal to be hereunto affixed. Witness, WINTHROP SARGENT, Esq. Secretary, representing the Governor and Commander in Chief. Dated at Cincinnati, the 5th of February, Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-Three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the Seventeenth. (Signed) WINTHROP SARGENT.
Territory of the United States, Northwest of the River Ohio, } Cincinnati, Feb. 5, 1793. Hamilton County.
To the Honorable WINTHROP SARGENT, Esquire, First Executive Officer of the aforesaid Territory.
SIR, IT is known to your honor that in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, his excellency Arthur St. Clair, was pleased to honor us with a commission for holding a Court of Common Pleas in the county aforesaid—which commission we chose to accept, and have acted under the same from that time to the present moment—during which time we are not sensible of any lack whereby it became forfeited, or that it expired.
We are again honored with your commission for holding the same Court; in which the names of John S. Gano, and Aaron Cadwell, Esqrs. are included.
We should be exceedingly well suited in their appointment, would they accept, could it be done on principles compatible with the general interest of the community.
We, on our part, are not fond of innovations, and are averse to multiplying oaths.—Were we to act under the late commission, in concert with the above named gentlemen, we must submit to a repetition of the oath of allegiance and of office, without any apparent necessity.
But for a moment admitting it was necessary that we should be re-appointed to that office, we could not, stoop to the indignity of holding offices; the tenor of which is during pleasure. We could not so far betray the rights of our fellow citizens, as to set a precedent which might subject the important trust of Judges of the Common Pleas to the whim or caprice of any one individual.
We have not yet forgotten, that this was matter of complaint against the administration of the Colonial government, at the commencement of the late glorious contest with Great Britain.
In the articles of independence, ratified on the memorable 4th of July, 1776, we find the following clause inserted—"He has made Judges dependent on his will alone," for the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries.
That Judges should be independent of the Executive, is expressly guarded by the Constitution of the General Government, and is a right we never can relinquish. In acquiescence with the aforesaid gentlemen, we here send you enclosed that commission which your honor has been pleased to offer to their and our acceptance; we consider ourselves bound by and qualified to act under the former, and shall demean ourselves accordingly.
Sir, with great regard, your most obedient, and very humble servants, WILLIAM GOFORTH, WILLIAM WELLS, WILLIAM M c MILLIN.
John S. Gano and Aaron Cadwell, Esqrs. made similar resignations at the same time.
LOST, on Monday last, a Five Dollar Bank-Note, of the Bank of North-America.—The person who may have found it, is requested to leave it with the Editor hereof, and they shall receive One Dollar and thanks for their trouble.

Vinall's Arithmetic.
THE Second Edition of this work, with improvements, will speedily be put to press. The rapid sale of the first edition, greatly beyond the author's most sanguine expectations, encourages him to print a second edition. He intends to have it printed upon much better paper than the former, and with a new type.
At a meeting of the SCHOOL COMMITTEE, February 5th, 1793. The Committee, appointed to examine "The Preceptor's Assistant, or Student's Guide," being a systematical treatise of Arithmetic, by JOHN VINALL, teacher of the Mathematics & Writing, in Boston, reported, that they have attended that service, and are of opinion, that the work is executed with judgment, and is as well calculated for the use of schools, counting houses, and private families, as any of the same compass that has hitherto been offered to the public.
The following character of the above work, is given in the Review of the Massachusetts Magazine, for Jan. 1793: "This is a very useful work, and is no ill proof of the judgment and industry of the author. The rules are laid down with propriety, and the examples annexed are sufficient for their illustration. One part of the work deserves particular commendation. We mean that which the author styles "Mercantile Arithmetic." It occupies a considerable portion of his book, but not more than its importance will justify. We would recommend to the young Arithmetician to pay a particular attention to this branch. He will find its principles well explained. And should he make himself master of them, he will always have reason to acknowledge his obligation to the judicious and laborious author. We cannot but congratulate the rising generation on account of the many useful productions which have lately appeared; and in which their improvement has been principally consulted. Among those productions we must place this treatise of Arithmetic. We should be wanting in justice to the author, should we not acknowledge that his work is in reality that which its title imports—THE PRECEPTOR'S ASSISTANT, or STUDENT'S GUIDE."
I. C. A. A. A. S. Boston, Feb. 13.
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. One fourth part of the purchase money is to be paid down, the residue at three equal annual payments with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
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; and the same lands may be conveyed by him, and transmitted to and be inherited by his heirs or relations, as if he and they were citizens of this State: Provided, That no foreigner shall, in virtue hereof, be entitled to any further or other privilege of a citizen."
Jan. 19. 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 formed, 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.
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NOTICE is hereby given, That the Commissioners appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of North-Carolina, will attend at the town of Hillsborough, on the 18th, 19th and 20th days of April next, for the purpose of receiving proposals from such persons as may be disposed to undertake the Buildings of the University.
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JANUARY 28, 1793.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of September 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of March 1793, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within the states respectively, under the usual regulations.
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I, A. B. of county of state of do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for six months, as an Invalid of the United States, from the 4th day of September 1792, and ending the 4th day of March 1793.
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THE Author is sensible that the first edition of his American Geography (which makes Part I. of the above work) was in many instances defective, in others erroneous, and in some offensive. It has been his endeavour, as it was his desire, in the present edition, to supply the deficiencies, correct the errors, and ameliorate the offensive parts of the last. To assist him in this business, he has received many valuable communications from the heads of departments in the general government, and from gentlemen of respectability in the several states. The description of foreign countries (which composes Part II. of the above work) has been carefully compiled from the most approved writers on Geography, and useful information introduced from the discoveries of the latest Navigators, Travellers, and respectable authors. Indeed, no pains nor expense have been spared to render this work the most complete, accurate, and useful of any ever offered to the public.
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