ftatewtent under each branch of the reve
nue, the monies received on account of
the revenue of that year and those receiv
ed 011 account of the Revenue ot each pre
ct !:ng year, and dating, so far as the
fame is now prafticablj, the amount of
ali monies, bonds or securities on hand on
the lit day of January 1794, with the
times of payment of such bonds or fecuri-
Ordered, That this motion lie for
ccdidenitlon.
A melfagc from the House of Repre
ienlativcs by Mr. Beckley their Clerk :
" Mr. Prelident, the House of Repre
frutatives have palled the hill sent from
the Senate for concurrence, entitled, • An
ait making an alteration in the Hag of the
United States."
" They have appointed a joint com
mittee for enrolled bills on the paitof the
House and deiire the concurrence of the
Senate in the appointment of a joint com
mittee, on tkeir part." And he with-
drew
The Senate proceeded to the considera
tion 0/ the order of the House of Repre
fentativet last mentioned, for the appoint
ment of a joint committee—and
Ordered, That Mr. Vining be the'
committee on the part of the Senate.
Ordeted, That the Secretary notify
the House of Representatives of the
concurrence of the Senate in this order.
After the consideration of the exccu-
tive buirriefs,
The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to
morrow morning.
Thurlday, January 9.
Mr. Vining reported from the commit
tee for enrolled bills, That they had ex
amined the bill, entitled, " An a& mak
ing an alteration in the flag of the United
States," and that it was duly enrolled.
Mr. Beckley the clerk of the House of
Representatives brought up the laft-rren
tloned enrolled bill, signed by the Speak
er. And he withdrew.
The Vice-President signed the said en
rolled bill, and it was delivered to the com
mittee to be laid before the President of
the United States for his approbation.
Mr. Vining from the committee lad
mentioned, reported, that they had this
day 1 lid the laid enrolled bill before the
Preiident of the United States.
Agreeable to the order of the day the
Senate took into tonflderation the re
port of the committee oji the petition of
Conrad Laub and others, respecting the
appointment of the Honor&ble Albert
Gallatin a Senator of the United States.
On motion
Ordered, That the further considera
tion of the " report be postponed until to
morrow.
A motion whs made
" That the following amendment be
recommended to thelegiflaturtsof tlie ref
ju .ti\e states, a 9 part of the constitution
of the United States, two-third* of both
Houses agreeing thereto.
" The powers of the government of the
United States (hall not extend to curtail
or abridge the limits of the United States,
as defined in the treaty of peace between
Great Britais and the said States, dated
at Paris the 3d day of September 1783,
nor (hall the ft3te rights of pre-emption
to Indian hunting grounds, within the rcf
pective limits after a fair treaty and falc,
Ordered, That this motion lie on the
table.
After the consideration of the executive
business
The Senate adjourned to 11 o'clock to
morrow mcrmng.
From the Connecticut Cour ant.
THERE is at all times among our
people a curiofityto know the state of po
litics, a id especially the temper of Coti
jrrefs. This curiosity is peculiarly season
able in the present critical and alarming
state of American affairs. Much wifdoin
firmncfs and pcrfcverance have been dif
plaved bv our government during the last
lix months to keep our politics from run
ning into co.ifuSon and ruin: But these
would not have been fufficient to extricate
them t'roin the fnaies that French emifia
riet, reinforced by an autifederal facXion,
had spread for our ptaee, had not good
conduift been afßfted and crowned by pe
culiar gov>d fortune. The enthusiasm for
the French in Philadelphia, and in some
otherfea ports, waa blind and violent e
noiyb tohavjhurricd our country into the
war, if those who undertook to make a
h»ck of our foil) had not over driven it.—
T. ty hurried even tliole who fcemed to
be willing to run head foremolt into the
Tf. r, quite out of breath. Had he bufi
ntisol' privateering been conducted with
m i.e f!c:il and address, our people would
have been engaged,in very great numbers
in imfciug a piratical war upon England,
an J our country would have been involv
ed in it the power of retreating.
