Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-05-02 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 106, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1792.
[Whole No. 314.]
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AT THE FIRST SESSION,
Began and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
AN ACT to compensate the Corporation of Trustees of the Public Grammar-School and Academy of Wilmington in the State of Delaware, for the occupation of, and damages done to the said School, during the late war.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That as an indemnification to the corporation of Trustees of the public grammar-school and academy of Wilmington in the State of Delaware, for the use and occupation of the said school, and the damages done to the same by the troops of the United States, during the late war, there be granted to the said corporation of Trustees, a reasonable compensation, payable out of any unappropriated money in the Treasury of the United States, which compensation shall be ascertained by the accounting officers of the Treasury.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED APRIL THE THIRTEENTH, 1792. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
AN ACT for apportioning Representatives among the several States, according to the first enumeration.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, the House of Representatives shall be composed of members elected agreeably to a ratio of one member for every thirty-three thousand persons in each State, computed according to the rule prescribed by the Constitution; that is to say: Within the State of New-Hampshire, four: within the State of Massachusetts, fourteen; within the State of Vermont, two; within the State of Rhode-Island, two; within the State of Connecticut, seven; within the State of New-York, ten; within the State of New-Jersey, five; within the State of Pennsylvania, thirteen; within the State of Delaware, one; within the State of Maryland, eight; within the State of Virginia, nineteen; within the State of Kentucky, two; within the State of North-Carolina, ten; within the State of South-Carolina, six; and within the State of Georgia, two members.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED APRIL THE FOURTEENTH, 1792. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
AN ACT authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain Lands to the Ohio Company of Associates.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a certain contract expressed in an indenture executed on the twenty-seventh day of October, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, between the then board of treasury for the United States of America, of the one part, and Manasseh Cutler, and Winthrop Sargent, as agents for the directors of the Ohio Company of Associates, of the other part, so far as the same respects the following described tract of land; that is to say: Beginning at a station where the western boundary line of the seventh range of townships, laid out by the authority of the United States in Congress assembled, intersects the river Ohio; thence extending along that river south-westerly to a place where the western boundary line of the fifteenth range of townships, when laid out agreeably to the land ordinance, passed the twentieth day of May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, would touch the said river; thence running northerly on the said western bounds of the said fifteenth range of townships, 'till a line drawn due east to the western boundary line of the said seventh range of townships, will comprehend, with the other lines of this tract, seven hundred and fifty thousand acres of land, besides the several lots and parcels of land in the said contract reserved or appropriated to particular purposes; thence running east to the western boundary line of the said seventh range of townships, and thence along the said line to the place of beginning," be and the same is hereby confirmed: And that the President of the United States be and he hereby is authorized and empowered to issue letters patent in the name and under the seal of the United States, thereby granting and conveying to Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, the said described tract of land, with the reservations in the said indenture expressed, in trust for the persons composing the said Ohio company of associates, according to their several rights and interests, and for their heirs and assigns, as tenants in common. And be it further enacted, That the President be and he hereby is further authorized and empowered, by letters patent
as aforesaid, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver, and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in trust, for the uses above expressed, one other tract of two hundred and fourteen thousand, two hundred and eighty-five acres of land. Provided, That the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver and Griffin Green, or either of them, shall deliver to the Secretary of the Treasury within six months, warrants which issued for army bounty-rights sufficient for that purpose, according to the provision of a resolve of Congress of the twenty-third day of July, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven.
And be it further enacted, That the President be, and he hereby is further authorized and empowered by letters-patent as aforesaid, to grant and convey to the said Rufus Putnam, Manasseh Cutler, Robert Oliver and Griffin Green, and to their heirs and assigns, in fee simple, in trust for the uses above expressed, a farther quantity of one hundred thousand acres of land. Provided always nevertheless, That the said grant of one hundred thousand acres shall be made on the express condition of becoming void, for such part thereof, as the said company shall not have, within five years from the passing of this act, conveyed in fee simple, as a bounty and free of expense, in tracts of one hundred acres, to each male person, not less than eighteen years of age, being an actual settler at the time of such conveyance.
And be it further enacted, That the said quantities of two hundred and fourteen thousand, two hundred and eighty-five acres, and of one hundred thousand acres, shall be located within the limits of the tract of one million, five hundred thousand acres of land, described in the indenture aforesaid, and adjoining to the tract of land described in the first section of this act, and in such form as the President in the letters-patent, shall prescribe for that purpose.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, APRIL THE TWENTY-FIRST, 1792. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
P A R I S, January 13.
Of the plot for the assassination of the King, all the authentic intelligence we are yet in possession of, amounts to this: "At a secret sitting of the Jacobine club in the Rue Saint Honore, Mons. Carva, a great leader of that party, and the conductor of a republican or rather regicide paper, formally proposed to the meeting to dethrone and set aside the whole family of the Bourbons, and to settle the crown upon the Duke of York-this, said Mons. Carva, is absolutely necessary for us if we are determined to be free; with a new dynasty we may stipulate for the principles which unite us, and the first public functionary must defend them with force and with sincerity if he will defend the throne which is reared upon their base. These are the only means to regenerate the face of the empire, every other measure is contrary to the system of liberty; which governs all our politics."
L O N D O N, February 24.
It is hoped that the failure of one of our first houses in the city for near 800,000. will stop the career of speculation in articles necessary for the support of some of our principal manufactures, whereby the community at large have been greatly injured: as the bulk of these monopolies will now be thrown in the market, the prices will naturally decline, and it is to be wished by every friend to the commercial and manufacturing interests of this country, that the dangerous spirit of enormous speculations and monopolies may subside.
