Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-08-18 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 23, of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1792.
[Whole No. 345.]
FROM THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
REFLECTIONS on the STATE of the UNION. Concerning the laws, which intrench upon the rights of property.
IT is not remembered that the acts of the national legislature have been deemed by any of the possessors of any description of property, unfavorable to their rights, except the proceedings in regard to the public debt. It is no less curious than true, that a part of the community affirm that the government have injured the country by too much liberality, while another part charge the legislature with impairing the contract.
In taking a view of this subject, it should be remembered, that the state of things when it was taken up, was in every respect critical and uncertain. It was difficult to say what the country could perform, and more so to tell what they would comply with. It was perceived, on the one hand, that as such a state of public credit as preceded the year 1789, would ruin a government more energetic than that of the United States, so its immediate melioration was a matter of the most imperious necessity. On the other hand, the non-existence of one single efficient funding system, yielding a full specific interest, in any one State, and a number of painful facts in the financial operations of some of the legislatures, created a conviction, that there was either an inability or disinclination in all to render a specific payment in the full extent of the explicit contracts. Some of the contracts were found not to be explicit, containing promises of large sums under the name of specific, which it could not have been the expectation of the government at their date to discharge, or of the creditor to receive, in coin; because they promised to pay as specie, what was notoriously much less valuable than contracts previously liquidated at forty nominal dollars for one in coin. The peculiar claims of the original creditors also were strongly represented, while the conduct of every State in the union, in its particular finances, had countenanced a discrimination in their favor; and the established laws of property were urged against a reduction of the owners principal: questions were also raised about the original intrinsic value of the money and property received by the United States, leading to the devising of a new mode of depreciation. By infusing into the propositions for a settlement of the debt, two qualities— a reduction of the interest and a temporary irredeemability of the principal , which have cost the debtor nothing, and the creditor very little; by vigorous and well devised efforts to recover credit at home and abroad, an arrangement was formed, and executed, which has given better payment to the creditor than could reasonably have been hoped. It is plain to every observer, that, but for the indiscretions of some of the public creditors, who superadded to the trials and fluctuations of a convalescent state of credit, the late unparalleled difficulties of the holders of the stock, the three species of the public paper, taken at a medium, would have been worth the nominal value in the market. Hitherto it never has been.
There yet remain, however, in the United States some laws which affect the rights of property. The operation of instalment and valuation laws is not terminated in two or three of the States. In two or three others, paper money is a tender in all or in particular cases. In some quarters, real estate is protected from execution for debt; and in others, the judgments of the courts are suspended, if the income of the estate bears a certain proportion to the creditor's demands. In some of the States preferences are given to the claims of citizens, before those of citizens of the other States, or of foreigners: and a variety of ill exists in many quarters, in the form of insolvent laws. The federal constitution, and those of several of the States, have barred the introduction of these evils in regard to new transactions; and the States which are not chargeable with them, in regard to past affairs, have reaped, in the last three years, an ample reward for their wisdom and virtue. Property may almost be called the palladium of communities. Their moral safety at least is always at hazard, when that is unwarrantably invaded. In every case wherein difficulties to obtain his own are interposed in the way of the honest and industrious citizen, his loss is not all the public injury. A fellow-citizen—perhaps a member of a legislature (and through him a legislature itself) is corrupted in his principles.
Concerning the public debts.
When it is remembered, that the terms upon which the debts of the States were assumed by Congress, are not more favorable than those on which the federal debt was funded, and when it is called to mind, that the unassumed debts of all the States are less valuable in the market than those which were assumed, it will appear, that the public creditors of the union have little reason to complain. When the advantages of the temporary irredeemability, and of the opportunity of investment in the bank are recollected, the little reason, if any existed, appears to be dissipated. On the other hand, when it is remembered, that long after the promulgation of the funding system and of the bank, the possessors of specie might have procured certifi-
cates upon very advantageous terms, that the United States draw a fifth of the profits of the bank without furnishing any of the capital, that the grant of irredeemability is temporary, and so perfectly nominal, that we now have a right to pay off more than we have money to discharge; when it is also borne in mind, that the terms given by Congress to the public creditors, were exceeded (by law at least) in several of the States, and that two of them have added to the benefits of their citizens from the funding system, without discriminating in favor of the original creditor, or against the present holder, the arrangement of the general government appears to be consistent with the public interests and with the wisdom of the State legislatures. If the funding system of Congress has been thus equally just and beneficial with those of the States, it has been accompanied with many advantages which cannot be questioned. Public credit is restored—in consequence of that, the contracts for all public supplies are made for cash on the deliveries or performance—the money, thus early promised, is paid by anticipation on the proffer of indubitable security by the various contractors; and interest in favor of the United States has been allowed for the promptitude of her treasury—half a million of dollars of specie claims have been discharged; and purchases of the public debt, which bring the extinguished sum to about 2,400,000 dollars have been made, or provided for—a series of payments since the month of September (required by the most distinguished ally of the United States, in the late war) have been made to serve the occasions of their unhappy colonists. Loans upon five per cent. upon four and a half per cent. and upon four per cent. interest, have been effected in two opulent scenes in Europe, solely by means of our restored credit, to repay, in the hour of need, to that ally, the monies lent to the United States in a like season. All that is due has been paid, part of that which is not yet due has been anticipated. Monies anxiously desired by France, have been discharged by means of loans at a lower interest. Both nations are benefited and pleased; but our country is honored by the transaction. To have neglected our public credit, would have been to lose these advantages.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
IT is very proper for a private man to rely on his known purity of conduct and principles, and to sit in security and silence, while the little scandals invented by the base, furnish amusement to the credulous. It would not suit the cleanliness and dignity of virtue to discompose itself by dragging the squalid umps of calumny from the cells where they retire to brew their poisons and to shun the hateful day-light. The individual persons concerned in the government of the United States, cannot suppose themselves injured, nor even so much as aimed at, by the authors of the impudent scribbling which has been poured out since the beginning of the present year. It has been asserted, that a plan of the influential men in the government to introduce monarchy and a despotism, and an aristocracy, is not only formed, but almost effected—and that the conspirators are corrupt speculators, and breakers of public trust. Congress, as well as the executive part of the government, under the name of the court and the court party, stand charged with this crime as mean, as atrocious. The accusers assume no small merit to themselves for having sounded the alarm. They call themselves by a number of praiseworthy titles—watchmen for the people—friends of liberty—old republicans, &c. But is there a merit in falsehood, is there virtue in indulging the most malignant passions? Yet this, in truth, is the praise to which the writers lay claim.
It is not easy to conceive of any men out of Bedlam having formed schemes so inconsistent with each other as they have pretended to divulge. A funding system and a monied influence, suppose stable laws, and a firm and inviolable protection to property. Yet such men as those who draw their income from the source of the public faith, are represented as wishing to change the state of things, and to be at work to throw every thing into confusion, and to put their all at risk:—for what?—for a despotism, say the factious writers against government. A despotism to secure the public debt. A wise plot truly. Those who are safe under equal and sacred laws, are plotting to be safer under a despotism, which would trample on all laws. The writers alluded to must entertain vast respect for the sense of a people, to whom their mode of finding fault is supposed to be acceptable. And the aristocrats too are said to be in a box with the monarchy men. Many a party-writer has hurt his cause by taking mankind for greater fools than they really are.
