Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-09-05 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 28, of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1792.
[Whole No. 350.]
PRICE CURRENT.
PER QUANTITY.—DOLLARS 100 Cents each. PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 5.
   QUANTITY. Dlls. Cts.    ANCHORS pr. lb. 7 8  Allum, English, pr. cwt. 4 67  Ditto, Roch pr. lb. 11  Alhes, pot, per ton, 90 100  — Pearl, 137 140  Arrack pr. gall. 1 33  Brandy, common, 1  — Coniac 1 20  Braziletto, pr. ton. 32 34  Bricks, pr. M. 5 7  Bread, ship, pr. cwt. 1 67  — Ditto, pilot 3 67  — Ditto, small water, per keg 36 40  Beer, American, in bottles, 1 40  — pr. doz. bottles included, 4 67  — Ditto pr. barrel, 16  Boards Cedar pr. M feet, 11  — New England 8  — Oak 9  — Merchable pine 16 17  — Sap, do. 8  — Mahogany, per foot 10  The above are the shallot prices, for the yard price, add 1 dollar 33 cents per 1000.  Brimstone in rolls, pr. cwt. 3 33  Beef, Boston, per barrel 8  — Country ditto 6 7  — Fresh, per cwt. 3 33  Butter pr. lb. 16  — in kegs 9  Candles, Sperm. pr. lb. 48  — Wax 53 56  — Myrtle Wax 13  — Mould, tallow 11  — Dipped 10  Cheese, English, pr. lb. 19  — Country 8 10  Chocolate 17 18  Cinnamon 2 40  Cloves 2 67  Cocoa pr. cwt. 1 20  Coffee pr. lb. 18 19  Coal pr. bushel 20 22  Copperas pr. cwt. 1 67  Cordage, American, per cwt. 7 67  Cotton pr. lb. 26 40  Currants 13  Duck, Russia, pr. piece 11 33  — Ravens 8 93  Dutch sail duck, 18 20  Feathers pr. lb. 40 44  Flax ditto 11 12  Flaxseed pr. bush. 85 90  Flour, Superfine pr. barrel 4 93  — Common, 4 80  — Bur middlings, best 3 73  — Meal, Indian 2 52  — ditto Rye, 2 40  — Ship-stuff pr. cwt. 80 1  Fustic pr. ton, 20 40  Gin, Holland, pr. case, 4 67  — Do. pr. gall. 80  Glue, pr. cwt. 20 21  Ginger, white race, per cwt. 7 7  — Ditto, common 7  Ditto, ground pr. lb. 8  Ginseng, 20 24  Gunpowder, cannon, pr. q. cask, 3 73  — Ditto, fine glazed 4 4  Grain, Wheat pr. bush 80 89  — Rye 47  — Oats 18  — Indian corn 44  — Barley 90  — Best shelled pr. lb. 3  — Buckwheat, per bush. 40  Hemp, imported, pr. ton, 120 146  American, pr. lb. 4 5  Herrings, pr. bbl. 3  Hides, raw pr. lb. 9 11  Hops 27  Hoghead hoops, pr. M. 15  Indigo, French per lb. 1 20  — Carolina 60 1  Irons, fad pr. ton, 133 33  Iron, Castings pr. cwt. 3 47  — Bar pr. ton, 82 67  — Pig 24 26  — Sheet 173  — Nail rods 96  Junk, pr. cwt. 4 5  Lard, hogs pr. lb. 9 10  Lead, in pigs pr. cwt. 5 33  — in bars 7  — white 10 10  — red 6 40  Leather, foal, pr. lb. 17  Lignum vitae pr. ton, 5 60  Log wood 24  Mace pr. lb. 7 33  Mackarel, best pr. bbl. 9 6  — second quality 6 67  Madder, best pr. lb. 16 20  Marble, wrought, pr. foot, 1 33  Mast spars ditto 33  Molasses pr. gall. 44  Mustard per. lb. 50  — flour, in bottles, pr. doz. 1 20  Nails, 8d. 10d. 12d. and 20d. pr. lb. 10 10  Nutmegs pr. lb. 7 8  Oil, Linseed, pr. gall. 65 67  — Olive 87  
   QUANTITY. Dlls. Cts.    Oil, Ditto pr. case, 2 50  — Sweet, best, in flasks, pr. box 10 50  — Ditto baskets, 12 bottles 5  — Spermaceti pr. gall. 48  — Train 24 27  — Whale 24 26  Porter pr. cask, 5 33  — London, pr. doz. 1 60  — American ditto bot. incl. 1 4  Pitch, pr. bbl. 1 73  Pork, Burlington, per barrel, 11 33  — Lower county 10  — Carolina 9  Peas, Albany pr. bushel 73  Pepper, pr. lb. 37  Pimento 16  Raisins, best, pr. keg 9  Ditto pr. jar 2 50  Ditto pr. box 3  Rice pr. cwt. 2 50  Rosin pr. barrel 2 33  Rum, Jamaica, pr. gallon 1 18  — Antigua 1  — Windward 83  — Barbadoes 83  — Country, N. E. 67  Salt petre, pr. cwt. 14 33  Sassafras pr. ton 6 8  Shot ditto 140  Steel, German pr. lb. 9  — English, blistered, pr. cwt. 10  — American pr. ton 113 33  — Crowley's pr. faggot 10 67  Snake root pr. lb. 20 42  Soap, Brown per lb. 6  — White 8  — Castile 11  Starch 7  Snuff pr. doz. bot. 4 60  Spermaceti, refined, pr. lb. 48  Sailcloth, English, No. 1, pr. yard, 28  — Boston, No. 1. ditto 30  — No. II. ditto 29  Sugar Lump, pr. lb. 24  — Loaf, single refined 26  — Ditto, double do. 36  — Havannah, white 17  — Ditto, brown, 12  — Muscovado, pr. cwt 13 15  Spirits Turpentine pr. gallon 33  Salt, Allum pr. bushel 24  — Liverpool 29  — Cadiz 23  — Lisbon 25  Ship build. W. O. frames p. ton, 12 13  Ditto Live Oak, 15 33  Ditto red cedar, per foot 33 40  Shingles, 18 inch. per M. 2 33  Ditto 2 feet, 5 33  Ditto 3 feet, dressed, 12 15  Staves, Pipe pr. 1000 29  — White Oak hoghead, 19  — Red Oak do. 19  — Leogan 21  — Barrel 10  — Heading 26  Skins, Otter, best pr. piece 4  — Minks 20 40  — Fox, grey 40 80  — Ditto red 1 20  — Martins 24 1  — Fishers 33 67  — Bears 3  — Racoons 27 60  — Musk-rats 11 20  — Beaver, pr. lb. 67 1  — Deer, in hair 20 30  Tar, N. Jersey, 24 gal. p. bbl. 1 20  — Carolina, 32 gall. 1 33  Turpentine pr. bbl. 1 67  Tobacco, J. River, best 100 lb. 3 60  — inferior 2 67  — old 3 4  — Rappahannock 2 50  — Coloured Maryland, 5 33  — Dark, 2  — Long-leaf 2  — Eastern-shore 2 23  — Carolina, new 2 7  — old, 2 7  Tea, Hyson pr. lb. 93 1  — Hyson skin, 53 67  — Souchong, 50 93  — Congo, 43 50  — Bohea, 31 33  Tallow, refined, per bl. 9  Tin pr. box, 13 33  Verdigrease pr. lb. 47 53  Vermillion, do. 1 33  Varnish, per gallon 33 37  Wine, Madeira, pr. pipe, 176 200  — Lisbon 120 126  — Teneriffe, pr. gallon 63  — Fayal 52  — Port pr. pipe 113 33  — Ditto in bottles, pr. doz. 4 6  — Claret 4 6  — Sherry pr. gall. 90 1  — Malaga 77 80  Wax, Bees pr. lb. 25 27  Whale-bone, long pr. lb. 13 30  
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.
