Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-04-10 00:00:00

W. Wilkinson
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Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 90 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 1793.
[Whole No. 412.]
CONTINUATION OF AN ACT for enrolling and licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
AND be it further enacted, That the master or commander of every ship or vessel, licenced for carrying on the coasting trade, and being destined from any district of the United States, to a district other than a district in the same, or an adjoining State, on the sea-coast, or on a navigable river, shall, previous to her departure, deliver to the collector residing at the port where such ship or vessel may be, if there is one, otherwise to the collector of the district comprehending such port, or to a surveyor within the district, as the one or the other may reside nearest to the port at which such ship or vessel may be, duplicate manifests of the whole cargo on board such ship or vessel, or if there be no cargo on board, he shall so certify, and if there be any distilled spirits, or goods, wares and merchandise, of foreign growth or manufacture on board, other than what may, by the collector, be deemed sufficient for sea stores, he shall specify in such manifests, the marks and numbers of every cask, bag, box, chest or package, containing the same, with the name, and place of residence, of every shipper and consignee of such distilled spirits, or goods of foreign growth or manufacture, and the quantity shipped by, and to each, to be by him subscribed, and to the truth of which, he shall swear or affirm; and shall also swear or affirm before the said collector or surveyor, that such goods, wares or merchandise, of foreign growth or manufacture, were, to the best of his knowledge and belief, legally imported, and the duties thereupon, paid or secured; or if spirits distilled within the United States, that the duties thereupon, have been duly paid or secured; upon the performance of which, and not before, the said collector or surveyor shall certify the same on the said manifests; one of which he shall return to the master, with a permit thereto annexed, authorizing him to proceed to the port of his destination: And if any such ship or vessel shall depart from the port where she may then be, having distilled spirits or goods, wares or merchandise, of foreign growth or manufacture on board, without the several things herein required, being complied with, the master thereof shall forfeit one hundred dollars; or if the lading be of goods, the growth or manufacture of the United States only, or if such ship or vessel have no cargo, and she depart, without the several things herein required, being complied with, the said master shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars.
And be it further enacted, That the master or commander of every ship or vessel, licenced to carry on the coasting trade, arriving at any district of the United States, from any district, other than a district in the same, or an adjoining State on the sea-coast, or on a navigable river, shall deliver to the collector residing at the port where she may arrive, if there be one, otherwise to the collector or surveyor in the district comprehending such port, as the one, or the other, may reside nearest thereto, if the collector or surveyor reside at a distance not exceeding five miles, within twenty-four hours, or if at a greater distance, within forty-eight hours, next after his arrival; and previous to the unlading any of the goods brought in such ship or vessel, the manifest of the cargo (if there be any) certified by the collector or surveyor of the district from whence she last sailed, and shall make oath or affirmation, before the said collector or surveyor, that there was not, when he sailed from the district where his manifest was certified, or has been since, or then is, any more, or other goods, wares or merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture, or distilled spirits (if there be any, other than sea stores, on board such vessel) than is therein mentioned; and if there be no such goods, he shall so swear or affirm; and if there be no cargo on board, he shall produce the certificate of the collector or surveyor of the district from whence she last sailed, as aforesaid, that such is the case: Whereupon such collector or surveyor shall grant a permit for unlading the whole, or part of such cargo (if there be any) within his district, as the master may request; and where a part only of the goods, wares and merchandise, of foreign growth or manufacture, or of distilled spirits, brought in such ship or vessel, is intended to be landed, the said collector or surveyor shall make an endorsement of such part, on the back of the manifest, specifying the articles to be landed; and shall return such manifest to the master, endorsing also thereon, his permission for such ship or vessel, to proceed to the place of her destination; and if the master of such ship or vessel shall neglect or refuse to deliver the manifest (or if he has no cargo, the certificate) within the time herein directed, he shall forfeit one hundred dollars, and the goods wares and merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture, or distilled spirits, found on board, or landed from such ship or
vessel, not being certified, as is herein required, shall be forfeited, and if the same shall amount to the value of eight hundred dollars, such ship or vessel, with her tackle, apparel and furniture, shall be also forfeited. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be so construed, as to oblige the master or commander of any ship or vessel, licenced for carrying on the coasting trade, bound from a district in one State, to a district in the same, or an adjoining State on the sea-coast, or on a navigable river, having on board goods, wares or merchandise, of the growth, product or manufacture of the United States only (except distilled spirits) or distilled spirits, not more than five hundred gallons, wine in casks not more than two hundred and fifty gallons, or in bottles not more than one hundred dozens, sugar in casks or boxes not more than three thousand pounds, tea in chests or boxes, not more than five hundred pounds, coffee in casks or bags not more than one thousand pounds, or foreign merchandise in packages, as imported, of not more value than four hundred dollars, or goods, wares or merchandise, consisting of such enumerated or other articles of foreign growth or manufacture, or of both, whose aggregate value shall be not more than eight hundred dollars, to deliver a manifest thereof, or obtain a permit, previous to her departure, or on her arrival within such district, to make any report thereof; but such master shall be provided with a manifest, by him subscribed, of the lading, of what kind soever, which was on board such ship or vessel, at the time of his departure from the district from which she last sailed, and if the same, or any part of such lading, consists of distilled spirits, or goods, wares, or merchandise, of foreign growth or manufacture, with the marks and numbers of each cask, bag, box, chest or package, containing the same, with the name of the shipper and consignee of each; which manifest shall be by him exhibited, for the inspection of any officer of the revenue, when, by such officer, thereunto required; and shall also inform such officer, from whence such ship or vessel last sailed, and how long she has been in port, when by him so interrogated. And if the master of such ship or vessel shall not be provided, on his arrival within any such district, with a manifest, and exhibit the same, as is herein required, in the lading of such ship or vessel consist wholly of goods the produce or manufacture of the United States (distilled spirits excepted) he shall forfeit twenty dollars, or if there be distilled spirits, or goods, wares, or merchandise, of foreign growth or manufacture, on board, excepting what may be sufficient for sea stores, he shall forfeit forty dollars; or if he shall refuse to answer the interrogatories truly, as is herein required, he shall forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars. And if any of the goods laden on board such ship or vessel, shall be of foreign growth or manufacture, or of spirits distilled within the United States, so much of the same, as may be found on board such ship or vessel, and which shall not be included in the manifest exhibited by such master, shall be forfeited.
