FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT MefTrs. Hudson & Goodwin, IT may not be improper to inform the public, that many of the extra&s in the late papers refpe&ing Indian affairs, are m.ifre prefentations. Capt. Armstrong who is reported to have been attacked in coming up the Ohio, was, at the time fpecified, in Philadelphia. Fort Pitt was not destroyed the 10th of May, al though an express arrived at Philadelphia by the 20th of April with the intelligence. The (lory of Mr. Stewart Wilkins has very little foundation, and indeed very few of the reports circulated have any, and such as have grounds are much exaggerated. Thai the Indians are disposed 10 commit depredations and distress the inhabitants of the frontiers, is beyond doubt; and that the dignity of the Union requires a force to be f<*nt to protest and defend the frontiers, and to teach the savages that the United States have power as well as mercy, is equally plain; but that such frightful depre dations are committing, is not true—the reports are calculated to terrify, and circulated to prevent emigration to that country —they tend to impede the wifhesof government in giving protc&ion to that part of the Union, and to discourage the y®ung and enterpriz ing from entering into the service of their country, and exploring the most beautiful as well as fertile part of the United S atcs, where not only a rational curiofjty will be gratifi d, but a know ledge acquired which will richly compensate them in the future prolpe&s of life. SPANISH DECREE RESP;ctimg FLOUR DON ANTOINE JOSEF d: POSADA, public writer for our Lord the King in all his do minions, and private secretary to the Land and Marine Royal Tribunal of the Consulate of this city of Seville and of the people of its Archbi Ihoprick, &c. Certifies, that Senior Don Diego de Gardoqtii. Direcftdr General of the Customs of India, has communicated to Senior Don J ' ez de Arrivadas, of this city, the Rcyal Ordinance following, to wit : IN order to promote the commerce of flour to America, an<l at the fame time that our colonies are futficiently supplied with that article a re course for it to foreigners under a plea of scarci ty. may be prevented—His Majesty taking into consideration the advice given on this fubj.ect by the Coufulate ofSontander, that foreign flour is now {hipped to the Caraccas without being; fnh jei't :o the decree of the 28th Feb. 1759, and al*o to conciliate the interests of commerce with the progress of our manufactures, his Majesty has resolved and determined, and now commands that all foreign flour that may be embarked ei ther for Caraccas, the islands, or the kingdoms of Santa Fe, fljall be fubjeft to a new duty pro portioned to the price of the Spanish flour, in the following form and manner, to wir : When the pricc per ban'l is thf* extraordinary d»tv Oiall be Rv. 140 or 7 hard dollars Rv. 40 or 2 dollars T 45 or 7 [ ditto j 50 or 7.!; ditto T 5 5 or 7! ditto 160 or 8 ditto 165 or 8} ditto I 70 or 1 \ ditto When 110 Spaniih flour {hall be at marker, 'lie price shall be fixed by the toft of 17,- lb. (which is fixed as the w eight of a barrel of foreign flour) used for internal consumption, the amount of the fluty fnnll be divided by way of premium among ihippers of national or Spanish flour. Of this I inform you by order of his Majesty, coinmunirated ro me by his Excellency Senor Don Pedro de Lerena, in order that you mav make it known to the merchants in the mode r.c cuflomed. God preserve your life for many years Madrid, the 27th of Jan. 179 T. (Signed) DIEGO DE GARDO£UI Some Account of STEPHEN BOETIUS. STEPHEN BOETIUS lived in the reign of Charles IX King of France—he was one of the King's Counsellors in the Court of the Pai lia ment of Bourdeaux, and the cotemporary and friend of Montague. 15ei ween ! hefe two characters i'uch an intimacy and confidence fubfifled, that, as Montague himfelf fays, " There are but few such to be read of; —and further, there never was a better citizen, more affectionate to the quiet of his country, nor more an enemy to the troubles and seditions of his time. His discourse concerning voluntary servitude was publiflied fooii after the mafl'acre of Paris, and the (laughter of the Pioteftams throughout inoft of the provinces of France, although wrote several years before. If any thing could have whetted the author's llile with keener darts again ft tyranny, to what a heigh :h of indigna tion would that deferable and execrable scene have raised the virtuous spirit of this yonii<r man ? But as the fame causes must ever produce the fame effects, he knew the nature of tyranny to be such. that there is nothing so monstrous and wicked hut what ic is capable of perpetrat ing; and perhaps might not have been surprised at so prodigious an event, but might have looked npon it as a very natural confluence from those principles npon whit h tyranny is founded.