FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FEN NO,
In tracing the late American war from its ori
gin, Ave find there was no want of informa
tion, which could have been plead as an excuse
on the part of that ministry, which precipitated
the British nation into nieafures which have left
an everlalting stigma on their councils—The fol
lowing speech was founded on indisputable fatfts ;
and from those, the enlightened patriot drew
fucli inferences as carried irrefiftable conviction
to the mind of all his hearers, many of whom
anticipated the fatal consequences that would fol
low from not giving them due consideration ; but
a majority were devoted to a junto, whose obsti
nacy was every thing, but windmill proof.
HOUSE of COMMONS, March 8, 1775.
LONDON.
LORD NORTH'S RESTRAINING BILL.
MR.. HARTLEY, moved, that the following
clause be inserted in the bill, viz.
" Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing
" in this ast contained (hall extend, or be construed to extend,
" to prohibit the importation into any or either of the said co
" lonies or provinces, of fuel, corn, meal, flour, or other vic
-4t luals brought coastwise from any part of America."
THIS clause, laid he, cannot be objected to,
even by the rnoft vindictive spirits, against the
four provinces of New-England, who are the ob
jetts of this bill, as it is extracted from the Bos
ton port bill of last year, the lenity or humanity
of which was never so much as pretended, even
by its advocates. There cannot be a reafonwhy
you fliould throw away this year, the little share
of humanity which you hadthe last ; more espe
cially, as we are come to discover and even to ac
knowledge, by the votes of the House, that we
have proceeded hitherto, in this business with
America, with rashness, misjudgment and preci
pitation. The vote I allude to was palled but a
few days ftnce : which fays, or pretends to fay,
that it would have been proper (that is the term)
to have proceeded in a way of asking a supply of
the Americans, by the constitutional way of requi
sitions, before proceeding to compulsory or for
cible methods. Having confefled ourselves wrong
in the foundation, it is but equal justice to our
fellow fubjetts of America to suppose, that those
riots and resistances would not have happened, if
we had not begun with them confefledly in an
unconstitutional way. Surely then, it is not a
time to add to the severity of our atfts, in pro
portion as we find, that we have been unjust in
the onset, and that they have been less to blame.
It is finely but a little matter to a/k, that you
w«uld not this year be morefevere or cruel tow
ards America, who have never been heard on
their defence, than you were the last.
Befules, what c onftrutftion can the town of
Boston put upon your present measures, if you
refufetlie clause now offered ? They will be be
sieged, as in actual war with any foreign enemy.
General Gage has fortified the neck which joins
Boston to the continent, by which he may inter
cept .provisions ; and by this bill you proclaim
the fauie intention by sea. Do you expect, that
they will submit to be starved into paflive obedi
ence ? What 1 efource have they left, but resist
ance ; and, perhaps, to take advantage of the
fmallnefs of the numbers of General Gage's troops,
before they are reinforced ; for this act puts it
out of all doubt, that y iu mean to proceed to all
extremities. I have been informed, by those
who know bell the temper of the Americans, and
I hope and believe that they will hold out their
patience to the utmost, and that they will not
strike the firft blow: but what is the difference
to them whether you strike the firft blow by the
musket or the sword, or, to equal effett by fa
mine ? The refufal of this clause will be a decla
ration on your part, that you mean to bring fa
mine upon them, to the utmost of your power,
and therefore a warning to them of the mercy
which they are to expect at your hands.
As to the bill in general, it has been so ably
debated by my friends near me, that I lhall only
add two remarks : This bill, by destroying the
North American fifhery, not only destroys that
nursery of seamen, but will disable the provinces
under the prohibition, from the means of pay
ing their debts to this country, who therefore
will finally be the fufferers and when the next
year comes, and you find this consequence, you
will then turn accusers of the North Americans
for ;iot paying their debts, and you will add, ac
cording to the usual falfhoods towards the Ame
ricans, that they never intended to pay their
debts ; and, by the distance of the place, and
the falftiood of representations, you will impute
those very effects which you have produced your
selves, as the juftifying causes ot resentment.
