rnocli Leonard, Abigail Hale, Jeremiah Pritch ard. A petition of Lawrana Richardson was read, praying the ifluing of a duplicate certificate of public debt, in lieu of one which she had loft— Referred to the Secretary of the Treattiry. The House proceeded in filling up the blanks in the poft-office bill, and completed the fame. The blank refpe<fting the amount beyond which the salary of no deputy poft-ma(ter (hali extend, was filled with 1500 dollars. The relt of the blanks being filled, the bill was palled. A resolution which had lain 011 the table for f>me davs, requiring the Secretary of War to lay before the House a particular statement oi all afcertainecl balances due to invalid petition ers claimed or unclaimed—was called up by Mr. Giles. Mr. Wadfworth moved that the refoliition fliould be teferred to a felert comniitte, which was agreed to, and Mr. Wadfworth, Mr. Giles and Mr. J. Smith, appoinied. In committee of the whole on the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the petion ot Catharine Greene Mr. Smith,. (S. C.) in the chair—The difcnfli m of the fubjeifl was opened by Mr. Wayne,who ifrer a few introductory remarks', proposed the following resolutions : , Resolved, ns the opinion of this committee, That the eltate of the late Major General Greene rtnght to be indemnified for the engagements en tered into by that General, wit> certain persons in the State of South-Carolina, for the purpose of obtaining supplies for the army of the United States, under his command, in'the year 1783 — That a lum not exceeding onght to be ap propriated and paid to his executors to make good those engagements—and That a committee be appointed to bring in a bill accordingly. After some debate the committee rose without taking any vote, and the Honfe adjourned. LONDON, November 8 Tlie -National Aflembly of France havejnft pa (led the following decree relative to Louis Jo leph Xavier, t;he King's next brother upon whose conduct that of the other French Princes is sup posed to depend. It having been before refoWed, that the per son entitled to the Regency would forfeit his right by remaining absent from the kingdom, it was dccreed, on Sunday the 30th OtSober, 1. That proclamation lhould be made withirt three days in Paris. 2- That the requisition lhould be notified to the Prince by no other mode than that of pro elamarion. 3. That conformably to the confticutional de crees, the promulgation of the law (hall be made by the Executive Power. 4. That the fuppleant of the regency shall be bound to return within th#ee or (ball be held to have right of the re- gency. The National Afl'etnbly have yet had but little time to discover their talents. A lending feature in their charafter,it cannot be doubted, is an at tachment to the conflitution eftablilhed by their predeceflors. The National Affeinbly have pafled a decree against the emigrants. This country Teems to have compleatly gained the confidence of the French, who are equally in clined to dojuftice to tUe moderation of ou'rmi nifters, and the liberality of fentimerit which has been displayed on the fubjedt of their revolution in every part of the British dominions. Since the last melancholy accounts from the French Weft-Indies, the Cabinet Ministers have liad several meetings, and vigorous mearis are to be adopted, in order.to prevent a similar spirit of dii'tord and revolt in Jamaica and otir other colonies. •*. Several Frenchmen, wfyo had cauf<»d waitings on Liberty to be tranflatedintoPortuj^ft£*''ere lately put on board a veflel to be lent'Hback to their ewn country. The conduct ojt the captain and chief mate of the Neptune transport, lately returned from Bo tarfy Bay. is about to undergo a severe scrutiny. No less than 171 canvitfis died on the voyage; and many inttances of the moll inhuman treat-: merit are daily brought forward. 'r Mr. Burke is talked of as the fncceflor of the late Bamber Gafcoyne, Esq. in the office of Re ceiver General of the Cuttoms. Whitehall, Nov. J. The Kinghas'been pleased to appoint Hugh Elliott, Esq. to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Ylenipoten tiarv to the Court of Dresden. T he Revolution of France was on Tuesday, for the firft time, called the Reformation ; this is sure ly a misnomer ; Reformation is ytt to come. The King of the French fays briefly to the now defuntft National Aflembly—" (gentlemen good bye to you, you have finifhed, and theproduct of your precious labours be your reward—lf what yon have done be a good thing for France, it will ultimately be a good thing for you—Tell the people that I have, and always had, their welfare at heart; as for yourselves, you mult make thetn believe the fame of you, as well as you can ; but particularly tell them to pay the taxes cheerfully ; —Gentlemen, good bye to you, and leave the reft to me." M. d'Orleans was to have been in England in time for the present Newmarket Meeting ; but the National Aflembly having deprived hiin of a great portion of his Land, he feels the less incli nation for indulging liimfelf in the pleasures of the Turf. The eyes of Europe