Indians, or of any other aflaiiant, would have an eoual vigilt to claim a compeiil'iuisa, at the na tional expence, and that tlie multitude of such claims would drain the public coffers ; tnat Con „,. e f s was not infallible; and if the lace Congrefi had committed an error in granting a petition ■where it was not justly due, the prei'ent Congreii have a right, and are, in duty to their conititu ents, bound to rediify the miltake, by revoking the grant. On the other hand, it was said. that although Mr. Yonnglove was nor, under the thet gifting lavrs, entitled to a pension, yet, as thi late Congress thought him defervingof one, am conferred it on him, it would ill become the pre lent Congress to revoke the grant. They ough ro suppose that tlieir anceitors had fufficient re a I'ons to influence thein in making it; at all events the grant being once made, and the public faitl plighted for the continuance of the petition, thei could not now withdraw it, without deltroyinj the public confidence in the promiles of g->vern went. The question being taker, on tlie motion, it carried in the affirmative. Adjourned. THURSDAY, November 10. I UL/iiJi/n i j \j. Sundry petitions from officers and faldiers of the late anny, praying compenfatioras and pen sions for services and disabilities, were read, and referred ro rhe Secretary of War. The bill providing a mode in which the evi dences of the debt of the United States, which have been loft: or destroyed, fliall be renewed, was read the second time, and on motion of Mr. Dayton, referred to the committee of the whole house, to be the order of the day to-morrow.—Or dered, that too copies of the above bill be printed. A melfage was received from the President of the United States by Mr. Secretary Lear, com municating a report from the Secretary of State, refpeifting the quantity and situation of the un claimed lands in the North and South Western Territories of the United States. This report being read, it was ordered that 200 copies of it iliould be printed. Mr. Williamfon laid the following motion on the table—"That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill to prevent the invalid penfioncrs of the United States from felling their pensions before the fame fliall have become due." On motion of Mr. Lawrance, the meflage from the Prelident of the United States, and the report . from the Secretary of State, which accompanied the fame, were referred to the committee ap pointed to bring in a bill providing for the sale of the vacant lands in the YVeltern Territories of the United Stares, On morion of Mr. Parker, the house came to the following resolution, "That the Secretary of the Treafiiry be directed to lay before the house, a statement of the amount of the exports from the several diftricls of the United States refpedtively—alfo the amount of the duties on imports and ronnage, from 29th Sept. I 790, to the 50th Sept. 1791." ORDER OF THE DAY —THE CENSUS Mr. Muhlenberg in the chair. The proposed amendment to Mr. Lawrance's motion, by (hiking out thirty before the word tboufand, under consideration. Mr. Gerry oppcfed the amendment, and in a speech of foijie length, advocated the original motion of one representative to every thirty thou sand persons. He was replied to by Mr. Boudi not, Mr. Steele, Mr. Clark, Mr. Barnewell and Mr. Goodhue. Mr. Baldwin coincided with Mr. Gerry. The committee rose without comiijg to a vote, and had leave to fit again. [Our limits will not admit of giving a llcetch of the debate this day—it fhnll appear in our next.] Mr. White's motion for a committee to report a bill for fettling unliquidated claims against the United States, was taken into consideration— wany difficulties, were suggested in opposition to it—and on motion of Mr. Fitzfimons, being va ried to read in the following manner, viz. " A till to provide for the settlement of the claims of persons under particular circumstances, barred by the limitations heretofore eltabliflied," was agreed to—and Mefl'rs. White, Fitzfimons and Niles, appointed the committee accordingly. Adjourned. FRIDAY, November it, 1791- The House met pursuant to adjournment—but is a great proportion of the members were on committees who were not ready to reportj Mr. S'.eele moved that, in order to afford tbofe com mittees time to prepare and bring in their re fpe&ive reports, the House should adjourn until Monday next—which motion was unanimously ■greed to. WINDHAM, (Con.) October 29. last Wednesday, four men, Paid 10 be concern ed in a late riot in Columbia county, state of New- York, whereby the fheriiFof the county was un fortunately killed, were apprehended by their pnrfaeis, in Canterbury, in this state, and the ame evening lodged in the goal in this town — ° m whence they were taken yesterday to be c ondadted back to the state of New-York for trial. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE FIRST SESSION Or THE SECON» CONGRESS. /,n AC I cri anting further rime for making return ot the Enumeration of the Inhabitants in the Diltricft of South-Carolina. .■DR it enaftH by the Senate and Honfe of Representatives of the JLJ United States of America, in Co.ißrefs assembled, That it hall oe lawful lor the Marshal of the Dillrifl of South-Carolina, to compleat and make return of the Enumeration ofthe Inhabitant, of the said diftrift to the Prefidcnt of the United States, in the torm and manner prescribed by the ast, entitled, >• An att provid inK lor the enumeration of the inhabitants of the United States " at any time on or before the firft day of March next, ar.v thin* in the laid ait to t-he contrary notwithllanding. JONATHAN TRUMBULI.. Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vicc-Prcfidcvt of the ,United States, and Prefidcnt of the Senate. APPR OV ED, SONNET. BY DR. AI KIN. To his Excellency Georce Washington, President ofthe United States of Amerka. A OINT of that Pyramid, whose solid base Rcfts firmly founded on a Nation's trust, Which, while the gorgeous Palace finks in dust, Shall stand sublime, and fill its ample space : Elefled Chief of Freemen; greater far Than Kings, whose glitt'ring parts are fixM by birth. Nam'd by thy country's voice, for long tried worth, Her crown in peace, as once her shield in war : Deijrn, Washington ! to hear a British lyre, That ardent greets thee with applauhve lays, And to the Patriot Hero homage pays ! O would the Muse immortal drains inlpire, That high beyond all Greek and Roman fame, Might soar to times unborn thy purer, nobler name f Philadelphia, November 12. We are allured, that General St. Clair, with 'the main army, must probably have arrived at the utmost point of his destination by the jioth of the]aft mojith. will -be to esta blish strong polls in the Indian country, to cbrb and overawe such of the neighboring tribes as may be inclined to hostility. His force and talents are so refpeflable, th»t it may be justly ex pected, he will effeflually answer the public expectations: It is rather improbable, the hostile Indians will meet in such numbers, as to occasion any serious contest. On the contrary, it is probable, as he carries the olive-branch in one hand, and the sword in the other, that the campaign *rill cftablifh a ftrm peat? with the un fortunate natives of America. Thursday laftarrived here from Cape-Francois, Sylvanus Bourne, Esq. Consul of the United States for St. Domingo—ln the fame vefiel came also two French Gentlemen, Agents from the Co lonial Aflembly. TheLegiflature of New-Jersey is now in session, and we hear that there is every reason to believe a most liberal plan of incorporation will be granted to the aliociation for promoting manu factures in the United States. By the latest accounts from Cape.-Francois, it does not appear that tranquility is in any good degree restored to St. Domingo. The salutary effects of the treaty made by the United States with the Creek Indians, are now apparent ; the settlements on St. Mary's River, in the State of Georgia, it is said are in a molt flourifhing condition. Some accounts from Cape-Francois fay, that the blacks have put some of their white prisoners to death, by breaking them 011 the wheel, and by other cruel and infernal modes. Besides the civilities which flrangers, on visits among us, have a right to expert, on the princi ples of hospitality, the Countess of Effingham, just arrived at New-York from Jamaica for her health, has claims to the diftinguifhfed attention of our citizens. Earl Efki ngha m, in the begin ning of the late contest with Great-Britain, alone opposed, in the House of Peers, an attempt to re duce these States vi ct arviis. Finding his oppo sition of no weight, he resigned a commiilion of Lieutenant-General, rather than ac't against: us. Last Wednesday evening, at a meeting of the Directors of the National Bank, it was determin ed that four branches (liould be eftablifiied, one in Boston, a I'ccond in New-York, a third in Bal timore, and a fourth in Charlefton—tocommence operation in January next. These brandies are to have the benefit of a part of the specie capital. Some of the papers have mentioned that the salary of the President of the National Bank is fixed at 3000 dollars. This is a miitake—tbe sa lary of the President is not fixed, and cannot be fixed by the Dirertoi s ; but mufl be fettled at a General meeting of Stockholders. C". Adv. 227 GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prefidevt of the United Stales. COMMUNICATIONS. Those perfor.s are greatly deceived, whotliiiiK tha: government derives advantage from flatter- C f S f • overnn,ent > :lr > individual, hns need oi friends—iuit it is injured by deception. \\ hen any tiling £ () es wrong in public affairs, it is do ]ng government a favor to point one the error. "I here is no channel for conveying this kind of advice fi> ufeful as the newspapers. Ky mg the Poft-Offiee in a manner to con\ey infor mation to every part of the country, the rulers are placed in a condition to receive advice fron all their wel!