Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-12-03 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 54 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1792.
[Whole No. 376.]
Foreign Affairs.
VIENNA, Sept. 12.
WE learn by letters from Semlin, dated the 4th inst. that the Turkish inhabitants of Belgrade, who had withdrawn from thence during the war, after having assembled to the number of 2000 men near Semendria, and provided themselves in their route with cannon, on the 31st of last month marched under the command of Carra Hassan before Belgrade, where they summoned the Pacha to grant them a free entrance into the city, and to re-establish them in their former possessions. Their demand having been refused, they prepared to obtain it by force. On the morning of the 3d of this month they assaulted the city, and obliged the Pacha to retire with his garrison into the citadel, which, at the departure of the courier, was menaced by the rebels.
FRANKFORT, Sept. 17.
The two daughters of the hereditary Prince of Baden-Durlach, Louisa-Maria, aged 13 years and a half, and Frederica-Dorothea, aged 11 years and a half, passed through this city on their way to Petersburg; we are assured that these two princesses are destined as consorts for the two eldest sons of the grand duke of Russia, Alexander and Constantine; that they will complete their education at Petersburg, and that they will be instructed there in the Greek religion.
PARIS, September 28.
The commissioners appointed to superintend the Royal Prisoners in the Temple, have informed the Council-General of the Commons, that three or four hundred people sometimes assemble in the night, near the tower where the king lodges, and calling out sometimes Vive le Roi . Measures have been taken by the Council to prevent such assemblies in future; and they have proposed to take from the king his red ribband and other insignia of royalty, as feudalism which they say ought not to be suffered.
The Commons of Paris sent to the Convention an inventory of the silver plate found in the houses of the brothers of the King.
Cambon—"I move that all the silver plate found in the different churches, and in the houses of the emigrants, be immediately sent to the mint."—Decreed.
The Commons of Paris wrote to the Convention, that the three millions assigned to them for the purpose of liquidating notes issued by the Bank of Aids, were expended. They therefore requested two millions more, that they might be enabled to liquidate the whole of these notes.
This occasioned a long debate, in which La Croix and Cambon complained that the Commons of Paris demanded new funds, without showing to what purpose they had applied the former grant.
The President quitted the Chair, to justify the Commons, and said, that when their accounts should be inspected, no cause of blame would be found against them.
La Croix and Chambron moved, "that the department of Paris should, in three days, give in an account of the purposes to which they had applied the three millions formerly granted; and also a particular account of the present state of the private Banks of Paris which have issued notes."—Decreed.
The Commissioners of the Executive Power wrote from Lisle, dated September 25, stating, that the place was regularly besieged; that
the enemy were in force, and the garrison very weak, but that the courage of the soldiers and citizens gave them reason to hope that the enemy would be repulsed.
A deputy of the Department of the North declared, that the commissioners were misinformed; for he knew beyond a doubt, that the garrison consisted of 5,500 infantry, and 600 cavalry.—There was no evening sitting this day.
"The position of the armies is still the same, and the Prussians are in as much distress as ever. It is well known that there have been private conferences between the Duke of Brunswick, Lucchesini, and some French officers: and it is supposed these conferences are intended to bring about some accommodation between the contending Powers."
General Kellerman's Camp, Sept. 25.
"Since the affair of the 20th, nothing has passed between the two armies. They are always in sight of each other. That of the enemy has advanced upon our left; by which means they occupy the two routes of Chalons and Rheims, and have blocked up both these communications. They ravage all the neighbouring villages, but they will all soon die of hunger, for the peasants have carried off all their cattle."
"At present there is a verbal suspension of hostilities. Some Prussian officers have been to dine with Generals Kellerman and Dumourier.—M. Heyman, an emigrant officer, at present a Major General in the service of Prussia, was among the number. There have been some private conferences, but they have produced nothing. The proposals presented by the Prussians are, that the King should be re-established. You need not doubt how these were received."
"Yesterday the King of Prussia's first Aid de-Camp dined with Gen. Dumourier. His name is Mansfrin, when the Nation, and the health of the King of Prussia, were given as toasts."
"A conference was just going to be held, when intelligence arrived that Royalty had been abolished in France by a decree of the National Convention."
"All that I can say is, that the Prussians are in a deplorable situation—the affair of the 20th has shown that the soldiers of Liberty are superior to those of Despots."
The volunteers of the district of Bernay, have six fine pieces of cannon, taken at the battle of Bergen, from the same Duke of Brunswick, who now leads an army in France, and given by Louis XV. to the Maréchal Broglio.
Eight hundred Marseillois, chosen from the most eager patriots in the place, are upon their march to Paris, to replace those gone to the frontiers of Spain, and to defend the capital. They are provided with pistols, sabres and muskets, and have each an assignat of five hundred livres, the gift of their fellow citizens. Two hundred horse entirely equipped accompany them.
The procurer-Syndic of the department of La Marne, and the Post-Master, have fled from Chalons, upon perceiving some suspicions of their treachery.
The rumour at Rouen have subsided, and the commissioners returned to the National Convention, have declared, that, during their whole journey, they perceived the most ardent symptoms of patriotism in the people.
The street St. Ann, in Paris, in which Helvetius was born, is ordered to be called the street of Helvetius.
It was unanimously declared by the National Convention, in the sitting on Tuesday, that "the French republic is one and indivisible."
The same evening the assembly abolished the high national court of Orleans. Peace is restored at Orleans by the presence of the commissioners from the National Convention.
M. Cazotte, who was involved in the plans of the court, was condemned and executed in the place de Greve, on Tuesday last. He went to the scaffold with much firmness.
The bridges of the Marne have been cut to prevent the Prussian detachments from passing them for the purpose of obtaining forage.
A second convoy of cannons from the foundry of Indret, arrived at Paris on Tuesday night.
JACOBIN CLUB, Sept. 26.
Chabot revived again his motion to bring Louis and his wife to trial, and to force the Convention to organize the government, and to destroy all intermediary administrations between the executive power and the people, except the municipalities. It is not the convention that we must petition for this—it is the sovereign of the convention, the people. Let the sovereign order, and their representatives must obey. It has been said, that one minister cannot correspond with 44,000 municipalities. I mean to propose 80,000 municipalities, to correspond with whom let there be 30 or 40 ministers. [Murmurs.]
A letter was read from the Abbe Fauchet, justifying himself against the accusations upon which he had been expelled the society, but they persisted in his expulsion.
Chabot's motions were resumed, and another very warm debate took place, and again Petion, and his friends who were present, procured the adjournment, without trying their strength in bringing the inflammatory questions to vote.
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
SEPTEMBER 30.
Citizens Robert, Mayor of Vancq, and Benier, Rector of that Community, being admitted to the bar, addressed the Convention as follows:
"Representatives of the French people; we here address you in the name of seven or eight hundred citizens, to whom nothing remains but the ashes of their habitations, and their fidelity to the republic, and who, for their attachment to the laws, have experienced the vengeance of the enemies of liberty."
"On Monday, the 24th of this month, the Municipality of Vancq, in the district of Vouziers, and department of Ardennes, received an order in the name of the ci-devant Marshal de Broglio, commanding a body of Emigrants, whose headquarters were then at Vouziers, to supply his army with provisions. The Municipal Officers faithful to their duty refused to comply. In the course of the day a second summons was sent, with threats of military execution, and setting fire to the place in case of refusal, but the Municipality still returned their former answer."