To many friends of good order, the inconsistency of the charges against government has appeared sufficient to prevent their mischief. They have said, the discerning will see the fallacy of their arguments; and of the unthinking, one half will be shocked by the malignity and violence of these writers; and the other half will not read their pieces. They argue a free government is of consequence pure. Such are its principles, it will purify itself—if for a moment wrong, done or intended to be done, would destroy the confidence of the people in those who administer the great offices, and that would produce the change of officers. Such a government, it would seem, might despise the slanders of its enemies. For the people, un-
less extremely ignorant of their powers, will not be excited to insurrection and opposition to the laws by incendiaries, who insult the people, by telling them that the government which they have made and uphold, and which they are frequently deputing their most able and approved men to administer, is a tyranny—that the people are crushed by an iron yoke—the few are lording it over the many—and many other affections, which are affronting to the pride of an American, conscious of freedom.
It well becomes the dignity and purity of a republican government to rely on these grounds of security. But tho' a good citizen might seem to notice many slanders which affect himself merely, it becomes him to consider whether the calumnies on the government do not threaten the public tranquility—whether the constitution, which Europe confiders as their model and our glory, which is the purchase of this age and we hope the inheritance of the next, may not be brought into danger by the arts of its enemies. Some persons (they are few) were made angry by its adoption—they are enraged by its success. While the friends of the Union sit satisfied with the operations of the government, and the people thrive under its protection, the implacable foes of the constitution, and of all order, are busy—they meet no opposition except from stubborn facts—while they tell the nation we are ruined and enslaved, and plundered by lords and masters, the general liberty and prosperity confound them. The friends of government pay no regard to their virulent attacks. This forbearance has been carried too far. The writers against government deserve no very great regard for the candor or force of their accusations; singly, they might be despised. But when they gather into a rabble—when they join discipline to rage—when we see them in phalanx, evidently guided by one leader, and, however they may vary their movements, agreeing to knock down all that is exalted, and to raise the works of the new government to the foundation, and even daring to tell us that that is unfound, and fit only to support a rotten monarchy—when we see so much system, industry and perseverance in traducing government, surely it is time to look about us, and to take care that the commonwealth sustain no damage. The league against law and order seems to have provided itself with every weapon of offence. A press is set up and supported, no matter by what means, for the manifest purpose of addressing the passions of the people, and exciting abhorrence against the laws of the land. The approving manner in which the insult to an exalted officer is noticed, discloses the designs of the junto—of which indeed they have furnished many other proofs.
When the people know the manner in which these men vilify their free government and equal laws, they will be on their guard against their aspersions. All that can be done is to give warning of the meditated mischief. You cannot reason against rage. They tell of bad designs and of future dangers. You can neither lay open the human heart nor futurity. Surely the people will not, knowingly, concur in the projects of men who dare to tell them they are slaves—that the government is not in their hands—that they are the property of lords and masters. We naturally triumph in the revolution of France—but that has its enemies and opposers within and without the kingdom. Do the French esteem those the bell friends of liberty who vilify their constitution, who foment hatred and contempt of the National Assembly, and opposition to the laws. Yet the writers against our free government affect to be friends of liberty, law and order. They have the audacity to cant about republicanism—while they recommend combinations and committees to resist the laws enacted by the people through their representatives.
So propitious is the country, that the attempt to vindicate the administration, and to unmask the conspirators against law and liberty, seems strange to many, and superfluous to others. They do not generally know that in the silence and repose of our affairs, the enemies of liberty, under a pretence of zeal for it, are scattering the seeds of mischief—they are undermining the temple of freedom—they are appealing to the passions to destroy the work of our sober reason.
People of America, the freest and the most worthy to be free on the face of the earth—the most insulted too by those who dare to despise your constitution, which has given you a name, and an exalted one among the nations—beware of false friends, who cry liberty, but mean to oppose the laws, and to put liberty at risk. Be steady and calm, and remember that when these men have raised your passions as they wish to do, you will be in a condition to be cheated out of your privileges.
A REPUBLICAN.
FROM THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
I THINK it my duty to inform the community, that early in the ensuing session of Assembly, I shall make a motion to recommend to the citizens of this Commonwealth, that a convention be called, for the purposes of establishing a system of government more congenial to republican principles than that by which we are now governed.
Among many objects which ought to be contemplated, this measure is principally dictated by the opinion, that equality and liberability of representation, are the fundamental
pillars of liberty—that the right to be represented, is the natural and unalienable privilege of every citizen who duly contributes to the support of government—and that the constitution of this state, if we have one at all, is very repugnant to both.
Two objections will be advanced—first, the expence of the convention—secondly, the danger of relaxing the sinews of government: To which I observe, that the expence will bear no comparison to the inestimable advantages of a free and equally represented government; and that no man of common understanding, or knowledge of the tempers and wishes of our citizens, can be seriously apprehensive, that they from whom the government springs, by whom it is supported, and to whom it belongs, will, in the necessary exercise of the natural and imprescriptable privileges, seditiously attempt to do any thing, the evil of which will ultimately devolve on themselves.
No government can long be free except one by representation, and every step which a government falls short of equality, it recedes from liberty.—Neither this, nor the present inequality of representation, can be denied.
It will be said, that the necessity of this change, does not now exist, because Congress have under their controul, all the great objects of legislation. To this it may be answered, that Congress have established an excise, odious even in monarchical countries—they have imposed duties too enormous for a free people to bear—they have established an army, when there is not the prospect of an enemy against whom the army is to operate—they have restricted the free circulation of newspapers, by a measure unprecedented, and extremely obnoxious—and if we are to conclude, in future, from the past, I fear that we shall be led on to experience the favorite and diabolical maxim, that the exigencies of government should be always equal to her resources. If so, and this principle shall be the basis of federal legislation, we may expect that armies and navies will increase upon us, as fast as we have the ability to pay their expences—nor will it be material whether we pay 10l. per annum, by purchasing rum at 7/6 instead of 4/6 per gallon—nails at 12s instead of 10s per M. or pay the money directly to the collector or exciseman.
Taxes throughout the world beget armies—and armies re-produce taxes. Armies, whatever the pretext for raising them, have either been the direct oppressors, or tools of oppressive power, in every age and clime: And although I do not fear that the present American army, for many of whom I have a high personal respect, can be thus used, because of their own sentiments, I fear for future times: I dislike the principle—I dislike the expence:—I know that a regular army is not calculated for an Indian war—that we have not another offensive enemy if we seek one—and that one fourth, or less than a fourth, of the present military expence, would keep peace with our savage neighbours.
Such sentiments, under such circumstances, induce me to think that we ought not to delay the internal regulations of our government.
HENRY BANKS.
George-Town.
