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has provisions enough for a year; there are
no mines, but the ramparts are mounted with
11'3 pieces of cannon, modly of brass.”
Our last letters from France bring intelli
gence which must give pain to every humane
person.
. That country, labouring under a scarcity
cf corn, is now likely to be reduced by a fa
mine. The inclemency of she weather has
destroyed the husbandman’s hopes in various
parts of that kingdom, but particularly in
Gascony.
On the 15th of April lad a dreadful (hower
of hail fell in that country: the flones were
as large as those which, on the 13th Julv,
3788, completely destroyed the harvefl all
over Acquitaine.
The late dorm has totally dripped the tree 3
and vineyards of their ripening or budding
fruits ; and the growing corn has been as ef
fectually dedroved as if it had been eaten up.
t Thus the whole face of the extensive pro
vince of Gascony exhibits a feene of diock
•ing devadation; its wretched inhabitants
Jrave no other profped: but wretchedness and
cMdrefs.
On the loth of May, at four o’clock in the
Morning, the Mayor of the city of Beavais,
attended by the King’s Attorney of the Stew
ard’s Court of that didritl, arrived at Mr.
Neckar’s house at Versailles, and, unfe a toll
able as the hour was, defiled that he' might be
immediately called up.
The two gentlemen being introduced to
him, informed him that the objeft of their
jdurney was to acquaint him with the alarm
ing intelligence, that in the whole county of
Beauvoids there was normore corn than would
fuflice for the fudenance of the inhabitants for
five days.
The Minider desired they would inrtantly,
retutir, and allure the people that a supply of
corn lhould a. rive before the expirati m of
the five days, that lhould be fufficient for their
confuthption till the fiift of Jnlv ; and that
in the mean time meatures lhould be adopted
for procuring them a further supply.
Such is the condition of France ; and yet
the Commons of that kingdom in States Ge
nera! adembled, indead of deviling means
for the relief of the people, are debating
about idle forms.
BOSTON, Augufi 20.
We are informed that a young iady at
Milton lately spun seventy skeins of thread
out of a pound of cotton, which another young
lady wove, making as fine a pie;e of Muilin
as ever was fabricated in that town.
We are also informed that the Collector of
this dirtrift has directed that the paper tiled in
the Cuftotnhoufe Hull be of American nla'uu-'
fafture".
PHILA DELPHI A, Sept. 1.
Extract of a letter from Fredericks burg , dated
a ugufl 25, 1789.
u Mrs. Walhington, the mother of our
President, died this afternoon.”
LEXINGTON, (Kentucke) June 13.
On Wednesday the 3d ind. two men amF
three boys were filhing in Floyd’s fork of Salt
river, when a party of Indians fell in with
them, killed the two men and took the boys
prisoners. >
We arc fir.ee informed, but one of the boys
returned, and informs that the Indians gave
him a tomahawk and kicking, and ordered him
return and inform his people what had become
of his companions. .
About the 20th ult. the Indians fired on
nine Frenchmen going up the Wahadi river,
killed four and wounded three; coming up to
the dead, they difeovered one of them to be
a French trader, who was married to a daugh
ter of John Brant, the famous Indian ( hies,
on which they adided in pulling the arrows
out of the wounded men v and then went off
leaving them unmoleded farther.
ao. On Saturday evenig lad two Indians
came to Mr. Jacob Sturcher’a, on the North
Elk Horn, near Labanon, and dole three
hotfes. On Monday a party of about twelve
Indians killed a lad about two or three miles
from Col. John ton’s, near Capt. Herndon’s ;
Capt. Herndon, who heard the guns, having
a horse faddM, immediately rode to tie
place, and feeing the lad killed, alarmed the
nfighbouihoud, and in a very limit time rail
ed abtUt fifteen men, aud purtoed the Indians;
aftuittberof oilier# who collccUJ aturC’apt.
’ Herndon darted, followed aftpr : Capt. H:rn
cun aud his party, after following lome >1 s
tance, difeovered the trail of those who had
dolen Stuther’o horses to cross those they were
then in purluit of, and much easier to follow,
and therefore thought proper to leave the
former, and pmfuethe latter; in a lliort time
they came up With them, killed two ani
wounded the other, (there being only three)
and recovered all the hot fes.
CHARLESTON, Sept. 10.
On Monday an jtottion was held in the
fevera! wards of this city for Wardens to serve
in City Council for the ensuing \ear, when it
appeared the following gentlemen were eject
ed : >
Ward No, 1. William Read,
2. John Mitchell.
3. Thomas Corbett.
4. Thomas Jones.
5. Henry William Dcfapfture.
6- Charles Warham.
7. William Fraser.
8. James Lynah.
9. Daniel S,evens.
10 Thomas O. F.liiott
-11. John F. Gnmke.
12. Tucker Harris.
13. John Robeitfon.
AUGUSTA, Sept. 26.
4
On Monday the oth Aoguft, the following
medige from the Prefidenc, was de lives ed to
the House of Reprefemat.ves of the United
States, by the Hon. Gen. Knox.
Gentlemen of the H nfs cf Rep'efentati<vei y
I have direcled a datement of tlie troops in
the lervice of the United States to be laid be
fore you for your information. These troops
were railed by virtue of the Retolve.-ofCon
grels of the 20th of October, 1786, a>d the
3d of October, 1787, in order to proted the
frontiers from the depredations of the hodilc
Indians, to prevent all intrufious on the pub
lic lands, and to facilitate the furyeying and
feHing of the fame, for the put pole of 1 educ
ing the public debt.
As these important cbjefts continue.to re
quire the aid of the troops, it is necedat y that
the eltabhlhment in all refpeds, be
conformed, by law, to the Conditution of the
United States.
G. WASHINGTON.
New-Vork, Auguf 10.
