Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-04-07 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 99, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1792.
[Whole No. 307.]
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AT THE FIRST SESSION,
Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
AN ACT for the relief of certain widows, orphans, invalids and other persons.
SECTION 1. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Comptroller of the Treasury adjust the claims of the widows and orphans respectively, as the case may be, of the late Colonel Owen Roberts, Captain William White, Lieutenant Colonel Bernard Elliott, Major Samuel Wise, Major Benjamin Huger, Lieutenant John Bush, and Major Charles Motte, deceased, all of whom were killed or died in the service of the United States, for the seven years half pay stipulated by the resolve of Congress of the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty; and that the register of the Treasury do issue his certificates accordingly.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the department of war be, and he hereby is required to place on the invalid list, Timothy Mix, disabled in the late war, by the loss of his right hand, while in the service of the United States, at the rate of five dollars per month, to commence on the fourth day of February one thousand seven hundred and eighty-three. That the said Secretary place on the invalid list, Abel Turney, mariner, disabled while in the service of the United States, at the rate of one dollar per month, to commence on the first day of January, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the arrears of the said pensions be paid as the laws direct in similar cases.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he hereby is required to adjust the accounts of Joseph Pannil a Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the United States, as a deranged officer upon the principles of the act of the late Congress, of the third of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty, and to allow him the usual commutation of the half-pay for life of a Lieutenant-Colonel, and that the Register of the Treasury be, and he hereby is required to grant a certificate for the amount of the balance due to him. That the Comptroller adjust the account of the late Brigadier-General De Haas, admitting to the credit of the said account, such sums as by evidence shall appear to have been advanced for the public service, and which have been charged by the United States to the officers who have received the same for the public service, and that the said Register do grant a certificate for the balance due on such settlement. That the said Comptroller adjust the account of Thomas McIntire, a Captain in the service of the United States, during the late war, and allow him the usual commutation of the half-pay for life of a Captain, and that the said Register grant a certificate for the amount thereof accordingly.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Comptroller of the Treasury be, and he hereby is required to adjust the account of Francis Suzor Debevere, a surgeon's mate in the service of the United States during the late war, and who remained in captivity to the end thereof, and that the Register of the Treasury be, and he hereby is required to grant a certificate for the amount which shall be found due for the services of the said Francis Suzor Debevere. That the said Comptroller adjust the account of Robert King, as a Lieutenant, deranged upon the principles of the act of the late Congress, passed the twenty-fourth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-eight, and that the said Register grant a certificate accordingly. That the Comptroller adjust the account of Lemuel Shetman, as a sailing master of a galley on Lake Champlain, and as such taken prisoner; and that the said Register grant a certificate accordingly.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That there be granted to Nicholas Ferdinand Westfall, who left the British service and joined the army of the United States, during the late war, one hundred acres of unappropriated land in the western territory of the United States, free of all charges, and also the sum of three hundred and thirty-six dollars, out of any money appropriated to the contingent charges of government.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, MARCH THE TWENTY-SEVENTH, 1792.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
AN ACT supplemental to the Act for making further and more effectual Provision for the Protection of the Frontiers of the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States by and with the advice and consent of the Senate to appoint such number of Brigadier-Generals as may be conducive to the good of the public service. Provided the whole number appointed, or to be appointed shall not exceed four.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED MARCH THE TWENTY-EIGHTH, 1792.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
IN every age peculiar follies have prevailed, and the present seems to be distinguished for a propensity to gaming and speculation. We possess a country which holds out the most alluring motives to the exertions of the industrious, and enjoy, at the same time, the greatest degree of political freedom, both in the principles and administration of our government. But this is not sufficient to content us—impatient to acquire riches, too many of our citizens suffer themselves to be influenced by an avaricious spirit, the fruitful parent of the various paper bubbles, every day exhibited to the admiration and astonishment of the public. Here is ample scope, it must be confessed, for the reprehension of the moralist; and hence we find the discontented declaiming on the degeneracy of the times, and prognosticating the ruin of this young and rising empire. But, Sir, tho' individuals may fall into these predominant follies, and many innocent persons be thereby ruined, yet, I am persuaded, they will soon operate their own cure; and the time is approximating when a speculator or swindler will be shunned, as a dangerous and dishonest character.
The affairs of New-York and Philadelphia, bring to my mind the uproar which the failure of FORDYCE, the banker, caused in London, about twenty years ago: Felix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum —as a warning to others, I shall beg leave to present to your readers a few anecdotal notices of this gentleman; it may serve as an example to display the ill consequences of gaming and speculation, and prevent some of our plain and industrious friends from treading on such dangerous ground.
Mr. FORDYCE was born of a very respectable family in Scotland; he had several brothers, who distinguished themselves as great and good men in their respective professions. Being endowed with good natural parts, he was a most promising youth, and assisted in his education by Doctor BLACKWELL, a gentleman well known for his writings in the republic of letters. He was bred a hosier at Aberdeen; but this being too confined a scene for the extent of his abilities, he soon quitted it, and repaired to London, as the great mart for genius, where he soon obtained employment in the capacity of an out-door clerk to Messrs. B. & Co. bankers. Here he displayed a great facility in figures, and an uncommon attention to that business, in which he afterwards became so eminent and conspicuous. His employers being convinced of Mr. FORDYCE's talents and abilities, and judging he would be a very useful partner, and manage the most laborious part of their business, admitted him upon the firm of the house, through the interest and recommendation of a friend. Scarce had he been thus established, before he began to speculate in the Alley for very considerable sums, and was judged in the beginning to be very successful, particularly at the time of the signing the preliminaries of the peace in 1763, of which he gained intelligence before the generality of the Bulls and Bears at Jonathan's Coffee-House.
This success was fatal to Mr. FORDYCE—for it induced him not only to speculate for still larger sums in the Alley, but in many other pursuits, particularly in hops. The capricious goddess still favored him, and he seemed so infatuated with her kindness, as to think she was entirely at his command. He purchased a large estate, with a most elegant villa, at Rochampton, where he aimed at surpassing commissaries & nabobs, in grandeur and magnificence. He supported a chapel for himself and family, adjoining to his mansion; his ambition was now unbounded, he loared far beyond the line of mere mercantile splendor, and nothing less than nobility seemed equal to his wishes. The next testimonial he gave of his desire of exaltation, was his being a candidate for a certain Borough; upon which occasion, though he was not returned, he spent near £. 14,000 sterl. and to secure his future election, erected an hospital, and established other charities there, in order to render himself the popular candidate upon the first vacancy. Failing in this attempt to obtain a seat in Parliament, he sought for honours in another channel, and paid his addresses to a lady of quality, who, dazzled by his pomp and apparent fortune, consented to the marriage; and Lady M—— was now frequently introduced to the public in the papers, her portrait displayed at the exhibition, and her picture in every print-shop. He made a handsome settlement upon her Ladyship, and is said to have purchased some estates in Scotland, to give him weight and dignity in his native country.
