PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS \ND SATURDAYS ~V [No. 18, of Vol. lII.] Compendium of the Law of the United States, laying DUTIES on Distillfd Spirits, as ter the la ft day of June, 179r, by AA of Con gress, of the 3d of March, 1 79 1 - THE duties heretofore laid on distilled fpirils imported from abroad, are repealed. On all spirits imported, more than 10 percent, below proof, according to Dicas's hydrometer, per gallon, a duty of 20 ceuts. Under 5 and not more than 10 percent, below proof ditto, 21 cents. Of proof arid not more than 5 per cent, below proof ditto, 22 tents. Above proof, but not exceeding 20 per cent, ditto, 25 cents. Ditto, more than 20 and not more than 40 per cent, ditto, 30 cents. Ditto, more than 40 per cent. do. 40 cents. To becollefted in thefame manner as the duties heretofore laid If the duties do not exceed 50 dollars to be paid immediately. From 50 dollars and not moic than 500 dollais lo be secured b) bond or deposit 111 4 months. » If above 500 dollars to be lecured by bond or deposit in 6 months. The maftcr of any vefTel having diflilled spirits on boatd with in 48 hours of arrival, to report the fame to one of the infpe&oi\s of the port, under penalty of 500 dollars. Two manifefts to be delivered and the permit from collector lor landing, to be indoried by the officer of iufpe£lion before the spirits are landed. Calks containing spirits to be branded, when landed. Certificate of entry of the whole to be given by the officer cf infpe&ion to the importer, and one ccrtihcate foi each cask, to ac company the fame wherever lent. On all diflilled spirits within the Uuited States frqm foreign ma- IF more than 10 per cent below proof, per gallon, 9 cents. Under 5 and not more than io per cent, do. 10 cents. Proof and not more than 5 per cent, below proof, do. 11 cents. Above proof but not exceeding 20 per cent. do. 13 cents. Ditto, more than 20 and not more than 40 per cent. do. 17 cents. Ditto, more than 40 per cent. do. 25 cents. The duties to be paid or iecured before removed, at the option of the proprietor of the distillery, to be paid down with 2 cents pei gallon abatement, or the whole lecured by bond payable quarterly. Before removal the officer to brand the number and name of difliller, place where situate, quantity of gallons and pioof, and the duties being oaid, the officer is to grant a certificate which is to attend each cask on removal. If rrtnovc-d without such brands and certificates, the fame together with horses, carriages, vefTcl or boat employed in removal forfeited ; the officer alio forfeits the value of the spirits. No fpn its to be removed from distillery except between sun rise and sun-set, except by confcut ot and in prt fence of the offi- pain of forfeiture. Stills employed in distilling from materials of growth or pro duce ofthe United States, in any oiher place than a city, town, or village, to pay 60 ccnts for every gallon of such still including the head. Duties to be paid in the firft fifteen days in January and July, Proprietor of stills keeping daily accounts of spirits distilled, may on proof by oath or affirmation pay 9 ccnts per gallon on the quantity distilled, in lieu of duty on Hills. Distillers from foreign matenals, to have painted or written, in front of the house or building, used for distilling, and upon the door or entrance ot the place where the liquois are kepi, ihe words. " Dittiller ot Spirits." And three days before distilling to make entry of Inch distillery and building under forfeiture of 100 dollars, and thefpirits. Distillers on lft July to make entry on that day or within three days. Stock of spirits on hand on lftjuly to be branded by the officer, *'Old Stock." And on removal to be accompanicd by certifi cate from officer on pain of forfeiting 50 dollars. Every importer ot distilled spirits on ill July next or within three days, to cater all spirits in poffeflion, to be maiked and ac companied with a certificate in cafe of removal, as is dire&ed above from distilleries, on failure of such eulry to forfeit value of spirits. Any cask with fpi 1 its which ought to be marked, found in pof fcflion without such mark and certificate, may be ft-1 zed, and if not proved to have paid duties or to have been distilled as alorc laid, toifeited. Officers in da\ time, on requcft may enter such houses, {lores, &c. entered as aforefaid, and take an account and (ample, on pay ing the usual price for the fame. For defacing the marks set as aforefaid on any cask, the pcrfon to forfeit one hundred dollais. Tso cask marked 4 * Old Stock" to be used for putttng any other Spirits in, nor (hall distillers use such calks after 12 mouths on pain of forfeiting the spirits, except casks of 200 gallons and up wards not intended to be removed. Spirits fraudulently bid or concealed are forfeited, and any ot the United State sor jultiec of pcacc, on fcafonable caufc* of fufpicioH by oath or affirmation may bv warrant auihorifc the officerin day time in preftnee of a constable, to enter and seize and carry away the fame. After the last of June next, no fpintuous liquors exccpt gin or cordials in cases, jugs 01 bottles, to be brought from foreign por in less calks than 50 gallons, on pain of forfeiting spirits, veflfei