National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-07-11 00:00:00

National Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
VOL. I.
WEDNESDAY, July 11, 1792.
NUMB. 73.
Copy of the French PATENT LAW.
The Law relative to useful discoveries, and to assure the property to those that shall be known to be the authors.
Given at Paris, Jan. 7, 1791.
Louis by the grace of God, and, by the constitutional law of the state, King of the French, to all present and to come; Greeting:
The National Assembly has decreed, and we will and order what follows:—
DECREE of the National Assembly of the 31st of December, 1791.
THE National Assembly considering all new ideas, of which the manifestation or improvement may become useful to society, as belonging originally to those who have conceived them; and, that it would be to attack the rights of men in their essence, not to regard a discovery as the property of the author, and considering at the same time, that the want of such a positive and authentic truth until the present time, has much contributed to discourage the French industry, as it has occasioned numbers of our most distinguished artists to emigrate, and has been the means of numbers of new inventions being carried into foreign countries, of which this kingdom ought to have had the first advantages; in fine, considering that every principle of justice, public order, and national interest positively commands to fix for the future, the opinion of every French citizen on this sort of property by law, which shall be sacred, and which shall be protected;—
DECREE what follows: Article 1st. ALL discoveries, or new inventions in every kind of genius are the property of their authors, consequently, the law will ensure the full and entire enjoyment of such inventions or discoveries, following the mode, and for the time which shall hereafter be determined.
2d. All means that may be added of a new degree of perfection to any fabrication, be it what it may, shall be regarded as an invention.
3d. Whoever shall be the first to bring into France any foreign discovery, shall enjoy the same advantages as if he had invented it.
4th. Those that wish to preserve, or assure a property on works of genius, such as have been already mentioned in the preceding articles, shall be obliged first to apply to the secretary's office of his department, and there declare by writing, if the object that he presents is an invention, an improvement, or only an importation. Secondly . He must give a sealed packet of the exact description of the principles, means, and proceedings which constitute the discovery; likewise the plans, cuttings, drawings, and models which shall thereto belong, that the said packet may be ready to be opened the moment when the inventor shall receive his title to the property.
5th. When any object of general utility, but of an execution too plain and easily imitated to be of exclusive advantage to the inventor, and in every case when an inventor would prefer to treat directly with the government, he shall be free to make his address, either to the administrative assembly, or to the legislative body, if they are sitting, to confide his discoveries in showing the advantages, and soliciting a recompence.
6th. When an inventor will prefer to the personal advantages, assured by the law, the honor of letting the nation directly enjoy the fruits of his discovery, or invention; and, when he shall prove by public notoriety, and by legal attentions, that the discovery or invention is of real utility, he shall be allowed a recompence from the fund destined for the encouragement of industry.
7th. In fine, to ensure to every inventor the enjoyment of his property in his invention, he shall have delivered to him
a patent according to such form as shall be pointed out in the rules for the execution of the present decree.
8th. The patents shall be given for five, ten, or fifteen years, at the choice of the inventor, but the last term cannot be prolonged without a particular decree of the legislative body.
9th. Any discovery or invention improved, shall only be for the term of years that is given to the original inventor in the country from which it is brought.
10th. The patents upon parchment, and sealed with the seal of the nation, shall be registered in the secretary's office of the directories of all the departments in the kingdom, and it shall be sufficient to obtain, to address to these directories, who shall be charged to procure them for the inventor.
11th. It shall be free for every citizen to go and consult at the secretary's office of his department, the catalogues of all new inventions; it shall be, likewise, free for all citizens that are house-keepers, to consult at the general deposite, established for this purpose, the specifications of the different patents actually in use; not withstanding, the descriptions shall not be communicated in such cases where the inventor, having thought that wise and commercial reasons required secrecy in his discoveries, he shall have presented to the legislative body, his motives, and shall have obtained a particular decree for that purpose: In a case where it shall be declared that a description shall remain secret, there shall be named commissioners to examine the exactitude of description: The author remaining still responsible for this exactitude, as much as if the thing were open to general inspection.
12th. The patentee shall enjoy exclusively the use and fruits of his discovery, invention, or perfection for which the patent shall have been obtained; consequently, the said patentee, on giving good and sufficient surety, shall seize any objects that are counterfeited, and bring the person that has counterfeited them before the tribunals.
When any person is convicted of having counterfeited the property of a patentee, he, (the counterfeiter) shall pay to the inventor according to the value of the things counterfeited; and over and above, a fine to the poor of the parish, amounting to the fourth part of what shall have already been recovered for the things counterfeited: Provided, that the fine shall not exceed 3000 livres, and double in case of the repetition of the offence.
13th. In a case where an information has been put in force, and the person so informed against proves his innocence, the patentee shall be obliged to pay all damages, proportional to the trouble and mischief he may have done to the party, and likewise, a fine amounting to the fourth part of the damages, unless that should be above 300 livres and, double in case of repetition.
14th. All patentees shall have the right to form and establish in any part of the kingdom, or empower others to employ the means granted to him, and, in all cases the patentee shall be free to dispose of his patent-right as of any other property.
15th. At the expiration of each patent, the discovery or invention shall belong to the community; the description shall be made public, and the use permitted in any part of the kingdom, to the end that every citizen may be free to enjoy and use them; at least, such as a decree of the legislative body has not prolonged, or may have ordered to be secret, as in cases provided for by the 11th article.
16th. The description of a discovery, as announced in a patent, shall be made public, and the use of the means and proceedings relative to this discovery shall, also, be declared free in all parts of the kingdom, whenever the patentee shall have lost his rights: which can only happen in
the cases hereafter mentioned; first, an inventor shall be deprived of his rights on being convicted of concealing the true means he employs in his descriptions.—
Secondly, all proprietors who shall be convicted of using any secret in their fabrications, that they have not shown in their descriptions, or have not made a declaration thereof, that it might have been joined to the descriptions that they had given, shall be deprived of their rights.—
Thirdly, All inventors or such as call themselves so, that shall be convicted of having obtained a patent of discoveries, for such as have been deposited, or published in printed works, shall lose their patents.—
Fourthly, All inventors who in the course of two years from the date of their patents, have not put in force their inventions, or assigned any reason for their inaction, shall be deprived of their rights.—
Fifthly, All inventors who have obtained a patent in France, and afterwards one for the same object in any foreign country, on being convicted, shall forfeit his right to his patent in France.—
Sixthly, Every one that acquires the right to exercise a discovery announced in a patent, must submit to the same obligations as an inventor; and if he objects, the patent will be revoked, the discovery made public, and the use become free throughout the kingdom.—
17th. The national assembly intends not to injure such exclusive rights, as were heretofore allowed to inventions or discoveries; when all the legal forms have been observed for these privileges, which shall have their full effect: but the possessors of privileges formerly granted, shall be held to comply with this decree. the authors, who had their privileges from an arrest of council, or on letters patent not registered, shall have them converted, without any expense, into patents, but only for the term which is to run, by proving that the said privileges have been obtained for discoveries and inventions, such as have been announced in the foregoing articles, when the proprietors of the said ancient privileges already registered, and, likewise, of those which shall be changed into patents, shall be free to dispose of them according to the 14th article.
