himfelf privately on the road and has not been heard of fmce.— So precipitate was his flight that he left in the Caifle Militaire two millions of florins in money, in theTrefor Royal three millions, twelve pieces of heavy brass artillery, twenty light pieces, arms and accoutrements for 20 thousand men, cloathing for 30 thousand, and an immense quantity offlour, and other provision, ammunition and forage, altogether,to the amount of about a million sterling ; be sides this they took a great quantity of the like articles at Ghent, at Malines where was the grand Arlenal, at Mons, at Namur, and at Louvaine, so that they are provided with all that is neccflary to cloath and arm sixty thousand men, which they are railing; the province of Flanders has already completed its quota, which is 20,900. Brabant has made much progress, its quota is 17,000, so that the other seven provinces, to wit, Hainault, Limbourg, Guildres, Namur, Marquifiteof Antwerp,and Malines, baveonly 23000 tofurnifh among them, and such is the population of this country, and so roused are the people by injuries already felt, and by the apprehendon of what they must fufferftiould they once again fall under the dominion of the House of Austria, that they find no difficulty in picking their men. The deserters from the Imperial army (mostly born in the low countries) give great assistance in disciplining and inftrufting the recruits ; they have a General Mr. Vandermersche who, tho I do not think him a Washington, has a good chara&er, and much merit ; he is dis interested, cool, cautious, and brave, and about the age of 65 years. He has seen service, and his conduct since he has had the command of the Patriot Army, (hews, that he can ast either with the city of a mill-horie motion of a German. * From this state of their affairs, it ffiould seem there is small prof pc6l of those provinces ever coming again under the Auftrianyoke, even should England, Pruflia, and Holland not lend them allilU ance. But instead of thofc powers remaining idle fpeftators, they are expected to declare for them as soon as they are in entire poflefli on of the country, that is to fay when they have gained the pof feflion of the Citadel of Antwerp, and the fortrefs of Luxembourg, this opinion is very general, from a belief that England and Hoi land have furnithed the money which was necefljry for the busi ness, and of which they have had such supplies as to enable them »o pa) down for every thing they have had, as well as paying their army regularly ten-pence sterling per day. What commercial advantages will arise to America from this revolution, it is not eafyto point out at prcfent, but I think one may expect them to be considerable, the consumption of rice, in digo, tobacco, flaxfeed, timber, Sec. is very considerable, and their manufaaures of coarse woolens and linnens, their silks, sa tins, laces, &c. will be afforded cheaper than from France or England, and consequently a good exchange. The inhabitants in general look up to America with veneration and refpea ; they consider her struggle and success as the firft cause of the revolution in France, and o! the recovery of their own li berty, confcquently not only the dates but the merchants, manu faaurers, &c. in their individual capacities will receive with o pen arms any proposals which Congress may think proper to make. However I am but poorly qualified to judge what will or will not contribute to (he advantage of nations." fOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. FENNO, I'leafc to publijh the enclofeJ beautiful Ext raft of Dr. Price'/ Revolution Sermon, and obligeyours, S. B. WHAT an eventful period is this ? I am thank ful that I have lived to it; and I could al m oft fay " Lord now letteft thou thy servant de part in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salva tion." 1 have lived to fee a diffufion of know ledge which has undermined superstition and error—l have lived to fee the rights of man bet ter understood than ever ; and nations panting for liberty, which seemed to have loft the idea of it. 1 have lived to fee thirty-millions of people, indignant, and resolute, spurning at slavery, and demanding liberty with irrcfiftable voice ; their King led in triumph, and an arbitrary monarch furrendcring himfelf to his fubjeds : after shar ing in the benefits of one revolution, 1 have been spared to be a witness to two otherrevolu tions, both glorious. And now methinks I fee the ardor for liberty, catching and spreading : a general amendment, beginning in human afFaiis: the dominion of Kings, changed for the domini on of Laws, and the dominion of Prietts giving way to the dominion of reason and conscience. " Be encouraged all ye friends of freedom, and writers in its defence ! The times are auspicious. Your labours have not been in vain. Behold Kingdoms admonilhedby you, starting from sleep, breaking their fetters, and claiming justice from their oppreflors ? Behold the light you have ftruckout after setting America free, refletfted to France, and then kindled into a blaze that lays despotism in ashes and warms and illuminates all Europe.