Gazette of the United States., September 04, 1795, Image 3

obtaining a free communication yyith all the terri
tories that environ our country from the St. Mary's
to the St. Croix.
In thi3 large view of the fubjeft, the fur trade,
which has made a very prominent figure in the
difcufiijn, becomes a point fearcely visible. Ob
jetls of great vaiiety and magnitude, start up in
perfpeclive, eclipsing t'he little atoms of the day,
and promising to grow and matuie with time.
The r'efuk of the whole is, that the United
States make by the third article of the treaty, a
good bargain—llv.it with regard to the fur trade,
W't':> equality of privileges and fuprrior"advantages
of fiumion, we It,ike o'ne against seven, or at moll
one fix—that as'to the trade in European
and Ealt Indian goods and in home produ£H*ns,
vi'c nfcik'e an equal (lake, with fume advantages of
fitu-itton—that we open an immeufa future
enterprise—-that we avoid embarraflTinents and dan
ge-a evci attendant on aa artificial and prohibitory
poiicy, which in icferenec to the Indian nation's was
particularly difficult and hazardous—and that we
feoure those of a natural and liberal policy, and
give the faiiell chances to good neighborhood be
tween the United Sidtes and the bordering Bntifh
terr toriec, and consequently of good underltanding
vyith Great-Britain, conducing to the security of
ouv peace. Experience, no doubt, will,demon
ft rate that the horrid fpeftres which have been con
jured up art lidlioftt ; and if it {hould even be flow
so realize tne predicted benefits, (for time will be
rcquifite to give permanent causes their due effeft
in controuling temporary cifcnmliSaccs) it will at
last ptove, that the pred'tled evils a• chin»erasand
chta'. 5
From tlic Tczv-Yerk~\ Daily s!J-
To those Printers throughout the United States
who are frien ly to our happiness and e*iftence
Asa nation.
IT is no longer a matter of conj-chirt, but of
fei"i fail, afceruined 'by dreift tcllimony, that
tiiere exists in this country an aflbciation, the obje£l
of which is, the dellruftion of the Federal Govern
ment ; with a view poffib'y, to er«-"t upon its ruins
ieparate and independent fuvcreignties. The names
of fume of the traitors are already discovered ; and
why thev have not been set to the bar of juliice ;
belt known to those with whom that power is
placed : ceitain it is, that the great culprits have as
yet escaped, whilst the poor deluded inHrumente of
their wicked mac.tiinations, have been apprehended
end dragged before tl*e feat of judgment.
To eft edit a. purpofc of such magnitude and te
merity, and to form a chain of ttealon co-exten
sive with the United States; those who for a lime
cxeicifed the arts of fly intrigue, at length accom
plished an open rebellion, slid, although this was
happily fuppretleci, it has again affunjed the ap
pearance of conspiracy grown confident.
This i< clearly evinced, by the uudif-uifed com
plexion of certain publications which have appeared
in Mr. Bathe's paper under the fignatuies of Han
cock and Valerius, and of another at Richmond,
inviting the people to inftirreftiori.
Tbofe authors, well persuaded, that if the ad
jnmlliVation of'our government can be rendered un
important, or Con emptible in the ellimation of the
people, it mud of course be inefficient, have un
dertaken to afT.iil the official conduit, and traduce
the chara&er of the full magillrate of the unioq.
Many confideiations prcfent thcmfelres up.oji a
view of this desperate, but I presume abortive ef
fort. Tixrfe confidcrations however, with many
othets, wi:'. be reserved for a few lines to Valerius
and his affiliates, and an address to the citizens at
large.
I have o-bferved that the publications alluded to,
arc noticed l>v very of our i. nnters.——Althu
this omidion may be evidence of (heir refpeft for
the cpnftituted authorities and liappinefs of the
country, it is deemed "by many an ill-judged policy,
becMife every man who re*u!s those publications,
will be convinced that, diforganraation is their only
.object, and that it J?.one great linjt iji the chain of
.coiiTimi aey. The more generally therefore they aie
circulated, the more estenftvcly of eourfe will the
parricidious ot the authors r>e expofea to
the observation of the people. '1 is therefore w.fli
cd that all the Printers would publilh Hamccck
and Valerius.
