/The house took into confideration-the report of the joint com mittee in refpeft to the time when the next Congress shall com- icnce its sessions. ipcqcc 115 ICIUUHS. / The house after some debate, agreed to the report ; the firft hart of which states that it will not be neceflary for the new Con- Igrefs to commence its feflion i immediately after the 4th March. The second part of the report proposes that the time for the an nual meeting of Congress should be altered ; a committee con fiding of Mr. Tucker, Mr. Lee, and Mr. Partridge was appointed to report a bill for that purpose. 111 committee of the whole on the bill declaring the assent of Congress to a certain ast of the Stateof Maryland. Some amendments being agreed to by the committee, the bill was reported to the house, and ordered 10 be engroifed for a third reading on Monday next. A motion made by Mr. Tucker, refpefting provision to be made for fubferibtng, agreeable to the funding fyflem, certain cer tificates lfTued in lieu of others, in fevetal of the Slates, subsequent to the ill January 1790 —was referred to the Secretary of the Treasury. Adjourned till Monday. IS: NEW-YORK, Jan. 24 Agreeably to census, the county of New-London (Connecticut) contains 33,200 in habitants, whieh is an increase of 1895, since the year 1774. There were exported from the distriCt of New- London (Connecticut) in the year 1790, 7072 horses, cattle, and mules, it being 394 more than was Ihipped the preceding year—3o odd fail of vefl'cls are now frozen up ill Connecticut river, bound to the Weft-Indies. There are owned and chartered in that dlf tridfc, 3 ships, I snow, 55 brigs, 50 schooners, 17 sloops. ■ The election for Representatives to the Con gress of the United States commences to-morrow, in the State of New-Jersey. Speculating in funds goes on as brilkly as ever—no less than four exprefles have pafled and re-pafled, with Pegaflian fvviftntfs, from this ci ty, to and from Philadelphia and Boftou, within the week past. The total of the taxes laid on Great-Britain in the single year of 17S0, was 21,382,2491. lis. Bd. sterling—above one third more than the whole national debt of the United States. Let Ame ricans consider these things. ExtraCi from the Leyden Gazettt of Nov. 19 " Letters from Nanci mention the unwelcome news ofthe death of M. Defilles, the brave young officer who tied himfelfto the mouti»of a loaded cannon on the 31 11 August, to prevent the muti nous garrison of Nanci, from firing on the nati onal troops. The wounds he received in that af fair, have been the cause of his death. At Nan ci it is regarded as a public loss, and a cause of "liio&rning to th« whole city. Doubt lefc every Frenchman, every man, whose saul is not steeled to every sentiment of patriotism and humanity, will feel emotions of grief and regret at the ear ly death of a citizen, for whom all Nanci is in tears. His name, which is already ranked with the noblell in antiquity,will descend with their's to the latest posterity, and obscure them in its superior lustre, by the remembrance ofthe noble a(ftion in which he facrificed his life to the peace of his country. Let us contrast the conduit of this young man with that of those Infernals, in the fhapesof men, who, with deliberate coolness can scheme scenes of disorder, anarchy, and ven geance, merely to gratify their ambitious views, and add, they care not how much, to the miseries of man.—The National Aflembly in a letter di re&ed to the friends of M. Defilles, have condo led with them on the loss of so excellent a ci tizen. Philadelphia, Jan. 29. Extrntt oj a letter from a gentleman at Fayetteville (N. C.) to a member oj Congrefsy dated 15th December, 1790. " I am now to inform you that the feflion of our Aflembly is drawing to a period ; the adjournment fine die will take place this eveniug. Next feflion is to be held at Newbern, the fiift Monday in December next. " Among the various bufmefs agitated this feflion, has been that of subscribing the state securities now in the treasury to the loan piopofed by Congress, and of opening an office for purchas ing up the remaining debt, whereby the treasury might become poflefled of a fufficient sum to fubferibe the whole amount to be afTumed for this state ; but this scheme, I am happy in faying, has not succeeded—the bill for the purpose is laid over, by a respec table majority, to next aflembly, which by the bye will not hap pen until two months after the fubfeription books are closed. The beneficial effects of this decision already begin to.be experi enced by the few who have had faith or obstinacy enough to in duce them to hold up their certificates—ftate securities have risen 50 per cent, in twenty-four hours—the information will be im mediately difleminated by the members among their constituents, and we lhall henceforth know how to set a value upon the lmall portion of certificates, out of which the knowing ones have not here tofore duped us. Another circumstance which operates in favor of our certificates is, that the report of the Comptroller, made to the present Aflembly, states the amount in circulation to be barely fufficient to fill the loan ; in which statement is included one-half the Warrenton emiflion, which we all know are not attainable— so that we have the fulleft aflurance the whole of our fubferiptions will be aflumed. The Commifli*ner of loans has made applica tion for the checks, by which to examine the certificates prefentcd to be loaned ; his request has been negatived ; but at the fame time a resolution was adopted, allowing him access to them, pro vided he would go where they are (viz. Hillfborough) which we have no doubt will be the cafe; as we cannot harbour a thought that the Secretary of the