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TERRITORY of COLUMBIA.
JULY 6, 1792. '
THE Subscriber offers for Sale, a Mill-Scat on
Rock Creek, deemed by those who have ex
mined it, equal to any in the United States. The
Mill-House may be placed within one quarter ol
a mile of the river Potowmac, half a mile from
the market house in Georgetown, and one mile
irom the President's fquaie, in the city of WaPn
ington—on tide water, navigable for veflels of se
veral hundred buftiels burthen.—The stream is
fufficient,the year round,to turn four pair of stones,
and the tall may be made from 25 to 30 feet. It
is unnectfTary to dwell on the advantages of such
a situation.
The purchaser raay be accommodated with a
few hundred acrGS of land adjoining the Mill-Seat,
if that should be an objefh
(epsra i 4 Jul)
TERRITORY of COLUMBIA.
June 28. 1792.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Tettamentof
the late Rev. Alexander Wil 1.1 am son,
deceased, will be exposed to Public Sale on Thurl
day, the 1 ith of October next, at G eor g etow n,
on a credit of three years, the purchasers giving
bond with approved security, to bear intereftfrom
the date—That valuable Seat of Land. in ,Montgo
mery county, called Hayss; the late dwelling
plantation ol the dcccafed, containing between fix
and seven hundred acies, the greatefl. part of which
is rich, heavy umbered land, extremely well wa
tered, and capable of affording a very considerable
quantity c! fine meadow ; —Situated about 6 miles
irom the Federal City,and the fame diflance from
George-Town, in a genteel neighbourhood, and a
remarkable healthy part of the country.
The improvements aie, a very elegant two story
Brick Dwelling House, (with four rooms and a
pafTage, or entrv. on a floor) and the necefTary oul
houfes. HENRY TOWN&END,)
BENJ. STODDERT, J> Executors.
(eptO) THOMAS JOHNS,. )
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BANK of the UNITED STATES,
July 2fl, 1792.
NOTICE is hereby given, That there will be
paid at the Bank, after the 10th instant, to
ihe Stockholders, or their representatives duly au
thorized, the following sums, being the dividend
declared from the commencement of the institu
tion to the firft instant, viz.
For each share compieated in the month of
March, Twelve Dollars.
For each share compleared in the month of April
Ten Dollars, Sixty-seven Cents.
For each share compieated in the month of May,
Nine Dollars, Thirty-three Cents.
For each hals-share, Eight Dollars.
By order of the President and Dtre&ors,
(aw.) JOHN KEAN, Calhier.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from in February
last, a N'KGRO LAD, named PHIL, about
so years of age; had on when he went away, a
round jacket, a pail homespun brceches, and a low
shirt ; "(he fellow has a yellowish complexion, his
heighth about five feet fix or seven inches, very
fouare made ; has a mark along fide of his nose.
and one of his infieps has been burnt, which causes
th? sinews to draw.
Whoever takes up said Negro, and fecurrs him
in any jail, so that I may get him again, (ball re
ceive the above reward, and have al! reasonable
charges oaid. ROBERT PH.ARCE.
Head Safafras, June 16. 1792. (*epim)
RUN AWAY from the fubferiber, living in
Kent County, and State of Maryland, on
Sunday the 2*7 th May last, a NEGRO M A N.
Darned Hark; about 40 years about five
feet nil* inches high, has a fear over one of his
eye-brows, and when talking, hangs his head on
one fide, and looks up—had on and took with
him the followingcloaths, viz. a fearnought coat,
a black and white kersey coat, cut round, a white
kersey jacket and breeches, two pair of yarn stock
ings, the one pair lately footed, and the other not,
two oznaburgh lhirts, each piectd on one fide,
two pair of tow-linen trowfers, one pair patched
with new tow-linen down the fore parts, and an
old felt hat.
Whoever takes up said Negro, if out of this
State,and secures him in gaol, fnall receive FOUR
TEEN DOLLARS reward—and if taken within
this State, and secured as aforefaid, (hull receive
EIGHT DOLLARS reward; and il brought
home, reasonable cxpences will be paid bv
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By JER EM * BEL" NA P, A. M.
53
/ tOM THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
REFLECTIONS on the STATE of the UNION,
(continued.)
A Sketch of the general Trade oj the United States.
r ~¥^llE coasting trade has become very great, and <
X the derangement cf the Welt-India trade
inuft extend it exceedingly, during the current
year, from the failure of molaifes. The increafi
ot mdimfa&ures, and foreign icitn&ions on oiher
branches, have contributed to elevate this valuable
part of our commerce; and the former fmanu
factures) will continue steadily to increase its im
portance. The vetfels which take supplies of
flour, and many other articles from the middle
and northern itates, to South-Carolina and Geor
gia, muke very frequent voyages, and they return
Icls than half laden ; but if the planters should
pursue the cultivation of hemp, flax, hops, and
cotton, they may come back with full cargoes.—
A similar lemark may be jultly made in regard to
other ftjtes.