L lckiiy however, the French cmiflartes
made a mistake in fuppcling our people
more crazy than they really were, and in
co ifequeiice they came to their senses.—
The whole country fried out againlt pri
vateering—rhePrefident found a solid sup
port, and the hopes of the war-party i'eem
ed to be destroyed.
The eyes of the nation have been turn
ed to Congress; the unanimous appro
bation of both houses of tilt proclama-
tion, and other mcafures of the President
to preserve a fair and impaitial neutrality,
has lulled to deep the jealousy that watch
ed over America's peace, as if war being
voted out of Congrefc it was now impos
sible to engage it. The danger is not
over. Our citizens are not to be led into
the pit with their eyes open : nevertheless
tluy may be led into it. New schemes
are to be tried ; the projedl is now to trick
the co.i.itiv into the war.
It was certainly natural for our citizens
to fed good wifheu in favor of the French
I (lioutd almost disown an Ame
rican for a fellow-countrymen if he did
not earnestly desire that liberty and good
government may be enjoyed by every na
tion of the earth.—lt will certainly be
\ery great good hick if we make fhift to
keep out of the war, and one very wife
and falutaiy measure to that end is the so
lemn declaration of the President, announ
cing to the world that our neutrality (hall
be fair and impartial. It concerns the
good faith, the truth and honor of our
country, that we adhere to the spirit of
this pacific aifurance, as well as that we
abftniu from privateering and all other
acts of hostility. We have a right to en
joy our own private sentiments and to ex
press them freely ; but without contesting
the right of any persons to be as ra(h and
illiberal as they think proper, is it pru
dent, manly or even honeit, after the de
claration of an impartial neutrality on our
part, to fill every newspaper and every
circle of company with enthusiastic pro
fciTions of attachment, and even devoted
nefe, to the French cause, accompanied
with the most provoking expressions of
scorn and hatred of the English ? There
is as much true dignity for a neutral na
tion to forbear taking a fide as to inter
meddle with the quarrels of others. It
is below the American character to wrap
ourselves up in the cloak of neutrality to
(hew our scorn, hatred and 01 will to
wards those nations with whom we are at
peace. What is this but to (hew that
vrs are neutral enemies—that although our
government abstains from war the spirit
of our people is hostile : Yet such has
been the complexion of several of our
newspapers, which are not only a disgrace
to our country, but contribute all they
can to involve it in the war. That such
is their tendency, and to a degree that is
dangerous, will be manifeft to any one
who will take the trouble to reflect on the
alarming and unparalleled state of our af
fairs. Almost every European nation is
in a frenzy of desperation and rage.—
Their passions have mounted to a height
unknown in former wars. In such a
state, it is but a word and a blow. In
the bosom of America we have a faction,
the unrelenting enemies of the national
government, and now the devoted tools
of French emiflarics, who after having
vented all the abuse and insult possible on
the combined powers, are eagerly impa
tient to proceed from words to blows. Is
this a time for a nation, whose exifter.ee
would be hazarded by a war, to irritate
and insult those powers of whom it calls
itfelf the impartial friend ? It is the ally
of Holland,and Spain was its early bene
factor in a season of distress. Initead of
gratitude, that (talking horse of the
French war-faflion, fnall we go on to re
turn evil for good, and to whet all their
refentmcnt to an edge ? We may thus ac
complilh the end our difaffe&ed party
have been long eagerly purfi ing, to make
almost all Europe our enemies. When
nations by mutual scorn and insult are thus
made to hate ea«h other very heartily, the
ftionger will find it no hard matter to make
a pretence for a war upon the weaker
Our difaffe&ed ha«e done all they can to
furnifh them both the pretext and the in
clination. The public should mark it
nation,
well that tfte French emiflaries immediate
ly joined the party difaffe&ed to our own
