CHARLESTON, May i. At a meeting ot' the citizens, at Wil lianis's coffee-lioul'e, on Friday e •veuing, Gen. Moultrie in the chair Kefolved, That the eftablilhinent of a fund for the purpose of" purchas ing or taking up judgments, bonds, or other evidences of debts, owing by the inhabitants of this Hate, and thereupon extending the time of pay ment to debtors, on their giving luf ficient security for discharging the iame, would be highly beneficial both to debtors and creditors, a:;d to the community at large. Resolved, That Meflrs. John Juli us Pringle, David Ran-.fay, .Thomas Kroft, John Edwards, Adam Tuiuio, D. De Saufl'ure, D. J-ennings, N. Iluf (el, and John Lloyd, fen. be a com-, muree to prepare and report a plan of an institution conformable to ilie forejrotng resolve :—And that when they have agreed to a plan they pub lifli the fame, and lay it before the citizens, at a meering'to be convened yithin three days thereafter by pub lic advertisement, for their consider- anon .WINCHESTER, May a 8 Our last accounts from the territo ry of the United States south of the Ohio, are to the 12tli in ft.—they state that frequent depredations are ftiil committed by the Indians in that quarter, but that some of thein have paid for the roast, 4 having been kill ed lately by a party of militia. — That the boundary line, agreed upon in the treaty which took place 1 alt sum mer, between the United States and the Cherokees, is now running—and that when this neceflary bufiuefs is .accomplished, every exertion will be ttfed by Governor Blount to pro tect the frontiers from any depreda tions a banditti of oiucatls may medi tate. D X N B U R Y, May 28. Wednesday last, wai exposed foi falein this town, the four quarters of a calf, killed by Mr. Amos 12urriit, butcher at Newtown, which weighed as follows : Flour quartets, Caul, Skin, Total, The calf wr.s 5 weeks and 5 days old, raised by Mr. Nitam Curtis, of Newtown. BALTIMORE, June 5- By the Brijgantine Greyhound, Captain Ellas Porter, who arrived here in thirteen days from •Cape-Fr&ncois, we are informed, that the fitua • tibn of affairs, refpefting the difturbanles in Hifpaniola, wore e ry day a more melancholy afpe#—-that all hopes of peace being rcftored, were relinquiihcd-—thatthe colony was,beyond a 'ievably loft—that, till latterly, some expiations were entertained of the arrival of more troop:, from but then every profr pe£t of that nature had closed in despair—that attacks were made, almost every night, on the out-ports contiguous to the Cape—that the mi litary forte was sb enfeebled, that a general maJfacre was apprehended—-that the whites were emigrating daily, and it was thought that, in.the course of a few months, not one would be found remaining on the French part of the I .land—that it was confidently believed, that some celebrated characters (atnong whom iz fnppOfed to be the well known Count d'E , who had, a little before, arrived in a clandeftiqe; manner from France) were the chief a&ors a mong the revolted mulatt<Je r —that the Colonial AfTembly was in a state of tlje molt ruinous a naYchy, the members having, on the day before Captain Porter failed, carried their differences on political opinions so fa*-, that they actually drew their swords on each other, and the house would have been drenchcd in blood, had not the interposition of some left turbulent spirits sub sided the dreadf-il ferment. Extract of a letter from Bordeaux, dated March 23, 1792, to a gentleman in this to\vn, re ceived yesterday. " What passes within our own country is more interelting than the affairs abroad. The King puflied impatriotifm so far as to difmife -tke oily two patriotic Ministers hr bad near and Cahier de Gervills. The National Alfembly ha 1 ! arretted de Leflart, whole manoeuvre* have been for a long time obnoxious; It has seized upon his papers, and sent him to Orleans, in order to be tried by tlie High Na tional Court. It is said evqn that tiie other Mi nisters are arretted: That the people of Paris deinand loudly the head of the Qiieen. It is ad ded, that fire has been actafed, on Monday lait, by Mr- Condorcet —They fay—they fay, in fine, thjjiy fay things which r.re alraoft all incredible, anil wtich, without doubt, could not have been spoken some years ago—but many things are said which perhaps do not exist, au3 which I wilt 1 inform you of only when confirmed. u The army of the line had a deficiency of fifty,two thousand men.