Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-09-03 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. 37, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1791.
[Whole No. 245.]
FROM THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL, &c.
To the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury of the County of ABBEVILLE in the STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
A PRESENTMENT from your body to one of the judicial courts of your State, has been published in several Gazettes in the United States. As it applies solely to a national law, it is a proper object of decent comment for any of your fellow citizens; and it cannot be doubted that you will be ready to hear any thing, which can prove you are honestly mistaken in a matter which is deemed of so much importance to liberty, and which is also of consequence to the credit of our common country abroad, and at home.
You say the excise act is a grievance of the highest nature. This is strong language, brethren, and stronger, it is believed, than you will find the facts to support. If this law had been passed without competent powers in Congress, and to carry on an ambitious war, it would surely have been a grievance of a higher nature. This is no play on words, for grand juries are sober and important bodies of men, have the most serious duties to perform—should “enquire diligently, and make true presentment.” They should not misname man-slaughter and call it murder, nor should they call by either of those criminal names, the lawful actions of an individual, much less of a government, though those actions should unhappily end in death. It is never well in discharge of public duties to let expressions go forth, which, by irritating, may produce lamentable evils. The more freedom is used with you, brethren, on this point, because it is supposed the language of freedom will not be offensive to you, and because you have shown all necessary moderation and reason in the conclusion of your presentment, by recommending a constitutional and lawful application, through your senators and representatives, for an alteration of the law.
You say also, that all excises are incompatible with liberty, which history, you observe, will fully shew. This is certainly a mistake, for the history of every nation that ever contracted debts, and formed a system to discharge those debts shews that they have uniformly had recourse to them. The American provinces had excises laid by their own legislatures, the popular branches of which were freely chosen by the people—yet nobody ever thought, or said, the provincial legislatures enslaved their constituents. On the contrary, it is well known they were constantly engaged in struggles, against the crown, in favor of the people. The State of Pennsylvania, which had only one popular house, for many years, and no negative in the executive, had an excise through half this century—The amount of it being eight pence, their money, per gallon, was as near as possible to nine cents, which is the rate of country spirits, per gallon, under the act of Congress, unless the distiller, living in the country, chuses to pay sixty cents per annum, for each gallon his still holds, for the right of stilling as much as he can through a year—Then the duty will be lower, if there is any industry in working the still. Massachusetts, a free State, with a well constituted government, had an excise—Connecticut, with a legislature chosen half yearly, had an excise; and so of other American States. Britain and Holland, two of the freest countries in Europe, had an excise; and France, now freer than either of them, or any other country in Europe, has an excise. All taxes (including excise) are equally compatible with liberty, if the legislature is freely and frequently chosen. How can the excise of Congress be incompatible with liberty, if the people vested them with power to lay it, and can turn out every Congress man that voted for it, if they really think it best, and chuse others instead of them. Freedom can never be endangered by a law, the repeal of which, a bare majority can any moment effect.
You suppose the dwelling houses of the people liable to be entered at all times, night or day, by the officers. In this, brethren, you are mistaken; and it is a very great mistake, for the officers are not authorized to go into the dwelling houses, in the night or day either. They can go into liquor stores, liquor cellars, and liquor vaults, and distilleries marked as such, but that only in the day time. So tender is the law, that though it shall be made to appear, on oath to a judge or justice of the peace, that spirits are fraudulently hid in a dwelling house, to deprive the country of the duty, the officer cannot go into even that house without a warrant under the hand and seal of a judge or justice, nor without a constable or peace officer with him, nor can he go at any time, but only by day.
It is said, again, by you, brethren, that the duty will not bear the expence of collecting in some places. This, also, must be a mistake, for a land tax, or poll tax, in a thin settled country, must be more expensive and troublesome. Assessments, levies, distraints, advertisements, and sales of property for those taxes, are much more inconvenient.
It seems probable, that you were misinformed about many parts of the law, especially the manner in which the duty is laid on country stills. Some have thought the duty to be sixty cents for every gallon that the still should make; but this is a great error. No more is laid than sixty cents for a whole year upon the quantity that would fill the still once, and if enough spirits should not be made to amount to that at nine cents per gallon, the owner may have it deducted, by taking care to keep an account of what he makes, in the manner the law directs. More than nine cents on what is made will, therefore, never be paid by those who take proper care of their own business; but less will be paid by all those who are so industrious as to make more spirits than sixty cents, on the measure or capacity of the still, will come to. This will have an effect very favorable to the planters and farmers, because industrious men, who will make a trade of distilling, will set up works, and making considerable profits by this, and by distilling largely, will be able to buy larger parcels of grain at better prices, to manufacture into spirits.