government —filled the newspapers with
abuse of our own officers, and even dared
to attack our firft magistrate, spared no
means to vent insults on the British, and
to give it the (hew of being the- sense of
America, courted flattery for themselves
and the ruling faction in France from eve
ry quarter—a&ually engaged American
citizens to wage war on the British trade,
and tampered with justice itfelf to get ju
ries to clear the offenders. They have
even dared to threaten us with the resent
ment of France, because we did not use
the force we have not got to repel the En
glish from searching our vessels, at the
very moment when the French themselves
in the face of their own treaty with Ame
rica are using us ten times worse—and to
make the insult to this country as morti
fying as our very Jacobins can bear, they
tell us if we cannot protest our own flag,
if we have not the spirit becoming an in
dependent government, to let them know
it and they will do it for us. The French
and those known to be in connection with
them, are the loudest in their clamours a
gainst the Englifli. If we are not to go
to war, why excite those resentments
which will render it difficult to restrain our
citizens ? They demand, are we to bear
every thing and to bear it always ? It is
answered.are we to quarrel with every na
tion that gives us any occasion ? France
has certainly offended us more cruelly than
a nation with whom we have no treaty, by
setting aside the only article of her treaty,
that is worth a farthing to America. Shall
we go to war with France ? O no, by no
means—they offer for her many excuses
and palliations ; and why ftiould not we
palliate the wrongs offered us by other na
tions, fmce we are not prepared nor dis
posed to go to war ? England alledges the
law of nations as a juftification for her ob
ftrufting our trade to France. Doubtless
if we chufe to have a war on our hands
we may have one without delay, and we
have fuffered wrongs, or at least can pre ■
tend we have fuffered enough from every
one of the powers now engaged to take
our choice whom we (hall quarrel with—
observing however, that if we single out
an adversary we must expe£t the whole
gang of his associates to fall upon us.
Judge therefore, of the difficulty of
keeping America from catching fire and
turning as Europe now does. We have
a, faction always preparing tinder and
watching an opportunity to strike fire.—
There has long been a clamor against the
commercial regulations of England.—
The Algerine business has enflamed the
rcfentments of many pcrfons, and the war
party fee that the opportunity is favorable
to set fire to the train they have been so
long preparing. It is proposed to forbid
all intercourse with Britain, or to impose
heavy {hackles on the intercourse with
that country. Is any one so (hallow as
qot to fee the consequence i Our language
has long been partial, if we proceed to
make our conduct partial also, it will be
war inevitably. The success of this pro
ject is to be dreaded, but I hope if we
are to have war, we fha'l chufe it, inllead
of being thus cheated into it.
UNITED STATES.
BOSTON, January 4.
A letter from Mr. Brown, of Oporto,
to Mr. Church, at Lisbon, dated October
15th, 1793, has the following particulars:
" Last week entered this port, an English
letter of Marque, named the Oporto.
Capt. Hamilton from Liverpool, who
captured on his pafiage here an American
veflel named the Birmingham, William
Foster, master, bound from Baltimore to
Amsterdam, on suspicion of his being des
tined to some port in France—Her cargo
confilling as per note inclosed, and by
which you will please to observe, that the
three black sailors therein mentioned are
free Americans born, and notwithstanding,
they are forced to remain 011 board against
their will.
Contents of the cargo of the Americau
veflel, the Birmingham, William Foster,
matter, taken on her pafiage from Balti
more to Amsterdam, by the Englilh ves
sel the Oporto, Capt. Hamilton, who sent
her to Liverpool, viz.
2go Hogiheads of Tobacco. 145 Bar
rels, 17 Hogiheads, 13 Tierces, 490 Bags
Coffee. 90 Bags, 10 Barrels Cocoa, j8
Hog (heads Sugar. 23 Bales, 3 Punche
ons, Skins. 49 Bundles, 2 Cales, 7000
Staves, Sarfaparella.
