ry men of reading and i~cfietTtioll
and experience every man or obler
vation, that give such people full
information lefpeifting public mea
i'ures—if they have time to think
for themselves they will generally
think right ; they will generally
confide in government while it de
serves their confidence ; but for
want of t his full in formation, a well
meaning people may be, and fre
quently are, led suddenly astray,
by such characters as I have dc-fcii
bed.
Think not my fellow-citizens,
that I recommend a blind approba
tion of all the Laws enacted by the
Legiilature of the United Slates, or
of this State: ftiould this Law or
or any 01 her Law of either, be dis
covered by experience to be defec
tive, opprelfive, incoHfiltent with
the principles of real liberty, or
partial in its operation, it istiie in
dispensable duty of every good ci
tizen who makes the discovery, to
point out to his fellow-citizens, with
manly freedom, which is always
accompanied with decorum, the evil
consequences which lie apprehends
from it, and to promote proper re
prefentaiions to those whom we
have intruded with the legislative
power ; as we chufe them freely,
and may chufe otheis in their (lead
at Hated and short periods, when
ever we disapprove of t heir condu<ft,
can we doubt that they will not pay
the utmoll attention to such repre
sentations ? We may be sure that
they will repeal every law liable to
such objections, or so modify it as
to make it promotive of the general
welfare, in the bed manner: of this
we have convincing evidence, in the
alterations which have already been
made in the firft law for raising this
revenue, by which it is made more
equal ; since which time the people
in this State, on this fide of the
mountain, seem very generally con
tented with it.
Indeed uulef \ it be unequal in its
operation and burthen, as between the
different States, no oppof.tisn to it
eould be apprehended from the citizens
of Pennsylvania, consistently with their
Federal character, as they had been long
accujlomed to an Excise of their
own, agaivjl which they did nvt co?ji~
plain. To conclude this head, when
this or any other revenue is paid ge
nerally by the community at large,no in
dividuals of that community can re
fufe or evade the payment of if with
out breach of moral houejiy and social
duty.
I would be wanting in juflice to the
AJfociate "Judges in this diftr itt, were J
not to declare that they perfectly join
with me in recommending obedicnce to
the Laws of the land, as indispensably
necessary to fscure and perpetuate the
peace, liberty, fafety and happiness of
the people.
FROM THE NEIV-BRUNSWIC ADVERTISER.
Address from Americans to FAYETTE.
ILLUSTRIOUS patriot ! enlightened citi
zen of the world ! for fucjj still thou art,
as such thy name is engraven on our hearts,
as such recorded on the rolls of immortality.
—When we saw France convulsed by parties,
we rejoiced and we trembled ; —rejoiced be
'caufe we still found thee leading where glory
called, and where wisdom pointed out the
way.—x\rdent in the cause of liber ty,but guid
ed by prudence. We trembled left thy mode
ration should draw on thee the rebutment of
factions struggling for superiority, burning
with cnthufiafm, and bursting forth against
each other, with the violence of rage. Long
we saw thee amidst many tempests, ride clear
of the rocks which surrounded thee on every
fide. Still thou waft Fayetti; and though
France, for whom thou waft ready to shed
the last crimson drop from thy veins,calls thee
traitor—tho'ilie has driven thee into the hands
of defpots—tho' tyrants regardless of the laws
of nations confine thee in regions and immure
thee in caftles*of flaverv; ftiUthouart heNvho
bleediog with us in the cause of freedom, en
deared thyfclf to the citizens of America—
still in the land of princes, in the dominions of
monafchs, none is seen great as thyfelf, and
in the land of heroes, thou haft left none thy
rival. We hope with thee that France re
pelling the hosts of slaves which rush against
her—which pour into her fertile fields, may
not m»ed thy fervice—wc hope that Die mav
soon welcome thee to a land of peace and Mr. Adams,
freedom we trust that thou wilt yet rife THE Subscriber observing his name in the
foperiorto misfortunes, and (hine more bright lid (publifhedby authority) of persons volec'
when (he clouds of adversity are dispelled— for, as a lleprefentative to the Congress ol
we knew our wiihes would waft thee to our the United States, for the Fi,ft V,/„,t/_h. ;
and our hearts welcome thee to our takes the earliest opportunity t» express hi'
bofouir we know that poflerity will admire moflt grateful acknowledgments, for the dif
thy vieVes, and future ages venerate thy tinguiihed mark of the confidence of his fel
name. The CITIZENS of AMERICA. low citizens; and to inform them, bis
*Tt n . 7, , , present (itnation obliges him to decline the
lath, .affw'n " itamJuSci honor of being considered as a candidate at
vcjJlltiij Wejtli* Ctrwiny. tseenfui!)gcleflivo. JOyN C. JONES.