A Minister who will come forward, as Mr. Pitt did, and state, that in consequence of the revenue exceeding the expenditure he was enabled to repeal certain taxes which affected the poor, speaks a plain unsophisticated language, which is easily understood, and easily felt.
Sunday died Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Rear Admiral of the White, Commander in Chief of Plymouth, and member for Rochester.
Trial by Jury is now established in Paris, and will be so in the rest of the kingdom, as fast as the necessary arrangements can be made.
The Emperor has issued a most singular order with respect to the press. All papers which, like the Court Gazettes, give a mere historical narrative of the events in France, are allowed. Political and legal disquisitions on the subject of the French Revolution are also permitted, provided they consist of three volumes, and be not written in the vulgar tongue. Ponder ye manufacturers of folios and quartos, on the important truth, that the number of your volumes is held to be the best security against their being read.
In the Statistical account of a parish in Shetland, there lives one John Williamson, who from his variety of talents goes by the name of Johnny Notions, he being a tailor, a joiner, a clock and watch mender, a blacksmith and physician.
His success in inoculation is most remarkable—formerly the small-pox carried off a fifth part of the inhabitants; now hardly any suffer by the disorder. Unassisted by education, and unfettered by the rules of art, he has inoculated many thousands, without losing a single patient. In place of procuring fresh matter, as is the common practice, he keeps it for years dried in spoke, and put under ground, which from experience he finds lessens its virulence, and renders it milder to the patient. He uses no lancet, but gently raises the skin with a knife of his own making, so that no blood follows. A bit of cabbage leaf is used as a plaster to heal the wound. There is no instance of it ever misgiving, nor is there any previous preparation used.
The West-India merchants have voted a present of 500l. to Captain Bligh, of his Majesty's navy, as a compliment for services rendered while on the West-India station.
They have also voted a present of a handsome sword, value 200l. to Captain Samuel Hood, of the navy, for saving, at the hazard of his own life, while on the West-India station, the lives of three seamen, who were floating at the mercy of the waves, on a raft of timber. The captain himself left his ship in a very high sea attended only by his Coxswain, after an ineffectual remonstrance with the whole crew (none of whom dared venture) and with the greatest danger and difficulty picked the poor fellows up, and brought them on board.
SWEDISH DIET, GESTE, Jan. 31.
On the 27th inst. the Diet of the kingdom was opened by his Majesty in person. The four orders were united in the grand Hall.—By the speech which his Majesty pronounced, he traced, in the rapid and flowery style so peculiarly his own, the weak and distracted state in which he found the kingdom on his coming to the throne; the prompt and complete success with which he regenerated it; the happiness which the Swedes enjoyed under his reign for many years; the inquietude, the divisions, the spirit of party, which at length troubled its welfare; the measures that he took to repair the evil; the glorious end of the foreign war, connected with these domestic troubles; the distressing situation of the finances, which was the result of all this; and, in fine, for here came forth the object, the necessity that there was for restoring them, and for maintaining the credit of the state. This was, in truth, the motive and end of the convocation; whether it will precisely conclude as he wished, time must determine.
Already some indications of hostility to the King have appeared. In spite of the injunction to all the civil and military officers, the first order did not fail to be very numerous. There were 118 members of the first order, 110 of the second, 187 of the third, or of plain gentlemen. There were warm debates on the choice of a Secretary of the Diet; the plurality was in favor of the Sieur de Sogerstrom. The Sieur Wallin, a Burgo-master of Stockholm, was elected orator or president of the order of bourgeois. But the point on which they have manifested a spirit of opposition, is in establishing a revision of accounts, which was not done according to the recommendation of the monarch. His majesty wrote in a tone very energetic on the subject, but they were equally firm, and would not accept of the plan offered for this important object.
PHILADELPHIA.
Many individuals in every part of the United States, are interested in the following—being a section of an act of the Legislature of Virginia, passed the 27th of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, intitled, "An act to amend the act, intitled, An act to remedy abuses in the manner of selling lands for the payment of public taxes."
And be it further enacted, That in case the tax on any tract of land within this Commonwealth shall not be paid for the space of three years, the right to such lands shall be lost, forfeited and vested in the Commonwealth, and it shall be lawful for any person to acquire a title to any land so forfeited, in the manner prescribed for acquiring titles to waste and unappropriated lands within this Commonwealth, on the Eastern waters, by an act, intitled "An act to dispose of the waste and unappropriated lands in the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the Eastern waters."

PITTSBURGH, April 21.
Saturday last sailed from this place, with a detachment of men to protect the settlement at Gallipolis, Lieutenant Demler of the 2d United States regiment.
Thursday last arrived here from Fort Franklin, Lieut. Jeffers of the 1st United States regiment, with a party of Seneca Indians, to scout on our frontiers with the spies & 6 months levies.
We are happy to contradict, in part, the paragraph under the Pittsburgh head, in our last, giving an account of the murder of 20 persons by the Indians, as from well authenticated accounts it appears, that only one woman and Mr. Edgar were killed.
We are enabled to inform our readers from good authority that Capt. Paul, who is stationed on the south-west frontier of Washington county, Pennsylvania, has erected a very strong block-house on the Dunkard branch of Whelen creek, a little above Mr. Ryerson's mills, from whence he makes almost daily excursions over the neighbouring grounds; by his vigilance, and the co-operation of his subaltern officers, who have nearly completed two other block houses, one on his left, the other on his right, each at a few miles distance, it is expected he will completely thwart the designs of any small parties of the savages that may approach that part of our frontier.
Besides those Indians which carried off and scalped the two boys mentioned in our last, there are evident signs of several small parties having prowled along the south-west frontier of Washington and Ohio counties, particularly on Whelen, west of the Pennsylvania boundary.
