Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-09-14 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. 40, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1791.
[Whole No. 248.]
FROM THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER.
Reflections relative to the Stock of the Bank of the United States, and to the National Funds.
ALTHOUGH the debt of the United States has been among the circumstances, which have inclined the minds of individuals to the continuance of the union, yet it seems difficult to demonstrate, that a public debt is so far a public blessing as to render the existence of such a demand upon a nation lucrative and desirable in a pecuniary sense. It is however certain, that it is actually profitable to a people to evince a real ability and a sincere disposition to discharge such debts as they may have been obliged to contract. The advantages which a trader (or a nation) gains by a perfect credit, resting upon his honesty and solidity, need not be dwelt upon. It is happy for this country, that all its citizens perceive the advantages of the recent restoration of public and private credit, arising from constitutions and laws enforcing justice, banishing paper tenders and other violations of the rights of property, and investing the general government with powers better adapted to the attainment of national safety, order and prosperity. The impulses to industry and economy, resulting from a conviction that the payment of honest debts is no longer to be procrastinated, and from the acquisition of a government able and desirous to preserve to every man the fruits of his labour, have operated to produce unprecedented exports. These abundant productions shipped to foreign markets, procure copious supplies of necessaries, and upon terms, generally speaking, much more favorable to the consumer than heretofore. The concurrence of these circumstances has rendered our country and its business and public funds, more inviting to judicious and monied foreigners. One species of property after another has, and will continue to feel the spring given by their cash, and the rich and cautious part of our citizens, who had under the former constitutions and laws too frequent occasions to complain, have been tempted to bring their money once more into the business of the country. These are the precious effects at home of honest policy . Abroad they are no less satisfactory and undeniable. Among the most wary people of Europe, loans have been negotiated upon terms as favorable as those which have been made for the most punctual, wealthy, and best accredited nations of the old world.
In this state of things it would have been extraordinary if, the funds of the United States, and of the institutions connected with their affairs and commerce, had not risen to their natural and intrinsic value.
Hence the rise of the price at which our public debt has been sold in the market, hence too the demand which has appeared for the stock of the bank of the United States. If these (and particularly the latter) have been suddenly and strangely operated upon, it is partly owing to the quickness of action which sudden transitions from distress and disorder to great prosperity generally produce in nations and individuals. It is believed however, that the disagreeable fluctuations which have taken place in a small degree in regard to the debt, and so strikingly in the case of the Bank Script , have been occasioned at least in part, by the want of the necessary knowledge among a very large number of the public creditors and stockholders. The intention of this paper is not to set a going any too lively movements on these subjects, fluctuations in which are to be regretted on public and private considerations, but to contribute towards the prevention of them in future, by recalling or communicating relative facts, which are forgotten or unknown.
With respect to the Bank Script , it is remembered, that comparisons of the U. S. bank stock with that of the bank of England, have been made in detail and in figures, which placed Script at 315 dollars. Prudent men made large deductions from that price, because it was known, that money is yet more valuable in America than in Europe; because the certificate part of the bank stock is liable to be paid off in installments, and because our bank is not like that of England, a monopoly. These considerations, however, ought not to have reduced it down to the prices, which were talked of, which will be satisfactorily manifested by advertising to the nature of the stock of the bank of England. The funds of that institution are wholly made up of the three per cent. debt of Great Britain, and are as follows:
  Purchased of the South Sea Company, £. 4,000,000   On their original fund reduced in the year 1743, 3,200,000   For cancelling exchequer bills, 3d year Geo. 1st. 500,000   Annuities of the year 1714, 1,250,000   Do. 1719, 1,750,000   Do. 1746, 986,800 
Sterling. £. 11,686,800
which includes the capital, being £. 10,780,000 sterling, and a surplus undivided, of £. 906,800 sterling. On the credit of this mass of public paper, all of which is at only three per cent. the lawful interest is at 5 per cent. do they depend in their operations; that is, all their stock is two per cent. worse than money. On the other hand, all the stock of the bank of the United States is in money , or in public stock better than money, because the interest is paid quarterly, and the price in the market is actually above par. What the excess beyond par for six per cent. stock ought to be, will not be considered here. It is not to be forgotten, that the bank of the United States may take six per cent. interest on its loans, and that the bank of England can only take five per cent. The stock of the American bank, as far as six per cent. is in public debt yielding twice the rate of interest drawn on the public debt belonging to the English bank; so that five millions of the certificates of the bank of the United States (or half its stock ) will produce to it as great a proportionate interest as if its whole funds were on an interest equal to the English certificates, and the interest of one million of six per cents, and the use of four millions of specie, are left as the superior advantage to our institution . This solid and undeniable advantage has not been taken into any estimate that has been exhibited; and though it is not insisted that it ought to run script up to 315 dollars, yet it proves it to be more valuable than has been generally supposed.
It is very interesting to settle the opinion of the value of the stocks , or debt of the United States. Our loans abroad, which yield the foreign lender precisely five per cent. prove that they might as well purchase at 24s. in the pound, were it not for the commissions and distance. But the European interest is only paid annually , and in America it is discharged quarterly . Again—the constitution and laws have given perfect security to private loans by citizens and foreigners—the subscriptions to every bank in the United States are now filled, and other circumstances promise the reduction of the customary interest. A reduction of an unit per cent. would add 16 2/3 to the value of the six per cents. were they irredeemable. The interest of money on private contract is paid less punctually and with trouble, and cannot be de-
manded but once per annum —the dividends of the banks are paid half yearly , but the public funds give their owners the convenience and profit of quarterly payments. Four per cent. funds in Europe are worth about 100. in their markets, which must by comparison raise our six per cent. stocks in the estimation of foreigners. It is a very encouraging new circumstance too, that by placing our debt on the public books, the injurious and alarming consequences of counterfeits are done away. Further—if the six per cent. stocks are compared with ground rents, formerly sold at 20 years purchase, though they were difficult to collect annually, and if we remember that in some parts of America money could not be easily placed in punctual hands at six per cent. and that, in one or two States, more than five per cent. could not have been obtained with good security and quarterly interest, we shall perceive that the six per cent. stock is an inviting object, even to our own citizens, and will not suffer on comparing it with the productiveness of matured real estate. The quality of easy convertibility into cash , at any moment, must recommend it to the attention of the vigilant and enterprising capitalist.
