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BALTIMOR E, MAY 8.
.^ of a letter from Mr. fames Purviance,
at Halifax, dated the tyb of April, t„§, ^
''^Samuel and John Smith, Efqrs. of this town.
“ The Halifax paper of the 3d instant, in
forms, that his Majesty's Ihip Thilbe had far
rived from a cruise, bringing with her the
ship Pomona of Baltimore, from Bourdeaux,
laden with wine, brandy, &c. &c. and zf
thousand pounds sterling, in calks, under^
the name of paints, which probably may be
copied into the United States papers, not one
word of which is true —the ship being in bal
last, your money, as well as that belonging
to Cunningham, Nifbet & Co. being in box
es and bags under the name of Crowns, and
only the five calks as before mentioned, (hip
ped by Fenwick, Mason and Co. and called
paints, of which please inform Mr. Mason,
as also, that I ini# not put in a claim for
them, unless I claim them as taken within
the United States."
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PHILADELPHIA, MAY If
E*traa from a letter of an American Confal, to
the Secretar, of State, dated in England, Feb
ruary 10, 1795.
" The wheat crop of this country, proving
Ihort, and there being no supplies from the
Baltic or America, our prices of grain are
-raised to a very enormous pitch, and from
the appearances of affairs, there is little pro-'
bability of a reduction fcon—wheat is here
7/6 to 7/9 per bushel, Winchester, weighing
60 to 62 pounds—fine flour, 18/6 per ct. —
seconds 17/6 per ct.—barley 4/6 per bulhel,
Winchester.”
Extra& of a letter- from a rejpeßable mercantile
b&uft in Alexandria, to bis friend in tbis city,
• dated Bib May, 1795,
" The many fpoilations committed on our
trade, in the Weftindies, will no doubt pre
vent many adventurers that way. A sloop
which we loaded in January last, with flour,
arrived two days ago, from St. Croix, where
the fold her flour, and would have turned us
out a faying voyage, if she had not been
plundered by a French privateer, near St.
Thomas's, of nearly 800 dollars in calh."
French Chicanery.
In justice to ourselves, and considering it a
duty we owe to others, and particularly ,to
the commercial interest of America, to da
ted fraud and prevent injustice, we the un
dersigned matters and supercargoes of Amer
ican vessels, at present at Cape Francois, in
the island of Hispaniola ; have thought it
proper to declare the treatment we have re
ceived from the government of the said ill
and, which, as it is contrary to the treaties
existing between America and France, and
tethat sacred faith which hath been pledged
between the two Republics, has been the
more unwarrantable, and especially as it has
been carriedon under the mask and disguise
of a free trade, and the mockery of voluota
ry tranfedions.
By certain regulations, when a master of a
vessel arrives, he is obliged, . after entering
bis vessel, to wait on the Ordannateur Civile,
[lntendant] who informs him that the Re
public stands in need of the different articles
of which his cargo confits, & thathe means
to treat with him for them, and pay him in
the produceof the country. He (tbiOrdan.
n&ur Civile) then fixes the price ofevery ar
ticle, which in some instances is considerably
below the prime cost, and in noinftance e
qual to what might be obtained from the
public, ft then fixes the price if articles
which are to be received in payment, at a
bout double the pricothat the fame articles
might be purchased for from the public, and -
double whathe pays for them.\'''
He is then presented with a written instru
ment, containing the prices of the different
articles of his cargo; an acknowledgement
of his entire approbation of the prices, and
his concurrence and agreement to said bar
gain, to which he is told he must sign his
name. In case of refufal, he is not allowed
to fell t 6 any other person or persons, neither
ishe (offered to leave the port ; but is and
will be detained, until he fubicribes, the a-
N ' greement with the Orefoafy Civile, as de
scribed above. The time of payment is
sometimes stipulated, and fomecimes not;
Abut whether the time be one week, one
^? month, or more, we know of noinftance of
payment haying been made fora cargo, in
jets than fix months ; some have been forced
to wait longer.
