CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
WEDNESDAY, January 2.
Mr. Ames of the committee to whom the re
port of the Secretary of the Treasury, on the pe
tition of Joseph Henderfon was referred, brought
in a report, which was read i this was partially
in favour of the petitioner. Laid on the table.
The petition of John Roland was read, pray
ing compensation for services performed, and
disabilities incurred during the late war. Laid
on the table.
The committee on the petition of Ebenezer
CowelL brought in a report, which wasagainfl
the prayer of the petition. This report was
accepted.
The following engrossed bills were read the
third time, and passed, viz.
A bill to authorize the settlement of the ac
counts of Lewis Garanger,for military services,
during the late war.
A bill to amend the a£t eftablilhing a mint,
so far as refpefts the coinage of copper. And
A bill to allow the payment of interest, on a
claim of the persons therein mentioned.
Mr. Sedgwick, of the committee appointed,
reported a biH to compensate John Tucker.—
Read twice, and committed for to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Gerry, the several petiti
ons of the officers of the late army, were refer
ed to a committee of the whole House on Mon
day next.
A letter was read from the Secretary of State,
containing a lift of the Clerk s employed in his
department, and the salaries received by each,
communicated pursuant to a resolution of the
house of Monday lafl:.
In committee of the whole, on Mr. Steele s
motion for reducing the military eftabliflimest
of the United States, &c.
Mr. White in the chair.
The motion was read by the Chairman, and
debated till near three o'clock. They then rose,
reported progress, and had leave to fit again.
In committee of the whole, on the bill mak
ing compensation to the widows and orphans
of persons killed while afling under the fanition
of flags of truce.
Air. Dayton in the chair.
The committee difcuflcd the bill. They then
rofc, reported progress—and the House ad
journed.
THURSDAY, January 3.
The petition of Charles King, praying to be
placed on the pension lift, was read and laid on
the table.
Mr. W. Smith, of the committee appointed
for the purpose, reported a bill to regulate
claims to invalid pensions, which was twice
read, and committed for to-morrow.
A letter was read from the Secretary of War
enclosing a lift of the several persons employed
in the Department of War. with the salaries al
lowed to each. Laid on the table.
The report of a fele6t committee on the peti
tion of Joseph Henderfon, was referred to a
committee of the whole house to-morrow.
In committee of the whole, on the bill mak
ing compensation to the widows and orphans of
persons killed, bearing flags of truce t® the In
dians.
Mr. Dayton in the chair.
The committee filled up the blanks and made
several amendments to the bill, which were re
ported to the house, and laid on the table.
The House then, in committee of the whole,
Mr. White in the chair, relumed theconfidera
tion of Mr. Steele's motion, for reducing the mi
litary eilablifhment of the United States, The
motion was again read, and debated, Mr.
Steele and Mr. Clark supported the motion ;
Mr. Milledge and Mr. Findley opposed it. A
motion for the committee's rising and report
ing progress, after some opposition, was carried.
Mr. W. Smith moved, that when the House
adjourn, they should adjourn to meet at Ten
o'clock. After some remarks from Mr. Liver
more, on the want of pun&uality in attending
at Eleven o'clock, the usual hour of adjourn
ment, —he fuggefted,asan expedient, the call
ing over the names of the members at Eleven
o'clock. Mr. Smith withdrew his motion to
substitute the idea of Mr. Livermere, and made
a motion accordingly, in the following words ;
1 hat there be a call of the members at the
usual hour of adjournment, and that the names
of those then absent, be entered on the journal.
This motion was laid on the table.
Adjourned.
FRIDAY, Jan. 4.
Mr. Slerrcit Member from Maryland, took
hit f at ihii d.iy.
The bill providing compensations for the wi
dows and orphans of thr persons who were kill
ed, while airiu* under the fan£tion of flags of
truce to (he Indians, was further discussed in
committee of the whole ; additional amend
ments weie made, which the committee report
ed in the Houle—the Hnufe took ihe fame into
confideratioii ; ihey made ftirlhei amendments,
ana then the bill was ordered to be engrofLd
for a third reading.