Friday the 13th inst. arrived here the Western Experiment, Capt. Nicholson. She is bound to New-Orleans, from thence with a cargo to Philadelphia; was built about thirty miles up the Monongahela, burthen about 60 tons, and draws eight feet water. This is the first vessel constructed on this branch of the Ohio intended to navigate the ocean.
NEWARK, April 26.
At a Meeting of the Directors of the Society for establishing useful Manufactures, held at Pawles Hook, in the state of New-Jersey, on Friday, the twentieth day of April, 1792.
The committee appointed to examine and report to the board, the state of the funds of the society, report as follows:
That the sum of 50,000 dollars appropriated by their board at their meeting in January last for the purpose of procuring the necessary articles from Europe, has been remitted, and the several articles ordered may be expected to arrive in the months of June and July.
That the sum of 5000 dollars has been appropriated for the pay of workmen and for other contingent expences of the society and is nearly expended. And the said committee further report, that they have examined the different persons employed in preparing the machinery for the society, and report that the several branches are in great forwardness, some of which are ready to be put up as soon as the necessary buildings are prepared.
That the sum of 10,000 dollars, which the board appropriated for procuring workmen and materials under the direction of the Governor, has been paid him for that purpose, and that he has given assurances that the society may rest satisfied in the security as well as the faithful application of this fund.
That the sum of sixty-three thousand dollars has been invested in the deferred stock of the United States, which stock is entered in the name of the society in the books of John Cochran, Commissioner of loans in the state of New-York.
That the residue of the monies received on the first payments still remain in the banks where they were originally deposited.
Ordered that the foregoing report be published.
A true extract from the minutes.
ELISHA BOUDINOT, Secr. P. T.
We hear that a special meeting of the Directors is called to meet at Newark on Tuesday the 15th day of May next, for fixing upon the permanent seat of the said factory.
NEW-YORK, April 27.
In consequence of the rise of stocks and a check to failures, our prospects now begin to brighten up, and by the prevalence of a spirit of mutual accommodation there can be no doubt of a speedy return of confidence and credit, and that business will re-assume its natural course on a more permanent basis.
We learn from Philadelphia, that Robert Morris, Esq. has engaged a person who has had the principal lead in conducting the canals lately finished in England, and who is highly recommended for his knowledge in this line. This gentleman is now on his passage to America, and daily expected. After exploring and determining on the immediate operations in Pennsylvania, which will employ him two or three weeks, he is then to come to this city for the same purpose.
CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
FRIDAY, MARCH 9.
The House took into consideration the report of the committee of the whole on the petition of Catharine Greene.
THE report being read.—a memorial of Henry Hill was presented by Mr. Fitzsimons, praying that no law may be passed in the case which may operate to the injury of the petitioner in respect to an assignment made to him of a certain demand against the United States, by one of the partners of Banks and Co. Mr. F. recapitulated the general objections which had been before urged against the indemnification, and concluded by a motion in which it was proposed that the business should be put into a train of legal investigation.
Mr. Baldwin after some remarks highly favorable to General Greene's character, observed, that a legal process in this case did not appear to offer those accommodations which a subject of this kind seemed to call for.
He then entered into a general consideration of the subject, in the course of which he observed, that certain bold and striking traits distinguished the conduct of General Greene during the late war—he acted as a soldier, a politician, a legislator, a commissary, a quarter master and a General, in short like a man who was conducting a revolution on the success of which his own life depended and the liberties of his country, perhaps of mankind. He then adverted to the evidence which has been adduced to shew that no partnership existed between General Greene and Banks, and that the engagements he entered into were on a public account. He said the characters of those who had solemnly testified on this occasion were such as to banish every trace of suspicion from his mind. He concluded by observing that if ever a claim on the justice and humanity of a country existed the present was such a claim.
Mr. Steele said he hoped the report would not be agreed to. He said the subject appeared now to be involved in more complexity than it at first appeared to be attended with.
In all appropriations of money the subject ought to be well considered; but what have the gentlemen who report the resolutions done? Instead of producing that evidence which would pass in any court of justice, they have adduced General Greene's character, virtues, services, &c. of these he had as just an opinion as any one, but he thought they were not altogether pertinent to the occasion.
He hoped a further investigation would be made; and that if the report was not rejected, the business would be put in a different train—various and contradictory statements have taken place in the course of the discussion in 6 weeks—these things were at least very extraordinary—some things are now admitted which were before denied. As the advocates of the report have founded their arguments on the character of General Greene, he thought it his duty to bring forward some circumstances, which, though they do not impeach his character as a soldier and a brave man—yet they show his want of sincerity and consistency. He then adverted to the letters which he wrote, abusing the people south of the Potomac, at the very time he was experiencing their munificence and liberality. These things he said he mentioned not to injure his reputation, but to shew that full credit ought not to be given to his subsequent assertions and declarations. He observed that the subject had not been so fully investigated, nor had such evidence been adduced as would justify an appropriation of the sum of 60,000 dollars. He then took notice of those documents which appeared to favor the idea that General Greene was connected with Banks and Co. this business he thought had not been placed in the most satisfactory point of light—a more thorough investigation ought to take place, and in order to this he said the business had better be postponed to the next session.
Mr. Clark was opposed to agreeing to the report—he offered several objections arising from the obscurity which invelope the transactions.
Mr. Hillhouse stated sundry reasons why he should vote against the report—and then the House adjourned without deciding the question.
MONDAY, MARCH 26.
The bill for establishing a mint was read the third time—on the question, shall the bill pass?
