National Gazette

A correspondent, who has always considered the persons to whom the certificates of our national debt were originally issued, as grossly defrauded and injured by our government, proposes that each certificate in the new dress given to it in the Secretary's office, should have the following DEVICES inscribed upon it, according to its denomination.

1. The bloody arm of a soldier.
2. The wooden leg of a soldier.
3. A Soldier's heart pierced with a bayonet.
4. The broken heart of a widow of a whig of 1776.
5. A continental colonel's widow, with six children dying on a salted herring and two potatoes.
6. A continental major begging his bread with his family on his way to Kentucky.
7. A continental captain confined in jail for a debt of 50 shillings.
8. A speculator driving his carriage over a soldier on a pair of crutches, in the streets of Philadelphia.
9. A sloop sailing towards Charleston, belonging to Duer & Co. to buy up the certificates of the southern states at 26 in the pound.
10. A speculator galloping thro' the remote counties of every state and cheating the farmers out of their certificates.
11. A ship sailing towards Great-Britain with four millions of Specie, being the annual interest of the national debt paid to European brokers.
12. A Coffee house crowded with speculators (instead of millers and merchants) attending the sale of stock.
13. A coronet—a Star and garter.
14. A sceptre, a crown, and a throne.
15. A Ring to denote the irredeemability of the public debt, or that the evils produced by the certificates will have no end.