a National paper, published Wednesdays and Saturdays by john fenno, no, 60. high-street, pnii.ADEi.pmA [No. 25, of Vol. IV.] Treasury Department, August 20th, j 792 NOTICE is hereby gioen, that pronofjU will be received at the office of tlie Secretary ol the Treasury, until the t 3 th day of Oaobei next inclusive, tor the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, ftom thefirftdav of January to the thirty-firft dav of December 1793. bothdayt inclusive, at Springfield, in trie State ot Maflachuletts. and the Poll of Weft- Point, in the State of New-York. The rations to be supplied, are to consist of the following articles, v' 7. One pound of bread or flour, One pound of beef, or £ of a pound of pork, Half a iill of rum, brandy or whiflcy, One quart of fait, Two quarts of vinegar, \ .Two pounds «vf soap, f" P er 100 rat ' ons * One pound of candles. ) The proposals mav he made for both of the above-mentioned Posts, or separately, for Spring field and Weft-Point. Treasury Department, August, 20th, 1792. NOTICE is hereby g' v en, that proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary of, the Treasury until the fourth day of Odlober next' inclusively, for the supply of the following articles of Clothing for the Troops in the service of the United States viz. For the INFANTRY and ARTILLERY. 4608 Hats 18460 Shirts 4608 Coats 795 6 Pair of Socks 4608 "Verts 4608 Blankets 8668 Woolen Overalls 4608 Stocks 9216 Linen Overalls 4608 Stock Clasps 18376 Pair of Shoes 4608 Pair of Buckles For the CAVALRY. 360 Caps -720 Pair of Stockings 360 Coats 1440 Shirts 360 Vests 360 Blankets 360 Pair of Leather 360 Stocks (Breechos 360 Stock Clasps; also, 720 Pair of Boots 1200 Rifle Shirts, to be 360 Pair of Spurs (made of Ruflia Sheeting. The above Clothing to be delivered either in New-York, Philadelphia or Baltimore, at the op tion of the contractor or contractors, on or bctorc the 15th day of June, 1793. The proposals may comprise the whole of the before-mentioned Clothing, or anv one or more of thecomponent articles; to be furnifhed agreea bly to patterns orfpecimens, which will be shewn at the War Office. Good security will be requir ed for the punttual and faithful performance of the contra#. The payment will be on the delive ry of the Clothing, or, if necefiary, such reafona "ble advances will be made as the Secretary of the Treasury ftiall deem expedient. War Department, INFORMATION is hereby given to all the Military Invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are intitled for fix months of theirannual pension. from the 4th day of March 1792, and which will become due on the sth day of September 1792, will be paid on the said day by the Commilfioners of the Loans within the Slates rcfpe6iively, under the usual regulations, viz. Every application for payment mull be accom panied by the following vouchers. :ft. The certificate given by the ftate,fpccifying that the person po fie fling the fame is in fa<sl an in valid, and afccitaining the lum to which as such he is annually entitled. 2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form : A. R. came before me, one of the Jufiices of the county of in the Jlate of and made oath that he is the fiime A. B. to whom the original certificate in his pojjejjion was given, of which the following is a copy (the certificate given by the jlate to be recited) That he served (regiment, corps or vejfefj at the time he was disabled, and that he now rejides in the and county of and has resided therefor the lafl years, previous to which he re sided in In cafe an invalid should apply for payment by an attornev, the said attorney, besides the certifi cate and oalh before recitcd, must produce a spe cial letter of attorney agreeably to the following form ; I, A. B. of county of slate of do hereby conflitute and appoint C. D. of my lawjul attorney, to receive in my behalf of my pension for fix months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March, one thou far d seven hundred and ninety-two, and ending the fifth day oj September, one thoufandfeven hundred And ninety-two. Signed and sealed in tHe presence of Acknowledged before me, Applications of executors, and adminiftratory rnuft be accompanied with legal evidence of their refpe&ive offices, and also ot the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim. By command of the Prcfident of the United States, M. KNOX, Secretary oj War. The Printers in the refpc£live States are requcftcd to publifli the above in their newfpa