, ne w Tournal, under tlie title of Les Etats Ct ' ,vas publiihed in France on the ad mft. j \ro have been continued three times a kfor the space of three months at least. The fur,lotion was three half crowns, and the mber of subscribers, who all paid beforehand, was upwards of 2000. Le Jay, the Publiflier, ...ployed a l'currilous and unpleafing writer, for which reason it was fupprefled by order of the Kine's council on Friday lait, after the publicati -o°f the second number. As a specimen of its manner, take the following paragraph. " The deputies were obliged to wait from eight o'clock inthc morning till after eleven, in the narrow dark lobby of the ephemerous hall, built for the States General, which really offered a view of a eroupe of merchants on 'change, rather than that of the entrance of a grand ailemWy." sKE i~'CH OF PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS. in the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STA FES. WEDNESDAY, JULY 29,1789. In committee of the whole—the difcuflion of the bill for registering and clearing vellels and t0 regulate the coasting trade was resumed— further progrels was made—many alterations and amendments introduced —but the business was not compleated when the committee role. Mr. Fitzsimons moved that leave might be given to bring in a bill to suspend the operation of the impoll and tonnage bills—but this motion was not adopted. Adjourned. THURSDAY, JULY 30. The committee appointed to examine the en rolled bill to regulate the collection of duties on tonnage, and on goods, &c. reported that it was found correct, and laid the fame upon the table. The Speakerthen signed the bill. Mr. Livermore introduced a resolution that each member should be furniflied at the public expence with two newspapers of this city, such as he Ihould choose, and no more. This was laid on the table. In "committee of the whole—the difcuflion of the bill before them yesterday, was tiniihed—the committee then rose, and the chairman reported the fame to the houl'e with the various amend ments proposed. A meflage was received from the Senate, by their Secretary, Mr. Oris, who informed the Hon. House, that they had concurred in the bill for fettling accounts between the United States andindividual States, without any amendments. The House tl;en took up flic report of the com mitteejult made—many of the amendments were acceded to —some of them negatived and others added by the House, so that the bill was not finilh ed when they adjourned. * FRIDAY, JULY 31. Mr. ScOtt of the committee appointed for the purpose, brought in a bill for eftablifbing a Land- Office so • the western territory ; which was read and laidoll the table. Upon motion it was voted, that a Handing committee be appointed to examine the enrolled bills, and toprefent the fame to Th e President for his approbation and signature, and Mr. White and Mr. Patridge were accordingly appointed. Mr. White of the committee appointedto ex amine into the measures taken by Congress, and the State of Virginia, refpectingthe lands reserv ed for the use of the officers and foldies of said State, kc.—brought in a report which was read and laid on the table. The House then proceeded in the consideration of the amendments agreed upon in committee, to the bill for registering and clearing vellels, &c.which beingfinifhed, it was voted that the bill ihould be en eroded for a third reading on Mon day next. A meflage by Mr. Secretary Lear was re ceived—informing, that he was directed by The President ok the United States to return to the House, an a<fl to regulate the collection of duties imposed upon fliips and vefl'els—and 011 goods,wares and merchandize imported into the United States, which had received The Prelident's approbation and signature: He then delivered inthe act and withdrew. A mefiTge was received from the Senate by their Secretary, informing, that they had palled the bill for eftablilhing the Trcafury department, with amendments.— Also, Thar the Senate had appointed Mr. as a Handing committee, to join the committee appointed by the Hon. House, to exa mine the enrolled bills, &c. Mt.Sedgwick of the committee for the pur pose, brought in a bill to provide for the fafe keeping of theaifls, records and great seal ol the United States, for the publication, preservation and authentication of the a(sls of Congress, &c. which was read and laid on the table. Mr. Huntington, oi the committee on the memorial of Nathaniel Gorliam brought in a re port which was also read and laid on the table. Adjourned till monday morning. TOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. PRINTER, *, I AM one of those who mind my owti business, and let the World jog on as it pleases, provided. I fuffer no molestation from it in my favorite mode of life : I am a friend to good government, because I realize that there are some perfonsin my neighbourhood, who do not know the extremes that the workings of envy at my imaginary wealth, would lead them to, were they not restrained by the laws. Having had considerable experience amoiig man kind, and being convinced that Government is a very happy in vention—that the security of my life, and all I poflefs,depends up on its (lability and energy, I have had my quiet a liitle interrupt ed of late, (which by