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[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