The filherics do not appear to have recovered
their former value ; but it is plain they have in
creased yearly iince the year 1789 —and they are
even 1- w more valuable than they appear to be.
'1 he cisiiumpiion ol oil, whale-bonr, ikins of sea'
animals, spermaceti, and pickled and dried fifh,
is much great« r in the United Siat, s zt this time,
than it was twenty yeais ago. The out-fits of the
filhing vclfcls, too, are moie from the induilry and
relouiccs of the country than was formerly the
cafe. Wherefore the general benefits r< fulling
tiom the fifheries, are probably little less than be
loicthe levolution.
Remote as the United States are from all fo
reign nations,'totally unconnected with their poli
tics aDd having no temptation to wage war for
territoVy, they cannot but advance in commer
cial and agricultural prosperity, if they preserve
order and justice at home. Foreign reftri&ions
will be nectHarily leis rigid, as oeccfions for
luppliesand pacific ferviceslrom the United States
shall arise ; and these occasions mud inevitably
exist in every maritime nation, whichjihall engage
in war, even with a countiy which is not nfell
maritime.
The prosecution of manufa&ures has created
some increase of our foreign trade, and will ex
tend it. If we did not pursue ihat branch of in
dustry, wc (bould not import copper, iron, and
hemp, from the Baltic ; cotton, saltpetre and
White calliooes from India , ami cocoa, oye-wocus,
mahogany, cotton and hides from the Weft-In
dies and the southern part ot the American con
tinent. Some of these importations regular
ly and extensively made ; others are increafuig.
Without them wc should have no intercourse with
some of these countries, and much less than we
now have wth others. In like manner our 111-
tercourfe with fevcral countries is increased by
manufactured exports. The demand tor our pot
ash, distilled spirits, (hips and boats, feeel, malt
liquors, cheese, bar iron, flit iron, gunpowder,
carriages and other articles, occasions a greatei
and more bencficia! trade with many foieign ports.
It is impollible to lay how rapid and how confi
dsrablc the progress of this pait of our commerce
will be. The exported manufaflures of Great-
B.'itain in 1791, -were gieater than ihofc of fifty
years ago, by twice the value of our present ex-i
ports.
It is extremely favorable tj American com
merce, internal and foreign, that a variety of chan
ges have taken place in the affairs of the worjd,
which have opened branches of trade forincily
withheld from us bv monopoly, or other circum
stances. The ast ot separation from Great Bri
tain enabled us to trade to China, Bombay, and
Surat ; and the enterprise of our citizens soon dis
covered the way. The curious perfr&iou of ma
nufacturing machinery in Europe, has made it the
interest of the foreign India companies to fell us
I their piece goods in the markets ot the east, with
out taking them at fecoud hand. The misfor
tunes oi St. Domingo have encreafed our com
mercc in and will have the fame efie£t
upon cotton, and they are driving us rapidly into
an internal trade in native spirits, which will of
course lead to external commerce of the fame
kind. This will appear to be a t matter of great
importance, when ii is remembered, that since the
hie peace, the foreign spirits imported have in
lime years been equal to one fifth of our (xports.
The failure of ship timber, which begins to ap
pear every where in Europe, is enublir.g the Un
ited States to carry on f.iip building upon very ad
vantag«ous terms. The profitable establishment
of several banks of perfect credit with the mod
wary and judicious citizens ind foreigners, is at
once a proof and a great mean of commercial
prosperity. The growth of citics, towns,and ma
uufsftures has given to the fifheries a more sub
stantial basis in a conliderable home demand,!
than ihey foi merly had in a foreign one. The ba
nishment of paper tenders, and ex post facto laws,
ar.d the inteidithon o» laws impairing the obliga
tions ol conttafts, have placcd cur commerce upon
a more honorable and solid footing, than it ever
was before. The mint, the laws regulating sea
men and the fifheries, the appreciation of the pub
lic debt, the {pint ol improvement on roads, ri
vers and canals, the difcovcry of coal near naviga
ble water, the late extension of the post office, the
constant incrcafe of light houses on the coasts, the
innod uftion of auxiliary arts, and above all, the
piogrefs ofjagriculture have given facility, stability
and extention to our tiade, which were unknown
before the revolution, and :n the riillrefsful
i derangements of 1786 ?nd i7B;appeared beyond
the bounds of realouablc expectation.
[Whole No. 556.]
MANIFESTO of the Govfrnment at Brux
-2 l l es tn an fiver to the declaration oj war on the
part of Francs.
PROCLAMATION
Marie Christine Albert-Casimir Princz
Princcfs Royal of Hun- Royal of Poland and I ithua
garia and Bohemia, via, Duke of Saxe- Tefcheu
Archduchtfs of Auflria, Grand Cross of the Royal Order
Duchess of Burgundy, of St. Stephen, Field Marshal
Lorraine and Saxe-Tef- of the Armies of his Majefly the
chen. King of Hungary and Bnhe-
rnia, and of those ef the Holy
Rowan Empire, c3c.