"In a moment the flames consumed our whole crop both of wheat and barley, with our barns, stables, horses, and nearly 200 houses which were about a third of the whole number in the place. The house of the Mayor, that of his brother, a deputy of the national convention, and the church were also destroyed."
"Their rage was not yet satisfied—they massacred without distinction, old men, women, and children—they prevented a mother from en-
tering her house to save her three children, who perished in the flames."
"They offered a pardon to any person who would deliver up the Mayor and the Rector, but luckily we found means to save ourselves, by routes unknown to the monsters who are thus ravaging our country."
"The emigrants fattened with carnage, and covered with the blood of their fellow citizens, at length retired; but they tied to the tails of their horses some of the inhabitants, whom they carried off with them to serve as a trophy of their infamous triumph."
"We request an aid of 50,000 livres, to relieve the urgent wants of our community, as the loss we have sustained is estimated at more than 500,000 livres."
On a motion made by M. Lacroix, the convention decreed, "that the above sum should be assigned to the Minister of the Home Department to relieve the village of Vancq, and that it should be taken from the money produced by the sale of effects belonging to the Emigrants."
A number of members, among whom were Cambon, Manuel, and Collot d'Herbois, moved "that all the effects of Broglio should be immediately sold." The last member moved, "that the punishment of death should be inflicted on every Frenchman who should quit his country, to go and inhabit any country now at war with France." A number of other propositions were also made, but after a little discussion, they were all of them referred to a committee.
ACCUSATIONS IN THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
On Tuesday, on a proposal made by M. Merlin for allotting a guard to the National Convention from the eighty-three departments, a long debate arose, of which we shall only endeavor to give a general idea.
M. Merlin said, that a dictatorial party had been denounced to him in the Assembly; he demanded to have this party pointed out, that he might poignard the first man who should arrogate to himself the power of a dictator.
M. Laforce made a very able reply. He had not spoken of a dictator, or a dictatorship; but he had alluded to a dictatorial power, which some men of intrigue and ambition might aim at. At the conclusion of his speech he referred to the authors of the late disorders, and one or two members mentioned M. Robertspierre.
M. Osselin denounced M. Robertspierre. He accused him of being connected with several other members of the department of Paris, in a league for erecting a tribunal power, that was to rule and govern the republic under the name of a triumvirate or dictature .
M. Barbaroux, a deputy for Marseilles, affirmed, that one of Robertspierre's friends (M. Pains) had pointed him out to the Marseillois as a proper, and indeed the only person to fill, or at least to head the dictatorship; but they had all exclaimed, "That having never bowed their necks beneath the tyranny of a king, they would not acknowledge the despotism of a public magistrate."
M. Robertspierre recalled the memory of his public services, as a man of letters, and a member of the constituent assembly. He disavowed every idea of personal ambition; and at length formally, but rather equivocally, denied the charge.

Several members called upon him to speak plainly, and M. Lecointre Pyraveau said, 'Robespierre, do not tell us what you did in the constituent assembly, but say plainly, whether you have aspired to a dictatorship, or a triumvirate!'
In another part of his speech, three members, M. M. Cambon, Babeuf, and Lalle, repeated the same demand. M. Robespierre continued his equivocal defence to a great length.
Marat was also accused of writings tending to excite the people to assassination. It was with difficulty that he was permitted to speak; and when he observed, "that he had many personal enemies in the convention," the whole body rose up amidst shouts of disapprobation, and declared their hatred to him. Being at length permitted to proceed, he spoke of his attachment to cause of liberty; his constant and open enmity to a corrupt court; his long imprisonment; and, above all, his predictions relative to La Fayette, whose treason he had anticipated, and whose guilty success he had been lucky enough to prevent.
M. Boileau, who succeeded him in the tribune, pulled out one of the affiches, or advertisements, circulated by him, in which he told the people, "that if in the eight first sessions of the convention, the basis of the whole constitution was not laid and adjusted, a new insurrection, and a subsequent dictatorship would be absolutely necessary."
There is no manner of doubt but the assembly would have launched a decree of accusation against him, if he had not declared his repentance in regard to this proceeding, and produced a journal posterior to the date of the above, in which he evinced more moderation, and recommended far different principles to the people.
In the course of his defence Marat said, "If you enquire concerning my heart, I can answer with truth that it is pure, but as to my thoughts, they are my own; no power under Heaven has a right to demand an account of them. I declare, that if the decree is carried against me, I shall here blow my brains out."—The sight of the weapon, and of the expressive gestures of M. Marat, agitated the convention considerably, and a long debate followed, until the call for the order of the day.
Marshal Luckner sent a letter to the convention, justifying himself from the aspersions thrown out against him in the sitting of the 27th ult. to the charge made against him of having left the incendiary Jarry unpunished, he replied, that the court martial of the army of the north was not organized; that there was neither a commissary of stores, nor a commissary of accounts; and that he had requested the minister at war, but in vain, to appoint such officers.
"When I set out for the Belgian Netherlands," added he, "I was assured that I should be joined by 30 or 40,000 men; but I remained there 14 days without seeing one of them. I however continued at Courtray, from which I wrote to the minister, entreating him to send me a reinforcement, that I might either maintain my post, or March against Ghent, which I could not do without more troops, because the enemy, who were on my flank at Tournay, would infallibly have cut off my retreat."
He concluded by observing, that his papers were among his baggage, which would arrive next week, and that he would then lay before the commissioners the different letters he had received from the ministers.
DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS.
The following is a copy of the memorial delivered in last night by the minister of foreign affairs, concerning the situation of the principal European Powers, as far as respects France.
Russia. —"It has been announced, that a Russian fleet is to pass the Dardanelles, and enter the Mediterranean; but this fleet is not as yet equipped."
"It has also been told us, that 20,000 Russians have left Poland, and are now on their march towards our frontiers; but 20,000 more are still wanting, in order to subjugate that country."
Denmark. —"Is too poor and too wise not to remain neutral."
Sweden. —"Has been enlightened by a great domestic example, which has evinced the dangers with which despots and usurpers are constantly surrounded; and its Regent possesses too many virtues, not to respect a people determined to obey the laws only, which are so many written virtues."
Prussia and Austria. —"At Berlin, the greatest fermentation reigns among the people of a king who wishes to attack our rights. They adore that liberty which he blasphemes and combats, but cannot overturn."
The Powers of Brandenburg. —"Austria, which can never be united but by means of criminal passions, are nearly divided by those very passions; and the King of Prussia is actually desirous of making peace with France."
Spain. —"Is about to declare war against us; she wants money, notwithstanding her mines; and men, notwithstanding her possessions in the two worlds."
Great Britain. —"In England the king detests us, but the people esteem us; and although the constitution permits the king to declare war, he dare not do it without the consent of his subjects."
Switzerland. —"These brave mountaineers are irritated against it; but they will never be such paricides as to turn their arms against a people who wish to be the brothers of all the nations upon earth."
This was ordered to be printed, and transmitted to the 83 departments.
On the motion of M. Cambon, who stated that they should have no French Princes in a Republic, and that the nation paid an annuity
of three millions, as the appanage of the gentlemen.
"The National Convention no longer acknowledging French Princes, suppresses their salaries of appanage ."
M. Leonard Bourbon observed, that the Legislative Assembly had fixed the salary of the ci-devant King at five hundred thousand livres, he observed that no prisoner had ever such a salary; and therefore proposed that it be suppressed, and the Municipality of Paris charged to supply the wants of the prisoners.
