prisons which were opening to receive them in their dark ano un- Wholesome recesses. Vincennes was intended to be their abode Thelaftnews from Oran, 011 the coast of Barbaiy, are dated the ill of November. It appears that 60 (hocks of an earthquake have been felt in that town. . The Moors, who are under the dominion of the Bey ot Maica era, took advantage of the calamities of the inhabitants, and attac cd them with 4 oco men ; bat they were repulsed by 1200 men, under the command of Count dela Union, tour different uvn^ s ' A Dublin paper mentions, that a gentleman has engaged, tor a wager, to spin a finer piece of muslin than ever came from the halt Indies. We hear that a pound of cotton can be spun in such a manner as to be worth thirty guineaa. SUCCESSION to the CROWN of POLAND. ' The King of Poland is not like his brother of Fiance, palhve, inert, and ready to be carried, or driven, whither soever a inulti tude of felf-conftiiuted demagogues are pleased to command. While he is willing to submit to good advice, he is himfelf able to give the belt, and to follow it in pradice ; at the fame time, he has discernment, courage, and relolution to discover, and to reiift baneful counfcls. . When he was told that it was against his interest to permit the election of aSucceflor to the Crown of Poland, during hts own life, he nobly replied, " I love my country better than myfelf, and I am convinced that such a measure is alone calculated to renit the influence of foreign powers over the councils of the nation, and to counteract the evils which such an influence has always produced ---the're is, therefore, no room for hesitation." Notwithstanding some particular circumstances rather unfavor able to the elector of Saxony, such as his having no heirs male, and his brother, and others ot his relatives being attached to the house of Auftrfa, he was unanimously proposed as a successor to the pre sent King. His Majelly approved the choice, and it is expected that he will be eleftcd without opposition. France continued without a National AfTembly for 175 years, till again called together in May 1789, which was a measure the sovereign would never have agreed to, were it not that the de rangement of the public finances, and the inter- j nal state of convulsion and discontent, made (uch a ineafure indispensably necessary, When con voked at the beginning of the 17th century, the Aflembly were then proceeding to such uncourt ]y lengths, by impeaching the ministers of the crown for all the evils and commotions which had for a series of years diftraffied, and almost ruined the country, that they were difl'olved by the King, and no more aflembled. The spirit of li berty was not indeed then so well underltood as at piefent, nor was the country on the verge of national bankruptcy—yet is,was on the point of being involved in all the horrors of a civil war. LIGHTNING The Pruflian government has lately pulslifhed a circumstantial relation of the success which has attended the use of Earth Baths, in relVoring per sons apparently killed by lightning. The pro cess is as follows : . The person struck must be immediately un drefl'ed, laid at length in a bed of foft earth, co vered with a layer of three or four inches of earth, and from time to time gently sprinkled with water. Experience has proved that this process is in fallible, and that three hours is a fufficient time to restore animation to thole unfortunate persons to whom the lightning had solely caused a sus pension to the pulse. A Dublin paper has the following strange pa ragraph : " Last week a gentleman of this city, who came padenger in the brig Triton, arrived off paflage, from Philadelphia, relates, that the Congress had determined to fend an Envoy to the Great Mogul, for the purpole of negociating an eftabli/hment in some of the northern provinces of the Indian Empire, for the benefit of a more extensive trade. That Rupert de Vifme, a capi tal merchant of New-York, and late Vice-Preii dent of Congress, had been appointed to that of fice, and was to embark in the firft vefl'el bound to the river Ganges, about the middle of Sept. The great and good Washington has perfectly re covered from his late illness ; for which, fire works were displayed, cannon fired, and every demonstration of joy and refpedt in the power of a fenlible and animated people to bellow. The following is an effectual cure, even in the most desperate cases for cattle thai have overfed tliemfelves among wet clover. Take an Egg, empty the shell, fill it with tar, and throw it un broken down the throat of the creature : though ready to burst, within less than five minutes the swelling will be abated and the danger entirely over. GEORGETOWN, Jan. -26. Extrafl of a letter jrom a correspondent at Lonif vilte, Kentucky, dated 10th December, J 790. " You will, before this reaches you, hear of' the dreadful flanghter made by the Indians. 