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\l J Ici'rr jH( thrir country war.tt
wir.riiirtioul, and that Ihorily fef ■
- ill w upon ihem a
w*■ it r ii i In-y will in a liulc limp reap
•nl'iiKiom uJv.4nisges. A» tor me,
l'entirely devyte myleif i-o tb«. d«.
f>eiice of ">y ertu'ntry. lam the en
emy of tlives, and the friend of
frogmen, of whatever country. 1
en the altar of truth, an ha
traj ot"i(|e fqmier, that jiothiugbut
a of thftir principle* or their
death can extinguish , and 1 dedi
c.ite my heart to -ihe latter, his
wpvn tbefe piineiple.* I have taken
tlie.oflice eutrufted to ine, of
wllfth I wist perform tlje diuies till
the l ift moment of my Jife. J can
not flxprefs to you all the gratitude
1 feel towards our
ihe kind receptions I or my prize
have received in every part ol the
Uniltd Stales, I hope 1 lliail Toon
be able to go to Alexandria, and
present in per Ton, my ihanks to its
generous and patriotic inhabitants, i
1 am, Citizens, your moll
fiefpetftfully-attached and
foevoted brother,
11. ANDRE KERREY.
t V "•
.CHARLESTON, (S.C.) jnne tc.
We hear that Col. .Banning, the
collector of Clmptack,- has leized
the.funics, —» — Hooper, prize ntaf
ter, (*ak<;i) fcy the Sang Cuhmepri
vatcer) umii it /hall be-a(certattled
- Irr f —. ■
The fchooi;er Hector,Capt. Olin
lle.l, of VV-iJniington, which on ber.
arrivhl here, fail fed so inuch con
verfation and ipecnlatioti, on the
fubjefi of European and, American
failures, &c. hus, on her departure
foriiiflied tqtial room for animad
version and table talk.
During her Hay in ' this harbor,
rhsre was a real or pretended bill
of sale, executed by ,the Captain in
favor of a Frenchman ; who appli
ed to the Consul of the F.renqh re
public for a privateer's cotnniifiion
—this was "readily granted, as there
appeared no resemblance of fraud
or collusion.—The veflel was after
■warch cleared out as an American
bottom,. for the Weft-Indies, and
failed on Thu fday as fuch—AtieT
(he hgd pa'flcd Fort fohnftcMi, flie
fr-fiTuf.m nTVe" been noticed, that
the Captain had privately procured
ammunition here, and had a few
cannon and small arms concealed in
the hold.
Inflead of pursuing her voyage
to the Welt Indies, Ihe had not 101 l
.fight of the land, Before her pira
tical intentions were displayed, in
bringing to and examining all ves
sels that chanced to come in her
way—(he is even said to have cap
tured the schooner , Capt. Gar
ret. bound here from the Welt-In
dies.
In consequence of this intelligence
being authenticated, two pilot boats
were armed and fitted up to go in
pursuit of her ; and yeflerdaj morn
ing failed on ibis laudable expedi
tion—One of the buatj vyas .com
manded by Capti Cdckran, of the
Revenue c-utter, and the other by
Captain Newton, of the America.
The failtirs, "amounting to abput
OinetJ-, were collected from differ
«nt fiiips in the river ; and they
were f<> eager in tbc caofe, that
thrice the number might have been
p>ocured„ if ihey were thought ne
ceflVrj.''
SAVANNAH, (Geor.) June 6.
On Monday the ult. a Mr.
Tomberlin, who on Canoo
cliie river, and li*d (•turned a day
or iwo befoie io work bis crop,
having qccafion ro cross that river,
was waylaid, on his coining back,
by two Indians, who grunted like
hogs to tlraw- his attention, which
was n<> frtoner fixed than a gua,
fitapped at him. On difcuvering
the jtixnped to a tree, and
putting (tis head on one fide totake
another look at tbetn, one of the
Indiana fiied and (hot through his
hat daft to his temples. Tomber
-Ihi drew fcatk, .which made the In
dian ftippofe he>-had killed him,
wh«, ( hen ran op with his tomahawk!
