FROM THE PENNSYLVANIA GAZETTE. ' To the Honorable the MEMBERSof the Legis lature of Pennsylvania, W (Continued from our lujl.) J A7O gun ship may lie before the and at I many of the wharves, which occupy the whole ealt front of the city for near 2 miles, af fording every veflel an opportunity of unlading and lading without the expence of lighterage, liafts of timber, plank, boards and staves, with other articles upon them, can be brought down the Delaware from the county of Montgomery, in New York, 200 miles above the city, by the courle of the river. Some money was expended by the government and landholders in improv ing the navigation up towards the source, before the revolution, and there has been a survey late begun, for the purpose of proceeding in the im provement of this and the other principal rivers of Pennsylvania, and for making communica tions by canals in the improved part, and by ro» J s in the unimproved part of the State. The Pem.fylvanians are much inclined to such enter prizes, having found great benefit from them, on the completion of til--- present plan, the Stare will be as conveniently interfered by roads as any other of its size in the union, which will greatly facilitate the settlement of its new lands, A flight view of the map ot Pennsylvania in the Hon?Mr. Jefferfon's Notes on Virginia, or the Rev. Mr. Moife's Geography will (hew how fine ly this State is watered by the Delaware and its branches, the Schuylkill, the Juniata, the Suf quebanna and its branches, the Ohio, Allegany, Younghiogeny, and Monongahela. The Patow mac and lake Erie also afford profpeifts of con fiderable benefit from their navigation. Nature has done much lor Pennsylvania in regard to in land water carriage, which is strikingly exem plified by this fa<ft, that although Philadelphia and lake Erie arediftant from eacn other above 300 miles, there is no doubt but that the rivers of the State may be so improved, as to reduce the Jand carriage between them nine tenths. 111 the fame way the navigation to Pittfburg, after due improvement, may be uled inflead ot land car riage for the whole distance, except 23 miles. By these routes it is clcar, that a large propor tion of the foreign articles used on the weilern waters mult be transported, and that their firs, Ikins, ginseng, hemp, flax, pot-alh, and other valuable commodities may be brought to 1 hilu delphia. The Hemp and oak timber for the Ruf fian navy is transported by navigation 1200 miles, and yet the hemp is (hipped from that kingdom 011 lower terms than from any other patt of the known world. Rulfia, long since the lettlemenc of Pennsylvania by civilized and en lightened people, was in a Stare of absolute bar barism, and deflitute of these improvements. Much therefore is to be expected from the con tinued exertions of the prudent, indullrious and sensible inhabitants of Pennsylvania, in the course of the present century. A considerable pare of the lands of this State remain for sale by the public. They are usually paid for in the funded public debts, which are at all times to be bought in the market. With all the charges upon them, to the completion of the title tbev will cost the purchaser from one fifth to one third of a Mexican dollar per acre, accord ing; to the price of flock or the debts, and the lands he inclines to buy. The ready money is neceflavy in these cases, because the State does not fell on credit. Purcliafes however can be al ways made, partly or wholly on credit, from pri vate persons, who take mortgages on t.ie lands they fell to emigrants, and indulge them with a •very easy credit. In these cases the price is high er of courfc. The I'ennfylvanians haying no difnutes with the Indians about boundaries and all the land? within the State being purcliafed at a-fair and open treaty, and there being fotne fet tfements weihvard of Pennfylvama on the new lands of Congreft, we have little apprehensions from the Indians any where, and in molt of our new country there is no danger at aIK Good lands in the old counties of this State fell aeneraltv at a certain ftim for a farm, incluuing The buildings. This, before the war, was, in most of the. thick fettied counues within a finart dav's ride of Philadelphia, from four pounds ten {hillings fteiling, to thirty-fix (hillings per acre, According to the quality, unlefsin iKuanons very near the city or some town, or m cases of veiy valuable