And be it further enacted, That it shall, and may be lawful for the collector of the district of Pennsylvania, to grant permits for the transportation of goods, wares or merchandise, of foreign growth or manufacture, across the State of New-Jersey to the district, of New-York, or across the State of Delaware, to any district in the State of Maryland or Virginia; and for the collector of the district of New-York, to grant like permits for the transportation across the State of New-Jersey; and for the collector of any district of Maryland or Virginia, to grant like permits for the transportation across the State of Delaware, to the district of Pennsylvania: Provided, that every permit shall express the name of the owner, or person sending such goods, and of the person or persons, to whom such goods shall be consigned, with the marks, numbers and description of the packages, whether bale, box, chest or otherwise, and the kind of goods contained therein, and the date, when granted; and the owner, or person sending such goods, shall swear or affirm, that they were legally imported, and the duties thereupon paid or secured: And provided also, That the owner or consignee of all such goods, wares and merchandise, shall, within twenty-four hours after the arrival thereof, at the place to which they were permitted to be transported, report the same, to the collector of the district where they shall so arrive, and shall deliver up the permit accompanying the same, and if the owner or consignee aforesaid, shall neglect or refuse to make due entry of such goods, within the time, and in the manner, herein directed, all such goods, wares and merchandise shall be subject to forfeiture; and if the permit granted shall not be given up, within the time limited for making the said report, the person or persons to whom it was granted, neglecting or refusing to deliver it up, shall forfeit forty dollars for every twenty-four hours it shall be withheld afterwards: Provided, that where the goods, wares and merchandise, to
be transported in manner aforesaid, shall be of less value than eight hundred dollars, the said oath and permit shall not be deemed necessary, nor shall the owner or consignee be obliged to make report to the collector of the district where the said goods, wares and merchandise shall arrive.
And be it further enacted, That when any ship or vessel of the United States, registered according to law, shall be employed in going from any one district in the United States, to any other district, such ship or vessel, and the master or commander thereof, with the goods she may have on board, previous to her departure from the district, where she may be, and also, upon her arrival in any other district, shall be subject (except as to the payment of fees) to the same regulations, provisions, penalties and forfeitures, and the like duties are imposed on like officers, as is provided by the sixteenth and seventeenth sections of this act, for ships or vessels licenced for carrying on the coasting trade: Provided however, that nothing herein contained, shall be construed to extend to registered ships or vessels of the United States, having on board goods, wares and merchandise of foreign growth or manufacture, brought into the United States in such ship or vessel from a foreign port, and on which the duties have not been paid or secured, according to law.
(To be concluded in our next.)
Foreign Intelligence, FRANCE.
NATIONAL CONVENTION. SATURDAY, January 10.
A LETTER was received from Manuel, complaining of the conduct of the Convention, from whom, he said, a disorderly band, by the sole talent of making a noise, took away all power of doing good. By your conduct, continued he, you have exposed France, and such as you are (the truth escapes me) yes, such as you are, you cannot save it. He concluded with giving in his resignation, as having it no longer in his power to be useful at his post. He henceforth proposes by his writings and examples, to devote himself to the education of children, as the Revolution wants nothing but men.
On the question, "Shall there, or shall there not, be a delay in the execution of the King?"
Condorcet—"Let us prove to the whole world that we are not barbarians; and that, if we wish for the death of the tyrant, we wish also for the happiness of mankind. Let us strike the ci-devant king, but let us abolish the punishment of death for all private crimes, and reserve it only for treason. Let us hasten to revise our system of taxation, to establish beneficent laws, to form a system of public instruction, and to ameliorate the management of our hospitals. We may then answer tyrants, if they reproach us with the death of Louis; and we may rest assured that with such dispositions he may then be executed without danger in 24 hours."
Brissot—"Such has been the influence of the French Revolution, that at London, Vienna, Berlin, and every where, great deference is paid to the public opinion. It is consulted, it is feared, and attempts are made to corrupt it. The public opinion of Europe is of more importance to us than armies. In this state of things, the immediate execution of Louis must be very unfavorable to us. There are in Europe two classes of men. The first, consisting of Philosophers and friends of liberty, will not see the necessity for the death of Louis, and will think that a great nation ought to disdain sanguinary vengeance. The other, composed of the slaves of prejudice, will consider the punishment of a king as the greatest of crimes—and both will unite to condemn us. On these considerations I vote for a respite till the constitution shall be ratified. If you pursue another course you must declare war
against England, Spain, and Holland. Give an example of moderation, and a revolution will be accomplished throughout all Europe."
Legendre—"The hour of justice is now come—the head of Louis must fall on the scaffold. I am against all respite."
Thomas Paine appeared at the tribune, and as he was unacquainted with the French language, Bancal read a translation of his opinion, the substance of which is as follows: "I prefer an error occasioned by humanity, to an error occasioned by severity. You have no other ally than the United States of America. Louis is the best friend of these people, who consider themselves as indebted to him for their liberty. Were I acquainted with the French language, I should appear at your bar, and present to you in the name of my American brethren, a petition for a respite. The news of this execution will give great pain to these sons of freedom."
"Do not (exclaimed he) afflict their sensibility: do not expose them to these painful sentiments. Let the voice at least of your interest be heard. The wood for constructing your ships of war cannot be found in the north of Europe, about to declare war against you. North America alone can supply you with this wood—will you deprive yourselves of such a resource? Louis would not have been a bad man had he been surrounded by virtuous citizens. He owes his present misfortunes to the Constituent Assembly, who, without consulting the French nation, which should alone have pronounced on such an occurrence, had the temerity and folly to place on his head, the crown he had just abdicated."
"I demand then, that Louis may be banished with all his family to the American states."
Lehardy—"I am only a legislator, not a judge—In what light can you be considered as judges? It cannot be for your impartiality, for there are more than sixty of you, who by your writings have not only condemned Louis to death, but also boasted, that if the sword of justice did not strike his guilty head, you would assassinate him—Bilbory teaches us that the death of a tyrant does not always destroy tyranny, but sometimes produces a greater number of tyrants. I vote then that he may live, and remain among us till the people have accepted the new constitution."
Barrere, the last member who was heard, delivered a long speech with great warmth, and concluded with voting against the delay.
MONDAY, Jan. 21.
Dronet—"I have received a letter threatening me with destruction."
Breard—"Though I am not fond of egotism, I think it my duty to inform the Convention of a fact which concerns myself personally. I was yesterday stopped by an ill-dressed man, whose air announced, that he did not belong to that class whose dress he wore. He told me, that as I had voted for the death of the King, I should perish by no other hand than his. I looked steadfastly at him, upon which he retired. This event proves that our lives are in danger. I request that the Convention will immediately take charge of the police of a city filled with villains, and order a search to be made in the houses of individuals, that their lurking-places may if possible be discovered."
Petion—"In deploring the death of one of our colleagues, let us take

care, citizens, that our indignation be not lost to the public. Whoever reflects upon what passes, has reason to lament how many persons suspect and detest, who, if they were acquainted, would mutually esteem each other. Here men, the most opposite, equally wish well to freedom; however, they mutually regard one another with an air of suspicion. [A Member here called out, in a time like the present, the feeble ought to be silent, and leave to the more courageous to speak.] I do not believe, continued Pétion, that this discourse is addressed to me. [Several voices called—It is.] It is not, resumed Pétion, an alliance between the friends of liberty and those of tyranny which I desire; the alliance is impossible; I demand freedom of opinion, tranquility and confidence; I demand that there be no denunciation without proof. If there is any man in this Assembly, who can advance against me anything, at which a man of honor ought to blush, let him advance—I dare him to the assertion."