A Number of LOTS in every situation which may be desired in City of WASHINGTON, will be offered for sale by the Commissioners, on Monday the 8th day of October next. One fourth part of the money to be paid down, the residue in three equal annual payments, with yearly interest on the whole principal unpaid.
JOHN M C GANTT, Clerk to the Commissioners.
June 2, 1792.
[Sept 1 ]

LONDON, May 30—June 9.
THE revolution in Poland, so temperate, fair, and wise, scarcely provokes the censure of Mr. Burke. Had the French nobility displayed the temper of the Princes of Poland, all would have been well with them at this day; which shews that human, as well as physical nature obtemporando vincitur . In France, the noblesse considered every other class of citizens as of an inferior species; and hence the emancipation of that nation from servitude involved in it the annihilation of that order in the state, which had been the hereditary oppressors of mankind for generations.
In Poland the nobility, by the dereliction of usurping pre-eminence, have ingratiated themselves with the people; and the new constitution of Poland seems to be erected on the most solid foundation. They will now be in the situation of the English nobility, of whom one of the most ingenious, and probably the most learned man in England, says, in his publication, "By the law of the state, nobles are protected as our equals, and by the law of opinion they would cease to be our superiors, if they would ever presume to violate the established rules of civilized life."
Monday being the birth-day of Mr. Pitt, who completed the 33rd year of his age. Mr. Dundas gave a grand dinner to the Minister, with a party of his friends, at his house in Somerset-place, on the occasion.
Five more of the conspirators against the late King of Sweden have received judgment, viz. Horn and Ribbing are to have their right hands cut off, and to be beheaded. Hartmansdorff, Liljehorn, and Von Engestrom, to be beheaded. Major General Pechlin, who is generally imagined to have been the soul of the plot, has taken his measures with so much caution, that the Council for the prosecution has not hitherto been able to adduce legal evidence against him sufficient to convict him. He is seventy five years old, during the greatest part of which time he has been concerned in every scheme of revolution, of which the Swedish History produces so many instances.
The French have stationed between Beachy Head and Dunkirk two frigates and an armed brigantine, intended to intercept some Imperial East-Indiaman now on the point of sailing from Ostend. These vessels captured, on Wednesday morning, a dogger, bearing Dutch colours, and said to be equipped by the Dutch East India company at Middleburgh. The officers and crew were, however, chiefly Flemish; the lading was found to have come from Ostend; and the Captain of the little French squadron suspecting imposition, sent one of his frigates with the vessel into Dunkirk, where they are now arrived. The name of the dogger is the Triton, Conrad Cornelis, master.
William Peckover, a native of Pontefract, and now gunner of his Majesty's ship Tremendous, is the only person living who has sailed four times round the world. He was gunner of the Bounty at the time of the mutiny, and one of the honest fellows who chose to share the fate of Capt. Bligh.
Extract of a letter from Coblentz, May 10. "M. Duminique, minister of state to the Elector of Treves, on the 3rd instant, presented a declaration to the French Princes, expressing the surprise of the Elector, that the emigrants should still continue to assemble at Treves, and thereby render him liable to be suspected by the court of France, to whom he wished to avoid giving umbrage.—That he had in consequence given orders for all the French emigrants to quit Treves, the towns of Wittlich and Phalzel, and all the villages adjoining thereto, by the 8th of May; and requesting the French Princes to second his intentions. The Elector, he says, is determined to have them out; but, the emigrants may, however, if they cannot find another asylum, assemble in the lower Archbishoprick beyond the Rhine, as they would then give no umbrage.
"This resolution M. Duminique has communicated to the French Chargé d'Affaires."
The French army is assembling in great force about Mons, with a view to make a grand attack.
The high price of copper is such that it is feared, unless measures are taken to reduce it, the manufactories at Birmingham and other places where that article is so necessary, will be at a stand. It is proposed to bring the matter before Parliament, for their consideration, early in the next session.
A very singular circumstance occurred at Kilryg, in Cardiganshire, during the sale of the property of the late Miss Lloyd, whose murder was mentioned in a former paper.—A gentleman of the neighbourhood became the purchaser of a chest for 20s. when led by curiosity to examine his bargain, he perceived that it had two drawers. Behind one of which was secreted a japanned cup, containing 500 guineas, and a purse with eighteen guineas and two crown pieces. The gentleman, much to his honour, returned the property, undiminished, to the administrator; and could not even be prevailed upon to accept the purchase money of the chest, as a tribute to his inflexible integrity.
SUNDAY SCHOOLS.—Three hundred thousand poor children are now under tuition in the Sunday schools of this kingdom.—This, if any thing can, will eventually bring about a reformation.
Extract from Lord Buccan's "Life of Thomson," p. 215.
"It is glorious for Thomson's memory, that he should have described the platform of a perfect government as Milton described the platform of a perfect garden. Eighteen years after Thomson's death, the late Lord Chatham agreed with me in making this remark; and when I said, "But, Sir, "what will become of poor England, "that doats on the imperfections of "her pretended Constitution?" He replied, "My dear Lord, the gout "will dispose of me soon enough to "prevent me from feeling the consequences of this infatuation: but "before the end of this century, either the Parliament will reform it "self from within, or be reformed "with a vengeance from without."
YORK, May 23.
By a letter from Mr. Edward Bowling, of this city, a Master's Mate of the late Pandora frigate, to his friends here, dated Batavia, Dec. 8, we have the pleasing intelligence, that 108 of the crew of that unfortunate ship were, after having encountered innumerable difficulties, safe and in good health at that place, waiting for the sailing of the Dutch East-India ships for Europe. The crew of the Pandora, at the time she was lost, consisted of 150 men.
HALIFAX, August 8.
We hear from Hillsborough, North-Carolina, that the Governor, by the advice of the Council, has called a meeting of the Legislature of that state at Newbern, at an earlier day than that prescribed by law—for the purpose of choosing Electors of a President & Vice-President of the United States, &c.
GEORGE-TOWN, (M.) Aug. 8.
On Saturday the 4th inst. the Corner-Stone, on the western abutment of the Federal Bridge, (being the second corner stone of the same), was laid in due form, by URIAH FORREST, Esq. Mayor of this town, in presence of the Aldermen, the Recorder and Common-Councilmen, attended by a numerous concourse of respectable inhabitants of this place, who assembled on the occasion.—After the ceremony was over, the company returned to Mr. Suter's Fountain-Inn, where a handsome entertainment was given by the Mayor, to the workmen and others, concerned in erecting the Bridge.
A correspondent observes, that it must afford general satisfaction to every well-wisher of the prosperity of the City of WASHINGTON, to be assured that the public works, now carrying on in this place, are conducted with spirit and enterprise, and at the same time, with that due regard to economy, which is so absolutely necessary in all extensive public undertakings, where a country is but
in its infancy.—The Federal Bridge, which will exceed, when finished, for elegance and strength any thing of the kind heretofore attempted in this country, will be completed in a few weeks—and it is confidently expected, that against the day in October next, which is advertised for the sale of Lots in the city, the Superintendent of the President's house will have all matters in readiness, for laying the corner stone of the same (the third in the Federal City) which will afford the gentlemen concerned in the superintendence of the Federal Buildings, and those who are proprietors of lands in the city, an opportunity of displaying their taste in the brilliancy of a third procession, and of exhibiting their liberality, in an entertainment suitable to the occasion—which may be a further inducement to purchasers; and thereby benefit themselves as well as contribute to the honor and future prosperity of the City of Washington.
