PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS PHII , nr ,
[No. 76', of Vol. ll.]
Of the Inhabitants of Trenton,
To His Excellency WILLIAM PATERSON, Esq.
GOVE tiNOR of Neiu-Jerfey,
I ''HE early, decided, and peifevering patriot,
whose councils and exertions have eminent
ly contributed toeftsbliflx the peace, liberty and
Safety as tlie public, deserves every diiHnclion
•whicjj a sensible ana grateful people can bellow.
Such services, and fiich principles, have placed
you, Sir, in the feat of government, with
out helitation or diflent: and New-Jersey nolon-
S er f ee l s the wound which fhc has received by
the death of a Livingston, when a Paterson
supplies his place.
The inhabitants of Trenton, and the vicinity,
equally sensible of your merits, and equally grate
ful for your past services, with the relt of :heir
fellow-citizens, would do injustice to their own
feelings, were they to suppress the fatisfadtion
and approbation they feel upon so happy and
unanimous a choice of a Chief Magistrate.
should think ourselves particularly favor
ed, if it might be confident with your Excellen
cy s private interest and choice, to honor this
place with your residence ; if not so fortunate,
vre fljall be anxious to make every transient Itay
agreeable.
With well-founded aflurance that your future
conducfl, like your past, will merit and perpetuate
the love and confidence oftlie inhabitants of New-
Jersey, we pray for you, all personal and domes
tic felicity hire, well knowing that hereafter a sure
reward awaits the benefactors of mankind.
In behalf of the Inhabit ants,
ISAAC SMITH, Chairman.
Trenton, Nov. 24, 1 790.
Gentlemen,
I SCARCELY know in what manner to make my
far your polite and affec
tionate address. Language fails ire 1 cannot
defcribethe emotions of gratitude and refpedt,
which rife in niy bread but believe me, gen
tlemen, I feel my heart lenfibly feels upon
the occasion.
The attention and hospitality, which, as a pri
vate individual, I have experienced from the in
habitants of Trenton, and its vicinity, I shall ever
retain in grateful memory ; and I have no doubt
that whenever inclination may lead, or the du
ties ofoffice may call there—or whether my ftav
be as a relident, or as a guest, I shall meet whii
a cordial reception, and be treated with every
mark of civility and politeness.
That my conduct in thedifferent offices, which
I have had the honor to fill, has met with the ap
probation of a free and enlightened people, gives
ine unfeigned pleasure ; andit is my fervent with,
that I may in future demean myfelf in fucli a
manner as to cherish and increase this favorable
opinion. My interest as a citizen conspires with
my duty as a ruler to advance the growth and
prosperity of this State, and to promote the wel
fare and glory of the Union at large. In this
sentiment I am sure of meeting with your hearty
concurrence, and that of every good and wife
man in the State, As Freemen, we have but
one common object ; as Citizens of the United
States, our interests and our rights are now the
fame. That narrow fyflem of local politics,
which, for a time, diftradled our counsels, distur
bed our repose, and tarnished our glory, is <rra
.dually disappearing, under the benign influc'nce
and diifufive operation of the new :
Our political horizon extends and brightens
As a people we are united and happy at-home
and as a nation refpe<fied abroad.——Mav New-
Jersey sustain her rank in the political scale of
the Union!—To realize this wish. ought to be our
aim—our study—and pur pride. May the ar
dour of patriotism be kindled into an active and
noble emulation—and may we, in our refpeiftive I
flat ions—and within the fpheie of ourinfluence
vie with each other, who shall contribute most to
the welfare and aggrandizement of our common
country ! In this generous contention, all the fo
etal virtues will be called into exercise—all the
bigq-toned passions will be enlisted on the fide of
duty, and whatever is amiable in character, or
sublime in acftion, will rife to view, and warm
and animate the portrait of an American citizen.
Tiius may we a<ft and after a life, full of be
neficence and years, may yon be translated to that
happy world, where the patriot, and friend of
Mankind, will receive a sure and InfHng reward.
WILLIAM PATER.SON.
ADDRESS
Wednesday, January 19, 1791.
SUMMARY
Of the Eftimares referred to in the Secretary of
the Treasury's Report to Congress of the 6tli
inftanr.
No. I. Refpe&ing the Civil List.
Executive ind Judicial Dt'iartvents.
0.-npcnlations to the '["reticle:'.', -President,
Chief Justice and his five AlTf>ciates-Judges ot the i)alh. Cts.
ieveral dillri£ts, and Attorney General, 72,000
Legijlative Department.