Talien—"You are reproached with having insulted Pelletier in your printed opinion." Thuriot—"On the second of September, the Legislative Assembly sent a deputation of twelve members, of whom I was one, to the Mayor of Paris: we remained till two o'clock in the morning, without Pétion informing us one word of what was passing."
Collot d'Herbois—"I reproach you, Pétion, with having calumniated in a printed opinion, the Electoral Assembly of Paris; of having printed a thousand falsehoods, in which I would have detected you, if I had not been absent upon a commission. You are a vile slanderer."
Pétion—"I am satisfied that the system of calumny levelled against me discloses itself in a manner equally open and scandalous. I have not for several days mounted the tribune. For a whole week, he who has perhaps done some services to the city of Paris is threatened with losing his head. I declare for the first and last time, that I have often exposed myself for the public, and that I will do it still. As to the fact cited by Thuriot, I am astonished that he did not mention all the circumstances before the deputation reached my house; the mischief was irreparable and already known to all the world. The fact quoted by Collot is equally incorrect. I have not printed vague calumnies, my opinions still remain. Collot may attack them. There are still other accusations to be made against me; I know that two members of this Assembly have been sufficiently abandoned to spread a horrid report; I expect from them a denunciation without fear. Returning to the still more important discussion, in which we are engaged, I vote against visiting private houses, calculated to terrify the inhabitants of a city already deserted."
PROCLAMATION
Of the Provisional Executive Council, January 20, 1793, Second Year of the Republic.
The Provisional Executive Council deliberating on the measures to be taken for the execution of the decrees of the National Convention of the 15th, 17th, 19th and 20th of January, 1793, enacts the following regulations:
 1st. The execution of the sentence of Louis Capet, shall take place tomorrow (the 21st of January).  2d. The place of execution, shall be La Place de la Révolution, ci-devant Louis XV. between the Pedestal and the Champs Elises.  3d. Louis Capet shall set out from the Temple at 8 o'clock in the morning, so that the execution shall take place at noon.  4th. The Commissioners of the Department of Paris, the Commissioners of the Municipality, and members of the criminal tribunal, shall assist at the execution, the Secretary Register shall draw up the minutes, and the said Commissioners and members of the tribunal, as soon as the execution is over, shall come to give an account to the Council, who shall continue in a state of per- 
manent sitting, during the whole day.
By the Provisional Executive Council, ROLAND, CLAVERIE, MONGE, LE BRUN, GARAT, PACHE.
The Proclamation of the Provisional Executive Council, relative to his execution, had hardly been notified to Louis, before he requested permission to confer with his family. The commissioners testifying their embarrassment at this request, proposed to him that his family should be brought into his apartment, to which he agreed. His wife, his sister, and his children accordingly came to him; and they conferred together in the room in which he was accustomed to dine. This interview lasted two hours and an half; their conversation was very earnest.
We may conceive what must have been the nature of the scene—but a narrative of it is impossible, for we do not take the Commissioners of the Commune to be very faithful or very feeling historians. Rumour, however, says, that the Queen had been for some days in a state of distraction—that at times her mind was totally absent, and she was to be roused from lethargy to a sense of her sorrows. All that we can say upon this authority is, that the King, after this interview, waited for his summons without the least symptom of dismay.
The King wished to cut off his hair; scissors were refused him—they took away his knife. "Fools! (said he) to think I would basely turn my hand against my own life!"
His family asked, whether they might not see him again in the morning? to this he made no answer, and Madam Elizabeth saw him no more. Louis cried out of his chamber, "Oh the murderers! the murderers!"
Addressing herself to their son, Antoinette said—"Learn by the misfortunes of your father, not to avenge his death!"
The Princess, whose critical age joined with her sufferings, had brought her into the most pitiable state, received, as we understand from one of the Paris Journals, the sacrament on the same day; and her life was despaired of. Our readers will see that we can only give these particulars on questionable authority.
Arrived at the fatal spot, the unfortunate monarch mounted the scaffold alone, the Commissioners, the Mayor, and even his Confessor, remained at the foot of it. He had on nothing but a white under waistcoat, his neck and breast open, and his hair rolled up as the Abbes wear theirs.
As he placed himself upon the Guillotine, he said, "I commit my soul to God."
LONDON, Jan. 28.
The purport of the communication from the Spanish Envoy, which the French Convention refused to hear, before pronouncing sentence on the late King, was to entreat the Convention to suspend the judgment of Louis; and to offer, if the Envoy were allowed time, to send a courier to Madrid, to obtain a promise from the King of Spain of becoming a Mediator between France and her enemies, and to engage them to disarm and acknowledge the Republic, on condition that the life of the head of the house of Bourbon should be saved.
Thomas Paine, it is said, had positive instructions from President Washington, in America, to insist on the safety of the King's person, and that if the French would not permit him to remain in France, to send him there, as they could not forget the kindness he had shown them.
At Lyons, a few days past, twelve Priests were beheaded. One of them made a temporary escape, by running into a river; but was dragged out and instantly executed.
Letters from Madrid, of the 7th inst. announce the intelligence, that 20 ships of the line and ten frigates are ordered to be got ready, with all possible expedition.
Philadelphia, April 10.
The Roebuck British Packet, for February, arrived at New-York last Friday—the letters and papers by her, were received at the Post-Office Saturday evening. The following is an Abstract of European Intelligence contained in the British prints, to the 14th February.
THE King of Prussia has sent an army into Poland in three divisions, which are to form a cordon—the whole under the command of General Mollendorf. The object of this arrangement, according to the King's declaration, is to prevent the propagation of French Democracy—for it seems that clubs and revolution societies have been established there, who make open profession of their principles, notwithstanding all that the Empress has done to counteract them. The Prussians entered Poland about the end of January. The principality of Monaco, has thrown off its allegiance to its Prince, and thrown itself on the protection of France.
Paris accounts say— "Gen. Bournonville is appointed Minister at War—Of 600 votes, he had 356. Dumoulier had one only."
It was decreed the 2d. Feb. by the Convention, that bounties and recompences shall be granted to the corsairs who shall bring into the ports of the republic, the enemy's vessels laden with provisions, and other useful articles.
The Convention daily expresses its apprehension of new assassinations. They seem to entertain no doubt of plots being on foot to revenge the death of their murdered King; and the War they now wage, may in this light be considered as a measure of policy, tending to ensure their own personal safety.
It has been determined to address the English and Dutch nations. Citizen Chambon, Mayor of Paris, has resigned that appointment to the Council General, under pretext of bad health.
The National Convention has passed a Decree to authorize their Generals to execute all the Decrees of the Convention in those countries where their armies are, as well as in those into which they may hereafter enter.
Paris, who stabbed the Deputy Pelletier, was taken at Forges; at the moment of his apprehension, he blew out his brains with a pistol.
