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.
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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 "
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particular State,
IO BE SOLO,
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