Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-06-15 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 14, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1791.
[Whole No. 222.]
R E P O R T OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, ON THE SUBJECT OF THE COD AND WHALE FISHERIES. [CONTINUED.] No. XI.
AN ACT of the King's Council of State, for the encouragement of the commerce of France with the United States of America.
December 29th, 1787.
Extract from the Records of the Council of State.
THE King desirous of encouraging the commerce of his subjects, with the United States of America, and of facilitating between the two nations connections reciprocally useful: Having heard the report of the Sieur Lambert, Counsellor of State, and of the Royal Council of Finance, and Commerce, Comptroller General of Finance, his Majesty being in his Council, has ordained and does ordain as follows:
ARTICLE I.
Whale oils and spermaceti, the produce of the fisheries of the citizens and inhabitants of the United States of America, which shall be brought into France directly in French vessels, or in those of the United States, shall continue to be subjected to a duty only of seven livres ten sols the barrel of five hundred and twenty pounds weight, and whale-fins shall be subject to a duty of only six livres thirteen sols four deniers the kental, with the ten sols per livre on each of the said duties; which ten sols per livre shall cease on the last day of December one thousand, seven hundred and ninety; his majesty reserving to himself to grant further favours to the produce of the whale fisheries carried on by the fishermen of the United States of America, which shall be brought into France in French vessels, or in those of the United States, if, on the information which his Majesty shall cause to be taken thereon, he shall judge it expedient for the interest of the two nations.
II. The other fish oils, and dry or salted fish, the produce in like manner of the fisheries of the citizens and inhabitants of United States, and brought also directly into France, in their, or in French vessels, shall not pay any other nor greater duties than those to which the oils and fish of the same kind, the produce of the fisheries of the Hanseatic Towns, or of other the most favored nations, are or shall be subject in the same case.
III. The manufacture of candles and tapers of spermaceti, shall be permitted in France, as that of other candles and tapers.
IV. Corn, wheat, rye, rice, peas, beans, lentils, flaxseed and other seeds, flour, trees and shrubs, pot-ash and pearl-ash, skins and fur of beaver, raw hides, furs and peltry, and timber brought from the United States directly into France in French vessels or in those of the United States, shall not be subject but to a duty of one eighth per cent. on their value.
V. Vessels built in the United States and sold in France, or purchased by Frenchmen, shall be exempt from all duties, on proof that they were built in the United States.
VI. Turpentine, tar and pitch, the produce of the United States of America, and brought directly into France in French vessels or in those of the United States, shall pay only a duty of two and a half per cent. on their value; and as well the duties mentioned in this as in the fourth article, shall be exempt from all addition of sous per livre.
VII. The exportation of arms of all sorts, and of gunpowder, for the United States of America, shall be always permitted in French vessels, or in those of the United States, paying for the arms a duty of one-eighth per cent. on their value; and gunpowder in that case shall be exempt from all duty, on giving a cautionary bond.
VIII. Papers of all sorts; even paper hangings and coloured papers, paste-board and books, shall be exempt from duties on their embarkation for the United States of America, in French vessels or in those of the United States, and shall be entitled in that case to a restitution of the fabrication duties on paper and paste-board.
IX. The admiralty duties on the vessels of the United States entering into, or going out of the ports of France, shall not be levied but conformably with the edict of the month of June last, in the cases therein provided for, and with the letters-patent of the tenth of January, one thousand seven hundred and seventy, for the objects for which no provision shall have been made by the said edict: his majesty reserving to himself moreover to make known his intentions as to the manner in which the said duties shall be levied, whether in proportion to the tonnage of the vessels or otherwise; as also to simplify the said duties of the admiralty, and to regulate them as far as shall be possible, on the principal of reciprocity, as soon as the orders shall be completed which were given by his Majesty according to the twenty-sixth article of the said edict of the month of June last.
X. The entrepot (or storing) of all the productions and merchandizes of the United States, shall be permitted for six months, in all the ports of France, open to the commerce of her colonies; and the said entrepot shall be subject only to a duty of one-eighth per cent.
XI. To favor the exportation of arms, hardware, jewellery, bonnetry* of wool and of cotton, coarse woolens, small draperies and stuffs of cotton of all sorts, and other merchandizes of French fabric, which shall be sent to the United States of America in French vessels, or in those of the United States, his Majesty reserves to himself to grant encouragements which shall be immediately regulated in his council, according to the nature of each of the said merchandizes.
XII. As to the other merchandizes not mentioned in this act, brought directly into France from the United States, in their or in French vessels, or carried from France to the said United States in French vessels, or in those of the United States, and with respect to all commercial conventions whatsoever, his Majesty wills and ordains that the citizens of the United States enjoy in France the same rights, privileges and exemptions with the subjects of his Majesty: saving the execution of what is provided in the ninth article hereof.
XIII. His Majesty grants to the citizens and inhabitants of the United States, all the advantages which are enjoyed, or which may be hereafter enjoyed by the most favored nations in his colonies of America; and moreover his Majesty assures to the said citizens and inhabitants of the United States, all the privileges and advantages which his own subjects of France enjoy, or shall enjoy, in Asia and
* This term includes bonnets, stockings, socks, under waistcoats, drawers, gloves and mittens, as sold by the bonnetiers.
in the seas leading thereto: Provided always that their vessels shall have been fitted out and dispatched in some port of the United States.
His Majesty commands and orders M. le due de Penthièvre, Admiral of France, the Intendants and Commissaries de parti in the provinces, the Commissaries de parti for the observation of the ordinances in the admiralties, the Officers of the admiralties, Masters of the ports, Judges des traites, and all others to whom it shall belong, to be aiding in the execution of the present regulation, which shall be registered in the offices of the said admiralties, read, published and posted wherever shall be necessary.
