Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1793-04-17 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 34, NORTH FIFTH STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 92 of Vol. IV.]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1793.
[Whole No. 414.]
LAWS OF THE UNION.
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES, AT THE SECOND SESSION, Begun and held at the City of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the fifth of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two.
AN ACT to regulate the claims to invalid pensions.
WHEREAS the act passed at the last Session of Congress, intitled, "An Act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to invalid pensions," is found by experience inadequate to prevent the admission of improper claims to invalid pensions, and not to contain a sufficient facility for the allowance of such as may be well founded: THEREFORE
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the second, third and fourth sections of the said Act, be repealed, and that in future, all claims to such pensions shall be regulated in the manner following, to wit:
First, All evidence relative to invalids shall be taken upon oath or affirmation, before the Judge of the district in which such invalids reside, or before any three persons specially authorized by commission from the said Judge.
Secondly, The evidence relative to any claimant must prove a permanent disability to have been the effect of known wounds, received while in the actual line of his duty, in the service of the United States, during the late war. That this evidence must be the affidavits of the commanding officer or surgeon of the ship, regiment, corps, or company, in which such claimant served, or two other credible witnesses, to the same effect, setting forth the time, and place of such known wound.
Thirdly, Every claimant shall be examined upon oath or affirmation, by two physicians or surgeons, to be authorized by commission from the said Judge, who shall report, in writing, their opinion, upon oath or affirmation, of the nature of the said disability, and, in what degree, it prevents the claimant from obtaining his livelihood, by labor.
Fourthly, Every claimant shall produce evidence of the time of his leaving the service of the United States. He must also produce evidence of three reputable freeholders of the City, Town or County, in which he usually resided, for the two years immediately after he left the service, as aforesaid, of the existence of his disability, during that period; and ascertaining, of their own knowledge, the mode of life, employment, labor or means of support of the claimant.
Fifthly, And the said claimant must produce the evidence of two credible witnesses, of the continuance of his disability, from the expiration of the said two years, to the time of his application.
Sixthly, Each claimant must show a good and sufficient cause why he did not apply for a pension to the person or persons authorized to examine his claims, on or before the eleventh of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, the time limited for applications of this nature.
Seventhly, No evidence of any claimant shall be admitted whose claim has been examined and rejected, on or before the aforesaid eleventh of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight.
And be it further enacted, That the Judge of the district shall transmit a list of such claims, accompanied by the evidence herein directed, to the Secretary for the Department of War, in order that the same may be compared with the Muster-rolls, and other documents in his office; and the said Secretary shall make a statement of the cases of the said claimants to Congress, with such circumstances and remarks, as may be necessary, in order to enable them to take such order therein, as they may judge proper.
And be it further enacted, That no person not on the pension list, before the twenty-third day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, shall be entitled to a pension, who shall not have complied with the rules and regulations herein prescribed; saving however to all persons, all and singular their rights founded upon legal adjudications under the act intitled "An act to provide for the settlement of the claims of widows and orphans, barred by the limitations heretofore established, and to regulate the claims to in-
valid pensions." But it shall be the duty of the Secretary at war, in conjunction with the Attorney-General, to take such measures as may be necessary to obtain an adjudication of the Supreme Court of the United States, on the validity of any such rights claimed under the act aforesaid, by the determination of certain persons styling themselves commissioners.
And be it further enacted, That no claim to a pension shall be allowed under this act, which shall not be presented within two years from the passing of the same.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, FEBRUARY 28, 1793. GEO. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
AN ACT providing compensation to the President and Vice President of the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the third day of March in the present year, the compensation of the President of the United States shall be at the rate of twenty-five thousand dollars per annum, with the use of the furniture and other effects belonging to the United States, and now in possession of the President: And that of the Vice-President, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum, in full for their respective services, to be paid quarter-yearly, at the Treasury.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, FEBRUARY 18, 1793. GEO. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
An ACT respecting Fugitives from Justice, and persons escaping from the Service of their Masters.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That whenever the executive authority of any State in the Union, or of either of the territories north-west or south of the River Ohio, shall demand any person as a fugitive from justice, of the executive authority of any such State or territory to which such person shall have fled, and shall moreover produce the copy of an indictment found, or an affidavit made before a magistrate of any State or territory as aforesaid, charging the person so demanded, with having committed treason, felony or other crime, certified as authentic by the governor or chief magistrate of the State or territory from whence the person so charged, fled, it shall be the duty of the executive authority of the State or territory to which such person shall have fled, to cause him or her to be arrested and secured, and notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear: But if no such agent shall appear within six months from the time of the arrest, the prisoner may be discharged. And all costs or expenses incurred in the apprehending, securing, and transmitting such fugitive to the State or territory making such demand, shall be paid by such State or territory.