pcrs, for the Tpace of two months. IJjlf. T HO M A S Ml FF L I N, Governor of th<: Common wraith of 'Pmnfylvaria. Pennfyiva.nia i JJ\ T THERE AS it appears i<- s. V v from the Return of Thomas Mifflin, an Inqucft which was held on the seventeenth day of AugiiiL ir.ftanf, that a certain Elizabeth Reeves, of the city of Philadelphia, spinster, has been wilfully aifcl with malice aforethought murdered by some pcrfon or persons, to the said Inquest unknown ; And whereas juiHce, humanity, and policy require, that every exertion should be made to detest and punish the perpetrator or perpetrators of a crime so heinous: Therefore T have thought it proper and expedient to iflue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of THREE HUNDRED to anyperfon or persons who (hall discover, apprehend and secure the perpetrator or perpetrators of the said Murder, his, her, or their aiders and abet tors, to be paid upon the conviction of them, or any of them. And all Judges, Justices, Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, and other Officers of the Commonwealth (according to the duties of their refpe&ivc stations) are hereby required and en joined, to employ afl lawful means, for discoVer ing, apprehending, securing, trying, and bring ing to justice, as well the perpetrator, and per petrators of the said Murder, as also all other persons aiding and afiifting therein. Given under my hand and the ere# Seal of the State at Philadelphia, this twenty fecond day of* August, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, and of the Commonwealth the seventeenth. By the Governor. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. JN my la ft, the general principle of honeftv, as an eilential requisite for a representative was glanced at—the idea was suggested that private and public honesty are to be ailbciated in scanning the charafrers which ought to arrest the attention of eledors-—and in fa ft there is not a more obvious and unerring criterion, to guide us in our enquiries. It ought to be cfta blifhed as a maxim in the mind ofeveryele&or, that he, who dilcovers no regard for those ob-, ligations of moral, social, and political duty,' which constitute the beauty, peace and security of every well regulated community or govern ment, is not to be depended on in any public trust whatever. It may not be improper to sketch a few out lines of the other requisites neceflary to form the character of a competent representative. In this improved state of our country, when, through the favorable operation of thole wife, literary institutions which our ancestors efta blilhecl, and the present age has augmented and improved, there is so great a proportion of men of superior attainments—at a time when we fee and realize the immense disproportion be tween persons of education, and literary im provements, and those who do not pofTefs those advantages 5 when we fee the influence this weight of abilities, must necessarily polTefs in oppolition to ordinary or medium acquirements —when we consider the important rank which Pennsylvania holds in the scale of the Union— the idea comes with irrefiftable force, that it is our indispensable duty to support that rank by ele&ing persons of the most distinguished a bilities, natural and acquired, as representatives in Congcefs to maintain the honor,and advance the interest of the commonwealth, in connec tion with that of the union. It is of more im portance than is generally imagined, that the public attention should be roused to a consider ation of this point. Men of conscious honor, integrity and great abilities, are among the last in a free community, who are solicitous for public appointments—they never will lie found either making direci applications to the people or uflng indirect methods through the agency of others, to procure their fuffrages—fuch are the persons from whom alone we are to expect dis interested and independent condudt in public life—fuch characters must be fought after—and tempted from their retirements by the most honorable of all inducements, the free unsoli cited fuffrages of a free community. Men of this description, when placed on the thea tre of public life, will be superior to party, pre judice and passion ; superior to the little con siderations that warp the needy and felfiih from the line of re&itude ; and superior to the glare of sophistry and unprincipled profeflions, which overpower and bewilder the faculties of unin formed minds. On this important point a few additional observations fliall be offered in a fu ture paper —it may fuffice for the present just to remark, that integrity and real ability arc more frequently united than it is for the interest of some persons toaliow—hencea suspicion of men of talents is industriously circulated among the people, by those who hope to find their account in depreciating the utility of learning ; a more fatal error cannot be adopted by freemen than this, that learning, virtue ancj abilities, are pre judical to the cause of Liberty and the Rights of Men- C. August 6, 1792, Witneffcs. Saturday, August 25, 17^2. A PROCLAMATION A. J. DALLAS, Sec'rvof the Commonwealth. No. 11, REPRESENTATIVES in CONGRESS. 