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of the United States; and according to fuch plans as the Prefident fhall approve, the faid commiffioners, or any two of thein, fhall, prior to the ficft Monday in December, in the year one thoufand eight hundred, provide fuitable buildings for the accommodation of Congrefs, and of the Prefident, and for the public offices of the Government of the United States. Sect. 4. And be it enacted, that for defraying the expences of fuch purchases and buildings, the Prefident of the United States be authorised and requested to accept grants of money.

Sect. 5. And be it enacted, that prior to the fift Monday in December next, all officers attached to the feat of the government of the United States, shall be removed to, and, until the firft Monday in December, in the year one thousand eight hundred, fhall remain at the city of Philadelphia, in the ftate of Pennfylvania, at which place the feffion of Congrets next enfuing the prefent fhall be held.

Sect. 6. And be it enacted, that, on the faid firft Monday in December, in the year one thoufand eight hundred, the feat of the Government of the United States fhall, by virtue of this act, be transferred to the diftrict and place afore faid and all offices attached to the faid feat of Government, fhall accordingly be removed thereto by their refpective hold ers, and fhall, after the faid day, ceafe to be removed elsewhere; and that the neceffary expence of fuch removal fhall be defrayed out of the duties on imports and tonnage, of which a fufficient fum is appropriated.

NEW YORK, August 31. Congrefs role this day at noon, to meet at Philadelphia on the firit Monday of December next. All the public bufi nefs is completed. Among the many bills paffed this fefion is one making provifion for the reduction of the public debt, by appropriating one million of dollars in fpecie, now in the treasury, which arofe from the revenue of the last year, to the purchase of the debt in the market, while the fame is under par; the purchase is to be made openly, and with due regard to the equal benefit of the feveral States. Alfo, that the Pre'fident of the United States be authorised to borrow two million of dollars, to be applied to the fame purpofe: the bufinefs to be under the direction of the Prefident of the Senate, the Chief Juflice, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the

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Treatury, and the Attorney-General; who, or any three of whom, with the approbation of the United States, are to caule purchafes to be made.

In funding the old continental money, the prefent Congrefs has done an act of juftice which will command the admira tion of the world and the gratitude of their conftituents. "The old continental money," fays Dr Ramfay, in his hiftory of the American Revolution, “by common confent cealed to have a currency. Like an aged man expiring by the decays of nature, without a figh or groan, it fell asleep in the hands of its laft pof feffor." Its revivification is an evidence of the juftice of the rulers of our nation, which myriads of flanderers cannot invalidate.

I am told that there are agents from houfes in Europe here, who fland ready to loan immediately the two millions of dollars, which the sinking fund bill em powers the Prefident to borrow.

There are perfóns here who do not fcruple to bet any fum, that within a year the funded continental paper will be at par.

PHILADELPHIA,—Aug. 22.

"Trade has been exceedingly brisk for thefe laft two years. Congress we expect to remove foon to this place. Many branches of manufactories are set up of late in this and the New-England States; but the very high price allowed by the farmers to their fervants in new lands, together with the low price of lands, make the workmen's wages employed in manufactures very high, and they are continually leaving their trades to take up the more pleafant and more agree able occupation of farmers.

"There have been a good many emi grants from Ireland, Germany, and France, this year; from the latter kingdom they have been very numerous, to the amount of feveral hundreds; but they go to the Southern States.

Our College has had feveral new Profeffors added to it laft year; their funda are good, their library already amounts to about 10,000 volumes; a fine botanic garden has been laid out, confifting of ten acres. Our Profeffors here are reckoned the best on the Continent, no lefs than ninety ftudents in the medical ling attended laft fittings, among whom was one from Lima, South America, and a bout ten or twelve from the French, Spa nish, and British West India islands.

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lately purchased, ro millions of acres of lands from Congrefs; a Mr Scriba, merchant in New York, has purchafed four millions of acres, all from Congrefs; a Society of Gentlemen, with whom it is faid fome Dutch houfes in Amfterdam are concerned, have purchased from the State of Georgia jabout fifteen millions of acres on the frontiers of that State. The very highest price paid for any of these has been 20 cents per acre, (about Tod. British money) payable by inftailments at different periods, and that in Congress money."

EUROPE.

GERMANY.

COMMOTIONS IN SAXONY. Some time fince the Elector of Saxony ordered all the game to be killed, to prevent any further complaints from the country people, of damages done by hunting after it. It feems, however, thefe complaints were forerunners of others. Whole villages have joined together in revolt, and have delivered in a declaration, or claim of rights, which they infift on, or threaten they will hew what they can do." Five of the ringleaders have been taken up, and carried to Mifnia: but they have been claimed by their fellow fubjects to be immediately released.

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BERLIN, Sept. II. The accounts from Saxony grow dai ly more ferious, and the people begin to adopt French principles.

A letter from Saxony, dated at Ditterfdorff, in the diftrict of Pirna, contains the Manifefto of the Revolutionifts, and ftates as follows:

"There arrived at Ditterklorff, three gentlemen well dreffed and mounted on horfeback, who delivered a duplicate of a kind of Manifefto to the Regency, one of which was to be published to the inhabitants; the other to be sent to the Bailiwick of Lauenftein. This demand was enforced by a threat to plunder and burn the town, if it was not complied with."

The Manifefto is to the following purport:

"To prevent a bloody Revolution, which will fhortly burft forth, we are determined to march into the neigh bourhood of Dresden, and take our dear Father of his people amongst us, and flop the oppreffions under which Saxony la

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bours. We are already from 16 to 18,000 men ftrong, and if you do not chufe to be plundered, we call on you to join us. Our places of rendezvous are Lipstadt, Lauenftein, and other places near Drefden. Each perfon muff furnifh himself with fufficient provifion for the time we may tay there.

"When we are marching with music, beat of drums and fifes, and our colours flying, a detachment will march to Pillnitz, to make our fentiments known to our Elector as the father of his people, and we will make a triumphant and public entry with our beloved Sovereign into the capital of the Electorate, and lay before him the following articles:

1. All the great men who are the cause of the misfortunes of Saxony, to be difmiffed from their places, and if found guilty of fraud, to have their eftates confifcated and appropriated for the benefit of the army.

2. Two corps of National Guards to he formed, the one of foot the other of cavalry: the first to be about the perfon of the Elector, and its commander to hold a high office in the Cabinet, to prevent deception and fraud.

3. The Courts of Juftice and Police of Saxony to be placed on more juft principles, and true religion to be established, that we may avert in future the juft punishment of the Almighty, for setting his holy precepts at defiance.

4. As fome of the Nobility have impoverished the country under their power and jurifdiction, that power to be circumferibed.

4. Deer not to be fuffered, as the breed of them is the caufe in a great measure, of the scarcity of corn.

6. The clergy to be properly inftructed in what manner true religion is to be propagated, and that the name as well as the honour of God may be more regarded than hitherto it has been.

7. The taxes laid on meat and drink to undergo revifion.

8. No more attorneys to be admitted, except fuch as hold places under Government, as the reft tend only to im poverifh the community.

"A general order has been given, that the common people fhould not be defired to join them, in order to prevent uproar and confufion, as every place muft be refponfible for its inhabitants that are with us. We wish to act as men of sense, and as Saxons, and not as the French or Brabantines, Our intention is to rescue an oppreffed nation from Davery, which,

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if we do not immediately attempt, we muft fink never to rife again.

"We will fhew we are Saxons that are brave and loyal, and capable of redreffing grievances with moderation

VIENNA, Sept. 24.

The Ruffian Ambaffador received on Friday laft, from Bender, the news of a confiderable advantage gained by the Ruffian fleet over that of the Captain Pachaw in the Black Sea, The engagement began on the 28th ultimo, between the island of Tendros and Codgia Bay. The Turkish Admiral's fhip, the Capi tania of 74 guns, was blown up; another of 66 guns, containing 600 men, and a third veffe containing 200 men, were taken by the Ruffians. Befides which the whole of the Turkish fleet was very much damaged, and entirely difperfed. The lofs of the Ruffians did not exceed twelve men.

FRANKFORT, 08. 3.

On Thursday laft came on the election for a King of the Romans, in the room of the late Emperor. All the ufual ceremonies were obferved with great fplendor and magnificence; the three Eccle fiaftical Electors affifted in perfon, and his Apoftolick Majefty was unanimously made choice of for that dignity. The new-elected King will make his formal entry into this to-morrow, and take the oaths to obferve the capitulation

SWITZERLAND, Sept. 20. The following proclamation fhews what difpofition the people of the Lower Valais are in beyond a doubt.

"We, the fmall and great Council of the city and republic of Berne, having taken into mature confideration the dangerous difturbances which have for fome time paft taken place in the different countries of our neighbours, and which, according to certain advice, have made fuch progrefs in the Lower Valais, on our frontiers, that the greateft part of the inhabitants have revolted against their legitimate fovereign, and have committed many exceffès.

"We have judged it neceffary to give orders to our troops to hold themfelves ready to march in fuch a manner, that we may, on a day's notice, be able to employ them, whenever it may be neceffary, in the execution of our falutary views for the public good. We therefore hope for their obedience and fideli

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bute voluntarily to the fupport of thefe meafures, which our paternal folicitude determines us to purfue.

"May it pleafe the Almighty to preferve peace and tranquillity in our coun try, &c.

"Given in the Affembly of the Grand Council, the 14th September 1790. CHANCELLERIE DE BERNE." POLAND,

WARSAW, Sept. I.

At length we have, in the person of Prince Poninfki, Grand Treafurer of the Crown, a fignal example of the inftability of fortune. We need not recal to the memory of our readers the part he acted in the famous Diet of Delegation, of which he was Marthal, and chief actor in the partition of Poland; nor the procefs entered upon against him last year, after an interval of fixteen years. It was thought this affair would die away in fi lence, but in the Diet of the roth of Auguft, it was refumed."

The Prince, forefeeing the iffue of this fecond attack, betook himself again to flight, and fecretly quitted Warfaw, on Sunday the 29th; but his evil ftar would have it that he should rencounter the very fame Captain who was his guard when he fled the firft time, and who had fuffered for this incident. This officer met him fifteen leagues from Warfaw, arrefted him, and brought him hither the fame night. He was brought to-day before the tribunal of the Diet, which had been affembled Saturday and Sunday, from morning to night. The fentence read to him declares him "Traitor to his country, deprived of his Nobility, of his dignities, his functions, and employments condemns him to be ftript of his orders, to quit Warfaw in 24 hours, and the country in four weeks; after which time he may be arrested wherever found, and punifhed with death." After having heard his fentence pronounced by the Diet, be is to undergo the mortification to be prefent at its publication, before the people at the Hotel de Ville, where the enfigns of the Orders with which this Prince is decorated, are to be torn from him, and he himself to be conducted through all the principal ftreets, accompanied by a friar, proclaiming the words" Thus

are all Traitors to their country pu "nished."

However, according to the principles of equity lately eftablished in France, his punishment

punishment will be confined to his own perfon, and will not affect either his wife or children, or any of his family.

Sept: 4.

The fentence pronounced against the Grand Treafurer of Poland, Prince Poninfki, was executed with extreme moderation on the 1ft inftant.

He was permitted not to appear before the public till the evening. In the mean time, his table was provided for from the Royal kitchen. He was allowed to diveft himself privately of the orders, which according to his fentence were to be torn from him.

After his public appearance, to hear his own fentence read, he was allowed to retire, quietly and unmolefted, to a village about a league diftant from Warlaw, accompanied by his youngeft fon, who has never quitted him a moment. There he permitted to flay four weeks before his final departure out of the kingdom, for the arrangement of his domeftic affairs. Sept. 18,

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The New Conftitution,

The laft deliberations of the Diet have been extremely interefting, the fundamental principles of the Republic being the fubject.

The great article of religion has been fixed by the four following decrees

1. The Catholic and Greek Churches fhall be regarded as the religion of the State in Poland and Lithuania.

2. The King and Queen muft profefs and practife the Catholic religion: if not born in it, they muft embrace it.

3. To change from the Catholic religion, or the Greek religion, to any other, hall be confidered as a criminal affair.

4. All the different religious fects, tolerated hitherto in Poland, fhall, for the future, experience no perfecutions or impediments of any kind, neither in matter of private opinion, nor in the public exercife of their worship.

Thus the Greek religion has obtained a fenfible advantage over Proteflantism, being declared the religion of the State ja conjunction with Catholicifm,

DANTZIC, Sept. 26.

The 19th inftant, two Meffengers arrived from Warfaw, one to the Magiftrate, and the other to Mr Hennig, Coun cellor of Legation, and the King's Commiffary in this city, who brought an ac

count that the plan of a Treaty of Commerce was drawn up between his Pruffian Majefty and Poland, and which was ready to receive the fanction of the Diet. The fubftance of which is, "That the

Cuftom of Wharfage, which was enjoys ed by the city of Dantzic, fhall be fuppreffed, and the Poles enjoy the free na vigation of the Viftula down to the fea in virtue of this privilege, they may carry the productions of their own country, and bring in return the commodities of which they are in need, without being obliged to pafs them through Danrzic. For this purpofe a quay is affigned them on the New Fahrwaffer, which now be longs to the King of Pruffia, and to whom a duty is to be paid of two per cent. on fame footing as thofe which are fent to all merchandife which paffes it, on the Elbing. On thefe fent to Dantzic, the 12 per cent. is to be continued to he paid which is to be hereafter anfwered in fayour of Dantzic, by lowering the impofts on the merchandizes fubject to Cuf

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and Liege; they then made the attack, and entirely routed the Patriots, and pur fued them to the gates of Liege, where they were refused admittance; in confequence of the agreement made between the Liegois and Leopold, great numbers were therefore killed-Report fays 7000. Three or four hundred of the prifoners, who were undisciplined foldiers, and therefore confidered as mere rebels, were hung; among whom were about 30 Capuchins, and 80 priests. This action took place the 23d..

The Committee of this town received this intelligence officially, in a bulletin from the States of Flanders, in which they fay that fuch another action will put an end to the religion and liberty of the Country-and invite all thofe who have any regard for either, to come forward, and exert themselves.

BRUSSELS, Q. L.

The Belgic expedition has terminated very fatally to them. It was directed against the Auftrians encamped on the province of Namur, inftead of the Limburg country, and undertaken with too great a promife of fuccefs. General Schoenfeld had difpofed of his army, amounting, in all to 60,000 men, in five columns, which were to fall upon the ener my in their different quarters, and erush them all to a centre by their preponderous and united force.

The two first columns were under the command of General Koehler, and were detached by Bouvigne and Haftier. The two next under Mr Schoenfeld; the firft marched from Huy to Avelange, headed by Col. Thinne, and the other by Emp sines, headed by Lieut. Col. Kleift. The firft column was difpatched by Neufville. and commanded by Meff. Leclaire and Huart. General Schoenfeldt had conceried the plan of attack for the five colors, and this is the report made by the Congrefs of the event of their attacks. Each column had their proportion of peasants, who complain of having been placed in the van guard, though unaccustomed to action.

He relates a noble trait of thirty Aur frian foldiers, who were pofted in the church-yard, and to a man submitted to be maslacred rather than quit their post.

This fatal expedition has coft the prowince of Brabant at leaft 8000 men, a bout 3000 of whom were drowned in the Meufe, in the confusion of their precipi tate flight. Yet, notwithstanding this fatal example, the Congrefs are deter

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In the name of the Holy Trinity, His Majesty the King of Sweden, and her Majefty the Empress of all the Ruffias, equally animated to put an end to the war which has been unfortunately kindled between them, and to re-eftablifh the ancient harmony and good neighbourhood between their respective countries and ftates, have reciprocally communicated these their falutary intentions to each other, and, in order to reafife them, have appointed, elected, and authorifed, to wit,

His Majefty the King of Sweden, Mr Gustave Baron d'Armfeldt, and her Majefty the Emprefs of all the Ruffas, the Baron Otton d'Igelftrom, &c. who ha ving communicated to each other their full powers, have reciprocally agreed on and exchanged the following articles

Article 1. There fhall be in future between the ftates, countries, and fubjects of his Majefty the King of Sweden on the one part, and the ftates, countries, and fubjects of the Emprets of all the Ruffias on the other, a durable and lafting peace, good neighbourhood, and perfect tranquillity both on land and fea And in confequence, orders fhall be if fued as foon as poffible on both fides, to ceafe all hoftilities.-All that has paffed fhall be forgotten, the better to eftablish that harmony and good understanding which the prefent war has difturbed.

Art. 2. The respective limits fhall remain on the fame footing they were bes fore the rupture or commencement of the prefent war.

Art. 3. In confequence thereof, all the countries, provinces, and places, which have been conquered by either of the contracting parties, fhall be evacuated in as fhort a fpace as poffible, at most with

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