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THE INDEPENDENT DENT GA GAZETTEER, Foreign ON DO December BUTLER'S MO NUM ENT. THE erected honor in paid Covent to Butler's Garden memory, Church, by will the make monument the revival of Mr. Samuel Weftley's lines, written above 50 years fince, acceptable; as they were produced in confequence of the monument erected to that author in Weftminfter Abbey by Mr. Barber of the city of London. Whilft Butler, needy wretch, was get alive.

No generous patron would a dinner give See him, when ftarv'd to death, and turn'd to duft, Prefented with a monumental buf. The Poet's fate is here in emblem (hewnHe afle'd for bread, and he receiv'd a flone. Extract of a letter from Conitantinople, Nov. 3. For fome weeks the Porte has received no advices relative to the operations of the Captain It is fuppofed that he is obliged to difcontinue them on account of the in.

undation of the Nile, which impedes the march of his troops through the country. Others fufpect, that he has not fucseeded, infomuch, that they fay he is obliged to return with his fleet to Conftantinople. Mean time the Porte thew no fyritoms of fear on this fubjeEt, and (peak with great of the advantages which Haffan Pacha has gained in Egypt. If the fleet be on its way home, it is hoped it will elcape the ftorms which we have had on our coalts. Four Auftrian (hips, which left our canal were obliged to return by the tempeftuous weather.

Said Achmet Pacha, formerly Bey of Romelia, is married to the Sultana Sumperlorn, third daughter of the Sul-' tan Muftapha, and fitter to the Sultan Selim, the prefumptive heir to the Ottoman throne. We have already given fome account of the mifchiefs done by the Pacha of Scutari on Pech and its environs. Our laft advices form a horrid recital of the barbarities committed by that monter. He has not been fatisfied' with burning the houfes, but has caufed all the inhabitants to be murdered. The male children he threw alive into the Hames; the female children were fent away into flavery, and the women precipitated from the top of a high rock, and dafhed to pieces.

Nature revolts at the mention of the many cruelties perpetrated by this wretch, who with a deStruction equal to plague and famine, (pares no pains to reduce every houfe to ruins, and make a frightful defat of a molt beautiful country." Another letter from Conflantinople of the fame date, fays, A courier is juft 'arrived from Egypt, who has brought a head, which is expofed on the gates of the feraglio, with an infcription under it, bearing that it is the head of one of the rebel Beys. The accounts which the Divan have publithed, are to this purport The Bey, whofe head is now expofed having muttered a detachment of his troops, at night made an attempt on the camp of the Captain Pacha, and on that fide where the commander's tent was pitched; the al irm was inftantly given, but the enemy were only a handful, and their retreat being cut off, they were all put to the with their chief whofe head is now brought to ConItantinople:" But in fpite of this official information, the people think they are impofed upon, as feveral perfons here have feen the three Beys, declare that this is not the head of any of them. The people accordingly are as far as ever from being pleafed, and a corps of Janiffaries were obliged to be fent among them, who cut off the heads of feveral per. fons before the tumult was appeafed. Next day after this dufturbance, the malcontents affembled in great numbers, and by their outcries hewed their anxiety was for the health of the Grand Seignior.

It was obferved that every man of them was armed, which is exprefsly prohibited by the fevereft penalties. It became ceffary then to requeit his Highnefs, that he would be pleafed to thew himfelf to them, and he complied; and by figns affured them, that he was in perfect health. Their joyous clamour now become louder than ever, but they were fatisfied, and tranquility was foon reftored." Dec. 31. The firft ftep towards a reciprocity of intereft, between this country and France, was an agreement, that the debts contracted in the one, were to be recoverable in the other: And in confequence of this, feveral legal claims were made, and England and the parties in debt, obliged to difcharge their obligations.