It is really not desired to renew by these observations the too lively feelings of the holders of the public debt or bank script. The objects in view are to give relative facts, on which, in combination with other proper considerations, sober-minded men may ground safe and fair calculations, and to prove to persons whose feelings may have been pained at the appearances of sporting in the funds and bank stock, that there are facts and circumstances in extenuation and explanation of the events, many or some of which may have been forgotten or unknown. The public satisfaction, and the reputation and credit of the country in Europe may be promoted perhaps by explanations and remarks as candid and true as these are intended to be. By a perfect understanding of the subject, it is believed, that a greater degree of stability may be given to the several species of the national paper. To fix the debt at a steady value, is perhaps the most desirable point in finance we have now to accomplish; because an immediate and certain consequence will be, the frequent application of the funds in purchases, which will relieve the incumbered owners of real estate and benefit all others. In the meantime, it must yield them the greatest satisfaction that the public credit has been regained, and supported without the imposition of the smallest burden on their property. The rise of the funds has already occasioned money to be so plenty as to fill the several banks in Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. This will prevent the further application of the private monies of foreigners and citizens in that way, which must now be applied to build houses, improve farms, purchase lands in the settled and unsettled countries, or will be employed in loans to individuals. A good mortgage law , and the subjecting of real estate to execution for debt , in any State, wherein it is so liable, will make money plenty, and easily attainable on private security.
It is not difficult to create great accommodations to trade by means of the public debt. The new bank is a proof of it. A very copious stock has been created by it. The experiment is not new, having been successfully tried in England and Ireland. The old bank of North America has virtually adopted the measure, by laying out one fifth of its capital in purchasing the public debt. An insurance company might easily be established upon it, and they might extend their operations to very convenient loans on bottomry and respondentia. We pay heavy sums for insurance , and various kinds of mercantile credit to foreigners, who consider it often as a favor. It is plain, that the more we can trade on our own funds and institutions, the more freely we can operate and enterprise, and the better terms can we command in the credits we may afterwards incline to take abroad. We also perceive, that the debt and the money made by it can and will be applied to promote manufactures. The want of capital has, more than any thing else, hitherto impeded this branch of trade. A considerable fund is already subscribed—the most precious European machinery is now made, or making by means of that fund—artisans of very considerable talents from abroad are engaged, and a foundation is laid for a successful exemplification of the powers and capacity of this country in the economizing and lucrative business of manufactures.
Let then the candid and serious take a careful view of the useful purposes to which the public funds of the United States may be applied—let those who think that too much profit has arisen to the purchasers, remember, that the public pays not a dollar more on that account, and that the country is profiting of its credit at home and abroad—and above all, let serious monied men reflect, that during the time when prices were the most fluctuating the ability of the United States, the productiveness of the assigned revenues, and the prosperity of the country were as great as at any moment before, and consequently that the intrinsic value of the public debt and bank stock was as fixed and solid, as if no fluctuations had occurred .
A FRIEND TO SOBER DEALING AND PUBLIC CREDIT.
FROM THE ANALYTICAL REVIEW.
HAVING accidentally heard that Dr. Parry, an ingenious physician at Bath, had discovered a method of suspending madness for a short time, we determined to mention it in our journal; but wishing, as far as in our power not to convey any intelligence to the public, but what is authentic, we wrote to Dr. Parry on the subject, and have received the following answer:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ANALYTICAL REVIEW.
SIR,
IT is now a year and an half, since, from circumstances, of analogy, I discovered a method of suspending, in many instances, mania, head ach, vertigo, convulsions and hysterical complaints by a mechanical operation. The method I allude to is stopping, by means of the fingers or thumbs, one or both of the common trunks of the carotid * arteries. Where the paroxysm is recent, this method generally succeeds almost instantaneously like magic, and the symptoms disappear as long as the pressure is continued, but, for the most part, immediately return as soon as it is removed. I cannot now relate to you all the consequences of its operation: but I may observe, in general, that it has led me to a practice in the disorders which I have mentioned, particularly those called nervous, which is totally opposite to that commonly employed, and infinitely more successful.
It is my intention to enlarge something more on this subject in a paper which I mean to prepare, either for one of the medical societies in London, or for one which some of my friends have lately instituted in Gloucestershire. But it would take a volume to relate all the facts which this discovery seems to explain, and the consequences to which it leads.
C. H. PARRY.
Bath, May 16, 1788.
* Arteries, on each side of the neck, which serve to convey the blood from the heart to the brain.
FROM THE BEE.
CONJECTURES ON TAXATION.
TAXES may be considered as a composition in lieu of personal service, paid to the state for the support and equipment of those who are constantly employed in the service of the public, or furnish the means for its protection.
It has been alleged, that certain imposts are paid by particular orders of the people, without affecting the other classes of the community.
When we reflect however, on the dependence the different ranks of the people have upon each other, we can hardly conceive how one class can be affected, without affecting all the other classes.
We ought not to confound the advance, with the ultimate payment of the taxes; the one is obvious, the other may elude our observation.
When the circumstances of a nation are prosperous, it is probable, that every additional tax is ultimately paid, by an increased produce of the labour of the industrious class of citizens.
