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who wilh to know the hiftory of their
own country. In his puffiits of this
kind, he frequently met with disappoint
ment from the lots of valuable papers,
and he often mentioned to his friends in
Newhampfhire and Boston, that it was
necessary to preserve them by multiply
ing copies, and making it the particular
interest and doty of an association tacol-,
tea them, and to study their value. The;
propofols of Dr. Belknap met with the
approbation and encouragement offere
rs!gentlemen in this town and its enyi
roas, and the Society was incorporated
in 1794.
, As an Author, Dr. Belknap appears
with great reputation, whether we con
(irter his Fugitive performances which
were often published, and appeared with
out a name, or his larger works which।
have been celebrated in America and
Europe. He wrote much in the cause of
:freedom and his country before our revo
lotion, and big patriotic ardour was as
strong and finccre of late, as in former
years. He was attached to the Federal
Conftifution of these States, which he
thought to be the bulwark of Freedom
and good Government ; he was felly
persuaded that it bad been wifely and
purely admioiftered, and in his conversa
tion as well as in several of his public
performances, manifefted a conviction,
that a firm and uniform support of it,
was essentially. necessary to the Liberty
iand Prosperity of our country. ? ,
The firft volume of the American Bi
ography excited a strong desire in the
minds of the readers, to have the work
continued. A second volume is now in
the press—and the tears of genius are
lhed, that a work of so much entertyn
rcrnt and information, could not be fin
ifhed by the fame hand. His mind was
richly turnifhad with this kind of know
ledge, and he wrote for the public bene
fit. Throve of fame was only a secon
dary cor liberation. his mind seemed to
glow with a desire of being ufeful.
The frequent returns of ill health, to
,which this worthy men MM fabjea, gave
an anxiety to tiis friends, and led him to
' think th& his days couldt^
on the earth: : T Simulated his exer
jfoßS,thatbe might do the mere ferrite
white the day Lifted- > t
But ,e was fe»edl faddeify with , par
alytic disorder at 4 o'clock, and died be
fore 11, on Wednesday morning.
His remains were entombed on Friday
left, with every testimony of refoed from
the inhabitants of thetown,— The Rev.
M'. Kirkland preached an affeaipnate.
tifcourfe from John, 9. 4. The whole
"A^ expressed their sorrow for the
loss of one so near and dear to them, as
a brother and friend ; so amiable in the
more tender relations of domestic life, so
exemplary as a chriftian, so ufeful as a
minister, so refpedable in all the public
offices he fnftained =-Whodoes not rea
dily acknowledge the worth and excel
, lence cf such a char aer? ",
Bcftcn, June 27,1798,
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Newyork, June 27.
, attic'
COMMUNICATION.
We are assured from the best
authority, that Doctor Logan, (a
.noted ted violent democrat) de
parted from this city 00 Wednes
day or Thurfda, lift, in the ship
h for Hamburg, on hit route to
Paris. There cannot te the le&ft
question that the Dodor, from
hit inordinate love of French Liber
ty, and hawed to the sacred confi
tution of the United Stater, has
gone to the French Directory,
fraught with intelligence of /be
moss dangerous indene, to this conn
try. The secrecy ol hit intention,
[for hit very linen was made up
out of bit own houfe] and hit Vint
by day-break on the day of bit de
parture to Le Tomb, the late
French cotfol, announce that hit
abandonment of wife, children,
relatives and country, it a fpeciei
of conspiracy, most fatal to free
dom and abhorrent to humanity.
For can any fallible man helitate
The Hidorical Society have loft their
foeft laborious and diligent member,
and the founder or their institution.—
No man had ever colle^ed a greater
number of fads, circumstances and an
ecdotes, or a more valuable compilation
of manuferipts which might give !infor
mation and entertainment to all those
A letter from a Captain at the
Havanna, to hi, friend in this city,
da:ed June 13, fafi,
"The French are taking every
thing they find. Teo prize# have
been fentin fioce [arrived. Would
you believe it? Our Flag has been
reverted, and left flying so $ ind
to their eternal flume, some A
mericanl had a hand io the'bufi
nefi.— There it not a privateer but
what has more or less Americans
on board."