Cjmpenfations to the Members of Congress, and
their Secretary, Clerks, Chaplains, McHengers,Ser
jeant at Arms, and Door-K.eepers, ettimating the
attendance of the whole number for fix months, 113,400
Treasury Department.
Compensations to the Secretary, his Assistant, Clerks,
Mclfenger and Officc-Keeper, 8,200
Comptroller and his Cle.ks, - 8,800
Trealurer, his Clerks, Meffengerand Office-
Keeper, -
Auditor, and his Clerks,
Kegilfer, and his Cleiks,
Two Office-Keepeis and Meffirngers for the
Comptroller's, Auditor's and' Kegifter'i
offices, _
Loan-Officers of the several Diftrifls,
Department of State.
Compensations to the Secretary, his Clerks, Office-
Keeper and MeiTenger,
Department of War.
Compensations to the Secretary, Clerks, Paymaster,
Commiilioner, Messenger and Office-Keeper,
Comm'Jior.ers for Jettling accounts between the Uvited
States and individual States.
Compensations to the Commiflloners, their Clerks,
Meifcnger and Office-Keeper,
Government of Wejlern Territory.
Compensations to the Governors, Secretaries, Judges,
&c. ol the two Drftri£ts, - .
Grant to Baron Steuben,
His annual allowance, -
Penfioiif granted by the late Government,
Incidentaland coitingent expences relative to the Civil Lift.
Under this head arc included fire wood, stationary,
printing work, and all other contingent expences
ot the two Houfesof Congress, and the other de
partments, ...
Total in Dollars, 299)276.53
No. 11. Contains an Estimate of expences of the
Civil Lift Eftabli(Linear, for the year 1791,
arising from the following objects, viz. '
Deficiency in an appropriation heretofore made for buildino
and equipping ten cutters, a sum for building a large boat for
each cutler, pay and rations to the Mailers and mariners of the
fame, &r. ; for expences towards the fafe keeping and profecu-
Uon of persons committed for offences against the United States
tor thefupport, maintenance and repairs of light-houses, beaconsj
piers, flakes and buoys ; for converting the beacon of Georgia in
to a hght-houfe ; for printing the several descriptions of treasury
and loan-office certificates prepared in pursuance of an ast making
provision for the public debt ; for making 300 reams at 3J dol
lars per ream ; printing 200 reams, at > 5 dollars per ream ; pay
of two fupenmrndants of the paper mill ; pay offour fuperintend
ants of the prefj ; binding 2000 books, at 5 0-iooths each; for a
clerk employed in thetreafury department, for receiving the cer
tificates from the fuperintendants, and transmitting them to the
several loan-officcs, and attending to other parts of this business ;
for devices and contingent expences; for expences which will
attend Jurveying the tract of the Miami company, and running
the lines of division of the tracts of the Ohio and Sciota compa
nies, agreeably to a resolve of lath August, 1790; for the pur
chale of hydrometers for the ufc of the officers of the customs and
inipcclorsof the revenue : s
Amounting together tc Dollars, 50,756 7
No. 111. An Estimate of Money requisite for the
Department of War, for the year 1791
Stated annual Expcnces.
Pay of the troops,
Subfiflcnceof the troops,
Forage,
Cloathing for the troops,
Quarter-master's depai tment,
Hofpiial dcoartmenr,
Four extra furgeonb' mates,
Ordnance department,
Contingencies of war department,
Extra Expences.
Expedition of General Harmar,
Annual allowance to invalids,
Monies due for former ferviccs,
Amounting to Dollars, 39*i>99-,54
No. IV. General Estimate for the Services of the
ensuing year,
Civil Lift, as per No. i,
Additional Expences, as per No. 2,
War Department, as per No. 3,
FROM THE NEIV-YORK DAILY ADVERTISER
AN" ABSURDITY !
lias not a more curious circumstance
A- " a PP enec l> within the compass of my recol
letflion than the late resolution of the Legislature
of North-Carolina, on the fubjcdi of their state
debt. I his affair, fin whatever light it may be
viewed exposes such anabfurdity as admits nei
their of explanation, nor apology. Theftate.it
seems, propose to come forward with such certi
ficates as have been paid into their Treafury,and
709
4,200
10,600
11,55°
57. 000
1 3' 2 5°
6,250
6,500
11 >55°
10,000
2,500
2 .767 73
17,308 80
74.916
59»787
1 >°3-
23,772. 80
25.000
1,63,5. 20
4'73 2 * 8°
6 '3°3- 66
5,000
100,000
87,463. 60
556. 48
2 99.276- ,53
,50.756. 7
39°. 199. 54
Total Dollars, 740,232. 14
[Whole No. 180.]