If an additional tax is imposed, in consequence of an addition made to the number of the servants of the public, such addition may diminish the number of productive labourers; but the diminished number of labourers may be able to produce as much as the undiminished did. Or if an additional tax be imposed, in consequence of a more ample provision made for the servants of the state, the productive labourers may be able to increase the produce of the labour, as much as the increased provision made to the servants of the state amounts to.
Such increase in the produce of labour, is not necessarily the result of an increased exertion in industry. As the different branches of industry are improved, the same actual exertion produces more than before such improvement took place.
During the progressive state of a nation therefore, taxes may be sometimes increased, without much affecting the great body of the people.
Hence taxes with regard to the nation in general, when they are imposed in consequence of increasing the servants of the state, may in a certain degree be nominal only; for if such addition is made from the idle and dissipated, such of these as have no fund, from which to defray their expences, are perhaps no greater tax upon the public when serving the state, than they were before.
Taxes being advanced in money, if the value of money diminishes, additional taxes must be imposed; and if such additional taxes are only equivalent to the fall in the value of money, such additional taxes will be no more than nominal.
When the circumstances of a state are stationary, as production and consumption, or expenditure, are equal, every additional tax must be discharged, by a diminution of consumption or expenditure.
In the declining state of a nation, when produce is less than expenditure, additional taxes must be paid by the exportation of stock; in this case they will be doubly felt by the body of the people.
Industry by the exportation of stock will lose a valuable instrument, and suffer by losing the demand, which the stock, while remaining at home, made upon it.
Taxes then being ultimately paid, either by an increase of the produce of labour, a diminution of consumption or expenditure, or by exporting stock, it does not appear, will be less felt by the body of the people, when advanced to the state by an impost on wine, than by a duty upon candles.
Certain individuals will at all times have it in their power to free themselves from the burden of taxes, by throwing their share of it upon the shoulders of others. This depends not so much on their rank and situation, as on the demand for their labour, or for the use of their property.
The exemption therefore, that individuals may enjoy, from taxes, does not so much depend upon the mode by which it is advanced, as upon the circumstances above mentioned.
Taxes being advanced in money, and in considerable sums, the lower classes of the people not being possessed of money, cannot be subjected to the advance of taxes.
Hence poll taxes have been found oppressive; and such taxes are obnoxious, because they are too visible. Taxes of this species will generally be paid with reluctance, and in many cases with difficulty; of this kind may be reckoned the window and house taxes. (To be continued.)

FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.
JACK AND THE DEACON.
An Anecdote in the Style of PETER PINDAR.
TWO sons of Neptune, Jack and Will, One Sunday's morn were walking, On various subjects, this and that, With much sang froid were talking. Per chance as near a house of prayer They fearless urg'd their careless way, The deacon of the church they met; In robes bedizen'd for the day. He bow'd, and thus the tars address'd, "Good firs, why pass ye thus the time; Surely you'd better walk with me; Sport on this day is no small crime." With all my heart, each tar reply'd, And boldly with the man they ventur'd; Who kindly led them to the house: When on his course the parson enter'd. With prayer the solemn work begins, A song of Zion next succeeds; And here the deacon, rising slow, Gravely proclaims the psalm and reads— "With Hysop purge thy servant Lord," Then tun'd aloud his vocal nose; But luckless man, behold! a tune, That suited ill his verse, he chose: Thrice he essay'd to found the line; And thrice he hem'd to change his tone; But vain, alas! prov'd each attempt; The man now wish'd himself alone. Jack, mov'd to pity, saw his friend's distress, Nor could he long his summon'd feelings curb, But rising from his seat he loudly cry'd, Deacon! for G—d's sake try some other herb.
FROM THE MASSACHUSETTS MAGAZINE.
A MISTAKE CORRECTED.
Messrs. THOMAS & ANDREWS.
IN your last magazine, a lady under the signature of Philena has favored the public with a beautiful and pathetic poem, on the loss of the question for the abolition of the Slave Trade , in the British Parliament. The concluding address to those distinguished characters who supported the motion is particularly animated and striking; but I must beg leave to correct a small mistake which Philena has incurred in supposing Mr. Wilberforce, the leading advocate in this debate, to be a member of the society of friends. This may probably have arisen from the early, general, and indefatigable exertions of that society in this cause of humanity, both in Europe and America. Mr. Wilberforce is a professed member of the established church, having received his education at St. John's college, in the university of Cambridge. This truly philanthropic Senator has been Representative in the British Parliament for the county of York, since the year 1784; and though possessed of a delicate and sickly constitution, has devoted the most ardent and persevering attention for several years to this common cause of justice and benevolence, the advocates for which, we hope, notwithstanding their late defeat, will finally be crowned with success.
AN ENGLISHMAN.
Boston, August 20, 1791.
THE OPINIONS OF STANISLAUS, KING OF POLAND.
WE ought to be more offended at excessive praises, than at invectives: Many would be more esteemed, with a less profuseness of their merit: It should be laid out by measure, and only when wanted.
There is a dignity, which however exalted of itself, gives no rank; that resulting from the character of a good man.
Shall we give over being virtuous to avoid the sneers and machinations of envy? Where would the world be, should the sun withdraw his beams, that they might not dazzle weak eyes?
In most kinds of governments, man is made to conceive himself free, and really to be shackled.
Esteem is more pleasing than friendship, and even than affection; it captivates the heart effectually, and never makes the objects ungrateful.
Most parsimonious people are very good natured, continually amassing wealth for those who with them in the grave.
Some authors labour and polish their compositions to such a degree, that all they publish is mere filings.
