But if a revenue be established equal to charge of 1801, (viz. For the deb? 5)887,0947 Expences of gov. 2,700,0003 °'577>°94, tbe whole debt may be extinguished by the yeai 1824, befiries a considerable additional debt, i such should arifefroin contingencies. Probable permanent annual Expences «( Govern ' ment. Civil lift 486,00t Intercourse with foreign natiosi 10®,«oc Mint eftablilhment 40,00 c Light houfcs 35,00 c Loan offices j z,ooc Miscell aneous object and contingent expences 37,00« Militia and naral department, and penfiant 2,e00,c0c ' 3,700,00 c 'Estimating thf expences of government at 2,700, 000, it follows hat, to avoid future loans, it is re qailite to tftablift a revenue, to the close ot 1800, viz. Eor the debt 4,729,368") „ Expences S gov. 2,700,000 j 7>4 2 9>39 And fron the jear 1801 to 1809, intlufive, viz. For the deit 5,877.694") a Expences a gov. 2,700,0003 '577'°94 Though) revenue on thislaft scale would be more thon jfficient todifcharge the whole debt be fore 1824, jet the abfalute engagements of the Uni ted states wl not require, after 1809, more than 7,3 19,668,iz. for debt 4,619,668") for<pencescfgov. 2,700,0003 Existing corads and expences require therefore at present 7,429,390 Contra&i'nd expences existing after the year ißop and MBO9 inclufivcrequire 8,577,094 Probae Revenues from existing laws. Duties on irrtrts am> tonnage 5,588,961 ondoiftic distilled fpi ril refined fug&r, sal at auction, li cqs, carriages 337,255 Revenue frormft offices 35>000 Dividends on nk stock, cal culated on theses 150,000 Inter, on ftockfinking Fund 88,636 Duties on pat< and contin gent receipts 7-46 Estimated amt.rr. revenue 6,200,600 1c results thhe following sums mud be pro vided, in additito existing revenues, viz* 1. Fiom thef en t time to \ the end of 180 c $228,798 2. From '18a the end ef iBo 9 2,376,494 3. From 181. the end of *823 . ' ' 1,119,061 To provide thjsg annually required till 1801 inay be done wit( imposing inconvenient bur dens. . ■ To reimbtyfe Whole foreign debt, by direfl payment before 1 ma y be practicable. It is however after 18c I occasional loans will be advilable,h a view of postponing the final re imburfmenpai-t until after 1818, when the present 6 per y c bt will be discharged, Mr. Smith laid fibans could not how be had, upon :iny reafonabl$ S) there was no way of rail ing the money wantjt by tax upon the people. The question was w' Br t of taxes should be resorted to? Members, he f% ere divided betwee* direa and indiredl taxes iJ| we re agreed than an addi \ * tional revenue of I,dollars being wanted, some tffedlual steps were ix r y to be taken. Jf indiruft taxes had proved inlmt, it was necessary to have recourie to some knew of no other that wouiu bi. so tfi'e>slual ijre<fl tax on land." relpedl to rajfurther revenue from com merce, h« believed itnot poflible to do it to any considerable exter t, *is source, he said, was at baft but a precarious off, then, they had tried all other sources without t, they should be obliged to have rtco«rfe to a li x . And he'would submit it to gentlemen whethyas not best to meet the dif ficulty at onv. If, M the necefiities of govern ment, the ptibftc laict\ ( > j the country, re quired it, it is nteeflarjj) ro p er we should look the evil in face. Notwithstanding he this opinion, Mr. S. said, he should be glad \ r t j,e sentiments of gen tlemen on the jubje*, were !n favor of other plan 6, though he was ap n f lv e they should be o bliged to have recourse t|- ource hc had ment ioned. Indeed there was one of the fubjea which •would such a fyftc( rab [ e) though our neces sities did not immediately it _ At pre f cnt) he said, ajmoft the whole of . vcnue aro s e from com merce, and was liable to* much deranged by any European war, aud who n y dsftroyed, if this country Ihould engag wsr> j t wcre tQ be wished, therefore, that tfy u j d bc a p| an created, which might at any time, t, ort not ; SCi be carried into effea to an extent wh u , d be equal t0 t , le necessities ot would anfwfr l!,i« purpefe so well as a Suppo f e) he f aidj the plan was onginated w^ 9QO dol | ars> the lyftem open, they cou:y time raise it t0 onc or two millions; as, if c^ efcrj tion , of , and wcre charged a qnarter per , hey mi hl ea r ]y be advanced to one half, three rs or,one per cent, without embarraflTment. »Mr. S. laid, this fubjeft h n frequently under the confidcration of the com of WJ End mean , and had always been aof at jm . pertanee, and as attended wit derable difficulties, j There had always been a d,v, that Co mmitteeon this fuhjedl, certain of them , to raift [he mo . ney by and others taxatioil) b ut it had always been found