plined in manner following," and on the ques tion to agree to this motion— The yeas and nays eing called for, it palled in the negative. Ayes. 8, Noes, 43. 0 J Messrs Aflie, Bloodworth, Floyd, Grout, Meffis Ames, Bald win, . Benfon, Boudinot, Bourne, Brown, Bui ke, Cad wallader, Carrol, Fitzfimons, Foster, Gerry, Oilman, Goodhue, Griffin, Giles, Hathornf, Heifter, Huntington. Lawrance, Lee, Madison, The house again resolved itfelf into a com mittee of the whole on the slate of the union. I he committee proceeded in the further con lideration of the report of the Secretary of the 1 reaftirv refpeJiing the eftablifliing land offices for the disposal of the vacant lands belonging; to the United States. Air. Boudinot in the chair. i urther progress was made, bat the committee role withoutfinifliingthe difcuifion. Adjourned. THURSDAY, Dec. 30, An engrofled bill to provide for the unlading of goods, wares and mercliandife in cafe of ob ftr"<ftlo,ns l ce ' was rea( l a third time and patted. Mr. Sedgwick from the committee appointed for that purpose. reported a bill, repealing, after a certain time the a<fl heretofore palled,impofine duties on distilled and other spirits imported from abroad, and laying others in their stead, and for altering the mode of colletfting said duties, &c. which was read the firft and second time, and re ferred to a committee of the whole house on Tuesday next. A meflage was received from the President of the Lnited States, communicating a report from the Secretary of State, upon the fubjert of the prisoners who are in captivity at Algiers. Mr. Clymer presented a petition from the col lege of physicians in Philadelphia, praying that such heavy duties may be laid on distilled spirits be effectual to restrain their intemperate On motion, ordered, that the secretary of the treasury be diredled to report to this house, the amount of the exports from the several diftritfs within the States refpe&ively, also the amount of duties arising on imports and tonnage from the hrft ofAuguft i 759, to the thirtieth of September, 1790, and as soon as may be from thence to the end of the year. Mr. Bourne presented the petition of Simeon I nayer, late a major in the continental army praying to be placed on the lift ofpenfioners,on account of disability occasioned whilst infervice read and referred to the secretary at war. ' The speaker informed the house, that he had lome communications to make, of a private na ture. The galleries were ordered to be /hut. f R I D A Y, Dec. jr. Mr. Steele .member from North Carolina, took his feat this day. Several petitions and memorials were present ed—read and referred. V The Speaker communicated a report from the feAoftheTT* 1 ° ft ' le , v United States > the fub i ?7 S),llcin ' accompanied by a Jetter-which, with the report, was read. 7 It was ordered that 300 copies of this report be printed—and that it be made the order of thr day on Wednesday week. the w A P et, " on of Henr y Laurens, in behalf of his Ward, the daughter of the late Col. Laurens was presentedl by Mr. Smith, (S. C.) Read and referred to a feledt committee, confuting of Mr Smith, (S. C.) Mr. Gerry, and Mr. Carrol Another petition was read from the fame gen tleman, praying payment for a quantity of Rice fornilhed on contract to the late continental ar my. Referred to the Secretary of War Mr. Good hue reported a bill for the'relief of Shubael bwaine—Read the firft time. In committee of the whole, on the report of ! Ki^ relative to the ef tabhftiment of a Land Office. The committee fini/hed the discussion of the re port—and having agreed to a number of resolu tions, rose and reported the fame—which it w-s ordered fliould lie on the table. Adjourned till Monday. f e^e e d d '^' r t ' ?y ., the following Memorial was pre -10 the Se "ate of the United States. ' * YEAS. Messrs Livermore, Thatchcr, Tucker, WiUiamfon, NAYS. Messrs Matthews, Moore, P. Muhlenberg, Parker, Partridge, Van Ranfellaer, Scott, Sedgwick, Seney, Sevier, Sherman, Sylvester, S'linickfon, Smith, (M ) Smith, (S. C.) Stone, Sturges, Trumbull, Wadfworth, White, Wynkoop. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Scares, in Congrels aflembled. The Memorial of the College ofPhyficians of the city of Philadelphia. respectfully sheweth : they have seen with great pleafurethe I i operation of a National Government which lias eltabhfhed order in the United States. They rejoice to find amongst the powers which belong to this government, that of restraining by certain duties, the consumption of distilled spi rits in our country. It belongs more particularly to men of other P ir i-°" St 0 enumerate the pernicious effects of tliele liquors upon morals and manners. Your memorialists will only remark that a great pro portion of the moftobftinate, painful, and mortal disorders which affe<sl the human body, are pro duced by distilled spirits—That they are not on ly destructive to health and life, but that they impair the faculties of the mind, and thereby ten equally to dilhonor our character as a nati bei'ngs t0 dcgrade our J P eci « as intelligent Your memorialists have no doubt that the rumor of a plague or any other pestilential disorder, which might sweep away thousands of their fel 0^" C <t ,lZCnS ' produce the inoft: vigorous and effectual meafuresinourgovernment, to pre vent or subdue it. Your memorialists can fee no just cause why the more certain and extensive ravages of diftl led spirits, upon human life, should not beguard ed against with corresponding vigilance and ex ertions, by the rulers of the United States. Your memorialists beg leave to add further thatthe habitual use ofdiftilled spirits in any cafe whatever, is wholly unnecelTary—that they nei ther fortify the body againfl the morbid effedts of heat er cold, nor render labor more easy, nor more producflive— and that there are many arti cles of diet and drink which are not only fafe and perfectly salutary, butpreferable todiitilled Ipirits for the above mentioned purposes. Your memorialists have beheld with regert,the feeble influence of reason and religion, in re straining the evils which they have enumerated. They center their hopes,) therefore, of an effici ent remedy for them in the wisdom and power of the legislature of the United States ; and in beh ™£? f che of humanity to which their profeflion is closely allied, they thus publicklv intreat the Congress by their obligations to pro tect the lives of their constituents, and by their regard to the character of our nation, and the rank of our species in the scale of beings, to im- P n°u f,Utles upon all distilled spirits, as shall be effectual to restrain their intemperate ule in our country. Signed by order of the College, JOHN REDMAN, PreJident. Philad. Dec. 27th 1790. PARIS, oa. 18 Our new Municipality is now duly installed by the present judges. M. Bailly, the newly chosen Mayor, with 144 Notables, have ,taken the fol lowing oath : ." You Avear and promise to abide by the con- Ihtution, to be faithful to the nation, the law and th i ln & and ™ o ully to fulfil your fungous." Ma r° r afterwards made a speech suitable to the occasion, and received a deputation of the headd 1 ■ 5 C Vith , M - de la Fa^eCte " their head declaring that through perfect obedience Z th fjp ltl< : rs che 7 received, they would ensure the e»cution of the oaths. So '" e a S° ar ' ived in this city, Hu-rh Elli ot, Esq. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister PJen- Demnark ry f X- m Grea , t^, it^n }° the Court of Denmark. Time muit determine the obiedl of his appearance here. On the 16th, M. de Noailles read a letter from the Commandant of the Swiss regiment Chareau vieroy, by which it appears that the soldiers expreflive of their concern for what had lately happened at Nanci, propose reftiturion of the money they had forced from their officers. The leading of this letter caused great ioy in the AT fe,„ ~ who ordered i, bf .id to all the regiments in the service. NEW-YORK, Dec. 29. Our latest accounts, rerpe<fting Britilh affairs were yesterday brought from the Island of Gre nada, by the Charlotte Capt. Holman, by which we have a confirmation of a firft division of troons ■r° m ' re ' a nd being landed at Barbadoes ; they were brought, as before described.by three for ty-four gun /hips, accompanied by a number of of the i^l* S ' WereC ® ,nonned at different posts of the illand, wamng for the lecond division in arrfved' ' . tta ° ,I f^ of 00t guards, which when enable ;h e °^ ln , g " g sol diers, would enable the whole to move under the artillery of nanded by \ ice-Admiral Sir Alexander Hood and Rear-Admiral Samuel Cornilh. The general opinion is, that Count Miranda, of the Carraccas, 691 wXtadie>f„'°™';L S S'itm! mi ° iOM i "'"° Philadelphia, Jan. 1. 