There is in the world a tribunal more to be feared, than those of civil authority. This is invisible, has neither officers, forms, nor ensigns; it is likewise universal and every where alike, and every one has a right to vote in it. In this court, the slave sits in judgment on his master, and the subject passes sentence on his sovereign. It is composed of all good persons, and they alone respect it; as, on the other hand, it is only the most hardened profligates, who make light of its decrees.
Natural manners silence the laws; and it is they by which Empires are raised or overthrown. The greatest pleasure that can be done to a vain man, is not so much to praise him, as quietly to hear him praise himself.
EXTRACTS.
A VERY sensible and good man, and an exemplary divine, once told me, that when he settled in the ministry, his parishioners would all with one accord, have it that he was an angel; a few years, he said, convinced them of their error; and then, says he, they as universally agreed that I must be a devil. The truth was that this man was neither devil nor angel; but if viewed with an impartial eye, and his perfections and imperfections both considered, would have been found to be a very worthy man. Men in high stations in life are too often treated in this way. Sometimes they have too much merit ascribed to them, but oftner too little: Envy is ever officious on these occasions; people are apt to imagine when they see one rising in the world, that he is rising from their ruins; the applause given to a rising character, seems to echo reproaches to them; they immediately set themselves to work to retain their supposed merited importance; and as is always the case, with weak minds, they begin at the wrong end; instead of correcting their own faults, their whole time is devoted to hunting for foibles in the man of eminence, the object of their envy; and if, in him, they can discover blemishes, they are spread abroad as veils for their own."
"Friendship is a sacred word, a holy thing; it never subsists but between good men, nor commences but by a mutual esteem: It is kept up, not so much by a benefit received or conferred, as by a virtuous life. That which makes one friend assured of another, is the knowledge he has of his integrity. The sureties he has for him, are his good disposition, his truth and constancy. No friendship can subsist where there is cruelty, treachery, and injustice. When the wicked meet together, it is a conspiracy, not a society of friends. They cannot mutually aid, but are afraid of one another. They are not friends, but confederates in guilt."
"Virtue to crown her fav'rites loves to try Some new, unbeaten passage to the sky; Where God a seat among the just shall give, To those who die for meriting to live!"
Virtue and eminent abilities are so far from being a defence against the shafts of malice and envy, that they seem peculiarly exposed to their attacks—the shadow is not a more constant attendant on the substance, than the ill wishes of the worst characters on the best.—But every good man knows that this is a tax which he must pay for that sublime pleasure which results from conscious rectitude.
The malignant bosom is constantly feeling a return of those corroding sensations which harrow up its tortured imagination—it is envenomed attacks recoil with redoubled force on itself—for, like Sisyphus , it is condemned to perpetual and unproductive exertions.
Happy is it for mankind that their natures are too versatile for the constant and universal exercise of this baleful propensity. The envious often find themselves solitary beings—for in the revolutions of human affairs it constantly happens, that the public opinion does justice to innate probity and real abilities— "And tho' a late, a sure reward succeeds."
RECIPE, FOR THE CURE OF WOUNDS FROM RUSTY NAILS, &c.
TAKE Turpentine and Soft Soap, equal quantities of each; mix them well together, and apply them on the wound, as a plaster, and they will extract the poison common thereto, and cure the wound, without any dangerous consequences.
For contracted joints, in cases where the Legs or Arms have been kept many weeks in a bent position, and by that means the sinews, tendons, &c. have become contracted.
TAKE the yolk of an egg, beat up with a tea-spoonful of clear water, and anoint the part three times a day; and in a week begin to extend the limb gradually. Four or five weeks will produce a great effect in suppling the joint, and restore the lost vigor. Museum.
LONDON, July 6.
THE first king of France was Pharamond, who at the head of a colony of Franks, attempted the conquest of that country, then called Gaul; and his ceremony of inauguration was that of being carried round his camp on a buckler.—This was in the year 420; and in 28 years afterwards, Merovious, who was the successor of Clodio, the son of Pharamond, made himself master of Paris.
In 493, the Christian religion began to flourish there; and Clovis, who married the King of Burgundy's daughter, was publickly anointed in Paris, by several Bishops who came from Rheims. The streets were hung with tapestry, and the oil poured on the King with a phial, which was announced to have been brought from Heaven by an angel in the shape of a dove. Some thousands of the people were baptized at the same time.
It is thought the defence of the King and Queen of France will soften matters much in their favor: it is even conjectured that it was drawn up for them by connivance of the National Assembly, who are disposed to act as favorably as circumstances will admit, wisely considering the danger of committing any act of violence against them.
KINGSTON, (Jam.) July 16.
There are half-joes in circulation which will deceive the nicest observation, unless put into a scale, when their weight will be found not to exceed eight penny weights.
We find the following article in an English paper:—"From making a proper analysis of the counterfeit guineas impressed with the date 1781, and which have been made to circulate in the country, it is found that they are compounded of platina and gold, and it is from the former that they have received a palish cast, and the nicety of weight, without encreasing the bulk, as platina is rather heavier than gold, and less refractory in the hottest fire, that it resists all fusion, except when melted with other metals. (This phenomenon of the mineral kingdom is found in Mexico and Peru, and considerable samples have been brought from the island of Jamaica.) The public should therefore be extremely cautious in the examination of gold, as weight alone cannot admit of any possibility of detection."
PROVIDENCE, Sept. 3.
A number of public spirited gentlemen have determined to open a subscription for a BANK, to be established here, of 150,000 dollars, in 500 shares, of 300 dollars each, payable one half in silver or gold, and one half in the 6 per cent. and 3 per cent. funded debt of the United States, in equal parts—one quarter part of both specie and paper to be paid on the 1st Monday of October next, and the other three quarters to be paid quarterly, viz. on the 1st Monday of January April and July next. The particular plan of the subscription will be published in the next paper, and will be as similar to the National Bank as may be. All therefore who wish to partake of similar advantages and of the amazing profits on Bank Scripts, have this public notice, that they may prepare themselves to attend at the Court House in Providence, at ten o'clock in the forenoon of said 1st Monday of October next, when a Chairman will be appointed, to receive the number of shares each person may wish to subscribe, in order, should the subscriptions exceed the proposed 500 shares, that each claim may be proportionably reduced. 371 dollars, being the first quarter, must be paid in specie, and the same sum in the above securities, to each share, into the hands of the Directors, which are then to be chosen, and the Bank to be put into immediate operation, to facilitate the fall business.