Go oil Valerius, don't (hi ink—he fie* ly to your
pt/vpufc—becaufe much real good will arise out of
*urevil intentions. You and your accomplices
have to be Aire been defeated in one peat project—
but m ike another, nay a third attempt, for nil dtf
perandum muj be your motto.
WM. WILLCOCKS.
Sept. ift, 1795
From the Maryland Herald,
Mr. Cow in,
THERE are foiae very cogent rtafons why a
war would be a good thing—whether the treaty is
rejefked or not - The whisky patriots of Penn
sylvania would set tiierrjelves loose from the tax
upon their pleafurts—and elfewherethe excise mull
f a || becatife it would not do to force the payment
of it at a lime when an external enemy engaged our
attention, and might wiflj to come in to fettle any
interna! convulsion. The tax upon carriages would
be unpaid in Virginia—and it would not do to
march troops against them—The gentlemen of the
jrinjjbox might by feme address too gel rid of so
unhandfomea tax as that which is paid through the
nose These patriots made a good deal of.noife y
pon its adoption—and tried to blind theeyes of Con
gress hy throwing their pungent duli-—but as mod
of the members take fnuff 1 have b?en told who vo
ted for it, the daily attendance offome ps the Phi
ladelphia fnuff makers is said to have produced no
other convulsion inthehoufe except that of freezing
among the young members .-—At present thecoun
try i» amazingly well (apply'd with goods—enough
to last two years —'t he merchant who has the luck
to have a good quantity in hand would be very,much
benefited, as goods would instantly rife perhaps
double, and lie could buy wry cheap of the farmer
-rr.and really tiie farmers have now grown rich e
npugh—iuj as money is '.he toot of evil they ought
•CAMILLUS.
•vcrtiferi
to get rid of it by a good roaring war—bcfidcs tha*
all braye nations go to war every twelve yeais to
keep the hand in and get rid of fuperfluous wealth
which is said to make people idle and effeminate.
But the bell reason is certainly that during the
hurly "burly of war and a lit internal animation, if
men managed their cards well we might get rid of
all the federal taxes by amending the constitution :
i. e. admitting " old Con/i," again with a few other
little alterations about funds and national debts, and
Courts, and the Senate, and a Prefider.t, and fueh
like, too numerous to mention in the present tinws,
when a word will do to iueh as belong to tile gang
Yours, Mr. Cowan,
One of the Right Sort
From the MORNING CHRONICLE.
London., June 30
The Paris papers, from the 2 2dtq the 25th,
both days inclusive, have brought the long expedled
report of the ccmmiffion of Eleven upon the Con
'litntion. From the deftruftion in which tlie me
mory of the principal authors of the Conftitutiun
of 1793 is now held, it was not to be imagined
that much refpeft would be paid to it by those who
have punished thiir crimes, or supplanted them in
power. In the report of the Commifiion, it is ac
cordingly tieated as a concentration of the elements
of disorder, the organization of anarchy, and con
signed to the lame tomb with those under whose in
fluence it was drawn up and adapted.
It was indeed of little value, perhaps even in the
opinio!] of its authors. They had long attacked
tiie party of the Gironde upon their dilatoiinels in
preparing a Conditution, and drew upon its leaders
no fm?!! degree of odium, by reprefcruing tliem aa
wrl fully protracting the great work for tlie fake of
prolonging tlieir own power. When tliey got into
potyer therpfelves, they were determined not to in
cur the fame reproach. They produced a Conlti
tutiqf) whjch they often hpaded to have been the
labour of no more than a fortnight t fubryiitted ir
to the acceptance of the Primary Affemblics ; and
immediately declared it jn a date of abeyance dur
ing the continuance of the war.- Had t[iey been
the bed intentioned, and the mod enlighted of man
kind, a conditution put together in such haste, and
under such circumstances. could have contained lit
tle more than general principles, without the mrans
of pra&ical nfe. /
However dangerous it may be to fay a wbi>
except in praise of our own coaltatution, it isyet
allowable to comment freely on a pian of coTinitu
tion for the Freqclu The commiflion of ele'ven,
by introducing property as a necessary qualification
for a legislator fundamentally c«ntradi£t their own
principles. Propettyis no where the measure eith
er of talents or integrity. Altiio' no where justly
entitled to more than protection, it will every
where give to the pofi'efTor a confideiable degree of
influence, be his real worth ever so small.