And be it further enacted, That any agent, appointed as aforesaid, who shall receive the fugitive into his custody, shall be empowered to transport him or her to the State or territory from which he or she shall have fled. And if any person or persons shall by force set at liberty, or rescue the fugitive from such agent while transporting, as aforesaid, the person or persons so offending shall, on conviction, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding one year.
And be it also enacted, That when any person held to labor in any of the United States, or in either of the territories on the north-west or south of the river Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said States or territory, the person to whom such labor or service may be due, his agent or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing or being within the State, or before any magistrate of a county, city or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made, and upon proof to the satisfaction of such judge or magistrate, either by oral testimony or affidavit taken before and certified by a magistrate of any such State or territory, that the person so seized or arrested, doth, under the laws of the State or territory from which he or she fled, owe service or labor to the person claiming him or her, it shall be the duty of such judge or magistrate to give a certificate thereof to such claimant, his agent or
attorney, which shall be sufficient warrant for removing the said fugitive from labor, to the State or territory from which he or she fled.
And be it further enacted, That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimant, his agent or attorney when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared; or shall harbour or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labour, as aforesaid, shall, for either of the said offences, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.—Which penalty may be recovered by and for the benefit of such claimant, by action of debt, in any court proper to try the same; saving moreover to the person claiming such labour or service, his right of action for or on account of the said injuries or either of them.
JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. APPROVED, FEBRUARY 12, 1793. GEO. WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
FROM THE ORACLE OF DAUPHIN. PRINTED AT HARRISBURGH.
LOUIS, then, has at length ascended the scaffold!—told!—at length!—BEHEADED!—Cruel fate!—Humanity supposes the crown might have suffered—supposes that, strip of the trappings of royalty—deprived of regal power—Louis might, nay, ought to, have been permitted to live—a citizen of France. However perfect the republican system of France may be; however conducive to the establishment of universal liberty; it will be viewed with horror by posterity when found sealed with the blood of LOUIS XVI.—Inhumanity and insult do not, cannot, constitute republicanism; but behold Louis! hapless fellow-creature!—The vilest criminals are, in all countries, permitted to address the surrounding multitude, on the subject of their guilt or innocence, without interruption: but this, it seems, was too great indulgence for him. Unfortunate Louis!—The withholding that indulgence, however, with the contemptible manner in which it was withheld, was more degrading to his executioners, (not to say MURDERERS) than mortifying to him. Inflicting him in the moment of death, while yet his soul hovered over the verge of eternity, with the sound of drums and trumpets, was an instance of contempt never exhibited before; derogatory to the characters of French republicans; and which has fixed an indelible blot on the historic page of France! May such conduct never be imitated!
All this contempt and ignominy was imposed by the French on Louis—who was once a monarch beloved—the pride of Frenchmen—for aspiring to the dignity which he once possessed. Is it reasonable to suppose, that Louis was, by nature, a greater enemy to the freedom of mankind, than the members of the National Convention? Is it not the most eligible position, that under the influence of a similar education, and expectations, he would have ranked among the foremost patriots in France? But where is the man who, nursed in the lap of royalty, imbued with his first milk, the principles of hereditary right; and whose whole plan of education had been calculated to inspire him with a firm conviction of his inalienable right to sway the sceptre, would have acted otherwise? Such ideas instilled, I say, into his mind from his earliest infancy to maturity, not only by the most striking precepts, but by the example of his predecessor, whose authority, so far from being controuled, or even disputed, was sanctioned by the united approbation and encomiums of his subjects, must necessarily have prompt him to similar measures. Gratitude should rise in proportion to the benefit received; without advertting to the actuating cause: for, let that be what it may, the benefit is still the same. Then let us drop a tributary tear to the memory of a man, whose peculiar situation in life exposed him to sufferings, of which no other man was capable, and whose only crime (if he was guilty of a crime) was merely the effect of education. The real service he rendered us (when a King) in our struggles for freedom, every circumstance considered, was alone sufficient to counterbalance all the political errors of his life, and demands our warmest gratitude.
A FREEMAN.
FROM THE PITTSBURGH GAZETTE.
LOUIS CAPET HAS LOST HIS CAPUT.*
FROM my use of a pun, it may seem that I think lightly of his fate. I certainly do. It affects me no more than the execution of another malefactor. Less indeed, because knowing the commiseration which will ensue on the false principle of estimating highly the misfortunes of great personages, I feel a contempt of this distinction in favor of rank, and am disposed to commiserate less than in the case of some obscure and unpietied rogue that goes to the gallows, without a thought to survive him. Because few pity him, I will be one of those few: but in the case of Louis, because there are so many Kings, and Queens, and Aristocrats throughout the world, to make a mountain of the matter, I disdain to join with them, or feel pity at all.
