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Mot: day % Jane 29.
The committee to whom was referred the
bill to regulate the collection of the revenue,
reported a new bill, which was read, and re
ferred to a committee of the whole, to be
taken into coufideration to-morrow.
A meflage was received from the Senate,
informing, that they had acceded to the
amendments last proposed by the House to the
bill, laying au import on goods, wares and
merchandizes imported into the United States.
The Secretary .then'delivered in the* bill.
Mr. Parker introduced a petition from
William Finney, of Virginia, which* was
read and laid on the table.
Upon motion of Mr. Thatcher, i* was
voted that 100 copies, of the collection bill be
printed for the accommodation of the mem
bers.
Mr. S">tt moved, that the report ot the
committee upon the state of the unappropri
ated lands ftiould now be taken up ; this mo
tion was seconded, but upon being put, pas
sed in the negative.
In committee of the whole, on the bill for
ertablifhing the treasury department, several
alterations and amendments were made to
the bill, but the difeuffion was not finilhed
this day.
Mr Burke gave notice, that he fliould pro
pose an additional clause, to prohibit any of
the officers in this department, from being
either direClly or indirectly concerned in trade
or commerce. Adjourned.
< Tuefday> June 30.
The House met, and resolved itfelf into a
committee of the whole, on the bill foreftJ
blilhiug the treasury department.
Mr. Trumbull in the Chair.
The committee proceeded in the conside
ration of the bill, and after fonie further
amendments, role and reported >the fame.
The House went through the amendments, as
leported, but before the question on engross
ing the bill for a third reading was taken, the
Hbufc adjourned,
Wednesday , July J.
The House met pursuant to adjournment,
and resumed the coufideration of the report
of the committee'Of the whole Houle on the
bill for ertablifhing the treasury department.
On motion o f Mr. Burke, a clause was add
ed to rest rain the officers of that department
from being concerned in trade or commerce:
the bill was then ordered to be.engrofled for
a third reading to-morrow.'"
A meflage from the Senate was received,
with the return of the import bill.
It was moved* by Mr. Gerry to recede
from the claule, difcrimiuating between fo
reign veffela.
The yeas and nays on the quertion being
called for by one fifth of the members, were
as follow :
YE A S
Meflrs. Ames, Baldwin, Benfoh, Burke,
Cadwallader, Fitzfimons, Gerry, Gilmore,
Goodhue, Hawthorn, Huntington, Jackson,
Lawrence, Lee, Livermore, Mathews, Moore,
Partridge, Sedgwick, Sfierirten, Sinnickfon,
Smith (of Maryland) Smith (ofS, Carolina)
Stone, Sylvester, Thatcher, Trumbull, Tuck*
es, Wadl'worth, White, Wynkoop.' 31.
NA Y £
MefTrs. Boudinot, Brown, Carrol, Clymer, .
Coles, Contee, Griffin, Grout, Hackley,
difon, P. Muijlenburgb, Page, Van Kanflae*
ler, Scott, Seney, Sturges, Sumpter, and
Viuing. tS.
Majority 13; so it was carried in the af
firmative.
Mr. Gerry reported a bill for regulating
the pilots and light-houses, after which the
House adjourned till to-morrow.
be continued.)
LON D O N, May 18.
According to every account received from
Paris, the number of the killed iu the late
riot amounted to 400, a few more or lefts,
which is a greater number than were killed
in Loudon during the riots in June, 1780,
which laded five or fix days. But, as Yorick
lays, * they manage these things better iu
France.*
What but the utmort dread of un enraged
populace could have induced the police of a
«wunit y which pieicudi to uviluuUou to plant
, cannon in the streets, and Ere-them upon the
people—upon an unarmed people, clamorous
only on account of the scarcity and dearness
of provisions.
DECLARATION made by Mr. Elliot to the
Count Bernjlorfy April 23, 1789.
