The Patowmac guardian, and Berkeley advertiser (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]), 1791-01-11 00:00:00

Foreign Advices.
L O N D O N, September 4.
The following supposed Dialogue, between Lewis the XIVth, and Lewis the XVIth. was handed about Paris, last Saturday night, first in manuscript, and then printed. The disagreeable emotions it gave birth to in the breasts of the Patriots, who think it predicts terrible truths, should a counter-Revolution be attempted by the abettors of despotism, are inconceivable.
L E W I S XIV.
FROM whence came you now, Son? Lewis XVI. From the general Confederation. Lewis XIV. What do you mean by that same Confederation? Lewis XVI. I mean the re-union of all my subjects. Lewis XIV. Against you that is to say!—Ah silly man, I have been acquainted with your unpar- donable conduct, your unexampled imbecility of soul, and with the fatal consequences of your drunkenness. What have you done with your kingdom? speak. Lewis XVI. You must ask La Fayette that. Lewis XIV. How! have you put it into the un- experienced hands of that young fool? Lewis XVI. No, he snatched it out of mine. Lewis XIV. He seized it when you were in a drunken fit no doubt; for I am sure he would never have dared to meet you in the field and fight for it. His Magnanimity is well known since the never to be forgotten 5th of October—to embroil, to tremble, and then to fawn, are the leading features in that renowned General's character. Lewis XVI. It may be father, as you say, but he has force in hand; he does what he likes. Lewis XIV. Because you suffer him to do so.— The origin of your misfortunes, Son, can be traced far back; had your unaccountable indulgence not ripened your parliaments for anarchy, the Land and Stamp Acts would have been registered, and your dominions be still in the zenith of their prosperity. Where was your whip the day they dared to protest against your will; you should have re- curred to the historic page, and there you would have seen how I treated insolent parliaments, and chastised rebel subjects; you would then have given the world a spectacle of a manken King; Neckar, the banker, would not have sacrificed you to his popularity, your wife would not have betrayed you, you would not now crouch to twelve hundred masters: Bailly and La Fayette would not consider you as their ward, nor would the 48 corporations be ready as they are, to cut your throat. Lewis XVI. Don't overload me with reproaches, I am already too unfortunate in being looked on in my kingdom as a cypher in arithmetic. You little know what I have done for an ungrateful people, that at once flatter and insult me. Scarce- ly had I ascended the throne, which you filled with no less glory than intrepidity, when I aimed at re- storing to man every prerogative which nature de- signed to be his birth-right, and I pleased myself with the idea of rescuing one part of my subjects from the tyranny of the other:—I wished to banish slavery from the land. My court, though not so brilliant as yours, was still more expensive. I re- formed it, and only retained the splendour that su- ited a citizen Prince; wherever oppression or despo- tism reared their head, there did I dispatch succour to the oppressed. I freed America from the gal- ling fetters of England. Lewis XIV. That indeed was a sensible piece of business; you expended fifteen hundred million of livres to bring yourself the enmity of a great peo- ple, who, one day or other, will make you pay with your head your audacity in snatching from their subjection, a country which was as much theirs, as the good city of Paris was yours. Lewis XVI. The most excruciating tortures for- ced an honest man to belie himself, when he con- fessed a crime which new torments extorted from him. I abolished the rack, the criminal code, not- withstanding your generous and astonishing efforts to contract it as it should be, still favoured much of the brutal ferocity of the unenlightened age that brought it forth—I amended it. The most indus- trious and useful class of the community bore all the weight of the taxes; the labours of the year were scarcely sufficient to satisfy the enormous de- mands of their extorting task-master. I proposed an equal assessment; My Ministers were blamed. I discharged them: Frenchmen traduced my inten- tion, and did not do justice to my heart, when they reprobated my administration. I convinced all the wise men of the State, that I wished to see myself encircled by all that was great and good in my do- minions; my subjects, however, grieved, for they thought they saw me tottering on the throne, when
the Notables increased the evils which they should have corrected; finally, in order to remove every public calamity, I convoked the nation; in one day the assembly might have made twenty-five millions of men happy, but through some strange fatality, they affixed wretchedness on the land. I shall pass over unnoticed the variety of insults I experienced at the hands of that immortal body; I shall be silent on the opprobrium with which they loaded me; I don't wish to mention the unbridled licentiousness they preached to a mob ever ripe for mischief, nor the excesses to which they allured them: I shall say nothing relative to the debate in which it appeared doubtful whether I should, or not, bear the name of King. I shall say nothing about other in- numerable vexations I underwent; I will not men- tion, that in the act of dethroning me, they rob- bed my wife, my children, my brothers and all my family of their patrimony: I will not say that af- ter having stripped me of my regal mantle, they hired villains to open the sluices of the life of the Cæ- sars and the Bourbons: I will not tell you that a traitor now near the throne and bearing supreme dominion in France, either banished from my pre- sence, or caused to expire on the scaffold every be- ing that gave a tear to my misfortunes; I will not hurt your feelings by telling you, that I have lan- guished these ten months in bondage, and that I fill am a slave continually surrounded by my mur- derers, having no other prerogatives save that of executing without a murmur, the supreme orders of La Fayette and of a banditti, his worthy accomplish- es: I don't say I dread the arrival of assassins hi- red to stain the steps of my throne with the blood of friends, of my wife, of the only brother they have left me, but chiefly of my Ministers, whose heads they call for with the same fury which has now too long degraded their manhood.
Lewis XIV. You route my indignation more than you excite my pity; your people treated me like a baby and as they wished to do with me, when I was only fifteen years old: but I reduced them to reason, which you should and might have done ere now—where was your cannon? where your sol- diers not paid?
Lewis XVI. Yes; but it was to fight against me.
