Measures which are pointed out to tliem, can atone happily extricate them out of the critical iituation in which circumstances have placed them, that it is their business instantly t® secure, by a good consti tution, the hopes whichtheyhaVe conceived, and the advantages offered to them,, and that so far from conducting them to-this end, the prolonga tion of public fermentation will shortly surround thein with such pressing and terrible danger, that all the measures they may make to oppose them will coine too late to secure them against these effeds. (To be continued.) TRANSLATED FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM THE LETDEN GAZETTE Published b\ Stephen Luzac. £ A Paper that is considered in Europe astheinoft authentic medium of intelligence—and as such circulates more extensively than any titber iimilar publication.] PARIS, MARCH 8. M. Rab.a-ud de St. Etienne's Speechj concluded from our paper of\qth in-fi. IN (hort gentlemen 1 repeat it, brcaufel am firm ly convinced of it, that bankruptcy isimpolfi fcle, because you are here—and to effeift it, but one mean exists, that is to separate you. The Impojls it is said are not collected—they are colleited throughout the greatest part of the king dom, as your own correspondence gentlemen on the subject will teftify—fome indirect imports are no longer collected ! This is true, but you are offered, and there will be formed substitutes in their place : You will eftablilh them, and the people will adopt them, and will pay them with pleasure. Unfortunate people, who lovetoferve your country, and your king, without affectation, what is your lot Opprcffion when you bend your head, and calumny when you dare to raise ir. Is there then no evil, it is aiked—are our fears then chimerical ? There is one gentlemen—it is great—it is prefling—and yeu ought to remedy it—this evil is the scarcity of specie. The cause of it is ealily pointed out—it is owing to too much paper in circulation.— Seeing you know the cause ofthe evil, you will find a remedy for it. I take the liberty to invite you, to take imme diately into consideration the ?ne?noria! of the firjl minifler of the finances, that memorial which you have been expecting this fortnight past, and the adJrefs of the Commons of Paris• You will endea vor to restore an equilibrium between specie and paper, by givingat this timefome preponderance to specie, and l'ome confidential allurement to bring it into circulation again. A thousand objects indeed press you, and the people tre impatiently expecting the fruit of your hibor—tout t)ie present evil is mod prefling—you will only quit for an inflant the obje<fts of your indefatigable cares, to refuine them with great er ease and fatisfatfiion—and disengaged from the solicitude which opprcfles you, you willcom pleat the Constitution with the more courage, andfthe consolation you shall derive from it, will renovate your vigor. The people of France will second you with their patience—the enemies ofthe public weal will find themselves deceived, in calculating too lightly on the pretended incon stancy of the French nation : The generous peo ple of rhe capital, those brave companions of your labors, will continue to fnpport them—they will find that by aidingand prefervingyou, they preserve themselves, the King, the people, everv good citizen, the creditors of the State,.the cap ital and tlie province, all will have a common cause, the fafety of the country, and the com pletion of the constitution ; With this noble and generous concert, I repeat once more gentlemen, that bankruptcy is impojp.ble, and Fratrce cannotptrifij. BOSTON, JULY 14 By Cap:. Harris, from' Martinique.we are made acquainted with the particulars of the recent dis turbances in that Iftaitd, They beg-in on the ?d of June —and firft rose from the Municipality denying the free 111 ulattoes/Wf/j' to celebrate the day as the whites did. On which account a mu latto 011 (entry quarrelled with His Captain, and finally killed him. This creating an alarm—the mulattoes on duty, flint tbe gates of the fort, and fired from the loop holes on tbofe who were out iide. The report, that the mulattoes were rifino tailed all the inhabitants t® arms. A scene of ravage hollility eafued—and about nineteen of the mulattoes and Whites'were butchered. The American vefiieis were boarded, and all the jnili tary weapons on board taken away—which the Vifconnt, de Ponteves offered to pay for. There was not