To add to that influence by positive inditutioa
is to aggravate an inconvenience in society, perhaps
insurmountable, but which it ought to be the study
of the law-giver to render as little felt as pofTihle.—
It is to lay a foundation for an aristocracy of wealth,
the moil ignorant, the mod fordid, and the molt
oppressive of all aristocracies.
The commission has introduced another moifure
of the legislative capacity, viz. that of age. This,
although a very impel feit criterion of wifdora, has
been adopted more or left by all societies. It h the
belt, and the leail inv/!ious that has yet been found,
ar.d is as applicable to the elected. By propel ap
plication of it, the inconvenience of affcmblies leld
for the purposes of election degenerating, from (heir
number, into mobs, might be more beneficially pre-
than by any other mode. Our comnon
law does not entrust a man with the management
of his own affairs till twenty-one ; where would be
tl.e injury, in not entiuftjng him with the manage
ment of public affairs till he had acquired a few
years experience in managing his own ?
It is proposed, at a future period, to leßrain the
tight of electing to such as can read and wtite, or
learned time mechanical trade. These will be good
and reasonable limitations, if proper care be" taken
that every man (hall have it eafibly in his power so
to qualify himfeif.
The commission proposes to exclude from exer
ciling the rights ui citizenship, fei vants, and all who
are not inscribed in the Register of their Camon,
as paying a certain contention, This is neither
more nor leis than reviving the division of the con
llituer.t assembly into aftiveor inactive citizens. It
isliaWe to all the objections of the legislative quali
fication, with this addition, it takes in the low
er ulafs of people fubjeft to the paymmt of direst
taxes, in every community the ipoil dependent and
the mod expofedto improper influence of all kinds,
to the exclupon of those who, without being fub
je£l to diteft taxes, live upon the means or their
jnduilry, and are generally the mod independent."
The experience of five years has amply ptoved
the necessity of dividing the legifiative body into
two Sections.
PROVIDENCE, August 29
COMMUNICATION.
In addition to the entertainment to be derived from
the clafiiral exercises on Wednesday next, we may ex
pert the highest gratification from Mr. Harper and
Company. The New Theatre, Urge and commodi
ous, will then be opened ; and .the lovers of the Dra
ma.receive the highefL plcafure which that entertain
ment is calculated to anord. E rom the accammoda
tions of the Theatre, and the talents of the perform
ers, jmuch .may be expecfled. The man of tafie and
sentiment is invited to attend at the opening of a Tem
ple dedicated to Apollo and the Muses.
LANWNGBURGH, August z S
The Prtfu'ient of the United States has ratified the
Treaty negociited by Mr. Jay with England, agreea
bly to the mode advised by the Senate, Viewing the
United States " as oae great whole," without anv par
till or local reference whatever, the Man of th■ People
by this official ad, declared the Treaty favoura
ble to this country —and whea-.it is examined with an
impartial eye, every one rault acknowledge it the most
favourable 'Ireaty we have with any Europe*/ nation.
By the Treaty with Fraace, we arereftridSed to two
free ports in their European dominions, to one or more
free ports in the Weft-Indies, but have no liberty to
even call at any of their ports in India. By the Treaty
with Holland,' we expressly reserve to them the cotn
meree of their East and Weft-India pofleflions.
NEW-YCRK, September 2,
It was si in our paper of yeftcrday tiiatxommii
nication with this city is yet open, except in on. m
ftance. We are since mformed the intercourse with
Philadelphia, and one or two towns in Connetiicut, is
prohibited.
We cannot rcafon with fear , but we can contr*djft
falfe reports. he accounts of sickness in this city
must be amazingly exaggerated, to juftify our brethren
in this country in suspending all communication with
us. From . *themic accounts we can aver that New-
York generally is healthier this year ihan it was the last,
and healthier than some of the towns that have prohi
bited intercourse with this city. What turn the lever
may take hereafter, cannot be datermined. The fever,
is the lime that has appeared in some parts it this ci
ty, at this leafon, tot four years paii, it is the fame as
appears every fcalott in the i'jjt'i:, a Slite's, but its ma
lignity and the degree of cqntsston dipend on f'eifon
or local causes. At"p:«!Vnt it is'fo little o'ouUgious as
to afford no ground ior I 'rious alarm.
