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CuftGO-konfe bands, nntoKtfied, 0WIJ 3 Muney coilced fiom U credita of the late government, mibmiw preceding iUtement, : : i fcebts paid iu fpecie, during year 11789, ! i f itii ta nnfvlvaniar; Debts pMrckafed and tiiftliarfed during the year 179' I 1 th 02,386 74 518,424 c8 Trtxe mount of iJebt, January 174,185,596,' 82 &y the lame document, N . 9. it i thra that tfie debt, exduhve ! -Tr--T- . - cf temporary loans, on the of Ian. 1 Boo, amounted to, 76,651,810 30 1 emporary jouj, wuuuiiv-uv.- ing bank laares, Nominal amount of debt, Jan, iSoo. 5,640,000, 80,29180 30 Funds acquired by the govern ment, and which may be applied . tcj face the foregeing debt ; Cafli ial the treafury, January r, itoo,F deducing UierefroHi tho , amount oi unclaimed regHtered dcotjf tnd debt due to foreign; , officers, which .tre to be con- fid erect at' all'times as aV chkrge on the.fpec ballance ift the treafurv. !- ; V. ll -. i ;' U- Remittances to Holland, beyond ! the fum- neceflary j t.o meet all demands on the foreign debt, . t i the chafe of the year 1799, C-lt in 0e hands of collect 01 s and '': filperyiforf, J Jl-'- : .',). -,: ll Bonds uncollected at the Cuftpm houfcs, eft.mated at fix millions, payable on . an average of fix months, deducting tne antcreu for that term JUave 1,220 in ; res . of. Wa:jk : j (lock cod 888,000 Advance as j. !' . per cent j 222,000 .1 terranean powers, together with iribcb larger cxpcnfc eccafioned hy the unprcvbkcd aggreiiione. ol f truce jupofl tbi . country. Had it bce poflibitrf fleadijy jojhavetap plied thofe varioui lump to the 1 purchafe of debt, it is tafy to conceive, bow rapidly the lam might bare been extinguilhed The the Jarse committee bart Jikewife noticed funis ' which have been izeacffariiy expended in the eredion of light boufesj repairing fortifications, in purch bur military and naval building, purcbafe and than forty fail of ihips and armed vellels, to getber with a cnfidcrabie loan oi money to the eorcmiflionera ol th ales f0 rtblenifhiho arfenajaj, ad iu the eqiiiptninti of more city The money expended on tbefe OC V I 1 bhj alhington. ectt, it ia very large ambunt t,o6t,6f J 49 i48,55 84 .Value 1,110,0'ao ue smount of dibt, January 1 110c. j fit ro,o79tr 7Pai2,78 16 tPnr riiirnnf ftf fhe Inr f . fhe -TaDlditV iv nh which the1 public debt was diniimlhing. atfthe .time when the hoftility of France cbm- pelled the government to incur thole great and extraordinary vxpancei which pr In the treafury ftatementsr, and to enter ijjsori. that extenfive fyfteni:of deface, whitb jbaa rtfulted i the iecurity of our commerce, the commit tee, Ifave thoapht it necelfary, ia oddition to the preceding iHtements, to pre fent viev of jhejj debt on the firft of Janua ry, 1 7?8j femarking at the fame time,) that the reduction which at that time had been made, j proves , in the mo(t fatislaftory : man nerj the cafe'jwith which the debt may be cxtinguiiHcd-,- whenever the governmut: (hall be j left untmbarraticd by internal difordcr or foreign hollihty. --.v.t -''f '-- "' F The" nominal oisount pf debt on the lit of January r8co. was .(;-. -, ;U Fundi tbbe'dectuAed were 1 i Ctfli in the treafury January 1, Cafi in the bands cf coll aort,1 CaQrin ttvr hkods o rurervifor? Value of bonds uncoHrfied at the ; Cutlom houfes,-January I,T '95,- eftiinatpd at . j j Bankftokk at : value, i Dills, Cts. 76,366.618 83 f,oar,g?9 4 :65,349 3 3,058. 1,1 ro,oco True tnldaat of cebt, January?. .' 1, i7fS. 1 M . l7567,338 46 rruin wacffcc itrr ;ni Mf " .amcunt ot "Hwpj Jr January, ico. is cumparrd With the debt of n, ait, 1791, the debt basdU minimcd by tie lum ot 3.972,878 dollars and 66 cents. well known, a rife to a liu uic jjiuisiij iiiyt iv,uiicui IDC GO vernmcat, and which ia now o;n hand; can not be elinirec!, da tfcle mod moderate cal culationt,; alia fim Jefaj than fotlr million, bf djollars. The taue of jthia prqpelrty might be .confidcreci atf cldmpoho aoojReir: ireni: in the credi of the gt o'esja'P ) aec hunt of cfebt,-' fclttf the committee havcUot thoaeht it i ccflary to Wudc ir, 'aisd, have noticed it par. Iicularly at tliis tjittie.'