But the fatal period now approached when all his tinsel glories vanished. The affair of Falkland Island, which occasioned stocks greatly to fluctuate, gave the most sensible shock to his finances; and to make up his speculative differences , he was compelled to employ a very considerable sum of the Company's Stock. This step alarmed the partners, and they remonstrated to him upon the impropriety of his conduct. Mr. FORDYCE treated the remonstrance of his partners with the most mortifying contempt, threatening to dissolve the partnership, if they attempted to restrain his operations, and leave them to manage a business to which they were altogether unequal; and to convince them that he had power to put his threats in execution, produced bank notes to a great amount, which had been borrowed for a few hours to answer his purpose. Equally struck with the plausibility of his discourse, and the sum, they were easily reconciled. But Mr. FORDYCE's ill fortune now pursued him as rapidly and invariably as his good genius had before accompanied him; he found himself incapable of fulfilling engagements, so very considerable on all hands, that he resolved upon a retreat, after having employed every method his imagination could suggest to discover some new resource. The immediate consequence of his absenting himself from business, was a stoppage of payment at the house, and an advertisement succeeded, intimating that the other partners were not privy to Mr. FORDYCE's proceedings: however, the whole Company became bankrupts; the fatal influence of which affected a great number of other considerable houses involved with them. Such were the effects of gaming in Change-Alley, and such may be the effects of similar proceedings among ourselves.
Many unsuspecting industrious people were entirely ruined by this unlucky event. A merchant in the city put an end to his existence with a pistol, on hearing the news; a considerable silver-refiner had recourse to a knife; a lady, finding herself undone, followed the example; and a gentleman near Bloomsbury Square became melancholy.
The following Anecdote is worth notice:—The day before Mr. FORDYCE stopped payment, he called on a Banker, who was a Quaker, of whom he desired the loan of £. 20,000—On being refused, and going away dissatisfied, the latter called him back, and said, "Harkee, friend, Two-dice have hurt many, but I promise thee, Four-dice shall never run me."
With a view to render every species of gaming as detestable as possible, I would make a few remarks on the unhappy fate of another eminent character. The late Doctor DODD was universally admired and esteemed, as a polite scholar, an elegant writer, and an energetic graceful preacher. Charity and brotherly love , when recommended with the charms of his pathetic language, warmed every breast; his hearers hung about him with admiration and rapture! But, what a falling off! when we contemplate the fine man engaged at the card-table, and rattling the dice-box!—'Twas gaming multiplied his wants—'twas gaming led him to forgery , in order to supply them, and forgery led him to the ignominious tree ! Religion saw it, and wept, and cried aloud to liutal mortals, "let him that standeth, take heed, lest he fall."
It was not inexperience, or the want of knowledge, that involved this celebrated Divine in the snares and infatuations of gaming. I have heard him preach against it like an Angel—but preaching and acting are two different things. What pen can describe the effects of this odious vice better than his, in that admired Novel , entitled, the "Sisters." Captain THOMAS had met with a great loss at a gaming table; he grew frantic, and destroyed himself—how elegantly doth Dodd reflect on this occasion? "But do thou, if gaming is thy ruling and favourite passion, O reader! not yet depart hence, till thou hast well considered, and diligently meditated on the whole transaction. Behold here a man strong in youth, buoyant in health, and blessed with profuse plenty of this world's good; behold him in an instant, by his own hand, cut off from the sons of men, and blotted from the book of life! On fatal cast hath done it! Beware, and even now stop thy hand; thy all, thy present and eternal all, think and tremble, depends on those base dies! This cast perhaps drives the hot ball through the distracted brain, plummets thee in irrecoverable perdition, and leaves a forlorn, distressed and undone family, to struggle with want and affliction; to languish in sorrow, in penury and contempt. What is the pleasure that can counterbalance these?—Be wise and reflect—restrain and be happy."
Elton, April 2, 1792.
SENE X.
FROM THE NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH CHRONICLE, PUBLISHED AT NORFOLK (VIRGINIA.)
IT has been stated as a fact, and proved on the floor of Congress, by Mr. Sedgwick and Mr. Boudinot, and confirmed by a majority of the members, that discrimination was impracticable, because the greatest part of the public debt was in fictitious certificates, and a revision of the several species of paper that constituted the public debt could not be admitted.
It was also brought forward as the most powerful and persuasive arguments against discrimination, because the soldiers had been fully paid by the bounties they received at the time of their enlistments.
This, however, was poor consolation for the men who had loaned their money and rendered supplies, and received certificates of inconsiderable value, forced on them by the public, and depreciated by their acts, and compelled to part with their evidences of the debt at one-sixth of their nominal value, for a subsistence occasioned by a diminution of their stock and other property.
But as these gentlemen are unacquainted with military operations, I beg leave to inform them, that contracts in time of war are estimated according to the magnitude and hazard of the enterprise—and from twenty to forty dollars per month was given by merchants for sailors, according to the risque of the voyage.
And when a soldier insisted in the Continental army, he received a premium from individuals for the risque of being killed, or perishing in a sugar house in New-York, and a promise from his country, of six dollars and two-thirds, as his monthly wages, if he proved victorious.
If the public did not owe the monthly wages, the certificates ought not to have been issued; and if the old Congress issued twenty millions of dollars without consideration, the new government ought to have corrected the error, and not compelled their constituents to pay the full sum, with interest, in gold or silver, because they had been purchasers of these demands at 1s. 6d. in the pound.
This kind of public faith and national honor, being a new religion, and Mr. Hamilton the grand hierarch, it will be laid open and fairly explained in an address to the people of the United States, at their next election.
A CONTINENTAL SOLDIER.
N. B. The public are referred to the Journal of Congress, in the committee of the whole on the Secretary's Report on Public Credit.
FROM THE COLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
MR. RUSSELL,
You are desired to publish the following account of the loss of the ship Columbia, of Exeter, late commanded by Capt. Isaac Chauncey.
