of die Hntifefi evening adve [No. 50 of Vol. V.] This day is publifbed y By MATHEW CAREY, No. 118. Maikft-itr PST, ( Price a quarter dollar ) A short account of ALGIERS, Containing a dcfcnpiton of the rlimaietif ihrt country —of ihe mannru and cuftotns of the in habitants, and of iheir (cveral wars aga.nft Spain, France, England, Holland, Venice, ana oth~r powers of Europe, from the ttfurpation of Bar barofTa and the invasion ol the Emperor Charles "V. to the present time; with a eoncifr view of the origin of the rupture between ALGIERS and the UNITED STATES. Jan. q. Excellent CLARET, Id tiogf«cadt and in cafra of 50 bottles cacb. A L ,< O, A few cases Champaigne Wine ; MADEIRA, la pipca, hoglh-ad* and qnaiicr cafki, FOR SALE BY JOHN VAUGHAN, No. in, South Front-lireet. Jan. a, 1794. dtf NORRIS-COURT, Bjck of the New L'braty, Chefout and Walnut St reels. George Rutter, RESPECTFULLY infoTri * his friends and the public iii general, that he Continues ■carrying op the bufine*/Vof Sign and Fire-Bucket Painting, Likcwife, JAPANNED PLATES, for dooisor in themoft elegant manner, and with dilpatch. Orders from the country will be thankfully received, and duly attended to. December 30, c ltf NEW BOOKS. Now opening for Sale, By M. CAR No. 118, MARKET-STREET; A large and valuable collection ofBOOKS, imported from London in the Mohawk. Dee. 19. Robert Campbell, No. 54, South Sccrnd-Jlreet, Scconddoor below the corner of Chefnut-ftreet, HAS IMPORTED, By the late arrivals from Britain and Ireland, A large and general AJfortmcnt of New Books and Stationary, "Which will be difpoled of on the I owe ft terms. Dec. 23. niw&ftf Bank of the United States. January 6th, 1794. NOTICE is hereby given, that there will be paid at the Bank, after the iixteenth instant, to the Stockholders or their represen tatives, duty authorized fifteen dollars, and fifty cents for each (hare, being the dividend declared for the last fix months. By Order, JOHN KXAN, Cafcier. NOTICE. BEING desirous of doling various commer cial concerns, and that all powers hereto fore granted relative to the fame (Kould be re voked, and public notice of it given, to prevent any poflible mistake ; I, the fubfenber, do here by make known 10 all whom it may concent, lhat all powers and letters of attorney, of every nature and extent, granted by me to any person or perions, pnor to the ift day of July la ft, to att tor mc or in my name in Ame r i ca, are re- greenleaf. Ncw-Yo»k, Jan. t, 1794. dtw & Terms of Subfcr'tption for this Ga%ette, are Six Dollars per annum—to be paid half-yearly. Subscriptions of persons tvho reside at a diflance from the city, to be twelve months in advance, or payment to be guaranteed at the place of publication• Advertifementi of onefjuare, or left, in sertedfour times' for One Dollar—once, for Fifty Cents—and continuations at Twenty Cents each—tbofe of greater length in pro portion. Favors in this line, and Subscrip tions, will te gratefully received at the Office in South Fourth-flrcct,five doors north of the Indian Queen. in Pennrylvania. At Reading, ) The ration* to be furniftied are to consist ol the following articles, viz. One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or J of • pound of pork, Hall it jilj of rum, brandy or whilky, One quart of fait } Two quarts of vineearf Two pounds of soap (P" 100 ratlons iOne pound of candlei) J»0. 9. AND Thursday, Ja diw lOHtt CORDON. nwlrftf uwi6F. uuary 16, ' 794- CONGRESS House of Reprefentdtivcs. January 13. In committee of the t tvhole i on the report of tht Secretary of State, relative to the com mercial intercourse of this country, with fo * reign nations. Mr .Smith's C,) Obfervaiiom concluded. Mr. Smith proceeded to con fid el - the comparative view of tobacco exported to the rival nations, France and Great Bri- v taini In France there was no duty, but the Farmers General had a monopoly of that article, which was a great bar to free trade* In England there is a duty of 1/3 per pound on our tobacco, and on all o~ ther a duty of nearly tieble. This diftindtion is not noticed by the Secretary of State; on the contrary he takes care to mention that that article pays a great internal duty in Great Britain. Upon this fubjeft he held it as an incontroverti ble principle that the consumer pays ail such duties, provided the country into which they are imported does not raise the fame or a {iibftitute for the article ; pro vided they are not so high as to amount to a prohibition ; and that in those duties no discrimination is made in favor of the like articles from other countries. The Secretary ef State pays no regard to this principle. If it was not a found principle recriminations without numbers would be heard from other countries, whose com modities we often lubjed, here to very hea vy internal duties. The heavy duties of Great Britain up on this article, tobacco, from other coun tries but the United States, give us an ab solute monopoly, to the disadvantage of Portugal indeed, one of the nations with whom Great Britain is on the most friend ly terms. In the Weft-Indies, the French prohibit the importation of our tobacco, and Great Britain admits it into her co lonies. In this article then it mull be evident that the system of Great Britain is much more favorable to the interests of this country. Rice pays one per cent ad valorem in Frauce, and there is no diftin£lion made in our favour or against us. In Great Britain