Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-07-23 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 25, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1791.
[Whole No. 233.]
FROM DUNLAP'S AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER.
IN the course of human events, nothing can be more grateful to the philanthropist, to the friends of the rights of man, than the progressive increase of liberty in the world. To see the gigantic image of despotism prostrate itself before the genius of freedom; to know that twenty-four millions of men have escaped from the hated Bastille of Slavery, and broken the chains with which they were bound—that they have asserted, with glorious effect, their inherent and unalienable rights; that they are restored to themselves, to their country, to their rights and to their liberty;—are circumstances which must pour an overflowing tide of joy upon the hearts of all the friends of human nature. The emancipation of so great a number of our fellow creatures, is a suitable, and it is a dignified subject of congratulation—the late glorious revolution in France presents this grand subject of joy to the feelings of humanity. The regeneration of so great and powerful a kingdom—the renovation of its rights, and the exaltation of its slaves to the high and dignified character of citizens, are events so analogous to the experience of these United States, that true Americans cannot hear of them without taking a deep interest in their benefits, and bestowing the benevolent wish of “Elo perpetua” to the newly risen glory of France, and the newly acquired liberty of their citizens!—This revolution is on many accounts unexpected and astonishing; but its leading reasons may be found among the causes of all revolutions. For it is not the Prince alone, supreme as he is, that forms the genius of an empire, it is the gradual change of opinion and evolution of sentiment in the people; which, though slow in its progress, is generally irresistible and permanent in its duration. And it is this change of opinion and this evolution of sentiment in the people of France, that has produced a regeneration of their government. It is not, however, a matter of wonder that the progress of civil and political liberty should find enemies in the friends of aristocracy—nor that the principles of any system of freedom whatever should meet with enemies in the courts of kings, and the friends of monarchical government and hereditary succession. But it is more truly astonishing, and yet more unaccountable, that the unquestionable Rights of Man, and the principles of liberty and free government should find an enemy in the list of those who have ranked high as American Patriots.
The late revolution in France has given rise to much political dissention in Europe. Mr. Burke, formerly the friend of liberty, but now the metamorphosed flatterer of kings, has led the way. With all the furious zeal of aristocratical fanaticism, he has pleads the cause of the king of Great-Britain. Mr. Paine, the author of Common Sense, has, in the bold stile of a Freeman, advocated the cause of the people of England, and of the world—the rights of men, and fully answered Mr. Burke.
It is worthy of remark, that the three principal points for which Mr. Burke contends, are—that the nation of England have no right
 1st. To chuse their own governors.  2d. To cashier them for misconduct.  3d. To frame a government for themselves. 
And he asserts with confidence, that they utterly disclaim those rights, and that they will resist the practical assertion of them with their lives and fortunes.—Mr. Paine has particularly replied to and refuted this spurious and heretical doctrine.
Pained at the prostration of Mr. Burke's argument, solicitous for the progress of British principles in America, and with heartfelt anxiety regarding the tottering reputation of hereditary succession, Publicola, from the town of Boston, has blown the trumpet of aristocracy, and is now echoing the sentiments of Mr. Burke in America.
The object of Publicola is by no means doubtful. I have sought for his polar principle, and I think I have not sought in vain. Could he effect a change of sentiment in the people of these States in favor of monarchy and hereditary succession, his purpose would be answered. He knows that this change, if ever made, must be gradually made; and he also knows, that the continual diffusions of his aristocratical principles are the only means of effectuating this purpose. Americans then ought to read Publicola with a jealous caution.
Publicola, previous to entering into a consideration of Mr. Paine's arguments, has given us a short character of the performance, which he has thought proper to oppose. It may not be amiss for me, in like manner, before I notice any of the arguments of Publicola, to give a brief description of his work to the fourth number inclusive, for these are all I have seen. As he has stiled Mr. Paine's work, so may his, with equal propriety, be stiled, 'historical, political, miscellaneous, satirical and panegyric.'
It is an encomium upon the English government, it is an historical and political commentary on that government, inferring questionable deductions from questionable principles; in this respect too, it is miscellaneous, and it is satirical in the enquiry “whether a constitution, like a deed, must be written on paper or parchment, or whether it has a larger latitude and may be engraved on stone, or carved on wood.”
However questionable any of the deductions of Mr. Paine may be, Publicola acknowledges the principles from which he infers those deductions to be unquestionable. If his principles be true, and they are admitted to be so, why does Publicola contest those very principles under the assumed veil of opposing the inferences deduced from them, and which only he considers questionable? And yet, however unaccountable it is, Publicola is in this very predicament.
Mr. Paine, in treating of the Rights of a Nation
To chuse their own governors.
To cashier them for misconduct, and
To frame a government for themselves lays down this proposition with respect to that right, ‘That which a whole nation chooses to do, it has a right to do.’ But Publicola, un candidly abstracting this position from the reasoning with which it stands connected in Mr. Paine's book, says “that it cannot, in any sense whatever, be admitted as true.” Were I to contemplate the same position in the same abstracted point of view, I would decide on it by affirming, “that the eternal and immutable laws of justice and of morality are paramount to all human legislation,” and that though “the violation of those laws is certainly in the power, yet it is not among the Rights of Nations.” But the statement which Publicola has made of this principle is by no means ingenuous. Does not Mr. Paine qualify this principle by a confined relation to the subject of which he is treating? He does—Was he writing a treatise on metaphysics, or on the abstract principles of morality, or was it a treatise on the Rights of Man? What is the amount of his argument? He brings into view, plain, simple, incontrovertible principles, which Publicola himself acknowledges—proving unquestionably and exclusively, that when a whole nation
chooses to have a particular form of government, it has a right to have it.
This is undoubtedly his meaning—and the abstracted ground upon which Publicola has thought proper to consider this proposition, proves incontestibly his want of candor, and a perversion of meaning intentionally designed to destroy the whole force of Mr. Paine's reasoning.
Having, I think, sufficiently shewn, that the manner of the statement of this principle, by Publicola, is un candid and ungenerous, and that he has given it a construction which it does not bear, it will be obvious that the long train of inferences which he draws from such his own mis-stated, and therefore, false premises, will, with the reasoning from which he has deduced them, fall to the ground.
