On Saturday lad the Manager who signed the
Ticket No. 6052, in the E'irft Class of the Semi
annual State Lottery, which drew the capital
Prize of 10,000 Dollars, deposited the Money in
the Mali'achuferts Bank, there to remain until
the fortunate Adventurer applies for it.
N E W- Y O R K, May 6
By letters received from Tobago, via Phila
delphia, dated April 5. we are informed thar the
conl mander of the ifiand had forbidden the ex
portation of sugars and cotton to Anierica. And
an additional duty of 4-2 per cent, had been laid
on all rum exported.
Last Saturday William Jones, who has been con
fined some time in New-Ark gaol for the murder
of Samuel Shot-welly after a fair and impartial tri
al, by a jury of his peers, was found guilty and
received fentenceof death accordingly. He was
to be executed this day, between the hours of
eleven and three o'clock.
Died, at Philadelphia, onTuefday morning
lalt, about 10 o'clock, Mr. Patrick O'Bri an.
He was seized, at his office, with a bleeding at
[he nose and mouth, and though the mod emi
nent physicians (Rush, Jones and Wiltar) were
instantly called to his atfirtance, their Jkill proved
ineffei2ual. By his acquaintance and friends he
is much lamented.
It was the opinion of the physicians, that his
death was occafionecl by the bursting of a blood
veflel near the heart.
Mr. O'Brian was a gentleman well known and
much esteemed in this city.
N E W-H A V E N, May 4,
Lalt Saturday the Circuit Court of the United
States finifhed the business before them in this
place, having far fix days.
During the felfion many important questions
were agitated and decided. Among others came
on the great and much litigated question, Whe
ther obligations in favour of real Biitifli fubjecfts,
or those who had joined the armies of the King
of Great-Britain, during the war, fiiould draw
interest during the time the creditors were inac
ceflible by reason of the war. In this cafe the
com t adjudged that the statute law of Connecti
cut enabling the state courts to deduct interest
in such cases, was an infringement of the treaty
of the peace, and that upon common law prin
ciples, interest was recoverable.—The learned
andjingenious arguments frotn the bench on this
question, were highly interesting, and gave ge
neral fatisfatftion.
Died, last Thursday, much lamented by those
who vvifh to defraud their creditors, an ac r t or
Ifi'V of Connecticut, entitled, " An ast relating
to the debts due to persons who have been and remain
ed within th; enemies power, or lines, during the lat!
war."—This statute, though of a weakly habit,
hath yielded great service to the people of this
state.— It hath been productive of at leait 100,000
pounds in cafh.—lt received its death wound by
llie adoption of the New-Conftitntion, and hath
languilhed in extreme agony ever since.—On
Thursday the 28 ult. the two-edged sword ofjuf
lice gave its 1 alt fatal stroke, and it expired with
out a groan.—Numerous fpedtators beheld its
corpse with a smile, and hoped that it might ne
ver rife again in this world to our shame, or the
world to come to our contusion.
Recent accounts are, that since the arrival of
tlie Fleet ant) Army, from France, public tran
quility is nearly restored in the French Islands.
Account of Silk raifri in Northford, I 79°'
Runs. Mrs. Lois Street,
l")r. Jared Foot, 13c Mr. Elihu Rogers,
Capt. Isaac Foot, 80 Mr. Aaron Cook,
Capt. jofiah Fowler, 80 Mr. Jonathan Linfley,
Mr. Jonathan Fowler, 80 Mr. Solomon Linfley,
Mr. Benjamin Mallby, 60 Mr. Elihu Foot,
Mi. Titus Cook, 60 Mr. Amos Harrifon,
Mi. Sheunan Kimbcrly, 55 Mr. Edmund Harrifon,
Jonathan.Mahby, A. M. 50 Mi. Elnathan Tyler,
Capt. Elihu Baldwin, 50 Mr James Smith,
Mr. Jofiah Fowler, jun. 50 Mr. Samuel Munlon,
Mr. Joseph Mm Ton, 50 Mr. Lemuel Mnnfon,
Mr. Dcvtnpou Williams, 40 Mr. Solomon lalmadge,
Capt. Joseph Rogers, 40 Scaitering,
Mr. Isaac Ingram, 40
?ioo Runs at 3 runs to one yar
cloth, the produce of one year in
account is not perfe&ly accurate ;
juil idea of the Silk Culture in N
Tbt following TO A STS were given at the sleßion of
officer/ for an Artillery company, in Providence.
