SATURDAY, Jan. 26. Alette was read from the Trealurei" of the Unit d States, encloling his account of receipts and expenditures for. the War department for the quarter, ending the 31ft December, a* fettled by the officers of the treasury. Ordered that 100 copies be printed. Several petitions were read, praying cora penfation for property used, loft or destroyed during the war. On motion, the report of the Secretary of the Treasury on loft or de stroyed property was read, and 100 copies or dered to be printed. Two other petitions were read, and refer red to the Secretary of War. A bill to authorize a loan in the notes or Certificates o4'ftich ftatej, as,on a-finaj fettle metit of accounts lhall have a balince due to them from the United States,was brought in, engrossed, and read the third time. The Speaker oblerved that there were several -blanks to be filled previous to the parting the Mr. Fitzfimons informed the House, that the members of the committee on the enquiry into the causes of the failure of the expedition under General St. Clair, were then attending to the examination ot several witneiies whose evidence was conlidered importaut; it the •queltioii on the passage of the bill Ihould now be taken, it would be proper to notify the committee to attend ; and it any further de bate should ensue, the time would be so taken up that the witiieffes mud be dilmiffed, and their attendance required on Monday. Some members observing, that it was very probable several of the House would offer remarks on the bill before the question was taken. A motion was made to adjourn ; which be ing put, was carried in the affirmative, and the House adjourned till Monday. MONDAY, January *3. - Mr."'Xmesprelentea"the "Wheeler, which was read and referred to the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr. Baldwin presented the petition of Ed ward Telfair and John Wereat, praying com pensation for supplies furnifhed the American army during the invasion of Georgia by the Britiih. Read and referred as above. Mr. Mercer presented the petition of John A.Titon, an officer of the late Pennsylvania line •t' .he army. Read and referred to the Secreta ry r War. JV) •. Milledge presented the petition ofWilli an- \iathew9, v*hich was read and referred as above. A nation was made and carried, That the con: 'e of the whole be discharged from the further fideration of a bill received from the Senate ens itled, wAn a<st in addition to the a<ft for r 1 " ig the Judicial Courts.'* The fame b il -eferred to a fele& committee. the bill to authorize a loan in ificates of the individual states, 'c. d . The question then wa son bill. On this Page mov ueftion. The ayes and noes -uta oa this, the previous question was put in the following words :—Shall the main question on the bill be now put ? This was de termined in the affirmative as follows: E S. MclT. Lawrance, Learned, Livermore, Muhlenberg, Sedgwick, W. Smith, Sterrett, a r MefT. Ames, Barnwell, Benfun, Boudinot, B. Bourne, S Bourne, Dayton, Fitzftmons, Gerry, Gilman, Goodhue, Gordon, Hartley, Hillhoufe, Huger, Key, Kittera, N 0 Med. yifhe, Baldwin, Mess. Murray, Clark, Findley, Giles, Gre<?£, Griffin, GroVe, Heiftcr, Jacobs, Kitchell, Lee Macon, Madison, Mercer, Mo#re, The main queftioH was then put, Shall the bill paf-s ? The jiyes and noes on this question were as above, excepting Mr. Key, who voting in the negative, the House was equally divided.— The Speaker gave his calling vote in saver of falling the bill. A message was received from the Prefidcnt of the United States by Mr. Lear, his Secretary, communicating to the House a fUtement of the expenditures, to the end of the year 179 2, from the sum of 10,000 dollars appropriated for con tingent expences. Also, a supplementary ar rangement rcfpe&ing the <!iftri& of the state of North-Carolina, inflation to the a& laying duties on difti led spirits. In committee of the whole on the resolution for granting hall* pay for 7 years to the widows and orphans of such officers of the army as have been killed in the service of the United States since the 3d day of June, 1784, or which may hercai'ter be killed in the public service. Mr. Key in the chair. Mr. Hartley, who brought forward the mo tion, moved to strike out June 3, 1784, and in fer: 4th day of March, 1729. Mr. Livermore said he should be in favor of the- motion if it went as far back as the year 1775, and comprehended the widows and or phans of the officers of the army killed within two years from the commencement of the war. Mr. Williamfon said he (hould consider it his duty to move for an amendment to the proposi tion, in the progress of its discussion, hy insert ing a clause to provide for the widows and or phans of the afficers of the militia. Mr. Wadfworth dated the reasons on which he supposed provision had not been made for the widows and orphans of those officers which were killed during the period alluded to by the gentleman from New-Hampffiire : one princi pal one was, that the new government wa* nt» authorized by the conflitution to create a*v dc maml* agjrinft the United States ;—the govern ment was bound to take up the debts as ftiev found them. The old government had rot re cognized the claims of those widows and orphans alluded