LONDON, Dec. 6. Westminster Hall, Court of Exchequer The KING versus TIMSON. A cafe of considerable importance to merchants and importers was t on Friday last. The ques tion [in the words ot the lord chief baron] -'lay wichir. a nutshell." viz. Whether after a fliip arrives in port,and has reported her at the custom houle, the separate articles of goods may be considered to be legally imported, and whether until they are landed upon the leg.il quays, the consignee is liable to pay the cultoms on the whole.— Mr. Timfon, in March lad, imported in the Isabella, from Bourdeaux, a large quantity of brandy. Jheguagers on board the /hip took an tffit. Mr. Lorriiner, and Mr. Hallet the * c lS£?' wore a'particular calk of bran dy? \|vhawf>utinto the lighter in order to be land- A tjogsDt£ined 120 gallons—Mr. Taylor, theland- c proved that at the time of landing, calk at thequays, it contained on [«K gallons of brandy, with intent to fettle the Rous, for the defendant, called two wit- who proved that the calk was injured in and had actually loft the quantity of by leakage. He contended, with great that goods and merchandize were notle imported until the adlual landing on the chief baron divided the question into a of law. The fact, he observed, was plain, law he apprehended, 11111 ft be determined tisbanother jurifdiiftion. Hjß'lie Jury retired for two ho\irs, and having SwiKen the fa«sl and the law under their serious MPonfideration, came into court with a verdict for Huhe defendant. Wf Extrafl of a letter from Flanders, Dec. 3. W " The troubles which have for some timepaft afflicted these unfortunate provinces are at an . end. The refpeiftive states have at last returned tq their allegiance, and fubmifted to the emperor The province of Namur was the fir ft detached itfelf from the Union, and furren- Memd that itrong fortrefs to the Austrian forces, iMMbr the command of Gen. Bender. The Belgic £gMly, upon this, retired from the posts they had upon the banks of the Meufe, in two towards Bruflelsand Mons. The Con |Ke(s, finding it in vain to refill any longer, with- Bw, and the States gave up the city ofßrufl'els, BBi: n being fuinmoned byMarfhil Bender. The Belgic army, consisting of about Ht>o or 9000 men, arrived at Ghent on the 2d, in confulion, and ihe States of Ghent lubmit ted yesterday. The counter revolution has been effeited with tlie%t of but very few men on either fide. /II left of the Brabant army, have been dilbantH|t >l an.d paid one month's pay.—Thus all is now the Neth erlands, and nothing is heard but to nMjIY tiHE Emperor LEOPOLD. ■dffignats—The counterfeiters of FrarJWtfepm \ to have intended an immediate harveft/^fcta: *ven currency had made men suspicious Thirty-fix people have been at oncd^Hjj prehended. According to the new constitution in France, tlie hi (hops and higher dignitaries have been b stripped, without mercy,of their over grown liv ings ; but the incomes of the inferior and offici ating clergy have been raised. The former mea sure, without the latter, would have brought a load of odium on the aflembly ; but by the latter they have secured an innnenie majority of the •clergy ou their fide. Saturday at eleven o'clock, Mr. Shaw, one of the travelling meleugers, arrived polt at the Duke of Leed's office, White-hall, from Madrid, with the exchanged ratification of the convention with Spain : he was only eleven days on his jour- Bey. It may be ufeful tomanyof our readers toknow that one of the moll simple and efficacious reme dies for a fore throat, is a gargle made with a ftronjr decocftion of carrots, which very soon re moves all inflammation and soreness. NEW-YORK, March 2 The following letter of the Senators from this State in the Congress of the United States, was read in the legislature. I'hiladtlphia, Feb. 23, 1791- Genti.f.men, " We have each had the honor to receive from you a letter, covering a copy of the resolutions of the Senate and Adembly of the fifth instant. Having for fojne time thought that it would be expedient that the legislative debates of the Se nate fliould be public, it affords 11s much fatisfac tion that our fentimenrs 011 the fubje<?t concur with those entertained by the Senate and Aflein hly of the state we have the honor to represent. With great refpecfl, we are gentlemen your very obedient servants, Philip Schuyler, Hon. Isaac Roosevelt, President Hon. John Watts, Speaker. Rufus KING GEORGE-TOWN, Feb. 23 I3y accounts from Frederick-Town, Ave learn, that in the night of the 19th inft. the house of George Scott, Esq. of that eonnty, accidental ly catched lire. The wind blowing hard, enra ged the flames so furioully, that in less than half an hour the whole property of Mr. Scott, with two of his Sons, one of eleven, the other of nine years of age, fell vidtims to this dreadful and truly calamitous accidei^fk Mr. Ellicot, we learn, finilhed the firft line of his l'urvey of the Federal Territory, in Vir ginia, yesterday, and crofied below the Little- Falls, the River Patowmack, on the second line. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. FENNO, As you were once so obliging as to tolerate the effufions of my rujlic Muse, and invite the continuation of them, enclofng the copy of a little Ode to you, needs no apology. A LYRIC O D E.—Feb. 28. FROM dreams I wake to real woe, While winds from every quarter blow. And urge the beating rain ; 111 leave my pillow, deep'd in tears, And try to difiipate my cares With my sweet lyre again. Ah ! where is fancy's magic power, That us'd to charm each dreary hour. And gild the darked dorm ? Ev'n in the howling of the wind, Soft plaintive murmurs she could find, Breath'd by some airy form ! Oft has (he borne me on her wing, To climes that know eternal spring, To sweet Arcadian vales ; To where the vi'lets fragrant breath, Perfumes unseen the defart heath, With aromatic gales. To groves whofedark embrowning (hades, Skirted with evcr-verdant meads, And woodbine mantled round ; With dreams, whose velvet margins bear, The blushing rose, and lilly fair, Spontaneous on the ground, Bat now no more her presence chears ; Her wand no foft enchantment rears, To sooth my heart-telt pain How loud the tempests horrid loar, I fee the wrecks on every ihore, And hear the dying drain ! My mind congenial with the gloom, That hides fair nature's brighted bloom, Welcomes contending dorms; Sad emblem of the griefs that prey, And wade my widowed heart away, In retrofpe&ive forms. Philadelphia, March 5.. The third irift. closed the political career of the ftrfl Congrefsofl the United States, under the new Constitution : As the Ikilfui pi-' lor, after he has condutted the veflel, committed to his charge, through straits, abounding With rocks, ijuickfaiids, and shoals, and has given her a fairoffing to the port of her destination, experien ces indescribable sensations of pleafure,fo our political fathers may congratulate themselves on the success of their endeavors in con ducing our political affairs through paths before untried. From ibts tufpicious period, may they behold the labours of their hands a happy state of perft&ion ! It is a pleasing reflettion, that their administration has been so far to public acceptance, as to secure the re-ele£tion to office of a great majority of their num ber : In several instances, a re-appointment has been voluntarily declined—and those tvho have 101 l their re-ele£lion, are not with out reflections to counter-ballance the difappointrm nt. y/ ■jjWI of a letter from North-Carolina, to a member of Congress, dated 16th February, 1791. the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the together with the copy of a resolution fcf the comn^irAHfg^nkloufe of Reprefentativcs of the United Jtatcs, a canal between the waters of Vir ginia and North-Carolina. I have to inform you, that the fame vas laid before the General Assembly of this State, at their last eflion -..and an a£ accordingly was pa(Tid by them, for cutting a lavigible canal from the waters of Pafquotank River, in this State, o the waters of Elizabeth River, in the State of Virginia. A copy U which duly authenticated, has been transmitted to his Ex cellency the Governor of Virginia. 1 " I beg leave to congratulate you on this event, prcenant, I flat /er myfelf, with great commercial advantage to the fifler States of Virginia and North-Carolina." According to the proclamation of his Excellen-I cy Governor Tllkair—the Hon. Abraham Baldwin, Anthony Wayne andl-'RANCis Wn.- j.is Efqi s. are elecfted members of the second house of Representatives, of the United States for the state of Georgia.— Yeftertlay, pursuant to notification from the 'resident of the United States, the Senate as sembled in their Chamber of Congress, for the dispatch of bnfinefs in their executive capacity. The Hon. William S. Johrifon, Senator of the United States from the Mate of Connetfticut, has religned his feat ill the Senate. appointments Pursuant to tlie powers vested in the President of the United States by the art, entitled an a ft, repealing, after the laftday of June next, the du ties heretofore laid on dxftilled'fpirits, imported from abroad, &c. he has thought proper to di vide the United States into Fourteen Districts, and to nominate the following SUPERVISORS to each refpetftively : For the difttici } Joshua Wentworth. of* Ncw-Hftnipiliirc, j | Do. Maflachufctts, Nathaniel Gorham. Do. R. I. and P. P. John S. Dexter. Do. Connecticut, Jo,hn Chester. Do. Vermont, Noam Smith. Do. New York, W. S. Smith. 