   On London, at 30 days, per 100£. sterl. 453 33   — at 60 days 450 67   — at 90 days 448   Amsterdam, 60 days, pr. guilder, 41   — 90 days, 40   Government bills, drawn at 10 days, per 11 guilders, none at market.  
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS. No. V. [The following remarks appear in the HERALD of VERMONT—they are ingenious, liberal, and national—and having particular relation to the important subject of REPRESENTATION, cannot be too extensively known.—The Author of the Essays under the signature of C. therefore offers them as a substitute for No. 5, of his own writing—fully convinced that the performance will meet the approbation of every candid reader.]
IT is of great importance, that the community should be properly represented. The true principles of representation require, that every interest, which is of national consequence, should be proportionably represented in the Legislature. The interests of Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures, have an equal claim to attention. On a due attention to all these, depends the highest prosperity of a nation. Agriculture is, perhaps, the first, and most extensive interest; but it can hardly exist without the aid of some manufactures—it can never flourish in any country, without the aid both of manufactures and commerce, by which the tiller of the ground is enabled to exchange his superfluous productions for necessaries or conveniences, not otherwise within his reach. It is the great business of legislation, to compromise the seeming opposition of these interests, to give to each its due weight in the national scale, and by this mean to render them, as designed by Providence, reciprocally subservient to each other. As important as the interest of Agriculture is to society, it would be not only unjust, but extremely pernicious to the whole, to sacrifice every other interest to this principal interest. Men, whose occupations place them in one particular interest, may understand it simply, and yet never have attended to all its connections, so as to be able to estimate its just importance to society. All men, where their immediate interest, or that of their class is concerned, are subject to a degree of delusion. They are disposed to appreciate it too highly. Such, however, are the men of whom legislatures must generally be composed; and thus the Interests, sentiments, manners, and passions of the people, to which every law ought to be accommodated, are individually brought forward to discussion.
The science of legislation, in its fullest extent, comprehends a thorough knowledge of the principles of the government; of the manners, sentiments, passions, and interests of the people; of the pursuits pointed out by the nature of their situation; of the means both of acquisition and enjoyment; a knowledge of all national relations and connections, internal and external; of the moral, natural, and political influence of measures. This science is exactly similar to the science of natural philosophy, in which, little or nothing can be known, without actual experiment and observation; without a clear knowledge of causes, subjects and effects, in all their vast variety of combinations. It is evident, that few men will be found to possess such an extent and variety of knowledge. The deficiency must be supplied by the knowledge which individuals may acquire, of particular parts. Each will have acquired a degree of knowledge of those matters in which he is most conversant. He whose circle in life is more confined, will be more confined in his knowledge. He who is led to act in a more extensive circle, comprehending a greater variety of interests, manners, and sentiments, will have a more extensive knowledge, a greater fund of that information, which is necessary in legislation.
No one interest ought to be neglected, or sacrificed to another. No profession of men, no class of citizens ought to be proscribed, no single interest to engross the direction of national measures. If there be, among the class of Farmers, Physicians, Merchants, Lawyers, or Manufacturers, any men of known integrity of life, and of more general information, who are able fully to discern the importance of the several interests, and their mutual connection in promoting the national welfare, certainly narrow prejudices ought not to deprive the people of the use of such abilities. Such men cannot fail to be of the greatest service in a legislature. Is not the present prosperity of these States to be, in a good measure, attributed to an attention to these principles in the choice of Representatives?
FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT.
Extract of a letter from Bucks County. “Last year we had no apples in this neighbourhood—the present year God has blessed us with abundance, but an insolent Excise-Officer is placed over us to prevent our making use of this bounty of Heaven, as we think best—This is the boasted liberty of the Federal Government.” (Phila. Ind. Gaz.) Such grievances are not a little ridiculous.—“Last year we had no apples; this year God has given us a plenty, and we may drink cider duty free; but cider is not fiery enough for the throats of freemen, and if we distill it into hot ardent spirits, that make our throats tingle, we have several cents to pay to government.” A mighty grievance! and will freemen bear all this?—An Excise Officer! Why the collector of a land tax is a civil man; but appoint the same man to collect a duty on gin and whisky, and what a devil he is! Pimps and negro drivers are nothing to him! So much for prejudices acquired in another country and under slavish laws; for these violent grumbletonians, many of them at least, were born abroad.
But all their grumbling has no effect. The laws of the nation are generally agreeable to the community—the execution of them gives no general uneasiness. The complaints of a few four reflexed minds in the back parts of Pennsylvania and Virginia, produce no great effect in the counties where they are echoed, and in every other part of the Union, they are treated with their merited contempt. They proceed from narrow-minded men, whose views, like those of the pismire, are limited to the hillock where they live. Men who can take a comprehensive view of government, in all its departments and connections, justify the measures taken to raise money in the United States. Indeed in the northern States, people of all descriptions, though the price of spirits has been raised within a year almost fifty per cent, not only approve of the funding act, the duty laws, and the regulations of the Post-office, but they feel no small degree of gratitude to the Executive officer and to Congress, who have planned the present system of administration. A complaint is scarcely heard in these states, nor would the people willingly see the system altered in the minutest particular.—But “offences must come;” and when a spirit of censure and complaint exists in the body, it is best it should find vent. Newspapers are the convenient vehicles to carry off this spirit, and grumbletonians are the men to do the work. Every large town must have a grumbling paper or two: they are the common sewers of public opinion, and very useful in discharging the filth of four minds, and the dregs of wrong heads. The moving of this filth is a little disagreeable for a moment to the by-standers, but is necessary to preserve the air pure and salubrious.
CATO.
CAPTURE OF SERINGAPATAM.
FROM THE ST. CHRISTOPHER'S GAZETTE.
MADRAS, March 1.
CAMP, SERINGAPATAM, Feb. 24, 1792.
LORD CORNWALLIS has great pleasure in announcing to the army, that preliminaries of peace have been settled between the confederate powers and Tippoo Sultan, containing conditions highly honorable and advantageous to the Company, and the British Nation; and in consideration of the uncommon valor and firmness that has been shewn manifestly by the officers and soldiers of the king's and company's troops, during the whole course of the war, it is his Lordship's intention to take upon himself to order a handsome gratuity to be distributed to them in the same proportion as prize-money, from the sum that Tippoo has bound himself by one of the articles to pay to the Company.—It has been agreed that from this day hostilities shall cease on both sides, but the army is not only to retain its present posts till further orders—but his Lordship likewise enjoins in the strongest manner, that no troops, nor persons belonging to Tippoo shall be allowed to pass the Picquet and approach the encampment without a passport or permission regularly notified, and in general, that the same vigilance and strictness that has been customary during the war, shall be observed by all officers and soldiers in the execution of every military duty, until the troops shall arrive at the post that shall be allotted to them, in the Company's territories—His Lordship thinks it almost unnecessary to desire the army to advert, that moderation in success, is no less expected from brave men, than gallantry in action, and he trusts that the officers and soldiers in his army, will not only be incapable of committing violences in any intercourse that may happen between them and Tippoo's troops, but that they will even abstain from making use of any kind of an insulting expression towards an enemy now subdued and humbled.

GRAND ARMY.
On our arrival near this place on the 5th inst. Tippoo's army appeared encamped on the north of the Cavery, his rear to the island of Seringapatam. His right extending to the foot of the hill on which the Carigatta Pagoda stands, and his left to the Cavery above the island. The Lockany river which winds through the plain to the northward of Seringapatam, ran close along part of the front, and round the right of his line, where it joined the Cavery, and several water courses, ravines, and much swampy ground, strengthened his left.