On the 13th of January, the people of Rome massacred Basseville, Secretary of Legation from the French Republic; the house of a French Banker, and the Academy belonging to the Nation, were burned. On the following day, the quarter inhabited by the Jews was attempted to be set on fire: they were supposed to be friendly to the French Revolution.
The Convention is determined to execute a summary vengeance on the inhabitants of Rome, on account of the above transactions.
The Marine Minister is charged to explore the Forests of Corsica, and to transport all the wood he can find to Toulon.
Eight hundred millions of Assignats are to be created.
The Minister of Justice has twenty five millions at his disposal, for the purchase of corn in Foreign Markets.
The Court of Spain has engaged to assist Great Britain. A French vessel captured a Dover packet-boat. The crew of a French gun-boat landed on the coast of England, and pillaged a house, the beginning of February.
The William Penn and George Barclay failed from Gravesend on the 11th of February. An attack on Jersey and Guernsey was much feared. English flocks declining at the date of the last accounts. Several ships reported to have been captured by the French. Orders were given for six frigates to sail from Plymouth and Portsmouth, to cruise in the channel, for the safety of homeward bound ships.
Dumourier, it is thought, will first attack Maastricht. Lord Auckland has promised the assistance of 12,000 English troops to Holland within eight days after the requisition. Dumourier arrived at Antwerp on the 2d of February. The Poles at Warsaw are resolved to oppose the entrance of the Prussians by open force.
It is reported that the Prussians on the 24th of January, invested the city of Thorn, and forced the gates. That Chocim will be offered to the Turks, on condition that they reject the new French Minister.
On the person of Paris, the assassin of Pelletier, who shot himself when taken, a paper was found to the following effect: "Molest no one, I was alone the fortunate executioner of the villain Pelletier, I had talked myself to a yet nobler action, the regicide, the patricide, the patricide Egalite should have fallen by my hand. Molest no one, the French are now a nation of savage cowards! I leave them with these lines (in poetry, which may be thus translated). Ye people, stamped with unprecedented crimes, with calumny, with pleasure I abandon life and you. It is only with death that I escape the imputation of that infamy, which is written in the foreheads of all Frenchmen with the blood of their King." This paper is signed Paris the elder, late guard of the King, murdered by his people.
An action took place at Aix la Chapelle in January, between the French under General Bournonville, and the Austrians under General Clairfait—the former it is said lost 1200 men, and the Austrians 150.
Tranquility is entirely restored at Stockholm, by the mild measures of the Regent.
The British House of Commons went into mourning for the late King of France. Mr. Grey is said to be the only member who did not.
Lord George Gordon, who now calls himself Israel Abraham George Gordon, having suffered five years imprisonment, the term for which he was confined, was brought into Court by the keeper of Newgate, and offered bail for his future good conduct, in order to his being discharged—but the Court not considering the bail sufficient, he was remanded back to prison.
By the proceedings of the National Convention, of the 22d January, it appears that the two deputies from Frankfort were let at liberty. The Diplomatic Committee having reported that the charges against the inhabitants of Frankfort had not been substantiated, nor the law of nations violated by them.
Kerfaint, Manuel, Dufaux and Roland, have resigned their places in the Convention and Council.
All the play-houses in Paris were opened as usual on the night of that day in which Louis 16 was beheaded.
The report of the distraction of the Queen of France is contradicted by the authority in Paris. At the request of the Queen, the commune of Paris ordered mourning for her and her family.
A solemn requiem for the soul of the lately deceased Monarch Louis 16, was performed in all the Roman Catholic Chapels in London—the congregations were almost universally in deep mourning.
The London Gazette of February 12, contains an order in council for reprisals on the ships, property, and subjects of France.
The French National Convention have passed a decree for augmenting their armies to 502,000 men.
Messrs. Condorcet, Paine, and Barbaroux, were appointed the committee to draw up an address to the people of England.
The Russian Minister at Coblenz has formally recognized Monsieur, the eldest brother of the late King, as Regent of France.
Great commotions prevail in Ireland—which it is feared will not terminate without fatal consequences. A National Convention is the great topic of conversation.
In the British House of Commons a warm debate took place on the 1st of February—in which Mr. Fox reprobated the confederacy against France, and the policy of the war on the part of Great Britain.
Some of the British prints state, that the sailors had armed themselves, and were determined to oppose the press-gangs at the risk of their lives—other accounts contradict this.
Louis 16 was born August 23, 1754—he began his reign May 10, 1774, and reigned 18 years and 3 months, reckoning to the 17th August, 1792—on the 14th of which month he was imprisoned.
The French fleet in the Mediterranean, under M. Truguet, was dispersed in a violent storm, and much damaged—the Admiral's ship, of 80 guns, escaped, dismasted, into the bay of Naples—and two other ships of the line were lost.
A war between Russia and the Porte is confidentially talked of.
General Dumourier has resolved to plant the Tree of Liberty in Amsterdam and London this spring and summer.
The bank of Amsterdam contains three millions sterling, the exclusive property of the Dutch.
The assignats in France are now at the exchange of fourteen 3 eighths; or in other terms, four-pence farthing English will purchase half a crown of French money.
Lloyd, the attorney, stood in the pillory at the Royal Exchange, for one hour, pursuant to his sentence in the Court of King's Bench, for sticking up inflammatory bills on the walls of the Fleet prison.
The Lords Lansdown, Lauderdale and Derby, have entered a protest against the war with France.
On the 21st January the French fleet, consisting of 44 sail, appeared on the coast of Sardinia, not far from Cagliari, and endeavored to debark. The Islanders allowed about 1500 to land, who, on coming ashore began the attack, and were about to follow them, when a great number of the Sardinians descended from the mountains, and attacked them. In less than half an hour, these 1500 men were killed or made prisoners. The Islanders then pointed their guns against their ships, and kept up such a quick fire, as obliged them to retire to a distance from shore.
Lord Hood is appointed to command the British fleet, ordered to the Mediterranean, and Lord Howe to command the channel fleet.
The Duke of Clarence is created an Admiral, to serve under Lord Howe. The Duke of York is to command the Hanoverian forces destined to act with the combined army against France. Prince Ernest (4th son) to serve under the Duke of York. The Prince of Wales is appointed to the command of the 10th regiment of dragoons.
Five of his Britannic Majesty's sons are now in the naval and military service.
The armaments go on with great vigour.
In London wheat was 5/7 per bushel, and in the country 4/11.
A letter from Dublin, dated the 30th January, says—"The Catholics, I am happy to inform you, are to be partakers of our excellent constitution without any exception. On this occasion every liberal heart seems to be filled with joy."
Col. Joseph Neville is elected a Representative in Congress for the Counties of Hampshire, Hardy, &c. State of Virginia. This completes the delegation from that State—eighteen names having been already published.
A duel was fought the 23d ult. at Legionville, between Mr. Jennifer and Mr. Gaffaway, two officers of the army—the latter was killed.

FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION. FRIDAY, February 1. REPORT OF BRISOT ON THE CONDUCT OF ENGLAND towards FRANCE.
THE Court of England wishes for War—the hope cherished by those who regard with horror a war between two free nations, is now no more—the hostile views of the Court of London are at last discovered. A perfidious mask of neutrality still covered them. Your republican firmness has caused that mask to fall off.
GEORGE has debauched the opinion of the English nation; he has disturbed commerce, he has given orders to parliament; he has menaced the ministers, and upon this coalition, he now declares war against you, because he believes the moment arrived when he may with safety and impunity employ his forces against your liberty; he has declared war against you by ordering your ambassador to depart from England within eight days; he has declared it by publicly testifying marks of sorrow for the fate of the conspirator, whom you had justly condemned to punishment; he has declared it by demanding from parliament, upon the intelligence of his death, a considerable addition of forces by land and sea. To dismiss ignominiously the agent of the republic, and to arm, on the intelligence of the death of the traitor, is it not to say to Europe, to the universe, France has condemned Louis as a traitor; and I believe him innocent, I see in France only rebels and sacrilegious persons; France no longer wishes for a king or royalty; and I wish to avenge the king and royalty! Rather may England perish than behold the establishment of the French republic!
Such is the barbarous will of the King of Great-Britain, if he did not immediately and openly declare war against you, it was because his Ministry did not second with sufficient activity, his orders of vengeance, because his forces were not yet prepared to destroy our commerce, to take from us our colonies, to ravage our country. Undoubtedly if the English people had not allowed themselves to yield to the forcible impulse of the Ministry, they would have considered the offences, with which we are reproached, only as the crimes of individuals; they would have regarded the punishment of Louis as a great act of justice; and, convinced of these truths, would have been of opinion, that to declare war against us, because we do not wish for a king, would be an act of injustice, and a violation of the law of nations, and that we might have continued to have been brothers, though under a different form of government.
Such, without doubt, is the sentiment of a great part of the English, and which would have already displayed itself, if it had not been for the terror of bayonets; but the English nation once enlightened by our example, will at last do justice on its ministers, on its conspirators in place. The farce of the eternal Trial of Hastings will not be renewed, and scaffolds will once more be of use for the Staffords and Lands of the government, as well as for private ruffians.
Citizens! it would not be proper to dissemble from you the dangers of the new war; we have all the tyrants of Europe to combat by land and sea. All the people alone are our allies; but these people are nothing to you, for they are in chains, and those chains must first be broken. All your means then must depend upon yourselves alone. Your soil, your industry, your courage, must supply what nature and circumstances refuse you.
The trader, forgetting his commerce, must become a warrior, those who have capitals must employ their funds to support our assignats, and supply the want of money, the proprietor of land and labourer, renouncing all speculation, must furnish the means of abundance during the operations of the war, every citizen, like a Roman soldier, must march, not only with his arms, but with provisions for a given time, and thus you will defeat the calculations of your enemies with respect to the emptiness of your magazines. The great family of Frenchmen must compose only one army, and all France must form only one camp, where nothing but War is talked of—where nothing is pursued but War. Above all, you must expect distress, and prepare yourselves for suffering every species of want; shortly indeed, it must be a crime for a citizen to have a change of clothing, if there is one of our brothers who is destitute of covering.
To declare that France is at war with England is likewise to declare war against the Stadholder of Holland. The Stadholder, who is rather the subject than the ally of the court of St. James's, who has been, and still is, a passive instrument in their hands, who, in subservience to all their inclinations, has in the course of the revolution favoured the emigrants and the Prussians, harried the French, and treated with insolence the French government. I here allude to the circumstances of releasing the persons guilty of forging assignats, arrested in Holland. The Stadholder arms in the mean time to support the war of the Court of London, joins his ships to the English fleet, favours our enemies by putting obstacles in the way of our exportation of grain.
After all these considerations, your committee of general defence has charged me to present to you the plan of the following decree.
DECREE. "The National Convention, after having heard the report of their Committee of General Defence, in the conduct of the English government.
"Considering that the king of England has persisted, especially since the revolution of the 10th of Aug. 1792, to give proofs of his being evil disposed towards the French nation, and of his attachment to the coalition of crowned heads.
"That at the period aforesaid; he ordered his ambassador at Paris to withdraw, because he
would not acknowledge the provisional executive council, created by the legislative assembly.
"That the Cabinet of St. James's had ceased, since the same period, to correspond with the French ambassador at London, on pretext of the suspension of the heretofore king of the French.
"That since the opening of the National Convention, it has refused to resume the usual correspondence between the two states, and to acknowledge the powers of this convention.
"That it has refused to acknowledge the ambassador of the French republic, altho' provided with letters of credit in its name.
"That it has endeavoured to impede the different purchasers of corn, arms and other commodities ordered in England, either by French citizens or the agents of the republic.
"That it has caused to be stopped several boats and ships loaded with grain for France, contrary to the treaty of 1786, while exportation to other foreign countries was free.
"That in order still more effectually to obstruct the commercial operation of the republic in England, it obtained an act of parliament prohibiting the circulation of assignats.
"That in violation of the 4th article of the treaty of 1789, it obtained another act, in the month of January last, which subjects all French citizens residing in or coming into England, to forms the most inquisitorial, vexatious and dangerous.
"That at the same time, and contrary to the 1st article of the peace of 1783, it granted protection and pecuniary aid not only to the emigrants, but even to the chiefs of the rebels, who have already fought against France; that it has maintained with them a daily correspondence, directed against the French Revolution; that it has also received the chiefs of the rebels of the French West-India Colonies.
"That in the same spirit, without any provocation, and when all the maritime powers are at peace with England, the Cabinet of St. James has ordered a considerable naval armament, and an augmentation of the land forces.
"That this argument was ordered at a moment when the British Minister was bitterly persecuting those who supported the principles of the French Revolution in England, and has employing all possible means, both in Parliament and out of it, to cover the French Republic with ignominy, and to draw upon it the execration of the English nation, and of all Europe.
"That the object of this armament, intended against France, was not even disguised in the English Parliament.
"That although the Provisional Executive Council of France has employed every measure for preserving peace and fraternity with the English nation, and has replied to calumnies and violation of treaties, only by remonstrances founded on the principles of justice, and expressed with the dignity of free men, the English Minister has persevered in his system of malevolence and hostility, continued the armaments, and sent a squadron to the Scheldt, to disturb the operations of the French in Belgium.
"That, on the news of the execution of Louis, he carried his outrages to the French Republic to such a length, as to order the Ambassador of France to quit the British territory within eight days.
"That the King of England has manifested his attachment to the cause of that traitor, and his design of supporting it by different resolutions adopted at the moment of his death, both by nominating generals of his land army, and by applying to parliament for a considerable addition of land and sea forces, and putting ships of war in commission.