You complain, that the northern distillers will have the advantage, but you will think otherwise when you have examined this point. Spirits from molasses pays two cents per gallon more than that from grain or fruit, which is above twenty-two per cent, or twenty-two pounds in the hundred. This is too clear and plain to dwell upon. It would be to question your candor or understanding to do more than mention the fact.
You appear to labor under the same want of information, when you complain about the excise being too high in proportion to the impost on foreign spirits. The lowest proof of foreign rum, brandy, &c. is at twenty cents; the lowest proof of country grain or fruit spirits is at nine cents. The difference is prodigiously in favor of the home distiller, and it is plainly better for him to have the small duty on country made spirits, seeing it is accompanied with one so much greater on rival foreign spirits.
It is but right to remember how much the States are made free of the occasion to lay taxes by the assumption, which part of the public debt, and the defence of the western country, this duty is appropriated to. If South-Carolina is averse to the excise, she
ought not to avail herself of the opportunity of getting four millions of her debt on the United States. The measure comes remarkably easy to your State, because little foreign rum is used on the sea coast counties, on account of the small number of whites, and great number of blacks: and in the western country the home made spirits are to pay only nine cents, which is less than half the duty.
I am, gentlemen, Your friend and humble servant, A NEW-YORK GRAND JURY MAN.
FROM THE NORWICH PACKET.
MR. TRUMBULL,
In a late paper of your's, there appeared a paragraph respecting a meeting of the Clergy at New-Haven, on the ensuing Commencement. Some have supposed that said publication mistook and misrepresented the object of the proposed meeting; you may explain the true origin and design of the same, by publishing the following
Extracts from the Minutes of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
AGREEABLY to the appointment of the General Assembly, last year, directing Dr. Rodgers, and Dr. M c Whorter, to correspond with the congregational churches in Connecticut, in order to renew and strengthen the bonds of union between those churches and the presbyterian church in America, Dr. M c Whorter reports that some progress has been made in opening a plan of correspondence with said churches. That three modes of correspondence are proposed for consideration, viz.—1st. By letter from a committee of this body, with a committee of the general association of Connecticut. 2d. By reviving a convention similar to one which subsisted between those bodies before the late war. 3d. By sending delegates reciprocally from each body, who shall sit in their respective meetings, to answer the important purpose designed by this correspondence.
On motion, resolved, That in order to carry into effect the proposed plan for a correspondence with the congregational churches in New-England, a committee consisting of Dr. Witherspoon, Dr. Rodgers, Dr. M c Whorter, Mr. Chapman, Dr. Samuel S. Smith, Mr. Tenant and Mr. Austin, or any three of them, be, and they are hereby appointed to meet at New-Haven on the second Wednesday in September next, to consult with such ministers from the New-England churches as may be there present, on the subject in contemplation, and to determine on such plan of correspondence and intercourse as shall appear eligible. And that the prospect of accomplishing the desire of the General Assembly in this appointment may be the more favorable, Doctor M c Whorter is hereby directed to write immediately to Dr. Timothy Dwight, of Connecticut, and inform him of this measure, requesting him, at the same time, to lay it before the General Association of Connecticut, that they may be prepared to meet at the time above-mentioned, and do what they may think expedient in this concern.”
FROM THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
JUST COMPLAINTS OUGHT TO BE HEARD AND REMEDY AFFORDED.
WHAT compensation are the right worthy citizens likely to receive, who not finding it in their hearts to put any confidence in our State or Continental Governments, never purchased any of their securities—and now, contrary to their belief, Publick Securities have risen so amazingly as to make fortunes for some common folks—folks, we may say, who never dreamed of such a thing?—We despise speculation;—if it had been right, we should have seen through it, and gotten twice as much by it, as any of these moon-shine fortunes—It's all delusion now, they will go to ruin faster, ten times, than ever they rose, and our solid estates will, ten chances to one, be taxed yet, to support these pretenders to money—It is impossible there should be such a golden shower and we not catch it—They hug a phantom, therefore, good people all don't worry your gizzards about them—don't make wry faces, nor look melancholy—Stocks fall already—their faces are half as long as our's now—let 'em alone, we'll measure with them by and by.
SKINFLINT & Co.
WARSAW, May 15.
THE different supreme tribunals have sent deputies to the King and the States, acknowledging their fidelity and submission to the new constitution.
June 15. The following articles have been added to the New Constitution, and have received the unanimous sanction of the Diet of Poland.
Of the King, the Executive Power.
“No Government, though it were the most perfect that can be imagined, can subsist unless the executive power be enabled to act with the fullest energy.