I therefore shall take no notice of them, but proceed briefly to consider a few of his arguments to prove the existence of a British constitution. It will, however, be proper here to premise, that it is now of no importance to free and independent America, whether Great-Britain has or has not a constitution—or, if they have one, whether it be a constitution of principles or a constitution of articles, or whether it be composed of the common law, or of the great body of the statute law, or, in short, whether it be an usurpation itself. In all these concerns we stand wholly independent of them. It is sufficient for us to know that they have a government competent to the execution of their treaties, without enquiring what the essence of that government is, or whether it has arisen out of the people or over the people. But since Publicola, like Mr. Burke, contends against the rights of the people of England to chuse their own governors, to cashier them for misconduct, and to frame a government for themselves, and as the arguments which he uses for this purpose have a correspondent force against the like rights of the citizens of America, it will be proper to make a few remarks upon them.
Publicola asserts, “that the common law of England is the constitution of Great-Britain, and that the constitution of a country is not the paper or parchment upon which the compact is written, that it is the system of fundamental rules by which the people have consented to be governed, which is always supposed to be impressed upon the mind of every individual, and of which the written or printed copies are nothing more than the evidence.” “That in this sense the British nation have a constitution.” Again “It is composed of a venerable system of unwritten or customary laws, handed down from time immemorial, and sanctioned by the accumulated experience of ages, and of a body of statutes enacted by an authority lawfully competent to that purpose.” And again “The constitution of Great-Britain is a constitution of principles, not of articles.”
Why will not Publicola, on this subject, go to the source of things? Does he mean by this definition that a constitution is a compact antecedent to all government, and from which free government results? Or does he mean that it is a system of jurisprudence, ordained by a government after its institution? This is a point necessary to be settled, for there is a striking difference between the act of constituting a government, and the acts of a government after it is constituted. If he means that the latter is the constitution of Great-Britain, he will find no opposition to the sentiment, but if the former, I deny its existence. In this sense the people of England have no constitution—and with this meaning I defy Publicola to produce the evidence that they have one. How then will his reasoning, on the subject of a social compact, which he pretends now exists, apply to destroy the inherent rights of the people of England. As it has never yet been made appear that the government of England originated in the people, they yet have these rights inherent in themselves in their original character—If therefore, they have not these rights at this day, they never had them—but the uncontroolable rights of sovereignty residing in the people antecedent to government, they therefore have these rights. The right of a people to form a government, and the power of a government after it is formed, are two distinct things—but Publicola has artfully confounded them together, so as to obscure the generous principles of freedom. Why not, in this respect, preserve the distinction between rights and power? Liberty is a bold principle, it is an irresistible principle—it invites enquiry, nor does it seek the subterfuges of sophistry for protection. It avows itself to the world, and it declares, that all lawful, all just authority, both legislative and executive, originates from the people. That the power and sovereignty of the people are like light in the sun, original and inherent, and unlimited by any thing human. That in those who are governors, it is the reflected rays of that light, borrowed, delegated and limited by the sovereign power of the people.
In the sense in which I admit that Great-Britain has a constitution, it is certainly a constitution of principles; and on the same ground, every country under Heaven, has a constitution of principles. But what are these principles? not the principles of a government arising out of the people, but of a government arising over the people. Consequently, it is the arbitrary will of government, and such, unquestionably, is the government of Great-Britain. Americans know that it is the omnipotence of Parliament. Why, therefore, in the name of Common Sense, I should have said Aristocracy , did not the federal convention of 1787 adopt such a glorious “Constitution of Principles,” instead of a constitution of written articles? And why did not Publicola then step forward, and like the honest Norman mentioned by Mr. Paine, represent, that “as the Americans had dismissed or sent away their King, they would want another,” and generously offer to be their sovereign Lord and Master.
Mr. Paine observes, “that a government on the principles on which constitutional government, arising out of society, are established, cannot have the right of altering itself; for if it had, it would be arbitrary.” But this, says Publicola, is not sufficient. I think it is. But why is it not? Why, truly, replies Publicola, “because a nation in forming a social compact, may delegate the whole of their collective powers to ordinary legislators in perpetual succession.” In reply to this I contend, that a nation has no right to form a compact to oblige any but the parties contracting, it must therefore cease on an infraction of the terms by either party, and must be void as to all future generations, unless they revive it for themselves. In compacts we determine and promise for ourselves only—and not for posterity. The JURA SUMMI IMPERII , or the rights of sovereignty reside in every generation of men in their original character; and Mr. Paine well observes, that every generation is equal in rights to the one that preceded it.—How, then, has a nation a right to delegate in perpetual succession? There is a cruel principle of injustice in the doctrine of perpetual succession; it is an enslaving principle; it is a black aristocratical doctrine, that absorbs every ray of the sun of freedom, and swallows up all the rights of the people to the end of time. This is the inevitable consequence of the doctrine
of perpetual succession; it is unjust in theory; it is tyrannical in practice; it is a subversion of the “eternal and immutable laws of justice and morality;” because it is founded on the principle of A's willing to B. the property of C.—and this I deny that any nation has a right to do.—For although a whole nation should be mad enough to adopt such a form of government, yet as they could have no property in posterity, a future generation would have an undoubted right not merely to alter, but entirely to abolish it; and for the very reason because “the consent of that posterity would be necessary before they could be bound by those laws;” and I maintain further, that the same people who constitute a government, have a right to change or totally annihilate it, whenever they choose to do so, even if it should have answered all the purposes for which it was originally instituted. This is a principle inseparable from the rights of sovereignty, originally resident in the people, and from all authority emanating from them. Government is nothing else but power, and the power of a free government is nothing but the delegation of a trust. It is a mere authority of agency, which the constituents may resume at pleasure. But the resumption of this right is one thing, and the expediency of it another: and it is hardly to be supposed that a nation will dissolve the bands of the social compact, unless they find it expedient to do so. Publicola however, confounds the right and expediency together, and from this sophistical jumble of ideas, he bewilders the subject he attempts to explain, and clearly evinces that the pursuit of truth is not his only object, or the way to truth must lie through the mazy labyrinths of sophistry.
I have heard of a man (perhaps Publicola knows him) who possessed the esteem and confidence of a free, generous, patriotic people; who partook liberally of their bounty, and was raised by their general voice, to an office of high dignity and trust in their government; whose pride it ought to have been, and whose duty it was to have supported the principles, and to have contributed to the welfare of that government to the utmost of his abilities, or to have rejected the office. The latter, however, he did not do; but under a fictitious name, employed his whole force of art, of genius and erudition in collecting and pouring forth floods of heretical, aristocratical doctrines in direct opposition to the free and equal principle of the very government which he administered.—Strange inconsistency!
