A gentleman, *rr!*ed OT Tuesday from
' Cape-Francoh, informs u-, that the colony, al
the time of his departure, which was the 2r ft
of last month, wa; 111 a more diftrafted ftatt
than it has been at any period since the rebel
lion of the negroes. Discord and confulion Jceni
to have erected their ftantlard at the Cape—
Party Ipirit is wound up to a pitch that has fel
doin been equalled, even in the most violent
and difafterous revolutions—The common and
inveterate enemy to the white people (the re
bel negroes) is nearly forgotten—and the colo
nists are totally ablorbed in animolity againll
each other.
Tuesday evening the 23d ult. a fire brokeout
in Fayetteville, North-Carolina, which raged
in fiich a tremendous manner ai to consume 61
buildings before it was checked. Col. lames
Porterfield is t ie greatest fuiierer in buildings ;
the hon e> he has loft colt 6000 pounds. The
value of the whole number of buildings burnt,
is eltimated at Thirty Thousand Pounds No
estimate can at present be made of the loss of
goods. —The mod pr»babie account of the
cause of this unfortunate event, is, that a small
negro girl of' Col. Dekeyfer's, accidentally caught
a broom-straw r.iat on fire in t ie garret with a
candle.
Thisis a severe stroke to Fayetteville, wtnch
tan only be said to i>e in its infancy: But it is
■with much fatisfaftibn obfarved, that the fuf
ferers, in general, are in goodsspits, and many
«f them already making preparations to build
•pin—and, we hope in a few months to have
the plealure of announcing to the public, that
that part of the town is completely rebuilt.
The Canal intended to unite the waters of
Snfqueharinah and Schuylkill, was begun on F'ri.
dav tlie 26th ult. on the crown level of themid
dlc ground, between the Tolpehocken andOui
tapahilla; and the canal for uniting t.ie waters
of t''e Scimjlkill and Delaware, was begun on
Tue/ilty iafi -voek, near Norriftpii Mills.
The !:ig' y improved state ofrhe arts in Eng
land, may be in some measure conjectured from
the following cirfcumftances: —There is now
publiihing in London, a splendid edition of
Siakefpeare, the fubfeription p ice is ninety
guinea;! Also, an edition of Hume's Hiftorv
of England, in live- volumes, with notes bv Dr.
Kippi -, and a continuation bv Dr. Tosvers the
fiib/cription to which is fixtv guineas 1 Tho'mp-
Seaf'ons are likewise to be publiflied by lub
fc'ri .tion, at four guineas each.
These works are to be highly embelliflied
with Kllturical and iJlaftrative print-, bv the
most eminent eftg. avers, from pictures painted
on ourpoie, by tile lirft t (Is in Eng'and.
T ie ea-ernefs with which the fubfeription
lift: to these eLgant chef d'esuvres of art' are
filled, gives jreat reason to r up, o(e, that ii: a
very fewyeai's, a!! the claTc'.i p„d efteeined
authors of England will be printed and embej
liihed in a fi-.i ilar n annet.
B api oclsimation of his Excellency Thomas
Sim lee, Esq. Governor nf the state of Mary
land, it appea's t-at Geo v ge Dent, Tohn K.
Mercer, Uriah For Th... : ' _
muei S.nitn, Gabriel C iftie, Viil'.am Hird
jn.in, and William Vans Mnrrav. Esquires, are
cholen to represent that ita:c in the third Coir
jrefs <f the United States.
Or. I ueTlay the following gentlemen were
chofcn, by the citizens of Philadelphia, as elec
tors of a President a:;d Vite-Pteiident of the
United States, viz.
William Henry, Joseph Heifter, John Boyd,
Thomas M'Kcan, Cornelius Cox, David Stew
art, George Latimer, Ruber tCo!«,nan, Henry
Millsr, Jamer Morris, Robert Jrhuiton,Thomas
Bull, John Viikius, juu. Robert Hare, and
Hugh Lloyd.
Lord Garlies, son of the Earl of Galloway
and Captain Markham, who ai rived at New!
York a few days afro from Quebec, are not only
to make a tour thro' the United States, hut in
tend, we are told, to visit some of the remote
and interior parts ol America.
Bv the schooner Fox, we have received intelli
gence from Capr-F: .mcois, as late as the <:jd ,j|t.
There hasbeen liefh difturbinccs at the Capcj
between the old troops, who are ordered
anil the nili ia of the place. The new troop*
that had arrived f., ~e time before, aie b.«n i
plealed Wi.hthe milit ; a, aud h-v ■ ; '«e.l in c.n.
set with them, in th u mutual ix, uoris to fno-
Cue the infurgenis, hu; the t:>lk li ems to he both
difficult and will he hut fl, wly accompliOud.