Lewis XIV. Put yourself at the head of your ar- my and fear nothing from the French, for a mo- ment they may suffer themselves to be seduced by their new Chiefs, they may get drunk with their wine and spend their gold, but as soon as the King's name is mentioned to them with due energy, their wonted enthusiasm will resume its place in their heart, and a vive le Roy will at once announce their return to duty and their sorrow and shame for hav- ing been so long unjust. My people confederated too against me—it was in the midst of my triumphs, when laurels crown'd my conquering heroes and my constant victories extorted respect from the wondering world; it was then I was seated at the highest pinnacle of glory and of prosperity that the Patriots of my days armed themselves against me; the Parisians, then deluded by Beaufort, Bouillon and Rochefoucault, as they now are by La Fayette, forced me from the Louvre that I might show my- self to my people in the country; the Province of Guienne, that had snatched up arms for my destruc- tion, declared itself for me when I appeared; my subjects told me that they only blamed my Minis- ters; I put myself at the head of my army and scourged the insolence of my rebels: the horrors of an intestine war soon yielded to the charms of peace—all the foreign powers that leagued against me split upon the rocks of my strength and my va- lour—what Turenne, Conde, Villers, Harecourt, Duquesne, Luxembourg, Vendome, Tourville and Duguay-Trouin could not do, my presence effected. I saw the walls of 300 fortified towns fall before my all-leveling power, places which before my time were thought impregnable. Such are the won- ders a warlike King can call into existence by his cheering presence.—Do you wish, Sir, to recover your Crown? If you do, listen to my paternal ad- vice—your ruined people murmur against the wretches who have led them into this error—the malecontents are more numerous than the Pseudo Pa- triots—it's true Frenchmen are not born for slavery, but they are else by nature the sworn friends of or- der and inimical to that unbridled licentiousness which keeps them in constant apprehensions for their property and their life: prove that your brow is formed to bear a crown and twelve millions of men will press forward, emulous, to the standard of their long and much injured Sovereign—dare a- rise your voice, be a man, a Bourbon—animate your friends, instead of discouraging them, make them as happy as the circumstances will permit, instead of betraying them as I find you have done; declare yourself for the worthy Nobility who are incessantly insulted, robbed and in continual dread of their lives for having been attached to your own interest. March at the head of the friends of Order, and you will soon see the brave blue coat boys, the worthy Satellites of the worthy La Fayette, return to their
primitive cellars. The frontier towns, guarded by your Irish, Swiss and German troops are prepared to facilitate your success; nor will the people re- fuse to fight the battles of their dethroned Monarch—England, Germany, Spain and Savoy thunder in your ears what you should attempt for your salva- tion—your army dissatisfied with the treatment they experience from the new administration and the blue army, will repair the fault they committed last July, and the cowardly French Guards will receive the stipend due to the patriotism they boast so much of, and which has been so zealously and emphatical- ly rewarded.—You have Generals you should not neglect—Maillebois, d'Estaing, Bouille and Conde will replace you on your Throne—with such men what can you apprehend from an untainted and dastard banditti, from a lawless rabble which at the first fire throw away their arms and seek safety in the distant fields, woods and caverns—this is all I advise you to in order to avoid impending and cer- tain destruction—fly from among your former slaves who are become actual tyrants—march towards Metz or Lyons, there you will find friends, and be assured that the greater part, the most reasonable at least of the blue army will follow you thither and supplicate under your banners—let Broglio, at the head of 30,000 men meet you half way and your other Generals enter France and elsewhere with neighbouring troops, and you will soon become ac- quainted with the enemy you have to encounter—insolent when no barrier is opposed to their petu- lence, cowards, mere cowards, easily affrighted and put to flight when they have to fight against men—I foretel you that you will find no obstructions in traversing your former kingdom, on the route you will every where receive triumphal distinctions—you see I know the French Nation. On your com- ing to Paris the gentle inhabitants will admit you with joy, blended with patriotic frenzy, and the same arms that dragged you from the seat of Empire will restore you your birth-right—our dignity will then require some sacrifices to revenge. La Fay- ette, who never blushes but when he acts with can- dour and with justice, will no doubt be villain enough to appear before you to extenuate his crimes—nay, to tell you, that it was for your good he made himself so ostensible in the rebellion! La Fayette must be your first victim, and he is the most insidi- ous, the ambitious and most dastard of your com- bined enemies. Erect ten thousand gibbets—one for infamous Mirabeau, that offspring of corrupti- on, whose vote and opinion go to the highest bid- der, and who seems born for plots and murder, whose soul has no harmony, and who is by nature a blood-sucker. One for ungrateful Lameth, whose infancy you guarded from harm by snatching him from wretchedness, whom you made a warrior that disgraced the profession, by exciting the army to mutiny and disorder. One for Noailles, who, after having contributed to the enormous deficit in your coffers, merely forsook you when he saw you had nothing more to give away! One for the hypocrite Camus, that slave-grown grey in the Minister's an- ti-chamber, mere sycophant, and awkward ape of Lamoignon, who also aimed at the fame of a mad- man, the only characters that could ensure the fa- vours of the day. One for the trifling and silly Barnave. One for low Chapeliers. One for the little priest of Autun—and at least 600 for the sup- posed national assembly, 600 for the politicians of the Palais Royal. The same number for the con- querors of the Bastille. Twelve for the would-be- orators of the people. As for the mutineers they must now sink into their original non entity. After which recal your nobility, but more particularly such as remained faithful to you in the midst of surrounding horrors. Give them back their titles, their hereditary distinctions, and your kingdom will flourish once more. Re-establish your power, but correct the abuses that at once disgraced and weak- ened the political constitution of France.