That he was guilty, there can be no doubt. IT WAS SCARCELY IN HUMAN NATURE THAT HE SHOULD NOT BE GUILTY. Who ever parted with power when he could keep it? Some have parted with life—some with power—Voluntarily! Marcus, Brutus and Atticus, with life: Diocletian and Charles, with power: suicide in the one case, and resignation in the other. But give me an example of one acquiescing from the heart in an abdgment of power, and retaining the remainder. Pride and ambition will be nothing, rather than half what it was. A man that has been in the habit of dictating every thing but the power of thought to those of mankind around him, cannot have become such a philosopher, as to reduce his mind with his fate, and be satisfied with a restricted control. You may as well tame a grown up wolf, or a bear: To a certain extent Louis was sincere. He was willing, nay anxious, to procure for the people all the happiness he could give them under despotism: that is, a convention of the states, in order to choose their own ways and means of supplying him with money. But he had no idea of retrenching his prerogative. He was not sincere in the adopting the constitution. His oath was false; his councils insidious; his object subjugation by the silence of his brother kings. It was at stake whether he should succeed, and trucidate half a million of subjects? or whether his subjects should decapitate him. Had he succeeded, would his brother kings, and oligocrats, have felt commiseration at a recital of the trucidation of democrats? No: they would have snuffed the air that brought the account, as if fragrant with odiferous odours. Why then such a noise even with republicans about the death of Louis?
Washington, April 1, 1793.
* Caput is the Latin word for head.
FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE.
BRITISH habits, British affections, ideas, attachments, prejudices, and even resentments have vegetated rapidly in this country since the late war. No better evidence of this truth is wanting than the torrent of abuse daily poured forth from many of the American presses by the vile tools of British ministerialism and British king-worshippers against the republicans and patriots of France, and the cause, which America, at least, from her own recent sufferings, ought to espouse the cause of human nature.—If the enlightened citizens of America know how to venerate the French, and would not be considered in Europe and by every consistent character here as degenerate from the many principles of 1776, they will turn with abhorrence from the men, who by the aid of the press are endeavoring to prejudice the community against France, and to excite the sympathy of the public in favor of royalty, eternally extirpated as it is from this country, and from the hearts of all true Americans.
Foreign Intelligence.
FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION. FRIDAY, February 8.
Massacre of the Second of September.
A DEPUTATION from the society of Defenders of the sole and indivisible Republic (Jacobins) of Paris appeared at the Bar, after which one of them spoke as follows:
"We hoped that the death of the Tyrant would have put an end to all animosities; but you have ordered the minister of justice to prosecute the authors of the occurrences of the 2d and 3d of September. Order him also to prosecute the authors of the massacres in the Champ de Mars, and at Nanci; and those persons who signed the petition of the Feuillans: all of whom we have already pardoned.
"The 2d and 3d of September are not such as they have been represented.
"Did not the people know, that there were innumerable villains confined in the prisons by the counter-revolutionary tribunals; and that they intended to fortify themselves there, and procure the King's escape by means of a junction with the Chevaliers of the Poignard?
"The people punished the guilty, and set the innocent at liberty. After this they flew to the frontiers and conquered the enemy.
"Legislators! these excesses ought to be urged against those who provoked them; and you ought to recollect, that popular vengeance is but a supplement to the laws. We

therefore demand, that you repeal your former Decree."
Another deputation from the section of Marseilles made a similar request.
M. Lanjuinais affirmed, that upwards of 8000 persons had been assassinated from the 2d to the 9th of September, in different parts of the kingdom. [Here the Convention made a great clamor.]
M. Chabot said, that he had been accused of participating in the massacre of the 2d of September; but he had bathed the hands of many of the Marseillois with tears, and actually preserved several of the prisoners from the fury of the populace. He concluded by asserting, that instead of five or six assassins, there were no less than 10,000 men armed with muskets and bayonets, and that Manuel and Pétion were privy to the founding of the alarm bell.
After a short but tumultuous debate, in which one member termed the other Scelerat , the Convention decreed, that all proceedings should be stopped until the report was received from the minister of justice.
A letter was read from the commissary of the marine at Ville Franche, announcing that all the invalids and sailors had emigrated from that city, and taken up an asylum in the States of the King of Sardinia, that they might not be compelled to serve on board the ships of the Republic.
The commissioners at Liege write, that provisions for the army arrive from all quarters; that the persons dispatched to Ostend, have found in the town of Ghent, abundant ammunition, and a garrison of 3000 Belgians, and that order was upon the eve of being restored in all the other cities, in which there are yet no military hospitals, pay-masters, or magazines.
