The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser

By a letter from Annapolis to a gentleman in Trenton, we learn, that Congress have nearly gone through the general arrangements relative to the Western Territory--that commissioners were appointed to treat with the Indians and settle a general peace, and to procure by purchase or otherwise a tract of land, the limits of which is not yet precisely defined, but will extend as far Westward as the great Miami river, and will be sufficient to compose several states--that this negotiation will be comprehended in the course of next summer--that commissioners were ordered to meet at New York on the 10th instant, and there to adjust and take the necessary steps previous to holding the treaty-- that it will be necessary not to be too sanguine with respect to the treasure to be drawn from this country; it will no doubt however, from its fertility of soil, and navigableness of waters, become a source of immense wealth and strength to these states, when it should be fully cultivated and peopled; and even at present may be made, with prudent management, considerably to lessen the public debt--that Congress had not, on the 10th of March, entered on the principles of opening a land-office, or the mode of disposing of it, but that whenever it shall be done, in all probability, securities of every species will be taken in payment for these lands.