A letter was read from the Secretary of the
Trrai'iwy eticlaßng lifts of the persons employed
111 the Treasury Department with the salaries al
lowed to each j-.alfo > llatemrnt of the several
Loans made by the executive of the United
States, ptirfuant to law, with the appropriations
of Ihe fame; ordered that soo copies of thi>
communication be prin'ed.
In committee of the whole, on the bill to
regulate claims to invalid penlions Mr.D.ty
too in the chair—The bill was read by the
cMairraan.
A motion by Mr. Livermore, to strike out
a cl: ul'e whichprovides that applicatioosfrom
persons who * cases have heretofore been de
cided upon, .u-.d their claims rejected, should
not be again received and allowed—'was after
iome opposition negatived
Mr. Venable moved an amendment, the
>bje& of which was to invalidate the doings
of the judges, atting as commiifioners in the
cases of applications for pensions, pursuant .to
the law palled t>.e last session—and to place
those pensioners on the fame footing with
such as are the fubjefts of the bill now under
consideration—this motion occasioned a de
bate which continued till the time of adjourn
ment —the committee rose and reported pro
gress, and the iioule adjourned till to-n orrow.
RICHMOND, Dcc. 26.
Wopaie concerned to be under the neccflity of
following up oui accounts fiomthe western ter
ritory, with more disagreeable intelligence from
ihene*'
Some time in the last month, Captain Hand
ley with his co mpany ot (drafted} militia, and
an escort under their care, marched from Knox
vilie for Cumberland ; on their route they were
surprised on the Cumberland trg'.e, between
Knoxville and NaHivilJe, by a party of
confiftmg of about 200 ;— on their fit ft fire, Ca.pt.
Handley and eleven of his men fell, and the re
mainder of the company and the escort instantly
dispersed of which twenty-four are ltill mif
fing, supposed to be killed or taken prisoners.
The militia had no suspicion of being ncjr an
enemy, until they received ihe fatal fire, which
brought their commander and so many of their
fellow soldiers to the ground.
It is barely justice to the memory of Capt.
Handley, to mention, that he had served his
country, in a military capacity, five cam
paigns with distinguished reputation and ap
plause ; and that equally in public and private
life he lived beloved and refpedled, and has
died univerfaJJy lamented.
NEWBUHYPORT, Dec. 19.
Last week a piece of timber, designed for
mast of a large India (hip, was drawn over
the us* Bridge, by upwards of twenty a&M),
without so much as causing the least crack to
be heard in the Bridge, notwithstanding the
enormous weight of the load.
Philadelphia, Jan. 5.
The Directors of the Bank of North-Ame
rica have declared a dividend of seven and an
half per cent, for the fix months ending Ja
nuary 1 ft.
Tuesday afternoon, a number of friends of
equality and of rhe French revolution, Ame
ricans and French, partook of a splendid en
tertainment at Mr. Oeller's hotel, in comme
moration of the intelligence lately received
of the success of the Gallic arms against those
of despotism.
Tickets of admiflion to the seroftatic expe
riment by the celebrated Mr. Blanchard, will
continue to be fold till Wednesday next, at
Oeller's Hotel. Tickets for the firft places,
five dollars—recond places, two dollars.
Since the celebration of the fucce£e<t cf
France on the Ift inft. at Oeller's Hotel, a
correspondent has observed, that a number of
persons have been decoated with the tri
coloured ribbon at their button-holes. The
blue ribbons talked of, have not yet appeared.
Extratt of a letter from Columbia, (S.C.) Dec. 9.
u The Eleftofs of Prefidenkand Vice-Pre
fident have voted for the present gentlemen
in office. Major Butler is re-elected to the
Senate of the United States. The gentlemen
in nomination were Gov. Pinckney and Maj.