and cargo, except fpiritt not exceeding four gallons for each fca- man. Every distiller of spirits on which duty is charged by the gal lon, is to keep a daily account of the (pirns he (hall fell, fend oui or diftii!, to be entered the day after m a book 10 be furmlhea their, by the supervisors on demand, and to be returned at the end of each s ear, 01 when filled up to the officer of infpectfon, and the truth of the enti !)' ■mnmenced within three months, and in the county, utilefs bro't n a court of the United States. One half of the penalties and forfeitures are for the benefit of the person making feiznre or differing the offence. Counterfeiting or forging certificates under this ast, accepting or fraudulently altering the fame, the person guilty forfeits 50c dollars. Taking falfe 03th or affirmation nunifliable as for perjury. Giving ot offering a bribe to officers, the person forfeits not exceeding - 500 dollars. For obftru6ting or hindering officer in execution of his duty, or rescuing or attempting to itfcue fpiriis after fcizure, forfeit not exceeding eoo dollars, Osirc? entering into rnllufion or concurring in fraudulent deli very of spirits, or for falfe marks or guilty of fraud or embezzle ment, forfeits 1000 dollars, lof> of office anddifabled from hold ing an) other office. DRAWBACKS. In cafe of exportation the whole duties to he remitted, dednft 85 .349 111 20129; "0 be con a FROM THE (BOSTON) COLUMBIAN CENTINEL. MR. RUSSELL, lIIAVE afi'mned for a principle, that the En gliHi nation, having delegated all iheir col lective power, have no right in their original character, to change their form of government, unless it has become absolutely inadequate to the purposes for which it was inllituted. The peo ple themselves, innll from the necessity of the cafe be the judges of this facfl; but if in forming this judgment, and acting in purluance of it, they proceed from passion and not from princi ple, if they diflolve their compact from an idea, that " they have a right to do whatever they choose," and break the bands of society, in the forms of defpotifin, " because such is their plea sure, " tliey may indeed go through the opera tion by the plenitude of their irrefillable power, but the nation will meet with ample punifliment, in their own misery, and the leaders who delude them, in the detestation of their own posterity. It is nor by adopting the malignity of a political fatyrill, by converting the sallies of wit into the maxims of truth or justice, or by magnifying tri>- vial imperfections into capital crimes, that a na tion will bejuftified in resorting to its original flrength, to contend against its delegated power. It is not a mechanical horror against the name of a king, or of ariitocracy, nor a pliyfical antipa thy to the found of on extravagant title, or to the fight of an innocent ribband, than can au thorise a people to lay violent hands 'upon the conftitntion which prorecls their rights, and gua'-ds their liberties. They must feel an aiftual deprivation of their equal rights, and fee an ac tual impossibility for their reftoiation in anv other manner, before they can have a right t<* lay their hands on their swords, and appeal to Heaven. These are not the principles of slave ry ; they are the tenets of the only genuine li berty ; which confifls in a mean equally diftanc from the delpotifm of an individual, as of a mil' lion. They are fantftioned by our own uniform example, and will, I trust, never be departed from by the molt enlightened, and most virtuous people on the globe. For fixreen years the peo ple of America endured a continual fufceffion of every indignity, which the ppide of dominion, the insolence of power, and the rapacity of ava rice, could inflict upon them, before they coultl resolve to renounce an authority, three tlioufand miles distant from them ; and even then,' they were so far from thinking they had a right to do whatever they chose, that by the very art, which renounced their connection with Great- Britain, they exposed to the world their own f ttfFerings, and the various ac'ts of tyranny, which had compelled them to " acquiesce in the necef firy which denounced the Separation," and, " ap pealed to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of their intentions." No, Sir, the venerable character who drew lip this declara* tion, never could believe that the rights of a na tion, have 110 other limits, than its powers.— Since the revolution, the people of the United States, have again been compelled to form a na tional government, and in its forma)ion proceed ed in the fame spirit. The confederation wa> found totally incompetent for the purposes for which it was instituted ; not from an abuse of the delegated powers, in those by whom it was adtniniftered, but because Scarcely any powers at all had been given. The inffieciency of that fylteni had long been fully demonstrated, and had reduced us to extreme distress. The States, United but in name, were upon the verge of ge neral brnkruptcy. Their crcdit funk to the low No. XIV. AM other countries, Heads. >833 1658 215 4679 1119 Heads., .54°6 8628, Value. 33°4 5 76235 8013 8537 4901 2 37 10058, 53°4 95°4 i '3°73' 2 9 6 33! luded in our next.) Total Value. 99960 3305>6 8846 17039 14481 [479842