MONDAY, MAY 10. ' The bill entitled an adl for giving effe& to a certain art therein mentioned iu rel'pecS: to the State of North Carolina—and for amending said a<si, was brought in, engrofled, read the third time and pafled, A petition from Thomas Jenkins and Co. mer hants 111 Hudson, State New-York, was read, sta ting the loss of* goods by fire while on their pas sage from New-lforkto Hudson, and praying a remission of the duties on said goods ; referred to a committee. Sundry other petitions and memorials were presented—read and referred. On motion of Mr. Parker, the report of the Secretary at War, on the petition of Dr. Middle tor, was read. It was then moved that this report be referred to a feletfl committee—and Mr. Parker, Mr. Tucker, and Mr. Bloodworth, were appointed. Mr. Oilman of the Committee of enrolment, reported that the Committee had examined four bills, which had pafl'ed the House, and found them duly enrolled—the Speaker affixed his sig nature to the fame. The bill for adjusting and fettling the claims of Frederick W. de Steuben, was brought in en grofled, and read the third time—the gratuity in land being omitted in the bill, Mr. Smith, (S. C.) supposing the oiniffion to bean error—moved that the bill should be re committed, in order to re-in sert the clause. This motiou after a short difcuflion was loft. The blank m thi clause Hating the annuity, Mr. Smith, (S. C.) moved ftiould be filled up with 2700 dollars. After fonie debate the ayes and noes were ta> ken, and the motion was negatived, as follows : Meflrs. Ames, Bcnfbn, Bland, Cadwallader, Car rol, Coles, Fitzfmons, Gale, Gerry, Hartley, Heifler, Huger,, Huntington, Lawrante, Lee, Madison, P. Muhlenburgh, l'age, Scot, Smith (S. C.J Trumbull, Tucker, Vining, Wadfmorth, Wynhoop aj. Meffi s. AJhe, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Boudinot, Brown, Coulee, Floyd, Fojier, Oilman, Good hue, Griffin, Grout, Hathom, Livermore, Mathews, Moore, Parker, Partridge, RenfelJaer, Schureman, Seiiey, Sherman, Sinnickjon, Smith, ( M.) Steele, Stone, St ur ges, Sylvefler, White, William/on 30. A motion was then made to fix the annuity at 2,j00 dollars. This was negatived—Ayes 25 Noes 30. As was a motion for 2,420 dollars. Aves 2? Noes 30:. A motion for 2000 dollars was agreed to Ayes The bill being Completed—on the question,- Shall th: bill pafe—it was carried in the afiirnia tive. The ayes and noes being as follow. AYES. Meffi s. Amts, Benfon, Bland, Boudinit, Cadwetl lader, Carrol, Coles, Cout-e, Fitzjhaons, Gale, Gtr ry> Griffin, Hartley, Heifler, Huger, Huntington, Livtrmore, Lee, Lawrancc, Madison, Moore, P. Mtth lenburg, Page, Parker, Scott, Sherman, Smith, (M.J Smith, (S.C.J Trumbull, Tucker, Viuing. Wadf vjorth, Whtt*, Wvikoop.— 34, Meflrs.. Ajhe, Baldwin, BloodwCrth, Brown,Floyd Fojier, GHi,:an, Goodhue, Grout, Hathorn, Mathews } art ridge, Renfeltaer, Schureman, Sctiey, Sylvefler Siniiickfo,l,Steele, Stone, Sturges, IV: Hi am fori 2r ' The House then re(olved itfelf inro a committee on that part of the report of a feledt committee on the petition of the merchants and inhabitants ot 1 ortfinouth, in New- Hatnpfhire, which relates to an increase of tonnage 011 foreign fliipping, & c Some progress was made therein when the com' nutteerote. Mr. Loudinot obtained leave of absence for one eCK - Adjourned. TUESDAY, MAY 11, 1790. Iks pcl """ H weu: read and referred. tan, date 'j la> '' ng dut,cson wines after a cer m"™ r co '- - ol ', hC Sec y e ' ar y° f the Tre.ifury pursuant to orders c n nd f? r ' T an abftiaft of the duties received on Amen nd foreign tonnage, to 3,ft December last was read. tee on 'he whole, on the report of thefeleft commit ,y H ) ,£££»* ! he T'J tS and tra dersof Portfmuuth • ) cipt cting an enhanced duty on tonnage. motion 10 