Bank Stock, at its value, True amount of debt, Jan. 1, 1798, 1,110,000 8,739,280 46 of stating the account, it clearly appears that the debt has in fact been diminished. It is perhaps of little importance whether the one or the other of the preceding views is taken of the public debt, as the Dolls. 67,627,338 36 refult in either cafe will be highly favourable to the financial operations of the government. The committee, however, have inclined to the opinion, that the debt, as it has been liquidated and funded by the government, after deducting the amount of funds which arofe. prior to the 1ft of January, 1791, ought to be considered as conftituting the true amount of debt, with which the prefent government has been charged by the Constitution. From whence it refults, that if the amount of debt on the 1st of January, 1800, is contrafted with the debt on the 1ft of January, 1790, it will appear that the debt has diminished by the fum of 1,092,841 dollars and 48 cents; or if it is compared with the debt of January 1ft,1791, the debt has diminished by the fum of 3,972,878 dollars and 66 cents: fo that in either node BOSTON, APRIL, 1800. IN MARRIED, HYMENEAL. this town, Mr. Elijah Williams, to Mr. Daniel Packard, to Miss Agnes Orr. At Portland, Mr. John Warren, to Mifs Rebecca Burnham. At Philadelphia, Mr. John C. Browne, to Mifs Hannah Lloyd. Mr. Stephen Payran, to Miss Eliza Etris, Maj. Jona.Tiffany, to Mifs Nancy Pitman. At Barnftable (Maff.) Mr. Lemuel Bradford, of Portland, to Mifs Hitty Hinckley, of the former place. At Higham, Rev. Peter Whitney, to Mifs Jane Lincoln. At Newton, Mr. Thomas Haftings, merchant, to Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, of Cambridge. DIED, IN At Springfield, Mr. James Byers, jun. merchant, to Mifs Sophia Dwight, daughter of Jonathan Dwight, Efq. At Watertown, Dr. Walter Hunnewell, to Mifs Sufan Cook. At Cambridge, Mr. Samuel Morfe, of Bofton, to Mifs Eliza Barnard. At Salem, Mr. Samuel Chever, to Mifs Hannah Clark. At Newbury, Mr. Daniel Wells, to Mifs Rebecca Ruffel. At Leominster, Mr. Ifrael Nichols, to Miss Efther Gowing. At Bedford, Mr. Matthew Pollard, to Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, after a long and moderate courtship of only 25 years.· At Nantucket, Mr. Barzilla Wyer, to Mifs Elizabeth Ruffel. Mr. John Emmett, to Mifs Lydia Pollard. Mr. Thad. Huffey, to Mils Phebe Chafe. In South Friends' Meeting-Houfe, Mr. Abishai Gardner, to Mifs Eunice Coleman. Mr. Reuben Dow, to Mifs Elizabeth Bunker. Mr. Alexander Folger, to Mifs Rebecca Folger. OBITUARY. this town, Capt. Mungo Mackay, jun. aged 35. Capt. Hezekiah Welch, aged 71, Mate of the Maffachufetts Revenue Cutter. Mr. Aaron McLintock, aged, 38. Mrs. Mary Ingraham, aged 87, At Augufia (Lincoln county, state of Georgia) The celebrated Andrew Weft. At Charleflon (S. C.) Mrs. Frances Bafs, wife of Capt. J. Bafs. At Philadelphia, Tench Francis, Efq. Purveyor of the United States, aged 69. Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence, wife of the Hon. John Lawrence, Efq. Senator of the United States from the ftate of New York. At Weft-Hartford (Conn.) when on a vifit from Johnstown (New-York) Mr. Daniel Horfner, aged 52. He went to bed in apparent health, and was found a corpfe in the morning. At Gorham, Mrs. Sarah Fofter, aged 99. At Milford, Ezekiel Cornell, Efq. aged 68;-late of Scituate (R. I.) He served feveral yerrs in our Revolutionary War as a Brigadier-General; and has sustained feveral civil offices. At Saratoga (New-York) Mrs. Rachel Harris, relict of the late Timothy Harris, Efq. aged 80; a woman of strict piety, and the prolongation of whose life feemed the benignant fmile of her God, upon her numerous offspring. At Ruffel, Mr. Noah Burt, of Southampton, aged 66. He was drowned in attempting to crofs Weftfield-River on horfeback. At Alftead, Mr. Jonas Newton, aged 56. At Knoxville, Wm. Blount, Efq. aged 56, formerly Governor of Tennessee, and Senator of the United States. At Sutton, Deac. Willis Hall, and his Wife; the latter aged 74, died on the 7th, and the former, aged 84, on the 10th April they were both interred in one grave. At