that ey turned from direst to indirea taxation, so cb j e aions were brought againfl any planwwhs, s propo s e d, that there was no possibility of pro. j n tbf j- tJ fien fevrral objeils were prop (jt were ob jeifted to and abandoned, and tb tbey bad de termined t» ref«rt to a fyllem taxa (i ani ' afld had accordingly given dne»ft !o Jie secretary of the tre«!u y to prepare a plan l pu ,. p8 f c . Thi plan had bem reported, and re, t) ,e committee of way. and mc^ns: an. 1 . befor^ inm|tte< . c)lof; to go tai ther into the bufiiftls. :g ]ed holJi r e lo dettnniuc'Lpon the priiicipley ardj) jf aaia . I jority fbou'.d be in favor of direA taxation, the com mittee would bring in such a bill as (hould appear to them to be least bmrthenfome to the people. But, if I gentlemen were of opinion rht money wanted i oald be better raised in any other way, they would, of course, pr®pofe their plans ; but he hoped tley should r not fhift from one thing to another, without fixing on any thing, since the wants of governmeat mult be supplied. Mr. Coit hoped the resolution would be adopt -1 ed : not that he wished to pledge himfelf to agree to any fyflem of dire& which might b* 1 proposed He looked upon the agreeing to the re solution as only one rtep. Whether eventually such a plan could be devised as the house approve was tin eitain j bat he (hould wish to look at the plan which gentlemen bad in contemplation. « Mr. Harpei said, if they could look at the plari, as the gentleman from Conneai-.-ut (Mr C»if) had sup posed, without pledging themselves to adopt a lyfttna of direa taxation, he would also be glad to fee it ; but, he believed, to adopt the resolution before them, would be to decide upon the principle of direa taxa tion. Afterwards, all the question would be as to the modification of the system, and the manner in which it should be carried Into effea. But, he believed, a majority of that house, neither was, nor would be prepared to fay this was the mod eligible and conveni ent mode of raising revenue. It was true that they all knew, they knew it last session, that the money wanted mull be raised from the people by means of taxati®n The queftioa was only about the mode. The committee of ways and means had given them a resolution of four lines, that direa taxes ought to be laid ; but how, or under what mo dification, or how the difficulties which were acknow ledged to exifi, were to be got over, they were not told ; but 'hey were called upon to determine upon thp principle, without any information on the fubjea He wished the committee of ways and means might be inflruaed to give them the data upon which they meant to found their plan; that they might be in ftruaed to shew the'm the means by which this plan was to be effeaed. They eloubtlefs had considered tins; but tne committee of the whole had not consi dered it; nor had they the matKrials for going into the mveftigation. It w*s his desire. that before they com mitted themselves, that they might know more about the matter than they then knew ; that they should have the system before them, and-that they might not decide upon the abltraa principle, without having that system He should, therefore, be againfl the re solution, and move for the committee to rife, that the report might be re-corumitted, for the purpose of ob taining a sketch of the plan which had been contem plated. , Mr. Swtnwick hoped the committee would not rife, until they had determined upon a question wlii< h was of the firll importance to this country ; a question which it had been well for us if it had been intioduced'long ago, but which, he trulled was not now too late to be of cflVntial service. At present, he said, produce was falling, and <jf course, any tax upon the farmer would not be so well re ceived as if their produce was upon the rife ; but, he trulted, the wealth of the country mull have be come so considerable, from the high price which every agricultural production had long been at, as to enable them very well to support the necessary ex pences of government. Theft expences, they knew, mud be supplied from one of three fourccs ; either from loans which have heretofore been made in Europe, at great expence of agency, brokerage, coramiffion, &e. or from impofl, erbyinteinal re venue,' or excise. Into what situation, he asked, had this loan-ma king business brought this country ? They have created, what seemed to be wished on all hands to be avoided, a foreign influence over thu country. It had made us dependent upon what i: was not in otir power ; upon every accident which might happen at Amlterdam or Antwerp. So far as related to imports, this fouice of revenue wasex pofed