these men have bought the lands at a very Anall price, and are very much disposed to get your valuable farms in exchange for them. Various irrfidious arts have been employed to ensnare and betray the unwary.—Let me counsel you mj rountrymen, to flay at home, content with that support which honeit induftrv will secure to you in any populated part ot the United States. Your emigration to these lands will be as in jurious to your country,'as emigration to another planet. In a political view, these lands may pel liaps, be made produtftiv e of money, it fold abi oad, and reserved for foreign emigrants—but in a commercial and agricultural view, they are, at this moment, very injurious—they open a refoit for all who would escape from debt and from m duftry they weaken the effe<si of penal laws throughout the Union, by receiving and protect in<r their jult vitftims. There no law reaches, nocurfe descends—but in lieu of them a compli cation of miseries neceflarily attendant on fetlers in a new territory.—Convinced I am, that if those lands were overflowed by tne lakes—or funk in the ocean—or turned into a desert—we fliould be a richer people. On the fubieeft of the iihmenfe compliments to our Western Territory, I pledge myfelf, (if fair ly challenged, under this signature,) to prove, that the accounts have been, for the moti part, absolutely falfe and insidious. Stay, then, my countrymen, in your honest callings, and never be caught, Handing like Shakespeare'sblackfinitli, with fufpentfed hammer, and out-ftretch'd mouth, swallowing ataylor's news for the gazette of the united states. MR. FEN NO, THE critical moment is at hand. Whether the new govern ment will Hand or fall : Whether the United State', will rife into refpeflability, or fink into contempt, will be decided, when the qucOion, resetting public credit, lhall be determined. If justice and true policy (hall appear among the leading features ot this all important determination, our government will obtain en ergy, our legislators merit the confidence of their conftitucnts, and the oeople lie happy. But Should this not be the cafe, the laws of Con'-'itls will be treated like the creatures of a day, and its mem hers arpear only ascyphers. Ido not wilh a government that is not founded in justice; and I am sure we lhall have no other to continue long,except it be in tyranny. . I would be tar from impeaching the worthy character ol tne Se cretary ot the Treasury : It would be with reluctance, should I disapprove the plan contained in his report, in which he has dif olayed so much ingenuity. But I wilbto makefome remarks upon it tter-writers andcorrefpondents whofeem to applaud his plan.— It is applauded, btcaufe it probably cost him much labor ; and it is the performance of one in whose abilities and fidelity we have rcal'on to confide. But we have a right to call to mind, that the author of the report is one who is not wholly exempted from the common imperfections of human nature. It is polfible that he tbouldcrr. By whom a letter-writer is authorued to fay, That the public creditors will be content with receiving an interest ot 4 per cent, xvhen they loaned their money to the States upon condition of rc ceiving 6 per cent.—or how he can fay that they have cxpeftedno more, lam not able to conceive. I know that some ol the pub lic creditors xvill not be content with this : I have not heard one fay that he would be content with it. Money is let, and has been, and' trill be let at an interest of 6 per ccnt. Is it not rare patrio tic that inclines a man to let bis money at a less interest to the States than to his neighbors ? _ I think the present servants of the public, do nol fervethe State* for less wages than they would serve individuals. When we loaned our money to the States,we might have loaned it to private r-erfons at 6 per ccnt. and continued itfo to this lime, and as much longer as wc plcafc. How then is it rational to c-mclude that the crcditorsof the public will be contort to receive only an interest of a per rent, upon those obligations which solemnly promise 6 ? I believe that if Congress propose this, and they confcnt to'it, it w ill bebecaufe they think they can do 110 better with the uUuna hx regum. Would ConireTs know whether the pub.ic creditors are willing tocontinue their money in the loan, or subscribe to the new pro iefted fund, at an interest of 4 per ccnt. let them make a fair trial. I.et them offer full payinentot principal and interest already ari f"n, in real Ipeeie, and fav, will you acceptor, or continue your property in the loan at 4 per rent.? Unless the public debt be continued upon an intcrclt of 6 per cent, and provision made for thcannual payment of it. I (hall not view the foundation of our government as laid in justice : Except the consent of the public cre ditors to a lower intceft is obtained in the mannerjuft m-ntioncd, or some other as fair. That the States have any right to depart from an original contrast made with any ol their fubjeas, without the confcnt ot the fubjeft fairly obtained, is, tor me, as difficult to undei stand, as that either party, in a private contrast.has a right to make alterations without the confcnt of the ot hcr. If the States can make afavingof interest in a manner that is jult and fair, let them do it; hut in any other manner it ought to be reprobated The letter-writer furtherobferves, that only 4 per cent, interest is within the compass of the ability of the United States This I dcema miftakc 111 him, and a falfehood in fact The Stairs are not yet reduced to bankruptcy, They are not under the necclhty ol compounding with their creditors at one thud dilcount. Let not an idea, so fa'lfe, and so ruinous to Our credit he fuggeftcd or che rished To be sure, if the States are not able to pay any more than two thirds