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be forthwith tranfmltted to the Printer to the State. Extrafl from the Minutes y JOSEPH MILLER, C. W. C. In Court , May 23, 1787. PARIS, "January 25. The King has publiihed a circular letter, ad (l refled to foch of his opulent fubje&s as profefe themselves friends to the country and humanity, inviting them to contribute towards the expence of erefting four hospitals in the city of Paris* Such as fubferibe 10,000 livres will have their names engraved upon a brafsplate, as a tedimony to future generations that there were people of philanthropic minds who delighted in edablilh ing an afyium for the reception of the unfortunate. The sovereign and his august family propose to contribute liberally towards the four hospitals. >* There is doubtless great merit in imitating the con dud of the Engliih, through whose patriotic fub feriptions great numbers of ufefuland benevolent establishments have been formed in all parts of the coiutry of that philosophic people. LONDON, March 7. Extrail of a letter juft received from the benevolent Mr. Howard . ** Salonica , July 22, 1785. “ With pleasure I will converse an hour with my friend, who I doubt not, has been informed of my intentions to visit and colled all the plans, re gulations, &c. of the principal lazarettos in Eu rope, I have been at Marseilles, Genoa, Leghorn, Naples, Malta, &rc. Sec. Several questions, (with ■consulting fees) have been put to the firft physicians of those places, relative to their treatment of per sons in the plague ; but thinking I (hould gain more know ledge in the Greek hospitals for that disorder, I have been at Zante, Smyrna, Constantinople, and came hither about a week ago. 1 vilit boldly, but am forced to keep it fecrct; I always have in those places a painful head ach, but it has ever left me in an hour after my removal. “ I came hither on Saturday, in a Greek boat full of passengers, one of whom being taken ill, he was brought to me, as I always pass for aphyfician. I felt his pulse, looked at the swelling, and ordered him to keep warm in a little cabbin, as he had caught cold ; in two hours after, I sent for a French Captain, desiring to him to give no alarm, but said, that I was persuaded that man had the plague ; and on Tuefday after, I saw the grave in which he was buried. “ I visit all the prisons to inform ir.yfelf ; but my interpreters are very cross with me ; —I am bound for Scio, as in that Illand is the mod famous hospital in the Levant. My quarantine of forty days imprisonment, is to be, I hope, at Venice. I could easily have made my route by land to Vienna, without being (lopped, as no quarantine is performed on the confines of the Emperor’s do minions ; but ihould such an eftablifliment for our (hipping be ever introduced into England, things which now may appear trivial, may be of future importance, in case of such a new foundation; I have therefore procured from the Venetian Am bad'ador, the dr ongeft recommendation to aflift me in the minuted observations I may make during my quarantine. I bless God, lam quite well, calm, and in deady spirits ; indeed, I have at times need of determined resolution, as, fmee I left Helvoetfiuys, I have never met with an Engliih (hip, or travelled one mile with any of my country men. “ I am persuaded I am engaged in a good cause, and confirmed of having a good God and mader : His approbation will be an abundant recompence for all the little pleasures I may have given up. “ At Smyrna, the Franks, or foreigners, hoti -1 . * fes are fluff up ; every thing they receive i 3 fumi gated, and their prdvifions pass through water; but in Conftantinopel, where many of the natives drop, houses of the Franks are still open. I there conversed with an Italian merchant, on Thursday, and had observed to a gentleman how sprightly he was • he replied, he had a fine trade, and was in the prime of life ; but, alas ! on Saturday he died, and was buried, having had every sign of the plague. A line through our Ambassador’s, at Vienna, will be a cordial to the drooping spirits of u Your affettionate Friend.” A match agreed upon between two young per sons of high rank was lately broke off, owing to the lady demanding a separate maintenance, equal to half her fortune. The gentleman would allow of only such a settlement as was common, and added, that he did not marry with a view to separate. A clergyman converging the other day at the tea-table, on the fubjeft of taxes, expressed his opinion, that ruffles were a proper objett of taxa tion. ** You might as well propose a duty on horns,” said his wife—why so, my dear ?” re plied the Doftor, “ because, my love,” answered the, with a gentle pat on the cheek, “you wear neither the one nor the other.” The Divine laughed heartily, and thought it an excellent joke ; —but the (lory got wind, set the lady’s acquaintance a thinking, and now it is who would have thought it ? BOSTON, April ip. We have obtained from undoubted authority, a lift of persons convifted by the supreme judicial court, at their late session in the county of Berk shire, viz. Aaron Knapp of Weft-Stockbridge, Enoch Ty ler, of Egremont, Joseph Williams, of New- Marlborough, Nathaniel Austin, of Sheffield, Peter Wilcox, jun. of Lee, Samuel Rust, of Pitts field, received sentence of death for high treason. William Whiting