This is the unjust way in which the Americans
have been treated, on all occasions. I myfelf
aiked, the other day, why, on a particular occafi
on of a flight riot (in the year 1768) of a few
hours continuance, f*ur regiments, and a train
of artillery, were ordered to Boston ? Tojuftify
this enormous intervention of the military, I
was told in this Houle, that indeed the riots were
trifling, but that the Americans had come to a
resolution to arm the country. What then was
the real fact, as teftified by dates ? The fact was,
that the resolution to arm was not taken till the
troops were seen in the offing. It was the light
of the troops upon so trivial au occafion,that gave
them to understand what they were to expect ;
and, by dales, the fact is verified, that they did
not take arms till some months after the troops
were ordered, but it was upon their firft notice
of the troops being to come ; the resolution to
arm against the worst, was actually debated but
a few hours before the troops were landed. So
it is that facts are misrepresented in America,
and so let me put in my caution now, that the A
mericans do now actually pay their debts, like
honest men, to the utmost of their power, and let
me be before-hand with this charge, if when the
natural consequences of these measures fliall come
next year, we should hear any falfe accusations
of the Americans, as combining not to pay their
debts.
I shall make but one remark more, but which
seems to me to be oftheutmoft importance to the
whole commercial fyftein of England, which is,
that the plantation built bottoms are two thirds,
or three quarters, or all the bottoms upon which
the British merchandize, to every quarter of the
globe, is carried on; when we meditate a blow at
the American trade, we should recoiled; at lealt,
that there is this one manufacture (if I may so
call it) of shipbuilding, upon the enconragement
of which our very existence in this kingdom, as
a trading people, depends. However we may
think it our interest to suppress the rivalfhip of
the colonies with ourselves, in other manufac
tures, yet in thistradeof ship building they are
our molt material andfubftantial support. This
revengful blow at the American ship building,
will fall most immediately and fatally upon the
manufacturers and merchants of every commer
cial article in the kingdom. For these reasons, I
am againll the whole principle of the bill now be
fore us ; and if we cannot prevail to have the
whole rejected, I must humbly move, atleaft,the
admiflion of the clause which 1 havejult offered
to the House.
FROM THE HERALD OF FREEDOM.
MR. FREEMAN,
HAVING obfervedinthe Herald of July 31, a
plan for rendering the public debt a public
blelfing, against whichno well founded objections
have appeared, that I have seen—some of your
correspondents would be glad to fee the follow
ing fclieme of a National Bank at the feat of the
general government, in aid of that plan com
inunicated through the channel of your ufeful
paper. It may firft be remarked, that the plan
proposed is.
i ft. That the public creditors be invited to de
posit their securities in the public Treasury ;
receiving one third of the amount thereof' in a
paper medium, which/hall be receivable on all
imports, excises, and public loans—and a certifi
cate entitling them to the whole amount in 20
years, with interest annually at j per cent after
10 years—the paper medium received being equi
valent to 10 years interest on the whole sum de
posited.
2(1. That such of the creditors, as may not
choose to receive one third of the deposit in the
paper medium, lhall be paid their interest an
nually at 5 per cent, and the principal in 20 years,
or sooner, if the situation of public affairs lhall
admit of it.
It is evident that this must be a beneficial pro
posal to the creditor—and to enable the public to
support it, the following plan of a Bank is offer
ed as one among other means which may be
thought of—lt is not probable that all the credi
tors will receivefthe one third of their deposits in
the paper medium, and therefore we are not to
conclude thatweihall have a paper circulation to
the amount of one third of the whole public debt;
and when we consider that a paper medium must
soon become absolutely neceflary, in the business
of the Revenue—and that it will be spread over
an extensive continent, the resources of which
are every day unfolding themselves and increas
ing, the scheme is thought by many to be a prac
ticable one, and it is the duty of a good citizen
to fubmitto the public consideration, thole plans
which he, from experience perhaps, feels to be
of public benefit. 1 '
Plan of forming a NATIONAL BANK—from
whence notes may be ifl'ued for the payment of
interest, or on a deposit of the principal, agree
able to a proposition in the Herald of July 31,
last ; the notes to be receiveableon all the Reve
nues, and payable on demand at the Bank.
ift. That all the money in the collection of
fices be ordered to the Bank, ofter being recoined.
id. 1 .'.at fubferiptions be opened in thefeveral
States—in order to attach the monied interests to
the National Bank,, and so obtain their support,
if an attempt fliould at any time be made to rda
upon the Bank—afhare to be joo dollars— 100 of
which to be paid into the Bank previous to the
opening of it—the remainder or any part of it,
to be paid within a month of its being demanded
—either in gold or lilver—or in the bank notes
of the United States—the subscribers to be entitled
to J per cent, per annum on their advances
to one per cent, more when the ill'ues shall be
double the deposits—to two per cent, when three
times—to three when four fold—and to four per
cent, when they shall amount to five times the
deposits.