BOSTON, Sept. 3.
Extract of a letter from an officer in the Federal Army, to the editor, dated Fort-Pitt Aug. 9, 1791.
"On Sunday last I arrived at this post with about 200 men, after a disagreeable march of 700 miles. I found that all the troops had gone down the river, except 300 levies. Next week we embark for Fort Washington. The whole army will be about 4000, exclusive of the militia. Heaven grant us success."
"About 12 miles from this place, I encamped last Saturday. I was curious to behold the place where Gen. BRADDOCK was defeated in 1755. With my two officers, and a man of this country acquainted with the ground, I marched about 4 miles to it, and we made such observations as gave us satisfaction. The man who conducted us, led us to a tree which had a number of balls in it, and which had been felled about 25 years.—Mr. C. my Ensign, found a grape shot in one part of it, about 25 feet from the butt, which he cut out—and which, together with two pieces of skull Bones which I picked up on the field, I send you, by the bearer, Lieut. SHERMAN. You will observe how the wood and iron are concreted. We reconnoitred the place at which he passed the river—it is called the Monongehela, nine miles from this place, that and the Alleghany river make the head of the Ohio. I give you this information and send the balls and bones, as I think it may amuse you and my friends. I wish I had time to have been more particular, but you may rely on the fact—It was not made in a Printing or a Lawyer's office, nor in a barber's shop, but it was made on the spot, known by the name of Braddock's Fields. God bless you and all friends."
Extract of a letter from London, to the Editor of the Argus, dated July 6, 1791.
"There is a letter received from Mr. Christie (author of a famous piece against Burke) dated at Paris, the 24th of June, which has this remarkable passage: "The contest will be now between the Royalists and Republicans; whichever conquer the form of government will be decided by. Spain is revolting. That nation has not yet had an example from a people whom they did not deem heretics in religion. They are now determined to follow Catholic example, and not be deemed heretics in the cause of civil liberty."

NEW-HAVEN, Sept. 7.
France has had a most tremendous revolution. Heads cut off and elevated on poles were as plenty there, at one time, as snow birds in December. Marquises, Counts, Bishops, Cardinals and Curates were levelled with a jerk. England saw such things with fear and trembling, and her chief engineer charged himself deeply, intending to sink the whole nation at a shot. He went off with little execution, as Paine and Priestly tell us, who have examined his ammunition, and find that it was wet and unfit for use, though it is expected, his laudable attempt will entitle him to a lordship. The French king and family, at an early stage of this contest, were made prisoners, and continued thus till a few days ago, when, fired with rage, he summoned all his fortitude, and with great presence of mind, jumped into a coach with his dear little wife and run away, and doubtless had been running yet, but a couple of yeomen arrested his Majesty and carried him back to Paris—No injury has happened, excepting that her majesty lost a feather out of her cap, and two china jars of damsons were broke all to pieces.
WINDHAM, (Con.) Sept. 3.
The Commissioners appointed to run a boundary line between the States of Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we are informed have completed that important business.
Philadelphia, September 14.
By an arrival at New-York, English papers are received to the 20th July. They inform that all negotiations for peace between Austria, Russia and the Porte, were broken off.—That the Russian army had crossed the Danube under General Kutusow, attacked and defeated a body of 23,000 Turks.—That the exchange between London and Paris is at 27 per cent.—That the French refugees appear to be elated with the present posture of affairs in France.—That the anniversary of the French Revolution was celebrated by the Revolution Society at the Crown and Anchor. Lord Stanhope declining the chair, it was filled by Mr. Rous. A mob assembled, insisting on the liberation of Lord George Gordon to join in the celebration, but on the appearance of the military they dispersed.—A report, which was credited, was in circulation, that a great riot had taken place in Dublin on the 14th of July—and that nearly the whole of one street was burnt.—That a number of persons having assembled at Birmingham to celebrate the above anniversary, the mob had assembled before the Hotel where the meeting was held, and being exasperated by accounts of the company's proceedings, that they had drunk, Destruction to the present Government—and the King's Head in a charger, &c. broke into the House, destroyed the windows, glasses, &c. pelted the individuals and obliged them to seek safety in flight. This was succeeded by a dreadful riot, in which the houses of Dr. Priestly, Mr. John Ryland, John Taylor, Esq. Mr. Hutton, Mr. George Humpbrey, William Russell, Esq. Mosley Hall, and Mr. Hawks, some dissenting meeting houses, and several houses of dissenters, were destroyed by fire. This riot continued from the 14th to the 17th July—and was if possible more alarming than that experienced in London in 1780. Great numbers of the rioters lost their lives by being in the cellars of houses, the walls of which fell in upon them. Dr. Priestly narrowly escaped with his life. By the intervention of the military tranquility was restored, but not until many lives were lost on both sides. [Further particulars of this distressing event shall appear in our next.]
A great fermentation appears to exist in France—the King and Queen continue confined. The King of Spain has written to the National Assembly, respecting the King, advising conciliatory measures—The Assembly voted this answer, "That as the French nation does not intend to meddle with the affairs of foreign powers, so foreign powers have no business to meddle with the affairs of the French nation." The result of the report of the Committee of enquiry respecting the French King's flight, was, "That there is no crime committed against the Constitution by the King; and if there was, still the King's inviolability would not permit him to be tried." M. Bouille and his accomplices are impeached.