The whole of his encampment was enclosed with a bound hedge, in many places extremely impenetrable, and several strong and well-constructed redoubts, furnished with a numerous artillery, were so placed as to defend the approach, particularly towards the left of his position.
This encampment having been reconnoitred on the morning of the 7th, orders were issued in the evening for a general attack on the lines.—The army in three divisions commanded by Lord Cornwallis, Gen. Meadows, and Col. Maxwell, without guns, was ordered to parade at seven in the evening.
Gen. Meadows, with the right column, was to enter on the left of the enemy's camp, Lord Cornwallis to attack their centre, and Colonel Maxwell to gain the Carigatta Pagoda, and the hill commanding it; on which works had been constructed by the enemy to defend their right.
The right and centre attacks were directed to penetrate nearly to the depth of the enemy's camp before they turned to sweep along it, and the whole were instructed in the event of success to suffer their leading divisions to mix with the fugitives, and if possible to enter the island with them.
About nine o'clock the column moved off, and at 12 the attack commenced on the left in the centre. The hills were rapidly carried by Col. Maxwell's division, and after a sharp contest for several minutes, the centre column penetrated the hedge, and put the enemy to flight.
Lieut. Col. Knox, with the leading companies of his attack, pushing the fugitives, entered the island with them at the great ford close to the fort, and advanced across it, while Col. Stuart, with the 71st regiment and two sepoy battalions took a very strong redoubt, and drove the enemy to his left, along the camp. Here they were met by the column under Lieut. Col. Maxwell, who quitting the hills, had attacked the right of the camp, and was forcing the enemy towards the centre.
Anxious to push the advantage as far as possible, the leading part of the left column under Col. Baird entered the river, and attempted it by a very rugged passage, in which attempt Col. Stuart's division joined.
The depth and rocky bottom of the river, with a heavy fire from the lines, formed to defend it on the opposite bank, for a considerable time prevented the progress of the troops; but after more than an hour's exertion, the 71st and 72d regiments, got footing on the opposite bank, nearly at the same time that the few companies who had passed at the proper ford, and penetrated across the island to the southern river, returned towards the Pettah of Changanam, which was now taken possession of by the troops which had crossed.
The strong lines which defended the hold—near the Carigatta Pagoda, being now abandoned by the enemy, several Sepoy corps crossed here, and reinforced the troops already on the island, so that by two o'clock in the morning, all the eastern part of the place, including the gardens of Tippoo, the Tomb of Hyder, and Changanam (a Pettah on the centre of the island) was taken by our troops.
In this Pettah a number of our unfortunate countrymen were found in chains, and released, as well as many of the topases taken at Coimbatore, with Lieut. Chalmers.
While the centre and left divisions were thus employed, Gen. Meadows, whose march had been impeded by bad roads till after the attacks on the other side had commenced, entered the hedge near a very strong re-
doubt, which the advance of his division under Col. Nesbitt immediately attacked.
A considerable body of the enemy's best troops, amongst whom was Lally's corps, defended this post, and the strength of the work, which mounted ten pieces of cannon, together with the obstinate resistance of its defenders, made its reduction an operation of considerable difficulty.
After several attacks had been made and as often repulsed, with great loss, our troops at last gained and entered the redoubt; upwards of 300 of the enemy falling within it.
The delay occasioned by this obstinate defence, and some mistakes which our little knowledge of the exact situation of the camp subjected us to, prevented the column from penetrating on this side as far as was intended, so that the left wing of the enemy remained in a great degree unbroken, while this column moved to the left along the outside of the hedge, instead of keeping within it, and came no more into action during the night.
Lord Cornwallis, with part of the centre column, had remained near the spot where the column had entered the hedge to sustain the attacks if necessary, and be at hand to communicate his orders to the whole.
About four in the morning, the enemy collecting from their left, which had not been routed like the rest of their army, came down in a very formidable body, and attacked the small force that remained near his Lordship's person.
The attack was warm, and resolutely received by the 74th, and part of the 52d regiments, with two battalions of Madras Sepoys and three companies of the 13th Bengal Sepoys.
The enemy were repeatedly charged and broken, but as often formed again, and renewed the attack, with a constant fire of cannon, rockets, and musketry. Removed from the support of the rest of the army, and ignorant of their situation, it became necessary, as day approached, to retire from under the range of the cannon of the fort.—The corps charged and broke the enemy, and profiting by their confusion, retired in good order to the hedge at the foot of Carigatta hills, where they were joined by Maj. Gen. Meadows' division: at the same time the troops in the island abandoned the Pettah, and several of the advanced posts they had gained, as they did not think it prudent to risk the loss of the advantages they were certain of possessing, from securing a smaller extent in the island, by attempting to maintain more posts, than the number of men they had were capable of defending.—especially as they were not sufficiently acquainted with the situations to judge of their strength—at day light we were enabled to view the scene of action, and mark the effects of the night attack.—All the encampment of the enemy appeared in the greatest confusion—most of the tents, amongst which was that of the Sultan, still standing; guns and tumbrils, laying scattered over every part of the lines, camels and bullocks wandering about, and horses galloping amongst the dead and dying, who lay in heaps along the ground. Sheltered by the fire of the fort, the enemy collected in great bodies, and covered by large parties of horse attempting to carry off the remains of their tents and stores—but a redoubt nearly in the center of their camp, into which Capt. Sibbald, with a company of the 71st regiment and two of Sepoys, had been thrown during the night by Col. Stuart, in a great measure prevented their operations.
These redoubts they surrounded, and during the whole of the 7th, attempted by every means to force—they were constantly beat off, and from the Hills and Islands we witnessed the interesting spectacle of a small work which we had the night before carried with the greatest ease, in the midst of Tippoo's army, resisting all his force, which repeatedly assaulted it—towards evening the enemy retired abandoning all their works on this side the River, after blowing up the Tumbrils, and burning some of the carriages of their guns; and although several of the guns we had taken during the night were drawn off by
them in the course of the day, 76 pieces of fine cannon, remained in possession.—Nothing but the neighbourhood of the Fort, the guns of which commanded all the plain, enabled Tippoo to save one of his field artillery. The camp equipage being brought from the former ground on the evening of the 7th, the army encamped fronting Seringapatam, and as near the place as the range of the shot would permit.
Our loss in the action is not nearly so great as might have been expected, when the circumstances of the attacks are considered, the whole amount of killed and wounded not exceeding 520. The proportion of officers is great, but most of those wounded are doing well.—The loss of the enemy cannot be ascertained. By the most probable accounts their killed and wounded are 3000, their desertions in consequence of the defeat near 20,000.—It seems to have given a decisive blow to the power of the Sultan, as his troops have lost all confidence. The Europeans in his service are deserting, whenever they have an opportunity of doing so, and many of these most useful to him, are among the number already come to camp.
In our last courier we anticipated the arrival of the hostages in camp.—It was on the 27th, instead of the 24th, ult. that the important event took place—about twelve o'clock the works of the fort of Seringapatam were crowded with an innumerable multitude of people; and the Sultan was plainly discovered amongst them.—In a few minutes afterwards the young princes made their appearance, they were conducted from the island to a large pavilion pitched for their reception, near Sibbald's redoubt, about a mile from the fort.
Here they were received by Sir John Kenneway, who attended them, accompanied by an escort, to head-quarters.
On entering the camp, they were saluted with nineteen guns; and the part of the line they passed was under arms, and the officers saluted.—Lord Cornwallis saluted them in his tent, which was guarded by a battalion of Sepoys; and they were then formally delivered over to his Lordship, by Gullum Ally Beg, the Sultan's Vackeel, as hostages for the due performance of the treaty.