Chranfion, Capt. Ph. Sheldon, aged 90. His widow is 86 years old, and his pofterity 86 in number. At Windham, Mr. John Sweet, aged 74. At North-Yarmouth, Capt. Wm. Weeks, aged 70. At Freeport, Mrs. Betfey Soul, wife of Capt. John Soul. At Paffamaquaddy, Capt. Jonathan Bradford, mafter of the packet of that town. At Brownfield, on the 22d ult. of the dropfy, Mrs. Eliza Brown, widow of Henry Young Brown, Esq. late of that place, deceased; in the 70th year of her age. At Hebron (Conn.) Deac. Ifaac Ford, in an advanced age, full of good deeds, and much lamented. At Fryeburg (Maine) on the 19th ult. Mr. Caleb Page Feffenden, fecond fon of the Rev. William Feffenden, of that place, in the 20th year of his age, after a confumptive illness of about five months; during which he exhibited a striking example of patience, fortitude, and refignation; he was more anxious for his friends, and the trouble he gave them, than for himself; and wished to live that he might reward them, more than for his own enjoyment; though much emaciated, his mental faculties thone with their ufual luftre. Senfible of his approaching diffolution, he spake of his fituation with religious and philofophical calmnefs; often requefting his weeping friends to dry their tears; reminding them that he could die but once; that he should be happy in life or death; and that they muft foon follow their departing friend. In him were united thofe qualities which bid fair to form an eminent and good man. He poffeffed talents for the fanciful and profound; a retentive mind; a thirst for improvement, and an uncommon fhare of information. In his friendship, he was fincere; perfevering in his purfuits; of an amiable difpofition; eafy, and manly in his deportment. He was comely in life, and died ferenely, with full confidence of a happy immortality; leaving his affectionate family, and many friends, to bemoan his untimely end. Untimely gone, like fome fweet fragrant flow'r That grew, unnotic'd, by fome fkady bow'r ; Whoje leaves expand within the lonely grove, Whofe native fragrance fills each breast with But foon the ble fting wind flies o'er the vale, [love, It droops it falls—it withers in the field: So fade the fair, the beauteous, and the brave, No charms but virtue flourib o'er his grave. DROWNED-At Belfafi, Mr. Wiggins Taylor. FOREIGN DEATHS. In England, George Stevens, Efq. the brightest star in that conftellation of genius and science, formed of Pope, Theobolk, Rowe, Warburton, Garrick, Johnfon, Capel and Malone. As a critic, he left every competitor, even Johnson himself, far behind him. At Sligo (Ireland) Mary Coan, aged 106, a fervant, living the last 20 years in one family. She retained her hearing, fight, and mental faculties to the last moment of her life. In Scotland, J. Anderson, a tinker, aged ance. COLUMBIAN PHENIX OFFICE, MAY, 18:0 JOSEPH HAWKINS & DANIEL TILLOTSON HAVE connected themselves, in company, folely for the purpose of conducting this publication; which will be done in future, under the name and firm of HAWKINS and TILLOTSON, and all communications, orders, or directions, relating to the famè, are to be made to that firm. 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A HISTORY OF A VOYAGE TO THE COAST OF AFRICA, and TRAVELS into the Interior of that Country; containing particular Defcriptions of the Climate and Inhabitants, and interefting Particulars concerning the Slave Trade. By JOSEPH HAWKINS, formerly of New-York, (Continued from page 307.) THE opening of the morning was the fignal for our rifing. Having dreffed our neceffary provifions of goat's flesh over night, we refreshed as appetite required, and after bathing in an adjacent rivulet, we proceeded on our journey. After two hours travel along the skirt of an irregular hill, we difcovered at fome distance feveral of the natives, fcattered apart with bows and arrows thefe Hurdee informed me were in purfuit of game. We endeavoured to gain the covert of the wood, but they had alfo perceived us, and had formed into two parties, one of which prefented themfelves in our way, and appeared difpofed to difpute our paffage through the path into which we had turned. They