llrikeom theclanfe which proposed that the duty lZ h^ t0 " na i e ih ° U,d U r " frd to dollar, occasioned a Mr't ' t f 1 — alliimatitfe was supported bv Mr Ijekfon TT a ; ,d M -BLdwo„h Mr '^: 'n favor of the ah I J ' u S '' and Mr " spake Dorter! nr r coh *nccd duty—but the committee lose and re ported progress w,thorn taking the question. troops and'ml? 01 i Se "'" r y at war > with a flatement ofthe warlas read. dby the durin 6 the late flatement ofmn Secretary of the Treasury relative to the ment ofthe revo)utio' >a t y the f veral dates from the commence- A Meffi .ri» • ", J c ratl^catl on ot the conltitution. tffeft to t : h- aflVlJf"* ' tl,e J Se " atc w 'th the bill for giving (»• C.)»dforV^ n m 7 lt ' o, ' £d '. w ' th rcf to the State of propotVd bv theh T "'*L o *° me l^e amendments b '"' theSc " atC con curred—to other, f omede°bl't". f °L r H Cd V ng th f firft amendment, occasioned "c L thi Honfeadinurned without comma to a dccifion fHILHDjfc.LfHI.A, 5 May. as fuS haS i- eci .' declaimed against in all ages, "five ot virtue, and liberty, Has it not AYES. NOES. NOES lometimes becn productive of a fpirjt of iaduftrV and hence become beneficial > D r . Franklin used °4? T of ' this " His lady once made a present of a fine cap, to a young woman of Cape May. The Doctor reproved her for it, as tending to introduce anvong these simple peo pt, a talte for fuperfliidus ornaments. As heex peCted, the fight of the cap kindled a desire in all the young women who beheld it, to pofll-fs a lmilar one—The consequence was, that they set about knitting a quantity of mittens, which were sent up to Philadelphia for sale, and the money devoted to the purchase ofcaps. Ever since that time, a great number of mittens have annually been brought to this city from Cape May—and a beneficial trade ha? been the consequence, of what it was apprehended would be injurious to the people. It is with pleasure we inform tlie public, that tie commendable ipirit of encouraging our own manufactures is daily spreading thro' these Rates. W e hear from New-Jersey, that on Saturday, the 24th ult. there was a nioeting, tho' upon short notice g-lven, at rhe Conrt-Houfe in Burlington, of a oonfiderable iVumber of the citizens, alfifted by some of themoft refpeftable and wealthy gen tlemen from the county, to consider upon a plan 191- eltabhfhing woollen, linen and cotton fabrics in that place. Daniel Ellis, Elq ; was placed in the chair ; and, the plan being read, some gene ral observations and information were given by MefTrs. Btoomfietd, Jo,,n and Coxe. An liand fome fubfeription was then made, and a commit tee appointed to wait upon the Welt-w'ifliers of American Manufaiftures for their contributions. Extral7 of a tetter from Stockholm, dated Feb. 2. " This winter is indeed wonderful. Several kinds of trees have been in bloom. Anemonies and other spring flowers were fold about the meetsoll New-Year's day. At this timeitisdif. ficult to gather an handful of snow. The season is very wet; which is unfavorable to the grain in the ground, by foftering a species of worm, that has done considerable damage." BOSTON, May 5. On Monday, agreeable to law, a Circuit Court of the United States, for the Maflachuferts dil trid, was held before Chief Justice Jay, Judcre Cushing, and Judge Loweu.. After the usual forms were gone tl) rough,and the Grand fury 1111- pannelled, a Charge was given them by the Chief- Jultice —and the Throne of Grace addrefled in prayer, by the Rev. Dr. Howard. From Mr. Wraxa u.'s Htfltry of Mount St. Michael, ntar Ctanvilbu~iu trance. Al/E pnfled on through several lefler rooms into a large paflage on one fide of which the Swiss (Mr. Wraxall's guide) opened a door and through a narrow entrance, perfectly he led me by a second door into an apartment or