STOCKHOLM, January 18. On the 15th inst. a deputation waited on the Duke Regent, to assure his Royal Highness of the fidelity of the citizens of the capital. The deputies were most graciously received, and had the following assurances made them:
"That it was the intention of the Duke Regent to deliver the constitution established by the deceased monarch, as well as all the privileges and prerogatives attached to it, in all their integrity, to the king his nephew, on his coming of age." This declaration has occasioned here a general content. His Royal Highness has also revoked the form of the process relative to the regulation of ecclesiastical affairs, adopted by the Diet in 1789. Every thing, in short, is to be placed on the ancient footing.
W E S E L, (Ger.) Feb. 2. Proclamation by the Emperor.
"Convinced that our faithful subjects of the Netherlands will not be happy unless they enjoy the rights and privileges granted to them by our ancestors, and wishing to reign over them only as a tender father reigns over his family, we publicly declare that our intention is that they shall enjoy these rights and privileges in their full extent; and that we will exert all our strength to prevent the infringement of them, as well as to re-establish all things on the same footing as that on which they were under our great grandfather Charles VI. It is agreeable to our way of thinking, to act with kindness and clemency even towards the enemies of the Belgic provinces and others. For this reason we grant a general amnesty, and without exception, promising that every thing which has hitherto passed shall be buried in the most profound oblivion, and we desire that those who at present bear arms against their country, and who are comprehended under the name of Belgians, will peaceably return to their families, since they are not excepted from the present general amnesty. As some words liable to misconstruction may have slipped into this declaration, we promise to repair in person to the Netherlands, to deliberate jointly with the Three Estates united, on every thing that may remain
to be settled, in order to establish the repose and tranquility of those provinces, and to effect their happiness.
"Done at Vienna, this 26th of December, 1792. (Signed) "FRANCIS."
L O N D O N, Feb. 13. It appears that the French, doubtful, perhaps, of the pacific intentions of the British Cabinet, insured in London a great number of their expected ships. This was done when exchange stood at 18 or 20.
The Ottoman Porte has obliged M. Choiseul Gouffier to leave Constantinople, and avowed its intentions to recognize the new republic.
The sultan is now making preparations for war against Russia. The recovery of the Crimea is said to have lately become the object of his ambition; and in this project he is promised to be assisted with a French fleet.
The emperor is expected to repair in a few weeks to the army before Frankfort, in order to open the approaching campaign.
Pelletier was a man of considerable fortune—He was owner of two of the finest estates in France; St. Fargeau in Puisaye, and Mont Joye near Autun. Although he had a very superb house in Paris, he lived, according to the present system of self-denial in Paris, in a small apartment on the fourth floor—His father had been rigorous to his falls, and the son deemed himself bound to repair his errors. His wife was the daughter of Fleury—She brought him one daughter, living now, and died herself of a Milk Fever. Pelletier had four brothers by the second marriage of his father. Very conscientiously he refused to become a member of any of the clubs of Paris.
The Alvados, Hastel, from Mozambique, is arrived at the Isle of France, after having experienced a dangerous insurrection of her negroes, in which 50 of the wretched men were unavoidably put to the sword.
Methodists. —That this body of people are well affected to the present constitution, the following anecdote will sufficiently prove. At the last conference of their preachers, it was intimated that a Methodist had said or written something which was construed to be unfavorable to the existing government. Upon which the whole body of preachers to the number of 130, came unanimously to the following resolutions:
 1st. None of us shall, either in writing or conversation, speak slightly or irreverently of the government under which he lives.  2d. We are to observe, that the Oracles of God command us to be subject to the higher powers; and that honor to the king is there connected with the fear of God. 
The Methodists do not consider themselves as a separate body, and have therefore signed the addresses to his Majesty, in all the cities, towns and parishes through the kingdom where they reside.
Advertisement Extraordinary. Wanted a handsome fleet of French flat bottom boats, to have access from time to time on the Sussex and Essex coasts, to be landed occasionally—in the ministerial papers . N. B. A good price will be given.
The declaration of the King of Prussia is more adapted to the meridian of the 14th, than of the 18th century. To tell the Poles of Peace at the very moment that he is letting loose the dogs of war against them, is an insult to the Majesty of Human Nature. It is "treason to God's own image, rational and immortal man."
If we substitute the name of William Pitt for Lord North, we shall find that this is begun under exactly the same auspices as the American war. Hawkesbury, ci-devant Charles Jenkinson—Loughborough, Gower, now Stafford—Dundas—Jack Robinson, &c. &c. were all in play that time as now.
Frederic III. Grand Duke of Tuscany, has just acknowledged the French Republic, in a letter addressed to the executive council signed
by himself, and dated Florence, January 16, 1793.
