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.
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