the by is thercafon of my troubling you with this writing),for I have heard some strange doctrines about magi strates, and Governors, and Senators, and Representatives—it is said by some, who I believe and hope do not underlland a word they fay, that they are all going to be mixed up together and there is no difliti&ions to be observed—and they are all a going to fit and smoke together—andtotalk over matters—and to make laws in the very cheapest. and mod expeditious manner—and are ail to have the fame pay—and wear the fume fort of coats, and to cut off all their hair, but not to wear any wigs—and are to call one another by their christian names—and so to relieve the burdens of the peo ple, by doing the public business in about a week, or fortnight, or so : These will be glorious times my neighbor Tom Trotter fays ; but I assure you, Mr. Printer, these things make me feel plaguy fober—for I vejy much doubt whether they will answer. I am so faithlefs, that if an Angel was to come down from Heaven and tell me that mankind were grown so wife, so moderate, so just, so clever, and so every thing that's good, that they would all be made happier by throwing every thing into a common flock, my little all among the reft, I should look very (harp to fee whe ther he had not a cloven foot, before I would believe him. I tell some grumbling folksthat itis hardly so easy to make laws in a chimney corner,as it is to fight battles there ; and that though we in this country may be wiser than the reft of mankind in the old countries, where the common people, as they are called, are brought up in ignorance, that they, by long experience, have found out some things of advantage to them, and among the reft that they cannot live very happily without government —in which some must rule, and others obey : I also inform them that some of the greatest tyrants that ever lived used to coax and cajole the peo ple in the firft place my paper is full, or I would write more. Your's, Simon Doubtful. AN ACROSTIC. by a lady. W HERE is the man, whose blooming laurels shine, A nd form a wreath his temples to entwine? Steady, yet a£live, thro' a gallant war, He rode victorious in the martial car : I n couneil cool, determined, modest, wife ; No guardlefs moment took him by surprise ; Great were his dangers—thorny was his way, To reach the goal, where Peace and Glory lay — Oppression fled, blest Freedom now abides, N or e'er (hall roam while WASHINGTONprefides ! BOSTON, JULY 2?. While the foil of America is propitious to the produCtior. of genius, Europe appears no less pro pitious to its growth and maturity. Poets, Paint ers and Mechanic? seek in the old world those re wards which cannot be bellowed 011 them in the new. Our Weft, Copley, Brown, Trumbull, be. seem to have taken up their abode in those climes, where the ingenious and benevolent Mrs. Wright breathed her last. The inventor of the Quadrant, Godfrey, though he loft the credit of the invention, was there liandfomely rewarded—and within a few weeks past, the indefatigable and ingenious Pope,* the improver on the Planetarium or Or rery—one of which he lately finiflied—fetoutfor London, in order, by observation or encourage ment, to extend the sphere of his inventive ge nius—and while benefiting liimfelf, add honor to the country that encourages, and to the land in which he was born. •This Gentleman is one of those " hdittlti" but fclf-tsught American Geniuses, who, maugre the wonderful difcovcries of cer tain European philosophers, bid fail to carry the palm of know ledge from all competitors, however fclf-magvificd, of the Eastern hemisphere, Mr. Pope was bred to the Clock and Watch-mak ing bufinefs —and although he had never seen the Orrery of our ce lebrated RiTTSNHOi'SE, or any other machine of a similar kind, he invented, conftru&ed, and complcatcd his PLANETARIUM, which a celebrated genius from France, lately in this country, pro nounced fuperiorto any thing of the kind in E.urope. This noble Machine now forms part of the Apparatus of Cambridge Univer sity. 4 The officers, civil and judicial, throughout this State, are taking the oath prescribed by a late Ad: of Congress.—On Tuesday at the Court of Common Pleas in this town, the fame was ad ministered by the Hon. Judge Sullivan, to the Judges thereof, Attornies, &c. From New-York. —July 19. Yesterday the Senate passed the Bill for the es tablishment of the department of foreign affairs with one very finall alteration refpetfting the chief Clerk to the Secretary—the principle of the bill is not varied.—The question on the President's power of removal from office was very warmly debated,and in voting the members divided exact ly even to and 10—The President of the Senate gave the calling vote in favour of the clause as it came from the Hoaie, by which the power of the President, to remove from oilice (as contained in the Constitution) is recognized—for I consider the aftas uothing more in this point thail a recognition of a principle interwoven in the texture of the system.