Mr Otis also informed the Honfe, that the Senate having considered the bill for extending the time for The payment of the duties on cer tain teas, had resolved the lame (hould not pass to a third reading. In committee of the whole on the bill for 1 ail ing a further sum of money for the protection of the frontiers of the United States the com mittee made sundry amendments, which being reported to the House, were la.d on the table. r x Adjourned. THURSDAY, April 19- . Mr. Goodhue reported a bill relative to the con.penfations of certain officers employed in the collection of the duties of import and tonnage read twice, and committed for Monday next. A bill for fettling the demands ot A.W.White aeainit the United States, was read the facond time, and committed tor Monday next. A report of the Secretary of the Treasury was read on the petition of the merchants ot Phila delphia relative to the erection ot piers in the Delaware— which was favorable to the P ra y e [ of ,he petition.—This report, on motion ot Mr. Fitzfimons, was refered to a lele.fl committee. A meflage from the Senate, by Mr. Secretary Otis informed the House that they had made choice of Mr. Bradley for the committee on en rolled bills, in the room ofMr. llutherturd, who JS Sfrßourne, of the committee on enrolled bills, reported the bill, entitled, « An a* for autho rizing the grant and conveyance ot a tract ot land to the Ohio Company of Allocates, as dU, The amendments reported to the House by the committee of the whole, to the " bill tor rad.ng a further sum of* money for the defence of the frontiers," were taken into consideration— I he Hoofe agreed to all the Amendments, except one, which was to exempt cotton from a duty—this being disagreed to, cotton continues charged with the duty as heretofore. Mr. Seney renewed a motion made yeuerday, to add a fetfion to the end of the bill to limit us duration to the day of and from thence to the end of the next feflion of Congrels, &c This motion occasioned a long debate the ayes and noes being at length called, were as follow AYES. MeflVs. Aflie, Baltlwin, Brown, Findley, Giles, Greee, Griffin, Grove, Heifter, Jacobs, Lee Ma con, Madison, Mercer, Moore, Niles, Page, Far ker, Schoonmaker, Seney, Sheredine, J- Smith, 1. Smith, Steele, Sturges, Snnipter, Tieadwell, Tucker, Venable, White, Williamlon, Willis—32. noes. Meflrs. Ames, Barnwell, Benfon, Boudinot, S. Bourne, B. Bourne, Clark, Dayton, Fitzlimons, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Gordon, Hartley, Hill houfe, Huger, Key, Kitchell, Kittera, Lawrance, Learned, Livernvoie, Muhlenberg, Muriay, W. Smith, Sterrett, Sylvester, Thatcher, Vining, Wadfworth, Ward— 31. _ The Speaker, according to a Handing rule or the House, having a right to vote—and in this cafe giving his vote in the negative, accoiding to the lame rule, the motioir was loft. Adjourned. FRIDAY, April 20. A report from the Secretaiy ot the Trealury on the petition ot Eliphalet Ladd—was read and referred to the comnv.ueeon the petition of W. and 1. Symmes. Mr. Williamfon presented a petition from sundry citizens of the State of North-Carolina, relative to the internal navigation o. that State, and praying Congress to authorize t < - C H' dtute thereof to impose a duty on Tonnage to enable t em to remove obilruftions in the lame -referred to a leleft committee. Mr. Gerry, alter iht.ng to the Honfe that the debates of Con gress have heretofore been inaccurately published, brought for ward a refolutiou, the purport of which was to make public pro ■vifion to remedy the evil, by appointing persons of good reputa tion, versed in Renography, to take down the debates, &c. this motion was referred to a committee of five, viz. Mr. erry, r. Mercer, Mr. W: Smith, Mr. Lee and Mr. Kittc ra. The House proceeded in the confiderauon of the bill to raifea further sum of money for the proteaion ot the Irontiers Mr. Livermore moved that me bill (hould be engroiled; Mr W. Smith seconded the motion-This motion was luperceoed by a nother made by Mr. Page, to re-comnm the bill—l his mouon after a snort debate was negatived. A motion by Mr. Williamfon, to ft.ike out a clause which ex empts books imported for the use ot any college or aca emy o learning from a duty, was, after some debate, carried— 42 mem bers riling in the affirmative. , On motion ot Mr. B. Bourne, a fcftion was agreed to, repeal ing th'f'claufe in the to.ledion law which rates the ltvre to.rno.s at 18A cents. , • , . „ A motion by Mr. K-ttera, to insert among the articles exempt ed from duty, tradejmen's tools, machine* Jot manuja ujcs, an im plemcnts of hu(bandr\iWAS negatived. Mr. Parker moved an addition to the duty on coal ot 43 cents per bufhe!