97 GAZETTE. QF TH£ UNITED STATES. Mr. Fenno, WILL you be so kind as to favor us with some explanation of t le circumstances which attended tlie taking of a late Oath, in vindication of the Secretary of State, which appeared in your Gazette. Was it i'vrorn upon the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God ?—Did the vindicator kiss the ChriftianScriptures upon the occation ?—Did he appear reverent —as one who knew the worth and value of thole preci ous records—and who was fenfi'oleof the danger of a falfe appeal to God ?—-Did he seem to be impreiTbd with the belief of a particular provi dence, to animadvert upon falfe swearers* ?— Or did he scruple the ule of the Scriptures in | his oath of purgations, and clutfe rather to kiss I the works of Voltaire, to whom certain pious [heathens offer incense most devoutly since his apotheofis?—Perhaps, indeed, he had recourse to a more substantial patron, and saluted with devout reverence the Secretary's learned Notes upon Virginia; where he so wifely attempts to refute the account of the deluge, which is evi dently stated by Moses to be a miracle, by a re currence to philosophical and merely natural principles. If you can cast any light upon this dark transaction, you will oblige a number of your friend*, who consider the appeal to Heaven, to which 1 allude, as inexpressibly ridi culous, viewing as they do the character of the gentleman whose vindication is intended, as well as that of the vindicator. I am, your humble servant, An ENQUIRER. * See the 36th number of the National Gazette—' tvhere the belief of a particular providence is treated as an impious tenet. + The cuflom of allowing people to purge themselves by oath, is at this day retained in very Jew fyflems oj jurisprudence. However, as the Editor of the National Gazette appears to have a predileflion for the Church oj Scotland (Tee his paper oj December 8, 1791) where it is sometimes used, perhaps he embraced the practiceJrom that refpeflable authority. FROM THE COLUMBIAN CENT IN LL, Mr. Russk l l, BEING riifpofed to dojufticetothe Manufac* -xutcs of -the-country, aiwi knowing ytrur dis position to promote so defirablc an object, I wish you to publish the following fa£ls, See. That in the month of Oilober, 1790, I purchas ed a quantity of fail cloth of the Bolton Manufac ture, which I have used on hoard the ship Eliza, and performed two circuitous voyages from this port to Charleston, (S. C.) arid Europe, and the fails are now in so good a Hate, as in my estimation to be fully equal to any new fails made of Ruflia Duck, although no expense has accrued thereon since they were made. JOSEPH TILDEN. EXTRACTS. " IT is a very popular opinion, that all things were made for the use of man. According to this idea, he may cut and carve the good things of this life, and fay, this nature gave to me, and I may use it as I please. Wine, in its natu ral state, has foine of the qualities of fpiritous liquors, fuchas causing intoxication, andabrifk circulation of animal fluids; but it is the quan tity of brandy, which is put into modern wine, that makes it poisonous. " We might as well fay, nature made gun powder for the use of man, as fpiritous liquors; though Milton in his poem, introduces Satan, as the inventor of that medley of combustibles. If he had repre Tented the fame author, as the firft distiller of spirits, I think it would have been an improvement of the fubjeft, elpecially as it is produced by the force of the very ele ment he lives in, and partakes much of its na ture, and there is no weapon he has handled With more success in the misery and deftruttion of the human race. It has been a practice of some commanders to use this fiery liquid, to in spire artificial courage; in this refpeft, gun powder may be said to be inferior to rum. (i After all that can be f«iid in favor