18th. The committee of agriculture and of commerce, joined to the committee of impositions, will present to the national assembly, a Rule that shall fix the duties on patents of inventions, according to the term each is to continue, which shall include all the different articles contained in the present decree:
Given and ordered to all tribunals, governors, and corporations, that, these presents they shall transcribe into their registers, read, publish, post in their respective jurisdictions and departments, and execute them as the law of the realm; in faith of which, we have signed, and had counter-signed the said presents, to which we have put the seal of the State at Paris, January 7th, in the year 1791, and the 17th of our reign.
(Signed) LOUIS. M. L. F. du PORT.
[The following Extract from Mr. Paine's Rights of Man, will give a tolerable idea whether exclusively privileged societies tend to the general benefit of a country or not.]
ON CHARTERS AND CORPORATIONS. IT is a perversion of terms to say, that a charter gives rights. It operates by a contrary effect, that of taking rights away. Rights are inherently in all the inhabitants; but charters, by annulling those rights in the majority, leave the right by exclusion in the hands of a few. If charters were constructed so as to express in direct terms, "that every inhabitant, who is not a member of a corporation, shall not exercise the right of voting," such charters would in the face, be charters, not of rights, but of exclusions. The effect is the same under the form they now
stand; and the only persons on whom they operate, are the persons whom they exclude. Those whose rights are guaranteed, by not being taken away, exercise no other rights, than as members of the community they are entitled to without a charter; and, therefore, all charters have no other than an indirect negative operation. They do not give rights to A, but they make a difference in favour of A by taking away the right of B, and consequently are instruments of injustice.
But charters and corporations have a more extensive evil effect, than what relates merely to elections. They are sources of endless contentions in the places where they exist; and they lessen the common rights of national society. A native of England, under the operation of charters and corporations, cannot be said to be an Englishman in the full sense of the word. He is not free of the nation, in the same manner that a Frenchman is free of France, and an American of America. His rights are circumscribed to the town, and, in some cases, to the parish of his birth; and all other parts, though in his native land, are to him as a foreign country. To acquire a residence in these, he must undergo a local naturalization by purchase, or he is forbidden or expelled the place. This species of feudalism is kept up to aggrandize the corporations at the ruin of towns; and the effect is visible.
The generality of corporation towns are in a state of solitary decay, and prevented from further ruin only by some circumstance in their situation, such as a navigable river, or a plentiful surrounding country. As population is one of the chief sources of wealth, (for without it land itself has no value) every thing which operates to prevent it must lessen the value of property; and as corporations have not only this tendency, but directly this effect, they cannot but be injurious. If any policy were to be followed, instead of that of general freedom to every person to settle where he chose (as in France and America) it would be more consistent to give encouragement to new comers, than to preclude their admission by exacting premiums from them.
The persons most immediately interested in the abolition of corporations, are the inhabitants of the towns where corporations are established. The instances of Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield, shew, by contrast, the injury which those Gothic institutions are to property and commerce. A few examples may be found, such as that of London, whose natural and commercial advantages, owing to its situation on the Thames, is capable of bearing up against the political evils of a corporation; but in almost all other cases the fatality is too visible to be doubted or denied.
Though the whole nation is not so directly affected by the depression of property in corporation towns as the inhabitants themselves, it partakes of the consequence. By lessening the value of property, the quantity of national commerce is curtailed. Every man is a customer in proportion to his ability; and as all parts of a nation trade with each other, whatever affects any of the parts, must necessarily communicate to the whole.
As one of the houses of the English parliament is, in a great measure, made up of elections from those corporations; and as it is unnatural that a pure stream should flow from a foul fountain, its vices are but a continuation of the vices of its origin. A man of moral honor and good political principles, cannot submit to the mean drudgery and disgraceful arts, by which such elections are carried. To be a successful candidate, he must be destitute of the qualities that constitute a just legislator: and being thus disciplined to corruption by the mode of entering into parliament, it is not to be expected that the representative should be better than the man.

For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
TO THE PRINTER.
As you have published several extracts from the New-York papers, respecting the election for governor, and as some of those extracts relate to the conduct of the committee appointed to canvass the votes, you are requested to publish the following circumstances, to prevent the readers of your, or any other paper, forming erroneous opinions by having only seen and considered one side of the question.
IN the New York Journal of the 16th ult. the business of this election is fairly laid open and explained, particularly of Otsego county, and it clearly appears that instead of the privileges of freemen having been violated and their suffrages discarded, "for want of mere form, to answer sinister motives," as has been asserted by a jinto in that state; the facts will convince every rational reflective mind that these privileges, so much valued and esteemed, as the birthrights of freemen, have been infringed and perverted by some of that very jinto, whose conduct will stain them with perpetual infamy. The facts are simply these, that undue influence towards the weak, threats towards the ignorant, have been grossly practised by certain leading characters in the county of Otsego, to gratify private resentment, and if possible, to answer completely the purposes of party. In order to prove these facts, a string of affidavits is subjoined, which although too voluminous for one day's publication, may be summoned up in the following order:
1st. An affidavit of James Butterfield, a collector of taxes in said county, stating, that he received from Jacob Morris, supervisor, a book estimating the value of property, real and personal, apportioning the taxes, &c.—that the whole number of taxable persons was 521, of whom only 18 persons were rated as being worth 100l. and upwards, and no more than twenty-seven persons whose real or personal estates amounted to 100l. although the deponent being present at the closing of the poll, heard that upwards of 500 persons had voted at the said poll for governor and lieutenant governor.
2d. William Garrett, one of the clerks of the election swears that 527 votes were taken.
3d. John Mayall, an ancient inhabitant and assessor for the town of Otsego last year, and several years previous thereto, having been present at the election, did see many persons voting for governor and lieutenant governor, who were not entitled by law so to do—that he informed the inspectors, who asked him why he did not challenge them? He replied, that it was their duty—that fifty voted on that day which he attended, of whom not more than nine or ten were qualified.
4th. Phinehas Hill, a transient person and under the age prescribed by law, swears that he went to said election, in order to make an experiment with the inspectors, and knowing that he had no right to vote for governor, &c. But that Richard R. Smith, late sheriff and supervisor for said town of Otsego, who knew the deponent to be disqualified as aforesaid, took hold of him by the arm, and endeavored to make him vote—that the deponent then declared he feared the consequences; but that Smith said he would be his security from all harm, whereupon the deponent did give in his ballot.
