■ ft E P O ft T OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, On the fubjc£t of the COD AND WHALE FISHERIES, THE rival fifhermen immediately endeavoured to turn this measure to their own' advantage, by pouring their whale oils into the markets of France, where they were enabled, by the great premiums received from their governmeot, perhaps too by extraordinary indemnifications, to undersell both the French and American fifhermen. To repel this measure, France shut her ports to all foreign fifh oils whatever, by the arret No. 10. The British whale fiftiery fell, in confcquence, the ensuing year, from two-hundred and twenty-two to one hundred and feveiuy-eight ships. But this general exclusion had palsied our fishery alio. On the seventh of December, 1788, therefore, by the arret No. xi, the ports of France, still remaining (hut to all other nations, "were again opened to the produce of the whale fifheries of the United States ; continuing, however, their endeavours to recover a ihare in this fi(hery themselves, by the aid of our fiftiermen. In 1784 —5—6 —they had had four ships ; in 1787, three ; in X/ 88, seventeen :n the two fifheries, of tour thousand seven hun dred ton. These cost them in bounty, two hundred and twentv fivc thousand livresTwilich divided on one thousand five hundred and fifty tons of oil, tWe quantity they took, amounted to one hundred and forty-five livres (near twenty-seven dollars) the ton ; and on about one hundred natives on board the seventeen ships, for there were one hundred and fifty Americans engaged by the voyage) came to two thousand two hundred and fifty livres, or about four hundred and sixteen dollars and two-thirds a man. We have had daring the years 1787 —8—9 —on an average, ninety-one veflels, of five thouf«ind eight hundred and twenty tons, in the northern, and thirty-one, of four thousand three hundred and ninctv-tons, in the southern fifhery. See No. 12. The details will enable Congress to fee with what a competition ye have to struggle for the continuance of this filhery, not to fay its inrreafe. Against prohibitory duties in one country, and bounties of the adventurers in both of tliofe which are contend ing with each other for the fame object, ours have no auxiliaries but poverty and rigorous economy. The bufintfs, unaided, is a ■wretched one. The Dutch have peculiar advantages for the nor thern fifhery, as being within fix or eight days fail of the grounds, as navigating with more economy than *ny other nation in Europe,' their seamen content with lower wages, and their merchants with lower profits. Yet the memorial of No. 13, from a committee of the whale merchants to the States General of Holland in the year 1775, state* that fourteen millions of guilders, equal to five millions fix hundred thousand dollars, had been loft in that fifh ery in forty-feven years, being about one hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year, '1 he States General thereupon gave a bounty or thirty guilders a man to the fifhermen. A person in timately acquainted with the British whale fifhery, and whose Jnlormation merits confidence, has given afTurance that the ships employed in their northern filhery in 1788, funk eight hundred pounds each on an average, more than the amount of the pro duce and bounties. An English {hip of three hundred tons, and forty.two seamen in this fifhery generally brings home, after a lour months voyage, twenty-five ton of oil, worth four hundred and thirty-seven pounds ten (hillings sterling ; but the wages of the officers and seamen will be four hundred pounds, theie re main but thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, not worth taking in to account towards the outfit and merchants profit. Thefc then must be paid by th? government; and it is on this idea that the Eritifh bounty is calculatcd. Our veflel for the northern fifhery average sixty-sour tons, and cod when built, fitted ouf, and victualled for their firft voyage about three thousand dollars. They have taken on an average The three lafl years, according to the flatement No. 12, eighteen tons of oil, worth, at our m3i ket, nine hundred dollars, which are to pay all expenees, and subsist the fiihermen and merchant. Our vessels for the fourhern fifhery average one hundred and forty tons, and cost, when built, fitted out, and victualled for their firft vc-yage, about fix thousand five hundred dollars. They have ta ken on an average the three last years, according to the fame statement, thirty-two tons ot oil, each worth at our market three thousand two hundred dollars, which are, in like manner, to pjv all expenees and subsist the owners and navigators. Thcfe expen ees are great, as the voyages are generally of twelvemonths du ration. No hope can arise of their condition being bettered bv an augmentation of the price of oil. This is kept down by the competition ot the vegetable oils, which answer the fame purpo ses, not quite so well, but well enough to becomc preferable, ■were