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BOSTON, February z 6.
t* is with the greeted pleasure, lays a cor
fefpoudeut, that the plan of obtaining amend
ments to the new Constitution, firfl proposed
hf our worthy Chief Magiltrate, recommend
ed by the Convention of this commonwealth,
iJnl approved and adopted by the Legislature
at its last session, meets the fulled approbation
of every true zndbonejl Federalist throughout
the Union*. This plan has already been em
braced by the dates of Virginia, South-Ca
lolina, New-York, and New-Hamplhire, and
is admitted hr the fir A federal charade?* up
on the continent. It is generally said that
his Excellency the President elect is in the
fj»me fttiti’meiit, and there is no doubt of the
genuine republicanifra of the flatclnuu of
Braintlle.
, - The Lees, a Henry, a Gerry, and other
friends to the rights of the people, are ail of
them agreed in this opinion, so favorable to
the views withes of a great majority of
the citizens, of this commonwealth, and of
America at large. The celebrated Maddi
fon, of Virginia, has lately expressed ' his
ideas on this important fubjeft, in the mod
unequivocal language.—“ It is my wili, y
(fays he) to fee the fulled provifton on th
lights of coufcience, the freedom of the press,
trials by jury, exemption from general war
rants, &c. &c. and to fee effectual provision
made for a petiodical increase of Reprefeuta
tiv n the Federal Conftifution.” “N.
danger (fays he) will icfult from rite delibe
rations of Congrefson the iubjecl of amend
ments.” “ And it is my with (fays he, in
another letter) that the Congvefs to meet in
March next, (hould proceed to this lalutary
•work. He also thinks ** That :hc Judiciary
Department wiH admit of improvement, so
?S to render fuperfluous appeals impoflible'.”
> BENNINGTON, Feb. zb
We are informed from rcfpcftable authori
ty that many influential Members of the Le
gitlature of New-York arc apxiou3 for the
admifiion of Vermont into the Federal Union,
to prevent internal divilions among the Ame
rican dates. The Hon. General Schuyler and
others have given it as their opihion, that
matters ihould be coinpromifed amicably ami
speedily between this date and the New-York
claimants, the peace of the Uuion being of
far greater value than half a million acres
land.
A correspondent observes, it is highly pro
bable that the period is not far didant when
the government of New-York will find it
their intered to accede to the jnrifdiftion of
Vermo'nt the county of Clinton, together
with all that didrift of territory adjoining the
northern pods.
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NEW-YORK, March 7.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman at Fi/b
--kill to bis friend in this city, dated March
.• 3» I7 8 9‘
SIR,
“Werel to relate the many extraordinary
(though not less true) accounts I have heard
concerning that unfortunate girl at New Hje
kenfack, your belief might perhaps be dag
gered, and'patience tired. I fliall therefore
only iuform you of what Thave been a« eye
witnefc. Lad Sunday afternoon my wife an J
inyfelf went to Dr, Thorn’s, and after fitting
some time, we heard a knocking under the
feet of a young woman that lives in the fami
ly. I aiked the Doctor what occasioned the
noise ? He could not tell, but replied, that
lie, together with several others, had
mined the house, but were unable to difeover
the cause. I then took a candle, and went
with the girl into the cellar, there the knock
ing a'.fo continued ; but, as we were afeend- ;
ing the flairs to return, I heard a prodigious
Tipping on each tide, which alarmed me very
much. 1 flood dill some time looking around
with amazement, when I beheld some lum
ber which lay at the head of the flairs (Hake
considerably. About eight or ten days after
we visited the girl again—the knocking Aril
continued, but was much louder. Our cu
riosity induced us to pay the third visit, when
*be phenomena were still more alarming. I
then (aw the chairs move> a large dining
tablt thrown against me, and a fmal! (land on
whieh flood a candle, was totted up end throw n
jo my wife's lap \ after which we left ti e
Jionft much lurried at wlut we had (ecu."
'NEW-BRUNSWICK, March 10.
Wc are told that on Saturday evening iaft
his Excellency General Waihiugton' was ex
petted in Philadelphia, where great prepara
tions were making for his reception, and it is
supposed he will be accompanied in>-j this
date by the Philadelphia troop of horse i—
we hope the ci«zens of New-jersey wilt not
omit this opportunity of teftifymg their gra
titude to that iliuftrious charatter, by taking
a part in the pleasing talk of escorting him t >
New-York, $v take upon him ths Preiidency
of the United States.
Plttjburgy Feb 14. His Excellency Governor
St. Clair, with the Com mi dinners of this
date, and fevcral other 'gentlemen, arrived
here a few days ago from Fort Harmar.
A PROCLAMATION.
By his Excellency ARTHUR. St. CLAIR, Go
vernor and Commander in Chief of the
Territory of the United Spates
of the river Ohio, and Commifliouer'Ple
nipotentiary for removing ail caufcs of con
troversy between the Indians in the Nor
thern Department and the United States.
To ali Pdrfcns to whom these Hre
fcnts {hitrorrvi, Greeting :
IS7 H E Fv £'• A S a treaty was conclu led at
v V p'ort Harmar on the 9th day of Fe~,
bruary, iirthe prefern year, wuh the Six Na
tions the Wyandot, Delaware, Ch-ppawa,
Ottowas, Pe6to/vatamie and Sax nations of
Indians and the United States, whereby peace
«r.,l fiend (hip ha> been rcaC-ved and confirm
ed between the United States and the before
mentionevl Indian nations: All the citizens
and ftlhjetts of the United States a.e hcrel>y
requested to take notice of the Time, ami to
ahitain from any ad of hostility injury or
injudice to the said nations, and every indivi
! dual of the laid nations., as they (hall antwer
the contrary at their pc*il.