« I willingly acquiesce to- the delire your'
Excellency has exprefled of receiving in
writing the summary of those representations
I had the honor to mak£tto yOu by word of
mouth, by the orders of my Court.
« Your Excellency will be pleased to - re
member, that, at that the King
of' Denmark yielded up a great pa-rt-of his
land and sea forces as auxiliaries to Ruflia,
his Daniffi Majesty applied for the interven
tion of his Britannick Majesty, to re-eftablith
tranquillity between Sweden and Ruftra.^
“ It is also with the liveliest sorrow that I
must recall to your Excellency’s memory, that
the Empress of ftuffia thought proper to avoid
the mediation of the King and his allies ; and
that this refufal was caufc of the
continuation of hofiilities, since his Majesty
the King of Sweden had accepted, tin the
freed: and most amicable manner, that offer
from the three Courts, which were animated
with the only desire of flopping the shedding
of blood, and maintaining the northern ba
lance.
“ Your ’'Excellency has afterwards been
witness, that the King and his allies have a (fl
ed with energy, to give the most undoubted
proofs that they thought the preservation of
Sweden was of the greatest importance, and
that these Courts mutually endeavoured to
obtain a cessation of hostilities from the land
and lea forces of his Swedilh Majesty which
bad atted in the military operations of the
last campaign, and their endeavours had the
most salutary efferts.
“ The King, my matter, still fees with
sorrow, tha>, since that epoch, the offers of
mediation and services from the King and his
allies have not produced the defined efferts ;
nor could they incline the Empress to agree
to a mediation for restoring peace to the East
nor to the North of Europe.
“ Under these circumstances, when Rus
sia refufes to accept every mediation, and that
the continuation of hostilities proceeds from
this refufal only, his. Britannick Majesty and
his allies think they ftiould strongly represent
to the Court of Denmark, that this Court ap
pears to them entirely freed from every sti
pulation of a treaty merely defenfive ; and
even to add, that, in the present case, the
joining the Danifli forces, either' by land
or sea, to those of Ruflia, would even cause
Denmark to be-considered as one of the pow
ers at war, and could but juftify the King of
Sweden in asking for a speedy and efficacious
assistance from his Britannick Majesty and his
allies, from which his Swediffi Majesty has
accepted a pure and unlimited mediation.
“ From the principles of fmcerity which
I have ever observed towards a Court in al
liance, and a friend to great-Britain, I must
allure you, Sir, that neither the King-of Eng
land, nor his allies 1 , can give up the system
they have adopted, with the delign only of
maintaining the equal balance of' the North ;
a balance no less interesting to Denmark than
to all maritime and trading nations.
“ I doubt not that your Excellency per
ceives how little the most favorable interpre
tation of your treaty could assist the Empress,
if it occasioned, by land and by sea, a vigo-*
rous co-operation of the three powers in de
fence of Sweden; nor that the Council of
Copenhagen is too wife and too moderate to
expofie* either Ruflia or Denmark to an increase
of hostilities from Courts which, in other re
fpefts, wiih but for peace, and who defircto
.cftablifli it upon the most solid foundation;
and on conditions the fnoft advantageous to
every party concerned/-
“ Therefore, Sir, I must exprefidy entreaft
you, from the King and his allies, to induce
the Court of Denmark not to grant any part
of their forces, either by land or sea, to art
offenfively against Sweden, under pretence of
a defenfive treaty; but, on the- contrary, to
support a peifert neutrality in every province,
and on all the leas belonging to the King of'
Denmark.