Treasury, in whom we have the highest confidence, will permit to become stationary in so remote a cor ner of the State aa is Edenton, an office, established as well for the general good and accommodation of the citizcns of the State, as for the United States. <£ Along with ihe foregoing information fuller me to intrude the following, which, for the information of the concerned to the Northward and Eastward, it may perhaps be well to publilh in the newspapers of your city, as the Ast itfelf mav not find its way among them iri due time : A Law has palled this feflion, for doing an ast of justice to the holders of certificates, illued for just claims by the Coinmiflioiiers of Army Accounts at Warrenton, in the year 1786 ; by this Ast the Agent tor fettling the accounts of this State, with the United States, is required to make return to the Treasurer of the State, by the firft of May Dext, of all the set tlements made by the said Commissioners in 1786, diftinguithing the just from the unjust, the holders of Certificates are to bring them in to the Treasury, before or at the next feflion of AlTembly, and the I reafurer is to ilTue new Certificates of like tenor for all such as (hall appear to have been fairly obtained. The ast ex pires at the riling of the Assembly, and such who IHall not by that period have presented their claims are foiever precluded." Thursday an express arrived at the War-Office of th* 1 United States, from the Western country. J* The following extract of a letter trom Capt. Zcigler, dated Foi Harmar, January 8, to the Secretary at War, contains the substance of the intelligence brought by the express. " I AM extremely sony to inform you, that the settlement called Big Bottom, twenty miles up tKe Mulkingum, from this pbft, was cut off by the Sivages on the ad- instant. Eleven men and two children were kilied ; two men who were quartered in a cabbiu a small distance from the Block-House escaped ; three men it is supposed, are taken prisoners as bodies are not found. Extract of a letter from Marietta, to a Member oA Cougrefs, dated Jan. 6, 1791. " When the settlers of this region had pui chafed their lands and removed hither, they ha not the least apprehension, that they had any di! ficulties to encounter, except thofeof an unculti vated foil—placing all faith and confidence ii the hon. the Congiefs, of whom they purchafect it—being as it were under the necellity of laying out that which they received as pay for their past services, in land, 1110 ft of the settlers here confi-i der their purchase as bought with their blood :l But, Sir, is it possible we lliouid have purchafecD lands, which we cannot improve, by reason of a' savage enemy, whom the United States can ex tirpate with a nod ?—No. Surely we shall have help in due time. You have doubt had the particulars of the attack 011 the unfortunate fet rlement up the Mu&inguai.—The groans of your, flanghtered dyingcounrymen—the lamentation/ of parents for the loss of their beloved fons—thi indignity offered to the United States by those savages' murdering her sons, who were peaceably improving the land she had fold them, will rouse the indignation of the American Eagle, and pour 1 speedy vengeance on the guilty heads of those murderers, who received not the least provoca tion, but 011 the contrary every friendly office in our pover. It is not my province to enquire in to the particulars of the late expedition ; but this 1 can fay with propriety, that it has not had the defii ed effetft—for in place of humbling, it only irriv?ted—and instead of a partial, it has produ ced a general WAR. To whom have we to look for help and protection from the enemy, but to the general government, whom, next to God, arel the fathers and guardians of the lives and pro-/ perries of the people." Extract of a letter from Brunfuiick, (N. J.) Jan. 34, " I have just returned from feeing a great cn riofity, at least to-mofl of us in this'part of the country : On Sunday the 16th inft. there was drove on fliore three miles E. S. E. of South-Am boy, a young Calf-Whale, about 36 feet long, 16 feet circumference, jaw 7 feet in length, and tail 7 feet 4 inches broad.. Various are the opin ions of people on this occasion : Some fay it is the sign of a hard winter : pthers, that it forbodes a change in Congress—We (hall be better able to determine after eledtion is over : Our exhi bition comes on to-morrow—there will be a fad shaking—You fee we have 42 candidates—and all of them have their friend 3." A vote of thanks to the four Senators of the United States, who voted against the Treaty with the Creek Nation, was pafled by the Senate of Georgia at their late feilion, by the calling vote of their President. It seems, by the above, that the Treaty with the Creek Nation is not without friends—even in Georgia. Seventeen hundred bolts of Duck, of 40 yards each, have been fold from the Bojion Sail-Cloth Manufa&ory in the last year, of a superior quality to any ever before seen in America. The noble Ship President, of 1000 tons burthen, lately launched at Provideace, is wholly clothed with Duck from this manufactory. „ — v We hear that the census of the inhabitants of the State of Mafc fachufetts, including tke diftrift of Maine, amounts to four hun dred and seventy thoufanl persons. - The very refpettable majority of the house of Reprefentarives, on pafling the new revecue bill—fuggefti ideas very favorable to the enlightened policy, 3pd independence of that hon. body— while it discovers a projsr confidence in the patriotism of their constituents. A certain distinguished chara&er in the United States, wrote a book on the fubjeft of government.