Mr. Clark said he hoped the bill would be rejected—he considered the plan as too extensive and expensive—that there was no necessity for it—all that is wanted at present is a coinage of small change; and for this purpose he had no idea that it was necessary to incur an expence of 30,000 dollars per annum. He could conceive of no immediate advantage to result from the establishment but that of encreasing the ministerial phalanx which he conceived was already sufficiently strong.
Mr. Niles spoke against the bill—he saw no advantage that would result from it, but an expence and loss; he enlarged on the want of policy and economy in contemplating a recoinage of the foreign coins now in circulation.
Mr. Gerry moved that the bill should be recommitted for the purpose of restoring a clause which had been struck out, and that was the one which provided for the Presidents' Head being on the coin—he should move for an amendment by striking out the words "for the time being," as he would wish to leave it in the power of the legislature at a future period to withhold this mark of public honor from an unworthy character should such an one ever fill the Chair of the first magistrate—with respect to the present Chief Officer of this government he conceived that there could be no possible objection to doing him this honor, for in that light he considered it; it was not probable nor perhaps possible that any other character that would ever appear on the stage would so completely merit this mark of distinction.
Mr. Sedgwick said he hoped the bill would not be recommitted merely for the purpose mentioned. He had objected to the decapitation of the President by striking his head from the coin, but he trusted the clause would yet be restored without the formality of a recommittal.
Mr. Page said he had intended to move for a recommittal, but not for the purpose hinted at by the gentleman who made the motion; his object would have been to recommit generally—he then stated several objections to the bill, particularly the expence contemplated. He added some remarks in answer to Mr. Gerry's observations.
The motion for recommittal was negatived by a great majority.
The bill was then passed ayes 32—noes 22.
SATURDAY, APRIL 28.
A message from the Senate, was delivered by Mr. Secretary Otis, notifying their rejection of the bill for reducing the rates of postage on newspapers;—and their concurrence in the amendment proposed by the House to their amendment to the bill raising additional supplies.
A report of a select committee on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the subject of Marine Hospitals, was read and laid on the table.
Pursuant to the order of the day, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the bill concerning the duties on spirits distilled within the United States.
The whole day was spent in debate, after which, the committee rose and reported the bill with sundry amendments. Adjourned.
MONDAY, APRIL 30.
Reports from the Secretary of the Treasury on sundry petitions, were read and laid on the table.
In committee of the whole on the bill relative to the compensations of certain officers employed in the collection of the duties of impost and tonnage. Mr. Boudinot in the Chair.
The committee after discussing the bill rose and reported it, with amendments—which were read and agreed to by the House—the bill was laid on the table.
Mr. Bourne of the committee on enrolled bills reported the following bills as truly enrolled, viz. an act providing more effectually for the national defence by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States,
An act to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions—and an act for raising a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers and for other purposes therein mentioned. The Speaker then signed the abovenamed acts.
The amendments reported by the committee of the whole to the bill concerning the duties on spirits distilled within the United States, were taken into consideration by the House—a motion to agree to the duty of 8 cents on spirits distilled from articles, the growth of the United States, occasioned a lengthy debate—8 cents were finally disagreed to, and 7 cents inserted, the House proceeded through the discussion of the whole of the amendments—some were adopted as reported, others amended and others rejected—the whole were again laid on the table.
Adjourned.
TUESDAY, MAY 1.
On motion of Mr. Williamson, it was resolved that the several committees who have not reported, be directed to report on Thursday next.
The bill relative to the compensations of certain officers

employed in the collection of the duties of impost and tonnage, was taken into consideration.
Mr. White proposed an additional section to the following purport:
That whenever a collector shall die, the commissions to which he would have been entitled, on the duties bonded by him, and unpaid at the time of his decease, shall be equally divided between the legal representative of such collector and his successor in office.—This being agreed to, the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
In committee of the whole on the bill authorizing the remission of certain duties. Mr. Bourne in the chair.
The provisions of this bill are for the remission of the duties on wines lost from the cargo of the ship Brothers, wrecked on her voyage from New-York to Philadelphia, and certain goods lost on board a ship wrecked near Plymouth, Massachusetts.—The bill was reported without amendment—the vouchers relative to the business being read, the bill was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. Boudinot moved that the resolution for a joint committee to wait on the President, to request that he would appoint a day of public humiliation and prayer, &c. was taken into consideration—the House being equally divided on the question for taking it up, it was determined in the affirmative by the Speaker.
The question then was for agreeing to the resolution—Mr. Livermore objected to it; he doubted the constitutionality and propriety of it.
The question being put, it was carried in the affirmative—22 to 21—and a committee of three appointed.
The bill entitled, an act for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt, was taken into consideration—Some further amendments were agreed to, and the bill passed.
The bill concerning spirits distilled within the United States, was further discussed—the debate was renewed—several propositions of amendment were offered, some agreed to, others rejected—and the bill ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed the House that they have concurred in the bill for altering the time of the next annual meeting of Congress.
A bill to authorise the remission of certain duties, was read the third time and passed.
In committee of the whole, on the bill confirming an award of certain referees between the United States and certain persons, contractors for supplying the army of the United States with provisions, during the late war—Mr. W. Smith in the chair.
The committee reported the bill with one amendment, which was to strike out the words “award or,” in the first section—This amendment was agreed to by the House, and the bill ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
The report of the select committee, to whom the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the memorials of the Loan-Officers of Rhode-Island and New-Hampshire was referred, was taken into consideration by the committee of the whole—This report was in favor of the memorialists, and contained several resolutions pursuant thereto—Some amendments were agreed to; the committee then rose and reported progress.
Adjourned.
STOCKBRIDGE, April 17.
The following scheme exhibits the different number of white males, above and under 16 years of age—also the different number of free white Males and Females, in each of the United States, agreeable to the late enumeration of the inhabitants.