buildings, mills, taverns, or situations tnde. In one or two counties, le markable for the richness of the lands, they fold higher, sometimes considerably. larms be fold for as good prices or good payments ns could then be obtained, owing to the quanti ty of new lands for faleby this and several other Stages and by Congress ; and owing to fevetal new awl profitable uses for money, that d,d not S before the revolution. Some poor lands u, the old counties fell for still lower prices. The produce, manufactures and exports of Pennsylvania are very many and various , viz. wheat, Hour, midlines, fhip-ftuff, bran > thin-bread, white water biscuit, rye, rye flour, Indian corn or maize, Indian meal, buckwheat, buckwheat meal, bar and pig iron, steel, nail rods, nails, iron hoops, rolled iron tire, gun-powder, cannon ball, iron cannon, mufquets, (hips, boats, oars, handspikes, malls, spars, Ihip timber, fliip blocks, cordage, square timber, scantling, plank, fcoard, staves, heading, lliingles, wooden hoops, tanners bark, corn-fans, coopers wares, bricks, coarse earthen or potters ware, a very little or dinary flone ware, glue, parchment, shoes, boots, foal leather, tipper leather, drefled deer ?.nd Iheep lkins, and gloves and garments thereof, fine hats, many common, and a few coarse ; thread, cotton, worded and yarn hosiery, writing, wrap ping, blotting, Iheathing and hangingpaper, Ita tionary, playing cards, palleboards, books, wares of brass, pewter, lead, tin-plate, copper, silver and gold, clocks and watches, mulical initruments, fnufF, manufactured tobacco, chocolate, milliard feed and mustard, flax feed, flaxfeed oyl, flax, hemp, wool, wool and cotton cards, pickled beet, pork, shad, herrings, tongues andfturgeon, hams and other bacon, tallow, hogs lard, butter, cheese, candles, soap, bees wax, loaf sugar, pot and pearl allies, rum and other flrong waters, beer, porter, hops, winter and fuminer barley, oats, spelts, o liions, potatoes, turnips, cabbages, carrots, pars nips, red and white clover, timothy, and moll European vegetables and grades, apples, peaches, plumbs, pears, apricots, grapes, both native and imported, and other European fruits, working and pleasurable carriages, horses, black cattle, rtieep, hogs, wood for cabinet makers, lime (tone, coal, frce-ltone and marble. Some of these productions are fine, some indif ferent ; some of the manufactures are consider able, for a young country circumstanced as this has been, some inconsiderable ; but they are enu merated, to (how the general nature of the state, and the various purfoits of the inhabitants. In addition to thein we may mention, that a lead mine and two or three fait- springs have been dis covered in our new country, which will no doubt be worked, as soon as the demand for these arti cles to the wellward increases* We ought also to notice our great forefts lor making pot and pearl aflies. (To be continued.) TRANSLATED FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. FROM THE LETDEN GAZETTE Pubhfhed by Stipkin Luzac. [A Paper that is considered in Europe as the most authentic medium of fntelligence—and as fucli circulates more exrenfively than any other si milar publication.] CONTINUED. B R U SS E"fTS, January, 4. THE states of Flanders, lonrj since united by bonds of friend fhip and intereit with the states of Brabant, and animated by the fame spirit for the prefervatton of their rights and privileges, have thought that the only mode of attaining their Independence, and securing their libeity, was by uniting themselves with the province of Brabant, and concluding a treaty of offenfive and de fenfive union, under this express condition—that neither party ever enter into compromise with its former sovereign, but by com- mon agreement. The states of Flanders being further willing toteftifv their Gn rcre frftncKhto towards the states of Brabant, by the moll unequi vocal acts, agree to the propofitK>n made to them through the hands of M. Van Eupen, to charge this union into one common sovereignty of the two states, so that all the power and exercifc of it may be centered in a Congress, which mall be composed by deputies named by those parties, according to the article of orga nization to be agreed on hereafter, on true principle* of ftri£t iuf tice, and di£Uted for the common good. The intention of the contra&ing party is, that from henceforward the power of this I ldvereign alTembly (hall be confined