Gazette of the United States. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1795-08-15 00:00:00

Gazette United States
NUMBER 916.]
SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 15, 1795.
[VOLUME VIII.]
FOR HAMBURGH, The Ship ADRIANA, Captain SAMUEL CLAPP, Will receive Freight, (part of which is engaged) for Hamburg, and is to sail as soon as she is discharged, and can be loaded.
Passengers that purpose to go to England, are to be landed at Deal or Dover, the Ship having good accommodations, being lately enlarged for this purpose in London. For freight or passage enquire of
RALPH MATHER, No. 71, Race-Street.
July 14. For FREIGHT, CHARTER or SALE, The Ship AMERICAN, At Mr. Nixon's Wharf. THE ship will take a Freight to any of the Windward Islands or Europe, if one offers soon, as she is now ready to take in. She is in complete order, and has good accommodations for passengers. For particulars apply to
Jehu Hollingsworth & Co. WHO HAVE FOR SALE,
A Few Puncheons of Excellent Rum, By the above ship, one of which is old.
July 27 FOR SALE, The Sloop FRIENDSHIP, BURTHEN thirty five tons; built in North Carolina, of Live Oak and Cedar, seven years old and pretty well found. For terms apply to
Joseph Anthony & Son. August 6
For SALE or CHARTER, The Ship PENNSYLVANIA, BURTHEN 3400 Bbls. Flour—completely found, and may be sent to sea at a small expense. For terms apply to
GURNEY & SMITH. July 16
A Quantity of Excellent Bordeaux Claret in casks and Brandy in Pipes and Butts. 300 Hbds. Maryland and Virginia TOBACCO.
OF a superior quality, part of which is Ritefoot, and particularly adapted for the manufacturers, or for the Holland or Hamburg market.
ALSO, 500 Hogheads ready to be delivered on board a vessel in Chesapeake Bay, for sale by George Sibbald, No. 170 South Front Street.
July 24 50000 lb. of First Quality Green Coffee WILL be landed on Monday, the 20th inst. on Messrs. Willings and Francis's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Delight, Ayres Stokely, Master, from St. Domingo, for sale by LEVINUS CLARKSON July 18
Now Landing, THE cargoes of the brigs West-Indian and Betty & Polly from Jamaica: Coffee in hds and barrels Sugar in hds Rum, high proof, and 36 bags Pimento. ALSO ON HAND, A Quantity of Coffee in Hds. Barrels and Bags Sugar in Hds Pimento in Bags Brandy, 1st and 4th proof Sherry Wine, &c. For sale by Peter Blight. July 31
For SALE, The Schooner CHORLEY, AN American built vessel, burthen about 300 Bbls. of Flour, and well found—For terms apply to the captain on board at the subscriber's wharf, or to JOSEPH SIMS. Who has for Sale, imported in said S. Schooner, St. Croix Rum and Sugar, in Hds. and barrels, Coffee, &c. August 10 $102
Came to the Stable of the Subscriber, LAST evening, a Black Mare, with a little white on her off hind foot, and the head full of a bridle on her head. Whoever owns the said mare shall have her by paying for this advertisement. GEORGE GREEN, No. 123 Pine Street. Aug. 10 4t
LANDING, FROM on board the brig Eagle, Capt. Dewar, and Sloop George, Capt. Chapman, from Port au Prince, at Hamilton's wharf, Muscovado SUGAR, in { hogheads, tierces, & barrels. COFFEE, in { hogheads, tierces, barrels, & bags. COTTON, in { bales, & packets. For sale by George Sibbald, No. 170 South Front Street. August 5
TO BE SOLD, A Lot, containing about seventeen acres, on the Wissahickon road, 4 miles from the city, and directly opposite to the house of Mr. Isaac Wharton. A Lot, containing 10 acres, in Idington Lane, on said road, near the estate of Jasper Moylan, Esq. A Lot, containing 10 acres in Turner's Lane, on said road, and directly opposite to the estate of Mr. Ternant. Enquire of Joseph Redman, Woodstock corner of Turner's Lane. April 6
FOR SALE, In Bath County, Virginia, 450 Acres of Good Land. WHEREON are the Hot Springs, which are from 70 to 110 degrees of heat. There is on the said land a handsome and commodious house two stories high, 60 by 30 feet, with a portico the full length of the house, and extending to the upper story, and other necessary houses for a Public House, for which they were intended; good houses are over several of the baths, with floating rooms. There are adjacent thereto, two remarkable cold springs of well-tasted lime-stone water. These baths are a specific for the most obstinate rheumatic and all other diseases originating from colds or obstructions, and gives great relief in the gout, they have effected wonderful cures in various diseases incident to the ladies; they have this spring made a perfect cure of a disease on a West-Indian resembling the leprosy, and are remarkable for the cure of white swellings, contracted nerves, and many other diseases too obstinate to be effected by medicine. There is near the said Baths, A new Saw-Mill erected, and a Race dug from thence, to build a Manufacturing Mill, which contains about 30 acres of rich Meadow Land as any upon the Continent, and may be watered every night, and the bay made thereon falls as well as any that is made near any city or town within the United States. The proprietors of the above property will treat for the same on the premises, at any time between the 20th of August and the 20th of September; they will also sell Valuable Land for two or three Farms near the said Springs, and if the said Land and Houses at the Springs are not sold, they will be rented. N. B. Good accommodations are provided at the above Springs for ladies and gentlemen this season, which from experience is found best to commence in June, and end the first of October. July 14 $100
JAMES TIFFIN, No. 70, South Second-Street, near the City Tavern, HAS just opened and for Sale, an Assortment of Ladies and Gentlemen's Fashionable HATS, from London. Also a variety of Children's Hats of different Colours. N. B. A Man or two as finishers in the above business, well recommended, will meet with constant employ and good encouragement. June 6
LANDING, from on board the Ship CHARLOTTE, Capt. Tona. Donners, from Bordeaux, 30 Pipes Brandy 20 Tons Claret For sale by F. COPPINGER, No. 231 South Front, near Pine Street. Who has also, 2300 cases of 30 & 50 bottles, Choice Old Claret 600 hogheads ditto A Quantity of Annified Noyaux Liqueurs and Cambricks. July 16
FOR SALE by the Subscribers, at their Store on Walnut Street Wharf, 26 Hhds. 33 Barrels and } Hispaniola COFFEE, lately arrived 540 Bags Who have also on hand, Red Port Wine, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, in Qrs. casks Mountain 1st 20 Tons Pimento Nails assorted Sail Canvas, N o . 1 & 2 and A few gentlemen's handsome Saddles Philip Nicklin & Co. July 24
American Landscapes. PROPOSALS FOR PUBLISHING IN AQUATINTA TWENTY-FOUR VIEWS, SELECTED from the most striking and interesting Prospects in the United States; each of which Views, will be accompanied with a descriptive account of its Local, Historical, and other Incidental Peculiarities By G. I. PARKYNS, Author of the "Mosaic Remains and Ancient Calids in Great Britain."