—Well, ray friend, upon a fimpfo iflvita-tion from the National Affembbj in one clay, at the fame hour, without £.ny other words but—thecountry is in danger—four hundred thousand citizens have voluntarily inliftcd ! — Many of thole new soldiers have been seen to ride post in order to get more quickly to their colours. Mention me any other country in which soldiers rode post to join their corps ! — This, is the fadt.—So I can afiureyou, my dear friend, that the good cause will be tri umphant, and that probably, before long, twenty enslaved natrons will be restored to liberty, and will sing in chorus tlie celebrated tune of the French Revolution—-c air a." HARTFORD, June 4- Last Friday the honorable General Aflembly of thirilrte, ended v,he .boilnef* of the Spring i'eflion. It ought in justice to be observed that the bu fineis of the ieffion was conducted with the ut moil candor, harmony and li'oerality. Nothing of party spirit, private aniniofity or perfonai abuse, was introduced in any of the debates. The tendency of the public a£ts, is to promote £nd encourage the agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and literature of this fbate, to open a field for the exertion of enterprise and icdnf try, and to communicate to every class of peo ple the full en joyment of their rights as menand citizens. Notwithstanding many liberal grants and appropriations were made, such was the fa vorable iituation of our finances, that it was finally determined not to be necessary at this feflton, to lay any further tax on the inhabitants of this ft ate. EXTRACT from THE RIGHTS OF MAN. Part thefccond—By Tmomas Paine. Combining principle and practice. n r'f i s t ] ie mature of compaflion to afTociate A with misfortune. In taking up this fub jeft I seek no recompence—-I fear no conse quence. Fortified with that proud integrity, that disdain? to triumph or to yield, I will ad vocate the Flights of man. " It is to my advantage that I have served an apprenticefliip, to l'fe. I know the value of moral inftru&ion, and 1 have leen the dan- Igor of the contrary. At an early period, iittle more than sixteen years of age, raw and adventurous, and heated with the falle heroifin of* a matter* who had fcrved in a man of war, I began the carver of my own fortune, and entered on board the Ter rible, Privateer, Capt. Death. From this ad venture I was happily prevented by the affec lioriate and moral remonstrance of a good father, who, from his own habits of life, being of the Quaker profeflion, must begin to look upon me as loft. But the impreftion, much as it effected ac the time, began to wear away, and I enter ed afterwards in the King of Pruflia Privateer, Capt. and went, with-her t® lea. Yet, f om such a beginning-, ;\nd with all the Incon venience of early life against me, I n,m proud to fay ? that with a perseverance undiihiayed by ciifricultie-, a disinterestedness that compelled refpecfr, I have rot only contributed to raise a new empire in the world, founded on a new sys tem of government, but I have arrived at an eminence in political literature, the moft'diffi cult of lines tp Succeed and excel in, which? with all its aids, has not lien able to reach or to rival. " Knowing my own heart, and feeling' my felf as I now do, superior to all die /kirmifli of party, the inveteracy of interested or miflaken opponents, I answer not to falfehood or abuse, but proceed to the defedts of the Englilh go vernment^" 122 3-4 5 3-4 17 I4f-l'-2 * Rev. IV iHi am Knowles, mafler of the grammar /choolof Thetford, in Nor/oik. + Politics and /elf-interefl have been Jo uniformly connected, that the world,from being so often deceived, has a right to be Ju fp;aous of public chdrapers : but lath regard to m felj, lam perfectly easy on this head, 1 did not, at toy jirfl Jetting out in public life, nearly /eventeen years ago, turn ny thoughts to fobjetts of government from motives of interefl ; and my conduct from that moment to this, proves the faS. I saw an opportunity, in which I thought I could do some good, and 1 followed exdflly what "my heart diflatcd. I nei ther read books, nor Jludied other people's opinions. I thought for myjfelf. ' The cafe was this: During the Jufpenfon of the old .governments in America, both prior to, and at the breaking out of hvf tititles, I was puck, with the order and decoium with which every thing was conducted ; and imprefjed with the idea, that a little more than what focieiy naturally performed, was alight government that was necefjary ; and that monarchy and ariflocracy were frauds and im pofitidns upon mankind. Vntheje principles 1 pnblfil ed the pamphlet Common Sewie. The success it met with was beyond any thing since the invention of print 'nfS- IS ave ie CO Py right up to every State in the union, and the aemand tan to not less than one hundred thou- Jand copies. 