THE ship left Liverpool on the 18th of December last for this port, laden with about one thousand bds. of salt, four hundred crates of earthen ware, and about thirty bales of dry goods. She made the land of Cape-Cod on the 10th inst. and took her departure from the Race Point, about 12 o'clock: The wind being to the southward, and thick weather, it was judged best to keep the south shore on board, and on the weather clearing up they found themselves close in with Duxbury beach, the ship then hauled to the wind to the northward, but the wind shifting to the N. E. she could not lay clear of the Brant Rock; they then hove about intending for Plymouth, and would have gained that port, but when passing a ledge of rocks, called High Pine Ledge, it died away calm, and a high sea setting directly on the reef, obliged them to come to an anchor about 3 o'clock, P. M. on the outside in 5 fathoms of water, but in a quarter of an hour afterwards the ship struck on the reef; they then got a spring on their cable, and casting the ship's head off, cut away the cable and got under sail; deepening their water, they came too again in

8 fathoms ; but the wind hauling more to the eastward, and the sea rising, the ship dragged her anchor and again struck on the ledge ; shortly after the stern gave away, and the salt emptied itself into the sea ; they then cut the best bower cable, and their main and mizen masts, in order to getting on shore on the beach and saving their lives. But night coming on, and after they had beat over the reef, the tide of flood setting in, they could not effect it. Their situation was truly deplorable. The vessel, by the violence of the sea was so rent asunder in many places, it was dangerous to pass : one of the seamen in endeavouring to get forward was entangled in the wreck, and was nearly cut in halves.
The captain, two passengers, a seaman and the cabin boy were forward ; in that situation they remained until about 8 o'clock A. M. when the seaman proposed to the captain to get aft for the ship went on the beach stern first, and attempt gaining the shore ; but the captain replied, that " he was unable to attempt it," and gave his papers to the cabin boy : He then resigned himself to his fate : The seaman, and the boy left him, and jumped into the sea, and had the good fortune to reach the shore. Wet and fatigued they crawled up among the bushes, where they would have perished but for the exertions of the two Mr. Burgesse, who early in the morning found them. The remains of the wreck were spread on the beach for 4 miles in length, and perhaps the most dismal that was ever seen on this coast. The following is the list of the unhappy crew that perished in the wreck, and whose remains were found on the succeeding Monday, and decently buried at Duxbury meeting house, except the captain, two passengers and one of the seamen, who were buried at Marshfield.
Isaac Chauncey, captain. Charles Roberts, mate. Joseph Heldridge, Philip Heldridge, brothers, passengers of Birmingham. George Dunnells. John Sidney. Charles Hicks. Daniel Buffit. Charles Humphreys. Timothy Harris. James Floyd. — Harris. James Weaun. Augustus Jenney, a negro.
John Charles Martin, seaman, and Jacob Tucker, cabin boy, were saved.
Much credit is due to the people in saving the things out of the wreck ; a laudable spirit of emulation appeared in them to preserve the property.
Their humanity to the little remnant saved, does honor to them as men and as christians, and will no doubt be returned to them double fold, by that being, who, the father of compassion himself, admires the imitation of this exalted attribute in his offspring :—Nor were the living alone the objects of their kind solicitude. No ! they became interested in depositing with reverence and respect the remains of the unfortunate crew with a sympathy which none but the virtuous possess, and none but the good will imitate, they paid the last sad offices to departed nature.—Like the Samaritan they bound up the wounds of the unfortunate living, and like the founder of their religion, they wept at the tomb of their deceased friends—for friends they esteemed them.
CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, THURSDAY, MARCH 8.
Debate on the resolution reported by a select committee—That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report his opinion to the House, on the best mode of raising those additional supplies which the public service may require for the current year.
MR. SEDGWICK said that when the law was passed, constituting the department of the treasury, and making it the duty of the secretary to report to the legislature, plans for the management and improvement of the revenue ; he had fondly indulged the hope, that a great principle in the administration of the government, had been so far settled, that it would not have been called in question at so early a period. This principle he then and still understood to be, that a great officer should, by appointment for that purpose and an adequate salary, be responsible to the community, to produce to the consideration of the national legislature, such systematic arrangements in the intricate business of finance, as should give the highest assurance of the support of public credit, with the least possible burden to the citizens of America. That if this great principle remained still to be determined, he ardently wished that we might profit by the experience of other nations, and by our own—that he knew of no nation that suffer-
ed under the weight of a public debt, but had found it indispensable to its welfare, to appoint some officer, whose duty it should be to superintend this important branch of business ; and that without such appointment, it was impossible for him to conceive that an orderly administration of the finances could be effected. It was not long since, that all America had attempted to provide for the public exigencies, by the indigested schemes of legislating financiers. The effects are remembered by all—the revenue was incomparably less productive, and yet the people infinitely more burdened than at present. These facts would render any other arguments superfluous, with those who believed that experience was the best guide to well founded political conclusions. But on the other hand, if gentlemen were disposed to calculate on the data afforded by imagination, and to build systems on arguments a priori, not only unsanctioned by experiment, but in opposition to all experience ; we might render the debts we owed, which had been justly stiled the price of liberty, and for which therefore we were under the highest obligation to provide, an intolerable burden. For he would run the venture to pronounce, that the measures which would result from such a desultory mode of procedure, would create grievous exactions on our constituents, disappoint the expectations of government, and prove inadequate to the support of public credit.
By these observations, he did not mean to derogate from the responsibility of the character of the House collectively, or of any individual member of it. There might be many who had sufficient talents ably to preside in the management of our finances, provided their minds were confined to the contemplation of that subject alone. But it should be remembered that while separated in the recesses of the legislature, the avocations of professions, or other business, left to most of the members but little leisure for the investigation of political questions. That while in session, they were obliged to pay attention to every subject of legislation committed to the national government. That considering the limited faculties of the human mind, he did think gentlemen should feel themselves wounded in reputation, by the supposition that they were not collectively, minutely acquainted with every branch of science, a knowledge of which might be involved in the subjects of our legislation. Without such an extent of information and science, a man might be an excellent legislator. Otherwise the business of popular legislation must altogether cease, or be very badly managed. It would not produce the smallest uneasiness in his mind, to have it universally known, that he pretended not to the deep knowledge of jurisprudence of the Attorney-General—the acquaintance of the Secretary of State with the political interests and relations of the community—or the profound knowledge of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the intricate subjects of finance. Yet he felt some degree of confidence in the ability which he possessed, of judging of the expediency of adopting such measures as those officers should recommend.
He observed that the House, ever since the organization of the executive departments, had conducted as if convinced of the justness of this reasoning, by their frequent references to the heads of those departments. That particularly when it had been suggested that the judicial system required amendment, the subject had been referred to the consideration of the Attorney-General. That when the commerce of the country came under deliberation, it was referred to the Secretary of State. That these subjects comprehended the most important and dearest interests of the people. That he heartily concurred in those references, and would take the liberty to add, that they had the support of the gentlemen who were now so strenuous in opposition to the present motion. That if the House was then right, those would not be wrong who were in favor of this question.