5th. John Cally saw fifty persons deliver in ballots on the 28th of April, of whom not more than ten were qualified. He informed the inspectors, and said it was their duty to challenge the votes; to which the inspectors replied, that the law was altered, and that William Cooper, first judge of Otsego county had told them, that every person who was a resident, and had paid taxes, might vote at that election; that the deponent challenged the vote of one John Hardgrove, but that William Cooper took hold of him the deponent by the breast, and drove him away from the table.
6th. Benajah Church, deposed, that on the 27th day of April, he saw William Cooper take the vote of a young man, who informed the deponent that he was under age: he also saw Cooper lay hold of several persons who were not entitled to vote, and oblige them to give in their ballots.
7th. Jehiel Jackson, swears, that the facts contained in the foregoing are true, but that fearing least Cooper might injure his father, who is indebted to him, he dared not come forward to make a particular affidavit.
8th. Andrew Cannon, swears, that William Cooper declared he had heard that the deponent came there to challenge votes—and said, if he attempted it, he would send him to jail, and shewed him a mittimus ready written for that purpose.
9th. James Abbey—under age—swears that R. R. Smith, late sheriff, forced him to vote, although the deponent told him he was disqualified.
10th. Adolphus Wabradt, swears he was present when judge Cooper threatened Jacob G. Fonda, that if he the said Fonda did not subscribe a certain paper respecting an affidavit taken by Fonda, he (Cooper) would have satisfaction, if it should cost him 20,000l.
11th. Dennis McCafferty, April 27, was seized by judge Cooper, and obliged to vote, although a transient person, and no way entitled.
12th. John Hardgrove, swears that judge Cooper took hold of his the deponent's arm, led him to the window, and put a ballot into his hand against his will, which he obliged him to give in.
13th. Joseph Whitford, saw judge Cooper draw in several transient persons who, with great reluctance, were induced to give in ballots. Cooper also declared, that if he heard any person speak in favor of governor Clinton, he would take a fire-brand and put fire to his barn. Cooper likewise threatened the deponent.
Having so far stated this scene of open villainy, which is not equalled by even Osborne's conduct in Georgia, I might here produce letters written by Cooper to his friends, for corrupt purposes; and which are at once the criterion of his scholarship and integrity.
After perusing the foregoing summary, it will scarcely be necessary to submit the determination to the public, whether the votes of Otsego county did not meet the fate they justly merited.
July 7.
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE.
MR. FRENEAU, I HAVE long been disgusted by a mode of expression, which I find is rapidly increasing, as well in public as in private writings.
In the first paragraph of your paper of this day under the Philadelphia head, you say, "The Bank of the United States HAS NOTIFIED the Stockholders, &c."
Why not notified TO the Stockholders &c.? How would it read—"the bank of the United States has made known THE Stockholders"?
If the mode of expression complained of, is not to be supported upon justifiable principles, you will not advocate it—if otherwise, I shall be glad to see your vindication of it.—Attention to our language is necessary, as well as to our government.
Your strictures upon the above would be pleasing, to one of your friends and
A SUBSCRIBER.
July 4. 1792.
[To this it may be answered that the phrase, "notified the bank," or "notified any thing else," may be considered as elliptical and the preposition TO, in this case, omitted by the law of custom—or, the word notified may be considered as synonymous with acquainted, and in that case no man would think of superadding the word to. Or, lastly, why may not notified be considered as including the word to, as an implied preposition? facere te notum or facere te certiorrem, is a classical Latin phrase, exactly equivalent to the English word notified, or, to notify, and evidently includes the preposition to; as, I acquaint you, or, I notify you.]
ELKTON, July 4, 1792.
The memorable anniversary of our independence, was celebrated by a number of the respectable Inhabitants of this town, assembled at the Franklin Inn, where an elegant entertainment was provided for the occasion. During the festivity the following toasts were given under the firing of cannon.
 1. The Independence of America.  2. The virtuous and firm Patriots who declared our independence.  3. The United States.  4. The President of the United States.  5. The memory of the brave soldiers who sacrificed their lives for our Independence.  6. May the officers and soldiers of the late American army, never feel distress.  7. The National Assembly of France.  8. Permanency to French liberty.  9. De la Fayette.  10. The memory of Mirabeau.  11. The friends of freedom throughout the globe.  12. The agriculture, manufactures and commerce of America.  13. The state of Maryland.  14. The rights of man.  15. The fair daughters of Columbia. 
The festive scene was conducted with the utmost decorum and closed in the evening with the exhibition of fire works, displaying a variety of emblematic figures, invented by Mr. John Baptiste Allies, an ingenious French gentleman of this place.
NEW-YORK, July 6.
IF the decree of the canvassers is resisted by popular violence, it may establish a dangerous precedent, subversive of all law and good government. If any question, interesting to the states, should be determined by the federal court, which should displease a powerful party, the decree may be resisted with equal propriety. The present attempts, to resist legal authority, may prove dangerous to the federal government: the federalists are now setting a bad example to a respectable party of men, who are discontented with the perpetuity of the debt, and the gambling introduced into a young agricultural country by chimerical systems; men, who opposed the American revolution, and who preferred the tranquil administration
of an arbitrary system to the licences and irregularities of popular opposition—men, who wished, at any rate, to enjoy their estates and ease, and who distinguished themselves as friends to government, ought to recollect, that opposition to law and government, on doubtful occasions, weakens political authority, and commits every political blessing of law, property, and justice, to the violent passions, and irregular caprice, of the people.
If the habits of submission are destroyed on trivial occasions, by the inflammatory eloquence, and letters, of ambitious partisans, the best members of society may lose their attachment to republican governments, which, in practice, seem too impotent to restrain faction, and controul ambition. The violences of the people, when incited by chiefs, and when impelled by personal motives, may produce a revolution in the public mind, and the distance between licentiousness and despotism is not great. If they are sincere and uniform in their political principles, they will not, on an occasion so doubtful, appeal to the people: if they continue their inconsistency, and persevere to inflame the people, it is not illiberal to suspect these false patriots of base designs. When the proved enemies to republican forms assume, with new and violent zeal, the language of liberty, their treachery becomes suspected. It may be the object of these new patriots to convulse the state, and to erect, over the disgusted and harrassed people, a government more congenial to their character and principles.
At a respectable meeting of the Officers of the late American army, the 4th of July, 1792, at the house of Captain Baldwin, of the city of New-York, in consequence of a public notification to this effect, and by adjournment continued to the next day.