Ihe price to be raised, and so well indeed as to be moie' generally used than the fifh oils for lighting houses and cities. The A merican whale fifhery is principally followed by the in habitants of the island of Nantucket, a sand bar of about fifteen miles long and three broad, capable of maintaing bv its agricul ture about twenty-families : but it employed in these fifhenes be fore the war, between five and fix thousand men and boys; and in the only harbour it pofTefles, it had one hundred and 'forty veflels, one hundred and thirty-two of which were of the larger kind, as being employed in the southern fifhery. In agriculture then, theyha«.eno resource, and, if that of their fifhery cannot be pursued from their own habitations, it is natural they should seek others from which it can be followed, and preferably those they will find a lameness of language, religion, laws, ha bits and kindred. A foreign emiflary has lately been them, for the purpose of renewing the invitations to a change oT situation. But attached to their native country, they prefer con tinuing in it, if their continuance in it can be made supportable. This brings us to the question, what relief does the condition of this fifhery require ? lft. A remission of duties on the articles used f or their calling. 2d. A retaliating duty on foreign oils, coming to seek a com petition with them in or from our ports. 3d. Free markets abroad. lft. The remiflion of duties will stand oa nearly the fame ground with that to the cod fifhermen. 2d. The only nation whose oil is brought hither for competi tion with our own, makes ours pay a duty of about eighty-two dollars the ton, in their ports. Theirs is brought here too, to be re-shipped fraudulently under our flag into ports where it could not be received under theirs, and ought not to be covered by ours, if we mean to preserve our own admission into them. The 3d. And principal object, is to find markets for the vent of oil. Portugal, England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, P r u{fia, Rufiia, the Hanfe towns, supply themselves and something more. Spain and Italy receive supplies from England, and need the Icfs as their flues ai e clearer. France is the only country which can take our surplus, and they take principally of the common oil; as the habit is but commencing with them of ascribing a jufl value to that of the (permacaeti whale. Some of this, however, finds vent there. There was, indeed, a particular interest per petually soliciting the cxclufion of our ofls from their maikets. The late government there saw well, thai what we should lose thereby, would be gained by others, not by themselves. And ■we are to hope that the present government, as wife and friendly, will also view us, not as rivals, but asco-operators against a com mon rival. Friendly arrangements with them, and accommo dation to mutual interest, rendered easier by friendly dispositions exiftingon both fides, may long secure to us this important re source lor our seamen. Nor is it the ir.tereft at the fifherman [continued.] alone, which calls for the cultivation of f ri?ndly arrangements with that nation. Besides five-eighths of our whale oil, and two thirds of our salted fifh, thty take from us one-fourth of our to bacco, three-fourths of our Jive flock (No. 14.) a considerable and growing proportion ot our rice, great supplies occafionallv of other grain ; in 1789, whith, indeed, was extraordinary foui millions of buihels ot wheat, and upwards of a million of buQi elsof rye and barley (No. 15.) and nearly the whole carried in our own vessels (No. 16.) They are a free market now, and will in a time be a valuable one for our (hips and ship-timber, potash and peltry. [To be continued.] Blank Powers to receive the Interest, andfor the transfer of the principal ojpublic debt, agreeable to the Rules ejlablifhed in the Trea sury Department : Afo Blanks for abf.rafts of to be fold by the Editor. New-Haven Wharf Lottery. THE L'egiflature of the State of Connecticut, at their felfion in December last, granted a Lottery for the purpofp of extend ing Union Wharf, in the harbour of New-Haven, to the channel; and appointed the fubferibers managers, who hnving given bond for the faithful difchargc of their trial, prefer.t the pilblic with the following S C ] 1 ] 1 1 2 4 £ 12 30 45 5° 61 100 140 539° Prize of ,5842 Prices. 11658 Blanks. 