MOM Till (OLUMBIAN CENTINEL.
Mr. KussfLL,
Btfpubliiliing the followingExtrafts, they
drill find their way into the Gazette ot
the United States.
A writer in the American DailyAdvertifer,
tinder the signature of Lucius, in stating the
comparative merits of* the two competitors,
ashu ttiles them, for the Vice-Presidency,
(Mr, Adams and Gov. Clinton) lays, " That
to Mr. Adams it has been objected that he is
attached to a government of King, Lords and
Commons ; and that the allegation is true, it
Is to be presumed, will not be controverted.
His writings entitled, " A Defence of the
Ajnerican .Constitutions," and 4 4 pilif-OurVs
upon Davila, fully demonflrate it " I W[lll
hazard a conje&ure here, that Lucius never
read the writings be To candidly pronounces
ientence upon ; or it he has, that he has not
und-srftood them. As a proof Ol whit I al
fert, I herewith fend you an extract of a let
ter from Mr. Adams, to a friend of his, writ
ten July 29th, 1791.
lt You observe that, "that you and I differ in
our ideas of the belt form of government, is
well known to both of us But my dear Sir,
you will give me leave to fay, that I do i>ot
know this.—l know not what your idea is,of
the bell formofgovernment. Yon and I ha*e
never lwd a serious conversation together,
that I recoiled, concerning the nature of go
vernment. The very tranfien't hints that
have ever passed between us, have been jocu
lar and fupsrficial, without ever coming to an
explanation. If you suppose that I have or
ever had, adefign or desire of attempting to
introduce a governmant of King, Lords, and
Commons, or in other words, an hereditary
Executive, or an hereditary Senate, either in
to the government of the United States, or
that of any individual state, you are wholly
mistaken ; there is not such a thought eapreff
ed or intimated in any public writing or pri
vate letter of mine-; and I may fafely chal
lenge all mankind to produce such a palfage,
and quote the chapter and verse."
Let a candid public judge; and he who
doubts, examine for himfelf at the fonntain
head, befoie he adopts an opinion founded
upon reports calculated only to mislead and
decoy. A FRIEND to TRUTH.
FROM. A LATE BOSTON PAPER. '
HUMOUROUS.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION DEFEATED.
TWENTY-FOUR Frenchmen, in and near
the town of Boflot, have entered a Protest
in the office of a Notary Public in Boston,
against the French Revolution. Upon finding
this to be the cafe, the King oj' Pruflia, and
the Duke of Brunfwick, have returned to
Vienna : There was nothing left for them to
do : Monarchy was restored in alt its pomp,
and splendor; the Baftile was instantly re
built ; all the NoblefTe were restored to the
right of ifTulng "heir Letters de Cachet, ac
coiding to antient usage; and the People'at
once fubinitted to a system of OpprfclTipn,
which they had groaned under for two cei^tu-
ries.
We embrace this opportunity to congratu
late the world on this important discovery.—
The wife and good men in Europe, have long
wished to find out Tome other Arbiter for the
fate of Nations, besides that of \Vai ; but ne
ver once thought of the Notary Public office.