[Would to Heaven that this principle, which is incontrovertibly just and true, were everywhere admitted! Owing to the non-observance of this indispensable axiom, the revival of liberty has become odious to all those who have still a regard for social order.]
“Just and equitable laws are the foundation of national happiness.
“All the good effects to be expected from them, must depend on their having been vigorously executed.
“Experience has taught us, that to a want of this executive energy, Poland owes all its misfortunes.
“For these reasons, after having insured liberty to the Polish nation, and having made it independent; after having secured to it the right of making laws, and of watching over the executive authority, and also of choosing all public magistrates; we entrust the King and his Council (which shall hereafter be stiled the Superintending Council) with the Supreme execution of the laws.
“The executive power shall be under a strict obligation to superintend the execution of the laws, and exemplarily to conform to them. It shall act in all cases permitted by the law; in all such cases which require a superintendence, execution, and even a coercive force. All Magistrates are bound to obey it implicitly; and by it they are liable to be punished for neglect of duty or disobedience.
“The executive power shall neither make laws, nor explain them. It shall not impose taxes, or levy contributions. It shall not contract public debts, nor make the least alteration in the collection of the revenue. And finally, it shall neither declare war nor make peace; nor make any treaties with other powers. It shall only be enabled to have a temporary correspondence with foreign courts, so far as the safety and tranquility of the state may require; and for this it shall be accountable to the following Legislature.”
ROME, June 3.
The chagrin experienced by his Holiness, occasioned by the revolt of Avignon and the decrees of the National Assembly of France relative to the Clergy, is a little alleviated by learning the progress of the Roman Catholic religion in some of the provinces of North-America, and chiefly in Acadia, Maryland, and part of Pennsylvania. Charles Walmesly, Bishop of Rama, has consecrated Mr. John Carroll, superior of the foreign missions, in quality of Bishop of Baltimore, the Congress of Philadelphia having permitted the free exercise of the Roman Catholic religion in the aforesaid provinces.
LEYDEN, June 9.
The accounts from the empire are confirmed. The Count d'Artois has been at Ulm, but is returned to Augsbourg. M. de Calonne does not mean to go there, for which reason the Prince de Lambesc, and other emigrants of the old French nobility, have quitted Manheim and Deux Ponts, where they had assembled to wait the result of the attempt on Huningen, which it seems has not answered their expectation.
HAMBURGH, June 10.
The King of Sweden, who landed at Rostock the 2d inst. went the same evening to Ludwigburg to wait for his carriages. They arrived the 5th, and his Majesty remaining incognito , under the title of Count Haga, continued his journey to Aix-la-Chapelle. The 6th in the evening he arrived at Brunswick, where the Court was very brilliant on the occasion.

P A R I S, May 22.
According to an account of the population of Paris for the year 1790 presented to the King on the 15th inst. we find, that the christenings amounted to 20,005, viz. 10,133 boys, and 9872 girls; and the deaths to 19,445, viz. 10,072 males, and 9373 females. In this account is included religious persons and strangers.
The number of marriages was 5866, and that of foundlings 5842, viz. 2967 boys, and 2875 girls.
The result of the comparison of this account with that of the year 1789 is, that there were in 1790, 123 foundlings, 622 christenings, and 1085 marriages more, and 944 deaths less, than in 1789.
JUNE 16.
To-morrow, the 17th of June, at one o'clock, they will burn at the Hotel of the extraordinary bank, assignats to the amount of thirteen millions, which, joined to the 147 already burnt, will make 160 millions.
June 29. Mr. Giroy Dupre moved, yesterday evening, at the club of the friends of the constitution,
"That Louis de Bourbon should be provisionally deprived of all royal functions, until his trial before a high jury shall be finished, and that this jury do assemble, at the latest, on the 30th of August next."
Another member moved, That the King's wife should no longer be called Queen; because, by the constitution, there is no such person as Queen. He was also for a council of regency, but to have no regent.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, June 17.
PUNISHMENT FOR VENALITY.
After some debate it was decreed, "That for the future, every legislator who shall dispose of his opinion for money shall be punished with death."
L O N D O N, June 30.
The Marquis de Bouille has not been apprehended. It is said, that he escaped by changing his uniform with a private dragoon; and that this man being taken for the Marquis gave rise to the report of his apprehension.
M. Calonne is said to have taken abroad with him a Swiss gentleman, whom he had selected out for very rare ability.—This gentleman had the address to reach the French King—to carry on and plan all that scheme, which, so unfortunately for the King, has been defeated—he arranged every means for his escape—procured the relay of horses, along the road, and concerted every step necessary for the escape of the Royal Family.
That gentleman is now safe!
