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£!)f monitor.No. XXIII.
„ jf„ f Joa/h did tUt tvLih -.vat right in the
,ftbe Lord, all the dayt of frhoiia the priefl'
THE incoofiftencies of human nature nev
er fl^ne more coufpicuoufly tnau in Joath,
of lfraeh At the tender age of feven
ytvt he wa- advauced to the throne, but be
ing under die direction of Jehoida, who, at a
fci ! fu!. fpiritui! father made the path wav
ot hil fee1 P‘*iu before b'.m, he reigned with
that dxni’v wh;ch became his nation, reflo
ri-jr i tie uue worth ip of C* 'd, repairing the
u n i'e nid m every thing fhowtng himfelf
vr. rthy nt hi* Ivgh vocation.
Men u high (Utiom are ever furrounded
hr fwarro* of fawning fycophams, w!*o(e fer
vile homing and cringing will foneetimes gain
them d>a’ uouce which they fo ardeudy de
fi.e During the life of Jehcida, thefe puny
rrea u'e* were kept at a proper diilance.
But a. '‘*oo a» this faithful minifter flept with
hi* fa er*, they approached the king, and, as
faith word, male obeifaurt to him. Doubt -
lets th v repreienred to Joath, that he had
beer impoied on by the Prieft, aut! with the
nidi li gening flattery found a paflage to his
heart. And a- if it was not enough to for
fate die good counfels he had heretofore re
ceded. the king remembered not the ku»d
neb af Jehoida, *ut refted till he had embru*
ed li t hands in the b >od of his fou.
JTut :ueh rcpreheuHble conduct is not con
fined a; >ue to the king of lfrael Even in this
ei>,;gh»ened age men are prone to foifake the
f‘»oJ old way. The good counfeUof a faith
ful friend are no longer remembered than
while he is a’i*e to eufurce them. The fla te
y and artifice of the defigning, are powerful
agents to lure meu to folly, to wickednefs, ti.
t« iin Men in general are pleafed with
oe» things. When a new order of things i»
preferred, fuch i« the love of change, that
men wiM foon catch at it, and at that moment
ti. *1 coun.feis of an old and tried friend
win . „ treated like the caprice* of dotege.
Hence men a: e impofeJ upon by the defign
<ng and lo grateful to the human bread is
niuery,that they will fervileijr kifs the hand
wliKh binds a cha*a around their neck*. I et
the unwary ponder well the pa.U of his feet ;
let ihe uclafpe&ing look around him, and
he ware of luch as cringe abound him or make
obeifance, a« the princes of Judah did to Jo
afli, and forgft net the words of the royal
Preacher, “ whofo blefTeth his friend with a
loud voice, rifing early ia the morning, it ilia!!
be counted a curfe uoto him. ’
The following Poftfcript to the !aft number t f
“ Recltue” accidentally efcapcd our notice.
Ve deem it our duty, therefone, to apolo
gise for its appearance at this time & place.
' P 8.—The writer cf the very polite let
ter, addreffrd to me. on the fubjrCt of thefe
papers, is iufui med. that his queitious and re
marks naturaby fail under the article which l
dull cm oiler to the reader’s conlideratiou.”
ll'itij* cf ^asod.rtjusrtt#*
In Senate, Feb% i/?, i8ro.
RESOHrED% That the Attorney
atid Solicitor General be, arid they
itre hereby fpecially derefted to profe
cute in due courfe of law for all of
fences and penalties which have c.
tfiay accrue by virtue of the aft of
this Common wealth for the fuppref
C°n of Lotteries, and to prevent the
iaie of Lottery Tickets, made ami
paded February the rwenry eighth,
i't the year ol our Lord, oye thou
fand eight hundred and one.
/><? it farther refAved, That this
Refoive, together with the Original
. vv» be published in the Ncwfpaprrs
wbich the laws of the Common
h ealth are publifhed.
Sent down for concurrence,
H O. OTIS, Vrepent,
*nthe Honfi' of Refrefentatives, / \ b. 2.
TIMO. BIGELOW, Speaker.
ebruary 3, 1810 — Approved,
C GORE.
AN ACT.
*or t:,e fupprcffion of Lotteries riot
authorifed by law, and to prevent
*ac f**k of any Tickets in fuch
Coteries.