1 continued the fubjett in the fame man ner, under the title of the Gfiiis, till the complete efl a bn/hment of the revolution. sifter the declaration of independence) Congress una nimovfly and unknown to me, appointed me Secretary in te Jor eign department. This was agreeable to'mc, /"■caufe it gave me the opportunity of feeing into the a bilities of foreign courts, and their manner of doing hu fivefs. Hut a mijitt;dcrjhindmg arising between Con gress amd me, refpcQing one of (heir commifjio' rrs, then m Europe, Mr. Silas Deatie, I lefigned the office, and declined, at the fume time, the pecuniary offer 1 made me h the minfiers oj France and Spain, M. (Gerard ai.J Don Juan Mir alles. J had by this time so completely gained the ear ana confidence of America, and m\ own independence was bccdmefo vijtble as to give me a range in political writing, ieyqnd, per haps, what any man ever pojjtjjed ;n any country ; avd what is wore extraordinary, 1 held it undimmifked to :he end of the war, and enjov it in the fume manner to the present moment. As my oljttt was not myfcf IJet cut with the determination, avd happily with the difpoftion, of not being moved by briife or cenfitre, friendfiip or calvmny, nor of being arerwri from mypurpofe by any personal altercation ; and the man.zvho c anrot d j this, u not ft for a public cha racter. 11 FROM THE CONNECTICUT CCURAKT. A PROMPTER. Rags ! Rags ! HOW the hrjl things grow out of the uorjl ! —Even the bible is made out of rags ! And yet people will not save their rags ! Au thors, printers, arts, sciences, and records ail depend on rags for support, and yet rags are thrown away. Great people, that is people really great, save rags. Why ? because though saving rags is a very little thing, yet it is a little thing that has great ese&s. i'oor people, who are re ally poor, that is, people who are not poor and proud, save rags. Why ? because every little helps. \ few pounds of rags bring a few pence, and pence feed hungry children. But iniddlingpeo ple, who are above want and below affluence, will not save rags. Then let them put the bu 'finefs into the bands of little folks ; children and maids. Tell Molly and Eetty to keep a rag bag in a handy place—-give them all the pcnce that their rags will produce. Their minds are not above the butfinefs—they will think of it—they will buy a cap or a hat with a year's collection of rags ; and the rags will make a bible or a law book—There is a bible and a cap clear gain! Twenty thouland families in Connecticut will save twenty thousand bibles and caps ! A great laving this forowf year and one Hate. P. S. Tel! -Molly and Betty, that the paper maker? uu not mean to get &way their dilli clouts—after their rags "are become unlit for dilh-clouts and hoiife cloths, they are just as &ood for paper-makers as ever. Philadelphia, June 9. On Tuesday last the President of the United States, and his Lady, att«nded by the Secretary of State, and the Sec retary of the Treasury and his Lady, visited Mr. Vearcc's Cotton Manufac tory. The President attentively viewed the .Machinery, &c. and saw the bufmefs performed in its different branches—which received his warmest approbation. The State-House garden, 011 Monday last, witnelfed a icene of great bustle and confufion. i To judge.from tlie croud, and the impatience of the people to reach the windows, a stranger to the cause would have supposed they were prefling in to give their votes in a contested ele&ion for Chief Magiflrate: But not so—Subscriptions were receiving for the Lancaster turnpike road. From 11 in the morning, till near 12 at night, the subscription remained open, and when closed, 2276 lhares were found subscribed. Each sub scriber advanced thirty