He made a noble effort to rescue the King—whose person made it still more difficult to save him.
Fortune has defeated that event!—It will remain with a generous people not to make an ill issue of what accident has put into their power.
Greatness of mind never appeared to such advantage, or shone with more brilliancy, in the Royal House of Brunswick, than in the conduct of our present sovereign towards the Duchess of Albany. When we reflect on the misfortunes of that unhappy family, and with what an eye of enmity they have been beheld here, the reception of the Duchess at this Court proves that his Majesty is possessed of every milder virtue.
Under our present form of government, this country has arrived to a state of wealth, power and national happiness, that no other kingdom or state upon the face of the earth enjoys in the same degree of perfection. Ought not the man or men, therefore, who wish to alter that system of government, be gibbeted in the most conspicuous manner, as a common enemy and traitor to the Constitution?
At no time since the discovery of America, has a trade of equal extent been carried on between this country and that continent, as exists at this moment, and which trade, fortunately for England, is every day rapidly increasing.
It is greatly to the credit of administration, that they are endeavouring by every prudent means to increase the trade of America, and to render them as united as it is our mutual interest to be. The corn act of the last session will be extremely gratifying to the Americans, and will most certainly be considered by them as a favor from this country.
Mr. Minchin's promised bill for the encouragement of the culture of hemp, which will be brought forward early in the next session, will likewise be advantageous to America, as we are given to understand that it is the intention of the promoters of that bill to introduce a clause for allowing a bounty on the importation of hemp, the growth of America.
The orders from America for woolen goods have much increased; the quantity about to be exported from Leeds, and its neighbourhood only, amounts to nearly 600,000.
There can be no doubt of the possibility of rendering America as serviceable to this country, in
the production of raw materials, as the most strenuous advocates against a Russian War contend that Russia is; and it is presumed that every Englishman, from the similarity of manners, the same language, and the same habits with his brethren of America, would prefer a trade with them to any other people under the sun. Nothing is more certain than that the Americans prefer a connexion with England to any other nation, and that they are daily becoming more attached to this country than they ever were.
Mr. Dundas is the first secretary of state that ever represented the city of Edinburgh in parliament; and the third Scotchman since the union, that has had the honor of the new appointment.
The Earl of Bute and Lord Viscount Stormont were the others alluded to.
Mrs. Fitzherbert, whose age has of late been the invidious subject of female discussion, is neither more nor less than thirty-five the 26th of next July, having been born on that day in the year 1756.
The constitution of the pedestrian ladies and gentlemen at the west end of the town, must be very warm indeed, when it is a known fact, that one shop in the course of one day, last week, sold upwards of Five Hundred Glasses of ice creams.
From Jersey we learn, that the inhabitants have obliged the French emigrants to quit that island; their numbers from Brittany, and the adjacent parts, have raised the price of provision to a degree before unknown.
The fire which broke out during the night of the 26th of May, at Breslau, appears to have been more destructive than from the first accounts it was imagined. Seventy houses, two bridges, three churches, a convent, and several mills full of corn, fell a sacrifice to the flames.
M. de Calonne has drawn a very large portion of his fortune from this country in aid of the counter-revolution in France. The Polignacs, and some other rich distinguished persons, who are likewise of the Royal Party, have also contributed very largely.
CAPTAIN GROSE.
The literary quacks of the day elbow themselves so much into public notice, that they scarcely leave a niche for real genius; hence we hardly hear a word to the memory of the late Captain Grose, except the paragraph of his death, and the advertisement for the sale of his books and drawings.
The late F. Grose was left a very independent fortune by his father, at an early age; but like many men of a sprightly turn and good parts, he did not reckon right for the evening of life. He engrained carelessness on a love of pleasure, and what was still worse, mixed the former in his business; insomuch that when he was Adjutant and Paymaster in the Surrey Militia, his only two books of accounts (as he used pleasantly to tell) were his right and left hand pockets—In the one he received, and from the other paid, and this too with a want of circumspection which may be readily supposed from such a mode of book-keeping.
His losses, however, on this occasion, roused his latent talents. With a good classical education, he united a fine taste for drawing, and encouraged by his friends, as well as prompted by his situation, he undertook a work that will long remain a monument of his genius—"The antiquities of England and Wales"—This was followed by "The antiquities of Scotland;" "A Treatise on antient armour & weapons of war;" "Gambado on Horsemanship;" "Military antiquities and History of the English Army;"—A number of private views—humorous books, prints, sketches, &c. &c. His last work, which is unfinished, is "On the antiquities of Ireland;"—To which place he went in the course of last winter, and where he died suddenly at the table of a friend in the 54th year of his age.