"That his secret coalition with the enemies of France, and particularly with the Emperor and Prussia, is confirmed by a treaty concluded with the first in the month of January; that he has drawn into the same coalition the Stadholder of Holland; that that Prince, whose servile obsequiousness to the orders of the courts of St. James and Berlin, is but too well known, has in the course of the French revolution, and notwithstanding the neutrality which he professed, treated with disdain the agents of France, received the emigrants, harried the French patriots, counteracted their operations, released, in opposition to established usage, and notwithstanding the demand of the French Minister, persons who had been guilty of forging assignats; that in the mean time, with a view to concur in the hostile designs of the court of London, he gave orders for a naval armament, named an Admiral, appointed Dutch ships to join the English fleet, opened a loan to defray the expences of the war, put a stop to exportations to France, while he favoured sending supplies of provision to the Prussian and Austrian magazines."
Considering, in fine, that all these circumstances no longer leave to the French Republic any hope of obtaining, by means of amicable negotiation, the redress of their grievances, and that all the acts of the British court, and of the Stadholder of the United Provinces, are acts of hostility, equivalent to a declaration of war. The National Convention decree as follows:
Article I. The National Convention declares in the name of the French nation, that, considering the multiplied acts of hostility and aggression of the above mentioned nations, THE FRENCH NATION IS AT WAR WITH THE KING OF ENGLAND AND THE STADHOLDER OF THE UNITED PROVINCES.
II. The National Convention charges the Provisional Executive Council to call forth such forces as may appear to them necessary for repelling their aggression, and for maintaining the independence, the dignity and the interests of the French Republic.
III. The National Convention authorises the Provisional Executive Council to dispose of the naval forces of the Republic in such a manner as the interests of the state may appear to them to require; and it revokes all particular dispositions ordered in this respect by preceding decrees.
FAVRE-EGLANTINE moved that an address to the English people might be drawn up to inform them of the real motives which have brought on the war between the two countries; and that the Convention would decree that all English and Dutch merchants, and other individuals who may be travelling in France on business, shall have every protection, provided they conform to the laws of the Republic. Both those propositions were decreed.
TESTAMENT OF LOUIS XVI.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. Read in the sitting of the Commons, Jan. 21st. Literally translated from a copy received as genuine by the Commons, and certified by a municipal officer to have been collated with the original.
"IN the name of the Holy Trinity, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, this day the 21st of December, 1792, I, Louis the XVI. by name, King of France, having been for more than four months imprisoned with my family in the Tower of the Temple at Paris, by those who were my subjects, and deprived of all communication whatsoever, ever since the 11th inst. with my own family; moreover being implicated in a trial of which it is impossible to foresee the issue, on account of the passions of men, and for which no pretext or means can be found in any existing law; having only God for the witness of my thoughts, and to whom I can address myself, I here declare, in his presence, my last will and sentiments:
"I leave my soul to God, my creator, I pray him to receive it in mercy, and not to judge it according to its deserts, but according to those of our Lord Jesus Christ, who offered himself a sacrifice to God his Father, for us men, however unworthy, and for me the most unworthy. I die in the union of our mother the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Church, who holds her powers by an uninterrupted succession from St. Peter, to whom Jesus Christ entrusted them. I firmly acknowledge and believe every thing contained in the commandments of God and the Church, the sacraments and mysteries, such as the Church teaches, and hath always taught them; I have never pretended to make myself a judge of the different modes of explaining the dogmas which divide the Church of Jesus Christ, but I have conformed, and will always conform, if God grants me life, to the decisions which the high Ecclesiastics of the Holy Catholic Church give and shall give, conformably to the discipline of the Church followed since Jesus Christ. I lament with all my heart, our brethren who may be in error, but I pretend not to judge them; and I love them no less in Jesus Christ according to what Christian Charity teaches us; I pray God to pardon me all my sins; I have endeavoured to know them scrupulously, to detest them, and to humble myself in his presence. Not being able to avail myself of the ministry of a Catholic Priest, I pray God to receive the confession which I have made, and above all my profound repentance for having put my name (though it was against my will) to acts which may be contrary to the discipline and belief of the Catholic Church, to which I have always remained sincerely united in heart; I pray God to accept of my firm resolution, if he grant me life, to make use as soon as I can of the ministry of a Catholic Priest, to confess myself of all my sins, and to receive the sacrament of repentance; I request all those whom I may have offended through inadvertence, for I do not recollect having knowingly offended any one, or those to whom I may have given bad example or scandal, to forgive me the evil which they think I have done them.
"I entreat all charitable persons to join their prayers with mine, to obtain of God the pardon of my sins.
"I forgive, with all my heart, those who have made themselves my enemies without my having given them any cause; and I pray God to forgive them, as well as those who, through a false or mistaken zeal, have done me much evil.
"I recommend to God, my wife, my children, my sister, my aunts, my brothers, and all those who are attached to me by the ties of blood, or in any other manner whatsoever. I pray God particularly to look with the eyes of mercy on my wife, my children, and my sister, who have long been the partners of my sufferings; to sustain them by his grace, if they should lose me; and as long as they shall remain in this perishable world. I recommend to him, above all, to make them good Christians, and honest members of society; to make them consider the grandeur of this world, if they are condemned to prove them, but as things dangerous and perishable, and to turn their views towards the only and solid glory of eternity. I request my sister to continue her tenderness to my children, and to be a mother to them, if they should have the misfortune to lose their own.
"I entreat my wife to forgive me all the evils which she suffers on my account, and the uneasiness which I may have caused her in the course of our union; as she may be assured, that I remember nothing against her, if she thinks she has any thing to reproach herself with.
"I earnestly recommend to my children, next to their duty to God, which they ought to prefer to every thing, to maintain mutual union, submission and obedience to their mother, and gratitude for all the cares which she incurs for them, and in memory of me.
"I entreat them to consider my sister as a second mother. I recommend to my son, if he should have the misfortune to become King, to think that he owes himself entirely to the good of his fellow-citizens; that he ought to forget all hatred and all resentment, and especially whatever relates to the misfortunes and uneasiness which I experience; that he cannot promote the good of the public but by reigning according to the laws; but, at the same time, that a King cannot make the laws respected, and do the good he wishes, but in proportion as he has the necessary authority; and that, without this, being fettered in his operations, and inspiring no respect, he is more injurious than useful. I recommend to my son to take care of all the persons who were attached to me, as far as his circumstances shall give him the means; to think that this is a sacred debt which I have contracted to the children or relations
of those who have died for me, and next, to those who are unfortunate on my account. I know that there are many persons of those who were attached to me, who have not conducted themselves towards me as they ought, and who have even shown me ingratitude; but I forgive them (when, in the moments of trouble and effervescence, a man is not master of himself); and I entreat my son, if he should have the opportunity, to remember only their misfortunes. I could wish to be able to testify my gratitude to those who have displayed a true and disinterested attachment to me. On the one hand, if I was sensibly affected by the ingratitude and disloyalty of persons to whom I had never shown any thing but favour to them, their relations, or friends; on the other, I have had the consolation of seeing the voluntary attachment and interest which many persons have shown to me. I entreat them to accept of my thanks; in the situation in which things still are, I should be afraid of bringing them into danger, if I were to speak more explicitly; but I recommend particularly to my son to seek all occasions of discovering them.