Gilmantown Academy.,
The building is large and convenient,
situated on the fouth fide of a gentle
eminence, commanding a profpea ,x
--tensive and rural. The lower story is a
large ball, fitted for the convenience of
public town-meetings and ether numer
ous colledions. The upper loft is di
vided into two apartments ; one a hand
some room, accommodated for the fit
ting of feleamen and committees, the
other devoted entirely to the Muses.—
The latter has accommodations for two
Inftru&ors, and eighty pupils.—Such is
the conftrudion of the feats for ftudeots,
that any one may leave bis place at plesf
ure, without incommoding his compan
ions. Convenient hoyfes are situated in
the vicinity; where the necessaries of
boa'ding are furnifhed the student at I
dollar and 33 cents, or Bs. a week.— —
While the inftruaor and Trufteetare
emulous to serve a generous public, they
are fangine in the hope, that convenienc
es in a healthful retired fixation,: will
invite the friends of science, that so nu
merous a Golleaion of Youth may repair
to this infant Seminary fo^inftruaiom
&. • ire
Laws
of the UNITED STATES.
An A& to enable the President oftfeU.
^.^States to procure cannon, armsand
ammunition ; and for other pur{rofel.f
c i^ RE it enabled by the
ct. I. D Srafle and Honfaf
Representatives of the United States:
ofrlfo in Congre/s afonbkdft
That a sum not exceeding eight
hundred thoufaod dollars, shall be,
and hereby if appropriated, and
shall and may be paid out of any
monies not before appropriated,
under the direaion of the Prefy
dent of the United States, topuf-
ANECDOTE ,
During the reign of one of the
kioga of France, his son the dau
phin, frequently urged hit royal
father to attempt the iovatiQn of
England, urging that in compari
ton of the mighty kingdom of
France, it wai but a garden.—
"True, my son," replied the W%
* bur whoever attempts to q&hat
gatdeo,nvill find Mfc deal of
arfc-fmart in it."
can be anything left, Uraa the in
troduaion of a French army, to
teach ns the genuine value 0/ „„
and efrntial liberty, by re organize*
ing our government, through the
bli tted operation of the bayonet
and guillotines Let ever, Ameri
can now gird on hit sword. ,he
time is not only critical, but the
secret of the Junto is out. T/heir
demagogue is gone to the Direc
tory, for purpofei, de/hnaive of
your lives, property, liberty and holy
religion.
A countryman, a few day, ago,
waked eight miles to a small town
with a few old ctffin naili, which
he brought to a brass fcinder
there, to be cast into t*o mga,
co be put upon the great toeSf hi,
wife, to cure her of the cramp. #
SUPERSTITION. '£
[Published by request ]
GROWING up from our eradlel ia
a land of liberty, and taught by
precept and experience to value the bles
sings of a free government, we feel an
indignation at any attempt to stain its
honor, or trouble its peace.
We are young, without experience ;
it therefore becomes us to be diffident in
regard to measures es political pradice.
But, when the rulers of a foreign nation
are endeavoring to preftrate our liberties ;
.are flattering,hemfelves, that the people
of these States are taking a part separate
from the government, and in this dela
tion are calculating their influence over
us ; while men of different profeffions
and ages, from various parts of our land,
are expressing their approbation of the
measures of government ; we solicit. that
you would accept a tribute of duty and
refpea from us, a band of youth, mem
bers of a feat of science, in the'northern
r region of an txten five republic ; and,
that fed would be assured of our love,
;our attachment, our confidence in your
|adminiftration,and the legislative bodies,:
tin regard to car foreign, as well as do
mestic, interefta.
If, no,with standing the met .fares which
have been wifely proposed, and prudent
ly applied and executed, for accommo
dating difficulties with the French, that
Ration ihculd still continue i&the feirit
chafe, as soon as mg be, a (effi
cient cumber of Cannon, IW$
supply of small frmi, and of am
rmunition and military fto <e>, to be
dept fired, sod used, ai|wi!l be most
conducive to the public fifety and
defence, at the difererion of the
President of the United State#.
Sec. 2. And be it farther enabled,
That the President of the United
Sates be, and he it hereby author
ifed, in cate he shall find it im
praaicable to procure by purchase,
with certainty and dispatch, pro
portionate to the nect ffifa of the
public service, the cannon -and
arms, hereby required, and any
cotifiderable part thereof (bill be
likely to be deficient, to take, by
lease, for a term of year#, or by
sale io fee, to the United States,
one or more suitable place or plac
es where cannon or small artna
may be advantageous, cast and
maruFaaured, and thal and may
there eftiblilh foundariea and ar
mouries for the manufaaure of
the fame, refpeaively, and shall
cause suitable anifans and laborers
to be there employed for account
of the United States ; tod shall
and may appoint one or more per
sons to feperinteod the bid works,
under the direction of the depart
ment of war. And an account of
the expenditures which shall be in
curred in forming and emp'oying
these eftablifhmenti, and of the
cannon and arms which shall be
cast and manuhdured therein rest
peaively, shall be laid before the
Coogrtfs of the United States at
their next Seffioo, and annually
thereafter, so !cng at the fame shall
be continued.