1 • RE it enacted by the Senate
*n) CJ Eeprefentattves, in Gene
r. f0U7 * -djfemaled, and by the author
' t^'/ame, That if any perfon or
pCrr°,,8» after the firft day of April
i^xbAiail,within this Common weal*h,
?! or abiit in the direction of any
fotrcH» not authorized by a law of
nis Commonwealth, or «f the Con
*reu of the United States, by print
ing, writing or oiherwife, or shall
aid and afhit in any Lottery cfhiblifh
ed, or erected in oilier of the* United
States, by advertifing any Tickets in
any fuch Lottery, for fale, or by pub*
lifiiing the Scheme of any fuch Lot
tery, fuch perfon or perfons, fhall, for
each and every fuch offence, forfeit
and pay a fuin not exceeding fifty
d liars nor Icfs than five dollars,
at the diferetion of the Court
one moiety thereof to the ufe of this
Commonwealth, and tlieou.tr moie
ty to the ufe of the perfon who fhall
inform or complain of the fame.
Sf.C. 2. And be it further enafdcd,
I Ihat every petfon who fhall, within
this Commonwealth, fell, give or oth
jerwife difpofe of any T icket in any
j Lottery, not authorized by any law of
this Commonwealth, or of the. Unit
ed States, or who fhall receive or pur
chafe any f uch Lottery I icket, as a
forefaid, fhall foi feit and pay for each
and every offence, the fum of five
dollars for every Ticket fo fold, giv.
en, difpofed of, received or purchafed
in manner aforefaid. Provided nev
ertkelefss T hat if any fuCh receiver or
purchr.Lr fhall firlt inform or com
plain againft the perfon or perfons
who mail nave given, tola, or rtilpoi
ed of any luch Ticket, io that lie or
they lhall be convicted thereof, fuch
, receiver or purebafer, Ihali not, in
fuch cafe, be liable to the penalty a
! forefaid, but (lull De exempted there
* from.
Sect. 3. Be it further enacted,
That any purebafer or holder of any
1 Lottery 1 icket or Tickets, which
I lhall have been fold, given, or difpcf
1 ed or, contrary to the provifions of
I this act, (hall and may recover the
amount which lie lhall have paid for
any lucli J ich» t or Tickets, of the
pet (on or perfons cf whom he lhall
have purchafed or received t ic fame
whether the fame Ihali have been
drawn a blank or prize, by an aflion
on the cafe for money had atu1 re
ceived, before any court proper to
try the lame.
Sect. 4.Beitfurtherenacted\ That
< all penalties arid forfeitures given or
limited by any act of this common
wealth, in whole, or in part, to the
ufe of this Commonwealth, may be
recovered bv indictmeut, many court
proper to tsy the famt.
Sect. 5. Be it further enacted,
That ail notes, obligations, coinra&s
a:id fee m itres,given in conhdetaiicn
ol any Lottery Ticket or T ickets,
fold contrary to the provi.iong of this
rice, (hail be, and the tftu.c are herc
bv declared null and void.
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Ol CI . 0 J'u It J Ut UU'i f flatted,
iliac tins act lhali i.ot be conlUucd
to extend to a Lottery authorized
0
oy an act oi the Leg ilature ot the
£k«ic ».r he v Ha,nyJ ire, palled on
tne twenty ie*cnth day ot iAccinbcr,
ui ti e \e.rc. our Lord, one thou
land .e.c.) hundred and nine'v mne,
0
entitled, an act to authorize ha mu cl
131 dget fcfq. to let up a Lottery for
the purpoie of locking tiuoskeag
rails, nor to prevent the lale or dii
pohd of any Ticket or i lckets in laid
j Lottery, or the advertifemenc ot the
! faie thereof, until the put poles ot the
| laid act fhali be fully accompiiihed.
J [This a3 *vjs pajj 'gd Leb 28, 18 io.J
In the year of our Lord, ore thoufeuid
eight hundred and ten.
AN ACT
To alter the time of holding the A
pril term of the Court of Common
Pleas for the county or Norfolk.
BE it enacted by the Senate and Houfe
of Ref refentiifives in General Court of
fem ledt and by the authority of the fame,
That the term of the Court of Com
mon Pieas for the county ot Norfolk,
now bv law appointed to beheld on
the laft Monday in April aimually,
thall hereafter t>e heid on the fourth
Monday oi laid month, and that all
recognizances taken, and ptoceffes
: returnable to the next Court of Com
mon Pieas in faid county, lhali be
returnable, and have day and effect
in court on the fourth Monday in A
pri next, lr.ltfad of the Jail Monday
of fa.d month, and tire bunuefs cl
l
fait! court Puall be tranfa&ed accord
ingly.