Let your Ministers not rule in your stead, go- vern by yourself, see with your own eyes, and learn now and then to say, "I will." Rouse then, Lew- is, from your long lethargy—you have no time to lose—in four days more it will perhaps be too late—four days! (Heavens, what an affecting futurity!) in four days more, perhaps a KING KILLING PONI- ARD—I go, fly to the spot where your friends a- wait you. Abandon to their due destiny your twelve hundred guardians, your sovereign Bailly, your sovereign La Fayette, your sovereigns of the su- burbs, and then shew on the frontiers, that you are worthy of bearing my name, and filling the throne of France!
L O N D O N, October 8.
The object the Emperor had in view in making so hasty a peace with the Turks, is seen by every one, and felt particularly by his Brabantine subjects. There is now the greatest reason to believe he will reduce the free spirits of these patriotic people, to their former state of bondage.

The first symptoms of restored liberty in France are manifesting themselves in tumult and excess. In the Marine there is scarcely a ship's company which is not infected with the spirit of mutiny. The crews of two ships at Brest have made their Capt. and Officers sweep the decks, telling them it was certainly their duty, as the Decrees of the National Assembly made them all equal.
The probability is now more certain than ever that France must again seek for a monarchical form of government, through the means of a civil war.
It is probable that though the Netherlands are at present in a most distracted state, that a happier fate awaits them at no great distance of time. A coalition of many of the great and most illustrious people in Brabant seems forming, with a view to assist the King of Hungary in subverting the aristocratic tyranny and religious bigotry of Vander Noot and Monkitsch associates.
The name of the Spanish frigate, whose commander bilboed Lieut. M c DONALD, for refusing to comply with his repeated request, is the ROUSILLON, of 36 guns, Capt. FRANCISCO VIDAL.
Two regiments of foot are ready to embark from Hanover to Gibraltar, in case of hostilities between the courts of Great Britain and Spain.
From the late promotion, various opinions have been formed; we think it no indication either of peace or war; as the Duke of Clarence is not included, the latter is the more probable expectation, that he may first have an opportunity of signaling himself in the service.
The Duke of Clarence is said to have been engaged in a dispute with an officer of equal rank in the fleet, which but for the arrival of sailing orders, must have been decided by the Supreme Court of Appeal in disputes between Gentlemen. [This is all that we have seen in the English papers any way alluding to the duel mentioned, the information of which we received from Halifax. A gentleman from England informs us, that it was secretly whispered that the prince had fought and fell. The duel, it is said, thus originated—The prince requested of the captain of a 74 gun ship, the labour of the carpenter of the latter, to execute a nice piece of work—this request the captain complied with, but enjoined the prince to use him well, as he was a civil, honest, capable man—and the prince promising not to use him ill, the carpenter was sent on board the prince's ship, the Valiant. In doing his work, being warm, the carpenter took off his coat, and laid it on the gun-ports—the sentry perceiving it there, took the carpenter into custody, and had him carried before the prince, who damning him for a rascal, demanding of him, how he had the impudence to disobey his orders, in putting his coat on the gun-ports—and telling him he was the first scoundrel that dare do it, he ordered him five dozen lalies. In vain the carpenter pleaded his innocence of the order—the lalies were immediately given him.—The carpenter's captain on hearing this, demanded satisfaction of the prince for the abuse; and on his refusing to give it, sent him a challenge, which being accepted, the duel was the consequence.—These are the particulars as we have heard them.]
THIS morning a Spaniard, calling himself Jose Selynk, was apprehended by two boatmen on suspicion of being a Spy: He was called before Admiral Graves, who sent him to a Mayor of this town for examination.
His papers being examined, it appeared he came from London on the 1st of October, and went to Oxford, Bath, Bristol, and Exeter, and from thence to Plymouth, and wished to go to Falmouth.
He was anxious to know how many ships were there; wished to view the Dock, Magazine, &c. He seems an intelligent man, and had many shrewd remarks in his Journal, which was written in French.
OCTOBER 10.
Jose Selynk, the Spaniard, has undergone another examination—but nothing material has yet come out against him. He says he came hither to view the arsenal, fleet, citadel, magazines, &c. as he had at Portsmouth. He said he was un Citoyen du Monde ; that his passport was L'Argent (shewing some silver) and that his companions were his books . On being questioned why he came by way of Oxford, &c. he said to see the country, and that he came here to go to Falmouth to embark for Lisbon—said he knew none of his own nation in London—that he wished not to be recognized by them, and that he was a man of no note in his own country.
He has a good map of the coast with him: but persists that he had no other object but curiosity—to gratify his wish to know the manners and customs of England.
It is somewhat remarkable, that he was averse to write to the Spanish ambassador, in London, which occasions the conjecture that he is not a Spaniard, but a Frenchman.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, October 25. A letter was received from the keeper of the Seals, informing that the Decrees which suppress the present Courts of Justice, and establish new ones, had been received by the Chambers of the Parliament of Rouen, Bourdeaux, Toulouse, Douai, &c. That the Parliament of Toulouse, on receiving them, came to the following resolution, which he laid before the Assembly.
Extract of the Resolve of the Parliament of Toulouse. "The Court considering that the French Monarchy is verging rapidly to the moment of its dissolution, &c. Protests , in behalf of their Lord the King .
the Clergy, the Nobility, and all the citizens, against all attempts on the rights of the Crown—the annihilation of the Nobility, and the total overthrow of the French Monarchy. Against all Edicts, Declarations, and Letters Patent, tending to the suppression of this Court—and the dismemberment of the province of Languedoc; against all attempts made upon religion, upon the dignity of its Ministers, and upon the spiritual jurisdiction of the Church, and its Liberties: And whereas the records made by this chamber since the 15th of November last were only provisional, they are hereby declared of no validity or effect: The said Court ordains, that the present Resolution shall be transcribed upon its records, as a testimony of their principles, and as a Memorial that the Magistrates who compose it, and the people whom they represent, are devoted to the King, and to the Nation : They also ordain, that a copy of this Resolve shall be sent to the said Lord the King . Done at Toulouse, Sept. 27, 1790."