To tuber! in waited until Kego; with
in ten steps, rook good aim with
his i ifip, and fired at the Indian's
ferity, w-hn ii ftamly dropped ]ii»
gun,crouched ltuiTfelf aluiolt' dou
ble, and placed bull bis bands 10
the pari lie fired at. The other In
itial! advancing with his picce load
ed, and Tomberljn's jjijii being
euipty, he was compelled to r'ttn f.«i
the log he had eroflcd the river on,
and whilst on it was fliot a_t by the
other Indian ; the ball, after pafling
through his split lbirt, grazing him
along the fide; he got off without
further damage. There can be lit
tle doubt, from his character as a
man of resolution and a good ,
inan, but tharthfc Indian he fired at
was severely wounded, if hot fcilletf.
Saturday the Bth indatit General
Twiggs' eroded the Oconee river
with a body of cavalry and infantry,
intending to establish a po(t on the
Oaknmlgee with the latter.
Accounts from the fonth wai d inen
rioii Mr. Seagiove's having in con
finement in Fort St. Tainmany, 8
Indians of the Creek nation ; a
ninth, who was taken % itli thetn,
cut his thr<iru with a knife after
being confined. One of the con
fined Indians is. a Cheehaw fellow,
who made his eCcape the day after
"the inurdeis at T«'ade« Hill in
March lad.
~
BOSTON, June 26 f
[A correspondent has favored u- with the
so) losing letter, from Artit-fi'ador
ar Philadelphia.]
Phtfedi. 'ptiiti, Jangi}, jl
In the -Icond year of the French
Citizen Cbnet, Minister Plenipotentiary of
the French Republic, to the United States
of America, to the French Citizens in
Eo^on.
(itizens, ,
~, IT'. i« with pkifete l have reseUted jyunr
• letter of tjw ijfli ofjhiV
have expend left from thepaftriotilia.aßd
zeal <jf the French Republicans, who have t'h?
" tn five under the heni£o hiflueatice bF
T bnr tfceJßfWoniaet. Tbe*fli®>-
• anjre winch r'eaderiul tp j'our unfitly
ttmatt br^rhTreii,*do6i'j'o\i
and .itelKfy to Jbb' roy efteeiri'.
Nt" oa'. t his o^cz-'
"Go"- y, ~1 %«. ; ■'
1 had letter »n tie.
fubJWS of thole Fjencti framen, wkp liad
fi6M St.'Tfeters and Mujuclon, to>
• •WWch > >j«4' , mf;eh)ife iii'malting re))ly. I tvtote.'
, to he ret afore tonftil at Bofttirt,
f{ociife the fucdrit'or.
and fiityiaancF of^ltofeJFr^"^
citizen Duballet, to teftify to him. iny sincere
acknowledgment for his aije&ionate attention
to his fellow countrymen. And now I request
the French patriots established st Eofion, to
•wait on those generous Americans, Meffis. "
Samuel Brown and Jluflel Sturges, and thank
them lor their friendly afiiftance, which new
demand my iincere acknowledgment.
When my affairs will pehnit me to leave
Philadelphia, for a few days, I Aall employ
those moments of leisure in pitying a v fit to *
our brethren the Americans to the North
ward; and particularly to tie town of Bos
ton, the place from whence the fire i f liberty
firft emanated ; and lhall with pleafuie em
brace that opportunity, more clofelv to tic
the krot of fiiendfliio with the patriots Sa
muel Brown and Ruffe) Stjtg-s.
Zkcfelkwitg i, a Report-oj the joint Committee of
the itgi/lntuteof the Commmwebhh of Mafftichu-
JrUt—u id is , e Jerred to the next ft/lion of the
General Court.
CtmmmiveM of MajfachufttU.
In Senate, June 23, 1793.
WHEREAS it appeari by an atteiled 10-
py of the Records of the Supreme ju
dicial Court of the United States.