Col. EBENEZER STEVENS, in the Chair, IT was resolved, That the services rendered by the army of the United States, although the public faith was thereto pledged, remain unremunerated; that the public engagement to the officers and soldiers was for a certain sum in specie, to be paid them for certain military services, to be rendered by the said army; that the United States have in the most full and unequivocal manner acknowledged that those services have been faithfully performed by the army; that the demand for their services has neither been discharged in specie or in any property equivalent thereto; that the certificates given to the army being unsupported by funds, had no other value than what public opinion stamped on them.
It is therefore resolved, that a committee be appointed to co-operate with such committees, or agents, as are or may be appointed by other states in a petition to Congress at their next session, expressed decently, respectfully, and manly, for what by the unalterable principles of justice remains yet their due.
Resolved, That Col. Ebenezer Stevens, Col. Marinus Willett, Captain George Leacraft, John F. Vetcher, Isaac Ledyard, Joseph Brown and N. Laurens, be and are hereby appointed our committee, who, or a majority of them are authorised to pursue such active measures, appoint such agent or agents, as to them shall seem conducive to promote the object and produce the effect of this our most reasonable claim.
Resolved, That the above proceeding be published in two of the newspapers of this city, by order of the meeting.
(Signed) EBENEZER STEVENS, Chairman, (Signed) GEORGE LEACRAFT, Secretary.
On the 25th of June, the Brig Washington, William Smiley, master, from Edenton, (N. C.) arrived off Ocracoke bar; Capt. Smiley was informed by the pilot there, that seven men and two boys had landed there on the 20th, and the next day hired a Pilot boat to carry them to Washington, leaving the two boys behind them. Upon being questioned, the boys informed the people that they had murdered the Captain, the mate, and the cabin boy, of the Brig, and having attempted to scuttle her left her, and also that they had left a woman passenger on board:
Whereupon, Wallis, with a party of militia, took a boat, pursued them, and lodged most of them in Washington jail. The vessel was loaded with tobacco, indigo and rice, from Savannah, bound to France.
On Monday the 25th June, the above mentioned vessel was taken up in the Capes, by a Schooner and pilot boat, and was, on Wednesday last safely conducted into this port, where she now is. The account the woman gives is nearly similar to the above; she says—she saw them throw the Captain overboard, and saw him afterwards alternately in the sea, but does not know what became of the mate, and the rest of the crew, that she could not perceive any blood in any part of the vessel, after she was deserted, that some expressed a desire to destroy her, the woman, while others cursed her, and said she might stay there and starve, and after treating her in the most brutal manner, left her to the mercy of the winds and sea.
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FOREIGN NEWS.
DUNKIRK, May 1.
"An account is arrived, stating that the French have been repulsed at Tournay. The commanding officer, the Count de Dillon, led the French troops into an ambuscade, where were 15 pieces of cannon; about 400 were killed besides many wounded. They had him apprehended and tried by a court martial, as knowing of the scheme. He was hanged on a gibbet, and burned half alive. The French troops were 6000 men. The remainder returned to Lisle, from whence they went, which was about 18 miles.
Lisle, May 3. Four thousand French troops including three regiments of cavalry, led by Count Dillon, went against Tournay, expecting the gates of the town to be opened to them, and that they should become masters of the place without the least difficulty. The garrison, who had been apprized of the intentions of the French, six and thirty hours before they attempted to put them in execution, made a vigorous resistance; upon which the three regiments of French cavalry, being suddenly seized with a panic, galloped away to Lisle, where they spread a report that their whole army had been surrounded by thirty thousand Austrians, and three thousand of them had been left dead on the field. The next day the main body, who had made good their retreat, arrived, and upon the muster, not more than sixty-one were found to be missing, twelve only of whom could be proved to have been killed. The French troops, conceiving that their reception before Tournay had been owing to some treacherous conduct on the part of their leader, seized Count Dillon, cut off his head & legs, and carried his trunk to the Grand Place, where they burned it to ashes. A French Abbe, curate of St. Margaret's, who happened accidentally to be passing this scene of slaughter, and was suspected of having corresponded with the enemy, was also seized by them, and sacrificed upon the spot. They afterwards murdered their chief engineer, and two or three other officers, and roasted three German soldiers, whom they had captured in their march. The next day, those of their troops who had been taken prisoners, returned to Lisle from Tournay, having been released by the Austrians, and declared that they had been treated by their victors rather as friends and brethren, than as enemies and opponents."
Brussels, May 4. The loss of the French at their attack of Tournay, was, two dragoons and several horses killed, forty soldiers of different regiments taken prisoners, four pieces of artillery, some provisions, baggage, and implements for intrenching. On the side of the Austrians, there are none either killed, wounded, or missing. This happened on the 29th of April. On the same day another body of French troops entered the Austrian territory by Quesneville, who were opposed by 1800 Austrian infantry, and 14 or 1500 cavalry, and were obliged to retire with the loss of 20 men killed and several wounded. They halted at Boufflers, where they remained in sight of the Austrians. The next day an action took place, which ended in the complete route of the French who lost on this occasion 250 men killed, a considerable number taken prisoners, and five pieces of cannon left in the hands of the enemy. The main body of the French then retreated over the frontier line towards Valenciennes.
—May 10. Large bodies of French troops are on the march to reinforce their northern army. La Fayette's army is daily receiving reinforcements. He seems by his motions to be meditating some important attack.—As to the troops hostile to France, it is computed, that the number of troops in the Netherlands from Luxembourg to the sea, from the several German powers, amounts to sixty thousand. In order to whet the appetites of these soldiers, and encourage them, all the plunder taken from the French is to be distributed amongst them.
An attack, similar to that on Tournay, was made on Mons, also on the 29th of April, by M. de Biron, at the head of 8 or 9000 French troops. The place had been reported to be badly fortified and its inhabitants disaffected, so that an easy conquest was expected. Six or seven thousand Austrians, however, were found to be in defence of it, and after a very little firing the Queen's regiment, which was in the centre of the French army, gave way, and the commander in chief fled. Reports say that between 7 and 800 of the French were killed by the Austrian cavalry, who pursued them, among whom was a son of Gen. Rochambeau.
London, May 15. The brother of the unfortunate Count Dillon, who was hacked to pieces by his own soldiers, has petitioned the National Assembly, for what redress is in their power. They have determined to employ the most effectual means for the discovery and punishment of the assassins.
The king of Prussia has issued orders for 70,000 men to march, of which he was himself to take the command. The advanced guard, when these accounts came away, was already in motion. Their object is said to be a junction with the Austrian armies, to combine in an attack upon France.
A considerable force is arming at Brest, to protect the French trade in the Mediterranean.