The citizens of Trillion who naffcd refutations
In difapproba'ion of tlift Treaty, hare no{vyith!i;ind
lnS a deel '.ration, thai they confidcr it a du
ty (o acqnicfee in the von(!itu:iuiul measures re
fpefling its ratification.
Philadelphia,
FRIDAY EVEMIXO, SEPTEMBER 4, 1795
A letter from New-York to a gentleman 111 this ci
ty, dated yesterday, fays—that a plication was'to be
made to the Authoritjutljerr, that a proclamation may
be ifTiitd to ciJt off the communication of Philadelphia
with New-York, as thr,y conceived thatfuch amealure
would be founded in greater propriety on account of
danger, than the late proclamation of the governor' of
Pennsylvania.
HIEROGLIPHICAI
Extras of a letter, (Sc.
IT will not b difficult for u to C that the J
moc rats r 2 y's in their own r's,
in their puerile chftin&ioni. They yent their folly
with EE's ; hut they c the contempt winch at
tends their impotent efforts to *hibit » j in the
place of the J, whose conduit is viewed with the
highest eltimation by every unprejudiced i :—The
modern bull's i's have inverted the peripetflive,
which throve the fer-vices of the J at 2 A dif
tancej belides,.lheir j's are too r.v.tch in felted with
the political jaundice to c ohje£t» as they really r ;
having taken their q from a [> auvre Francois bd'tt
maitrc—Thefe drones in the political hive, would
gladly didipate the earnings of the jndultifoils i's,
in their execrable puifuite of plunder on the C's.—
Their patriotism being of the hypochondriac kind,
they r inceflantly seeking e's by the xpollion of
wind—The freemen of America would as foot) b
governed by the D of Algiers, as by those greedy
(harks, who if u give them an inch will take an /.
Should they fail of bullying the y s sages of Ame
rica into their uny's projects, they may b sported
to Paris, where their inexhaustible bag of p's will
b very in pelting those refractory anti
jacttbin members of the convention, who have im
pudently substituted Rtafon and Law in the place
of Pafiiuu and Faflion. Perhaps if they u's their
talons adroitly, tliey may the teins of govern
ment—a very flattering id to those patriots who
have endeavoured to t's the Americans out of their
senses, by similar artifices, unfuccefsfidly—when
their ammunition i 9 *haufted without efielt, they
may take up the + and follow Robespierre to the
Guillotine; it being reasonable that they who be
gin with /, and proceed with «, fhotild end with
0 [.Otjcgo herald.]
STOCKS.
Six per Cert. - -
Three per Cent. -
Deferred Six pir Cent
BANK United' States, -
— — North \meiica, -
Penm'ylvaiiia, -
Insurance Company North America,
•Pennfylvania,[lnt. off] 7 pr. cent,
Port of Philadelphia.
ARRIVED.
Days-
Brig Schuylkill, Knox, St. Croix, 16
Schoonet Phoebe, Didcinfon, Jereipie, 17
. TVa Si!ler6, Ethericlge, Edenton, 5
Charming Betsey, Lark, Martinique, 20
Capt. Rnox left at Baflend, brigs Newton and
William Pcnnock, of this port.
Arrived at the Fer!.
Ship Columbia, Vanfife,
Schooner Mary, Miller,
Stesdifh sloop Stockholm, Barge,
Tranfated for the City Gazette, from a Paris paper
called Npuvelles Politique*,
NATIONAL CONVENTION. 16 Florial, May S
DuJJ'aulx. You have honoured by your bounties the
last days of the citizen Bartbelent). Our liicceiTors,
it is not to be doubted, will haste to consecrate his
memory, when the delay the law has fixed will permit
them.
Let his former friend anticipate their kindneft, and
trace to you, in ? few words, the rare qnali ies of th>*
Aeflor of French literature; it will be fufficient, pis
liips, to fay to you, as Xenophon said of the profound
learn ng and fivnplicily of One of h!3 cotemporaries :
Barthelcmy <u.qj art excellent man in every point of
■view. In effect, those who knew him did not know
whick to admire immortal Anac'oarjis, or
the dignified conduct of his whole life.