Let those who sigh for monarchy and pant after aristocracy, court the munificence of princes and prop the tottering thrones of Kings. Let them weep over the dying image of royalty—but let the independent sons of America blow the trumpet of freedom, and proclaim to the world their liberty and happiness. The unshaken faith of these, is, that all power is originally inherent in the people, and that whatever governments are not founded on their authority alone, and instituted by them for their peace, safety and happiness, are not free but usurped, and that they therefore have and in contempt of Kings, Princes, and the whole group of Aristocrats, will, exercise the right of establishing and of altering, reforming or abolishing government in such manner or form as they may think proper for securing the blessings of freedom.
Philadelpia, July 1, 1791.
A G R I C O L A.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 19.
A SANTON (a kind of religious Mussulman) was lately impaled here for having the audacity to prophecy that the capital of the Ottoman empire would ere long change its master.
The imprudence of the crew of a Venetian ship had lately nearly caused the death of their Captain. In firing the usual salute, on passing the walls of the Seraglio, the crew forgot that the guns were loaded with balls, which not only alarmed those within the walls, but also damaged some of the buildings. The Sultan was so exasperated, that he demanded the head of the Captain, and, but for the interposition of the Dragoman, who is a great friend to the Venetian Ambassador, the Captain would have been beheaded. However the matter having been explained, he was pardoned; but on condition of remaining under an arrest for some time in the Ambassador's hotel.
BERLIN, April 15.
The Commandeur Great Cross of the Order of the Sword, Sir Sidney Smith, an officer of the Royal Navy of England, arrived at Potsdam last week, and was immediately admitted to a private conference with the King, to which he was introduced by the British Minister.
PARIS, April 28.
M. de la Fayette has at length yielded to the reiterated solicitations of his fellow-citizens, and resumed his former station of commander in chief of the National Guards.
On Monday morning all the battalions appeared under arms, and waited on their General to testify their joy and their gratitude; these sentiments were manifested in a particular manner, when M. de la Fayette appeared at the Place de Greve, clothed in his uniform, and surrounded by a guard. Men, women, children, old men, all the crowd surrounded him, seemed eager to embrace, and actually clasped him in their arms!
At half past one o'clock on the same day, a grand deputation of the national guards, without any distinction of rank or military regulation as to companies, marched six a-breast to wait on his Majesty. Being arrived at the Thuilleries, they

mounted the great staircase, and traversed the apartments till they arrived at his Majesty's cabinet, in which the Monarch received them.
The General who was at their head, in a short and apposite speech, informed his Majesty of the attachment of the Parisian army, who in return observed, "that the National Guards, who had done so much for the accomplishment of the revolution, had nothing more to do than to give an example of obedience to the laws, and the constitution would then be fixed on a basis that would render it immortal." The deputation then filed off, before the King, making the walls of the Palace resound with " Vive la Nation, et vive le Roi. "
A citizen soldier, on passing before his Majesty, exclaimed, " Sire voila vos veritables amis! " (behold your true friends, Sire!) his Majesty immediately replied with the most lively emotion, "I am convinced of it."
The Grenadier Company of the battalion of the Oratory have been discharged, and the Grenadier who first urged the impropriety of the King's receiving the Sacrament from the hands of a refractory Priest.
This intrepid citizen has however experienced the patronage of the club called the Cordelieres, who have objected to the late oath taken by the National Guards.
This circumstance, and that of the refractory Clergy being permitted to hire, occupy, and preach in the Hotel des Theatins, are the most undoubted proofs of the liberty now enjoyed here, as in both these instances, religious and political sentiments, however different from those of the people, are freely tolerated, and recal to the memory of the classical stranger, who visits Paris, those happy days which Rome enjoyed under an amiable and godlike Emperor, when every citizen "might think what he pleased, and say what he thought."
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, April 29.
Disturbances having lately taken place, from some soldiers having attended one of the societies known by the name of "Friends to the constitution," which conduct was opposed by their officers, the Assembly passed the following decree—
"The National Assembly decrees, That the officers, subalterns, and soldiers of all descriptions, when not on duty, may, like all other citizens, attend the societies which assemble peaceably in the towns in which they are in garrison."
May 4. The subject of Avignon was once more resumed, when after a long and warm debate, upon the question being put, whether Avignon and the Comtat should or should not be annexed to the French empire, it was determined by a majority of 487 to 316, that they should not be annexed to France.
May 5. Two papers, of very great moment, were this day read in the Assembly. The first, a circular letter from the Emperor to the different electors, stating to them the steps which had been pursued by him as head of the Empire, in relation to the decrees of the National Assembly, which have been complained of as injurious to the rights of that part of the Germanic body in Lorraine and Alsace. The intention of this letter is stated to be, that the Germanic body may adopt the means which appear to them best suited to obtain redress of the grievances complained of.
The other was a letter from M. Montmorin to the Pope's Nuncio at Paris, stating, "That his Majesty was much surprised at the answer of his Holiness to the letter from his Majesty, announcing the recall of M. le Cardinal de Bernis—that his Majesty saw with astonishment, that the Pope appeared to refuse receiving an Ambassador of France, who had taken, without restriction, the oath required of all public officers—that his Majesty can scarcely believe this to be the intention of his Holiness, as it would break off all connection between the Holy See and the French Monarchy—that no Ambassador can be sent to his Holiness who has not taken the National Oath—and that if his Holiness persisted in this, the dignity of the nation, and that of his Majesty, would not permit a Nuncio from the Pope to remain at Paris."
The letter concludes, recommending to his Holiness to weigh well the consequences which may result from such conduct, and to bear in mind that, whatever they may be, he will have provoked them.
May 8. On a report by M. Viillard, the Assembly gave orders, that the extraordinary Bank should pay the sum of four millions, as a compensation to those persons who have been losers by the suppression of offices.
May 9. M. d'Andre was elected President.
L O N D O N, May 13.
It is not even pretended to be concealed, that the answer of the Empress is hostile. She said, that she should lament the necessity of going to war with England, and her allies; but she certainly would proceed in the unprovoked war in which she was involved with the Turks, until she brought them to the moderate and just conditions she had already offered them, and from which no foreign interference should make her abate.
Yesterday a Cabinet Council was held, at which all the Ministers assisted. The answer of the Empress was probably the object of their deliberation.—They sat till half past three o'clock, and the result was sent up to the King.