—which was agreed to. . Mr. Giles movtd to flrike out the several feftions stating the re gulations in the coll ftion ot the duty on playing cards—this, alter a ihort debate, was carried —-271025. A motion by Mr. Barnwell, to reduce the duty on imported spirits from 2 to 24 cents —was negatived. Ou motion of Mr. Fitzfimons, the duty on common wines was reduced Irom 3310 30 cents. A motion was made by Mr. Baldwin to add a clause providing in the payment of all the duties, lor the receipt of the bank notes, of the banks of New-York, Bolton, Providence, North-America, bank ot the United Slates or the bank of Baltimore j several amendments being piopofcd, and negatived, the queflion on the original propofuiou being it was loll; 8 members on )ri ing in favor of it. The bill was then ordered to be engrossed for a third reacm 0 Philadelphia, April 21. David Rittf.nhouse, Esq. is appointed Di rector of the MINT of the United States. Thomas Sim Lee, Esq. is appointed Governor of the State of Maryland, in the l oom of George Plater, Esq. deceased. A letter from Lancaster of I 3th inft. fays, two boats are now at Wright's Ferry from above the big lfland—they descended the Conawago Falls with great fafety, one loaded with 200 barrels of flour, the other with 1200 bushels of wheat. By a veilel arrived on Thursday from the Cape, an account is received of the arrival at St. Do- mingo of the residue of the 6000 troops expected from France. It is a truth beyond contradiction, that the mariufa<slure of paper mill) soon decline in this state, unlets the generality of people can be in duced by some means or other, to preserve their rags. The great complaint at all the paper-mills is want of rags ; the failure of the necellary flip ply of which must soon raise the price of home manufactured printing paper so much astocaule a renewal of the importation ot this very neces sary article from France, Holland, and Great- Britain. Some persons, both in their writings and con versation, seem mightily anxious for the reputa tion of our government—Certain it is, foreign ers must entertain a very contemptible idea of ir, when they fee that scurrility and blackguard ism are the chief weapons used in its defence. f Nat. Caz.] ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. i SAYS A CORRESPONDENT, Experience is our belt teacher. —Accordingly [ have been edified by perusing the concise re marks of a gentleman from North-Carolina on the debate occasioned by the motion to refer the fubjet't of ways and means to the Secretary of the Treasury. Theory and finefpun speculation of ten bewilder us. But that gentleman with found discretion and an acute political sagacity has ap pealed to matter of fadi.-He has shewn that so far is Congress from being awed or unduly influenced by the opinions ot the Secretary, that a ftri&er scrutiny has in no instance been made even of the reports of committees appointed by the House. In fliort, the reports from the Trea sury have to run the gauntlet j they are exami ned not only without favor, but with a degree of caution perhaps, and suspicion and aversion which their conformity with truth and policy only can overcome ; and if uodue influence is felt at all, surely those men who cry out are the lead partial to the Secretary of the Treasury— they do not speak for themselves but others. It is not the most modest thing in the world to fay, we are sure we are honest and firm, but those who vote agaiiift our judgment are rogues, and only to be restrained from mifchief by our al ways watching and fomeiimes tying them. SAYS A CORRESPONDENT, Is any thing more absurd than to charge go vernment with the lollies and thai some frantic people exhibit in confecjiience of its funding law ? The price of any thing de pends on the demand for it—over-fpeculanng it is true hJi increased the demand ior stock and brought many perlons into (crapes. But the ex port of grain while Europe was hall famifhed was in like manner pushed to excels. At that time the farmers did not blame Congress because they got an high price. \ou may talk to the wind and the tide, and will they mind you ? If too much is given at one time for the stock, what is to be done but to let the lol'ers learn wit by paying for it. Those who condemn the excel' live speculations which have taken place will have the comfort to fee that the evil has nearly cured iifelf. If folly is let alone it will tax it felf to death. It feerns remarkable that some of the known and declared enemies of the government affect to love and understand it better than us friends. What would the constitution prove to be worth if its admirers after having adopted fhonld leave to its foes to interpret it? Those who have ho ped to fee America rife as a nation would fee that their hopes are built on the sand. " Oppolition to the measures of government" is a different thing from " offofing" %he govern ment itfelf ; this is said-yea the point of homf ty is said to turn on this oppofuion—but, it the nieafures of government are founded on the de cisions of the majority, honefly it must appear, lias* commenced hostilities with repubheamfm. A correfpondenrobferves that while ihofe who participate of the favors of government are con (tantly ifl'uing complaints against its measures and its ministers, we have Purely nothing to fear from bribery and corruption. 