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CONGRESS* ;
House of Representatives.
Wednesday, March l.
from our lalhj
In the 6th page the commifsiorvers have
charged the U. States with the ment of
dollars 4,065,738 a; cents, for die interest
which during the year 1802, accrued on the
whole of the public debt, including doir.eftic
loans. I have an apprehension (which how
eve may not be just) that this charge for in
terest is not correct. For I find in the annua]
* report of the fecretiry of the treasury, made
on the 16th day of December, he Rates thar (
on Oe 30th September laft—
‘s The payi**ais on account of tbs
principal and intcrtfl of ihe
debt; have be n . 4,622,105 39
“ F ‘om which deducing one year’s
in ereft or the fame, 3,470,259 75
44 a fu~n appl’Vd to the reim
bursement ( >t ft.c principal of the 6 per
Cent, and deferred stock of i 1 57,845 64
Rv this ac< mint it would fem that
the ferretary ftatd the interest on the
domefiic debt to he 3A*J°i 2 59 75
If the ftsteißMit be cor re ft-, he ought
to have tridit ,r > (h-U amount.
The imercPc due on the foreign debt
ft ift.ted by the fccretary ir a report
ui-uethe (all y-c.r, in table i\ at 4-76,93*’
3947i , 9° 75
The fc t *vo ft ms, one would fappofe, coifftirateu
. t‘. ; v le sum due for in ereft on tlie domestic and
o:rc-. u debt added toge her, and they amount only
to C 3947*9° 75
The ctjnwiifltoners charge 4,065.738 47
Making a diftlrence of 1:8,547 72
Which h v.Tuld seem has been charged by hem
beyond ihe actual interest paid.
It is poflible, and for aught I know probable, that
the accounts ate not correct, and that there arc other
sums which do not appear. Ii does appear that some
thing is wanting fatisfafforily to explain the ac
counts. fcvtn the accounts refpe&ing the Dutch
debt do not agree. For in the report of the lafi year,
in the table P. interest on Dutch debt, is dated at
476,931 dollars, whereas in the fame, according to
the table R. b is made 1,145,250 guilders, which are
equal to 458,100 dollars j making a difference of
18,831 dollars. I was at firft apprehensive that the
lormer sum included a premium ; but that is stated
in table R. to be 59,577 guilders, which is equal co
23,83° dollars, and which added to the amount of
interest, as ftaud in table R. would make the total
exceed that ftaied in D.
tier. K.n ic an inaccuracy which I cannot ac
count for. In both ioffances rhe accounts are calcu
lated as arising in the year 1802.
1 also endeavored 10 a coutir for (he firft inaccu
racy by fupprfing it did not embrace the the iirereft
on the debt due to the bank, as in page 6 of thC re
port it is fluted that theahovementioned difourfements
were trade during the
fuppefuion 1 tot Id not find a fatitfadiory explanation
Ail these cireumftai.ces may be tight, and the
money m*y have been all properly applied ; but
the accounts aic incorrect, they tught to Le inves
tigated.
In the general fta’crr.ent of the accounts, there is
fotre hing wanting explanation, In the 6 h page
we find that ‘be commiflion rs of the finking fund
teceived from the treasury, 9 37 7 >75- 28.
In addition to this it will appear hat
there was in 1801, remitted to Fin
land, beyond the lum required for pay
ments in that year, 2,313,846 guilders,
whi*h is in the bands of the comnfiffi
cmers, and vvi h which they are charge
able, amounting to — 9 2 60
For these two sums they are ac
countable, making together, 1b,298,290 80
New let us fee how they have accounted Mr this
sum in their bands.