-wi(hers. And if ever ill humor's are engendered in the body-politic, it is mofl sa lutary that they fliould have some pores to per spire thro. The I'oll-OfHce fliould be a kind of chimney to the federal edifice. If it was not for a vent, the house would be 011 fire, or would llifie its inhabitants with fmoak. The Po!t-Office should be, in matters of opinion, a kind of Hank the common centre of circulation, the iuflru ment and the measure of improvement—Know ledge is cheaper than luxury—yet it is worth more—l lie Poll-Office affords a means of obtain ing it, which pays its own way. The people of America have tun thotifind rights ; any onr of them would be fufficicntto change ihe political condition, and ,|„- order of thinking in almofl any other country. Hut what air thev all worth unless the people are taught, and taught too in the school house to understand and to climate the value of them. Ages would pass away before a people could be brought intofuch nabits of thinking as we in America have adopted ; we have done lo much it isfcavcely pofflble we should Hop where we are we ,™ ake P r "grefs—our political Rate is good—let us mend'our moral Hate—let our knowledge be made commcnfuraie with our liberties. There are two ways of governing ir.en—either to make them govern themselves, or to govern them by force. The latter is the European and Asiatic method ; it is governing by main ftrongt'h —the former is the American, which is governing by flight of hand For what have you to govern ? Mens' passions—surely and if you make their reason do it for you, which it always will when enlightened, your work is done to vour hand. But as governing the youth in the way of education is a flow af fair, which we have not patience to wait to fee the effefls of let us tell the grown gentlemen their rights and duties. Why (hould not the p oft.Office be madeufe of to tell the people what is done and why it is done ? Fame fays that the people in the back part* of North-Carolina do not get dispatches from the feat of govern ment in lefj than two months. What an hazardous interval is jeftforartto dupe credulity, or credulity to dupe itfelf! Men have a right to know how their affairs are managed ; it is doing the public business behind their backs to neglect or to conccal from Ihrm ihe facts and reasons which are necessary to the form, ing a found judgment upon men and measures. The people do not know and can scarcely overrate their own impoitance, as it refpefls public men and measures. The public is a court, which tries both ; they bring vice and error to the test, and expose them to lhame. Died, at Trenton, New-jfrfey, the ift I.ifT. much iafricntrd, Mrs. Joa nN A sren cE *, relist ot the late Rev. Dr. Elihu Spencer, in the 63d year of her age. Her illnrfs, which was longapd severe, she bore with uncom mon fortitude and christian resignation. On the Thursday following, her remains were interred in the Prefbvterian Church-yard of said place; when a well adapted discourse was delivered by the Rev. James F. Armstrong, Irora Revelations 14 —13. ' From PELOSI's MARINE LIST. ARRIVALS it the PORT of PHJLADELrHIA. Ship Four Friends, Volans, Madeira M »T. Curry, Grenada Brig Theodofia, Lake, Cape-Francois Georgia Packet, Carson, Savannah Sloop Three Sifters, Thompson, Pnrt-au-Prince Schooner Industry, Shackford, Porlfmouth (N.C.) Ifahella. AnHrrfpn. St. Fuftatius PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 21/10 22_/* pr. £ . 3 pr. Cent# 12J6 Defered 6 pr. Cents I$J 13/2 UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Sett 1. and other Certificates igj Indent? 1 B?nk Subscriptions, 1 * ADVERTISEMENT. WHEREAS it appears by the proceedings in a certain eaufe now depending in the High Court of Chancery in Eng land, wherrin William Webb is the plaintiff, and John Parker, (exe cutor of Thomai Bradly, deceased) is the defendant, thai Henry Webb was put out an apprentice to the sea trade by the Greenwich school. in or about the vear 1775, was then of the age of 14 vears, or thereabouts.ana failed from England in the year 1776 to some part of N6rth-America, in the ship or veHel ArlemiJ(a 9 Capt. Lezvellyn, formerly a Spanish trader, and at that time a navy vi&ualler 01 tranfpoit in hi< Majesty's service—and whereas it ap pears that the said Hevry Webb deserted and ran away from said ship or vcflfel, and entered on boarS a certain privateer called the Re venge, or Vengeance Primteer, of which one John Dean was mailer or commandrr, then lying at New'-York, North-America; and that the said Vengeance Privateer, on or about the sth of November, 1779, failed from New-York alorefaid to Savannah, and arrived at such last mentioned port in or about the month of March, 1780, and on the month of April following, to some port or place in America, but to what port or place is not known; and in the month of May, 1780, the said fliipor vefTel was f<-en at Barbadoes in the Weft-Indies, but the said Henry Webb has not since been heard of, and is supposed to be dead ; it having been reported that the tender belonging to the said (hip or veflcl callcd the Vengeance, which ship wai then commanded by Capt. Knozvles t with a num ber of her rreß, so the amount of 90, or thereabouts, (and among whom the said Henry Webb is supposed to have been one) were ta ken by the enemy, and carried into Philadelphia. Now, in purOianeeof an order made in the said cause, bearing date the 3d of December, 1790, any perlon o r persons who can give any ac- count or information touching the said Henr\ Webby or of the said (hip Vengeance, or whether the said Henry Webb be living or dead, and if dead, when or wherefocver he died, are requeued to give such information to William Welter Pep\s, K'q. on of the MaPers of said Court, at his Chambers in Symonds'-Inn, Chaneerv-Lane, London ; and such prrfon or persons will be rewarded for thnr trouble hv applying to Samuel Naylor, Esq. the Solicitor in said cause. No. 4, Great Newporf-ftreet, London; or to ihe Rev. John Starjord. N«. 33, John-fhecl, New-Yoik; or to John Prettyjohn 9 fcfq. Bridgetown, Sarbadocs. W. W. PE P Y S. JlO pr. cent, do. 66 do. 9j do. do. 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