National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-11-21 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
[NUMB. 7 of VOL. II.]
WEDNESDAY, November 21, 1792.
[Total No. III.]
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON, Sep 14.
BY a letter from Paris, we have the following singular account: The Prussian general ordered the receiver-general of the department of Moselle, to come before him, and render an account of his receipts. This the receiver did, and the whole being audited, and the sum in his hands paid, the Prussian general gave him an acquittance in the following terms; "Received for, and in the name of the French people, and of Louis XVI. King of the French, such a sum, being the amount of the taxes received from such a time to such a time, according to the decrees of the national assembly, and for this sum I grant a complete acquittance in the name of the French nation and the king." A notarial copy of this receipt he directed to be sent up to the general Bureau at Paris.
This very curious fact seems to prove, that the invading powers have altered their system. Instead of the devastation and carnage threatened in their manifesto, they now practise the most conciliatory methods, and hold out the establishment of the constitution, as accepted by the king in Sep. 1791. If the nation had the most perfect confidence in this offer, so much are they infatuated, and so entirely under the delusion of a republic, for which they neither have knowledge nor morals, they would reject this greatest good that could befall them. !!!
Extract of a letter from France, brought by the Mail of yesterday, Sept. 17.
"Things in the capital remain much as they were last post; the slow approach of the combined armies gives rise to many and various conjectures; their friends attribute the slowness of their advance to prudent well digested caution, while their enemies attribute it to fear of being surrounded, defeated, and cut to pieces; but we have some reason to believe that it will turn out that the wisest councils direct their operations, and that it will appear that measures of consequence are concerted that will occasion an important change in the affairs of France; in fact, the sensible part of the nation, those who neither wish to see despotism re-established, nor the reign of anarchy prevail, but who anxiously desire to see a liberal government established, such as will do honour to human nature, are (seconded by a strong party) busily employed in negotiation with the Court of Great Britain, and that of Prussia, in endeavouring to bring about a proposal from those two courts, to acknowledge the constitution as accepted and sworn to by Louis the XVIth. and upon that ground to reinstate that monarch again upon the throne of France, and to enter into an alliance with the French nation for the formation of a government upon the above principles. It is thought, that should such a proposal be made to the national assembly, they would not refuse it, as it would be grounded upon such fair principles that the nation would not suffer so glorious an opportunity of establishing a rational government, to pass by."
Sep. 20. The Dutch Mail confirms the report of the successful sortie made by the French from Thionville. It says, "the besieged display not merely firmness, but thinking themselves out of all danger of being taken, they insult the besiegers, and approach even so near, as particularly to direct their musketry against the camp of the emigrant French, which is in the centre of the allies. The son of the Count d'Artois was very near being killed by a cannon shot; a person was killed by his side. The artillery has played with great effect. The Austrians have chiefly exerted themselves to lay the town in ashes, instead of attacking it by a regular siege."
The ruling faction in Paris has intimated in writing to the duke of Brunswick, that his attempt to approach the capital shall be the signal for murdering the king and queen of France.
The influence of the emperor and the king of Prussia over the Diet which is shortly to assemble at Ratisbon, cannot be doubted; and when they declare war against France, they must by their constitution furnish an army of near 100,000 men. Of these the king of England, as elector of Hanover, supplies 10,000.
A Russian lieutenant general is, at this moment, at the head of a body of Polish troops, in the grand Duchy of Lithuania; the ambassador of that nation regulates every thing in the capital; the king and his ministers have been obliged to sign all the declarations presented to them; and Poland is now to all intents and purposes, a Russian Province.
A considerable number of French emigrants have arrived at Liverpool in great distress, the liberal inhabitants of that town, have opened a subscription for their relief, which, we hear, is likely to amount to a sum, that will do honour to their humanity.
Letters from Barcelona state, that five sail of French ships of the line were at anchor of Nice, the 24th of last month, for the avowed purpose of bombarding that place, on the first movement of the Sardinian troops to join the confederate army.
Sep. 22. Advices received yesterday from France mention, that it was reported that the duke of Brunswick had encountered the French army under the command of Dumourier in a general action near Chalons, and obtained a decisive victory; near 10,000 of the French being said to be cut to pieces. War was declared by Spain against France on the 2d of this month, and Messrs. Rubi, Alvarez, and Delasey , are appointed to be his Catholic majesty's generals.
Sep. 25. From the late delay of the duke of Brunswick, at Verdun, [130 miles from Paris,] and from some other circumstances, it began to be believed that he had no intention of marching to Paris, whatever might be his opportunities, or his threats. In contradiction to that opinion are these circumstances, that his irruption into France was made exactly on that part of the frontiers, which is nearest to Paris; that he has taken a road, where there are the fewest passes; and that he has sent back to Luxemburg his heavy artillery, and whatever might encumber his march.
Paris, Sep. 10. This country continues to be drenched in blood; and the genius of this once polished people, seems to suffer a gradual deterioration; their cruelty exceeds belief, and they every day give new and shocking proofs of their ingenious barbarity. In my last I had occasion to mention an order of the national assembly, for transferring the state prisoners from Orleans to Saumur: the banditti of Marseilles, whom the sanguinary chiefs of the capital sent to escort them, received and disobeyed the legislative and municipal mandate, marched on to Versailles, where they arrived yesterday, with their devoted victims—they led them in great pomp through the principal streets, until they came exactly opposite to the war-office, where, dreadful to tell! they put every soul of them to death, without even the formality of a mock trial! the prisoners, fifty three in number were all either bishops, dignitaries of the church, or officers in the army.
The Savoyards, it is said, are deserting in great numbers from the king of Sardinia's army. Nine hundred and fifty of them, if the accounts may be believed, went over to the French in six days.
Brest, Sep. 24. Mr. la Touche, commandant of the Languedoc has sent a letter to the marine minister, dated the 24th
of August, at Brest, in which he acknowledges, having received his instructions, and which he has taken every necessary step immediately to put into execution That he expected to be ready to sail by the 27th at furthest, on his expedition, and hoped in the campaign, to give unequivocal proofs of his patriotism. That the nation might rely on his services, and that he would fulfil the oath he had taken, to maintain liberty and equality, and to die at his post.
In consequence of the desire of the duke of Orleans, the electoral assembly of Paris had him re-christened on the 15th of September, the 4th year of liberty, & the 1st of equality. The decree is in substance as follows: "On the request of Louis Philippe Joseph , French Prince, the general council have decreed, That Louis Philippe Joseph , and his posterity, shall in future bear the family name of EQUALITY (in French Egalite ) 2d. That the garden, known at present under the name of the Palais Royal , shall in future be called the Garden of the Revolution ; &c.