1. Our country. —
2. May its elections feel no influence but the
good of the whole.—
5. The Man of our choice—
4. May he (land square fx. the front —
5- May his atftions be perpendicular—
6. May his ideas be properly drejl—
7. May his concluift be uniform —
8. May the party politician fall in hisriar—
o. May his honor he uniinpeached—
10. May his arguments be rammed home—
l.i. May he never advance towards popularity
w ith an oblique Jlep—
12. May his virtue be fuel) that he ihall fafi
Of the grand infpeCliou
lMay the Statefinan not thus qualified,
j' J ' I-'.-: i about.
: 200
d. will make 400 yaids of Silk
N'oithlord, Connecticut. This
hul it is so near true as to gii e a
o'thford
rOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
SONNET VIII
TO THE MOO N.
R
AJEND from thy throne fair Emprcfs of the Night,
Arid as thou look'il o'er earth with eve serene,
Marking thy (hadowy paintings on the green,
And brightening Heaven with (ilver-ftteaming light—
O ! if in ail thy course, divinely,brighr,
1 hou fer'ft one wretch, in felon malice mean,
Debase the varied beauty of the scene;
Or one feil murtherer burst the bands of right;
Dart thro 1 h s foul, fevereiy bright, a ray
Whose living fplcndor (ball his hand arret!;
And to his guilty-conscious spirit fay—
' 1 ho tllou may'ft live unknown to Law's behefl,
And hide thy deeds fiom mortals, and the day
Yet Confcifnce* wo:in fliall rankle iu thy breath'
Philadelphia, May n.
Sunday afternoon afire broke out in the house
of Mr. Kennedy, high-fire* e, nenr cighth-fli eet,
which got to considerable heighth before it was
dilcovei ed ; the usual alertness of the citizens
was conspicuous on this occasion, and the fire
extinguished without doing any considerable
damage.
Monday night, between the Hours of 10 and n
the city was again alarmed with the cry of fire,
which broke out in a stable near dock ft reet; the
building wasinftantly envelopedin flames, which
were rapidly communicated to those adjacent ;
and a great deftrtnTtion of property was the con
fluence of this difafterous event—loor i 5 houses,
(hops and other buildings, fell a facrifice to the
flames.
The spirit and activity of the citizens were ne
ver exerted to better effect—the weather being
calm, their exertions prevented the fire from
spreading beyond rhe buildings immediately con
nected, and many of those tho partly burnt, were
saved from total deltrucftion.
The diftrefles of some of the fufferers are
great —the heart of sensibility must be attested—
and the hand of benevolence extended to miti
gate their sorrows.
A correfpondcnt congratulates his fellow-citizens on the plca
fing profpe£t, now opened, of a full tryal of t lie new penal code :
t it present Ja i lor is a very refpi clable character, ana moll cor
dially unites with ihe worthy Infpeftors in carrying eveiy thing
into execution, which may have a tendency to meliorate the con
dition of the unhappy prifoncrs, and to accomplilh the important
■rids proposed bv their confinement. Our correfpondcnt fur
ther informs, that on Sunday morning lad, the prisoners were
alfembled, and heard a sermon, f rom the Rev. Dr. Rogers, and
'.hat during th.' whole performance, mey behaved with the utmoll
propriety and solemnity : After divine service, th.y express d a
wi(h to be indulged as often as pofiible in the fame way, and Capt.
WE f d assured them, that his influence, and that of the Irifpedtors,
would not be warning in soliciting the clergymen of the various
religious denominations in the city to -tteud in rotation—a rcquclt
which will undoubtedly be mod readily complied with I was
in prifon,and ye came unto me."