After a few observations from M. Tallier, it was referred to the Committee of Finance, and the Convention rose at five o'clock.
PARIS, Sept. 29.
"The two leading factions seem aiming at which shall be the first to betray each other, by delivering up the King and Royal Family to the Duke of Brunswick, should they be able to escape being massacred in this conflict of super-eminent wickedness and treachery."
"The Chiefs of the Jacobin faction in Paris are perfectly well assured among themselves, that their armies cannot face the Duke of Brunswick. They therefore mean to put the best face on a bad cause, in order to preserve a little popularity with the people at large, and retire with an army, such as it is, composed of the hordes of banditti who are very numerous, to Bourdeaux, from whence it will be an easy matter for the chiefs to embark for some part of America. Most of the leading men of the faction have plenty of money, for they have been pillaging the public coffers for the last two years, particularly Dumourier. Condorcet's wife is already gone off with the most valuable of her husband's effects, and he always carries his own passport about him, that he may be able to escape on the first moment of danger. Bourdeaux is evidently their place of refuge. Whether in the event of the King's not being delivered up, he is to be forced to go with them, seems a matter undetermined. But probably he will be taken with them."
"I have reason to expect, that General Montequieu, who commands the French forces in the South, has made an irruption into Savoy for no other purpose than to capitulate with the enemy."
"The city of Lyons is particularly favorable to the aristocratic party, and the Sardinian troops will be welcomed whenever they come there with great joy by the inhabitants at large, if we except about 500 of the banditti, who compose the Jacobin Club of that city. The Sardinian troops would have been there already, had 10,000 of the Austrians from Milan joined them sooner."
"Although the King of Spain has not seemed much disposed to interfere, yet he probably will now, the same as the Swiss have done. The latter would have declared war long since, had not many of their regiments been divided in several parts of France, which made them apprehensive of their troops falling victims to such a proceeding."
"The troubles in the Department of Finisterre are not yet terminated. Fourteen parishes have revolted, refusing to pay the taxes, under the pretext that without a King there can be no nation, and consequently neither government nor authority capable of exacting contributions from the people. The volunteers, provided with artillery, have marched to crush this rebellion, but it is tho' this expedition will not terminate so successfully as the former one. The unfortunate peasants have been condemned to pay 25,000 livres to defray the expenses of the patriots, incurred at the time of the first insurrection."
"It is generally known, that there is some very bad news in town from our armies, but what it is, I have not been able to learn. Every thing that turns out unfortunate is so cautiously concealed, that we know very little of what goes forward till two or three days after the news arrives, and then it is presented in so mangled a state, that it is difficult to discover the truth."
"P. S. We have just learnt the news of Chalons and Rheims being taken by the combined armies. This news must have been known by some for many days past, but all the Gazettes are silent on the subject."
It appears that the Canton of Berne is disposed to give up the pass of Portenruil to the Emperor, and to act hostily against France. A letter from Bienne to M. Carra, which noticed this inclination, was referred to the executive power.
Luckner is at Paris. He came to concert the plan of a campaign with the temporary Executive Power. He demands an audience of the National Convention, who appointed him an hour to-morrow. He is to give his observations in writing in the German language.
The execution of the Thieves who stole the Crown Jewels, is respited.
The Marine Minister has prepared a most satisfactory account of the French Navy, for the purpose of laying it before the National Convention. From this statement it will appear that they have one hundred and two vessels of various rates, ships, frigates, packets, and flutes at sea, or prepared to sail immediately; and fifty-three ships of the line, forty-eight frigates, and a proportionate number of smaller vessels, in ordinary, or repairing; with a sufficient quantity of naval stores, to put their marine on such a footing at the shortest warning, that the minister observes it may defy all the naval powers of Europe.
LONDON, October 2.
The Prince de Poix, is just escaped and arrived in England. He was among the armed force in the Tuilleries on the 10th of August: he was taken in a Marechal's uniform, and being left in the room of the committee of Surveillance, escaped by borrowing a coat and waistcoat of the commissioners, and has ever since been secreted by a friend, in Paris;
but escaped in disguise, as he says, having bought a passport for one hundred thousand livres.
The following is the present state of the plan for relieving the unfortunate French Priests.
The chief subscription amounted, on Thursday, to four thousand pounds.
About four hundred and twenty persons have at present applied for relief. The Palace at Winchester, which, in the last war, held 1,100 French and Dutch prisoners, is now preparing for their reception, and a thousand may probably be accommodated there, in such a manner as to shew that our charity is not insulatingly given. But the notion that the place is a sort of prison has, we understand, prevented great numbers from applying for admission.
A contractor furnishes beds, during a certain term, for 2000: each person adopted by the charity, is to have two guineas a month for the purchase of food; and the greater part will receive besides, twenty shillings, the first month, as an allowance for clothes.
The great saloon in the Palace will be entirely filled with beds.
In the mean time, subscriptions are proceeding in several of the principal towns in England; and, as this is purely a question of humanity, all political considerations are happily excluded from it.
Should M. Dumourier have acted, as is reported he has done, from principles of loyalty to his Sovereign, the worst that his enemies can say of him, is that he was a good kernel in a bad shell.
M. de Calonne reached Dover on Sunday, and went to pay his respects to Mr. Pitt at Walmer Castle. But he was not arrived in London yesterday afternoon, though hourly expected.
M. Dumas, a member of the late national assembly in France, is arrived in London. He is among those who voted for M. de la Fayette, and of course it was not safe for him to reside any longer in Paris.
It appears by letters from Fribourg, in Germany, that the Viscount Mirabeau, who arrived at Offembourg on the 15th ult. at first refused every kind of remedy, dreading that he should be poisoned. At length he resigned himself into the hands of his physicians, and became better. In a violent dispute with one of his officers, he fell into an apoplexy, of which he died, much regretted by the military under his command.
The crowds of foreigners who land, and travel to the metropolis on all sides of the stages, render it very difficult to get a passage from the sea coast in any sort of carriage. All, all, all, from the broad wheel waggon to the flying dilly, are occupied.
Of the astonishing increase of business in the bank of England, the best idea may be formed from considering the increase of its servants. Between 40 and 50 years ago there were scarcely more than that number of Clerks in employ there; this is still in the recollection of a few of the oldest servants of the bank; at present the number employed amounts to more than 400.
It has been asserted that some merchants have advanced sums to a considerable amount to the King of France, (150 millions) nothing can be more false. Had this been fact, their houses would have been plundered, and their lives forfeited to the summary vengeance of the many-headed monster, the mob. They have denied the charge, and it has not been supported.
The Canton of Berne, in Switzerland, has ordered a public mourning for fifteen days, on account of the defeat and slaughter of the Swiss Guards at Paris on the 10th of August. During this time all the public spectacles are to be shut up.
Tumult at Toulon.
The following is a letter from Toulon, dated September 12.
"A plan of a counter Revolution discovered itself here fifteen days since. Unfortunate persons confined in prison, forced, with sabres in their hands, the gaolers; and those malefactors, who were in number 1500 persons, spread themselves in bands over the city, and gave rise to well founded fears. The council general of the community assembled immediately, ordered the gates of the town to be shut, the generale to beat, and seized the galley prisoners, who, upon interrogation, answered, that arms, and the means of ensuring their liberty, had been promised them."
"The authors of this movement were also arrested and imprisoned. They were interrogated, and declared guilty of conspiracy; yesterday they were hanged. M. Flotte, commandant of marine, and M. Rochmaure, captain of a vessel, met with the same fate. There are still in the prisons many officers, accused of having refused to take arms on the day of the tumult."