Alexander Cfielholro, rxeciitnr"}
bi Robert Farcjuar, tleceafed, (
terjus (• In c a' c -
The State ef Georgia. J)
On armament,
-- Ordered, That the Plaintiff in tl.is canfe do
file his declaration on or before the firft day
ol March next.
OrdcKd, That certified copies «f tbi saM
declaration, be served op ttw Governor ai.d
Attorney of rtw State of Georgia, on or before
tbe firft Jay of June next.
Ordered, Ttjat unless thefaid State Giall ei
ther in due form apjiear, oi- fh?w C ause to die
contrary in this Court, by the firft day of Hie
next term, judgment by default lhall* be «ii~
againlt the jfa:d slate." .
Whe re upon,
1. Rcfottd, .That the fame principles 'of
rtte ConttiMTTon, witch app!v to the State of
Georgia, apptr equally to a!I the States which
compote the government of the United States.
2. Refilled, That it hath ever been the
sense of the Citizens of this Commonwealth,
that the Government of (be United States is
a tcdent Government,
3 Kfjot-ud, That the idea of a Federal C.o
vernment lteceilarily involves the idea ot com
ponent parts, confiding atdiJlinS and (t.arate
Gove r merits.
4- RefoivetLj That a Covemment being liable
to be sued by an incHviduai Citizen, either of
thar, r»r of any other Government, U iupon-
with that lovercignty' which is'ctfbutiar
458
t-aD Oor-rnm-rnM, *7 f»' ch *"- v
averTiin.' .1 saa-i*- -'"•■b.wl, e.ffier ro pre
e,tt .UV.f, t»r »o ? rojtfft ijt* <*>ru ir.einbets,
niftier Citiaen'fl. i!>je<fts.
, .Wt-i 'fhjsAicvriclc "tfce CooOi
she jtnocia- Power to
tftrnnpi &-«—> !>»■(<.-* 'htUuzc f oj no
icr \ Jlt.a by the Judges ot the Su
.irerae Judicial Cou:t in the cale alorefaid, 11
In its pMiwipies fubvehive ot the-State Gs
vernmeots, iucoMiflent with the ease and
Ul'etyoft,* bodyof Free Citizens, and re
pliant tu every idea of a hdcrat Gmcnmeil,
and therefore it is
6 Me/obiiJ r That tiie Senators ot this Com
monwealth m the Congrels ot tbe Ui-ittd
States, be, and they hereby are inllrufted,
5 and tbc Weprefrwtatiiies wq«efled, to u:e
their utmost influence that the article- ia the
Federal Constitution, which relerj to eon
t'overfies between a State and the citizens
of other States, be either wholly expunged
from the Constitution, or 1" tar modified and
explained, as to give the tulleft security to
the States refpettively again# the evils com
plained of, and to remove their appreben
ticn oil tliii highly intereffng and important
foijeot; more especially as this Leg;fl;iture
have the fulled afiurance, that the late deci
sion of tlx- Supreme Judicial Corn tot the
United ,Sutes, bath given a eonftruction
t» the Constitution very different ftom
the ideas which the Citizens of this Common
wealth entertained of it at the time it was
adopted.
t' ;Og lilondaj last tf* SecreU#^ ot 9*
' 3 nionw&l tb, fyt he <si reftionof Hi | ftve?fencj
t.'tlSe SJi»errVor, prerpj/«:d t6e,
*o .Wedqefday of.^»n«urJ ixxt j
J^eP.b»ving ounctd his 'fei«llen.cy's apr».
; p<i>batiAri of private and jwblic.