This is an accidental discovery. But what
then ?—lt was by the accidental fall of an ap
ple on his nose, that Newton discovered the
principle of Gravity, which brings a drunkard
upon his forehead, and aflifts the Planets in
their motion.
It is said that Tippoo Saib will be here in
March, to enter a Protest in the fame of
fice against Lord Cornwj»llis, and the Bri
tish Nation, for having found him one half
of his expences : This may be considered as a
breach of the treaty, and his two Boys may
be crucified for it—but then their friends will
protest against it. Socman the Third will be
here very soon, to enter his Protest against
that terrible Woman of Rulfia, for taking
Oczakow, and other ports of his Empire from
him. The King of Poland would come to en
ter his Protest against the fame Woman, for
robbing him of his Kingdom, and his People of
their Liberty—but he has not money enough
to pay the National Fees.—The Secretary at
War will soon arrive from Philadelphia, to
enter his Protest against the Savages,—and
Peace will beeftablilhed throughout the world.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
Mr. Fenno,
WHETHER you guefled right or wrong
as to the sameness of the hand that
furniihed thefeveral communications poiiited
at in No. 58, you have Ihewn a friendly dis
position to help out your readers in such con
jectures and let the public judge of the num
ber of your correspondents. lam one of a
number of curious subscribers, who wish to
be informed how many of the other commu
nications which have adorned your paper, are
believed to have come from a /ingle pen. As
you have been so kind as of yourfeif to favor
the public with the intimation in one cafe,
wiiJ doubtJefs do it in the other.
from the impartiality of your papef, it
might almost be looked for as matter of course
without this application. p.
.Boston, December 13,
238
Foreign Affairs.
Ejctrafli Jrom Ley den Gazettes of the 9th and 12 tk
Oclober, 1792.
BON K, (Ger.) Oft. 5-
THE necessity in which the generals of the
combined armies in France have been
under of drawing fucceflively to them all the
German troyps which were on the Rhine, fir it,
the army of General Prince de Ilohenloe
Reichberg, then the corps which had remain
ed under the orders of Count d'Erback, has
left the field open to the French, not only v on
the iide of Tinonville wljeie they carried ofF
a considerable convoy, but also on the Rhine :
Having come from Straiburgh and Fort Lou
is, they attacked with a far superior force
the 3000 Auftrians which formed thegarrifon
of Spire, killed or made them prisoners, took
poiFeflion of the city, and sent the military
stores that were in it to Landau ; the alarm
was spread to Manheim, Worms, and even to
Metz, The inhabitants are taking to flight,
and the confteroation is general. This ex
pedition took place on the 29th September.
Above, on the Moselle, the French have made
a second irruption into the electorate of Tri
ers ; 5300 Frenchmen with 9 cannon entered
Metzig on the 29th, at 7 o'clock A. M. forced
the garrison to evacuate, destroyed the provi
sions, &:c.
Extract oj a letter from Mentz, ?.</ Oflober.
ii The invasion which General Cnftine* has
made, by order of General Biron, into the ter
ritory 'of the Empire ; and the taking of
Spires, with the general magazine of militaiy
(tores for the Imperial army ; has spread ter
ror and confternatioh through all this part of
Germany. Our city is (hut up ; no one can
enter or go out of it. Even the navigation of
the Rhine is flopped, to the great detriment
of commerce. The number of fugitives come
here from Heidelberg, Worms, and all that
part of the Rhine, is considerable- Out of
3000 men who, under the orders of General
Winkelmann, guarded Spire and the military
/lores, very few have escaped. They were
aim oil all killed, drowned in the Rhine, or
made prisoners, they did not however give up
without making the bravest defence. The
French, the greatest part of whom came out
of Landau, were a body of 17 or 18,000 men.
Their ftiperiority was therefore too great to
he ruT.fted. It is said they intend to pursue
their march to this city. Having advanced
to the distance of one league from Kircheim
Pohland, where the Prince of Naflau Weil
bourg resides, the Court retired in hafce at io
o'clock at night, with their mod precious ef
fects, and arrived at Weilbourg. It was on
the 30th of September that Spire was taken,
a stroke which mull be considered as a most
important, if not a decifiv* one."