This is a sketch of the literary history of the late F. Grose, Esq. which, respectable as it is, was exceeded by his good humour, conviviality, and friendship. Living much abroad, and in the best company at home, such as the Earl of Bute, Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and the select members of the literary societies, he had the easiest habits of adapting himself to all tempers; and, being a man of general knowledge, he always drew out some conversation that was either useful to himself, or agreeable to the party; he could observe upon most things with precision and judgment, but his natural tendency was to humour, in which he excelled, both by the selection of anecdotes, and his manner of telling them, it may be said, too, that his figure rather assisted him, which was in fact the very title page of a joke.
He had neither the pride nor malignity of authorship—he felt the independency of his own talents, and was satisfied with them, without degrading others. His friendships were of the same cast, constant and sincere, overlooking little faults and seeking out greater virtues. In short, he had a good heart, and, abating those little indiscretions natural to most men, could do no wrong.
The address of the National Assembly to the people of France, in reply to the king's proclamation, is such as might be expected from the enlightened representatives of the French, a nation united among themselves, and breathing a spirit of liberty, and internal union and harmony, they smile with contempt at the machinations of despotism, and even defy the world in arms; and they express themselves in that bold, laconic, and sublime manner which high passions and views are naturally calculated to produce. "To subjugate the French empire, the nation must be annihilated. Let despotism form, if it dares, such an enterprize, and it will be forced to submit, or at the end of its triumphs find nothing but a heap of ruins." Here they seem to have an eye to the heroism, and the fate of Numantia and Seguntum.
A capital French house in the city, has within the course of a few weeks, received remittances from Paris, to the amount of several hundred thousand pounds on account of the loyalties.
It appears that the warlike preparations are still carried on in the ports of Russia, with much alacrity. On the 13th of May, Admiral Kruse had taken the command of the squadron at Cronstadt; but Admiral Tschiaischagoff, who is to command the squadron at Revel, was still at Petersburg.
The Mayor of Menehould pledging his head to the King and Queen of France, that no harm should happen to their Majesties in their way to Paris, puts us in mind of the Lord Mayor of London, who declared, that if the Spaniards did effect their purpose of invading England with the Armada, they should be disappointed in one thing, for the devil a bottle of ale would he leave in the Mansion house.
Persons from this country have made some purchases of the church lands of France. One gentleman bought half a Bishoprick, two nunneries, and some wine cellars!
A prosecution was lately commenced in the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, against a Dr. McGill, for heresy; but the Assembly dismissed the cause by a majority of 63 to 7—a proof of liberality, which strongly marks the difference between the present and former times.
A society of gentlemen, of whom Mr. Thornton, Mr. Sharpe, and other friends to the abolition of the Slave Trade, are the principals, have undertaken an enterprize of singular benevolence. The disappointment in the loss of the question on the Slave Bill has excited them to pursue the same object by different, and it is hoped more successful means. They are about to form a settlement on the native coast of the negroes in Africa, for the purpose of exhibiting the advantages of cultivating their own soil, instead of employing their lives in making each other slaves to foreigners. From what we can collect of the plan, it is proposed to invite, by the most kind and generous offers, the natives of the country to send their children to this new settlement, to be educated in religious principles, and to learn the different methods used in the planting of cotton, coffee, rice, and such vegetables as suit the soil and climate, and to initiate the rising generation to such habits of life as may give them some elevation in the scale of rational existence.
We remember that this idea, which is one of those extraordinary stretches of humanity that distinguish the present age, was started many years ago by the venerable Dean of Gloucester, as the only effectual means to be employed for the removal of that grievance, the Slave Trade.
The Royal Assent has been given to an Act of Parliament for the support of this truly philanthropic project.
A CAUTION.
Our modern physicians have so many infallible cures that it is wonderful any one should be afflicted with any disorder—and yet the Bills of Mortality continue much the same, or rather upon the encrease. How can these things be accounted for? Many of them assert, that they can cure the gout;—let the afflicted beware of physicians, for we read in the first book of Kings, that Asa was the first man who had the gout, and we read also, the consequence of his resorting to medical assistance. "Now, Asa, the King was diseased in his feet, and he applied to the Physicians instead of applying to the Lord, therefore the Lord slew him."
NEW-YORK, August 29.
Capt. Smith, lately arrived at New-London from St. Eustatia, says a vessel had arrived there from the coast of Guinea, and brought advice that an English Factory, on the coast, had been recently cut off, by the negroes, who sacrificed the whole, except one, who happened to escape—among the killed is said to be Capt. William Wignal, of New-London. By this effort of the negroes, 700 of them emancipated themselves—So much for the Guinea trade!