ti i" t i l^ m to e afi »medbjrthe UnitedStatei
he law of Congress for aifuming theltate debts
acfant view, renders any such resolve a nullitv'
It cannot be thrown into any shape, in which k
will not contradict and destroy itfelf. Let me
alk what Congress have undertaken to do ? The
answer is ; they have undertaken to nfl'ume the
ltate debts. But when a ltate has paid any cerii
ficatesand got them into the Treasury, there no
longer exists a debt relative to such redeemed
certificates. A debt cannot cxift without two par
ties ; a debtor and creditor. When a debt is once
paid, both those relations are deftroved and the
debt is ot course annihilated. The alTumption.
law, m such cafe, has nothing to operate upon ;
because, the fubjet r t of that law, is debts ; andthe
agents who are to reeeive the payment, are cre
ditors. Now when the debt has once been dis
charged, there is 110 longer a debtor, and con -
fequently there can be no creditor, since one
cannot exifl: without the other. Adebt is a thin"-
which does not admit of a refurreiftion. Its pay
ment, by the person who owed it, is its final de
'trucftioii. I will put a cafe.
A ifHies anumber of notes payable to difFerent
persons ; and before he has discharged them all.
B undertakes the payment of such demands as
may lie against A.—lt is obvious, without any
arguments, that the engagement is not meant to
extend to those notes which A had himfelf dis
charged and taken up. This plain reason may
be aiiigned for it, that when the note reverts in
to the hands of the giver, the demand vanilhes,
andean never afi'ume a new existence. I once
more repeat, that it is a contradiction in terms,
to fay that an afl'umption of debts can be applied
where there is 110 debt.
In what character will a state come forward
witli its own notes Ifit comes forward as a.dtit
er. the ademption law can take cognizance of
creditors only. If on the other hand, the tfate
calls itfelf a creditor, it is cad out from the bene
fit of che affiimption, because the state in beino
a creditor ceases to be a debtor, and therefore
there can be 110 debt for the afl'umption to take
hold of. But it will be said, the ltate may ap
pear in the capacity both of creditor and debtor.
This is impoilible in the nature of things. Be
cause, debtor and creditor are counterparts of
such a kind, that when they meet in the fame
person, they destroy each other and ftarjdfor no
thing- CONSISTENCY.
Jan. 11.
Sacred to the Memory of the late Alderman BLAGGE,
of the City of New-York.
B
LAGGE! Thou art gone; nor haft thou left behind
A jufter being, or a nobler mind .
For honor and for probity renown'd,
In thee the Patriot and the Sage were found.
By moderation tempering rigid law,
Thou knewM poor to cheer, the rich to awe.
New-York beheld thy steady, gen'rous phn,
And all the world (hould blefsthe friend of ima.
Patron of commerce from thy youthful years,
No Tradesman left thy doors diffolv'd in tears.
Favour from thee th' industrious poor teceiv'd,
Their wants, when known, were generously reliev'd.
Religion reign'd in thy capacious heart,
And heavenly charity perform'd her part.
In private life each duty well difcharg'd ;
Strcngthen'd thy efforts, and thy foul enlarg'd ;
The parent's, hutband's worth, by thee difplay'd,
A bright example to the world convey'd.
To thee, since talents, piety, were given,
Earth's ornament may hope reward from Heav'n.
N E W B E R N, (N. C.) December 23.
, y>e Legiflaturt of this State, during their lall fefljon made the
following appointments.
His Excellency ALEXANDER MARTIN, Esq. Governor
The Honorable SPRUCE M'COY, Esq. one of the Tud»cs of
the Superior Courts.
JOHN H AYW ODD, Efn. Solicitor-General.
ANECDOTES
A COXCOMB asked a fluttering barber's
boy, in New-Haven—did you ever /have a mon
key ? No Sir, said he, but if you will set down
I will t-t-try.
■A FLOURISHING Coxcomb the other day
came into a Soemaker's ftiop to try on a pair of
boots. " These are too fliort for the Ton" said
he, "tlieyfhould be long enough to cover up
the Calf compleatly." " Then" said the flioe
xnaker " They mud be abont five feet ten inehts."