Paris, May 17. M. de Grave, minister at war, has resigned. The following is a translation of his letter, on this occasion, to the king:
SIRE, Paris, May 8. "In the present difficulties of the kingdom, nothing could induce me to quit the place which I hold from your majesty's confidence, but my powers being exhausted, and my conviction that I cannot be useful in the ministry, your majesty, I hope, does justice to the motives that have guided my conduct hitherto, as well as to those under which I now act. For me, Sire, I carry with me a profound recollection of your virtues; and I regret that all the citizens have not had, like myself, an opportunity of witnessing your majesty's tender solicitude for, and attachment to the glory, the happiness, and the liberty of the nation."
(Signed) GRAVE. He is to be succeeded by Mr. Servan, Colonel of the 104th regiment.
A person has offered to the National Assembly the discovery of a balloon, that will carry 200 men, furnished with 48 pounders. He has been referred to the committee of arts.
The new government of Sweden has resolved to declare to all the courts of Europe that Sweden adopts a pacific system.
The conduct of the Count d'Aranda, first minister at the court of Spain, is more and more favorable to the French. Reparation is now made to such of them as had been injured by the former minister.
On the 8th of May, in the National Assembly, an address was voted entitled, "The Representatives of the French people to the citizens armed for the defence of their country. It recommends discipline in very earnest terms to the soldiers, and adds, "For ourselves, unshaken in the midst of political tempests, we will be on the watch against all plots and all the enemies of the empire. The world shall see whether we are the representatives of a great people, or the timid subjects of some of the kings of Europe. We have sworn never to capitulate with pride or tyranny. We will keep our oath—Death, death, or victory and equality."
Ordered, That the executive power inform the assembly, every eight days, of the enquiries made into the assassinations committed at Lisle, of general Dillon and other officers.
Nine persons are already in custody, on account of the assassination of Count Dillon.
On the 13th inst. the minister of war informed the assembly that the whole regiment de Saxe, had deserted and gone over to the enemy. Three squadrons of the regiment of de Barcine have also deserted. The soldiers had taken with them two guidons (standard-bearers) one of whom was retaken.
Alarming accounts are continually received of the number of troops that continue to desert. Certain information is received that 80,000 men, of the enemy, are daily expected in the neighbourhood of Mayence, who mean, if possible, to force their way into the centre of France, and there fix their headquarters.
The assembly decreed yesterday that the three hundred million of assignats lately issued shall be exclusively appropriated to defray the expenses of the war.
M. de Rochambeau has resigned his command, and is succeeded by M. de Estaing.
Coblence—The Count d'Artois is preparing his camp equipage, and the prince de Conde will shortly make his appearance at the head of 30,000 of his countrymen.
The Pairs au Royaume and the Parliamentarians have their rendezvous at Coblentz, where the princes have ordered a convocation of the Pairs, whose intention is to put the King under Curatelle (as incapable of managing the affairs of the kingdom) and to appoint Monsieur Regent of the kingdom, and Count d'Artois Generalissimo of the forces.
The following are the resolutions entered into by a committee of the inhabitants of Charleston, on the 11 of June ult. relative to the importation of negroes, for sale, from other States.
WHEREAS a practice of shipping to this state for sale, from the other states, such of their slaves as have been condemned for crimes, or have been otherwise guilty of offences, has for many years prevailed and such a practice cannot fail to be productive of pernicious effects to this state; and whereas it is impossible to discriminate in case of slaves so sent for sale, whether or not they are of the above description:
1st. Therefore resolved, as the unanimous opinion of this meeting, that the introduction into this state of slaves transported or sent for sale, from the other states, ought no longer to be permitted—and that the citizens of this state will be justifiable in opposing such introduction.
2dly. Resolved unanimously, and we do bind ourselves, to oppose, to the utmost of our ability, the introduction of all such slaves sent for sale into this state, and we pledge our most sacred honor, each to the other, not to sell, purchase, possess or employ such slaves, or to have any intercourse whatever, with any person who may introduce such slaves into this state, or sell, purchase or employ them when imported.
3dly. Resolved unanimously, that if any captain or commander of any vessel, com-
ing into this port, shall have on board his vessel, any slaves transported from any other state on account of any offence there committed, or sent for sale, and shall, after being furnished with a copy of the foregoing resolutions, offer for sale, within this state, any such slave or slaves, the said captain or commander shall be deemed inimical to the tranquility of this state, and shall be dealt with accordingly.
4thly. Resolved, that a committee be appointed to prepare a petition to the legislature of this state, praying that a law under certain modifications may be passed, making it highly penal for any person to introduce into this state, slaves from other states.
5thly. Resolved that the pilots of the bar of Charleston, be furnished with copies of these resolutions, and that they be required to deliver to any captain of any vessel bound to this state from any of the other states, having slaves on board, a copy of these resolutions.
6thly. Resolved unanimously, that a standing committee of nine citizens be appointed, who shall superintend the execution of the foregoing resolution, and who on the arrival in this state of any vessel from any of the other states, with negroes or other slaves, shall furnish the captain with a copy of the foregoing resolutions, and that in case he shall not give satisfactory assurances to the committee, for the safe keeping and transportation without delay out of this state of such negroes or negroes, slave or slaves, that the committee shall forthwith publish the name of such captain and of his vessel, and the place where she lies, in order that the citizens may take such measures as they may deem most expedient for the public safety.
7thly. Resolved, that it be the duty of the committee to have a sufficient number of the foregoing resolutions struck off, and transmit the same to the different parishes and counties in this state, and invite the citizens thereof to join with the citizens assembled at this meeting, in the foregoing resolutions; and that they invite the citizens of North-Carolina and Georgia to concur in similar measures.
8thly. Resolved, that such negroes of the above description, as may be now in this state, unsoiled, are deemed and considered as comprehended within the spirit and intention of the above resolutions.
9thly. Resolved, that it is hereby recommended to the city council to establish a more effectual night guard.
10thly. Resolved, that the committee be authorised to convene the citizens of Charleston, whenever they shall think there is sufficient cause.
JACOB READ, Chairman.
PHILADELPHIA.
JULY 11, 1792.
The Pilot boat YORK, performed her European voyage in twelve weeks—she had 25 days passage from Sandy Hook to Liverpool, and was 35 days on her return. The object for which she failed is said to have been answered by her arrival in Britain previous to the packet, that failed some days before her.
Concurrent accounts of French affairs, received by the last vessels from England, represent the patriotic troops of that kingdom as greatly defective in military discipline, and impatient of any kind of subordination. This opinion, in England, has probably taken its rise from the partial ill success some bodies of the national forces have met with in their early, arduous, and impetuous attempts, where they had to cope with some of the best disciplined troops in the world, the soldiers of the Austrian armies. We impatiently expect intelligence of these matters directly from France, which no doubt will set many matters relating to that kingdom in a very different light from what they are represented to be in several of the English papers.