to. With refpe& to the present refolto tion, he was opposed to the amendment; —he thought it ought to go back to June 1784, the commencement of the present Indian war. He should move for other amendments to the reso lution, that it ftiould provide not only for those who may fall by the sword, but for such as die in the public service. He should also be for ex tending the provision to the widows and orphans of the officers of the militia. He conlidered it as a mofl difgraceful thing to a government not to make provision for the families of those who /acrificed their lives in the cause of their coun try. The motion for striking out June 3, 1784, was put and carried. The other part of the mo tion, to insert 4th day of March, 1789, was not put, being fuperceded by a motion for the com mittee's rising—The committee rose, reported progreis, and the House adjourned. The Ayes artd Noes on engnfiiag (he bilL referred tn in oiy were divided ly, as on its palling. Sturges, Sumpter, Sylvester, Thatcher, Tucker, Ward. White, Wadfworth, Leonard, £ S. Niles, Page, Parker, Schoonmaker, J. Smith, I. Smith, Steele, Tread well, Venable. Williamfon, Willis. Greenup, Mill edge, Orr, The " toaflcd" steele has certainly mipd Jire, notwithlianding the intelligent puff of the Lkrtmidc correspondent. TUESDAY, Jan. 29. On motion of Mr. Parker, the reptm of a fe left committee, to whom the report of the Se cretary of War, on the petition of Thomas Wifli atthad been referred, was taken into confedera tion— After again reading the report of the Se cretary of war, and hearing an explanation of the business from Mr. Parker—the House agreed to the repoit of the felc6l committee, and order ed that the fame committee should bring in a bill put fuant to the report. A report on the petition ol Robert Eden was read, which was in favor of the prayer of the petition—laid on the table. The bill received from the Senate, for regu lating foreign coins, and for other purposes, was taken up in committee of the whole, Mr. Sedg wick in the chair—Some small amendments were agreed to—and then the bill as amended was reported to the House—the House adopted the amendments—and on motion, the bill was read the third time—On the question, (hall the hill pass ? Some opposition was mad**—lt was said it would have a retrofpr&ivc effect, and in terfere-wirh cxifting conrradls— it was promoted to add a proviso to remedy this incotiveniepcy— A motion was made to re-commit the bill for the purpofeof adding this amendment—this mo tion was negatived, and the bill was then palfed by a great majority. A mefTage from the Senate by Mr. Otis, their Secretary, informed the House, that the Senate have considered the bill sent from the House, entitled an ast to regulate claims to invalid pensions, and have agreed to the fame with Amendments—in which they retjueft the concurrence of the House. In' committee of the whole on the bill to amend the ast to promote the progress of ufe ful arts. Mr Steele in the Chair. The committee made forne progreft in'dif cuffing the bill—they then role, and the cfcftii - man reported accordingly—and the House adjourned. f Philadelphia, Jan. 50. The Mail from the Southward due yeffer day, was rpbbed soon after it Jest Baltifflota. A fubfeription was in circulation last week in Providence, R. I. for celebrating the glo rious fuccefles of the French nation Great preparations have been made in Bos ton for the fame purpose—a grand Civic Feast was to be celebrated there the 24th instant, in Fane uil-Hall. The new Theatre ii to be opened with a Grand Concert of Vocal and Instrumental Music, on Saturday evening next. ' Wc hear that Jonh Vining, Esq. is ele&ed Senator of the United States for the State of Delaware, in the place of Richard Baflett, Esq. whose time expires in March next. u A correspondent (in the Bolton ladepen. dent Chronicle) congratulates his countrymen that the Congreflional Iword of inveftigption, i 5 tempered with pnre American fteele—He adds, God grant it success, and let all the people fay Amen—and that the toast ef the day is Citizen StetU, the independent inreili gatoroi'tbe War Department." The patriotic toad, is, the rpirited WaOt wori h, Dayton, Fikdley, and the others rtf the honest thirty-fix, who detested irupofitirtn, and puti'ued the best intereik of their coniti tuents. Cent!net- In rePpe# to fame recent a correspondent remarks, that taking tlie whi.le bufinef"-. into view—it may be laid of the the heath of certain departments—" Satan hatli desired to have you, that he may as wheat.— Taking it for granted that the body pol!