the three-fourths of any fum being paid in actual money, the other fourth may be difcharged by procuring discounts of intereft with our domeftic creditors; always taking care that the collection of money shall proceed at leaft in threefold proportion with the operations of difcount. Aud to a certain the evidences of discount which fhall be receivable in lieu of money, the holders of loan office certificates fhall be at liberty to carry them to the office from which they ifiued; and the holders of certificates of other liquidated debts of the United States, to carry the fame to the loarr-office of that State wherein the debt was contraded, and to have the intereft due thereon fettled and certified to the Jaft day of the year 1782; for which intereft the loan officer fhall give a certificate in fuch form, and under fuch cautions and inftru&tions, as the Superintendant of Finance fhail tranfmit to him; which certificates of intereft being parted with by the hold er of the principal, fhall be deenied evidence that he has received farisfaction for the fame, and therefore

hall be receivabie from the bearer, within the fame State, and from the State when obtained from the bearer, in leu of money in the proportion before flated; which payment in certificates by the State into the public treasury, in the proportion that each State avails itself of the facilities, fhall be confidered as a difcharge of fo much of the intereft due upon the domeftic debt, fo that the three fourths or greater proportion, if any State thould not avail it felt of the facilities in the degree hereby admitted, paid in money at the fame time, fhall be applied according to the above ftatement, giving preference to the difcharge of the expences of internal government, and the intereft due up. on the foreign debt. And where loan office certificates, iffued after the first day of March, 1778, shatt be

prefented to the loan-officer, they fhall be reduced to their (pecie value, according to the refolutions of Congrefs of June 28, 1780, that (pecie value expreffed on fome part of the certificate, and the intereft thereon fettled and certified as in other cafes, Refolved, That Congrefs agree to the fame.

Thursday, April 29, 1784.

Congress, by their refolution of September 6, 1780, having thought it advifeable to prefs upon the States, having claims to the western country, a liberal furrender of a portion of their territorial claims; by that of the 20th of October, in the fame year, having fixed conditions to which the union fhould be bound on receiving fuch ceffions; and having again propofed the fame fubject to thole States, in their addrefs of April 18, 1783. wherein,ftating the national debt,and expreffing their reliance for its difcharge on the profpect of vacant territory, in aid of other refources,they, for that purpose, as well to obviate difagreable controverfies and contufions, included in the fame recommendations a renewal of those of September 6, and of October 20,1780; which feveral recommendations have not yet been fully complied with:

Refolved, That the fame fubje& be again prefented to the attention of the faid States; that they be urged to confider that the war being now brought to a happy termination, by the perfonal fervices of our foldiers, the fupplies of property by our citi. zens, and loans of money from them as well as from foreigners; there feveral creditors have a right to expe&t that funds fhall be provided, on which they may rely for indemnification; that Congrefs ftill confider vacant territory as an important refource; and that therefore the faid States be earneftly pressed, by immediate and liberal ceffions, to forward thefe neceffary ends, and to promote the harmony of the union.

Monthly

Foreign News.

LONDON, June 7.

LETTERS from Paris bring

the following intelligence: all the letters by the thips lately arrived from the Eaft-Indies are filled with the moft fhocking accounts of the devaftations upon the coaft, by famine and an epidemical difeafe, not lefs rapid in its progrefs, or fatal in its effects, than the plague; which, most deplorable of all human calamities, it either produced, or at leaft was fucceeded by. The Europeans efcaped the famine, by having large ftocks of rice and other provifions; but great numbers of them, as well as the natives feil miferable facrifices to the ravages of the peftilence; and Ponticherry, in particular, has fuftained the moft lamentable devaftations." The famine was partly occafioned by monopolies, and partly by the immenfe quantities of all the articles of life being collected for the ufe of the numerous armies of the feveral powers at war; but ftill more by the devaftations of the Mahrattas, and of Tippoo Saib. Since the French army feparated from him, Tippoo bas conftantly kept the field, and the divifions among the English afforded him opportunities of greatly annoying his adverfaries. He has burnt and utterly deftroyed both Arcate and Paliacate; and having advanced to the very gates of Madras, has fcarcely left one ftone upon another in the fuburbs thereof, called the Black Town. Thus is one of the fineft and moft fertile countries in the world reduced to a fituation the most miferable that imagination can conceive. Thanks to the ambition and the avarice of the Europeans!