Ihe old troopsthat were q riti. ojn the tuwn.
slave committed gnat excillcs p'revio s to the.,
departure ; fever,,! liois liav, i. ktri pla e, , : nd (ix
or ttven ot the militia have l-lien a far, fir,• i,
thole regulars. M li of ihe pertons who fuffen d
were citizens of the firli refpt Stability.
Th, (hip Commerce, Can . R rgmm, arrive,t
here ™ rue fa a v lait lr,.m L.fb v, hi, I, ,> ri Ihc
Jrft thetothSrp le ,,-.lcr,hui . ,
o. r*ench iffaiu. It V..s fp'-ken ,! at Llb >r,,
that DI. Willn Wat ixocdl.d I k a,r d i n , to nv
another e>:i«i mem . n the Queen of P-tug-l, b,
nfr her in the Ira— a machine has been pr• -
pared for this puipoQ*.
ixtrad oj a letter dated I ouifvilfe, in Kentucky.
btr 14.
A treaty was opened on t'-e the 2 J.th of
Uft month at Pnft Vincennc, with 7 ration, r.f
Indians, viz,—Tie Fe! Rivsrs, Wcachteon*,
Pi»nkiu„iv.', PotavatV-m-, Kirl;,.pr Kiflca
Jkias, and Muftjuer.Ti';, ai d cuncl ted on the
27th; which I.at -ns have buried the hatchet,
and are now entirely broke off from the league
«Cthe <v-ir nation*.'
" There ate now the principal chiefs of these
nations, 16 in number, with three cf their wo
n,e"'.°° e ' r wa .v to CongreP:, here with me
« fr l ' They are l<» proceed from hence
up tfie Ohiolßiver to Pittsburgh and Philadel
phia."
Died, On thft 2d inft. in this city, in the 38th
year df his are, Mr. Jean Alexis Claudius, a
native of Dijon, a town of Burgundv in France.
HIS death wasoccalioned bv the fracture of his
*nll in falling from his horse in Third-street,
•tor.Pyie-ftreet, on tbe 28th ultimo. 1
V<^ n . w/vT'ln" L 7 ;f,j!ur<: of.he date of
FUI,NCH.V S.. I L"™'i
and «-*SSKr
Thomas Hcnderfon,
Richard Stockton
J ofcph Bloom field,
Ftanklin Davenport,
State of the vofr* s f,„ Federal Rcprcfontat.vcs a
be lateelrltion m New-jcrfey.
John Beaity,
Jonathan Dayton,
Abraham Cl«n k,
thus Boudiuot,
Lambert C«rd w<i !ader,
J liomas Sinnickfon,
Aaron Kitcheil,
The five firft are chofcn.
fa»».«•«-
': , :i late I'telv cast on tlie V!"
from another quarter. '
thirjl a f ter mon _
Wltn these nien oi the NATIONAL PAK
DEMON,UM, that nnlers they
checked in tneir career, they will absorb in on'e
' IS,*' 5 thejtrength, am! the labour of the
'•at,on. 1 o counteract their mad projeftsthat
have been but too fucce/sful, and to redr.fs the
1 grievances under which theNatjpn labours, von
will in a few days have recourle to that facrrj
RIGHT OF ELECTION -exer
c"e th,s valuable gift with judgment and oif.
cei nment, and bear in remembrance, that the
Old Tones of our Country in 75, ai>e becomc
the Aristocrats of 92."
A correspondent fayr—The only States from
Which accounts have been received, of the Flec
tions of Members for the third Concrete,^are,
Ncn-Hnmpftirc, Connechcut, Rhode-!<la»d/
, !i a " d ' 1111 0-1 van. a, and Georgia—and
that JHK POPLE of all those States, have' re
eltLci a great majority'of their Federal, Inde
pendent Members C ot. Ccvtir.d.
It 1 s extremely probable that, had the firft
' e not Congress, under the new constitution,
been held in this city instead of New-York, we
should at this time exhibit more republicanism
in our public formalities. Indeed, since this
city has become the feat of Federal Govern
ment a step or two towards that deiirable sim-
Pl'city, has been accomplished.
In a government like ours, the people arc not
to he imposed upon by ceremonious forms, or
outward shew, and our endeavors.ta imitate the
fopperies of European courts can only draw 011
us the ridicule of the reflecting. Gen. Adv.