The following decree, proposed by M. Dumas, in the National Assembly, was adopted in the following words:
The National Assembly considering the necessity of providing as speedily as possible, for an exchange of prisoners of war, and for releasing such of our brethren in arms; who, in combating for their country, may have fallen into the hands of the enemy. Considering also, that the basis upon which the Executive power, or the generals of armies, may conclude treaties, conventions, or agreements, ought to be founded on the principles of liberty and equality, pass the following decree respecting the exchange of prisoners.
 1. There shall be no pecuniary tariff for the exchange, according to the difference of rank, but in terms relative to the corresponding ranks in the armies of the enemy.  2. There shall be no tariff of exchange, so that no officer or subaltern can be exchanged against a greater number of individuals of an inferior rank. 
3. The common basis of all exchange, which no modification can alter, shall be to exchange man for man, and rank for rank.
Extract of a letter from Lisle, dated Sept. 27. "We are absolutely surrounded by the enemy, and all the roads are intercepted. The cannonading was kept up all day yesterday from both parties; that of the besieged, as well as the besiegers. We had five men killed by one ball. We see the enemy from the ramparts carrying off their dead in waggons. We set fire yesterday to part of the suburbs; and enabled the enemy to approach nearer to the wall."
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, November 23.
In committee of the whole.
A bill for regulating foreign coins under consideration, which enacts that the gold coins of Great-Britain and Portugal shall be a legal tender for payment of all debts, at the rate of one dollar for every twenty-seven grains of the actual weight thereof, and the gold coins of France and Spain at the rate of one dollar for every twenty-seven and two-fifths of a grain of the weight thereof.
Mr. Page said, he wished to be informed whether there really was the difference between the French and British coins stated in the bill—if so, how that difference had been ascertained:—That a few years since he had examined hydrostatically the different gold coins named in the bill, and a variety of coins of the German empire; and that although he readily discovered that the specific gravity of the latter was so little as to justify the low value at which they were generally rated—he remembered well, that there was by no means such difference between the specific gravity of the former as could justify the discrimination made in the bill. He added, that he doubted whether, if there really should appear to be that difference between the coins, it would be proper to introduce the distinction by a law of the general government, as it might be attended with some inconveniences, and might be construed into a partiality to British commerce—he therefore, to take the sense of the committee, moved to amend the clause, so as that the gold coins of Great-Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal should be payable at the same rates.
Mr. Tucker seconded Mr. Page, and supported his motion with similar arguments.
Mr. Fitzsimons said he should vote against the amendment, because, he believed that the distinction proposed in the bill was really that which did exist in the intrinsic value of the coins alluded to.
Several other members opposed the motion, because, said they, we have no doubt that the Senate, who originated the bill, had considered the subject fully, and had made the proper estimate (on full information) of the real value of the different coins.
Mr. Page replied, that since he had only heard the opinions and suppositions of gentlemen opposed to his opinion, and no satisfactory proof offered to support the bill against his amendment, he should persist in his motion; for, said he, although I will not be so dogmatical as to assert that I am right, and the Senate wrong—yet, in a matter of this nature, which admits of positive proof and demonstration, and which, as far as my own actual experiments have gone, establish my opinion, I cannot give it up, till I have been convinced by other arguments than such as I have heard. Had I been told that the different coins alluded to had been examined hydrostatically, or had been assayed by proper persons appointed for that purpose, I should have acquiesced. I might possibly however have supposed that they were of a different coinage or emission from those which I had examined. I think the clause under consideration is of such importance as to require full and satisfactory proof to the world, that it has not been adopted without a thorough investigation of the truth and propriety of the discrimination it establishes between the coins of the nations with which we have such a considerable commercial intercourse; with that proof, I should be satisfied, and would defy the invidious sus-

picion of our being influenced by improper motives; but till such proof be afforded, I must think it would be better to amend the bill as I proposed, which would leave those coins on their present footing during only the short term to which their circulation is limited by the bill.
From what fell from some gentlemen, he said, it appeared that they thought the examination of the relative value of coins could only be ascertained by an assay. He affirmed that any person acquainted with the use of an hydrostatic balance might easily examine them:—That it was with reluctance he said any thing which might look like a scientific parade, but he thought it his duty to bring forward the enquiry he made; and what had fallen from some gentlemen compelled him to explain and support his motion.
To explain what he had said respecting the hydrostatic experiment, he observed, that it had pleased nature, or rather the great author of nature, to annex to most bodies, and particularly to metals, a different weight: Happily each species of substances have different weights, which, with propriety are called their specific gravities: That most happily for our purpose, a cubic foot of water weighs 1000 ozs. avoirdupois; and a body when immersed in water, displaces a mass of water equal to the bulk of the immersed body, in displacing which mass of water, the body, if suspended to a pair of scales, is found to lose a weight exactly equal to the weight of the mass of water so displaced; to, that if any piece of money be weighed first in air, and then in water, its loss of weight in water will be exactly the weight of an equal bulk of water, which must at once give the comparative weight of that piece of money and of water. And as by this method pure gold has been found to be about nineteen times heavier than water, and copper nine times—which has been generally the alloy used in gold coins, if copper be mixed in any proportion (or any other metal whose specific gravity is known) the specific gravity of the compound may be found, and the exact proportion of each ingredient ascertained; and here I will remark, that as in the act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States, the proportion of silver and copper, which are declared to be the composition of the alloy for our gold coins, is not exactly fixed; there must be a difficulty of finding the real value of that coin without an actual and accurate assay, and also room for varying its value. But as this is happily left to the discretion of the director of the mint, whose abilities, accuracy and integrity are so remarkable, no inconvenience need be apprehended, as there is no doubt that he will observe the trust reposed in him, and that he will point out, from time to time, the exact proportion of these two ingredients of the alloy, which are left by the bill to his discretion. This I looked upon as a defect in the bill, and mentioned when it was before us the last session, as a reason why I wished to have it recommitted—but to return to the question.—
As I have found that the specific gravity of the gold coins of England, France, Spain and Portugal was, as well as I can now remember, about seventeen and an half, and that of some German coins not fifteen—that is, that the former weighed seventeen and an half times more than an equal mass of water, and the latter not fifteen times as much, or in other words, that a cubic foot of the former, weighed 17,500 ozs. whilst a cubic foot of the latter would not weigh 15,000. I say as I have found this to be the case, I wish to know now whether any later experiments on those coins have been made to prove that there is the difference stated in the bill; if there have been such experiments I shall withdraw my motion, if not, I must insist upon it.
MONDAY, December 3. The petition of Woodrop and J. Sims, was read and taken into consideration; and, on motion of Mr. Key, was referred to a select committee. The committee appointed are, Messrs. Key, Grove and Tucker. The petition of Anne Welch, widow of Hz. Welch, an officer, killed at Penobscot, praying the allowance of a pension as the widow of a militia officer was read—and laid on the table. Mr. W. Smith presented a petition from a number of citizens of Charleston, S.C. praying that Congress would pass a bankrupt law; read and referred to the committee already appointed on that business. The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing a plan for the reduction of the public debt. The same being read, it was ordered that 200 copies be printed for the use of the house.
Mr. Sylvester presented the petition of Ezekiel Scott; which was read and referred to Messrs. Sylvester, Ward and Kitchell.