ftood for a confiderable time S s with marks of furprise, but without the leaft appearance of violent intentions. In the mean time, the other party had approached us at fome diftance behind, where they alfo flood fixed with admiration. My unacquaintance with the temper of the people, and judging of their ferocity by circumftances that belonged to the fevere character of the favages of the American Lakes, I fuggefted to my companion. my fears of their intentions being hoftile : he made answer they were friends, and left me little opportunity for further confideration, when he advanced towards them in a flow pace; Ι followed him in the fame manner. When we had reached the party in front within about twenty paces, Hurdee fpoke to them in their own language; language; they appeared much pleaf-ed of fome recent mifchief commit ed, and approached us without further referve; the fecond party foon after joined us likewife. ted in that neighbourhood, and Hurdee fuggefted that the destruction of this fnake with our fire arms would be at once eafy to us, and highly agreeable to our good natured fellowtravellers. We accordingly loaded our guns with two balls each, and having taken a convenient pofition fo as to fire together, we perceived, from the noife, and the blood flowing down the trunk of the tree, that it was feverely wounded. It prefently made a most hideous noife, and vented its rage on the branches of the tree, which having torn in various directions, gave us a more clear view of his violent struggles. My companion informed them of the propofed extent of our journey; they expreffed much furprise at our undertaking a journey of fuch length, with fo few in number, and through countries thickly infefted by beafts of prey; this latter part of their information, however, was concealed from me at that time. A party of thefe negroes propofed to accompany us part of our route, to which we affented, and the whole company partook of refreshment about noon.-At 4 o'clock in the evening, as we afcended a hill marked by beaten pathways, the ferenity I was not perfectly fatisfied as to of the fky and the ftillnefs of the our fafety from its rage, and preparair caufed me to notice the violent ed to complete its deftruction by anagitation of a tree at fome diftance other difcharge. The negroes, who before us, on the fkirt of a fhady had feen with aftonishment the ef clufter I pointed it out to the fect of our arms, had retired to fome guide and to the negroes; they distance behind us; we fired a fecdrew me out of the path into a more. ond time, and the monster fell gafpopen one, and I learned the following to the ground, where it lay a few ing particulars of a large fnake, whofe beauteous folds, but cumbrous form, I could difcern upon approaching it at a fafe distance. This fpecies of fnake grows to the length of 24 feet, being in diameter from fix to eight inches; its back is of a deep green, intermingled with luminous colours, and its belly of a lighter fhade; its motions are flow, therefore not dangerous if difcover ed in time by the traveller. It feiz es its prey by ftratagem, climbing lofty trees close to the pathways of men and cattle: thefe it attacks by winding its tail round the trunk of the tree, and letting its fore folds fall on the object it means to deftroy ; after crushing it to death in the infrant of furprife, it devours its victim at leifure. The negroes complain minutes apparently dying; but fuddenly collecting the vigour of defperation and torture, threw itself into various forms; now it collected itfelf, blood flowing from its wounds, in knots and circles, erafhing and breaking the young faplings that grew within his circuit; exhausted by its struggles and the lofs of blood, the negroes approached and helped to complete the catastrophe with their arrows; Hurdee employed his hanger, and affifted in cutting off fuch parts of the animal as they chofe, which they did with exultation they each took fuch parts as: fuited them, and night approaching, we were constrained to feek a convenient place of rest. Our fellowtravellers refolved to spend the night. with us, which gave me confidera ble |