He observed that gentlemen in the two cases which in argument they had supported, had given very opposite opinions of the collective character of the members of the House ; when they were considering them solely devising the ways and means necessary to supply the deficiency of the revenue, they gave them all the qualities of profound financiers. But when they were to consider the reports of the Secretary they became at once transformed into resistless dupes, incapable of manly investigation and quietly sailing down the stream of ministerial influence. Did gentlemen feel, he asked, in the latter instance the want of that independence of spirit which is necessary to enable them to investigate and decide for themselves ? If so they would want much of that greatness of character which would enable them in the former case to act for the public benefit.
He observed that it appeared by what gentlemen had said during the course of the debate that members were not to be absolutely restricted from receiving every species of information on this interesting subject, from the man who
was constitutionally selected, as the best qualified to give it, and amply paid by the public to devote all his time and talents to understand and communicate respecting it. It was however curious to observe the narrow limits within which that information was to be restricted, and the incomprehensible mode by which it was to be obtained.
The gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Madison) who had heretofore approved the references which he had mentioned to the Attorney-General and the Secretary of State ; and who had given efficient aid in making it by law the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to report plans for the management and improvement of the revenue, had on this occasion taken some pains to shew the consistency of his political conduct, by attempting to prove that management and improvement implied neither project nor appropriation. This gentleman had given in detail the several proceedings which ought to take place to obtain on one hand the benefit of the knowledge of the Secretary, and to maintain on the other the independence of the House. Thus according to his plan was the business to be pursued. The House was in the first place to call on the Secretary for a state of facts ; it was then to resolve itself into a committee of the whole to form opinions—these opinions were then to be referred to the Secretary, for him to report, respecting them, a systematic arrangement. Let this scheme, so far as it is intelligible, be examined. First the House is to obtain from the Secretary a state of facts ; The House had been left to conjecture to what subjects those facts were to relate—we already knew the deficiency to be provided for—the subjects of revenue—such as were pre-occupied, and such as still remained untouched—we also knew how far those which had been occupied were productive. These facts were already known ; we must not receive any opinions or argumentative deductions respecting them ; this would go in destruction of the independence and purity of the House, and some gentlemen seemed to suppose to the subversion of liberty. The facts, whatever they might be were to be referred to a committee of the whole, who as financiers were to form opinions respecting them—and those opinions were to be sent to the Secretary for a systematic arrangement, and this systematic arrangement was to be made without suggesting any opinion. How this was to be done the gentlemen had not been pleased to declare ; we only know that no opinions were to be recommended to the adoption of the House. This was the dreadful enemy to our independence and freedom that was to be avoided with the utmost caution. He himself had hitherto supposed that a systematic arrangement for the execution of a complicated and intricate subject could not be made without suggesting many opinions. That he believed this singular and as yet inexplicable scheme of forming systematic arrangements without opinions would be as curious as it would be new in practice.
He said no gentleman could doubt but that the plans of the minister would find their way into the House, if regularly introduced as they had hitherto been ; the officer whoever he might be, would be responsible at least in reputation to America and to the world, which alone would form the strongest motives to industry and integrity, in the various plans he should recommend. That it appeared to him that gentlemen who so strenuously opposed the present motion, would, if they should succeed in their wishes, destroy most of the benefits intended by the institution of the office of Secretary of the Treasury, and wholly screen the officer from every species of responsibility.
Mr. Goodhue supported the reference—he generally remarked that in his opinion the most eligible mode to be adopted for raising the supplies on the present occasion would be by way of loan. He then entered into a consideration of the various objects which ought to be within the knowledge of every man who pretends to manage the finances of a country—here he said that he did not think it any derogation from the character of any member of the House to suppose that they were less competent to a thorough investigation of fiscal arrangements than an individual who had made the subject the particular object of his study and attention ; the mischievous consequences of committing these arrangements to numbers had been severely felt in some of the States—in the present case the House does not however commit its judgment—it is at liberty to approve or reject—and the measure in fact is only taking the best means to get the best information. (To be continued.)
TUESDAY, APRIL 3.
Ayes and noes on the motion to amend the resolution for a further assumption of the state debts, by adding "whether discharged by said states respectively since the peace, or undischarged."
A Y E S.
Messrs. Ashe, Baldwin, Brown, Findley, Gils, Gregg, Jacobs, Key, Kitchell, Livermore, Mal-

son, Macon, Mercer, Moore, Niles, Parker, Seney, Sheredine, J. Smith, Sturges, Venable, Willis.—22.
N O E S.
Messrs. Ames, Barnwell, Benson, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Fitzsimons, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Gordon, Grove, Hartley, Huger, Key, Lawrance, Learned, Macon, Muhlenburg, Sedgwick, W. Smith, Steele, Sylvester, Thatcher, Tucker, Wadsworth, Ward, White.—30.
Ayes and noes on the resolution for assuming the residue of the state debts, which had been agreed to in the committee of the whole—33 to 25.
A Y E S.
Messrs. Ames, Barnwell, Benson, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Fitzsimons, Gerry, Goodhue, Gordon, Grove, Hartley, Huger, Key, Lawrance, Learned, Macon, Muhlenburg, Sedgwick, W. Smith, Steele, Sylvester, Thatcher, Tucker, Wadsworth, Ward.—26.
N O E S.
Messrs. Ashe, Baldwin, Brown, Clark, Findley, Giles, Gilman, Gregg, Heister, Hillhouse, Jacobs, Kitchell, Kittera, Lee, Livermore, Mason, Mercer, Moore, Murray, Niles, Page, Parker, Seney, Sheredine, J. Smith, Sturges, Venable, White, Willis.—29.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4.
Mr. Muhlenburg presented a memorial from sundry merchants of Philadelphia, importers of Ironmongery and Hardware, petitioning against an encrease in the duties on those articles.
The House resumed the consideration of the resolutions reported by the committee of the whole on the public debt.
The sixth resolution was rejected.
The 7th, 8th and 9th, were agreed to.
A committee was appointed to bring in a bill conformable to the said resolutions.
Mr. Key laid on the table the following resolution:
“That the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Attorney-General of the United States, be appointed a board of commissioners, with authority to sell any part of the lands, the property of the United States, not specially appropriated, lying between the Great Miami the Wabash and Ohio rivers.”
Mr. Sedgwick moved the following resolution:
“That the committee, to whom are referred the resolutions of the House on the subject of the public debt, be instructed to report a provision for a loan of the remaining debts of the individual states.”
This motion being declared to be out of order, an appeal was made from the chair; but the House confirmed the decision of the chair, by a large majority.
A message from the Senate, was delivered by Mr. Secretary Otis, notifying that they had passed (with amendments) the bill for ascertaining the boundaries of a tract of land purchased by J. C. Symmes.