the duty is more coniiderable. In the French Well Indies one per cent is al so paid, and in the British Ifiands it is uot only free, but a prohibition is laid on all other except our rice. It is doubtful at fir ft fight which fyftcm is mod favouiable if it does incline to the French scale, the difference, on close infpedtion, will appetr very trifling. Experience has taught us,that rice rare ly becomes an article of common food in those countries in which it is imported, and which raise a fufficiency of other grain, as France and England. There rice is an article of luxury, consumed only by the wealthy. This observation is verified by adverting to the state of the consumption of this prodnftion among us. Tho' it is so wholesome an article of food, yet in those dates wherp it does not grow, end wherethereisafufficiency of other grain, it is only used as a luxury. In Great Bri tain, then the duty cannot materially af fect the consumption, as it bears only on those abl? to pay it. This duty was probably laid by Great Britain to prevent the competition of this article with wheat in times of scarcity. In times of plenty such a competition is not to be feared, and as in France, that scar city is not probable, from the quantity of wheat raised, they had no need of such a protesting duty. The Britidi duty was laid while we were colonies, it therefore cannot be considered as a hostile measure. In the Weft Indies rice is the common food, there is the molt advantageous mar ket for that commodity and there Great Britain favours us much more than France. In the article of Wood, Great Britain favore us more than France. To Great Bricain our wood is not only free, but a R T I [Whole No. 488.] duty is laid upon rivals in this branch of trade ; not some small duties as the Sec* retary of State aflerts, but some very coiK fiderable, which if they did not exiit, tlie wood from the northern countries Wotild preclude any supply from this coUntry k -«- Our wood to France is free from dutv but other nations are on the fame footing with refpe& to this article. Salted fifh is prohibited in Grerit Bri* tam and her Weft-Indies, and fubjdSe to a high duty in France, with high boun ties on their own. In the whole catalogue of exports, im* poits and navigation, this is the only arti-' cle in which the French really lftjd otit to us greater advantages than to other nati ons ; and here the difference as to faked fiih, will appear greater upon a fuperficiat than upon a more accurate view of the cafe. Each country aims at a monopoly of this article ; Great Britain is able to supply hcrficlf and can therefore prohibit ours: France gives a bounty on her own and would exclude us if {he was adequate to her own supply : but as (he is not, our fifh get 6 into her (narkets ; this, however, is conferring no favor oh us, for fifh from other foreign countries is there oh the fame footing as ours. The fyflem of both colintric», in fact, in this refpeft, is the fame ; the different (ituation of the two countries create! the difference of measures. France, lie dated, had (hewn us nrt friendfhip in this branch of trade ; she has endeavored to eftablifli her fifherics on the ruin of ours, by tempting our fifhtrtnen eo fettle at Dunkirk. If in the prohibition ot Great Britain of this article we fee th« spirit of a felfifh rival, in the policy of the French, We fee the manoeuvres of in iufidi« ouß friend. If the French regulations operate fotoe what in favor of our whale oil, they are more than counter balanced by their reftriftionS on our fifh. To elucidate the spirit of our commercial system in this refpedt, it was well to mention two or three fa£ts. In '84 an arret was paflfed giving foreign fifh ad mission into the Weft-Indies ; '85 a pre mium was granted in favor of their fifh imported there ; in seven days after the palling of the arret making this regula tion, the duty on foreign fifh was raised from 3 to 5 livres. Another arret was past giving exports from the United States a right to be deposited in the dominions of F ranee and 2 months after Jt/h was po sitively excepted. Pot and Fearl-Afh. The regulations of Great Britain as to these articles are most favorable. Indigo. Great Britain also here fa vors us moll. Live Cattle. On the fame footing in both countries. Flax-feed, also. Naval (lores. More favored byG.Britain Iron, Bar and Pig. Great Bi stain more favorable. In France there is no diftinftion for or againfl; in Great Bri tain there is a diltin&ion in our favov, even to the prejudice of exportations of this article from Ireland, which pay a high duty. The Secretary of State, to take away the merit of this discrimina tion in our favor, fays, that it is of no advantage to us, as we have no more than is necefTary for our own consumption. Mr. Smith remarked, w hen the dilHn&ion was made, it was a circumstance not forc feen, and is owing to our great encreafe of manufactures. Iron to the ajiaunt of between 80 and 90,000 dollars, is ex ported to Great Britain. From what lie said of exports it mult appear, he conceived, that our principal productions are more favored bv the B.ii tifh than the French permanent fyflem before the revolution. He proceeded to lay before the com mittee a comparative ftateir-nt of the va lue of expbiU of pur principal ilapje commodities to trance and Great Britain and their colonic, for the year, ending with September I 790, as follows: S E R. Fish Oyl