PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA [No. 75, of Vol. lII.] SECOND CONGRESS OF thf. UNITED STATES. AT THE FIRST SESSION* Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pcr.n fylvanta, Monday the twenty-fourth of October, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one. AN ACT for carrying into effetfl a Contract be tween the United States, and the State of Pcnnfylvania. FOR duly conveying to the State of Pcnnfylvania a certain tiaft of Land, the right to the government and jurifdiftion where of was relinquished to the said State by a relolution of Congrcfs of the fourth dav of September, in the year one thousand seven hun dred and eighty-eight, and whereot the tight of (oil has been fold by virtue of a previous resolution of Congrcfs of the hxih day of June in the said year : Be it enabled by the Senate and Hnajc of Reprejcntatives of the Untied States of America, in Congress ajjembled, That the Prefidcnt ot the United States be authorised, on fulfilment of ihc terms llipulated on the part of the State of Pcnnfylvania, to ilfue letters patent, in the name and under the seal of the United States, granting and conveying to the said State forever, ihc fafd tratl of Laud, as [lie fame was afceriained by a survey made in pursuance nl ihc resolu tion ef Congress of the sixth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and eighiy-eiaht. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-rrefident of the United Slates, and Prefidcnt oj the Senate APPROVED, JANUARY THIRD, 179 The following Address was presented to the President of the United States, by the Right IV orjhipful Grand Officers of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, on Tuesday last. To his Excellency GEORGE WASHINGTON, PreJident of the United Statei. SIR AND BROTHER, THE ancient York Masons of the jurifdirtior. of Pennsylvania, for the firft time assembled, 111 general communication to celebrate the feaft of St. John the Evangelist, since your election to the chair of government in the United States, beg leave to approach you, with congratulations from the Eafl, and in the pride of fraternal affedtion, to hail you as the great majler-builder (under the Supreme Architedl) by whose labors the temple of liberty hath been reared in the Weft ; exhi biting to the nations of the earth a model of beau ty, order and harmony, worthy of their imitation and praise. Your knowledge of the origin and objelis of our institution—its tendency to promote the so cial affections and harmonize the heart, give us a Cure pledge that this tribute of our veneration, this effulion of our love, will not be ungrateful to you ; nor will Heaven reject our prayer, that you may be long continued to adorn the bright lift of matter-workmen which our fraternity pro duces in the terreflr'tal L*dge ; and that you may be late removed to that ceteflial Lodge, where loveand harmony reign tranfcendant and divine ; where the Great Architetfi more immediately prelides ; and where Cherubim and Seraphim, watt ing our congratulations from earth to Heaven, fliall hail you Brother! By order and in behalf of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania, in general communication as sembled in ample form. {Signed) J. B. SMITH, G. M. Seal. yfttcfl. (Signed) P. Le Barbter Du Plessis, G. Sec. To which the Prefidentwas pleased to give the following answer : 7*o the ancient TORK M4SONS of the jurifdiUion of Pennfylvdu'ta. GENTLEMEN AND BROTHERS, r R H.CEIVE your kind congratulations with the purelt sensations of fraternal affection : and i rom a heart deeply imprelTed with your gene rous wishes for my present and future happiness, I beg you to accept my thanks. At the fame time 1 request you will be allured of my belt wishes and earned prayers for your bappinefs wh'le you remain in this terreltrial manlion—and that we may hereafter meet as brethren in the eternal temple of the Supreme Architect. G. WASHINGTON. GJLORGE "WASHINGTON, Prefidcnt of the United States. Saturday, January 7, 1792. FROM THE UNITED STATES CHRONICLE. DESCRIPTION of night. Verjijied from an ancient writer in the Gallic language. X-jOUD bowls t'ie wind—the (bowers descend, The mountain Spirit (creams— The windows flap—the tall woods bend And roar the rain-fwol'n streams : To ford the torrent, fad the wand'rer tries— But hark! o'er-whclm'd, he (hrieks—he dirs Swift down the hill rugged and steep, The affrighted bcafts retire— The hunter rouses from his sleep. And wakes the flumb'rmg fire— He bars the wind—'round the hearth the while His wet dogs smoke—companions of his toil. Sad on the distant mountain's fide, The lonely fhephcrd sighs— And bids, his wand'ring steps to guide, The iing'ring moon a rife— While the sorest roars, And down the rock the headlong torrent pours. The Ghost rides lightly on the storm — Loud arc it's cries, and fhiill ; The houfc-dog barks--the lhadowy form Flies o'er the misty hill : Cold, daik and gloomy is the scene, Anfe, my friends, and let the wand'rer in. City-Hall, Philadelphia, Jan. 3, 1792. WE the Subl'cribers, appointed by the Stock holders of the Bank of the United States, ro preside as Judges at the election of twenty five Directors for the said Bank, do hereby cer tify, that the following Gentlemen were duly eleified, agreeably to the namberof votes annex ed to their refpedtive names. William Smith, S. C. 3870 James Watson, N. Y. 3298 Samuel Johnftoo, N. C. 8618 Archibald M 4 Call, Penn. 3170 Fisher Ames, £ m fl* 3^° 2 *AndrewCraigie, 306* *TriflramDalton, } 3 ' 35Q0 Nicholas Low, CN. Y. 3043 Joseph Ball, Penn. «R-C. 2870 John Lawiance, ).. v 3477 William Bingham, Penn. 281,5 Rufus King, ) ' 347° R« Fendall, Virg. 9.386 Thomas Willing, Penn. 3445 #^aac Wharton, Penn. 2313 George Cabot, MafT. # Henry Nichols, Mary. 2278 JeremiahWadfworih,Con.3423 J. C. Fiihcr, 2205 Joseph Anthony, } * Mat. M'Connell, > Penn. 2026 Robert Smith, C Penn. 3348 Charles Petlit, 1891 Herman Le Roy, ) 3300 In witness .whereof, we have hereunto fee our hands and seals, the day and year fir It above written. D. SEARS, JOHN DELAKIELD, (l. S.) GEORGE LATIMER, (L. S.) Those with this (*) mark are new Dire&ors. AT a meeiing of the Society tor promoting the improvement of Roads and inland Navigation, held on Monday the 2d of January, 1792, at the State-House in the cit/ of Philadelphia, the following Officers were chosen, viz. President Robert Morris. Treasurer Samuel Meredith. Secretary—Timothy Mat lack. Committee of Correfpondence-i-The Rev. Di.WilliamSmith, William Brown, of Kiftiacoquilis; William Mont comer y, of Northumberland ; William Findley, Tench Coxe, Georce Clymer,John Adlum. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UMILD STATES. PEOPLE govern their opinions, and, in the event, their condudl by their feelings and wifties. In company, you will fee mtfn of sense and merit taking part againlt aathoriiy, and on the fide of those who insult and resist it on almost every occasion ; they seem to think it a dury to do so, because they wifli to strengthen the caofe of (he people : and in the second place, government being always strong enough, often so strong as to encroach, is not the worse for be ing abuled and pelted back somewhere within its lawful boundary line—it is thought at any 1 ate, but indulging a good propeufity. This may be very honed conduct, but is it wife and proper ? Under a bad government the people have some thing to get—scorn and calumny and public ha tred may controul the miiiions.of despotism, and make the government afraid to go to extremi ties. In America, the government is as free as can be desired, or leafonably conceived. The pro per care of the people is, not to extend their own ground, not to attack the government, but if poflible to make it immortal : As in France, so in America, the constitution is the fan<ftuary where liberty takes (helter from violence ; it is not what has been got from the people—it is what they have got tor thenifelves and mean to lay up and lock up as they do their jewels and ueafures. When the ncwfpapers tell us of the 289 Marc L. S.) tst#Po [Whole No. 281.] minions of power and of overgrown individuals in ollice and of other cant which feeins to be co pied from an Englilh opposition print, what are wetothink? In thiscountry men are honored with public trull because they poflefs public confidence; as this trull should be discharged in a manner to deserve the character of honest and able inen, the public approbation is at once the reward of their exertions, and a new pledge given to the public that they will continue to deserve their favor. Very bad men are not the 1110 ft solici tous to acquire ingenuous praise. Why then should the public be so often addressed as it is, to make the government fufpcdled and the men who adininifter it odious ? In Turkey a good son of liberty would wish to fee a revolution. The fame principle would lead him in this country to fortify the govern ment. C I V I S. CONGRESS. PHILADELPHIA. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, December 19. DEBATE ON THE REPRESENTATION BILL. [Continued. J [The Senate had amended the bill by encreafing the ratio from 30,000 to 33,000 ; the House had difa greed to this amend*:;nt ; the Senutc vo ted to adhere. It ums moved m the House this day t that they Jhoutd re cede J turn their difagr cement .3 Mil. MAbISON, after making a few prefato ry observations, said he felt himfelf impell ed to take some notice of the arguments that had been nfed this day, on the fubjedt before the House : he would not, however, attempt any re ply to the gentleman from New-Jersey, nor pre tend to follow him iu hit flights of imagination refpe&ing the New-Jerusalem or the umpirage of Pennsylvania, but leave it to those to whom such observations might have been addrefled to draw their own concTulions. He was sorry that it almost always happened, whenever any quelti on of general policy and advantage to the union was before the House, when gentlemen found theinfelves at a loss for general arguments, tbey commonly resorted to local views ; and at all times as well as the present, when there was most occasion for members to adt with the utinoft coolness, when their judgments ought to be the lead biafled—it was to be regretted that at those times ihey fuffeved their feelings, palGons and prejudices to govern their reason. Thus it is that the most important points are embarrafled, the northern and southern interests are held up, every local circumfiance comes into view, anil every idea of liberality and candor is banilh«|d. The gentleipan from New-York, (Mr t Law rance) when he introdoced this fubjedt at the commencement of the prel'ent session, did it on the most generous plan, and disavowed every principle of calculation so much, that he then declared he had not so much as made a single calculation of the different fractions which have since been introduced into the debate—his only object'was to fix a rule on general principles, a greeably to the conltitucion and to the tion of the rights of the people ; and this idea was approved by two of the gentlemen from NeW- Jersey, who have since altered their although they then had no objections but as to the expence : the idea of fractions was not then contended for, but has since becoine the very e£ fence of the opposition ; and we are called on to violate the constitution by adopting a meafurc that will give representatives for ihofe separate and diftimt fractions in the refpetflive states ; and afterwards are rold it is not to |the fraifti onal numbers in the states that they refer, but to the aggregate of the fractions in the United States. If this reasoning is good, why do the gentlemen flop at this boundary of a representa tion by states ? why not proceed to eredt the whole of tha United States into one diftridt,with out any division, in order to prevent the inequa lity they conceive taexift in refpett to individu al dates !
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