LA FAYETTE. —The harsh and rigorous treatment which this unfortunate General has experienced during his captivity, has provoked universal conjecture, and indeed has been uniformly repudiated. A correspondent who has lately returned from the continent says, it is to be explained in the following manner:
It was always reported, and is now believed in France, that when the King and Queen attempted to make their escape, and were stopped at Varennes, it was with the knowledge and connivance of La Fayette.
It was afterwards understood that he as immediately repented of this connivance, and took effectual means to prevent the Royal Family from accomplishing their purpose.
It is certain that the Queen has always asserted and been convinced, that their disappointment and consequent detention, is to be imputed to La Fayette. Hence her resentment to him has been implacable.
This account, if not true, is certainly plausible; and if it be really understood by the Sovereigns of Prussia and Austria, that La Fayette did actually do what this representation implies, we can the less wonder that the treatment which he experiences is rigorous and severe.
No one fact has yet been proved that can criminate the unfortunate Queen of France!
It is difficult for us to conceive upon what pretence they can summon the suffering Antoniette to a trial—But why, when the mention of French trial is started, does any one think they need a plea for such sacrifices? Is not the vile Orleans among them?—There they are, "Let the Devil and the Duke alone to accuse 'em."
We understand the first step to be taken with respect to the Dauphin of France, will be to declare him illegitimate—Thus adding insult to injury, with that savage and callous spirit which is now become the characteristic of the French of Paris.
When Mr. Fox heard of the assassination of Louis XVI. he is said to have remarked that "France was bent upon provoking an unanimous war against herself, and of making it impossible even for her friends to serve her." Who the friends were thus alluded to, we do not hear, and cannot permit ourselves to conjecture—Nothing would be so irksome to us, as even by insinuation to "Wrong an honorable man."
Septeuil, the worthy treasurer of the civil list of the late Louis XVI. is at present at Southampton, deeply afflicted at the loss of a beloved master. This gentleman is, by his loyalty, kept from a personal property of 20,000l. per annum.
Brissot's opinion on the King's sentence.
"In the opinion I have already presented, I declared that Louis appeared guilty of the crime of high treason, and that he deserves death."
"I was, and am still convinced that the sentence of the Convention, be it what it may, must be pregnant with dreadful inconveniences."
"I was, and am still convinced, that the sentence of the Nation,* whatever it might have been, would have none of those inconveniences, or that if it involved any, their effects would have been guarded against by the energy of national omnipotence."
"The Convention has negatived the proposition for an appeal; and I say it with grief, the evil genius which dictated this decision, has prepared incalculable misfortunes for France."
"They are inevitable, whatever system is adopted by the Convention; for I see in a vote for confinement, the seeds of disturbances, a pretext for the factions, a pretext for calumnies which will be brought forward against the convention, who will be accused of pusillanimity, of corruption, &c. tending to destroy that confidence of the public in them, so necessary in the present critical circumstances."
"I see in the vote for death the
* Brissot was in favor of referring final judgment to the Primary Assemblies.
signal of a dreadful war, a war which will cost much blood and treasure to my country; and it is not lightly that I advance this opinion: not that France need dread tyrants and their satellites; but nations led astray by calumnies against the sentence of the convention, will unite with them: and for this reason I had been in favor of an appeal to the people, because by this mode of proceeding, tyrants would be obliged to respect the sentence of a great people; because that nations could not then be led astray by them; because, in case of an attack, the French people would be unanimous in their opposition to such a coalition.
"Convinced, that the sentence pronounced by the convention will be followed by misfortunes, I have long been searching for a mode of punishment, most consistent with justice, and most safe for the public interest; which would secure to the convention the respect of all parties; which would conciliate the esteem of nations; which would terrify tyrants and interfere with the intrigues and intentions of their cabinets, who all wish for the death of Louis, because they want to render their war popular; which would interfere with the plans of the pretenders to the crown; which would, finally, unite the nation to the sentence of the convention."
"All these desiderata I find in the sentence of death, with the amendment of Louvet; that is, a suspension of the execution, till after the ratification of the constitution by the people."
"From the above motives, I have preferred this sentence to that of imprisonment, though this last is supported by men whom I esteem—though supported by Thomas Paine, and the wishes of 4,000,000 of free Americans. This fact I can with confidence aver, because I am well acquainted with those estimable republicans. I prefer the sentence of death, with a suspension of the execution until the ratification of the constitution; because this suspension places your judgment under the safeguard of the nation, because it gives to your sentence a character of disinterestedness and magnanimity which I wish to see it clothed with; because, finally, it unites the whole nation to one sentence, the only means by which the nation will be enabled to appease internal troubles or oppose external violence."