Whether the division of Burke and Fox, may produce any schism in the party; whether any of that noble and opulent Aristocracy who compose it, may participate the alarms and resentments of Mr. Burke, may be a matter of much speculation. If conjecture be admissible, it seems more likely that the Apostle of Despotism will be left alone. The rational friends of Aristocracy will regard him as too intemperate and indiscreet for a Leader: they will consider all fear of convulsions in England as the dread of events certainly remote, and perhaps visionary, and if they think the danger real, they must see the wretched policy of Mr. Burke, who accelerates its progress by conferring on its promoters premature importance. And above all, they will see that their desertion of Mr. Fox will only be unfettering his mind; and transferring a great Leader from a Faction to the People.
They dread those discussions which the indifference of Mr. Burke perpetually provokes. They are conscious of the feebleness to which the loss of their Leader would reduce them, and they must tremble at the measure to which Mr. Fox, unshackled with party, might be impelled at so critical a moment, by the energy of his own virtuous and enlightened mind.
MAY 18.
Letters from Stockholm mention, that the Russian Minister had delivered a declaration to the King of Sweden, intimating, that if he allowed the English ships of war to enter his ports, it would be considered by the Empress as a declaration of war. To which his Majesty replied, that he should observe a strict neutrality, by allowing both English and Russian vessels to come in and go out of his harbours at their pleasure.
The trial of Mr. Hastings will be resumed on Monday or Tuesday, and Mr. St. John opens the next charge.
It was reported yesterday, with some confidence, and very generally, that there had been a tumult at Constantinople, in which the Grand Vizir lost his head.
An express was yesterday received by a respectable merchant in this city, from Constantinople, which is reported to contain the following important intelligence relative to that capital:
Admiral Ribas, immediately after his defeat of the Ottoman forces before Brailow, having taken on board his squadron a large detachment from the army of Prince Repnin, failed to Kilia-nova, where having formed a junction with Admiral Suwarrow's fleet, he failed for Constantinople, and taking advantage of the commotion which prevailed within that city, landed his troops at Pera, and took the place without resistance. At the time of the Russian troops entering Constantinople, the city was on fire in fifty different parts.
The Russians have gained another victory over the Turks. Prince Gallitzin attacked the peninsula of Kuckpany, near Brailow, which he took, after cutting to pieces the garrison, consisting of four thousand Turks, and destroying 22 vessels.
It is asserted that the persons at Bristol, who burnt Mr. Wilberforce in effigy, were none of the respectable part of the inhabitants.—There surely needs no ghost to tell us this;—but where were the respectable part of the city when such an infamous outrage was perpetrating?
Late Dinners. —Mr. Pitt on being lately invited to dine with Lady Salisbury, at TEN, politely pleaded a previous engagement to sup with the Chancellor—at nine.
The walking Stuart has set out for Falmouth, where he is to take his passage on board the New-York Packet for America. His intention is not only to travel the civilized Provinces of that Continent, but to explore the most hidden and interior parts, where no European has ever ventured.
Several persons have been lately ordered to quit Madrid, on suspicion of some political intrigues; and among them the Duchess of Santestevan, mother-in-law to the Duke de Medina Celi.
A college, for the education of Roman Catholic Priests, is building at Thurles, in the county of Tipperary. This will keep a deal of money in Ireland, which would otherwise have been expended abroad, and is occasioned by the dissolution of so many religious houses in France.
Extract of a letter from Brussels, April 21.
"The uniform of the French Counter-Revolution is sported in this city by many of the Refugee Aristocrats. A dark green coat with yellow facings, and pantaloons, in the Hussar style, which, according to all appearance, will wear out before the opening of their campaign, there being officers in plenty, but no men."
Lately died, in the King's Bench Prison, after six years' confinement, Capt. Thomas Henry Abbot, of the Artillery, who had distinguished himself in almost every action of consequence last war in America.
DUBLIN, May 25.
On the 13th instant, a riot happened at Car- rick, which, in some time arrived at such a height as rendered the interposition of the Police of that place indispensable, in which the high constable, Mr. Cosgrave, was unfortunately killed. The cause of the disturbance was as follows:—In that town it seems there is a spring loom, by which one man is able to perform equal to four; this circumstance has, for some time, been a matter of jealousy to the people employed on the ordinary machines, from an idea that it would eventually render a majority of them useless, to prevent which they assembled for the purpose of destroying the new invention—a resolution that could not but be attended with serious consequences—and in pursuit of which the above active man fell a sacrifice to their rage.
Wednesday last the brig Two Sisters, of Bourdeaux, Capt. Francis Renault, arrived at Passage, below Waterford, with a cargo of wines, glass, printing-paper, &c. On coming to her birth in the river, she hoisted the new National Flag, and fired 13 guns, which were answered by every vessel that carried any swivels, except one Londoner, who, though provided with eight four pounders, took no manner of notice. The flag is exceedingly elegant, being an alternate mixture of blue, red and white, in three compartments, interspersed with gold fleurs de lis, on a ground of white sattin. At the top is a crown encircled by a wreath, round which are the words " la Nation, la Loi, le Roy, " the Nation, the Law, and the King. This is the first, carrying the reformed colours of France, that has arrived at any Irish port since the revolution.
P L Y M O U T H, April 27.
On Saturday last the Annual Silver Cup, given by the right hon. the Earl of Orford, was run for in Houghton Park, by ninety greyhounds, and won by Mr. Blyth, of Bircham Newton. After the diversion, near 500 persons were entertained with great hospitality, in the old English style, by the noble Earl; amongst those present were, Sir Charles Davis, Mr. Coke, Col. Orchard, Mr. Call, and other Gentlemen of the House of Commons.
A bye match was also run between Mrs. Coke and Lord Orford, which was won with great ease by the Lady's greyhound.
CHARLESTON (S.C.) July 7.
CAUTION TO MARINERS.
THE commissioners of Pilotage, for the bar of Charleston, give notice, that the lantern of the light-house was, on the night of the first instant, consumed by fire, so that there can be no light shown till the light-house is repaired.—Mariners approaching the coast, are therefore cautioned to guard against the inconvenience of the want of a light.
A L B A N Y, July 11.
We can assure the public with much satisfaction that Judge Cooper (who may be considered the oracle and soul of Otsego County) has collected this season about 70,000lb. of maple Sugar, which is brought to market in boxes after the Spanish manner, containing 300lb. each—about 15,000lb. is in cakes, the remainder is all grained and equal to Muscovado. The last year, the quantity this public spirited gentleman collected was only 20,000lb.
N E W - Y O R K, July 21.
Yesterday an entertainment was given by the Members of the New-York Chamber of Commerce, to ALEXANDER HAMILTON, Esquire, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States; at which a number of patriotic toasts were drank.
FROM THE GENERAL ADVERTISER.
TO GEORGIA PLANTERS.