dungeon—for it rather merited the latter than the former appellation—in the middle of which Itood a cage—lt was composed of prodigious wooden bars ; and the wicket which admitted in to it was ten or twelve inches in tliicknefs. I went into th'e inside ; the space it comprised was about twelve feet square, or fourteen ; and it might be nearly twenty in height. This was the abode of many eminent virtims in former ages whole names and mjferies are now obliterated and forgotten. " There was, said my conductor, towards the latter end of the last century, a certain news writer in Holland, who bad presumed to print some very severe andfarcaftic reflections on Ma dame de Maintenon, and Lewis the Fourteenth. Some months after, he was induced, by a person lent expressly for that purpose, to make a tour into French slanders. I lie inffant he had quit ted the Dutch teriitories, be was put under ar rest, and immediately, by his Majesty's express command, conducted to this place. They shut him up in this cage. Here he lived upwards of twenty-three years ; and here he expir ed—During the long nights of winter, no fire or candle was allowed him. He was not permitted to have any book. He saw no human face but the gaoler, who came once every day to present him, through a hole in the wicket, his little por tion of bread and wine. No inflrument was given him with which he could destroy hiinfelf ; but he found means, at length, tn draw out a nail from the wood, with which he cut out or engraved on the bars of his cage, certain fleurs de' lis, and armorial bearings,which formed his only employ ment and recreation. " It is now fifteen years, said the Swiss, since a gentleman terminated his days in that cage ; it was before I came to rcfirle here ; but there is one instance within my own memory : Monf. de F aperfonof rank, was conducted here by command of the late King ; he remained three yearsfliut up in this cage. 1 fed him myfelfevery day ; but he was allowed books and candle to divert his inifery ; at length the Abbot, touched with his deplorable calamities, requeued and obtained the royal pardon. He was set free and is now alive in France. « The subterranean chambers, added he, in 451 £X FRACT, this moatn&iri, arc so iWuietWs, thartwl&W themnotourfelvcs. There are certain dungeon* called Oubliettes, into which they Were atcul coined anciently to letdown roalefacftors jmiky" or very heinous crimes ; they provided then) with a loaf of bread and a l. ntie of wine • and then t ley were totally forgottori, and lefrto pc- ifh bv lungei ill the dark vault of the rock. I*iifs ii»i nifhment however has not been inflicted by King in the lalt or present cciiro :*v." ' NEW-YORK, W aONESOA l, MAY tz Extra, r of a letter from a %-mtlc nan in Rhod-e'-fjl •;/ ; „J? h " > J' th ' s dated /thru-. 2 9. " N A<r re .^' !l be 3 ni! j° r ' r y «f An ties in our New Aflembly, which convenes at Newport nexu we s. J. Mr - f hnner who succeeds Gov. Collins, polleiies good natural abilities, and without the graces of a courtier, hath acquired a considerable popularity——the appointment was not his wish, but the result of necessity, it being more oonfon ant to his views to govern behind the curtain, as he was free from responsibility if any measures should prove injurious, and could claim the crHit of fuclil as were beneficial ; but theanties fearful tiat a federal character might be in nomination, brought him forward as rhe mott popular man or their party. " Moftof thcountry towns are in muchoppofed Co the Conflitutipn as ever, being dupes to thj mifi cprefentatioiis and falfhoods. of their defin ing leaders. Y\\fi seaports are alt federal. At the late election of officers in Newport there was 343 proxes for federal characters—but 17 for Anties—and these r 7 consisted of new fau-le J of ficeis o. the customs, tide-waiters, with a'paper money Judge and his sons. Providence, War ren, and Bristol h id aTo large majorities for the federal prox. Should not the Conditution be a doptea by the Convention at their next nieetinp-, (which 1 very much doubt) necessity will drive the lea-ports to measures ofa molt serious nature, measures, which will pave the way for a difmein bernient of this unhappy Stare."