—Heaven has been all gracious to America in guiding this people to the choice of tlietr firit andfecond magiftrlites— this determination of his Excellency, is in perfect conformity tq, his senti ments, nor do I think he would lacrifice them for the Em pire of the world. NEW-YORK, AUGUST i, 1789. A government founded upon right principles, in order effec tually to guard the rights of an enlightened people, Should be strong in its conftru&ion, and energetic in its operation : Those amend ments therefore which (hall have a'tendency to lefTen the force of our National Government are to be deprecated. The fubjeft of amendments to the Constitution is very delicate in its nature, and dangerous in the experiment. So loug as it remains as it is, the people will have a definite idea of the instrument—and it will be considered as the great Charter ot their privileges—but if it should fuffer such alterations as will place the whole, or its vari ous parts, in a conflruflive point of light, the benefit ol a Conflitu tion will be loft. The much admired Britilh Conflitution is to be found only in that infinity of precedents which are fcattercd throngH an innumerable multitude of musty folios. If history and experience did not fully explain the mystery, it would be extremely difficult to account for that opposition which some chara£ters, in some of the States, make to neceflary official Titles and Diftin£lions—for these persons, from education, habit* and natural difpolition, difcoverthat they possess the modfovereign opinion of their own individual importance. To such oppofers of the legal honors which the people are always disposed to confer up on their civil rulers, may be applied the words of Dean Swi Ft— Their altitude ojfends tJie eyes Of those who want the pow*r to rije. Disinterested patriotism is a contradiction in terms—to this as sertion the example of the Decli, and others, who facrificed their lives for their country, may be opposed—but it is well known that the force of very inferior motives has (limulated men to such a facrifice—vanity and vain glory have produced many very bril liant actions. Wife legislators calculate their regulations of so ciety upon quite different principles—they know that intercjl :s the great obje£t of mankind—hence they have always found it neces sary to hold out inducements of various kinds, to flimulate to exer tions, and to ensure obedience to the laws. Tnefe inducements a*e requisite in proportion to the freedom which is emjoyed—in arbitrary governments the feelings of the people are consulted, as convenience may dictate—and their interest is always a secondary Confederation —but in a free republic, though there is every local* general and personal consideration to influence, yet the people have always found it neceflary to confer titles of honor and diftin&ion on their civil Rulers—for public offices, in proportion to lity and freedom of the people, are never to be considered in a lu crative point of view. And until human nature is d fferently con flituted from what it now is, there must be a fubftitnte for pecuniary rewards, to induce men to enter into the public service—mankind have never yet devised any other than official diflinflions by hon orary Titles. The Boston Gazette of Monday last, printed by B- Edes and Son, contains the following article : " Our beloved Preside nt stands unmoved in the " vortex of folly and dissipation, which the city " of presents." [A correspondent thinks it just to observe, that the reflefiion on this city contain d in the above, conveys neither the fentimentsof the inhabitants of Boston, or the people of MafTaciiufetts at large : Of the great number of chara&ers from the £astern States, whom a laudable curiosity has induced to vifil New-York, at th.s irjier efling period, not a single complaint, refpeiting the " tolly and " dilfipation" of the citizens, has ever been heard—and indeed it is impofliblc that any person of the lead candor Ihould entertain such an idea,for it would be contradiifrd by all their senses—every appearance both in public and private, being in direst oppolition to the infinuationof this para'graphift. j Wednesday last being the day appointed by hisExc'y the Commander in Chief, of this State, fortheannual infpe<ftion and review ofGen.Mal coin's Brigade ; they were accordingly reviewed and infpetfted by Colonel Fifli, the Adjutant-Ge neral, on the ground belonging to Colonel Rut gers, where the whole were cxercifed and ma noeuvred in his presence. The neat appearance of the legion under the command of Col. Wykoff, —their corredl execution of duty—together with the orderly and refpe(ftable appearance and con dud: of the battallion troops, induced him to bestow many liandfome commendations, and to promise to mention their behaviour in very fa vorable terms in his report to the Commander in. Chief. A correspondent begs leave to recommend to the farmers wives and childred, an attention to the preservation of pried apples. They are a pleafantandwholefome article of diet. Former ly they ma-de a profitable articlc of remittance to the Weft-Indies. It is thought they would fait the East-India market, and thereby prevent some hand dollars being sent out of our country. They are belt, both in taste and appearance ; when they are dried in a kiln, or a stove room heated for the purpose. ARRIVALS. NEW-YORK. Tl/urfday, Ship Lord Middleton, Hewgill, Shelburne, 7 days- Brig Mary Ann, Tinker, Turks Island, 12 days- Sloop Eliza, Blackburn, Cape-Francois, 13 days-
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