to the sole objedf of common I defence, to the power of making peace and war, the- fupportof a 1 national militia, and the maieten mce of the ncceftary iortificati jonsior the defence of the country, to contrast alliances with fo reign powers, and in short to perform whatever regards the com imon interests ol the tw.o states, as well as those which may here after think fit to accede to this union. The states of Flanders flatter theinfelves that the states of "Brabant will find in this declaration, 4 lure guarantee fpr the loyal senti ments they proftfs towards ti»e states of Flanders, and their zeal jfor the common cause ; and they doubi not but that the states of ( Brabant will shew a like disposition towards them. To this declaration the states of Brabant have publiftied an an swer, assenting to the offer on nearly the fame terms as the origi nal. The provinces of Malines, Tournay, Namur, Hainault, and all other provinces formerly belonging to Austria, have acceded to this ast, and have promifcd the eaily arrival oftheir deputies at Bruflfels, to enter more fully into the views of the dates of Bra jbaptand Flanders. On the laifc ciay of theoldydar the states of Brabant aOetnltftJ at the hotel de Ville. where they mutually adminiflered to each other an oath, religvoufly to prefer e the lights, privileges, and consti tution of the countiy, in prefe'nee of the sovereign council of Bra bant, who, in like manner took an oath from the hand ol the states, as representatives of thfc people. A large concoui fe of ci tizens attended to fee this happy ceremony, and on that night Ihcre was a general illumination throughout the city. PO L A N D, December 18. Pi. A N OF THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Art. I. Determiners tht rights of fovcrcignty, which b long to the nation, paUicularJy thit of ele&ing a King. Art. 11. All landholders (hall have ihc right of giving their fufFrages in the ele&ion of reprefmtatives. Art, 111 Fixes the term of each diet to two years at the ex piration of which they (hall render an account of their conduct to their constituents. Art. IV. Requires the unanimous vote of the diet in the for mation of all furrdam.ntal law?, three-fourths of thevottfs for all political laws, two-thirds for taxes and imposts, and the iimple plurality of votes for all civil and criminal laws. Art.V. A plurality of threo-fiurths of the votes or the diet (hall be necessary in all questions concerning foreign alliances and treaties of peace. Art. VJ. The prcfervation of the laws, and the whole powei of the executive government, (hall reft with the Kin<- and his Council the members of which shall be re<ponfitlc to the diet for their conduct. -448- Art. VII. The tribtlnatj of the diet fliall prefcrve tlieir juiifw diction, but the limits of it shall be more llnCily defined. Art. VIII. The constitution being eftaiilithed on these prin ciples, it shall be guaranteed that the confederate diet lhall no lor. ger exilt, and that all laws agatnft the principles of the above ail utles, lhall be declared null and void. These articles, arc to be referred for future confederation. PARIS, December 31. The report of the Committee oi Enquiry hai ween pul»ii(h cc i concerning the conspiracies of the months of May, June, and | u J last, which is contained in sixty ofctavo pages ; it afTcrts, IU, there has been a conspiracy against the liberty of the French nation, the national atlcmbly, and the city of Paris in particula, Second, that this conspiracy was a crime of treason againlltlienal tion, or against hii majesty. Third, that the keeper of [lit seals of Barentin, Count dePuvfegur, Maifhal Broglio, Baron Befcnv,| and Bertheir intendant of Pari*, have been concerned in this cofi (■piracy, which they directed. Koui ih, that uothjngcan exculpate the conspirators in the eye of justice. Dec. 28. The prefidrnt annonnced to the national aflcfnbly that the king had fandioned the ■Irfrees re/petting mumipaliie' and that, which declares the non, Catholics admillible to all civil and military employments. OnTutfday the twenty-ninth, uuhe evening, the deliberations 011 the offer of several Geneva citizen of 900,000 livres, as a proof of their attachment, was refufetl. Mr Volney who spoke before 011 the fubjeft on the twenty-fourth exl plained his sentiments again with more energy and fulnefs, main taining " that this offer was made by the heads of a people, whose " servitude had been gsurantced by the miniftersofFrar.ee in for. " mer treaties, and that a freenation could not acccpi, the fhamc ful price of the slavery ol anothtr people." This gift fiyshc, is owing to a luuJc which ought to profit Je it: It is a return jot lit p,o tedion, which we have granted the Anjlocrats of Geneva: It is the ex change for a gauranti, which they wt/h to perpetuate, and which you uii/l Jhort/y perhaps te calledupon to dejlroy. Mr. Volneya fpecch which was vigouroully fpported by Count Mirabeau, made a great im prefiion on the assembly, which not only ordered it to be printed together with the letters and memorials which he read to verify hisafTertion. but likewise unanimously decided (M. de Lufignan only excepted) " that the assembly would not accept the offer of ' the (»en«va contribution,and that the president should communi " cate this decree to the firft minister of the finances." New-York City Lottery. SCHEME of a LOTTERY, for the purpofc of raifmg Set en Thou- Jund five Hundred Founds, agreablc to an AC 1* of the Lec ture oi the State of New-York, passed Bth February, 1790.° S C 1 PRIZE of 3 10 3° 5° 120 180 795° 8346 Prizes, ) . , 1 Blanks, J a s°° o Tickets, at 40;. each, £ .50000 Subjefk to a dedu£lion of Fifteen per Cent. I HEobjeft oftliis LOTTERY being to raise a part of the sum nrvuf. . y , thc c " r P ,,ratl <"i for repairing and enlarging theCl ry HALL, for the accommodation of CONGRESS, whichdocs so much honor to the Architcft, as well as credit to the city. The managers presume that their fellow Citizens will cheerfully con cur in promoting the sale of Tickets, especially as the fuccefi <.f this Lottery will relieve them from a tax, which mu;l otherwise be laid to reimburle the corporation. I he above SCHEME is calculated in a manner very beneficial to adventurers,there not being two blanks to a prize. J he Lottery is intended to commence drawing on the First Monday in August next, or sooner if filled, of which timely notice will be given. A lilt of the fortunate numbers will be pub iiihed at theexpiraiion'ot the drawing. I ickets are to be fold by the fubferibers, who are appointed Managers by the Corporation. Isaac Stoutinburch, Abraham Jlerrikc, .. P £TER T • Cur John Pintard. A'era-York, 6th March t 1790. James F. Sebor, and Co. Have removed from No. 59 ,t0 No, >87, Watcr-StRXt, Fly-Market, WHERE they negociate all kinds ofPUBUCX SECURITIES— BILLS OfijEXCHANGE. See. n'lifioL. , New-) ork, April 8, >790. \ -t£ William Taylor, Has for Sale, at Wis EAST-INDIA GOODS STOKE, No. 4, BuftiiNc-SLir, Aflbrtment of EAST-INDIA GOOD®. Among which arc the following Article) j BOOK Muilim 8.4 6-4 5-4. || HUMHUMff, Jackomt do. jj I.oogClptlw, Hankcrchicfs.of rarioui kin<3'j,| Caffan, Chintzes, j Seersucker}, ginghams, J BtoglanorA. A XT • S* « - _.T» ' A Variety of handsome painted MUSLINS. With mauy other Articles* which will be fold by the Piece or _____ Package, low for cash. John Smith & Peter Wendover, BSAIL-MAKEIfc, F.G leave to inforjn their Friends iJd th& Public in senerar, ■ tint they have cfimmencc3 bßfinefs in cobartnerihip >n tncif liue, under the Firm of SMITH and WEN DOVER, in the Sail- L.ottin Front Street, opposite Wharf (near the Col ee- ou e) ormerly occupied by Car me r and Smith, and latciT <• y john m ith, Those Gentlemen who will be pleated to iU vor t em with their custom may depend upon havinktheir ne m t e eft manner, and on as short notice as can bbexpe£led. New-York, May i, 1790. * j N advert units!: —* O T I C E is hereby given to all the creditors of Philip Denman, nowconhned in the common gaol of Newark, e county of Essex, That the Honorable Court of Common A,JM andfor .'*?' id county, have appoinled Tuefdav the sj h iJh r !J ill* r creditors of laid Philip Denm'an, to meet 2.? n. r !" Ncwark > at n' n e o'clock of the dav aforefaid, ndlhewcaufeto the judge of the said Cou.t if anv they have, why an amgiime.il of thefaid infolvem debtors eftat'e (hould not I,.rT'f m i r discharged according to the aa of the Legisla ture of New-Jerky in such cafe made and provided. PHILIP DENMA.V. Newark, April 14, 17qo . Moses Rogers, and Co. TT AVE removed their STORE to the New Building, comet v ? w n " Hllland Queen-Street) fronting Burling Nm-\ork,May 5 , , 79 0. heme. £.SOOO 1000 s°o 200 j 00 5o 20 10 4 £.3000 2COO Itsoo.1 t SOO. 2000 3000 2500 2400 1800 31800
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