' aifts, w(vi<;h fiia dgfiogtlie, late,
Hon. * ftriffelj- .
i t*x of tl>e <rf
" iOiiililfc tT&Vslf<; «n ' ast for rcguTatwig,
tNp ihjitlaj incenforhiity lathe oftfee
United States; anaA'for eftab!iliii)g« col
''iege NM*w e»" , ««if'Wilßattifioi»,m tWt chnnty
of;B(:liibin; *by the n&aie of Wilßain»-tiol»-
Jetfe ; u tA fcr>contim>mg<tbe ! %M»nty' «"
; glffi'mmufafttired '■ irr this cctstoonweirtrti {
' (ft* attfor graritittg-a IbStti of~]F. itioO to Luke
and Isaac Bemis; free of interest, for
to. enable them to bnild a
keretofot* owned by tftetriVandwhich was lo
. eirtiaentljrufefut, having lately been eimfuni
' wfjjy fire ; an ast toVrtcotrrage the mannfec
ture of twjne aji ttft incorporating certain
perfonj for the of opening an inland
Water communication between Merrimack
rivfer town-
•tf *'.• i.;. •
during the fefllon, the hon. Edward H.
Robbins, fpealcer of the house, from the in
difpolition of his consort, was debarred at
tending his duty; and John Coffin Jones, Esq.
-was etefted loeaker, pro. temp, who declining
accepting, William Tudor, Esq. was elected,
and filled the chair the residue of the fefiion.
-*>—r.r.l—ti, amounted to
..20981. Toe compeiifatio;i to the members
was Bs. per diem.
NEW-LONDON, Jure 57.
A letter from a mercantile house in Rich
mond. to a merchant in this city, dated June
i 4, fays, '' 40s. fterl. perhlid. for freight from
this to Liverpool, can now be had for tobacco;
from 451. td 50s. has been given to London
Bs. fterl, per bbl. for flour to Europe has been
given, and something more might be obtain
ed; there are numbers in town wiSiing to
load vellbls with tobacco and flour."
From the Maryland Herald.
THE exports of the United States
for the year ending on the last of
September, amounted to the enormous
value 0f—20,; 18,014 dollars. They
stand thus :
GENE.T.
_ a ' ue of wares, goods and merchan
dize, exported from each Hate, agreeably
to th« A bit 1 att laid before Congress 27 th
February 1793.
•up
New Hamplhire,
Maflachufetts,
Rhode Island,
Connecticut,
New York,
New Jersey,
Pennfylrania,
Delaware,
Maryland,
Virginia,
Neith Carolina,
South Carolina,
Georgia,
! Dollars, 20, J18,01 4
Among the grtat cxpoiting states it
will be a mod pltaGng thing to lis to ob
fttve that Maryland, which the year prc
• ceding 1 was the fifth, is now the fourth in
the United Siatci. The attracts from
the Frcafury department are not perhaps
very generally to be iret with. It is to
be tegretted th?t they ate in t known by
every man in ,h e Ui:inn. ]! v thtm he
would tie furnilhed w ' xcnteftil ie evi
tience of our profpc 'y, j- \. } y be .
yond the onuns ot 'ry *i • ' e
gtnious politician' . .
at er the- pi acr
a k rot it!' 1
«!' tuiju Shefi.
Commerce of -the United State*" wniil
enceedingly assist in enabling tiiin to form*
•i just eltiinate or the value u» our iiatior.
al advantages. Lord Sticffisld i» an £i
glilb uobleman, who fervcd ag~-iii.lt us c4>
the continent latt war. When'lit return
ed 10 England he found the miuJ nud
feelings of that country war mly alive to
all forts of prejudices again ft us. Ha
saw the general alarm that fpiead about,
the effect which the difmetnberment of
the Britilh empire would produce. He
wilhed toappeafe it; and (for an author
who did not care what he advanced) judi
cioyfly enough seized the mooicut flyui r
able al once to the national prejudices.,
and to the fate of a work , which was to
flatter them, lie wrote to please.
To please, lie told them all lUey
wilhed to Tee proofs of. He told
tbem "they had loit nothing. He
wrote a largr book, which many
who read this have never read, to
prove that America,vvithout the aidJr
prote&ion of Great Britain molt fink in
to ntrvelefs J want <
and among other things that we Uiouid.
never be able to make mure wheat than we
did about 20 years since ! All things
have provedthat he knew little of his fub
jeft, and that Will Whifton was as good
at prophecy as he was. The author of
the examination of Loid Sheffield's errors
has with becomingmodeiaiion of remark
and by incontrovertible fails and re'afon
ing on them, completely refuted the work
of this peer. lu the discharge of this
duty (for however absurd the doctrines
of the work, they had a dangerous ten
dency against our trade-—) he has re
sorted to documents of veracity, and ma
naged the reasoning on theon with ability..
