charges—this was a private purchase by major Burnett, from Mr. John M'Queen, a gentleman well known in South Carolina ; and it was thought to be a very advantageous purchase for major Burnett at the time it was made (although ic lias turned out otherwise) but it was neceflary for him to obtain security, previous to receiving ti tles He applied to Gen. Greene to become his security upon that occasion, which was complied with—and in that ail he certainly displayed a superior degree of private friendship, and such as has already been found extremely injurious to his family—but it is by no means connected with the claim now under consideration. The danger of eltabliihing a precedent in fu ture, unsupported by previous authority obtain ed from Congress, is alio mentioned as an objec- tion— ' Mr. Chairman —There never can be any dan ger of dr«wing this circumllance into precedent ; for the page of history never did before, nor I believe never will again, produce a similar pre cedent, i. e. an army facing and fnrniounting every difficulty and danger through a long and bloody contest, badly ck f' -el, a -1 worie paid, and frequently de&itute "h? common necefla ries of life. Sir, it's for the ho o' :n. Greene that we contend—and I ain warr; is asserting, that he-was not interested in the contract of Mr. Banks, otherwise than from the pure and vir tuous motives of serving and saving his country I therefore feel myfelf interested and bound in honor, to support and defend the character of my departed friend—and to demand this claim as a matter of right and not of grace—and I have a confidence that the candor and justice of this committee will induee them to adopt the prin ciples of the resolutions submitted to their consi deration. WEDNESDAY, February i The committee to whom was referred the me morial of John Churchman, made a report, which was read, and ordered to lie on the table. [The report states, that Mr. Churchman is en titled to the applause of the enlightened world, and to the encouragement and iupport of his country ; —that, as a greater and more accurate knowledge of the variation of the magnetic nee dle*wou!d answer many very valuable purposes, encouragement ought to be given to such persons as contribute towards perfecting that desirable knowledge ; —and that Congress may with pro priety patronize such a person as Mr. Churchman, and grant him fiKfh aid as may beneceflary to en able him to profeiute his laudable enquiries, to good effect.—The committee however submit to the house the propriety of making such a grant at the present time ; but recommend an encreafe in the penalties for copying Charts, Maps, &c.] An engrofled bill, making further and more effectual provision for the protection of the fron tiers, was taken tip for a third reading, and to have the blanks filled up—whereupon the gal leries were cleared. THURSDAY, February 2. Mr. Steele laid the following motion on the table That a committee btf appointed to enquire into and report to this house, their opinion of the number of Indians in arms against the Uni ted States—the documents whereon that opinion may be founded—the causes of the delay of the Federal Army on the Ohio—the scarcity of pro visions and forage—tl\e quality of the powder— and such other causes as may have been, in the judgment of the committee, conducive to the late unfortunate defeat. The amendments of the Senate to the bill for eftablilhing the Poft-Office and Post-Roads within the United States, were taken into consideration by the House, and all of them agreed to, except one or two, which refpe& a variation in the cross ports, One of the amendments proposed by the Se nate, and agreed to by the Houf'e, is in favor of the newspapers ; inafinuch as it permits any per son whatever, without authority from the Poft maller-General, to " rake up, receive, order, dispatch, convey, carry, and deliver" newspapers for hire on theeftablifhed post-roads, without be ing fubjeil to any fine, penalty, or forfeiture for io ctoing. By another amendment, it is ena<£ied that if any person employed in any department of the post - office,, shall unlawfully detain, delay, em bezzle or deltroy any newspaper, with which he lhall have been entrusted, such offender shall, for every such offence, forfeit a sum not exceeding jo dollars :—and the Poflmafter, in any contract he may enter into for the conveyance of the mail, may autljorize the perfonj with whom such con tract is made to carry newspapers, other than in the mail. The bill'making further and more effectual provision for ihe Frontiers, was pafled yefteiday— Tfeas 29 —Nays 19. . v FRIDAY, February 3. After reading and referring fundrv petitions and memorials, Mr. Goodhue moved that the houfefhould resolve itfelf into committee of the whole on the fifhrry bill ; this motion, after some opposition by Mr. Parker and Mr. White, who urged the superior importance of immediate attention to the militia bill, was agreed to—and Mr. W. Smith took the chair; the bill was hen rend by the cleric, and on the firft fe&ion's being repeated by the Chairman- -Mr. Giles moved that this fe&ion should be struck out ; this motion being seconded, a debate ensued, in which Mr. Giles and Mr. Murray, spoke in opposition to the bill—and Mr. Goodhue, Mr. Ames, Mr. Gerry, Mr. Lawrance, Mr. Fiizfimons and Mr. Barnwell, in favor of it : The committee ioff without coming to a vote, and had leave to fit again. A meflage from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis, informed the House that the Senate have agreed to the amendments ot the House made to the amendments of the Senate to the poll-office bill. Adjourned till Monday. BOSTON, January 21 We are informed that a number of the associated paflors of this town, have