Butler ; the former had eight votes, the lat
ter one hundred and eighteen ; —a pretty
strong evidence of the sentiments of this coun
try in favor of Major Butler's public conduct.
—There is no man poffefTes the esteem and
confidence of his fellow citizens more highly
than Major Butler."
AbJiraß of Foreign Intelligence.
In the attack of Spires, the Auftrians loft
Bod men, besides a great number mortally
wounded—and though they fought bravely,
yet the French had only 20 killed and thirty
wounded.
Spain has openly declared its disposition to
co-operate with Austria and Prussia against
France.
The Porte has refufed permission for eight
(hips of the line, and the fame number of fri
gates of the Ruffian navy, to pass the Darda
nelles, in order to a<st against the French.
A grand civic feaft, on account of the suc
cess of the French armies, was to be celebrat
ed in Paris in O&ober.
A serious rupture has taken place among
the Jacobins, and it is said they have expelled
BrilTot, and ordered his name to be erased from
their minute-book.
M. Peion is re-elected Mayor of Paris—
and M. Garat has accepted the office ef Mi
nister of justice.
Tranquility reigns generally in Paris; a
general opinion prevails, that neither Louis
nor the Queen will be punished with death
The majority of the Convention appear to be
difpofcd to conciliate parties, rather than en
courage anitnofity j little doubt however ex
ists but that repiiblicaniCm will remain the
French form of government, till future expe
rience fcall point out its inefficacy.
M. Danton demanded in the Convention,
that the country be declared out of dsvgcv, this
proposition was combated and deferred.
By a letter of the CommilGoners to the
Convention, dated the 10th Ottober, it ap
pears, that the enemy had 30,000 men en
camped without Verdun ; and were in pof
feflion of the Heighths which command that
town, in which they have a great number of
sick. Kcllerman was making his arrange
ments to attack this army when it retreated.
Died, in South-Carolina, Hon. Hekry Lai'-
*ens, formerly President of Congress, &rc.
251
Extract of a letter from Mr. VandcrhorJt x Consul oj
the United State* at Brijlol, to ch\ Seuttary oj
State, dated Otiober 10.
u A very uncommon wet harvest-time
here, has done much injury to the crops of*
grain, which were before very proi\iifing.—
Corn, in consequence, has considerably ad
vanced in price, and it is expected, will still
be higher-r-fo that there is at present no
doubt among our merchants in this place, but
the ports of this kingdom will, in the course
of next month, be opened for the admiflion of
foreign grain of all forts—indeed, so confident
are they of this, that many of them have al
ready sent large orders abroad for the pur
chasing of corn."
kxtrflft of a letter from Mr. Fenzoick, Consul oj the
brated -Stater xtt Bordeaux, to the Secretary of
Stale, dated Sept. 28.
u The crops of grain have, proved much
less than was expected; in all thelbuthern de
partments of France, considerable foreign
supplies will be wanting. Mr. Cathalan, Vice
Consul of Marseilles, is now here—encouraged
by the citizens of that place, and the profpeft
of the scarcity of grain, to come as far as
this, and go even to America, in order to buy
and procure supplies of wheat and flour; but
the uncertainty of the times has deterred him
from going on to America. We shall also
want much in this and the neighboring depart
ments, and I presume the prices will be high."
DECREE
OF THE
NATIONAL LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF
FRANCE,
1 • THE importation of every kind of to
bacco in the leaf is to be permitted, from and
after the firft day of O&ober next, on paying
10 livres the quintal for the tobaccos which
are fubjedl to the duty of 18 livres 15 sous;
12 4i*res 10 sous for those which pay 25 livres ;
& 15 livres for all othe rs,except those in fegars,
which shall pay 25 livres. The duties of ten
livres & 12 livres 10 sous, shall be levied as well
on the tobacco which shall be imported, reck
oning from the above date, as on those which
Ihall then be in entrepot. The tobaccos of the
Levant shall be admitted in bales; those of
Amersfort, in hampers; and those of the
Colonics, in bundles.