A correspondent informs uS, that convcrfing
lately on the fubjefl of"Spartan simplicity, with
a gentleman in this city—the latter observed,
that if he conkl but fee the Representative; and
Senators of the United States, attending Con
gress in leathern xj-rl r---b >tK .
"'jilet oj dried beef, mouldy bread and good
ftronp; cheese, like the Dutch deputies ps old, he
fhouki then think our republican government
immortal.
N. B. Thi-. advocate for simplicity and felf
[cJeuial i.~ cortftantly arrayed in tilk and find
linen, and fares fumptuouflyeveryday.— Should
our civil rulers, wait for the force of example
to influence them tondopt the whims of certain
declaimers against luxury, they need not anti
cipate heir" obliged to wear wooden flioes and
leather jackets very soon.
The Lcgi flat lire of the state of New-York
convened last Wednesday—the Governor open
ed the leflion-with a speech, of which the. fol
lowing is an extra# :—
Gentlemen of the Senate and Ajfmbls %
The present meeting, being in pursuance of
a Jaw of the lain fefiion, authorifjng you to ap
point E'c tors of a President and Vice-President
of the United States ; this important business will
consequent]? engage your immediate attention,
elpecially as further Legifiatire prov?fi>n will
be necefiarv 011 this fubjeft, owing to the efta
i)!ifhment of a ratio of representation, different
from the one contemplated by that law.
As tnc period of theftated annual meeting
of the Legi flat lire will soon arrive, economical
conlidei ations will fuflficiently recommend the
expediency of complicating the public bufinef?
previous to an adjournment. The settlement
of our contested boundaries, the digest of our
law , the arrangement of our finances, and the
other various salutary regulations, which since
t. e coiic:ufjon of the late war havt? occupied
the attention of the Legislature, being Ivappily
actonjplifhed, your pre/ent deliberations will
neteifariiv be confined to a few objects. At
this time I . ave ti erefore only to mention to
you the neceifity of providing for the election
of ivlembc s of the House of Representatives of'
the United Slates, agreeably to our late appor-
■ umment. T e conforming our Militia efta-
Wrhment to tiie .regulations recently enacted,
Co -i c'.iy a: d the revision and amendment
of iucli of f»nr ' .w., as may from experience
have ueen found ohfeure and defective/'
The following members of the Senate of the
Unired State", convened in the Senate-Chamber
011 Monday hi ft, pursuant to adjournment, Viz. I
FROM
' Ntw-Bat! 'JJiirCi Mr Langdon, Mr. Wingate.
MdJJac/iu[etis t Mr. Strong, Mr. Cabot.
tthode ijl.nd, Mr. F<fttr.
(\»> ' Mr. Sherman, Mr. Ellfworth.
A'cw-Yoik, Mr. King.
S'ctv- jersey, Mr. Dickinfon,Mr. Rutherfurd.
Delan-aur, Mr. Read.
Virginia, Mi. Monroe.
Kentucky, Mr. Brown, Mr. Edwatds.
A'orth-Carolina, Mr. Hawkins.
South-Carolina, Mr. Izard, Mr. Butler.
Georgia, Mr. Few.
Vermont— Mr. Robinson and Mr. Bradley.
Mr. Henry from Maryland, took his feat on
Thursday,
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the ddiverid b-i . :r ft
Ihu,p*yt a jl, t0 tht Grand lur\
Jor this city and county,
" ; Kcfbre I conclude it grirvcs me f at I
""f omc,lt Hut ■ ■■ ■- !a. *,«
. ; t ,al combination to op, rc ;c- the executiui.
• tac uws oi the .United Stats < lor raifim, a
cver.ue Bpon spirits drilled within the lame
moniuch as to canftrain the Pre,,dent to
, s P'oclamat,on, exhorting all ptriuns whoa
con «™, to refrain from ..II unlawfu
• (■.tjinationj and proceedings whatloevcr.hav
»£ »or oujcfl, or tending to obttiua the opera
lun of the fa id laws; a,id charging and requir
n ® Courts, niagilirates and oflitc:, whom i
nay concern, to exert tiieir lawful power -ii
*"•s'* to justice the iiifraftors the, and t,
ecure obedience thereto; and enjoini;!.* ui
Jer.ons vhomlbever, as the/tender the we I
life of their country, the jultand due authont
>} government, and the pre orvat.on of'the pub
ic peace to be aiding and afGiting therein ac
sordmg to law.