of the interest they owe, the creditors who are but a small Dart of the States are not ableto lose onethird. I hev mud bear a part in paying this two thirds, at the fame time they mud lose one third, and no body to bear a part with them. Ido not suppose the letter-writer means that there:i- not pro perty or refourccs enough in the States to pay their * its lone .V, but it will be too heavy : If they be really able, it will be more pinching than they can bear. I hope wc are not so > destitute ol virtue yet. The creditors maybe ableto lose a part of their dues, but win it not he h. avy and pinching to them ? Were power upon 'heir fide, 'they might fay with a like pofiuve air—lt is too heavy for us. If they are deprived of one third ot their interest, they a-edeprived of one third of their principal too. Certainly it 300 dollars draws no more intcrell in the public funds than 200 111 a private fund, it is worth no more than 200, it will tell tor no more. Is not this too heavy upon thecrcuitors . If any uppo e that in years to come interest will be no more t.ian 4 per curt. in common through the States : Yet let in wait till that time : It will then be fooncnough to rcduceth: interest of the public fundl: Thecreditois will then be willing for it. That period is no doubt distant from ui. In such a new and extenfivecountry as this, therearc, and foi a longtime will be, ways tor people to difpole c»f't'neir n>on< y to a greater advantage, than letting it even at 0 per cent. I need only mention the cncrc«lmg value ol lands. A REPUBLICAN If the people will not bear a burden heavy enough to dojuftice, * let us know ir. II their character is known, future generations will not be deceived and cheated as the present has been. Should this sentiment declared and patronized, that the States are not ibieto dojuitice to their creditors, it would give as fatal a blow to public credit as the want of jufticc. I think my neighbors as unwilling to trust a man whom they suppose unable to pay th?m again, except in part, .is „hey aj e one who is-able, but unwiling, till compelled to ii by law. I fear the States will never be able to obtain another loan, if once they fliilt by any means reduce their creditors to a neccfluy of accepting a less rate of intcrell than was originally agreed upon. For what they do now may be done 1 again. This will Hand as a precedent. The character which they get fixed upon thetnfelvcs now, will probably be imputed to them foi: a long fucceflion of generations. If the States think, they pay too high interest, or could borrow at less, let them do as a prudent lubjeCt would in such a cafe, pay up their former loan and contratt a new one. Should any lay, this is not a fair proposal, because it is what they cannot do—the present state of o'ur treasury is not fuffccicnt. for such a thing : I answer, let them getthemoney lutothe'treafury by opening a new loan. Let them, by advertisements through the States, delire the monied fubje&s to deposit their money in a public fund at 4 per cent, imcrelt, and with the money thus obtained, pay off the ob ligations which have been given at 6 per cent. If money cannot be thus obtained, it will prove that monied men can do better with their money; and if so, it proves it unjust and impolitic to reduce the public creditors to the neceflity of taking less than 6 per cent. Why this class of citizens fliould be called to make a facrifice to the public, 01 why it should be expetted from them I know not. They have fuffered as much during the war. in other ways, as any class of people ; they have for many years fullered beyond others, by having no iptereft paid them, or that which in value has been next to none. I believe them not behind others in patriotism : but it seems to me they are the last class of citizens that should be called to make so great a facrifice ; They have been not only th£ nominal but a&ual friends of their country in thq time of her grcateft neceflities. J"here could be much better ak pro duced in favor of an advanced interest than of a reduced one ; but let jufticc take place, I a(k no more. A CONNECTICUT MAN. BY AUTHORITY. PROCLAMATION oj the KING of FRANCE, For granting Bouutie/ on ths importation of Grain. November jth, 1789. JL HE King being informed that in many of the Ports of his Kingdom, the merchants would bedif pofed to import foreign grain, if tlicy could ex pect to receive the like Bounties as were granted until the firft of September last ; His Majesty be ing deiirous to induce the merchants to pursue measures so conducive to the supplying his peo ple with provisions, has thought proper to grant this Encouragement : His Majesty has therefore ordained, and does ordain as follows. That there shall be paid to all French and Fo reign Merchants, who from the-ift December, 1789,10 the Ift July, 1790, lhall import Wheat, Rye and Barley, and the Flour thereof, from the different Ports of Europe, or of the United States of America, the following Bounties, viz. thirtyfous per quintal on Wheat—; forty sous per quintal on Wheat Flour—twenty-four sous per quintal on Rye —thirty-two sous per quintal on Rye Flour—twenty fout per quintal on Barley, and twenty-seven sous per quintal on Barley Flour. 11. The said Bounties Ihall. be paid by the Recei vers of the Farm-Duties in the Ports of the King dom, where the said Grain and Flour lhall arrive, on the Declarations furnifhed by the Captains of the Vessels, who lhall be bound to annex thereto a legal copy ot the Bill of Lading of their cargo. 