1 have loft fifteen men out of my company, all of ■which were heads of families, five have left eight or ten children behind. The loss fell hea vy on the militia of Kentucky , the disharmony which existed between the federal troops and the militia, contributed m uch tq this unfortunate campaign." N E W-Y ORK, Feb. i Extrafl of a later from Paris, Nov. 10, t 790. " We have at last >eceived the prodigiously learned pamphlet of Mr. Burke, concerning the French revolution. It is surprising that a man of his reputation should have undertaken to ex pose it towards the decline of his life. Some friends of liberty have proposed here, to fend him an address of thanks for his wretched defence of tyranny, and particularly for having at laftopen- Ed our eyes, by showing us the Englilh such as they are, viz. jealous of every thing, except of the'contidence and friendfliip of other nations. Whatever may have been the miltakes of the peo ple of France, before this happy refutation, its writers have never been lullied with the reproach of tapporting tyrants and monks. "Yes, France may glory that it never produced a Burke. Be fore this i'cribbler presumes to give us leflons of policy, let him alk the King of England why he has utarped the right of making war and peace a right which has not been granted to him by any law, and which Henb..y Vlilth hiuifelf, tho a tyrant by trade, never dared to exercise : Let him alk the Parliament the amount of the money it receives annually for its humble fubmiflioti to the orders of the minister : Let him alk the Church of England, why it affecls an infnlting superior ity over other religions : Let him aik the people of England, why Two thirds of its citizens are not repreiented in Parliament, whilllthe other third is ihamefully corrupted by the Crown : Laltly, let him alk how long the trial of Mr. Hastings is to be deferred—fuch fubjetfts would be worthy of the pen of a patriot. " Contempt is the bed weapon against a mad man like Mr. Burke—to refute him would do him too much honor. From mere charity, how ever weadvife him to take a matter of the French language, that he may comprehend the decrees of the National Aflembly, with which he is not better acquainted than with the laws of decency and true patriotism." Extrail of a litter from Bourdeaux, Oft. 25. " The principal merchants of this place met lalt week to deliberate on the means of obtain ing redress concerning the tonnage duty laid by Congrefson French vefl'els, notwithstanding the treaty of commerce, which fubfiifs between the two nations. " They resolved unanimously to write to the I chambers of commerce of Nantz, of Rouen, and of other sea pore towns, to request tlieir concur rence to an address, which is to be prefemed to the National Aflembly. They desire that the A mericans, who hitherto have paid no tonnage in France, may be placed on the fame footing as the French are in America. Ido not know what will be the result of this step, but I shall take care to inform you by the very firft opportunity. " Great complaints are made here that your government has appointed two conftils to reside at Hifpaniola and Martinico. Wedo not even allow the Spaniards to have canfuls in our colo nies. Thpse officers are only admitted into coun tries where commerce is free ; the trade of our islands is not free ; it it will not be free. Our policy in this respect does not differ from that of other nations ; attempt to lend consuls to Jamaica or to the Havannah, and you will fee iiovv they will be received. " The alfignats rife conliderably since the be ginning of the sales of Church land : it is believ ed they will soon be at par. " From this moment we may consider the re volution as complete. If the ariftoci ats dare to make new attempts,they will be ruined for ever.'' Yesterday his Excellency the Governor commu nicated to the legislature a letter from Governor Chit:cnden, of Vermont, dated Jan. 22d, inclu ding a certified copy of an act ot that state, for paying 30,000 dollars to this Hate, and fixing the boundary of Vermont—Also informing, that they had appointed the Hon. Nathaniel Chip man, and Lewis R. Morris, Efqyires, commiflio liers to negociate the adiniffian of that itate into the union BOSTON, Jan. 12. The militia of Maflacliufetts consists of 50,000 train-band Infantry, 1300 Cavalry, and 1200 Ar tillery-men—add to these, 23,000 Alarm men, all armed*for war, the whole will make a body of 75,000 men. The train-band are from 16 to 40 years of age ; the alarm-lift, from 40 to 60. FROM THE AMERICAN DAILY ADVERTISER. THE Bill depending before Congress for in corporating a Bank, is certainly unconsti tutional. Whatever powers the State govern ments did not grant, are expressly to be retain ed : now there is no power granted in the con llitution for incorporating any Banking Compa ny whatever : none are mentioned as entitled to exclusive rights, but authors for their writings or discoveries ; and the States are in the daily habits of granting charters which must interfere with those of Congress, if both have the power to grant them. The bank of> North-America holds its charter under the State of Pennsylvania: the Congrels have no right to establish another Bank to its prejudice, or to incorporate another set of men to carry on Banking, whose notes are alone to circulate in the public revenues. The Gotiftitution of the United States expressly fays, no preference /hall be given by aay regulation of commerce or revenue, to the parts of one State over those of another ; of course, no Bank can be founded to ifiue notes at Philadelphia to pervade t'.ie Union, to the injury of Banks else where. Congrefc might as well incorporate an Eafl-India or afoy other, as a Banking Company. 