are now fixed upon the New National Allembly of France, it being now considered ihe xra in which " the Rights of Men" are either to be solemnly recognized and firmly eftablithed, or Monarchical Government regained and reinstated ; little-can be deduced from the proceedings of the AfTembly, not hav ing yet fairly entered into any national business ; but the specimen that has been given us, carries with it a democratic tone. From thellrong points of their prologue, we have every reason to ex pert a piece pregnant with much business and incident, in which the performers will have am ple scope for the display of their several powers. Tiie French Patriots view their Conititutional A<ft as a divine work. It supplants the Sacred Scriptures, and is 10 thein Divinity, Law, Physic, History, Philosophy, and Poetry. It will be law to thoScnate, a prectdetit to the Bar, and a Text- Book fdr the Pulpit WARS AW, (Poland) October 24 Yesterday evening intelligence was received here, by M. de Bulkakow, the Ruffian Minister to this Court, of the death of Prince Poremkin, which happened at Vafly, on the 16th inft. PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) Dec 4. Some people, with, perhaps, more sensibility than reaf'on, appear to condole with the Indians on their continual hunted state, and to lament the depredations which have been heretofore made on their settlements by the arms of the Union; but do not feetn to companionate with their unfortunate fellow citizens of Pennsylva nia, Virginia and Georgia, who have frequently had their houfea burnt, their property delfroyed, their wives and children butchered, and them f'elves driven from their homes, by those savage, murderers of the wilderness. SALEM, December 27, The idea has been fuggefted,that for Congress to grant to the people called quakers, the exemp tions from military duty which they require, while the reft of the community are subjeCt to such service, would amount to a " legal esta blishment of the Quakers form of religion, when no other form is even acknowledged by law to exist in the United States." An old remark.—^Sometimes the moil frantic en thufialt, or the mod absurd and unintelligible mortal, fliall be the author of a dodtrine or of a system, and (hall beget sons and daughters after his own image and fitnilitude. True it is, that such a fe<ft feldfijgn holds out for above half a cen jtury, ordefcends beyond the second generation : as, among the brutes, a mule, whose lire is an ass, leaves no polterity, and is the last of the family. Philadelphia, January n. The President of the United States has approved of, and recog nized the foreign appointments in our last—M. PALESKE, con sul-general from his majesty the King of Pruflia ; and M. MAR BOIS, vice-consul from his most christian majesty, within the States of Conne&icut, New-York and New-Jersey. The uniting of the rivers Delaware and Schuylkill by means of a navigable canal for (hallops, appears to be seriously contempla ted by the legiflatureof the State of Pennsylvania. On Thursday last, the Governor of the Siate of New-York open ed the fellion of that legislature with an address to both houses. In the address the public are informed, that, in consequence. of the powers vt-fted in the Governor, the people had been removed, who had intruded, some time since, upon the lands belonging to the Oneida and Cayuga nations of Indians, and thereby given caufeof complaint to those tribes. The financial concerns of the State ate represented to be in a flourishing condition; and, particularly, that from the sale and disposal of the waste and un appropriated 'ands, the Treafuvy would receive an augmentation lufficient to produce an annual revenue,exceed ing theordinary cx pences of the government. —The report of the commissioners of the land office was, further, submitted to the legislature, by which it appeared tint the junction of the Mohawk River and Wood Creek, by rneansof a canal, was'prafticable at a moderate expence; as alfoa junttion between Wood Creek and Hudson's River, by similar means ; all which could be effe&ed from the ordinary re sources of the State without the aid of taxes. The Pennsylvania Hospital having been found inadequate to the two totd purpose of accommodating Jick and mad per Tons, it has been proposed to ere£ta House, near the present hospital, for the exclusive use of such as aie deprived of their leafon. Extratt of a Utter from an officer at Fort-Wajhington, dated Nov. 17. Active meafuies, indeed, must be immediately taken, to effedt any good put pose ; and tbe United States will deceive themselves, if they think an insignificant, undisciplined army, badly provided, will conquer the formidable enemv they are now at war with. They are numerous—they are trained warriors, and are elated with vi&ory and plunder ! They gained it, however, wi»h consi derable loss on their part; but we cannot ascertain it exa&ly. " Our army was badly modelled, for fighting Indians : it was raw, and wanted hoife and riflemen ; it was badly provided, and of course was discontented. 