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a THE I ENT GAZETTEER, Foreign Intelligence. PETERS BURG November 1R Richard Worfley, an Englith Knight, is arrived here, late from Cherion he was prefented at Court by the Englith Minifter at this Court. The Turkith Envoy, who came here a few days ago frem Conflantinople, has been prefented at the conference beld at the Vice Chancellor's, on the fubject of the difpatches brought by him. Nothing has tranfpired concerning their purport and it is only faid, that he is in a very few days to return with an anfwer from our MADRI November 24. His Majefty is completely recovered, and no "is entertained in regard to the health of the young Prince, Don Ferdinand.

The American negociators are retorned from Morocco, perfeCtly fatisfied with their reception at that Court, and the fuccefs of their million, having obtained every thing they could with for from the Moorith Emperor. What is beft, and hardly to be credited at that mercenary Court, it coft little or nothing to the American States, their Minifter, by a itroke of policy, which is fet down for an infance of wonderful civilly declined accepting of any prefent, in return from the Imperial Court. LOND ON, December 19. On Thu: fday laft came en to be tried, in the Court of King's Bench, at Guildhall, before Judge Butler and a fpecial jury, a caufe, in which Meffrs R. and Voutes, of Amiterdam, brokers, were plantiffe, and the Eaftdefendants.

As the iffue of this caufe, in fome Company, mesinre, concerns the public at large, we lay the following pardiculars of it before our readers: It appeared that fince the palling of the Commutation ACt, the encreafed demand for Teasat the Eat- India Company's Sales, has been fo unexpectedly great, that to keep the market properly fupplied till their regular imports from China thould regularly come round, the Company were under the neceffity of making purchafes in diff-rent parts of the tinent, That among other of their parchafes in February Jaft, they entered into a contract with Meffrs. Voutes for upwards of 7,000,000 of pounds, of the different Species and in order to guard agaioft the receipt of any of an per quality, for the Englith market, they ftipulated in the contraCt, that the teas were to be merchantable, and to the defeription of fine, good, midling, and ordinary which terms, it came out in evidence, were exceeding familiar to, and well known in the trade. That in the courfe of expoing thefe teas to fale, feveral of them being refufed by the boyers, on' account of their different quality, whole the Company directed an efpecial furvey to be made of the the refuls of which was, that a very large quantity, but what amount was not faced, proved to be of qualities inferior to the terms of contract fuch as very ordinary, -Upon which the Company objected to receiving and paying for the fame; and, in confequence, Mefirs. Voutes brought their action. On the part of Meffrs.

Voutes it was contended by the evidence of fome re(pectable perfons in the tea trade, that the term, ordinary, was of general fignification, and, of courfe, included teas, of the deferiptions to by the company. On the other hand, the Company proved, by the teftimo. by of feveral tea- that the terms ordiaary, dinary, doc. were acceptations, perfectly underitood in the trade and that the prices were guverned from thofe diftine terms, The iffue of the trial refting entirely upon this fingle point, the judge, in fumming up the evidence, gave an opinion decidedly in favor of the latter interpretation; -Notwithftanding which, to the great furprife of every perfon in' Court, the jury found verdict for Meflis. Voutes.

By this decifion, unlefs reverfed upon a new trial, which the Council for the Company declared their intention of applying for, the public will be faddled with a large quantity of very indifferent teas, notwithftending the laudable endeavours of the Eaft India Company to prevent the fame. December We hearfrom authority, that one of the decoy blacks has been hired to entice his brethern to Sierra Leone, I at the extravagant price of 1081. a year, and that he is alfo to return to London, at the end of four months after their embarkation, in the Belifarins and other (hips, if he does not chufe to flay at Sierra Leone. This ill coloured has got wind among the unfufpecting Ethiopians and it eccafions a fort of embargo, at prefent, on the failing of the black fleet. Befides the murmur which thisunfavory negociation raifes among the blacks themfelves, their white friends begin to threaten Mr.

