yearly allowances for the bcrefit* of their trade, Mr. Smally does not presume to fay. Mr. Smally was not brought before me by virtue ol' any legal authority ; but hearing®!" his return, and understanding by his neigh bors that he was a sober man, on who r e rela tion confidence might be placed, I wished to have that relation from himfetf, ajid accord ingly aiked a ceitain Hal!, of the militia, one of his neighbors, to deiire him to tome down, which he accordingly did, when I took down the account in writing, as he related :i—and I believe you may rely upon the truth of the fa&s, so far as his memory could I'erve. f underltand Congress have in a public man mer condoled with and provided for those fa milies who have been bereaved by the lite unfortunate einbaflies j such conduct, in my opinion, does honor and-gives dignity to go vernment; and I flatter myfelf that govern ment will take meaftjres that this poor man, Mr. Smally, lhall bejuftlypaid, agreeable to his agreement made with Major Trueman, who is now dead, and unable to perform it himfelf. Thejufticeof government cannot be doubted—neither would I throw out the molt distant hint or ihfmuation that any of the public officers wou'd be guilty of the least degree of chicanery, by withholding the mo ney from whom it is due, in order to force them to take orders and goods from any tra der, at the advance of an hundred or hundred and fifty per cent, or higher, from any mo tives whatever. But thefaftis, that it often happens that the treops of militia, when tlieir money is earned, are, for want of the pay mafter's'being in calh, obliged to take a due hill on government, which is finally paid with the greatest justice; but the poor men cannot think ol going to Philadelphia for it ; and as they are in want, they part with their due bills to tbe traders at almost any rate, rather than run the rifle of losing the paper, and get ting nothing. These things greatly (reduces the idea of the pay of government; and on thele accounts.you may rely upon it our country bleeds, andjnakes it more difficult to or raises the price of volunteers on all occasions Farewell. Foreign Affairs. FRANCE. NATIONAL CONVENTION. Sunday, January 13. KERSAINT, after sundry prefa tory remarks, reported in the committee of defence as follows : rft. The minister of the marine shall issue orders to all the ports, to arm 3© fail of the line and 20 fri gates, exclusive of 21 (hips of the line and 33 frigates already in cosnmif fion, which will increase the naval force of the republic to 52 fail of the line and 52 frigates, which'fhall be also victualled. 2. Twenty-five {hips of the line, j of roo, 6 of 80, 14 of 74 guns, 29 frigates, 9 of which (hall mount 40 24 pounders, and i2of 36, 18 pound ers ; 20 cutters and 6 bomb veflels, (hall be put upon the {locks ; and all neceflary repairs {hall be made to put all the {hips of the republic in a state to keep the sea. 3. The executive council {hall take the most expeditious measures to secure the armaments of the coasts, and put them in a {late of being employed in the ensuing spring; 100 battalions in the maritime de partments, or those whiph are con tiguous to them, {hall be appointed to them for their defence. 4. Registers {hall be. opened in the municipalities, to inscribe the names of young persons from 16 to 31, who shall be free from all in firmities, to serve the republic by sea, n j. The committee of marine shall prefentthe plan of a decree for the number of volunteers who may pre feni themselves for the sea service, an 4 to regulate the quota of the 84 departments in proportion to iheir population, observing that this levy ftiall not exceed 200 men for the in terior departments. 6. The committee of var ill all present immediately its opinion on the- means least burthenfome, of preparing the armament of i®o bat talions, for the defence of the coatts. 7. To allure the execution of these measures of general defence, the the national treasury (hall furnifli the sum of 30 millions as an extra ordinary fund, to fuptyort the war, and which shall be at the disposition of the mißifter of the marine. The convention moreover char ges its committee to present, with out del*y, the state of the expences necelTary for the extraordinaries of the marine, in cafe of war, in older to m&ke provifion3 accordingly. 8. Orders fliall be issued to the national founderies to cast 600 iron 36 pounders, 800 24 pounders, 600 t8— 400 T2—and 300 8 ponn'ders, proper for the ft rvice of the sea and the coasts, and 400 caronades of 36 pounds. 9. 1 he diplomatic committee shall make a report upon the situation of the different agents of the republic abroad, it being inconsistent with the dignity ps the republic that many ol t hem fhuuld remain in their present situation. 