The scene was grand and affecting, and impressed all present with those feelings which are not easily delineated.
It was a proud scene to the conquerors—it was the most humiliating to the vanquished.
An awful silence for a moment prevailed, and every one seemed absorbed in the tumult of ideas which the occasion naturally called forth.
At length Gullum Ally approaching Lord Cornwallis, and under much agitation, addressed his Lordship in the following emphatic words "These children," said he, pointing to the young princes, whom he then presented, "were this morning the sons of the Sultan my master—their situation is changed, and they must now look up to your Lordship as their father,"—and the tender and affectionate manner in which his Lordship received them, seemed to confirm the truth of the expression.
The attendants of the young princes appeared astonished at what they saw, and their countenances were highly expressive of the satisfaction they felt in the benevolence of his Lordship.
Some conversation took place between His Lordship and the Vackeels of Tippoo, in which the latter declared that the termination of the war diffused happiness throughout all ranks of people, and after sitting a few minutes, they retired, accompanying the young Princes to their Tents; under the escort of a party of our Troops, which remained with them as their guard.
Before they took their leave, His Lordship presented a gold watch to each of them, as a mark of his regard.
The next morning his Lordship made them a visit at their Tents, which are pitched near to the left of Tippoo's redoubts.
The body guard and spearmen of the Princes, formed an avenue of considerable extent from the Tent of ce-
remony, which is spacious, and very magnificent.
His Lordship alighted at the end of the avenue, and walked up to the Tent, saluted as he passed by the Prince's guards.
They met his Lordship at the entrance, and by their respectful behavior, shewed that they held in pleasing remembrance the kind attention his Lordship had shown to them.
At the extremity of the Tent, and somewhat elevated, a number of chairs were placed; here his Lordship seated himself with the eldest Prince on his right hand, and the younger on his left.
Sir John Kenneway sat on one side of the Princes and Mr. Chery on the other, as his Lordship's Interpreters. The Vackeels of Tippoo of whom one was the person sent some time ago on an embassy to Constantinople, and those of the Nizam and Marrattas arranged themselves in the same order; so that the whole formed a semi-circle: after a conversation of about an hour, in which the Constantinople Ambassador bore a considerable share, his Lordship embraced the Princes and gave to the eldest a fufee richly mounted, and to the youngest, an elegant case of pistols, and in return each of them presented his Lordship with a sword; beetle and Ottar were then brought in, and his Lordship immediately afterwards withdrew, leading a prince in each hand, to the extremity of the rich carpet which was spread on the ground and embraced them with the utmost cordiality. They remained on the spot some time, paying their compliments to the gentlemen of his Lordship's suite, who saluted them.
They are very fine boys; the eldest is about eleven years of age, and appears to be very quick, shrewd, and penetrating: He addressed his Lordship in a very pertinent speech, with a great deal of propriety and without any kind of confusion or embarrassment, and in the same manner, on being desired by Gullum Ally, he repeated some passages from the Koran.
The youngest is remarkably handsome—his features are very regular and expressive, and his countenance is mild and open, he is about 7 years of age—They are both very graceful, perfectly correct in their manners, and appear to be extremely well bred.
They were dressed in white muslins, and round their necks they wore some rows of beautiful pearls, to which were suspended a pentagon, consisting of an emerald and a ruby of considerable size, surrounded with a profusion of brilliants.
Capt. Maden, of his Majesty's 76th Regt. Aid-de-Camp to Earl Cornwallis, left the army on the 29th inst. charged with his Lordship's dispatches for England; one of the Indians now in the roads, will be immediately dispatched for the purpose of announcing to Government, the important intelligence of the honorable and advantageous peace made by his Lordship with Tippoo Sultan, and of the conclusion of a war, whose principle was humanity, whose progress was glory, and whose termination is as honorable as its aim was just.
SOLEURE, May 30.
Our Diet has declared itself permanent until the tranquility of Europe will permit it to separate, and has resolved unanimously that the Swiss shall observe the strictest armed neutrality; in consequence of which orders have been sent to M. de CUSTINE to evacuate the desiles of Porentrui, otherwise they will oblige him to evacuate them. It has also been resolved to listen to no proposition for the renewal of the agreements with France until they can treat with the King himself.
PARIS, June 14.
Various are the reasons assigned for M. Servan's dismissal from the military department—but what seems most probable is, that the King could not with propriety keep a Minister who had invaded the royal prerogative, by soliciting an increase of public force without his participation.
The new War Minister gives a sad account of the army; 40,000 men still wanted—the Generals calling for arms, for ammunition, for camp equipage, there is also a vacuum of 10,000 horse.—Such was the report which M. Dumonier, in his "bonnet rouge," made yesterday to the Assembly; he concluded with asking for twenty millions.
The second battalion of Walsh's Irish brigade is gone off to Coblenitz.
P. S. The King trembles for the life of the Queen. The unhappy Princess has friends everywhere, but among the mob, and the mob drag the reins of government. I am assured by one

of the Ladies of Honor, that the Royal Personages went last night and took the Sacrament, preparatory to the fatal moment.
June 16. The report of M. Dumourier, on the state of the War Department, seems to indicate a wish in the Royal party to dispose the nation to listen to a conciliating proposition from the powers in concert, as soon as their armies arrive on the Rhine. This is expected about the 4th of July.
The King has refused his sanction, yesterday at the Council, to the decree on the Priests, and to the establishment of a camp of 20,000 men near Paris.
WARSAW, June 2.
Yesterday an express from Prince Joseph Poniatowski arrived with the following account, dated at Vienna the 27th of May:—Lieutenant Golciowski of the National Cavalry, occupying an out-post with three hundred men, perceived a body of 2000 Russians approaching, who first began the attack, while Golciowski having returned the fire, charged the enemy sword in hand with such impetuosity, that their line was completely broken; a general action then began, which lasted two hours and an half. Notwithstanding so great a superiority of numbers, the field of battle remained to our troops; 300 Russians were left on the spot; our loss is 40 killed and 20 wounded. This body of the Russians was chosen from the nation called Czaronoince, bordering on the Black Sea, reckoned the bravest; it is they who took Berezina, near Oczakow, and who led the van in storming Ismailow. Elated with former successes, and trusting to their numbers, they marched down with seeming contempt, and little expected such a warm reception from a handful of Poles.
Our different divisions are marching to Lithuania and to the Ukraine, with the greatest expedition and alacrity. They had not a single deserter. In Lithuania we see the greatest ardor for defending their liberty and independence. Even their ladies strive to encourage the youth to noble actions; instead of cries and tears, unworthy of free women, they collected among themselves 1,500 ducats at Wilora, for the expenses of the war.
We hear from the district of Rzeceyca, that the Russians have entered on that defenceless side, and begun to carry off all the peasants and their families into slavery, to people their defarts. Such are the proofs of the friendly assurances given in the Empress's declaration.
LONDON, June 23.
By private letters from Paris, we learn, that that capital is at present in extreme disorder. The late changes in the administration, and the firmness of the King's resistance to certain measures, have placed him in a situation of imminent danger.—The Queen, always the impudent origin of every obnoxious act, is virulently reviled, threatened and insulted. The Jacobins publicly talk of giving a very signal example to the world. May it be that of popular ascendancy used with mildness and moderation! A deputation of the citizens of the Section of Croix-Rouge appeared at the bar of the Assembly, on Sunday, and delivered their sentiments by the mouth of their orator, in the following terms:
"For the four last years the people have been assailed with plots, which seem to have been favored, seconded, nay even concerted by those who surround the Executive Power.
