Mr. Gerry opposed the proviso—He said it not only recognised the right of the refpe&ive dates to pass such laws, as the firft pare of the clause intends to abrogate, not only before, but subse quent to the adoption of the constitution, which he conceived involved an absurdity—On the ge neral subject, he observed, thatthefe monopolies were a tax, not only on the citizens of other Hates, but of every state in the union—He con ceived that no state poflefies any such power as that of taxing the people of the United States. Mr. Benfon remarked, thar the proviso was improper and unneceflary—Should any conse quences result from agreeing to the fir ft pare of the clause, they will arise between the individu al claiming the privileges and the state which granted them, and mull be fettled by a judicial decision. Mr. Sturges laid he flioukl vote in favor of the proviso—though he conceived that Congress had a right to make such a law, as would in its ope ration entirely fnpercede these contracts. Mr. Findley said he was opposed to the provi ftj., because it was legislating on improper princi ples, or rather no principles whatever; for we know nothing about those contrails. On the question being put, theprovifo andpro pofition were bnrh disagreed to. \Lifl oj'T.eas and Nays, omitted in- the Minutes of last Tuesday.-] The question on striking one the provision for a second enumeration and apportionment, palled in the negative (yeas 22 —nays 35) as follow : Meflrs. Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Clark, Dayton, Fitzfimons, Gilman, Gregg, Hartley, Heiiter, Jacobs, Kitchell, Learned, Livermore, Miles. Schoonmajcer, Seney, J. Smith, I, Smith, Sylvester, Tucker, Ward—22. Messrs. Ames, Afhe, Baldwin, Barnwell, Ben fon, Brown, Findley, Gerry, Giles, Goodhue, Griffin, Grove, Huger, Key, Kittera, Lawrance, Lee, Macon, Madison, Moore, Muhlenberg, Mur ray, Page, Sheredine, Steele, Sturges. Sunipter, Thatcher, Treadwell, Venable, Wadfworth, Wayne, White, Williamfon, Wyllis—3s. The question on striking out the clause re fperting inferring the ratio of thirty thousand, was carried in the affirmative (yeas 33 —nays 26) as follow Meflrs. Ames, Barnwejl, Benfon, Boudinor, S. Bourne, Clark, Dayton, Fitzfimons, Gilman, Goodhue, Gregg, Grove, Hartley, Heifter, Ja cobs, Key, Kitchell, Kittera, Learned, Livermore, Macon, Madison, Niles, J. Smith, I. Smith, Steele, Sturges, Sylvester, Thatcher, Tucker, Wadf worth, Ward, Wyllis—s3. Meflrs. Afhe, Baldwin, B. Bourne, Brown, Find- Jey, Gerry, Giles, Gordon, Griffin, Huger, Law ranee, Lee, Moore, Muhlenberg, Murray, Pas;e. Schoonmaker, Seney, Sheredine, Sterret, Snmp ter,Treadwell, Venable, Wayne,White,William -10n—26. WEDNESDAY, January 25 Mr. Sterret laid on the table a motion for the appointment of a committee to bring in a bill to continue in force an art declaring r lie aflent of Congress to certain ads of the States of Mary land, Georgia, Rhode-Hland and Providence Plan tations. A motion, heretofore made by Mr. Dayton, being called up and agreed- to, with an amend ment, it was " Resolved, That the President of the United Stares be requelled to cause to be laid before the House the official communications, which have taken place between the Governor of the State of Pennsylvania and the Secretary at War, with relpetft to the raifingof troops within and under the authority of the said State : and a committee was appointed to wait on the Prefi dent with the above resolution. The House then resumed the confederation of the bill to ascertain and regulate the claims to half-pay and invalid pensions ; and having fur ther amended the fame, ordered it to be engros sed for a third reading. .Adjourned. THURSDAY, January 26, An engrofled bill, to ascertain and regulate the claims to hall-pay, and to invalid peniions, was read a third time, pafled, and feut to the Senate for their concurrence. Mr. Boudinot laid on the table the following motion : " Relolvcd, That the dignity, gratitude, and juftiee of the general government Require, that a suitable provision be made for the widow and orphan children of the late Major Gen. Greene, in consideration as well of his very great and me ritorious services in the field, as of his patriotic exertions and personal influence in promoting and supporting contracts for supplying t he south" em army with cloathing and rations, at a time mid crisis when in danger of disbanding for want YEAS NAYS YEAS NAYS of these eflential neceflaries — and that a commit tee be appointed to bring in a bill for that pur pose." Mr. Macon laid on the table the following motion : " Resolved, That the prayer of the petitioi of Catharine