Not a little pains has been taken in France to ascertain the duties as well as the rights of general citizenship. Marriage in particular, has taken up no small share of their attention. In the assembly, several of the most celebrated orators have tried to define the word marriage but without success. In fact, if it be not a civil contract, and wholly disconnected with religion, it is a nullity. The assembly, in their day, have laboured considerably to banish from their hymeneal contract the ceremonies of age and fortune, and some other follies, which have hitherto too much discouraged the matrimonial tie in that country. In a political view, and with an eye to natural and free republican government, the French assembly have, possibly, done well in fixing the marriage age for men at 16 years, and for women at thirteen—In acting conformably to the dictates of nature and right reason, the world will by degrees get rid of unnatural customs and governments.
London. To judge of the general temper of France, we may observe, that the late events at Paris have either been every where received with joy or acquiescence, or else with indifference or submission; for a momentary repugnance, manifested in one or two towns and since retracted, serves rather as a confirmation than a contradiction to the rest. Among the better educated ranks of the people, the judgment of many has been changed by a discovery of the intrigues of the court; and others, convinced of the fall not only of aristocracy, but perhaps of royalty, see that ambition hereafter must roll its tide in other channels, and therefore renouncing the vain attempt of being second in a losing cause, they seek to be among the first in a prevailing one. But it is an imperfect description of France, to say that it is, on the whole, merely inclined to the present proceedings; for it is in general enthusiastic in one particular, of most consequence for us to know; an opposition to the foreign enemy. Out of the teeth plucked from that monster, despotism, soldiers in swarms spring up, as it were, from the earth, not armed indeed as with Cadmus , (thanks to the late executive government) but eager to fight without arms, and without cloathing. In villages, where the monarch could not extract a single recruit, the present assembly finds a troop of them, and every little town has its Briareus with an hundred hands, whom no modern Hercules will ultimately be sufficient to conquer.
If such be the current of public opinion in France, what can finally resist its force? The French were at all times military; and most of them are now become doubly so, from nature and from ingrained passions. The first quality in a military man is to make up his mind to die; the second is, to adopt the public cause as his
own, and sacrifice to it his personal comforts; and the third is, to be ambitious to signalize himself; dispositions which now seem common among the French, who have been habituated in every quarter during three years, not only to the expectation, but to the very pomp and circumstance of war." Discipline in this case is soon acquired, and its progress will quicken with defeat. The military system of the French, if we take it in all its parts, is inferior to none in the universe. As to generals, since the protestant wars, the French, owing to the influence of nobility and favouritism, have had none of eminence besides Marshal Villars , and perhaps Broglio (each of whom, it is to be observed, gained their reputation against Germans): But France is now inviting and rewarding merit, tho' springing from the lowest ranks; and military talents are among those, which soonest ripen, being chiefly instinctive, and commencing often with an early youth. The hoary veteran, however, no longer idly reposes under his laurels, but bursts from his consecrated retreat, in order to lead his fellow townsmen to battle. And if men of fashion, according to the king of Prussia, are chiefly brave, in order to secure the esteem of those they live with, the inferior orders in France have now a similar incentive; for no where in France are the people so unfeeling and abject, as not to meet the brave with rapture, and the dastardly with execration; and there is scarcely a soldier of spirit in France who does not fancy that, by gallantry in the field, he shall be noticed first by the national governmental body, and thence by Europe and posterity. In short, the whole of France is eagerly given to praise and to blame; information of what passes is universally circulated; and the same mothers who rejoice at the idea of their sons going to fight for their country, would rather they should die gloriously and usefully, than retreat with disgrace. In the ranks of battle therefore, if courage and self-devotion become inflamed in each by the sight of kindred passions in others, modern Frenchmen will not be inferior to the Frenchmen of former ages. We need ask for no more; for in the wars between French and Germans, each party has been worsted, in proportion as they have sought farthest from their homes; while immolated upon the frontier, France has constantly had the advantage. It is of little ultimate consequence, therefore, whether victory for the French comes in this campaign, or the next; while on the side of their enemies, a prolonged war will only encrease their burthens. The only dread of France (and that is temporary) is from its officers; but whenever this ceases, either from the change of persons, or of sentiments, the French in equal numbers, will prove at least the equals of their enemies; for the German soldier is only a proud and cold machine, but the French is a warm and sensitive one; and acting numbers are clearly on the side of France. Till this great point, however, is settled, and till their troops are accustomed to large movements, the French are liable to great disasters, and to the effects of the impressions arising from them: but such events will soon be lost in the great sum of things, the whole depending upon the inclinations of the nation.
Warsaw, Sep. 1. Prince Joseph Poniatowski , nephew to the king, that had the command of the royal army, has, by the advice of his uncle, quitted this capital in company with several noblemen.
Our situation is nothing near so bad as reported. The king by accepting the confederation of Targowice, has satisfied the Empress of Russia, and we have reason to believe that that princess will let some of the principle articles of the form of government, settled the 3d of May, 1791, remain in force.

France, Sept. 20. The garrisons at Lille are preparing, by reinforcements and by encircling their stores, for a siege.
M. Dumourier has taken possession of a camp, abandoned with much precipitation, by a large body of Prussians: and has published an address to the departments of Ardennes, and the Marne, inviting the inhabitants to cover all the roads and open fields with hewn timber; and has appointed places in the forests of Argonne and Margarin, to which they are to repair upon a signal from him, to prey upon the flanks of the enemy. All the roads are now indeed, nearly covered with trees, so that the superiority of the Prussians in horse is much diminished.
The following letter from the mayor of Paris, as to the situation of this capital, was received by the national assembly on Thursday.
"No movement is perceived. Paris is calm. The two individuals accused of having carried off the chest of the grenadiers have been tried and found innocent. The people applauded their acquittal. The sections watch; good citizens watch; the duty of the patroles is performed with exactness; the labours of the camp advance; all views and all sentiments are directed towards liberty."
The increase of volunteers is prodigious. Two thousand four hundred now leave Paris daily; and a greater number would go, but that the measures taken for their accommodation upon the road do not permit."
From several villages every man able to bear arms is enlisted and preparing to march. The little community of Fontenay, has contributed forty men equipped and provisioned. Two communities defiled before the national assembly on Thursday. Women, armed with pikes, began the procession; the municipal officers then expressed at the bar the civic sentiments of their fellow citizens. One of these communities which had already supplied sixty men, then presented eighty more.
None but fathers of families remained in the village, and if the danger of the country increased, they also would fulfil their oath, to die rather than submit to chains.
The works of the Parisian camp from Montmarre, as far as the road to St. Dennis are much advanced. The lines are traced as far as Villette. Three hundred thousand pounds of powder have been sent from Paris to the army, and an equal quantity remains there and at St. Dennis; seven hundred thousand pounds more are immediately expected, together with four hundred pieces of cannon. A vessel loaded with forty thousand pounds arrived on Thursday, which quantity was taken to the invalids to be formed into cartridges. An arsenal is to be formed in the middle of the Palais Royal, in which a great number of cannon will be preserved for all emergencies.