But in the procefs of a few months, it fo happened, that there was a favor to be granted to a perfon of fome confequence, who had fled from England to France, in order to avoid the importunity of his creditors, and this favor was the interpofition of power, to stop all proceedings by the Britifh agent againft him. Somebody of great weight applied to Monfieur De and Monf. was thereupon induced to write a letter to the Parliament of Nants, and the Parliament of Nantz iffued their order, that all proceedings thould and they ceafed accord. ingly. The comment that mutt naturally be made, is that French faith holds no longer than private intereft finds the compact agreeable.

What matters it to the benefit of England, that reciprocal commercial laws are puffed, if the application of a Britith Peer can fet afide a creditor's right to fue for juft debts. Treaties of commerce are a mere farce, if fecret influence can prevent the operation of juttice between man and man. American Intelligence. NEW YORK, March 6. THE Honorable the Legitature commiffary of yefterday military paffed ftores a to refolution have directing four pieces of artillery put in complete order for public fervice.

March 7. Laft night arrived an exprefs to his Excellency the Governor, which we are informed, contained an account of a fkirmith between part of General Lincoln's army and the infurgents, and that one of General Lincoln's Colonels and an officer of the other party, with about 5 men on each fide were killed and about or 40 wounded: It is faid Hindman and Shays had returned from the place of (kirmith into the ftate of In our next we prefume more particulars will be received, and enable us to give a more accurate ftatement of this very unpleafant condition of things in the eattern country. Yefterday by a joint ballot of the Senate and Affembly, the Honorable Robert Yates, Alexander Hamilton, and John Lanfing, jun. Efquires, were chofen Delegates to reprefent this fate in the Convention to be held in Philadelphia in May next, in compliance with the recommendation of Congrefs of the 21ft February laft. Extract of a letter from St.

Croix, dated Februry 6. Every thing here is very dear; our charges and duties for the veffel during a very thort ftay amounts to upwards of 600 pieces of eight- -American produce fells here at the following prices -onions 4d. per bunch, bifcuit 45. per keg, pork 14 dollars per barrel, flour 7 dollars, beef 10 dollars, butter in firkins of 7olb. 10 dollars, game cock from 4 to 5 dollars a piece, common fowls 49.

a piece, ducks 5 and 6s. a piece, geefe 8s. apples 40s. per barrel, potatoes 45. per buthel.

Our horfes fold at average for 261. each." Philadelphia, March 13. Proceedings of the General Affembly. THURSDAY, March 8, A. M.

The Houfe met purfuant to adjournment. A petition from a number of inhabitants of Wyoming townthip in Northumberland county, praying to be exonerated from the payment of the laft year's taxes, as they are unable to pay the fame Ordered to lie on the table. A petition from Charies Beffomet, of Britol, praying bill might be brought in to make his bridge Nethaminy a free bridge, was read and Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Hiltzhimer prefented the report of the Committee on the memorial of the minifter, of the Scots Preibyterian Church, which propofes the following refolution, vie.

Refolved that the prayer of the faid petitioners ought not to be granted. Mr. Lilly prefented (agreeable to leave given) a bill, titled, An Alt to incorporate the Proteftant Epifcopal Church at York Town county of York, which was read and Ordered to lie on the table. A bill for regulating chimney in this city and its vicinage was read and ordered to lie on the table. Agreeable to the order of the day, the Houfe refumed the confideration of the report of the Committee on the petition from the weftern counties on the fubject of the Mir.

fiffippi navigation, and after long debate the fame was portponed generally. The bill authorifing the Supreme Executive Council to of. fer a reward by proclamation, for Shags, and others, rebels to the (tate of Maffachufetts, was read a third time, compared at the table, enacted into a law, and the Speaker directed to fign the fame. Adjourned. MR.