17500 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, is Not twoßlanks to a Pr 1 7.z. Subje&to a dedu&ion of twelve and a half per cent. T.'ie public utility of extending this wharf, is too evident fori quire any comment, to those who are acquainted with the town and harbour of New-Haven ; to those who are not, fuffice it to fay, that its beautiful situation is not furpafled, if equalled by any ; b ing in the heart of a country, which may, with propriety, be said to be the garden of America. The harbour lavs open to the found but by realon of the fiats, this wharf is netefiarily extended to the channel, where ships can load and unload ; and when compleat ed, will be the most extenftve and commodious wharf in America, the whole extent being about 3-4ths of a mile; and not only the mercantile interest of New-Haven and the towns adjacent, but the maritime interest of all the States will be benefited by it. The general wish that prevails in the minds of all dalles of people, for the success of this enterprise, together with the very great advan tage which this scheme holds out to adventurers (there' being mor< capital prizes for the number of tickets than any yet publilhed ir Ameriea) induce the managers to believe the tiekets will meet with a speedy sale. , The drawing will pofitive'.y commence at the State-House, in New-Haven, on the 13th of September next, or sooner, if the tickets are fold. A lift of the fortunate numbers will be publifbed, and the prizes paid on demand, bv the managers. Those prizes notcalled for in nine months after drawing, will, be deemed as generoufiy given for the use of the wharf, and appropriated accordingly. ** MA Nacer s: James Rice, Michael Tono, Jeremiah Atwater, Elijah Austin, Joseph Drake, , Joseph Howell. Neui-ffji'en, April 14, 1791. $3* TICKETS in the above Lottery rnay be had at the Compiing-houfeof Messrs. Stefiien Austin, and Co. corner of Front and Pine-Streets. Tickets in the MalTachufetts Lottery (hat have drawn -jriics, will be received in payment for the above tickets. ' A C A R D. Joseph Wheaton PRESENTS his compliments to his old Military Friends, the Gentlemen of the Civil Lift, and the Public—w'ifhes they may be informed that he has received a very handsome Assortment of the best chofcn SPRING GOODS, By the Pigou, and other late arrivals, which aie 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 terms as mud make it an ebjeel to cujiomas. Ordcis from his friends will be attended to with pundtuality and dispatch, and the time of pa) ment made convenient. ' Philad. May 2, 1791 ADVERTISEMENT. THE Subscriber, who served a regular anprenticeftiip to the business of VENDIIE-MASTER, under Mr. Geoscs Kelly, has jult 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 thole that may be pleased to favor him with their com mands- JOHN H. HALL. Norfolk, Virginia, April 21, 1791. (1 ep 7 w) To be disposed of, BY PRIVATE SALE, A COLLECTION OF Scarce and Valuable BOOK S, In various Languages —being part of a private Library; Among zo/iich are the following : FOLIO. Euripides, Homer, Demosthenes, Xenophon, Plato, Lucian, Plutarch, Paufanias, JProcopius, Eufebius* Niccpho rus, Cicero. Virgil, Horace, Livy,' Tacitu.*, Seneca, Pliny, See. Quarto. Pindar, Aristotle, Terence, Ovid,- Cxfar, Suetonius, Juvenal, Manilius, See. Ottiva a infra. Sepuuagint, Aristophanes, Longinus, Theo phrallus, Epidletus, Hefiod, Orpheus, M. Antoninus, Phaiaris, liocratcs, Polyomas, Lucretius, Catullus. Tibullus, Prnpertii-s, l aterculus, Florus, Lucan, Statius, Gelli'us. Aufonius, Vida, Bu chanan, Boethius, Poets minores Latini, Callipxdia, Strada, L Valla, &c. 0-3 Catalogues may be had, and further particulars learned, at the n'Pi I ', U,C F ' Co " Market-Street. Catalogues are aljojlitched up W,th the AMERICAN MUSEUM for 1p„/ SC7' The price of this Paper is 3 Dollars per ann. 24 HEME. 10,000 Dollars, is 5000 4000 2000 are 1000 s°# 200 #100 5® 40 3° 20 10 8 , *3" A young mat, vho Ut had M of tjtptriertce in the direction kf periodicalpUSuSK, is desirous of procuring employ at SuterinilP ' % ™ det l "" Editor of the Gai*<u ?f &J State 3, -who will rtply to all requifitt ena«;J « Philadelphia, May , 4 f ,-g, i J »_ V [£3* All persons concerned will be pleased to tak-r-• l~"~ following adverti'ement has been varied ir„ m ,i our paper of the 2 3 d of March.] ° m th " . , Treasury Department. March 22, j- 01 NOTICE is hereby given, that Propolals will be receivVj . office of the Secretary of the Treafurv, until the '['■•• "J ' in September next mclufive, for the supply of all , it , n . iv ■nay be required tor the use o( the United States, from tC'fi.ftj ' of January to the thirty.firft .lay of December, ,- q , both ' ' clufive, at the places, and within the dillnt;, herein aftcr oned, viz. " ll - At any place or places, betwixt Yorktown in the !U'c o< P„* fylvania and Fort Pitt, and at Fort Pitt. ' ~ an " At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Fort on the River Ohio, and at Fort M'lntofh. ' 1 At any place or places, betwixt Fort M'lntoAi and the mouth „f the Rivrr Mutkingum, and at the mouth of the Rive, Miilkineum At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the R, vcr M [lf ' kingum, and up the said River to the Tufcamwas, jnd at theT carowas, and thence over to the Cayoga River, and down'the bid River to its mouth. Atany place or places, betwixt the mouth of the River Muf kmgum, and the mouth of the Scioto River, and at the month of the said River Scioto. Atany place or places, betwixt the mouth of Scioto River, and the mouth of the great Miami, at the mouth of the great Miami and from thence to the Rapids, on the Falls of the Ohio, and at the' said Rapids. 