14 The length to which affairs have gone, oertainly requires the moftfpeedy exertion of the public ; a ftron£ army, compared to the last, must be raised, and disciplined to fight the Indians in their own manner ; such an army, well commanded and modelled, I ftiould like to serve in, and would still hope to fee thole favagea subdued." 295 A mefiiige fYom his Excellency the Governor to the Legislature, last Friday, informed them of further alarms at Pittfburg, on account of the Indians—that a plan' of defenfive operations has been recently proposed to him by the Prefidenc of the United States—" which, as it claims in some refpedts the fant r tion of the Legislature, he fnbmits ro their confiderntion"—fugge'ting ac the fame time the necellity nf adequate appro priations of money tor arms and ammunition, &c. to co-operate in the measures of the federal go vernment for the protection of the frontiers. This meflage was accompanied by a letter from the citizens of Pittfburg, to the Governor, and two letters from Lieut. Jeflrers, commanding of ficer at Fort-Franklin—all of which express the strongest npprehenfions of an immediate attack by the savages on the above Fort. According to the late census of the inhabitants of the United States, it appears that in the States of Maflachufetts, Diftrieft of Maine, Rhode-lfland and Connecticut, the number of females exceeds that of the males—whereas in all the other states the number of males greatly exceeds that of the females. From this (late of farts, the plea of any necessity in favor of poligamy, is invalidated, if not totally exploded. According to rhe Jaft accounts from Cape-Fran cois, afFdirs appear to be afluming a more tran quil afpeft, and some late letters fay that the market there promiles good prices for our pro duce ere long. It is however said that the Mulaitoes have ta ken possession of Aux-Cayes. COMMUNICATIONS. Every department of government, in a free country, has the idea of responsibility attached to it—but perhaps there are no officers in the executive whose characters Ihould he fairer for integrity than those in the Pod-Office. On this principle their conipenfations ought to be libe ral —that abilities and honesty may be encouraged and rewarded, and every pretext for impoficion on the public, entirely removed. It is said that the power and importance of the state governments are declining, and depreciat ing in the eflimation of the people—Quere, whe ther a great encreafe in the representative body of the Union will not tend to augment this dif'af fecflion to the state governments —especially when it is considered that this augmentation will most undoubtedly absorb a proportional ratio of the genius and abilities of the several states. " Success crowns the enterprise."—Since the event of the late expedition againfl the Wabafh Indians haS been known, there has been wisdom enough displayed by certain individuals andwri ters, to have planned, and carried into compleac and fuccefsful operation a more arduous and complex expedition than either Congress, or all the executive branches of the government, will ever be called on to devise and execute from this time to the end of the world. When Vitlory our hopes derides, And in a paflion changes fides, Each politician, sage and four, Is ten times wiser than before; Can tell you, (and quite fly his nod is) What has affronted madam Goddcfs ; And shew by dint of second fight, What would have set all matters right. At a stated meeting of the American Philosophical Society, for the annual ele&ion of Officers, on the 6ih of January, the follow-* ing Gentlemen were duly chosen : Piefident—David Rittenhoufe, L. L.D. ( Thomas JefFerfon, Sec'ry ot the U. S. Vice-Preftdents, < William Smith, D. D. ( John Ewing, D. D. f James Hutchinfon, M. D. 0 jSamuel Magaw, D. D. Secretaries, < j onathan Willlams , (Robert Paiterfon. f Charles Wilson Peale, Curators, < Benjamin Smith Barton, M. D. (Caspar Wiftar, M. D. Treasurer—John Vaughan. S Charles Petit, Nicholas Collin, D. D. Benjamin Rush, M. D. William White, D. D. The Counsellors whose term of office is not yet expired, are the following: Adam Kuhn, M. D. Thomas M'Kean, L/L. D. Jared Ingerfoll, Robert Biackwell, D.D. Andrew Ellicot, William Barton, Samuel P. Griffitts, M. D. Isaac Gray. Extratt from the Minutes, J. WILLIAMS, Sec'ry. Arrivals at the port of Philadelphia, for the year 1791 : —Shipt arid Barques, 122 —Snows and Srigs, 250—Schooners, 78 —Sloopt 117 —Coatiers, 694 —making in the whole 1261. Neither New-York city papcis, nor any from the Eaftwari thereof, were received bv the Editor, by yesterday's post. ThfeiSmarks on the " Respondent," CignedCandidus f v/td9 not think*CorrefDond with the signature. PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT? 6 pr. CentJ 23/9 pr. /. 3 pr. Cents 14/3 Defered 6 pr. Cents 14J6 UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Scttl. and othei Certificates toj6 102 i do. Indents 13\f 65 do. Bank Stock —half shares 109 per eent premium, —whole (hares 60 per cent, pr. ec*t. do. 721 do.
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