After it was read, Mr. Robespierre rose. "I observe, said he, that this Assembly cannot but view the Members of the Parliament of Toulouse, as weak enemies, vanquished and sunk under the weight of the public opinion. I beg that we may discover that moderation—that prudent firmness, which is the surest evidence of strength and the distinguishing trait of power. Sire , treat the Members of this Parliament as enemies of the Nation in a manifest delirium. I request then, they may be brought to this bar." This proposal excited great murmurs—many Members, among others, Mr. Camus, moved, that the affair might be submitted to the committee on reports, to report the day after to-morrow; but others proposed to submit it to the Committee on the Constitution. The last motion was carried.
October 9. The National Assembly decree, that the National Loans opened by virtue of forming decrees, shall be shut from the day of the publication of the decree.
The new assignats [paper money] created by the decree of 29th Sept. shall be in Notes of 2000, 500, 200, 100, 80, 70, 60, and 50 livres each.
On Saturday morning, Mr. Wiffin, his Majesty's special messenger, arrived at the Duke of Leeds's office, with letters from Mr. Fitzherbert at Madrid; and although we are not warranted in reporting the particulars of his despatches, yet we do not hesitate to declare, that they contain nothing auspicious of a favourable conclusion to the present negotiation between the ministers of Spain and Great Britain.
Mr. Wiffin being returned from Madrid, without bringing any thing satisfactory, we must consider his despatches, at best, but as the last ultimatum but one.
There can be no doubt but the utmost confidence is reposed, by the ministers, in the Commander in Chief of the fleet. His Lordship's proved and acknowledged ability, fully justifies such confidence; and in the direction of this great fleet under his command, much will, no doubt, be left to his Lordship's judgment and discretion. But we will venture to say, that when the fleet again sails from Spithead, its commander will have positive directions to seek for and fight the Spaniards, wherever he may find them.
The squadron destined to the West-Indies will doubtless be accompanied by Lord Howe, with the grand fleet, to a certain latitude. His Lordship will afterwards stand for the Spanish coast, and offer the Dons battle off their own harbours.
The despatch with which our present great fleet has been fitted out, must impress all Europe with sentiments of awe and admiration. In little more than three months, to have a fleet of 70 sail of the line ready for sea, is a proof of exertion and resource unequalled in the annals of Europe.
The title of Chatham will a second time shine illustrious in the page of history. Of the present Nobleman it will be recorded, that under his naval administration, our fleet attained a pitch of power and perfection unknown to any former age in any nation.
UNITED STATES.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
FRIDAY, December 24.
MR. MOORE presented the petition of Thomas Nelson, in behalf of the executors of sundry mariners, who perished on board the frigate Randolph, which was blown up in an engagement the last war.
Mr. Burke gave notice, that on Monday next he should move for leave to bring in a bill to alter the meeting of Congress.
Mr. Floyd informed, that the committee appointed for that purpose, had this day presented, to the President of the United States, the enrolled bills passed yesterday.
The House then proceeded in the consideration of the amendments proposed, by the committee of the whole, to the militia bill; the amendments were adopted by the House with some amendments.
The amendment proposed by Mr. Madison, to exempt persons conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, from militia duty, was, after a long debate, disagreed to—on the principal of the particular states being competent to making the exemptions in general.
The bill was then recommitted to the following
committee:—Messrs. Wadsworth, Giles and Tucker.
The House then adjourned till Monday next.
MONDAY, December 27.
On motion, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, to take into consideration the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the bill making provision for the further support of public credit.
Mr. Livermore took the chair of the committee; after some time spent, the committee agreed to the following resolutions:
That an additional duty of 8 cents per gallon be laid and collected upon all distilled spirits of common proof, and in like proportion for all other distilled spirits, which shall after the — day of —, be imported into the United States.
Also, that from and after the — day of — next, a duty of 11 cents per gallon be imposed upon all spirits of the first class of proof, distilled within the United States from sugar, molasses, or other foreign materials. Also, a duty in like proportion on all other classes of proof.
Also, a duty of 9 cents upon all spirits, of the first class of proof, distilled within any city, town, or village, within the United States, from materials of the growth or production of the United States. Also, a duty in like proportion, on all other classes of proof.
That for each still employed in distilling spirits, in any other place than a city, town, or village, there be collected and paid a yearly sum of — cents for every gallon, English wine-measure, of the capacity of each still, including its head.
After which the committee rose, and the chairman reported the resolutions, which were read, and agreed to by the House.
A committee of five members was appointed to prepare and bring in a bill agreeably to said resolutions.
On motion, the committee of the whole was discharged from further consideration of said report.
Mr. Fitzsimons then moved, That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill on the other parts of said report, for altering the mode of collecting the duty on wines and tea, and to allow a longer time for collecting the same, which was referred to the foregoing committee.
TUESDAY, December 28.
Mr. Lee, from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported a bill, directing the mode in which the evidences of the debt of the United States which may be lost or destroyed, shall be renewed; which was read the first time.
Mr. Tucker, from the committee appointed to prepare and bring in a bill, further to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States—moved, that the committee be instructed to prepare and bring in a clause to this effect, Be it enacted, that the militia of the several states of the union, consisting of such persons as are or may be enrolled by them respectively, shall be organized, armed and disciplined in manner following; which was read, and ordered to lie on the table.