BOSTON, August 9.
Capt. Hopkins, who arrived here on Sunday the 5th inst. from Russia, informs—That at the date of his sailing therefrom, he could not learn that any warlike preparations were making in the Russian empire: That there had been many reports of attempts to poison the Empress—one of which, it was said, had been discovered to be made by several Frenchmen;—That in consequence, an order of state had been issued, for apprehending the conspirators (ten of whom had been taken)—and for punishing with death every Frenchman who remained within the empire after a certain time—and, that Capt. Hopkins brought away therefrom three French gentlemen.
One fact will outweigh in the public opinion a thousand declamations. It is asserted, but with a colouring that renders the assertion at least suspicious, that "all who have become rich in the United States, for several late years, are Speculators; and that to raise these harpies to wealth and eminence, the industrious Merchant has been oppressed with the most grievous burdens—burdens which must operate his ruin." This is asserted without proof. For a short time, it must be allowed, owing to the madness, or something worse, of a few desperate individuals, Speculation assumed a glare, that astonished, and in many instances, captivated, the beholder.
At length, however, like the unstable glitter of a meteor, it dissipated, and so far were its votaries from having acquired "immense fortunes" thereby—that it left them—in prison, in poverty, or in exile.—On the other hand, in all the bankruptcies of the last year, not one in the mercantile line is to be traced; and from the great increase of the shipping—the advancement of commercial and manufacturing business-institutions—and every mechanical business—and from the general happiness which pervades every part of the Union, we may venture to assert, nor fear a contradiction, that success has abundantly crowned every effort of commercial enterprise and industry—and that our Merchants universally are seeing good days according to the days wherein they have seen evil. And well do the Merchants deserve this prosperity, and an increase of it. Their patriotism has been immortalized by our beloved President—and they must enjoy the pleasing satisfaction, that they have been greatly instrumental in advancing their country to a height of prosperity, reputation, and felicity, unexampled in her annals.
That these are FACTS is visible to every man who wishes to see them so. And they shall be told to the world, as long as they continue to be such.
NEW-YORK, Aug. 14.
On Monday evening a Westchester pettyangry on her return home upset near the ship-yards with two men and two women passengers on board.—The men caught hold of the vessel, and got upon her bottom, but the women were in the cabin under water. Several boats went to their assistance, and cut a hole in the bottom of the vessel, by which the lives of the two women were saved, who were found clasped in each others arms.
FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE.
MR. FRENEAU, BEING a reader of the Gazette of the United States , which I borrow of a neighbour, I find much has been said therein respecting a salary of two hundred and fifty dollars a year you receive for translating for the department of State. This clerkship is there deemed by a writer that calls himself An American , to be incompatible with your station as conductor of a newspaper. Of this incompatibility let the proper authority determine. It may be well enough, however, and certainly not unfair, to retort on this occasion. I am informed that the printer of the Gazette of the United States , the immaculate Mr. John Fenno, is printer to the Senate of the United States; the emoluments of which office are very considerable, as can be made appear from a calculation on the sums annually paid for his services as printer. I am further informed that the same Mr. John Fenno enjoys exclusively the printing for the treasury department, where it seems he has rendered himself a particular favourite. He has also of late, it is said, made his approaches to another public office in Chesnut-street, and is in a fair way of being soon, if not already, in full possession of the business thereunto appertaining.
From all which the natural inference is, that two thousand or twenty-five hundred dollars a year, cannot otherwise than have some sort of influence on the Editor of the Gazette of the United States , especially when his avaricious principles are brought into view. They who are skilful at tracing cause and effect, will be at no loss in this matter. By comparing circumstances and nicely balancing the quia pro quo , wonders will be brought to light that no man would have dreamt of. I insist on it, my reasoning is fair: if two hundred and fifty dollars a year must necessarily be influential on one hand, ten times that sum must undoubtedly have a tenfold influence on the other. The principles of Mr. John Fenno, and his setters-on, are pretty well known—but, for the benefit of the United States at large, they will be better known in a short time by a pamphlet of extracts from his former files. G.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
THE Editor of the National Gazette receives a salary from that government, which for nine months past the writers in his paper have been laboring to render odious to the people.—To abate the force of this charge, with what consistency your readers will determine for themselves, the National Gazette of Wednesday informs the public, that "Mr. John Fenno enjoys exclusively the printing for the Treasury Department."—From the best authority I am informed, that this assertion is entirely unfounded—it is not a fact, at the present moment, nor has it been so since the first institution of the Department, that any individual has had the printing business thereof, exclusively. Four or five different printers, have been and now are employed to perform the printing necessary to be done for the Treasury.—Among these are Mr. Aitkin, Messrs. Childs and Swaine, Mr. Bailey, Mr. Fenno, &c.—Three or four of them, if not the whole number, retain the execution of those parts of the treaty printing to this day, which they were at first employed to do.—One considerable branch of this treaty printing is performed in the office of Messrs. Childs and Swaine, where Mr. Frenau's National Gazette is printed.—In addition to this the Printers of the National Gazette , are Printers to the House of Representatives of the United States, are Printers for the Government, of the laws of the Union, by Authority, in volumes,—and for the state of New-York in the Daily Advertiser —they are also Printers for the Department of State.—All this work, the Daily Advertiser excepted, is executed in the Office in which Mr. Frenau's National Gazette is printed.
The Printers before named, with several others applied to the Government for employment in the line of their profession—those which obtained a preference, have rendered services to the public—have been paid as other mechanics employed by the public have been paid—and as such are totally disconnected with the government.
Surely then, the administration cannot be charged with exclusively encouraging those presses that have approved its measures, when a press that teems incessantly with abuse of those measures, enjoys by far the largest proportion of the printing business executed for the Government. CANDOR.
* If the above writer intends a candid and impartial Compilation, and will call on the Editor of the Gazette of the United States , he will assist him in his benevolent undertaking,—having, for some time past had it in contemplation to publish an Abstract from the Gazette , of the essays, paragraphs and detached observations which it contains.
For the GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
TO THE AMERICAN.
BEING in possession of two facts which are at a nature to throw full light upon the subject you have brought into public view, I think it due to truth and to the community, to make you acquainted with them in the only manner which situation permits.—One is, that the Editor of the National Gazette has received a Salary, as Clerk in the Department of State, from the 17th August 1791, near two months and an half prior to the Commencement of his paper, and prior to the Commencement of his residence in this city.
The other, that Mr. Taylor, who long before was, and still is a Clerk in the Department of State, an intelligent and respectable man, has a competent knowledge of the French Language, the only one, of which Mr. Frenau is the Translator. FAIR PLAY.