On this plan, the further the issues are extend
ed beyond the deposits, the more it will be for the
iixerefts both of the llock-holders and the people ;
for in proportion as the ftock-liolders receive an
encreafe of interest on their advances so in pro
portion will the people pay less for the use o<*
the money issued.
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ADVERTISEMENT.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE OHIO COMPANY.
WHEREAS, in the opinion of the Agents, it is very much,
for the intcreft of the proprietors at large, that all the
lands of the purchase should be divided and allotted as immedi
ately as may be—And in order Co accommodate them generally,,
by the option of darting as they may think proper, and drawing
their rights or Chares (where they may poflefs more than one)
either together in contiguity, or by detaching and annexing them
to diftintt claffcsor divisions (at their own cle&ion) to give them
the greater chance for variety in foil and fituation—Jtisunani
moufly refolved,That as foonas the exploring committee fhaJl have
appropriated the lands for donation fettleraents,in quantity fuffici
ent for all the proprietors,Wi nthrop Sargent, Joseph Gi ll
m an, and Ritur n J. Meigs, Esquires, whoare hereby appoint
ed a committee for that purpose,(hall immediately makeout,upon
a large fcale,a complete map or plan of the whole purchafc from the
best information,whi<;h they may be then able to obtain,exprefling
all the lands of the eight acre, three acre, city lots and commons,
one hundred and sixty acre, and donation lots, the reserved lots
of Congress, school lots, and lots appropriated for religibus pur
poses—also, the two townfliips given by Congress for an univerfi
ty,and the towns or filiations for towns to be reserved by the com
pany for a future allotment.—That, all the residuary lands (hall
be, by them, the said committee of three, divided and numbered
upon paper, into forty equal grand divisions of twenty-five shares
each, as like in quality as may be: That each grand division be
divided into five sub-divisions of five shares each, and each sub
division into feftions of single (hares :—That as soon as the map
or plan is completed, the agents will form or class their fubferib
ers (who fhail not previously elafs themselves) by feftions or single
(hares, into sub-divisions of five, and grand divisions of twenty
five, and immediately proceed to drawing; hv lot for said lands;
by grand divisions, sub-divisions and fcfitions : That in all
draughts of sub-divisions (into fe&ions) which may be madcup of
proprietors,holding four,three, or two and single (hares,it (hall be
the usage for the greatcft proprietor, or holder of the greatest
number of shares, to take his lands in contiguity, by lot, either in
the southern or northern part of the sub-division, where they shall
be numbered from north to south, and in the western or aaftern
(by lot also) where they may be numbered from weft to east ; and
where sub-divisions may be made up of two proprietors of two
shares each, and one or one share, the two greatest proprie
tors shall receive their fcttions, by lot, either in the southern or
western part of the fub-divilion. Rejolved, That the before na
med committee, be diretted to prepare the names and numbers,
and make all the nece(Tar)r arrangements for the intended draught :
That previous to the drawing for this ultimate grand division o£
lands, there shall be returns of the proprietors, as they may be
clafTed by the agents (or otherwise) lodged in the Secretary's office*
and it is recommended in all cases to consult the inchnatibns and
interests of the proprietors in the order of clafling.
Rejolved, That the agents will give public notice of the time and
placeof drawing, and that there be twoperfonsno ways intereft
e<3 in the draughts, who shall be sworn to the faithfully drawing
out the names and numbers from the boxes, and who alone (halL
be employed in this business for the draught of grand divisions*
sub-divisions, and fe&ions.
Rejolved, That the Secretary cause the foregoing resolutions to
be published in the newspapers of New-York, and the New-
England States ; to the end that the proprietors at large may have
the option of classing themselves as they may think proper : And
they are hereby requeftcd so to do, and to express themselves
upon thisJubjett, either to their refpeftive agents, or by informa
tion in writing addressed to, and to be lodged with the Secretary,
at his office in the city of Marietta,previous to ttye firftMonday of
March, 1790 —Upon which day it is expe&ed the divifiou will
take place. WINTHROP SARGENT,
Secretary to the Ohio Company.
MdrnttiJj 3d November, 1789.
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