—"Tremble all ye opprelTors of the world! Take warning ( all ye supporters of flavi/h government, and flavifli liierachies ! Call no more (abfurdlyand wickedly) reformation, innovati on. You cannot now hold the world in darkness. Struggle no longer against increasing light and liberality. Restore to mankind their rights ; and consent to the correction of abuses, before they and you are destroyed together." SUPPRESSION OF AMBASSADORS, ire. A/TANY suppressions have already been made —but there remains a great many more to make, and one of the most considerable is the ar ticle ot Ambassadors, Envoys, Consuls, &c. those decorated spies—those priests of commerce who delight in (hackling trade, in order to make themselves important at the expense of three millions yearly. Consuls may indeed be neceflary to a quarrel some Minister—who strives to extend his influ ence in every realm, byindireft measures ; but a free country, as happily situated as France is, re quires not those fhameful means to acquire a great degree of prosperity. The French govern ment, for the future, under the infpe<flion of the nation, will not busy itfelf in crofling the objetfts of other powers, to occasion quarrels. No—no other intercjurfes will exist than those of cpm merce and amity ; but to prefervethefe relations, it will not beneceflary to keep,at a great expense thole decorated Spies. Spies arethe necefla ry valets of corrupted Ministers.—The Ministers of a free people ought to be pure. Spies are ne ver neceflary but in war—and as the spirit of Li berty diffufes itfelf among nations—there will be no more wars. Who occasion wars ? Ambassadors, and a number of quilldrivers disguised into Con suls, by their intrigues, and concufliong. It is always by diireininating the feeds ofdifcord, that they mcreafe their importance. It has been laid, that they are neceflary in countries where there are merchants or travel lers of their nation. But now that every nation has good and fafe laws—and the rights of ftrane ers are every where a protection is tooabunveto continue it any longer. The above Utranjlatedfrm a French paper entitled, " Thi French Patriot." By M. at Warviile. LONDON, February 3. The Commissioners of the National Debt received the report of its liquidation on Sa turday last at Mr. Pitt's, when it appeared that their broker had bought as follows Last Quarter Capital. 1 4J.200 207,300 76,500 40,500 8,700 Consols Reduced Old S. Sea New S. Sea 3 per C. 1751 Total. 372,200 Total Amount. Capital. 2,162,fj0 1,238,300 9 1 3,900 665,300 204,800 Consols Reduced OldS. Sea New S. Sea 3 per C. 17J1 Total 5,184,850 3*898,505 10 1 CONGRESS. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1790. On the question whether tha House (hould resolve itfelf into a committee of the whole on the report of theSecretaryof the Trea ftiry, for the support of the public credit.-The ayes and noe. being demanded, are as follows, A Y f. S Messrs. Alhe, Baldwin, Brown, Carrol, Clymer, Coles,Con tec, Fttzlimom, Floyd, Gale, Gr.ffin, Hartley, Hathorne Heif- Lcc - Mjd ' son . Matthews, Moore, Muhlenberg, Page, Parker, Van Ranfellaer, Scott, Seney, Sin! rnckfon, Smith, (M) Sumpter, Tucker,' White, Williarafon, Wynkoop. 33. NAYS ' Meifrj. Ames, Benfon, Bland, Bloodworth, Boudinot Burke Foiier, Gerry, G.lman, Goodhue, Grout, Hunt.ngton, Leonard! I.ivermore, Partridge, Sherman, Sylvester, Sm.tb, (S. C ) Stur grs, Thatcher, Trumbull, Vining, Wadlworth 23 MONDAY, APRIL 19. Hon. John Steele ; member from the state of North-Carolina appeared and took his feat this day. — The bill providing for the punifhmcnts of cer tain crimes against the United States, having been returned to the Senate withfundry amendments, and 'some of those amendments having been a inended by the Senate—the House this day con curred with the Senatfe—which compleated the bill preparatory to its enrolment The report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the memorial of the Baron- Steuben was read a second time—this report is lengthy—the rea ding and difcuflion employed the attention of the House this day—the result was the adoption of a motion introduced by Mr. Gerry in fnbftance as follows, — That a couimitee be appointed to report a bill, or resolutions in conformity to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury the committee appointed confills of Mr. Gerry, Mr. Wadfworth, Mr. Vining, Mr. Lawrance and Mr. Smith, (S. C.) Adjourned. TUESDAY, APRIL 20 A committee confiftingof Mr. Fitzfimons, Mr. Williamson Mr. Smith (Maryland) Mr. Schureman and Mr. Sturges, wasappointed to ascertain what further measures are necessary to be adopted to effect afpeedy settlement of accounts between the United States and individual States—and to report to the House.—»- In committee of the whole—on the report of the Sectetary of the Treafury—for the support of the public credit. The proposition to fund two thirds of the debt at 6 per. cent. per. annum—and to receive the other third in lands was read. Mr. Gr.*RY after prcmifinft, that as the committee were on the ground of non-assumption, they could not with propriety in his opinion, engage to pay 6, 5 or even 4 percent, on J of the debt, moved that 6 per cent, be struck nut in order to admit a less rate of interest. This motion was supported bv Mr. Smith (S. C.) and oppof d by Mr. Jackson, Mr. Fitpfimons, Mr. Madison, and Mr. White ; the question being taken, the motion was loft and the proposition agreed to. The second alternative, which had been rejected, was now ac ceded to, vi 7. To have the whole sum funded at a yearly interest of 4 per cent, irredeemable by any payment exceeding five dollars per an num on account both of principal and interest ; and to reccive as a compeafation for the reduction of interest fifteen dollars and eighty cents, funded at the like interest and rate of redemption.— The committee rose and the House adiourned. 