dollars on his fhare,tnis multiplied by the number of shares, makes the um of 68280 dollars, subscribed and paid in about 12 hours. This no scarcity of cacti. Six hundred is the number of fliares limited by law ; a lottery was therefore instituted to re duce the subscriptions to the legal number : the thirty dolkirs returned to those who are -*x- 1 c;uCcd by that tolicry. Gen. Ad. A gentleman jately from tlie interior parts of the ftateof Fennfylvania,informs that the coun try in general bears the most promising appear ance of a plentiful harve£. The rye, especially between Lebanon and-Lancafter, is an instance of extraordinary growth: its height is so great as to give the oldest apple orchards the appear ance of a low Ihrubbery, by entirely concealing the trunk and lower branches of the tallelt trees. *ome stalks of those rye fields actually measured 'even feet nine inches. Extract oj a letter from Mr. Maury, Ccrtful for the United States at Liverpool, to the Secretary oj State, dated April 9, 1792. u It is peculiarly incumbent on all Matters if American vessels coming hither, toufe every )rafticable precaution to be in-order. u The brig Sukey, William Barker, mailer, from South-Carolina, is under difficulties, and he cafc appears a Angularly hard one. Previ ous to leaving America, the master had those of lis crew not natives sworn before a magistrate, vhofe qualification was authenticated by the Britifli Consul* Thefc men, on being examined lere on oath, and their declarations riot acCord hg with those they had made in America, the teflfeT is flopped, and tho' I hope Ihe will still be either admitted to entry or re leafed, yet the celay and other inconveniencies will be very great. The matter is now before the Lords of the Treasury.—-I submit with deference the propriety ef making this tr an faction public, that V. may produce more caution." A loan was necessary to carry into efifeft the measures planned by the legiftature of the Uni ted States for the protection of the frontiers ; t'ie Itgijlature accordingly dire&edthis loan to be made —the Bank of the United States have lc ined the sum wanted, at an interest of five per cmt. per annum, this is called plundering the people ! It seems that if the government wants nio n?y it rauft borrow it, without interest-—or wait 11 the taxes are collected—what apity they had not applied to the dK-ivtereJic-d fault-finders ! In we fee a penetrating philosophical mind duped by the advocates of religious fu pcrftition and imposture. The clergy found him tv>o great a man not to be drawn over to their iide, and therefore accomplished their object in the fame maimer as they formerly did with Boyle, Locke, Newton, Addifon, &c. in England. A Layman advocating fuperilition is always a choice morsel for the clergy. See National Gazette oj Monday l*fi. A correspondent observes On the above, that ; the men who are tllere represented as the dupes of superstition and imposture, were among the nu>ft distinguished benefactors of mankind that ever lived, and principally on account of their being men of religion and virtue. The re igi 011s and moral character and sentiments of these celebrated philosophers have been a u morsel" to infidels that they could never digest—But it is to be lamented that it was reserved for this enlightened age to produce an ailaflin of their fame, men of common sense, or common ho nesty. ~ The abufcrs of government pretend lliat they pre only cxeicifing a right given them by the con ftitutioli, for the purpoic of preventing abulcs, but how unreasonable vs it thus to take the advantage and under the clokc of duty to commit £r»or. May wc not be 1-eve in charity to our own coun trymen, that they make but a small number of (his rials, and that a majority of thcai are persons from other countries who having lately escaped from bondage, know not how to enjoy liberty." at New-York, the 31 ft; ult. Col Sf.nf, of South-Carolina (a genJejnan who (eiv d in the American army in the lai«" w»tii rriui; > reputation) to Mj[sVan Bfr ck t J.', of this city, daughier of his Excellency Mr. iierckttl, lai • Miniller of the United Netherlands to iht. United States of America. Died, at Frederickfburg,Virginia, RiNt Wiatt, the amiable contort ot' William Wiau, Elq. of that town, aged ;>6 year.-. price of stocks. 