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lot required to prove that pre-eminence
s often obnoxious “ and why muftAr
iftides be called more just than others"
was asked by the envious Athenian
who voted for his banishment. Anoth
er honorable gentleman from Virginia
(Mr. Thompson) asks my friend from
North-Carolina, why he now nourns
and sighs over the Constitution, which
he last year assisted to violate, and in
lifts upon it we did wound the constitu
tion, in putting down the two courts of
Kentucky and TennefTee. Sir, it has
been faiisfadorily shewn by my learned
friend from Delaware, that the offices
were not in those two instances destroy
ed but modified, and that we did not
take their offices from the judges but
merely aligned them new duties. This,
however, the gentleman from Virginia
calls wounding the constitution, and
proceeds to fay you did destroy two
courts and we will destroy sixteen.—
What, fir, will he tell us that our hands
are red with the blood of the constitu
tion to juftify his embruing his ? Be
cause he thinks we then violated the
constitution, will he now murder it ?
Sir it was by founding the alarm about
meditated violations of the constitution
and by gross misrepresentations of our
intentions, .and reiterated charges of
not refpeaing the constitution, that
public opinion was vitiated, the public
milled, and the administration of our
government placed where it now is—
But almost in the moment of changing,
when the present administration is in
its gristle, it assumes the attitude of a
gladiator,attacks the judiciary, violates
the rights of the judges, and fays to us
ycufet the example. Sir, had we set them
the example it was a bad one, and it
does not become them to follow it; but
we never gave any such examples, we
always reverenced the judiciary as the
bulwark of the constitution, and con
sidered the rights of the judges as the
rights of all the people of America. It
is said by the gentleman from Virginia
that our devotion to the judiciary es
tablishment makes us wince at any at
tempt to strip off some of its fuperfiu
ous and expenfre trappings, and that
we will not part with the corinthian &
compofit pillars which have been added
or its decoration.
Sir, the judiciary is, in the fabric of
the constitution, not a corinthian pillar,
not any ornament added by Congress ;
it is, fir, the grand doric column ; one
of three foundation pillars formed, not
by Congress, but by the people them
fclves ; it binds together the abutment,
is laid in the foundations of the fabric of
our government, and if you demolish
it, the grand arch itfelf will totter and
the whole be endangered. We are
asked by the gentleman from Virginia
if the people want judges to prated
them ? Yes, fir, in popular governments -
constitutional checks are necerfary for
their preservation ; the people want to
be protected against themselves ; no
man is so absurd as to suppose the peo
ple collectedly will consent to the prof
tration of their liberties ; but if they
be not shielded by some constitutional
checks they will fuffer them to be de
stroyed ; to be destroyed by demagogues,
who filch the confidence of the people
by pretending to be their friends ; dem
agogues who,at the time they are sooth
ing and cajoling the people, with bland
and captivating speeches, are forging
chains for them ; demagogues who car
ry daggers in their hearts, and seduc
tive smiles in their hypocritical faces ;
who are dooming the people to despo
tism, when they profefs to be exclu
sively the friends of the people ; against
such designs and such artifices were
our constitutional checks made to pre
serve the people of this country. Will
gentlemen look back to the histories of
other countries, and then tell us the
people here have nothing to apprehend
f/om themselves ? Who, fir, proved
fatal to the liberties of Rome? The cour
tier of the people; one who profeffed to
be“ the man of the people," who had
willed away his fortune|tothe people,and
had exposed his will to the public eye; a
man who, when a crown was proffer
ed him, shrunk from the offer, and af
fe^ly said it did not come from the peo
ple, it was Julius C^far who prostrated
the liberties of Rome, and yet Caesar
profetTed to be the friend of Rome, to
be in fad the people. —Who was it that
in England destroyed the representa
tive government and concentrated all
its powers in his own hands ? One who
styled himfelf the man of the people ;
who was plain, nay studiously negli
gent in his dress ; disdaining to call
himfelf Mister, it was plain unassuming
Oliver—Oliver Cromwell,the friend of,
the people, the prq^dor of the Com
monwealth. The gentleman from Vir
ginia fays he would rather live under
a despot than under a government
where the judges are as independent as
we would wish them to be. Had I his
propensities, L like iffi, would fold
my arms and look with indifference at
this attack upon the constitution. It
has been my fortune, Mr. Chairman,
to have visited countries governed by
defects. Warned by the fuffering of
de people I have seen there, I am
zealous to avoid any thing which may
cftablilM defpotifmhere—lt is because
From the New-York Gazette.
I was no way surprised at reading in
the Gazettee of yesterday an account
of the insolent and outrageous cenduft
of the commander of the British ship #
Walker, towards the American fhipl
Asia, near Cape Horn—compared with
that of the French in thousands of in-;
stances it was a civil thing. But it re-I
minded me of what was lately said by !
Mr. Giles, /fa be wifoed the United Stater \
not to possess a jingle ship. " Mark %" &
said Mr. Giles, " I do not mean a pub- I
lie f)ip, or Jhip of war. I mean a ship of :
any kind, public or private." The famer
sentiments have been frequently express
ed by the Virginians and other south
ern gentlemen, ever since the organiza
tion of the government. Mr. Jefferfon
meant the fame thing when he faid,that
we Were an agricultural people, and foould
leave our trade to be carried on by foreigners
—and lately, at his own table, when
he said that one landsman was worth
two feamen —It ought to be known, that
this is the policy of the Southern states,
except that of South Carolina. Their
jealousy of the Eastern states seems to
have deprived them of common sense.