"I should, nevertheless, think that I calumniated the sentiments of the nation, did I not openly recommend to my son M. M. de Chamilly and Huet, whose true attachment to me induced them to shut themselves up with me in this mournful residence, and who were near being the unhappy victims of what they did. I also recommend to him Cleri, with whose attention I have had every reason to be satisfied since he has been with me. As it is he who has remained with me to the last, I request M. M. of the Commune, to deliver to him my clothes, my books, my watch, my purse, and the other little effects which have been deposited at the Council of the Commons.
"I also most willingly forgive those who guarded me, the ill treatment and severity which they thought it their duty to make me suffer. I have found some feeling and compassionate souls; may they enjoy the tranquillity of heart, which ought to spring from their manner of thinking!
"I entreat M. M. de Malesherbes, Tronchet and Defeze, to receive here my thanks, and the expression of my sensibility, for all the care and all the pain which they took for me.
"I conclude by declaring, before God, and ready to appear before him, that I reproach myself with none of the crimes which are alleged to me.
"Done, in duplicate, at the Tower of the Temple, December 25, 1792. (Signed Louis) "LOUIS." (A true Copy)
BAUDRAIS, Municipal Officer.
Yesterday arrived here the ships George Barclay, Capt. Collet and Harmony, Capt. Osman from London—also the Adrianna, Capt. Robertson from Liverpool; the Adrianna left Liverpool the 25th February.—It was reported there, that Gen. Dumourier had had a battle with the Austrians and Prussians, and had totally defeated them—in consequence of which the French army had entered Holland; another report is that a body of the Dutch forces had been defeated.—Accounts by the above arrivals state that the British and French cruizers swarm on the coasts of France and England—that various captures had been made by the French and English—and that the American flag was unmolested. Capt. Collet met with two British frigates on his passage—by the Captains of which he was treated with the greatest politeness. We do not find that the account of the execution of the Queen of France is confirmed by these arrivals—and conclude it is premature.—The George Barclay has brought a large number of passengers.
Various reports were circulated yesterday, among others—That the American Minister at the Court of London had given that Court assurances of a strict neutrality in the present war between Great-Britain and France, on the part of the United States. Another report is, that a French cruiser had chased a British vessel into Norfolk, Virginia. Time will fix the authenticity or falsehood of the various rumours of the day.
The Schooner Fredericksburg Packet, Anderson, arrived here on Monday last from Malaga.
Capt. Anderson put into Gibraltar on the 23rd Feb. where he received the following advices:—That the French Republic had declared war against Great-Britain and Holland—that the late Queen of France had been tried and executed at Paris about the 10th of Feb. and that the Algerines had declared war against Holland, Denmark, and Sweden.
Several British ships of war were cruising in the Streights, to protect the English and Dutch ships from the French and Algerine cruizers, and to convoy them into Gibraltar, where 3 Dutch ships had already arrived.
Major Nathan Goodall, of Bellepre, on the Ohio, was lately captured by two Indians.
In the Virginia Centinel of the first inst. is published a list of murders and depredations lately committed by the savages in Mero district, from the 18th to the 26th January last, eleven killed and seven wounded—and a considerable number of horses stolen.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Brig Active, M'Keever, St. Croix. Schr. Fredericksburg Packet, Anderson, Malaga (and Gibraltar). Sloop Sally, Smith, St. Eustatius. Sloop Signet, Starr, Middleton. Nancy, Stiles, Aux. Cays. Oliva and Mary, Petreie, Georgia.
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PARIS, January 15. Citizen Ducher's project of a decree for the purpose of making the United States of America pay what they owe to the French Government.
THE United States of America, says the Citizen Ducher, owe to France many millions of money. I shewed long ago means for facilitating the recovery of that debt, a debt which is the most legitimate a nation could have contracted.
In the year 1785, I wrote, "That General Sullivan offered to pay the share New-Hampshire bears in the American National debt due to France, in timber, masts, boats, and salt beef."
In the year 1788, I proposed that the debt there, should be paid in proportion to the constitution of that country; and as the United States could not pay the debt in specie, I proposed that each state should pay off that debt in the productions of their soil, transported to France in their bottoms, which would be the more beneficial to them, as those articles must rise in the value by such exportation.
In order to interest all the American states in the mode of payment, I think we ought to accept of the productions of the northern, central, and southern states; namely, in timber, salt beef and pork, corn, flour, tobacco, rice, and other naval provisions.
PROJECT OF THE DECREE.
The National Convention, desirous that the French should be closely allied with the citizens of the United States of America, and willing to facilitate the liquidation of the debt due by those states to France, by direct payment, which may be advantageous to both nations, and to render their mutual commercial relations more frequent, decrees:
Article I. That no merchandize or productions of the United States of America, of which the importation into France is, or will be permitted, shall be otherwise imported than directly from those states, and in French and American bottoms, under the penalty of confiscation of the vessels and their cargoes.
II. The Executive council is authorized to receive from the United States of America, the payment of part, or even the whole of the debt, due from that nation to France in specie, bills of exchange drawn upon Europe, merchandize and productions of the real growth and produce of the said states, at their prime cost in the said states.
The National Treasury is likewise authorized to draw upon the Treasury of the states of America bills of exchange, which after their acceptance and payment, as well as receipts for ready money, bills of exchange upon Europe which shall have been paid, all American articles of merchandize, and productions which shall have been delivered in those states, shall be admitted as legal payment, and as the real acquittal of the discharge of the said debt.
IRELAND.
HOUSE OF LORDS, Jan. 10.
The House unanimously agreed to a dutiful and loyal address to his Majesty, on the speech of the Lord Lieutenant to both Houses of Parliament.
The House likewise agreed to an address of thanks to the Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Leinster being the only dissenter.