Done in the King's Council of State, his Majesty present, held at Versailles the twenty-ninth of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven. (Signed) Le Ct. De La LUZERNE. (To be continued.)
EDENTON, (N.C.) May 27.
To the PRESIDENT of the United States of America. The ADDRESS of the Merchants, Traders and principal Inhabitants of the town of Fayetteville.
SIR, ALTHOUGH our voice can add little to the general acclamation which attends you, and to your Excellency must be of small moment, yet amidst the warm congratulations on the appearance in this state of their beloved Chief Magistrate, our silence would indicate a want of respect; a silence which would be the more reprehensible in a community so largely interested in trade and navigation, more peculiarly under the directing hand of that government in which you preside.
Could any incident encrease the veneration we feel for your illustrious character, heretofore so fully established as the soldier, the statesman and the patriot, it is your present expedition, in undertaking at an advanced period of life, a long and laborious journey for the purpose of advising yourself, by personal observations and enquiry, of the true interests of the several states which compose our confederation. From this tour we presage the happy consequence, that those who are not yet satisfied with the tendency, operation and effects of the present constitution of the union, will be convinced of its superior excellency to all former systems of government.
Throughout your journey we with you as much satisfaction as can attend it, and if in its progress we are to be honoured by your visitation, the citizens of Fayetteville will be happy in every attention which may contribute to your pleasure and convenience.
Under the impression of the importance of a life so valuable to our country we commit it to God, with our most fervent prayer, that it may long be preserved as full of happiness as it hath been already full of glory.
Done at the general meeting of the Citizens of Fayetteville, at the State-house, on Friday, the 15th of April, 1791.
JOHN HAY, Chairman.
The above address was to have been presented to the President at Wilmington, but as he had left that place before the paper arrived, it was delivered to him in Brunswick county, on the 26th ult. To which he returned the following answer:
To the Citizens of FAYETTEVILLE.
GENTLEMEN, IT is due to your goodness and to my own feelings, that I should express the sensibility excited by your address, and that I should acknowledge the grateful pleasure with which I receive it.
My best services are more than compensated by the affectionate partiality of my fellow citizens, and my most anxious wishes are gratified in observing the happiness which pervades our country.
The very favourable change already manifested in our political system, justifies the prediction that the future operations of the general government will be alike conducive to individual prosperity and national honor.
Should it consist with the necessary arrangements of my journey, I shall be happy in a personal opportunity in confessing my obligations to the regard of the citizens of Fayetteville. In any event I entreat them to be persuaded of my sincere wishes for their welfare.
GEO. WASHINGTON.
The ADDRESS of the INHABITANTS of the Town of WILMINGTON, North-Carolina, TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
SIR, WE wait on you to offer the tribute of respect, gratitude and esteem, so justly due to your exalted station, your eminent public services, and the extraordinary virtues that adorn your character.
We thank you for the high honor conferred on us by your visit to this place in your tour through the southern states, and salute you with the most cordial welcome to the chief sea port town of the extensive state of North-Carolina.
It may be proper to observe, Sir, that if the progress of agricultural and commercial improvement, in the state of which we are a part, bore any proportion to the great natural resources it contains, this town would probably have surmounted some of the obvious disadvantages of its situation, and become more worthy of the honor it now enjoys by your presence.
Truly sensible that a system of government, at once benignant and efficient, is the sure source of safety and prosperity to every country where it obtains, we anticipate, with great pleasure, the effectual operation of the new constitution, persuading ourselves that the same wisdom, liberality, and genuine patriotism, of which there is so illustrious an example in the conduct of our Chief Magistrate, and have hitherto influenced, will continue to temper the councils of the nation; we ardently hope that admirable political fabric, reared upon the basis of public virtue, may prove a strong pillar of support to the union of the states—improved and strengthened by revolving years, may it be as durable as your fame, and extend the blessings of civil liberty to the latest ages.
Accept, Sir, our humble testimony, in addition to the innumerable instances you have experienced, in proof that the same sentiment pervades the breasts of the citizens of the United States universally, that to you, principally (under Providence) our common country is indebted for liberty and independence, that those invaluable acquisitions are become the means of permanent happiness, is equally an occasion of gratitude to you.
May you long continue on earth your country's glory and human nature's great ornament, and finally, in an immortal state receive from the Great Protector of the Universé, the rich reward that awaits the distinguished benefactors of mankind.
THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER.
To the INHABITANTS of the town of WILMINGTON.
GENTLEMEN, APPRECIATING with due value the sentiments you are pleased to express for my station and character, I should fail in candor and respect not to avow the grateful sensations excited by your address, for which I thank you with unfeigned sincerity.
Reasoning from the rapid progress of improvement throughout the United States, and adverting to the facility which every undertaking must derive from a settled system of government, the obviation of those disadvantages, imposed by situation on your town, may, I think, be calculated upon within no very distant period.
The sanction which experience has already given to the salutary influence of the general government on the affairs of the United States, authorises a well-founded expectation that every aid which a wise and virtuous legislation can render to individual industry, will be afforded, and creates a pleasing hope, that the happiness of her citizens will be commensurate with the growing dignity and importance of our country.
I express a heartfelt sentiment in wishing to your town and its inhabitants a full proportion of general and particular felicity.
G. WASHINGTON.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
(IMPROMPTU.) M. MIRABEAU.
WHENEVER he spoke, the world astonish'd heard; For, more than ever TULLY was, appear'd— Past, present, and to come, were all combin'd, And form'd one simple idea on the mind. As lightning quick, and as a sun-beam clear, He flash'd conviction, or he trill'd with fear. But ah, the sad reverse, when PLEASURE imil'd, This Giant politician—was a child.
A List of Vessels arrived at the Port of Philadelphia, from January the 1st to June 1st, 1791.