any firing from the navy, as was report ed ; and the riot had subsided intirely when Capt. Hasrts left the Island. Dispatches were sent bv the Viscount t>E Pon- THVes to the Hon. Consul of France, by a veflel •which has arrived at Marblehead. We are authorized to fay, thst the information some time (inre pnblifhed in the papers, »hat the ports in the French IVuft Indiu, were lhvit to the illips of the Uiiited States, is not authentic. By 1 veflels from Europe, we are informed, that She prolpect of" WAR. between Great-Britain and Spain, cxi(ls no longer. The Spaniards having' conceded to the demands of restitution made by the Englilh. v One Million of Dollars, we are told was the price of peace. That the war in Europe will yet continue some time the foljowiftg—extra<sl of a letetr from the Turkish Snltan, to one of his Pachas will evince. " My intention, she vows I address to Heaven night and day, are not to lay my sabre in the scabbard, before, with the grace of God, 1 have avenged myfelf on my enemies. I hope that, for the glory of the Prophet our Lord, our Matter, the Son of both worlds, Almighty God will help the execution o£-our projects." COMMERCE. For the season of the year —which is usually dull—our harbour is very full of shipping. A gentleman, who counted them yesterday, has furnilhed 11s with the ll3tement, as follows:— 13 5 tips -;6 Brigs 7 52 S h'nc "4 Sloops 3 total 175 ■FitlE SCHOOLS. On FritlayTtill, tie Gentlemen Seleclmen, the other gentlemen of- ■he school rommictcc, toge ther with a ; Vc ti umber of the Rev. Cler gy, and other ciriip.-«s, agreeable to annual usage visited the feverul free Schools of this metropo lis, and were mu- h gratified with the elegant Specimens of P-n dr'nip—the proficiency made in Grammar and Rtading—the abundant testimo nials of the attention and assiduity of the several Maflers, and the decent decorum of the scholars exhibited on the occasion. At this visitation it appeared, that there were in the several schools, the following number of pupils, viz. Boysi Girls In Mr. Hunt's Gram. School, 63 Meflrs: Carter and Bingham's, ? „ writing and reading do. J 220 180 Meflrs. Vinal and Tichnor's do. 229 185 Meflrs. Tileflon and Cheny's do. 2jo 174 In all 1301, undtfr the age of 14. laws of The united states. FUBLISHS.D CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES : AT THK SECOND SESSION. Begun and held at the Cilw of New-York, on Monday the fourti o January, one seven hundred and ninety. An ACT further to provide for the payment of the Invalid PENSIONERS of the United States. T5 E it cra'ud by the Senate and Houje of Rrprrfrvtiitrm of the Unit. Ed Mates oj America ,k Cmgrefs aJfrmbUi, That the military Penlions which hav« been granted and paid by the States respec tively m pursuance of foi tner a£h of the United States in Congress aUembled.and fuch,af by passed in the prt fcnt fed, on of Congref. ar . e ' °/lT'l", , C dec . lired to bc t° Invalids, who were wouod ed anddifabled during the late war, (hall be continued and paid by the Lnitcd States, irom the fourth day of March last, for the Ipace ot one year, under fifceh regulations as the Preftdent of the United States may dircft. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Houjc of Reprefentatwes. iOIIN ADAMS, Vtce-Prejident oj the United States. and Prejident oj the Senate. AprROV * D > July the sixteenth, 1700. GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prejident of the Untied Stales (True Copy) THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary of State. CONGRESS. HOUSE OF iIEPRESEN TATIVES WEDNESDAY, JULY 7. Sketch of tbi Debate,- in Committee of the -whole on the RESIDENCE BILL. ' MR. BURKE's motion under confutation which was in fubllance—That the feat of government (hould remain in ivew-York two years from last May ; and from the exp, ra tion of that time to the year 1800, that the feat nf (hould remain,n Philadelphia. ° f S overnm ="t Mr. Burke observed that he was induced to make this motion from a wilhi to accommodate ; as a delegate from South-Carolina he considered himfell a proper situation to come forward o' his occasion ; the New-York and Pennsylvania member, are pa ties concerned m the bnfinefs, they are judges in their own cause • and in this view it may be expefled that they will be part"" to their refpea,ve,nterefts_he therefore conceived that a mo on bl a member from a State not specially interested mit,ht K. j with the grcateft propriety ; 'he Vome rel' pefting the injustice of so suddenly quitting New-York he ad thC ti,ne ' at Which thf pcmova l of ,e c P ™°: Mr. Bloodworth spoke in favor of the motion j ■ ■lutlice and good policy, as no rrafon pointmg Z'the ~ ? r "J Jn ""mediate removal had been afligned. g ° f 530 762 539 Mr. Lawrstloe entered into a confiderMion of the pftttnfioiit New-York, he laid (he had a claim to the feat of goveinmc from the various circumstances which had attended the rcfideu'rl from the time Congress fii ft came to this city, and trom the exer tions which it had recently made ; Mr. Lawrance did not reier particularly to the improvements of the city for the accommoda tion of the government —his observations were general, and rcf pefted the policy and expediency of the measure. Mr. Page opposed the amendment, he observed that as to the claims of New-York he did not conceive that Ihe had any clsins whatever, it is true fhc has put herfelf to considerable expence t.> accommodate the government, and he was ready to acknowledc» her patriotism 0:1 this account, but said he, there is not a eity of equal magnitude in the union that would not have done the (am- • and (he is reimbursed by the advantages (he has derived, u does rtceive by the money that is expended here in con'fequence ■ he said that the accommodation of the people at large ought to be' a prime confid ration with the legislature, and in this view io a void any riflt-rcfpeQirig the bill and to fix a business which li d » much agitated the public mind, he lhould vote against the m - tion. There is one argument indeed, said he, whieh deserves au tention. I mean that which is founded on a supposition that the bill is unconditional, and that this was the opinion of niy col 'eague on a former occasion. Sir, it was then my opinion al(o • but we were then over ruled by this house, and now have the c pinion of the Senate also, against our conftruftion of the conflin . tion. —However, I rely not merely on this circumstance, for 1 find, upon an examination of all that the constitution fays about an adjournment, that the clause in the bill is perfectly conftuu. tional, as there are but twofentences in the constitution iifp«&in e adjournments. The last clause of the 3th fe&ion of ihe ill articli and the 3d feflion of the jd article, the former of which runl thus, " Neither house during the fellion ofCongrefs (hall, witho t the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nur iu any other place than that in which the twohoufes (hall be fitting" Now, fir, to be inconsistent with this clause of the constitution the bill (hould direst that adjournments (hall take place withm t the consent of the Senate, but the bill before us was framed by the Senate, and a perfect concurrence of the three branches of the legiftature is propoled to the adjournment now under considera tion : how then can it be inconsistent with the 3d fe&ion of the 2d article of the constitution, whieh gives the President a right to interfere in cafe of a disagreement refpefting the time of an ad journment ? It might indeed be said upon a question conccrnii.g common adjournments, that the two houses would do well to rt tain the right of adjourning without the consent of the President: —But, fir, this is an extraordinary cafe, in which it will be'happr for Congress and their conftitucnts if the business of adjournment (hall depend upon the joint consent of the three branches of the l'-giflaturr, and not on that of the two houses alone. Without this check, after getting to Philadelphia, on an adjournment, we mig'U be brought back to New-York, and then carried back a gain ; and so on without end. I think, therefore, that the clause in the bill is not only constitutional, but proper. Mr. Tucker said he (hould move to divide the question ; but lie had his objections to the palling a bill for a purpose which a joint resolution was fully competent to effefling; his argument a gainst the bill turned upon this idea, that Philadelphia would be come the permanent residence, and this he conceived to be the main ebjcQ ; for said he, it will become the duty of Pennsylvania, to prevent Congress from ever leaving that city, if they (hall at the expiration of the period of ten years think that Philadelphia is the heft place in which to continue the feat of government—he said he was sorry to hear the arguments which had been brought forward c:i this question refpefting losing the bill if it> was amended ; he thought them calculated to abridge* fair leglhtive di!