AU his politics cenftfted in benevolence. The im
mense treasure of his science ftrved only to purify the
manners, to perfect taste, to make mankind more
friendly, and contribute to the splendour of his coun
try. A fmgle trait will paint to you the goodness of his
philanthropic foul. Why U not the power given to
a mortal," lie would often fay, " to bequeath happi
ness!" Sublime with ! But he ftiddenly "became poor,
after havingAeen cover . d with the favours of fortune,
whom he always mistrusted, aad who, <info«ght for J>y
him, had found hi.rjn oiit. Far frons lofirg by this, he
a< quired new means ot' deviWpins: himfetf in a new
ilpeifi ; and he pfryeri, that indigence worthily flip
ported, was not-iefs honourable than l-eneficent wealth.
Soon ifier, perfccutcd, as all the enlightened ;:nd vir
tuous citizens were, Le carried into the dungeons of
being
nice
- ISA
- ii/I
• 14/1
32 pr. Cent
jo -
?9 "
13 5° cent?.
Port-au-Prince
Jeremie
ditto
vhicb you have fij g'orioufly, rfeftroyetf, the
and frrenky oi .Socrat s It was .i„ ie this
»et'-esShlß 08ogt«ary offered to his com;), iiioi, m mi«-
ff n l'.iu-the nugiiific ipe<ftai Ic of t good man striving
with aclieifity.
1 hive said he was once rich ; but. Jet us not forget
that his incoftit was expended tor the benefit of the
unfortunate, Befidv, he adopted ail the children of
hi» nuiTierous fcivfy ; the re jublic has tfyeyeby framed
goo citizens, who fcfye her th's day in a manner moil
ufeM and honourable. . *
B rthekmv kjieisvf the V.r m os raretr ;he was
worn out l>y iwig ir >vu«rs, a;ni bowed (;■ wn under the
bty.ri.hen .if tegrs: bu: all h;s fcDs!jil :y awoke on the
report of you! jufl ik cj,ecs, particularly V- hen he learnt
that you nuclides' Jo repair, as' r <uOh as in your jjfiwer
l<n, tjii. r£\!Btftrt|ines ot i< mai'y thonland
innocent men, rttljifed to miJVry the molt frightful,
and t; t»ly worthy of and piry ; then, lifting his
hands to heaven, " Glory taO.mV' crL'ri he, " honor
to the national convention ; I\qv t . Wed long enough."
Our country at this .fpr vou°to do'liim
honour; I will therefore ' to fequeftiti*
oiic favour, whiti) \l ill rejoice th* p irrss of the illui
trioiiS Birth«lemy. One or his I do not
speak oi out worthy atuba a dor. al i»jt of t".: e
citizen Courcey, his brother,, who fofc the fpaee of
t a enty-fivc year-i has fulfilled a'l the a lender
and rtfpe<Sliul lon, and who has. fnophed his place a
long time as k-"f>er of the medals, and antiquities in
■-" e national ca.riiict j I demand this.good crtizeti
1 e continued in the place which Le his excrcifod with
so much nili'duity »V,J fucctfo.
Hie national c itvention decreed tlie i»-iprefTion of
the dricouriV, the infertipn of it :n the biVfierin, an<J
rcterrj'd tft'e dcmjad to the corimitte'e of fijMiein
ftrudlion. *_✓
BT TITIS DAY'S MAILS.
MEW-YQRK', September 3.
KINGSTON, Uy 2 r. .
