ci the other part of the debt; and when he eon fidered that there was no express provision to prevent the creditors from demanding aninter eft for the delay of payment; he conlidered that the foundation of a public debt to all eternity. He adverted to tiie different expenses of the leveral States—there wad no companion could be formed between them ; in Soiith-Ca Judge has 8-531. a year—ll Virginia )I:1 currency, flc drew in referee- fro'V; - States which have made exertion? to pay e.i their debts are now called on to pay thole of States which made no exertions whatever. He enlarged on- the conduct of the State of Ma ryland in particular. He said the measure of the aflumption was odious in Maryland a> founded in injustice. The States are by this meafui'e made pensioners to the general government. Mr. BarnweJl supported tha proportion for a further aifiurtption—and in an animated man ner descanted on the merits, services and facri fices of the States which are now so great fuf ferers by reason of their exertions during the war. STOCK H O L M. 'The King (/"Sweden's Steech, on closing the Diet. February 23. " on the opening of the VV Diet, which I ain this day so happy as to close, I told you, that at a time when an unbridled licemiouf nefs was (halting or overturning go vernments, I was not afraid to con voke you—l confided in your attach ments to me, and the noble manner of thinking of the nation, for con ducing in peace and tranquility, the important affairs which occasioned your being convoked. My hopes have not been deceived ; and after having (hewn in war, that you are the lame people whose courage in former times alternately (hook or fortified thrones, you now give to your cotein poraries an example dill more noble, of the vigorous prudence and union with which a wife and enlightened people condu<ft their deliberations, when the head of the (late- calls for their advice on important affairs. This example is so much the more grand, that you are the only people ■who give it ; that by doing so, you juftify the confidence which I repos ed in you ; and by this mutual union, you fortify the internal peace and strength of your country, at the fame time that you augment that consider ation abroad, which your courage has so justly meritted. " If, as the firft citizen, as lie in ■whose contemplation the good of the ftatc and yours are inoft intimately connected, I ought'in the name of our country to express to you a de gree of gratitude worthy of you and of me ; how sensibly must my heart be a Rented by tha attachment and the Jove, which during the fitting of this Diet, you have teftified for 'me and my son ! How much, in his young breast, must be fortified that regard for, and confidence in a generous peo ple, who from his infancy gave him such proofs of attachment. You have seen him attending to your inftruifti ons ; and under my guidance inftrurt ing himfelf to fulfil the important duty to which providence may one day call him. I wished to accustom him early to bulinefs, and to teach him to etteem a people whom he is to govern, to love their laws and re fpecft their liberty. In exprefiing your wishes to fee my son soon in crease the family, and thus give the necefl'ary ftrengthand security to the fucceliion to the throne, you have participated my paternal hopes. Such a sentiment must afluredly add to my gratitude, if my heart were not al ready full. " You are now to return to your homes to re fame your occupations in peace, anfTto (hare with your fellow citizens the fatislaifiion of having* contributed to the public good and the maintenance of the state. I am to watch over the happiness of our country and of yours. I (hall endea vour to encourage agriculture, and commerce r. to maintain the facrcd liefs of the laws, the execution of jus tice, and the respect due to religion. In fliort, I am to apply myfelf to all the cares which iliy duty and my fix ation require of me, but which the love and the gratitude with which your attachment so sensibly affetffc my heart require in a still greater degree. These duties, which never cease f ° r a moment, which occupy the whole Of life, become more easy when thev are executed for a beloved people'- iupport is then derived from a true Zeal, from a sense of honor, and Hill! more from the fatisfa&ion of doing every thing 111 my power to prove my, gratitude, and preserve in your hearti;, .the ientimeuta with which you leav<f this place. 1 " It is with these sentiments that I (his day dole the Diet ; it will be with the fame sentiments that I lhall again receive you before the throne, when our con. in on interell may re quire that you be convoked." The Feb. 24. Some individuals having taken the liberty to censure the Ad liiiniltraiion of the finances of Swe den, &■ fomeof iheir writings breath ing too great a degree of licentious ness, his Majelly on the 9th inlt. pro hibited the printing or publishing, during the course of the Diet then aflelnbled, of any thing respecting the sub jeel of the deliberations of the said Diet. The King took every precaution to fecui e an exatft conformity to his wishes in the Diet, by procuring the appointment of a secret-committee to prepare the several branches of busi ness for