fcveral years past. It is fall pressing to
perfection.
Mr. B. was in opinion with the gentle
man who had gone before him, that it was
possible to carry our navigation too far,
when considered in proportion to our agri-
Cultural interest, but that point was yet
to come. He acknowledged that since
the late war in Europe, we had been the
fufierers. That our Ihips had been pirati
cally despoiled (if he might be allowed
the expreflion) by the privateers of En
gland, Spain and France. That our citi
zens julllv looked up to their government
for protection and recompence. The u
sual established mode among civilized na
tions, was in the firft instance remwiftrance
and negociation ; this was not the duty of
the representatives of the people but be
longed to another department ; we were
officially informed that this was done, a
negociation was on foot and our executive
officer had fixed the Ift day of Dec. last,
when our miniller at the court of London
was to give a positive and decided account
of the state of the negociation. Would
it then be prudent for the committee, un
til the ifiue of that negociation is known,
to interfere or perhaps run counter to our
executive ; the departments of govern
ment fhoidd be kept separate, and not one
counteract the other.
f7 o Be concluded in our next.J
PennA'Lvania Legislature.
HOUSE of REPRESENTAT IVES.
Saturday, February 4.
After reading a few petitions, the house
resumed the consideration of the bill for
the defence of the river Delaware, and
the western frontiers of this common-
wealth.
The preamble implies, that the declar
ed neutrality of the United States renders
it expedient to provide for more effectual
ly feeuring the trade, peace, and fafety
of the port of Philadelphia, during the
continuance of the war in Europe, and
that the necessity of co-operating with the
general government in the defence of the
western frontiers, requires the passing a
law, See.
The firft feflion will empower the go
vernor to raise by voluntary enlistments,
from the militia of the commonwealth, 3
infantry companies, of experienced rifle
men, and one company of artillery, t#
serve under his inftru&ions, for eight
months, from the ift of April next—and
this fe&ion will also fix the pay, &c.
The second fe&ion will provide for sta
tioning the artillery at Foit-Mifflin. One
company of infantry on the frontiers of
Weftmoreland ; another in Walhington,
and the third company in Alleghany.
The third feition will empower the go
vernor to draft some of the artillery, &c.
and to station them at Prefque-Ifle, on
Lake-Erie.
The fourth fe&ion will appropriate a
sum of money for the purposes aforefaid,
and to pay off the expence9 already incur
red by the prote&ion of Mud-Island. The
sum agreed to by the house, on motion of
Mr. Nevil, is 50,000 dollars.—The pay
of captains per month, 40 dollars, lieute
nants 26, enfign6 20, sergeants 8, corpo
rals 7, drummers, fifers, and buglers 7,
and privates 6, 67-100.
The bill was gone through, and order
ed to be tranferibed for a third reading.
The clerk of the senate brought down
a mefiage with a bill to prevent receiving
any more applications, or ifTuing any more
warrants for lands ill this commonwealth
a 'ter a certain period. Read and ordered
to lie on the table.
Mr. Morgan called for a second read
ing of the report of a committee on the
memorial from the city and county com
missioners. This report recommends, that
a committee be appointed to prepare and
bring in a bill authorizing the governor's
drawing a waiTant for a sum of money e
fjuivalent to the purposes of paying off the
sums advanced by the commissioners over
the money already appropriated, also for
Completing the improvements in the conn
tv court house, now occupied by Con
gress—viz. to erect galleries &c. On
motion of Mr Torrence the further con
sideration of this fubjeft was postponed ;
in order to give time for a joint commit
tee of the Legislature to infpeft the build
ings, and report on the state of the ex
penditures already made. A committee
of five were accordingly appointed, viz.
Mr. Morgan, Mr. Lilley, Mr. M'Lene,
Mr. Wynkoop, and Mr. Torrence.
The order of the day, viz. b i for re
gulating the filheries and removing ob
itrutlions in the rivers Delaware and .Le
high. Mr. Wynkoop mu\cd for a post
ponement till this day two weeks, agreed.
Mr. Morgan presented a petition which
was read the firft time, from the Phila
delphia Society for proinuting agriculture,
praying to be incorporated.
For the Gaizelie of the United States.
A Statement of what is believed to be the
private views and politics of the party
that is for adopting measures that would
probably lead to a War.
ON the must mature deliberation, after
observing the conduit of the party for a'
course. of years, the wiiter of this is de
cidedly of the .opinion, that the whole of
the uneasiness proceeds from a spirit of op
polition to the government. It is the
fame party that has been uniformly op
posed, in the firft instance, to the Consti
tution, and since that to fitch measures as
have been adopted by itsfiiends, and ge
nerally to the views of the Prefidcnt, and
thole who wi(h to support the laws.
One great object of the leaders, is
power; that is, to bring about a change
of men, and to get the government into
their own hands. They however know'
the attachments of the people, and that
they have no chance of iucceeding in their
views, but by misleading, in some way or
other, the public mind. It has been long
their practice to endeavor by every possible
means, to excite a prejudice againjl men
and measures, in order to influence elec
tions, so as to be able to carry, matters in
their own way ; and among other
things to oblige such officers as are
not in their politics, to relinquish either
their principles or their places
They avail themselves of every circum
stance that occurs in the course of events
that C3n be made to operate in their favor,
even for a day; and French politics are
made subservient, in an especial manner,
to accomplish certain purposes.