427 Sums paid. 35,299 12 6 161,589 12 6 54,646 2 6 3i,49° IO o 6,774 2 6 289,800 o o Sums paid. 1,618,761 938,156 687,513 501,065 153,008 9 4 7 ° 1J o 16 3 2 6 PIT March if. As the spring approaches the Indians tt} commit depredatious : From good authority we underrtand, that a it-w weeks ijuce a fniajl settle ment, contorting of between twenty and thirty persons, about fourteen miles on this fide Lime itone, were entirely cut off, by a party of indians; BOS T O N, Ai.nl 10. SHIP BUILDING. It is said, that orders have been received here for building several large (hips. One merchant we hear, is now in treaty with the Ship Carpen ters, for building a Vellel of 900 tons. A Mer* chant in Salem, we learn, is building a veilel of 1100 tons; and in Philadelphia, accounts fay, tlieie are now twenty-two ships 011 the ltocks, and all above 240 tons burthen. NEW-YORK, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21. ExtraEl of a Letter from the Eajlward } dated April. 6, 1790 I never eonfidered the national government as being more than half established by the nominal acceptance of the form—to take from our newspapers the metaphor thev have used, it was an arch, but to me the Key-done was wanting—the attual exercise of cer tain powers to the exclusion of the states would be finding the work till this takes place I cannot think the couhtry completely fafe from the danget of difunionj and confequeut anarchy and wretchedness. I am no holder of ptiblic fecuritie.* of any kind, but I consi der the aflumption of all our stats debts as so e(lnitial, that as an individual I would rather pay a four-fold interest hro the nat - onal government, than an half per cent, thro the medium of the ftatc—becaufe the former may give us prote&ion, the lat ter cannot. I confefs to you however* that I am still indulging myfelf in the pleafingi Jea that voU will succeed in this point, in the present feflfion—ahd if you do, 1 shall think that the govern ment has done every thing its most sanguine friend?* ana every honcft patriot could have wished—is you fail, there certainly is reason to apprehend a longand hard contcft with the state govern ments for powct. A Correspondent fays that during the last ses sion of Coiigrefs, many persons were nneafy at the flow progress made in public bullnefs ; more especially in refpeft to the revenue fyfteni—but notwithllanding all the care and attention paid to the fubjedt—fome mistakes took place, nnd provision has been made to remedy them : That more errors did not get incorporated in the fyi tem, is more to be wondered at, than that any. are found to be correrted, and this cannot be justly attributed to any cause with propriety,' but to that slowness ininveftigation, that caution in decision, and that great attention which was paid to every part of the business j and which could not have been the cafe without a great ex pense of time—but this expense is commonly the least, and conduces to economy in the iff'ue. The important fubjedt of funding has long engaged the attention of thcHoufe ofßeprefen tatives of the union : A greater concern carinot poflibly come before them—innumerable difficul ties obftrudl the progress of the bufineis—the no velty of the work, the diversity of interests and the relative ficuation ot the several ltates, all conspire to render the ralk arduous, and point out the propriety of making every decision the refultofa calm and patient investigation of truth. In this way a system may be formed which will be found on trial to Hand the test. A correspondent observes, the only way to forn. ajuft judgment on the bufineft of on is for the afliimptionifts to place tlieinfelves in the situation of the non afTumptionifts—there can be no doubt that Soutb-Carolina and Maflachufetts would in that caie be as much opposed to the measure as Virginia, Maryland &c. are. A correfpodent would enquire, Whether the controvei fy refpetfting the afl'umpcion of the state debts is not a controversy between creditors and debtor*—or rather between the non afTumptionifts and the (peculators in state paper ?—and whe ther in the firft cafe the plea of the delinquent ltates can be called a plea of justice with refpetft to those states which have paid their debts ? or in the latter cafe, whether it is worth while to risque the tranquility of the union to please the speculators '—which would probably be the cafe by afl'uming, unknown millions.— Another correspondent observes, the peace and tranquility which now pervade the United States afford the most favourable opportunitv to our civil rulers, for laying the foundations of the government broad and deep.—lt may fafely be said that there is not a government upon earth so universally acceptable to the people as that of the United States, —Now is the time then to establish our credit, that " Key-Stone of the arch of our political exiftence."—lf the present moment of our salvation is fuffered to pass away, unimproved we have every evil to anticipate, for the time may come when the people " lutll not bear found deft* rinc," in polities—and " are there not already many falfe teachers abroad in the world THE following persons are recommended to the free elrftora of the city and county of New-York as worthy of their fuffrages at the ensuing election, By many Elector*. For Rcprefcntativc to Congrcfi, * John Lawrance. For Senators, David Gcifton, Peter lefferts, Philip Van Cortlandt, Samuel Jones. AJJimHy* > John Watts, William W. Gilbert, Robert Randall, John Campbell, James Watson, Nicholas Crugcr, Henry Will, Cor nelius J. Bogert. John Pintard. ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST. NEW-YORK. Brig Liberty, Juerin, Halifax, at Sandy-Hook, 4 days. Sloop Sally, Thomas, St. Johns, (N. B.) 7 days.
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