A Boston paper of the 24th inst. says that Scripps had, within a few days, vibrated between 150 and 190 dollars.

BENNINGTON (Vermont) August 22.
A writer in a Southern paper proposes, that the Federal City be called Columbus , another proposes Washingtonople .—The simplicity of republicanism is thought by some to be its greatest ornament, why then should we disgrace our Federal City, with useless terminations to a name that cannot admit of additional honor from the ingenuity of man?
A L B A N Y, August 22.
Agreeable to an act of the last Assembly, the surveyor general departed from hence last Friday to explore the communications between the Hudson River and Wood creek, falling into lake Champlain, for the purpose of ascertaining the most eligible place to lay off the ground for the proposed canal, to open a water communication with Vermont, and thereby divert the produce from Canada to our navigable waters.
We are further informed that Major Hardenbergh is also commissioned to do the same between the head of Mohawk river and Wood creek, falling into the Oneida lake. From these appearances, it is a chance if the long heads of Pennsylvania will not be a little shortened in their projects.
On Saturday last, a young man, son of Captain Benjamin Townend, of Rensselaerwyck, was killed by the accidental discharge of a musket, which he was taking out of a waggon, by the muzzle, not knowing it was loaded.
Never take a gun by the muzzle!
SPRINGFIELD, August 24.
Hadley, August 11, 1791.
On Friday evening last, as Mr. Ebenezer Boltwood, Mr. Gideon Parsons, and Mr. Merrill, were going from Hadley to Amherst, in a covered waggon, they missed their way, and instead of driving to Amherst, they turned to the left hand at the North end of Hadley, at a place called High Banks, and drove directly down the bank:—It being measured the next morning, it appears the horses and waggon descended 40 feet before they struck, and then threw the men 8 or 10 feet further before they landed, without material injury to men, horses or waggon. Something peculiar must attend old bachelors, or Mr. B. must have been killed.
N E W - L O N D O N, August 25.
The National Bank serves to facilitate that most desirable of political objects, the speedy reduction of the National Debt , by affording the means of accomplishing it, in the purchase of the principal itself, from the profits arising from the operations of the Bank, to ONE FIFTH whereof the government will be entitled, if they keep, as is proposed, that proportion of the stock in circulation. Thus, by a double operation of the same means, facilitating the commercial intercourse, and binding and weaving together the various interests of the distinct and remote parts of the Union, at the same time that it imperceptibly diminishes, with the consent of the proprietors, that bane of all free communities, a burthensome Public Debt .
Philadelphia, September 3.
Thursday last a Committee was appointed by the House of Representatives, consisting of Mr. Clymer, Mr. Finley, and Mr. Gallatin, to bring in a bill ratifying in behalf of this Commonwealth the first article of amendment, proposed by Congress to the Constitution of the United States.
Some day an answer to the Governor's speech was presented by a committee of the house—In which they recognize the great attention paid by the first magistrate to the public interest during the recess—and most heartily concur with him, "in declaring that the prosperous situation of this state, connected with the credit of the Union, happily provides the means, and affords the opportunity, not only for the improvement of Pennsylvania in her natural advantages, but in her arts, commerce and agriculture."
The merchandise imported into Peterburgh, Russia, the last year, amounted to 22,964,619 roubles—and the duties paid on merchandise imported at Revel, amounted to 1,500,000 roubles; in the year 1789, they only amounted to 200,000 roubles.
Some late accounts in the English papers report, that insurrections have taken place among the people in several parts of Spain.
The accounts from various places on the continent, where the refugees from France are supposed to reside, contain no positive relation of such movements among the anti-revolutionists at the time of the King's flight, which should lead to a supposition, that any plan to invade the kingdom was digested or ripe for execution.—The officers of several regiments, it is said, have left the kingdom; but it appears to have been in consequence of a belief that the King had effected his escape. Should the belligerent powers conclude a general peace, some of the neigh-
boring states may possibly interfere in the affairs of France—but, even in that case, their attempts will depend on a concurrence of circumstances, of which present appearances do not warrant an expectation; among these are, a certainty of their own dominions being secure from insurrections, and that such a proportion of the citizens of France will unite with them, as to render an invasion practicable, and in a high degree likely to succeed.—But should the French in the mean time complete the fabric of freedom and good government, they may defy the united powers of despotism in their attempts to effect a counter-revolution.
Arrived at Bermuda-Hundred, brig Petite, Nannette, Pittalugue, Havre-de-Grace, with 51 passengers, 48 of whom are bound to Russell county, in Virginia, to make a settlement under the patronage of Mons. de Tubeuf, on lands purchased of a Mr. Smith, now in France.