"What evil genius has been the adviser of Louis XVI.? Forgetting his perjuries, we have placed him upon the most brilliant throne in the Universe, and yet he hath forgotten his benefactors!
"You have enacted two most excellent Decrees, one against the Priesthood, another for forming a Camp of Reserve, and he hath refused to sanction them! You disbanded a Guard audaciously aristocratic, and he hath returned thanks to it for its conduct, by means of a Proclamation! Most excellent Ministers formed his Council—he hath dismissed them!
"This conduct hath given us the most lively alarm. We wish to carry terror to the hearts of the Conspirators, and to teach them that the Constitution shall never perish, as long as one of its Defenders remains alive.
"Permit the Assemblies of this Section to be permanent. Armed and devoted to your cause, we shall then be able to fly to your defence in a single moment."
[After a short, but spirited debate, a decree passed, nem. con. for the appointment of a Special Commission, to consider and report on the dangers that surround France.]
The Capt. of a French Packet, which arrived on Wednesday night at Dover, brings intelligence that a general action has taken place between the French and Austrian armies, that it was a hard fought battle, attended with very great slaughter, the Austrians having 10,000 killed and wounded, and the French upwards of 5000, but that the victory was greatly in favor of the French.
Menen and some other places are taken by the French, and they were besieging Mons, which they expected to carry.
The Gorgon of 44 guns, Capt. Parker, from Jackson's Bay, arrived at Portsmouth, sailed from Spithead the 15th March, 1791, and reached her destined port the 22d of September following.
They found this infant colony in the greatest distress, being in want of every necessary of life, and by no means in that fertile state represented, nor is there the strongest probability of its ever being rendered so.
The Gorgon left the wretched settlers 72 puncheons of spirits, with every species of provisions she could possibly spare.
Barrington, of famous memory, is appointed by Governor Philips, High Constable of Parramatta, a new settlement about 14 miles from Sidney Cove, in which he conducts himself with great propriety, and distributes justice in the most impartial manner, discovering in his decisions singular abilities and humanity.
BOSTON, August 27.
In addition to the Foreign Intelligence, we can briefly add—That Paris continued in great ferment—That the King dared not appear in public—That vast numbers were daily leaving France—That the change in the French administration, as proceeding solely from the King, was deemed the most important event that could ever have taken place; the issue is expected to be either a counter-revolution, or the assassination of the King—That the King of Hungary was not dead, but was very ill;—and that the British government had equipped for sea a fleet of observation, under Lord Hood.
We are sorry to inform the public, that the Rast Ship, which failed from this port, was on Thursday last week quitted at sea, being full of water. The crew took to their boats, and four of them arrived here in a Schooner from Liverpool, yesterday.
Extract of a letter dated Macao, 13th December, 1791, to a gentleman in this town.
"Captain Kendrick had his vessel attacked on the coast, and the natives got possession of his deck; however, after killing about forty natives, they recovered her; the natives had so far possession, that they handed over into their canoes, iron, copper, guns, &c. without leave or licence. I forgot in my last to mention to you I discovered seven islands in the South Seas, which I am sure from an examination of the different voyages from the year 1400 to the present date, all my charts, and globes of modern date, were never discovered before; they are between the Marquesa's and the Sandwich Isles. My journals being on board, puts it out of my power to transmit you by the present conveyance their particular latitude and longitude. However, the French ship I mentioned to you in my last, arrived here from the N.W. saw three of them, and claimed them as a new discovery; but on examining my journals, the Isles had been seen were the same we had seen a month before them."
We farther learn, that the natives of the N. West got possession of the brig Washington, Capt. Kendrick, who killed sixty of them before he could recover his vessel—and that the two seamen of the Columbia, Capt. Gray, who were massacred on that coast, did belong to Nantucket, by the names of Folger and Barnes.
That our countrymen are not allowed to sell their Furs in China, is certain—and it is equally certain it's not as has been said, through the British influence—as we find they equally suffer—in the London price current of the 20th April, the General Coote, Captain Baldwin, from China, entered fifteen cases of Sea-Otter Skins, brought from Canton.
Philadelphia, Sept. 5.
The Patent Conductor from Fire, is now offered to the public by the Inventor, SAMUEL GREEN, No. 59, Gold-street, New-York—or by Mr. WILLIAM ZANES, Philadelphia. Prices from 10 to 14 dollars.
These machines are so easily made use of, says the Patentee, that a boy of 12 years old, who never saw one before, can fix them instantly, and deliver twenty persons, and furniture in proportion, every minute, from the greatest height. Their utility must therefore be very apparent.
In our last it was mentioned that Mr. Napper Tandy was acquitted on his trial for challenging John Toler, Esq. the King's Solicitor General, Ireland. The following remarks on the above trial appear in an English paper.
"That in support of the indictment, charging Mr. Tandy with endeavoring, by letters and otherwise, to excite and provoke Mr. Toler to fight, it was allowed by Mr. Tandy, that he did write the letters specified—and Mr. Smith, Mr. Tandy's friend, declared in evidence, his belief—that Mr. Tandy meant to provoke Mr. Toler to fight—and wished to put the necessity of challenging on Mr. Toler.—Mr. Tandy, nevertheless, was acquitted of endeavoring to excite Mr. Toler to fight.
Mr. Tandy considered Mr. Toler to have given the offence, and accordingly called on him for an explanation;—yet strange to find—Mr. Tandy expected that Mr. Toler would send him (the affronted party) the challenge.
It is evident Mr. Toler was for settling matters instantly—and it is as evident, that Mr. Tandy's backwardness to fight, increased in proportion to Mr. Toler's forwardness. Yet this hero of heroes—this redoubtable NAPPER TANDY, was charmed after his acquittal, and illuminations made on his account, that his courage, it is presumed, might appear the more conspicuous.
Extract of a letter from a person in a distant State, to the Editor.
"Nothing can shew more plainly the ill dispositions of certain slanderers of government, than their misrepresentations of the Post-Office law. They stick at nothing to blacken the characters of our rulers. It seems, on trial of the Post-Office law, impossible that even such men as the writers of scandalous paragraphs, should be hardy enough to charge the authors of that law with a design to stop the newspapers and to deprive the people of any means of knowing how their affairs are managed. Not to mention that the provisions of that act carry on their very face a strong desire to diffuse political information, experience has shewn already that the law is well calculated for that purpose. For it is well known that your papers formerly came so seldom and so irregularly, that several of your customers were discouraged and have dropped your Gazette, notwithstanding their high approbation of it, and their curiosity to understand public transactions. Since the first of June however, when the Post-Office act came into operation, I have not missed receiving one of your papers, and I have no reason to apprehend any disappointment in future."
M. Rolland, one of the French Ministry, lately dismissed, wrote the following letter to the King on that occasion:
"SIRE, "The present state of things cannot continue long; it is a violent crisis. The French have made themselves a constitution; this constitution has made a number of malcontents. The minority relying on culpable hopes, intrigue with a high hand for the support of monarchy. Your Majesty enjoyed great prerogatives, and has not been able to bear the idea of losing them. From this the enemies of the constitution have counted upon secret protection. Your Majesty must at present chuse the alternative, either of yielding up these habits, or of being suspected of complicity. Every thing has its term; that of uncertainty is arrived. Will your Majesty choose to defend the constitution, or to range on the side of the enemies of France?—The declaration of rights is become the Evangel of the people. Country is no longer a vain word. The Revolution cannot but be completed, even though it be terminated at the price of blood. The Priests disturb the state; sanction the decree which was intended to repress them. Do not oppose the national will. Sanction the decree for the levy of twenty thousand citizen soldiers."