-We have lately been witness to the most
cruel and pnjpft treatment of many of our : :
countrymen, who have been captured by
French privateers, and lent into this place,
on the most triflings pretences ; their vessels
and cargoes condemned and fold ; the Cap- <
tains and crews have been robbed of their:
clothes, and every thing they peffeffed, and
then thrown into the common prifon.^^
%W^„, Maflm aid § tyreargoes
Personally appeared before me in Cape Fran.
cois, the lothday of April, 1795, the Mat:
& tert arid Supercargoes of the American ref-.
fels, febfcribers to the writing, on the other
fide of this paper, and have macit folet^
oath that there is nothing but the iru h ex
prefled therein.
B.H, PHILLIPS,
Coital ofthe United States of America
'for 'tbeifland and dijlriaafCwracoa.
Enormous Salary.
Rejoice ! Citizens '! that voeare not cufed <witb
that creature called— a king !
MIDDLETOWN, APRIL 2fr
The salary w ich the Britifli parliament
allows tothe fiift magistrate of that king
dom (called the king) exceeds twelve thous
and dollars a day! Happy people! modest
king !— to support himfelf and a numerous
family on this final! pittance of only 8; dol
lars a minute ! —and to this the people may
add the glory of being ruled by a king. —
When we look to other countries, how un
, happy must they be. For instance, in Amer
ica—this country allows its president for a
year's salary, the enormous sum of two days
pay of a Britilh king !—and this is to a pref
iderit—how infignificant the name founds,
almost as difguftful to a delicate eawas a na
tional convention !
Nothing marks the differencebetween the
Northern and Southern States more strik
ingly than the following fed—The timber
for the American frigates is procured in
Georgia, but the fuperintendapts are obliged
to fend men from the Northern states to cut
it—oxen to draw it to the places of ship
ment—and provisions to feed the men. This
we are assured is the fa&.
'
Salem, may fy Capt. Joseph Lambert
who arrived yesterday morning from Fort
Royal, (Martinique) ih 26 days, off St. Eu
ftatia was boarded by a boat from the shore,
with a French officer, who informed him
they expected 1200 additional troops there
from St. Martins and Guadaloupe, when an
immediate attack would be made upon St.
Kitts, which he expeded would be in their
possession in a fortnight. He also said there
was 42,000 troops (of all colours) at Gua-.
daloupe, who drew rations regularly.
Capt. Lambert was also boarded by an of
ficer from a Bermudian privateer, who de
tained him half a day, endeavoring by every
means to findfome pretence for fending him
in.
NAIL MANUFACTORY;
Among the geniuses this coun
try has produced, but few stand
higher in the mercantile line
than a Mr. PERKINS of New
buryport; who hws nearly com
pleted his engines for cutting
nails. This ingenious piece of
Machinery, it is said, will ena
ble a boy to cut 3000 nails in a
day, and the heading, whictiW
in general a tedious operation,
can be peffarmed $y a lad of
seven years, at the rate of one
hundred thousand per day.
^NEWBURYPORT, MAY Ig<(
Last Saturday Capt. Woodbury arrived at
Capeann, §0 days from Rochelle, but bro't\
no papers. Capt. W. informs, that the
markets at Bordeaux for beef and fifh were^
very low, but fiopr was worth 18 crowns.
EMIGRATION.