** Depend on it,- Sir, that, as soon as Den*
mark will have taken a resolution so conform
able to the withes of hit true friends, the
concurrence of the King of Denmsrk to
wards the rc-eftabliihmcnt ot a general peace
would be iurtuitcly egteeabic to the King, my
mafier; and I dare add, that your Excellen
cy has too long been acquainted with the true
ifiterefts of Rufiia, and with the fentimento*
of England, not to be sensible that the Em
press of R.udia cannot better confide to effect
a peace than to his Britannick Majefty'' and
his allies. My inftruftions are, to alk of
your Excellency a clear and decisive answer
on the intentions of his Danifli Majesty with
regard to a junction of part of his forces, ei
ther by lartd or sea, to the forces of her Im
,, perial Majesty of Ruflia, and to propose the
neutrality of the Damfli seas, under the most
efficacious proraife of security from the King
of England and his allies.
“ The desire of avoiding every kind of
ufelels animosities has caused me to addrefa
. myfelf to your Excellency by a private let
ter, rather than deliver a formal declaration,
the contents of which might have been made
more public than the actual circumstances of
affairs require; and I am bold enough to '
flatter myfelf, that, whatever may be 'the
event of my negociatious, your Excellency
, will do me the justice of acknowledging that-
I have laboured to prevent the mileries of
war. May our united endeavours revive in
the hearts of’the Sovereigns the true love of ‘
their fubjetts, too unhappy victims of that
chimerical love of glory which has frequent
ly and so unnecessarily stained Europe with
blood.”
June 1/ The King has been plcafed to ap
point the Right Hon. Alleyne Fitzherbert to
be hisMajefty’s Envoy Extraordinary and Mi
lifter Plenipotentiary td the States General
of the United Provinces, •
The King has been pleased to grant to his '
most dearly beloved son-Prince William Hen-'-
ry t and to the heirs male of his Royal High
ness s body lawfully begotten, the dignities
of Duke of the kingdom of Great-Britain,
and Earl of the kingdom of Ireland, by the
names, flyles, and titles, of Duke of Cla
rence, and of St* Andrew’s, in the kingdom
of Great-Britain, and of Earl of Munfler,
in the kingdom of I eiand.
The letter of I er Majc&y to the King of
Prufiia, announcing the intention of the King
and Queen to visit the efgCloral dominions,
and which w&> written b? her Majesty’s own
hand, contains the following patTigcs, which
we give on the authority of the Leyden Ga-#
zette of the Bth tilt.'
“ That the physicians had advised herau
giift hulband, for the per fed re-eftabliftunent*
of his health, to withdraw himfelf for fome'
time from the air of England, the smoke of
coals, and the neighbourhood of the fea,t
making it less healthful to him than the con
tinent'; that therefore he bad refoived on a
journey to Germany, in which the Ihotild ac
company his Britannick Majesty, who meant
to pass two or three months in the electorate
of Hanover: • That thrs journey would befo
mbch the more agreeable, as it promised her
once more the happy occasion of feeing her
native country,.and that the ftiould at the fame
time profit from it by indulging her with of
knowing more intimately the King of Prussia
and his august house.”
The Leyden Gazette adds, that great pre- '
parations are making at the Court of Berlin
for the reception of their exalted guests, and
that they expected at the fame time to be ho
nored with the prefeuce of the Princess of
Orange, and certainly with that of the He
reditary Prince of Orange, who was expeCtJ
ed in Eerlin by the izd ult.
The Gazette further said, that expectations
were entertained that some of the young
branches of the Britilh Royal Family would
also accompany their R.oyal parents, and that
the ft rid alliance between the three Courts
would probably receive powerful reinforce
ments of more than one intermarriage.
The unexpected death of the Ottoman Em
peror has put an end to all the sanguine hope 3
which the mediating powers entertained of a
ceftation of hostilities between the three Im
perial Crowns.
The Sultan Abdul Hamid was the only per
son in his Council who wished for peace; it
was with reluctance that he engaged in the
war, which me would have carefully avoided,
had he not been in some degree forced into ie
by the appreheufton of a popular tumult, and
a conicquent •revolution'} for the people cal
led loudly for a declaration of war against '
K'lflia, and went'fo far as to threaten to de>
pnfe the Emperor If hr continued to relift the
public with eieiUe fcwtL .
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