«u:Gon of the mrritsof the fubjeft : Mr. Tucker spoke in handsome terms of the citizens of New-York. Mr Gerry was in favor of putting the question as ori<-it»lH moved--the complexion of the bill affects the temporary rt& dence of Congress; to form a judgment of the amendment hl. poled, " is neceDTary to take a *iew of the proportion as it HaiFi in the bill : The state and city of New-York are differently situa ted fiom any other place at which Congress ever fat—the accom modations of all other places at which Congress has ever fat have been an appropriation of their public buildings. When ihe Con ltitution was adopted, Congress determined that the'6ift meeting (hould be in New-York ; and from this determination it became necellary that accommodations (liould be provided. Haa not New-York done this, they would have been charged win, parti inony, or diUffcftion, or withboth. It would have been said that , c "y having been a Britilh garrison were careless and indiffer ent in refpeft to the government ; these considerations and their attachment to the Constitution produced the elegant building in which the ftftions of Congress have been held ; in addition 10 this they have incurred other heavy expences to beautify and render "or.' convenient the feat of government. These expcnces the city as incurred to do honor to the new government, and they have not been reimbursed—will itnot then be considered as thehcighth or ingratitude to quit this place under such circumlldnccs ? Let us now consider the bill in a national point of view : He ac now edged that Philadelphia was undoubtedly nearer the cen tre ol wealth and population than New-York ; but the Potowmac " u° T r e " cntrlc than the P ,acc * which we now set. e aid that provided Philadelphia is the temporary feat, and lhould thence become the permanent residence, we (Kail go but 90 miles out of 250, the proposed centre on the Potowmac. e recapitulated his former observations, and faid,civilities onght to meet civi lities,and are as much obiigatory on States as individuals. It there is any weight in the argument, it will apply with e qua orce in tavorot Baltimore, when the government (hall be rcmrne to Philadelphia. The law of the state of Pennsylvania lie laid, is against Philadelphia being made the feat of government. He contrasted thcreprefeniationof New-York and Philadelphia, an rernai ed on the inequality, and the advantages which the lat ■ r enjoy ed over the foimcr. He dreaded he said the confeouen ces or rejetting the proportion ior continuing in New-York two year ,an urged the necellity o( cultivating harmony between the two States; but the fubjeft having been fully difcuJcd, I ihall said he add no further observations. f, n r r errnan as * n of the motion, and urged several rea lons m support of it. b Yn*rl r 'rfJ eC^ r T f -'i he n,OuM vote for thc blli «it is. for if " ?° uM . b „ e 'if"ted only lor 6 months, he believed the bill r , e b Y the Senate. He said there were two points • n ■ ' rc 9 ui,c d some consider at ion ; the one is refpe£bng the ob rr-ftiiw ° n ac^? unt adjournment ;. he thought nodifficuly could itT,. . rom 'iS ' ie believed no President would evoi give his of ,L °, a re P ca ' 'he law : Theother is refpe£ling the exertions vca -1", IZ^ n ' ° cw "York ;on this point Mr. fackfon obfer r ' j 'r ac k now, ledgment was due to ihe citizens; but the - rB . ' u'y wo "ld always occur, and perhaps greater, let Con gr.fs move when they will. awr3 " ,<: «- replied to Mr. Jackfor. He said if the bill ■ r. e '! U .P to Senate, with the amendment, and it should be { J ' e '' w '" he sent back, and then the house may fay, u , P.y adhere or not—if they do not determine to ad » e 1 may then be pasted, so that the obie&ion on thr* *ecounil appears to he void of any foundatton. r * -r' " nn g observed that much is said about ingratitude, but oii.F 10 arise from the idea of going to Philadelphia; the . ' r \a y ""hen Baltimore was proposed, it was readiiy agreed V;° n j nothing was said about ingratitude. What has Philadc/'- a onr, r lat thecharge of ingratitude must be reiterated againtt hZfi Whfnevcr ,hat city is mentioned. With refpeft to the 1 ings remaining > monument of their ingratitudrt, he begged it,- 10 • that so far from this, it would remain a mouumcnl of 11patriotifm and public spirit of the city.
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