fubferibed among near lonr hundred of the inhabitants, a memorial, setting forth their reaforis against the repeal of a law prohibiting theatrical exhibitions, See. And we are allured that those of them who did not fee their way clear to sign the memo rial, have, with their brethren, unanimously f pre fled their opi nions against a theatre, and placed it upon their own records. RICHMOND, January 27. On Tuesday evening last the froft was so severe, that Made:ra wine froze in decarfters standing in closets, and antimonial and fpiritsof wine were alio frozen in the Apothecaries (hops in this citv. We learn that on Thurlday fe'nnight, the ice was so firm at Norfolk, that people palled over to Portsmouth upon it. N E W-Y ORK, February 1. HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, JANUARY 23. A petition of Richard Yates, Abraham Duryee, and others, fubferibers to a new Bank, by them called the Million Bank, praying to be incorporated with Walter Livingfton, and others, whose petition was presented to the House on the 26th inft. was read, and referred to the fame committee as the petition of Mr. Livingfton. QUEBEC, December 19. The following are the Gentlemen appointed for the Councils of Lower Canada, in conformity to the at r t published for a division of this country: EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. Hon. William Smith, Hon. P. R. de St. Ours. Hugh Finlay, Francois Baby, Thomas Dunn, Joseph de Longueuil, Adam Mabane, Pierre Panet, Adam Lymburner, Esquires. LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Hon. William Smith, Hugh Finlay, Thontns Dunn, Edward Harrifon, John Colins, v Adam Mabane, George Pownall, John Frafer, Philadelphia, February 4. On Monday next the Supreme Court of the United States will meet at the new Court-Houle in this city, when it is expedied the important qneltion will be agitated and fettled—Whether a state can be compelled to appear and answer to a P.rotefs illuing from that Court ? Richard Peters, Esq. "having resigned his ofiice of Speaker of the Senate of this State, Samuel Powell, Esq. was on Tuefdav last ele<fted in his Head, an& was placed in the chair accordingly. We hear from Albany, that wheat of prime quality is fold there at fix (hillings (New-York currency) and Indian corn, three ihillings per bushel, in exchange for goods. Accounts were some time since published of the infamous murder of Mr. Hogeboome, fherifF of Albany county, New-York, by one or more cow ardly aftaffins, who waylaid and (hoc him on the road. The lad papers from the northward, men tion the death of his widow, Mrs. Sarah Hoge boome, 011 the 16th ulc. as an undoubted conse quence of the cruel fate of her husband The boy who was charged with setting fire to several stables in this city, was lately tried, and acquitted. Lately interred in the burying ground of the Dutch Presbyterian Church near Newtown,Bucks County, the remains of Mr-. Corfin, who when alive weighed four hundred and fifteen pounds. The General Court of New-Hampfliire have pasTed an Ast in corporating a Company of Gentlemen, for the purpose of eilab lithing a Bank at Portsmouth, by the name of the New-Hamp shire Bank. A gentleman of New-Haven, by Fahrenheit's Thermometer, in an exposed part of that city, found the Mercury, on Monday morning 23d inft. to stand at 14 below cypher. The Quebec Herald, of January 2, contains accounts of the ce lebration of the New Constitution by four different companies, viz. By the "friends oj the Constitution," at Frank's Hotel—"The late Committees and a number of Inhabitants " at the Merchants' Coffee- House—" The Garrison Club"—and by a number oj Gentlemen, at Lane's Tavern. Lord Dorchester is among the Toasts given by the three latter companies. The tenor of many publications on the Indian war, and of cer tain itri&ures on the heads of the executive departments of the go vernment of the United States,ftrongly imprefles the mind of every attentive reader with this idea—That they are the produ£hons of foreigners. Two reasons maybe afligned for this opinion—the firft is,the inveteracy of these writers againd the government now so happily eftabli(hed, and the total want of f\mpathy,{o strikingly apparent in their writings, in regard either to the prosperity, or the misfortunes of our country. The other reason is, the simila rity of the epithets which abound in those publications, with those 323 Hon. J. G. C. de Lery, Picotte Beleftre, Paul Rock de St. Ours, Francois Bal>y, Joseph de Longueuil, Charles de Lanaudiere, R. A. de Boucherville, Esquires. which diflingtnfh the opposition-speculations of a certain street in London, -A corrrfpondent is however made happv in obfeiv. ing a disposition in the people to read both fid s, and to judge tor thcmlc lves. Some inflances of the good effeftsof counter-publi cations to the effufions at*>ve referred to, have fallen under his cognizance ; which plainly (hew ihat it is the duty of every friend to the government, to exhibit from nme to time,/«flj, in'oopofi tton to the declamations of those who take pleafute in lowing the lecds of diftrull and disunion among the people. The rife of the public Stocks of the United Stales, it has been (aid, does not indicate the rife of the public credit— it meerlv (hews that the Lcgiflature has by law piovided for paying the in. tereft—and the credit of the Securities is exaflly in proDoition r , the rate of that interest. But in answer to this remark it may be said, that the credit of an individual is always in proportion t,o the value of such indivi dual's promilTory note—and this credit depends on the characl ter of luch individual for ability,probity, and punfluality—(or it is evident, that all the legal engagements which can pofTtbly be made will not