June 10. By advice from Poland we hear, that on the 7th of April the

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Montenegrins, who have revolted againft their fovereign, the Grand Signor gave battle on the banks of the Marizza, to 40,000 Jiniffaries, Arnots and Tamariots, led by Begler Bey, of Upper Albany; the lat ter were defeated. After the action, the conquerors defpoiled the dead, and thus caught the infection of the Plague, which then raged in the Turkish army.

The price of filver was feldom, if ever known to be fo low as at prefent refulting we underftand, from the large quantity of filver coin that has poured in upon our merchants from their cuftomers in America.

American News.

CHARLESTOWN
July 1.

(S. C.)

Extract of a Letter from Winnsborough, June 23.

"On the eighth day of May laft, z moft extraordinary shower of hail, attended with thunder and lightning, fell in this diaria, and along the banks of the Wateree; the hail ftones or rather pieces of ice, measured about nine inches in circumference; it killed feveral negroes, a great number of fheep, lambs, geefe, and the feathered inhabitants of the woods without number: its greatest violence did not extend more than two miles in breadth, but where it began or ended is not known; within that fpace it fript trees of their leaves and even their bark, and every blade of grafs was beat to the ground. But what is ftill more aflonifhing, there are at this time many waggon loads of hail ftones unmelted, lying in the hollows and gullies on the Wateree. The truth of the above facts can be teftified by the inhabitants of this place.

BAL

BALTIMORE

(Maryland)

June 30. Capt. James, of the fhip Intrepid, arrived here from Limerick, informs us that on his paffage, at daylight in the morning of the 9th ult. in lat.

39 N. long. 25 W. he fell in with an armed veffel that made overtures of Speaking with him; and when she came within hail, fired a broad fide into him; but Capt. James having advantage of her in failing happily got clear. On the 12th, he touched at the Ifland of Fyall, the Governor of which advised him, that the hofile veffel was a Barbary cruifer (fuppofed to be from Salie) and had taken two Portuguefe veffels, the crew of one of which had escaped on shore at Tercera, and reported, that two other armed veffels, from the fame Country were cruising off the Azores. This information of Capt. James, it is hoped will be received, as it was defigned as a friendly and feafonable caution to mafters of veffels, not to be too ready to open a correfpondence with veffels near the aforementioned iЯlands.

PHILADELPHIA, July 14. Extracts from the Journals of Congrefs, May 7. On motion, refolved, That from the first day of Auguft next, the falary of a Minifter of the United States at a foreign Court, fhall not exceed nine thoufand dollars per annum.

17. The wardens of the port of Philadelphia inform the public, that

a

beacon was fixed on the Cross Ledge Shoal, in the bay of Delaware, on the 5th inftant, in 9 and 1-2 feet at high water, at low water 2 feet 7 inches. The bearings from the beacon are as follow: Fortescue's Island N. E. 1-4 N. the fingle tree in the mouth of the Mother kiln S. W. 1-4 Bombay Hook N. W. and Egg If land E. 1-2 S.

July 28. Saturday laft the brigantine Bloodhound, Capt. Rawbottom, arrived here in eight weeks from London.

In the above veffel arrived a number of refpectable paffengers, among whom is Charles Varlo, Efq; Governor and Proprietor (agreeable to Charter) of New-Albion, which pro

vince includes Long-Inland, and forty leagues fquare in the Jerseys.

It is remarkable that this is only the third Governor fince King Charles the Firft granted the charter. Earl of Albion, the fecond Governor, being killed by the Indians, the copy of the charter was loft, and even the name of the province forgot, until the prefent heir, being a Peer of Ireland, found the original charter regiflered among the records of that kingdom.

The prefent Governor, we are told, is a natural genius, and a literary man having invented many improvements in agriculture; and is alfo the author of a valuable work, called "The New Syflem of Hufbandry," and has alfo employed his pen in defence of the Americans in the late conteft.

Yefterday arrived the fnow Mary, Capt. Rofs, with 250 paffengers from Londonderry, and the fhip Irish Volunteer, Capt. Dillon, from Learne, with 500 paffengers. The Bloodhound, from London, alfo brought 100 German paffengers.