THE charges which have been brought against "the EDITOR of the NATIONAL GAZETTE," as he himself states them to be, are no otherwise personal charges, than as they designate the person, against whom they are made.
The inferences from these facts are the only things, which remain for discussion; and these so naturally flow from the premises, that they defy the arts of sophistry to obscure them.
AN AMERICAN.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
IT has been clearly proved (says the National Gazette) that the Post-Office was not sacred in the years 1787 and 1788. The same junto, or persons of the same stamp, who are now so busily employed to subvert the government of this country, made the above assertion while the Constitution was under discussion—but did they ever prove it?—No—Let the names of the guilty be exposed—or, if not, let the fabricators of such falsehoods be held in just abhorrence—for these are the persons who would have prevented, if possible, the union of the states, and the adoption of any system of general government whatever.
Extract from a circular address of a number of the citizens of Philadelphia to the citizens of Pennsylvania.
FRIENDS AND FELLOW-CITIZENS,
THE great blessings enjoyed by the inhabitants of the United States, under the present constitution, must excite a wish in the bosom of every good citizen, to promote such measures as are most likely to render those blessings permanent. That this cannot be obtained without a wise and virtuous representation in Congress, and without a constant succession of such public characters as have nothing in view but the welfare of their country, must be evident to every American.
EXTRACT.
AS almost every material expended in carrying on manufactures arises from the earth, the consumption must benefit the agricultural interest of the country, not only in furnishing a market for our raw materials, and saving money to the country, but by the number of hands that will be employed in carrying on the different manufactures they may engage in; our home-consumption will be increased, by its being expended by the manufacturers, who do not raise their own bread; by which means we shall not entirely be left to precarious foreign markets, which probably will become less, from that spirit of liberty, which appears to be extending over the greatest part of Europe.
OVID'S METAMORPHOSES REVIVED IN PHILADELPHIA.
STRANGE news, Messrs. Printers, Fame's trumpet relays, On the late Philadelphia town-meeting debates. Old Ovid's strange changes, long since out of mind, Are brought into action, and greatly refin'd;
Philadelphia, Aug. 18.
On Monday, the 6th day of this instant, the Supreme Court of the United States met, when all the judges were present. The Attorney-General of the United States gave notice, that he should move the Court on the Wednesday following for a mandamus to the Circuit-Court of Pennsylvania, commanding them to proceed on the petition of William Hogburne, a claimant of a pension, in which they had refused to proceed, from a supposed nullity of the pension law.
In consequence of this division, it was improper for the Attorney-General to move the subject officially. He then appeared as counsel for the invalids; and the motion, after being accompanied with the reasons, which influenced him to believe that the Inferior Court had erred, was postponed for a final decision until the next Court.
The important question "whether a State can be sued," is also set for the first day of the next term.
Accounts from Charleston by the Schooner Eagle, Capt. Lloyd Jones, advise, that since the 20th of June, the seasons have been favorable in the back country of South-Carolina and Georgia, and since the middle of July, in the low-lands along the sea-coast.
The celebrated Mr. Paine, it is said, has quitted England. Since which his third pamphlet has been suspended.
Capt. Kennedy, of the Brig Harriet, from Bourdeaux, arrived at Charleston, (S. C.) gives the following information: that the tumult in Paris had not subsided—that the King's bureau had been broken open, and some letters found, by which it was discovered that his majesty had been carrying on a very treasonable correspondence with the emigrant princes.
Lately arrived at Richmond, Virginia, 15 Indian warriors belonging to the Catawba Nation. It is said that their visit is to offer their services to the United States, to fight against the hostile tribes, which are now at war against us.
Between 2 and 300 troops arrived at Carlisle the 6th inst. under the command of Capt. John Mills, on their way to the Western Country.
By a gentleman from Kentucky (says the Potomac Guardian, a paper printed at Martinsburg) we learn, that 500 Warriors of the Cherokee Nation, with their squaws, horses, &c. had gone into Kentucky, and joined the white inhabitants, with an intention of taking part in the ensuing campaign.
An article in a Hartford paper, speaking of that place, says, no town between Boston and Philadelphia exhibits such marks of encrease as that does—and that there appears to be no town where large capitals can be employed to greater advantage, as the present importing places are by no means adequate to a full supply of goods for the consumption of the interior country.
Tuesday last a man fell from off a new house in Second-street, and was so badly bruised, that his life is despaired of.
A proposal is published in Boston, for printing by subscription in one vol. 12mo. THE FARMER'S FRIEND—or the history of Mr. CHARLES WORTHY—an entire new work, by the author of "the memoirs of the Bloomigrove Family."
we learn that information had been received at that place, that two parties of Indians were approaching towards the frontiers of Westmoreland County—and that Major M'cully, and Capt. Guthrie were out with a party intending to fall in with them if possible.
A detachment of troops from New-Jersey, under the command of Ensign Hunter, had arrived at Pittsburgh.
A soldier by the name of Henry Hamilton, was condemned to suffer death for mutiny, in attempting to take the life of Ensign Devin, by sticking him with a bayonet in the breast. He was carried to the gallows, and every preparation made for his execution, when a reprieve arrived from the Commander in Chief.
A letter from Halifax, of the 7th ult. to a correspondent in Newark, says, that Col. Fanning, Governor of St. John's Island, the Chief Justice, Attorney-General, &c. were lately dismissed his Majesty's service, upon the criminating complaints of Messrs. Daniel Grandin, Peter M'Gowan, and Co. for various oppressions used and practised against his Majesty's subjects in that Island.
An agricultural society was incorporated in Massachusetts in March last; this society is now organized, its officers chosen and committees appointed in various parts of the State to solicit subscriptions, to promote the purposes of the institution.
There is no country in the world in which there is a greater field for agricultural improvement than America. In several of the States agricultural societies are established; a mutual intercourse and communication of observations, experiments and discoveries, will be highly conducive to the promoting this one of the first of all human concerns.
On the 12th instant, a detachment of 100 fine troops left Fredericktown, under the direction of Ensign Gregg, destined to join the army at the Welland.
There is now living in Lansburgh, State of New-York, a child of black parents, 18 months old, whose skin is as white as the whitest children in the place, the eyes bright blue, the hair sandy, but short, harsh and curly as that of any negro; its nose, mouth and lips, and every other feature like those of its nation.
August the second the Methodists had a conference at Lynn, Massachusetts, being the first ever held by that denomination in that State.—Bishop Asbury and several Elders were present.
A correspondent informs us, that at a meeting of the President and managers of the Delaware and Schuylkill canal, on the 14th instant, the following interesting resolutions were entered into by that board, viz.
Whereas the board have with great attention examined the ground from the mouth of Stoney creek down, with a view to determine where the west end of the canal shall unite with the river Schuylkill, and finding that it will be practicable to cut a canal on the east side of the river last mentioned, from the most northerly point allowed by the law, and that the fall from thence to high-water mark at the Delaware, at the north bounds of the city of Philadelphia, amounts to about fifty feet; and that various and multiplied advantages will result from taking the water from the Schuylkill at the mouth of Stoney creek:
Therefore resolved, That the canal shall commence as high up the river as the law permits.