The body of M. Beaurepaire, the late commandant at Verdun, has been brought from that place by the national guards of the garrison. The national assembly have now determined, that his remains shall be interred in the Pantheon under the following inscription—
'He preferred death to a capitulation with tyrants.'
The family of M. Beaurepaire are to enjoy the pension conferred upon him for his services, and the President of the national assembly has written a letter of consolation to the widow.
The reporter of the committee, by whom these measures were proposed to the national assembly, stated that M. Beaurepaire, after a service of 45 years, had been promoted to his late rank since the revolution. "He was originally (said he) of that class of soldiers, so unworthily treated by aristocratic pride, but in which, since the revolution, we have found only examples of patriotism, courage and talents."
The king and his family continue in the small apartments, adjacent to the great court of the Temple. The king passes the greatest part of the day in the room, where all the family meet, or walks and reads in the garden. Mademoiselle Elizabeth does the same.
Two centinels are constantly at the doors of the apartments; the king, during his walks in the garden, is also always accompanied by two municipal officers.
Another suite of apartments is preparing for his majesty in the court of the Temple, composed of an anti-chamber, a bed-chamber, two cabinets, a hall for the commissioners, and a chamber for the domestics, with a cabinet. All the windows have iron rails. In one of the apartments is the inscription, "Liberty, Equality, Property, Safety." These apartments are upon the second floor; the first and third floors will be occupied by the corps-de-garde . In the ground floor, containing five or six rooms, the Prince Royal will be lodged. The small apartments adjoining the tower, are destined to Maria Antoinette, her daughter, and Madame Elizabeth.
The whole family appear to be in good health.
On account of a much greater number of national volunteers than can be, at present, armed, a decree has been passed, forbidding their battalions to leave the de-
partments for the armies, before arms have been sent to them.
Victor Broglie has been arrested. He demands to serve as a volunteer in any of the armies, when he proposes to clear up all doubts, concerning his patriotism. "Attached (says he) to the constitution, because it emanated from the sovereign will of the people, I respect this will, which now manifests itself by the consent of the whole nation to the decrees of the assembly, and no person can obey it with more fidelity than I."
The administrators of the department of the North have informed the assembly that they are now raising 20,000 national guards, all armed and equipped.
A considerable part of the Irish regiment of Walsh has been arrested at Meaux, by two battalions of gendarmerie nationale, for an endeavour to spread a terror of the Prussian arms, and a confidence in the good disposition of the Duke of Brunswick, through the country.
The Justice of peace for the section, 1792, has informed the national assembly of his having pronounced sentence of divorce between two persons. This was the first application of the law, which says, "that divorce may be had by the mutual consent of the parties, expressed before a justice of the peace."
Fathers and mothers, who cannot account for the absence of their sons from the country, are ordered to equip two national guards for each absent son.
M. d'Orleans has renewed his request to be employed as an admiral.
Gen. Paoli has made a tour of Corsica, for the purpose of preserving order in that island.
The Holy Scriptures are of late, in Paris, not treated with that respect which, at least, decency requires: The following decree of the Section de Prisonerie will set this matter in a clear light:—It is signed by the President of that section:
"A letter having been read from the Rector of St. Laurent, inviting the assembly of that section to assist at the funeral service performed in honor of our brethren who fell on the 10th of August last, the assembly persuaded that it is at length time to speak the language of reason, decreed the following answer:
The martyrs of liberty, our brave brethren, who fell on the 10th of August have no need of being excused, or recommended to a just, good and merciful God; the blood which they have shed for their country effaces all their faults, and gives them a claim to the beneficence of the Deity.
What?—Shall we go and offer up our prayers to the Divinity that he may not condemn our brethren to the punishment of eternal fire! This would be an insult to him; it would be telling him that he is the most ferocious, the most absurd, and the most ridiculous of all beings. God, Sir, is just; our brethren consequently enjoy a perfect happiness, which nothing can destroy: bad citizens alone can doubt it.
Shew us upon your alter-pieces the glorious victims of liberty, crowned with flowers, and occupying the place of St. Crispin and St. Evenin.
Substitute songs of liberty for the absurd hymns ascribed to that ferocious David; that crowned monster; that Nero of the Hebrews, whose least crime was his having assassinated a husband, in order that he might sleep more conveniently with his wife. We shall then unite with you in celebrating together that God, who imprinted on the mind of man instinct, which excites in him the love of liberty."
London, Sep. 2. The respective ambassadors from the king of Hungary, and the king of the two Sicilies to the British court, have presented the minister with a note, in the name of their majesties, representing the imminent danger to the lives of the king and royal family of France, in the present circumstances of affairs in that country, and the apprehensions they entertained of their being murdered—In case of such an event they express the wish of their respective courts that the king of England will grant no asylum to the persons who may be known to have participated in such a step. The substance of Lord Grenville's answer was as follows:—"It is the king's most ardent wish that the event apprehended may not be realized; but should it prove otherwise, his majesty will not fail to take the most effectual measures to prevent the obnoxious persons finding an asylum in the British dominions."
Sweden, Aug. 15. In consequence of the request of the late king Gustavus the III. that none of the persons concerned in plotting his death should be punished with death, except Ankarstrom, the following final sentence has been passed upon the remaining culprits by the Duke-Regent.—"The well merited punishment to which the former Counts Claes, Fredericsson, Horn, and Adolf Ludvig, Ribbing, Lieut. Col. Pontus Liljehorn, and Baron Earl Frederic Ehrensvard, have been condemned by the Swedish court of king's bench, shall be changed into punishment for life, with the loss of their nobility and all other privileges as citizens, letting them immediately be escorted out of the limits of an injured native country, without the least hope of ever being suffered to return to it, forbidding them, at the same time, on pain of the death they have now escaped, to
dare to make any kind of petition for it; we leave to repentance and their awakened consciences the charge of their farther punishment, convinced that such corroding reproaches and guilty lives will be for them a far heavier burthen than death itself. We hasten also to let them immediately be banished, that if it is possible the remembrance of so unheard of an act may by that means be effaced, and which by their detention in castles within the kingdom, would constantly with new affliction revive the memory of a misfortune, which without any addition is of itself sufficiently heart-breaking.—Let these criminals, therefore, immediately and forever withdraw from the confines of Sweden, whose peace and happiness they have destroyed; and to complete the measure of their crimes, let them be informed that it was the king, against whose life they dared conspire, who dying has bestowed to them and returned their own."