A fpecial meeting of the American Philofophical Society, will be held at the University, next Friday evening at fix o'clock, at which time will be fubmitted to the infpection of the members of the fociety a Lufus Naturæ of a moft extraordinary kind, the property of Monf. Valois, agentleman of France, lately arrived from St. Domingo, viz. a negro child chiefly of a black colour, but having in feveral parts of great extent, a very white fkin, in fome parts fpotted like a Leopard, with curious marks refembling conftellations---Alfo a mullatto child, in fome parts white, in others fpotted. The intention of this exhibition is to fatisfy the curi ofity of the learned, and to afford them an opportunity of comparing fentiments on the nature and caufes of fuch extraordinary phenomena.

NEW YORK, July 29.

His Excellency John Jay, Efq; with his Lady and family, and Philip Livingston, Efq; arrived in this city from London, on Saturday laft, in the Edward, Capt. Coupar.

We underfland that he has brought
With

with him the ratification of the Definitive Treaty of Peace on the part of Britain.

Auguft. 6. The Tankerville, Britifh Packet, Capt. M'Donough, arrived here on Thursday laft, in 43 days from Falmouth.

The Hon. Henry Laurens, Efq; formerly Prefident of Congrefs, and one of the Ambaffadors in Europe from the United States, came paffenger in her; as did Mr. Laurens, his fon.

In the British Parliament a motion was made by Mr. Pitt, and carried without a division, to continue the American trade bill fix weeks longer. HARTFORD, Augufi 3. The General Affembly of NorthCarolina, at their laft feffion, paffed an A& vefting a power in the United States, in Congrefs Affembled, to levy a duty on foreign merchandize for the use of the United States.

10.A gentleman from the northward informs, That the Indians are preparing to meet Sir John Johnson, at Niagara, where he has invited them to a conference. His inveteracy to thefe States, and the many prefents he has with him, forebodes nothing propitious to our frontier fettlements. We fear the great influence he has among them will be used to fimulate thofe reflefs demons to hoftility.

24. Tuesday laft the Portland pack et, Capt. James, arrived at New. York, in 34 days from Falmouth The British papers brought by her are as late as the 8th of July, which mention that a negociation has been concluded between the Court of Lifbon, and thefe United States, by virtue of which 4000 tons of American wheat are to be annually delivered in Portugal, at a ftipulated price, for seven years to come: That a new British government is to be formed north of the Bay of Fundy, to extend weftward an immenfe diftance; and that a commiffion from the Governor, with commercial regulations and instructions respecting the granting of lands, were preparing with the utmoft difpitch.

SOUTHINGTON, August 20. Laft Tuesday afternoon, about 4 o'clock, we had here a moft extraordinary and terrible gale of wind

It began upon the mountain weft of the town, where it's direction appeared to be from north to fouth.

It

While upon the mountain, no very confiderable effects were produced by it; excepting that it partly uncovered one barn, and broke down a great number of trees. Upon leav ing the mountain, the direction of it appeared to be from weft to eaft, till it came within about a mile and an half fouth-weft of the meetinghouse, to Webster's mills; where it appeared to be in every direction, and blew a perfect hurricane. feems to have been occafioned by the meeting of two heavy clouds-- one from the fouth, and the other from the north. The whole ftorm therefore colle&ed with amazing blackness, and centred at the place above mentioned; producing fuch a scene of defolation, as perhaps the memory of the oldeft men cannot recollect to have been produced by a fimilar cause in New-England. The wind entered the house of Philo. Webfter at the north-weft corner, where it tore off a large portion of the roof; and in its paffage, it carried out at the oppofite end of the house, almoft the whole fide of one room. A girl of about fourteen years old, who happened to be in the room, was carried to the distance of about a dozen rods; but providentially, the, as well as the reft of the family, efcaped without much hurt. The furniture in the room was dafhed all in pieces, and some of it has been fince found in fragments, at a great diftance from the house. Various articles of cloathing, which were contained in a cafe of drawers, have been found as far as a quarter of a mile off, and in different directions. A very large oaken plank, fawed for the purpose of fhip building, and weighing not much fhort of three hundred weight, was carried from the mill, the diftance of 13 rods, probably over the top of a fmall house. The barn, filled with hay and grain, was crushed entirely to the ground; though the frame was very fmart and well braced. The orchard, confifting of a confiderable number of large trees was deftroyed; particularly the larg eft tree, being about three feet in diameter, with a proportionable top, ap

pears