A Paragraph from Georgia has lately made its appearance in several papers*; in which the writer intimates that a treatise on the cultivation of the vine would be a very useful addition to the stock of agricultural information, especially to the southward.—A correspondent who is perfectly acquainted with the practice as well as theory of the vine culture, proposes, if sufficient encouragement is held out by the southern farmers collectively, to furnish them with a complete account of the several modes of culture used in Burgundy and other parts of France, in every different kind of soil. If such a subscription can be raised as would prove a reasonable compensation for his trouble, he proposes to devote his whole time and attention to the subject; and his experience, he conceives, will enable him to give such accurate and minute information, as would prove a sufficient guide to such as choose to undertake to cultivate the native vine; which, from the information he has been able to collect since his residence in this country, if properly done, he thinks could not fail of success.
Communications for our correspondent, directed to D. P. and left at the office of the General Advertiser, will be delivered to him.
* Originally in the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.

Philadelphia, July 23.
European Intelligence has been received to the 26th of May, by the Hope, Capt. Makins, from Ireland—by which we learn, That a great and important revolution in favour of the Rights of Man, under the auspices of the King, has taken place in Poland—the condition of the peasantry of that country, which was degrading to the lowest degree, is greatly altered for the better: this is considered as a prelude to a more perfect constitution.—The Court of Denmark has repeated its declaration of a determined neutrality.—In Brabant and Flanders, the public tranquility is perfectly established.—The National Assembly having determined not to annex the Venaissin to their empire, the consequence will be, that the Pope must grant the people there a free constitution, like that of France.—The celebrated Bishop of Autun has been excommunicated by the Pope for the space of 40 days, if he does not in the mean time return to his duty.—The Duke of Bedford is chosen chairman of the Whig-Club in London.—The Portuguese are making great improvements in the culture of hemp and flax.—The fashion for the ladies in Paris, is to divide the hair on the middle of the forehead, and comb it down smooth without the least friz on each side of the face. Among other nominations to fill the vacancy in the department of Secretary of State, Mr. Hastings has actually been mentioned.—Sir Sidney Smith is superintending the construction of a flotilla for the King of Prussia, to be opposed to that of the Prince de Nassau. The answer of the Empress to the English Minister, it is said without reserve, is hostile—and the measures pursued by Great-Britain appear to be founded on an expectation of war.—Some very plain advice has recently been given to the Queen of France, in which it is observed, that “in cherishing the illusions of an expiring party, you will only prolong your own torment; it will be much better for you to abjure them in an authentic and sincere manner.” These observations, in conjunction with a letter to the National Assembly, and another to the foreign Ministers, which were lately communicated by the King, if there is any meaning in words, or honor in the human heart, will convince the Queen that any machinations against the revolution must issue in total defeat and disappointment.—Great confusions continue to prevail in Constantinople—The Sultan it is said has lately caused a whole company of Janissaries, who appeared inclined to revolt, to be put to death. The excessive dearths of provision is said to be the principal cause of all these commotions.
By the Ruby, Capt. Rich, arrived at Boston from Calcutta, accounts are received from India to the 27th of January.—On the 14th of December Lord Cornwallis arrived at Madras, after a passage of 6 days from Calcutta.—The paper of the 27th of January mentions that his Lordship intended to join the combined army, consisting of English troops and the auxiliaries of the native Princes, at ARNEE, immediately on the arrival of reinforcements and stores from Bengal. Some unpleasant occurrences had happened. The Nabob of Arcot's troops which were appointed to escort the Governor General to the Army, had mutinied and refused to go, under the plea of their pay being much in arrears;—but the spirited exertions of the Nabob's son, quelled the mutiny, with a body of troops under his command; he was severely wounded in the conflict. Two officers of high rank in the combined army, it was reported were at variance; and the decision of their difference had been referred to supreme authority. The most flattering expectations of success were formed by a knowledge of the military skill and intrepidity of Cornwallis. Tippoo has ever cautiously avoided a pitched battle. He appears to have entertained the British forces, and led them about wherever they would follow him. In the march of an army, plunder, rapine, cruelties various in their forms as they are detestable in their nature, will be the necessary attendants. To narrate the loss of three Sepoys in Pulo-Penang, or an assassination of Bullocks in Palehandcherry, would neither inform nor entertain our readers; we therefore pass on to say, that the only consequential blow struck by the combined army, was at Cananore, which surrendered to General Abercrombie on the 17th of December.
The Grand and Centre Armies formed a junction on the 17th of November. They had not been able to bring the Alexander of the East to open warfare. The conduct of General Meadows was generally censured—and the inhabitants of this war-desolated country, look forward with pleasure to his being superseded.
The several native Princes in alliance with England, furnished large bodies of well disciplined Cavalry; and a numerous Infantry, not entitled to much encomium. Scarcity of money was a general complaint: An unhealthy season
universally felt: A failure of the Cotton Crops in Bombay, pretty fully demonstrated;—and a variety of other unfortunate circumstances appear to attend this unhappy people.
Fresh disturbances in St. Domingo.
Captain Davis of the Brig Hetty, who arrived at this port on Monday last from Cape-Francois, which place he left the 7th inst. informs, that on the 1st of this month, the Governor received official information, that the National Assembly had passed a decree, which gave to the free negroes and mulattoes in their colonies equal rights with the other inhabitants.
The Governor on the 4th of July, by Proclamation, made public this intelligence, which created great disturbance in the colony.
The Provincial Assembly met, protested against the decree of the National Assembly, determined to oppose the execution of it, and resolved to send Ministers Plenipotentiary to the different European Courts, inviting their assistance to render their opposition effectual.
We are assured from good authority, that the extract of a letter from Pittsburg, published in the American Daily Advertiser of yesterday, relative to the Cornplanter's Indians having taken up the hatchet against the United States, is utterly groundless.
Major-General Butler received letters from Fort Faunklin, the originals of which are now in this city, containing fresh evidence of the friendly disposition of the Cornplanter and his party, and of the peaceable disposition in general of the Five Nations, the Chiefs of which are now, or very lately have been holding a treaty with Col. Pickering, at the Painted Post, on the Tioga branch of the Susquehannah.
The apprehension of danger from the introduction of an infectious disorder into this Commonwealth by vessels from Ireland, having subsided; the Governor has directed, that the pilots should not detain vessels arriving from thence, in any other manner than is required by their usual instructions as heretofore given agreeable to law.