"With respect to the others who are accused of this treason; because we, in consequence of his late most sacred majesty's above mentioned last will and commands, are not entitled to mitigate the rigor of their sentence; neither can we, in a case of this nature, permit ourselves to follow the innate bias of our heart for clemency and mercy, but for this reason confirm hereby the final sentence of the supreme court, which has been just read, in consequence of which the counsellor of chancery, Von Engestrom, is deprived of his post and to be confined for three years; Major Hartmanstorff is also to lose his commission and be confined for one year; the royal secretary, Von Engestrom, to be suspended from his post in the college of chancery for one year, and major-general Baron Pechlin, to be imprisoned during pleasure, till he is brought to confess. But the justice of peace, Nordell, according to the sentences, both of the court of king's bench and supreme court, is entirely acquitted."
His royal highness was at the same time graciously pleased to order, that the former counsellor of chancery, Jacob Von Engestrom, should be confined in the castle of Waxholm; the late major Christopher Von Hartmanstorff, in the castle of Malmo; and major-general Pechlin in the castle of Warberg.
National Legislative Assembly of France, Friday morning, Sept. 21, 1792.
M. AUDREIN opened the sitting by a report in the name of the extraordinary commission respecting the writings found in the Thuilleries and in the house of the intendant of the civil list. A great part of them, he said, had already been published, and the rest, which would throw further light on the plots of their enemies, were deposited in the hands of the committee of safety.
M. Francois said, that in his opinion the national assembly ought to terminate its operations by an act of respect towards the national convention. He therefore proposed, that an address should be presented to the new constituent body. "As soon as it shall be organized (said he) our functions will cease, we will then repair to the national edifice in the Thuilleries, to serve as a guard, and we will bow before the sovereignty of the people whom they are going to represent." He then presented the following address, which was unanimously adopted, and M. Francois was ordered to present it.
To the NATIONAL CONVENTION.
"Representatives of the nation, the members who composed the national legislative assembly, informed that the national convention is constituted, have terminated their functions. They have agreed, at the same time, that their last act, as a body, should be to wait upon you in the national edifice of the Thuilleries; to offer to conduct you, yourselves, to the place of your sitting; to congratulate themselves for having deposited in your hands the reins of authority; and to set the first example of bowing before the majesty of the people whom you represent."
"We ought indeed to felicitate ourselves, in a particular manner, for the happiness we enjoy of seeing you assembled, because it was in obedience to our voice that the nation chose you; and because, in yielding to our invitation, all the primary assemblies of France have unanimously sanctioned those extraordinary measures, which we thought ourselves obliged to pursue, to save twenty-four millions of men from the perdy of one."
"The difficult circumstances in which we have been since the memorable epoch of the 10th of August, would have doubtless required those resources, and that plenitude of power, which you alone now possess. We have provisionally done away every thing that the urgent interests of the people required, without encroaching upon the authority, which was not delegated to us. In short, representatives, you have arrived, invested with the unlimited confidence of a great and generous nation; commissioned by it to let its external enemies hear the voice of its independence; authorized to encain at home the monster of anarchy; in a situation to remove all obstacles, and to make every head, without distinction, bend under the protecting and avenging
sword of the law. No pretences are any longer left for confusion, no objects for division. It is now the nation which wishes for liberty and equality, and which has appointed you to establish them upon a foundation which never can be shaken."
"Discharge, representatives, your important duties; realize the promises which we have made in your name; and may the French people soon be indebted to you for three gifts, the first and the most valuable that heaven can bestow upon mankind, Liberty! Laws! Peace!—Liberty! without which the French people can no longer live!—Laws which form the most solid basis of liberty—and Peace which is the only object, and the only end of war.—Liberty! Laws! Peace! the three words were inscribed by the Greeks on the walls of the temple of Delphos. You will imprint them with indelible characters on the whole surface of the territories of France—and each of us, when we return to our respective departments, will every where inspire confidence in your wisdom; respect for the existing laws, in expectation of those which are about to proceed from your tutelary authority; submission to the free and popular government, which you are about to establish; and the most sincere wishes for maintaining among all the parts of this extended empire, that unity, of which your august assembly will ever be the common center and bond of connexion."
After this address was read and approved, a deputation from the national convention having entered the hall, their spokesman said,
"The national convention has sent us to inform you, that they are constituted, and that they are going to repair hither, to commence their sittings."
M. Francois, who was in the chair, informed the deputation, that the national legislative assembly had just decreed, that they should proceed in a body to the Thuilleries, to serve as a guard to the convention. All the members immediately rose up, and thus terminated, after the existence of a year, the national assembly, under which the French nation marched with giant strides towards republicanism.
Abstract of the most material proceedings of the National Convention of France , at their first session, on Friday the 21st of September.
The President of the convention, (M. Pétion) having caused the pro-cess-verbal of the proceedings of the national convention, in constituting themselves, to be read, a debate took place on the two following propositions, from two different members: 1st, "That the president should reside in the national palace; that he should be preceded by the badges of the law; and that when he entered the hall, the people should always honor the national sovereignty, represented in his person, by rising up." The other proposition was, "that the convention, invested with the sovereignty of the people, should begin its proceedings by a grand act of that sovereignty; the annihilating, in their name, all those authorities which subsist in the empire, in order that the power may revert to the people." Those propositions were opposed, on the principle, that new distinctions ought not to be adopted in an assembly that had discarded kings and nobility—"there will always (said a member) exist a power over which you have no right: it is that of the people, who can exercise it whenever they please. Let us reform then those ancient abuses which the constituent assembly gave rise to, and declare that we invite the French people, in the sections or assemblies of the commons, to ratify or reject those decrees which we pass." After various propositions, the convention passed the following decree:
"The national convention declare, that there can be no constitution but that which is accepted by the people. They declare also that persons and property are under the protection of the law; that they will afterwards concert the mode which the French people at large shall pursue to manifest their opinion respecting that constitution which shall be presented to them."
Upon a motion, that the existing authorities shall be maintained, provisionally, in the exercise of their functions, till further orders, it was decreed, that those laws which have not been abrogated, and those powers which have not been suspended, shall be provisionally preserved and supported; and that the taxes actually existing shall be collected as formerly.