In he firft place, the commiftioners fay they have
paid the interest for iSc2, cn the whore or the public
debt, amounting to 4. 47
To *he Bank, 1,257,600
From the proceeds of the duties, scc. 2,400
In Raiments of Du'cn debt, 1,344,000
Reimbursement < f the bhh ir.ft.il
*rent of the 6 per cent stock, and the
$d inftalment of the deferred 6 per cent
stock becoming payable the iff of
January, 1803, est 1 mated at 1,117,869 37’
Thus the whole amount of sums
which hy the cotumiffioners have been
paid, is, 7,817,607 04
Leaving a balance unaccounted for of 2-480,683 04
Further, when i compare the statement made in
Ihe report of the conuniffioners cf the finking fund
of the amount if the inftalments o’ the Dutch debt
due in 1802, with the statement cf the fee re (ary of
the treasury made the iait year, I find they do not
agree.
Accordirg to the report cf (he secretary cf the
treaiury [table R.J the it. Raiments amour.: :c guii- i
CltrS, j.
By the report of the ccmtni Sorters
the/ are ftaud at 3,360,000
Making a difference cf ico,oco
The commifiicners fay u besides the aboverren
tioned reimburfement* and payments, there remai ed
at the ckffe of the year iSea, exclufivcly- of the
amount of fitndrv protefftd bills (Fill outstanding and
cf unexpended balances in the hands cf agems, an
unapplied ha ance, estimated at guilders 5,914,606 :
applicable to the payment of ihe principal ?.i.u to eteft
jfie Du r ch debt fin tie year 1803, and toofifting
t f remittances purchased and paid for before the firft
day of January, 1803, beyond the sums wan ed to
nicer the clemaiids in Holland during ihe year ibc2. ,, j
1 vrH a&tke Houic, w!*ethcr this is a
account rendered for ibe dilnulement of neat ly two
and a half million of dollars —Tl ey ft ate 44 *m unap
plied balance estimated, —Where then wes the (
iieceffity of an cftiuutef Did rot the crmmifliortcis ‘
know to a (liver the amount remitted? Did they not ‘
know the arr.et'nt of bills purchased, and the extent of i
their coutracl w.th mr. Baring ? I hey know all this.
Whence then the rcctfSty ot fending us an est 1 mate ?
For my part I do not understand this mode of ftaung
the accounts tnat reia e to the disbursements of so
large a sum of money. The (urn is very large, and
was it not p Cpzc to ffate the particular tiisburf
rrients ? The ccir.rciffioners were ac-quanited with
every bill bought, a d wfih every comracf n* ile.—
Was it ncx then proper to have stated every i eni ?
To enable us to aider(ftin in v.'ha: manner they had
made their remit; av.ee s ; whether hi theiuoft pr-odent
manner ; whither they had not advanced money on
conrrafl* which extended tor niCn;h or years. It is
very easy in the management cf so iarge a firm to
plare monies in the hands ot individnals, ; nd replace
bote nicies in Hollst.d in ten, twelve, or fifteen
months. In rhe courfi* of an-tigemcnt, the indi
vidual may be greatly in; e6rte.l, aind the country
nnufi injured. For ti rir own honor ar.a clmrcifter
rhe cortMitifiioners ou-.iit to have fiitwn bv clrar, fpe
Mfic vouchers, tliey had shewn no favor, jmcTbeeij
guilty of no partiality—This wne iircutnWent uppnJ
rhem. I certaiul-v do not know that any improper
t ranfaftian Iras taken pla.ee , nor do I state tbde-thit-ps
as a charge age. just the comnrffioners. But such
tranfarti; ns m<*\ take place ; and the accounts ought
to he in ftaicd as to cn..b]e us to alecrtaiu the tor>-
reiftnefs and propriety of i! cir proceedings
ftut allowing me c-wmoiffiouers credit, according
*0 their own (latement, lliil on the general account
there remains n balance oi dollars, I 14 44 cents
eniirrly unaccounted for. I arn ftnlible, fiom t'uc
general cxprtlfion of tb-e report, that this be lan re
mar be in t!i2 l>ands ol agents, or that it may arift
hrrv. prowiled bii is. Bui if rhis is the caf-, why is it
not dated ? lam inclined to think there cannot be
much of if in protested c.s the secretary in his
annual report, has cUducicd a coisficl **''able font for the
return or p oteiied bills ; though iv is possible their
• mount may be fulftcient to cover the balance. But
’ rh ■ question again recurs, if so, why did not the coni
t. ifiioneis futic if, rfiat we might fee from what it
a*ofe ? ibis would have been fa: isfadtory.