10. The executive council shall prefeni to the convention a memo rial upon the refpe<fti've interells of the French and English nations, and the defence of their liberty ; and this memorial approved by the. convention, and sealed the seal of the republic, shall be addrefled to the Englilh nation and govern- ment All these articles were decreed, excepting the 9th and ,toth, which were adjourned to the 16th, to be difcufled at the fame time with the Plan of the decree presented by Brjfl'ot in the name of the committee of general defence. Ir. Conuniflioners from the ton vention shall be sent to all the ports and arsenals of the republic, and to the maritime departments, to ac quaint the French marines with tlie cause and objedi of the war with which France is threatened, ai»d fhal.l take a lift of the number of such men as are capable of serving their country in the.naval depart ment. They lhall receive the vo lunteers who fhali firft offer; they lhall assure the inhabitants of the coasts, and the mariners, that the republic will take care, during their absence, of their wives and children; their pay shall be augmented, and a considerable share of the prizes shall devolve upon them. In fine, they shall take every mea sure which they may judge neces sary, both in the ports and on the coasts to insure the success of the war, and put the maritime frqiyiers of the republic in a refpediable (late of defence. They shall correspond on this fubjetfl with the committee of general defence, fliall give an account of their proceedings to the convention, which they fliall arrange with the agents of the ex ecutive power and the miniftcrs as illty shall judgt mft neceflary power (hall be vested in them for this purpose. 12. The marine committee shall instantly deliver in their report up on the letters of marque, and the regulations which (hall be followed by those who (hall fit out privateers in cafe of a war with England. Wsdnksday, Jan. 16. The present state of Paris Was demanded Decreed. Legeridre observed, that the ter rors with which the convention was inspired, were so many fineil'es to retard the sentence of Louis. Marat conjured the convention not to be the dupes of a farce whi^h bad been a<3ed for three hours Those who afFeifled to be terrified to-day, are those who boaftedafew days ago that they would csyry their own measures into efFeis.— Their despair arifesfroth thiscaufe, that the brave men (the federates) who now guard this city, will re ject the criminal principles they would suggest to them. Huguet. A new malfecre is on foot. All those who have leaned to the fide of humanity and justice, are threatened with deftru&ion. Leharde. I have no doubt of the business of the federates here—pro scriptions are openly handed about, and all those who have voted for an appeal to the people are to be poignarded. It was decreed unanimously, that the fate of Louis should be instant ly decided on. Thibaut, bishop of CantaJ. YfiV terday I seized on a man who swore I was a royalist, and he would sft aflinate me. Of what nation "are you ? said I—l am, he replied, a Spaniard by birth, and am come, in the name of my nation, to demand the head of Louis the sixteenth to the end that a folenin alliance may be formed with your republic. (A violent agitation in the aflembly.) I wilh by this, continued Tliibaur, to prove that the agitators are not 346 the P.nlfians, who have coiiftantly refpedted thedelegaterl autherities No they are men purposely brought hiiher Mitrat (poke of his parriotifm, ind braved those who now dreaded jrofcriptions and murder, and who ■vere so bold a few days ago. The patriotic members, cried be, are riotafiaid of the menaces of the ioyalilts. It has been (aid that cer tain of my colleagues, friends to CApet, are terrified at the idea of (hutting the barriers, because it a" to their flight: I demand that every member who (hall quit Paris fliall.be declared in famous, and that beyond the bar riers any one may put him to death. Saturday, Jan. 19 —at night. Immediately 011 the negative of the question for delaying the exe cution of the sentence pronounced upon Louis being proclaimed. Cambaceres said—" Citizens, by .pronouncing sentence of death a gainst the lad king of the French, you have done an atft the remem brance of which will not pass away, and which will be recorded by the graver of immortality in the annals ofhiftory. Public fafery could a - lone prescribe to you that awful decree. Since it is pafled, I Hand up in the name of humanity, to call your attention to the person who is the obje<ft of it. Let us allow him every poilible consolation, and let us take proper measures to prevent the execution of the national will from being sullied with any (lain— I move, therefore, the following proportions : I. The executive council /hall be immediately summoned, and a copy of the decree which pronounces sentence of death against Louis shall be delivered theim. 2. The executive council ihall be charged to notify this decree to Louis in the course of the day ; to cause ic to be executed within twen ty-four hours after it has been no tified to him ; to take every mea sure of fafety and police tfhich to them (hall appear neceflary during the execution ; to be careful that no insult be offered to the remains of Louis, and to give an account of their diligence to the Rational con verirTTJir. 