to the influence of war, and absolutely de pendent upon any foreign government which might please to annoy us. Was this, he aflced, an envia ole situation ? He thought not. This dependance upon f'6reign nations, was a great difadvautage in ali negociations. % With refpeft to excise, he need not fay how un pto luctive it had been. Tjie article of fnuff, in stead of producing any thing, had brautjht the revenue in debt ; and the excise on another article, had called forth the military to enforce it. For his part, he saw no way of avoiding these difficulties, but to come to that cardinal point, which they had in view, of direst taxation He (hould, there fore, be hi favour of the resolution before them, be cause it fixed the principle. It was necessary, Mr. S, said, to the importance and firmnefs of Government, to determine whe ther the land of the country be not equal to bear its share in the expences of Government. This tad hitherto been evaded ; but he trulled this mass of ! property would no Lnger escape from paying its 1 due proportion towards the public burthens. For when it was known in foreigr? countries, that all our revenue was bottomed upon our commerce, it i was holding out an invitation to them to piay'off! hollilities upon us. Great Britain, be said, had ta- i ; ken the lead in annoying our trade, which had brought us to the Britilh treaty. We- were row ' brought into another situation by that inflrument • the French were now laying hold of our cotamerce! It was said that Great Britain drew very little support trom her land, in comparifan to what she drew from her commerce ; but she had a fleet to defend her commerce, and therefore, if she drew a great deal from it, she was also at some expense in ftipporting it. Our trade, he laid, was unpro tected. It was true, we obtained seven millions of dollars from it, without being at any ,expense in return. But, he said, there was no certainty of this ; aud without some plan like the present, there would be no security for supporting the expenses of our government; nor could aijy negotiation ever be properly supported, until the yeomanry of our coun try should join in the support of our common inter ell. It was absolutely neceflary, Mr. S. said, to decide upon one of two principles, either to support commrr. e by a navy and thereby secure the re venue arising from it, or «!fe call upon agricul ture to bear its lull (hare *of the public burthens. —He therefore wilhed the principle to be fettled with out regard to modification, because the more fun pie the in which the objea was placed the better, i'he modification would probacy be an »fter business ■ asd, when members had agreed upon the neceflity of adopting the principle of a direa tax, thtiropp c fiti cn • to any particular pLjis wlncti might fee offered would >be moderated, to tbe best fyiteni which coul.l be devised w«uki probably be adopted. I [To be Continued.'] 1 wiima——i^— : Philadelphia, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY », 1797. Married, on Tuesday tvenirig last, by the Rev. Dr, I Helmut!*, Ur. G-jillaume Waster Adleustbrren, j of Lancaster, to Miss F. C. Louise Eckstein, daughter of John Eckfteio of this city. to correspondents. On further consideration, we think it proper to defer the publication of " X. X."' The publication of th« piece figncd " ARGUS," at the present moment, we conceive, could infwer no valuable purpose. Thi Swedilh brig, Vigilance, Capt. Rieter, from Corfiea and Malaga, it arrived at Reedy Iflaud.' The veflels mentioned to have arrived at Reedy Iflaud, have got up to the Hook. * The ftiip Columbia, Mason, fr»m Amsterdam is arri ved at Mareus Hook. The Swedish brig Vigilance was boarded the 30th Decctnber by the Lynx floopof war ; three of her crew preffid, and olherwife uncivilly treated. Communication. It was at fit ft imagined that the Agents of the French Directory in the Well-lndiea were ifluing and executing ordeis for capturing and condemning American veflels, without authority from the Di rectory : but this is probably a mittake. Their a gents in Spain are doing the fame thing there. It is also a fa& that the captures by French armed veflels are not confined to Americans, several Swedilh and JDanifh veflels have been already captured and earrird into Spanilh Forts in Eu-' rope, and an this principle, that they were go ing to or from ports of the enemies of France ; and on this prim iple the French coiifnl at Cadiz avowed his determination to condemn all neutral veflels—faying he had authority so tc do. By this day's Mail. CHARLESTON, January 16. Saturday arrived the (loop Nancy, Huntington, Havartna, I4days; ihip Northern