   Number of males above sixteen years old more than under. Number of males under sixteen years old more than above. Number of males more than females. Number of females more than males.     Vermont, 107 4258   New-Hampshire, 1235 777   Massachusetts, 8164 7840   Maine, 354 2262   Rhode-Island, 220 834   Connecticut, 6120 2502   New-York, 5578 9502   New-Jersey, 3835 3410   Pennsylvania, 3840 11373   Delaware, 360 1542   Maryland, 4576 5859   Virginia, 5199 12025   Kentucky, 1903 3289   North-Carolina, 7518 6784   South-Carolina, 2146 6418   Georgia, 941 1408  
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
A LAW is the will of the community collected and expressed by the representatives. Yet as every law is to be enforced, it implies, that the will of some persons is crossed, and made to bend to the will or law of the whole society. It is always easy for such persons to cry out TYRANNY, ARBITRARY POWER—WE HAVE ESCAPED BRITISH DOMINATION, AND BEHOLD WE HAVE ONE SPRINGING UP IN THE MIDST OF US THAT INSISTS ON BEING OBEYED. The proper remedy against the evil tendency of such intemperate appeals to the passions of the people, is to remind them that the law is their will, that when the law is resisted, they are insulted and disobeyed, that government is their authority deposited in the hands of their servants, and that the dominion of the people exercised by a government of their free choice, however compared to British power, and denominated arbitrary by audacious scribblers, is the most durable, useful and complete liberty that can be enjoyed by men.
As the will of some is controuled by every law, it happens also that the interest and advantage of others is promoted by it. It is easy in this case, to hold up to the envy of some, and to the anger of many these advantages, and to accuse the government of partiality. It would be little to the praise of a law to say, that no person is the better for it, and yet if any person is benefited, the newspapers tell us that all others are sufferers. This is the case of the funding law, and the complaints against Congress bear this impression. It is no bad compliment to the government to bring against it accusations in this style only. The reproach of a bad government, and the ordinary complaint against its proceedings is, the oppression of the people by law. Congress is not accused of oppressing any order of men, for every order of men is thriving, and industry in general is promoted by the protection of the laws of the nation. The charge is, that Congress has
raised the value of the debt by the funding law, and this is called partial and unjust. Was there ever such a charge! The debt was due, and common justice required the payment. But suppose that Congress had struck the certificates dead at once, by refusing to fund or provide for them. Would such a measure have been deemed by the present race of fault-finders just, impartial, and republican. These very men would have sung in a louder note—Congress is bound to protect the rights of property, yet it has violated them. The burden should be common, yet the whole loss is thrown upon the few certificate holders. This unjust, tyrannical, partial, cruel oppression establishes Congress as a despot with an absolute controul over property—not by equal taxes and equal laws, but by arbitrary decrees, as base, as cruel, as subversive of order, of confidence, of liberty, as those which issue from the Divan of Constantinople. What answer could Congress have made to these just reproaches! Happily they listened to these reasons at the time of passing the law, and the world will not be so much imposed upon, as to believe that they have passed an unjust partial law, because they have respected the rights of property and the dictates of common justice. Every friend of his country will join in the wish that Congress may never deserve the praise of those who now censure it, by conforming its measures to their destructive principles.
Philadelphia, May 2.
Yesterday and the day before the Indian Chiefs and Warriors of the Six Nations took their departure from this city.
Proposals, we hear, have been made for cash, or the debt to be redeemed therewith, from 12/ to 12 1/2, for the whole amount of the 936,000 dollars, which Pennsylvania had to sell, in order to redeem the State debts thereof. This, at this particular juncture, is a proof of the good credit of the public, notwithstanding late embarrassments.
A gentleman of high reputation declared in his place in Congress, in a late debate, that the Bank of the United States, of which he is a director, had not suffered and were not likely to suffer any loss by the late fall in the price of stocks. This is a very satisfactory proof that the Bank is administered on very safe and solid principles.
On Saturday last failed for London the ship William Penn, Capt. Josiah, in which went the following passengers:
Phineas Bond, Esquire, His Britannic Majesty's Consul for the states of New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland.
Dr. Segur, Mrs. Segur, Mr. Ebenezer Breed, and four French Gentlemen and a Lady.
The jewels worn by the Duchess of York, on the Queen of England's birth night, are estimated at 40,000l. value.
Forty-two new carriages were launched on the above occasion.
By the latest accounts it appears that the French emigrants have taken their departure from Coblenz, and are rendezvous at Ettenheim, in the Bishopric of Strasburgh.
On Saturday last, the 21st of April instant, the cause of Collet, versus Collet, was argued in the Circuit Court of the United States, for this district, before the Judges Wilson, Blair, and Peters. It came before the court on a bill filed on the equity side, and a plea to the jurisdiction. The bill stated the complainant to be “a subject of his Britannic Majesty, and that the respondent was a citizen of Pennsylvania.” The plea averred the complainant to be “a citizen of Pennsylvania.” This plea, if true, deprived the court of its jurisdiction, as the courts of the United States, have no right to take cognizance of controversies between the citizens of the same state, unless in some particular and excepted cases.
In order to prove the point alledged by the respondent, he offered in evidence a certificate dated the 30th of April, 1790, granted by the then Mayor of Philadelphia, declaring that the complainant had, on that day taken before him the oath of allegiance to the state of Pennsylvania, agreeable to an act of assembly, bearing date the 13th March, 1789.
To combat this evidence, the complainant shewed that he was a native of the Ile of Man, parcel of the dominions of the British crown, and contended that the naturalization granted to him by the authority of Pennsylvania, was absolutely null and void; for that by the 8th section of the first article of the Constitution of the United States, they have power “to make uniform laws for the naturalization of foreigners;” and by their act bearing date the 26th of March, 1790, had actually exercised this authority.