On a request from the inspectors of the prison, the reverend clergy of the respective denominations in the city and suburbs have agreed to preach in the jail once every week, viz. on Sundays, when it is consistent with their parochial duty; otherwise on Mondays. Accordingly service has been performed for three Sundays; and will be to-morrow, at half after 8 o'clock in the morning. A very salutary effect may reasonably be expected from this co-operation of religion with just and mild laws. Indeed these are but feeble correctives and restoratives without the divine power of the fears and hopes of true religion.
According to a schedule taken under the direction of the Marshal of the District of New-York, pursuant to a law of the Union that State contains three hundred and sixty-five thousand, three hundred and twenty-seven inhabitants.
The State of Maryland, agreeable to the census taken as above, is found to contain three hundred and twenty thousand, four hundred and seventy-eight inhabitants.
At the celebration of Independence at Dover, Delaware, the Town-House, in which an elegant dinner was provided, was decorated with figures emblematical of the occasion. Upon the right hand pillar at the head was to be seen the portrait of his Excellency the President of the United States, with a constellation of stars; at his feet, Justice with the sword and balance, and Fame with a trumpet; Minerva at the head, crowning him with laurels, and Apollo playing on the lyre.
M O T T O.
Long may he live, bid emulation rise, Late sink in death, and meet his native skies.
On the left hand pillar was a portrait of the Vice-President of the United States.
M O T T O.
Ecce amicus versus patriæ. Behold the true friend of his country.
On the right hand pillar, at the lower end of the hall, was presented the bust of the late Dr. Franklin, whose political and literary abilities have endeared his memory in the breast of Europeans as well as his native countrymen.
M O T T O.
“Fulmen, Eripuit Cælo, Sceptrumque Tyrannis.”
On the left hand pillar was displayed a portrait of Major-General Warren, encircled with weeping willows.
M O T T O.
“Adorn'd with honors in his native shore, Silent he sleeps and hears of wars no more.” So falls the victor, in the martial strife, The coward lives, his punishment is life.
COMMUNICATIONS.
Many of the Indian stories in the newspapers are totally void of foundation, and the rest are greatly exaggerated misrepresentations.—Those who talk of armies from three to seven thousand Indians, are entirely ignorant of the whole subject of Indian affairs—the greatest number of Savages that has perhaps been collected since Braddock's defeat, was with St. Ledger the last war,
—those never amounted to more than 1500—and it is supposed on good grounds that the whole number of Creeks that invaded Georgia not long since, did not amount to more than 3 or 400.
In a daily paper of yesterday we are informed that the speech [of the Lord Lieutenant] from the throne, candidly acknowledges that excise-duties have not been able to restrain in Ireland the immoderate use of ardent spirits. The speech, however, as published in the “General Advertiser,” contains no such intimation—and all the papers printed in this city have informed us that Two Thousand Dram Shops have been shut up in Dublin only, in consequence of the Excise Law.
It is presumed that the account lately published of the demolition of a distillery at the Southward, will turn out to be a mistake.
At a meeting of the American Philosophical Society, on the 15th inst. the following gentlemen were elected members:
Mr. John Luzac, Professor of the Greek Language in the University of Leyden.
John Nicholson, Esq. Comptroller-General of the State of Pennsylvania.
Andrew Ross, M. D. of Philadelphia.
Benjamin Waterhouse, M. D. Professor of Medicine, in the University of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
John Penington, M. D.
John Beckley, Esq. Clerk of the House of Representatives of the United States.
Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, Esq. Counsellor at Law, Philadelphia.
Wednesday last Don Joseph Ignacio de Viar, Chargé des Affaires from the Court of Spain, and Don Joseph de Jaudenes, the Commissioner lately arrived from that Court, had the honor of a private audience with the President of the United States, to whom they were presented by Thomas Jefferson, Esq. Secretary of State. Those gentlemen were formally received by the President, as representatives, charged with the affairs of his Catholic Majesty.
The President of the United States has been pleased to appoint William Rawle, Esq. of this City, Attorney of the United States for the District of Pennsylvania—vice William Lewis, Esq. appointed Judge.
The remarks on a late circular letter, would lead to a religious controversy, which we mean to avoid.
From PELOSI'S MARINE LIST.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
LUKE RAUSS, who left Germany in 1749, and came to America, if he be still living, may hear of something to his advantage, by applying at the office of the Secretary of State, in Philadelphia. July 20, 1791. (3 t.)
PHILADELPHIA, 20th July, 1791.
THE Commissioners appointed to receive Subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, do hereby, agreeable to law, inform the Stockholders of the said Bank, that an election for twenty-four Directors will be held at the City-Hall in Philadelphia, on Friday the 21st day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the morning.
THOMAS WILLING, DAVID RITTENHOUSE, SAMUEL HOWELL.
Charlestown (Mass.) Lottery.
CLASS XXII.
THE MANAGERS of said LOTTERY present to the Public the following
S C H E M E
OF THE TWENTY-SECOND CLASS, Consisting of 7000 Tickets, at THREE DOLLARS each, 21,000 Dollars.
  1 Prize of 2500 Dolls. is 2500   1 1000 1000   15 100 are 1500   20 50 1000   20 40 800   20 30 600   40 20 800   60 10 600   70 8 560   80 6 480   2008 4 8032 
2335 Prizes, 17872 4665 Blanks, Deduction, 3:28
7000 Tickets, Amount, 21000 This Class will commence drawing on or before the 1st of September.
Tickets may be had of the several Managers in Charlestown, and at the usual places in Boston.
THOMAS HARRIS, MATTHEW BRIDGE, SAMUEL SOLEY, } Managers.
Charleston, May 25, 1791.
HAZARD and ADDOMS,
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A PRINTING APPARATUS COMPLEAT, AND A NEWS-PAPER ESTABLISHMENT.
ANY young Man, of respectable character, capable of conducting the PRINTING BUSINESS in its different branches, may have an opportunity of engaging as a PARTNER, in a large commercial town, where the present income and prospects are highly flattering to those of an industrious turn. A small sum will be required in hand, and further particulars explained in person, by addressing a line to Z. TOWNLY, at the Bar of the Merchants and Exchange Coffee-House.
Philad. July 20, 1791.
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TAKE NOTICE.
THE MANAGERS of the NEWARK BRIDGE LOTTERY will begin paying the Prizes drawn in the First Class on Monday the 11th of July, by which time the Tickets in the Second Class will be ready to deliver to applicants agreeable to the scheme. To accommodate holders of Tickets undrawn in the First Class, the same numbers in the Second Class will be lodged, if convenient, in the same places where the first were sold, as soon as possible, and if not, such holders must apply to the Manager who signed their Tickets. Such persons will please to take notice, that application for renewal in the Second Class must be made before the 11th of August next.
