National Gazette

[From the Stockbridge Western Star, of Jan. 8.]

Many of the officers of the late army, have petitioned, and are again about petitioning Congress, for further compensation.

It is almost needless to mention that the country at a time it was under the most embarrasing circumstances, strained every nerve to make up the stipulated commutation, under the fullest persuasion. that no further claim would be made on the government!

Are these gentlemen, in general, in a better or worse situation now, than they were at the time they entered the army?

If it appears to you, as it does to me, that enough has already been done for those officers, you will be cautious not to vote for such who are interested in applications to Congress, to make further allowances for services during the late war."—And again,—"The officers of the late Continental army have been for some time past petitioning Congress for further compensation for their services; this measure, though a darling one to them, is, nevertheless, a very unpopular one, and, in my opinion, a very unreasonable one; for however great their merits, they were as amply rewarded, as the circumstances of the country would admit, or as they really ought to be, under those circumstances; for if their demands are just, (being founded merely on the depreciation of their pay,) not a citizen scarcely in the United States, but has a demand as well founded, for depreciation of pay for victualling, cloathing and foraging the army; and should all these demands be allowed, the revenues of the United States would not be a fund adequate to the discharge of the interest."