— Boetius died at the are of "2, leaving a nioft ex cellent charader to support and cheriih his me- xnorv PORTSMOU T H (N. H. June 4. Accounts from Genoa, of Feb. 18, mention the appointment of Mr. Ravara, as Consul to the United .States. He is to vefidtf at Philadelphia. In the National Assembly of France, nothing has occurred more deserving ot notice than a letter from the friends of the conflitution at Marseilles, dated the 15th of March. To the number of 2000 they offer them Helves :o march to the frontiers, and by their valour repel the invaders of the Liberties of France— Not unappofitely they allude to the following anecdote " The Phocians, our ancestors, fay ihey, in landing upon these cas a bar of iron into the water, swearing never to returntodefpotifm and their couutry, until that bar fliould swim out. It is still in ourGulph, and WE again swear never to return to slavery, until it floats upon the furface." On Sunday morning, the Right Rer. Bilhop Carroll preached an elegant and candid fernion at the Catholic Chapel, in School-street. His Excellency the Governor and Lady, the Hon. Thomas Ruflel and Lady, and the Hon. Edward Cntts, were among a crouded and very refpedla ble audience—who appeared highly gratified by the charity, the benevolence, the piety which graced the discourse of the Right Rev. Preacher. PROVIDENCE, June 9. At the annual town-meeting held here on Monday last, a petition was presented, praying rhat a fufficient number of Schoolmasters be ap pointed to inftruft all the children in town, and rhat their salaries be paid out of the town-trea sury. The petition was read, and the consi deration thereof referred to the adjournment on Monday next—and the school committee were requested to report at that meeting, rules and regulations for the government of'fuch schools, &c. From the alnioft unanimous approbation this important measure received from all quarters, we anticipate, with the greatefl pleasure and fa risfa(ftion, the happy consequences which maybe veafonably expected to result from an eflablifh ;nent which, will do honor to the town—be of infinite service to the rising generation, andmuft intereli every humane mind in its final success. We cannot close this article without faying, what we deem but jufl should be generally known, that a number of the mofl opulent gentlemen in town, who will pay largely on thiseftablifhment, have inrerefted themselves warmly in its favor. J or [ \ ditto 30 or 1' ditto 2 5 or 1 1 ditto 20 or 1 ditto I 5 or 'ditto 10 or J ditto Sunday last arrived at her moorings iu the ri ver, the India (hip General Walhington, Captain Donnifon, of this port, with a valuable cargo of the productions-and manufactures, of the East, from Canton, last from St. Euftatja; lhe made her passage from Canton to St. Ehiftatia in 114 days, and in 10 days from the last mentioned port home A correspondent from Johnfton informs, That last week, two small parties, with their guns, went out a Bird-Hunting—and fro'in Monday till Thiirfday tilled as follows:—One party birds and 690 squirrels—the other, 4228 birds and 670 squirrels. MIDDLETO VVN, June n. Yesterday morning arrived in this city, the Hon. Mr. Jefferfon, Secretary of State, and the Hon. Mr. Madison, Reprefenrative in Congress from the State of Virginia. We are told they are from Lake George, &c. on their route to the southward. We are informed that the Directors of the Bank of Maryland have, since the receipt of their Second Payment, commenced discounting at For ty-five days fight.—lt is with pleafute we remark that this Bank, although in its infancy, seems to p defs the fulleft confidence of the public.— Its paper is received here in preference to specie, and is rapidly gaining the countenance and pro tection of the trading people to the Southward and Westward. We also learn, that it is re ceived in the Bank of Non h-America as specie, and that the Secretary of the Treafnry of the United States, has directed the Collectors of the Revenue to receive its paper in all payments, to exchange specie for it, and to make the Bank of Maryland the place of deposit for all the public monies collected in this state. The plan on which the Bank of Maryland is formed, and founded, hath met with the appro bation of some of the firft Statesmen and Mer chants in Europe and America ; and while it re flets high credit on its public-spirited founders and liberal patrons, it mud afford great fatisfac lion to every friend to this ufeful and important inlHtution, to observe i f s rapid progress, and to fee it thus early in pofTeffion of the confidence of so sagacious a Minister as the Secretary of our National Treasury. 