  27 Ships, } From Foreign Ports.   76 Brigs,   4 Snows,   27 Schooners,   44 Sloops,   309 Coasters. 

ODE TO WAR.
LORD of the scythed car! whose chief delight, 'Tis to raise the foul to fight; Come mighty God! and fill my strain With thy fury-flushing heat; Which like a roaring torrent sounds, As o'er the horrid rock it bounds: Or like the ocean's thundering beat, When by the howling winds on high, Its waves are lifted to the sky. 'Tis by thy aid alone, The tribe who pant to swell the fight, And see the cannon's flashing light; While awful thunders fill the air, Can view the tumult void of fear, And feel the scene their souls delight.— O! now my fancy views thy train, In dreadful splendor pale the plain! Thy fister ANGER marches first, With light'ning darting from her eyes; Her heart doth beat, With furious heat, As though each moment it would burst; While with up-lifted arm she threats the skies, And curling oft her birth, Doth stamp with mad'ning fury 'gainst the earth. Next comes Revenge an awful form! Who kindles all the rage of storm; His eyes a beamy horror dart, That shakes with fear the tim'rous heart; His breast a steel'd plate enfold, A brazen helmet guards his head, While in his hand a spear he holds, And all a dazzling terror shed. Next Jealousy , the god of spleen, Of doubting heart, but piercing mein, With trembling step, comes slowly on, And casts his fearful eyes around; To heaven now, and now to earth, And now he laughs with inward joy, But terror soon displaces mirth, And like a bashful maiden coy, He starts at ev'ry sound, And pauses now, and now in haste he flies along the ground, Then marches on a martial band , With arms and music in their hand: Now boldly sounds the shrilly fife, And wakes the sleeping soul to life; The doubling drum improves the sound, While from the hills the notes rebound: Hark! the sonorous trumpet blows, But louder plays the sweetly winding horn, While ev'ry breast with valour glows, And ev'ry soul with rage is borne On rapid wings, to join in war, The insulting foe, whose silly sounds are faintly heard from far. Last in the train comes Liberty , A GOD-LIKE BEING of the sky. Bright streams of light around his head, Dazzling silver-glory spread: His golden-hair amidst the blaze, In curling lines of beauty plays; His snowy robe of spotless hue, Was'h'd in heaven's ethereal dew, Wide floats upon the buoyant gale, While all around his presence hail! His left hand holds a sounding harp, While with his right he sweeps the silver wires, And piercing music, fierce and sharp, Inflames each breast with his own fires— The armed band with quicken'd pace, In equal measures beat the ground; And brighter beams in ev'ry race, The heavenly glow at ev'ry sound. But now he sweeps with bolder hand, The golden chords of deeper tone, And soul-subduing music floats, That melts to tears the warrior band, Who mute and listening stand: Quite ravish'd with the thrilling notes, They gaze and gaze on him alone.— Now all awake the listening soul, He ceas'd awhile the tuneful sound; And brightest tears of rapture roll, While thus he hail'd the troop around. "Ye glorious band! together wove, By mutual interest and by love; Be forever still the fame, Still be rous'd by virtue's flame, When'er the bagged servile train , Shall dare your liberty restrain. Thou Anger shew thy awful eye, Whence consuming light'nings dart; And thou Revenge of thundering air, Lift on high, thy beamy spear, That shakes with fear the coward's heart. And Jealousy thou changeless god! Who affect'st the doubting nod, Still extend thy piercing sight, And drag enslaving schemes to light: For by your aid combin'd alone, Shall I preserve my sky-built throne. And last ye glorious martial band ! Who firmly tread this favor'd land , When'er I strike my sounding harp, And rouse the accents fierce and sharp; Led by the ardor of your Gods , Grap in rage your gleaming arms, And pour from gaping wounds, the purple floods Of those who madly dare to rouse your dread alarms." Again he sweeps the golden strings, Loud echo with the music rings; The lofty mountains all around, With thundering shouts of praise resound. Now higher, bolder swells the note, And now the modulating sound, Upon the trembling wind doth float, Then murmuring dies away along the ground. The band inspir'd, now again, In quicken'd measure beat the plain; Now in a glorious blaze of light, They vanish from my fancy's sight.
U L L I N.
REMARK.
THE friends of Virtue and Religion in the United States, will receive a fine addition to the opinions and principles of the wisest and best men of the present and past age, in the work of M. NECKER, just re-published in this city by Carey, Stewart, & Co. No person of sentiment, who can spare the small sum of six shillings, will deny himself the pleasure and advantage of that inestimable performance.
L I S L E, March 31.
THE department of the North, which, after the late unfortunate Massacres at Douay, retired to this town, proceeded, on Sunday last, to elect a new Bishop: the poll lasted, at St. Peter's Church, till Wednesday afternoon, when the majority of electors appeared to be in favour of M. Primat, Curate of St. Jacques, Douay, a worthy priest; and the same, who, when the mob were dragging their mangled victims along the streets, interceded on his knees with the Russians, to give up the bodies for interment. This act of humanity has been the principal means of his elevation to the Episcopal Chair.
L O N D O N, April 9.
There is a fall of 77 per cent. in the Russian ruble. By the last mail we learn it was as low as twenty-seven pence halfpenny, which is a fall from forty-eight pence, the price it stood at before the war.
The National Assembly has decreed, that the new edifice of Genevieve shall be appropriated to receive the ashes of great men; that M. de Mirabeau's ashes shall be deposited there; and that over the door shall be engraved, "Aux grands hommes, la patrie reconnaissante."
If any man had said, in the last century, that the Turkish empire was to be saved by Christians, his prediction would have been considered as the very essence of folly; and yet that crisis approaches fast.