A writer in one of the Eastern papers, says—"It is with singular pleasure I observe the thriving state of agriculture, commerce, and arts in every part of the country I have visited. At no former period of the last twenty-five years, have people so generally enjoyed the blessings of peace, plenty and satisfaction. It is a remark of farmers in the interior country, that people were never before so industrious, and never acquired property so fast as at the present time. This industry is, through the northern states, rewarded with the most plentiful crops ever known. Three years ago industry languished, and multitudes of people were wandering about the country in quest of employment. Day laborers were about the streets of our large towns in herds. But times are changed. It is now almost impossible to procure laborers at any price. In the town and country there is more employment than men—the mechanic's undertaking retarded, and the farmers crops walking in the field for want of laborers. Even emigration to the western lands is checked by this favorable state of business."
"Let the reader pause a moment and enquire what is the cause of this new and unexpected change of affairs. To what physical, moral or political energy shall this flourishing state of things be ascribed? There is but one answer to these enquiries; Public credit is restored and established. The general government, by uniting, and calling into action, the pecuniary resources of the states, has created a new capital flock of several millions of dollars, which, with that before existing, is directed into every branch of business, giving life and vigor to industry in its infinitely diversified operations. The enemies of the general government, the funding act and the National Bank, may bellow tyranny, aristocracy and speculation through the Union, and repeat the clamorous din as long as they please; but the actual state of agriculture and commerce, the peace, the contentment and satisfaction of the great mass of people, give the lie to their assertions, and stamp on them in capitals, Vox et praterea nihil. It is surprising this pouting whining herd of disappointed wrong-heads will not be silent and retire with shame from public notice, when they see all their visionary predictions falsified, and instead of their expected calamities, they see the public mind at ease, and all parts of the community congratulating each other on the full enjoyment of the blessings of peace, liberty, safety and general prosperity. One would think that baffled ambition itself would retire from assailing our ears and annoying our happiness; after having for two years murmured out its puny whinings in vain. But why should government be exempted from the vexations of harboring foes in its bosom? There was a Judas among the disciples of Jesus, and the joys of paradise were interrupted by the restless ambition of a Satan. How then can the most perfect system of human government satisfy all the wants and wishes of its subjects?"
"And little less than angels, would be more."
COMMUNICATIONS.
Those who deny that they are enemies of the government, and yet labor to undo all that the government has been three years in doing, assume all shapes and use even contradictory pretences to carry their point. They call themselves simple republicans, and they of course abhor, as they affect to say, the fine spun theories and new fangled visions which Congress has adopted from the Minister of the Treasury.—The irredeemable quality of the debt, the bank, and almost all the principles drawn from mathematics, the most certain of the sciences, are called schemes and visions with which the Secretary has bewitched the country. The same men do not however allow the merit of these new invented schemes to the Secretary. Jealous of giving credit for any thing, they say he treads in the steps of the British financier. According to these consistent wise men, our systems are at the same time fanciful theories and servile imitations of the practice and experience of other nations—they want invention and they have too much of it—they are whims that no person in his wits ever thought of before, and they are dull and stupid because other nations have done just so. This is blowing hot and cold with the same breath. But if the people can be made to abhor the laws of Congress the end will justify the means.
Those who recommend good order and who aid those who inculcate it will be right ninety times out of an hundred; for there will not happen one occasion in a million when the peace of society will not be found to be of more worth than any thing that the people will gain by disturbing it; the agents of mischief will gain, though the people may suffer; for by blowing up the coals of discord, they will be hired to work at the bellows. Many political bullies who wrangle themselves into places become the quietest men till they lose possession—and then they have only to begin another squabble.
That the debt of the United States is diminished one million eight hundred forty-five thousand two hundred seventeen dollars and forty-two cents, is a fact—and that it is a fact is the rub—it rubs off one of those misrepresentations on which the junto founded their principal pretence to patriotism. But as this fact is so stubborn a testimonial in favor of the administration, it must be obscured, and, if possible, overwhelmed—by what?—by the abominable crime of funding and providing for a part of the public debt, which was as righteously due as any other part of it—and this is called increasing the debt! It is the most fortunate thing for the enemies of the government, that Congress have considered the public faith as sacred and as binding as private faith —had a different line of conduct been adopted, our present declaimers, to have been consistent, must have been silent.
What a clamor rung thro' the continent during the first year of the new government, because Congress delayed funding the debt—because they did not provide for the defenceless frontiers—did not protect trade and manufactures—with a score of other complaints. All these things have been attended to, and the laws seem to operate as well as was expected. But the peal is now rung against those acts. The government would get nothing by turning Quaker, for when one cheek is smitten, these angry men stand ready to smite the other also.
At a Meeting of sundry Inhabitants of the Western Counties of Pennsylvania, held at Pittsburgh, August 22, 1792,
The following report of a Committee was unanimously adopted, viz.—
STRONGLY impressed with a sense of the fatal consequences that must attend an Excise, convinced that a tax upon liquors which are the common drink of a nation operates in proportion to the number and not to the wealth of the people, and of course is unjust in itself, and oppressive upon the poor: taught by the experience of other countries that internal taxes upon consumption, from their very nature, never can effectually be carried into operation, without vesting the officers appointed to collect them with powers most dangerous to the civil rights of freemen, and must in the end destroy the liberties of every country in which they are introduced; feeling that the late Excise Law of Congress, from the present circumstances of our agriculture, our want of markets, and the scarcity of a circulating medium, will bring immediate distress and ruin on the Western Country. We think it our duty to persist in our remonstrances to Congress, and in every other legal measure that may obstruct the operation of the law, until we are able to obtain its total repeal.
Therefore, Resolved, That David Bradford, James Marshall, Albert Gallatin, Peter Lisle, and David Philips, be appointed for the purpose of drawing a remonstrance to Congress stating our objections against the law that imposes a duty upon spirituous liquors distilled within the United States, and praying for a repeal of the same, and that the Chairman of the meeting be directed to sign the same in the name of the meeting, and to take proper measures to have it presented to Congress at their next sessions.
Resolved, That in order that our measures may be carried on with regularity and concert, that Wm. Wallace, [here follow 20 other names] be respectively appointed committees of correspondence for the counties of Washington, Fayette and Alleghany, and that it shall be their duty to correspond together and with such committee as shall be appointed for the same purpose in the county of Westmoreland, or with any committees of a similar nature that may be appointed in other parts of the United States, and also, if found necessary, to call together either general meetings of the people in their respective counties, or conferences of the several committees.
And whereas some men may be found amongst us, so far lost to every sense of virtue and feeling for the distresses of this country, as to accept offices for the collection of the duty.
Resolved therefore, That in future we will consider such persons as unworthy of our friendship, have no intercourse or dealings with them, withdraw from them every assistance, and withhold all the comforts of life which depend upon those duties that as men and fellow-citizens we owe to each other, and upon all occasions treat them with that contempt they deserve, and that it is hereby most earnestly recommended to the people at large to follow the same line of conduct towards them.
On Motion, Resolved, That the Minutes of this meeting be signed by the chairman, attested by the Clerk, and published in the Pittsburgh Gazette.
JOHN CANON, Chairman.
Attest. ALBERT GALLATIN, Clerk.
The State Bank of South-Carolina was to commence business on the 27th August.
We learn that an attempt is now making to render the north branch of the river Potowmac navigable for boats, from Fort-Cumberland to Old Town. That the work is carried on under the inspection of Capt. Thomas Beall, who has sixty hands constantly employed, and when completed, boats with produce can pass from Fort-Cumberland to Georgetown. Balt. Da. Rep.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
  Brig Active, M c Keever, Guadalupe   Mary Ann, Ramage, Havre-de-Grace   Betsy, Merchgay, Port-au-Prince   Jenny, Tarris, St. Sebastians   Four Brothers, Robb, Barbadoes   Sloop Patron, Gibson, Nevis   Commerce, Belcher, C. Francois   Peggy, Whitall, Baltimore   Eunice, Griffith, New-Province   Polly, , Savannah   Schr. Peggy, Skelly, Savannah   John, Bray, Charleston   Columbia, M c Cormick, do. 