difcullion ; and to prevent any disputes that might arise from being generally known, by prohibit ing ihe publication ofany account of the proceedings. Notwithstanding these precautions it has transpired, that fevera] of his propohtions have been warmly op posed in the secret committee ; and one, for continuing the fame mem bers on this committee during the whole feflion, absolutely rejecfled by the Diet. The following is said to be the slate of parties for the king. In opposition. Clergy 34 I 2 Citizens 71 19 Peasants 120 30 Nobles 42 360 The King has coiifequently a ma jority in three of the orders, and al nioft the whole of the fourth against him. But while rhe nobles coTitend<' only for the restoration of their own privileges, and overbearing influence in the government, there is no dan ger of their being joined by either of the other orders, to whom t he pow er exercised by the Senate was much more formidable than the preroga tive of the King, A few days ago arrived at Gefte, M. de Bouille, son of the Marquis de' Bouille, and the Marquis deTfchudi, a Swiss officer of great diltintfion \ they came on a deputation from the French Princes. COPENHAGEN, March 20 The remarkable ordinance, where by all Danifl) fubje<fts are entirely prohibited to carry on the Have trade after the year 1802, really made its appearance on the 16th inft. Den mark consequently is the firft coun try in Europe which hath hereby set so humane a precedent. ROME, March 10 At Neapolis, the mountain Vefuvi. us exhibits to the numerous strangers who are there at present, the awful scene of a new eruption. VIENNA, March 10, His Majesty king Francis has dif niiffed Prince Kaunitz from his coun cil, and has chosen general Lafcy and count Colloredo for his ministers friends to the party of the French Princes. PARI S, March 19 The new house guard of the King began on the t6th inft. to do duty in the rhuilleries. They fir 11 took the civic oath and the oath of office by a grand committee, which was admi nittered to them by the Mayor, M. I'ethion, before the Hotel de Ville during which time the colours were flying and the usual tunes of ca ira, The * tllen "'arched to the rhuilleries, moved off before the King and Queen, and cried in a cho rus, Vive u Roi ! long live the King. 1 he Queen shewed the Dauphin to the people from the balcony, but thev remained mute, no vivat to be heard. The Jacobine club raises its head again, and draws the attention of the whole kingdom. All the members or this club appear with a newlv in vented red liberty cap, and even their weekly president, Mr. Thuriot, who is a member of the National Mem bly, adorns himfeif therewith. 2 National jfffembly, March 24. The number of volunteers for com pleting the troops of the line being greater than is wanted, the minister at war was ordered to give an account of the deficiencies of tlie several re giments, and the return of recruits from the several departments. The discussion on the colonies was resumed, and after an able speech from M. Vaublanc, the propofiiion of M. Genfon 11 e, with fume amendments, was adopted, and decreed unanimous ly, to the following : " The National Aflembly recog nizes and declares, that tne people of colour and the free negroes ought to enjoy the rights of active citizens, in he fame manner as the whites." Letter from the Kino " Gentlemen, " Deeply affeifted by (lie troubles that agitate the kingdom, I have ne glected none of the means in my pow er to put an end to them. 1 had cho sen for my principal agents, men re commended by public opinion. 1 have replaced them by others distin guished by their public opinions.— You have often repeated to that this was the only means of eltablifli ing perfeift harmony between the two powers. J baften to yield to the wifli of the Aflembly, in order to refute the suspicions which the enemies of tire public good endeavor to excite a gaitift the purity of my intentions. I therefore inform you, that I have appointed M. Roland de la Platiere, to the place of minitter for the home department, and M. Claviere to that of the minHter for the public contri butions. When that of the minister of justice, to which 1 appointed a ci tizen, who has refufed to rccept of it, (hall be filled, 1 will inform the As sembly. (Signed) LOUIS." SINGULAR PETITION Abftratfts of a number of petitions were read, amonglt which was one from Madame Grandval, a mother, without being a wife, praying the Aflembly to pals a lawtoenable chil dren, not born in wedlock, to inherit the property of their parents. In support of this prayer, she referred to the ancient laws of the Franks,and the cultoms of various other nations, both ancient and modern. Her peti tion was warmly applauded, and re ferred to the committee of legifiation. March 27. M. Guiraut announced to the a trembly the difcoveryofa ma chine, to which he gave the title of a Logofcope, which would be a regu lator of the voice, and would serve to diretft the aflembly in moments of tumult and disorder. He received the honor of the fitting. March 28. The generous condutfi of the Earl of Effingham, as governor of Jamaica, and of the United States of America, in regard to St. Domin go, had long ago engaged the afl'em bly to pass votes