It is well known by these men, that
the resentments andpaffions of the people,
are alive to the injuries done to us by
Great Britain in the way of trade, and
that they entertain a sense of gratitude to
the French nation and wifli them success
in tlie cause of • Liberty.—While these
feelings excite in a strong degree, the par
ty endeavor to make the mod of them,
and therefore would freely hazard a rup
ture with England by adopting irritating
measures in opposition to the views of the
government, in hopes of finding support,
and to profit by confufion—get rid of
their opponents in politics, and gain an
ascendancy in the direction of the affairs
of the Union.
I much mistake however, if Mr. M.
and his colleagues have not overshot them
selves, and given the alarm ; for however
well disposed the peaceable citizens of the
United States would be to resent, on a
proper occasion, the insults of foreign na
tions, and notwithstanding they love the
cause of France, they are aware that Great
Britain has no disposition to go to war
with us, and therefore will not readily a
gree to be dragged, into such a dilemma
umieceiTavily, or by indirect means, with
out jult and fufficient cause.
The people will soon underfland that
the whole bufmefs of the resolutions ref
pefting commerce, and the outer)' against
Great Britain, and in favor of France,
proceeds entirely from party spirit, and
not from motives of patriotism or a zeal
for liberty. Enmity to Great Britain—
the honor, dignity, and independence of
the United States, and friendfhip to
France, are the ostensible reasons for their
conduct, but not the true ones.
These men who appear willing to pro
ceed step by step in concert with foreign
agents towards inviting a war, call them
selves Republicans: anjj yet we fee from
the late debates, that when moderation is
recommended in oppolitiou to violent
measures, they discover a spirit that is by
110 means charafterifticof what they profefs.
It is evident to the world, that the af
fairs of the United States are ii*the molt
prosperous situation of any country per
haps on the globe. Their revenues which
arise chiefly from trade, are abundantly
equal to every demand, and their indus
trious citizens enjoy tlie greatest (hare of
happiness. >
How then could Congress juftify them
selves to their constituents, should they
uncxpeSedly adopt measures that would cer
tainty turn the whole trade of the country
into new channels, destroy their revenue
when it might be moil wanted, and oblige
them to have recourse to new sources of
taxation—and too likely be one cause u
mong others, of involving us in a war
with England, and of courfc with all the
combined powers of Europe ? Nothing
but the force of party-spirit can produce
such extreme folly, and it is presumed,
it is not the firft time that some of these
very men have milled their calculations
with regard to the wishes and sentiments
of the great body of their fellow-citizens.
A Fximnd to Peace.
adjourned.
UNITED STATES.
PETERSBURG, February 4.
Return of Goods, Waresand Merchandize,
exported from the District of Bermuda-
Hundred or City-Point, commencing
Ift October, and ending the 31ft De
cember, 1793.
To France— 337 hlids. tobacco,
To Spam—lo buftiels beans, 396 bar
rels fuperfine flour, 2,391 ditto, fine, 30ft
bees-wax.
To Ireland—37oft deer-Ik ins, 36,500
staves, I,276hhds. tobacco, 3,2sobu(hels
wheat.
To Er.gland— 20,000 bricks, 2000 ft
ginseng, 1,70 c ft. horns, 3000 ft. indigo,
53 tons pig iron, 186 ft. deer-flcins,
133,100 staves, 96 hand-l'pikes, 4,176
hhds. tobacco, iocft bee's-wax.
To Scotland—26,9oo staves, 1,235
hhds. tobacco.
To Spanish IV. Indies—6 barrels apples,
4 ditto bacon, 8 kegs butter, 70cft.
cheese, 402 barrelsfwperfine flour, 1,0564
do. fine do. 1 box hats, 1 bundle leather,
400 bunches onions, 20 barrels pork, 18
bufliels pease, 1 bag shoes, 2,000 staves,
7 hogsheads tobacco.
Nett amount of exports, 295,324 dol
lars, 70 cents.
Nett value of every species of Merchan
dize, imported into this Diftrift within
the fame period, : 9 : 05 fterl.
equal to 372,086-dollars.
WINCHESTER (Virg.) Jan. 27
By the last poll fiom Kentucky, the
Editor received a printed address from the
Democratic Society of that State, to the
inhabitants of the United States weft of
the Allegany and Apalachian mountains,
requesting them to unite in a petition to
Congress, to obtain the free navigation of
the river Miffifippi; also, a printed peti
tion, but no signers to it, addressed to the
President and Congress of the United
States, stating the hardships the inhabitants
of t,he western country labor under, by be
ing debarred the navigation of that river,
and soliciting them to procure it to be
opened ; adding, that if the General Go
vernment refufes, they will not hold them
selves answerable for any consequences
that may result from their own procure
ment of it.