Greene cannot be granted." The House then resolved itfelf into a commit tee of the whole—( Mr. M uhlenberg in the chair] —on a bill making provision for the protedlioi of the frontiers. [Tlie bill, besides completing the regiments nlrt-ady on tlie continental establishment, con templates the raising of three additional regi ments of infantry, each to consist of 912 non commiflioned officers, privates and musicians, ex clusive of cominiffioned officers; arid one squa dron of light dragoons (to serve occasionally as infantry) confiding of 304 non-commissioned of ficers and privates, besides commiflioned officers.] After fonie debate on the encreafe of the mi litary establishment, the committee rofe,and ob tained leave to fit again—and a reading of some of the confidential communications from the Pre sident being called for, the gallery was ordered to be cleared. FRIDAY, January 27 Sundry petitions praying for pensions, com pensations, &c. were read, and referred to the Secretary of War. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Treasurer of the United States, inclos ing a copy of his Indent account. Mr. Sheredine laid a motion on the table to the following purport —That a committee fhonld be appointed to wait on the President of the Uni ted States, to enquire of him at what time, if at all, it will be agreeable to him that his confiden tial communications refpetfting the western fron tiers, (hall be publicly difcufled in the House. Mr. White laid the following resolution, in fub fta nee,on the table—Refolved,that whenever any confidential communications are received from the President of the United States, it shall be a (land ing rule, that the House {hall be cleared of all perfonsbut the members—also, when any mem ber has any particular business to lay before the House, which in his opinion requires secrecy ; in the latter cafe the Hopfe shall proceed immedi ately to take I nch business into confideration,and determine whether it be of such a nature as to render it proper that ic should be privately dif cufled. The order of the day being called for, on the western frontier business—the doors of" the gal lery were shut. BOSTON, Jan. 16 Of the corps Diplomatique, in Portugal, none fopport a more elegant style than Colonel Hum phreys, the Resident from the United States— and in bis attention to his countrymen, none can exceed him. All his domestics are Americans— His state coach was made at Philadelphia, and is drawn by four beautiful American horses. His Excellency, we understand, is shortly to be mar ried to an accomplished young lady of Liibon— poffefled of an immense fortune.—" The fair re ward the brave." His Excellency the Governor and Council, have unanimously appointed the Hon. Thomas Dawes, jun. Esq. a Judge of the Supreme Judicial Court of this Commonwealth. NEW-YORK, Jan. 24. On Saturday evening the 2iit instant, the com mittees appointed by the subscribers to the State and Million Bank, met at Corre's hotel. After communicating their refpecftive powers, and conferring on the neceflity of another Bank, on which themoft perfetft unanimity of sentiment prevailed, the gentlemen who appeared on be half of the Million Bank unanimously agreed to present a petition to the legislature, praying for an act to incorporate the two Banks in one, upon such terms as they might deem expedient. The two committees were then met by five gentlemen appointed by the Merchants and Tra ders to confer with them on the fame fubjecfl. The committees fully and candidly explained to those gentlemen what steps they had taken to obtain a new Bank. These gentlemen, after ex pressing their unanimous approbation of the mea sures which had been pursued, informed the committees that they should recommend to the Merchants and Traders to present a similar pe tition to the legislature. The gentlemen then withdrew, and the committees adjourned. By Order, WALTER LIVINGSTON, Chairman ADVERTISEMENT. THE Subscribers to the Coffee-Houfa in Second-Street, kept by Edward Moyston, agreeable to a vore taken by the comoanv present on Thursday evening last, are defircd to meet at the Coffee Rooms this dav at one o'clock, to take into confideia tion the propriety of Mr. Moyfton's letting said Coffee Rooms tor the benefit of any individual, to the exclusion of others entitled to hold Public Auctions within the City of Philadelphia# 315 Philadelphia, January 28. Quebec papers, from 21ft Nov. to 2d Jan. Jnft. indufive, received by the Edtror, contain 110 In dian intelligence. A conlidt'able shock of an Earthquake was felt at Quebec the 6th of lalt month.