In the detail to which his subject led, h.e
has presented an unexaggerattd view of
the state of the Union, in the highest de
gree interfiling and gratifying to every
true American. Tiiis examination al
ready begins to open the eyes of even
EnglifhmeH in England. 3o incontelli
ble are its reafonitigs on facts so forcible,
that the very reviewers feel and acknow
ledge its luminous tiuths. The expofurc
of enors in general is wbolfume ; of
those in particular the influence of which
mis-direst the council of a trading nation
with whom we largely dial.
Itfeems to be of piime onfctjneaee
that a country Ihould know its refetirces
and advantages. The mora! effects re
sulting fiora this knowledge are seen in
the quiet charms of contentment, the po
litical are fell in a foberand dignified firm
nefs in their defence and wifemanagement
—To know them on a larger scale we
must resort to those works which treat of
thera from the belt authority.
FRANCE at the t:mc of ifiuing the pro
clamation was engaged, and likely to
be engaged in wa-, with a!!, oralipoftall Eu
rope, without a fingie ally in that quarter of
the globe.
In fucli a frate of things, it is etident, t'iat
however she may be able to dsfcnd herfelfat
home, (of which her factions and agitations
have turni/lied the only fericus doott; Ihe
cannot make rxurnclerforts, in any degree
proportioned to tbofe which can !.e inade a
_gainft her.
By this (ituatjon of things atone, th" Unit
ed States would fiedifpenfrd from an obligati
on to embark in her quarrel.
It is known, that we are wholly dcftitute .
ot naval force. France, with a'l the great
maritime powers united against her, is una.
b'e to fopply this deficiency. S!ie cannot rxt
ford us that species of co-tfcrumn, which is
neceilary to render the efforts ufeful to her,
and to prevent our experiencing the deftrufti
on of our t adi and themoft calamitous iucon.
venience in otii.-r njfpe.ts.
Our guarantee does not rtfpeft frar.cc her
el . It does ndt relate to her u^iirvimediate
defence, it relates merely to the defence and
p'eferyatioti of her Hmrikan co/onicri j'tjefts
ot winch (though of considerable importance)
ti'Sbtbe deprived, and vet remain a great,
a powerful, and a happy nation.
In the a&ual situation of this country, and
in relation to an object so fecoodary to
France, it rnav fairly be maintained, that au
ability in her to ftipply in acompetent degree
our deficiency of naval force, is a tondiiion of
our obligation to perfoim tt- guaiartee •«
our part.
Dollars.
181,407
2,389,922
698,084
:> 749>9 2 5
2,528,085
*3.524
3,820,646
'33.972
2 >55°>2 58
3 >549=499
503,294
2,430.425'
458,973
Had the United State* a powerful marine, or
could the y command one iu foiling
would eot be foiid ; but circainfagced •« they
•re, u 1S prefuir.ed to be well fouuded.
r'i' Cr r * rou ' t ' be no pioporliou between ths
" ij an , d P cri!s . lo wtuch ihc UnUed SiaTrt
would expofc themselves, by embarking in lt.e
'*"/• and lhc bcpcfi; uiid He talkie of their JH
funtwn alms at Jecuringio Fiance, or thaiwbioh
■t wci'ld be 10 'heir p<..*cr afluolly to sendee
nt'. yty a party.
;.%4 ,l P o mioii woHld be a valid reason
Aoruot executing Ihe guarantee. All contrafis
mk 10 nc ive » , ia fo„ablt conftruflioo. Sett
pieteivßUoi. « the firft dutv of 4 naiion ; and
iliowgh ui the perJormajice of ftipulatioiis reUt
out
\rh
ciou
» the
TOR THE GAZETTE.

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