The Captain and 3 men were conveyed
to Liverpool; the Mate, on Sailor and 3
Negroes brought to Oporto ; the two
former are already gone to America, and
the I Jegroes on board the Oporto.
The French National Convention have
ifTued a new silver coin, {ince the decapita
tion of Louis XVl.—One of which, of
Six Livrcs value, a correspondent has sent
to the Editor. It bears on one fide, the
Genius of Liberty, in an angelic form,
inferibing on a tablet " The Constitution."
Behind her are Fasces, surmounted by the
Cap of Liberty, and in her front a " Cock"
the emblem of vigilance—The words iu
clofing the device, are—" 1793 —Regm
de la hi." On the reverse is a wreath of
Oak-leaves, inciicling the words, " Six
Livres"—with a motto, " L' An, 11. Re
pullique Francoife."
c<^^2>°e@>>«£^c©eoo)oc^)oc<o>>e^s)ceo)e^yo«<ss»
PHILADELPHIA,
JANUARY 15.
In my last of the Bth ult. I informed
you of the general rising to crufli the ef
forts of despotism at a blow, I now have
to inform you of some of the effects of
those vigorous measures. Hie Duke of
York is made prisoner, and has been con
ducted to Lisle. It has been proposed in
the Convention to expose him in Paris to
public view in an iron cage, in return for
the treatment which one of our deputies
at Toulon experienced from the Engliih,
and for the enormities committed in that
city.
One hundred and thirty deputies have
been arretted, several have been guillotined,
and others are under trial.
Valenciennes, Quefnoy, and Conde,
are evacuated. Furnes, Nieuport and
Malines are taken. Oflend is bombard
ed, and the port of this city is to be fdled
up when taken.
Our 44,000 municipalities are equip
ping each a horseman completely accou
tred. All our young men from 18 to 2y
years of age are marching towards the
frontier.
It is the intention of the National Con
vention to make all the defpote their ene
mies beg pardon, and humbly sue for peace.
The rebels in Vendee are exterminated ;
their leaders are taken. The army in that
quarter march to Toulon, which mutt soon
be retaken.
Lyons is taken, and is now called the
Freed City.
1 believe that overtures are to be made
for a offennfive and defenfive treaty with
the United States of America. I hope
they will not be found backward in this
business. Their existence as a republic
depends on our success. Gen. Adv.
A PROCLAMATION,
By the QUEEN of PORTUGAL.
Her mojl Faithful Majejly wijhing to
mamfejl on every occcjion jujlice and clemen
cy, and to give a proof of the good faith
which aduates this court in all its a3s, has
been pleased to ord'r in consequence of the ex
posed Jituationy under which the American
navigation labours, from the cruisers of Al
giers in the ocean, to give a convoy to all
the American vejfels belonging to the United
States of A merica t which may be in her dif
ferent portSy and to be so proteQed to a propor
tionate di/lance. And moreover, has direct
ed the necejfary guarda cojtas to be sent out
for theproteQion of those vejfels expected, and
for this purpose tlye Algerine privateers that
may be met with, are to be apprifcd cf this
resolution, in order that they may not make
pri%es of such American vejfels which Jhe pro
tects y as being bound to the ports of this king
dom.
HENRY.
A Correspondent observes, that if the
United States (hould prohibit foreign ves
sels from taking off their produce, one
evident consequence mult result, and that
is, all competition in the market will be
cut off—Whether this will not for evsr
operate to the injury of the agricultural
interest, must be left to the wife men of
Gotham to determine.
A Correspondent would enquire, whe
ther the (hipping of the United States, is
not rapidly encreafing—-Whether this in
crease must not neceflarily continue—and
whether this increase must not in a few
years and in the bett poftibk* way give us
that ascendancy, which to fay best,
we run the risque of poftponingtc a more
distant day, by attempting to grasp it bv
projects and experiments.
Havre, Nov. 2