"My opinion will be calumniated; it was the fate reserved for my opinion whatever it might be. I will answer calumnies only by a life free from reproach; for I defy here my enemies to cite a single fact; I should answer it by my honorable poverty, which I shall bequeath to my children; and perhaps the moment is not very distant when they will inherit this sorrowful legacy; but until that moment, which I await with composure, I will answer calumnies only by my indefatigable zeal to maintain the system of order without which a republic is nothing but an assembly of villains."
"Citizens, I dwell, and I ought to dwell upon this part of my opinion; a storm is gathering; it will be violent: France can resist it; but her success depends upon one thing. If we do not extirpate the disorganizing principle which disturbs us in every shape, I say it with the confidence of a man who knows your debilitated situation, your resources, those of your enemies, their principal supports, if this disorganizing principle is not annihilated the republic will soon no longer exist."
"I vote for death, suspending its execution until the ratification of the constitution by the people."
Dumourier's present object is certainly to become temporary teller of the Amsterdam bank—but he perhaps may find some difficulty in effecting his purpose, for the Dutch directors have inundated the whole country round it, and positively protest against his drawing on them without due notice; his business with them must therefore be current and done with the usual grace—viz. so many days after sight.

Domestic Articles.
CHARLESTON, March 30.
The company for opening the navigation of the Catawba river is revived, and proceeding with spirit in making the arrangements for completing the object of their institution.
It is with pleasure we notice a novel institution that has taken place in this city, within a few days past, which equally contributes to the comfort and convenience of our citizens, as well as strangers—we mean the establishment of hackney coaches, which now daily ply in our streets.
BOSTON, April 8.
Extract of a letter to a gentleman in this town, dated Port-au-Prince, March 13, 1793.
The army which is out on the Plains have got quarrelling among themselves, and are coming in to day, to leave the Plains to the mercy of the Negroes; and you may depend that it will all be burnt to ashes.
Extract of a letter dated Aux Caves, Feb. 14, from a Member of the Colonial Assembly.
Tranquility is not yet restored to this Colony, and cannot be restored until fresh forces arrive, commanded by true republicans.
Some of the rebels have lately set fire to the sugar works in the quartier des Ances, belonging to several planters.
By the returns from a great number of towns, there is no doubt but the present Governor and Lieutenant-Governor will be returned.
Dr. Samuel Holten is elected Federal Representative.
AMERICAN WHALE FISHERY.
Capt. Paul Worth, of Nantucket, in a letter to a friend of his at that place, communicates the following agreeable intelligence of the success of our Whalemens fitted out the past season.
Table with 2 columns: Location/Ship, Quantity. Includes entries like Obad. Barnard (700), George Bunker (600), William Swain (700), etc.
Table with 2 columns: Dunkirk vessels, 12th December. Includes entries like Peleg Bunker (600), Benjamin Paddock (700), Prince Coleman (900), etc.
HARRISBURGH, (Penn.) April 8.
From a Correspondent.
LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
A gentleman lately from France informs, that the lovers of modern ethics will shortly be gratified with the following consolatory publications, viz. "The Wrongs of Man," by Mr. Paine;
For now in its primordial sense, The term HUMANITY comprehends All things, of which, on this side hell, The human mind is capable.
BALTIMORE, April 10.
Yesterday arrived here, the Schooner Port-au-Prince, Lewis Jones, master, in 8 days from St. Domingo.
Philadelphia, April 13, 1793.
At a meeting of the Aldermen of the City of Philadelphia, held at the City-Hall this day, they proceeded to the choice of a Mayor for the ensuing year, when MATTHEW CLARKSON, Esquire, appeared to be unanimously re-elected. ROBERT HENRY DUNKIN, Clk.
Philadelphia, April 17.
Articles of accusation and impeachment for high misdemeanors, were passed against the Comptroller General of this Commonwealth, by the House of Representatives at their late session.
The Legislature of the state is adjourned to the fourth Tuesday in August next.
Wm. Colt, Esq. Treasurer of the state of Connecticut, is appointed Superintendent of the Manufactory of Paterson, N. J.
A publication in a London paper, signed CHARLES J. FOX, Colonel FITZPATRICK, Lord ROBERT SPENCER, &c. contains the following declaration:
"That we will, all and each of us, in our respective stations, collectively and individually, contribute every assistance in our power to the due execution of the laws, the maintenance of civil order and government, and the immediate suppression of all riots and tumults, under what pretence soever they may be excited;
The Indian Chiefs who lately went from this city to the eastern states, left Boston the week before last, on their return to the Indian country.
Various are the reports in circulation—Spain it is said has declared for a neutrality in the war; but at the same time the Spanish Court is gone into mourning for the late King of France.