Mr. Dayton's motion, laid on the table on Friday last, was called up by that gentleman; viz.
That the Secretary of War be directed to lay before this house, a list of the names of the persons returned to his office for pensions, by the Circuit Courts, in pursuance of the act entitled, an act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans, barred by the limitation heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions; together with the rates of the said pensions, and the causes assigned for disability, accompanied with a statement of such facts and circumstances as may relate thereto.
Mr. Dayton observed, that he considered it the indispensable duty of the legislature to enquire into this business, in order to avoid imposing an account of a number of persons admitted on the pension list by the Circuit Courts, on account of complaints, which if they were generally admitted, would encrease the pension list in such manner, as ten times the present revenue of the United States would not be adequate to supporting.
Mr. B. Bourn observed, that the government had vested a discretionary power with the Secretary of War to check the grant of pensions in improper cases; that the Secretary was preparing a report on this subject; and that a full statement of the whole business would be laid before the house. He therefore saw no necessity for the resolution.
Mr. Sedgwick said he hoped nothing was intended by the motion to counteract the benevolent views of the legislature, in the only act of legislative generosity ever exhibited by this government, the law of the last session making particular provision for invalids. Mr. Sedgwick said he thought the necessary information on the subject would come before the house in course; but he was anxious that no steps should be taken, on account of some improper grants of pensions, to frustrate the designs of government, or divert the justice and humanity of the country from a class of citizens who have fought the battles of the Union & to whom the United States are so much indebted for their present freedom and happiness.
Mr. Clark, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Lawrance, and Mr. Hillhouse, supported the motion. It was said that the law was found inadequate to the purpose for which it was made; that while in some cases it was not carried into execution, in others very improper grants of pensions had been made. Information was wanted; this information may be obtained; the law is defective, and ought to be revised. Justice, therefore, to real objects; to guard against impositions, and to make that provision which the finances of the country are competent to—impose a necessity that the motion should be adopted. In reply to the objection, that information would come in of course, from the War Office; it was said, the motion went to several points, on which it was not the duty of the Secretary to report, unless he was required to do it.
Mr. Dayton's motion was agreed to.
Mr. Boudinot, of the committee appointed for the purpose, brought in
A bill to determine the northern boundary of the territory ceded by the state of North Carolina to the United States—read the first time.
In committee of the whole, on the Secretary's report of the estimate of appropriations for the year 1793.
Mr. Sedgwick in the chair. The committee proceeded in hearing a recital from the chairman of the items in the estimate. The sum specified for the contingencies of the war department was struck out, and a blank left. The reading of the estimate being finished, Mr. Fitzsimons submitted sundry resolutions pursuant thereto, which were read and laid on the table. The committee then rose, reported progress, and had leave to sit again.
In committee of the whole, on the bill to ascertain the fees demandable on admiralty proceedings in the courts of the United States.
Mr. Dayton in the chair. The committee made some amendments, they then rose, and reported progress.
Adjourned.
TUESDAY, December 4. The bill for determining the Northern boundary of the territory ceded to the United States by the State of North-Carolina, was read the second time, and committed for Thursday next.
A letter was read from the Secretary of the Treasury, conveying the accounts of the Commissioners of Loans, &c. pursuant to a resolution of the house. These accounts were referred to the committee of the whole on the estimate of appropriations.
The petition of Gaspar Kuhl, praying for a pension, was read and referred to the committee on similar applications.
The petition of Elijah Bostwick, presented the last session, was referred to a select committee, consisting of Messrs. Sylvester, Key, and Grove
Order of the Day, on the Estimate of Appropriations. In committee of the whole—Mr. Sedgwick in the chair.
The papers above mentioned, received from the Secretary of the Treasury, on which the estimate of the expence of the Loan-Offices was founded, were read.
The accounts of the Loan-Officers of Massachusetts, New-York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, were particularly called for, and read in detail. The expences of these offices were very different, owing to the business being much greater, by reason of transfers, in some states than in others. The amount of the expence was generally complained of. It was observed that some other mode of doing the business ought to be adopt-
ed—or, that those for whose advantage these numerous transfers are made, should bear a due proportion of the expence occasioned thereby. Several alterations or corrections were made in the estimate, respecting this article.
The sum of 50,000 dollars for the contingencies and incidental expences of the War Department, having been struck out, Mr. Steele moved that the blank be filled with 5000 dollars.
This motion was withdrawn, and was succeeded by another to the following purport—That the President of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the House, a statement of the items constituting the sum in contingent, incidental, and conjectural charges in the war department—This motion was objected to as informal in itself, and contrary to the practice of the House—it was urged that the proper mode would be to call on the officer at the head of the war department, to lay before the House the necessary documents—It was accordingly moved, that the words President of the United States be struck out of the motion—and that the Secretary of War should be directed to lay before the House, &c.—The motion for striking out was lost—and then the question on the motion as originally made, was put and carried.
The resolutions moved yesterday by Mr. Fitzsimons, were again read—the three first it appears were agreed to—The fourth, respecting a loan, was withdrawn. The committee rose and reported progress.
The resolution above stated being reported to the House, was agreed to.
Mr. Fitzsimons, of the committee on the report from the Secretary of State, relative to the fund appropriated for the support of the intercourse of the United States with foreign nations, brought in a report, which was read, and laid on the table.
The bill to reimburse certain extra expenses of the commissioners for treating of peace with Creek Indians was taken into consideration—the committee had agreed to fill the blank with 1200 dollars, and reported accordingly.—This occasioned some debate on the subject, in which the merits of the application of the commissioners were critically scrutinized—Mr. Sumpner, Mr. Clark, Mr. Kitchell, and Mr. Williamson opposed the report of the committee—Mr. Boudinot, Mr. Milledge, Mr. Ames, and Mr. Page spoke in favor of it.
The question on agreeing to the report of the committee was negatived—the ayes and noes are as follows—
A Y E S. Messrs. Ames, Baldwin, Barnwell, Benion, Boudinot, S. Bourne, W. Findley, Fitzsimons, Gilman, Goodhue, Heister, Huger, Learned, Muhlenberg, Murray, Milledge, Page, Sedgwick, W. Smith, J. Sturges, Thatcher, Tucker, Wadsworth, Ward.—24.
N O E S. Messrs. Ashe, B. Bourn, Clark, Dayton, Giles, Gordon, Greenup, Grove, Hillhouse, Jacobs, Kitchell, Lee, Livermore, Moore, Niles, Schoonmaker, I. Smith, J. Steele, Sumpner, Sylvester, Venable, White, Williamson, Willis, A. Orr.—25.
A motion to fill the blank with 1100 dollars was lost; a motion for 900 was agreed to—the bill was ordered to be engrossed, and then the House adjourned.
Philadelphia, Dec. 5.
Yesterday the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, met at the State-house in this city.
The superior court of New-Jersey, held at Trenton last month, conferred the degree of Sergeant at Law on Elisha Boudinot and Joseph Bloomfield, Esqrs.
It is mentioned in the North-Carolina Journal of the 14th inst. that depredations are daily committed by the Indians in the vicinity of Nashville—and that a military force was collected under Gen. Sevier, who was about to march into the Indian country, from whose exertions an important blow was expected.
The Light House on Cape Henry was lighted the seventeenth of November.
Extract from a letter dated Amsterdam, Sept. 27, 1792. received by the Chesterfield Packet.