ExtraGsfrom Mr. Paine's Pamphlet.
Ahho the French nation rendered the late go
vernment infolvenc, it did not permit the iniol
vency to a<ft towards the creditors ; and the cre
ditors considering the nation as the real pay-mas
ter, and the government only as the agent, rest
ed themselves on the nation, in preference to the
government. This appears greatly to disturb
Mr. Burke, as the precedent is fatal to the policy
by which governments have supposed themselves
secure. 1 hey have contracted debts with a*iew
ot attaching what is called theuionied intereltof
a nation to their support ; but the example in
France (hews, that the permanent security of the
creditor is in the nation, and not in the govern
ment ; and that in all possible revolutions that
may happen in governments, the means are al
ways with the nation, and the nation always in
exiltence. Mr. Burke argues, that the creditors
ought to have abided the fate of the government
which they trulted ; but the National Aflembly
conlidered them as the creditors of the nation,
and not of the government —of the master, and
not of the steward.
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3°
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20
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Notwithltanding the laje government could
not discharge the current expences, the present
government has paid ofF a great part of the capi
tal. This has been accomplished by two means;
the one by lefl'ening the expences of government,
and the other by the sale of the monadic and
ecclefiallical landed ellates. The devotees and
penitent debauchees, extortioners and tnifers of
former days, to ensure themfelvesa better world
than that which they were about to leave, had
bequeathed immenl'e property in truil to the
priesthood, for pious ufts ; and the priesthood
kept it for theniielves. The National Aflembly
has ordered it to befold forthegood of the whole
nation, and the prieithood to be decently provi
ded for.
Ic is not the nation of France that Mr. Burke
means, but the COURT ; and every Court in
Europe, dreading the fame fate, is in mourning.
He writes neither in the character of a French
man noran Englilhman, but in the fawning cha
racter of that creature known in all countries,
and a friend to none, a Courtier. Whether
it be the Court of Versailles, or the Court of St.
15
ELLA.
James's, or of Carlton-Houfe, or the Court in
expedition, fignifies not ; for the caterpillar
principle of"all Courts and Courtiers are alike,
rhey form a common policythroughou t Etirone
detached and separate fro:n the mterell of na
tions ; and while they appear to quarrel, thev
agree to plunder. Nothing can be more ter
nble to a Court or a Courtier, than the Revolu
tion of France. That which is a blessing to na
tions, is bitterness to them; and as their existence
depends on the duplicity of a country, they trem
ble at the approach of principles, and dread the
precedent that threatens their overthrow.
What a pity 'tis that certain modem reformers had not lived
some centuries ago ; how much trouble arid ex pence would have
beer, i, ved had the Ihort cut to fcieuce been then known—Greek
anilidiin would not have interposed their clogs and hindrances
m the road lo literary fame—but,as on another occasion, whole
nations of sages, philosophers, poets and legiflatots would have
been born in adav—What a race of blockheads were our anceftorsf
The transformations that are daily taking place in the ideas of
mankind, will very shortly render a new vocabulary absolutely
necellary ; what an absurdity would it now appear to hear the
clergy praying in the language of scripture, that their hearers may
be made " kui?s and priejli !"
The modern race of Mankind are to be ftimulatedto patrio'.lfm
by an entirely new fct ot incentives ; riches and honors, th.ifc in
ferior considerations have loft their attractions, and that deuder
atum the love of virtue for its own fake, shall impel the
human race involuntarily to apportion their praile and approba
tion upon a scale exactly suited to every poflible degree and vari
ation of merit.
We arc informed that the murders committed bv the Indians
on the Alleghany in March last, were not committed by the Mun
fee and Seneca's, as has publicly reported : Capt. Bullet
who was (aid to be killed, has been feei\.fince that time— he with
a number of Munfees had been hunting near the Sulquehannah
waters, during the whole winter and spring.