Extrad of another letter from BruJJcUs, Oflober Bth
" The siege of Lisle ij raifeJ : For some days
past there has returned to Tournay a confi
derable number of waggons,loaded with balls,
ftiells, guns with their carriages, pick-axes,
barrows, &:c. which were at the camp before
the town. It appears that we have fuffered
lofTes on that fide, although the official ac
counts do not acquaint us with the particu
lars. In general, we are much in the dark
refpedling the operations which have taken
place in France and the Netherlands : but,
upon the whole, we fufficiently perceive that
the arms of the combined powers do not meet
with that success which the chiefs of the Emi
grants had taught them to expe&. It is also
well known that the democratical party in
France hope to propagate the principles of
their revolution in all the neighbouring coun
tries. People therefore begin here to be in
a very uneasy situation : the fermentation
which a certain party keeps up in the minds
of the multitude, increasing by the piefent
circumstances, orders have been given to a
military detachment torcp iir to Antwerp,
which is the focus of difaffe&ion. There is also
some agitation at Lorraine, and government
will be obliged to make use. of all their pru
dence, to prevent the etfe<fl of the idea which
begins to prevail, that the fate of the Nether
lands depends upon the success of the efta
blilhment of democracy in France."
* Formerly the Count de Cujline. lie was Co!,
of the Regiment of Sair:tonge 9 in General Rocham
beau's arm-), in Amirica.
+ An imperial city in the Electorate of Triers.
COLOGNE, October 6.
The French army which came from Lan
dau under the command of General Cuftine,
after having laid a heavy contribution on the
Prince Bifliop, Chapter, Clergy, and Citizens
of Spire, continued 011 the 3d instant their
march to Worms ; and as they appear to in
tend to go through Mentz, Darmstadt, and
Frankfort, into the country of Hetie, the
principal inhabitants of those countries take
to flight, and secure their property as well as
they can. This evening we have seen seve
ral persons of diflin&ion arriving from Mentz
and the vicinity. A yatcht ha? brought from
CobJentz the military chest of the Prullian ar
my, with the public records, church orna
ments aud other precious effects. It is said
that that the French vanguard is already at
Kreutznach.
Extrafl oj a letter from Luxev. burgh, OH. 5,
" The accounts which we have from Ver
dun are very melancholy : The Prussian army
has been, for several days, in want of bread,or
ha" had none but of a very b;»d quality, as the
bread which they are obliged to carry there,
from a great distance, arrives ali green and
mouldy. It is nearly the fame with the Auf
triaij army. From our gates to Verdun, the
country is waste and almost a defart. As it
has rained for ibrne weeks together, the road>
are impafT-ble,niul are covered with hundreds
of dead horses."
LEVD oacbcrit.
We are now no longer in an uncertafntv
refpetting the fuccefn of the French armies.
Here follows a copy of a letter from General
Dumourier to the Minuter at War, dated St
Menehould, Oft. I. the iftyearof the Com'
monwealth. [For this letter, fee Gazette cf
the 19th inft.]
Later advices, which we have received by
way of London, add : that the combined ar
m.es, after attempting a negotiation without
lucrek, bad retired with fn much haste t! at
they had left 4or jooo sick in the hofpitai
loft 200 prisoners, and abandoned 23
loaded with provisions and ammunition •
that instead of forcing the French a>nv
capitulate, they had been purfned thimiclvcs
in their retreat ; and that from the direction
of the march of part of their forces, it was
probable they would meet General Cuftine
who is now mailer of all that part .if Germa
ny which borders the Khine, from Spire ta
Mayence.
St. BROU, near St. Sept. 26.