CONDITIONS. I. That the work shall be published by Subscription; and that each Subscriber shall engage to take the whole set of Views, and shall pay for each engraving, if Black or Brown, 2 Dollars; and if coloured 5 Dollars. II. That the dimensions of each engraving shall be 24 by 17 inches, executed in aquatinta, and published upon paper of a superior quality. The publication to commence immediately; and one engraving to be delivered to the Subscribers, on the first Monday of each succeeding month, until the proposed series shall be finally completed. III. That with the last View of the series, shall be delivered an engraved title-page; an elegant character-vignette; a map of the route, connected with the prospects exhibited in the course of the Work; and an Alphabetical list of the Subscribers. Subscriptions are received by Mr. Harrison, at his Print Shop, Market-Street, New-York, by Mr. Carey, Book-seller, No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia, and by all the principal Book-sellers in the United States. February 28.
FRAUNCES'S TAVERN. No. 59 South Water Street. THE Subscriber respectfully begs leave to inform his friends and the public in general, that he has removed from No. 166 South 2d Street, to that large, commodious, House in Water-Street, between Chestnut and Walnut Streets, lately occupied by Mr. Isaac Hazlehurst, and, on which he has spared no pains or expense, to make it convenient and agreeable for the reception of gentlemen. The House being situated on the same spot where the noted Beef Steak and Punch house formerly stood, has the advantage of the best water in this city, known long since by the name of the Green Tree Water. As there are several elegant Rooms, sufficiently large to accommodate any Society or company of gentlemen, and from his well known abilities to please in the line of his business, he flatters himself with a continuance of that patronage which he has experienced since he first opened a Public House in this City, and, for which he begs leave to make a public acknowledgment. For the accommodation of Small Parties, the Large Coffee Room on the ground floor is conveniently fitted up with a number of Boxes, constructed in such a manner as to admit Gentlemen to be as private as they please—Where may be had, at any hour, Soups, Beef-Steaks, Relishes, &c. &c. He has on hand, and will keep a constant supply of Spirits and Malt Liquors, and of the best qualities. Breakfasts provided—Also Dinners and Suppers cooked in the most approved manner, at a short notice, and a party of all sorts, made to order, in the House, or to send out at any hour. He has several well furnished Bed Chambers, for Boarders and Lodgers, by the Week, month, or year. SAMUEL FRAUNCES. August 12
For Sale by the Subscriber, A few hundred barrels of Prime Herrings fit for Exportation 70000 lb. Green Coffee in hds. barrels and bags Port Wine in pipes Madeira in do. hds. and quarter casks Teneriffe in Ditto Malaga in quarter casks Jamaica Spirits in hds. New England Rum in ditto Holland Gin Ryton Hylon Gomee } TEAS, in whole and half chests Suchong and } Bohea } Turk's Island and } SALT Liverpool } Sweet Oil in Quart Bottles, and Cases of 30 bottles Clayed Sugars in hds. entitled to Drawback 2000 Bushels best Liverpool blond Salt now afloat, will be sold cheap from on board the vessel. Levinus Clarkson, No. 216 South Water Street. July 1
The highest price in Cash, will be given for EMPTY BOTTLES, A preference will be given to Claret Bottles—Apply to No. 187, fourth Third-Street. April 10.
A Few Pipes Port Wine Of a Superior Quality, Now landing at Pine-Street Wharf, FOR SALE BY William & Samuel Keith, No. 279, South Front-Street. July 14.
LANDING, From on board the brig John from Gonaves, at Clifford's wharf— 60,000 weight of COFFEE, in hds. and bags, 14,000 lb. COTTON, Some Sugar, Molasses, and Salt. For Sale by John Claxton, or John Clark. August 11
LANDING at South Street wharf, The Cargo of the Brig Fly, captain Homer, from Gibraltar and Teneriffe. Brandy, 1st and 4th Proof. Teneriffe Wine, in pipes, hds. and quarter casks, Benevalo ditto, Hazelnuts in Sacks, Also, cargo of the brig Oued Hope, capt. Hubber, from Jamaica. Sugar in Hogheads, Coffee in ditto, High proof Spirit, Logwood, Hides, &c. For sale by Peter Blight. August 12
THE United States, issued from the Office or the Register of the Treasury of the said United States, in the name of Patrick Heatly of London, to wit. No. 3319, 3320, and 3321, dated 7th July, 1794, for Four Thousand Dollars each, of the Funded three per Cent. Debt, have been lost at Sea, and application is intended to be made for the Renewal of the said Certificates at the Office of the Treasury of the said United States, of which all persons concerned are desired to take notice. ROBERT GILMOR, of Baltimore. August 14 $6w
JUST PUBLISHED, By FRANCIS & ROBERT BAILEY, and to be sold at their Bookstore, No. 116 High Street, and by the principal Printers and Booksellers throughout the United States, A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Times,
Particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. Containing, with other great and remarkable things not revealed to any other person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual FALL of the TURKISH, GERMAN and RUSSIAN empires. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and published by his sacred command; it being a second sign of warning for the benefit of all nations; by the man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. The year of the World 5813. By RICHARD BROTHERS.
FROM the following Extracts the Public will be enabled to form a judgment of this work. "A man that has been an officer in the Navy, whose immediate ancestors have been separated from the Jews for such a considerable length of time as to make them forget they ever belonged to the name, such a man declaring himself openly to the world a prophet of God, the revealed prince allotted to order the sudden return of the Hebrews from all nations, and govern them in the land of Israel, will, with some reason I allow, excite both astonishment and doubt; but from the multiplied recorded testimonies I produce, which no other on earth can, it ought not to prevail with any person as a just objection against believing what I write." "The prophet Daniel, chapter 8, verse 8. And four great beasts came up from the sea, different from one another. 4. The first was like a Lion, and it had Eagle's wings: I beheld 'till the wings were plucked, when it was lifted up on the Earth, and made to stand on the feet as a man: and a man's heart was given to it." "The Lion means George the Third, the present King of England: plucking the wings of the Lion, means taking away the power of the king: made to stand on the feet as a man, with a man's heart, means his reduction to the condition of other men, and possessing similar thoughts." "The SPANISH MONARCHY will cease by this war, and the STADTHOLDERSHIP of HOLLAND will be cut off close to the ground; according to the visions of god to me, in 1792, and which I communicated at that time, by his sacred command, to the King and Queen of England." "The DUTCH will acknowledge the French Republic, and make a hasty peace with it; the PORTUGUESE and PRUSSIANS will do the same." "The UNITED STATES of AMERICA will declare war against England; but before they do, France will lose all her West India Islands; and after they do, Jamaica will be the last in the possession of the English." August 12
The EARTHEN-WARE Manufactory, In Front Street, above Pool's Bridge, Is continued in the most extensive manner. A large assortment of the best ware is on hand ready assorted in Hogheads and Crates. A constant and regular supply may be depended on, at the shortest notice. Orders are received at the Manufactory, or at No. 25 Arch Street. July 8 $3m
T. STEPHENS, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, No. 60 South Second-Street, PHILADELPHIA, RESPECTFULLY informs the public, that at his Store they may be supplied with most of the modern European and other publications of merit, on Politics, Divinity, Law, the Belles Lettres, &c. &c.—Also a great variety of ELEGANT PRINTS and Paintings, and every article in the Stationary business; which he continues, as usual, to dispose of at the lowest prices. Gentlemen's Libraries furnished or purchased; and the utmost value, in exchange or cash, given for any quantity of second hand Books. Wholesale Dealers supplied at the above Store on very moderate terms. May 2. stf.