It was lately represented in a letter from
Cincinnati, territory of the United States
north-weft of the river Ohio, and which
was publilhed in the Maryland Journal,
that Gen. Clarke, who had received a
French commission, was raising a body of
troops in Kentucky, to go on an expedi
tion down the Miffifippi—our doubts re
fpefting the truth of this information, was
the reason we did not notice it before—
we now find, by a gentleman recently from
Kentucky, that Gen. Clarke is poflefled
of the commission in question—our infor
mant fays he has seen it—but that he had
begun to raise troops, in virtue thereof,
was void of foundation*
By this Day's Mail.
The Quebec, a new fix and thirty gun
frigate, with 18 pounders, commanded
by Capt. Jofiah Rogers, wa6, with others,
ordered on the Nrw-York station, for the
prote&ion of the American and British
trade ; and when Vice-Admiral Jerris can
spare that (hip, (he will repair to her cruiz
ing ground, off Sandy-Hook.
An account is received in town, that
his royal highness prince Edward, 4th
son of his majesty the king of Great Bri
tain, lately embarked from an eastern port
to join the army under fir Charles Grey,
commander, which is at this time suppos
ed to have attacked the island of Gauda
loupe. Prince Edward travelled from Que
bec through the woods to the place of
embarkation.
February 3
NEW-YORK, February 11.
PHILADELPHIA,
tEBRUARY 12.
We hear that on account of the peti
tioner's counsel, not being able to attend,
the consideration of the report on the
contested tleftion of Mr. Gallatin, align
ed for this day, has been peftponed in the
Senate of the United States, till Monday
next.
CONGRESS.
Houfi of Reprcfdntativcs.
Wednesday, Feb. 12.
The bill for the relief of Thomas Jen-»
kins & Son, was read the third time and
pafled. This bill provides for the remis
sion of duties on goods loft in veflel
bound up the North-River.
Mr. Giles of the committee on the pe
tition of ——, refpeifting an ex
tensive plan of Insurance of Property,
brought in a report. The committee are
of opinion that the plan cannot be adopt
ed by Congress at the prcfent time. A
motion for printing it did not prevail.
On motion of Mr. Murray, the report
on the petition of S. Smith of Maryland,
was read a second time, and after some
conversation postponed, to give time for
further information.
A meflage from the President of the
United States, by Mr. Dandridge, inform
ed the House that the ast providing for
the relief of such inhabitants of St. Do
mingo, resident within the United' States,
as are in want of support—had received
the President's approbation and signature.
The bill providing for the remission of
the foreign tonnage duty onfundry French
veflels, which took refuge in the ports of
the United States, the lafl Summer, was
recommitted.
The House then resolved itfelf into a
committee of the whole—Mr. B. Bourn
in the chair—and took into consideration
the report on the Poft-Office Law.
After 3 o'clock the committee rose and
reported progress, & the House adjourned.
SHIP NEWS.
Arrived at Netv-TorL,
Ship Peggy, Henlhaw,
The Eliza, Capt. Bright, left Cadiz
27th Nov. in company with the brig Ze
phyr, Capt. Pote, bound to Portland,but
loft fight of him at night, not thinking it
prudent to run in for Cape St. Vincents,
but stood oft W. They were the only
American veflels that kftCadizfince those
that failed under prcteftion of the Havan
nah convoy.
It was reported at Cadiz when Captain
Bright failed, that the Algerines had all
returned to the Straights, and that one of
their Zebecks of 2 2 guns had been call
athore between Gibraltar and Malaga,and
evert foul loft.
Left in Cadiz the following American
veflels,
Ship Commerce, Loving,
Greenway, Oakman,
Rockfley, Jones,
Industry, Perry,
Louisa, Codman
Brig Crugar, Ablin,
rr -
Eliza, Hall,
Dolphin, Stutfon,
Dolphin, Dutton,
Aurora, Smith,
William, Foster
George, Black,
Sloop Honor, Pollard, Norwich
Brig Almv, M. Cutter, New-York ;
Fanny, Colley, Virginia ; Hull Packet,
Lawrence, New-York ; Hope, Field Vir
ginia ; Jane, Stone, Portland.
Sloop Fliza, Coffin, Baltimore.
Were all lately arrived and ordered to
ride quarantine on account of the pestilen
tial disorder raging at Philadelphia.
The schooner Goddess of Liberty, of
and from New-York, had fafely arrived
at Malaga.
And the brig Mary Ann, Capt. Rof.
fetter, of and from do. had arrived at Car
thagena, on the 15th Nov. she had a nar
row escape, having come into that port
half an hour after an Algerme had.
The brig Neptune, Captain Griffiths,
from Amsterdam to Cadi/., put into Uf
bon nth Nov. having been informed of
the Algerinc9 being out.
Left at Madeira 27th, December.
•Sfiip Mary, M'Kvers, for New-York
Washington, Webb, for India from Salem
F-übv, Atkins, for ChaiLftt.,l
Brig Union, Webster, New-York
Sloop Dolphin, Richardson, do.
Amfterdara
of Boston
do.
do.
Philad.
Virginia
N. York
do.
Boflorf
Boftorf
Petcrfburg
Virginia
do.
do.