Mr. Fitzsimons, of the committee of enquiry, moved the following resolution:
“That the President of the United States be requested to cause the proper officers to lay before the House such papers of a public nature in the executive department, as may be necessary to the investigation of the causes of the failure of the late expedition under Major Gen. St. Clair.”
The resolution being agreed to, a committee was appointed to wait on the President therewith. The committee having performed this duty, reported the President's answer, viz. “That the order of the House should be immediately complied with.”
The report of the committee of the whole, on the petition of Catharine Greene, was taken up, and agreed to—yeas 29, nays 26.
A message from the Senate was delivered by Mr. Secretary Otis, with a bill which they had passed for the relief of persons imprisoned for debt. [By this bill, debtors, confined under the authority of the United States, are to be on the same footing, with respect to the liberty of the yard, &c. as those confined under state authority.] The bill received a first reading.
Mr. Seney, from the committee on the motion relative to a certain claim of the state of Maryland, reported a resolution, which was read a first time, directing the proper officer of the Treasury to adjust and settle the said claim.
In committee of the whole—(Mr. B. Bourne in the chair)—on the bill to indemnify the Trustees of Wilmington Academy. The bill was reported without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. Boudinot, from the select committee, to whom was referred “a bill (sent from the Senate) for regulating processes in the Courts of the United States,” reported several amendments to said bill, which were read and ordered to be printed.
Adjourned.
THURSDAY, APRIL 5.
The bill for the relief of the Trustees of Wilmington Academy, &c. was read the third time and passed.
A bill for the relief of persons confined for debt, received from the Senate, was read the second time, and referred to a committee of the whole.
A bill for the indemnification of the estate of the late Major-General Greene, reported by Mr. Livermore, was read the first time.
The report of the Secretary of War, on the petition of Col. A. W. White, was read, and taken into consideration—and a committee appointed to report a bill or bills pursuant thereto, if they think proper, consisting of Messrs. Boudinot, Moore, and Sumpner.
In committee of the whole, on the bill to grant a tract or tracts of land to the Ohio Company of Associates—Mr. Muhlenburg in the chair.—A motion for an amendment, by striking out the last section which has a blank for the price, in order to introduce a substitute, providing that the price shall not be greater than shall be by law established for other lands in the Western-Territory, being negatived—the committee rose and reported the bill with one small amendment—The House made further amendments—and then the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
In committee of the whole on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the ways and means for raising the additional supplies necessary for the exigencies of the present year.—Mr. B. Bourne in the Chair.
The committee discussed the report and agreed to sundry amendments—they then rose and reported progress.
The following message was received from the President of the United States by Mr. Secretary Lear:
Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, I have maturely considered the act passed by the two Houses, entitled an act for an apportionment of representatives among the several states, according to the first enumeration—and I return it to your House, wherein it originated, with the following objections:
First, The Constitution has prescribed that representatives shall be apportioned among the several states, according to their respective numbers; and there is no proportion or divisor which applied to the representative numbers of the states, will yield the number and allotment of representatives of the bill.
Second, The Constitution has also provided, that the number of representatives shall not exceed one for every 30,000, which restriction is, by the context and by fair and obvious construction, to be applied to the separate and respective numbers of the states; and the bill has allotted to eight of the states more than one for 30,000.
The message being read, on motion of Mr. W. Smith, it was voted that the objections be entered at large on the Journals of the House, and that to-morrow be assigned to take the same into consideration.
A message from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed the House that the Senate have passed a resolution for Congress to adjourn on the 17th instant, and request the concurrence of the House.
A report of the Secretary of the Treasury, pursuant to the orders of the House, on the enquiry whether any and what additional allowance shall be made to the officers of the revenue? was read—and 100 copies ordered to be printed.
The resolution of the Senate, respecting the adjournment, was read, and laid on the table.
In committee of the whole on the bill for fixing the compensations of the Doorkeepers of the two Houses. The committee agreed to sundry amendments, which, being reported to the House, were adopted—and on motion, the bill was read the third time and passed. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6.
A bill authorizing the grant and conveyance of certain lands to the Ohio Company of Associates, was read the third time, and passed.
The bill to indemnify the estate of the late Maj. Gen. Greene, was read the second time, and referred to the committee of the whole.
A bill supplementary to the act making provision for the debt of the United States, was read the first and second time, and made the order of the day for Tuesday next—100 copies to be printed.
The message of the President of the United States received yesterday, was taken into consideration. The Presidents' objections to the Representation bill—also the bill and the clause in the constitution referring to bills in this situation, were severally read by the Clerk.
The bill was presented to the President of the United States the 26th March, and returned the 5th April.—The question proposed by the Speaker was in the following words:
Will the House, on reconsideration, agree to pass the bill?—The ayes and noes being called, the question passed in the negative—ayes 28, nays 33. A message was sent to inform the Senate of this decision.
Mr. W. Smith laid on the table the following resolution—That a committee be appointed to prepare and bring in a bill providing for the apportionment of representatives by a ratio of 33,000 on the number of inhabitants in the several states respectively, agreeable to the principles of the constitution.
Mr. Parker laid on the table a resolution, for a committee to be appointed to report a bill on a ratio of one representative to every 30,000 persons in the states respectively.
Mr. Muhlenburg moved a resolution on this subject, leaving the ratio blank.
A message from the Senate, informed the House that they have passed a bill supplementary to the act providing for the establishment and maintenance of beacons, buoys, and public piers.
Another message from the Senate, informed the House that they have agreed to all the amendments proposed by the House to the
bill fixing the compensation of the door-keepers, except the last, to which they do not agree.
In committee of the whole, on the subject of Woya and Means—Mr. B. Bourne in the chair.
The committee made further progress in the discussion—but rose without completing the business—And the House adjourned.
Philadelphia, April 7.
By the ship Washington, Captain Davis from Dublin, European accounts are received to the 20th February.
The Belgic Provinces are in a state of great fermentation—and by a notification to M. de la Graviere, French resident at Brussels, it appears that the Governors General of the low countries, consider that these discontentments are fomented by certain societies in France. The flame of liberty is said to rage among the imperial troops. The Jews resident in Warsaw, capital of Poland, are to pay annually for 20 years 5 millions florins in lieu of any impost whatever.
Orders are said to be issued at Vienna for forming an army of 50,000 men on the frontiers of the Empire—The Prince of Nassau is to take the command of the troops against France.