1791. <*« has been the yearjuft cloftd!— All of th-m plctewi,h c vuits country ! How bright our futu'i V rota> T' «° ° Ur qu.l and happy at home-honored and refpcftrd a l ro H ' The labors of our patriots hav* abroad success— while heaven has poured the rUh«"of Uncxam P led fufton upon us May the Year w,„ m ' my m r™- | equally propitious ;—foi no events in the a°™is of" A™" P ' ,>Ve flea a fairer lustre on our charaftcrthan thnfr Amenca > sand jcvcn hundred and ninety, ycar one ExtraEl of a letter from a gentleman of the fir ft intel ■ tetsfittsg* General Harmar has made a very fuccefsful campaign tho you will regret with me the 2 of our friend Major Wyllys, who was facrificed by the militia • They left him with his handful ot continental troops to sustain the attack of a largp body of Indians : Every man of them fell ? n U ! thr «—they fold their lives however dear • Indeed there never has been any affair with the Indians m which they loft so many men, as in this campaign. W S have as yet no certain infor mation from Major Hamtramck : Had he been unfortunate, we lhould have heard of it lono-atm fl^ PO, t t- frolnKentUck y are ' that the Indians fled before him every where—that four of their towns, and a vast quantity „f provisions had deftroyed-and that part of the militia had got home without the loss of a man." S On Monday last the Hon. Mr. Hartley, a repre sentative from this state in the Congress of the United States, had his arm broken by a fall near the state house in this city. A bill has pa fled the Senate of North-Carolim the present session, and is now before the liouCe —for subscribing °n loan in the Loan-Office of the United States, such continental monies, and continental and State securities as are, or m"y be in the hands of the Treafurerand comptroller of that State, belonging to the public. r & {[ ts "vjetttned that there are in the Trea sury ofNorth-Carolina, State Securities to an amount nearly fuffictent to balance the fuvi to be alfumed on account ej that State by the General Government. The cenfusof the inhabitants of the county of SeTw ofth W - ChufettS) taken pursuant to the late law of the Union, amounts to fifty nine thou sand seven hundred and eleven : In are ~ , h. T h.of bK to contain fifty seven thousand, nine hundred and seven inhabitants. ''no. The following is a lift 0 f the feaveflels which have arrived at this portfince January ift, i 7 o o : Ships 129 Snows 18 Brigs 329 Schooners 264 Sleeps 324. Total 1064. In No. 67 of this paper, we copied from a Daily Pabn r the Commencement held in the College Hall, the \ c u/t CCOU " i ;'f Doctor's DtgreuH Mcd,cine~,n Lch there arlt'Lttha ders are requeued tocorred : bjiead of " Isaac Sayra A B Tn"' frr s Bo 7 es ofMedictf r; PRICE CURRENT PUBI.IC SECURITIES. FU NDED DEBT, 6 pr. Cents 17/6. pr./. 3 pr. Cents 8/6. Defered 6 pr. Cents 8/6. UNFUNDED DEBT F, n a l Settled °t hcr Certifies > 5 f.^ 15 J 6 . flr , State debts 12 /<j Q PLEASE TO NOTICE. FOR the accommodation of thoft who would ■mjh to become Adventurers in the First Clafsof the Mas^chusettsSemi-annualSt/teLot/ekv I n* P ° ft P a ' d ' Samuel Cooper Phu!d2hfl° rt N f ' de Y Sta ' e - H ™f s > Lofton, enclosing t J' ladel P h *«, New-Tori or Btflon Bank-Bills, or Tick J OO / JT- be t" rticular b attended to, and Boston, Dec. 22, 1790. NB. Lift of Prizes will f, deposed with the BENEZER HAZARB and JONAS ADDOMShave entered L< into psrtnerfiiip. and opened an OFFICE, at No j-o m Firm of CCt ' a d °°" ab ° Ve Fourth - Str «'. where, undcr'the Hazard and Addoms, r- r- d -1i ey P urchafc an d all kinds of CEPiTIFICATES— PAPER MONEY, and BANK STOCK „ r % , B - ™ dc at lh « PublicOfficc, and Bufinef. in e«- neral tranfa&cd on Comnj;flion. Detcmb'.r 29 e 873 pr. cent. 4 2 i do. 4 do.
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