Gazette of 'the United States.. PHILADELPHIA, .TfyttKs'PA* : ■ B'y't-Mi Vg» PROVIDENCE,..(R. I,; Nov. 20. Ydlerdta'y "ToVii Meetings were held t}irdugfiou\ this (late for the choice of Elec-* " '»f PiVli'=7ll. y' l tfiis town stood as follows. Federal. Jfsrcobin, Mdj. Maj. 4j6 *> . "V • ' •' CranfVon, 13 v >' b Smithfield, 6 C Gloucester, * ~ h N. Providence, 34 h E. Greenwich, 8 r Warwick, 7 • Coventry, 100 Scituate, ijo Softer, 71 . . -tujrtberland, 39 B.trington, 3.5 679 265 T * 'T.T • The Britilh Packet Mary, has been seized at New York, for smuggling nineteen pieces of broad cloth. Letters from North Carolina, say -the Fetfafrgljfts will certainly have live el eft or s for Preiident and Vice-President in'that State. Fine wits, fays Seldcn, destroy them- with their own plots in meddling with affairs of State. They commonly do as the,ape that saw the gunner put . gullets in the cannon, and was pleased with it, and would be doing so too ; at last-he puts himfelf into the piece, and so both ape and bullet were fliot away together. The above shrewd writer has a terri * ble sarcasm upon the married dames, ex prefled in the blunt language of his time "'Tis reason a man that will have a wife fhoitld be at the charge of her trinkets, ".nd pay all tlje 1 core v'he • fcts on him. He that will keep a monkey, 'tis fit he fhoald pay for the glafles he breaks." A republican Bookseller has lately de clared, under his own hand, that he is willing to print for the Devil. Whe ther or not this fame sooty and infernal author would employ a republican to •vend his works cannot be made a ques tion. -As the falanic scribbler is the au thor of many a confufcd piece, and huge folios of treason, rebellion, sedition, con fifcat ion, and murder, we know very well to what frtfjes he would apply, pro vided he* were diiTotisficd with work done in Hell. Dr. G. Gregory, a very ufeful and amiable living writer has iatelv reviled the Well known translation of Telema chus by Hawksworth, and publiflied a splendid edition of that charming and inftruiftive-Epic. It is decorated with beautiful .engravings from designs .by Stothard, and is accompanied by a well Written life of Fenelon. Hawkefworth's is the moll perfect translation we have from the French language. The month ly reviewers averred op the firft appear ance of Hawkefworth's' veriion that the spirit, and genius of t'he autkor had never been so efteftunlly represented, and Dr. Gregory allures us " that few translati ons, or even original productions in our language, can compare with it in brilli ancy, elegance, or harmony of fcylc.— Ihe commendation of the original is likcwife high, and froin the general im pression left on the mind by careless pe rusal when a school boy, it is believed, that Dr. G. is not too partial, when he fays " ii).the whole scope of modern li terature, there is not a work, which comprehends so exteniive a range of ufe ful knowledge, conveyed ia so agreeable and fafqhuting a flyle. The whole my thology, geography, and science of the ancients are comprised in this elegant ■work. The mod ufeful lelTons ifi politics and mofals are forcibly inculcated ; the fineft feelings of the head are exercised and improved. The narrative irmore jntereflirig and pathetic than those of Homer and Virgil; and, in the perusal cf it, the mind, so far from being con-, taminated, is enlightened and refined. Some limpleron, whose stile is irfuf ferably tedious and whose sentiments are unspeakably absurd, torments even the Jacobinical readers of the Aurora, with his lf bald and disjointed.chat under the figfiature of R. Slender.— We fuppoie him to be a lineal dependent of Master Slender, whose faculty is im mortalized by the pen of Shakespeare. 100 150 71 2 65 679 j A droll advertisement occurs in the < early folio edition of .'Die Tatters, " Any ruan for Ihooting, | hunting, letting,'" or any manner'-oj'gawc, ! may hear ps one wejl qualified, at die printing press. in Little Britain. He i good scholar andJbaves well," A Gentleman lately crofiing a nar row bridge in the Jersey's,. y which .was not railed ttYi either fide to (ecure paflen gers from falling, said to a Countryman, .whom li£ met, " I think this narrctw cauieway must be very dangerous, my honest friend ; Pray, are not people Jolt here fometimej ?'