The next decree passed was, the Abolition of Royalty, or Kingly Government in France; to be proclaimed through Paris on the 22d, and ordered to be sent throughout the nation by expresses. A deputation was then received from the Commons of Orleans, relative to their suspension of the municipal officers, for encouraging the transportation of corn out of that district, to the great danger of starving the inhabitants. This step had formed the place into two parties, who were upon the point of proceeding to hostilities; the assistance of the convention was therefore requested; and that they would confirm the proceedings of the commons of Orleans. The convention decreed, that three commissioners from their own body should proceed to Orleans to procure information on this subject, to be laid before

them; to act discretionally for the restoration of tranquility, and to call in the aid of the military, if necessary. The question was then agitated of renewing the administrative bodies, some of which were accused of corresponding with the enemy. The following motions were then made. 1. That all citizens of the republic of France, indiscriminately, are eligible to vacant places. 2. All the members of administrative and judiciary bodies, now in the exercise of their functions shall be changed. After a variety of debate, the convention decreed, That all judges may be chosen, without distinction, from among the citizens.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
THE late serpentine wreathing and twisting of certain men, to extricate themselves from the present infamy, and the certain execrations of posterity which await their measures in government, is as shameful as the conduct which gave birth to them was corrupt and abominable. Is there a fool in this country so stupid as not to know, that the debates in the federal legislature, and the free discussions in the public papers, have been directed against measures and not against men? was it a matter not worthy of notice, or discussion that a debt of a hundred million of dollars should be scraped together out of the old continental money and certificates, a great part of which had actually been called in and sunk by the old Congress and the several states; and the country now laid under intolerable burdens of duties and excises, to pay a quarterly interest on it—that continually increasing—and withal so curiously cooked up, that the whole should go into the hands not of those who had deserved it of the country, but merely to recruit Janisaries devoted to support per fas et nefas , the champion of these measures, while the officers and soldiers, and other most meritorious public creditors, are left entirely unprovided for?
Time, that steady and cool interpreter, has already begun to do his work, and much sooner than was expected discloses these transactions in such a light, that the authors of them turn away from the light. The constant sing-song of their only apologist, that champion of an impartial and independent press, for several months, was, "Oh these antifederalists are trying to overturn the government; these measures and federal government are the same thing, and whoever opposes them is an antifederalist—Oh these antifederalists!"—But when, on looking over the whole country, it appeared that almost every man who had not been corruptly purchased, and partook of the public plunder, was SUCH AN ANTIFEDERALIST, it became necessary to drop that story; and the mighty apology now is, "one of the heads of departments is envious against the head of another department. Oh, what a vile thing is envy! If that individual was not envious at the other individual, all Congress would think, and all the country would think, that the imposts and excises were very light, would be glad to see that they were devoted forever to the purchase of a monied aristocracy of foreigners, fugitives, and speculators; that nothing was left to protect the butchered frontiers, and that the officers, soldiers, and others who had devoted their property and their lives, as the purchase of our independence, should be forgotten, and their descendants perish in indigence!"
Nov. 19.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, Nov. 16.
This day, the business of the house being of a private nature, the doors were not opened.—On Saturday, the house did not meet.
MONDAY, Nov. 19.
A bill was sent from the Senate, "for regulating foreign coins and other purposes," which had passed their house—read twice, and made the order of the day for Monday next.
Several papers were received from the Secretary of State, containing statements of the trustees of the fund for reducing the public debt, in pursuance of an act of Congress.
Several petitions were read, praying for renewal of certificates, compensations for services, &c. which were read and referred.
A memorial was laid before the house, from the people called Quakers, respecting the Indian war, and suggesting the importance of an investigation of the grievances of the Indians, and the necessity of making peace with them on just and reasonable terms—Laid on the table.
Mr. Williamson moved for the appointment of a committee to take into consideration the best means of increasing the number of American seamen, and to report a bill for the relief of sick and infirm seamen—which motions were agreed to, and a committee according ly appointed.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury on marine hospitals, and of a select
committee on the same subject, were also referred to the above committee.
A motion was made by Mr. Boudinot, that a committee be appointed to prepare and report a bill, providing for a regular system of bankruptcy throughout the United States.
The house then, in committee of the whole, according to the order of the day, (Mr. Lawrence in the chair) proceeded to the consideration of the President's speech, paragraph by paragraph—The following resolutions were moved—That it is the opinion of this committee, that provision should be made for the widows and orphans of those persons who may have been killed while under the protection of flags of truce to the Indian tribes—which was agreed to.
On the paragraph of the speech relative to the intercourse with foreign nations, Mr. W. Smith moved a resolution to this purport—That provision ought to be made for that object. This resolution was agreed to.
The paragraph relative to the foreign loans being read, Mr. Fitzsimons proposed a resolution to the following purport:—Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that measures ought to be taken for the redemption of so much of the public debt, as by law the government has a right to redeem; and that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report a plan for that purpose.
The house adjourned before any decision was made on this resolution.
PHILADELPHIA.
NOVEMBER 21.
We learn by a late arrival from Cape-Francois, that the colonial assemblies there are abolished, and all public business done by twelve commissioners, six of whom are white, and six mulattoes; who are to continue to transact business till a new assembly is chosen.—Times continue troublesome—the negroes burn all in their power—produce very scarce, except coffee.
"The advocates for despotism are employed, even in America, in disseminating every species of detraction and falsehood, against the brave and virtuous people of France, now struggling for freedom and independence.
In all we have read respecting the national assembly and their proceedings, we have no more reason to entertain an unfavorable sentiment of them, than they had, in the course of the late American war, to believe that we were (as often represented) acting the part of savages or of lawless abandoned rebels.
General Burgoyne's proclamation, dated camp near Ticonderoga, July 2, 1777, will serve to show how men even of fine abilities, and in exalted stations, will misrepresent. It ought also to show to Americans the impropriety of too hastily judging, with regard to the people of France, when they themselves have been so recently and with so little truth, held up to the world as incendiaries, and murderers." [Fed Gaz.]
Died on the 4th of October last, at his seat, Gunton-Hall, in Fairfax county, Virginia, Col. GEORGE MASON, in the 67th year of his age.—The following is an extract from his will, lately admitted to record: "I recommend it to my sons, from my own experience in life, to prefer the happiness and independence of a private station, to the troubles and vexation of public business; but if either their own inclinations, or the necessity of the times should engage them in public affairs, I charge them, on a father's blessing, never to let the motives of private interest or ambition induce them to betray, nor the terrors of poverty and disgrace, or the fear of danger or death, deter them from asserting the liberty of their country, and endeavoring to transmit to their posterity those sacred rights to which themselves were born."
One of the arguments advanced in favor of keeping shut the doors of the Senate chamber of the United States, by the advocates of the measure is, that were they opened the members of that body would be too much under the temptation of courting popularity by directing their speeches more to the gallery than to the house. But surely, observes a correspondent, if that illustrious body is so much influenced by popular opinion as to disguise their real sentiments, to please a few adventitious visitors, they are unfit to decide upon any question important to the welfare of the union. If they have not courage enough to submit their deliberations to the immediate eye of the inhabitants of an enlightened city, and to have their opinions published for the information of their countrymen, they must be inadequate to the task of concurrent legislation. What security can the citizens of America have for the faithful discharge of the trust committed to the senators, when they are obliged to lock themselves up in order to declare those sentiments which they are afraid to avow in the face of their constituents? The people certainly are competent judges of whatever concerns their interest, and if a measure is carried prejudicial to the union, though the people may disap-
prove of it, yet the individual responsibility of the senators is destroyed while their deliberations are conducted in secrecy. We may perhaps from the general political opinions of a member guess what measures he has advocated, but we can have no certain information. [Gen. Adv.]