OSWALD, Pleafe to infert in your next paper that at a late meeting of fociety for political inquiries, the foilewing query was propofed, viz. 8 it agreeable to the conftitution of this commonwealth to admit the direCtors and frockholders of the bank to vote in the Houfe of Reprefentatives on the bill for retoring the charter of the bank? And after a full debate on the it was unanimouly agreed, That the directors and fuckholders of the bank ought not to be permitted to vote oh any quettion before the Aflembly relating to that infti. tution. Thus this fociety juftly determined that which ought to have been agitated in another -And I hope fome members of the honorable Affembly will caufe a fimilar pofition to be made in their Houfe on Tuefday next, previ. ous to the debates on the bill for reitoring the charter of the -Perhaps the honorable Homie have not fufficiently confidered the dangers of eftablithing a precedent fo to the commonly received opinion of mankind, who univercontrary fally hold the maxim, That no man' thould be permitted to judge in his own caufe." It is the with of many of the citizens that thofe members of Affembly who are ftockholders of the bank, would tate the recent example of a learned judge, who left the bench and court when a caufe in which his brother was de.

fendant came before the I. B. Mr. OSWALD, A Few Houfe days of ago Aflembly, was a handed to me, while Gazette, fitting containing in the publication, under the fignature of William Findlay, in which, amongft much invective, he advances this charge, viz. That with refpect to my vote on the receiving certifi.

cates, being afked, bow I could reconcile my with my profeffions to my confituents I replied, that the people were ali fools, and by putting a few lines in the newfpapers, I could cafily reconcile them to my views. On reading this, I inftantly called out Mr. Findley, and demanded his authority? He gave me Mr. Smiley, a ber of the Council. The following is my note to that gentleman SIR, Mr.

Findley has publifhed, in the Gazette, the follewing words, of which he gives you as the author, viz. That with refpect to my vote, You will oblige me, by ttating precifely, what you conceive the to have faid of this nature, the place -where, time when, Yoni's, I need not here infert the words. The following is the Anfwer SIR, Agreeable to your requeft, I will fate the expreflions to which Mr. Findley alludes in his publication, which he confiders to the people: It was at the Houle of the Chief Juftice, Mi. M- Kean, fume thort time after the motion for receiving the certificates in payment for lands was by the Affembly--the Chief Juftice and Mr.

Lane had withdrawn to another room--you, fir, and Mr. Raddick, twere fitting on one fide of the fire, and young Mr. Kian and on the other--Major Douglafs was al? fo prefent. Mr. Reddick and you were engaged in converfation.

It. was carried on in a low tone of voice for a confiderable time--as I was engaged in converfation with Mr. Kean, I paid no attention to what paffed hetween you and Mr. Reddick, till you, in an elevated tone of voice, declaimed againft what you called the unreafonable jealoufies of the people, end declared they were fools, and that they had been always wrong. I felt myfelf hurt interfered in the converfation; and replied, with fome relentment, that I did not think any man had a right to make fuch declaration and that I had a very different opinion of the underftandings of the people.

You repeated, that they were fools, and that they were always wrong. I alledged, that the body of the people feldom judged wrong, except when mifinformed, and I gave two inflances, to prove, that the people of Pennfylvania had thought and acted right, when their rulers had thought and acted wrong. On my return home with Mr. Reddick, he told me, that a part of the converfation between you and him, was on the (abject of the certificates, and that he had afked you, how you would reconcile your vote with your promifes to the ple? you told him, you would write a piece, and fend it to the Gazette, whereby you would convince them that the meafure would be injurious, as it would have atendency to raife the price of certificates. If you ufe any part of this, pleafe to publith the whole.

4 Your humble fervant, JOHN SMILEY. March 9, 1787. The following is my note Reddick. SIR, I inclofe you my note to Mr. Smiley, and his anfwer: You will pleafe to lay what you recollect of the converfation to which he alludes, and what you may have faid to him, re(pecting any words ufed by me.

Your's, SIR, In anfwer to your note, I recollect fome partnof the converfation at the houfe of the Chief Tuftice, and remember the words by you which Mr. Sailey mentions, viz. That the people were fools, but cannot recollect what people, whether the people of the weftern country, of this city, or of Penn- Thefe words feem to be apologetical for Mr. Findley. Member of the Council.

Prothonotary of Fayette. It would never have entered into my head, that one who had demanded of me the ftatement of a cafe, would ufe part, and (uppiefs parte.