59 BOSTON, June 7. BALTIMORE, Jane, 14, BANK OF MARYLAND. Philadelphia, June iB. The PrefiJent of the United States arrived at Auguita, in Georgia, the ißihof May—where he was received with every po;!ible deiuonftratiou of pleasure and On the 2llV, he eroded the bridge on his i - £tur.B<_ to his feat at Mount; Vernon, at which place he is arrived, and may'' ected at the ieac of Government in a few ue ex days The Pittsburgh paper of June 4, ftys—"Wei hear from the town of Wafluiigton, that a man' arrived there on Monday lalt, and brought the following intelligence, viz. That some (pies who were out from a Itation on Short Creek, had ccine in and informed that they had discovered some Indians—immediately a party of 27 men, under the command of Lieut. Bulkirk, crolied the river, and soon came upon the trail, and Lieut, Buf kirk, with three of his men, being a little ad vanced before the relt, were fired on, by which Lieut. Buikirk was killed, and the three men wounded. The Indians immediately run, and were fired 011 by the refl of the men, who pur sued them about two miles. It is supposed some of the Indians were wounded, as blood was dis covered where they were fired upon. This par ty con filled of 14, and this affair happened on Sunday afternoon lad." .v The foregoing is all the account of Indian de predations brought by rhe mail from Piitfburgh this week—we doubt not that many recent ac- counts, I wii 1 turn out to be either* premature or greatly exaggerated. A very for midable force is now on the march to protest the frontiers, and bring the Savages to reason,! or punifbment. The present war in India will probably be fcru* tinized—this is said in a lace London paper—but threats, of various complexions, for several years' past, which appear to strike at the Miniller, have only to fix him more flrongly as Premier. £Is it an argument in favor or against a piiblil cation that the author should be prosecuted ? * Something has been said about a prosecu tion of the author of" the pamphlet emitWci " Rights of Man." Should that take place, if the principles of the author are right and jult — except all sense of freedom is extirid: in the Eng lilh nation—a jury will never be found who will convidt the writer ; and if the principles (hould receive fnch a fan<ftion,it will not be long before the people of England would adopt the language of Mr. Paine, and fay, that " German Eletftors make German Kings"—and then in the words of, scripture. fay, "To your tent*, O Israel " A The ifiue of a prosecution, (hould one tnkel place, would be an index to the public opinion] of that pamphlet in England. J All that is (did in 40 of the latefl English newspapers, down to 17th of April, refpe&ing a prosecution of the author of the " Rights ot Man," is contained in the following aiticle: If the Attorney General should find it necelTary to make in quiry of Mr. Paine refpetting his laie publication, it is not im orobable but that the Secretaiy of the Conllitutional Sociery? »r> a y be involved in the legal converzatiane. Columb. Centinel. So imprefled is the Whig Club of Ireland with the importance of dilleininating the principles contained in Mr. Paine's pamphlet, through iliac kingdom, that they have taken meafuresto have ir printed and fold at the lowest rate, and alfb detailed in their newspapers. This at least does honor to their liberality, as Burke has always heretofore been in high repute with his country- men At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard-College, Jan. 19, I 791. VOTED, That the thanks of this Corporation be given to Mr. John Fen no, for his prrfent to the Library of this Univer fny, of the firft volume of his Gazette rj the United States, contain ing the papers of the firft year—ufeful for tnany ingenious pieccs of (peculation and important information, and more efpccially valuable for a public Library, as comprehending the various tranl actions and laws ot the general government, beginning from it's organization. Copy. Attest, (J3" No Southern netvfbapers were received by the Editor yejlerday. PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDF.D DEBT. >7/6 17/7 ?'■£ 9/6 9/7 9/l5 9/5 6 pr. Cents 3 pr. Cents Defeied 6 pr. Cents UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Settl.and other Certificates 16/6 Indents cjJ6 N. and S. Carolina debts, 13J 15J6. TO BE SOLD, And may be entered on the ensuing Fall, THAT large, elegant arid convenient HOUSE, in which the lubfenber now lives fi'.uatc in Elizabeth-Town, in the state of New-Jersey, within 16 miles of the city of New-York. It is finifticd in the very belt manner, and peculiarly convenient for a gentleman with a large family. The Lot contains about tour acres of land—the Garden is large, well laid out, and stocked with j good afTortmcnt of fruit. For further particulars, enquire of William Br adfop.d, Esq. in Philadelphia, John Pi nt ard, Efa. irr New-Yoik, 01 the Subfcribcr on tho Premises. June 11,1791 JOSEPH WILLARD, Prefidevt. 88 48 47 82 J 474 (iaw3w ! LI.\S HOI'DIN'OT. pr. cent, ao. do. do.
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