— The great Burke of the British House of Com. m°n S ' • exc \ tetl rhe indignation of many by lua rhillippic agaitiftthe French revolutionilts—but it mult be determined by the event, whether the advocates for those checks and balances of power, which ddtinguifh the Britiih government,are not at the fame time the most confident friends to the liberties of the people. Simple democracy has al ways ended in tyranny. It is very much to be doubted whether the plans of the national aflbmbly of France, so far a-s they contemplate the annihilation of diftincli ons, orders and privileges,have a tendency to ef rabhfh a government that will be firm and liable— and a fluctuating system is liable to innumerable objections ; forthe people after struggling with a variety of-tenipoiary evils generally take refuse 111 delpotifm. 0 Inequality of circumstances is the inseparable attendant of commerce, civilization, and refine ment—good government therefore is the art of gnai c 11 tg the 7/tany from the impositions and ty .?* the fein—and this cannot be done so ef fect nail v m any way as by lecuring the equal rights of ALL. & 1 The College.of Physicians of Philadelphia have \ agreed that an eulogium in honor ofthat diltin- \ grimed medical character the late Doctor Cullen of Edinburg, lhall be delivered by one of their J members. An Hechon for DI RECTORS of the BANK u-as held on Mon /; whe " ,het °l <>W"'S grmlcn.en were chofcn. viz.—l Hoc i 't'h I'l .T '' "f* a Vice-Prcl-dcnts Wifiiam sjfl i Z u, HO""' Thmas Randall, (emfort Mull' s i U n MXonnici, Nicholas Lew, {ohrt Murray, «r,liiam Edgar, GaUanVerplar.k J APPOINTMENT. IISCII Coxt, Esq. AOiftant to the Secretary of the Trcafurv »!«'William Du*R,Efq. rcfignrd. nctrcaiur), rJrfTtkiP'rif th f S " P T e Cc " rt ■7" dica «'rt, which had been Jitt.ng m this city, adjourned previous to winch the Mlrmine judee ncntsucrepvenagawjlfeveialculprits, viz. William Glover, coined \U,,I" u / '10 " tcv "' l m fi'-jl Friday in June. IVilliam each Sebrr'wfc " , ' P, " d 6 ° " jevcrd times, 20 each, Scbre W,11,am,, larceny, ?o lajkes, Edward Alien. connSei oj breaking ana entering ajl 0 re,t o be imj,r,fon-d three months. Ant'io ny,.a Negro Man, larceuy, 39 tajhes. IViUiam Swaine, a robbery in. thepeet,jud s ment rented ta a future diy } »FUr bong the AnimfaryoJ the Sons of Sr. Tamma- W|» be celebrated by that Society. Should the wither Provefavorable, they wt//, ,„ splendid drejfes, walk in Prcce/Jion from *LON?TAI'I- a f y ,' Br "' Church >" the]i:tis—*here a LONG TALK n to bt delivered by the Scribe of the Society. arrivals since Our last.—shw-york Ship George, Hunter, Glasgow. Brig auger, Dckay, London. ~ "» Green, St. Croix. Brothers, Dunlap, Grenada. Ark, Wediiam, Halifax. Schooner Adonis, Durham, Sr. Vincents. a §' c > St. Thomas. Catherine, Wilifon, Sheiburne. Sloop Maria, Elliott, Charleston. Snow Zebulon, Hudson, Liverpool. — —La Virg« do Corofa Aug. Villamuerte, Cadiz. Brig Maria, Jenkins, Cape Francois. Schooner Exchange, W.ll.fon, Charleston. Friends, Parker, Sheiburne. T , Sh 'P f^ eral ' ft ' Dale, Canton, four months. Armenia, Gtfce, and Anthony, of Ne.n-York, were at Gmtm, and expected toft, l in all January. ' the r " drKk ' a " d J°°P mjkington, with furrs.frm ■ - ' "'J 1 of America, were alja at Canter,. « Cation *hen the F* ■pa
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