There is a letter in town from Lisbon, dated the 5th of March, which contains the following accounts—"That France has declared War against Spain—that a French cruiser has taken a Spanish vessel, loaded with hides and tallow, and having on board 100,000 dollars specie—that the British government had publicly recognized the Dauphin as King of France—that Lisbon was arming with vigour, and would have a fleet of ships of the line in a few days ready for sea."
The ship America, Capt. Bright, from Calcutta, is arrived at New-York.
A correspondent observes, that as English accounts of French affairs are said to be partial, incorrect and false, it is much to be desired that the public might be favored with Translations from the Leyden Gazette, undoubtedly the best paper published in Europe, and which is constantly received in this country.
A bill has been brought into the Irish House of Commons to discontinue the restraints and disabilities heretofore imposed by law on persons in that country professing the Roman Catholic religion.
A motion has also been made and agreed to, for the House to go into a committee of the whole on the subject of a parliamentary reform.
The Roman Catholic bill originated with the Hon. Mr. Hobart. The motion for the committee on a reform, with Mr. Grattan.
These salutary measures appear to be the result of accommodating principles, which it is found necessary to adopt, in order to ensure unanimity at the present interesting crisis of affairs.
The real friends of freedom and the equal rights of men in the United States, and in all other countries, are the friends of reason, justice and humanity; but there are those in all parts of the civilized world, who while they assume the honorable appellation of Republicans, discover the most intolerant and rancorous temper towards those who presume to controvert the justice of maxims which lead to the extermination of the human race.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the Delaware State, to his friend in this city.
"I have just been reading the history of the crimes, enormities, and absurdities of human nature, from the end of the 9th century, down to the present time—Such a picture must disgust every thoughtful person, with the species he belongs to, unless indeed he reflect that the aggregate of human worth was ever to be found in the private walks of domestic retirement.
"France is acting under an unseen, and an unacknowledged influence, that influence which dictated to prophets what they knew not, and the time of its accomplishment was equally hid from them. You may, in your peaceful clime, observe the signs of the times, and hail that approach, which may be as instantaneous as the lightning, which starteth from the east, and shineth unto the west!
cloathed in the plausible garments of Freedom and Equality. In reading the discourses of the present rulers of France, one would be led to imagine that the human faculties had been suddenly promoted to a degree of energy unknown to ancient times; that man had assumed a superior rank in the order of intellectual beings, whilst at the same time we behold all the low and boisterous passions, marking every stage of their conduct, and the apostles of liberty and humanity, sunk as deep in blood as the inquisitor or the despot.
In the dereliction of this divine system, I think we may discover the source of all their enormities. In combating ancient prejudices, they have fallen into modern ones equally groundless and fatal. They have attributed to religion the tyranny of despotism, and the tame submission of nations—They have confounded Papal ambition and Priestcraft, with the doctrines of Christianity; and forgetting the true old maxim that corruptio optimi fit pessima, they have greedily swallowed all the extravagancies of their dogmatizing sophists, who have wanted either discernment or candor, to distinguish between the genuine tenets of religion, and the follies which knavery or ignorance have grafted upon it, and sanctified under that name.
A motion has also been made and agreed to, for the House to go into a committee of the whole on the subject of a parliamentary reform.
The Roman Catholic bill originated with the Hon. Mr. Hobart. The motion for the committee on a reform, with Mr. Grattan.
These salutary measures appear to be the result of accommodating principles, which it is found necessary to adopt, in order to ensure unanimity at the present interesting crisis of affairs.
The real friends of freedom and the equal rights of men in the United States, and in all other countries, are the friends of reason, justice and humanity; but there are those in all parts of the civilized world, who while they assume the honorable appellation of Republicans, discover the most intolerant and rancorous temper towards those who presume to controvert the justice of maxims which lead to the extermination of the human race.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in the Delaware State, to his friend in this city.
"I have just been reading the history of the crimes, enormities, and absurdities of human nature, from the end of the 9th century, down to the present time—Such a picture must disgust every thoughtful person, with the species he belongs to, unless indeed he reflect that the aggregate of human worth was ever to be found in the private walks of domestic retirement.
"France is acting under an unseen, and an unacknowledged influence, that influence which dictated to prophets what they knew not, and the time of its accomplishment was equally hid from them. You may, in your peaceful clime, observe the signs of the times, and hail that approach, which may be as instantaneous as the lightning, which starteth from the east, and shineth unto the west!
of Poland—but this also is in aid of what they think not. All will work for good." Extract of a letter from a clergyman in Liverpool, dated Feb. 9, to his correspondent in this city.
"Things at present look very dark and gloomy, with respect to political matters in Europe. The French nation have declared war with England and Holland. In France all at present seems to be little less than one entire scene of tumult, anarchy and confusion.