It was further resolved, That Doctor Rittenhouse be requested to lay out and stake off the ground for the canal; and that he be empowered to employ such assistants and workmen as he may find necessary in the business.
The board also agreed to appoint a superintendent, in order to commence the work without delay; and Proposals for such an appointment were directed to be published, so that we may expect the business to be carried on with vigor.
To demonstrate the superior excellence of Beetham's Washing-Mill to any other mode of washing cloaths, the following certified account of the operation of that machine, is published in a London paper:
The following articles were completely washed between the hours of nine in the morning and nine at night, in a common mill of six guineas value; and in the operation consuming only nine pounds and an half of soap, and a pound of pearl-ashes; they were all wrung at the same time in a common wringer, value one guinea. 350 shirts and shifts, each worn a week—64 aprons, ditto—10 gowns, ditto—10 frocks, ditto—2 long table-cloths, 48 sheets, worn a month. Caps and other small articles innumerable.
It may be necessary to remark, that to wash the same quantity by hand, always took seven women two days.
A second washing, on the 28th of March, was performed in twelve hours, with only nine pounds and an half of soap, and a pound of pearl-ashes—400 shirts and shifts, worn a week—98 aprons, ditto—31 handkerchiefs—4 gowns—41 caps, and other pieces of small linen; 52 sheets, each worn one month.
These machines are made by Mr. Joseph Pope of Boston, warranted equal to those made in London, and sold at a much smaller price. Several attempts have been made to construct this machine in this country which have failed; Mr. Pope has succeeded perfectly.
The American Philosophical Society, at their last meeting, elected the following Gentlemen Members: ERASMUS DARWIN, M. D. F. R. S. Physician in Derby, in England.
WILLIAM CURRIE, M. D. Author of a new Medical Publication—Citizen of Philadelphia.
UNG VON TROIL, Archbishop of Sweden; Author of Letters on Iceland.
Mr. JOHN TRUMBULL, of Connecticut; Painter in History, &c.
Extract from the Minutes, SAM. MAGAW, Sec'y.
A free constitution and equal laws steadily administered are deemed essential to liberty. If, without these, it were possible that liberty could be enjoyed to day, it would be with a melancholy foresight of its certain loss to-morrow. Will it do therefore in America, where the people have been so much enlightened by education, and have seen and practiced so long in the school of their own politics—will it deceive any body for men to call themselves friends of liberty, who are opposed to its first principles and most important defences?
Let us compare, for one moment, the actual situation of our country as, portrayed on a late anniversary, with the representations, or rather misrepresentations of those who have undertaken to censure public measures, and to brand their authors with every opprobrious epithet.
The Independence of the United States has been celebrated this year throughout the Union, with uncommon attention. Among the numerous toasts and sentiments which have been given on the occasion, the genuine principles of republicanism, always friendly to good government, form a distinguished part—the prosperity of our country has been almost universally recollected and acknowledged; and scarcely a lip or reflection to the disadvantage of the measures of government, or the men in office, has been uttered—on the other hand, the Chief of Patriots, whose signature has sanctioned those measures from which such solid blessings have flowed, has received the universal plaudits of freemen.
"Warm from the heart, and true to all its fires," Springs the bright hope, the Patriot's breast inspires.
Some deny the fact that the country has prospered under the influence of the new government. Others wisely say, it would have done as well without a new constitution. Another set admit the fact, but draw an inference from it of a different kind. They say, the season of prosperity is dangerous. Wealth corrupts and lays jealousy to sleep—and now the plot against liberty is going on briskly, while we are unsuspecting of danger.
"Thou that with surpassing glory crown'd," "O Sun, I tell thee how I hate thy beams"—was said by an old enemy of government.
There is a class of men with whom the insinuations against the purity of government, and the pretences of corrupt speculations by men in public trust, will have influence. They, however, were never friendly to it. Knaves take the suspicion of foul play for the proof of it.—Each finds in his own heart that the tale of slander might be true. We are as often duped by too little confidence in men, as by too much.
It is too late in the day for the people to be deceived by the wind music of certain declaimers on the deplorable situation of our country—they have thrummed this tune so long, that it is astonishing they are not tired of hearing it—when they are at length almost reduced to the situation of certain preachers in London, whose audiences are frequently no more than the vicar and clerk.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Brig Georgia Packet, Burroughs, Charleston Margueritte, Langlois, St. Marks Sch. Easterwood, North-Carolina Friendship, Bowen, Maryland Eagle, Jones, Charleston Hope, Luce, Virginia Sloop Sally, Chesrow, do. Liberty, Montayne, St. Kitts Harriet, Enos, Amboy Honour, Goodrich, New-York Arabella, Moklar, do. New-York & Philad. Packet, Bird, do. Laurel, Stevens, Virginia Sally, Emery, St. Kitts
PRICE OF STOCKS.
Table with 2 columns: Stock Type, Price. 6 per Cents, 21/9; 3 per Cents, 12/9; Deferred, 13/3; Full Shares Bank U. S. 49 per cent. prem.; 3/4 Shares, 61.

Treasury Department,
AUGUST 10, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the twenty-ninth day of September next inclusive, for the supply of all Rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1793, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts hereafter mentioned, viz.
1. At any place or places betwixt York-Town & Carlisle, in the State of Pennsylvania, and Pittsburgh, and at Pittsburgh, York-Town and Carlisle.
2. At any place or places from Pittsburgh to the mouth of Big Beaver Creek, and at the mouth of Big Beaver Creek.
3. At any place or places from the said mouth to the upper falls of the said Big Beaver, and at the upper falls.
4. At any place or places from the said upper falls to Mahoning, and at Mahoning.
5. At any place or places from the said Mahoning over to the Head Navigation of the River Cuyahoga, and at the said Head Navigation.
6. At any place or places from the said Head Navigation to the mouth of the said River Cuyahoga, and at the said mouth.
7. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Big Beaver Creek to the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence over to the Cuyahoga River, and thence down the said River to its mouth.
8. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth of the said River Scioto.
9. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of Scioto River and the mouth of the Great Miami, at the mouth of the Great Miami, and from thence to the Rapids or the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids.
10. At any place or places betwixt the mouth of the Great Miami, up the said Miami to and at Pique Town.
11. At any place or places from Fort Washington to Fort Hamilton, and at Fort Hamilton. At any place or places from Fort Hamilton to Fort St. Clair, and at Fort St. Clair.
12. At any place or places from Fort St. Clair to Fort Jefferson, and at Fort Jefferson.
13. At any place or places from Fort Jefferson to the field of action of the 4th of November, 1791, and at the said field of action.
14. At any place or places from the said field of action to the Miami Villages, and at the Miami Villages.
15. At any place or places from the said Miami Villages to the Falls of the Miami River, which empties into Lake Erie, and at the said Falls, and from thence to its mouth, and at its mouth.
16. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Miami River of Lake Erie to Sandusky Lake, and at Sandusky Lake.
