/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.
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/ 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
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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.