TIMOTHY BIGELOW,
Speaker of the Houfe of Reprefcntatives.
H. G. OIIS,
Prefidcnt of the Senate.
March a, 181c.— Appioved,
C. GORE.
AN ACT
To diflafe the benefits of Inoculation
for the Cow Pox.
I
Sfc. i. BE it entitled by the Senate,
and Houfe of Reprefcntatives, in Gene
ral Court affemblcd, and by the authori«
i ty of the fame, 1 fiat it Avail be the
1 duty of every town, diltrift and plan
' tation within this Commonwealth,
. v herein no Board of Health (hall be
(AahliAied by law, at their annual
meetings in the months of March or
Aprii, annually, to choofe, in the
manner in w'hich other Town Officers
are by law cholen, three or more fuit
able perfons, whole duty it lhall be
to fuperintend the Inoculation of the
inhabitants of fuch town, district and
! plantation with the Cow Pox
Sec. 2. Be it further enaned That
it shall and may be lawful v in
habitants of any town, tUit’ c\ or
plantation, at any of their fa.u annu
al meetings, to pro ide fur e inocu
lation of the inhubi: nits of suen town,
diftridf or plantation wirh t ie Cow
Pox under the director control
' of faid Superintendents •*a ^ard of
Htahh. wrhere luch Bt • ?.b
lillied ; and to raife ait :,t. . ry
| furrs to defray the exper.ccs oi ach
Inoculation, or fuch parts tbcrec is
! they may deem proper, in tin fa r e
1 way and manner that other town
charges are by law defrayed,
JIMOIHY blGEIOW,
Speaker of the Houfe of Repreft ntatives,
H. G. OTIS,
Prejident of the Senate.
Approved,
C. GORE.
^interesting political raiseellanp.
Front the Independent American.
An exhibition of Facts, in which is brought
into view, some cf the most prominent
principles and transactions of the French
Hovjlution ; together with the t Hect and
influence they have had not only on the
French nation, but on the civilized world ;
wnich is submitted to toe consideration of
the American f eople in general.
t. ^ v..i.. ... _t j* _
*•*'*■' « VII\ II IV* IUVIVI. iu »IIU IMI PV/ll'V
! timr after its commencement, was celebra
ted hv the advocates of chimerical liberty,
as die very quintessence of l.nman wisdom ;
the glory oi an enlightened age ; the most
sublime effort of Political jurisprudence.
We were loudly called upon to contemplate
the magnificent spectacle, of a great nation
i snag as one man, and decreeing themselves
f « e ; and we acre particularly charged to
v innate the mild splendor of a phe
n nu-non hitherto unknown in the annals ot
a guilty world—the phenomenon of a blood
ies; rt volution—Soon, however, the scene
changed ; and the infidel tyrants, weary of
their e nuai oral, lamb like mask, almost as
■>U'>n as they had assumed it, impatiently
dashed it aside, and commenced a series of
masaacics and proscriptions, worthy* of a
S\ 11a or a Marius. At an early period of
ihe revolution in France, the fraternity of
the illuminated society, took upon them
selves the name of Jacobins, from the name
of a convent where they held their noctur
nal meeting -—They then counted thrye
hundred thousand adepts, and were sup
ported by two million of men scattered
through F’-aisce, armed with torches, pikes,
am) all the necessary implements of revolu
tion.
Until the 12th of August, 1792, the
Fteucli Jacobin* had only dated the annals
of their revolution, by the years of their pre
tended liberty*. On that, day when the
Kmg was carried prisoner to the temple,
after having been declared to have forh ed
iii* right to the crown, they decreed that
liberty and equality in future, should he ad
ded to all puCl.c. acts ; and the decree it
self was dated the fourth year of libc.ity, the
first day and year of equality. On the 26Ji
day of the same month Atheism was estab
lished by law ; a decree was then passed,
ordering ihe C!**rgy, both Papist atul Pro
teal ants, to leave the kingdom. Hut wi li
out giving them lime, the Jacobin Ke, ubli.
cans commenced a massacre uoon them, k
i slaughtered all that could be f und, amoun
| ung to up warns of twenty-four th« usand m
number.
