Sung at the Ordination of Mr. Abel Flint, at Hartjord, April 20 —composed for tlie occasion. ALMIGHTY God, whose fov'reign sway, 44 The known, and unknown worlds obey;" To thee our song of praise shall rife, Like sweetest incense to the Pities. Parent of light, we bless thy hand, That in Creation's great command, Thy Church llluftrioufly ftiould lhare Thy firft, thy most peculiar care. Thy Church, eftablifh'd e'er the spheres Began the circuit ot their years, Eternal ages yet to come, Shall flourifh in immortal bloom. Look from thy heavenly throne of love,' With pious zeal our bol'oms prove ; While on this solemn day, we raise <Jur boldell notes to hymn thy praise. Give to thy servant, fov'rcign Lcyd, Whom thou haft call'd to preach thy word, Inverted in the robes of peace, . Of grace divine, a rich encrcafe. Grant that this people, wprtn with zeal, May every chriitian virtue feet; • • And o'er his failings kindfy move Th' endearing mantle of their love. * * And when this life of praise is o'er ; When Sabbathi (hall return no more ;* *' ' When Gofp 1 founds, divinely clear, Shall cease to charm (he ravifh'd car; Then may we, cloathjd in .every grace, Knraptui'd, view thy glorious face; Spring from the dole of morn and even, And join the gcn'ral Church in Heaven, REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, On the fubjefr of rhe COD AND WHALE FISHERIES, [continued.] OF the disadvantages, which depend on others, are 1. The loss of the Mediterranean markets'. 2. Exclusions from "the markets of fonie neighbours. 3. High duties in those of others, and — 4. Bounties to the individuals in competition with us. The consideration of these will find its place more aptly, after a review of the condition of our whale fifhery, shalL have led us to the fame point. To this branch of the fubjec r t, therefore, we will now proceed. The whale fiihery was firft.btought into notice of the southern nations ofiEurope, in the fifteenth century, by the fame Bifcayansand Basques, who led the way to the fifhery of Newfoundland.— They began it on their own coasts, but soon found that the principal relidence of the whale, was in the northern seas, into which, therefore, they pursued him. In 1578, they employed twenty five ships in that business; the Dutch and Ham burghers tookit up afterthis, and about the mid dle of the seventeenth century, the former em ployed about two hundred ships, and the latter three hundred and fifty. The English endeavoured also to participate of it. In 1672, they offered to their own fiiher men a bounty of fix (hillings a ton, 011 the oil they Ihould bring home, and inflituted at different times, different exclusive companies, all of which failed of success. They raised their bounty in 1733, to twenty (hillings a ton on the admeasure ment of the vell'el. In 1740, to thirty (hillings, with a privilege to the fi(herman against being imprefled. The Basque .fclhery, supported by po verty alone, had maintained, but a feeble exig ence, before competitors, aided by the bounties of their nation, and was, in fine, annihilated by the war of 1745, at the close of which, the Eng lish bounty was raised 10 forty (hillings. From this epoch, their whale fifhery went on between the limits of twenty-eight and fixty-fev'en veflels, till the commencement of the last tvar. The Dutch, in-the mean time, had declined gradually to about one hundred and thirty (hips, and have since that-fallen down to less than half that number : so that their fifliery, notwith flanding a bounty of thirty florins a man, as ■well as that of Hamburgh, is now nearly out of competition. In 17r5, the Americans began their whale fidiery. They were led to it atfirft by the whales ■which presented themselves on their coasts. They attacked them therein finall veflels of for ty tons. As the whale, being infected, retired from the coast, they followed hi in farther and farther into the ocean, still enlarging their ves sels, with their adventures, to fixry, one hun dred and two hundred tons. Having extended their pursuit to the Western Islands, they fell in, accidentally, with the fpermacxti whale, of a different species from that of Greenland, •which alone had been hitherto known in com merce ; more fierce and active, .and whose oil and head-matter was fotind to benrore valuable, as it might be used in the interior of houses ■without oflending the finell. T*he diftindiion now firfl. arose between the northern and sou thern fifheries; the objetft of the lormeribeincr the Greenland whale, which frequents the nor thern coasts and seas of Europe and America, that of the latter being the fpermacsetS whale, which was found in the southern seas, from the Western Iflaijds and coast of Africa to that of Brazil, and still on to the Falkland Islands. Here again, within foundings, on the coast of Brazil, they found a third (pedes of whale, which they called the black, or Brazil whale, finaller than the Greenland, yielding a still less valuable oil, fit only for (ummer use, as it be comes opaque at fifty degrees of Farenheit's thermometer, while that of the fpermacxti whale is limped to forty-one, and of the Greenland whale to thirty-fix, of the fame thermometer. It is only worth taking therefore, when it falls in the way of the fifliernien, but not worth seek ing, except when they have failed of success a gainst the fperinacaeti whale, in which cale this kind, easily found and taken, serves to mode rate their loss. [To be continued."] A CARD Joseph Wheaton PRESENTS his