The Seueca, called Snip-Nose, who was also said to be of tli«
party, not long before the malTacre, was near Fort Franklin and
went to Buffjloe Cicek, where tile Chiefs fay he now is and that
he has not been abferpt. The Indian supposed to be Snip-Nose,
was aMunfee living <f>n Beaver Waters, and known by the name
of Capt. Pcteis, a relation to some of the Indians killed by Capt.
Brady. Another of the Indians who committed the minder was
known by the name of Flm, had often been with the Seneras
but he lived and hunted 011 Beaver Waters, was also couriered
with the families who fuffered at the Beaver Block-Houle ( 2nd
[ herc jjan be no doubt, but the murders were committed by the
friend?and relations of those families, who hunted on B. aver Wa
t.-rs, and not by the Indians on the Alleghany, who in every par
ticular manifeft the moil iincere attachm. Nt to the T'*nitedS'ares.
The ship Brothers, Capt. James Jofiah, arrived
here on Monday, after a passage of five months
frorti Canton.
It is pleasing to learn that all the hands who
failed from heuce in this (hip have returned in
perfect health, nor did they, duringthe voyage,
experience any kind of sickness. °
Died suddenly, on Monday morning, the Hon.
Francis Ho r kin son, Diftriifl Judge of the Uni
ted States for the State of Peniifylvania.
Science and patriotism sustain a ftiock in the
death of this valuable citizen.
IC?" The mail for Pittjburgh will leave the Pofl-
Office every Friday morning at halj pafl 7 o'clock,
and arrive every Thursday 10 '/'clock, A. M.
New-Haven Wharf Lottery.
THE Legiflaiure of the Stale ot Coune&icut, at their (Wlioii in
December last, granted a Lottery for the purpose of extend
ing Union Wharf, in the harbour of New-Haven, to the channel;
and appointed the fubferibers manageis, who having given bond
for the faithful discharge of their truil, present the public with ths
following
s C H E M E.
i Frjze of
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1
2
4
5
12
3°
45
50
6i
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140
539°
5842 Prizes.
11658 Banks.
17500 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, is
Not two Blanks to a Prize,
Subjc&to a deduttion of twelve and a half per cent.
The public utility ot extending this wharf, is too evident ro re
quire any comment, to those who arc acquainted with the town
-nd hai hour of New-Haven ; to those who are not, fuffice it to fay,
that its beautiful situation is not furpafTed, if equalled by any ; br
ing in ihe heart of a country, which may, with propriety, be said
to be the garden of America. The harbour lays open to the found
but by reaion of the flats, this wharf is necessarily extended to the
channel, where ships can load and unioad ; and when compleat
ed, will be the nvoft extensive and commodious wharf in America,
the whole extent being about 3>4ths of a mile; and not only the
mercantile interest of New-Haven and the towns adjacent, but the
maritime! interest of all the States will be benefited by it. The
general wish that prevails in the minds of all clalTcs of people, for
'.he iuccefs ot this enterprize, together with the very great advan
tage which this Icheme holds out to adventurers (there being more
capital prizes for the number of tickets than any yet publiflied in
Amcriea) induce the manager? to believe the tickcts will meet with
a fpcedy lair.
The drawing will positively commence at the State-House, in
New-Haven, on the 13th of September next, or sooner, if the
tickets are fold.
A lift of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prize*,
paid on demand, by the managers. Those prizes not called lor in
nine mouths alter drawing, will be deemed as generously givea
for the use ot the wharf, and appropriated accordingly.
Manager S :
JamES RICE,
Jeremiah At water,
Jos£*h Drake,
New-Haven, April 14, 1791
TICKETS in the above Lottery may be had at the
Compting-houfe of MefTrs. Stejh kn Austin, and Co. corner
Front and Piue-Sirtets.
10,000 Dollars, is
5000
4000
2000 ari
1000
500
200 v
100
5°
40
3°
20
10
8
Michael Todd,
Elijah Austin,
Joseph Howell.
ic.ooo
5° o°
4000
4000
4000
250Q
2400
3000
2250
2CCO
1830
2000
14CO
43' 12 °
87500