Yesterday the foil of the king of Pruffig dtn
ed with Gen. Dumonrier. We. do not .know
the object of that interview ; but since yes
terday, there has been a ceirution of hoftili
lies, which it is said will last 6 days. For
some days a great number of Pruflianj have
deserted, and come over to ; all attacked
with a dysentery. They badbut one pouu4
of bread for three days.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTAT
MONDAY, Dec-.. , t i 4.
The following petitions vcrc prefcnted 2o<J
read, v'.z.—of Brnjan-.m KV.:- ■
tion of services and i
Cotterill, praying -r„. a In t certifi
cate of James Welch, praj ui fc fcttlement
of an account.
Mr. B. Bourn, of the committee on the pe
tition of Dr. John Bartlet, brought in a report
which is, That after examining the fame, the
committee are of opinion, the prayer thereof
cannot be granted.
The bill for enrolling and licensing of ships or
veflels, to he employed in the eoaftmg trade and
the fifheries, and for regulating the fame, was
brought in engrofled, read the third time, and
the blanks therein filled up. The firft blank,
referring to the time when the aift now in forte
(hall ceaie, was filled with the last day of March
next.
The bill was then passed to be ena&ed.
Mr.Moorc, of the committee on enrolled!-,;)]%
reported " An act concerning the regifterintr &
recordiug of Ihips or vessels," as truly enrolled.
The Speaker then signed the fame.
A letter was read from the Secretary of War
communicating, pursuant to orders from th
President of the United States, sundry doci
merits relative to Indian affairs, received fro
the Governor of Georgia. These documer.i •
contain information of a recent murder of
eight white persons, by the Indians, on the fron
tiers of Georgia. Laid on the table.
The petition of Henry C. Baker, an officer in
the late army of the United States, was read,
praying conipenfation for fervicck during the
war.
The report of the Secretary of the Treasury,
on the petition of Udny Hay, was read: this r<-
port was in favor of the prayer of the petition,
which was for payment of the principal and in
terefl of a note for forty pounds, given during
the late war by two officers of the American ar
my, who had been captured at the northward.
The report was acceptcd by the House, ?nd a
committee appointed t* report a bill pursuant
thereto.
In committee of the whole on the bill to pro
vide for a reimbursement of a loan made of the
Bank of the United States. Mr. White in the
chair.
The bill was read by the chairman, aid the*
conflderedin paragraphs.
The firft fe&ion being read,
Mr. Giles said he was rather in favour of
postponing the business; but if it is peculiarly ad
vantageous to the interefl of the TJnitedStatest#
make provision for this object immediately, he
fuggelled whether it would not 4> e better, if
possible, to provide f©rit without having recourft
to the expedient of a new l»an. He >vas averse
fr©m increasing the debt of the United States by
additional loans. He was rather in favour ofap
plying the property belonging to the United
States in the Bank of the United States for the
purpose. He therefore moved, that the fe&ioa
should be struck out which provides for a loan,
in order to substitute a clause providing for the
sale of the (hares in the bank, owned by the I T .
States, that the proceeds may be applied to the
reimbursement of the loan.
Mr. Sedgwick doubted whether the motioq
was in order, as it went to a totally different
objedt from any fpecified in the bill.
The chairman remarked, that a motion to
lb-ike out the fe<stion,was in order.
Mr. Fitzfimons obferted, that if the idea oi
the gentleman was adopted, he was clearly o
opinio; - ., that the sale of the {hares wouli not
produce a sum adequate to the abje<&; as bringj
iag such a number of (hares to market won
undoubtedly reducc the price greatly below t \t
present market-price.
Mr. Giles said he was rather desirous of a polt
poncment of the fubjed:; he was not prepaie
to decide upon it; he fufpe«sled m?n gentlemen
in the committee were in the •- ;dicament;
he wculd therefore withdraw his motion or
ftr -ting out, under a persuasion that nofudoen
w ;/!. take place.
Mr. l i.alimons slated fercral reafoni why the
cor. lit tee should proceed in the bufincfi; pf
ti:; t involves an economical disposal o
pr.. - ,:ow lying ufeleis; and a provifiou W
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