The question turned entirely upon the point, whether the power given by the constitution to the legislature of the United States was exclusive of, or concurrent with, the authority of the individual states? For if it was exclusive, then the individual states had no right to legislate on the subject of “naturalization,” and whatever had been done by the state of Pennsylvania, was absolutely null and void.
It was argued at large by Mr. Randolph, Attorney-General of the United States, and Mr. Sergeant, in support of the bill, and Mr. Levy in support of the exception.
Their honors the Judges, after consultation with each other, declared their opinion, That the power given to the United States was meant as a guard against the narrow regulations that might at any future time be adopted by the individual states, to check the admission of aliens, not as a security against too early an introduction of them; that this purpose might well be effected without inhibiting the right to the individual states; that of course the naturalization granted under the authority of Pennsylvania, conferred the right of citizenship, and that the complainant's bill must be dismissed.
By far the greatest part of the opposers of the new constitution have seen that their fears were groundless, and to their great honor as citizens have cheerfully acquiesced in the administration of the government. It would be strange if some few whose passions were inflamed by the dispute should not be found as implacable as ever. The newspapers shew that the attack on the government is renewed with more solemnity and address than it was begun. Without pretending to say that these enemies of the government are in the wrong, it is enough for a political enquirer to discern by their writings, that they are enemies. Accordingly they mix censures upon the frame of the government, with their invectives against men and measures. The people and these writers have very different views; the former wish to have the constitution well administered, the latter to make the resentment of the public the means of its destruction. That the writers entertain these views cannot be proved beyond contradiction; for who can see into the hearts of men?—But the complaints of these reformers go far beyond the change of men and measures, and they do not scruple to say that the frame of government itself is defective and unsafe. Indeed, if the government is half as bad as they describe it, they have some excuse for attempting to subvert it.
The first step towards pulling tyranny down is to make the multitude hate it. For as many, can overpower a few, a patriot can be certain of beating the tyrant as soon as he can combine the force of the many against him; accordingly, it has been considered as worthy and laudable to inveigh against despotism. But when the people set up government with their own hands, it is absurd to attempt uniting the people against government; why therefore some men should preach about republicanism, when they attempt to write down a republican government, it is not easy to say. Perhaps they remember it was once popular to attack a foreign government, and they have not yet learned to conform their ideas to the nature of the government they are so happy as to live under. Otherwise they would not sneer at the duty—for being a promise it is a duty, of those who buoy up the government which the people have freely chosen.
Do persons usually try to make others hate what they love themselves? No; writers who draw such vile pictures of the government, do not draw from the life, but their own disordered imaginations. They rave about monsters, because they are out of their wits, but the sober public cannot find them.
“The desire of public notice infatuates the mind of some to that degree, that they prefer the censure and universal reprehension of mankind to being passed over in silence. The idea of not being noticed is to them worse than non-existence, and they would choose that their names should be bandied about by all classes of people, branded with infamy and disgrace, rather than remain in oblivion.
“As the desire of distinction is universal, when one attempts to force his way to it, others grow jealous, and take pleasure in pulling him down, that they may raise their own upon the ruins of their neighbour's character.
“Feeble indeed would be the guards of virtue, slender the fences that policy might erect against transgression, did not man feel a dread of that Being from whose eye not a spot in the universe lies concealed, and who is a witness to every thought and deed of his creatures. A belief in his superintending providence—that he is the detector of the heart, and the punisher of hidden wickedness, alone creates the sanctity of an oath, fixes the basis of virtue, and preserves inviolate the laws of justice. In all the casual modifications of political life, religion is the soul of duty—it forms the intrepid soldier, the conscientious legislator, the faithful magistrate, and the upright judge; it is the great basis of civil government and of society. The subtle and unprincipled Machiavel himself pays this compliment to the ancient Romans; “THEIR RELIGION, says he, PRODUCED GOOD LAWS, AND GOOD LAWS THEIR GOOD FORTUNE.”
A late London paper says, “Our continental dispatches received last night, of authority unquestionable, speak decidedly of a serious and immediate attempt to effect a Counter-Revolution in France.”—It is added, that the King of Prussia, having refused giving audience to Monf. Segur, the French Ambassador, he had left Berlin abruptly.
Last Monday week arrived at New-York, the sloop Maryann, Capt. Sage, of Middletown, in 15 days from Port-au-Prince; who advises, that three days previous to his leaving that place, about 600 troops, with a number of the inhabitants, made a sally on the revolted negroes, by whom they were repulsed, with great slaughter—that the inhabitants of Port-au-Prince, were in the greatest consternation, expecting every moment a general attack on the town.
The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, have lately organized that institution, agreeably to the act of Union, by the appointment of the following gentlemen to fill the different Professorships.
John Ewing, D. D. Provost, and professor of Natural Philosophy.
John Andrews, D. D. Vice Provost, and professor of moral Philosophy, Economics, and Politics.
James Davidson, A. M. Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages.
Robert Patterson, A. M. Professor of Mathematics.
William Rogers, D. D. Professor of English and the Belles Lettres.
Henry Helmuth, D. D. Professor of the German and Oriental Languages.
William Shippen, M. D. Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, and Midwifery.
Adam Kuhn, M. D. Professor of the practice of Physic.
Benjamin Rush, M. D. Professor of the Institutes and Clinical Medicine.
James Hutchinson, M. D. Professor of Chemistry.
Samuel Powel Griffiths, M. D. Professor of Materia Medica.
Casper Wistar, M. D. Adjunct Professor of Anatomy, Surgery, and Midwifery.
Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D. Professor of Natural History and Botany.
James Wilson, L. L. D. Professor of Law.
In the list published in our last of the young gentlemen who graduated in the University of Pennsylvania the 18th ult. the name of BURD WILSON, of Philadelphia, ought to have been inserted.
Married, CHARLES GODFRIED PALESKE, Esq. his Prussian Majesty's Consul General to the United States of America, to Miss HANNAH ELMSLIE, of this city.
Died, on Wednesday last, Mr. JOHN HARDWARE, and on Friday, Mr. GEORGE RONALDSON, both of the Island of Jamaica, from whence they lately came to this city for the recovery of their health.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
   Brig Sufannah, Morry, Bayonne   Schooner Peggy, Butler, N. Carolina   Swallow, Hall, Virginia   Sloop Polly and Sally, McNeran, ditto  
PRICE OF STOCKS.
   6 per Cents, - - 21/   3 per Cents, - - 12 1/2   Deferred, - - 12 1/6   Indents, - - 12 1/3   Final Settlements, - - 18/6   Half shares Bank U. S. 50 per cent. premium.   Shares Bank North-America, 13 ditto.  
TO BE SOLD,
THAT large, elegant and convenient HOUSE, in which the subscriber now lives, situate in Elizabeth-Town, in the state of New-Jersey, within 16 miles of the city of New-York. It is finished in the very best manner, and peculiarly convenient for a gentleman with a large family. The Lot contains about four acres of land—the Garden is large, well laid out, and stocked with a good assortment of fruit. For further particulars, enquire of WILLIAM BRADFORD, Esq. in Philadelphia, JOHN PINTARD, Esq. in New-York, or the Subscriber, on the Premises.
May 2, 1792. (12W3W) ELIAS BOUDINOT.

PRICE CURRENT.—PHILADELPHIA.
PER QUANTITY.
MAY 2.—DOLLARS 100 Cents each.
Table with multiple columns listing various goods (e.g., Anchors, Allum, Alms, Beer, Boards, Beef, Butter, Candles, Cheese, Chocolate, Cinnamon, Cloves, Coal, Cocoa, Coffee, Copperas, Cordage, Cotton, Currants, Duck, Feathers, Flax, Flaxseed, Flour, Grain, Hemp, Iron, Lead, Leather, Lignum vitae, Logwood, Mace, Mackerel, Madder, Marble, Malt, Molasses, Mustard, Mahogany, Nails, Nutmegs, Oil, Porter) and their corresponding prices.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, MARCH 31, 1792. NOTICE is hereby given, That the interest for the quarter, ending this day, on the FUNDED DEBT of the United States, standing on the books of the Treasury, and of the Commissioner of Loans for this State, will be paid at the Bank of the United States.
WANTED, the First Volume of the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES—for which Six DOLLARS will be paid by the EDITOR.
ADVERTISEMENT. BY VIRTUE of an order from JOHN HOLMES, EDMUND WAATBERY and BENJAMIN HOLMES, Esqrs. Judges of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Salem, directing us to make Sale of so much of the Lands of BENJAMIN CRIPPS, in the Township of Mansfield, in the County of Salem aforesaid, as will defray the expenses attending the division or partition of Lands held in common between ABRAHAM HEWLING and the aforesaid Benjamin Cripps, agreeably to an act of Assembly, &c. In pursuance of the above order, will be Sold by public Vendue, a tract or piece of Land (or as much thereof as will defray the above expenses) being part of the above, situate and bounded by Lands of Job Shreeve, the aforesaid Abraham Hewling, and others, on seventh day 26th of May next, 1792.—At the house of Henry Sparks, Inn-keeper in Salem aforesaid—by WILLIAM GOODWIN, JOHN WISTAR and THOMAS CLEMENT, Commissioners. 20th April, 1792.
Bank of the United States.
MARCH 31, 1792. RESOLVED, That the Stockholders be, and hereby are, authorized to complete their Shares by payment at any time before the periods required by the law of incorporation. Resolved, That each Share so completed, shall be entitled to draw a dividend of the profits of the Bank, from and after the first day of the month next succeeding the day of completing such Shares. Resolved, That so much of the quarter's interest upon the Public Debt transferred to complete any Share as aforesaid, as shall have accrued before the first day of the month next succeeding the completion of such Share, shall be received by the Bank, and paid to the persons who shall have transferred the same. By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
Certificate Loft.
WAS Loft, on the 17th inst. a CERTIFICATE, Numbered 59,490, granted to LEWIS NICHOLS, for the sum of 307 24-90th Dollars, dated the 1st of May, 1784, and signed by JOHN PIERCE, Esq. marked with the letter L.—Whereof has found the same, and will return it to CLEMENT BRODIE, Esq. Notary Public, at No. 62, in Front-street, south of Market-street, or to the Printer of this paper, shall be generously rewarded. April 18, 1792.
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of COLUMBIA. A PREMIUM
OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, or a MEDAL of that value, at the option of the party, will be given by the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings, to the person who, before the fifteenth day of July next, shall produce to them the most approved PLAN, if adopted by them, for a PRESIDENT'S HOUSE, to be erected in this City. The site of the building, if the artist will attend to it, will of course influence the aspect and outline of his plan; and its destination will point out to him the number, size, and distribution of the apartments. It will be a recommendation of any plan, if the central part of it may be detached and erected for the present, with the appearance of a complete whole, and be capable of admitting the additional parts, in future, if they shall be wanting. Drawings will be expected of the ground plans, elevations of each front, and sections through the building, in such directions as may be necessary to explain the internal structure; and an estimate of the cubic feet of brick-work composing the whole mass of the walls. March 14, 1792. THE COMMISSIONERS.