The emigrant Princes have published a manifesto in which they say the Court of Berlin has declared its intentions to assist in restoring the ancient constitution of France. The account of the burning of Brussels, appears to be premature. Proclamation is issued by the French King for recruiting the army. The police of Petersburg (capital of Russia) has forbid any conversation on the subject of the French Revolution. M. de Biron, known in America by the title of Duke de Lauzun is arrested in London and thrown into a spunging house for a debt of £416 16. Spain has not yet made any reparation to the English merchants for their captures at Nootka Sound. Spanish troops are in motion towards the frontiers of France—In Spain the affairs of France are considered as the cause of religion, of Kings and of nations. The diet of Ratisbon assembled the 9th January—They have unanimously agreed to an address of thanks to the Emperor for the energy of his negotiations with France. The prevalent opinion however is that Leopold seeing the critical state of his own dominions will agree to the demands made by the National Assembly of France.
A cotton mill in the vicinity of Sheffield has lately been burnt, the loss is estimated at 45,000. sterling.—The Pantheon in London was also burnt in January, it cost 76,000. Upwards of 25 thousand families it is conjectured have given up the use of sugar and rum in England, in order to promote the abolition of the slave trade. A house in Geneva has failed for near a million sterling—it is said they had loaned large sums to the emigrant Princes. General O'Hara is appointed Lieutenant Governor of Gibraltar, in the room of Sir Henry Calder, deceased.
The Duke de Richelieu, is gone to Peterburgh, to negotiate in favor of the Princes.
The following were the prices of American stock in London, the beginning of January:—6 per cents, 23/ 3 per cents, 13/ Deferred, 14/
Died in London the 7th February, Sir John Eardley Wilmot, late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.
M. de Seguir, of the late Parliament of Paris, is dead; so is M. de Cice, the late Bishop of Bourdeaux.
The Statue of Dr. FRANKLIN, intended to ornament the principal front of the new Library Hall in Fifth street, is arrived from Italy, via New-York.
This elegant piece of sculpture is executed in the finest white marble, and is the donation of WILLIAM BINGHAM, Esq. of this city, to the Library Company.
A bill has been read in the House of Representatives of this State, to appropriate £300 for the use of the Indians now in this city. A bill authorizing the State Treasurer to subscribe, in the name of this Commonwealth, to the loan proposed by the United States, has passed both Houses.
The House of Representatives of the State of New-York, have agreed, in committee of the whole, to appropriate the sum of sixteen thousand pounds for building bridges, repairing roads, &c.
Petitions are coming in to Congress from the Merchants, in various places, against an encrease in the Duties of Import.
Some letters from Ireland, of a late date, say, that great apprehensions are there entertained of a commotion, in consequence of the measures pursuing by the Catholics to obtain redress of their grievances.
Lieutenant TURNER, who was captured by the Indians in the late engagement under Gen. ST. CLAIR, is, we hear, arrived in town. Being closely pursued in the engagement by two Indians, and seeing death inevitable if he attempted further to fly or to resist, he turned about and offered his hand. The Indians not only spared his life, but protected it from the vindictive madness of their companions. After the engagement, they thought of conveying him to the scene where the savages were revelling over their spoils; but first, one of them took the precaution of paying a visit to the camp to the victors, and seeing them much intoxicated, took him to the tents of their particular tribe. Thence he was sent to Detroit, where a private English Gentleman paid his ransom, released him, and took his note for the amount.
SHIP NEWS.
   ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.     Barque Neptune, Earl, East-Indies,   Ship Active, Blair, St. Andros,   Brig Kitty, Moore, Lille,   Schooner Harriot, Smith, N. Carolina,   Two Friends, Baker, Georgia,   Sloop Alexander, Monroe, Virginia,  
Price of Stocks as in our last.

Bank of the United States.
MARCH 21, 1792.
RESOLVED, That the Stockholders be, and hereby are, authorised to compleat their Shares by payment at any time before the periods required by the law of incorporation.
Resolved, That each Share so compleated, shall be entitled to draw a dividend of the profits of the Bank, from and after the first day of the month next succeeding the day of compleating such Shares.
Resolved, That so much of the quarter's interest upon the Public Debt transferred to compleat any Share as aforesaid, as shall have accrued before the first day of the month next succeeding the completion of such Share, shall be received by the Bank, and paid to the persons who shall have transferred the same.
By order of the President and Directors, (epistf) JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
AT A MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE BANK OF THE UNITED STATES, MARCH 30, 1792.
RESOLVED, That the Offices of Discount and Deposit be authorised to receive of Stockholders the 3d and 4th Specie Payments on their Shares in the Capital Stock of the Bank, and that the Cashiers of the said offices give duplicate receipts for such payments, one of which receipts, accompanied with evidence of a transfer of public debt sufficient to complete said shares, upon being produced at the Bank, shall entitle such Stockholders to certificates for full shares, and to all the benefits of the Resolutions of the Board of Directors passed the 21st instant, relative to completing shares by payment at any time before the periods required by the law of incorporation.
By order of the President and Directors. JOHN KEAN, Cashier.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, MARCH 31, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, That the interest for the quarter, ending this day, on the FUNDED DEBT of the United States, standing on the books of the Treasury, and of the Commissioner of Loans for this State, will be paid at the Bank of the United States. (ep.11)
JONES & BURROUGHS, STOCK-BROKERS, STATE-STREET, BOSTON,
BUY and sell every kind of the Stocks of the United States, on Commission, by Private Contract, and Public Auction. Those gentlemen who may be pleased to favor them with their commands, may rely on fidelity, secrecy and dispatch. Boston, March, 1792. (1aw2m)
PUBLIC SECURITIES,
BOUGHT and SOLD, on COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON, Chestnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97.
IMPERIAL HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA TEAS, REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, & SPICES, &c. &c.
Of the first quality—by retail, No. 19, Third-Street, between Chestnut and Market-Streets.
STOLEN,
WITHIN a few days last past, from the Subscriber, the following NOTES, issued by the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:—No. 18721, Dec. 1, 1783, £. 72 15, payable to PHINEAS LYMAN; No. 18379, Nov. 1, 1783, £. 36 4, payable to WILLIAM LYON; No. 1301, Dec. 1, 1781, £. 80 9, payable to NATHANIEL WRIGHT; No. 16239, Aug. 1, 1783, £. 28 16—No. 71, Oct. 1, 1781, £. 48 1, payable to Doctor SAMUEL WARE.
Whoever will apprehend and secure the Thief or Thieves, so that he or they may be brought to justice, shall receive a reward of TWENTY DOLLARS; and whoever will produce the above Notes, and return them to the Subscriber, shall receive a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, and all necessary charges.
Precaution having been taken to prevent their ever being paid to the Thief or Thieves by the Treasurer abovementioned: All persons therefore are cautioned not to purchase the above Notes, or any one offering them for sale.
Northampton, Feb. 29, 1792. 4t NATH. WRIGHT.
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of COLUMBIA.