Liberties, Ged des, Hie of France, 117 days; brig Lydia, Caf farena, Cadiz, 14 daysfloop Mercury, Brown, Savannah, 2 days. Yesterday arrived the ftiip Phebe, Stone, Cape de Verds, 76 days, in diltrefs, bound to Kenne beck ; brig Harmony, Marshall, Port-au Prince, 15 days; brig Gute Henrietta, Schmidt, Teneriffe, 56 days ; sloop Fame, Benfon, Africa, 77 day 6, in distress, bound to Bollon ; fiiip Hop&, Rodman, Turk's Island, 12 days; brig Hannah, Kenny, St. Thomas's, 35 days, in distress, bouud to Philadel phia ; ship M/ry, Peterfon, Bath, 14 day 6. Off C&pe Tiberoon, captain Siane, ot the (hip Pfeebt;-, from the lfle of Bona Villa, was brought to by a British frigate ; a boat boarded him and carried off an American seaman, named Samuel Huff, belonging to Kennebunk river ; their pretext for taking him was that he had n«t a protection.— Capuifi Stone could not learn the frigate's name. Entkkib. Brig Nabby, Gardner, Barbadoes Mary, Callender, Cape Francoi> Aurora, Brown, Hamburgh Thomas Pinckney, , New-London Catawba, , Sr. Thomas's Aurora, Wooldridge, Marblehead Sloop Maryland, , Nassau Walhiagton, Prior, Bolton '■ Three Brothers, Mauran, Rhode-Island Revenue, Sawyer, Ntw-London Mary, Briggs, New-York January 18. Yesterday arrived the schooner Industry, Rofs, Sa vannah, in a days; schooner Letreiy, Crabb, Rhode | llland. The day before capt. Marlhall, who arrived on | Sunday last, left Port-au-Prince, a government cutter 4 arrived therein 38 days from England. She brought' I accounts of admiral Thompson having failed for the ' Well-Indies, with j fail of the line, with General | Abererombie on board. Nothing further had trans pired. An iS gun brig, belonging to Guadaloupe, had been captured by the Briifti fleet, and a frigate that was in company with her, was drove on Ihore. NORFOLK, January 23. Extra& from the Log Book of the sloop Zilplia, Benjamin Guild, mailer, twenty-seven days from Jamaica. Left at St. Lucie, the brig Dauphin, Captain Cutis, of Portsmouth, (N. H.) j Jan. 12, in lat. 32, 16, N. long. 78, 28, W. I spoke the sloop of Philadelphia in dillrefs, | having fpiung a beam, atid the fca making a fair breach .over her. At 6 P- M. the cap.airi told me the leak increased on him ; lay to by the sloop the whole night, (it blowing a gale) but supposed she mult have funk, as nothing could \>e seen of her in the morning. Jan. 13, in lat. 33, 43, N. long. 76, 11, W* spoke the btig Lydia, Cornelius Dunman, mailer from Cadiz, out 106 days, quite cut of provisions. Capt. Guild fupplii-d him with bread, meat, wood and water ; the brig was tight, the crew all well, but the fails were much weather b.%ten. Captain Dunman was bound t» Boflon ; had got supplies from the schooner Abigail of Baltimore, bound for [ the Indict, the whole ofwhofecrew (except the captain and one hand) were so badly frdlt bit ten that they could not fiand tha deck. ARRIFED. Brig Eliza, M'Connel, Liverpool Courtney, Livingllon, Havanna Schr. Minerva, Perkins, Antigua Citizjft, Gilbert, "Guadaloupe Elizabeth, Goodwin, St. Thomas's Ziljsha, Guild, Jamaica Sloop Thomas and Sally, Allen, P«rt-au Prince. BALTIMORE, Jam* y 31. Friday anivtd at Anuapuh.-., Uie (rhooner Dor cliefter, captain BJuth, ffum Porto-Rico, 16 days. Captain Booth left there— Ship Mount Vernon, (till Under trial. Halcyon, Taylor, as Providence, t<» (ail for Ha vannah. Brig Minatrva, Long, of Philadelphia fur St. Domingo. v 1 Hiram, Lowering, ditto for dittn, Schosner Betsey," Jones, of Norfolk, for Balt» Sljop Indnftiy, Wheeler, for Ph a el Kia. The thipja>e, captain Besrd, arrived ai Porto- RicO; from Baltimore, in 29 days. Was boarded by an English cruifcr, had his fetters broken open, and was other wife ill treated. A French armed brig, from Charleston, arrived at Porto-Rico, the-fajne day the Jane arrived, who reported, that alj the American ports were (hut. Captain Baoth informs, tjiat fume time last month, the French privateer Flying-Filh, hoarded a Genoese (hip, and after an adion of 3 gloffcs, 1 captured her. '1 he Genoese had 011# man kilted and another wounded. The MuUn. Vernon was not yet condemned. Orders areiexpcdled from St. Domingo rcfpe&ing her ; the governor is charped with partiality to the Americans by the s Spani(h merchants, which haaforthe present put a (top to all proceedings in this cafe, and an entire ftagna tiou of btrfinels. Captain Booth left Annapolis on Sunday morn* iug, at which time there "were tweulyone fail in ward-bt>und veflels lying there. Arrived on Friday last at Annapolis schooner s e RSy> captain Gorfurh, 28 days from Jaquemcl. Captain G- informs, that he wis boarded in the Bite of Leogane by the Bri i£h frigate Arabufcade, which