Bi the l.ucrctia, Simpfon arrived at this port
in 24 days from Grenada, we'have t he following in
te.ligencc; The day before she f;if:ed a refllf ar
tiveij, witlj an account of one of out 74 gun ships
having fallen in with, and Coippellijl to ft, ike, after
a few fliot from the uppeftier, a luge French fri
gate, off the island of St. Thomisj On tunning
up along Me, and preparing U) take pofiijfiicn, the
infamous cc.Binander of the fvigati again
his. eoloiui, and fired into the 74, bj- which fevtral
men were killed. Juitly ineenfed :>S such attroci«
ous iVnduil, the towtr ports were m tantly
and a broadside poured in.yvhich blew the Repub
lican to atoms, and in a few moments not a veltigc
of her wa« to be seen. '
The humane conduct of the nobili:}- of Denpiark
dtfetves recording and imitation. After the late
dreadfulffjre in Copenhagen, the hcre»!itrfry Prince
Federick relinquifhtd his palace in favit of fume of
the fuffrrns, and daily l ad vifhiais j reparcd for
their fuitenance. Tie Puke of on
receiving the. news of the disaster, rent an officer of
his palace. By the prders «f the JCinji the mggif.
tracy of Copenhagen removed thrir 'cojtrt to the
general poft.office j in order to giire similar aixnjn=-
modation. We have generally noticed a good un
derjlandrng to prevail m that kingdom, between tfie
people and ;ke privileged orders.
Arrivals at ibis forl.
Ship Hntuot, 1 homploii, Cli^rVfton
Bnjj 1 wo Polly's, lairchild, Havre de Grace
>chooncr Collin, Robins, St. M:;ik«
I he rtiip Brjfeis, Rutgers, is arrived at Bu:sr-
uraiiK
•BOSTON, A 29.
A £trs ft am EUROPE.
We learn private letter* from Di'hoa, 1.1
of as laite dates as July 6, that the war was carped
on in quarter wjtjh the greatest adtivity and in
veteracy. A fen-days before the date of the ivili
le'ters, the French attacked and carried khe S'jk
ni!h lines, with great /laughter on both title? ; and
at the time of writing the I-tters, the Fun h and
Spanifli were continually .engaged, with various fucy
cess. The fir ft antral fjoni t)tat quarter, must v/a
think, bring the details us important advices.
In the North, nothing interetting has occurred
since the furrendcr of Luxembourg. The army un
der Gen. Pichegrti, it is said, has patted the Rhine;
and it is expeft.eu wiii attack the Pi ine'e de Coiotlr".
»' - O
We are happy to hear that, the .labour of nur in
du(\rious htifbahdn)en, is likely. <hi< year to be re,
warded with large and good crops of every fpeeies
of grain, and other produce..—This is the belt
news that can he pnblifhed.
The Britifli government has granted a loan of
one million and an half sterling, to rhe merchants
and planters of Grenada and St. Vincents.
The new constitution of Fiance contaii-s much
more efficiency, in ft-veraj parts, than that of .hi;
United States. The election is not, however, U>
free as in America, as it disfranchises •hose w'ncj
cannot read and write their names. Notwitluland-
ing which it was received with loud a'piplgufe by th«
fj»rclat«rs who heard it. Aftei it wra ji ad, it was
ordered to be printed, and fest to the several com
munes (towns] of the Republic, and the difcuffioij
of it iu the Convention postponed to the iSthMef
fidor, (July 4.}
It 15 rather lingular—but we are nlTured by R
gentleman of information, that it is nevertfeelefs
true, that the treaty is as much condemned at .Ha
lifax, as being altogether favorable to Amcrica, a*
it is on theother hand, in the United States. f»*r.
Grenville is condemned for being overreached there :•'»
"by Mr. Jay.
United States, "J
SjiitriCl J
NOTICE is hereby given, that the trials sf c' nil a}
cavfesiii the circuit court of ft;i United" States, tor
the Pennsylvania diiyicl, will eothm cn #
twelfth day of O&ober next, at {he court house ip York
Town; when and whera all per : .»ns bound by r'.cc
or otherwjf- to app ai, are required to attend.
JBy »n.!(r of th honourable William
one of the-A SToei-te Ju A ices cj r the Supreme f.Vurt f
the United States, and the honournVii£ Pstert,
Efijuire, X)iilrii& Judge of the JJnjted St u.c/i £01 ths
Fsi.nfylvania district,
WILLIAM NICIJOi-S, M.irJ!<al.
Marshal's Cjjicc, Stpt 0, 1795. "* tu rht*s.\sQ&.
$J" The 'printers of newspapers to the wetlward snt
nortliw»rU of Philadelphia, gfs t* tn:.u »li?
above, " '
r