Last week a person named Archibald Cameron, of Inch Keith, a small island on the North West coast of the Highlands of Scotland, died without pain, groan, or previous sickness, in the 122d year of his age. This post-diluvian Patriarch last served seven Lords of the isle in the employment of domestic piper, during the course of ninety-four years, but his fingers failing, he lived on a small pension allowed by the family.
On Friday last at noon, ten millions of Assignats were burnt at Paris, making, with those burnt before, fifty-two millions of livres, or 2,166,606l.
The coronation of the Emperor at Prague, as King of Bohemia, will give occasion to the revival of an amusement, that of the tournament. There is to be one in that city in September, with lance and sword, similar to that given in 1616. Prince Adam, of Hugsberg, is to be the Marshal; and the mountain of Ziska, the scene of the contention.
M. Lambo Cazoni has arrived at Trieste, to take upon himself the command of the Russian flotilla, in the Mediterranean.
If the late Mr. Wray actually conceived at the time of his inserting within his last testament, a bequest of five hundred pounds towards a fund for the discharge of the national debt, that such an event was likely to take place, a ground for setting aside the will, under a suspicion of the insanity of the donor, appears at least as firm and tenable as that upon which the Parliament voted that Colonel Strange's will must have been out of his senses, when he left behind him a legacy of thirty thousand pounds for a similar purpose. A case at least as strange as either of these in question is that of Colonel Norton, who, dying at Southwick, his residence near Portsmouth, in December, 1732, bequeathed a real estate of six thousand pounds a year, and sixty thousand pounds in money, to the poor, the hungry, and the thirsty; to the naked, to strangers, the sick, the wounded, and prisoners, until the end of the world. He left his pictures and other valuable effects to the King; appointing the Parliament of Great Britain his executors; and directed that if they refused the trust, it should devolve upon the Bench of Bishops. Trustees were immediately appointed, under proper authority, to take care of this extraordinary legacy; but the will bore such striking marks of insanity, that it was soon afterwards set aside; and, if we mistake not, the estate is now enjoyed, with more propriety and justice, by (one of his relations) Mr. Thistlethwayte.
Died on Sunday, at Busselleigh, near Oxford, where he had gone for change of air, in his 61st year, Dr. John Berkenhout, long distinguished in the literary world for his productions in various sciences.
APRIL 12.
Yesterday Lord Porchester moved the following resolutions in the House of Peers—which were negatived.
1st. That a war of Conquest is repugnant to the honor or policy of the British nation. 2d. That the war entered into with Tippoo Sultan, and the treaty for the partition of his dominions, is highly disgraceful to the British name. 3d. That the Board of Control and Court of Directors, be directed to transmit such orders to their servants abroad, as are most likely to restore the general tranquility of that country.
The National Assembly of France has at length resolved to put a period to its own existence; for it has decreed that a New-Assembly shall be called and meet in July next.
H O U S E O F C O M M O N S, APRIL 15.
Mr. Sheridan presented a petition from Glasgow, signed by eighteen thousand persons, against the Corn Bill. Ordered to be referred to the Committee on the Bill.
D U B L I N, March 5.
The Roman Catholics of the British Empire have reason to glory in this age of philosophy. A few years will put them on that equality with their fellow subjects, which we find in the wise and noble policy of the United States.
The Americans improved on the British Constitution; they are now the happiest people in the world—rising from despotism into opulence and respectability. All classes are united, and happy. How powerful will the revolution of a century render them under such a government!
P O R T S M O U T H, (N. H.) May 28.
We are credibly informed that, should the lower counties in the district of Maine, succeed in their endeavors to have that district set off as a separate State, the inhabitants of the county of York will use their united exertions to be annexed to this State.
The proximity of the above county to this State, the habits of intimacy between the inhabitants, and their relative situation both in an agricultural and commercial view, must render such a connection not only politic as a local, but highly judicious as a national measure.
The Turks have lost since the beginning of the War with Russia, nearly 220 large ships, carrying more than two thousand guns of different calibres.
Accounts from Madrid say—"The King has just given orders to M. Cavellero, the late Minister of the war department, to quit Madrid, but for what reason is unknown."
The Circuit Court of the United States, having finished the business brought before it, in this town, was on Thursday afternoon last adjourned without day. And yesterday their Honors Chief Justice JAY and Judge CUSHING, set out for their respective homes.
N E W - H A V E N, June 8.
Last week the corner stone of the first abutment of East-river bridge, was laid, under the direction of the Mayor of this city, attended by the Rev. Doctor Stiles, and other gentlemen of the Clergy—the Aldermen and other officers of the corporation, the civil magistrates of the town, and a number of gentlemen and ladies; the ceremony was closed with three huzzas's. The preceding day having been wet, rendered it unsafe for the company to partake of a cold collation in the field, and they repaired to the house of Alderman Daggit, (one of the contractors for the bridge) and were entertained with elegance and hospitality; on the stone was the following inscription:
ERECTED, MAY 31st, A. D. M.DCC.XCI. AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE. XV. HON. ROGER SHERMAN, MAYOR.
N E W A R K, June 9.
Married, at Philadelphia, on Monday evening, the 30th ult. by the Rev. Dr. Nesbit, President of Dickinson College, the Rev. Dr. John Witherspoon, President of Princeton College in this state, to Mrs. Ann Dill, widow of Dr. Dill, of York county, in that state, a lady of great beauty and merit.—On Wednesday, after the President's return to Princeton with his amiable lady, a deputation of the Students waited upon him, to congratulate him upon the joyful occasion, and he politely gave them two days holiday. In the evening, in regard to their worthy President, and to testify their joy upon his happy marriage, the students illuminated the college, which afforded a most grand and beautiful sight to the numerous spectators who had collected upon the occasion. There were six hundred candles in the front of the college, which were lighted almost instantly on a signal given by the discharge of a cannon, and on the like signal they were all immediately extinguished.