compliments to his old Military Friends, the Gentlemen of the Civil Lift, and the Public—wifhesthey may be informed lhat he has received a very hand Come Assortment of the best chosen SPRING GOODS, Bv the Pi gou, and other late arrivals, which are now opening at his KNOWN CHEAP STORE, No. 38, Third-Street, North, and which he is determined to dispose of (at wholesale or retail) on so low as mud make it an obuEt to cujlomets. Orders from his friends will be attended to with punctuality and dispatch, and the lime of pa) ment made convenient. Philad. May 2, 1791 Philadelphia, May 3. WE, the Commiflioners, appointed to receive fubfcnpiions to the Bank ot the United States, do hereby give public notice, that the Books will be opened by us for that purpose at the Bank of North-America, on Monday the 4th day of July next. Thomas Willing, BE A L E BordLEY, Davib Rittenhouse, All the Printers in the United States are requejied to publi/h the above. To be disposed of, BY PRIVATE SALE, A COLLECTION OF and Valuable Scarce 800 In various Languages—being part of a private Library; Among which are the following : FOLIO. Euripides, Homer, Demoilhenes, Xcnophon, Plato, Lucian, Plutarch, Paufanias, Procopius, Eufebius, Nicepho rus, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, LivyyTacitns, Seneca, Pliny, See. jQuarto. Pindar, A/iftotle, Terence, Ovid, Carfar, Suetonius, Juvenal, Manilius, &c. 061 avo & infra. Septuaglgrf, Aristophanes, Longinu?, Theo phraftus, Epiaetus, Hefiod, Orpheus, M. Antoninus, Phalaris, Ifocrates, Polyzenus, Lucretius, Catullus, Tibullus, Propertius, Paterculus, Florus, Lucan, Statius, Gellius, Aufcnius, Vida, Bu chanan, Boethius, Poetas minoros Latini, Callipasdia, Stiadj, L. Valla, &c. gdT Catalogues may be had, and further particulars learned, at the Rook' Store of Mejfrs. Rice and Co. Market-Street. Catalogues are also Jlitched up tuith the AMERICAN MUSEUM, for April. ADVERTISEMENT THE Subfcribcr, who feived a regular apprenticed** p to the business of VENDUE-MASTER, under Mr. George Kelly, has just opened an OFFICE in the Borough oF Nor folk, Virginia, in a good and convenient House, situated near the County Wharf, where he is in hopes of giving general fatisfac tion to all those that may be pleased to favor him with their com- JOHN H. HALL. (1 cp 7 »/) mands. Norfolk, Virginia, April 21, 1791 Matthew M'Connell, In Chesnut-Str eet, No. 66, BUYS and SELLS all kinds of THE PUBLIC DEBT OF THEUNION ; has frequently occasion to NEGOCIATE INLAND BILLS OF EXCHANGE—and will receive Oidcrs for making SUBSCRIPTIONS to the BANK ot the UNITED STATES. Philadelphia, March 30, 1791 Gallaudet andEwiNG, No. 54, South Second Street, HAVE imported in the Lady Walterflorf, from London, Man chefler and Adriana from Liverpool, and the Birmingham Packet from Bristol, a GENERAL ASSORTMENT of SEASONABLE GOODS, which tliey will fell on reasonable terms. (J3 1 " On hand for sale, a few hogtoeads of OLD JAMES's RIVER TOBACCO. Philadelphia, April q, iroi. ico poim Funds of the United States. ALL kinds of the Public Debt ot the Union, bought, fold, or ex changed ; Foreign and inland Bills of Exchange, negociated ; Merchandize of all forts Bought and Sold on Commijfion, and all other Business in the line of a Broker, tranfa&ed by WILLIAM CLELAND, At the Office, next door toihc Cvjlom-Houfc, State-Street, BOSTON. TO BE SOLD, The seat of the late governor LIVINGSTON, situate about a mile from Elizabeth-Town, on the public road to Morris Town. The farm contains between 90 and 100 acres of land, 15 or 20 acres of which are wood land ; there is also apper taining to the laid farm about 1 g acres of fait mead«Sw.* Particular attention having been paid to the cultivation of frftit ; there is oh the farm a very large colle&ion of various kinds of the {rhoicefl fruit trees, &c. in full bearing; the house is large, convenient, well built and in very good repair. Enquire of the Printer, for further particulars, New-York, Jan. 1791 ICfAfevi copies of the CONSTITUTION of the United Stales, jnnted with Nates, way b: had of the Editor. 16 Samuei Howell, Lambert Cadwalader, K S, [03T All persons concerned will be pleaded .0 take notice tti,,.. following .advertisement has been varied from that publiZ our paper of the 23d of March.] v Treasury Department. NOTICE is hereby given, that PropohU w" ber«eS«di„u office of the Secretary of the Tre-fuiv, until the firft Mo* in September next inclusive, for the supply of all ration, may be required for the ule of the United States, from the Si# d of January to the thirty-firft day of December, i 7 q 2 , both day. iZ clufive, at the places, aud within the diftrifis herein after yned, viz. At any place or places, betwixt Yorktown in the ftateof P c „, fylvania and Fort Pilt, and at Fort Pitt. At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt >od Fort on the River Ohio, and at Fort M'lntofh. At any place or places, betwixt Fort M'lntofh and the mouth of the River Mufkingum, and at the mouth of (he River Mulkinna. At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River M«T kingum, and up the said River to the Tufcarowas, and at the Tot carowas, and thence over to the Cayoga River, and down the River to its mouth. At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River tout kingum, and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the mouth the said River Scioto. At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of Scio'.o River, io4 the mouih of the great Miami, at the mouth of the