European accounts, lately come to hand, in addition to those under our foreign heads, are briefly as follows:—The coronation of Francis II, as Emperor of Germany, was to take place on the 6th of July—the forces of the combined despotic powers to act against France, were computed at 250,000 men—Sentence was passed against Ankerstrom, the assassin of the King of Sweden, on April 18th, as follows: he is adjudged to be infamous, and unworthy of any of the rights of a citizen: to be put into the pillory for two hours in the forenoon for three successive days, and whipped with six pair of rods—that his head shall be severed from his body, his right hand be cut off, and his thus mutilated body to be impaled (hung on iron hooks) and an inscription to be placed on the pillory to this effect, John Jacob Ankerstrom, assassin of the King. He was pilloried and flogged on the 19th of April for the first time.—The National Assembly had ordered a levy of thirty-one battalions of guards—Stores of grain were laid up at Valenciennes alone for 135,000 men for 16 months—36,000 spare muskets in the arsenal—a decree had been passed, directing the most liberal treatment to prisoners of war.—Mr. Pitt, had given assurances of the neutrality of Great Britain—The Duke of Württemberg and the elector of Bavaria had avowed their intention to continue only on the defensive, and Sweden entirely neutral—M. de la Fayette had taken the Abbey of Orval, a rich magazine of arms and money belonging to the emigrants, after a skirmish in which 22 Austrians and six French fell—Thurlow, lord
chancellor of England had been dismissed from his office, in consequence of an avowed hostility to Mr. Pitt's measures—Lord Cornwallis had taken the fortress of Nundy Durgum, the garrison however mostly escaped—his lordship was expected to be before Seringapatam about the 25th of January—The riots at Birmingham on or about the 21st of May were quelled by the military, who after an appointed hour cut and wounded all they met or overtook in the streets.
Frequent complaints are made in the eastern counties of Maryland of their run-away slaves being harboured by certain philanthropic people in the state of Delaware. A gentleman in Maryland who has frequently suffered by desertions of this kind, and has had slaves concealed for years together in the last mentioned state, publicly advertises in the Delaware Gazette, that to ease the consciences of those who execute this kind of property, he will dispose of his slaves to those who wish to have them set free, at three fourths of their real value, to be eliminated by men of judgment and impartiality.
By a vessel that left Cape Francois the 25th of June, we learn, that the negroes were still defying with as much fury as ever, and no prospects of peace being made with them. The governor and several principal officers had gone to St. Marks, with a view to bring about a negotiation with the mulattoes, but the event was unknown.
Accounts from South-Carolina and Georgia, with regard to their prospect of the ensuing crops, are very unfavorable, no rains of any consequence having fallen in the more eastern districts of those states since the beginning of April; at which time the low country was, in a manner, inundated. The Indigo plantations, when the last vessels failed, were almost despaired of, for the next crop, and the rice swamps promised not much better.
Extract of a letter from an American who has been some time in Europe, and is lately returned to his own country.
Having concluded the private objects of this letter, permit me, my dear friend, to touch on public matters, and to express the extreme surprise and mortification produced by some changes in our situation, which I never could have apprehended at the time of my departure. Previous to that date, it had been the proud and pleasing hope of every true American, that his country was to be an example to the world of all the dignified virtues of republican simplicity, that it was to be the asylum of merit and liberty, persecuted in almost every other part of the globe, that it was entering a career of glorious improvements in the shade of peace, which would be the proper sequel to its splendid and patriotic achievements in the field of war, that it was to be distinguished by the unrivalled blessings of an untainted and artless government, of a spirit of legislation equally free from mysterious concealment, an artificial management, and a servile imitation, and of a style of manners congruous to the purity of such a government, and to the honest simplicity of such a code of laws. These were the sentiments which, you well know, animated us to the boldest conflicts, these were the sentiments which supported us under the severest calamities; and were not these the sentiments also which consecrated the motives and enforced the adoption of our present national government? How soon, alas! have clouds been thrown over these bright and glorious prospects. Who could have believed that, in so short a space of time, an active and influential faction could have been formed (pardon a harshness of language, which my indignation will not permit me to soften) which by its doctrines and endeavors, would reverse our sublime policy and flattering hopes, and make us retrograde in every path that leads to useful reformations, and a just provision for equal rights and general happiness. You cannot, my friend, do justice either to my feelings or my reflections, without making my situation in all respects your own. I have seen in Europe kings tottering on their thrones, and nobles tumbling from the haughty elevation from whence they have for ages insulted the rights of their injured fellow citizens, and the first tidings that await my arrival in my own country are the attempts of her degenerate sons to write and talk and intrigue those antiquated usurpers into fashion. In Europe I have seen the most enlightened of its nations sick at length of their enormous and perpetual taxes, and struggling to get rid of them. Here, I find that we are pursuing the mad policy of increasing and perpetuating both. In Europe they are banishing monopolies, and lotteries, and all other tyrannical and gambling contrivances, as fast as their crepuscular light and corrupt governments will permit. Here, in the meridian blaze of day, and in the very childhood of our government, we see these pestilent institutions patronized and pampered, as if they were the nurse of virtue and the food of liberty. In Europe, it is the effort of every pretender to political science, to unshackle commerce from its excessive burdens and its galling restrictions: Here, we appear to be overloading it with duties, and forcing ourselves into all the impolitic regulations which oppress the honest merchant, impose on the tributary consumer, disappoint the exchequer of its revenue, and generate frauds and forgeries and perjuries, as numberless as they are cala-
mitous. In Europe, it is considered as of all things most desirable to simplify and relax the general system of their taxation, and more particularly to diminish the vexations resulting from the nature and number of their excises. Here we are already pushing them into the recesses of domestic employment, and it is not concealed, as I am informed, that the policy is to be systematically followed up as fast as other articles of manufacture are sufficiently matured for the purpose. In Europe, I have heard among all the most enlightened statesmen and soundest patriots, but one opinion on the expediency of diminishing the interference of government, with what rightfully and properly belongs to individual management. Here, I find is an eagerness and laboriousness beyond example to multiply and complicate the objects of government, to extend the grasping and griping hand of power to every private pursuit and every individual occupation. In Europe, my friend, be assured, that the nations inspired with the dignity of human nature, and instructed in the rights of men are rising from the prostrate condition to which they have been heretofore chained by the ancient tyranny of feudal barbarism, and the rapacious cunning of modern fiscal policy: and can any American, my friend, who has seen the long benighted and debased nations of the old world preparing to cast off the usurpations of kings and nobles; and to purge away the political corruptions, the vices, the follies, and the errors, which have for ages oppressed them; can an American, I say, who has seen other countries beginning to knock off their galling chains, behold an attempt to pick them up and fasten them on his own, with less indignation than I have expressed?—No, my friend, it is impossible. I know that you will believe so; that you think on the subject as I do. But I must tell you at the same time, that you cannot feel as I feel; unless you will cross the Atlantic, and see what I have seen."