of thanks, which the old ministers had not transmitted. A new order was made tor transmit ting them lorthwith. L O N DON, March 31 The Swiss Canton o{ Berne decid ed by a majority of 134 voices to 6, that the jegimeiit of Ernest (hall be recalled from the service France. Apt it 1. It is the duty of every member of parliament before he votes 011 Mr. Wilberforce's approaching motion to abolish the slave trade, o recollect — that as the abolition of it is avowed to be a mealure not of po licy but humanity—not of advantage but judice— not of expedience but ex periment ; the legislature ought 10 be fully fatisfied that the claim ofhu manity and jullice is well founded ; that the experiment proinifes success, and that the interest and strength of the nation are not hazarded in a vain pursuit of unattainable j:urity and perfection. Our peaceable friends, who from a delicacy of conscience abltain from the use of sugar, certainly are in the right, as it is some atonement for the unintended mifchief they have com mitted in tncdling with politics so far as relates to the Slave trade, as it is called ; it has already contributed to raise its price exorbitantly ; and fiiould the legislature consent to abo lifii it, the fame effccT: may en foe in our islands as at St. Domingo. Thus will the white man's blood be spilt to save even a little perljiiiation of the negro, « I ich th c v en ■ sri ft.le the » blood of.he' 1 J Oh tl.e lauve principl. thev",! ; oB Sa not touch money, or hive verfpoon or cotton -J» articles being produced bv r " " '!% means. . 4p rU 3- The King of Sweden I ing fncceeded in the otjecisf urwl he convened Ins Dier, hIS llo[ , ungrateful to rhole who wereil inlli iiuientnl to promote his M e »/' lome them he has railed to new ( [j "H.es, and others he has <lcc» i;ile J with orders of knighthood. The temperate determination 0 r * the Hotife ol Commons, that the trade fliall he gradually aboliihe/ bids f iir to gratify all j a tits, ' A furprifmg cnre f or a con (; rme( j cancer is said to have beendifcoveve: by a farmer in Yorkfliire i kco> . in a fticceliive application of lecciies to the parts alfeifted, which fucce-d! Ed when the knife had been tried to no purpose. Dr. I'riettly, as one of the'fofferers by the late riots at Birmingham, at. tended the Warwick assizes, to prove liis claims on the county for indent, nification. As soon as the populace of Warwick were apprized of bis ar nival, they collected, and nfed him in the moll indignant manner—Hones and dire were thrown at him, and no thing that resentment could dictate, was unaflayed to mortify and dlHreli him. Mr. RyTand's atfion for damage? in the late riot at Birmingham, came on before Mr. Baron Thonipfon, on Thtn fday latt, at Warwick, the trial commenced at ir o'clock and contin ued till 2 the next morning. The damages were laid at 30001, from which the Jury, who severely scruti nized every article of the demand, took 700'. The aftonifliing advance on funds, is rapidly follo'wed by of the United States of America, there is dill a very great between the prices of them. 0«r : three per centr. consols are rifeiiw 94, whilst the American three fir cent, flock is as yet no higher this 7J —a very efleutial difference t# iff pcrfons lr»4rig-nj>+He inter eft ei&hiii 1 n>oney in the funds. 7he ference in the real value of thet**,' is a trifling charge on the America# funds of commiflion, for remirtiiij and paying it here; but the cheip' ness of the American makes a 4arft addition of above 24 per cent, to lite income of thole who fell out efon* fund to invert their money in the<* ther, with the advantage of a great increase of their capital in a short rime, it being certain that the Ame rican 3 per cents mull rife, until they are to the fame price as others. Mr. Layton,of the Borough, lately entertained two hundred friends in a new tub. It was made for Mr. Menx, the brewer ; the dimenljons are, circumference 180 feet—height 21 ditto—contents io,oco barrels weight of iron 15 cwt.—tonnage 14 tons—number of fta*es 263, aJJ heart of oak.—lt takes 33 barrels to raiie the level one inch. The colt is about 3,0001. ! Layton gavefecurity ot 2,0001. to indemnify Mr. Meux f r £j" any loss that may be sustained within Ihe fir ft: twelve months. On a hde table in the tub, was a china punch bowl, on a mahogany stand, Wll wheels,which contained twenty-level* gallons and a half. A L BANY, May 24; It is with pleasure we can inform our readers, that a hwd of hemp, ** rived in this city, on Tuesday UK, which was raised at the south end o Cayuga Lake, near the PennfyN"# 1 * line, and was brought by wat ® r , a the way from thence to Schenecta y —This we believe is the fit ft instance of any produce, raised on that beau tiful lake, being brought to our mar ket H A RTFORD, May aB. The following gentlemen are cli"- fen by the freemen, to (land in nomi nation for election in OiSober nt* > as Representatives in Congtels, *iz- Jonathan Trumbull, James " house, Jonathan Stur ? es, J er ' ml . Wadfworth, Amafa Learned, bf",' min Huntington,Stephen M.Nnchc . Tapping Reeve, Jonathan l"fi e ' ' After Miller. Uriah Tracy, ® n ° L phauiah Swifr, Esquires. ilie fm;, s
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