In the course of the debate, the Lord Chancellor took notice of the petition presented to his Majesty from the Catholics of Ireland, which he reprobated in very severe terms, on account of the many misrepresentations and unfounded allegations contained in it; and declared his intention, should he stand alone, to oppose any bill which should be brought forward, for a total repeal of the popery laws of that kingdom. "No man," said his Lordship, "is more ready than I am to enter coolly and dispassionately into the nature of their claims. I do most solemnly protest, that as an individual, I never have, nor will I ever en-
quire, what may be the religion of any man; if he be an honest man, whatsoever his religion may be, it shall never influence me in my private dealing; and the more zealously any man is attached to any religion which he professes, the greater confidence shall I always be inclined to put in him. But we all know the influence which religion has uniformly had upon the political government of every nation in Europe, and it is in this point of view alone, in which I will ever consider the claims of the Catholics in this House. If there be a clause in the statute book which restrains their religious worship—if there be a clause which renders their characters, their persons, or their properties, less secure than the characters, the persons, or the properties of Protestants, let it be repealed; but, if any man can be so wild as to look to a total repeal of the Popery laws of this kingdom—if any man can be so wild as to desire to communicate the efficient power of a free Protestant government, to a great majority of the people of Ireland professing the Popish religion, I do not scruple to say, that it is an absurd and a wicked speculation. I am satisfied that as long as the nature of man continues to be what it is, it is utterly impossible that a zealous Catholic can exercise the efficient powers of government, in support of her connection with the Protestant empire of Great-Britain: and therefore, if I am the single man in Ireland to raise my voice against such a project, I will resist it. It is not to the people who profess the Catholic religion that I look upon this occasion, it is to the principles of that religion, to which I know they are zealously and superstitiously devoted; to the influence which these principles have had upon the political government of every nation in Europe for centuries. If unfortunately for this country, we shall ever be induced to make so fatal an experiment, we may rest assured, that the maintenance of a Protestant establishment, and of our connection with Great-Britain, must be once more put to the issue of the sword; and whenever the subject recommended to us from the throne, shall come into debate, I will state, without reserve, the grounds upon which I have formed that opinion. I trust, however, that no degree of lenity, or rashness, or timidity, will ever induce the parliament of Ireland to yield her best security for the peace and prosperity of the country, committed to their care. Whatever events may arise, I will persevere in defending the present constitution of this country, and transmitting it to posterity; and, in so doing, I am satisfied that I shall prove the best friend of the people of Ireland, whether Protestants or Catholics."
POST-ROAD
TO THE GENESEE COUNTRY.
THE public are hereby informed, that the Post-Road from Philadelphia to Reading, is continued to Sunbury and Northumberland; thence up the West Branch of the Susquehannah as far as Litchton; thence to the Painted Post (in New-York state, near the forks of the Tioga) thence to Bath (a town laid out on the Cohocton Branch of the Tioga) thence to Williamsburg, at the forks of Genesee River.
Letters for this new route will be sent from the Philadelphia Post-Office every Wednesday morning, at eight o'clock, with the mail for Reading.
A weekly mail will also be carried from Bethlehem to Wilkesbarre, in the county of Luzerne.
General Post-Office, April 6, 1793.
ADVERTISEMENT.
WHEREAS A BRIDGE is to be built over Raritan River, at the city of New-Brunswick, in the state of New-Jersey—to accomplish which, will require the service of many carpenters and masons of experience; Notice is, therefore, hereby given, that any person or persons inclining to undertake the whole, or any part thereof, by applying to the subscribers, on or before the first day of May next, may have an opportunity of contracting for the same.
JOHN BAYARD, JACOB HARDENBURGH, JOHN DENNIS, Sen.
Brunswick, March 24th. 1793
ADVERTISEMENT.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the Commissioners appointed by the Board of Trustees of the University of North-Carolina, will attend at the town of Hillsborough, on the 18th, 19th and 20th days of April next, for the purpose of receiving proposals from such persons as may be disposed to undertake the Buildings of the University.
FREDERICK HARGETT, Chairman.
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War Department,
JANUARY 28, 1793.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of September 1792, and which will become due on the 5th day of March 1793, 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 agreeable 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 4th day of September 1792, and ending the 4th day of March 1793.
Signed and Sealed in the Presence of
Acknowledged before me,
Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the Invalid died, whose pension they may claim.
By Command of the President of the United States,
H. KNOX, Secretary at War.
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Stock Brokers Office,
No. 16, Wall-Street, New-York.
THE Subscriber intending to continue himself entirely to the PURCHASE & 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 facility and dispatch.
Orders from Philadelphia, Boston, or any other part of the United States, will be briskly attended to.
(14) LEONARD BLECKER.
By THOMAS JOHNSON, DAVID STUART, & DANIEL CARROLL, Esquires,
Commissioners appointed by Government to prepare the Public Buildings, &c. within the City of Washington, for the reception of Congress, and for their permanent residence after the year 1800—
A LOTTERY
FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE FEDERAL CITY.
50,000 Tickets at 7 dollars, are 350,000 dollars.
LIST OF PRIZES, viz.
Table with 3 columns: Prize Description, Amount, Total Amount. Includes Superb Hotel, Cash Prizes, and various other prizes.
16,737 Prizes Dollars 351,000. 33,263 Blanks.
By this scheme at least the amount of the tickets will return to the fortunate adventurers, and yet the federal City will gain its object thereby, in a magnificent building designed both for public and private convenience.
Although some expence must necessarily attend the conducting of the lottery, (which expence will be taken from the principal prize) the Commissioners having agreed to present in return a sufficient quantity of excellent free-lots, together with the best adapted lots for the hotel and for the out-houses, the value of the lottery entire may be fairly rated at something more than par. In this important instance it will be found, on examination, to exceed all the lotteries that have ever been offered to the Public in this or perhaps in any other country. The key of the Hotel, when complete, will be delivered to the fortunate possessor of the ticket drawn against its number. All the other prizes will be paid, without deduction, in one month after the drawing, by the City Treasurer at Washington, or at such Bank or Banks as may be hereafter announced, for the convenience of the fortunate adventurers.
The drawing will commence on Monday the 9th of September next, at the City of Washington.
Tickets may be had of Col. Wm. Dickens, City Treasurer of Washington; Thayer & Bartlet, of Charleston, South-Carolina; Gideon Denison, Savannah; Messrs. James West & Co. Baltimore; Mr. Peter Gilman, Boston; and at such other places as will be hereafter published.
N. B. ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS will be given for the best Plan of an elegant and convenient HOTEL or INN, with hot and cold Baths, Stables, and other out houses, if presented on or before the 10th of April next; and a preference will be given to the Artist for a Contract, provided he be duly qualified to complete his plan. The ground on which the Hotel and out houses are to be erected, will be a corner lot of about 200 feet, with a back avenue to the stables, &c. Sections and estimates of the expense will be expected with the elevations, &c. complete; and 50,000 dollars must be regarded by the Architect as the utmost limit in the expense intended for this purpose.
S. BLODGET, Agent for the affairs of the City.
March 6, 1793.
DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA, to wit.
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the thirteenth day of March, in the seventeenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, THOMAS DOBSON, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof, he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit.
"An Enquiry how far the Punishment of Death is necessary in Pennsylvania. With Notes and Illustrations. By William Bradford, Esq. To which is added, an Account of the Gaol and Penitentiary House of Philadelphia, and of the interior Management thereof. By Caleb Lownes, of Philadelphia. If we enquire into the Causes of all human Corruptions, we shall find that they proceed from the Impunity of Crimes, and not from the Moderation of Punishments."—Montesquieu.
In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned."
SAMUEL CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
The above work is sold in Charleston by William Price Young; Richmond, by Archibald Currie; Baltimore, by James Rice; New-York, by Thomas Allen; Boston, by David West.
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