Wanted Immediately, By JOSEPH COOKE, Goldsmith & Jeweller, Corner of South Third and Market Streets, FROM 10 to 20 Journeyman Goldsmiths, Silversmiths, Jewellers, Engravers, Bickle-Makers, Plate-Workers, Spoon-Makers, Small-Workers, Lapidaries, Chap-Makers, or any other Mechanics, useful in the different branches of a Goldsmith and Jewellery Manufactory; any one capable of undertaking any of the above branches will meet with constant employ, the highest wages, and every encouragement due to their merits. Any person capable of being a Foreman to the above described Business, willing to instruct Apprentices, and do every duty incumbent on a Foreman, shall receive a handsome salary for his services, with Board and Lodging in the house. Five or six Apprentices will be taken to the different branches as above, and one to the Store and Mercantile part of the business. The highest price given for Old Gold and Silver, Lace, Diamonds, Old Watches, and Jewellery, in Exchange or otherwise, by applying at the above Store, where there is ready for Sale, a complete and elegant Assortment of fashionable Silver, Plated, Jewellery, Cutlery, Japaned, and Fancy Goods, received by the last arrivals. In addition to which he hopes to receive a fresh supply by every European arrival, and still continues to manufacture every article in the various branches as usual. N. B. To be Let or Sold, The Middle House and Store, fronting on Third-Street, next door to the one now occupied by him, which for Convenience, Beauty and Goodness of Stand, is by far the most eligible of any in the City. July 3. s.
George Hunter, Chemist, At his Laboratory, No. 114, south Second Street. INFORMS his former customers and the public, that he has begun the DRUG business again on an extensive plan. He has for sale a general assortment of FRESH DRUGS, CHEMICAL PREPARATIONS, and PATENT MEDICINES. oil of turpentine, copal oil, varnish, &c. &c. Alum, copperas, madder, ground redwood by the hog-head for smaller quantity. As he imports the simplest from the best markets, and makes the compositions and preparations himself, he is enabled to vouch for and warrant every article sold out of his Laboratory, and likewise to dispose of them at the most reasonable rates. He wishes to sell a large LOT of GROUND, the fourth-calc corner of High and Eleventh-Street, containing 78 feet front on High-Street, and 200 feet on Eleventh-Street, opposite Mr. Leiper's new buildings. And another LOT on the north side of High-Street, near the above, 28 feet front, and 200 feet deep. Both lots have the privilege of a 30 feet alley in the rear. Dec 12
NOW PUBLISHED, By T. STEPHENS, No. 60 South Second Street, The Curious Prophecies of RICHARD BROTHERS. CONTAINING great and remarkable things, not revealed to any other person on earth. This work is interesting to every one. August 14 $3m
AT THE Card & Nail Factory, No. 59, north Front Street, Webster, Adgate & White, Have constantly for sale, Cotton, Wool, Tow, and MACHINE CARDS, Of all Kinds, Cut Nails of all sizes, Floor Brads, Sprigs and Tacks, Fullers Shears, Gun Flints and Wool Hats, A quantity of kiln dried Indian Meal in barrels. A new Edition of Adgate's Philadelphia Almanac, containing both the first and second parts, being the most approved system of Rules and the best collection of Tunes now in use. Also for Sale, A COMPLETE SET OF Machinery for making Cards AND A FEW WASHING MILLS. On an Improved Construction. Oct. 2
Is now in the Press, And will be published with all possible expedition, Calvary, Or, THE DEATH of CHRIST. A POEM IN EIGHT BOOKS. By RICHARD CUMBERLAND. Such persons as are in possession of Subscription-Papers for the above Work, are respectfully requested to forward them to Neal and Kammeyer, junr. No. 24 North Third-Street. Who have on hand, A Collection of valuable Books, of the latest and best Editions; also, a variety of Children's Books, Primers, &c. by the Gross, Dozen or Single. August 14. 3t

THE OBJECTIONS TO THE TREATY REFUTED.
Mr. RUSSELL,
THE Constitution of the United States em- powers the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to make treaties, provided two thirds of the Senate concur.
In pursuance of a power thus vested, the Senate of the United States did consent to and advise the President of the United States, to ratify the treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, between his Britannic majesty and the United States of America, concluded at London, the 19th of November, A. D. 1794; on condition, that there be added to said treaty an article, whereby it shall be agreed to suspend the operation of so much of the 12th article as respects the trade which his said majesty thereby consents may be carried on between the United States and his islands in the West Indies, in the manner, and on the terms and conditions, therein prescribed.
A copy of this treaty was sent by Mr. Mason, one of the Senators from Virginia, to the editor of the Aurora in Philadelphia, that it might be published.
On Tuesday, the 7th of July, the editors of the Chronicle advertised in the Mercury, that a copy of the treaty before referred to, was brought by express from Philadelphia, and was for sale at their office, and at Lakin's Book Store, in Cornhill.
On the 8th July, a notification, issued by order of the Selectmen of Boston, notifying the inhabitants to meet on the 10th, agreeable to the request of a number of inhabitants, to take into their most serious consideration, such measures as might be deemed expedient, relative to the treaty pending between the United States and Great-Britain.
On the 9th July, the editors of the Chronicle published in their paper the eight first articles of the treaty.
The foregoing was the only publication of the treaty, prior to the meeting of the inhabitants on the 10th, except a publication of its supposed contents, by some one who had read it, and which, on comparison with Mr. Mason's copy, appears to be incorrect.
On the 10th, the inhabitants met in Faneuil Hall, where 1500 of the citizens, without reading the treaty there, voted their disapprobation, and not one appeared in favor of it.
A committee of fifteen was appointed "to report the reasons in writing, which led to the disapprobation of the treaty."
On the Monday following, being the 13th, the committee reported the objections of the town, before the reading of which, the treaty was read.—The objections were then accepted by the town, without one dissenting voice; and a vote passed, directing their immediate transmission to the President of the United States, and expressing "their earnest hope and confident reliance, that the reasons assigned would have their influence to withhold his assent to the ratification of this alarming instrument." On the 24th, the merits of the proposed treaty were discussed, with all the advantages that could be derived to this discussion, from examining documents that shewed the real state of our commerce; the relation of this country to others; the grounds of our complaints against the British, with their answers; the grounds of complaint the British had against this country; with the answers of America. On the 24th, the Senate advised the President to ratify the treaty, in manner and on the conditions specified in the first part of this paper.
A concurrence of two thirds of the number present was necessary to constitute a vote of the Senate on this subject; and it is understood that this majority included all the Senators from New-England, (except Mr. Langdon, of Portsmouth, and Mr. Robinson of Vermont) one Senator from New-York, all from New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, one from Kentucky, one from South-Carolina, and one from Georgia—Virginia and North-Carolina were the only states in the Union, whose Senators were unanimous against its ratification.