"Barns, it has been observed, are more frequently struck with lightning than other buildings—May it not be owing to the rarified state of the air within, occasioned by the heat generated by grain and hay put in and closely confined, before they are perfectly dry. If this is the fact, would it not be best to keep the doors and windows of barns constantly open till the above articles are entirely divested of moisture, that the density of the circumambient air may not be greater than that within?—And on the principle that rarified air has a tendency to attract the electric fluid, should not the doors and windows of houses be kept open in a thunder shower, in order to keep up an equilibrium of air in the house with the air without."
A letter of a late date from England, to a gentleman in this city contains the following observation:—"But it comforts me to conclude that the hostilities upon the continent will give the French an opportunity of establishing their government, and of making their kingdom an asylum for those oppressed subjects, whose age or poverty will not admit of their seeking relief at three thousand miles distance."
Arrived lately at Boston, the schooner Cohasset, Plummer, from Oporto. During the homeward bound passage, one of the crew of the above schooner broke out with the small-pox, on which Captain Plummer instantly inoculated himself and the whole crew, who all recovered.
Governor Mifflin's speech recognizes two circumstances in the situation of our country, which will doubtless inspire every good citizen with sentiments corresponding with those expressed by the patriotic first magistrate of so respectable a member of the Union—allusions to the flourishing state of our country from so high an authority, will have a proportional influence on the public mind; they are of more weight than the anonymous effusions of private individuals, however sincere and fervent; and infinitely more than counterbalance the evanescent ebullitions of little sneering party minds.—The Governor says,
"I am happy in addressing you at this period, while the beneficial effects of the establishment of the public credit of the United States yield a conclusive evidence of our NATIONAL PROSPERITY—and leisure afforded from our private avocations, by an early and ABUNDANT HARVEST, will enable you to renew your public labors with the same zeal and alacrity which distinguish the legislative proceedings of your last session."
In times of anarchy and confusion, the bonds of society being either relaxed or broken, confidence in public and private justice is destroyed—the circulating property of men of business and wealth, gradually recedes, and becomes dormant; the precious metals are transported into other countries, or retire to secret coffers, and rust in their retreat—every enterprise is foreborne, and universal distress ensues. In this situation of things the people are very apt to mistake the cause of their distresses, and in consequence have recourse to a variety of ill adapted expedients to retrieve their affairs.
To restore mutual confidence, and give life and activity to agriculture, arts and commerce, the only adequate means is good government; which being firmly established, and just and competent laws enacted and executed, produce a renovation in the affairs of every country. How forcibly is this sentiment impressed on the mind by the experience of the United States—from a full confidence in the permanency of those systems which the united wisdom of our country has adopted, the men of property are now coming forward with their capitals to establish manufactures on a broad and extensive scale—which for want of union in our councils, and the incompetency of individual means, have languished under every discouragement, or proved ruinous to every person who has had temerity enough to engage in them.
There is a great degree of perverseness in some dispositions; to find fault appears their natural habit—and it is in vain to expect any thing like good nature, or a generous acknowledgment of merit from them. Men of property, who by a patriotic confidence in the success of the American cause, have increased their fortunes, have been branded with the basest epithets—and now that some are devising plans for the advantage of the country, in the establishment and extension of manufactures, they are charged with designs hostile to the real interest of the people—Such conduct needs no comment.
Some opposition, it is said, appears against the excise in the western country—but if this is fact, we doubt not on a little reflection it will disappear—when it is considered that the frontiers are generally settled by persons, who from previously living in the more populous parts of the country, see and realize the importance of paying for the protection of government, and the support of just laws, we may expect the most cordial acquiescence will soon take place; especially when they reflect on the immense expenses actually incurred by the United States for their present defence, and the great sums in solid coin sent into the midst of them to pay the army marching from 6 to 700 miles for their protection. Some persons are so illiberal as to say that an exemption from all taxation is one great object to persons who emigrate to the frontiers; if this is the case, it is not this, that or the other tax that would suit—every public imposition to raise a revenue for any purpose whatever being equally odious.
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DIED]—At Allentown, New-Jersey, on the 23d ult. the truly amiable Miss JANE COVENHOVEN, daughter of Mr. Peter Covenhoven, an opulent farmer of that State.—The decease of this young lady is sincerely regretted by a numerous and respectable circle of friends—as, to the beauties of external form, were added the superior attractions of a virtuous and excellent disposition, and a fine understanding.
In this city, on Thursday last, suddenly, Mrs. JANE HUMPHREYS, wife of Mr. Daniel Humphreys, Printer.
THE FIGURE OF LIBERTY.