’flic Minister* «>f religion were now* n »
more ; the Sabbath abolished ; every bihlc
destroyed. Whoever \\as so-.pt.ciid ot
b luting in the existence *4 a Goo, or a
future state, was matked cut a;, a victim,
whether male or female, man, woman oi
clsild, and ti ll « satellite t.» Republican fu
ry . Un the 19 I. day .if l>et. mb* r follow
ilf, Mura* ;*» it d in dns j ai tivmtm.itm
pf*f .ct, m order to ictt.uil h try, tv-o
hundred thousand heads ought to be struck
oft'. On the 21st day of January 179a, the
King after a short mockery of a trial, Has
p,.bhckly murdered upon a scaffold.
On the 16 h of October, in the same year,
the Queen shared the late of her husband ;
and on the 12th of May, 1794, the young
Princess Elizabeth, with a retirement ol
cruelty peculiar to French Republicans,
was executed, the last of twenty-six per
sons belonging to the royal family. Mean
while, the streets throughout this great
’spiritual Babylon, were deluged with tor
rents of blood ; and the whole republic was
converted, by this “liberty or hell’
into one great slaughter-house. On the
17th of October, all external signs of reli
gion were abolished ; and a law passed in
the convention, that monuments sh uld he
erected in all the burying grounds thtough*
out the kingdom, that “ death was an"
eternal SLEET and every trace of
Christianity annihilated.
Finally, on the 6i.li of June, fornication
was established by law, as anarchy and A
theism had been already. The convention,
by a public solemn act, decreed that there
is nothing criminal in the promiscuous com
merce of the sexes ; bio- d, carnage and
whoredoms, marked all the steps of this
mighty harlot nation. The memorable mas
sucre of St. Bartholomews, which filled all
Em ope with consternation, dwindles into
children’s play, when computed to this,—
According to Mr. Bosuet, ttiere was about
50,000 persons in all France, murdered on
that day. There hate been more than that
number murdered in the single city of Ly
ons &. its neighborhood. At Nantz, 27,000;
at Pal is, 150,000 ; at La Vendee, 500,000
In short, it appears that there have been
more than two millions of persons murder
ed in France, since it lias called itself a re
public ; among whom are reckoned 250,000
i women ;—250,000 children, besides those
j murdered in the womb, and 24,000 priests.
Aud lo these, pm ate massacres ami mur
ders, which have takjen place among them*
selves ; ail these who have tell in their wars
tor twenty year* past, how must it swell
toe catalogue of the dead. Sull such a
charm lias been cast over these bond scenes
of blo*Kl and murder, while passing in such
quick succession before us in a kind of mys
! tic dance, we have been taught to autici
! pate an abumlan? harvest of good to the hu
man race, from the unavoidable and partial
t vils ; and have for these sixteen years been
called to hail each passing event, as the ri
sing dawn of a great and more resplendent
dsj’ of liberty to the world.—But let via turn
off our « yes from this delusive torch, this
flambeau of heu., which has led and is
leading the nations of the earth, down the
dreadful abyss of slavery and destruction.
1. — SWU————M» * m ar • m ii« I in mi — li—UMli ■ — ■ ■ ■■ !■ n iw—.
15p tfcc flails.
Philadelphia, march 27.—On Monday
evening, Mr. Dalchkoff, the Ruffian Minifler,
gave an elegant entertainment to a party of
ladies and gentlemen, in celebration of the
Emperor Alexander’s coronation Among
the ornament* of the Minifler’* houfe, a tranl
parent picture, haudfomely illuminated, was
exhibited in the fiont, reprelenting the Amer
ican commerce entering the ports of Kuffia,
' and ornamented wi;h an imperial crown over
the initials of the Emperor. This difplay was
deligned by the minifler a* a cotnolimciuary
fymbol of the harmony fubflfling between the
I two nations ; but, uufortunaiety, it was mif
underftood by a few petfon* in the crowd,
which furrounded the door; and the minifler,
I to remove any poffible caufe of diflatislaclion,
ordered the lights to be extingu.fhed
While this was doing, a young man dif
charged two loaded piflols into the houle, and
the balls paffed near the perfon of Mr. Daich
I koff The company having retired from the
drawing room, to the (upper room, were not
generally apprifed of this outrage at the time ;
but the next morning the citizens communi
cated the difgraceful occurrence to a magif
trate, and the offender was arrefled, and is
bound over to aniw'er for his offence at the
! next circuit court of the United States.
From JVaJhingtorty March 27.
f< Mr. Macon’s bill has been on
the carpet this day, and undergone a
confidtrable difcuftion. Several mo
tions were made to pafs and poilpone
the fame ; but at four in the after
noon, while Mr. Fiske was fpeaking
on the lubject, a call for an adjourn
ment was carried. ()n the quettion
of poftponing the bill for a w eek, the
Yeas and Kays Rood thus, Yeas 54
Kays 74. Mr, Bacon was rhe only
| New-Kngland democrat who voted
i againR the poftponement.