" The Dutch exiles, in England, are
preparing to embark for thii affflum
of all nacioni. An immense influx of
industry and opulence will therefore
fooa increase the rivers of American
commerce. The Neutrality of the
United' States, io the European con
teff, dp a measure that doeb honor
to the political forefight of our Fede
ral government. Already the resort
of all nations, our country will ipeedi
ly become the Emporium of the
world. Unaffeded by the jarring e^
emeriti, which difturbuhe mother
continent, America, peaceful, induf.
trious and independent, is aurally, ^
'this |o^ent, receiving tribute from
every commercial people oh the globe)
Z^e ar^, the mofea, 'arid tlglfy
fences, iffright^'cl^^ ^
b,ve commenced their flight for opr ?
happy Ihorerf and without enthufi- )
aim we may anticipate the period;
when the fctei of Columbia shall u
nite the mfetfg Cartbagewitb %
ten™ ^ ^%Q,^J<
li ymfaid by the ancients thA in
time of peace, the foes bury their fa
therein rime of wir, the fathers bu
ry their son. Inthe present war of
extermination,.the fathers bury their
Tons -the sons their fathers, and their
wives bury both.—Should the war
continue another year, famine will
over(preAC Europe, and few of either
sex will be left to bury the dead.
AGRICULTURAL,
A late Providence paper (fays a cor
respondent) contains some observa
tions, and well founded objections,
against the cultivation of ornamental"
trees. The writer fays, that the
Lombardy poplar has recently be
come the taste in Newyork ; but that
itll fubjea to many difad vantages,
and in particular, that it is a prey to
the catterpillar when its (hade is most
wanted. Objections are also given
to the button wood, and American
elm ; and high encomiums bestowed
upon the catalpha. A tree greatly
fopetiot co any of those abovemen
tioned, is the horfe-chefnut ; which
white ornamental and shady, it rapid
in growth, and produces fruit of ofe
to community. The nut of the horse
chefnut tree, has been found to pro-/
duce a greater quantity of pearl ash •
than ten times the weight of any oth
er production of the sorest, and also
serves for fobd for swine equal to the
acorn. This tree is now under cul
tivation in the town of Newport ; and
it is hoped that it will amply repay
the poffeffortfor their laudable at
tempts to introduce it into the State
of Rhodeifland; Newp. Mere.
Potatoes and Summer Grain.
Several parts of Europe appear to
be threatened with FAMINE. The
prices of all thing, in America, which
can be shipped from hence, will be
therefore extremely raised, so as great
ly to increase the expenses of the
poor. It is therefore Wrongly rec
ommended to the farmers, and the
owners even of small lots of land a
bout the sea ports of the United
States, to raise potatoes, turnips, car
rots, cables, peas and beans, Indi
an com,mck wheat, summer barley,
and every other thing which can sub
sist man. Potatoes can be shipped
from America to Europe, and every
kind of frefh.and tender vegetables
can be used to support ourselves. Hu
manity and interest call upon us loud
ly on the present occa(iG< <s^i
Chronicle.
OAKBARK?
The article of Leather having of lace
been mo^e in demand than usual, in
cdofequence ofthe large fhipmeoti to
France, greater exertions for tanning
both daughter and foreign hides than
usual will probably be made the com
ing season • ,on which account the ar
ticle of Oak Bark will be much want
ed. Farmers are adyjfed Uptake more
than usual care to five their bark,
both Oak and Hemlock, as it will be
much in demand and command a
good price. Wood designed for few
el the next winter, will not take any
damage, but be more light and fit
for transportation, if cut in the month
of May or June, by which means,
considerable faviog will be mide, and
a neceffniy Manufacture promoted.
• ' •=QQ_te~°i :
HABTFORD, MAY 11.
IT IS TIME THE SEED WAS SOWN.,
The United Scat# have one of the
faireft profpe&s before them ever
known. Europe still remains like^
troubled water. Their granaries are
destroyed—and millions of their in
habitants are looking co us for the
necessaries of life. Whether war or
peace prevails, their demands on the
American F^nvr must 'or a long ),
time continue to be exceedingly grea.
—The calls of humanity and the prof [
peds of gain, will doubriefs ttimulee
our husbandmen to a degree of indus
try beyond what was ever yet seen on
earth. He who doubts the truth of
these observations, kt him read the ~
followingr
Extraa from a late London paper.