During the illumination, which lasted about an hour, a number of students in the belfry, entertained the great concourse of people who attended, with a most agreeable and delightful concert of music from different kinds of instruments. The whole was conducted with elegance and taste.
"Joy sparkled in every eye, and every heart was glad."
L A N S I N B U R G, June 3.
By the last Bennington paper we are informed, that the party at the British post lately held in that state, has recently been recalled.

BOSTON, June 4.
By an arrival from France, the editor has received French Gazettes, published at Paris, as late as April 12. The first article of importance they contain, is an account of the sudden death of M. (late Count) Mirabeau—whose talents as a statesman and a scholar—whose zeal in the cause of liberty—have made his loss very sensibly felt throughout all France. He died the 2d of April—an eulogium on him was spoken in the National Assembly.
The National Assembly proceed with steadiness and harmony in the great work of reorganizing the nation—The great objects of the Constitution have been effected—Some subordinate regulations were before the Assembly at the date of our papers; and they appeared to contemplate with pleasure the speedy arrival of the period which shall close their labours, and give to the French nation a legitimate legislature.
We see nothing in the papers of those riots, plots and stratagems which have so frequently been detailed in the London papers. Almost all the Clergy have taken the oath of allegiance, as have the Ambassadors, &c. to foreign courts.—Three of the latter have refused, and their stations have been filled by other persons.
The Right Rev. Bishop CARROL, of the Roman Catholick Church, arrived in town a few days since—and has confirmed the baptisms of a number of Catholicks. This gentleman, justly esteemed for his piety, learning and benevolence, will preach to-morrow at the Roman Catholick Church.
If, as Mr. Burke laments, “the age of chivalry is gone;” the circumstance of beholding every denomination in the full exercise of their religious privileges, proves that we have in exchange, an age of Toleration, Liberty and Light.
Yesterday arrived here a Brig from St. Maloes, in France, under the French National Flag, the first ever displayed in this port. She had 55 days passage, but brings nothing new—The report of the opening of the ports, &c. is founded in error. She brought some dispatches for the Consul.
Capt. Mercalfe, in his late letters, says, he is fitting out a vessel, at Canton, upwards of 1100 tons, for New-York; to be freighted with the most valuable commodities of that country.
Capt. Prince, of the Massachusetts Indiaman, has arrived in town from Canton. The Massachusetts was sold to the Royal India Company of Denmark.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in London, to his friend in this town, March 2.
“THE Albion Mill, at the Surry end of Blackfriar’s Bridge—the pride, the triumph of mechanical ingenuity—a work in which artificial force had been applied, perhaps, to a greater extent, and with more energy, precision and utility of effect, than in any other structure of the kind that has been produced in the known world, *this morning fell a sacrifice, I fear, to private malignity, being totally consumed by fire in about three hours. This magnificent structure cost 75,000 pounds sterling. I am just come from viewing the tremendous spectacle—with what sensations I cannot describe. I have already met with people, whose minds are little enough to palliate, and even attempt to justify, this horrid fact; stigmatizing the Albion Mill as a monopoly:—To such, one can only afford to sport a jocular answer—“that in the utmost strength of the objection, it was only being imposed upon, by one set of rogues, instead of a thousand.” But I have a much better (and a much better founded) opinion of this great undertaking; and of the general equity of that government which has never discountenanced it.
* This prodigious machine was put in motion by the force of steam.
LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 1.
Ordered, That Mr. Mason, Mr. Saunders, and Mr. Henshaw be a committee to examine what forwardness the Accounts of this Commonwealth against the United States are in, and report.
JUNE 2.
The committee appointed to consider the expediency of discontinuing the Excise Laws, &c. reported,—that it would be expedient to pass a Law repealing all the Excise Laws now existing.
NEW-LONDON, June 9.
A letter from A. O. to T. ALLEN, received by the Newport mail this evening, says, “Two American vessels arrived at Wampoo, near Canton, in October last, viz. Brig Elenora, capt. Mercalfe and Schooner Polly, capt. Douglass, from the northwest coast of America. They have made very successful voyages. A small Schooner fitted out by capt. Mercalfe and commanded by his son, had likewise made a good voyage, but were afterwards cut off at one of the Sandwich Islands, and every soul murdered. The ship General Washington, in which I am a passenger, had short of four months passage from China to St. Eustatia, and it is but ten days since we left Statia.
SALEM, June 7.
Capt. Moseley, who left l’Orient the 25th of April, and arrived here yesterday, informs, that perfect order and tranquillity appeared to reign in France—that the people were full of ideas of liberty, and happy under their present government.—The account of the death of the celebrated M. Mirabeau spread a general gloom over the inhabitants of l’Orient, who were mourning on the occasion.
NEW-YORK, June 10.
DEATH OF DR. PRICE.
DIED, on Tuesday morning, 18th April, at his house at Newington Green, near London, the Rev. Dr. PRICE, celebrated as a Divine, a Philosopher, and a Politician. The friends of civil liberty, and the people of these United States in particular, have just cause to deplore the loss of this truly great and good man, who has so often and so ably employed his pen in their cause.
Philadelphia, June 15.
Mr. Hadfield, who lately killed Mr. Sterrett, of Baltimore, in a duel, is arrived at Niagara, and claimed protection from his pursuers, from the British government.
The importation of blubber, oil, whale-fins and spermaceti, into Great-Britain, from the United States, is prohibited in either British or American vessels.
The Ship Four Friends, Capt. Volans, from Cadiz, arrived here on Saturday last.
In this ship came passengers, His Excellency Don Joseph Jaudenes, Commissioner from his Catholic Majesty to the United States of America, Don Joseph Santayana, Mr. James Leamy, and Mr. Joseph Wiseman.