Unless the present conduct of these Senators, in advising the President to ratify the treaty, has deprived them of the confidence of their fellow-citizens; it may be truly said, that as individual members of the community, none stand higher in the public estimation, as men of pure morals, sound understanding, industrious and ready attention to those duties, with which they have been intrusted. Their conduct as public men, has been tried and known in times the most critical and dangerous; and has received the just tribute of applause, from a grateful country, for having preserved it from the distresses of anarchy and war.
Duty to ourselves demands that we should respect the legal and constitutional doings of those we have appointed to administer our public affairs; at least so far as not to declare to the world, "That their acts are highly injurious to the commercial interests of the United States, derogatory to the national honour and independence, and may be dangerous to the peace and happiness of their citizens;" without the most careful investigation of the subject, and without the most substantial reasons in support of charges which so deeply wound the honour of the government, and the character of those who have constitutionally done the act, thus boldly accused.
Men who love their country will endeavour to support its government, at least will refrain from grossly criminating its conduct until they have been convinced that no good reasons can be offered, for that which to them may at first appear doubtful. Such men ought not instantly to enlist under the banners of its avowed opponents, nor hastily surrender their judgments to those who have uniformly calumniated all those acts, which time and experience have sanctioned, as wise and productive of greater prosperity than is enjoyed in any other country. Men who know the value of character, from a just regard of their own; who have sensibility to appreciate the worth of public fame,
will be cautious how they attempt to inflict a wound on the reputation of others, which, if aimed at themselves, would produce the most painful sensations.
The town of Boston has given its reasons for assertions which have so deeply wounded the honour of the government; and which assertions, if true, must extremely weaken the confidence of the people in the superiority of their own constitution.
Permit, therefore, Mr. Russell, a fellow citizen, thro' the medium of your paper, to examine the solidity of their reasons, in proof that this declaration, that "the treaty if ratified will be highly injurious to the commercial interests of the United States, derogatory to their national honour and independence, and may be dangerous to the peace and happiness of their citizens."
The first is, "That compact (meaning the treaty) professes to have no reference to the merits of the complaints and pretensions of the contracting parties; but in reality the complaints and pretensions of Great-Britain are fully provided for, while a part only of those of the United States have been brought into consideration."
The words of the treaty are, that "the parties being desirous, by a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation to terminate their differences, in such a manner, as (without reference to the merits of their respective complaints and pretensions) may be the best calculated to produce mutual satisfaction and good understanding." The words of the treaty are copied here, that by comparing them with the first reason of the town, the public may judge of their true import, and not be induced to believe, that the two nations met together, with the design of terminating their differences, and at the same time, disregarded the real subjects of controversy.
The great charge in this reason is, that the complaints and pretensions of Great-Britain are fully provided for, while a part only of those of the United States have been brought into consideration.
It is to be presumed, that the committee meant here, that the minister on the part of America, never brought into consideration all the complaints and pretensions of his country. Because if brought into consideration, and proved to be unfounded, or for any reason waved, it could not be expected that such consideration, or the reasons which refuted the complaints, should appear in the treaty; it would be useless and unprecedented.
That the American minister did not bring them into consideration, is an assumption of a fact by the committee, for which they have not given any evidence.
If the correspondence and arguments used by the minister who negotiated the treaty, were before the town, or the committee; or if they had such information of their doings as could be relied on, it would probably have been stated. Candor requires that before a charge of gross neglect is believed against any man, some evidence should be adduced to support the charge.
That every complaint and pretension of the United States was duly made and enforced by the American minister, is to be inferred from the following considerations:
The President of the United States undoubtedly gave him instructions on this head. The report made of the negotiation, would shew whether anything was neglected on the part of the United States. This report was probably before the Senate.
It is not presumable, that the President would accept the report of his minister as satisfactory, or consider the negotiation as completed, unless every matter of importance was brought into consideration; or that the Senate would recommend to the President, to ratify a treaty that was to terminate all differences, where it appeared to them that the complaints of our own country were not brought into consideration. Further, it is not probable, that the minority of the Senate, who had before them the whole negotiation, would have neglected to state this, if it had existed, as a reason for rejecting the treaty; whereas, in the communication made by Mr. Mason, no such charge appears, nor in the motions of Mr. Tazewell and Mr. Burr. It may, therefore, fairly be inferred, until the town or its committee please to give some evidence to the contrary, that every complaint and pretension of the United States, was brought into consideration.
"The second reason is, because in the stipulation which surrenders our posts on the Western Frontiers, no provision is made to indemnify the United States, for the commercial, and other losses they have sustained, and the heavy expences to which they have been subjected, in consequence of being kept out of possession for twelve years, in direct violation of the treaty of peace."
In this reason, the town must intend that no treaty should be acceded to, unless the British nation would first agree to indemnify the United States for all losses, that arose from our not being in possession of the posts the last twelve years.
This would be on the part of Great-Britain to acknowledge that the inexecution of the treaty of 1783, was entirely her fault—This is probably a matter she would dispute, and we are in candor obliged to acknowledge, that the 4th article of that treaty which relates to payment of debts, was opposed by some of the States very soon after, if not before the definitive treaty was signed, and that it continued unexecuted in some of the Southern States, until the Federal government was established. If she can justly impute the first breach to the United States, our claim of indemnity, for her violation, must be doubtful. But supposing it otherwise, and that it be clear to us, that she retained the posts wrongfully, and without any just provocation on our part—Is it probable that she would so humiliate herself, as to confess she was the only party who had acted wrong, and avow herself the author or cause of all the calamities which have, or which we suppose have been derived from the inexecution of the treaty, and now submit to pay all the damages that had arisen therefrom?
In the various wars that have taken place for the wrongful detention of territories; few, if any, are
the instances, that the vanquished nation has paid for the injuries and losses that have arisen from such detention.
The most that is commonly attained, is a restoration of such territory. Independent nations, owning no superior, qualified to judge of their conduct, will seldom acknowledge they have done wrong, especially when possessed of power to support their own cause. It is wise both in a Minister, and a nation, to refrain from insisting on points, which would only produce crimination, and re crimination, without advancing the great objects of their negotiation. Let the candid consider, if it is probable, that any reasoning they could suggest, would have induced Great-Britain, to accede to such a stipulation as this objection supposes.
If not, would it be wise in us to refuse the posts, and still suffer the evils we feel from being deprived of them—or attempt to gain them by force? If successful in this latter mode, is it probable, that, at the end of a war, we could induce Britain to pay us the losses suffered by the twelve years detention, added to the duration of hostilities; and the further expences of a war undertaken to regain them?
There are few men who will say such an event can be calculated on—If then it is not probable that Great-Britain could be induced by arguments to accede to this stipulation, nor that we could have attained it by war, it must certainly be considered wise in the minister to accept the posts, and in the Senate to advise to the ratification of the treaty, notwithstanding she did not stipulate to pay the losses consequent on her detention of them—It ought also to be remarked, that altho much has been said about making a demand of the posts, nothing has been intimated in public, that a demand should be made for damages, for not relinquishing them before; much less that we should refuse to receive them, unless we could be paid for such damages, or that we would attempt to gain such damages by war; especially when it had never been hinted, that the United States would hazard a war even to gain the posts.