JOHN N. CUMMING, } Managers. JESSE BALDWIN, } JOHN D. ALVEY, } of New-Brunswick.
Newark, June 27, 1791.
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Public Notice is hereby given,
to all whom these presents shall come, or in any wise concern, That JAMES GARDNER, late of Wilmington, North-Carolina, deceased, did make four promissory notes payable to SAMUEL JACKSON, of Philadelphia, Merchant, all bearing date the 19th July, 1785, one for three hundred and seventy-one pounds, payable in six months—one for seven hundred and forty two pounds, in nine months—one for seven hundred and forty pounds, in twelve months—and one for seven hundred and forty-five pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, in fifteen months, amounting in the whole to two thousand five hundred and ninety-eight pounds thirteen shillings and three-pence, and payable in produce at Wilmington:—Which said notes have been assigned by the said Samuel Jackson to THOMAS MACKIE and Co. and JAMES HOOD, Merchants, Philadelphia, and have since, in the life-time of the said Gardner, by him been accounted for and paid in part to the amount of two thousand and forty-seven pounds fifteen shillings and six-pence, to the said THOMAS MACKIE, and Co. in proof of which the subscribers have sufficient vouchers.
These are therefore to caution all persons from purchasing said notes as they will not be taken up.
THOMAS WRIGHT, } Executors. ROBERT SCOTT, } M. R. WILLKINGS, }
Wilmington, North-Carolina, 27th May, 1791.
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GEORGE-TOWN, June 30, 1791.
THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES having approved the acts for the Public Buildings, to be erected in pursuance of the act of Congress for establishing the temporary and permanent seat of government of the United States, the Commissioners, appointed in virtue of that act, will meet at George-Town, on Monday the seventeenth day of October next, and proceed to sell, at Vendue, a number of lots in the best situations in the Federal City. A deposit of 8 per cent. will be required; the residue to be secured on Bonds, with security, payable in three equal yearly payments.—The farther terms will be made known at the sale.
THOMAS JOHNSON, } Commissioners. DAVID STEWART, } DANIEL CARROL, }
WAR DEPARTMENT,
MAY 30, 1791.
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 March, 1791, and which will become due on the 4th day of September ensuing, will be paid on the said day by the Commissioners of the Loams within the States respectively, under the usual regulations, viz. Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers.
1st. The certificate given by the state, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an invalid, and ascertaining the sum to which such he is annually entitled. 2d. An affidavit, agreeable to the following form :
A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of in the state of and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the state to be recited) That he served (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the and county of and has resided there for the last years, previous to which he resided in
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attorney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeable to the following form:
I, A. B. of the county of state of do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of my lawful attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for six months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, and ending the fourth day of September of the same year.
Signed and sealed
in the presence of
Witnesses.
Acknowledged before me,
Applications of executors and administrators must be accompanied with legal evidence of their respective offices, and also of the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim.
By command of the President of the United States,
H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
Funds of the United States.
ALL kinds of the Public Debt of the Union, bought, sold, or exchanged; Foreign and Inland Bills of Exchange negotiated; Merchandise of all sorts bought and sold on Commission, and all other Business in the line of a Broker, transacted by
WILLIAM CLELAND,
At the Office, next door to the Custom-House, State-Street, BOSTON.
Published, and to be sold by the Editor, price 1/4 of a Dollar, TWENTY-SIX LETTERS, On the most important Subjects, Respecting the REVOLUTION of AMERICA. Written in Holland in the year 1780, By the VICE-PRESIDENT of the United States.
A few copies of the CONSTITUTION of the United States, printed with Notes, may be had of the Editor.
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FOR SALE,
A Printing Press and Types,
together with the right of publishing a PAPER, in good repute, the subscribers to which are continually increasing—The present number of its patrons is between seven and eight hundred. The types consist of BURGEIS, PICA, and a sufficient quantity of large types to display advertisements to advantage. The situation is in the interior part of MASSACHUSETTS, in the centre of a populous and thriving community, and within 17 miles of an excellent Paper-Mill, where paper of every quality and size may always be had on short notice. Perhaps no country paper on the continent has a larger share of Advertisements than the one offered for sale. A very considerable profit also accrues from the sale of Blanks of all kinds, which are much used in the place—from the publication of Hand-Bills, &c. &c. It is a good situation, also, for a small Book-Store—and it is supposed the Book-Binding business might be carried on in the same place to advantage.
For further particulars, enquire of JOHN FENNO, at his Office, No. 69, High-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, Philadelphia. [12w 3w]
CONTRACT,
For erecting BRIDGES over the HACKINSACK and PASSAICK Rivers, between Powles-Hook and Newark, in the State of New-Jersey.
THE Commissioners appointed by an act of the legislature of the state of New-Jersey, to erect bridges over the Hackinsack and Passaick rivers, having obtained the necessary surveys, are now ready to receive proposals for performing the same; and offer the following conditions for the consideration of such as may be inclined to contract:
The situation of the bridge across the Hackinsack river, will be at one of the following stations, as shall be hereafter determined most eligible.
1st. At the place where the present ferry is established, where the width of the river is 1448 feet. Depth at the eastern shore, 8 feet 8 inches. Do. western shore, 8 11 Greatest depth, 25 4 2d. At a place more northerly, called Douw's Ferry, where the width of the river is 846 feet. Depth at the eastern shore 19 feet 10 inches. Do. western shore 12 8 Greatest depth 35 8
The situation of the bridge across the Passaick river, will be at one of the three following stations, as shall be hereafter determined most eligible.
1st. At the place where the present ferry is established, where the width of the river is 676 feet. Depth at the eastern shore 8 feet 6 inches, Do. western shore 9 6 Greatest depth 17 2d. At a place more westerly, called Beef-Point, where the breadth of the river is 799 feet. Depth at the eastern shore 11 feet, Do. western shore 4 5 inches, Greatest depth 13 4 3d. At a place still more northerly, called Hedden's dock, in the town of Newark, where the width of the river is 526 feet. Depth at the eastern shore 4 feet 5 inches, Do. western shore 10 8 Greatest depth 15 11
The bridges are to be constructed on the principles of those erected over Charles, Myrick, and Beverly Rivers in the State of Massachusetts, with a draw to admit a free passage for vessels with fixed standing masts, not less than twenty-four feet wide, to be placed in such part of the bridges as shall be determined most convenient for the navigation of the river, with piles or blocks on each side of the entrance of such draw, as shall be judged sufficient to aid vessels in passing through. Also, one lamp on each side of the draw, to be lighted every night from sunset to sunrise, during the continuance of the lease.