It appears by the proceedings of the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Newark, New-Jersey, on the 4th instant, that a Copy Right in the Book of Common Prayer, as altered by the late general Episcopal Convention, had been claimed by William Hall , as proprietor under the act of Congress. The convention have remonstrated against this claim, and declare it is not well founded—that such assumed exclusive privilege is in its operation an imposition on the members of that church: and they accordingly propose, that the several state conventions of the Episcopal Clergy should take measures to have the said book printed reasonably, and expediously, that a general supply of them may be obtained.
In a hail storm in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, the 24th ult. very great injury was sustained—the crops of grain, and in short every green thing within its reach were destroyed—cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry were killed by the hail stones, some of which were found to weigh three ounces—many persons exposed were very much wounded; and it was observed that the horses had large swellings on their heads and bodies, occasioned by strokes from the hail.
A writer in Mr. Dunlap’s paper, noticing the account of the Caterpillars in Elizabeth-Town, Maryland, says—“That the smell of gunpowder will entirely destroy these insects. Make a run of powder near or round the spot, or place at some distance small heaps of powder, when the dew lays upon the plant, burn it and the smoke will kill them. If they should be in cabbage or other vegetables, fire a gun between the rows; it will have the same effect. This method is successfully practised in Holland, and has always answered the purpose.”
By the latest European arrival, the reasons of the Empress of Russia for declining the mediatorial offices of the allied powers are received in a memorial sent by the Danish Ambassador to the Courts of London, Berlin, and the Hague.
After saying that Denmark had fulfilled its engagements in attempting to bring about a peace, the memorial states the reasons assigned by the Empress, the substance of which is, “That her Imperial Majesty will neither dispute upon terms nor abstract ideas, but the appeals to the hearts of those Sovereigns of whose friendship she is desirous, whether there can exist a more equitable statu quo than that which she proposes, of restoring a number of entire provinces, only to retain one single place, and an uncultivated district, for the sole purpose of procuring to herself a more secure frontier; and if ever a power, constantly victorious, had given such strong and decided proofs of perfect moderation. She has yet very important considerations to insist on: she wishes not to be confounded with those ambitious Sovereigns, whose threatening progress ought to be stopped: she is desirous of retaining but one part, which is only useful to her, as tending to her security, and which is but an imperceptible point, when compared with her Empire or that of the Turks: she does not threaten the Turks with destruction: she restores to them almost every thing: she restores to them what they are neither able to defend, nor to preserve.”
Her Imperial Majesty lastly says, “That she is persuaded that she shall find those Courts whom she considers as her friends, as much disposed to moderation as she is herself. That it is the only rivalry to which her heart will open; it will be inaccessible to that of force and power.”
By the latest British accounts it appears that the prospect of war with Russia was almost at an end. Mr. Pitt and the King of Prussia it is said are willing to accede to the propositions of the Empress, communicated by the Danish Ambassador.
Recent accounts from the French West Indies inform, that peace and tranquillity are returning, and the prospect of a good crop is very flattering.
By a late London paper we learn, that the Whig Club of England has expressed its disapprobation of a war with Russia, in the most pointed terms, as a body.
Accounts from France, several days subsequent to the death of M. Mirabeau, inform, that the National Assembly were drawing near to a close of their labours in completing the constitution.—The astonishing abilities of M. Mirabeau had been exerted to great effect. The English paragraphists represent him as the main prop of the revolution; but it may justly be queried, whether an extensive confidence was placed in him either by the assembly or the nation, when it was well known, and the event has shewn it, that if the existence and establishment of the revolution had depended on his abilities, they would have been risked on the consequences of a debauch.
A terrible fever was raging in the county of Wexford, Ireland, the beginning of April last—and from some circumstances attending the rise and progress of the disorder, it was greatly feared to be the plague . Four and five persons were laying dead at one time in a house. The next arrival from that kingdom, will probably bring further particulars.
By the latest arrivals from Europe, it appears that the foreign markets for wheat and flour are extremely dull, and will very probably continue so. An extra duty is laid on the exportation of foreign flour from Spain to their West-India islands—and there is a corn-bill before the British House of Commons, which has an unfavorable aspect. This bill has been carried in committee, by which the average price of wheat for regulating the importation, is to be 52s. per quarter, instead of 48s. as usual—and what is worse, any wheat arriving in any port of Great-Britain when the ports are shut, is not to be landed at all.
LIBERALITY.
At the annual Artillery Election dinner in Boston, the 6th inst.—the Blessing was asked by the Rev. Dr. PARKER, an Episcopalian, and Thanks returned by the Right Rev. Bishop CARROLL, a Roman Catholick.
APPOINTMENTS.
WILLIAM BRADFORD, jun. Esq. having resigned the commission which he held under the authority of the late Supreme Executive Council, the Governor has re-appointed him Attorney-General of the Commonwealth.
EDWARD BURD, Esq. has, in like manner, been re-appointed Prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
ARRIVALS at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
  Ship Conception, Stephens, Bilboa,   Brig Columbus, Silman, Malaga,   Mary, Moll, Barbadoes,   Minerva, Morgan, Jamaica via Port-au-Prince, 
Securities as in our last.
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A TREATISE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGIOUS OPINIONS. BY M. NECKER.
Extracts from the Monthly Review, vol. 78, page 558.
De l’importance des opinions religieuses. By M. NECKER.
THE offering here made at the shrine of religion, by a man of business, a man of true political wisdom, and a man of the world, in the city of Paris, is a curious phenomenon.—It is also a noble one—and gives M. Necker, who has been long esteemed for his great capacity, literary merit, and eminent virtues, a new and distinguished title to the veneration of the public. It has been this virtuous man’s destiny to arrive at eminence in every line that he has pursued, from the counting house to the threshold of the cabinet. And it is impossible, if we read the work before us with candour and attention, not to see that both his head and his heart make a distinguished and affecting appearance in the cause of religion.