3. The mayor and municipal of ficers of Paris (hall be enjoined to fuffer Louis ttf communicate freely with his family, and to have with him such priests as he may desire in his last moments. These proportions were unani mously adopted, with an amend ment by Briflbt, that the executive council should not be called till 11 o'clock in the morning. [The proceedings of Jan, 20, were published in our last. 3 LONDON, January ia. The squadron under the com mand of Admiral fir Richard King, now in the Scheldt, whence they failed from the Downs some days since, confifls of the Afliftance of 5* guns, two frigates, a sloop, and two cutters. These command that mouth of the river, between the Hies of Zealand and Zoarfe. Government are making the molt rapid preparations for war in every department. The quantity of ordnance (tores preparing is immense, both for land and sea service ; and a large body of cavalry-artillery are short ly to be raised, the more effectually to protedl the coalls against any at tempts of an enemy. War appears inevitable, and the nation seems only waiting till they are fufficiently prepared to strike a blow of consequence. January 17. The official accounts from Hol land state that the admiralty of Am (teidam have ordered the immedi ate equipment, of some ftiips of war, and have opened the usual cor respondencies with the other four admiralties, on the fubjedt of their usual quotas of Ihips and men. Lord George Gordon has found sureties for good behavior for four teen years, required by sentence of the court of king's bench, and will be at large in the course of the pre sent week. The sureties, we un derstand, are two Jews of consider able property f„ (t » e Thr ble P- ifoner, we fee, g,j n , , thing by bis electron itit* ber oF the chosen, a„d *„rf 4 Vi«. abandoned by the *bot e _ January 24. Fhe French executive council have given directions all the of hcers commanding by s ea or ) a „j in the service of the republic, to be careful not to be the firlt to eon,, nut an a<sl of hoftilhy against ,hi, country, unless it ft, o „\d hereafter appear the decided intention of th« British cabinet to declare war a gainst France. On Saturday advices were re ceived of the arrival of the Affill ance man of war and the Iphigmia frigate, in the Downs, from Klufo. ing ; commodore Murray did not return in his (hip, having been fenc by our government to the Kin» „f Fritflia, at Frankfort, with Lord GrenviUe's answer to M. deChauve lin. There is no profpe<s whatever of a conciliation, and an immediate Declaration of WAR feetns more certain than ever, for we can speak from the firft authority, that our court is resolved not to acknow. ledge or receive M. Chauvelin, or any other person, as the accredited minifler of the republic of France, the government of which, accord ing to its own appellation, is mere ly provisional. Domestic Articles. BOSTON, March 10. FROM PHILADELPHIA — MARCH 6. " Congress is now adjourned, and the Members scattered—but very few of them remaining here The Seflion concluded favorably—there fult of the investigation into the official conduct of the Secretary if ■the Triafury; was highly to his ho nor : Many of his letters to foreign agents, and to our ministers in Eu were read, in the course of the dtfcuHn*.., discovered the great and enlighteina and Financier ; and strongly lm preffed this idea on the mind, that 1 , the interest and honor of the Untied State/ ore thefupreme objecXs ofhls ambition and pursuit." Dr. Jarvis, Messrs. Kingfley, Sew all, Gardiner & Jones, of thistdwny are appointed a committee to consi der and report to the Legislature, the present session, how far this commonwealth is, either directly or . indiredlly, afFe&ed by a late de cision of the Supreme Judicial Court of the Unitee States, said to have been made by four of the J udges of the fame, against the state of Georgia ; or how far any ftateis conftjtutionally responsible on an atftion of debt, instituted by any in dividual of any other state : And also to procure and submit to tho Legislature an authenticated copy of the cafe referred to, and the judg ment thereupon—of the opinion* and declarations of the Judges— and of all other circomftance* re fpctfling the fame ; in order that our true situation may be known and understood, and such measures adopted on this occasion, by this commonwealth, as its honor and in terest may demand, and the peace and fafety of the Union requires. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The MaiTachufetts Society for promoting Agriculture, to engage attention to the culture and pre fer vat ion of Fruit Trees, offer a pre mium to the person who (hall on or before the firft clay of July 179^' give a fatisfartorynatural history of the Canker Worm, of Fifty Dollars, or a piece of Plate, or a Gold Me dal, of that value, at the option of the author. The history of this infe<fl will be expe&ed through all its transformations ; at what depth in the ground, and at what <hf tance from the tree, as well as the time when they cover themselves ; at what season they rife from the ground, in the form of a winged in feJt and grub ; on what part of the tree they usually deposit their egg'» as well as at what time their eggs become worms. If more than on® fatisfatflory history of the worm (hall be given before July 179 j, tb3!
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