2. Leaf tobacco imported by sea, shall have
the right of entrepot eighteen months. They
may even pass, by a continuation of entrepot
from one port to another. They fliall pay
the duty on the actual weight, and only at
the expiration of the time of entrepot, or when
they shall be taken from thance for national
consumption. The whole on condition that
the warehouses shall only be in the ports fur
jiifhed by the merchants at their own expenfc,
and of which the Directors of the Regie ihall
have a key.
3- Manufactured tobacco, which (hall be
fold in tonfequence of seizure, shall be fubjedt
■to a duty of 15 livres per quintal.
4- Tobaccos seized from persons unknown,
and not reclaimed, may be fold three days as
ter notice, to the Solicitor of the Corporation,
and advertising the decree of confiscation :
the net proceeds of the sales shall be paid im
mediately to the persons seizing, and divided
according to the reles eftabiifhed, or to be
eftabiifhed.
5- When several seizures of tobacco shall
be separately made from persons unknown
within the jurifdi&ion of the fame diftrift
tribuna), and the value of each parcel seized
(hall not exceed 50 livres, the Regie may de
mand confifcation by a petition which
shall contain the estimate of each parcel of
the tobacco, and a decision shall be iflued on
the said petition by one and the fame judg
ment.
6. The resolutions in the two preceding
articles shall be executed, in refpeft to all sei
zures made from persons unknown, of things
which shall not have been reclaimed.
We are sorry !o fee (fays a correspondent) the
spirit of discord is so predominant in the choice
of a Vice-Prejident of the Ull ited States :—When
ojir country is blefTed with faithful difmterefted
lervants, whose chief study is the good of man
kind, change them not, left you change for the
worse ; and monarchy and all its dreadful con
cimiiams be again fcen stalking among us. If
the gentleman, who has the honor of filling that
oflicc, has not performed with ft rift justice and
equity, the function allotted to him—why not
made known ? If on the contrary he has, why
a change ?—Americans be not duped by the ex
clamations of the Anties, who wish to plant the
buter weeds of discord in this land of liberty :
Let it be engraven on your hearts, that
" An honett man's the noblest work of God."
Virginia Gazette.
The votes whkh have been given in the re
spective slates for Vice-President (fays a cor
respondent) will decide the state of the Nati
onal pnlfe as to federal principles. The two
candidates are represented at extreme points
—the one a full-blooded anti-federaliii, the
other a reputed arillocrat, at the fame time
an honest man, the noblelt work of GOD.
The oleftors being chosen by the immediate
representatives of the people, doubtless carri
ed with them their fentiinents in the aggre
gate hence a very important point uil/be
decided.
We have the pleasure to annoi ce to every
■well-wiftier to our excellent Constitution,
that the firm Patriot and Friend to the true
interest of the Union JOHN ADAMS, is re
elected Vice-Prefideiit by a handsome Ma
jority.
Tho e who vindicate the federal fide of the
question, take it for a fact that the people are
intelligent and enlightened. Therefore they
offer reasons to the underliandings of the peo
ple, supposing them fully capable of perceiv
ing their force. And this has been constantly
attempted against the current of prejudice
and ignorance, which carries away li.e ieaft
informed part of our citizens in certain dif
trifts of the union. Til:; is treating tie
people refpeftfully, and as experience Las
happily proved, according to their real cha
racter. It is a fact in corroboration of the
remark just made, that the most enlightened
part of the United States, is the liidft federal-
The /action, on the other hand, has treated
the people as if it. wert e.ify to dupe them.
They have made a property of a ftw wolds,
fycli as monarchy, aristocracy, &c. a? d it is
half the employment of their hireling prel's to
ring the changes upon them. Bur we are
happy to lee that these frequent appeals to
the supposed ignorance of the country, are as
ineffectual as they are infultiug.
Whoverfees the conduct of another with
the eyes of an enemy will find matter of
blame. No man will come off clear when his
enemiesaft as his judges. It is on the other
hand no less true } thathe to whom every action
of a man appears wrong, is that man's ene
my—For as there is some defects in the best
man's character, there is some good in the
worst, and he who condemns all the words
thoughts and actions of the latter, is more>the
foe of the man than of his faults. Apply this
remark to our party fcriblers and the fadtion
that supports them. The government of the
United States has, with them, no bright fpor.
It has done nothing praise-worthy. °Its best
arts, or what its admirers call its best, the re
storation of public credit, an adherence to
system an d or der, are termed a curie a
scourge, an oppression. The intention, they
fay too, is worse than the deed.—The very
change of our affairs from adverse to pros
perous and happy, they pretend, does no cre
dit to government, and that prosperity was
intended and is made the engine of deceiving
and corrupting the people in order tl.e mole
certainly to bind in chains.
SEPT. 5, 1792,
Yet theft icribblers have lately, it i.< but hie
ly, dared to fay they are federalrfts, friends of
the republican constitution we enjoy, it'tbe
government is half as bad they pretend they
oaght not to be its -friends. No man is the
friend of what he abhors, and no man will
try to make others abhor what he admires.
Therefore, Hvpocrify, lay ufide your tnaik;
it serves no longerio hide the mark of tiie
beast.
It is devoutly to be wijhed thrt Franc#
may finally lucceed in her form of govein
ment without a King. A great republic,
wifelv constituted and administered so as to
fepuieJifeJibertxwUrPH&ity»M.tanlj { iiom^
violation but from the fear of it, will make
the cause of liberty refpe&able, and in the - ,
end triumphant throughout the civilized part '
of the world. One reflection occim—lt i»
highly interesting to the happiuefsof the bu
man race that great rather than small por
tions of the earth fliould be fubjeft to one go
vernment—provided the many millionsform
ing one nation enjoy a perfectly free eonftir
tntion. There are many obstacles which
small and feeble independent nations oppose
to the diffufion of that principle of the fra
ternity of mankind, so earnestly inculcated by
the Fienph National Aflembly. A great ria
tion is a great family— But fear, jealousy,
rivalfiiip, and the spirit of commercial mono
poly which has afflifled and disgraced thij age
of improvement more than any other rem
nant of barbarjfm build up Alps and Pyrenees '
to separate the fittle independeut States of
the old world. ' The means they adopt to
guard againftevil are the worftofevils. They
arm, and their security against each other re-;
quires taxes and oppreflion.—But a great na
tion not having cause to fear the lofi of .
independent governmeat is left prone to quar- ;
rel with its neighbors.—For surely a free na
tion will not seek conquefts—therefore it i* '.
happy for pofterit/ that America and France"
being great nations will have nothing to fear
—being free will have nothing to wifh—tboir
power and their example will do much to,
wards diffufing over the earth that system of
peace, that fraternity among nations which
will give the greatest poflible scope for the
improvements of.fcience and the happiness of
the people—He therefore that would break
the union of America would blast the hope*,
of mankind.
ARRIVED at the PORT o/THII.A DELPHI A,
IN THE VIA! 1792.
From Foreign Ports.
Ships 136
Barques I
Polacres
Snows
Brigs
Schooners
Sloops
Albany Paper.
6 per Cents,
3 per Cents,
Deferred,
Full Jhares Bank U. S. 37 per cent, prem.
(r3T Advertiftiunti, &?c. omitted, in conf.q*tnct
of the lengthy Debate in this day's Gazette, Jhallbc
attended to in our next.
Niwptrt Paper.
COMMUNICATIONS.
SHIP NEWS.
From Ports in tkt V. S.
Ships 23
Barques i
Snows i
I
11
263
107
Brigs 56
Schooners a§6
Sloops 477
Total 843
Total 652
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