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“We rejoice to see this excellent work naturalized here—and it ought to be translated into every European language.” (41)

A CARD. JOSEPH WHEATON PRESENTS his compliments to his old Military Friends, the Gentlemen of the Civil List, and the Public—wishes they may be informed that he has received a very handsome ASSORTMENT of the best chosen
SPRING GOODS, By the PIGOU, and other late arrivals, which are now opening at his KNOWN CHEAP STORE, No. 38, Third-Street, North, and which he is determined to dispose of (at wholesale or retail) on so low terms as must make it an object to customers.—Orders from his friends will be attended to with punctuality and dispatch, and the time of payment made convenient. Philad. May 2, 1791.
PUBLIC SECURITIES, BOUGHT and SOLD, on COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON, Chesnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97. MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL Lottery Tickets, Class SECOND, to be had at the same place. May 28, 1791. (eptf)
PINTARD and BLEECKER, PURCHASE and SELL all kinds of Certificates & Public Securities, On COMMISSION, at public and private sale, on the following terms:
ON the specie amount of all sales or purchases at auction, one eighth per cent. On ditto of all sales or purchases at private sale, on all sums below 5000 nominal dollars, one-half per cent.; and on all sums above 5000 nominal dollars, one-fourth per cent. For receiving interest at the Loan-Office, one per cent. For making transfers at ditto, one dollar each transfer. Such persons throughout the United States, as may be pleased to favor the subscribers with their orders, may rely on their being executed with punctuality, fidelity and dispatch, as considerable experience in the public funds, together with extensive connections in the city of New-York and different parts of the continent, enable them to conduct their operations with peculiar advantages. PINTARD & BLEECKER, New-York, No. 57, King-Street. March 15, 1791. (97 1aw 6m)
ADVERTISEMENT. THE Subscriber, who served a regular apprenticeship to the business of VENDUE-MASTER, under Mr. GEORGE KELLY, has just opened an OFFICE in the Borough of NORFOLK, Virginia, in a good and convenient House, situated near the County Wharf, where he is in hopes of giving general satisfaction to all those that may be pleased to favor him with their commands. JOHN H. HALL. Norfolk, Virginia, April 21, 1791. (1 cp 7w)
New-Haven Wharf Lottery. THE Legislature of the State of Connecticut, at their session in December last, granted a Lottery for the purpose of extending Union Wharf, in the harbour of New-Haven, to the channel; and appointed the subscribers managers, who having given bond for the faithful discharge of their trust, present the public with the following table of prizes.
1 Prize of 10,000 Dollars, is 10,000 1 5000 5000 1 4000 4000 2 2000 are 4000 4 1000 4000 5 500 2500 12 200 2400 32 100 3000 45 50 2250 50 40 2000 61 30 1830 100 20 2000 140 10 1400 5390 8 43,120 5842 Prizes. 11658 Blanks. 17500 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, is 87500 NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE. Subject to a deduction of twelve and a half per cent. The public utility of extending this wharf, is too evident to require any comment, to those who are acquainted with the town and harbour of New-Haven; to those who are not, suffice it to say, that its beautiful situation is not surpassed, if equalled by any; being in the heart of a country, which may, with propriety, be said to be the garden of America. The harbour lays open to the sound but by reason of the flats, this wharf is necessarily extended to the channel, where ships can load and unload; and when completed, will be the most extensive and commodious wharf in America, the whole extent being about 3/4ths of a mile; and not only the mercantile interest of New-Haven and the towns adjacent, but the maritime interest of all the States will be benefited by it. The general with that prevails in the minds of all classes of people, for the success of this enterprise, together with the very great advantage which this scheme holds out to adventurers (there being more capital prizes for the number of tickets than any yet published in America) induce the managers to believe the tickets will meet with a speedy sale. The drawing will positively commence at the State-House, in New-Haven, on the 13th of September next, or sooner, if the tickets are sold. A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid on demand, by the managers. Those prizes not called for in nine months after drawing, will be deemed as generously given for the use of the wharf, and appropriated accordingly. MANAGERS: JAMES RICE, MICHAEL TODD, JEREMIAH ATWATER, ELIJAH AUSTIN, JOSEPH DRAKE, JOSEPH HOWELL. New-Haven, April 14, 1791. TICKETS in the above Lottery may be had at the Compting-house of Messrs. STEPHEN AUSTIN, and Co. corner of Front and Pine-Streets. Who will pay the prizes which may be drawn by Tickets purchased of them in said Lottery. Tickets in the Massachusetts Lottery that have drawn prizes, will be received in payment for the above tickets. Blank Powers to receive the Interest, and for the transfer of the principal of public debt, agreeable to the Rules established in the Treasury Department: Also Blanks for abstracts of Certificates, to be sold by the Editor.
MATTHEW M'CONNELL, IN CHESNUT-STREET, No. 66, BUYS and SELLS all kinds of THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THE UNION; has frequently occasion to NEGOTIATE INLAND BILLS OF EXCHANGE—and will receive Orders for making SUBSCRIPTIONS to the BANK of the UNITED STATES. Philadelphia, March 30, 1791. (96 tf)
TO THE PUBLIC. ON the fourteenth of January last the subscriber presented a memorial to Congress, stating his intention to publish a complete and correct octavo edition of the Laws, Resolutions, and Treaties of the United States, and praying that such measures might be adopted as would give AUTHENTICITY to said edition. The memorial was read in the House of Representatives, and referred to the Secretary of State. On the seventh of February that officer, after mature deliberation made the following report:— "The Secretary of State, to whom was referred the memorial of Andrew Brown, printer, of Philadelphia, has had the same under his consideration, and thereupon makes the following REPORT.
