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.
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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.
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Defered 6 pr. Cents
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Final Settl. and other Certificates 16JI 80 do
Indents 8/9 9/ 45
N. and S. Carolina, debts, 1»/. n/6. 67k da
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