Lieutenant Governours, and Captain*
General of the Low Countries, Sc. <3c.
A FACT I ON, by which the kingdom of
France has for four years been torn asun
der, has jufk prevailed on his MoftChiiftian Maje
sty, to fa nation a Declaration of War against hia
Apostolical Majeftv, our mod honorable Lord and
nephew. The full a6ts of hofttlities seem to be
dire£ted against these Provinces ; and the enemies
of all order and power, who are meditating an
aggreflion so nnjuft, found their hopes ot success
lon the spirit of partv which was unfortunately
i diffeminatcd during the late troubles.
We will carefully attend to the defence of rhofs
provinces with the government of which we are
entruftcd, relying with confidence on the protec
tion of the Lord of Holts, who is pleased to mani
fest the effects of his omnipotence in favor of those
who are inl'pired with a sacred refpe£t for the laws,
and for all powers by him ordained on the earth
for the government of human societies.
We flatter ourselves that everv class of citizens
will be animated with one spirit, and that they
will vigilantly attend to the maintainance of in
ternal tranquility and the prefcrvation of property,
while we order to the frontiers part of his Ma
jetty's troops, full of glory, and crowned by vic
toty under the two last reigns, until the league,
formed between several great powers, (hall oopofe
a mound to the torrent of Unifier pioje&s which
menaces the overthrow of Europe.
We owe it to the faithful fubje&s of his Ma
}efty, to inform them ot the meafires which we
have adopted, during a whole year, in hopes of re
maining at peace with France,; and to warn them
of the innumerable calamities which our enemies
are eager to spread and perpetuate, under the spe
cious veil of chimerical liberty, offered to a cre
dulous multitude, b} an impious fe£t of innova
tors, Jot difant philosophers, as the infallible re
sult ot their mad piojeits. 'i heir's is not to war
with the Ptinces of the earth, hut against the re
ligion of our ancestors, against tocial.order, againit
profperuy, and against ?!1 the comforts which n -
turally flow from it. 1 hey have already, by the
adoption of their absurd fyftcms, plunged their
country into all the horrors of anarchy. Jealous
of the prosperity of those nattorts who flill enjoy
the fruits of social order, they have formed for
their own protection the barbarous projett of in
spiring them with a similar delirium, of propaga
ting their errors, and with them all the calamities
| with which the kingdom of Fiance is at tins time
afflicted.
They have been, during a whole medita
ting and inventing pretexts for the aggreflion on
which they had icfolved. Having driven away
from the bosom of France, by dint of persecu
tions, al! those citizens who were attached to the
eftabliflied religion, and to the hi
therto held facrcd by the fundamental laws of
the kingdom, they have attempted to prevent
them from enjoying in any part of the world, the
fwects of holpitality which men reciprocally owe
to each othtr. We have been extremely caieft l
not to afford the flighted grounds of complaint,
' resolved not to meddle in the least degree, with
the political government of any neighbouring
states. We have taken care to prevent that any
thing fhouJd be attempted, or even written, in
those provinces, against the constitution just efta
bliftied in . ranee ; and as a reward for our ftri6fc
attention to the laws of good neighbourhood, a
horde of factious vagabonds has been assembled
ou our frontiers, resolved on the execution of the
most infernal plots. The mod infamous writings
against religion and against the constitutional au
thority oT the sovereign, have been dispersed in
ihefe provinces. These writings were fubftantial
!y the fame as th." speeches delivered in the midst
of the authorised societies, in which the most at
(.rocious crime* have been recommended as vir
tues, with a view to flatter ihe criminal propenfi
lies of a set of men, in hope* of reconciling them
: to a system, which 111 history will be the disgrace
! of the present generation.
All our remonstrances on this fubjeft have been
i made in vain ; and whilst we paid the greatest at
tention to complaints relative to armaments which
had no existence, and to pretended infuks offered,
to Frenchmen, all kinds of excefles have been mul
tiplied against the fubjeft of his Majesty, and com
mitted on his territories, and we have never ob*
tained on so many obje&s of complaint, any thing
more ?han promises of fatisfa&ion, which have iu
no inftancc been performed ; ana when we have,
on our part, exercised that vigilance, which was
become neceflary on the conduct of emifliarics,
who it was boasted openly, were sent into thole
provinces, on purpose to excite infurrettions and
10 create anarchy, we have been insulted for hav
ing taken ihofe precautions, which were construed
into attempts against the fafety aud liberty of
French travellers. On the other hand, we were
applauded for having given orders to prevent the
allemblmg of the unfortunate French gentlemen
who had emigrated from the kingdom, and to o
blige them to conform moll ftriftly to the laws of
simple hospitality, in order to preclude the pofli-.
bility of iheir arming and forming thcmfelves
into military corps. (Concluded in our next.)