of Great Barrington, Esq. for uttering divers seditious and inflammatory speeches, and for making and publishing a sediti ous libel, was sentenced to pay a fine of 100 J. fuffer 7 months imprisonment, and to be bound to good behaviour for 5 years. John Hubbard, convitfed of exciting sedition, fined 1001. and bound to good behaviour for years. • Daniel Sacket, and John Demming, couvitled as above, fined 6o\. bound as above. Peleg Green, Oliver Root, Enoch Hatfkin, John Strong, convifted as above, and bound over to next term to receive sentence. Isaac Wood, Aaron Noble, Moses Wood, William Sheldon, Anthony Ames, convitfed of a riot in obftrufting the courts of common pleas and sessions. Sentence suspended till next term. Joseph Wood convifted of fetting,fire to a barn. Sentence suspended as above. Thomas Gould, for a fraud, of which he was convided last term, was fined 501. and recognized with sureties, for good behaviour for 3 years. It is said, that about one hundred others were indicted for treason, the greater part of whom are fled ; fifteen have been permitted to enlist into the federal army, and about five more the commis sioners have pardoned ; a few are ordered to re cognize for their appearance at next term ; and three ordered to remain in custody. It is sup posed the last will be permitted to enlist. The reports which have been in circulation for several days past, and published in the papers, of the embodying of the insurgents ‘in Berkffiire county, we are assured, by a gentleman who left that county on Friday last, are premature. NEWPORT, (Rhode-Ifland) April 13. A correspondent estimates, that the injuries sustained in our trade, and the expences which have accrued to government* in conference of the system of the present administration w amount to more than 100,000!. in real filve gold, which is the nominal sum of the f ** emitted. He allures us that this calculation chimerical, but founded on inconteftible D " pies :it being a melancholy faft, t h a t fi n „ C . N accession to office of our present rulers, 0 ur C (> merce has aftonilhingly declined, our honest chanics and labourers have been wanting enw" and our lands and houses have funk in addition to which, we have to lament the loft ) public aud private credit, the only bads </ commercial nation; the ruin of the induftrio, * the widow and the orphan, by fraudulent dis charges of their debts, and the various evils wh i daily arise from domestic feuds. Extrafl of a Utter from a gentleman in the Souths States to his ccrrefpondent here , dated April i, “ The diftracled state you are in, is fufficieu* to drive every good citizen from his native com! try : matters have come to such an alarming crii sis, that the confederation must take notice of yj and it seems the opinion of many here, that wh ei ’ the convention meets in Philadelphia, meafurts will be taken to reduce you to order and good w, vermnem, or strike your state out of the union and annex you to others; for as your legislature now conducts, they are dangerous to the commu, nity at large, and ruinous to every honell charac* ter in the state : the clamour is now loud agaiuft your state, and will daily increase.” PROVIDENCE, (Rhode*ldand) April 1, At the supreme court in the county of Waih ington, last week, we are informed all the judge* were present. This being the firft full court line: the decision of the penal law, many persons were fluflied with hopes, that this term the bills of cre dit of this state would be adjudged to operate as 1 tender at par, and to difeharge all contrafls. The General Aflembly having jbeen so recentlf in session, all dilatory pleas seemed to be exclude! Upwards of twenty bills in equity for the redemp tion of mortgaged estates were filed at this and preceding terms. The suitors tame forward with their paper bills in handkerchiefs and pillowbears in prodigious quantities. Upwards of fourteen thousand dollars crammed into one bag was laid ci the table, to redeem one estate. The court was moved, in one case, byway of experiment, to cause the bills to be counted, and to direst the clerk to record the tender.”— After due coufideration of this motion, the court determined that they have nothing to do with tie paper bills; and the chief justice took the hand kerchief containing them from the table, and re turned it to the owner, faying to him, “ the court have determined that they have nothing to do with your money.” After this determination it is said that tire suitors, who had brought their money into court, took the pains to have it counted by private per sons, out of court, hoping still to avail themfelve; by proving the tender. RICHMOND, March 17. • During the late contest many warm friends ft this country were very sanguine with refpeft to as American navy ; they imagined because we had plenty of raw materials, we should quickly fig“ rs away in the dominions of Neptune ; we have now been several years in the pofteffion of peace, to we fee no advance towards a naval force ; power ful armies spring up like mufhroons in every foil! but formidable fleets can only be built on tb; foundation of avast trade, a fabric not common!? found. The great end of commerce being the empl°P ment of the poor, and the support of a naval po wt: ' whatever trades best answer these purposes arc the moll beneficial. The fifliing trade is of iwcoxn t