A PREMIUM
OF a LOT in this City, to be designated by impartial judges, and FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS; or a MEDAL of that value, at the option of the party; will be given by the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings, to the person who, before the fifteenth day of July, 1792, shall produce to them the most approved PLAN, if adopted by them, for a CAPITOL, to be erected in this City; and TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, or a MEDAL, for the Plan deemed next in merit to the one they shall adopt. The building to be of brick, and to contain the following apartments, to wit:
 A Conference Room } sufficient to accommodate 300 persons each. } these rooms to be of full elevation.  A Room for the Representatives }  A Lobby or Antichamber to the latter }  A Senate Room of 1200 square feet area }  An Antichamber or Lobby to the latter }  12 Rooms of 600 square feet area each, for Committee Rooms and Clerks' Offices, to be of half the elevation of the former. 
Drawings will be expected of the ground plans, elevations of each front, and sections through the building in such directions as may be necessary to explain the internal structure; and an estimate of the cubic feet of brick-work composing the whole mass of the walls.
March 14, 1792. tf THE COMMISSIONERS.
WASHINGTON, in the Territory of COLUMBIA.
A PREMIUM
OF FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS, or a MEDAL of that value, at the option of the party, will be given by the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings, to the person who, before the fifteenth day of July next, shall produce to them the most approved PLAN, if adopted by them, for a PRESIDENT'S HOUSE, to be erected in this City. The site of the building, if the artist will attend to it, will of course influence the aspect and outline of his plan; and its destination will point out to him the number, size, and distribution of the apartments. It will be a recommendation of any plan, if the central part of it may be detached and erected for the present, with the appearance of a complete whole, and be capable of admitting the additional parts, in future, if they shall be wanting. Drawings will be expected of the ground plans, elevations of each front, and sections through the building, in such directions as may be necessary to explain the internal structure; and an estimate of the cubic feet of brick-work composing the whole mass of the walls.
March 14, 1792. tf THE COMMISSIONERS.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND TO BE SOLD BY THOMAS DOBSON, Bookseller, At the Stone House in Second-Street, The First Volume of HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS:
Consisting of STATE PAPERS, and other authentic documents, intended as materials for an History of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, BY EBENEZER HAZARD, A. M.
Member of the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge; and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The design of this compilation being to preserve and exhibit a regular series of the most important and authentic documents relating to the history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time, it must be peculiarly interesting to all who wish to acquire a thorough knowledge of this subject.
April 4. (ep.1m)
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, (PRICE 6/6.)
By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118, Market-Street, near Fourth-Street,
The LADIES' LIBRARY;
CONTAINING,
 1. Miss More's Essays  2. Gregory's Legacy  3. Lady Pennington's Advice  4. Marchioness of Lambert's Advice  5. Swift's Letter to a new married Lady  6. Miss Chapone on command of Temper  7. More's Fables for the Ladies 
THE editor of this publication hopes, from the established reputation of the several tracts of which it is composed, that it will be found a more complete system for the instruction of the female world, than perhaps any other extant.
A volume, under the present title, was lately published in England and Ireland, and had a most rapid sale, having been purchased by almost every lady of taste in those kingdoms. To this volume the editor has added Miss More's Essays—Mrs. Chapone's letters on the government of the temper—and Swift's letter to a young lady newly married. These have considerably enhanced its value, and he doubts not, the ladies on this side of the Atlantic will be as generous in their encouragement of a work intended for their advantage as those in England and Ireland have been.
SETS OF THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
AS several gentlemen in different parts of the United States, have been heretofore disappointed in their applications for complete sets of the AMERICAN MUSEUM, the printer informs the public, that he is engaged in reprinting the deficient numbers of the work, and has now and will henceforward have a constant supply of sets on hand;—such gentlemen, therefore, as please, may be furnished with sets neatly bound, in ten volumes, at sixteen dollars.
This work will be found to contain at least as great a variety of political, agricultural, and miscellaneous essays, as any ever published in America.
Said CAREY has lately published,
 1. Beauties of Poetry, British and American, 6s.  2. Beattie's Elements of Moral Science, 5s. 7½.  3. M'Fingal, an epic poem, 2/9½.  4. Blair's Sermons, complete in 2 vols. 15s.  5. Necker's Treatise on Religious Opinions, 6s.  6. Examination of Sheffield's Observations, 4/8  7. American Constitutions, 4/8  8. Doway Bible—neat, 6 dolls.—elegant, 50/2  9. Vade Mecum, 1/10½  10. Charles Grandison, abridged, 1/3  11. Humphrey's Poems, bound 2/6, in blue paper 1/10½  12. American Jett Book, in two parts, bound, 4/6  13. Select Poems, 1/3  14. Think well on't, 1/10½  15. The Christian Economy, 1/10½ 
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To be SOLD peremptorily, at PUBLIC VENUE, on Wednesday the 11th day of April next.
THE SEAT of the late Doctor Lewis Johnston, deceased, in Perth-Amboy, containing TWO HUNDRED ACRES of LAND.
This place is bounded southerly for near a mile on the river Raritan, where it empties into the bay about 18 miles from Sandy-Hook, and affords two most agreeable situations for Gentlemen's Seats. There are now on it, two brick houses, with gardens, and a good collection of fruit trees of the best kinds. The land is very fertile, and a great part of it very good meadow; and from its situation on the river, has the advantage of fish of different kinds, in their seasons, particularly of oysters and chicken clams, which may be picked in great plenty on the flats before the doors. It is a delightful, healthy situation, capable of genteel and tasteful improvements; and as Perth-Amboy is one of the best sea-ports in the United States, and within 18 miles of the sea, the prospect of its increasing in value from that circumstance, is by no means inconceivable.
There will also be sold, other Lots, within the bounds of the city, and about Five Hundred Acres of Land on the opposite side of the river Raritan—part of which is improved by a farm—on which there is a framed dwelling-house and barn, with an orchard of grafted apple trees, and will contain about one hundred and fifty acres; the remainder will be sold in convenient lots, well wooded and timbered, and very convenient for supplying New-York and other markets with fire-wood, timber for ship building, and other uses, the transportation by water being easy and safe. The conditions will be made known at the day of sale, and the requisite conveyances made by
JAMES PARKER and } BOWES REED, } Trustees to the said Estate.
Likewise to be SOLD, at the same time and place, ELEVEN ACRES of LAND, adjoining the above, the property of the Proprietors of East New-Jersey, whereon the proprietary house lately stood. The elegant situation of this spot is hardly to be equalled; it affords a grand prospect of Raritan Bay, and of the Bay formed by the waters of Raritan and Hudson's rivers, where they disembogue into the sea to the East—and a most delightful one of the serpentine course of the Raritan river, for several miles, through a rich tract of meadow to the West. The great quantity of stone neatly dressed, and brick, the remains of the house lately burned, will be nearly sufficient for a new building; and a large stone cistern, and well of excellent water, with a very convenient stable and coach-house, will greatly lessen the expence of putting the place in order for the residence of a Gentleman.—There are few situations so eligible, particularly in the summer season—when the cool sea breezes, and the elevated situation, render them places of pleasing retreat, from the confinement and sultry air of the southern states and neighbouring cities. Perth-Amboy, Feb. 15, 1792. (ep6w)
INFORMATION.