Extract of a letter from a citizen of the United States, at Madeira, to a gentleman in this city, dated July 19.
"The anniversary of our political birth day was celebrated here at the house of the Consul, John M. Pintard, Esq. with due respect; at sunrise an elegant silk flag of the United States was displayed in front of the house; at three o'clock the masters of all the American vessels in port, nine in number partook of an entertainment provided by the Consul—a band of musick played during the time of dining, and fifteen toasts adapted to the occasion were drunk, attended by the discharge of cannon; at sunset the company moved to the green in front of the house, when the colours were struck under a discharge of fifteen guns."
"The Consuls' House is situated on an eminence in full view of the whole town—the celebration was therefore a very conspicuous object—the natives of the island in general are very well disposed towards the people of the United States—and I am firmly persuaded that if our country continues to support her character and credit she will have the worthy of all countries, for friends; as to the envious and contracted of any nation, their friendship cannot be considered as an acquisition. Our Consul here possesses the genuine spirit of an American; the great events, that led to empire and independence such as the brilliant stroke at Trenton, the capture of Burgoyne, Cornwallis, &c. are always noticed by him; and whenever any of our countrymen are in port, they are always invited to unite with him in the joy of the day—if none happen to be here—he hoists his flag and celebrates with his own family—in short his countrymen are always welcome at his house, and he never appears so happy as when he has the pleasure of their company. M. Pintard is now established in business at this island, under his own firm; this circumstance I was not acquainted with previous to my leaving the States, or I should have applied to him; you may be assured that the commands of yourself, or any of your friends at this island entrusted to him, will be executed with fidelity ability and dispatch."
A letter from a gentleman in Montreal, dated August 19, says: "Lord Dorchester sailed for London yesterday, and Prince Edward, the King's son arrived last week at Quebec."
Mr. Augustus Christian George Elholm, lately arrived here from the Natches, on the Mississippi, relates the following lamentable incident. "The brig Galgo, (Royal Packet) commanded by Joseph Rodrigo Cablera, bound to the Ha-
vannah, with passengers, and partly loaded with lumber, failed from New-Orleans the 21st of June last, and overset the 23d at 5 o'clock in the morning, 40 leagues S. of Pensacola, wherein 8 persons instantaneously perished; in which number were a Spanish lady (Mrs. Palao, distinguished by a successful parental care of a respectable raised family of both sexes) and her grand-daughter, about 6 years of age,—who were, with several others, in the cabin at the time of the catastrophe! From whence lieut. Martini Palao (son of the deceased lady) and himself (the said Mr. Elholm) saved themselves with great difficulty, by getting out through the water at the door, and with the assistance of the rigging, joined the survivors on the side of the vessel.
"When the party, for about the space of four hours, conceiving every moment the last, had sustained the violence of the waves, in a boisterous storm, rain, and thunder, amidst the dreadful scene of floating deceased friends; (for the partition between the cabin and the main deck, was at this time destroyed by the irresistible force of the sea, and consequently every thing washed out) the masts at once gave way at the deck, and cleared the wreck by the agitation of the sea, which gave liberty to the hull to right it so as to admit the crew to enter the highest side of the quarter-deck; in which situation, filled with water, and loaded with green lumber, she at best floated very deep, and in consequence of her pitching, but seldom above water.
"In about 55 hours after this disastrous event the wind and waves fortunately abated, which afforded an opportunity to kindle a fire with a flint and steel, which a peculiar circumstance had preserved. Night now coming on, the people fatigued and exhausted by the want of fresh water, &c. found means to tie themselves on the highest places on the hull, to indulge in some degree a requisite repose, securedly from the dangerous washing of the ocean; first establishing a watch by turns to keep up the light, in hopes to draw attention, if any vessel should, by the will of Providence, be directed that way, which had the wished for effect—for the friendly and humane Capt. Dolhonde, commanding the Amiable Maria, from New-Orleans, the ensuing night perceiving the fire which was kept up, and governed by a humane disposition, which on the occasion acquired the praises of all good men, altered his course to enquire whether a light not commonly seen on vessels that distance from land, might not be a signal of a people in distress; and thus came to their relief about two o'clock in the morning, and seventy hours after their shipwreck.
"He had plenty of provisions necessary for their recovery, which he imparted with no less attention than as noted liberality; and the 6th of July landed them (19 in number) on the island of Cuba, 5 miles to windward of the Havannah, from whence they proceeded to the town."
A Senator to complete the representation of this State, in the Senate of the United States, tho' long since wanted, has not been chosen, because the two Houses of our Legislature, could not agree upon the mode which was to be followed in making the appointment. The Senate wish the appointment made by a concurrent vote of both houses; and the other Branch contend, that it ought to be by the joint vote of the members of both Houses, in one body met. In endeavoring to determine this important question, much time has been unnecessarily spent, in considering the expediency of each mode; unnecessarily, because the mode is pointed out by the Constitution of the United States: There would be room for doubt and debate, if the provisions of the constitution were not positive in this particular, and if the mode could be deduced only by construction from the words of the Constitution; but this is not the case. The letter of the Constitution speaks thus: "The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the LEGISLATURE thereof, &c." Now our State Constitution as expressly says, that the legislative power of this Commonwealth, shall be vested in two Houses, a Senate, and House of Representatives: So that it appears clearly, by the Constitution of the United States, that the appointment of a Senator, must be a Legislative act of the State, and the Legislature of this State, by its constitution, consists of two houses; without dispute, tho' ever so inexpedient, the Senator must hold his appointment by a concurrent vote. A question here arises, whether this vote must not be qualified by the approbation of the Governor, as an article of the State Constitution expressly declares, "that every order, resolution, or vote, to which the concurrence of both houses may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the Governor, or, being disapproved, &c." The question, indeed, is answered by the words of the constitution, the letter of which speaks also positively here—it must be solved, without hesitation, in the affirmative.