For the -purpole of fniving theft, facts invefUgatcd 1
move this rcfulu'ior- Ii i.* possible ior me or any
I other member, to detevntine whether all the money
may rot be fairly brought nto account. ‘l'he ac
counts are so ft a red that it is impossible to tell whe
ther this will, or will not, he the vcfjlt. We have’
effimafes, where thee oug’nt to be documents ; and
general statements wltere there ought to be details
• t is, for these reasons, impcilible to fry what the re
lult will be— (his 1 want to know ; and for this
purpole I vvifh to institute an inveiligation thioughj
committee oi Tit;s ftoufe, who shall report to us whe
her tiie monies lodged with the con: mini oner*; of the
finking fund havejietui faithfully applied. 1 there
fore, offer rhe following r-fujution :
4 ‘ Resolved,, that the committee of ways and means
be directed to erquire wheth r the cntnmifiioners of
the finking fund have, agreeably to the directions of
the act, entitled 4 ‘ An S making provision for the
redemption of the whole of the the public ciebt of the
United Stales,” applied the sum ot seven million,
three hundred thoufa.nd dollars, provided by the fame
so tlie payment >r if-.e principal and interest of the
public debt ; and to enquire generally, into the ac-S
Counts and proceedings of the commifiioners oi the
linking fund—'-and lo report to the haufe.*’
[ To be continued ]
AUCTION.
ini! be fold on ‘Tuefdav the nth in ft ant
before my hutlion Store Market J yuare,
I\ evv - r ngi an and K uni,
Pipes Brandy,
sugar in Barrels,
Flour in do.
salmon,
Br x-es snap,
Kegs Butter
uard v. are,
wind for chairs,
cotton Digging
irifh Linens,
ofnaburgs,
neffians,
printed Muslins,
Tarnhor’d do.
lioiicry,
Mens nais,
Writing: Parer,
with a veriety of other articles.
Sale to commence at i o a dock , v
Conditions Cash. a •’ • “•
LfVY ABRAHAMS AtuV
ThN DOLLARS REWARD, “ -
Absconded from the plantation of the
the fubfieri'e?\ on tie ytb of March faft,
a negyo fellow named Summer ; had on
when he went away a pair of dark brown
■ t loth frowfers, a w’ ite coat cr plains, and
a red fin fed waifi:o-i: tie is about 25
years 0} ape* and of a /lender make. Who
ever nviU deliver fiaia fellow at fird plan
tation. Aven miles from ll’d\ne[heron* b s
■J o 7
un the Quaker Ready or \oac.e him in any
goal in the Jiaie , fit ail receive the above
reward . It is hppofed he is fomewhem
in tie neighboi booa oj Bloody Point.
J. BOWEN, jyn.
April 11. Vr 55/
W~ w • 1- UK bii EE,
THE tVii’d part of a l et, a Hocle r.nd EEch'n
iUereon, it a ple.fant cf the town, tear r
Prelbyician For wUUi good t: ics w:’S
fix ved. A pply to J s }tL C 6 trlrJN GFR.
Apr ! 11.
Junr. CRAZY JANE.
STOP traveller, fee wretched Janr—
Her visage wears the marks of trouble i
Hard disappointment turn’d her brain,
And has bent her aimoft double.
She views with prying eye about,
The rubbifn swept from every door,
Picks little feraps of paper ou r ,
And fee ms to read them o’er and o’er.