pressed one of his men, an American by birth and prote&ion—Spoke a (loop off the coafi,, (name not recolle&ed) belonging to New-York, from Jamaica to Norfolk, out 49 days, in.diftiefs. Arrived at Annapolis on Saturday Schooner Barbara captain White from the Havannah, which he left on ihe 10th inliant. The mate lias arrived in town, and informs, that the Nelly, Dfhitlds, of Baltimore, was lying there, but had been seve ral times ordered away by the governor, as the sale of flv ur (h<?r cargo) was prohibited in that port. Came up the bay in company with the brig Hiram, from Norfolk ; and the schooner Beifey, Boyd Arrived at Annapolis, on Saturday la it, fl.iap Salty"; captain Hall, fiom Philadelphia, with good* far this port. Captain Hall was detained 28 days at Rheedy-Ifland, in the Delaware, by the iee. The (loop Robert and William, captain Watts, is arrived at Annapolis, in 19 days from Si. Mar tin's. Weleain, by this ar-rival, that a great many Ameriean veffrls hi;ve been carried in there and condemned. An Indiaman, belonging to Clarke and Nightingale, of Providence, Rhode Island, from Batavia, with a cargo of £ 200,000 fralue, had been sent in by a French privateer, and was under trial when captain Waits (ailed. The schooner Adeline, Stanley, is arrived at Annapolis, from Jacqtlemel. Snow Light-Horse is arrived at Annapolis, from Porto-Rica, via Norfolk. On SATURDAY EVENING NEXT, Feb. 4," \ between the hours of 6 and 8 o'clock, IVillpafitively bt Sold at Public Vendue, at the Mcr • ihant's Caffee House, A N O T E, Drawn by William Burgifs & Co. of SotflPThird ftreet, near Market-street, Linen Drapers, in favour of Robert Burgifs, jun. or order, for 600 dollars. The said Note became due the 30th December last, and was protested for non-payment. An approved N»te at 60 days will betaken in pay. nent. , February 1. 3 Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania. OTICE is herehy given, that the directors have de i\ clared a dividend of thirty dollars per (hare, en -he bufieufs of the last fix months 1 which will be paid to he stockholders or their legal representatives, after the 10th instant. SAM. W. FISHFR, Stc'y. Philadelphia, Feb. ad, 1797. dtioth. Lancajier, Harrifburgh, CarlifJe, Ship penjburg and Sunbury STAGES. The public are requested to take notice, that the part ner/hip which has for sometime fubfifled between Mathi as Slough of Lancaster, and William Geer, is nowdiflel ved . but, not as M. insinuates to the public, without just cause 5 as will more fully appear by a letter on the fu'jedl from M. SloOgh te W. Geer, dated the 29th December last a recital o) which is Hot cow dcen «d necessary. Auy gentleman who wilhes to be more cir r currftantially informed of the mer its of this business, by applying to W. Geer may have the perusal of M.Sloiigh's letter, and then can be at full liberty to determine whe ther or not W. Geer is not perfectly juftifiabie in attach ing himfelf to any other per'on in the prosecution of the Stage conveyance from PbiladsJj hi a to Shippenfbarg, or any other place. * Now from tbe liberal and generous support the public were pleased to confer on the firft.effort in this business", Vt illiam Geer, in conjunflion with Meffrj. Reily, Weed and Wi'.mer, is determined ro profecuta and carry it on, with every eare| attention and dispatch that'a zeal to 0- blige tbe public can possibly exert. The above company, who are amply provided with carriages, horf-s, and every appurtenance to render the psffage fafe and commodious, inform those who wi(h to patronize and encourage the undertaking, that they can take their feats at George Weed's, the sign el the White Horse, Market Street, Philadelphia, on every Monday and Friday, to proceed to Laacalter Harrilburg, Carliflt and Shipper]fburg The fare as hrthJrto eftabliflied. For tbe further accommodation ot the public, a Staee will start every Wednesday from the house of Samuel Elder, in Harrifburg, arrive at Sunbury in Northumber land county, every Thurlday, and return from the»ce and arrive at .Harrifourg every Saturday, so that paiTengera ueftined for Laucafter or Philadelphia, may proceed on Morfdays, WILLIAM GtER. Lancaster, Jan. *7, 1797. „ B> Tkii ef Stages ft arts from the house of William Ferree, in Lancaster, on every Tuesday and Sa turday morning at 6 o'clock, proceeding to the weft ward ; and from the house of Mr. Samuel I'lder in Harnlburg every Wednesday morning, o* {he fame evening arrive* at Patrick Cochran's in Shippenfburg, and returns , from thence on every Thursday : performing the fame routine daily as in itftour from Philadelphia. »•
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