"I rejoice much with you in the prospect you have of peace with the Indian nations on your frontiers; the good Lord bring it about, and establish it! And with you I hope I can and do heartily pray; O that the kingdom of the Prince of Peace may come, and that the knowledge of the glory of his name and love may increase, and spread from pole to pole, and from the river to the ends of the earth!"
FROM THE NEW-YORK JOURNAL.
A late publication, from London, called "THE JOCKEY CLUB," while treating on the intrigues of the QUEEN of France, introduces the following note:—
"To us who are acquainted with the actual resources of France and with the spirit and unanimity that now prevail through the whole country, the idea of conquering it appears insanity; but while the momentary excesses of an outraged and justly exasperated multitude, are at present so maliciously dwelt on, in order to depreciate the generous universal principle on which the nation acts, let us refer our readers to the savage horrors now daily exercising on the frontiers, without a shadow of interest or provocation, by the disciplined armies of Prussia and Austria, under the command of that humane, experienced, and philosophic general, the Duke of Brunswick, the valiant brother of our Royal George, and in order to give some idea of the tenderness and compassion of the French aristocracy, we shall relate the following anecdote, the veracity of which is generally acknowledged throughout Paris, and we ourselves heard it triumphantly recorded by a young French aristocrat, who occasionally assisted at the ceremony.
For a considerable time before the tenth of August, the royalists assumed a very imperious tone; their numbers were formidable, and they announced, without reserve, their hopes, which with them amounted to a certainty of a counter-revolution, and their pastimes were adapted to the sanguine expectations they indulged.
"There has been a machine lately invented in France, for the execution of criminals, called a Guillotin, after the name of its inventor, and it is contrived, that on dropping, instantaneously to sever the head from the body. In the aristocratic families, and chiefly among those connected with the Queen, it was the custom every day, as soon as dinner was finished, to have one of these Guillotins in miniature, brought in with the desert.
"From the above well-known fact, we leave our readers to conclude, what the result would have been, if victory had inclined to their side. Eleven thousand victims were already predestined to the block, and it cannot be supposed there would have been much pains bestowed on the formation of tribunals for trial."
ARRIVED at the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Barque Sally, Turner, Montego-Bay. Brig Amiable Sophia, Guisnel, Marceilles. Betsy, Peddy, Faval. Brandywine Miller, Knox, Lisbon. Active, Garman, Charleston.
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To-Morrow will be published, By THOMAS DOBSON, At the Stone House, No. 41, South Second-Street.
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Decided in the SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES, in which is discussed the Question, WHETHER A STATE IS LIABLE TO BE SUED BY A PRIVATE CITIZEN OF ANOTHER STATE?
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PRICE CURRENT. PER QUANTITY.—DOLLARS 100 CENTS each. PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 17.
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TO BE SOLD, Anoted covering Horse, OF THE HUNTING BREED. He was imported from England in November...
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JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobson, Book-seller, at the Stone- House, in Second Street, PHILADELPHIA, VOLUME VIII, OF ENCYCLOPEDIA: OR, A DICTIONARY OF ARTS, SCIENCES, AND MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE.
THE DIFFERENT SCIENCES AND ARTS are digested into the Form of Distinct, TREATISES OR SYSTEMS: THIS VOLUME CONTAINS An Account of the Cape of Good Hope, Grafting, Universal Grammar, Grasses, Greece, Greenland, Guam, Guinea, Gunnery, Happiness, Harmony, Heat, Hepatic-Air, Heraldry, Hindostan, Hippopotamus, History, New-Holland, Horse, Horsemanship, Hottentots, Hunting, Husbandry, Hydrometer, with a great variety of Biographical and Miscellaneous Articles.
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.
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.
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. 1 Superb Hotel, with baths, out houses, &c. &c. to cost 50,000 1 Cash Prize 25,000 1 ditto 20,000 1 ditto 15,000 1 ditto 10,000 2 ditto 5,000 are 10,000 10 ditto 1,000 are 10,000 20 ditto 500 are 10,000 100 ditto 100 are 10,000 200 ditto 50 are 10,000 400 ditto 25 are 10,000 1,000 ditto 10 are 10,000 15,000 ditto 10 are 150,000 16,737 Prizes 33,263 Blanks Dollars 350,000
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 expense must necessarily attend the conducting of the lottery, (which expense will be taken from the principal prize) the Commissioners having agreed to present in return a sufficient quantity of excellent free-stone, 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 keys of the Hotel, when completed, 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 & Boush, 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 60 by 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.
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 Susquehanna as far as Licomming; thence to the Painted Post (in New-York state, near the forks of the Tioga) thence to Bath (a town laid out on the Cohoesian 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.
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 Impurity of Crimes, and not from the Moderation of Punishments."—Montesq. 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.