* "Loft-! -■no, Sir," replied the man " I never knew' any -• ' i body loft here in my fife ; here have been several drowned indeed, but they were always found again." A cou.r.ry Gentleman, walking in his Garden, saw his gardener aijeep in the arbour—" what," lays he, "afleepy m ftead of at work, you idle dog, you are not worthy the fun should lhlne on you," " I am truly sensible of ihy unworthi nefs " answered the 11133,, " and there fore, I laid myfclf down in the /bade-! A little boy having .been,much extol led by a fond Mother for his quickness of reply, a Gentleman rudely observed, when children were so keen in their youth, they are generally stupid and dtill, as they advance in years. "What a very fenfibje boym uft you have been, Sir, then," replied the child. • A gentleman lately called on an oc culift to consult him about his eyes, which of late ha,d beepme very weak: He found t him over a bottle of wine. " Would you be entirely cured," said the jolly Eye Doßor, " you muff whol ly a'bftain from wine"—" I will," re plied the patient, but it ieemsrto' ine your eyes, are full is, bad as mine, and yet you drink pretty freely.*' " True," laid the other, " becaufc I prefer wine tb g The foliowingextnft, from the Mafljchu fetts CeiitmrUis replete With trutli and juflicr, 'itnd Ijonor on 'the heart that didUteJ, mid the p ti that wrote i . f. xrn a c r. General Hamilton stands not in need of any auxiliary Pupport.'—His political fame is founded on the rock of public Tervice, in the cabinet and field ; and will defy the whirlwinds of malice, or the waves of fa&ton to impair its . foun dation.—We lament, that parasites and ear-wigs lhould have created, jealousies of him, in the bread of our' excellent President. • But we think they cannot long lubfift ; and that the time is not far cliftant, when such men vis General Hamilton will enjoy the full blaze of Exe cutive confidence, while the tins Ephe mera which recently buzzed rour.d its chair, will b« aunihilnted by-its rays* •' A man of high man" anil ancient prin ciple, though lonely, though {inaflift ed, though difcncouragccl, though alrnoft defnonding in the combined efforts >of the learning and virtue of the age, may ■still contribute fomethrng to ft em the desolating fprcad 6f " principles" and " unfettiement of inffi tutions." - ■ An humorous fellow lately observed lhat the French treaty ran It be a darl buiinefs as it is reported to have bean ilgned at midnight! Baltimore Pap. K We are infornicJ, that among many )ther valuable papers, demoliihed !>y the \re ntthc; Citr.tliece wasaFrench of, the Encyclopedia, which cost (oooi. ItcHing. V - .... 'Alexa.nder Pap. riOVKRNOR'is MESSAGE, ? o >.bc Senate and House of .Representatives of tie Ccrieral.si,si?>nJ)/j/, yftbe Common^ •wealth of Peimsjfatmia* . j 5 >■ GEN.tlkmkn, In proceeding' to" lay Ficforc yon a:gen«- al llate'of the Commonwealth, I derive the fatisfaftion from an oppoituiiity of aingrstulating y/>u,- cpoi) t(ie health that he city of Philadelphia ha? enjoyed y during he"pre,fein year, as well as, upon the many >ther blelltngs, which a beneficent Provi lence has bellowed upor. Our country. '1 'be ;omriierce of the Sta'ti-, relieved from do neftic calamity artd external outrage, pro nifes to with all.i't? energy and en erprized Her agricultural inci.uftry has >een produftive beyond' the experience of niy tonrfer period :' Whild the of lopuladnh and settlement ( notwithltartding in impolitic of migration o America) rapidly extends, throughout ler territory, the various arts and advanta ges ■ o-f'focial fife. To prelerve, and to mprove, a situation thus propitious, will, :ertainly demand and deserves the atten tion of every dffpa'rtril'tnt of the govern ment ; but t'iom.the in partieu ar, much is expofted, and much, I am perluaded, will br. p;ifornied. It Is ol>vTqv»?, tljat on tile judicious ftruc :ure, as well as on the faithful adminifhati >n of our mnnici])al inoitution, mull depend the order, frffety afld tranquility of the :«mtnunity. Hence, it becomes necelTary, iccalionally to review the genial laws for regulating our police ; to adapt them to the incvitabje mutation ,qi'.human aft'ai*« ; 'and to anient) t.'