Given under nry hand and seal at Marietta,
in the County of Waihingtou, and Ter
ritory of the*United States north-weft of
the Ohio, the twenty-fourth day of Ja
nuary, Anno Donvni one thousand le
veti hundred and eighty-nine, and the
thirteenth year of the independence of
the United States of America.
ARTHUR Sc. CLAIR,
By. His Excellency's command,
lf*inth>opl Sargeit, Sec’ry.
GOD Jave the UNITED STATES.
PHILADEL PHI A, March 9.
It is with lingular pleafurc we hear that *
James Wilton, Esq. of this state, is destined;
by the voice of many thuuiand Federalists, to
fill the llation of Chief Justice of the United
States. This worthy citizen devoted himfelf
to the caul'e of American freedom in 1774,
and has lhared in every toil and danger of the
revolution. His hand, his heart, his tongue
and his pen, have ever been at the command
of his country. To his laborious investiga
tions into the principles and forms of every
species of government that has ever existed in
the world, and to his powerful reasonings in
the late Federal Convention, the United States
a«e indebted for many of the perlettions of
the new Confiitution.
The office alloted for that diftinguifbed pa
triot and iegiflator by his grateful country
men, will require an uncommon ftiarc of le
gal and political abilities and information. A
new system of federal jurisprudence must be
formed’; a new region in the administration
of justice inuft be explored, in. which genius
• alone can supply the defett of precedent ; and -
who so equal to those great and original un
dertakings as that favourite ion of Peuufylva
uia, James Wilson, Esq.
18. Since the votes of South-Carolina and
been known, it appears that il
luftrieusfoldier & venerable citizen, GEORGE
• WASHINGTON, Esq, is uuanimoufly e
letted First Prefidentof the United States.-
Ye little great ones of the world ! how might
the man* who floats upon the full tide of uni
njer/al approbation, look down upon, heredi
tary right*
ALEXANDRIA, Jan. 22.
By information received from Kentu» key,
v\c learn, that many of the principal people
of that diftritt, are warmly in favor of a fc
. arttion from the union, and conten 1 that it
• i ijuriottfi to the intereflk of that country,
to be couuettcd with the At antic Stattt—
This idea, so pregnant whh mifchief to Ame«
rica, is said to be much cheriihed by the in
telligence carried'there b ; Mr. Brown, mem
ber of Ccngrefs, to this effeft: That he had
the nrungeft aliurances from the Spanish Aiu
baftador, that, on such a declaration by the
people of Keutuckey, Spain would.cede to
them the free navigation of the Miflifippi,
and gi\ * them every support and encourage
ment iu her power. Though this docs not
corrcfpond with the opinion that has common*
ly been entertained of that Miuifter, as to
prudence, it is so serious in its consequences,
to the peace and exigence of the-Atlantic
States, as to deserve the immediate attention
of Cougtefs. If it be authentic, Mr. Brows
has iucurred high penalties for holding such a
correfpondencc; and it is hoped, the Execu
tive of this llate, will confider it as apart of
their duty to enquire iuto it.
AVGUSTA, April 25.
GEORGIA .
Ey his Honor GEORGE WALTON, Esq.
- Captain-Generai, Governor and Command
er in Chief in and over the said State.
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS a Proclamation iffu'ed
on the 10th instant, founded
on an Aft of the Executive of
the preceding day, appointing
the eighth day of June next to be the time,
and the South margin of the Ofconee river,
- oppolite to the Rock Landing, the place, for
holding the Treaty with the Creek Indians;
since when a Board of Commiflioners of In
dian Affairs, for the Southern Department,
has been formed’ at Abbeville, in the State of
South Carolina, andwho, by their letter of tho
■ 20th instant, have fignified that, for the rea
sons therein mentioned, they had been oblige
ed to defer the meeting of the said Indians
until the 20th of June. AND WHEREAS,
on this day, the Executive approved of the
time being changed from the eighth to
the twentieth of June next. I HAVE,
THEREFORE, thought fit, with the advice
of the Honorable the Executive Council, to
issue this my Proclamation, notifying the fame
to the people at large, and to all others whom
it may concern. And, in the mean time, it
is hereby injoined ;-.nd required, that the truce
heretofore agreed on, be inviolably preserved
on the part of this state.
GIVEN under my Hand, the Great
Seal of the said State, iu the Council
.Chamber, atAugufta, this twenty-third s
day of April, in the Year of our Lord,
one thousand, seven hundred and
eighty-nineand in the thirteenth
Year of the Independence of the United
States of America.
GEORGE WALTON.
By his Honor's Command ,
JOHN MILTON, Secretary .
GOD SAVE THE STATE.
Ajter Orders of the Governor and
Commander in Chief.
Government House , Augufla, Ap;il ai, 1789.
COME misapprehension having arisen with
refpeft to the place of holding the Gene
ral Court Martial for the trial of Captain
Rooi and Lieutenant M‘Avey, although Sa
vannah was explicitly named for that pur
pose ; yet the Governor and Commander in
Chief does not construe it into a disobedience
on the part of.the members of the said Court.
And, as it is represented that Augusta will
be a more convenient place, It is, therefore,
ordered, that the said trial be at Aiiguila on
the third Monday in May next.
Attest . J. MERIWETHER, S. E. C.
The Honorable Me. Osborne, one of the
Cotnmifli,oners of Indians Affairs of the United
States for the Southern Department, has re
turned to this place from Abbeville, in the
State of Soutb-Carolina. That he met there
the bouorable General Pickens, with Whom
a Board was formed ; and that the roost prompt
and chearful acquiescence was experienced,
on the part of the General, to promote the
wilhes of the government of this date for a
peace with the Indians. *