Irvine, and the Committee, with the law of man fealing, or kidnapping. He that Realeth a man, and felleth bim or if he be found in his he thail furely to be put to death." -Thefe poor people communicated fome (trange anecdotes of Lord George Gordon, their lawyer and counfellor, refpecting the arts ufed to convert and prevail on black leaders to adopt, patronize, and even preach up the colonical fyflem of the Pettites to poffefs the land of Ethiopia. American Intelligence. February LETTER having appeared in fome of the papers, faid A to have been written by a fea Captain, a prifoner Algiers, in which Colonel Lamb, agent from the United States-to the- Regency of Algiers, is charged, among other things, of having neglected to make the neceffary enquiries refpecting the method generally made ufe of in the redemption of our countrymen in captivity, and that not being effected was in confequence of this neglect---a correfpondent who is perfectly acquainted with that gentleman's charafter, withes the public opinion may be fufpended, until fomething of more validity than the charges of an anonymous letter-writer is exhibited againft him. About 11 o'clock, on Sunday night, laft, the public jail in this town, was difcovered to be on fire; but the alarm being feafonably given by the watch, and a number of perfons near at hand, affording their immediate and vigorous affiftance, the flames were got under, and the wooden part of that large building was happily faved from a fecond deftruction.

-The fire began in the room in which Jofeph Smith, Charles Lee, and James Mory were confined, They perpetrated the crime of kindling it with a view of effecting their efcape. CHA CHARLESTON, ON, February 21. The Haufe of General Affembly yefterday affembled greeable to the order of the day to the election of officers for this itate, when Major Thomas Pinckney was duly lected Governor. -A joint committee, from both houfes was deputed to wait upon his Excellency to know when he would pleafe to qualify, when he named this day as twelve o'clock. Captain Thomas Gadfden, was alfo elected LieutenantGovernor, and Colonel Wafhington, Major Butler, Edward Rutledge, Efq.

and John Lewis Gervais, Efq. Privy Counfellors two years. Extract of a letter from Paris, OCtober 23. Letters from Dunkirk announce the almoft immediate arrival of fourteen veffels from North-America, having board one hundred Quakers and Baptift families. Thefe good people mean to fettle in Dunkirk, where they are be eftablifhed in the perfect poffeftion of every liberty of confcience: They will experience in Flanders all the protection and encouragement due to the pacific difpofition of their and the meeknefs of their manners.

This afylum pointed out to them by M. de Caloone, the Chancellor the Exchequer; he thought id the propereft place on count of its contiguity to England, and the familarity of inhabitants manners, to thofe of. the Britith neighbours. It is a pity that thefe honeft Americans come among us witnefs our vices, and perhaps to catch the dangerous contagion. Their chief trade will confift in the whale fithery in the Northern feas." BOST 21.

Philadelphia, March g. A facetious correfpondent, having elaborately deferibed his mechanical powers, propoles to remove, for a very (mall reward, our fate-houfe, with every apparatus, fuitable to declamation and protraction of the fellions, either to that Salubrious and beautiful town Harrilburg, or any where elle. He has alfo given us a long differtation, to that no augmentation of debt or taxes, could flow from this elevated idea and concluded to illuftrate his hypothetis, and proves its practicability, by attempting to the from ancient records, that the chapel of Loretto, was tranfported fotely by the power of mechanifm, independent of any fupernatural intervention. Bat as objections may arife, notwithftanding the power of eloquence, to the falubrity of that latitude, he propoles an expedient to remove, alfo by magic exertions, few acres of the Potter's field, and fo zealous is out coreSpondent to difplay his zeal, on this important and neceffary meafure, that the ground is to be tranfported without any additional expence, fave only a moderate quit-rent to him and his heirs for ever, Arrived the floop Friendfhip, Dagget from Bolton, and the fchooner Nancy, Slover, from North Carolina. An ALARM to the good CITIZENS of PHILADELPHIA.

HERE meafure is propofed wherein the pezse and happinefs of the fate is interefted, tis the duty of every good citizen to take into confideration the meafure, and, if found to originate from private views, injuftice, or a depraved mind, to defpife and difeountenance it in every (tage of its' progreflion. This reflection naturally arifes on reading the motion that was made by Mr. Findlay, in the Houfe of Allembly, on Saturday laft, for removing the feat of guvernment from the City of Philadelphia to the new town of on Sufquehannah river." The reafons offered by him in fupport of his motion were, the unequal burthens of the ma. jor part of the citizens of the commonwealth in attending the public departments in Philadelphia, the ditcontent of the people, and to leffen the expences of moving the fame from thence to Harri government And by to re- induce the Houfe.to agree to the meafure, he 4 the beauty of the town and expatiated on and from his obfervation vicinity, in abouncing with esery thing," his laft journey to Phi. ladelphia, a ferted, 44 that no dangers were to be apprehend.