Philadelphia, August 15.
Some persons, says a Correspondent, pretend to believe in Richard Brothers, who, it is well known, believe in nothing else.
A new Prophet asserts that the Whore of Babylon means the Jacobins; that the four Beasts are the four American Printers devoted to their cause; and that the ten Horns are the ten dissenting Senators to the Treaty of Peace with Great-Britain.
* G—, B—, F—u, and A. & L.
A writer in Mr. Davis's paper of the 5th instant, in giving an account of the Anti Treaty Meeting in Richmond, says, that in consequence of the harangues of the Speakers—the meeting was so thinned by the moving off of the people, that on counting Noses before the question on the Resolutions was put, there were "not above eighty present to vote, and most of them not Freeholders."
COPY of a Letter from a gentleman in Lancaster to his friend in Philadelphia. "Dear Friend,
"I THANK you for the last Pamphlet you sent me, but I want words to express my obligation to the worthy Senator of Virginia, who midwifed the subject from the womb of secrecy. How happy is it for the United States, that they have some men, who dare to consult the pleasure of their constituents, the democratic societies, in spite of all law and order to the contrary. Were it not for a few such heroic spirits, who scorn legitimate control, public business would be wholly under the management of public servants, to whom the constitution has assigned it, & patriotic societies would become useless. For so long as the people are profligate and easy in their several lots, they will never rack their heads about state affairs. Citizen Genet, thanks to his Jacobinic genius, first set the example, which citizen Mason has now followed, of appealing to the public sense (of clubs) from the constituted organs of the union: and the principle and intention of both were perfectly similar, although the occasions were a little different.
I was once weak enough to believe that the people were incapable of governing themselves; and that to prevent a state of universal violence and confusion, it was necessary to delegate all the essential powers of government to some men of competent virtue and abilities; with authority sufficient to enforce submission: but I am now convinced of my mistake.—Constitution, laws order, begone! I give you all to the winds; as I see clearly that all the acts of public bodies require revision; and that the mass convened at town-meetings, are qualified, under a few able leaders, to manage the business much better. Thus it was in the glorious days of Rome and Athens, when town-meetings were all the fashion; when a CLODIUS and a CLEON were able to point the thunder of popular vengeance against such obnoxious characters; as a CICERO and a SOCRATES:—and in our time, when a ROBESPIERRE and a MARAT, by the same weapons, were able to crush a ROOMEOUCAULT and a FAYETTE—and I expect that the United States of America will soon display to the world an example of still greater eclat. Appearances at least are very promising. Town-meetings, and democratic societies under skillful hands, are the most powerful revolutionary engines ever devised. Grant me these two instruments, and a subservient press, and I will tear an ANTONINUS or a TRAJAN from his throne, however beloved by his subjects. They are in politics like the rest in Mechanics, that Archimedes required to remove a world.
Notwithstanding this treaty has made such a figure in the newspapers, and raised so much bustle in the political circles, all the labour seems to be lost on the great body of the people. The farmer returns from market, the mechanic and labourer attend to their daily avocations, without giving this momentous subject more than a transient thought. They seem generally content with their own prosperity, and to think others as happy as themselves. So that I believe whatever may be the fate of the treaty, it will be decided, without knowing the
sentiments of nine parts out of ten of the most respectable citizens. In short the dispute seems principally confined between government, and a few men who have stepped forward to support it, and the democratic societies. It is a struggle for victory; and whichever party is foiled in this contest, must hereafter submit to be ruled. Viewed in this light the subject becomes doubly important; first, whether we shall cement the connection with Great Britain on the conditions proposed; and secondly, whether the President and Senate shall decide the question; or whether it be necessary that Democratic Societies should guarantee the treaty. As an integer of the body politic, who conceives myself interested in the issue, I very honestly declare myself an advocate for the last proposition; and at some future time, you shall have my reasons for so thinking, if I have leisure to arrange them. At present I will detain you only with a few observations on the Ambassador extraordinary, and his conduct in this business.
When a public man has accepted a commission of importance under his country, as a General the command of an army, or a Minister the conducting of a negotiation, his constituents have a just right to expect full and complete success: and in case of a failure the delinquent is subject to an impeachment at least. In a sister Republic, how many generals, even after a long series of victories, have forfeited their heads for a single defeat! But in the case at present under consideration, when, if we can believe the joint testimony of French and American gazettes, "England is at her last gasp, and America has nothing to do but to seize her by the throat, and she will expire in agonies at her feet," to sign such an infamous compact as this, the negotiator would deserve the guillotine. How unfortunate it was that the President had not appointed a more suitable envoy on this interesting commission; especially, when there were so many distinguished patriots, ready to undertake it. Almost any one of the immaculate southern delegates, or such a sublime politician as that of South Carolina would have met with the universal approbation of democratic societies. Either of these gentlemen would have insisted, as a sine qua non , on full compensation for all the run-away negroes the British carried off with them:—and as to that article, which provides for the payment of ancient debts due to British creditors, it would have been deemed as political heresy, as well as treason against the sovereignty of individual States. Besides, the instant surrender of the Western Posts would have been demanded, as a preliminary article, without which a negotiation could not be commenced. Indeed I should not wonder, if such a plenipo, in imitation of the Roman Proconsul, should draw a circle round the British Minister, with the point of his cane, and swear that he should not cross it, until he had dispatched orders to Lord Shelburne for an immediate evacuation. This I declare, would have been acting with the dignity of a republican, whatever might have been the consequence. And if the British Cabinet had manifested no more complaisance to him, than they did to Mr. Jay, which it is possible the haughty Islanders might not, the Ambassador, after spending a few thousand dollars for his country, would only have returned home, res ipsa —unless they had been so malicious, as to stop him, on a pretence of derangement, and conveyed him to a chamber in bedlam. However, the worst that could happen, in case of a total miscarriage, is that, in the course of a few months more, we might have an expensive war on our hands; instead of a recompense for the losses we have sustained by British depredations on our trade, the account would be quickly settled, and the remainder of our vessels might be taken without any compensation at all; and instead of being put in possession of the western posts, they might become the rendezvous of numerous savage bands, who, united with their white allies, might renew their claims to the western wilderness with redoubled fury."
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
AN informant of Mr. Bache's in the Aurora of this morning states, that a meeting of the Citizens of the County of New-Castle in the state of Delaware, collected at Christiana Bridge to express their sense of the late Treaty, That the meeting after reprobating the treaty, burnt Mr. Jay and the two Senators from that State in effigy. In those facts Mr. Bache's informant is correct; it only remains to give the public full information on this head to state who the persons were that composed this meeting. That a friend to truth will undertake to do. In consequence of advertisements affixed in different parts of the County, about two hundred and fifty persons met at the place appointed, and without a Chairman, President, Moderator, Committee, or resolves, or one person capable of putting a question, so as to take the sense of the meeting they damned the Treaty. When this was done they paraded the figures which they had previously prepared, in a Cart to a gallows erected for the purpose, and there burnt them. As soon as this ceremony was over, the principle of association which seemed to connect and fraternize them evaporated, and as if his infernal majesty to do mischief had arisen from the ashes of the figures, the meeting broke up, in damaging, boxing and mutually execrating each other.
