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.