On motion, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. Boudinot in the chair.
The committee again resumed the consideration of the bill for establishing land-offices, for disposal of the vacant lands belonging to the United States: After some time spent in debate, the committee rose, reported progress, and asked leave to sit again.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the state of the Union, to take into further consideration the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the establishment of land-offices, for the sale of part of the western territory:
Mr. Boudinot in the chair.
Mr. Scot was ready to give some information relative to the extent of the seven ranges: He produced a map of them, from which it appeared that they included 35 lots, each 6 miles square. The tract in the shape of a triangle, of which one leg measured about 60 and the other 42; in all about 1200 square miles.—His amendment was agreed to.
The next article was agreed to, with a trifling amendment, without debate. Then the following was read:
'That the price shall be thirty cents per acre, to be paid either in gold or silver, or public securities, computing them which shall bear an immediate interest of six per cent, as at par with gold and silver, and those which shall bear a further or less interest, if any there be, at a proportional value.'
Mr. Lawrance did not approve of fixing the price for land that must necessarily vary so much in point of soil and situation. He wished thirty to be struck out, and two prices fixed as the limits of the highest and lowest price for different qualities of land leaving a discretionary power with the commissioners to fix the value within those limits.
Mr. Sedgwick said he saw no necessity for fixing a limit to the highest price; he approved of fixing the other limit.—The motion was lost.
WEDNESDAY, December 29.
The bill, respecting the mode of recovering lost certificates, was read a second time, and ordered to be referred to a committee of the whole on Monday next; and 100 copies to be printed in the interim.
A petition from Hubert Swain, confined in the goal of the city of Philadelphia, for a breach of the

revenue laws, praying an enlargement from his confinement, was read and referred to Messrs. Goodhue, Livermore and Sinnickson, to report thereon.
Mr. Fitzsimons presented a petition from Philip Buck, late a Lieutenant on board the Congress Rowgally, praying to be compensated for a loss sustained in the service; referred to the Secretary of War.
Mr. Lawrance presented the memorial of Winthrop Sargent, Secretary of the Western Government, praying a further allowance for additional services, and expences annexed to his office, since its erection; referred to the Secretary of the Treasury.
The house then went into a committee of the whole on the bill authorizing the officers of the customs to allow the landing of goods from vessels obstructed by the ice in their passage to a port of delivery: and having made a general regulation by this bill, the committee rose and reported it as amended: whereupon it was ordered to be engrossed.
Mr. Tucker's motion of yesterday, to wit, "That the select committee to whom the militia bill was referred, be instructed to introduce a clause to the following effect, Be it enacted, that the militia of the several states of the union, consisting of such persons as are or shall be enrolled by them respectively, shall be organized, armed and disciplined in the manner following," was taken into consideration, and after a long discussion, the question was taken on the same, and the yeas and nays being called for by one third of the members present, were as follows:
Yeas. Messrs. Ashe, Bloodworth, Floyd, Grout, Livermore, Thatcher, Tucker and Williamson, 8.
Nays. Messrs. Ames, Baldwin, Benton, Bourne, Brown, Burke, Cadwallader, Carroll, Fitzsimons, Foster, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Griffin, Giles, Hathorn, Heister, Huntington, Lawrance, Lee, Madison, Mathews, Moore, Muhlenthal, Parker, Partridge, Van Rensselaer, Scott, Sedgwick, Seney, Sevier, Sherman, Silvester, Sinnickson, Smith (M) Smith (S. C.) Stone, Sturgis, Trumbull, Wadsworth, White, Wynkoop, 43.
So it passed in the negative. The house then resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the state of the union, and proceeded in the consideration of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, respecting the land office: and after some time spent therein, the committee rose and reported progress.
Mr. Sedgewick from the committee appointed for that purpose, reported a bill repealing, after a certain time the act heretofore laid, imposing duties on distilled and other spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and for altering the mode of collecting said duties, &c. which was read the first time, and on motion the said bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole House on Tuesday next.
A message was received from the President of the United States, communicating a report from the Secretary of State upon the subject of the prisoners who are in captivity at Algiers.
Mr. Clymer presented a petition from the college of physicians at Philadelphia, praying that such heavy duties may be laid on distilled spirits as shall be effectual to restrain their intemperate use.
On motion, ordered, that the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to report to this House, the amount of the exports from the several districts within the United States respectively, also the amount of duties arising on imports and tonnage, from the first of August, 1789, to the thirtieth of September 1790, and, as soon as may be, from thence to the end of the year.
The speaker informed the House, that he had some communications to make, which made it necessary that the House should be cleared of all persons, excepting the members: The House was cleared accordingly.
B O S T O N, December 13. P E A C E A N D W A R.
The subject of war and peace, and vice versa between Don and the great Lion , has been alternately founded in our ears, to the no small amusement of us lookers on. Accounts, to October 16th, proclaim peace again! perhaps it may be so. Be it so, or be it not so, what care we? We dwell in peaceful habitations, and pleasant places. We invite foreigners to come and dwell among us; they come, and are not oppressed.
The Lion complains—thou treadest on my tail insulting Don —revenge! thy possessions, thy rights, or thy Mexicans shall pay for this—or, by GEORGE , thy blood shall answer it!
How the mighty Lion vaunts! yet, alas, King of animals thou art again trodden under foot of the quiet, inoffensive Don —Thy beloved ship, the TRE-LAWNEY PLANTER hath been stopped in its way from Jamaica by a Spanish 74—ransacked, and its grieved Captain held in durance at the pleasure of the Dons ! O direful disgrace—O HORRID indignity! is it not equal to the Nootka insult! I'll wag my tail again, and declare vengeance from this new source! Ha ha! how pitiful doth that man appear to the observing world, who swells with indignant pride until his entrails strew the streets.