The French affairs grow daily more serious; the Prussian army has advanced beyond Chalons, which was the principal rendezvous of the French, who retreated in great disorder.—The Duke of Brunswick approaches Paris, by slow and cautious marches, and it is imagined he will reach it about the 1st of October; riots and the most abominable measures continue in that devoted city. As the Prussians approach, it is expected the mob will become more outrageous, that the murder of the King and Queen cannot be prevented, and that the city will probably be plundered and destroyed. The new national convention has assembled and declared itself constituent and supreme, they however submit to the mob in every thing, and sanction their vile proceedings. The armies have had several actions, in which the undisciplined French have been generally worsted. As the Friend of Liberty, I weep over the fate of that unhappy people."
Extract of a letter from Massachusetts, dated October 13, 1792.
"It is happy for the union that the northern States are tranquil, and firm in support of the government. I cannot but hope the malcontents are a small minority in any of the states. The distractions in the government of France, I wish may be a warning to Americans.—Unhappy Frenchmen, what will be their fate? Unless Providence, by unexpected events, check the natural course of things, the confederate kings with their armies, may impose on the French just what form of government they chuse. Their assembly always appeared very destitute of men of abilities, and for a long time past they seem to have been governed by the mob of Paris.—How
happy for France, and for the cause of humanity, had their Assembly been composed of such men as filled our National Convention—or the Congress since. There does not appear to have been one Adams in all their vast assembly—nor have they a Washington to command their armies, and to advise the supreme power as he often did Congress to great public benefit. The state of things in that distracted kingdom, adds another striking evidence in support of our Solon's great principle in government. It is a consoling consideration, amidst the folly and vices of the rulers among men, that "He whose throne is in the Heavens, ruleth over all." Certain it is, but few nations are capable of preserving their freedom."
It is very possible for parties to take greater liberties than they have hitherto done with the persons and properties of others—but it is impossible to take greater with truth.—Perhaps, they say, they forbear to touch what belongs to their neighbors—but their consciences are their own, and they use them as if they were not to be held to give any account. Did any contested election in England ever carry a partisan farther than to say, with a late writer—"As a federalist I am compelled to prefer Governor Clinton to Mr. Adams."
The argument in fashion is, That man will be faithful as Vice-President in the support of the Constitution he abhors, who holds the first office in a State in open contempt and violation of a Constitution he pretends to respect. It would be too much that one man should have the marring of two Constitutions.
Several late writers have assumed the signature of federalist—but as that might lead to mistakes, they add something to shew what sort of federalists they are.—Read their pieces and there can be no mistake. A uniform federalist, a republican federalist and an anti-federalist, will pass for the same in the twilight of Truth.
[Intended for our last Gazette.] From what quarter of the Union (asks a correspondent) springs the opposition to the re-election of Mr. Adams? From those states where republican institutions abound? Where, to use the emphatical and truly republican language of that consistent patriot, the means of knowledge are so universally diffeminated, that not one human creature is of necessity brought up in ignorance?—Does it spring from those patriots who are the best acquainted with the whole tenor of that gentleman's political career, through the arduous conflict of this country, for all that men ought to hold in estimation? Does it originate with men who have distinguished themselves as friends to the equal rights of men, either in public or private life? Does this opposition manifest itself on the part of those who can point out the time, place or occasion, when they ever suggested, seriously proposed, or honestly supported any plan or plans for promoting the interests of the great body of the people, by diffusing light and information among them, through the medium of public seminaries of learning? Does it appear on the part of the old and tried republicans—or can it be traced to the compatriots of Mr. Adams in a single instance?—These queries must be answered in the negative. The inference is plain. Let not the people be deceived by the specious pretences to patriotism of those who seek to destroy their confidence in the long tried and faithful guardians of the public liberty.
It must be acknowledged by every one, that the means of happiness were in the power of the people of the United States, previous to the auspicious event of adopting the constitution, to as great an extent as they now are—but the most stubborn adversary of the measures of the general government which have called those means into exercise and effect, will not assert that no change for the better has taken place.
Savannah, Nov. 17.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
That on Thursday morning last, the 18th inst. the Lantern of the Light-house on Tybee, took fire, and was entirely consumed, in consequence of which unfortunate accident, no light can appear for some time. It is expected that the building will soon be repaired, of which due notice will be given.
Lately died in New-York, Dr. JAMES COOSWELL—a man, whose virtues and abilities make his death a public loss.
PACKET NEWS.
Just at the time the Prussians were near starving; The Duke and all his Austrians near Burgoyne'd; Just as the French this state of things observing; Laid down their arms themselves, and chang'd their mind. Just at this moment fails the luckless packet, And now the lies make a confounded racket.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
6 per Cents, 21/8 3 per Cents, 12 3/4 Deferred, 13/8 Full shares Bank U. S. 45 per cent. prem. 1/2 shares, 56
TO DISTANT SUBSCRIBERS.
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AT A MEETING OF THE Insurance Company
NORTH-AMERICA,
Held, by adjournment, at the State-House in this City, on the 19th inst. the following PLAN, reported by their Committee, was unanimously agreed to, and adopted as the
CONSTITUTION of the SOCIETY.
1. THE subscribers agree to form themselves into a society under the name of THE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORTH-AMERICA, for the purpose of carrying on the business of assurance, and for raising a fund to pay and satisfy any losses which may happen, or any just demands which may be made upon the said society.
II. The said subscribers do severally, that is to say, each for himself, or herself, his or her heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, hereby covenant, promise and agree, to and with each and every other of the subscribers, their and each and every of their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns, and to and with all and every person and persons who shall hereafter become assured in the office of the company, to do, fulfil and perform each and every of the articles of this association, and such other articles as shall hereafter from time to time be made and agreed upon by the members of this association at any of their general meetings: Provided nevertheless, That no subscriber, or his or her assigns, shall be bound, or held responsible to the other subscribers, or any of them, their or any of their assigns, or to any person or persons who shall become assured by the company, for any sum or sums of money or other charge whatsoever exceeding the amount of his or her share or interest in this association.
III. The capital stock of The Insurance Company of North-America shall not exceed six hundred thousand dollars; and shall be divided into sixty thousand shares, of ten dollars each; and a subscription towards constituting such stock shall be opened in the city of Philadelphia on the 20th day of November, 1792, under the inspection of Ebenezer Hazard, and shall continue open until the whole of the said stock shall have been subscribed.
IV. Any person or persons, copartnership or body politic, may subscribe to this association; and the shares subscribed shall be paid for by instalments as follows; that is to say,
For each and every share subscribed, there shall be paid—
One Dollar at the time of subscribing,
One Dollar on the 2d Monday of July, 1793,
Two Dollars on the 2d Monday of January, 1794.
Two Dollars on the 2d Monday of July, 1794.
Two Dollars on the 2d Monday of January, 1795.
And two Dollars on the 2d Monday of July, 1795.
Provided, That until the twelfth day of December next, the payment of the first instalment shall be made in the receipts issued by the agents and secretary of the late Universal Tontine Association; and after the said twelfth day of December, no person shall subscribe for a greater number of shares than twenty.
And the monies so paid shall be vested in such securities of the United States, or of the state of Pennsylvania, or in the stock of the bank of the United States, or of the bank of North-America, as shall be by the Board of Directors be thought most advisable.
V. If any subscriber or other owner of any share or shares, shall neglect to pay any one of the instalments on the day before appointed for the payment thereof, such subscriber or other owner shall forfeit all the monies which shall have been paid on account of such shares; and shall moreover forfeit all his or her right, title, interest, claim and demand, resulting from such shares, of, in, and to the funds of this association, and the privileges thereof. All monies so forfeited shall enure to the use and benefit of the company.