Since our last a ship with four hundred passengers has arrived at Wilmington from Ireland.
Price of Stocks as in our last.

Stock Brokers Office,
No. 45, Great Dock-Street, NEW-YORK. THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE AND SALE OF STOCKS ON COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States will be strictly attended to.
LEONARD BLECKER. (t.f.)
May 2.
100 Dollars Reward.
LOST on Cambridge Common, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of the 18th ult. a MOROCCO POCKET-BOOK, with a steel clasp, containing a number of valuable papers, among which are the following PUBLIC SECURITIES, viz.
Massachusetts State Notes—No. 2,425, dated December 1, 1782, payable to Thomas Greenwood, for £. 23 16s. principal—No. 22,399, dated January 1, 1785, payable to Nathaniel Partridge, for £. 10 10s. principal—No. —, dated January 1, 1782, (an army note) payable to Timothy Howard, for £. 8 8s. 1d. principal—No. —, a Note (the number, date, and to whom payable, not known) for £. 3 0s. 3d. principal—One Indent Certificate for Four Dollars, and a New-Hampshire Certificate for about £. 12 payable to John and Daniel Jenks; also a number of Notes of Hand, one of which was for £. 572 given by Nathan Bond to Samuel W. Pomeroy (by whom it was endorsed) dated 1st May, 1792, and payable on the 11th August following; the others were all payable to the Subscriber. The Securities are checked at the different offices from whence they were issued, and the Notes of Hand by the different signers, they can therefore be of no use to any but the owner.
The Subscriber hereby offers a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person or persons who has found the same, and will return them to him, or leave them with the Printer hereof, and no questions will be asked.
ABRAHAM FOSTER. Salem, Massachusetts, August 1, 1792. (epit)
NEW-BRUNSWICK Church Lottery.
THE peculiar circumstances of a gentleman who had undertaken to dispose of a proportion of the tickets in the New-Brunswick Church Lottery, having, in his opinion, rendered it inconvenient for him further to proceed in the sale thereof, between eleven and twelve hundred tickets are unexpectedly returned to the Rector, Church-Wardens and Vestry-men. This lays the Managers under the necessity of further adjourning the drawing of the Lottery, until the fifteenth day of October next, that they may have time to transmit these tickets to the parts of the state where they are applied for, and receive the returns. As there are but few tickets besides these remaining on hand, all persons who are disposed to promote the pious object of this Lottery, or to take a chance for the prizes therein, are requested to supply themselves by the first of October; and the gentlemen appointed to dispose of them, are desired to return those to the Managers which remain unford, to answer the applications of some gentlemen in the neighbourhood, who are postponed to this resource for a supply.—And notice is hereby given, that the tickets not returned to the Managers by the eighth day of October, will be considered as at the risk of the holders.
N. B. ROBERT MORRIS, Esq. of New-Brunswick, is duly chosen one of the Managers of the said Lottery, and has given security and qualified agreeably to law. (epiO1)
George-Town.
A Number of LOTS in every situation which may be desired in City of WASHINGTON, will be offered for sale by the Commissioners, on Monday the 8th day of October next. One fourth part of the money to be paid down, the residue in three equal annual payments, with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
JOHN M'GANTT, Clerk to the Commissioners. June 2, 1792. [epit]
TO BE SOLD, (And possession given immediately)
A Valuable FARM,
PLEASANTLY situated, and well improved, containing 213 acres, whereof 47 are woodland, 30 meadow, and 20 more may be made; the cleared land is under good fence, and is well adapted to grass, and there being so much meadow, a large flock may be raised; it is also natural to wheat, and a proper attention to a well-kept flock, will much improve its quality, and be the most profitable: it has a young orchard of 200 apple-trees, a variety of peach and cherry trees, and a large garden. There are on the premises a handsome two story stone house and kitchen, and an elegant piazza; also, a good barn, with stabling, cow-house, granary, waggon-house, work-shop, and smoke-house. The situation is high, pleasant, and healthy, and affords some very agreeable prospects, and is in a good neighbourhood: it lies on the main road to New-York, about a mile and a half from Princeton, New-Jersey, and 43 from this city. The title was examined and approved by a committee of the Senate before the subscriber purchased. For further particulars apply to the subscriber, at No. 141, South Second-street, or at No. 81, South Water-street, Philadelphia.
ISAAC SNOWDEN, Jun.
N. B. Stock for the farm may be had of the present tenant.
Also, to be Sold, and entered immediately, A two-story BRICK HOUSE and BAKE-HOUSE, in Arch-street, No. 23, 16 feet two inches in front, and 102 feet in depth. Apply as above. July 17. (epit)
THE JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.
Bank of the United States.
JULY 10, 1792.
RESOLVED, THAT an Office of Discount and Deposit, be established in the City of Richmond, State of Virginia.
RESOLVED, That the 2d Tuesday in September next be appointed for the Election of Thirteen Directors and a Cashier, for the Office of Discount and Deposit, in the City of Richmond.
By Order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
WHITE WAX MANUFACTORY.
THOMAS JAMES, WAX CHANDLER, from London, respectfully informs the public that he has established a Manufactory of the above branch, at the upper end of Mulberry-Street, New-York, where Merchants, Captains of Vessels, Druggists, and Families, may be supplied with excellent and pure White Wax Candles, White Wax in Cakes, Tapers, Wax'd Lamp Wicks, Flambeaux, &c. warranted equal to any made in London, and twenty per cent. cheaper.
Orders in this and the adjacent States, received by Mr. JOHN GOODEVE, Bridge-Street, Mr. WILLIAM FROBISHER, Fletcher-Street, and at the Manufactory, where samples may be seen.
N. B. Bees-Wax taken in payment, or bleached on moderate terms. New-York, July 19, 1792. [ep7w]
To be published by Subscription,
THE AMERICAN REMEMBRANCER, OR, PROCEEDINGS OF THE Old Congress,
From September 1774, to March 1789;— An authentic and original collection of OFFICIAL LETTERS, &c. written during the late war;
And EXTRACTS from the SECRET JOURNALS. (For particulars, see Proposals at large.)
Subscriptions are received by the principal Bookellers, and by the Editor, JOHN CAREY, No. 26, Pear-Street, Philadelphia.
Universal Hymn Book.
To be Sold by THOMAS DOBSON, and other Bookellers in Philadelphia,
A Collection of PSALMS, HYMNS, and SPIRITUAL SONGS; selected from different Authors, and published by Order of the Convention holding the Doctrine of the Salvation of all Men, met in Philadelphia, May 25, 1791.
Price of a single book, bound, 3-8ths of a Dollar, with good allowance to those who take quantities, August 4. (epit.)
A further Caution.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned from receiving of Thomas Mackie & Co. or any other person, four Notes of Hand, given by the late James Gardner, of Wilmington, North-Carolina, to Samuel Jackson, of Philadelphia, all bearing date the 19th July, 1785, amounting in the whole to £. 2,600 13 3 North-Carolina currency; the greatest part of which said Notes have been paid to said Thomas Mackie & Co. in proof of which the subscribers have the deposition of Mr. Jasper Mauduit Jackson, and other documents which will fully and clearly illustrate the matter.
It is therefore expected that this notice, with the one advertised in this paper in May and June, 1791, will be a sufficient caution to the public.