OBferve, observe, that little drip,
Os dean white paper meets her eye :
Observe the motion of her lip,
She seems to read, you hear her fi&h.
Now every idi(v brain like her’s,
Is governed (till by certain laws,
In every moment still recurs,
I o its hrtl great'Parental cause.
N.ow frrarger tell how this can be :
Why Rje that paper drip should take,
Look over it wi/h so much glee,
Then sigh as if her heart would break. |
Poor Jhnny was not always so,
The time mv gran’num knows full well,
When Jenny to the bal l would go.
Amongst the foremoU belies, a belle.
Her favourite lover, when at sea,
Wrote tender ie;ters to his Jane.
That it was -Ihe, and only Ihe,
That fooih’d the horrors of the main.
A ftormcamc on—And new he Steps,
On the celd billows of the Main,
And wretched Jenny laughs and weeps j
But laughs, and weeps with crazy main.
And (till in every paper ferap,
Scribbled or nor, \-is (till the Fame,
She looks attentively— Mayhap.
She Hill may find her lover’s name.
Singular irfiance of prefervaticn , prevkus to the
exploding of bis majefifs Jbip } Boyne , at
pithead .
When vhe rapid and dreadful conflagration happen
ed o.i board bis majiftv’s Boyne, ar marine was
peaceably fitting in his birth with his wife and son
a boy about twenty months old, just beneath the place
where the inisioitune began,, and, finding every effort
to eftcape the flames in the ordinary way ineffectual.
;he man, with the greatcll couapofure ot mind, took
rom ti e pens a sheep of the captain’s live lfoci, and
bracing ivis bey on the annmrafts fleecy back, dropoeci
them into the sea : “ tiiere/’ laid he, “ turn to tlte
and, and Cod go with you - ’ —Encouraged by her
iiu(band’s refoluiion, his wife leaped into ihe brine,
arid the man followed after, sup porting his companion
. above wafer till the beats got io their af&ftance.* when
iliey were taken up little worse for the venture.—
Ihe sheep wish the greatest ffeadiuefs, was seen to
make towards the shore, with )ou;tg Ben Bowline
riding on bis back like an infant river God to the
vaff delight of the fpeffators on shore, who from the
tendeie-ft motives, finding themfelvcs interested in the
boy’s ft.fety, ruffed in the watery element to meet
the youg navigator, whom they presently uufbeeped
and fuccoured with tenderness, till he again fell into
I the arms of his adventurous parents.
The (insularity of r! is event attached the patron-’
a m °fi liberal lady, near Fairy Hill, in‘the Hie
■ { Wight, who having prevailed on the mother of the
child to leave his fn'ttre fortune io l*er guidai.re, de
dared m the meft friendly manner, “ that as ike boy
had begun his naval career cn a lamb, {he would
never leave him till he was able to end it like a hen.’’
Who knows our little hero’s fate,
Som*’ noble 1 lawke may conquer for the Rare,
May wield for Briton’s good the chaft’ning rod.
Notice.
A L w- pf . rfonS - ‘ iav:,n S d*n!inffs ag-jinft tbe effate of
i i. A ilkam late of Liberty oountv, tleceal
cd, are reqaefted to render ihem properly attested,
na those indebted, lonitice jintnediate payment to
jobn Jones, Admr.
Liberty county, Bth April, 1803.
Public sale,
W.LL bs fold at the town of Riceboroucb, on
the 2.}th hay of May next, between the hours
or ten and ikree o’clock, bv public oatcrv; all the
*crf n:ti property of W iSil m Shepard, late of Liber
ty cQ.in-y, tlecfak-d, co:.fitting of four prime hJFLD
>LAV E , a I!.('R'E, WA 1 CH, double GUN and
ionic Louie i L R\l i L 11E. ( . riitions, casir.
John Jones, Admr.
Liberty county, Sib April, 1803- ( < <9
1 he Subfcribcrs,
dp ILL take a Young A Lit: of good character, tc
theJltidy cf Medicine.