VI. Every subscriber to these articles, his or her assigns, or other legal representative, shall be considered as being to all intents and purposes, a member of The Insurance Company of North-America; and all shares held in the same shall be transferable in such manner, and under such regulations as the Directors of the Company shall determine and direct.
VII. For the well ordering and conducting the affairs of the company, there shall be fifteen Directors chosen by ballot, on the 2d Tuesday of January in each year, by the Stockholders, by plurality of votes; and the Directors so chosen, shall serve as such until the expiration of the 2d Tuesday of January next ensuing such election, and no longer: Provided, That as soon as forty thousand shares shall have been subscribed, notice thereof shall be given by the said Ebenezer Hazard, in at least two of the newspapers published in the city of Philadelphia; and the said Ebenezer Hazard shall at the same time and in like manner, notify a day not more than ten days distant from the date of such notification, for proceeding to the election of Directors, at a place in the city of Philadelphia, to be therein specified: At which time and place the election shall be made, and the persons then chosen shall be the first Directors, and shall forthwith commence the operations of The Insurance Company of North-America. They shall continue in office until the 2d Tuesday of January next ensuing their election.
VIII. The Directors chosen as aforesaid shall, at their first meeting, elect by ballot, one of their number to be President of the company, and shall then divide themselves (excluding the President) into committees, each committee to consist of two Directors. The said committees shall attend at the office of the company every week, in rotation; and the attending committee, with the President, (who shall also attend daily at the office) shall have full power and authority, in the name and on behalf of the company, to make such insurances upon vessels and merchandise at sea, or going to sea, or upon the life or lives of any person or persons, or upon any goods, wares, merchandise or other property gone or going by land or by water; and at such rates of insurance, or premium, as they shall deem advisable. And they shall, geu-
rally, do and transact, on behalf of the company, all the business usually attending insurances on the objects aforesaid; subject, nevertheless, to such regulations as the Stockholders at any general meeting shall think proper to make; and subject also to such rules and regulations as the Board of Directors shall, from time to time make, relating to the business of the company.
Until the company shall be legally incorporated, all notes, deeds, or other securities taken for the use of the company, shall be taken in the name of the President, as such; and all policies shall be signed by the President, as such; and such signing shall be deemed and taken to be the act of each member of the company, and for which the President shall not be liable to any peculiar personal responsibility; and, in order to prevent disputes, there shall be inserted in every policy, a clause or covenant purporting that the assured considers the President as acting, on behalf of the company, and releases him from all personal responsibility on account of such signature. But when the company shall have been legally incorporated, the policies shall pass under the seal of the corporation, and be attested by their Secretary.
The President shall lay before the Board of Directors, at each of their meetings, an account of the proceedings of the committees since the last meeting of the Board.
IX. There shall be stated meetings of the Board of Directors once in every fortnight, and occasional meetings at such other times as the President shall think proper: At all which meetings the President shall preside, but shall have no vote on any question, except in case of an equality of votes, in which case he shall have the casting voice.
Two thirds of the whole number of Directors, whereof the President shall be one, shall form a quorum; and all questions before the Board shall be decided by a plurality of votes: But no vote shall be re-considered by a less number than was present when such vote passed.
X. The Board of Directors shall have power to employ such and so many officers, clerks and other assistants, as they shall from time to time find necessary, and to make just and reasonable compensations to the persons employed by them. They shall also have power to establish rules and regulations for transferring shares in the company's stock, and for the management of the company's concerns. They shall superintend, generally, the whole business of the company, shall examine the proceedings of the committees, and all officers employed; they shall keep fair minutes of their own proceedings, and submit the same to the inspection of the Stockholders at every of their stated general meetings.
XI. The Stockholders shall meet together on the second Tuesday of January in every year, after the first election of Directors, for the purpose of examining into the situation of the company's affairs, and for making such additional and other rules and regulations as they, shall judge necessary; and in all questions coming before such meetings, as well as in the choice of Directors, they shall respectively vote according to their several interests in the company's stock, in the following ratio; that is to say,
Every member shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock he or she shall hold: Provided, That no member shall have more than fifty votes: And provided also, That no proprietor of stock shall vote at any election for Directors (after the first) unless the stock shall have stood in his own name on the company's books three months next preceding the time of such election. But any member may vote either for Directors, or upon any other business, by his proxy duly authorised; and every rule, ordinance and regulation made at any such meetings, shall be binding on each member of the society as fully to all intents and purposes as if each and every member were personally present, and consenting thereto.
XII. In case of the sickness or necessary absence of the President, his place shall be supplied by such other Director as the Board shall appoint for that purpose.
XIII. No Director shall be entitled to any emolument unless the same shall be agreed to at a general meeting of the Stockholders; but the company shall allow the President a reasonable compensation for his extraordinary attendance on their business.
XIV. The Directors shall on the first Monday of January and the first Monday of July respectively in every year, declare a dividend of so much of the profits of the society as to them shall appear advisable; and the dividend so declared, shall be paid to the respective proprietors in seven days after the same shall be so made. But the monies received as premiums on risks which shall be undetermined and outstanding at the time of making such dividend, shall not be considered as a part of the profits of the company. And in case of any loss or losses whereby the capital stock of the society shall be lessened, no subsequent dividends shall be made until a sum equal to such diminution, and arising from the profits and interests of the society, shall have been added to the capital.
XV. The company shall hold no real estate other than such as shall be necessary for the convenient transaction of their business; or shall be bona fide mortgaged to them, by way of security; or purchased to them in satisfaction of debts; or purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have been obtained upon debts due to them.
XVI. Any member of the Insurance Company of North-America, may at any time become assured by the company, on any ship or vessel, goods, merchandise or lives, in the same manner, and to the same effect, as if such member had no interest in the company.
Extract from the minutes, EBENEZER HAZARD, Secretary. Philadelphia, November 19th, 1792.
ADVERTISEMENT. This Gazette is published in North-Fifth-Street, No. 34, between High and Mulberry Streets—where the Editor now resides.
A LARGE CELLAR TO LET, Sufficiently capacious to store several hundred barrels. Enquire as above.
The price of this Gazette is Three Dollars per annum—One half to be paid at the time of subscribing.
Agreeably to the Seventh Article of their Constitution, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
TO the Members of the Insurance Company of North-America, that Forty Thousand Shares are subscribed; and that a General Meeting of the Subscribers is to be held at the State-House in this city, on 10th inst. at 10 o'clock, A. M. when the Directors are to be chosen.
EBENEZER HAZARD, Secretary. The holders of Certificates in the late Tontine Association, who intend to become members of the INSURANCE COMPANY, are desired to call at No. 145, Arch-Street, where their subscriptions will be received, and a preference given to them, until the 12th inst.
BANK OF THE UNITED STATES.
PHILADELPHIA, November 20, 1792. THE Stockholders of the Bank of the United States are hereby informed, that according to the statute of incorporation, a general election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the Bank of the United States, in the city of Philadelphia, on Monday the seventh day of January next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
And pursuant to the eleventh section of the Bye-Laws, the Stockholders of the said Bank are hereby notified to assemble in general meeting at the same place, on Tuesday the eighth day of January next, at five o'clock in the evening.