Daily Adv.
At the present moment there is a truly laudable spirit of enterprise and improvement extant among the citizens of the United States. The improvement of our inland navigation is a subject that engrosses the attention of public bodies, and individuals in various parts of the union. Nature has performed her part most amply in furnishing our country with natural, exhaustless reservoirs, and rivers that intersect the country in innumerable directions. What remains then but that Art should compleat her generous intentions?
Almost infinitely less labor and expence than has been employed on a single canal in Great-Britain, would in some of these states unite rivers, that would open an interior intercourse, the advantages of which cannot be estimated.
The plan laid to be now prosecuting in North-Carolina for uniting that state with Virginia, by an interior water communication, is a noble undertaking. The provision made by this Commonwealth for improvements in the roads, and clearing obstructions in its numerous rivers, evinces a spirit of enterprize and patriotism highly honorable to the Government. In other parts of the Union a similar disposition is apparent; and it may not be too sanguine to suppose, that the period will arrive when those immense bodies of water which form the internal seas of the United States, and which from their elevated situations appear calculated for the purpose, may by art and labour be made locks or sources of canals, that shall waft the produce of our country from the Lake of the Woods to the Atlantic.
There are several projects now on foot in the state of Massachusetts for improving their navigation. The account recently published of a survey in the district of Maine, shews that our country is susceptible of improvements which have hitherto escaped observation, but which the present happy period seems destined to bring to view, attended with circumstances that flash conviction of their feasibility on the mind of the most curious enquirer. We are informed that the result of the survey lately undertaken and executed at the instance of the Secretary at War, respecting the practicability of opening an internal water communication from Connecticut river, with some of the rivers in the neighbourhood of Boston, presents no obstacles that may not be surmounted by an expence, which would be abundantly re-imbursed by the advantages which would accrue to the public from completing the business.
The design of fixing the Manufactories, about to be established, in the state of New-Jersey, must meet the approbation of all who are friends to the Union, peace and good understanding of the cities of Philadelphia and New-York—The inhabitants of these places will be interested in this patriotic undertaking—their mutual convenience and accommodation ought therefore to be considered. The state of New-Jersey will derive very essential local advantages from the circumstance—she will shortly see a large manufacturing town rising up in the midst of the state, which, while it serves to cement these two great cities, will ideally diminish their distance from each other.
MR. FENNO, THE general reflections contained in the extracts from the North-Carolina Gazette, published in your last paper, like all other indiscriminate charges on collective bodies, or aggregate descriptions of persons, cannot be founded in truth. That a practice so hostile to the commercial or moral character of the people as that of attempts at counterfeiting the hand writing of others, should be almost universally prevalent among the youth of North-Carolina, is a monstrous and absurd supposition, and carries a refutation on its very surface.
I doubt not this malignant charge will be properly noticed—and should not be at all surprized to find that it originated with some disappointed speculator, who has suffered by purchasing counterfeit paper. A. B.
ON PUBLIC PRAISE.
"O breath of Public Praise,
Short-liv'd and vain! oft gain'd without desert,
As often lost unmerited:—thou first begin'st with love
Enthusiastic, madness of affection: then
(Bounding o'er moderation and o'er reason)
Thou turn'st to hate as causeless and as fierce."
Died on the first inst. at Laningsburgh, in the state of New-York, Mr. HUGH BOYLE, late of this city, merchant, in the 34th year of his age.
Benevolence formed the most conspicuous trait in the character of Mr. Boyle. He was emphatically the friend of man. His virtues and abilities will cause his death to be long regretted by a numerous and highly respectable acquaintance. His journey to the North-River was for the purpose of purchasing a house and farm, as a retreat for his aged parents, who are shortly expected to arrive in this country from Ireland. Having accomplished his design, he was taken with an inflammatory fever, which carried him off in a few days.
From PELOSI's MARINE LIST.
Table with 2 columns: ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Ship Union, Rehsda, Sally, King, Fair American, Lee, Barque Harmond, Thomas, Brig Mars, Longford, Scipio, Brook-la-bank, Adventure, Brice, Lisbon, Hull, Amsterdam, Jamaica, Oporto, ditto, Grenada.
PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES.
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W. M'DOUGALL'S DANCING SCHOOL,
Is now opened at his School-Room, No. 28, Carter's Alley.
HE returns his sincere thanks for the great encouragement he has experienced these eighteen years; hopes the reputation of his school for decorum and good order, as well as the performance of his scholars, will still ensure him a respectable share of the public favor.
A number of new Cotillions and Country Dances will be taught during the season.
Those who please to honor him with the tuition of their children, may be assured, they will be taught in the most approved stile, and that proper attention will be paid to their carriage and manners.
A general practising for the improvement of the scholars, will be held at the New Rooms, every other Wednesday; when the employers, and strangers of genteel deportment, will be admitted. These practisings will be attended with no expence.
N. B. An EVENING SCHOOL will be opened for grown Gentlemen, as soon as a sufficient number offer. Philadelphia, September 14, 1791. (t. f.)

NEW CONSTITUTION OF THE GOVERNMENT OF POLAND, &c. &c. (CONTINUED.)
ARTICLE V.
Form of Government, or the Definition of Public Powers.
ALL power in civil society shall be derived from the will of the people, its end and object being the preservation and integrity of the state, the civil liberty and the good order of society, on an equal scale, and on a lasting foundation.
1st. Legislative power in the States assembled. 2d. Executive power in the King and the Council of Inspection. 3d. Judicial power in jurisdictions existing, or to be established.