17. At any place or places from the said Sandusky Lake to the mouth of the River Cuyahoga.
18. At any place or places from the mouth of the said River Cuyahoga to Presque Isle, and at Presque Isle.
19. At any place or places from Presque Isle to the stream running into Lake Erie from towards the Jadaghe Lake, and thence over to and at the said Jadaghe Lake, and thence down the Allegany River to Fort Franklin.
20. At any place or places from Presque Isle to Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf.
21. At any place or places from Le Beuf to Fort Franklin, and at Fort Franklin, and from thence to Pittsburgh.
22. At any place or places from the Rapids of the Ohio to the mouth of the Wabash River, and from the mouth of the said Wabash River to the mouth of the River Ohio.
23. At any place or places on the East side of the River Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio River, to the mouth of the Illinois River.
24. At any place or places on the East side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the River Margot inclusively.
25. At any place or places from the said River Margot to the River Yazous inclusively.
26. At any place or places from the mouth of the said Wabash River up to Fort Knox, and at Fort Knox.
27. At any place or places from Fort Knox, up the said Wabash, to Ouittanon, and at Ouittanon.
28. At any place or places from Ouittanon, up the said Wabash, to the head navigation of a branch thereof called Little River, and at the said head navigation of Little River.
29. At any place or places from the said head navigation of Little River over to the Miami Village.
30. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Tennessee to Ocochappo or Bear Creek, on the said River, inclusively.
31. At any place or places from the mouth of the River Cumberland to Nashville, on the said River, and at Nashville.
And at any place or places within thirty miles of said Nashville to the Southward, Westward or Northward thereof.
Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on betwixt the public and the contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
One pound of bread or flour,
One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork,
Half a gill of rum, brandy or whisky,
One quart of salt,
Two quarts of vinegar,
Two pounds of soap,
One pound of candles,
per 100 rations.
The contract for the above supplies will be made her for one year, or for two years, as may appear
eligible. Persons disposed to contract will therefore confine their offers to one year, or they may make their propositions so as to admit an election of the term of two years.
The offers may comprise all the places which have been specified, or a part of them only.
War Department,
AUGUST 6, 1792.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the Military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are intitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of March 1791, and which will become due on the 5th day of September 1792, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loans within the States respectively, under the usual regulations, viz. Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers.
1st. The certificate given by the State, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which as such he is annually entitled.
2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form:
A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of in the state of and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the State to be recited) That he served (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the and county of and has resided there for the last years, previous to which he resided in
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeably to the following form:
I, A. B. of county of state of do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for six months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and ending the fifth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two. Signed and sealed in the presence of
Witnesses. Acknowledged before me, Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim. By command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
The Printers in the respective States are requested to publish the above in their newspapers, for the space of two months.
Certificates Lost.
MISSING, Five New-Jersey Certificates, signed by Silas Condit, viz.
No. 740 for £.75 0 0
1978 11 12 9
715 1 0 0
3482 1 4 6
829 0 12 9
The subscriber supposes the above Certificates are stolen. Whoever will discover the Thief, or Certificates, and leave information at the Treasury or Loan-Office in New-Jersey, or in the County Collector's Office at Morris-Town, shall be handsomely rewarded by
MORRIS-TOWN, JOSEPH LEWIS.
New-Jersey, July 12, 1792. (12w7w)
SECURITIES.
SOLDIERS, Mariners, and militia men's pay, lands, and claims on the public, SHARES, in the Banks, in the Canals, and Turnpike Road, CERTIFICATES, granted by the public, and the old and late paper monies, NOTES of hand, bills, bonds, and mortgages with or without deposits, BOUGHT, sold, or negotiated, at No. 2, in Fourth-Street below Market-Street, by FRANCIS WHITE, Who transacts business in the public offices for country people and others, by virtue of a power, of attorney, or by personal application. PHILADELPHIA. (12w6w)
WM. CLELAND, BOSTON,
Transacts business in the Funds of the United States; BANK STOCK, BILLS OF EXCHANGE, &c. Orders from New-York, Philadelphia, or any other part of the Union, will be attended to with DILIGENCE and PUNCTUALITY. June 1. (ep1m & 12w2m)
New-Brunswick Lottery.
HIGHEST PRIZE, 2,000 DOLLARS. THE Public are hereby informed, that the drawing of the above Lottery is postponed till the third day of September next—at which time, the Managers are positively determined the drawing shall commence, in Mr. Norman's Long Room, in the City of New-Brunswick. Tickets are to be had at SAMUEL COOPER'S Ferry, where fortunate adventurers may receive their prize-money ten days after drawing. A list of fortunate numbers will be published in the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
Circumstances unforeseen, and unfavorable to Lotteries, have occasioned the necessity of this further postponement. The Rector and Wardens ask the assistance of their episcopal and other friends, in supplying themselves with Tickets previous to the above day—confident that no Lottery more favorable to adventurers has been offered to the public—the deduction being only 12 1/2 per cent. and not two blanks to a prize. THE MANAGERS.
Letters directed to PETER KEENON, Post-Master, New-Brunswick (post paid) will be immediately attended to. New-Brunswick, July 25, 1792. (ep18)
AMERICAN REMEMBRANCER,
OR, PROCEEDINGS OF THE
Old Congress,
From September 1774, to March 1789;— An authentic and original collection of OFFICIAL LETTERS, &c. written during the latter; And EXTRACTS from the SECRET JOURNALS. (For particulars, see Proposals at large.) Subscriptions are received by the principal Booksellers, and by the Editor, JOHN CAREY, No. 26, Pear-Street, Philadelphia.
PROPOSALS, By ISAAC NEALE, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, (The ninth edition of)
The Travels of Cyrus:
TO WHICH IS ANNEXED, A DISCOURSE upon the THEOLOGY and MYTHOLOGY of the PAGANS. BY THE CHEVALIER RAMSAY.