HER Zone unbound, her tresses unconfined, Spoke und-signing negligence of mind, True RAPTURE's negligence; as on the came, Her cheek, was glory, and her eye was flame: Her floating robes light amorous gales receive, Her modest breast ten thousand virtues heave: Shield, had she none, but HONOUR, and her Sword Was TRUTH—and Angels, as she smit'd, ador'd.
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25000 Tickets.
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Boston, April 14, 1791.
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to all whom these presents shall come, or in any wise concern, That JAMES GARDNER, late of Wilmington, North-Carolina, deceased, did make four promissory notes payable to SAMUEL JACKSON, of Philadelphia, Merchant, all bearing date the 19th July, 1785, one for three hundred and seventy-one pounds, payable in six months—one for seven hundred and forty two pounds, in nine months—one for seven hundred and forty pounds, in twelve months—and one for seven hundred and forty-five pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, in fifteen months, amounting in the whole to two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, and payable in produce at Wilmington:—Which said notes have been assigned by the said Samuel Jackson to THOMAS MACKIE and Co. and JAMES HOOD, Merchants, Philadelphia, and have since, in the life-time of the said Gardner, by him been accounted for and paid in part to the amount of two thousand and forty-seven pounds fifteen shillings and six-pence, to the said THOMAS MACKIE, and Co. in proof of which the subscribers have sufficient vouchers.
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Wilmington, North-Carolina, 27th May, 1791. (c p. 3 m.)
WAR DEPARTMENT,
MAY 30, 1791.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of March, 1791, and which will become due on the 4th day of September ensuing, 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-one, and ending the fourth day of September of the same year.
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 of the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim.
By command of the President of the United States,
H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
All persons concerned will be pleased to take notice that the following advertisement has been varied from that published in our paper of the 23d of March.]
Treasury Department.
MARCH 22, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the first Monday in 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, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein after mentioned, viz.
At any place or places, betwixt Yorktown in the state of Pennsylvania and Fort Pitt, and at Fort Pitt.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Fort McIntosh, on the River Ohio, and at Fort McIntosh.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort McIntosh and the mouth of the River Muskingum, and at the mouth of the River Muskingum.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence over to the Cayuga River, and down the said River to its mouth.
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.
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, on the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the great Miami, up the said Miami, to and at Piquetown, and thence over to the Miami Village, on the river of the same name which empties into Lake Erie.
At any place or places from the rapids of the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, thence up the said Wabash to Post St. Vincennes, at Post St. Vincennes, and thence up the said river Wabash, to the Miami village, before described.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Wabash river to the mouth of the river Ohio.
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.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Miami river to the Miami Village.
At any place or places, from the Miami Village to Sandusky, and at Sandusky, and from Sandusky to the mouth of Cayuga river.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Venango, and at Venango.
At any place or places, betwixt Venango and Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf, betwixt Le Beuf and Presq' Isle, at Presq' Isle, and betwixt Presq' Isle and the mouth of Cayuga river.
At the mouth of Cayuga river, and at any place or places, on the route from Fort Pitt, to the mouth of Cayuga river, by the way of Big Beaver creek.
At any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the river Margot inclusively.
At any place or places, from the said river Margot, to the river Yazous inclusively.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the river Tenesee, to Ocochappo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusively.
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.
ALSO, That Proposals will be received at the said office until the first Monday in 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, 1792, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the state of Massachusetts, and the Post of West-Point, in the state of New-York.
The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the same articles as are above mentioned.
ALSO, That proposals will be received at the said office, until the 1st Monday in September next inclusive, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein after mentioned.
At the post on the river Saint Mary, at present commanded by Capt. Henry Burbeck.
At the post on the river Altamaha, at present commanded by Capt. John Smith.
At the post on the river Oconee, at present commanded by Capt. Joseph Savage.
At the post on the river Apalachee, at present commanded by Capt. Michael Rudolph.
At any place or places from the Rock Landing on the Oconee, up to the mouth of the main south branch of the said river, from the said mouth up to the source of the said main south branch, and from thence to the Currahee mountain.
At any other place or places within the state of Georgia which may hereafter be occupied as permanent posts by any troops of the United States.
And for rations deliverable on the march to such future posts.
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 two months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the same articles, as are abovementioned.
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 depositions 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 contracts 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 so as to admit an election of the term of two years.
The proposals may be made for the whole of the above posts together, or separately for Springfield, for West-Point, for Yorktown, and the seventeen places following it, and for the posts in Georgia; and they must specify the lowest price per ration, for prompt payment.
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.
The JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.
A few copies of the CONSTITUTION of the United States, printed with Notes, may be had of the Editor.