Extract of a letter from Jamaica.
"From Port-au Prince we learn, the number of rebels that have been taken prisoners and killed, amounts to 3,500; of those 50 have suffered by the hands of the executioner; two of them (a mulatto and a negro) who are said to have murdered several white people, who were broken on the wheel in the Place d'Armes, in the afternoon of the 28th September:—The mulatto expired on receiving the third stroke upon the break, his legs and arms being first broken in two places. The negro survived the coup de grace upwards of forty minutes, and seemed sensible of his situation, when he was strangled in mercy by some of the spectators with the thong of a whip. The negro received the first stroke upon his limbs without uttering a groan. It is not quite ascertained how many white people have been murdered by the rebels. They suppose three hundred, but it is reported, many of them were put to death with extreme cruelty."
"Amidst this scene of horror and carnage, it is pleasing to relate an instance of negro fidelity and attachment equally wonderful and affecting. Mr. and Madame Baillon, their daughter, and son-in-law, and two white servants, residing on a mountain plantation about thirty miles from the Cape, were apprized of the revolt by one of their own slaves, who was himself in the conspiracy; and having no other means of escaping, were by him conducted into a neighboring wood. Afterwards the negro joined the rebels. He found means, however, the following night to bring provisions."
"The second night he returned with a fresh supply of provisions, but informed them it would be out of his power to give them any further assistance. After that they heard nothing more of him for three days; at the end of which time he came again, and directed them how to make their way to the river which led to Port Margot, where he said they would find a canoe. They followed his directions, found the canoe, and got safe into it, but were over-set by the rapidity of the current, and compelled to return to the mountain. The negro, anxious for their safety, again found out their retreat, and directing them to march to a broader part of the river, where he assured them they would find a boat, said it was the last effort he could make to save them. They went accordingly, but not finding the boat, gave themselves up for lost, when the faithful, generous negro again appeared like their guardian angel; he brought with him pigeons, poultry and bread, and conducting the family by slow marches in the night along the banks of the river, till they were within reach of the wharf at Port Margot and out of danger, took his leave of them forever, and returned to join the rebels. They were in this terrible situation in the woods nineteen nights."
   METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS, JULY, 1792.   D. H. Bar. Ther. Wind. Weath.     Wednesday, 4. 6 29. 9 65 N. E. Rain.   2 29. 96 65 do. do.   Thursday, 5. 6 30. 1 59 N. W. Fair.   2 do. do.   Friday, 6. 6 30. 27 60 N. Fair   2 30. 3 78 N. E. do.   Saturday, 7. 6 30. 24 64 Calm. Clouds.   2 30. 17 77 do. do.   Sunday, 8. 6 30. 4 64 S. W. Cloudy.   2 30. 0 80 do. do.   Monday, 9. 6 29. 8 75 S. S. W. Cloudy.   2 29. 85 85 W. Fair.   Tuesday, 10. 6 29. 9 73 N. W. Fair.   2 30. 0 89 W. N. W. do.  

AUTHENTIC.
SECOND CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
At the first Session, begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, on Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one.
An ACT to provide for a Copper Coinage.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the director of the mint, with the approbation of the President of the United States, be authorized to contract for and purchase a quantity of copper, not exceeding one hundred and fifty tons, and that the said director, as soon as the needful preparations shall be made, cause the copper by him purchased to be coined at the mint into cents and half cents pursuant to "the act establishing a mint, and regulating the coins of the United States;" and that the said cents and half cents, as they shall be coined, be paid into the treasury of the United States, thence to issue into circulation.
And be it further enacted, That after the expiration of six calendar months from the time when there shall have been paid into the treasury by the said director, in cents and half cents, a sum not less than fifty thousand dollars, which time shall forthwith be announced by the treasurer in at least two gazettes or news-papers published at the seat of the government of the United States, for the time being, no copper coins or pieces whatsoever, except the said cents and half cents, shall pass current as money, or shall be paid, or offered to be paid or received in payment for any debt, demand, claim, matter or thing whatsoever; and all copper coins or pieces, except the said cents and half cents, which shall be paid or offered to be paid or received in payment contrary to the prohibition aforesaid, shall be forfeited, and every person by whom any of them shall have been so paid or offered to be paid or received in payment, shall also forfeit the sum of ten dollars, and the said forfeiture and penalty shall and may be recovered with costs of suit for the benefit of any person or persons by whom information of the incurring thereof shall have been given.
Approved by the PRESIDENT, May 8th, 1792.
Extract of a letter from the learned and illustrious Princess of Daschkaw, Privy Counsellor to the Empress, President of the Imperial Academy of sciences at St. Petersburg, &c. &c.
"SIR, YOUR letter dated 10th of November last, I received some days ago, and by as speedy an answer as possible, I wish to shew you the pleasure I felt to see the zeal and ardour, with which you are pursuing the further improvement of a science so useful to mankind. It will always give me a peculiar satisfaction, if I can contribute something towards the advancing so interesting a branch of knowledge. For this reason I will endeavor to answer to the questions proposed in your letter, in as satisfactory a manner as lies in my power.
In the Novi Commentarii Academiae Petropolitanae you will find a set of very interesting observations, that have been made for a long series of years in Russia, concerning the declination and inclination of the magnetic needle. Being uncertain whether you have at hand these commentaries, I intend to order those observations to be extracted for your use. But as they would be too voluminous to be sent with the post, I have put it off till another opportunity: wherefore I desire you to assign, in your next letter, somebody here at St. Petersburg, to whom I may deliver a copy of these observations, as well as any thing else which may serve your purposes and enquiries. However, for the present, I hope the following notice will not be disagreeable, to you: 1. Observationes circa declinationem et inclinationem magneticam, Peckini, Petropoli et in variis Siberiae locis factae, recensente Braunio. (Novi Commentarii Tom V. pag. 396.) 2. Expositio declinationis magneticæ in Imperio Russico ejusque vicina observatae, by Mr. Krafft. (Nov. Comment. Tom XVII. pag. 695)
I subscribe heartily to your wish, that a series of observations might be made at St. Petersburg, concerning the tide-waters; and the same idea was, a year ago, already an object of debate in our academy, though not in the same view.
VINETA, on the coast of Pomerania, was, some centuries ago, one of the most flourishing mercantile towns in Germany; at present its ruins which are not seldom to be seen under water, are the ruin of many a ship. It is universally believed, that the same revolution, by which Vineta was overwhelmed, severed also, the Isle of Rugen from the German continent, of which it was, till that time, the northernmost point.