December 15. We have it from good authority, that Oil is admitted in England in AMERICAN Borroms, which is one of the many advantages, that may accrue to this country, from a War between England and Spain. We give this information that those who plough the ocean to obtain Oil , may reap the advantage. as it is probable, the alien duty may be taken off likewise.
N E W - P O R T, December 9.
Last Monday morning arrived here the ship Joseph , Capt. Sheffield, in 61 days from L'Orient .—Capt. Sheffield informs us, that the British fleet were again at sea—and that in France affairs were far from being in a peaceable state.
N E W - Y O R K, December 29.
Accounts from Philadelphia, to the evening before last, mention, the harmony which subsists in that capital, and the general satisfaction which the report of the Secretary of the Treasury has generally occasioned—It is said, that only 80,000 additional dollars will be wanting to answer the purposes of expenditure for the present session—which, will be raised with the greatest facility, by a trifling additional duty on spirituous liquors, &c.
A continual competitorship seems to enliven the spirit of Gazetteer paragraphism in the several newspapers at Philadelphia; and we presume, that few will be able to command their ribble muscles, on perusing the superlatively obsequious —the bombastically applauding —and the satirically ouglinc flights of political parenzy which daily appear in those republican instruments of instruction, &c.—"Respect to rulers is the virtue of a patriot—but it ought to have its limits."
Capt. Dunn, on his passage from Charleston to this port in lat. 38: 11, long. 71: 41, spoke Capt. Atkins, in 7 weeks from Bristol, bound to Norfolk, Virginia—Capt. Atkins informed that a fleet had failed from England for the West-Indies, and that a declaration of war was hourly expected.
P H I L A D E L P H I A, January 1.
The lapse of time, the succession of years, suggest many useful reflections to the contemplative mind.—How replete with events has been the year just closed!—All of them propitious to our country!—How bright our future prospects!—United, tranquil, and happy at home—honored and respected abroad:—The labours of our patriots have been crowned with unexampled success—while heaven has poured the riches of its bounty in profusion upon us.—May the year we now commence prove equally propitious; for no events in the annals of America, reflects a fairer lustre on our character than those of the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety .
That part of the Militia-Bill, by which men, conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms, were to have been exempted from militia-duty, was on Friday last negatived in the House of Representatives. It was not, however, the sense of the House, that such men should be forced to bear arms: but it was generally agreed, that the terms of their exemption shall be left to the discretion of the several state Legislatures.
Congress is now deeply immersed in public business—the report of the secretary of the treasury, and those which are expected from the other hands of departments, will probably open a very extensive field of discussion—but that patriotism which was preponderated in the councils of the Union will, we doubt not, unite the legislature in giving all possible dispatch to the important objects of their deliberation.
The fluctuation of our councils previous to the adoption of the New-Constitution, unhinged the public mind, weakened all confidence in the government, almost annihilated the credit of the UNITED STATES . A solemn lesson to the present government, that measures adopted after due deliberation, shall be inflexibly supported; On this firmness and stability our respectability and credit, our ALL depend.
Amongst the benefits derived, and to be derived, from the Federal Government, must be included the liberality of the House of Representatives in a particular, which at once evinces their candour and patriotism. Their doors are not only open, every reasonable liberty is allowed to short-hand writers. Thus the speech of the orator again charms and again instructs, after passing through the medium of an IMPARTIAL PRESS ; and freedom exults in an addition of security from this enlightened proceeding of those revered Legislators.
SHEPHERD'S-TOWN, January 11.
The following INTERESTING INTELLIGENCE is copied from the FEDERAL GAZETTE , printed at Philadelphia, January 1, 1791.
BY AN EXPRESS,
Which arrived this afternoon at the Post-Office, from Lewistown, near the Capes of Delaware, we have received letters from London down to the 4th of November.
The following letter will convey important information to the American public.
Copy of a letter received by the Lord Mayor of London, from the Duke of LEEDS.
I have the honor to acquaint your Lordship, that the messenger Dresin, arrived here this morning, with dispatches from Mr. Fitzherbert, ambassador at the court of Madrid, dated Sunday, 24th October, containing an account, that a Convention for terminating the differences which had arisen with that court, had been agreed upon, between his Excellency, on the part of his Majesty, and the Count de Florida Blanca, on the part of the Catholic King; and that the Convention was to be signed, and exchanged by those Ministers, the 27th of the same month. (Signed) LEEDS.
London, 4th Nov.
The Assistant to the Marshall of the State of Virginia, appointed to take a census of the inhabitants of this County, has favoured us with the enumeration of this town, which is as follows, viz.
 White Males, above 16 years of age, 270  Ditto, under 16 years of age, 265  Ditto, Females, 444  Free Blacks, 2  Slaves, 52 
Total 1033
The whole number for Martinsburg, we are informed, amounted to 884.
His Excellency THOMAS MIFFLIN, Esq. was, on the 21st ult. proclaimed Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The organization of the militia of the United States, is a most important subject of legislative consideration; the observation of the President of the United States, that the present time affords the most favourable opportunity to lay the foundation of an efficient and competent militia, by availing ourselves of the experience and abilities of our soldier-citizens the officers of the late continental army—is a trait of that ever wakeful vigilance, which suffers nothing to escape his attention, that may contribute to the credit and security of the Union; this idea is weighty, and will doubtless have a due influence on the minds of our civil fathers, in expediting the militia establishment of the United States.
From the frequent disappointment in the arrival of the Post from Baltimore, on the stated days, during the Winter season, the Editor has found it necessary to alter his day of publication from Monday to Tuesday.
For the PATOWMAC GUARDIAN, &c.