>• "u/, he Gover,,or ' anx >ous for a ftrift an,
faithful attention to our federal obligation an,
convinced that the prosperity of the llates indi
vitally .lepends on the prosperity of the union
has been plea,fed, by a letter dire; ted to t: e jui
tices of the fupreta« court, on the sth at las
mo 10 request that we will take every of:,
cinl opportunity tp inculcate the indiipen.abl,
duvy of obedience to the arts of Congress; an,
particularly, as far as our jurifclittion extends
to charge the Grand-Juries to enquire into an,
present all oftencw of the nature, to which th
Preficlent's proclamation refers.
Aaron D. Woodruff,
J'?hn Van CU-.ivc, notl
Samuel Dick, Elij',s.
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It is I.ra:ige that a ])eople but jtjft rescued
from the galling yoke of foreign bondage, hav
mgjuft got rid oi a delpotic government, will
not I'ulimit to orje free and equal. What avails
itto be exempt from the chains of a prccari
-6m tvranny,' if men still continue fjaves to the
<-i '-iie of their own corrupt nature? The
Jnuillf ft tax, though abfblutely neceliary for the
public lafety against a barbarous lavage enemy,
and tending alf'o to promote industry, and to re
train excess in the u'e of an intoxicating and
deftruflive (pirit, makes them reftiefs and im-
latierir. They quarrel wiih a constitution and'
government, purclialed at the expence of much
blood and treasure, and framed by themfelvc , ;
'h'-'y deipife the rulers of their own choice, and
trample on laws of their own making, What
occofion is there for such violent and unwar
rantable proceedings ? If any law fliall bear
heavy oil the citizens, or any class of them, why
dp they not represent the cafe to the proper le
gillature, composed of persons eletfled by them
lelves ? Ti the complaint is founded in reason,
the ' may be sure of redrel's. The difeale mult
be .nown belore the remedy can be applied. I
Men who re v J order, tranquility and peace; :
men who love their country, will use all honest I
jneafls to promote them : They will endeavor
to enlighten the ignorant, to calm the paifions
of the violent,and by their advice, influence and
rr ' '/"V 1 to t!.«.
{aws ) f6r where the laws end, there tyranny
begins. Any government ispreferable to none,
a tyranny to an anarchy.
" If any of the offences referred to in the pro
clamation of the Pre lid en t, (hall have been com
mitted within this city or county, and have or
faall come to your knowledge, I reft assured
you wiil prcfent the offender to the court for
trial and for punishment.'*'
Yesterday at II o'clock the Senate of the
United States waited on the Prciident at his
own houfe,with the following arldrels in answer
to his Speech to both Houses.
To the Prejident of the United States.
ACCEPT, Sir, our grateful acknowledge
ments for your address at the opening of the
prefect feji.on. We participate with you in
the fatisfa&ion ariiing from the continuance of
the general profpeiity of the nation ; bur it ii
not Without the most sincere concern that we
are informed, that the reiterated efforts which
have been mnde to eftablilh peace with the hos
tile Indians have hitherto failed to accomplish
; thnt defied obje& : hoping that the measures
still dependiag may prove more fiiccelsful than
those which have preceded them, we ihall ne
ve rthelefs concur in every necelTary prepara
t'on for the alternative ; and fhoirld the In
dians on either fide of the Ohio persist in their
hoftilitie?, fidelity to the Union, as well as affec
tion for our fellow-citizen son the frontiers,'wiM
insure our decided co-operation in every mea
sure, which shall be deemed requisite for tijeir i
protection and fafety.
At the fame time that we avow the obliga
tion of the government to afford its prote&ion
to every part of the Union—we cannot refrain
f rom exprefling our regret that even a Iniall
portion of our fellow citizens in any quarter or
it, fhouid have combined to oppose the opera
tion of the law for the collection of duties on
spirits diltilled within the United States; a law
| repeatedly famflioned by the authority of the
[ nation, and at this juncture materially con
nected with the fafety and prote&ion of those
who oppose it—Should tHemeans already adopt
ed, fail in securing obedience to this Jaw, Arch
further measures as may be thought neceiiary
to carry the fame into complete operation, can
not fail to receive the approbation of the legif-
Jature, and the support of every patriotic ci-
tizen.
It yie'ds us particular pleasure to learn that
the produftivenefs of the revenue tf the pre
'ent year, will probably fupefcede the neeeffity
of any additional tax for the service of the
next. •
The o'ganization of the government of the
State of Kentucky being an event peculiarly
to & part oi our fellow-citizen?, and
conducive to the general order, affords us par
ticular fatisfaftion.
We are happy to learn that the high state of
our credit abroad has beenevinced by the terms
on which the new loans have been negotiated.