A NEGRO MAN by the name of CATO VERNON, born in Newport (Rhode-Island) enlisted in Col. Greene's Regiment of Blacks, early in the late War. He survived the War, and settled, as supposed, in or near Philadelphia.—If he will apply to the Editor hereof, he will be informed of something considerably to his advantage. April 4. (cp.4t)
Disimal Swamp Canal Company.
PROPOSALS for cutting a Canal from the waters of Elizabeth River in Virginia, to those of Pasquotank in North-Carolina, or for conducting the work, will be received until the ninth day of April next, by Robert Andrews, of Williamsburg; Thomas Newton, jun. and Daniel Bedinger, of Norfolk, in Virginia; by John Cowper, of Gates County; and Benjamin Jones, of Camden County, in North-Carolina. The length of the Canal will be about sixteen miles; the country through which it will pass, is swampy, free from stones, and covered with heavy wood. The Canal is to be thirty-two feet in width, and eight feet at least in depth, below the surface of the earth, and capable of being navigated in dry seasons, by vessels drawing three feet water.
Good security will be required of contractors; and persons making application to be employed as managers, must produce certificates (from characters of respectability) of their qualifications for a business of this kind.
By order of the President and Directors, WILLIAM A. BAYLEY, Clerk. Norfolk, January 21, 1792. (cp'9a)
FOR SALE, BLOOMSBURY,
THAT elegant SEAT at the Falls of Delaware, in the vicinity of Trenton, in New-Jersey, occupied for many years past by the subscriber; containing upwards of 200 acres of land, besides a tract of wood-land of about 185 acres, at the distance of two miles. The farm is divided by the main street leading from Trenton to Lambertville, and Philadelphia, into two parts, nearly equal in quantity; the eastwardly part being arable land, is laid off in convenient fields, and in good farming order. The other part, bounded by the said street on the east, and by the river on the west, forms a square; which, from the combined effect of situation and improvement, is generally allowed to be one of the most beautiful and desirable seats in the state. The mansion-house is a handsome, well-finished brick building, 50 by 40, containing four rooms on each floor, with excellent cellars, and a two story brick kitchen; and commanding a very extensive and pleasing view of the river, both above and below, as well as including the falls, and also of Trenton and the neighbouring seats and improvements on both sides of the river. Among the out-buildings are a new stone coach-house and stables, sufficient to contain six carriages and ten horses, accommodated with a cutting and feeding room, and a capacious loft for hay; adjoining these is a very complete granary, rat proof, and a stone cow-house, upwards of 100 feet in length, containing thirty-one paved stalls, over which is a roomy loft for hay, &c. Adjoining the court-yard of the mansion-house, is a garden of about two acres, extending towards the river, in the highest state of culture, and abounding with a rich collection of the choicest fruits of almost every kind, and several large asparagus beds, highly manured. At a convenient distance from the mansion-house, and nearly in the centre of the square, is a new, well-built, stone farm-house, accommodated with a large cheese-room, spring-house, garden, &c. a complete stone smoke-house, corncribs, waggon-house, a capacious ice-house, and every other necessary out-building. The ground is properly divided into small fields, all well watered, highly improved, and chiefly under the most approved grass. This square has produced annually, for several years past, upwards of sixty tons of the best hay, besides supporting through the summer season twenty to thirty horned cattle, and eight or ten horses. It contains also two bearing orchards of good fruit. The river abounds, in the proper season, with great plenty of all kinds of fish usually found in fresh water in this climate, and with a variety of wild-fowl; both of which may afford a pleasing amusement to the sportsman, as well as a convenient addition to the elegance and variety of his table. The whole of the land, except the wood-land, is inclosed and divided by good fences, great part of which is formed of red cedar posts, and rails of chestnut and white cedar. The purchaser may have the improved square separately, or the whole together, as may best suit him. There is an inexhaustible quantity of good building stone on the river shore. The purchase money, if well secured, and the interest punctually paid, will not be demanded for many years.
Any person desirous of viewing the premises, may be gratified on application to SAMUEL W. STOCKTON, Esq. of Trenton, or Mr. INALLMAN, who at present occupies the farm-house and part of the land—and may know the price on application to the subscriber, at No. 213, South Second-street, opposite to the New-Market, in Philadelphia. JOHN COX. Philadelphia, March 7, 1792. (ep11)
A LOTTERY,
TO raise the sum of £. 750 for the purpose of repairing the Protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New-Brunswick, agreeable to an act of the Legislature of the State of New-Jersey, passed November 1791.
S C H E M E.
  1 Prize of 2000 Dollars is 2000   1 1000 1000   2 500 1000   5 200 1000   10 100 1000   30 50 1500   90 20 1800   1675 4 6700   1814 Prizes. 16000   3520 Blanks. 
5334 Tickets, at 3 Dollars each, is 16002 Dolls.
This Lottery is composed of 5334 Tickets, not two Blanks to one Prize, and subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. which is more favorable to adventurers than any Lottery yet offered to the public—and it being of such evident utility, that it cannot be doubted but the undertaking will meet with the most liberal support.
The drawing will commence on the second Monday in April, or sooner if the Tickets are disposed of, in the city of New-Brunswick, under the inspection of Col. John Bayard, President of said city; James Parker, Esq. Mayor of the city of Amboy; and Archibald Mercer, Esq. Deputy Governor of the Manufacturing Society of New-Jersey.
Tickets to be had of the following persons, who are duly appointed Managers, are under oath, and have given security for the faithful performance of their duty.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid immediately after the drawing of the Lottery.
JAMES PARKER, } Managers. PETER KEENON, ANTHONY W. WHITE, }
N. B. Those prizes which are not demanded within six months after the drawing of the Lottery, will be considered as a generous donation to the Church.
Adventurers in the above Lottery have a chance of more than 3 per cent. per month for their money. To accommodate all those who may be disposed to purchase Tickets, letters directed to P. KEENON, Manager, and Post-Master, at New-Brunswick, and enclosing good bills will be attended to—and Tickets forwarded on receipt of such letters. New-Brunswick, January 20, 1792. [ep 3m]
Blank Powers to receive the Interest, and for the transfer of the principal of public debt, agreeable to the Rules established in the Treasury Department: Also Blanks for abstracts of Certificates, to be filled by the Editor.