The meeting was conducted by a man who had been some time before elected a Lieutenant in a Volunteer Corps raised in opposition to the laws of the State, and who earns his daily bread by Cart-driving. The meeting was altogether composed of men of that stamp, men generally unqualified to vote at elections, and whose enigmas are Cart-whips, spades, and shovels, except between fifty and sixty negroes with whom the whites promiscuously associated and fraternized. Be assured Mr. Fenno, that neither Mr. Jay, Mr. Vining or Mr. Latimer, feel much mortification at being burnt out of such checker'd company.
August 15.
BELVIDERE. Formerly WHARTON PLACE.
THE Subscriber returns his grateful acknowledgments to his friends and the public for the favors he has already received, and respectfully informs them that his House continues open for their reception. Public and private parties are accommodated at any hour. An extensive suite of Rooms for those inclined to quit the city during the hot summer months, and excellent stabling and clover pasture for horses.
The beautiful prospect of this place being so well known needs no description. Wm. PURVIS.
August 15.

PHILADELPHIA, August 15.
Pursuant to the consent and advice of the Senate, as expressed in their resolution of the 24th June last, the President of the United States has ratified the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, between his Britannic majesty and the United States of America.
S T O C K S.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Includes entries for Six per Cent., Three per Cent., Deferred Six per Cent., BANK United States, and INSURANCE COMPANY North America.
How truly contemptible a figure, says a Correspondent, does the Aurora cut. Finding that positive assertion without any foundation, will not answer to prove what they wish, and that it is sure to be refuted by statements of facts, abandoning a direct and positive assertion, do these people attempt in the most pitiful manner to claw off. See article respecting Mr. Pinckney's letter, in the Aurora of this day.
The Committee appointed by a general Meeting of the Citizens of Philadelphia, the Northern Liberties and the District of Southwark, to sign and to transmit to the President of the United States, the memorial expressive of the sentiments of the Meeting in relation to the Treaty negotiated between Mr. Jay and Lord Grenville, have received by the hands of Dr. William Shippen junr. the following Answer, which they think it their duty to publish for the information of their Constituents.
Philadelphia, August 14, 1795. Thomas McKean, Charles Pettis, Myles Lewis, William Coats, John Barker, Enderick A. Muhlberg, Thomas Lee Shippen, Alexander T. Dallas, John Swanwick, John Hann, Abraham Coats, Stephen Girard, William Shippen, junr., Blair McClenachan. United States, 12th August, 1795.
I HAVE received your letter of the 26th of July, covering the Memorial of a Meeting in Philadelphia. As the Answer which I have given on a similar occasion to the Selectmen of Boston, is applicable to this Memorial, I think it proper to transmit a Copy thereof to you.
With due respect, I am, Sir, Your Obedient, (Signed) GO. WASHINGTON. Dr. WILLIAM SHIPPEN, junr.
Ezekiel Price, Thomas Wolley, William Bordman, Ebenezer Seaver, Thomas Crafts, Thomas Edwards, William Little, William Scollay, and Jesse Putnam, Esquires, Selectmen of the Town of Boston. GENTLEMEN,
In every act of my administration I have sought the happiness of my fellow citizens. My system for the attainment of this object has uniformly been to overlook all personal, local, and partial considerations, to contemplate the United States as one great whole, to confide that sudden impressions, when erroneous, would yield to candid reflection, and to consult only the substantial and permanent interests of our Country.
Nor have I departed from this line of conduct, on the occasion which has produced the resolutions contained in your letter of the 13th inst.
Without a predilection for my own judgment, I have weighed with attention every argument which has at any time been brought into view. But the Constitution is the guide which I can never abandon. It has assigned to the President the power of making Treaties with the advice and consent of the Senate. It was doubtless supposed that these two branches of government would combine without passion, and with the best means of information, those facts and principles upon which the success of our foreign relations will always depend; that they ought not to substitute for their own conviction the opinions of others; or to seek truth through any channel but that of a temperate and well informed investigation.
Under this persuasion, I have resolved on the manner of executing the duty before me. To the high responsibility attached to it, I freely submit; and you, gentlemen, are at liberty to make these sentiments known as the grounds of my procedure. While I feel the most lively gratitude for the many instances of approbation from my country, I can no otherwise deserve it than by obeying the dictates of my conscience.
With due respect, I am gentlemen, Your Obedient, GEORGE WASHINGTON. UNITED STATES, 28th July 1795.
Extract of a letter from an Officer in the Army under GENERAL WAYNE, dated at Greeneville, July 10th, 1795.
"A salute from the Citadel is this moment announcing to the Legion the arrival of the Wyandots to join in Council and smoke the Pipe of Peace—the treaty prostrates—the council fire burns bright, and we smoked yesterday in good fellowship, as the introduction to serious business."
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
ARRIVED. Schr. Andrew, Hillman, Port-au Prince. ARRIVALS AT THE FORT. Brig Sally, Cook, St. Croix. Sch. Maria, Heis, I. Archaye. Columbia, Willis, St. Thomas. Sloop Farmer, Brown, I. Archaye.
WHARTON & LEWIS,
HAVE removed their INSURANCE OFFICE and STORE to No. 115 South Front Street, Where they have for Sale,
Coffee, Old Bill Madeira Wine, Souchong Tea, Still Canvass &c. July 15.
By this Day's MAILS.
BOSTON, August 10.
Saturday arrived ship Ca Ira, Capt. Hathway, in 47 days from Havre—Some translations by this arrival, in our next.
This ship brings intelligence of the arrival at Antwerp of the Schooner Helena, Capt. T. LOVELL belonging to this port. This is the first vessel that has navigated the River Scheldt, for more than 150 years.
AUTHENTIC. BRITISH CONDUCT.