.em aceurding to the ufeful iefToiis of experienco With this yieW, tlierefoie, p«tmit me to introduce teyour uimediate conljdejation, the propriety of reviliiig the existing. lyilenis, in relation to Kleftibiu, to Courts of J uttice, and to the Militia. The law Tor regulating the General E tfli ns, has been found defcftive in itt de- Icription of the jqu*J.i|f}Cit;ipn 6f -Voters ; Jin the rigor of the proof (equired to efla olilh the privilege. ,of voting, and in th- oniilTion of a fu'Kjujary mode, to inves tigate and decide any copteO, -that may .11 Ile, at a preliminary eledhoti so: ,1 nlpeftors ■'udmher Officers. TVftilH on theone hand, tlusfacied right of citiiiiMitfiip ought to be elletluallv protected flr3m invalion, it will or allowed, that t.n the other hand, no o'j llaele, II onhi be i'lterprllVd or tolwated, by which the friends < i arpaftieufir candidate may cinhaii als and oppivlt their opponents; or bv which the of a lin "Ie qij.il,fird hi: itoi;. nivy Le cntiangered and dellroyed. , . . JiT I* >S-rrfrrrV,f, therefore,.generally to your wil'doni to divifc.a reriafy for the d fefts that they have been It ited ; hut the occa lion f-i ins, in a f|Xci-iJ wan«er, to rrqimc the |egi(!,itiv«.aid| t».»b#i*:e the doubts, which have b rll rec-n.ffy created, refp.'dt ing the valid tv of ad of • n'atur dization in the lljun of. C-'ininoj) i have al ways I cmifefs, . lonlidereH-thtife Court, in their conllitulion and ' iuilf3ia!\ion, to be Sup rior C.our-s '.'•t "Supreme) a; well as Dulrifik C urt ; rooliquei tly exprefslv rnipowered by ihc a '.V of Corr'gref to gr-.nt (lertificates rf • njfurJiS.itioD, bui on > qelUon q! f l'ech importance, to so man) ad jit.-t! Citiafiit, you wiU, pro'iahly deem i xprd.en: -to - jraf» a drtlaiatory Aft. O tiie fiibjfejt. of eletfieu'S v'Atli attention'will lilewife, b« .Oitur.VHy attracted, dun At th. ftrefent frflims, by ' I'.ch tile ot .te has repeatedly cncountcreil for wniir ut apernianr.it 'aw, to regubt' • I.c n.inner ot chooliug 'Senators of the U nitp:l States, and of tfjljV'intfnj the Eleftoi of a Pi. (I.lent and Vic-Pivtident. Adverting tothe (*>u4s of I.aw, you will reidi'v perceive, tl*u tlif extenlion of Commerce and Agriculture, the met cafe of .population, «iid tlic,r»pitiplicauon of Coun tie , have so accumulated the objefts and duties of the.Judiciary Department; that the existing TvlleHi has proved to be'Mloh" ger .adequate to the regular and efficient" admirtiffration of juflice. An addition to* the number "of, judge* ,;>f die f Su'prenir' Court, and a fubJiyjliqn- o|j. the t Circuits -of the.Courts of Common plft*or)ular' i (>pTUi&tV, flia.ft ope rate freely, without favour,'and without prejudice. In our pervtl code, few impor tant alterations-can a: this tittte, be fug 'gtDrd ; .but it may lie proper' to obierve, .that.the nature Arid- degree of" tome of the punishments denounced by the Henlth L»-.vs, are so dilbrbportionate to their rela tive offences, 9s to afTume a rlia rafter of cruelty, inconiilt'ent with- rhe spirit of tliCj conUiuitinn, and obflrutfUve in the execu tion of tine regulation* t'«>r i the- feeurity of tlje Port,; . ; 'V . I't it ar^Kfwixle tha£*r"i» F fotoi yfcu 6t a nuiAll difftifion of ufef«l knowledge among the at People, to be the best auxiliary to the admi »- liiftratiou of a free government, allow me, :o Gentleman, to remind, you of a conftituti 1, onal injunction, " that the Legillature - " /hall, as soon as conveniently 'may be, 1- provide by law, for the eftablilhment cf 1- " Schools thrcjigjhout the State, in Ujch 11 " manner, that the Poor may be taught " gratis." As Another important instru ment, to unite the iuterells and affeftions i- ot tlie citizens, the communication between id the different parts of the.. State should be le facilitated by every piadicable ineam. An y, opportßnity will.be taker. cVirmg the present >r Session, to exhibit a Report on the prpgrefs le in executing the various. Contrails, which, id have been'forme?! for the improvement of il our public roads and inland navigation ; r, but, belides affording occasional aids froTi ir the Treal'ury for fpecific. objedls. I >f that you will render the permanent prOvifi -0 ons of our law, relative to Roads and e Highways, :nore general and mare opera tive. The bufr.iefs of the Land Office, and ! -■ of the Board of property, becomes bighjy intereflifigto the community. .Some mea- - n fures be nurfaei to compel perl'oni i- holding lands under, fettlein.eilts, warrants 1 or locations, to apply for Patents, and you - cannot