At a meeting of the Officers of the Militia from the city and liberties of Philadelphia, at the house of Michael Kitts, on the 15th of November inst. agreeable to notice, in order to receive the report of their Committee, appointed on the 20th of August last,
Col. William Williams in the chair. Col. Shee from the committee presented the following Report:
THE Committee appointed on the 20th day of August, by the militia officers of the city and districts of Philadelphia, to designate the characters to whom respect ought publicly to be shown, with the time and manner most eligible to manifest that attention—to determine the order of funeral processions; and to report on such other subjects, as had immediate relation to them in their military capacity; with deference submit the following resolutions:
1st. That the characters to whom it is incumbent to manifest such attention, are, the President of the United States, and the Governor of the state.
2d. That the time of presenting our respects, shall be on the anniversary of those days, on which happened events, auspicious to our rising empire.
3d. That as long as this city shall continue to be the seat of the general government; we will annually wait on the President, on the 4th day of July; in commemoration of an era, at once propitious to our country, and glorious to him who so eminently contributed to its establishment. For this purpose we will assemble at the state-house, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, with side arms, and in the uniform of our respective corps. The governor on such occasions to be requested to precede us.
4th. That at the same place and hour, and in like manner equipped, we also will annually assemble on the second day of September, being the anniversary of the adoption of the constitution of Pennsylvania, and felicitate the governor on an event, which, whilst diffusing happiness through the state, gratifies him in the means of becoming more extensively useful to its citizens.
5th. That the order of procession in either instance shall be regimentally conformable to the rank of battalions and corps.
6th. That upon the death of any commissioned officer of the militia aforesaid, the commandant of the corps to which he belonged, shall, if agreeable to the connections of the deceased, cause written notice to be given of the same, to the several commanders of corps; mentioning the place from whence, as well as the hour at which the funeral will depart. He likewise will cause to be published in the gazettes, an invitation to the officers, containing the foregoing information, and requesting their attendance. The officers of the regiment or corps, to which the deceased did belong, shall, if sufficiently numerous, be the bearers of the corpse; but field officers are to be borne by those of the like description. In all processions of this nature, the officers of the youngest regiment; and of that, those of the lowest grade are to take precedence, and succeed immediately to the mourners.
7th. That, with a view to add to the respectable appearance of the militia, we will upon our reception of a commission therein, provide ourselves with the uniform of the corps, to which we may belong, and will appear at all times in the same, when on duty, or when attending processions.
Which being considered by paragraphs, was unanimously adopted.
Ordered, That the foregoing proceedings be published.
Wm. WILLIAMS, Chairman. JOHN SMITH, Sec'y.
The following judicious reflections on the Indian war, are extracted from the Federal Gazette of Monday:
"Can the people of these states, who have so lately struggled against tyranny and conquest, wish to press both into the heart of a country free from such horrors, and that with the poor pretext to establish new boundaries to the westward, when the river Ohio by its extent and situation is the best we can wish? Are we in such extreme want of many millions of acres of earth that we are obliged by necessity to aim at a forced acquirement of them? If we mean to become a warlike people, and with the sword and the torch, to reason the rest of mankind out of their liberties and lands, let us put a better shoulder to the wheel—and shew all the martial energy of which we are capable, and let us avoid the mortification of so repeatedly hearing of our western defeats! A trifling plea of necessity for the purpose of giving elbow room to about three millions of people, who inhabit a country capable of affording a comfortable space to more than one hundred millions, can have no foundation in common sense; so far from
it, that one may presume, a diminution of territory would render our frontiers more defensible, and of course our situation more safe. In this age of philosophy and perfection of human understanding, nations, like individuals, must be zealous of acquiring possessions, to which honor and justice would alone entitle them. When Pennsylvania wanted more territory, she has always bought and paid for it by consent of parties.
Public agreements, we find, have been made between the western savages and their European neighbours at different periods of time; if we have acquired our sovereignty of the seat of war, by any of those treaties, let them be known to the world, that the public may be satisfied, and pay with cheerfulness a double taxation, the half of which is now paid with reluctance and distrust. It is said that by the peace in the year 1763, Great-Britain gave to the United States an immense tract of Indian country which had been given by the French to the English by the treaty of 1763; but who has informed us from whence the French derived their right of possession and sale?
Who were the Indian Chiefs that ceded that territory? and was the cession well understood and duly authorised by their several nations? because in every bargain the right of possession and sale as well as the capacity of the buyer ought to be considered; an acquaintance with such original Indian grants would give us a just idea of our real boundaries, and should put directly an end to our contention; until the acquisition of such knowledge, we must presume the French and English had only a permission for the fur trade, and what adds one conviction to that suspicion, is, that the Indian nations have always been in possession of that country north west of the Ohio, and that part, by tradition, has been constantly called the Indian country. If this war is carried on without pure motives of justice, the public aversion will increase daily, and the people will be induced to suspect it is only a pretext of our government to establish oppression and slavery, as it has been practiced in all times and in all countries where armies and taxes engendered despotism, a monster which it is hoped this country is yet too young, and too innocent to bring forth."
From the Boston Centinel.
At the date of our latest European accounts, M. la Fayette was still at Namur, a prisoner to the Duke of Brunswick, who refuses to parole him. His lady is in England.
The combined armies under the Duke of Brunswick, amount in all to 130,000 men. Verdun at which place the Duke was, the 10th September, capitulated the 2d September. Its garrison was 3500 men. Verdun is between Paris and Thionville.
Mr. Thomas Paine and Dr. Priestly [not his son] are chosen members of the French national convention, for trying Louis XVI.
On Saturday last, the Bust of Liberty was removed from the Hall of Congress, and placed without the door in a recess hitherto appropriated to the reception of certain Queen's-ware vases, for the private accommodation of the honorable members. On this occasion we have received from correspondents the two following epigrams:—
OUR Congress, in less prosperous days rever'd Fair LIBERTY, who shields Columbia's shores; But now, that high their tow'ring crests they've rear'd, In scorn they kick the Goddess out of doors.
WHAT?—not content with pulling down, Fair LIBERTY from her exalted station, Our Congress such contempt have shewn For HER, the guardian Goddess of the nation, They've thrust her, where, with foul dis- honor, They mean t' insult—and p--- upon her!
PRICE OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Name, Price. Rows: Six per cents. 2 1/2, Three per cents. 12 3/4, Deferred, 13 3/4, N. Bank stock 42, N. American Bank, 34.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
Philadelphia, Nov. 20th, 1792.
THE stockholders of the bank of the United States are hereby informed, that according to the statute of incorporation, a general election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the bank of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the seventh day of January next, at ten o'clock, in the forenoon.