« tic ls diiVafcd, v. bat a lamentable confidsra 279 t'on it is, thit the phyHcisns employed on the oc 'Cafion should be intereited against the patient. It is to be observed, in refpedfc tp theoppo fition to the mealures of government, that the appeal is more frequently made to the sense of the people, than to the merits of tiie fub je&—This may be politic as it relates to constituents of thoi'e who may thus facrifi.ce their independence at the flirine of partial lo cal popularity; but the great enquiry is 5 what is tight and bcjl—and this the nnbiallsd unpie j udiced voice of the people will always ulti mately approve. Boston, Jan. 19. A liberal writer in a Philadelphia paper, ear nestly exhorf-, ttint cli do not square exa&ly with certain principles, whi<?lr he deems orthodox, fhoujd be burned by the common hangman But he does not ap pear to know, that the United States is a free Republic; that its Citizens are Freemen, and that they willj whenever they please, speak and pnbliih their political sentiments, be they what they may ! Did he know this, his fol.y would be conspicuous even to himfelf. A Baltimore paper of the 24th inft. con tains the following summary of Foreign In telligence. That J, 003 of"Clairfayt's array have de fertedj and that the General was alfaffinated That Bruxelles and Oftend are in the pof felfion of the French.—Another report was current, but not believed, that Gen- Duinou rier, rl allied with his successes, had advanced to the town of Halle, near Bruxelles, where he was fifirounded by the Austrian armv. That an infurreftion'has broke out at Bru ges, in Brabant—the popular party, on hear, ing of the fuecefs of the French arms at Moils, rose against the Court party ; several were maUHcrcd; the 3»tes are .fiiut, end IW *»ie permitted to depart,—That the fate of Louis XVI. may now be very clearly augured—firft by the Convenntion taking upon them the au thority of trying him ; and next, by the pro posal of Manuel, " thak those who might (peak in his favor (hould be under the protection of the law," being received with murmurs and hifles.—That a Dutch fliip put into Dover harbour on the Isth of November, which on the day before was blown into Calais by ftrels oi weather; lhe had on board several French emigrant noblemen, who cou d not conceal themselves from the municipality. They ap prehended and conducted them to prison ; and several chests of money belonging to them, were seized for the service of the state.— That the report of Mr. Pitt's resignation was premature—That thirty thouiand manufac turers are at this moment out of employ in the city of Lyons only, and the poor are abso lutely starving—That the Sovereign Pontiff has publicly announced from the Papal chair the pofiibility of the French soon coming there to pillage the churches, carry oft' the sacred vases, and renew in thatclty the depredations which the barbarians committed there in the firth century, uuder the eommand of Attila The Pope observes, that his age and his cha racter do not admit of his putting liimfclf at the head of troops to repulie the enemy; that the avowed intention of the French to extin guilh the lacerdotal race, prevented him from going in his pontifical robes, in imitation of St. Leon, to meet the destructive scourge whiclithreatens the city. That the people inuft u.'e jthe steps they have to take On this declaration being made, Prince Bor ghefe and other diftinguiihed persons protested that they would defend their country to the last drop oi their blood. The people cried out tlieir intentions to do thefam?, and measures are already taken for their defence. A good army well polled in the midfl: of the niarflies which cover the road from Civita Vecchia to Rome, would embarrass the enemy. Died—On Friday last, in the 3oth year of his age, Mr. Thomas one of the Prin ters to the Houfir of Representatives of this State. He b*s left a wife and four small chil dren, to lament the loft of a husband and fa ther. Though his illness was tedious and se vere, he bore it without complaining, and died without a figh.—lt may be truly said of him, u That the end oj this man was peace.*' Died, at Wilmington, North-Carolin, Bri gadier-General Thomas Clark of the late con tinental arruy—lt is but justice to the me mory of this Patriot to fay, he pofiefled in an eminent degree every qualification that cha racterizes the great and the good citizen ; as a fo'dier he was brave, noble, generous and polite ; as a friend he was sincere, obliging and immutable. The diftinguiftieci part this officer acted in the late war, will make his re membrance grateful to every American. " Died, q« the 30th day ol December, >792, in the town of Brookfield, (Maif.) Sarah No blc,in the toad year of her age. She was de fqended from the family ol Drake, 111 Eall-Chcf ter, slate of New-York. " Until the space of three yean before her decease, she attended todomclfic concerns with great judgment, and her conversation wa* enter taining and improving. She even retained fcer rcafon to the hour of her departme. The itue grity of h*rch»ra£lrr, dining lite, had beenfuch, as met and received that kind treatment from her connexions, which ierved-to alleviate the infvmitic* of old age. " She remembered the lime when the firfl sermon was delivered in Eall-Chcller, by an Kpifcopal clergyman ; who ii supposed to have been the firll miflionaty of that order in the ttate of N'rw-Yoik. She was able to recoiledl whm knives and foik» weie firfl used in the city of New-York. She was the firlt peifon who brought tea-cups, lea,and potatoes into the town ot Kew-Milfotd, She rememheted the rife and prngrefsof tliofe wars, in which a great part of Kiirope was involved, under thtrriin ot Queen AUEC." At a ftate'd meeting"of tie Ahieticaii Philo. fophical Society, on the ißr.h >ni>. the follow ing new members were duly elected 5/1 r. Coupigny, of the Society of Arts and Sciences at Cape-Francois. Mr. Valentin, of da. John Adams, 1.1.d. Vicc-Prcfident of the United States. Dr. Da\T£» Nassy, of Philadelphia. Dr. George Logan, Philadelphia county. John \V. Kittbra* of the Home ot llepi ientativcS of the United State... Extratt from the mi nines, Jonathan \\ illiaa \s f jun. Sec. MAKIUAGE A LA MODE, IK BOSTON. Marritiij. Thurfcluy Evening last, Citizen Lathrop, Citizen Jonathan Wild, W Cit£ls Ma*v, daughter to Citizen Sami'fi. llidgway. toijkn <>az. PARIS, November i The Parilians are now all confidence in the success of the new fyUem—'-thus writes a po pular Journal*!