The Memorialist states that he has in contemplation to publish a correct edition of the Laws, Treaties, and Resolutions of the United States, and prays, that such measures may be adopted for giving a public authentication to his work, as may ensure its reception throughout the United States. The Secretary of State observes, that there exists, at present, but a single edition of the laws of the United States, to wit, the one printed by Childs and Swaine; that this edition is authentic, the proof-sheets thereof having been carefully collated by sworn clerks, with the original rolls in his office, and rendered literally conformable therewith. That the first volume of this edition can now rarely be found, the copies originally printed being mostly disposed of.
That it is desirable that copies of the laws should be so multiplied throughout the states, and in such cheap forms, as that every citizen of the United States may be able to procure them. That it is important also, that such publications be rendered authentic, by a collation of the proof-sheets with the original rolls, by sworn clerks, when they are printed at the seat of government, or in its neighbourhood, and by a collation of the whole work when printed at a distance, and a certified correction of its typographical errors annexed to each volume. That this, however, if done at the public expense, would occasion an inconvenient augmentation of the number of clerks, as the act of collation requires the presence of three clerks, one to hold the roll, a second a printed copy already authenticated, and the third the proof sheet.
That it would be more reasonable that persons of confidence should be employed, at the expense of the Editor, to be named and sworn as clerks, for the special occasion. That, in this way, he is of opinion that it will be advantageous to the public to permit that the Laws, to be printed by the Memorialist, be collated with, and corrected by, the original rolls, and that a certificate thereof, by the Secretary of State, be annexed to the Edition.
THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State. February 5, 1789." In consequence of this report, Congress have adopted the following resolve—"RESOLVED by the SENATE and HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Andrew Brown, or any other printer, be permitted, under the direction of the Secretary of State, to collate with, and correct by, the original rolls, the Laws, Resolutions and Treaties of the United States, to be by him printed. And that a certificate of their having been so collated and corrected be annexed to the said Edition. Provided, That such collation and correction be at the expense of the said Andrew Brown, or such other printer, and that the person or persons to be by him or them employed in that service, be approved by the Secretary of State. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. Approved, February the eighteenth, 1791. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. Deposited among the Rolls in the Office of the Secretary of State THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State."
As this Edition of the STATUTES OF THE UNITED STATES is to be printed at the seat of government, and with the approbation of Congress, and as the proof-sheets shall be collated with the original rolls and records, by sworn clerks, in the office of the Secretary of State, there can be no doubt but it will meet with a candid and universal reception. Confiding particularly in the patronage of the citizens of the United States, whose interests are most materially connected with a due execution of this work, the editor submits to their consideration the following
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. 1st. The work shall be printed with a newtype on good paper. 2d. The acts of the different sessions of each Congress (the duration of which is limited, by the Constitution, to the term of two years) shall be comprised in one volume, octavo, and delivered to the subscribers in boards. 3d. The volume, from the commencement of the first, to the conclusion of the present session, shall be printed with the utmost expedition; and every other volume shall be ready to be delivered at Philadelphia in a few days after the close of the last session of every future Congress;—or the work shall be delivered in numbers at the close of each session (at the option of the subscribers) the acts of each session making a number. 4th. The first volume shall contain such acts of the Congress, under the Confederation, as may be thought most important to be generally known in the administration of the present government, together with the acts of the first, second, and third sessions of the present Congress, and the treaties which have been entered into with foreign nations, and with the Indian tribes. The first volume, it is supposed, will contain five hundred and fifty pages; in this case the price will be one dollar and two thirds: should the number of pages be more or less, the price will be increased or diminished in proportion. 5th. A Complete index shall be annexed to each volume. Those who may incline to patronize this highly necessary, and very laborious, as well as expensive undertaking, are requested to forward their names to any of the following gentlemen, viz.
Mr. Thomas B. Waite, Portland, Massachusetts; James Harper, Esq. Portsmouth, N. H. Messrs. Thomas and Andrews, Boston; John Carter, Esq. Providence, Jacob Richardson, Esq. Newport, R. I. Messrs. Hudson and Goodwin, Hartford; Mr. Isaac Beers, New-Haven; David Russell, Esq. Bennington, Vermont; Mr. Robert Hodge, New-York; Mr. Isaac Collins, Trenton; Messrs. Craig and Co. Wilmington, Delaware; Messrs. Goddard and Angell, Baltimore; Augustine Davis, Esq. Richmond; L. Standing, Esq. Eden-ton, N. C. Mr. W. P. Young, Charleston, S. C. Alexander Watt, Esq. Savannah; Messrs. Alexander and James Parker, merchants, Lexington, Kentucky. Or to ANDREW BROWN, the publisher, in the city of Philadelphia. Philad. 22d Feb. 1791.
PRICE CURRENT.—PHILADELPHIA. JUNE 15.—DOLLARS at 7/6. Table listing prices for various goods including ANCHORS, Allum, Alhes, Arrack, Brandy, Braziletto, Bricks, Bread, Beer, RUM, SALT, STAVES, SKINS, GRAIN, IRON, TEAS, WINE, OIL, and a COURSE OF EXCHANGE section.
ADVERTISEMENT. WHEREAS by the death of JOHN GEBBIE, the Partnership of GEBBIE and ELLIS is dissolved. The subscriber, surviving co-partner and administrator of said deceased, requests all persons who have any demands against their late firm, to send forward their accounts for settlement as soon as convenient; and all those who are indebted to said firm, by bond, note, or book-account, are earnestly requested to discharge the same without delay. CHARLES ELLIS. Burlington, June 7, 1791. (cp 2w)