And pursuant to the eleventh section of the bye-laws the stockholders of the said bank are hereby notified to assemble in general meeting, at the same place, on Thursday the eighth day of January next, at five o'clock in the evening.
By order of the President and Directors. JOHN KEAN, Cashier. t. 1. 5.
For sale, at the printing office, a few copies of the first volume of the National Gazette.

ADDRESS OF M. LA FAYETTE, To the ARMY, Which he lately commanded.
"AT a time, when after having concurred in two great revolutions, I enjoyed in retirement the success of my constant efforts for the cause of the people, the dangers of the country snatched me from a private life: I came in the midst of the applauses of the nation, to command the army which the king had entrusted to me; and the National Assembly deigned, by the organ of its President, to say to me, 'We oppose to the enemies coalesced against us, the Constitution and La Fayette.' Since this period you have had the means of judging of me. Your confidence shewed me that you approved my conduct; your friendship answered to the tender attachment which I had vowed to you. Happy to defend in the midst of soldiers dear to my heart, the principles to which my whole life has been consecrated, and the constitution which the national sovereignty gave us, I found in this resistance of a free people to so many efforts re-united against them, every thing that could satisfy my opinions and animate my zeal.
"You will remember, I fear, with uneasiness, that a turbulent faction, whose movements appeared to me to correspond with those of our exterior enemies, endeavoured to deprive us of that which makes the force of a free people, respect for the laws and fidelity to the constitution, which in this moment seemed to me to be our only point for rallying. My conduct was known to, and my opinions were shared by you, my frankness animated more and more against me all the enemies of the constitution; but whatever were their efforts and their machinations, the National Assembly, by a majority of two thirds, repulsed their absurd accusations heaped up against me. You know the violences offered the next day to the national assembly; those exercised on the 10th of August against the king: the state of Paris at the moment when the suspension of the king was decreed; the murders, the proscriptions which took place, not only during the battle of the Thuilleries, but even during the following days. I refer in this respect to the decrees of the department of Ardennes and of the municipality of Sedan, and to the few accounts which were suffered to pass, while all the papers, devoted to the Jacobin party, were circulated with profusion. It was evident, that the measures taken on the 10th of August were contrary to the Constitution act, and that they were forced from the National Assembly. This conviction guided my conduct.
The administrative bodies and the municipalities required you to renew the civic oath; the constitution has determined this oath, and ordered you to obey the requisitions of the constituted authorities. It was with regret that I saw a part of the army so far from the fulfilment of this duty, that I would have spared them the evil of refusing. The pains taken to calumniate me in your opinion have succeeded so far as to alienate a part of your confidence. On the other side, the commissioners of the National Assembly, who had accepted, on the 10th of August, the execution of the decrees which violence had snatched from them, deprived me of part of my command from Dunkirk to Maubeuge; and they proposed equally to destitute me of that which united me to you, and to renew against me those accusations, which neither the assembly, the juries or the judges, were any longer free to decide upon, in the state to which violence had reduced them.
"In these circumstances, and when the present faction directs itself principally against the authors of the revolution, against the true friends of the constitution, I ceased to be destined to fight at your head, and I could no longer hope for an useful death. What remained for me to do? To remove from you a general whom you would be forbidden to obey, and to preserve to liberty a defender, whose inflexibility has merited for him in this moment, the honor of being proscribed. I separate myself, therefore, from you; I separate myself with a sentiment of grief, which it is, at least, sweet to pour into the bosoms of those my companions in arms, who have preserved for me their affection. I took, before setting out, all the measures which could answer to me for your safety; and I go far from my country, where a party
reigns which proscribes me, far from the enemies coalesced against us, and whom I hoped to combat at your head, to taste in my retreat, the consolation of a pure conscience, and to form ardent wishes for the triumph of French liberty over all the factions who seek to enslave it.
(Signed) LA FAYETTE."
This address was certified to the Editor of the Leyden Gazette by six officers of M. de la Fayette's late etat major, who left France with him, but who have been released from the prisons at Luxembourg. He is still in that fortress with M. M. la Tour Maubourg, Alexander Lameth and Bureau Puzy, who appear to be distinguished by this rigour on account of their having been members of the constituent national assembly of France. In their journey from Nivelles to Luxembourg, an Austrian officer sat in the carriage with each person, and 30 hussars escorted the party with pistols, & swords drawn.
The other prisoners remain for further orders, either at Nivelles or Luxembourg.
PARIS, Sept. 14.
THE following is the account of the late attack of Thionville on the 5th and 6th of September, and of the resistance of the garrison, stated in a letter which M. Merlin read in the National Assembly on Friday last, and the authenticity of which he warranted.
"The enemy had erected their batteries near the chapel of Sainte Anne, between the Luxembourg gate and that of Metz, in a small plain, which commanded the fort above La Hauteuge, on the right bank of the Moselle. The troops stationed to defend the fort, perceiving that the enemy were endeavoring to throw up works, and to form a trench, with a view of establishing their batteries in the spot above mentioned, agreed to suffer them to proceed, until a favorable opportunity for interrupting might occur. The besieged being informed that the enemy meant to give the signal of attack by firing a gun, waited patiently till midnight, each of the cannoners lying down by the side of their guns. As soon as the besiegers gave the signal; their batteries began to play, but their fire continued only a quarter of an hour, during which time three shells fell in the town, one on the parish church, another on the house of M. Henrion, in the grand street, which did no damage; and the other in the third story in the house of M. Joffe, in Hospital-street, which destroyed the furniture, and set fire to the bed.
"At the end of a quarter of an hour the batteries of the town and fort, lighted by fire pots, played for three hours. The first discharge, which was with langridge, killed many of the enemy, who had advanced in order to attempt an escalade, and this fire obliged the assailants to abandon the place. The garrison then being at liberty to sally forth, collected the spoils left by the enemy, among which they found the planks destined to assist them in scaling the walls. Having carried all these things into the fort, a second sally was made to destroy the works of the enemy. It is asserted that three princes were killed in this action, among whom was the prince of Waldeck, who at least lost an arm; and that the enemy carried off three waggon loads of dead bodies. When the garrison made their first sortie, they found near the batteries of La Hauteuge, limbs and arms of every kind, together with cloaks, watches, &c. The enemy, satisfied with this first check have attempted nothing since. The deserters from the camp at Richemont say, that they lost in this affair 450 men, and that they would have given four thousand to preserve the Prince of Waldeck. The environs of the town are at present inundated by the river Seille, the current of which has been stopped. Fresh orders have been given to the citizens, to cut down all the trees within 250 toises of the glacis. General Kellermann's army, composed now of 35,000 men, 12,000 of whom are cavalry, quitted last Sunday Void sur la Menre, in order to advance towards Bar. Others say that a part of this army have joined that of Dumourier, and that two columns have blocked up the king of Prussia in Verdun.