great Mun ; and fromthenceto the Rapids, on the Falls of the Ohio, md u t h« said Rapids. At any placc or places, betwixt the mouth of the great Miami up the said Miami, to and at Piquctown, and thence over to the Miami Village, on the river ot the fame name which emptiei into Lake Erie. At any place or places from the rapids of the Ohio, to the mouth of ihe Wabalh, thence up the said Wabalh to Post St. Vinccnou at Post St. Vincennes, and thence up the said river Wabalh, to the Miami village, before described. At any place or places, from the mouth of the Wabafti river to the mouth of the river Ohio* At any placeor places, on the east fide of the river Miflifippi, from the mouth of the Ohio river,to the mouth of thelllinois river. At any place or places, from the mouth of the Miami liver to the Miami Village. At any place or places, from the Miami Village to Sandulkv, and at Sandufky, and from Sandulkv to the mouth of Cayoga river. At any placeor places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Venango, and at Venango. At any place or places, betwixt Venango and Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf, betwixt Le Beuf and Prefq'lfle, at Prefq'lfle, and be twixt Prefq'lfle and the mouth of Cayoga river. At the mouth of Cayoga river, and at any pla:e or placw, oa the route from Fort Pitt, to the mouth of Cayoga river, by tbe way of Big Beaver creek. At any placeor places, on the ea(l fide of the Miflifippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the river Margot inclusively. At any place or places, from the said river Margot, totherrcr Yazous inclusively. At any place or places, from the mouth of the river Tencfec, tft Ocochappo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusively. Should any rations be required at any places, or within other diftri&s, not fpccificd in these proposals, the price of the fame tv be hereafter agreed on, betwixt the public and the contradlor. The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following article, viz. One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or J of a pound of park, Half a jill of rum, brancy or whisky, One quart of fait, } Two quarts of vinegar/ t#Q rations iwo pounds ot toap, I 1 One pound of candles, I ALSO, That Proposals will be received at the said office until the fiift Monday in September next, inclufivc, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United Mates, from the fttft day of January to the thirty.firft day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at Springfield, in the Hate of Maflachu fctts, and the Post of Weft-Point, in the state of New-York, The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the fame articles as are above mentioned. ALSO, That proposals will be received at the said office, until the Ift Monday in September next inclusive, for the fapplv of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the lft day of January to the 31ft day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the diftriftf herein after mentioned. At the post on the river Saint Mary, at present commanded by Capt. Henry Burbeck. At the post on the river Altamaha, at present commanded by Capt. John Smith. Attheoofton the river Oconee, at present commanded by Cap?. Jpfeph Savage. At the post on the river Apalachee, at present commanded by Capt. Michael Rudolph. At any place or places from the Rock Landing on the Oconee, up to the mouth of the main fonth branch of the said river, from the said mouth up to the source of the said main south branch, and from thence to the Currahee mountain. (96 tf) At any other place or places within the state of Georgia which may hereafter be occupied as permanent posts by any troops of the United States. And for rations deliverable on the march to such future posts. The rations are to be furnifhed in such quantities as that there shall at all times, during the said term, be fufficient for the con sumption of the troops at each of the said pofls, for the fpaceofat Icaft two months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions. The rations to befupplied are to consist of the fame articles, m are abovementioned. It is to be understood in each cafe, that all lofTes sustained by th« depredations of the enem), or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid for at the prices of the articles captured or del troyed, on the depositions of two or more creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, ascertaining the cir cumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for whie. compensation is claimed. The contra&s for the above supplies will be made either for year, or for two years, as may appear eligible. Persons di po c to contrail will therefore confine their offers to one year, or t ey may make their proportions so as to admit an ele&ion 0 1 c term of two years. - * The pi opofals mav be made for the whole of the above po so gether,or separately for Springfield, for Weft-Point, for \or tow*, and the seventeen places following it, and for the pofls in Georgia, and they must fpecify the lowest price per ration, for prompt pa)- The Printers who have published the above edvertifement, arf requejled to reprint it with the alterations. , Manuel broker, No.qi, Race-Street, between Second and Third-Stree », BUYS and SELLS 80 3m Continental & State Certificates, Pcunfvlvania and Jerfev Pan" M'>n c Y' , An.! all kinds of SECURITIES of the United States, or Noah, particular State. I
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