“ The call from Mr Livermore,
| for papers, relative to our commer
cial and political relations with Kng
lar.d, (particularly Mr. Pinkney’s late
letter) has produced the following
communication from the Prefident.
It is an awkward apology to cover
the fr aud which has been practifed
upon the people, out of the very pal
ace : and under the fanetton of that
Ittrer—it will therefore never fee the
light.
Jo the I 'oife cf Rc' refntatives of the
United if rates
In confequence ol your refoluiion
of the 26th in Cl. an et quiry has been
made into the cmrcfj ondence of cur
minifter, at the court of London with
the department of State ; from which
it appears that no oiFicial communica
tion has been received from him
fmce receipt of the letter of Nov,
23d lad from the Secretary of State.
A letter of Jan. 4th 1810, has been
received from that Minifter by Mr,
Smith , but being (fated to be private
and unofficial, and involving moreov
er perfonal confidcrat»ons of a deli
cate nature, a copy is confidered as
not within the purview of the call
made by the House.
^Signed) James Madison,
rrg»Me>? &
Lii 'eft from Portugal.
The ship John and Edward, Capt.
Burger, has arrived at New-York
from Lisbon, which she left on the
5th Feb.—Capt. Burger informs,
that rhe French army was fall ap
(preaching the borders of Portugal,
and had reached Bavenra. Bona
parte, at the head of 100,000 men,
was marching through Spain and
Portugal ; and capt B. fays he was
informed by Gen. Fain, of the Brit
j iffi army,that he expected the French
j would have Lisbon in April. Ihc
, British army, had received a rein
forcement of 5,000 men, and expec
ted as many more in the month of
March. A fquadron of gun-bcats
had gone up the Tagus to prevent
the French from crossing. A num
Iber of the inhabitants of Lisbon had
left that place for Brazils.
I TURKISH ANECDOTE.
A captain of a trading lhip being
'not long fince in the city of Conftan
‘ tinople, lodged in the houfe of a fea
faring Turk. One day he obfervcd
to the MuiTelman,that in all his walks
through the imtnenfe city of Con
(tantinople and its fuberbs, he had
not feer. any thing like jails fci im
prifonment of debtors. Chriltian
dog ! (laid the dilciple of Mahomet)
do you fuppcfe that we are fo debas
ed as to copy the Mazarine policy ?
j We take care to ftrip a debtor of all
’his property, as far as it w II go, to
pay juft debts—but there we leave
him—we inftantly turn him loofe to
begin the world again. The believ
ers in our prophet are above {hutting
up their fellow men in ta jes, in or
der to ltarve, persecute a*..: torment
them. We make a diftin&ion be
tween a man and a rat—I have been
in leveral of the Mazarine (Chrihian)
cities, and 1 never looked at a debt
or's piifon without b >rror as i piace
where a man is degraded to the con
dition of a rat 1
The Princess Chriiliana, wife of
the Hereditary Prince of Denmark,
and who a fhort time fince was de
tected carrying on an intrigue with a
French muiici.m, has arrived *i i v
burg under a guard Her chamber
maid gave information of hei u nsr
courfe ; and the Prince her husband,
it is laid on having occular drmon
•Itiafion of his dishono*, dragged her
|by the hair out of the room, and
would have killed her but tor the in
1 teTcession of his father ; iu order to
\ facilitate the pardon ot her paramour
the fubfcopientiy acknowledged hav
1 ing fcduced him.
f Magnanimity of Sentiment.
When Vetpafian commanded a
fenator to give his voice againit the
' interefts of his country, and threaten
ed him with immediate death it he
(poke on the other tide, the noble
minded man magnanimouily replied
“ Did I ever tell you that l thought
myfelf immortal ? My virtue is at
my own dilpofal \ my life at yours.
A<St as you will : 1 (hail act as I
ought ! and if 1 fall in the Service of
my country, I ihaii have mo e tri
umph in my death, than you in ad
the laurels you wear !”
GAMING.
Flato being informed that me of
bis dilciples w as tend ot gaming, re
primanded him for it. l'he d.iciple
cxcufcd himiclt by faying ’hat iw oi -
ly played for a fnAe. “ bur,” f id
Plato, 41 do you reckon for nothing
the habit of gaming, which playing
for a trifle wilt make you contrad ?'*