# : " The old French monarchy was a veflM that leaked at every feau:—at length, to fcom plete its cataitroplie, it has taken fire and burnt down to the water's edge, while all who adhered to the wreck have perished. It now remains to confrruft a firip, that may re list every attack of the elements. The poli tical horizon is cleared of the clouds which have hitherto darkened it-*—the fun of liberty has purified it—conspiracy is annihilated. In a lhort fpafce of time—in a month—we lliall have all the materials in readiness re quisite for the conftruftion of that august mo nument, which is to replace the Gothic edi fice of Feudality. A new declaration of rights should be presented to tiie Convention, and then let t,hem forget all ther private quar* rels, and employ themselves solely on the bu fmefs they went called upo* by their consti tuents to tranfatfh" With all our hearts we agree with this writer ; but will fa6l ion thus expire before the wish oV pntriotifi.i ? Extra ft Jrom tie Ley den Gazette, to November id>. I, The sudden change of affairs, with le tgard to the combined invaders of France, i< to many a perfect mystery. How is it to be accounted lor, fay they, that after fnch a fuc cefsful progress the Duke of Brunlwicjc' sud denly halted in his career, between St. Matey houid and Cha/ons—and how was it poflible, that after such a variety cf movements, no one of which materially injured his plans, he fliould all at once abandon the cause he had undertaken, and make an inglorious retreat, worse in its conferences to him than the ab solute loss of a battle? We need no longer 'wonder, however, at this event when we con lider that the fore ft of Argonne is the Tftci mcpy/iz of France ; and that their new repub lic is chiefly indebted to the discernment of General Kellerman in timely poi&fling tliis invincible pojft, Thi?, aiuLkivfuftaining with so nuch firmnefs the cannonade of the aoth of September, compleatly deranged all the plans of the Dukfe of Brunfwick. 2. As to the army of the French Emigrants, it is broken up and difmilled. These wretcl - ed men have received a letter of litenfe from Marshal Broglio, bv which they are permitted to go whereever they fee fit, with an ex ception, however, to rejorr the main attry at the earlicfi requisition : a clause that leems to have been added merely to aggravate defpoit. In fact, in this permit, neither their names nor places of abode are mentioned ; but they are advised to recommend themselves in the belt manner they can to such powers as (hall be disposed to receive them. They are, indeed, real ohjefts of pity, and especially thole a mong them who quitted their country and property from disinterested motives. Great numbers have determined to return into France at all events; and are daily falling, for almost nothing, their coaches, horfei, &e. &c. Such of these mifetable people as are at> folutely without means, and know not where to go, ar* to be quartered at Malmedy. 3- The recent events of this campaign have wholly difappoitited the projected plan ofhold ing a pacific Congress at Luxembourg; at least, there is no probability of such an event taking place this year. The French, in the career of their success, seem determined to carry the most unqualified liberty through Europe, and, extravagant as it m?.y seem, talk of nothing but exterminating tyrants from every corner of the civilized world. 4- Much has been said of Spain joining the belligerent league against France • It is true they are putting their frontier into a state of defence, but that is all, and merely meant by way of precaution, and not of offenfive war fare. The rejection of royal government in France has occasioned a prodigious shock in the minds of the Spaniards, but the prime mi nister seems fully convinced that war with France cannot be otherwise than ruinous to Spain ; there i», therefore, every reason to think that he will persist in his pacific system, notwithstanding remonstrances from every part of the kingdom, urging to a contrary measure. Add to this, that the.influence of the clergy ii in a declining way in Spain, who in any other age than the prei'ent might have influenced, the crown in the liipport of potifm. J. The Englilh seem not to have viewed wiili a complainant eve the French maritime expedition to the Mediterranean. Letters from Antiba mention, that admiral Truguet has taken a large English (hip going into Nice with a load ot" Muflcets, and other military store;. She was conducted to a fafe port. PRICE OF STdCKS, 6 p-r Ccr.M, 3 per Ccnis, 11fS Deferred, lull Ihirt-s Bank. U. S. 3 i per prej}, »9/9 11/9 1 2j%
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