The bridges are to be built with such piles, timber, scantling, and plank, as shall render them perfectly substantial and secure in the opinion of the commissioners, and are to be of a sufficient height to protect them against the tides, which rise at ordinary tides from 5 to 6 feet, and at spring tides from 8 to 10 feet. They are to be 31 feet in breadth, viz.
Allowance for carriage way, 20 feet. Do. for foot walks, raised off on each side, 4 feet each, 8 feet. Do. for ballustrades, 1 foot each, 2 feet. Do. for hand-rails for do. 6 inches each, 1 foot.—Total, 31 feet. The sides of the bridges to be secured with strong ballustrades, after the manner of the bridge between Boston and Charlestown. The bridges and draws are to be kept in constant repair, and at the expiration of the lease are to be surrendered in good order, agreeably to the act.
The following are the terms which the commissioners are authorized to offer to contractors:
A lease of the exclusive privilege of the bridges for a period not exceeding 99 years, with a toll equal to three-fourths of the present rates of ferriage.
From an accurate estimate as could possibly be obtained, the actual receipts of the ferries for a medium of five years last past, amount to twelve hundred pounds, New-Jersey currency, per annum, three-fourths of that sum will consequently produce an immediate income of 900 pounds per ann. This may fairly be estimated as the smallest profit that can be calculated upon. The advancing population of the United States, the increasing intercourse between the two cities of New-York and Philadelphia, the facility which the construction of these bridges will give to travelling, the easy communication thereby offered with the state of New-York, on the western side of the Hudson, are all important circumstances, which must necessarily tend rapidly to accumulate the profits of the bridges. The commissioners are moreover authorized by law to raise four thousand pounds to be applied towards making causeways and laying out proper roads connected with the bridges, and have a lottery now on foot for that purpose. As soon as the places shall be determined on where the bridges are to be fixed, and the contracts for erecting them are executed, the roads and causeways will be immediately undertaken.
Such persons therefore as may be inclined to contract on the above principles, will be pleased to send in their terms sealed, within three months from this date, to WILLIAM MAXWELL, Esq. in New-York, specifying the shortest period of lease for which they will undertake to erect the said bridges, together with proper security for performing the same.
SAMUEL TUTHILL, } JOHN NEILSON, } Commissioners. ROBERT KEMBLE, } WILLIAM MAXWELL, } JOHN PINTARD }
Newark, State of New-Jersey, April 22, 1791.
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Treasury Department.
MARCH 22, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given, that Proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, until the first Monday in September next inclusive, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein after mentioned, viz.
At any place or places, betwixt Yorktown in the state of Pennsylvania and Fort Pitt, and at Fort Pitt.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Fort M'Intosh on the River Ohio, and at Fort M'Intosh.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort M'Intosh and the mouth of the River Muskingum, and at the mouth of the River Muskingum.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum, and up the said River to the Tuscarawas, and at the Tuscarawas, and thence over to the Cayuga River, and down the said River to its mouth.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River Muskingum, and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth of the said River Scioto.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of Scioto River, and the mouth of the great Miami, at the mouth of the great Miami, and from thence to the Rapids, on the Falls of the Ohio, and at the said Rapids.
At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the great Miami, up the said Miami, to and at Piquetown, and thence over to the Miami Village, on the river of the same name which empties into Lake Erie.
At any place or places from the rapids of the Ohio, to the mouth of the Wabash, thence up the said Wabash to Post St. Vincennes, at Post St. Vincennes, and thence up the said river Wabash, to the Miami village, before described.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Wabash river to the mouth of the river Ohio.
At any place or places, on the east side of the river Mississippi, from the mouth of the Ohio river, to the mouth of the Illinois river.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the Miami river to the Miami Village.
At any place or places, from the Miami Village to Sandusky, and at Sandusky, and from Sandusky to the mouth of Cayuga river.
At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Venango, and at Venango.
At any place or places, betwixt Venango and Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf, betwixt Le Beuf and Presq' Isle, at Presq' Isle, and betwixt Presq' Isle and the mouth of Cayuga river.
At the mouth of Cayuga river, and at any place or places, on the route from Fort Pitt, to the mouth of Cayuga river, by the way of Big Beaver creek.
At any place or places, on the east side of the Mississippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the river Margot inclusively.
At any place or places, from the said river Margot, to the river Yazous inclusively.
At any place or places, from the mouth of the river Tenesee, to Ocochappo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusively.
Should any rations be required at any places, or within other districts, not specified in these proposals, the price of the same to be hereafter agreed on, betwixt the public and the contractor.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following articles, viz.
One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or 3/4 of a pound of pork, Half a jill of rum, brandy or whisky, One quart of salt, Two quarts of vinegar, Two pounds of soap, One pound of candles, per. 100 rations.
ALSO, That Proposals will be received at the said office until the first Monday in September next, inclusive, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January to the thirty-first day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the state of Massachusetts, and the Post of West-Point, in the state of New-York.
The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the same articles as are above mentioned.
ALSO, That proposals will be received at the said office, until the 1st Monday in September next inclusive, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January to the 31st day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the districts herein after mentioned.
At the post on the river Saint Mary, at present commanded by Capt. Henry Burbeck.
At the post on the river Altamaha, at present commanded by Capt. John Smith.
At the post on the river Oconee, at present commanded by Capt. Joseph Savage.
At the post on the river Apalachee, at present commanded by Capt. Michael Rudolph.
At any place or places from the Rock Landing on the Oconee, up to the mouth of the main south branch of the said river, from the said mouth up to the source of the said main south branch, and from thence to the Currahee mountain.
At any other place or places within the state of Georgia which may hereafter be occupied as permanent posts by any troops of the United States.
And for rations deliverable on the march to such future posts. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the said term, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at each of the said posts, for the space of at least two months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions.
The rations to be supplied are to consist of the same articles, as are abovementioned.
It is to be understood in each case, that all losses sustained by the depredations of the enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the prices of the articles captured or destroyed, on the depositions of two or more creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation is claimed.
The contracts for the above supplies will be made either for one year, or for two years, as may appear eligible. Persons disposed to contract will therefore confine their offers to one year, or they may make their propositions so as to admit an election of the term of two years.
The proposals may be made for the whole of the above posts together, or separately for Springfield, for West-Point, for Yorktown, and the seventeen places following it, and for the posts in Georgia; and they must specify the lowest price per ration, for prompt payment.