THE publication of THE WINCHESTER MIRROR, a Poem, is unavoidably postponed, for a few months, from circumstances essential to the impartial completion of the original plan. The Author is sanguine in a belief, that it may answer the laudable purpose of informing the passing stranger, of the really vicious and truly virtuous. An undertaking thus big with utility, he vainly believes deserves public reception and public thanks.
PIECE of an EPIGRAM.
On seeing an ATTORNEY'S OFFICE turn'd into a TALLOW-CHANDLER'S SHOP. BLESS me! what a change is here, my friend, pray stop. A Lawyer's office turn'd a Chandler's shop. Though odd, indeed, appears this alteration. The Lord send such an one throughout the nation. In such a change, my friend, all must delight, For what sent darkness forth, now sends forth light.
To be RENTED in CHARLESTOWN, BERKELEY, THAT VALUABLE HOUSE,
Where Mr. JAMES HAMMOND now keeps store. IT is well calculated for either Store or Tavern, and may be entered on the 1st. of April next. ALSO, that commodious HOUSE where Mr. PHILIP WELSH lives, opposite Mr. HAMMOND'S Store. And a new finished two-story HOUSE, on the Main Street, fit for a genteel private family, or a tradesman. For particulars, apply to the Subscriber, near the premises.
WILLIAM CHERRY.
January 6, 1791.
10 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Subscriber, on Saturday evening last, a NEGRO MAN, named WILL, about 35 years of age, five feet ten inches high, likely, strong and well made—as he took with him various articles of cloathing, his dress cannot be particularized. The above reward and all reasonable charges will be paid to any person who apprehends the said negro, and delivers him to me, or otherwise secures him so that I can have him again.
CHARLES MAGILL.
Winchester, January 4, 1791.
TO BE SOLD, A good milch Cow.
Inquire of the Printer.
Wanted to Hire,
A young Man,
In the capacity of a HOSTLER. He must be of an honest, industrious, sober Character. Apply to ALEXANDER ROGERS, at Martinsburg, or the PRINTER hereof.
+++ THE Public are informed, That a regular Post-Rider, (whose character will bear examination) is now established from this town to Martinsburg, Back-Creek, Middletown, Hopwell, and Charlestown. He leaves the Printing Office every Tuesday. Those who may wish to encourage the circulation of the PATOWMAC GUARDIAN, &c. on that route, may rely on the utmost punctuality in the delivery of their papers.

SEAT OF THE MUSES.
On the SPEECH of the President of the United States, in Philadelphia, on the meeting of Congress, 1790.
PEACE is confirm'd since WASHINGTON presides:
In him each true American confides.
In war he led the dreadful battle's van,
Now gives solidity to virtue's plan,
And in this tribute all should now agree—
He gave us freedom, and he keeps us free.
Columbia's bards! on meteors cease to gaze
In foreign climes!—A hero claims your praise;
Such themes reject, or smile at alien powers;
For art not Washington, and freedom ours?
Ye friends of freedom! see him—hear him speak—
Be the bright glow of joy on every cheek!
Ye who beheld his valour, hear his words;
He guides affection, as he guided swords.
That honor'd voice which worth in battle heard,
Is in the calm of peace by all rever'd.
AMERICANS! adore the power of heav'n;
A constitution has been lately giv'n,
Which Washington, with patriotism, secures.
Each blessing, tho' the toil be his, is ours.
A B U L L.
A SERGEANT of the foot guards was interred in St. John's Church yard, Westminster, and the usual ceremony of firing over the grave being over, an Irishman, who was a spectator of the ceremony, exclaimed in a sorrowful tone, "Oh! this is the last time the poor Sergeant will hear the guns fired."
"You are a fool," said a hot-headed fellow to a gentleman, with whom he had a difference—"From any body else," replied he, "I would resent that epithet, but from you I consider it as a mark of affection—It is only proving our Relationship."
By the GOVERNOR of the Commonwealth of VIRGINIA.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS the Reward offered for apprehending BENJAMIN WOODWARD, by a Proclamation of the Lieutenant Governor, issued on the 29th day of June last, has been deemed insufficient, the said Benjamin still absconding from Justice; I have therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council of State, hereby to offer a Reward of FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person who shall apprehend and convey the said Ben. Woodward to the Jail of the district of Petersburg: And I do moreover require all Justices of the Peace, Sheriffs and Constables, within their Counties and Bailiwicks, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the district Jail aforesaid, the said Ben. Woodward.
Given under my hand, and seal of the Commonwealth, at Richmond, this 8th day of December, 1790.
B. Randolph.
A Purse of Money!
Was left on the Counter of the Subscriber, by some person unknown, a Purse, with a sum of MONEY in it. Any one that will give an exact description, prove property, and pay the charge of this advertisement, may receive the Purse and Money from
JOHN KEARSLEY. Shepherd's-Town, December 31, 1790.
A Stray Cow.
STRAYED from the Subscriber, A Milch Cow, 10 years old—her sides red—her face and belly white—has a white streak along her back—has wide horns—and is ear-marked, but the mark forgot. Whoever will give information where the above stray cow is, shall be handsomely rewarded, by
ABRAHAM MORGAN. Shepherd's-Town, January 1, 1791.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Dec. 20. 1790. IT is hereby made known, that the following arrangement has been adopted towards carrying into execution the Act, making provision for the debt of the United States, viz.
Loan-Office Certificates, and those issued by the Commissioners for the adjustment of accounts in the several States, will be receivable only at the Treasury and by the respective Commissioners of Loans within the States in which they were respectively issued. The Certificates issued by the Register of the Treasury, by the Pay Master General and Commissioner of Army Accounts, by the Commissioners of the adjustment of the Accounts of the Quarter Master's, Commissary's, Hospital, Cloathing, & Marine Departments, Indents of Interest, and Bills of Old Omission, will be receivable indiscriminately at the Treasury and by the Commissioners of all the States.