In the course of the feilion shall proceed
to taJce into conlidcratiou the leyeial objects
whith you have been pleaiferf to recommend to
our attention; and keeping i« view- the im
poi tance of union and liability in the vuUic
councils, we :.,al! labor to lender our decisions
ct ' ' !CIV * to 1 ie ai u iMjv.ncJi of
country.
\Ve repeat with pleasure our alTurances of
cont.-ei.ee in adminiflraiion, a our ar •
-nt with, t..»t your unabated real for the pub
He good, may be rewarded by tl e durable prof
t:'e nati ™> d <-<i eveiy ingredient of
personal happuiefs.
JOHN LANGDON, P.rjj.-r.f,
pn< l.iri, rc c'j l!.e !h.n.,t.
Jo which the Prefluent made t.c foi owini
reply.
i DERIVE flinch pjeafnre, Gentlemen, from
your very iaiisfaflory addiels. 7he renewal
all u ran ex.s of your confidence 111 my adminiftia
tion, and the expreli on of vour with for niv
personal happuicis, claim and receive my p..,"-
ticuiai' acknowledgment?— In my futu .. j; _
deavorfor the public welfare; to which i,, du
ty may call me, I fliall not cea c to count upon
tne firm, enlightened and patriotic support of
the Senate.
One of the fir ft objetf* which will
Congress %viil
one per ceut! on all
A'i.encanmorts, and half per cent
on exporflQpc your continent. This
mealure has been taken to counter
balance the prohibition lately made
on your fide,of Holland-gin in cases ;
which article was one of the few we
weie able to furnilh you with, in re
turn for f 0 many cargoes of tobacco,
rlce j « c - we do annually receive from
North-America. As, by this innova
tion, your trade is to fuffer much
more than ours, your rulers nAy, of
course, be convinced of jjie truth of
that French adage, « Arop em.
baraiie, inal etreint."
The lollowinjr persons are appointed by the
Sute of CWflioi., cleilo.s of Prefideht and
Vici -Prefidi nt ot ihe Unit.d Sates;
His Excellency Samuel Humingion—tbe Hon.
Oliver Wolcott, Thomas Seymour, Marvin Wait,
John Davenport, Dav.d Auft.n, Thoma« Grofve,
ner, Eln»h iy!vc,Giit e rt,Efijrs,
COMMUINICATION.
At the present crifs the old enemies of the
..onor andhappinefsofoiircountryareunu.'uat'.y
. alert. When they found that the people were
. too wife to be influenced by their counsel and
. advice in rejefling the confutation ; they then
/aid, that there was flill one way leit to effect
their purpole—and that was to render the aa
minijlration of the government odious—ln pur
suance of their object they have employed the
press, and secret emifTaries in aJmoii -.ill parts
of ti.e union to mfaprelent, deceive and de
fume ; they began their artifices with the fiift
operations of the government—but their at
tacks were principally confined to general flan
ders, and were made occafionaUy.—lt is now
ahout one year since the government and its
measures have drawn forth the concentred force
of the whole part}.—From the "executive
cliici down through the subordinate depart
ments with a very few exceptions, a continued
torrent of innuendoes, fianders and falfehootis
has illued from its proper fourcc, through its
appointed medium. There are various oltenfi
ble objects of complaint which form the topics
ot declamation to the inveterate esemies of
our union and government; the Jvndivg f .flctn,
the e\t.je law, and the Bank compose the principal
tuc but it would be intuiting to the plaincft
understand :ng t and wholly undervaluing the
Jiugment and penetiation of the party, to sup-
P u ' e ' 'j at their opposition to these measures are
any thing more than a feint, a covert to their
mam design, that of subverting the constitution.
i hose measures are f'o obviously the result of
t atjiiitiee and gbod faith on which alone any
ccnmtutioD or form of government can befup
ported, that thole who think lightly of public
credit or of the means of maintaining it, are in
'tart enemies to any permanent and eife&i\e
government whatever.
SHIP NEWS.
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Schr. Suky, Defhong, North-Carolina
Sloop Hope, Hll (fey, Nantucket
Sally, Ben thai), St. Mary's (Georgia)
Jatbu, Taylor, Bermuda
PRICE OF STOCKS,
6 per Cer.rs,
3 per Cents,
Deferred,
Foil (bares Bank U. S. 49
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Unfunded debt of ih« U.S. ai,J6 on the principal.
And on the lntereft up to lit Jan. 1788, 1 jj.
JDVE RTISEMENT.
fcT" The next Number aj this Gazette
-mill be fublijhedat No. 34, North fifth-.
Strut, corner of North-Alley— to which
flace the Office of the Editor •will'then be
removed.
G. WASHINGTON.
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