THOMAS WRIGHT, ROBERT SCOTT, MAR. R. WILLKINGS, Executors. Wilmington, (N. C.) Aug. 1, 1792. (1amgm)
TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JUNE 28, 1792.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of the late Rev. ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, deceased, will be exposed to Public Sale on Thursday, the 11th of October next, at GEORGETOWN, on a credit of three years, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date—That valuable Seat of Land, in Montgomery county, called HAYES; the late dwelling plantation of the deceased, containing between six and seven hundred acres, the greatest part of which is rich, heavy timbered land, extremely well watered, and capable of affording a very considerable quantity of fine meadow;—Situated about 6 miles from the Federal City, and the same distance from George-Town, in a genteel neighbourhood, and a remarkable healthy part of the country.
The improvements are, a very elegant two story Brick Dwelling House, (with four rooms and a passage, or entry, on a floor) and the necessary out-houses. HENRY TOWNSEND, BENJ. STODDERT, THOMAS JOHNS, Executors. (epiO)
TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JULY 6, 1792.
THE Subscriber offers for Sale, a Mill-Seat on Rock Creek, deemed by those who have examined it, equal to any in the United States. The Mill-House may be placed within one quarter of a mile of the river Potowmac, half a mile from the market house in Georgetown, and one mile from the President's square, in the city of Washington—on tide water, navigable for vessels of several hundred bushels burthen.—The stream is sufficient, the year round, to turn four pair of stones, and the fall may be made from 25 to 30 feet. It is unnecessary to dwell on the advantages of such a situation.
The purchaser may be accommodated with a few hundred acres of land adjoining the Mill-Seat, if that should be an object. (epgm 14 Jul) B. STODDERT.
WANTED—TO RENT,
From the last of October next, A convenient House, in or near the centre of the City,—Enquire of the Editor.
Treasury Department,
AUGUST 10, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the twenty-ninth day of September next inclusive, for the supply of all Rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1793, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts hereafter mentioned, viz.
1. At any place or places betwixt York-Town & Carlisle, in the state of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh, and at Pittsburgh, York-Town and Carlisle. 2. At any place or places from Pittsburgh to the mouth of Big Beaver Creek, and at the mouth of Big Beaver Creek. 3. At any place or places from the said mouth to the upper falls of the said Big Beaver, and at the upper falls. 4. At any place or places from the said upper falls to Mahoning, and at Mahoning. 5. At any place or places from the said Mahoning over to the Head Navigation of the River Cayahoga, and at the said Head Navigation. 6. At any place or places from the said Head Navigation to the mouth of the said River Cayahoga, and at the said mouth. 7. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Big Beaver Creek to the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence down the said Cayahoga River, and thence down the said River to its mouth. 8. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth of the said River Scioto. 9. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of Scioto River and the mouth of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Great Miami, and from thence to the Rapids or the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids. 10. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Great Miami, up the said Miami to and at Pique Town. 11. At any place or places from Fort Washington to Fort Hamilton, and at Fort Hamilton. At any place or places from Fort Hamilton to Fort St. Clair, and at Fort St. Clair. 12. At any place or places from Fort St. Clair to Fort Jefferson, and at Fort Jefferson. 13. At any place or places from Fort Jefferson to the field of action of the 4th of November, 1791, and at the said field of action. 14. At any place or places from the said field of action to the Miami Villages, and at the Miami Villages. 15. At any place or places from the said Miami Villages to the Falls of the Miami River, which empties into Lake Erie, and at the said Falls, and from thence to its mouth, and at its mouth. 16. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Miami River of Lake Erie to Sandusky Lake, and at Sandusky Lake. 17. At any place or places from the said Sandusky Lake to the mouth of the River Cayahoga. 18. At any place or places from the mouth of the said River Cayahoga to Presque Isle, and at Presque Isle. 19. At any place or places from Presque Isle to the stream running into Lake Erie from towards the Jadaghque Lake, and thence over to and at the said Jadaghque Lake, and thence down the Alleghany River to Fort Franklin. 20. At any place or places from Presque Isle to Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf. 21. At any place or places from Le Beuf to Fort Franklin, and at Fort Franklin, and from thence to Pittsburgh. 22. At any place or places from the Rapids of the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash River, and from the mouth of the said Wabash River to the mouth of the River Ohio. 23. At any place or places on the East side of the River Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio River, to the mouth of the Illinois River. 24. At any place or places on the East side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the River Margot inclusively. 25. At any place or places from the said River Margot to the River Yazous inclusively. 26. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Wabash River up to Fort Knox, and at Fort Knox. 27. At any place or places from Fort Knox, up the said Wabash, to Ouittanon, and at Ouittanon. 28. At any place or places from Ouittanon, up the said Wabash, to the head navigation of a branch thereof called Little River, and at the said head navigation of Little River. 29. At any place or places from the said head navigation of Little River over to the Miami Village. 30. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Tenesse to Occochoppo or Bear Creek, on the said River, inclusively. 31. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Cumberland to Nashville, on the said River, and at Nashville. And at any place or places within thirty miles of said Nashville to the Southward, Westward or Northward thereof. Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on betwixt the public and the contractor. The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz. One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork, Half a jill of rum, brandy or whisky, One quart of salt, Two quarts of vinegar, Two pounds of soap, One pound of candles, per 100 rations. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at each of the said posts, for the space of at least three months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is to be understood in each case, that all losses sustained by the depredations of the enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the prices of the articles captured or destroyed, on the deposition of two or more credible characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation is claimed. The contract for the above supplies will be made either for one year, or for two years, as may appear
eligible. Persons disposed to contract will therefore confine their offers to one year, or they may make their propositions to as to admit an option of the term of two years. The offers may comprise all the places which have been specified, or a part of them only.
Treasury Department,
AUGUST 20th, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the 13th day of October next inclusive, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December 1793, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the State of Massachusetts, and the Port of Well-Point, in the State of New-York.
The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the following articles, viz. One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork, Half a jill of rum, brandy or whisky, One quart of salt, Two quarts of vinegar, Two pounds of soap, One pound of candles, per 100 rations. The proposals may be made for both of the above-mentioned Posts, or separately, for Springfield and Well-Point.
Treasury Department,
AUGUST, 20th, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury until the fourth day of October next inclusive, for the supply of the following articles of Clothing for the Troops in the service of the United States—viz.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Quantity. Includes Hats, Coats, Vests, Woolen Overalls, Linen Overalls, Pairs of Shoes, Caps, Shirts, Socks, Blankets, Stocks, Stock Clasps, Buckles, Breeches, Boots, Rifle Shirts, Spurs.
The above Clothing to be delivered either in New-York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, at the option of the contractor or contractors, on or before the 15th day of June, 1793.
The proposals may comprise the whole of the before-mentioned Clothing, or any one or more of the component articles; to be furnished agreeably to patterns or specimens, which will be shown at the War Office. Good security will be required for the punctual and faithful performance of the contract. The payment will be on the delivery of the Clothing, or, if necessary, such reasonable advances will be made as the Secretary of the Treasury shall deem expedient.
War Department,
AUGUST 6, 1792.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the Military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are intitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of March 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of September 1792, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within the States respectively, under the usual regulations, viz. Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers.
1st. The certificate given by the state, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which as such he is annually entitled. 2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form:
A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of in the state of and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited) That he served (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the and county of and has resided there for the last years, previous to which he resided in
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeably to the following form:
I, A. B. of county of state of do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for six months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and ending the fifth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. Signed and sealed in the presence of Witnesses.
Acknowledged before me, Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also at the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim. By command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
The Printers in the respective States are requested to publish the above in their newspapers, for the space of two months.
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