"The following facts respecting Longwy are given on the report of a person who arrived in this town, by permission of the commandant of that place. The enemy have left there only 1800 men, together with the cannon which they employed in the siege. The mortars and howit-
zers have been conveyed to the army before Thionville. The municipality continue their operations, but the district no longer exists. Great mortality prevails among the horses, because they have been fed with unripe wheat. The camp of Richemont appeared this morning as if about to move towards Briey. It is, however, pretended, that the cavalry only have departed, and that the infantry have descended into the plain of Thionville, where it seems they intend to carry on a regular siege.
"If such is their plan, and if they once open trenches they will certainly be detained there three months."
A courier extraordinary from the Lower Pyrenees, has brought an account of a near intended invasion on the part of Spain. That the Court of Madrid on hearing of the king's suspension, had put its forces on the war establishment, and that the French Ambassador had been ordered to withdraw.
In Portugal, the royal suspension at Paris was equally resented, by their fanatical court and clergy; but no warlike preparations on that account.
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Table with 5 columns: Day, D. M., Bar, Ther., Wind., Weath. Rows for Tuesday through Monday, Nov 3-12, 1792.
Prices Current at Philadelphia.
ASHES, Bacon, Bees wax, Brandy, Butter, Coffee, Cotton, Chees, Chocolate, Cordage, Duck, English, Russia, Dutch, Sail cloth, Flax, Flour, Common, Meal, Rye, Ship stuff, Gin, Ginseng, Grain, Buck-wheat, Indian corn, Rye, Herring, Hoops, Hams, Hemp, Hides, Indigo, Iron, Castings, Nail-rods, Pig, Sheet, Leather, Logwood, Lard, Lead, In pigs, Red, White, Mackerel, Madder, Myrtle wax, Molasses, Nails, Nutmegs, Oil, Linseed, Olive, Sweet best in baskets, Spermaceti, Train, Whale, Pepper, Pimento, Porter, American, Pitch, Pork.
Lower County, do. 10 dols. Carolina, do. 9 dols. Raisins, Muscatella, per box 2d. 63 c. Jar do. per jar 2d. 50c. Sun do. per keg 8d. Rice, per 112 lb. 3 dols. Roin, per barrel, 2 dols. 78 c. Rum, Antigua, per gallon, 1 dol. Barbadoes, do. do. 80 c. New-England, &c. 65 to 67 c. Jamaica, 1 dol. 7c. Windward Island, 86c. Salmon, per bbl. 6d. 50c. to 7d. Scantling, heart, per M. 23d. 33c. Saps, 8d. to 8d. 67c. Shingles, 18 inch, per M. 3d. 33c. to 3d. 67c. 2 feet, 5d. 33c. to 6 3 feet, dressed, 13d. to 15d. Salt, (Allum) per bushel, 50c. Cadiz, 47 c. Lisbon, 47 c. Liverpool, 47 c. Skins, Deer, in hair, per lb. 20 to 30 c. Red, ditto, 26 to 33 c. Snake-Root, per lb. 20 c. to 42 Sugar, Havanna, white, per lb. 17 to 18 c. Brown, per lb. 11 to 12c. Muscovado, per cwt. 13 d. to 15 d. Lump, per lb. 24 c. Loaf, single refined, 25 c. Loaf, double ditto, 36 c. Tallow, refined, per lb. 9 c. Tin, per box 13d. 33c. to 67c. Tar, New-Jersey, 24 gal. to the bbl. 1 dol. 67 c. Carolina, 32 gal. 1 dol. 33 c. to 1 dol. 67 c. Turpentine, per barrel, 1 dol. 67 c. to 2 dols. Tea, Hyson, per lb. 93 c. to 1 dol. 28 c. Hyson skin, 53 c. to 60 c. Souhong, 50 c. to 93 c. Congo, 43 c. to 50 c. Bohea, 33 c. to 36 c. Tobacco, James River, best, per cwt. 3 dols. 60 c. to 3 dols. 73 c. Inferior, 3 dols. 33 c. Old, 4 dols. 67 c. Rappahannock, 3 dols. 33 c. Coloured Maryland, 5 dls. 33 c. to 8 dols. Dark, 2 dols. 40 c. Long leaf, 2 dols. 40 c. Eastern Shore, 2 dols. to 2 dols. 23 c. Carolina, old, 3 dols. 33 c. Carolina, new, 2 dols. 7 c. to 3 dols. Wine, Madeira, per pipe, 176 dls. to 226 dls. 67c. Lisbon, 120 to 126 c. Teneriffe, per gal. 63 c. Fayal, 52 c. Port, per pipe, 113 dols. 33 c. Sherry, per gal. 90 c. to 1 dol. 20c.
KID, and Co. PERFUMERS, &c.
Have just imported in the PIGOU, and other late arrivals from Europe, and now open for Sale, at their store, No. 222, in Market above Sixth-street,
A general assortment of the following GOOD S, viz.
LADIES' and Gentlemen's japanned dressing cases complete, of all sorts. Gentlemen's shaving cases, powder bags, boxes and powder puffs of all sorts. Tortoiseshell, ivory, and horn combs, of all kinds. Tooth brushes, dragon roots and tooth powder. All kinds of the best cloths brushes. Ladies' tortoiseshell sliders for the hair. Best Windsor soap, all kinds of wash balls. Powder masks and court-plaister. Silk purses and gloves tops. All kinds of razors, warranted. Pocket, pen, and sporting knives. Scissors of all kinds. Pinching, curling and spring irons. A general assortment of pocket-books, ladies thread-cases and ewes. Best English, Cheshire, and Gloucester cheeses. Wax, wax candles, and sealing-wax. Message cards of all kinds. All kinds of hair powder. English, French, and other pomatums. Tamboured, Cassimier and muslin waistcoat patterns.
An elegant assortment of Ready made Millinery,
Consisting of full dress, Caps, Hats, and Bonnets.
Pine chip hats. Black and coloured beaver hats, best quality. An assortment of the most fashionable ribbons. And beads for trimmings and other ornaments.
Have likewise received a fresh supply of MILK of ROSES.
They beg leave to inform the ladies, that they continue to make all kinds of ornamental false hair upon an entire new method, and of so light and easy a construction, that they look better than when a lady is dressed by the most expert hair dresser.
An assortment of elegant cut Steel Watch Chains, Seals, Watch Keys, &c. with a variety of other goods, too tedious to enumerate. November 10.
Manufactured and for Sale,
At No. 11, North Sixth Street, Fashionable Round Top and Flat BUTTONS,
Warranted superior to any imported of equal price.
Country Store-keepers supplied either in small or large quantities, By
S. POST & Co. N.B. Conkshel Buttons, Buckles, &c. Oct. 17.
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