Be it known unto all it may concern, that on the day of the date hereof, before me Christopher Ellery, Public Notary for the county of Newport, in the state of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations, in the United States of America, came Thomas Bliss, master of the sloop Peggy, of Newport, just arrived from New-York and Louis Andre Pichon, formerly secretary of the legation of the French to the United States, passenger on board said sloop, together with S. A. Hoffer, citizen of Boston, and Capt. Chabert, also a passenger on board said sloop, all of whom on their oaths, declare, that yesterday at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, being the first day of August, instant, they were at a distance of two miles from the light-house, in Narraganset bay, in said sloop, bound to Newport; when being opposite the same, a British ship of war the Africa, commanded by Home, fired a cannon shot at said sloop, as a signal to bring her too; that the sloop had then American colors flying; that the master obeying the signal, soon perceived two boats coming to the sloop from the ship of war, which boats were manned by a part of the crew of this ship, and out of which came four or five officers, two of them appearing to be higher in command than the others, ordered the captain of the said sloop to go near to the ship, with which order he complied, and soon anchored after the said ship; that, in the mean time, the officers asked the said master of the sloop several questions, particularly if he had any passengers on board, and he answering to this question in the affirmative, was told by them that they came on purpose to take the late French minister, M. Fauchet, whom they knew to be on board with dispatches; that the master and passengers then informed them that M. Fauchet had left the sloop in the morning, at Stonington, where they had been detained two days, by contrary winds; and that he had also left Stonington aforesaid, on horseback, with dispatches and public papers, which were all taken out of pasteboard boxes, as a proof of the last assertion, showed the said boxes empty, five in number, that M. Fauchet had really left; the officers, not satisfied with the answers given, said their orders were positive, and directed them to search all the trunks of the passengers, at which proceeding they hoped no one on board would be hurt, as their duty required the same; that they accordingly had all the trunks and boxes in the cabin opened, and not finding any papers they went into the hold, where having ordered M. Fauchet's servant to open the trunks of his master, they had them emptied, in presence of all the passengers, and out of one of the trunks, they took a bundle of paper, which they gave to one of the officers in care, when the search went on for the other trunks; that they then asked for two other trunks of M. Fauchet, saying that they had notice of four trunks skipped on board the said sloop, and seeing several other trunks stowed about, they, the said officers demanded the owners; that one of these belonging to Capt. Chabert, above named, a gentleman engaged in commercial and seafaring business, was overhauled and the papers consisting chiefly of sea-books, or journals, examined and put aside with a tin box, containing some papers, with letters directed to different persons in France; that they then fell upon the trunk of M. Pichon, which as they found heavy, they desired to have it opened, threatening as no one stopped forward with the key, to break the lock thereof; that M. Pichon then went forward and opened the trunk, which proved to be full of written papers, under clothes; these thrown out, they observed that it was the trunk of M. Fauchet's secretary, and that its containing such a quantity of papers, was a sufficient reason for taking it on board the ship, for the inspection of the Captain of the ship; that an officer then went on board the ship with such papers as he thought proper to take with him, that he might receive the orders of the commanding officer relative thereto, and relative to further proceedings, that this officer soon returned and permitted the sloop to depart, saying that the main object being missed, no further detention was necessary, and returning the papers which he had taken on board the sloop, and that the two boats having left the sloop, after a detention of two hours, she came to sail and arrived at Newport in the evening. (Signed) THOMAS W. BLISS, LOUIS ANDRE PICHON, S. A. HOFFER, and CHABERT.
In testimony that the aforesaid declaration was made before me, the aforesaid public notary, as is above set forth, and on the 2d day of August, in the year 1795, and the 20th year of American Independence, I have hereunto set my hand and notarial seal, the day and year aforesaid. (L.S.) CHRIST. ELLERY, Public Notary.
Certifié conforme l'expédition qui sera enregistrée en la Chancellerie au Consulat de la République Française à Boston, ce 13 Thermidor, de l'an 3 de la République Française, une et indivisible. Le Consul de la République Française à Boston. MOZARD.
From the LITCHFIELD MONITOR.
THE People of Connecticut are very much attached to the Federal Government. Our News Papers contain no attacks upon it, nor any thing abusive to the persons concerned in the Administration. Even the late Treaty with Great-Britain, which agitates all parts of the Union, has not excited a single measure or publication against it in this State. If we had not been favored with the address of your Correspondent, Leonidas, we never should have discovered that this State teemed with such Murderers, Thieves, Villains, Rascals, Disorganizers, and what not; who are planning the downfall of the President, and the destruction of the national Government. The Public are under great obligations to Leonidas! How important this discovery is to us! How much is due to Leonidas for making it known! He ought to give his real name to the public that he may reap the reward due to his patriotic services. Where a writer publishes for his own benefit, it is a pity that he should miss his end by not being generally known. THE PEOPLE.
[By Desire.]
From the Portsmouth (N.H.) Paper.
MR. PIERCE,
IN your paper of Saturday the 1st inst. you inserted a piece from the Gazette of the United States, in which it is said the Virtuous Ten (of the Senate) prevented any negotiation being renewed on the subject of the Negroes, and that the Resolution brought forward by Mr. GUNN, touching the Negroes, would have been agreed to, had ei-
ther Messrs. Burr, Langdon, Robinson, Tazewell, Mason, Brown, Marshall, Martin, Bloodworth, or Jackson, voted in the affirmative—This is a pitiful, false insinuation—for it is a fact, that some, if not all, of those Gentlemen, voted for Gunn's Resolution, and that it was lost by a part of the majority voting against it—For surely the Twenty Senators who were all present, could have carried the question, had they thought proper—but having carried their point in obtaining the vote to ratify the Blest Treaty—it was thought by them improper to fetter the business with the Negroes.
NEW YORK, August 14.
From a Correspondent.
The following is a part in substance of the very decent letter written by Capt. Home, of the British ship Africa, to the British consul at Newport, and to be communicated to the Governor, alluded to under the Providence head, and received from good authority.
Captain Home states the necessity of procuring supplies for his vessel—he had received information that his people visiting the shore for that purpose would meet with insult—This led him to claim the attention equal to what was received by the citizens of the French republic, and to complain of the disregard of the Americans to the laws of nations.
He demanded, and that not feignedly, the aid of the civil authority to impress such British seamen as should be found on shore.
He alleged that a British officer was taken from a vessel in Newport, and imprisoned on board the French Frigate laying there, whom he demanded to be released. An immediate reply was required from the Governor;
OR,
He should haul his ship into the harbour of Newport. If his people were insulted by a mob, or any individual—he should protect them.
NOTE. The captive officer alluded to appears to be the same that was taken by a French privateer and at the time of Capt. H's application, was in New-York on his parole.
Extract of a letter from Havre, dated the 22d June, to a gentleman in this city.
The manufactures of this country have been nearly destroyed—what by requisitions, and what by the warping of fashions. However, I think it will speedily revive, on a peace, which every thing in my mind begins to foretell. On the first Prarial, there was a great trial of the disposition of the people, and I have no doubt from the events of that day, and the three following, of which I was a very attentive witness, that the principle of the revolution has taken perfect root. That the people of France have infinite merit, they always obey the laws, but the civil has been, the law has been abused—but tranquility will put the power into the hands the people choose, who will not abuse it.
The bloody reign of Robespierre is finally at an end, and his memory more detested than that of any tyrant you can name to the French.
DIED—Wednesday night last, of a very short illness, Mr. JOHN SIMMONS, an old and much respected inhabitant of this city, and it is said, the most corpulent man in the United States.
RICHMOND, August 7.
The following wanton murder was committed on Monday the 27th ult. near Hickory bridge, Princess Anne country. William Stone and Batson Land, both inhabitants of said county, having some differences on Sunday evening respecting money matters, parting seemingly displeased. Next morning Mr. Land, on coming to Stone's house for the purpose of reconciling their dispute, was fired at by Stone from his door, with a musket loaded with buck shot, the contents of which lodged in Land's body; he survived only a rendered himself to a magistrate; but, on conducting him to Kempsville jail, he thought proper (for the present) to evade justice, by a precipitate flight into the woods. What adds to this melancholy catastrophe is, their being on the closest intimacy and having large families.
From the American Mercury.