ed from the rife of the Sufquehannah, as the town was eleVatea beyond its reach." The motion was novel and unksown to the Houfe, cept to thofe who were let into the fecret) and a decifion thereon, without debate, took place, and was carried, of the Members prefent. 33 againft 29 In the annals of a free country, there is no inflance in which (if we except the time of a revolution) a meafure of fuch magnitude was ever fo precipitately folen through a Legif. lature as that above-mentioned a mind not borne up diffimulation, faction, or fomething of a worfe nature, the by idea of fuch, illiberate proceedings, muft be condemned, and the tendency be donfidered of dangerous confequences. The reafon affigned by the honorable mover, relative 4 fo things being obtained at a lower rate in Harrifburgh and its vicinity than in Philadelphia," may pollibly be true, as well as the little danger in being deluged by the overflowing of the drowning may be among the principal deftinies to which the life of a man is faid to be fub. jeat, yet the gentleman, in his seafoning, thould have given fome encouragement, that the chance of banging would not be the fate of an honeft man, in oppofing an unjuft meafure at Harritburgh.

Without recurring to the other points of Mr. Findley's philofophy, there are few men who will readily join him, in determining that to leffen the expences of government to a people already groaning under the weight of unequal butthens and difcontents," tis neceffary to lay additional taxes, for the purchaling materials and building a State-houfe for the atcommodation of the Supreme Council and General Afiembly in the new town of -at the fame time every thing to the dignity of. the fate, arealready eftablithed in Philadelphia. -fI Although the honorable gentleman has been profufe in hisencomiums on the new town, he has forgot to give Tome capital reafone againft removing the feat of government there. From the fituation of Harrilbugh, there can be but few inducements to carry on trade there, and the intercourfe of inhabitants from the caffern counties muft, -for years to come, be very fmall from which circumfances, Houfe of Affemely may: pals laws (being by the confiration empowered to judge of the expediency of them) touching the life, liberty and property of the citizens, before any fteps could be taken to evade the bind a people in a reciprocal 'compact, whole views are oppufite to the general good of the whole, is no eafy tafk and as the puttions of men are various and complicated, tis no breach of charity to fuppole, they may be led to' aCts of fuch an attrocious, nature.

The Paxton Riot (as it is called) of 1763, is not yet fo ob. literated from the minds of thoufands of citizens, but they can remember, that a number of de(peradoes from the 44 vicinity of without any provocation, murdered at Lancafter, about 60 old men, women and children, who had thrown themfelves under the protection of the government; afterwards came to Philadelphia, to over- awe the Affembly, then met, into meafures, which were inconfifteut with the rights of the people; but by the citizens flying to their arms, prevented them from doing the intended mif. -The fame meafures of intimidation may be purited over an Affembly at thould the feat of ment be unhappily removed to fuch an part of the State. It requires no great (hare of proof te them that feveral of the counties, weft of the Sufquehannah, bear no good will to the more ancient fettlements of the fate- -the reluctance with which they have always borne an equal thare of the ex. pences of government, and where property in thofe weftern counties belong to non refidents, the charges in thrown on them have been threefold.

Without mentioning the interruption in the line of inter. courfe (that Harriburgh will be) with the capitale of the other States, or animadverting on facts, that certain perfons (who are active in removing the feat of government there) will bave in advancing their private eflates, at the expence of the public, there are other points to be feared, of a ferious and alarming nature. The late infarreCtion in the Moffachufetts fate, began from firrilar motives to the prefent (cheme- -the infurgents from withing to remove the feat of government from Bofton to fome interior place, thev refufed paying their civil contraCts, a thence payment of public taxes, then impeded the Courts of Juftice, and at laft, threw the whole fate into anarchy and" confufion. The (pirit of a Shays or a Parfoms are not wanting in this. State, to blow up the coals of fedition and mifery; and there" appears to be no mode fo likely to encourage it, or In its and fafety of the good people of than in reconfrquence, will be fo deftructive to the peace, happineft moving the feat of government from the place where it is oll now conveniently and providentially Situated.

March 7, 1787. A FREEMAN..