of the use of this bewitching poison, I am confident that the person who has taken a draught, isren dered less capable of withstanding the tempta tion to a second. The greatest drunkards have once abhorred the vice, and have formed relo hitions to refrain from it, but from a fatal cu riosity, and above all from afl'ociating withgrog bruifers, he tries it, he finds it exhilerating—he tries it again, and again, till it becomes cor.fti tuttonal, and then—farewell to all EiTays of " SOBER REASON/' " GOD tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." It is methinks, a fen ten ce which contains a sys tem in itfelf—and it is replete with the quint eflence of morality, religion and divinity—lt is replete with morality, for example is cn all hands allowed to be more influential than pre cept, and it exhibits a view of the Lord of Uni versal nature, bestowing such minute regards upon the feelings of the family which his plastic word had commanded into being, as to be at tentive even to the wants of the bleating inno cent, who, lliorn of its fleecy covering, stands in need of the vernal zephyr which is then com milTioned to move lo gently over the warm fur face of his disrobed body. [Whole No. 547.1 Foreign Affairs. MADRID, Mav u THE ftips which failed two years ago, under 1 lie command of Don Alexander Malalpina, ro make dilcti veries on the Southern ooafis of Ame rica, are arrived in good condition ac Acapulco, in New-Spain,from whence Don Malafpina means 10 proceed on his voyage. F U L D A, May 22. His Prnffiati Majesty's Privy Coun» fellor of Finances at Haerlem, is ar rived at Caflel to establish magazines in the environs of Marbourg for the Pruflian troops, who in three weeks will leave that city, to march towards the Main. The barbers and thebutch ers have received orders to furnifli the provisions for that time. The engineers have been to infpecft the bridges over which those troops are to pass, in order toalcertain whe ther they will bear the weight of large cannon. BRUSSELS, June 4. The main body of M. la Fayette's army occupies pare of the territory of Leige, extending towards Cliarle rai. It is about 20,000 fhong—is re ceiving daily reinforcements, and is exercised in grand military evoluti ons with great afliduity. The French camp between Dun kirk and Offend threatens Flanders, which our generals seem to have left naked, in order to concentrate their fcrccs near Tournay, Mons, and Na mnr. The camp de Halles is for warding wi;h the greatefl possible ac tivity ; it is intended to cover Pruf fells 011 all fides, in cafe of an unex pected defeat on the frontiers. At home the revolution spirit is by no means extin<ft. Every occasion is eagerly laid hold of to inflame the minds of the people, and it is only by numerous patroles of troops scoUr ing the (fleets night and day that in furretftion is prevented. A great num ber of fnfpetffed persons were appre hended on the iff and 2d inffant and sent to prison. For several days pa(f, a body of free-boot ers,horfe and foot, have infelfed the surrounding coun try, and laid the villages under con tribution. They are said to be nu merous, and hourly encreafing ; some HuflTars have be«n sent in purfuir of them, but they are too well acquaint ed with the country to be surprized. HAGUE, June In consequence of several persons concerned in tlie forgery of Affignats being discovered at Amfterdnm, M. de Maulde,the new minister of Franee to the States General, has presented a memorial, demanding that the cri minals, who are all Frenchmen,(hould be apprehended, and delivered up to France. The answer of the govern ment is not yet known. He has like vife presented a memorial on the übjecft of the insult offered to the ''rench flag a few months since, to vhich the answer is equally uncer- tain. Intelligence of rather an unplea sant nature has been received from the Dutqh fettleinents in the Eall-ln dies. The war again ft the King of Candia, in the island of Ceylon, con tinues fiill with but little I'uccefs,and is attended with great expense to the company. The government of Bata via, in consequence of the scarcity of money, has been driven to thenecef iity of levying the 50th Denier. P A R I S, June 8. Tilings in tbemfelves the mod: tri vial, become of importance in such a situation as ours. The Municipality came to afefolution that no person should be obliged to take any notice of the procelfion oftheHoft, and liiac no public force (hould be called oat
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