EWEL L & COCKE.
A/ ‘ll 55.
W A N T E D,
AT this Office, one or two Apprenties,
to learn the art cf printing.
Bills of Lading
: for sale at this Office.
Blank Books,
for file at this Office.
FOR SALE,
A Child’s Hndfome COACHES,
ipply t o. j. ARNOLD. Cos., merce-P ow. J
April St. (54H )
FOR THE REPUBLICAN.
;v<r 11.
The local policy of states & nations
is an interesting and ufeful study. It
inftrudts us where to imitate their be
neficiai regulations, and where to avoid
those which are detrimental to the
public weal.
Various have been the dlfcuflions
and opinions with which the public
have been entertained on the fubjedt of
New-England politics; few who have
attempted to explain them, appear to
have poffefled a competent knowledge
of the lubjett.
Conne&icut is my native
With its customs and laws, I have a
pretty intimate acquaintance. s’ome of
its regulations vary from its fitters, but
no material alteration is necellary to
adapt the general outlines to the Aew-
England ttates. A ttrong ttmilarity
evidently exitts.
It is well known that the Plymouth
colony, the firft fettiers of Maflachfetts,
emigrated from religious motives.—
Persecuted in their native country, and
like the human race generally, not
finding reason in blows, they resolved
to forego fame or the luxuries of life,
to enjoy it in fafety and their opinions
without reilraint. Happily for man
kind, they outlived their fufferings, and
succeeded in forming an ettablilhment.
But though fleeing from religious
persecution, and under circumstances
wiiich awakened the attention and the
hope of the philofophjr ; they had not
learnt that law and religion had different
, objefts ; that one was intended for the
( security of thu life, tlie other for the
next. Hence originated die religious
laws of that part of the union, which
have prostrated the minds cf thousands
of its inhabitants, and rendered them
‘ the mere engines of the clergy. With
‘what malevolent zeal our fore fathers
• persecuted those who differed from them
| let their history determine. They for
- got entirely, the basis of all religion,
the divine rule cf Jesus, “do unto oth-
I ers as ye would they fliould do unto
; you.”
, No society was ever designed by
the creator to cxitt without a disparity
‘of fcTitiment. When, by new emigra
• tions, tlie colony became more ex
-1 tended, and its population increased,
• difficulties on this subject arose, which
. added to feme other confederations,
. induced an emigration from the colony.
These emigrants fettled at or near
Hartford, and from the Indian name
of tiie river on whole banks they took
up their abode, their infant feitlement,
was called Connecticut. ‘
A feperate colony, immediately
from England, but agreeing in religious
ientiments -with the Connecticut puri
tans, fettled about the fame time at
Qu nipiak, or New-Havep. Diftind
grants were held from the crown for
both colonies, and for fome time they
were different governments. They
were at length united under the name
of Connecticut, and a charter obtained
from the Britifii King. This charter
at the present time is the basis of their
government.
A. YANKEE.
Notice.
BENJAMIN STORY, (Jet.
ARK enp .were j to Iran Uct the bufmefs of
liEiN’RY KNEELAND, & Cos.
during the abfeiice cf
Henry Kneeiand.
March 10,1803. 2aw.tf.
l\ouce ts Hereby Given.
THAT the lubfcribers have been duly ap
pointed Affignets of the estate and effeffs of Rtcbard
Wzyn*, jrn ibi\ and B njamln Sit;;s, of Savannah and
in the and ftri<ff of Georgia—Bankrupts. All
persons indebted to the said Wayne and Sims, arc
therefore requested to make immediate payment, and
all those who have any of their efFetft Sj are required tc
deliver the fame to
David Reid, J of Shigus
horn as Gardner , j ta, or
William Boy a, of Charleston .
February 14th, 1803. (40.)
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FOR SA LE
the Office of the George Republican*