731 i'tvrt.'iwwi Philadelphia, Feb, 5. We hear that the amount of the ♦aliir of tie Exports from the United Stares, for thirteen mouths, agreeable to an eiWtnate made at the office of the Secretary of the Treafmy, is twenty millions and two hundred thousand dollars.. Some recent accounts from France, via Boftcn, (late, that the Affignats of France, which had been down to 8 per cent, discount, have riitn io par. It is rather a.curious circnniftauce in tlie noil tics ot the United States, that the powers of the legislature, as derived from the confthmion, should be considered in a less expaufive view bv some who are appointed to administer the govern meur, than they are contemplated by any parti cular (late in the union, or even by those who have racked their inventions to discover in those pow ers the latent feeds of tyranny. It may however afford confutation to the real friends to the li berties of our country, when they reflec't, than there are so many motives, whether laudable or not, in the minds of the administrators of our go vernment, to found an alarm at the moll distant appearance of encroachment on the rights of the Hates, or of individuals. If the powers of the general government av<! so limited that they cannot embrace every objeift with which the eflential interests of the United States are connected—>-the people, like Mofts of old, may have a view of the proiriifed land, but may not enter therein ; or, like Tantalus,-may .have the waters ot life flowing to their lips, bur are not fufFered to taste thereof. > The Constitution of clie United States lias teen highly complimented at home and abroad—and from the happy alteration in the circumstances of our country, under its auspices, the people have been led to subscribe to the opinicflrTof its friends ; but if the powers, which the govern ment has exercised, exceed the limits'prelcribed, the peoplemuft mod sincerely lament thereftric tion, and conlider the constitution so far defec tive ; for it is much better to derive such advan tages from a constitutional source, than to owe them to accident, or an illegal adumption ofle giflative power.—One thing however is certain, that independent of the Constitution we have no reason to suppose that the United States would at this day, have been either in credit, free, or in dependent. A correspondent observes on the fabje<ft of the national debt of Great Britain, 'that if the prin cipal of it could be paid o(F, it Would be more fa tal to the Eritifti nation thah the mines of Mexi co were to Spain—and it is well known the Span iards loft their spirit, independence and freedom , when they opened those sources of the precious metals. A Negro Man wa» lately tried at the Court- House in Fairfax county, Virginia, for killing an Overseer. It appearing on the trial, that the Overseer had been guilty of many barbarous acts towards the Negro, and that the Negro's life was in danger when he committed the fact, he was acquitted. This decision has given great fatis faiftion to the friends ofjuftice and humanity in that quarter, Hon. Nicholas Gilman and Jeremiah Smith, Esquire?, are clefted members of the second House of Reprelentativcs of the United States. Extract of a letter from jofepli Fenwick, Esq. Consul of the United States, at the port of Bourdeaux,dated Nov. 8,1790, addrejjea to his friend in Providence, (R. I.) " There is a usage at this port, which allows on all bills of lad ing, filled with primage and average accuftomeH, ten per cent, on the freight—fay five to the Capt. for primage, and five to the ship for average. As this occasions frequent and difagrteable disputes here, between the Captains and Consignees, and often (übjefts the freighter to a charge he is not aware of, I beg leave to fuggeff, that it would be well to itipulate on the bill of lading what is to be allowed, to either the Captain or Ship, over and above the freight. As this is not generally known in America, and the in formation may interefl your merchants in general, I beg that it may be inserted in the different newspapers throughout the United States.'' APPOINTMENTS The Governor of this Commonwealth, on the ift inft. made the following appointments. The Hon. EdwardShi[)pe?i, Esquire, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, in the room of the late Hon. George Bryan, Esq.—The Hon. James Biddle, Esq. Judge of the Court of CommoftPlens —and Charles Biddle, Ef*j. Prothonctary of faicl Court TO CORRESPONDENTS. A Correspondent who handed us remaiks on the indecorum of wearing Hats, cocked, as well as floucheri, in the Gallery of the House of Representatives, even while the Chaplain is officiating, is informed, that agreeable to King Charles' rule, we think, it best to " MAKE NO COMPARISONS." As to the Dogs, who accompany the Auditors of the debates, and sometimes disturb.the House by their yelping, we refer our correspondent to their owners. PRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT 6 pr. Cents 17/ 17/3. pr. / 3 pr. Cents 8/9 of. Defered 6 pr. Cents UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Settl. and other Certificates 16JI 80 do Indents 8/9 9/ 45 N. and S. Carolina, debts, 1»/. n/6. 67k da issnu 86£ pr. cent. 45 do - 9/ 9/' 45 . do
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers