Furies! vengeance! and thunder! what's their tities to me!

All puffs and impoftors, as falfe as can be:

Fall down and adore--none more haughty than they,

On Conjugal Life.

YE wives and ye hefbands who

Your conjugal fcenes from all skir. mishes free;

In this doth the secret of harmony lie, Ne'er begin a duet e'en a half note too high.

Ye ladies, though vex'd your mild fpirits may be,

obey

VI.

I'll draw up a scheme to my hu mour's conditions ;

I'll be bow'd to, and worship'd, and mov'd by petitions : My will is my law.---Jove, relinquish your throne,

I'll command, fign, and feal, and reign monarch alone. VII.

Hyp! you Sir, Apollo---get me pen,, ink, and paper :

And, pert miftrefs Clio--go light me a taper :

You Mercury! fetch me fome w---or another,

But rafcal! take care, lay not hold

of your mother.

For peace's folt bofom thofe arrows

Which doubly are pointed with anmust hit,

ger and wit,

Ye hufbands, of arguments chiefly That bane of good humour which beware, frightens the fair,

Where reafon's foft tones foon in paffion are drown'd,

While happiness trembles and flies from the found.

Oh! both have a care of all hafly. replies,

On hearing whose discord, the bachel or cries,

(While fnugly he fmiles on himself. and his cat)

The sharp notes of marriage are worse than the flat.

In unifon fweet let, your voices agree,.

While both are maintain'd in the natural key.

Thus love fhall beat time with a conjugal kils,

And your fkirmish be only the skir mifh of blifs.

Total, 3,812,539-33

The Committee were apprifed that the refolutions of Congrefs, of April the 18th, 1783, had recommended to the feveral ftates the raising an annual revenue, for the purpose of discharging the principal and intereft of the national debt, by the eftablifhment of certain impofts, and providing fupplementary funds for a given term of years, to be raised in fuch a way as they might judge moft convenient; but it occurred to them that thofe recommendations were ftill under fufpence with feveral of the Legiflatures, fome of them having as yet acceeded to the impoft only, and others decided neither on the impoft nor fupplementary funds; that however defiarble a compliance therewith is, for the prefervation of our faith, and establishment of a national credit, yet as time has already elapfed, and more muft elapfe before their final confirmation can be hoped, as after it fhall be obtained, time will also be reqifite to advance the plan to the term of actual collection; good faith requires that in the mean while other meafures fhould be reforted to for the purpose of discharging the growing intereft.

In the flatement of the intereft due at the close of the year 1782, the Committee have fuppofed its amount leffened by 1,200,000 dollars, required and apportioned by the refolutions of Congress, of September the fourth and tenth, 1782, and appropriated to the fole purpose of paying the interest of the public debt. This requifition gave licence to the States to apply fo much as fhould be necessary of their respective quotas of it, to the payment of intereft due on certificates iffued from the loan-office of their own ftates, and other liquidated debts of the United States, contracted therein,

therein. Hence they fuppofe it has happened, that the actual payments of thefe quotas have been uncommunicated to the Office of Finance for the United States. The Committee are of opinion, that the States fhould be defined to communicate to the Su-perintendant of Finance the payments they have made under this requifition, and where they have been incompleat, to haften their completion, as the means ftill relied on by Congrefs, for the discharge of that part of the intereft of the public debt. And while on this fubject, they beg leave to add, that from the reprefentation to Congress by the Minifter of France,referred to this Committee, they learn that in fome of the flates a difcrimination has taken place between the citizens of their own, and fubjects or citizens of other countries, which was not authorized by the faid refolution: they are of opinion, that fuch States fhould be required to revife and reform their proceedings herein, and to extend the benefits both paft and future of this provifion, equally and impartially to all perfons within its description.

Your Committee then came to con⚫ fider in what way it would be best to call for the fums requisite for the fervices before flated: And they thought it their duty in the first place to enquire, whether no furplufes might remain on former requifitions of Congrefs, after the purposes were effected to which they were original ly appropriated; under an affurance that it would be both the duty and fenfe of Congrefs to apply fuch furplufes, in every inftance, towards leffening the next requifitions on the States. They found, in fact, that fuch a furplus would remain on the requifition of Q&tober 30, 1781, for eight millions of dollars, for the fervices of the enfuing year, and that this furplus would be great from the following circumftances: That re quifition was estimated on fuppofition that the Continental army would be compleated by the States to its full eftablishment; and that cloathing, fubfiftence and other neceffaries for fuch an army, muft of course he provided, The States were far fhort of producing fuch an army. Hence the calis for money were proportionally

abridged. It was estimated toe, on the further fuppofition, that we might be difappointed in the endeavours we were then exerting to borrow money both at home and abroad, and of 'courfe, that the whole muft be fupplied by taxes. Loans however were obtained, and the furplus increafed by this fecond caufe. A third circumftance has further enlarged it. The payments on this requisition, have been (mall and flow. Hence, inftead of money, thofe who ferved and fupplied the United States, have received certificates only that money is due to them, and thefe debts have been transferred to the funds propofed to be raised by way of impoft, fo that though the debts exift, they are removed from this to another fund. To know then the amount of this furplus, the Committee extended their enquiries to the fums actually received under this requifition, the purposes, to which they have been applied, and the anticipations thereof Atill unfatisfied. They found that 1,486,511-71 only of the eight millions of dollars had been received at the treasury at the clofe of the year 1783; that these had been applied to the fervces of the years 1782 and 1783, and that for other fervices of the fame years, debts were contra&ted to the amount of about one million of dollars more, which depend for their discharge on further_receipts under this requifition; a flatement of the expenditures of which fume fhould be made out and forwarded to the Legillatures of the feveral States. Your Committee then are of opinion, that a furplus of 5,513,488-28 dollars will remain on this requifition,after antwering all the demands which a&ually arose against it, which were not answered by other means, nor transferred to other funds; and that this furplus ought to be applied, fo far as it will go, to the common purposes of the UnitedStates, fo as to prevent new requifitions on them till the old fhall have been exhaufted, and to fhew to thofe who may have paid their whole quota ofany requifition, that they will not be called on anew,till all the other States fhall in like manner have paid up their quotas. (To be continued.)

Monthly

BY

Foreign News.

ROME, March 16.

Y the death of the Chevalier, the laft branch of the Stuarts is the Cardinal d'York, aged 59 years, who cannot, without quitting that dignity, contract matrimony, and thus it is moft probable that the race of Stuarts will become extinct upon the death of that Prelate.

PARIS, April 13.

The Count de Grafs arrived in this city, from L'Orient, this day, amidfi great acclamations, an end having been put to the enquiry into the caufe of the difafter on the 12th of April, 1782.--The report of the Court Martial, we understand, is favoura ble to all the officers employed on that day; and the conduct of the captains Marbœuf de la Colcheteries, Dames, Elterine, and two others,have been much applauded for faving their fhips, the Elizabeth, St. Efprit, Relande, Amerique, &c. when the enemy, under Admiral Hood, purfued them through the Mona paffage, when the Caton, of 64, and the Jafon, of 64 guns, both now in the English fervice, were taken by the detachment under the command of that English Admiral.

IRISH HOUSE of COMMONS. BELFAST, Saturday, April 24.

Alderman Warren faid that the number of emigrants was fo great that it called loudly for the attention of Parliament; there were now three Thips in the harbour, and each of them have upwards of three hundred pafJengers on board: He had feen them and found them very decent, orderly people, moftly from Waxford and Kilkenny, who declared they would be happy to ftay at home if they had she means to live. He mentioned this

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in hopes Adminiftration would de fomething for the wretched people of this country during the recefs.

LONDON, May 1. Extract of a letter from Malta, March 1.

"A fquadron is fitting out here by order of the Grand Mafer,under the command of the Chevalier Thomafin, to join the Venetian fquadron, and undertake, in concert, an expedition against the regency of Tunis; after which, these two fquadrons are to form a junction with the Spanish fleet to attack Algiers."

3. The Captain Pacha, at Conftans tinople, has lately made a prefent to the Ottoman Monarch, of a large edi fice which coft near 60,000l. and in fufficient to contain 10,000 marines. The people, in a state of difperfion, were continually committing outra ges on the inhabitants, but fince they have been collected obferve the ftri&eft order. They are a kind of Naval Janizaries, and may be employed againft the land ones of that denomination, who have often fubverted the government and dethroned the Grand Seignior.

6 The British commander in the Mediterranean has wrote to government, requesting a reinforcement to the British fquadron on that ftation; the French, Spaniards, Dutch, Neapolitans and Venetians, have fleets in that fea of greater force than that under Commodore Lindley, who, in cafe of emergency, muft remain an idle speЯator.

According to letters from Berlin, that martial fpirit which has fo long diftinguished the king of Pruffia, has not yet left him, though in his feventy third year. He has ordered four grand encampments for his diverfion the enfuing fummer; one in Pomerania, one in Silefia, one in Branden

burgh,