THE Travels of Cyrus having gone through so many editions in Europe, every thing which might be said to recommend so valuable a work, is rendered useless; and as it is now almost, if not entirely out of print, the publisher trusts there will be little difficulty in procuring a respectable list of subscribers to an AMERICAN EDITION. CONDITIONS. This work will be published in one volume, 12mo, on good demy paper, and a neat type; and will contain about 350 pages. The price to subscribers will be ONE DOLLAR, to be paid on the delivery of the book, which will be neatly bound and lettered. The work shall be put to press in October next, provided there shall be 250 subscribers. Any person subscribing for, or procuring subscribers for twelve books, and will be responsible for the payment, shall be entitled to two gratis. The names of subscribers shall be prefixed to the work. Subscriptions received by most of the Booksellers in Philadelphia and New-York. N. B. Gentlemen who may please to encourage the work by procuring subscriptions, are requested to forward a list of the names subscribed, by the 20th day of October next. Burlington, July 21, 1792. (ep3w)
JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, Bookseller, at the Stone-House, in Second-Street, Philadelphia, VOLUME VI of ENCYCLOPEDIA: Or a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, On a plan entirely new: By which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form Of distinct Treatises or Systems. This sixth volume contains, among a variety of interesting articles, Dioptrics, distillation, diving bell, art of drawing, Dublin art of Dying, theory of the earth and earthquakes, Edinburgh, education, history of Egypt, System of electricity, history of England, engraving, essaying, history of Ethiopia, &c. &c. &c. Illustrated with twenty-two copper plates. CONDITIONS. I. The work is printing on a superfine paper, and new types (cast for the purpose in Philadelphia) which will be occasionally renewed before they contract a worn appearance. II. The work may be had in volumes or half-volumes; it being proposed to deliver the volumes in parts, at twenty shillings (Pennsylvania currency) each, in boards, or for the whole volume, five dollars, in boards. The volumes now finished are to be paid for on delivery, and the price of one volume is to be paid in advance, and the price of each succeeding volume to be paid on delivering the volume preceding it. III. In the course of publication will be exhibited above five hundred copper plates, elegantly engraved in Philadelphia; which by far exceed in number those given in any other scientific dictionary. At the close of the publication will be delivered, an elegant frontispiece, the dedication, preface, and proper title pages for the different volumes. *** As the very great expense attending the undertaking, makes punctuality of payment indispensably necessary, the publisher flatters himself that the subscribers will be perfectly satisfied with his adhering strictly to his original plan of delivering the books only on receiving payment, agreeable to the conditions of publication. July 21. eptf
Subscriptions for the Encyclopedia, Will continue to be received on the same terms as usual, till the first of September, 1792, when the price will be encreased. TEN DOLLARS to be paid on subscription, by those who have not subscribed before that time. Those who have subscribed, but not taken their books before that time, will be considered as not having subscribed. As the subscription will probably be closed by Christmas, such as chuse to be possessors of this very valuable and important work, will do well to come forward in time, that they may not be disappointed. July 21. eptf
Universal Hymn Book.
To be Sold by THOMAS DOBSON, and other Booksellers in Philadelphia,
A Collection of PSALMS, HYMNS, and SPIRITUAL SONGS; selected from different Authors, and published by Order of the Convention holding the Doctrine of the Salvation of all Men, met in Philadelphia, May 25, 1791. Price of a single book, bound, 3/8ths of a Dollar, with good allowance to those who take quantities. August 4. (ep1f.)
Bank of the United States.
RESOLVED, JULY 10, 1792. THAT an Office of Discount and Deposit, be established in the City of Richmond, State of Virginia. RESOLVED, That the 2d Tuesday in September next be appointed for the Election of Thirteen Directors and a Cashier, for the Office of Discount and Deposit, in the City of Richmond. By Order of the President and Directors, JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
Ebenezer Hazard,
STOCK-BROKER, HAS Removed his OFFICE to No. 128 north Second-Street, where he continues to purchase, United, and Individual States, Bank Stock, Canal, and Turnpike Shares, &c. &c. Subscribers to the Universal Tontine who have not yet received their Certificates are desired to call for them. July 18. (ep1f.)
Sixty Dollars Reward.
BROKE goal in Baltimore, the 10th of April last, and made his escape, a Negro Man, named BILL FLANAGAN, the property of the subscriber. He is a stout, straight likely fellow, about 25 years of age; 5 feet 8, 9 or 10 inches high. He affects to be a zealous Methodist, is extremely useful, talkative and plausible; can read, and it is supposed can write. He had on a sailor's red cloth jacket, a striped ditto, an old coarse linen shirt, and a pair of canvas trousers; he was barefooted. It is not doubted he will alter his dress, and change his name. He was lately the property of Capt. Joseph Goutrou, of Baltimore, and was employed as a sailor on board his packet; and it is probable may try to get on board some vessel in capacity of seaman. It is supposed he is now in New-York or Philadelphia—Whoever takes up and secures said Negro, so that the subscriber gets him again, shall receive SIXTY DOLLARS reward, and reasonable charges. CHRISTOPHER HUGHES. Baltimore, August 1, 1792. (12w4)
TO BE SOLD,
(And possession given immediately)
A Valuable FARM,
PLEASANTLY situated, and well improved, containing 213 acres, whereof 47 are woodland, 30 meadow, and 20 more may be made; the cleared land is under good fence, and is well adapted to grass, and there being so much meadow, a large flock may be raised; it is also natural to wheat, and a proper attention to a well-kept flock, will much improve its quality, and be the most profitable: it has a young orchard of 200 apple trees, a variety of peach and cherry trees, and a large garden. There are on the premises a handsome two story stone house and kitchen, and an elegant piazza; also, a good barn, with stabling, cow-house, granary, waggon-house, work-shop, and smoke-house. The situation is high, pleasant, and healthy, and affords some very agreeable prospects, and is in a good neighbourhood: it lies on the main road to New-York, about a mile and a half from Princeton, New-Jersey, and 43 from this city. The title was examined and approved by eminent council before the subscriber purchased. For further particulars apply to the subscriber, at No. 141, South Second-Street, or at No. 81, South Water-Street, Philadelphia. ISAAC SNOWDEN, Jun. N. B. Stock for the farm may be had of the present tenant. Also, to be Sold, and entered immediately, A two-story Brick HOUSE and BAKE-HOUSE, in Arch-Street, No. 23, 16 feet two inches in front, and 102 feet in depth. Apply as above. July 17. (ep1f.)
TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JUNE 28, 1792.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of the late Rev. ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, deceased, will be exposed to Public Sale on Thursday, the 11th of October next, at GEORGETOWN, on a credit of three years, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date—That valuable Seat of Land, in Montgomery county, called HAYES; the late dwelling plantation of the deceased, containing between six and seven hundred acres, the greatest part of which is rich, heavy timbered land, extremely well watered, and capable of affording a very considerable quantity of fine meadow.—Situated about 6 miles from the Federal City, and the same distance from George-Town, in a gentle neighbourhood, and a remarkable healthy part of the country. The improvements are, a very elegant two story Brick Dwelling House, (with four rooms and a passage, or entry, on a floor) and the necessary out-houses. HENRY TOWNSEND, } Executors. BENJ. STODDERT, } THOMAS JOHNS, (ep10)
TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JULY 6, 1792.
THE Subscriber offers for Sale, a Mill-Seat on Rock Creek, deemed by those who have examined it, equal to any in the United States. The Mill-House may be placed within one quarter of a mile of the river Potomac, half a mile from the market house in Georgetown, and one mile from the President's square, in the city of Washington—on tide water, navigable for vessels of several hundred bushels burthen.—The stream is sufficient, the year round, to turn four pair of stones, and the fall may be made from 25 to 30 feet. It is unnecessary to dwell on the advantages of such a situation. The purchaser may be accommodated with a few hundred acres of land adjoining the Mill-Seat, if that should be an object. B. STODDERT. (epgm 14Jul)
WANTED, to go to BOSTON,
A JOURNEYMAN COPPERSMITH, at a small work, such as Tea-Kettles, Coffee-Pots, &c.—Good wages and constant employment will be given to a person with good recommendations—a single man would be preferred. Enquire of the Editor. July 25. [epgw]