.or .tfie. purjlpfe 'of ex hibiting a more general view of the extraor djinary expekfe incurrec by tiel government a.ni for the purpefe of prefenting all the in formation, in relation to thedebt: which yrtll enable the Houle accurately to apprecU" ate the great and iscreafing reliurces of the cjoufitry ; arid on this point tne committee" cannot lor b ear ro remaijk, the tj'.f be p rogrefs Uj, ,uf vF 1 "'" ,H 4 "'Vnciai.operationa; mu(l a if or d the mo.l flat mine prtiapts of its fu t ur e fu c c efs, if the fa m I y l cm is p u x f U e d nnuii ua iittci pi uvea io lUCCClSIUI, Jt ceti'BOt cert a inly be u n w or t hy 1 of re m a tk , that tenycars have not at thiiitime clap'ecl, fince the government fai rly conlmericed its o fseVaticns ; that djritg that perjad it . has ecn neceflary to licudiiie, to jfujid and to Provide for o! large capital of fioating debt jvlach had :gfown out of the dijof Jerg of the conlederation ; .tbkt during the. fame (hort period, the government hat been censpelled to contend v it h one ex pen lire war on the -:' ' May ty, ! V.Til' (On the oth infr. the fc6(jy of aa picked in the halrbonr of vl H up in a b.g. We nyverb'ardorr which difcovered fuch barbari,v in ,i. S dereraa in tbia inftince , .Jl of the feroale wero cut; off, her bod open, and thefe- Jimb .dePcfi,.H JH Her head wat cut in that the perpetrator of thitbornjf afl fobn be biooght tojuftice. H Sir, PHILADELPHIA, May ,7t Philadelphia frion, Maj : TO THI JtOlToft heard fome days ago, that my riC Trepdi:Nortbuaiberlaod, ar.dtbe ucj J1 bourhood, With whom nOtwitnllarj differences of political Opinion. I ti..?J naoiia 01 Kinaneis, are prcn; to the Prec!enr, to procLrc . am not infenfible to Iteflimofiirs bf linj"tv and efteeffl,; and I am glad ihsy thLk it? deferved tbeni. ' ; j. ')- -1 - I have liLce heard meafure is generally lived In petition repeatedly. expfcrca Here ilf-' ... ler. with two lnfurrtinm In ti Vtt'i and hoftility i from the 4atioha f olf t;urobe' h.that theie embarra.iiment have? neverthetels faced by the government rino of the ulties have been farmounted the dtbt been r difficu has been liquidated and diminili. and ihe natian has Hill continued lo incrafe in wealth and population bey ondj ell fotme example lad although! the ontel in which iwcre now entaced, may.! for mort period retard the Our t her extinguiflimnt of debtl Jr I 'perbapa produce a imall addition to that which alrea dy exids, yet jt cannot be IdoubtedJ that whillt we maintain order at heme, no ?exte nor circumliances can diminifh the ice re a ling lion- ! 1 1- " ' exhaoft reiourcea NEW,. I OiR K, May ,5; or greatly of ike ria. Zxlrmll ca Ittfi If. frma geftttctha' rw Phil- uelphia gated A"y 1 3; . ' . j, j '1 . .'II 1 . j 1 '1 '. i . , 1 mentioned to you yefletdaT, that Mr Fickering had refiontd his office !of lecrrtary of date, 1, hate now the difa re cable talk of informing yu, ; that Mr.. Pickering has been difmificd from office by the Pre fi dent 3 Of the circumdancW which attend ihit ixtrar ordinary: procedure 1 can relate: fucb . '. SB Mr. 1 am not attached to my prefect U' but I fliould be very ghd to quit ttt $ could do it under circumftsnctS of in'tfHtt j to my own character. j v But I am of opinion -vritri Mr. that " repentance &6bld precede 'fofrK' cij w un in r. receive my icir, 'aTiid hnt that Dr. Fiieftly has received, fatisf ry acknowledgement from Mr. Adams cftfci impropriety of his ponduC'r to us, r 'may $j turned out.frohi whence, but will not ftat the place under the iacceptance of a faour from the Prefidcnr ifldams. . v Nor. will 1 be the voluntary cati-piw of eledieneering clemeiry. v 1 knew, tbe Utl events have wonderfully changed the eotvad and vifible figns of the politics of the partf. and good temper and rcdertiori is the ori der bf the day with the federalifts now, u it always has been with their political npm ponenta; But all .ftddea converCoos sts, fufpicibuff, and 1 hope' the repubticatis Vil( be upon their guard againft the infidioos 'or interelled deligns of tbofe who wiih to prcft by th too common credulity ot hoacit iflttr uon : . I . THOi. COOPER. ". i :: OBMBM ; ;( 7. ;.,;,:; 1 May io,V.:r,;'; ExtracT of a letter from Mr.' Tames T. lei lie," Svpcrcarjgo -of the'.fchocrier Trius, r Danni.el Kenny mafter, mounting fix Hit pounders, and a crew of fourteen mec, , dated Kingdom' Jam. t2th April,i8oft ;.On the 5th indf we- were becalmed s tween thecapes DoRa Maria and Tiburco; in the evening we obfered 'afchooner bear mg for. us from the land. Capt. Keariy fod ing tii e' gained upon us by help bf Jier fweeyj, ordered e'yeiy thins in readinefs to recewi her fuppofing her rbjbe a French ptWatr, At 9 o'clock die wasla-b'realt of.us l.ta& . fired ofe os; which we immediately leioiM 7-ihe action' commenced and.-couiinuea Beta near.twelve, when fhe fheered 'off,-,.witli08t having fudaincd any injury. ; Nexl snersingi we wer aaisi becalmed off Dona when we "'fa'.W the fame fchooner to, lcwrdf.. but by il P. Wffie: jwas ajong(ide yitbis Ilidnl fthr hn w; found her to b aft have tranfpired : That on i Friday. Mr'; I lid nrJ,..ir f tJrl-, ' ennt. four! aiBe, Pickering receivedja note from) the Prefidett, and twelve poundera'and cO men, the CspV I 1 i ? ru,nar7 ePenje. wnich has) . I tome time ago Til in withid a fe w years, has fwallowedfup 1 taBttifie, he 6C V in puoiic weaitn. and diverted 1 cucibent the application ofi thofe monies wnicft'mibht otlaerwile have gone to. the extinguishment of'A? bt' to Oj'ct'i connected with ' the ' ho 1,arV and, inYome cafej with the immediate xiftence'of government, . " ( h ... j 11 h c!ff expenfe wiSl'oe1 Incrudea : o "T&e fum! occafioned by the fqdian war nlllioa two hundred ; .Dd I fifteen tboufand dollars, expifnded in quelling two infurrec tiot o the State ot Peanfylvasiia more than .onnilliqn-.sJad a hallexpended in our traof adiena mih Algiers and the other Wedi informing-him that itfwould hi agreeable if ne would relign his oflice; Mri Pickering, in anfwer.t faicJ, that it hsfd Jbe'en his widi v " m 1 S ' i " i t r ' 2. . .... i - - ' to reiign, Jbut at this impor-i had confidered it a duty in ? on him. to remain in I his office : 'nd added that he could uor nawi reficn. and tbat tjie Pfefideni migijt act as! ,he thought Pr?per, ; Mr. Adams Pokering, laconically, Jon feet fecretarVivf then in.formed; Mr ' That I he ws o Per fecretary of ftte ;V tod aext;morn- ing nominated (Vlr. Marihall to fucceedhim. I f Pf thUextraprditi'ary an'd"funexpeaed circumftance,- jnd of ,the ; narrengementa jn.the Executive, which rendered it necef -fary, we have a thoufaxd idle) eonjeaares, t tot nothing in which I am, at preTent inclin ed to place much. confidence9 : .wmw H1JU IUVU VI VI f ' -t. i' I She is called , the Enterpize, Captain p Jaille. lOn examining our papers ttffPf J : . . J' - ... an ITS ft, v l tain fiid we were a good prize, fept a pn ma der on board witi fcven nientoOK ano.oi' botbl .'i-and- all oat Yrnr the mate and cook. enctoraMj - , - --r , -r. - . .t f ed the veflel for Kingfion,. where botb, fela 'arrived! in the evening of the eighth Ort the 1 dih after having unftowjyanfl'J -i.u-i.ij .fill.' LJ,.mi?. TeinrlP' r- it ki.!.Lrt' a' toJd hlJw s, -t- .. ,.. ' . A .-: ',.--..1 , ; ..-n-i was at liberty to proceed ,ofl nis ds- Extra.a of. i letter from Capf Francois, i ted , ?7th April, to a gentleman in city tail The -brig James; i Stuart, from y our ?
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