771 Do. New-Jersey, Aahon Dunham. Do. Peiuilylvanifl, G.orge Cly.mer. Do. Delaware, Henry Latimer. Do. Maryland, Geo .ge Gale. Do. Virginia, Edward Carrington. Do. North-Carolina, William Polk. Do. South Carolina, Daniel Stevens Do. Georgia, John Matthews. The President of the United States liatli also been pleased to make the following appointments. Nathaniel Chipman, Judge of the dirtriifc of Vermont Stephen Jacqbs, United States' Attorney for Vermont, Lewis R. Morris, Marlhall for do. Stephen Keyes, Collector for the port of All burgh, in the state of Vermont. To all of which nominations theSetiateof tVie United States did advil'e and consent. We may estimate the value of the national go vernment by the lofles we hare fuifered for the want of it. For want of a government, many years of back interest are added to our debt, iu cludiug the interest on the state debis, more than 20 millions of dollars—Perhaps 30 have been in arrears for interest only. Some will fay, perhaps, that if we have paid no interest, we have paid no taxes—and that we have laved by one way what we have loft in another : So far from it, the coun try bore a heavier burden before any hiHicienn provision was made for its debts, than it has done under the general government —the taxes for merly were higher, and yet the creditors were fufferers. But it would be wrong to conlider the taxes that we did not pay as so much laved.— When the war ended, luxury came in upon us like a torrent : Duties on imported goods would have been rather a saving, than a loss : f roni 1783 to 1789 we might, if the new constitution had been in operation duringthat time, have col lected more than 20 millions of dollars by Impclfc and Excise. That sum has been eat and drank, ( and as it regards the nation, may be conlidered as mere loss. It is indeed worse than loft. For duties not only encourage frugal habits, but they encourage our own manufactures. Every dollar of duty 011 foreign articles is a bounty to our own. This bounty causes a great deal more work to be done—and work is money. If the national government had been in full force at the end of the war, instead of the year 1759, our country would have Caved all these great funis. If any are remaining among us who hate the government, they will not fufter it to be sub verted, if they love their money. Five years of 1 disorder would cost us more, than,2o years of hard L work would pay for. It will take many years to [wipe off the debt that the fix yeats of no govern kment after the peace, have thrown upon the 11a ltion. Experience ought to warn us againftanai jchy, and those measures which are calculated to restore it. I The legislature of North Carolina has parted pn avft, to carry into efFeifl the resolution of Con- iefpeding the fafe-keeping pi ifoners of the United States in the goals of that State. fcf Difcourfeson Davila One of the People' EfTay on Agriculture Tablet Somut, No. I. and other favors, nc ceffarilv postponed. (£3* In the Yeas and N T ays on the motion for opening the doers oj the Senate—as publijhed in our lajl ; Mr. Schuv h* Jhtuld have been injerted among the Yeas. ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA, Franci'ca, Tobm RufTia. Delaware, Art, Charleston, 8 days, Brig Phccbe, Williams, Lisbon, 30 Schooner Induftrv, Brewftei, Vitginia, Brothers, Rofs, ditto. William, Scott, ditto. Ship Sloop Samuel, (PRICE CURRENT. PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 16/10 17/ pr.£ 3 pr. Cents Qf. g/i Defered 6 pr. Cents q/i. UNFUNDED' DEBT. Final Settl.and othei Certificates 15/9 16/ 80 do. Indents 9/ 9 A 45 do - N. and S. Carolina debts, 12J6 13/, do. Manuel Noah, broker, No. 01, Race-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, BUYS and SELLS Continental & State Certificates', Pennsylvania and Jeifey Paper Money, And all kinds of SECURITIES of the United States, or of any Philadelphia, Frb. 1790. The seat ok the late governor LIVINGSTON, fituateabout a mile from Elizabeth-Town, on the public road to Morris Town. The farm contains between 90 and ico acres o' land, 15 or 20 acres of which are wood land ; there is also apper taining to the said farm about iq acres of fait meadow. Partici.Sjr attention having been paid to the cultivation of fruit ; there >1 nn the farm a very large collection of various kinds of the choicelt fruit trees, &c. in full bearing; the house is large, convc;.:, well built and in very good repair Enquire of the Printer, for further particulars Ncto-York, Jan. j-91. ditto. Builer, X A * w 85 pr. cent. 4.5 <1 °- ' 45 do " /• /■ ft. J — particular State, IO BE SOLO, 3 3 .;!■
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