be too Sa.rly in spkiug the proper y precautions/to avert thi ganger, that me s naces the propetty and peace of the I, from a 'Collision of titles in the dilkat e Counties. To these objefts of legislation, I permit me to add, tha: du.ing the prelcnt - ijeffion it will be necefTary to choose a Se r y »ator of the UnitedinStes, and'that the e Conftitulion-rcqnires, an appor'ionnjent of ; tjie reprefrntation in the General Atfernbly a to the nuni er of tsxaole inhabitants, ic d carding to the returns of enumeration which will be tranfmitied to you, s o on a? they r ire received. *V. ' . i Since tlie Jfirt adjournment of the Legilla - ture, the duties devolving 011 the Executive; e have befcii pundtually performed. 111 orga iv niziiig the several new counties, however, - some fficiil;y ha« 9.ccjirred, (which it may II be ptdjfer to obviate by j decihon of the* - Judges) in relation to the validity of the a Commt'ffioners ol msgifti ,tte», whose residence : does not continue within the boundary of the s county, for which they were originally ao ; p inted. The sale of th't hotife and lon that i be'onged to tlie state, situated between Mar t ket and Chefuut ftrrets, in Philadelphia, has ; been made to tjie University of Peirnlylva t n'ia, in the manner, and on the conditions, 1 i_ prescribed, for the Inni of forty-on<- thousand . 11 x hundred and fifty dollars > but you will ' perceive by the report of the agents, that the J , premifrs are fubjeft to a ground rent, which , , tire state is bound to dife.harge. Though - tlie commiffi niers employed in executing the • , aft, for fettling, on the principles of a libe -5 ral conipronjife, tlie injnriou« controversy at Wyoming, have not completed their ardu ous undertaking, you will.perceive, by their report, that such prog re has been m de, as f just fies the expeftation of an e irly and latis faftory teriniiiatio'ti of the bulinel's. It may, 1 lio'w'vev, be proper to prolong the time, that has been allowed to the parties to de-' •' dare their accefljpn to the terms of the com- ■ r promise. (ftmjttnfn of the House of Representatives, 'Hie offirers of Accounts will hy before you a ckt'arl of the Finances of the State but permit me, in general, to inform you, 1 that on the firll day of ( a ft. there was a balance of eighty-fix thousand three - hundred and sixty dollars in the Treasury, which oar various 'foiircen of Revenue will, probably, in the course of the ensuing year, augment to a sum, of three hundred and fo-ur-thoilfand and Teventy-nine dollars.- Uelides, however, defraying the expellees of (iovern»Metit, paying, the ftlihs due on 1 the Con traits for Anns and lati'.fyihg va rious nr.feellaneous appropriations, it w ill be n cefTary to provide., for dH'chatving the " moiety of the Loan from the Bink of Penn ' f'ylvania. which will lie due oil the fir ft day ' of April next. Hence, you will discover a c confrJerable deficit (amounting perhaps to a sum of eighty thousand doll irjJ to fupgly which you will be under the neceffi .y ,■)!' re ' sorting to a moderate tax, pr co a file of j the pubiic stock belonging to ,the States ; [ 1 btit, I am confident, that in the arrange- I ment o( our Fma ires you will be equally at- ! tetuive to the priwciplesof'pubiic credit and '' nfeful otconuniy. f Gentlemen if the Senate, and ■' ' Gentlemen of the Houze cf Representatives, With.the,various hther d.x-iii'nents rela - ting to the topics of tlm the Se cretary will present for your information, I copies of reports from the several Land | - Officers, and a Schedule of the Afts that - will (hortly expire, in confluence of their jj. 11, .1, r, :d1 refpe&ive limitations. I trufl, that ia le and ill nil my official communications, you n will perceive the proofs of a sincere difpoti* ,o tion, to advance the welfare of theSltate, to i» facilitate the deliberations of the Legifla-t - cure, .and to expedite the tranfadlion of the - publi# business. ' m-' ' - ■ THOMAS M'KEAN. 7 Lancaster, Noveviber ai, 1800. _ - Wajhington City. ' CONGRESS J OF THE UNITED STATES. • J. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ; Monday November *4,, (80-0. t The following are the amendments to the e conftitutiori of the United States propefed ,by Mr. Nicholas on Friday, which were f referred to MelTrs. Nicholas,. Harper, Ma li* cob, Grifwold and Evans. ,'• 1 Previously to reading them, Mr. Nicholas f noticed ,the propositions l'ubmitted by him during the lad feflioii, a-nd the extraordin ary proviftons made in a bill received from : the Senate, and stated the improbability of i his voting for his ovvti proppfitions, in cafe - they bad been called up by the house. - RESOLVED by the Senate and .Hpufe of : Keprefcntatives of the U. States two . thirds of both houses concßring, that the f following, articles he piopofed to the lei 1 giflatmes of the U. States as amend, c ments to the Constitution of the United States ' 1. That after ,the tljiid day of March, in 1 the year one thonfanct-eight hundred and ; one, the choice of electors of Prefideßt and Vice-President, fhill be made by dividing each Hate iiitp a number of diftri&s equal to the number cf Eleftors to be chosen in such . state, and by the jxrrfonjr in each of those diftii£U who ihall have tlie qualifications re qufite for ele&ors cf the most numeroui branch of the legislature of such state ohufing one elettor in the manner which the legisla ture thereof (hall prelcribe. 2. That the eleftion of reprefentatiyes to serve alter the third day ps March, in the •J year one thoufiiid eight hundred and three rfhall be by dividing each state into a num ber of diftridts equal to the number of rep* refentatives to which such state fliall be en titled, ar.d by the people within each of thpi'e diftric*} who (hall have the qualifications ' requilite -for eledtors of the molt numerous branch of. the legiilature of such state chil ling one reprekntstive in the manlier which the legiflature'thereof thai) prelcribe. On Friday the House authorised their door keeper to employ an additional affifbuit, and to-> hire two Hnirf-s enable him to do which.. tley Hovied him-twenty eigft £ dol lars* per ,week during the feflion and for 20 days after its dole. On Saturday, as ter attending the delivery of the Prefidetjjt'i Speech in the Senate cham ber, returned to the-ii 1 own kbaniber, when the speech wns again read, and referred to at Committee of the whole house, Mr. Harper in theclia ; r. The Committee, having.taken the speech • Into tqnfiderattcm, ftiade' report that a res- . ■' petiful answer should .be pre fen ted to the President,'with the atTurance that au Htten tion. would be paid by the boiife to tho leve r*l important matters fubmuted to them. ---The hottfe agreed to the report, and Mef fijrs. Grifwold, Nicholas, Macon, Crajk, and Henderfon, were appointee! a committee to prepare the atldref». Monday, Nevemkrr iS. The Speaker re id a. letter from Oliver Wol cott, Secretary of rlie Tteafury, Hating, that ( *itb the approbation of the PreGdent he had , determined to resign his office at the close of the year ; and iivitfßg if the house deemed it ■ lit, an invcft:gation into his .fficial condudl. IN SENATE> November 21. ' MefTrs. Tracy, Morris and Baldwin were ap pointed a Committee tp prepare an anfnrer to the Piefident'aipeech 1: : ' Gazette Marine Lift, PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED, days Schr. Iris,-Hamilton, Norfolk 4. Salt—William WCluie Sloop Friendship, Warthman, Stvannah 4 Cotton—A Piefch. Yesterday the frigate United Sia'ee, Commo dore Barry, dropped down from Marccs I Hook. Cleared. ; Ship Brothers, Bray, Londonderry .Schr. Sifters, Woodman St. Croix The following wflels weth'to Seaon Sa. tui-day last viz. Brig Hannah Griffen, for Havanna Schr. Adventure, Lillihtidge C. Francois Mary, liryaut Surrinan^ Friendlhip, Taylor Port Republican William, trail No»a Scotia Betsey, Young Port Republican Ship Pennfjilvahia,' orke for Hamburg went to fea,on Monday and tlie Ihip Crite rion from Charleilon on bui.day. N .'A'YOKK, Nov«mber i - ' ARKIVKD, days B?ig Rambler, Savage, Bsngal j 3 » Schr. KefJliition, Sanfcrd, ?t. Thotnas CLEvIKED, | Schr. Mitilda, Sinclair, New Providence ! Shop Minerva, Williams, Jamaica ' j The Ihip Nancy, Cap:a;n Allen, hai arrived ; at Calcutta. Th» fchopner Harriet, Smith, from New Providence has arrived st Newport' (K. I.) The icho mer iop of war Pawp-" sco, with about thirty fail, am .iifffl which was the fehoorier Mary-Apn, ot" New YorS,. Snow Race-Horse, Captain Whltt'.efey, fr-m Say brook, is arrived at Kinglloo, (Jamaica.) ! NORFOLK, November I*. November 16, arrived in Hampton Road», tht (hip Juno, Luke, sixty day* Liverpool. £ll