66 Bread has fyttety ever been at
so h ; gh a price since the commence
ment of rhe century ; in many of the
provinces, a worm has been difeover
ed in the wheat, which very much
dimlnifhes its produce. The harvests
of America, which used to fepply our
deficiencies, h'ar&begv foreflailed by
France, ar a higher price than we can
pay for them. The lawless insolence
of despots has not only destroyed the
harvefis, but ruined the feed rime of
Poland, once the granary of Europe.
The fertile fields of Belgium are laid
warte. It is a fact that one great corn
dealer id this city his received up
wards of fifty tetters from bis corres
pondents on the continent, declaring
they cannot fulfil hi, orders."
Cardinal Mazarine's (ondu&vi:b the repub
lic ~ England, bas been quoted as uuortby the i&
ration ofthe British miniflr,. When feme ofthe
• members of a bed bfjuftice tfjt&cd to fending an
ambsfodor to Greater,tain, because Cromwell
was an ujurper, tbis was the cardinal's answer.
"We da not lend an ambtfsdor for Cromwell's
inttref, but for our own ; the amboffador's mij
fan is for the interfftsof this country, not ofsbat, -
and by being in it, be will have an opportunity of
putting us on our guard again, any deigns they
may form again, us. Suttying what has been
asserted here is true, that the present en,ing gov- 4
ernment of England is tempo,dof villains, it be
comes mere nectary to watch their cendua than
if they were bone, m:n ; as to negotiation, if it
were nectfary to r.egocidte with Pandaemonium,
and Lucifer, Beelzebub and Mokcb, were burled
from their thrones, I would fend my embaff, to 1,
those canning spirits who bad usurped the places,
though they might be the mean, devils that ever
occupied the infernal regions."
Thefuffirings of Poland, which mo, of the ca
tholic powers of Europe have offeßed to confider
too trivial /& excite their humanity, and too un
important to interest their policy, have at
length obtained commit,rat ion in the unchristian
bojoms of infidels / 7%fßeis Effendi, at Con-,
,antintye, has informed the Ruffian mini,dr,
that the sultan, wishing to flop the effufen of hu
man blood, thought the mo, certain means of ef
feaing it would be, "to re,orc and guarantee the
Polish con,itutien of May,l79lTo tbis pro
posal, be has demanded a Jpeedy and categorical
anfwerfrom the emprejs. Tbis proceeding, fays
a London paper of March 11, is said to^ have been
/"g&'ft*^ b, M. Defcorcbes, who has publicly de
clared, " that the French will never make peace ,
with the allies, but on condition, that Polandfhall -
be re,ored to its independence.''
PEACH-TREES.
The peach ingrafted on the plumb,fucceeds excel
lently, and lives longer than it would b&ve done in
a natural fate ; the reason jeems to be, that the -
b peach is a tender tree, jboots with vivacity, and
produces more branches than the root it able to .
maintain. Thus the peach trees are usually fullof ,
dead wood, and of ten their larger branches perifb,
and sometimes the whole trunk. On tbis pectin,
the plumbs being a loia fhootiug treefrcomwumicates '\
its virtue to the graft ; and the peach consequent
ly Jends cut /boots which are more robu, ®ftrotog b
and are no more in number than the root is able to
lupply with nourishment, a*4 cenfequently the tree
is more la,ing.
Domeflic Mijcellan,.
VERITAS CONTRA FREE THINKER,
^ for tHi MIRROR.
I SHALL now examine some other paf
f^ges, you have adduced to support the
tottering fabric of Universalism-one from
Eclefiaftes, 12, 7 — Then foall the du, return to
the earth, as it was; and the j,irit to God who -
gave it—From this you conclude, that the ;
fouls of all men without exception, after the
death of the body, immediately go to heav
en—That they go to God, I acknowledge;
but it does not thence follow, that they all
go to heaven—God is not confined to heav
en ; he is every where in chararicr cfajudge, 4
wherever intelligent beings exist—bis bar is <
not confined, like that of a human judge, to
a particular place—The bar of his justice is<
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to the righteous, thro' the merits cif Christ 1
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