111. All the Vessels indiscriminately, which, during the space of time above fpecified, lhall import in to the Kingdom Wheat and Flour, coming from the different Ports of Europe, and those of the United States of America, lhall be exempt from the Duty of Freight, on account of the said im portations. His Majesty enjoins the persons em ployed in the Farms to conform to, and carry in to execution the present Proclamation, which lhall be read, published, &c. Done at Paris, the fifth of November, 1789. [Signed] DE SAINT PRIEST. LONDON, December, 31. Extract of a letter from Rome, Nov. 21. " Yesterday morning a courier arrived from Bologna, with news of tne death of the Duchefsdf Albany, natural daughter of the late Pretender, who sent for her from France some time before his death, and had her legitimated. Her com plaint was an abfeefs inthefide, and is attributed to a fall from her horse some time before she left "France. She was the last diredt descendant (if a natural child can be so called) of the Stuarts, ex cept the Cardinal of York ; who since his bro ther's death has afliimed the title of Henry IX." The patriotic furor of freedom which f<» high ly dignifies the present period, has at length ex -371- ARTICLE I tended to the Bi uifh iilands of Jersey andGuerr fey ; in both of which the standard of liberty i« eredled. The points resolved upon are grand ju ries, trials by juries, and an abolition of appeal and jurifdic'tion. 1 i<e friends of government have Itrenuoufly endeavored to oppol'e thole re solutions, but the patriots carried ihein by a pro digious majority. file loss liiftaiued by the Grand Vizier in the adtion with Prince Potemki:), is about 20,000 men, molt of whom were drowned ; the Rcis Effendi and many principal officers were among them. At Rome, the middle of November last, the weather suddenly became so cold, that the inha bitants were obliged to button theinfelves in their great coats. A circumltance so unufiial in those climates, may lead to a conjecture, that the li vers which are described by the Roman Poets to have been frozen over in the day of Augustus, may (hortly exhibit the fame phxnomenon. A detachment from the Rullian grand fieet in the Norto palled the Streights of Gibraltar oil the 23d ult. A patenthas just paff'ed the Great Seal toa Mr.- Hancock for a molt valuable invention : It is a portable, compa<fl machine, for winnowing and cleaning all forts of corn. It will do eight quar ters in an hour ready for the market, prevents all waste, and gives the Corn a lighter colour than the usual mode. THE TABLET. " It is a difficult tajk to get above a defre of being applauded for things that should be wholly indifferent. THERE is no circumstance in the conduct «f a person that requires more discretion, than to regulate that partot'converfation which relates to hinifelf. The love of commendation is (!> strong in the minds of mo ft men, that it often, tempts them to praifc ..heir own qualities or ac tions. Though applause which one bellows on hinifelf may denote vanity, it is no mark of a perverse disposition, unless the things which he applauds, are such as deserve censure, rather than praise. lam apt to believe, that when a person is left to the necessity, either of speaking in his own commendaton, 01 of having nothing commenda ble said of him, that he will be vain of qualifica tions that are vicious or ufclefs. What are we to think of a person who takes a pride in boasting that he can drink a greater quantity of wine than any of his acquaintance without intoxication? It is natural to infer, that he wiflies applause, and that as he is not consci ous of any real merit, he had rather be remarka ble for vice or folly, than not to be diftingijiftied at all. A person likewise who is vain of any pe culiarity of dress or manners, rtiews a desire to be applauded for things, about which he should be indifferent. Few men are capable of regulating their love of applause in fucli a manner, as 110 c fpinetimes to doat upon Trifling qualifications ; and to seek commendation in points, which pru dence would direct them to conceal. But we ihould be on our guard against the fafcinating influence of admiration, or it may lead us into ac tions that may leflen our chara&er in the view of those, whose efteein and approbation are moll to be vplned. NEW-YORK, MARCH 3 FROM CORRESPONDENTS. When it is considered how -highly the public expectations were raised at the adoption of the New Constitution—and how greatly those expec tations have been realized in the administration, ofthe government thus far, a doubt cannot be entertained refpe&jngthe adoption of fuchmea fures in future, as will ensure the most essential objedt, the eftabliftunent of the PUBLIC CREDIT. As a leading step to this great event, every na tional and patriotic motive, concurs to enforce the assumption of the State Debts. This will prove a most important link in the chain of our Federal Union—and which, if not done, will be a dereliction of the interest of a very refpecfiable class of the most diftioguiflied Patriots of our Country. _ Local politics were universally decried but a Ihort time since, as the disgrace and curse of our country —all the members of our present enlight ened NationalLegifiature, in all their deliberations on the great questions that come before them, es pecially those relating to FINANCE, discover minds superior to all felfilh, State attachments. So that the interests of all, appear to be equally dearto all. When this isthecafe, how glorious ; is the profpetft of our country ! " A chain of felf interest is no better than a rope of sand. There is no cement, nor cohesion be between the parts —there is rather a mutual anti pathy and refulfton —hence we fee this chain is al ways ready to fall in pieces, andon any sudden concussion to break into an infinity of factions." " When this comes to be the cafe with a com munity, wefindthat no public measure, however falntary, can be carried into effect, ifit.clafh with arty iorefeen particular interest." EJNm?a. No. XCIII,
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