—A letter from Paul's Bay, to a mercantile house ill that citv mentions, that 29 different lliocks were 1 elt at that place. 1 he ISjew Constitution of Canada took place on Monday the 26th December. This event wasce lebiated by the French and Engliffi inhabitants with the greatest demonstrations of joy The public exhibitions, fellivities, orations, &c. &c. were continued every day through the week. That Province is divided into two Governments upper and lower Canada. Extract of a letter from Boflofi, Jan. 18. " Our Legislature are now in session— but the indisposition of the Governor prevents him from submitting his communications, and they do not seem disposed to carve for themselves. Their attention will be much occupied by Boston af fairs—Firft, the Theatre—the repeal of the law against which, is wilhed for by near five to one of the inhabitants. On this fubjedl, Dr. J has come forward like a man—and at the town meeting, drowned liis opponents in a flood of oratory. are, however, many who oppose the repeal ;—many of the Clergy have signed the petition against the Theatre—some have lince erased their names. I think their interference is injudicious, and will much hurt their influ ence, since the town, at two legal meetings, was decidedly for the repeal. My conjeiflui es are, however, that the law will not be repealed. " The Bridges will also engage legislative at tention. Allured by the desire of gain, and prompted, perhaps, by chagrin, the party which was the rival of the present Bridge, in the fiilt application, have come forward with a petition for a new Bridge—But a few of them engrofled all the shares—This induced some who were dis appointed, to open a new fubfeription, which filled up in a few hours. These rival patties have their refpetftive friends in both Houses.— The Tontine will be opposed—but 1 guess will, in the end, be incorporated. " The loss of the brave officers and men who fell in the Western Expedition, is universally la mented in this town—lt is the theme of every conversation, from the infantto the aged fire and matron, On this town, the loss was severe— Phelon, Newman, Warren, Balch and Cobb, may be said to be citizens of it ; their circle of ac quaintance was very large, and they were highly refpecfied by all who knew them. Delighted with the profpedt of an honorable career in a military life, they seemed to have acquired the heighth of their wiflies—and to be plucked thus early, by a foe, unworthy the valour and intre pidity, which was their bane, is an event which fills our hearts with sorrow—and hard indeed mult be our consolation, when it is derived from the consideration, that killed outright, they did not fuffer the torturing cruelties of the savages." (omitted IN OUR. LAST FOR WANT OF ROOM.] Observations have lately been published to (hew, that there is a difference of opinion on the fubjecft of manufactures, between the Se cretary of State, and the Secretary of theTrea fury. To prove this, recourse is had to a passage in Mr. Jefferfon's " Notes on Virginia," in which he has laid " Jet our work-shops remain in Eu rope, &c. this work was published several years ago —and a correspondent remarks, that it may as well be inferred, that Dr. Franklin was op posed ro the Constitution of the United States, because he had been at a remote period—the au thor of a very different scheme of government, as that the Secretary of btate is opposed to ma nufactures, in the present eligible ftuation of our country, because at a less auspicious period, he said fomethingto that purpose. The Secretary of State is a great friend and patron to the mechan ic arts—but these arts derive their value and im portance principally from their applicability to manufactures. APPOINTMENTS—BY AUTHORITY. January 24, 1792. The Prcfident of the United States has appointed, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, William Carmichael and William Short, to be Commiinoners Plenipotentiary for negociating and concluding with any person or persons duly authorized by his Catholic Ma jesty, a Convention or Treaty concerning the Navigation of the River MifljjTippi by the Citizens of the United States. Died —In this City, Mr. Gosvinus Erkelens, of Amster dam—an active patriot and decided friend to the United States. At Alexandria (Virginia) Dr. William Brown—a most e-ili triable character. PRICE CU RRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 25/" P r */- 3 pr. Cents 15/ Dcfered 6 pr. Cents 15/3 UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Settl. and other Certificate* 2<?y Indents Bank Stock—whole fliares 65 per cent. 125 pr. cent. ?5 do -76* do. 110 do. 70 do.
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