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of COLUMBIA. A PREMIUM
OF A LOT in this City, to be designated by impartial judges, and FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS; or a MEDAL of that value, at the option of the party; will be given by the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings, to the person who, before the fifteenth day of July, 1792, shall produce to them the most approved PLAN, if adopted by them, for a CAPITOL, to be erected in this City; and TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, or a MEDAL, for the Plan deemed next in merit to the one they shall adopt. The building to be of brick, and to contain the following apartments, to wit: A Conference Room, A Room for the Representatives, A Lobby or Antichamber to the latter, A Senate Room of 1200 square feet area, An Antichamber or Lobby to the last. 12 Rooms of 600 square feet area each, for Committee Rooms and Clerks' Offices, to be of half the elevation of the former. Drawings will be expected of the ground plans, elevations of each front, and sections through the building in such directions as may be necessary to explain the internal structure; and an estimate of the cubic feet of brick-work composing the whole mass of the walls. March 14, 1792. THE COMMISSIONERS.
American Lead Manufactory. STEPHEN AUSTIN, & Co.
HAVE just now opened their LEAD-WAREHOUSE, two doors south of Walnut-street Wharf, adjoining their New Factory—where they have now made, and ready for sale, a general assortment of SHOT of all sizes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed a number of experienced English workmen, they warrant it to be equal in quality to any manufactured in Europe, and at a reduced price from the cost of imported. They also continue to manufacture all the above articles at Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addressed to either of the above Factories, will be thankfully received, and executed on the shortest notice. N. B. Wanted, industrious, sober, Labouring Men, at the said Mines, where constant employ, good wages, and other encouragements will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and houses for their reception. For further particulars enquire of Messrs. MOSES AUSTIN & Co. at their Factory in Richmond, or as above. Philadelphia, December 3, 1791.
JONES & BURROUGHS, STOCK-BROKERS, STATE-STREET, BOSTON.
BUY and sell every kind of the Stocks of the United States, on Commission, by Private Contract, and Public Auction.—Those gentlemen who may be pleased to favor them with their commands, may rely on fidelity, secrecy and dispatch. Boston, March, 1792.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND TO BE SOLD BY THOMAS DOBSON, Bookseller, At the Stone House in Second-Street, The First Volume of HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS:
Consisting of STATE PAPERS, and other authentic documents, intended as materials for an History of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, By EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M. Member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The design of this compilation being to preserve and exhibit a regular series of the most important and authentic documents relating to the history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time, it must be peculiarly interesting to all who wish to acquire a thorough knowledge of this subject. April 4. (co. 1m)
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, (PRICE 6/6.) By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, near Fourth-Street, The Ladies' Library;
CONTAINING, 1. Miss More's Essays 5. Swift's Letter to a new married Lady 2. Gregory's Legacy 6. Miss Chapone on command of Temper 3. Lady Pennington's Advice 7. More's Fables for the Ladies 4. Marchioness of Lambert's Advice
THE editor of this publication hopes, from the established reputation of the several tracts of which it is composed, that it will be found a more complete system for the instruction of the female world, than perhaps any other extant. A volume, under the present title, was lately published in England and Ireland, and had a most rapid sale, having been purchased by almost every lady of taste in those kingdoms. To this volume the editor has added Miss More's Essays—Mrs. Chapone's letters on the government of the temper—and Swift's letter to a young lady newly married. These have considerably enhanced its value, and he doubts not, the ladies on this side of the Atlantic will be as generous in their encouragement of a work intended for their advantage as those in England and Ireland have been.
SETS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
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Farms & Mills for Sale & Lease.
TO BE SOLD,
A VALUABLE FARM, situate on the Turnpike Road leading from Baltimore-Town to Riffen's-Town, about 6 1/2 miles from the former; containing about 430 or 440 acres of good farming land, 70 or 80 acres of which are excellent grass ground; about 170 acres are cleared, upwards of twenty whereof are made meadow; the residue abounding in good timber, and other trees for enclosure and fuel: There are two apple-orchards thereon, and buildings that may do, for the present, for an Overlook and his family.
Also, a Tract of LAND, containing about 600 acres, within two miles of the same road, and about 18 or 20 miles distant from Baltimore-Town; about 700 acres whereof are cleared, well enclosed and improved by culture and with valuable buildings, some excellent meadow, near 20 acres, made.
Also, a small FARM, on a public road leading to said town, about the same distance therefrom as the last described land; containing 103 acres, whereon is an excellent apple-orchard, but no other improvements of much value.
The two first above-mentioned Farms are furnished with slaves, flock of each kind, and all necessary implements of husbandry, which may be had with them; they are sown with wheat, which promises an abundant crop;—the business of the last of the two has been, for nine years, and is now, conducted by a skilful industrious Manager, who may be continued in the management, on terms.
TO BE LET,
A FARM, on the said Turnpike Road, leading from Riffen's-Town to Winchester, Taney-Town, Frederick, and Hager's-Town; whereon is erected a large commodious brick house, that has been used for some years past as a tavern, and, by a tenant qualified for that business, could be made an excellent stage; within a few rods of which, and on the main Falls of Potomac, is also erected a GRIST-MILL, now in good order for Merchant-Work, with a new SAW-MILL, and Land therewith.
For the title and terms of sale, and the lease, of all or any part of the above valuable property, apply to THOMAS JONES. Baltimore County, March 7, 1792.
TO BE SOLD BY THE EDITOR,
A TABLE for receiving and paying Gold at the Bank of the United States, showing the Value of Gold in Dollars and Cents, from One to a Thousand Pennyweights—according to the Act of Congress, ascertaining the Standard and Value of Gold.