10.000 5000 4000 4000 4000 2500 2400 300 c 225° 20C0 1830 2000 1400 43,120 At any place or places, betwixt the mouth of the great Miami U P the said Miami, to and at Piquetown, and thence over 10 the Miami Village, on the river of the fame name which emptiei into Lake .Eric. 87500 At .my place or place.l from the rapids oft'ne Ohio, to the month of the V/abath, thence up the said Waba(h 10 Post St. Vincennti at Post St. Vincennes, and thence up the said ri»»r Wabafli, to the Aiiarni village, before dcfcribed. At any place or places, from the mouth of the Wabafh river to the mouth of rhe river Ohio, At any placs or places, on the east fide of the river Miflifinpi from .-he mouth of the Ohio river.to the mouth of thelllinois river. At any olace or places, from the mouth of the Miami river to the Miami Village. At any place or place?, from the Miami Village to Sandufitv, *nd at Sandufle.y, and from Sanduikv to the mouth of Cayoga river. At any place or places, betwixt Fort Pitt and Venango, and at Venango. At any place or places, betwixt Venango ajid Le Beuf, and at Le Beuf, betwixt Le Beuf and Prefq'lfie, at Prefq'lfle, and be twixt Prefq'lHe and the mouth of Cayoga river. At the mou: li of Cavoga river, and at any pla:e or places, on. the route from Fort Pitt, to the mouth of Cayoga river, bv the way of Big Beaver creek. At anv placeor placcs, on the'eaft. fide of the Miflifippi, between the mouth of the Ohio and the river Margot inclusively. At any placeor places, from the said river Margot, totherrcr Yazous inclusively. At any place or places, from the month of the river Tenefee, to Ocochapoo or Bear creek, on the said river inclusively. Should any rations be required at any places, or within other diftri&s, not fpecified in these proposals, the price of the fame to be hereafter agreed on, betwixt the public and the contractor. The rations to be supplied are to consist of the following article*, viz. One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or | of a pound of perk, Haifa jill of rum, brancy or whisky, One quart of fait, } Two quartsof vinegar,f 1 , cj- > per. 100 rations. Iwo pounds or soap, £ r One pound of candles, ) ALSO, That Proposals will be received at the said office until the firft Monday in September next, inclusive, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the Un ' d States, from the fir ft day of January to the thirty-firft day of December, 1 795?, both days inclusive. at Springfield, in the ftafe of Massachu setts, 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 arc above mentioned. ALSO, That proposals will be received at the said office, until the lit Monday in September next inclusive, for the fapply of all rations, which mav be required for the use of the United States, from the lft day of January to the 31 ft day of December, 1792, both days inclusive, at the places, and within the diftri&s 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. At t he port on the river Oconee, at present com manded by Capt. Jefeph Savage. At the post on the river Apalac'nee, at present commanded by Capt. Michael Rudolph, At any place or places from th" Rock I. ■ din£ on the Oconee, up to the mouth of the main foulh branch of rhe laid river, from the said mouth up to the f urcc of the aid main south branch, and from thence to the Currahee mountain. At any other or places within the state 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 port*. The rations are to be furnifhed in such quantities as that 'here fhail at all times, during the said term, be fufficient for the con sumption of the troops at each of the said posts. for the fpareofat lead two months in advance, in good and wholesome provisions. . The rations to be supplied are to consist of the fame articles, a* are abovementioned. It is to be understood in each cafe, that all losses fuilained by the depredations of the enem), orbymeans of the troops of the Inucd States, {hall be paid for at the Drices of the articlescap'ured or dei troyed, on the depohtions of 'wo or more creditable charaftcrs, *nd the certificate of a commifTioneri officer, afccrtaining the cir cumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for whic. coniDenfation is claimed. The con*rafts for the above supplies will be made either for year, or for two vears, as may appear ebeible. Per.ons dllpo to contrast will therefore confine their offers to one year, or tn^ V may make their proportions so as to admit an elc&ion o i e term of two years. ' The proposals may be made for the whole of the above potts to gether, or fcparately/or Springfield, for Weft-Point, for York.own, and the seventeen places following it, and for the ports in Georgia, and they mufl fpecify the lowest price per ration, for prompt pa\ (ICTT The Printers who have prrbliflied the above advert' a ' requejlcd to reprint it with the alteration*. * ■*; .>-v
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