ARTICLE VI.
The Diet, or the Legislative Power.
The Diet, or the Assembly of States, shall be divided into two Houses, viz. the House of Nuncios, or Deputies, and the House of Senate, where the King is to preside. The former being the representative and central point of supreme national authority, shall possess the pre-eminence in the legislature; therefore all bills are to be decided first in this House.
1st. All general laws, viz. constitutional, civil, criminal, and perpetual taxes; concerning which matters, the King is to issue his propositions by the circular letters sent before the Dietines to every palatinate and to every district for deliberation, which coming before the House with the opinion expressed in the instructions given to their representatives, shall be taken the first for decision.
2d. Particular Laws, viz. temporal taxes; regulations of the mint; contracting public debts; creating nobles, and other casual recompences; reparation of public expences, both ordinary and extraordinary; concerning war; peace; ratification of treaties, both political and commercial; all diplomatic acts and conventions relative to the laws of nations; examining and acquitting different executive departments, and similar subjects arising from the accidental exigencies and circumstances of the state, in which the propositions, coming directly from the Throne into the House of Nuncios, are to have preference in discussion before the private bills.
In regard to the House of Senate, it is to consist of Bishops, Palatines, Castellans and Ministers, under the Presidency of the King, who shall have but one vote, and the casting voice in case of parity, which he may give either personally, or by a message to the House. Its power and duty shall be,
1st. Every general law that passes formally thro' the House of Nuncios, is to be sent immediately to this, which is either accepted, or suspended till farther national deliberation, by a majority of votes, as prescribed by law. If accepted, it becomes a law in all its force; if suspended, it shall be resumed at the next Diet: and if it is then agreed to again by the House of Nuncios, the Senate must submit to it.
2d. Every particular law or statute of the Diet in matters above specified, as soon as it has been determined by the House of Nuncios, and sent up to the Senate, the votes of both Houses shall be jointly computed, and the majority, as described by law, shall be considered as a decree and the will of the nation.
Those Senators and Ministers who, from their share in executive power, are accountable to the Republic, cannot have an active voice in the Diet, but may be present in order to give necessary explanations to the States.
These ordinary Legislative Diets shall have their uninterrupted existence, and be always ready to meet; renewable every two years. The length of sessions shall be determined by the law concerning Diets. If convened out of ordinary session upon some urgent occasion, they shall only deliberate on the subject which occasioned such a call, or on circumstances which may arise out of it.
No law or statute enacted by such ordinary Diet, can be altered or annulled by the same.
The complement of the Diet shall be composed of the number of persons in both Houses, to be determined hereafter.
The law concerning the Dietines, or primary elections, as established by the present Diet, shall be regarded as a most essential foundation of civil liberty.
The majority of votes shall decide every thing, and every where; therefore we abolish, and utterly annihilate, liberum veto , all sorts of confederacies and confederate Diets, as contrary to the spirit of the present constitution, as undermining the government, and as being ruinous to society.
Willing to prevent, on one hand, violent and frequent changes in the national constitution,
yet considering, on the other, the necessity of perfecting it, after experiencing its effects on public prosperity, we determine the period of every 25 years for an Extraordinary Constitutional Diet, to be held purposely for the revision and such alterations of the constitution as may be found requisite; which Diet shall be circumscribed by a separate law hereafter.
(To be continued.)
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LOUISIANA.
ALL those persons who have an inclination to settle on the rich lands of the Mississippi, can have a passage to New Orleans about the 20th of October next. Each single man on his arrival there, will have a grant of two hundred and forty acres of land, in fee simple, gratis, without rents or taxes; and each married man, a larger quantity, in proportion to the number of his family. For further particulars, enquire of Messrs. STEWART & NESBITT, No. 15, South Water-Street. Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 1791.
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PUBLIC SECURITIES,
BOUGHT and SOLD, on COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON, Chestnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97. MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL, AND NEW-HAVEN LOTTERY TICKETS, To be had at the same place.
MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY. CLASS II.
THE MANAGERS of the STATE-LOTTERY assure the Public, that the second Class of the SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY will positively commence drawing on the day appointed, viz. On Thursday the 13th of October next, or sooner, if the Tickets shall be disposed of. As the Managers have in their several monthly Lotteries commenced drawing at the hour assigned, so they are determined to be equally as punctual in this.
S C H E M E.
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
25,000 TICKETS, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. for the use of the Commonwealth.
Table with 4 columns: PRIZES, DOLLARS, is, DOLLARS. It lists various prize amounts and their corresponding dollar values.
25000 Tickets.
TICKETS in the above CLASS may be had of the several MANAGERS, who will pay the prizes on demand; of the TREASURER of the Commonwealth; of JAMES WHITE, at his Book-store, Franklin's Head, Court-street—and at other places, as usual.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. DAVID COBB, SAMUEL COOPER, GEORGE R. MINOT, JOHN KNEELAND, MANAGERS.
Boston, April 14, 1791.
Public Notice is hereby given,
to all to 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, ROBERT SCOTT, M. R. WILLKINGS, Executors.
Wilmington, North-Carolina, 27th May, 1791. (e p 3 m.)
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New-York, August 3.
Her Most Faithful Majesty's Consul-General to the United States, publishes the following EXTRACT from the Instructions sent him by the Royal Board of Trade at LISBON, for the information of those whom it may concern:—
ALL Mercantile Contracts, Policies of Insurance, Protesses, or other Documents, which are to be given in evidence in Courts of Justice, or out thereof, shall be authenticated by the Consuls, and sealed with the royal arms of the respective Consulate, which her Majesty has been pleased to grant the Consuls to affix to papers relating to their office; without which no credit shall be given thereunto in Courts of Justice, or otherwise. Philadelphia, August 12.
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-five 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.