The Printers in the several States are requested to insert this.
FOR SALE, A Valuable Plantation,
Situated in BERKELEY COUNTY, About 8 miles from SHEPHERD'S-TOWN, and one mile from HALL'S MILL, containing about 363 acres, 100 of which is now under improvement, has a good ORCHARD, with 120 bearing APPLE-TREES, a two-story stone DWELLING-HOUSE, with a KITCHEN, BARN, convenient OUT-HOUSES, LOOM-HOUSE, DISTIL-HOUSE, &c. &c. There are on the above Land 20 Acres of excellent MEADOW, and a number more might easily be made. A stream of good water runs through the whole Meadow. The Plantation is under good improvement. Whoever may incline to purchase the above Land, are requested to apply to the Subscriber, living on the premises.
THOMAS CROW. November 23, 1790.
Fort-Cumberland Nail-Manufactory.
At this place I make all sorts of Nails, Brads, Spikes,
and SPRIGS, Which I will sell low for cash, or country produce. I also want a Number of NAILORS, that are good workmen, and I will give good wages.
JOHN PEIRCE. November 22, 1790. N. B. At this place we work all Stone Coals.
CAME to the Plantation of the Subscriber, about a month ago, a small black GELDING, about four years old. He is potted and appraised to forty-two Shillings Virginia Currency. The owner may have him by proving his property and paying charges.
GILES COOKE, sen. December 3, 1790.
The Subscriber returns his most grateful thanks to the citizens of this town and its vicinity, for the generous encouragement they have given him; and at the same time informs them, that his School of Vocal Music, will re-commence this evening, at six o'clock, at Mr. DOWELL'S SCHOOL-HOUSE.
J. WILKINSON.
NOTICE is hereby given, that agreeable to Law the following Tracts of Land, or so much thereof, will be sold for the Taxes due thereon, and the expences, viz.
 JOHN BELL, 150 Acres for 1787 and 1788.  Jonas Bean, 100 for ditto  William Chambers, 225 for ditto  George Coon, 187 for ditto  George Clarke, 115 for ditto  Samuel Davis, 100 for ditto  Benjamin Foreman, 200 for ditto  Tho. Lord Fairfax, 761 for ditto  John Fleed, 100 for ditto  Michael Ingle, 90 for ditto  Matthias Keen, 30 for ditto  John Lemon, 79 for ditto  John Loer, 1 Lot,  Edward McKenny, 100 Acres for ditto  James Nourse, 879 for ditto  John Rizer, 103 for ditto  Jacob Roads, 295 for ditto  Daniel Ruff, 100 for ditto  William Small, 150 for ditto  Wil. Vastall's heirs, 283 for ditto  James Willett, 123 for ditto  Thomas White, 167 & half for ditto  John Wimmer, 1 Lot  Barzel Abrams, 100 for 1788  John Brannon, 200 for ditto  Sam. Banks's exec's. 127 for 84, 85, 86, 87 & 88.  Jonathan Brown, 100 for ditto  William Barnes, 200 for ditto  William Crawford, 1 Lot for ditto  Clarke, 1 do. for ditto  John Crockett, 1 do. for ditto  Col. Carlyle's exec's. 4 do. for ditto  Thomas Dent, 550 Acres for ditto  James Elliot, 100 for ditto  James Edmondson, 743 for ditto  George Elkridge, 1000 for ditto  James Fulton, 150 for ditto  Peter Finagle, 40 for ditto  George Roland, 2 Lots  Nancy Fox, 148 Acres ditto  Tho. Lord Fairfax, 750 do. and 5 Lots,  William Fitzhugh, 1 Lot,  Michael Faulkner, 1 do.  William Gilbreath, 105 Acres,  William Grant, 100  Richard Graham, 400  Jean Logan, 272  David Hofman, 240  Hamlin, 800  Higgins's exec. 1 Lot  Col. Howard, 1 do.  Col. Hite, 2 do.  Jeremiah Hotkinson, 200 Acres,  John Jackson's exec. 86  Joseph Keen, 300  Adam Kellon, 1 Lot,  Fielding Lewis, 1 do.  Luke & Milback, 1 do.  William McMahan, 300 Acres,  Thomas McIntire, 100  Joseph Mitchell, 145  Mary Manning, 300  John Noland, 1 Lot,  William Neal, 100 Acres,  William Neely, 400  John Perkins, 172  M. Page, 1 Lot,  Daniel Reed, 10 Acres,  Ann Roberts, 100  Thomas Ruffel, 1 Lot,  Gapser Seever, 96 Acres,  John Stull, 1 Lot,  Henry Stephens & Co. 1 do.  Jacob Tabler, 1 do.  Mehling Woolery, 2 do.  Jacob Ward's exec. 50 Acres,  Williams & Cary 100  Henry Yakey 450 
The sale will commence the 10th of FEBRUARY next, on the Land of John Bell, and continue from Day to Day, until the Whole is sold.
SMITH SLAUGHTER, (Late Sheriff Berkeley County.)
December 3, 1790.
Notice.
RAN away from the subscriber, on the 1st of November last, at Winchester, an indentured apprentice named JOHN HUTCHINSON. All persons, particularly Printers, are cautioned against harbouring or employing the said apprentice, as they would avoid the penalty of the law. Whoever will bring him to me at Shepherd's-Town, shall receive what the law allows, for their trouble. N WILLIS.
Wanted immediately, by the Printer hereof,
A strong active Lad, who has received a tolerable education, would be taken as an Apprentice to the Printing-Business.