PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENXO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA [No. 72, of Vol. ll.] Wednesday, January 5, 1791 V I E N N A, Oct. 2. WE learn from Wallachia, that the truce ra tified by the Porte was publicly announced in the army at Bucliareft on the 16th of Septem ber. Prince Potenikin is laid to be expected in this city soon. On the 19th of la(l month, the truce between the Prince ofSaxe Cobourg and the Grand Vizier, •wasfo far concluded, that both parties ceased all hostilities ; but each keeps the territory and towns they are in poiFelfion of, till the figningof the definitive rreaty of peace. The place is not yet fixed for the holding of the Congress. BERLIN, Oct. 9 A courier is jaft arrived from Count Lufi with the news of a convention of Armistice having been ligned, on the 19th ultimo, by the Prince of Cobourg and the Grand Vizir, under his medita tion and guarantee, as Prulfian Plenipotentiary. Last night died, after a lingering illness, his Highness Henry, eldest son of Prince Ferdinand of Prulfia. The day before yesterday, a courier arrived herefrom general MollendorfFfrom Weft Prtifiia. Since which we are informed that he has placed ten regiments in the suburbs of Laiigfuhr, near Dantzic, and that five other regiments have re ceived orders to take their pofleffions in the other suburbs, viz. Scotland, Stohzenberg, and Oliva Yesterday the people employed to take care of the liorfes and waggons of the third army, who were already discharged, received orders to come back. D A N T Z I C, Sept. 23 Our deputies are arrived at Wariaw ; and we learn from thence, that there are hopes of the treaty of commerce with Prullia being fettlc-J.fas that the trade of Dantzic will not materially fufFer by it. The three estates aflembled on the ißch, at the council chamber, to debate 011 the present lituation of affairs, when they resolved to wait the answer of the King of Poland to the requeftof the citizens, before any thing further is proceeded upon. HAGUE, Oct. is Themarriage ofthe princess Frederique Louise Guillelmine d'Orange, and the Hereditary Prince of Brunfwick, took place yesterday with much ceremony and magnificence. The Comtc de Mercy Argenteau, his Apolto ]ic Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of France, arrived here yesterday, for the purpose of at tending the Congress aUembled at this place, on thefubjed: of theAuftrian Netherlands. PARIS, October 17, , They write from Lille, an account, that M. Quincy, who fonie time past blew up the pea sants with gunpowder in Franche Ci»mte, was ltopped and iniprifoned. The King's letters patent, on the decree for the fuppreliion of the Parliament, was presented the day before yesterday, to the Chamber of va cations, and inrolledin the regilfer of the Court, bearing this ordinary clause—The a<t of inre giftering will be repeated at the eltabliftiment of the Court. This clause 011 which they would at tach ideas of protestation and custom, the Cham ber of Vacations could not dispense with. The Parliament have consented to write to the King to teltify their fubiniffion to his orders. This letter is not yet published. LONDON, Oct. 20, Untler the expreflion, " for the dispatch of di ners weighty and important affairs," in the pro clamation for the meeting of Parliament, much may be fpeculatecl, but more may be affirmed ; the state of foreign negociation is become too fe riaus for the Cabinet Council (consistent with that liberal coincidence offentiment and concur rence which should ever fublili between the le gislative and executive branches of a good govern ment) to continue the progrei's of difctiflion to the extremity, without the open a;id approving resolutions of the nation. Monf. Calonne set o(Fon Saturday on his tour to foreign parts. He goes fir 11 to Italy. " M de Mirabeau's fpeecli, relative to the fa mily compact, is to be translated into Spanish. " M.de Cabarrus's imprisonment proves fatal in its effedts to his relations and friends daily. On the night of the nth inft. the Countess de Galvez, Dowager of the Viceroy of Mexico, was fcnt to Valladolid. M. Bathedas has been con fined in the prison of Madrid. Two French fer vanis belonging to M. Cabarrus, and two be longing to Madame de Galvez,have been conduct ed to tlie frontiers, and several others of M. Ca barrus's friends, have been removed to different places." It is certainly the cordial wifli of Great Britain to avoid war ; but the weight flie bears in the f.ale of nations, and her honor, more than all the relt of her importance,commands her not to bear with impunity the insults or the attacks of any power on earth. Those, therefore, who have routed her spirit, in this point, may expect her vengeance, or fubjetft tliemfelves to her power and arms, or to their own mean and abjrit fub millions and comprom'ifes. A truce of fix months is said to have taken place between the Emperor and his Belgic sub jects. The patriotic army at Namur is in great want of horses : the officers are unable to procure them to carry either themSelves or baggage; and the artillery, &c. cannot be moveci from place to place, as Jieir exigencies requite, for want of them. The Belgium forces are to be immediately aug mented to jo,ooo men, and the Sovereign Con gress has exprefled its clefire, that some effective stroke should be made before the approaching winter ihould render such an event impossible. A man of polite manners, and a bigot to the gloomy tenets of Cal 'in, happened to fall into a religious dispute. " God Almighty (Said the Calvinill) may,confidently with his justice, damn you eternally, even forthebeft works which vau are capable of performing." "He is more of a gentleman, (replied the other) than to behave in Such a manner." M. de llfoms, Liie""TYem.