enhance the public credit in the smallest degree, without corresponding provision and punfluality to fulfil them. Si R, TO the letter of the 9th of November, which I had the honor to address to you from Fort Washington, a postscript was added relating to information communicaled by Capt. Slough to General Butler, and not imparted by him to me, and that did not come to my knowledge till after the army got back to that fort. As the nature of the information was not mentioned, the poftfcriot mull have appeared mysterious, and it is proper that I should explain it. Capt. Slough, fir, was intended to have been the bearer of the letter, and so it was endorsed upon the cover, and therefore I thought it needlcfs to insert the particulars; and had he presented it, you no doubt would have inquired into it fully, and all ambi guity would have ceased ; but at the moment he foould have set f ofF, some account of the situation of Colonel Gibfon (who is his uncle) induced him to delay his journey, and the packet was pat into the hands of another person, then going to Lexington. You will be pleased, fir, to recollect it was stated in the letter that in the night preceding the 4th of November, the militia weie in advance of the reft of the army—For greater security, and to in tercept any small parties of Indians that might be approaching with predatory views, it was thought fitting that a party of regul lar troops should be advanced, from a quarter to half a mile in front of the militia. The party was taken rrom the right winr which formed the front line, then under the immediate command of General Butler, and Capt. Slough was the officer ordered out by him for those purposes. In the night, it seems, he discovered the Indians approaching in such numbers, that he thought it necessary to draw in his party, and immediately made report of what he had discovered to Gen. Butler, from whom he had received his orders. He proposed to the General to make the fame report to me; but the General replied to him, that as he must be fatigued, he had better lay down to sleep, and he himfelf would give the in formation. This is, as nearly as I can recollect, the account Captain Slough gave me at Fort Waftiington. The orders given to Col. Oldham, mentioned alio in the post script as not executed, were, That he should fend out, from his command, an hour at least before day, and as much earlier as pos sible, four or five parties of 20 men, with an officer to each, in dif ferent directions, for the purpose of making discoveries. I was very ar.xious on this point, and not without some doubt that it might not be pun£tually attended to : the Adjutant-General was therefore, about the dawn of day, but rather before it, fentto Col. Oldham, that I might be certain of that precaution having been taken. Col. Oldham was met by him at some distance from his cncampment, and informed him the parties were not then gone out, but would bedifoatched the moment he returned.—Unhap pily he never returned. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your mod obedient servant, The Honorable Major-General Knox, Secretary of War, At a stated meeting of the American Philosophical Society, Ja nuary 20th, the following gentlemen, Foreign and American, were duly elected members: Count Paul Andreani (member of several literary societies} of Milan, Italy. Rodolph Valltravers, Esq. F. R. S. Hamburgh. Anthony Fothergill, M. D. of Bath, England. Anthony Renatus Charles Mathurin de la Forest, vice-consul general of France, to the United States. M. Joseph Ceracchi, of the city of Rome. Palifot de Beauvois, de la Societe "des Sciences & Arts du Cap Francois; and, correspondent de L'Academie des Sciences de Paris. John Rouelle, M. D. Mr. Richard P. Barton, of Mount Airy, Dinwiddie county, Virginia. Doflor David Jackson, of Philadelphia. Doctor William Smith, ditto. Nicholas B. Waters, M. D. ditto. Extract from the minutes, SAMUEL MAGAW, Sec'ry Died, atLeicefter (Mass.) Mr. So uthgate,ooc of the fir ft settlers of that town, aged go.—He never experienced a day's (icknefs in his life, and was able thl morning on which he died to walk from his bed to the fire. Twelve children, all he ever had, followed him to his grave. The writer who signs " One of the Levies," complains of the scantiness of the pay, badness of the doatking, and want of necef faryfupplies for the late expedition under General St. Clair — Other afTertions in his narrative contain more direst imputations. The writer will perceive that the fubjc6t is likely to undergo a le gislative investigation—the Editor.therefore supposes, that in an interview with the author, he could convince him that it would be improper to publish his performance. PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 25/3 pr. / 3 pr. Cents i s f Defered 6 pr.Cents 15/3 •UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Sett), and other Certificates 22f Indents' 13^ Bank Stock—whole {hares 65 per cent. —half (hares 108 per cent premium. RUN AWAY from the Subscriber, living in Elfenborough, nearly opposite Jleedy-Ifland, on the night of the 20th of November, 1791, an Apprentice Lad, named JOHN MORRIS; about 16 years of age; took with him a new telt hat, homespun cloth coat and breeches, corduroy jacket, two pair (lockings, two homespun (hirts, two pair shoes, and some summer cloaths. It ts supposed he wenc on board some vessel, as he was seen going in a batteau towards some veflels that were lying at the Piers, near Reedy-Island.—Whoever takes said apprentice, and returns him to his matter again, (hall receive Two Dollars reward, by BENJAMIN HOLME. Philadelphia, January 29, 1792. A. St. C L A I R 126! pr. cent. 75 do. 76J do. 110 do. 66} do.
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