A datement of the troops, now in service,
accompanied the meda,t.e.
The edabliihmcnt of a national bank ap
pears to be an object of very general expec
tation : Such a plan would give a spring to
trade and commerce through the dates, by
introducing a competent circulating medium;
by enabling Cong refs and the fever al dates
to realize to the public creditors some part,
at lead, of their jud demands, and by ic
doring a Confidence in the national faith,
it would unlock the iron 'repofitories of many
thousand rudy dollars, who have long been
confined by the* wary proprietors, led they
lhould, on being released, make tothemfelves
wings of paper, and fly away. This plan
will also conduce to diUng’hCn the nat'oml
government, and remove jealousies rcf t cit
ing particular accumulating wore, while
they pay lejs, than th'eir proportion of rhe
public revenue. For the bills ofthe nation'''
bank being unlimited in their circulation
through the dates, toperior indudry will add
10 the aggregate amount in any particular
date. .
The confidence which is already created
in the new government bids fair to excite a
rivalihip among monied men, in the terms on
which they propose to make their loans for
the immediate'exigencies of the Union, and
if this is the case, as it must be undoubtedly,
except we top pole that mankind are blind to
their own intcrelt, a competition on tins tob
jed may more reafonibly b* expefted among
the fevera! banking companies in the Uuiicd
States. •
* The ditp Maria, Dcnnidon, fiom London;
brig Nancy, M*Nie), from Havre de Grace ;
and brig Favourite, M'lver, from Africa ami
Madeira, arc arrived at CTutrlcfiou.
We bear frotn’Hiiladelpbia, thtt the mer
chants of that city arc about forming an af
tociation, which will, it i* laid, thVltnlly
ptevent fmuifgliug in e»cry just of tint
date.
T>!ED.] On Thursday, the i;th inst. in
the town of Wailiingtou, Wilkes, Mr. Ste
phen Meers, a merchant of this place.
*
EL EC'TION BERING
Wii'wiiK fptrtt, is now abroad throughout
the date, mar he lecn in the various
£-r is of familiarity, religion or prof <
alternately atluined by the canaille of candi
dates, as,they conceive will enfute fucccfs ;
but notwiihilandiug the depravity of the times,
and ot Georgian manners, which it become
a proverb; we hold a jevj charaders, who
conlcious of ability and integrity, are above
Hooping to the common modes of canvafiing:
—And to do the public the fame jullicc in
Georgia, which is done them eveiy whete
cUe,' it mull be allowed th.ft men ot this de
-Ici iutton have feblom been ovci looked : but, ‘
gtcat as the reform is, in point of reptefen
lation, by our New Conltituiion \ we caiwot
■ even no-w find politicians to fiil up the num-
Ler; And as the pen of the encomiaft and the
tongue of malevolence would but, produce the
l~.me elicit, wete et Iter of -them cxercifcd
upon an) of the Je.-vi already rtetenbed ; it
lemams only to point out those charaftcrs, ’
who, if they cannot be ufctul, will not he
cangerous, and with whom we may fill up the
remaining blanks The glioll of a deceafcd
patriot, (Boh, Hen, or Banholomew Philan
thropos) may have adopted a manner suitable
to the oetonomy of the place of his prelate
reiidence, in iilullrating lubjctfs'by negatives;
but in this cur world, it were rather"too te
dious a method to demonfirate, what a pre
dicament is, or ought to be; by cnumeiat
ing the various predicates, which do not, or
ought not, to compose it:—l lhail chufe iltc
more concise plan of attempting a politive
delineation—Whether it is g:anted, that the
populace poilefs that thaie of difeernment,
which 1 have plated to their credit, or not, is
a matter of indiffer cnee ; there being the high
clt probability that June men of political me
rit will be given to their country at the eu
lumg Citrons. As it is a different char.tftec
than ilte llatelmau or financier which. I ant
■ about to depict, it is natural to expett that .
dtdetent tcijuiiitcs will compote that charaft
ei ; —a plaiu muici Banding that will enable
him to make proper dil'criminations; a.id
when maoe, honedy to dfreit his oji.nious,
and f|i mnefs to ptelerve them, ought to be
the leading traits in futh a character let
him be an enemy to faction—tme who is mmo
covetohs ol hon.jl Jane, tlian of.ihat wealth,
which, thn’ accumulated witiiout blame, may
be acquired without honor, —and lafilv, let
him tc fn far independent, that he be uncm
b'arralied in his titcumflanccs ; led the hope
oi bet.eiiiig Ins lumcd loitune, might induce
him to do that, which would blalt his repu
tation and injure the Republic. In fine, Ci
tizens, after having given your fuffrages to
men, whoie abilities demand them of
you, makeup the number from among!* these,
v»iiufe chaiaderiftics a:e honelly and good
fenie, a lid whole ciicumfiapccs are neither .
confined nor dubious: lo ihail we contribute
to our refptciatiiny as a date, —create a mu
tual confidence between our citizens and
lcitillators, and the great ob-jetl of erta
blnliing our political bap^mefs,
ARISTIDES.
* > *««* <* *93* • A A %S # 'tP. tP.
BENJAMINE Jer.kms tolls be
fore me the following Arays :—■'
1 wo young he'furs, and two large
Aeers; one hciller bia k, wit a
white face, no mark or b- and per
ceivable *, toe other a pJe red, wichf
fotrie white fp*its, marked with an
under fl p in each' tar, no brand
One red anil white Acer, the other
blVck arid wh.t/, each nu*k d with
atr*?p and half crop in each eir, nor
lands perceivable *, the latrer has
one (/i h s liorns dropped down in
his face. '1 he owner or own rs
umA p ove his or their property
within the lime prescribed hyla v,
b' fore
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