—*-He founded his fyoem on the experience of mankind,in all couutries and ages—and the invaria ble principles of human nature—the great obje&s of this work,are to devise the most effettual barrjers to the encroachments of arbi trary power, and the most perfect fafeguards to liberty. A cor respondent observed, that in a late debate on the excise bill, the principles of this work were very fully recognized ; when it was urged as a reason for a certain amendment proposed to the bill, " that human nature is always the fame—what has been, will be again—and that experience is the only infallible guide in legisla tion when the principles of emulation, rivaMhip and ambition are brought forward as the great moving causes of a£lion to the human mind, and a ballanced government is urged as the natural and neceflary result ; it is very fafhionable to hear persons fay, that modern human nature, is so very different a thing from ancient human nature, that it will be universally found in future, I hat 723 every idea ot diftinftion and emulation is eradicated (romili. t man conftitutior,! That every man, according m'lcripure wTu prefer his neighbour's interest to his own ; that equality end'com U.medV/. si Wlll render the condition of mankind ,n the mer age m ° rC S""' """ " bce " <°" The excise bills as it is termed, now before Congreis, has met with much undeserved cen tre troin a;i erroneous idea, that thofc men who strenuously oppoled the fame fyilem of taxation previous to the revolution, and. wliofe oppofuion to the measures of the British government were the cause of the liberty we now enjoy, would acit inconfiftentjy by favoring a fyfteni of taxation they then detested and resolutely oppofed.—ln dependent of the wide difference between the principles of the bill now before Congress, and the British excise ; it may justly be oblei ved,'that there exists some difference in bearing a burden inipofed by a government in which we had no paticipation, and in paying a tax laid by our im mediate representatives, and for the support of a government of our own choice. Gen. Adv. The only plausible objection against the as sumption of the excise by the general government, is a supposition that the impost will so encreale, that no other additional revenue will be wanted —but this objection excludes all idea of linking any part of the principal of the public debt ot* making a certain provision to pay the interest a greeable to the plighted faith of the United States —or of a ruinous clashing of jurisdictions, in cafe the states fhonld separately renew their ex cif'e fyltems, ifCongrefs (hould wave the right to that source of revenue. According to the Csveral enumerationsotfjheO inhabitants of various diflrids of the United States, the population of this country exceeds all the etti mates heretofore publiflied on the fub jeci. Some persons may fay the amazing in crease in particular places, is owing in ft great de gree to emigrations— grant this to be the cafe— where is the spot in those States which have fur nifhed the largest number of emigrants, that lias not also made advances in its population, The fadl is, that this country is advancing to the so vereignty of the globe with a rapidity that baf fles all calculation. ' The illue of the Belgic Revolution fufficienily evinces, that no system, which is founded on an invasion of rights, can poflibly succeed. —A levelling principle is the canker of a Tree Constitution. There is a profeffion, which it has become la good deal fafliionable to rail again ft, to whom 'civil society is under no small obligations both on aecounc of their public spirit, and as aflertors of the rights of freemen—l mean lawyers ;it is said the present glorious revolution of France owes its rile in a great measure to the gentle men of the bar—and in our own country they have always borne a conspicuous part in the council and in the field. This is undoubtedly a fart, that lawyers have always been held in low estimation in despotic and arbitrary governments. The Hon. Aaron Burr, of New-York, is elected Senator the United States, to take the place of Hon. Philtp Schuyler, in March next. Yefterdav departed this fife, in ao advanced age, the Hon. George Bryan, Eiq. one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. AT the late Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Society, for promoting the abolition of Slavery, &c. held, agreeably to ihcir Charter, on the 3d inft. the following persons wereelctlcd officer® for the present year. Prtfident, James Pcmberton, Esq. „ _,■ Rev. Dr. William' "K'oero; — Vice-PrcfideJits, j Rcv £ r N; c hol as Colin. 5 Dr. Samuel P. GrifHtts, J Mr. John McCrca. Secretaries, Mr. James Starr. f Micrs Fiflier, Esq. J William Lewis, Esq. 'J William Rawle, Esq. j John D. Coxe, Esq. | John Todd, Jun. Esq. l_ Jofcph Thomas, Esq. f James Pemberton, Esq. | Rev. Dr. William Rogers, | Dr. Samuel P. Griffitts, ■«j Richard Wells, Esq. j Mr. Caleb Lowndes, Treasurer, Counsellors, • . committee lA/ of | Correspondence. | Dr. Casper Wifbr, |_Mr. John MfC'efr. ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. SINCE OUR LAST. Sloop Industry, Allen, Virginia. Brig Hawk, . Curwin, Liverpool. Schooner Polly, Andote, Port-au-Prince. Brig Virginia, Dott, Marfeillcs. PRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES. FU NDED DEBT 6 -pr. Cents 16/6. 17/ P'- L 8 5 pr. cent. 3 pr. Cents 8/9 ctf. 45 Defeicd 6 pr. Cents 9/. 45 UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Sett!, and oiher Certificates 15/3 1,5/6 77i io - Indents 8/9 9/ 45 N. and S. Carolina,debts, it/. 11/6. 574 do The purchases of public debt by the Treasurer of th£ United States 011 Monday 17th inlt. were at 17/4 lor 6 per ccnts, and 9/ for 3 per cents and 6 per cents.
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