The American Congress have laid on port duties, which may be deemed moderate in several particulars, when compared to those of most of the European kingdoms and cities, and in many instances are much less than heretofore imposed by the Provincial Assemblies. This may be hugly prudent in a republic which is courting commerce for …
American papers are received, dated October, 4. 1794. They contain two letters from General Wayne to the American Secretary at War, giving an account of a severe action he had with the Indi ans, who were assisted by the volunteers and militia of Detroit on the 20th August, on the banks of the Miamis, in …
United States, June 4, 1794. Gentlemen of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives, Lay before Congress the copy of a letter, with its enclosure, from the Secretary of State to the Minister Plenipotentiary of his Britannic Majesty; it being an answer to a letter from the Mnister to him; bearing date the 22 …
Regulating the time and manner of administering oaths to the United States. Import on goods and merchandizes imported into the American States, from July 1789 to July 1798. (Rhode Island Assembly have agreed to apply the same duties, but to be under their own management.) Salaries of the President, Vice-president, Members of the Senate, and …
The Americans wished to give the title of Highness to General Washington, a President of the Congress, but the hero rejected the offer, saying, that the title he already held, was fully equal to his ambition. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 27 November 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/385.
Philadelphia, June 3. [ Authentic.] Copy of a letter from General Wilkins, to Col. C. Biddl, dated Pittsburgh, 23 d May, 1794. “I this moment received yours of the 17th inst. I arrived about fifteen minutes ago from Le Boeuf, and left the detachment there well covered, and in good spirits. They have built, under …
FRIDAY, Sept. 25 The Dublin East Indiaman, just arrived from Bengal, has brought home 130,000 pieces of muslin, or near two millions and a half of yards. –*Query*, in weaving, winding, warping, spinning, &c. how many families would the manufacture of the above in Britain give bread to? –But we hope the time is not …
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Dumfries, in Virginia, to his correspondent in Glasgow, dated 3d October, 1789. “Yesterday morning we had a frost, by which a very considerable part of the growing tobacco, twenty miles from the rivers, was killed, then the Mercury was at 35 to a northern exposure in the …
Extract of a letter from London, Sept. 24. ??? the new duties established by Congress ??? on goods are the same through all the ??? States, are so trifling are they in comparison of the taxes placed in any part of Europe on goods imported from Britain–many are only a 1-half per cent, and the …
The next mail for Halifax will be the last season to British America. It will be dispatched on the 7th of next month from the Post office. Citation: Glasgow Advertiser (Glasgow, United Kingdom), 25 September 1789, available at the Scissors and Paste Database, http://www.scissorsandpaste.net/394.