411 If there is an individual in the United States who has not heard,or has even doubted that the po pulace of Dublin i n fill ted the Speaker ot the Irifii House of Commons, broke his coach win dows, and put his life in jeopardy, tor doing what a majority of the houle determined lie had 3 right to do—clear the galleries ; it is because they have not read the Gazettes of this city and other places in which the circuinftance has been repeatedly publilhed with the debates on the oc calion ; but left the precious example (honld be loft, it is thought necefl'ary that the memories of our citizens should be refrefhed by a re-re peated publication, as much as to lay—" Go thou and do likewise." Every honest man is an enemy to ttoufe s of public tr 11ft—but measures and abuses are fynon imous terms with fame who pretend to be repub- cans The drawing of the Newark Bridge Lottery finiftied the i 8 h instant—No. 13,538 drew the highest prize, 5,000 dollars, and is the ptoperty of Mr. Sayre Crane, of Newark. We hear that the amount of the debts of an eminent dealer in the funds, who has stopped payment in New-York, is one million five hundred and eighty three thousand dollars ; and the amount or his receivable contracts oidy nine hundred thousand dollars ; what other property he has is not mentioned. There was some disturbance in New-York lately owing to a number of persons—men, negroes and boys assembling lound the gaol and breaking the lamps—it does not appea. that any pcr fonal injury was fuffered. Proper measures are taken by the po lice to prefeive the peace of the city. Thirty-seven fifhing veflcls have been licenced according to law, during the month of March, ior the bank fiftiery, in Salem and Beverly. Died, at Allen-Town, New-Jersey, Hon. John Imlay, aged 73— f.n mcrly I'ldge of the Court ot Admiralty in that State. —In London, Mr. John Rivi n gton, an eminent Book-fcllcr, aged near 80. |YT THE Letter Bag of the Ship Amiable, Capt. Paul, for London, is intended to be taken from the Poft-Otftce This Evening. Letters for the French Packet at New-York, will be received at the Poft-Office in this city till the 27th instant. SHIP NEWS, ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. Ship Brothers, Anderfon, Lisbon, Odore, De la Rue, Havanna, Schooner America, Hathaway, N. Carolina, Frederickiburg Packet, Mann, Virginia, Sloop Nonpareil, Tatem, do. Endeavor, Evans, Sally, Mason, Cape-Francois, New-York Packet, Dunn, New-York, Diana, Davidfon, do- Phoenix, Burrows, Jamaica. PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 3 pr. Cents Defered 6 pr. Cents UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Settl. and other Certificates 16/ 80 do. Indents 11/3 do. Half (hares Bank Stock—s per cent, premium. Certificate Loft. WAS Loft, on the 17th inft. a CERTIFICATE, Numbered 59,490, gi anted to Lewis Nichola, for the lum of 007 24-QOih Dollars, dated the ift of May, 1784, and iigned by ]ohn Pierce, Elt). marked with tbe letter /.—Whoever has found the fame, and will return it to Clement Biddle, Esq. Notary Public, at No. 62, in Front-street, louth of Market-street, or to the Printer of this paper, shall be generously rewarded. April 18, 1792 Farms & Mills for Sale &Lease. TO BE SOLD, A VALUABLE FARM, fuuate on the Turnpike Road lead, ing from Baltimore-Town to Rifter's-Town, about 6$ miles from the former ; containing about 430 or 440 acres of good farming land, 70 or 80 acres of which are excellent grass ground ; about 170 acres are cleared, upwards of twenty whereof are made meadow; the relidue abounding in good timber, and other trees for encloi'ure and fuel : There are two apple-orchards thereon, and buildings that may do, for the present, for an Overleer and his fantily. ... , ... Also, aTraftof LAND, containing about 600 acres, within iwo mi'les of the fame road, and about 18 or 20 miles distant from Baltimore-Town ; about 700 acres whereof are cleared, well cn clofed and improved by culiuie and with valuable buildings, some excellent meadow, near 20 acres, made. Also, a small FARM, 011 a public road leading, to said town,, about the fame distance therefrom as the last defcribcd land ; con taining 103 acres, whereon is an excellent apple-orchard, but no other improvements ef much value. The two firft above-mentioned Farms are furnifhed with fljvrs, stock of each kind, and all necessary implements of husbandry, vhich may be had with them ; they are sown wilh wheat, which prnmifes an abundant crop;—the business of the last of the two has b en, for nine years, and is now, condnfted by a fkilful in dubious Manager, who may be continued in the management, on terms. A FARM, on the said Turnpike Road, leading from Rifter's- Tovrn to Winchefter,Taney-Town, Frederick, and Hager'sTown; whereon is eredted a large commodious brick house, that h»s been used for some years pall as a tavern, and, by a tenant qualified tor that bufrnels, could be made an excellent ftagr; within a few rods of whirh, and on the main Falls of Petaplco, is also eretted 3 GRIST-MILL, now in good order for Merchant-Work, with a new SAW-MILL, and Land therewith. For the title and terms of sale, and the lease, o£ all or any part of the above valuable property, apply to Baltimore County, Match 7. 1792. P r Z 20 f nf6 12J par 57 J pr. cent. 60 do. TO BE LET, THOMAS JONES. [6i]
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