-h has for mally religned tlie command at Brest, declaring as his reason, his uttter inability to keep the crews under discipline, or of rendering service to liis country. M. d' Eitaing is to be appointed in his room—an officer more likely to conciliate the sailors. Lalt week the new iron bridge, coflftrui r ted under the direction of Mr. Payne (the author of Common Sense) for the use of the Americans, was exhibited before a number qf virtuofl, and gave infinite fatisfadlion. The bridge, consists of one arch of call iron, ninety feet long, and weighs but thirteen tons. Mr. Payne's firlt pro posal was to conltrucft a bridge over the Dela ware of 490 feet long, but his countrymen pau flng on the impracticability of this mealure, the above was undertaken as a specimen. Proceedings of the General dffembly oj the State of North Carolina, HOUSE OF COMMONS, Wednesday, November 24, J 790. THE order of the day being called for and read, Resolved, that this house resolve itfelf into a committee of the whole house, to take un der further consideration the propriety of giving inftrudtions to Samuel [oil nil on and Benjamin Hawkins, Efqnires, Senators of this State in the Congress of the United States. The house resolved itfelf into a committee of the whole accordingly. Mr. Polk in the chair. After fonie time spent in committee, the speak er resumed the chair, and the chairman report ed tlie following refolntions : Whereas, when the General Aflembly of the State of North-Carolina, in its feffien of 1789, did nominate and appoint Samrel Johnfton and Benjamin Hawkins, Esquires, to represent the laid State in the Senate of the United States, eve ry expectation that had confidence in their in tegrity, opinion of their abilities, «r certainty ot' their industry in discharging the trull reposed with them, was entertained. With regret do we add, that our constituents ind o'irfelves too fenlibly experience the evils uifing from a want of that exertion in them, which, if duly made, could not have failed of be ing highly beneficial to this State, and might hive rendered aigovernment, adopted under ma ny doubts, and with fonie difficulty, betcer adapt ed to the dispositions of freemen. RtfolveV, that the Senators representing this State in the Congress of the United States, be, 693 [Whole No. 176.] and they are hereby directed to life their con stant and unremitted exertions until they effeift having the doors of the Senate of the United States kept open, that the public may have ac cess to hear the debates of the said Senate, when in its legislative or judicial capacity. Resolved, that when in Congress, they be di rected to correspond regularly and constantly with the legislative ; but during the recefsthere of with the execative. Resolved, that they have such of the journals as are not of a secret nature, printed, and trans mit the fame to the executive, at leafb once a month during the feflion of Congress. Refuhed, that the Senators of this State life their utmost endeavors to effect economy in the expenditures of the public monies, and to de crease the monstrous salaries given to the pub lic officers and others, who, however much they be deserving of the public gratitude, or liberal it}' for palt or present Services, ought only to be compensated agreeable to republican economy— not enriched with the bounty of regal Splen dour. Ref Aved, that they Hrenuoufly oppose every excise and dired: taxation-law, Ihould any be at tempted in Congress. The committee of the whole house further re port, that they have appointed a sub-committee, in order to take under their consideration any further i nflrudlions to be forwarded to the Sena tors of this State in the Congress of the United States, and beg leave to recommend to the house, that the said sub-committee be empowered tore port to the house by their chairman, the several resolutions they {hall think the molt proper to recommend, and further that they be difcliarged. The sub committee, Meli'rs. IVl'Dowell, Tay lor, Jones, Mebane, lrvin, Cabarrus, Leigh, and Play. All which is submitted. lir\ufo do ooncui' with til© foregoing report of the committee of the whole houle. N. B. The foregoing were negatived by the Senate. ED E N T O N, December 17. Extract of a letter from FayettiviUe, dated the Cth December. " You will observe in the proceedings of the House of Commons of the 24th of Nov. some ve ry curious and extraordinary resolves", feverelv censuring our Senators in Congress. It seems they have not regularly correlpended with our Executive ; and this alone, as far as 1 am able to learn, is the cause of the acrimony and malevo lence shewn them.—Our friend Dr. J. Leigh, of Tarborough, who, though a young member, seems to take the lead in bufineft, and 1 think has given a striking proof of what his country may exped: from him in a political capacity,— opposed thein with that manly and independent; spirit, that I know not which molt to admire, the talents of his mind or the virtues of his heart— they, however, were carried in the lower lioufe, but rejected in the Senate.—They seem in gene ral to be violent against Congress, on account of the afiumption, and refufe to give up the checks in the treasury to the Loan-Officer. : hey pro pose also to empower the Treasurer to subscribe the whole amount of the debt afliimed for this State by Congress, and to employ the certificates now in the treasury, which have already been liquidated and punched, for that purpose—it is said there is nearly a futficiency. The deficien cy they expeift to make up, by employing the money now on hand in purchases in the market, under the direction of the Governor and Coun cil." N E W-L OND ON, December 24 By a gentleman just arrived from Cape-Fran cois, we are informed, that the infurretfiion of the innlattoes and free negroes in the neighbor hood of that place, which threatened very seri ous consequences, is almofl wholly quelled, the insurgents being collected in very small parties, and many of their leaders taken, whom it is sup posed vrill be condemned to fuffcr death in its moll cruel forms. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 19 Married in this town, the Honorable Le SieUR Jean Tuscan, Vice-Consul of France, to Miss Elizabeth Parrot. W. POLK, Chairman.
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