The author of that memoir, in the Memoires de l'academie royale des sciences de Berlin, is the famous Leonard Euler, father to him who is now secretary to our academy.
The copy of your ingenious work, you have sent to Sir Richard Sutherland, is not arrived. That gentleman himself being dead, some months ago, I sent to his compiler; but there no one knew any thing of your papers. I wish, therefore, you might have here or in London, a truly commissary, through whose hands will safely pass every thing that shall, hereafter, be sent between us both. You will oblige me very much by giving me some notice, whether the books are arrived I sent to the philosophical society at Philadelphia, of which I have the honor to be a member.
The printed paper, annexed to your last letter, concerning the cause of gravitation, is now circulating amongst the fellows of our academy, and I hope will give them no less pleasure than your former dissertation on the magneical poles.
Each new step made by you towards the improvement of learning, will give me a peculiar satisfaction, and it is with the greatest esteem that I am your well wisher.
PRINCESS OF DASCHKAW. St. Petersburg, the 31st Jan. 1792. Mr. JOHN CHURCHMAN, North-America."
A Remarkable Circumstance of Escape.
THE latter part of November, 1788, a small Schooner failed from Rhode-Island with a light cargo, bound to Georgia. Being in lat. 40° 32' Sandy Hook by account bearing about thirty-six leagues west, but not perhaps in reality quite so far to the eastward as they imagined, they were overtaken by a severe gale at E. N. E. and East. Finding it impracticable to lay-to, without the most imminent danger of perishing, they were compelled to put before the wind and sea, and in this condition made their way westward (the only possible resource left them) without carrying any sail. A long dreary night came on, and if the storm continued thus violent till morning, they looked for no better fate than (if they escaped being swallowed up by the mountainous waves that pursued them) to be stranded on the coast of Jersey or Long-Island, and most probably perish in the breakers. By some neglect in securing the deep-sea lead, it was carried overboard by the break of a sea with the line, and lost, so that they were prevented from all chance of sounding, to know when they neared the land. In this situation they continued scudding in one of the darkest nights that ever gloomed upon the face of the ocean, pursued by hail, rain, a hurricane of wind; and every moment anticipating destruction. About midnight, to their inexpressible surprise, after having for some time perceived the sea shorter than before, running wilder, and more like breakers, they all at once found themselves in water perfectly smooth, tho' the storm continued as violent as ever. Having luffed the vessel up to the wind, they cast over the hand-lead, and had only nine feet soundings, but no appearance of land, on account of the thick haze that enveloped them. They then let go an anchor and waited the return of day. The morning discovered to them the land on all sides, and their vessel in a river, behind a point of beach. It seems they had passed over the bar of Shrewsbury river in safety, about the time of high water, which had swelled three or four feet higher than usual in consequence of the storm. Had not chance thus directed them, or had the vessel gone two hundred yards on either side, north or south of the actual course she made, it may be reasonably said their entire loss would have been certain and inevitable.
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Society for establishing useful Manufactures. AT a meeting of the directors of the society for establishing useful manufactures, held at New-Ark, on Friday the eighteenth day of May 1792, at which time was passed the following SUPPLEMENT to an ordinance, entitled "An ordinance for securing the punctual payment of the monies due on the subscriptions to the society for establishing useful manufactures."
WHEREAS by the third section of the ordinance, entitled "An ordinance for securing the punctual payment of the monies due on the subscriptions to the society for establishing useful manufactures," it is ordained, that if any subscriber or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the second third or fourth payment of his, her or their respective subscriptions for the space of three days after the expiration of the time limited by the law of incorporation for the said payments that is to say, the second payment, on the thirteenth day of July, 1792: that then and in that case, all and every share or shares, of such person or persons so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said directors and their successors for the common benefit of the said society.
And whereas circumstances render it inexpedient to exact full payment of the second instalment on the said thirteenth day of July next, or within three days thereafter.
Be it therefore ordained, by the deputy Governor and directors of the society for establishing useful manufactures, that if the said second payment shall be made in manner following, that is to say, one equal third part thereof, on or before the thirteenth day of August next, one other equal third part thereof on or before the thirteenth day of September next and one other equal third part thereof, on or before the thirteenth day of October next, with lawful interest computed thereon from the said thirteenth day of July next, that then and in such case, the said penalty mentioned in the said section, shall not be exacted, any thing in the said ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.
A. MERCER, Deputy Governor. Extract from the Minutes, JAMES GRIFFITHS, Clk.
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THE proprietors of the New-York and Philadelphia land and water Stages beg leave to mention, that for the better accommodation of passengers, they have thought proper to remove the different packet boats from their former stand, at the Crooked Billet wharf, to the wharf or dock immediately next below Arch-street, from whence, on the first day of July next, and afterwards, a convenient packet-boat will start for New-York, as usual, on every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The passage to be made either by the way of Bordentown or Burlington, each place to be taken alternately. Fare for passengers from Philadelphia to New-York 15s.—For Goods pr. cwt. 6.
VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN, DAVID WILLIAMSON, Proprietors of the line of New-York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Bordentown. JACOB MYERS, AMOS HUTCHIN, NICHOLAS SCHENK,
Proprietors of the line of N. York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Burlington. The Shrewsbury Stage will leave Philadelphia in the months of July and September, on every Sunday and Wednesday, and return on every Tuesday and Friday. In the month of August, it will leave Philadelphia on every Sunday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday and Saturday.
VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN, DANIEL LOT, Proprietors of the Shrewsbury and Philad. Stage. Bordentown, June 25, 1792.
For freight or passage apply to the masters on board, or to M'KEAN & VAN EMBURGH, at their store on said wharf, immediately next below Arch-Street; by whom orders for the purchase of all kinds of grain, slaves, or other country produce, are punctually attended to.
For freight or passage to Lambert or Trenton, also apply as above. Philadelphia, June 27.
CHESTER TOWN & BALTIMORE STAGE.
THE Eastern-Shore Stage, by way of Chestertown to Baltimore, starts regularly from James Thompson's, Indian Queen, Fourth-street, Philadelphia, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, mornings, precisely at 7 o'clock, and on the same mornings at 4 o'clock, from Mr. Grant's in Baltimore. The cultivation of the country, and goodness of the roads, together with the attention that shall be paid by the proprietors, will, it is hoped, be a sufficient inducement for a preference being given to this route.
JAMES THOMPSON, ROBERT HODGSON,
PRINTED BY CHILDS AND SWAIN, AT THEIR OFFICE, NO. 209, HIGH-STREET NEAR FIFTH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.