6 per Cents* 3 per Cents- Deferred, indents, Final Settlements, Half (hares Bank U. vS. 70 75 pet cent, prcrn. Shares Bank North-America, 17 ditto. SHJP NEWS. ARRIVALS at th{ PORT Snow Concord, Markoe, Cape-Francois Brig Chance, Wilfbn, GJafgow Kitty, Moore, do. Gayofo, James, Cape-Francois Sloop Juno, Norton, Boston Portland(Dijlrift oj Maine) May 20L Capt. Hart, in the schooner Seaflower, here on iaft. from Port-au-Prince, aftei a fJaflTage of 18 days. When Capt. Hart came awtfy, things were in the utmost: confufion. All confidence between man and man feemcd to be destroyed. The men of property 1 , honor and bonefty, had chiefly left the island ; and there remained a set of harpies who pi eyed upon the fubitance of unwary ftran gcrs. Capt. Harding arrived here last week from Sf. EuftiUia. He saw there on the 9th iftft. Captain SylvanusCrofby, in the flmrp Betley,nf Rochester. He had been on a whaling cruise, and had on I board 110 barrels ot oil. Capt. Jones, in the brig Betsy, arrived here yes terday, after a palTage of 48 days from Liverpool. He left there Capt. Trafk, in the b/lg Industry, from Kenuebeck ; brig Hannah, Capt. Springer, belonging also to Kennebeck, bound to N. York, and would fail in a few days. Capt. Savage* in a fhipfrom WifcafTet, left Liverpool the 8 h April. The fchoericr Columbia, Capt. Young, left that place the 6th April, was to touch at Whitehaven, and was thence bound to Boston. Tbe br 15 In dultiy, Capt. tlob,ot Boston, and Capt. of Philadelphia, failed in company with Capt. Jones. Caj>t. E<lwards, in a brig from Poitfraoulh, was tr» Tail in a few days. Arrived at Liverpool, on the 7th t>i Ap» il,.Capc. J£d#>6, »r> 9 fhtp fron>Sa£o, a/ter a peflage of twelve weeks from North-Carolina. Peteijburg % V. May 31. The Grand Duke, Capt. Pollock, airived in James Rivei, has brought an account of the death of the King of Sweden, who is said to have been alTaffmatfd at a masquerade, by one of his Nobles.—The famcveflVl also brings intelligence of the Parliament of-Eoglaud having abolilhed the Slave-Trade, Bojion, May 31. Arrived, brig Galen, Captain Holland, from London, 52 days. The Rev. Mr. lkown, lady and family, came pziTrngers. Arrived, brig Mermaid, Capt. Gunnel, from Madeira. In lat. 40. long. 70. spoke the brig Mercury, Capt. Stevens, from i^ri(to) for Nrw- York, out 75 days, in great Want oF pioviiious, which were liberally fupplicd by Patrick lejfreyi Esq. of this town, from on board the Mermaid. These supplies conhfted not only, of neccffaries, but delicacies. Subscribers for this Gazette in Trenton, arc reqv'ejled to pay arrearages to the present PoJlmafier t Major Gordon. Those pcrfons who decline taking the Paper, will pieafe to pay the Pojlage on tJu Letters which ir.Jow I the Editor of their determination. JUST PUBLISHED. AND-TO BE SOLD (PRICE lOf.) By HAZARD and ADDOMS, A t the corntr of Third & Chefnui Streets, THE HISTORY New-Hampshire, Vol. 111. Containing a geographical description o£ the State—with sketches < t jtis naun* ■si pro du£t»o..j, improvements, arid pr+-fem state of fo ci ety and manners, laws and government. By Jeremy Belknap, 'Ai'Al. {jdT This volume compleats the history, and is peculiarly interesting. Subfcribcrs ar • deiired to call for their books. RUN AWAY Irom the fubfenber, Jiving ia Kent County, and State of Marfiand, on Sunday the May last, a N E G K Ui MAN, named Hark ; abotw 40 years of age, fboot five feet nine inches high, has a fear over ' rue of his eye-brows, and when talking, hangs h : t head on one fide, and looks up—had on and took with liirn live followingcloaths, viz. a fear .ought coat, a black and white kersey coat, cut k /ud, a white kersey jacket aud breeches, two pair - ,t yarn ftock n»g?j the orw- pair lately footed, and ? ;ie other not, two oznaburgh Ihirts, each pieced on one fide, two pair o! tow-linen tvowfevs, or s pair patched with new tow-linen down the for- parts, and an old felt ii<tr. Whoever takes up said Negir , if out of this. Statc,and secures him in gaol, fha' ) receive FOUR TEEN DOLLARS reward?— ai .<i if taken within this State, and secured as afore said, shall receive EIGHT DOLLARS reward ; and it brought home,, reaiouable exprnc/fs will be paid by PEREGRINE LETHRISURY. Chtfter-Tozsn, Jur.c 4, 1 791. (ep 8w) ■ 2 fi '3/2 1 V 9 ">V 18/5
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