By order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
BOWEN'S EXHIBITIONS OF Wax-Work & Paintings,
ARE open every day and evening (Sundays excepted) at the House lately occupied by Mrs. PINE, No. 9, North Eighth-Street.
FIRST ROOM—Contains upwards of 100 elegant Paintings, and about 30 Wax Figures, in full stature—among which are Likenesses of a number of the principal characters in America; Baron Trenck in chains, an Indian Chief, and several beautiful young Ladies of different States, &c. &c.
SECOND ROOM—Contains eighteen large Wax Figures, which form a SOCIABLE CLUB, or the OYSTER SUPPER; and the SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL, consisting of twelve female Figures, making their observations on a young Lady, who had eloped with a Footman.
Admittance One Quarter of a Dollar each Room.
TO BE SOLD, A PLANTATION,
LYING on the river Delaware, 2 1/2 miles above Trenton, containing 165 acres; whereon is a dwelling-house, pleasantly situated, 36 by 24 feet, having three rooms with fire-places on the lower floor, and four above, one of them with a fire-place; a kitchen adjoining, near to which is a remarkable large spring of excellent water, accommodated with a good spring-house; a barn 36 feet by 26; a waggon, chair and smoke-house, besides other useful out-buildings; a large orchard, chiefly of grafted fruit. The farm is well watered, and has a proportion of wood and meadow land; thro' which the road runs that is known by the name of the River Road.
On the Premises is also erected, A Grist-Mill,
In the midst of a good wheat country, on a never failing stream; the mill-house is 54 by 24 feet, has one water-wheel, a pair of burrs and a pair of Cologne stones, rolling screen, bolts for merchant and country work, &c. and is accommodated with a cooper's shop, 18 feet square, near the mill—which is about 300 yards from the Delaware, and very conveniently situated to receive wheat, &c. from boats passing down the river.
There are also for Sale, 20 Acres of Wood-Land,
within less than a quarter of a mile of the above-mentioned Plantation, which lies in a fine high healthy country.—For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises.
JOHN MOTT. (12941)
Trenton, October, 1792. Stock Brokers Office,
No. 45, Great Dock-Street, NEW-YORK,
THE Subscriber intending to confine himself entirely to the PURCHASE AND SALE OF STOCKS ON COMMISSION, begs leave to offer his services to his friends and others, in the line of a Stock Broker. Those who may please to favor him with their business, may depend upon having it transacted with the utmost fidelity and dispatch.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States will be strictly attended to.
LEONARD BLEECKER. (t.f.)
To the Public.
THE subscriber begs leave to acquaint the public in general, and his customers in particular, that he has entered into partnership with Mr. HENRY KAMMERER, and that the Printing business in the English and German languages is now carried on under the firm of STEINER and KAMMERER, No. 85, in Race-Street, between Second and Third-Streets.
The German Newspaper will be published by them, as usual, on Tuesdays, and all kind of Printing work done with care and expedition. MELCHIOR STEINER. Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 1792.
NEW TEAS.
IMPERIAL, HYSON & SOUCHONG, Of the very first quality, and latest importation from Canton, via New-York, by retail, at No. 19,
Third, between Chestnut and Market Streets. N. B. A few Boxes of the above HYSON for sale.
BOOKS,
PRINTED AND SOLD BY
MATHEW CAREY,
No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia.
1. AMERICAN MUSEUM, from its commencement in January 1787, to June 1792, in eleven vols. Price, neatly bound and lettered, seventeen dollars and three fifths.
This work, which is now conducted on an improved plan, containing the best pieces published for and against the proceedings of government, will be found to contain at least a variety of political, agricultural, and miscellaneous essays, as any ever published in America. Perhaps no one work is so many valuable documents respecting the history of this country, collected together. His Excellency the President of the United States, has declared of it, that "a more useful literary plan has never been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement." The subscription is two dollars and a half per ann. Gentlemen in the country who wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to give commission to friends in the city to subscribe for and receive it—Any of the back numbers may be had in order to complete sets.
2. Smith's Letters to Married Women, on Nursing and the management of Children.
"We recommend these letters to the perusal of those to whom they are particularly addressed."—Monthly Review, vol. 38, p. 101.—Price, bound, 62 cents.
3. Duncan's Elements of Logic—75 cents.
4. Beauties of Fielding—50 cents.
5. Beauties of Blair—50 cents.
6. Ladies' Pocket Library, containing Miss More's Essays, Gregory's Legacy, Lady Pennycuick's Advice, Marchioness of Lambert's Advice, Swift's Letter to a newly married Lady, Mrs. Chapone on command of Temper, More's Fables for the Ladies, Price 6/6.
7. Smith's History of New-York. Price a dollar and a quarter.
8. Elements of Moral Science, by James Beattie, L. L. D. professor of moral philosophy and logic in the Marischal College, Aberdeen.—Price three-fourths of a dollar. Of this book the Critical Reviewers (vol. 69, p. 628) say: "We have seen nothing on these subjects more plain, more perspicuous, or more generally useful."—N. B. It is introduced into the University in Philadelphia.
9. Beauties of Poetry. Price four-fifths of a dollar.
10. Blair's Sermons. Price two dollars.
11. Necker's Treatise on the importance of Religious Opinions.—Price four-fifths of a dollar.
12. Examination of the Observations of Lord Sheffield on American Commerce.—Price, on very fine paper, 5 8ths of a dollar.
13. The Constitutions of the several United States, with the Federal Constitution, &c. Price five-eighths of a dollar.
14. M'Fingal. Price three-eighths of a dollar.
15. American Jell Book. Price three-fifths of a dollar.
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17. The Doyen of the Soul. Price half a dollar.
18. The Doyen Translation of the Vulgate Bible, in quarto.—Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/2.—plain, six dollars.
19. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum.—Price a quarter dollar.
20. Think well on't. Price a quarter dollar.
21. Christian Economy. Price a fifth of a dollar.
22. History of Charles Grandison, abridged—Price a sixth of a dollar.
23. Poems by Col. Humphreys.—Price a third of a dollar.
24. Select Poems, chiefly American.—Price a sixth of a dollar.
Said CAREY has for sale, a large assortment of Books, European as well as American editions, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. Country gentlemen, who favor him with commands, may depend upon being supplied in the most satisfactory manner. A liberal allowance to such as purchase quantities for public libraries or to sell again.
PLANS OF THE
City of Washington,
Sold by the BOOKSELLERS, DOBSON, CAREY, YOUNG, & CRUKSHANK.
JOHN GOULD, HAIR-DRESSER,
INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he continues to carry on his business as usual, at No 1, South Third-Street, near Market-Street, and thanks his former customers for the favors he has received.
Said Gould has for sale, an infallible cure for Weak or Sore Eyes, which on trial, has and will be found to answer the purpose.—He has it in vials from one quarter of a dollar to a dollar.—Any person trying the above, if not found to answer the character given, the money will be returned. [tf]
TO BE SOLD BY THE EDITOR,
AN ALPHABETICAL LIST of the Duties payable on all Goods, Wares and Merchandise imported into the United States; exhibiting the Rates payable on those imported in Ships or Vessels of the United States, and in Foreign Ships or Vessels; including the additional Duties to which the respective Articles are liable.
ALSO, A TABLE for receiving and paying Gold—graduated according to Law—Blank Manifests—And Blanks for the various Powers of Attorney necessary in transacting Business at the Treasury or at the Bank of the United States.
The JOURNAL of the THIRD SESSION of the SENATE of the UNITED STATES, may be had of the Editor hereof.