Sec. 3. And be it further enabled,
That the fom of one hundred
thousand dollars shall be and here
by is appropriated, and shall be
paid cut of any monies not before
appropriated, for the hire, purchase
and employ of the said founderiei
and armouries, refpedively, in case
such eftablifhmeota shall be found
necessary, at herein before provid
ed. *
OF THE
Students of Dartmouth College,
to JOHN ADAMS,
PRESIDENT es the UNITED STATES.
' IR ,
Approved, May 4, 1798.
John Adams,
President of the United States.
Spirit of Patriotism.
ADDRESS
of domina ion, and practices of. abuses
towards us § if our government fhouM
rete mine it nectftry to change the scene
<f nego iarion from the cabinet to the
field of battle ; wertfer our zeal, ourac
rivity, and our lives to repel the foe, that
would m ke os fl;ves.
At your command, illuftrirus Mrgif.
teste of a great People, we will h:ften to
the standard of freemen and warriors,
Hanover, May 28, 1798.
THE ANSWER.
To the Students of Dartmouth
Uniierjity, in the State if
Neubampfbire.
Gentlemen,
I THANK you for your Addrefc,
presented to me by Mr. Freeman, your
Representative in Cengrefs.
Your modest diffidence, in regard t 3
measures of political praftice, well be
comes your ege, and the pursuits of fei
ence and li erature, which feve, as they
ought, occupied hitherto, the mfr ft of
your time. But, it behoves you, to col
lider well the fixation of your country,
at the time you are to enter on the ftege
of life, and prepare yourselves for the
parts you must aft
Be offered, that your tribute of duty
and sefpta, your love, attachment, and
confidence, are words of precious import,
which cannot be cotfidered, by me, zs
words of course, nor as words of art.
The offer of your zeal, aairity, and
lives, to repel the foe that world make
us flavet, in vase your government Should
determine it nec< ffary so change the scene
of negotiation for the field of battle, is
very amiable and afftairg. You canner
all be soldiers & Society must be (applied
with he ordinary profeffions and facul
ties, in time of war, as well as tn peace.—
These of you who feel ab Uclinatßn to
a life of danger and glory, may find em
ployrr^nt, for all the a&vi,| and enter
prize of your genius, in due time.-
Let me entreat you, and all my young
friends in America, whether students or
men of bufiaefs, not to be dazzled by the
splendor, or intimidated by the horror of
modern events. Remember, that the
Roman republic wes revived in the four
teenth century, that Rietzi was asfcmouf
as the modern heroes. Petrarch was his
friend and admirer—that atheism and
blasphemy were as pr£rak& and falhfon
able then, as they &re now, at least in
Italy. Let net a young country, and the
only really growing empire in the world,
be corrupted and ruined, by such extrav
agancies.
JOHN ADAMS.
Philadelphia, June 13, 1798.
BttomflorcßremraMfflffl^^
CONGRESS.
house of representatives:
JUNE 28.
DIRECTLY after the min
utes were read, Mr. Sit
greaves aiked leave to read
the following ex:ra& of a let
ter, received by the Secretary
of War, from Major Louis
Touffard, commander of Fort
Mifflin.
" Fort Mifflin, June 28, '9B.
"SIR,
" I hive the honor of inform
ing you, that yetterday, at to
o'clock in the evening, the resi
dent Dodor of the Hospital of
Pennfylvaoia, came on purpose to
give the alarming information,
that there existed a mutiny among
the veffela in quarantine, now ly
ing above the sot: ; that he tho't
in conftquence of the report of 4.
of the captain, it wn proper to
poftponejo thia morning the or
dee of the Governor of Pennfyl-
Vania, to be made known in the
convoy. The boat of the (loop of
war (Melpomene) manned only
will, Negroci, had been seen the
whole dsy plying round all the
other ve ffeh which have lie greet
on board. They seem to have
adopted between them, the most
desperate meafuret, to the execu
tion of which the, are incited by
their ownera. There are row in
those veffelt between 250 and 300
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