MR. BARCOCK,
Your giving the following a place in your useful paper, will be pleasing at least to one of you readers.
IT was highly pleasing to me, to see in your paper of the 9th June, an account of the suspension of the sentence against Vogel and Mitchell, by the Supreme Executive till November next. These men were condemned for treason. Now, 'tis certain that some of our natural rights must be given up for a civil state: But no man ever thought himself obliged to give up for a civil state, what he had no right to dispose of. And I fancy men are generally agreed, that they have not a right to dispose of their own lives, but consider their right to life as what they cannot alienate or transfer. It is difficult therefore for me to see, how a man offending against the state, forfeits his life to the state; or the right government have to take it away. We live in a day of free inquiry. And to our joy see the religious Dogmas that have in past ages supported Superstition, under the name of Religion exploded and exploding more and more. 'Tis to be wished that some skill'd in jurisprudence would turn their attention to the laws in being, and see if there is nothing in them that wants altering and amending. But I comfort myself that our Supreme Executive is wise and good; and will give the world a better example than it has hitherto had: And that the day is not very far off when men will consider it as unjust and impolitic to take away the life of any person, without orders from the great giver and disposer thereof, as to charge the whole race of men with the sin and guilt of the first man. J. F.
ALBANY, August 7.
The commissioners appointed to treat with the Indian tribes, for the purchase of their reservation lands, have held treaties with the Onondagas and Cayugas; and effected the object of their mission to mutual satisfaction.—The Indians have ceded to this state all their said lands, except a very small quantity, which they have still reserved for such of their people as are settled, and intend remaining there.
Two persons from Niagara had the presumption to attend these treaties, as agents for the Indians; but the commissioners peremptorily refused to allow them any agency whatever in the business.
A treaty is now pending with the Oneidas.
We are informed from good authority that on the 28th ult. the Commissioners for treating with the Cayuga, Onondaga and Oneida Indians, concluded a treaty with the two first mentioned nations, by which the Cayugas cede to the people of this state, about 60,000 acres of their reservation lands, to receive for the same annually 1800 dollars—the Onondagas relinquish their right to the Salt Springs, and the one mile of land around them, for 500 dollars annually—also, their half mile of land along the Onondaga Creek, for 200 dollars annually. Our informant, who left the Commissioners at Oneida on Monday last, thinks it probable a treaty will also be concluded with that nation during the present week.
On the 6th of July last, lieutenant-governor
Simcoe, opened the fourth session of the Legislature of the province of Upper Canada, by a speech to the gentlemen of the legislative council and house of assembly, convened in the council-chamber at New Ark.
On the subject of the treaty between the United States and Great-Britain, governor Simcoe observes, that it "cannot fail to be mutually beneficial to the subjects of the King, more especially in British America, and to the people of the United States; and it may be hoped (he adds) it will effectually remove all grounds of misunderstanding."
The assembly, in their address to the governor, say they are happy to hear that a treaty of amity commerce and navigation, has been concluded between his majesty and the United States of North America, that will effectually remove all grounds of misunderstanding.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
THAT the persons who have so zealously advocated the doctrine of Liberty and Equality, should be the first to object to the treaty, because it does not stipulate for compensation to the proprietors of the negroes, who went off with the British, is truly wonderful! If we take a retrospective view of the writings and speeches of those men, we shall find them deplored the fate of Poland; lamenting the misery of our fellow-citizens at Algiers, and cursing the authors of their misfortunes—but, when it becomes a question whether it comports with the dignity of freemen, to hazard its dearest interests in order to obtain compensation for a number of human beings who had been so fortunate as to escape from their cruel tyrans—we find the same men more violent if possible in favour of slavery! It is not my intention at this time to enquire into the truth of the argument used by the holders of negroes, that an immediate emancipation would be dangerous to the tranquility of the country, because it can only apply to the policy of liberating the negroes now actually in the United States—but, that such a line and cry should be raised on the subject of those who have made their escape, and from whom we have nothing to dread, is not only anti-republican, but immoral and scandalous in the extreme. If the persons who are daily obtruding their dull essays on the public, in favour of compensation, were to refer to the acts of the National Convention of France, they would find, that this point has been decided against them—for the French have liberated all the slaves in their colonies, without making any compensation to their masters!
It is worthy of remark, however, that this act which took place during the administration of Robespierre, is the only one, that has not been appropriated and extolled by his partisans in the United States—a convincing proof that self-interest forms the touchstone of patriotism with all modern democrats. In one of the southern states for example, where liberty and equality are so well understood, that a citizen has been obliged from motives of personal safety, to make a public apology or daring to question the propriety of some very lawless and disgraceful proceedings—where a final portion of the inhabitants are feasting and lolling in the shade, whilst the far greater part are compelled to work up to the knees in water, exposed to the scorching rays of the sun—and where solemn festivals are celebrated to commemorate the 3d of September, 1792. The most profound silence has been observed on the subject of the only circumstance from which Robespierre could possibly derive any merit.
I shall dismiss this subject with observing, that if the point in dispute was to be submitted to a jury of real and disinterested republicans, there can be no doubt, were Mr. John Jay to be arraigned, as the British compensation is now demanded: For to suppose that any civilized nation would solemnly stipulate that their vessels should not afford asylum to persons who had escaped from slavery, is an absurdity too gross to be credited.—And although I frankly confess that the treaty does not come up to my wishes—yet I cannot admit, that the stipulations therein contained, are liable to all the objections which have been raised against them—much less that it is censurable for the omission of an article, which if inserted, would have proved an indelible stigma on our national character. AN ENEMY TO SLAVERY.
From the Albany Register.
The Rev. Dr. Smith, of Charleston, South Carolina, is elected Bishop of the several Episcopal Societies in that State.
The following is a list of the order at present in North America.
The Rev. Samuel Seabury; Bishop in Connecticut.
S. Provost, Bishop, New York. W. White, Bishop, Pennsylvania. T. J. Clagget, Bishop, Maryland. John Madison, Bishop, Virginia. G. Inglis, Bishop, Nova-Scotia. Jacob Mountain, Bishop, Canada.
The Rev. Dr. Peters is Bishop, elect for Vermont.
Since the peace in 1783, three hundred Episcopal congregations have been formed in the States and Provinces. In most of them divine service is constantly celebrated.
In that period also, one hundred and forty clergymen have come from England, or been ordained by the Bishops in the States.
Fifty thousand copies of the American Prayer Book have been printed, since its revision.
The general Convention of the Church meets in Philadelphia, on the second Tuesday of September next.
On Wednesday, July 29, and Episcopal church was organized in Waterford, in this state.
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SAMUEL COATES, No. 32 South Front-Street. August 15.
In the Press, and in a few days will be published, By Mathew Carey, 118 Market Street, No. 1
Of a Series of papers respecting Mr. Jay's Treaty.
CONTAINING—Speech of Mr. Pinckney to the citizens of Charleston. Speech of Mr. Thompson at a meeting of the citizens of Petersburg. Speech of John Dickinson, at the meeting held in Wilmington. Camillus's Defence of the Treaty—attributed to the late Secretary of the Treasury—With sundry other papers on this all-important subject. August 15.