What would have been our condition
for eight years pad, if this stupid poli
cy had prevailed ? Do not these peo
ple know, that those who fetch and car
ry, make the price both ways. Cur
farmers, intlead of being enriched as
they are, by the high price of their pro
duce, would have gained nothing ;
while every foreign article of consump
tion would have been raised as high as
the poffertor chose to ask for it. ' Upon
this plan, every foreign war would serve
only to impoverish us. Foreign nations
contending for our trade, would tight
their battles in our ports ; and we, like
filly defenceless poltroons, Should be in
tuited and plundered by all. This is
the condition to which the wisdom and
patriotism to which our antient dominion
men would reduce us. What better
could have been contemplated, when
the business of the Navy Department
was committed to three pkyfcians. It
was evident they meant to phytic it to
death, Dr. Leib, who, 1 suppose, mutt
be a surgeon, proposed to cut its head
off at a blow, by abolishing the De
-Ipartment—Dr. Mitchell, by proposing
to fell the navy yards, seems to have
intended to ihew, by experiment, how
long it could Hand upon nothing—
But Dr. Euftis, with more wit than a
dozen of both of them, was contented
that it ffiould die of an ague, which he
perceived it had caught in the Potomac.
President Jefferfon boafly of having made a
saving of 200,000 dollars in the navy depart
ment —One fourth part of that sum, it is believ
ed, will Tome time or other appear to have been
wafted in this port upon the ship Adams. A
bout nine months (he has been under the hands
of a host of mechanics, not feledled for integri
ty or Ikill in their business—about fix weeks
pat ihe has been detained in port with her
complement of hands on board, at a greater ex
pence than foe would have been at sea. In the
mean time, our trade in the Mediterranean is
left, as far as refpeds this ship, to be protested
by the Swedes.
It is not denied, that a ship of war
is a novel and amusing place for enter
tainments, especially for the ladies ;
and bands of music are delightful on
the water. But such ships are not built
exclusively for the purpose of amuse
ment ; and it behovesJ omebody to Jhew
a better reason for keeping this ship so
long in port, after the shipment of her
crew—lt is curtomary, in our own fer
vice,as well as that of all other nations,
for the commander of a squadron to
have a captain under him to command
the ship, in which he is. Commodore
Truxton was ordered to the command
of the Mediterranean squadron. A cap
tain was refufed him ; and that gal
lant officer was compelled to serve with
discredit, or to quit the service. It could
never have been doubted which he would
prefer. Nevertheless, the Chesapeake
was detained until Capt. Morris could
befent for from Boston. Here wisafe.
ing of about twelve hundred dollars, and
a loss of about twelve thoufaud. But what
is incalculably worse, an officer whose
services are above price, is thruO out
of service : But that officer is a Feder- t
alift —Secretary Smith, in his report
to Congress, estimates the timber con
traded for to taild the fix 74 gun
ships, and which isprincipafty colleded
at the refpedive navy yards, at four
hundred twenty-three thousand, nine
hundred and fifty-four dollars. Be
sides this, it is understood that two
other frames weie contraded for,agree
able to the ad of Congress ; which will
make the whole value of timber about
600,000 dollars. In the ragefor saving,
xan .;apijucuu m„inopje and by
birth, and because I love a republican
form of government and none other,
that I with to keep our constitution un
changed. Independent judges, at the
fame time that they are ufeful to the
people are harmless to them. The
judges cannot impose taxes; they can
not raise armies ; they cannot equip
fleets ; they cannot enter into foreign
alliances ; these are powers which are
exercised without control by despots ;
and as the gentleman from Virginia
does not hold despots in abhorrence, he
and I can never agree in our opinions
on government. ।
(Conclusion of the Speech in our next.)
Aniwer ot tue HouJe oJ Keprefentatsves
to the Governor's Speech.
May it please your Excellency,
THE House of Representatives receive
with pleasure and refyea, the address of your
Excellency to both branches of the Legislature,
and offer in return their sincere congratulations,
upon the recent inftante, of the high esteem
and iucreafing confidence of the citizens, mani
fefted in the late election.
We are fully aware of the delicate nature of
that portion of your Excellency's duties, which
regards appointments to office, and firmly be
lieve that in the feledlion of candidates, your
Excellency has been uniformly a6luated by the
mod impartial views to the interest and conve
nience of the People. Competition for offices,
of, necessity, gives rife to personal disappoint
ment; and the difficulty of deciding upon pre
tensions, apparently equal, mull sometimes
occasion embarraffment,—But no material det
riment te the public interest will arise from
these sources, while the power of appointment
is exercised withv finceie desire to feleft able
and upright men. If is only ufa fubjeaedta tie
influence of passion, intolerance, or part, projeas,
that tbiefraer becomes a feourge to the people. The
found and pertinent sentiments advanced by
your Excellency, upon the general importance
of government to the peace of society, its ten
dency to promote the public happiness, and in
duce a compliance with the laws of the Supreme
Being, demand our most cordial aflknt¥nd ap
probation.
We rejoice in the exigence of that National
Constitution, which unites the People of the
several States in, the bonds of interest, and en
titles them to & common privilege of citizens.l
Nothing shall be wanting on our parts to con
tinue and extend its advantages to our fellow
citizens, by the performance of such duties, as
on the part of this Commonwealth are now in
cumbent upon us.
The importance of the union cf the States,
and of the National Government, to our fafety
and tranquility, cannot be too frequently incul
cated. We regard the preservation of both,
as the mod sacred of our public duties.- In an
extensive confederacy, composed of various
, States, mutual jealousies, and violent collisions
of opinion, are naturally ezpeded; and it may
-sometimes happen, that local politics and pre
dilidlion may acquire a dangerous afeendency in
the public councils. In such seasons, patience,
Moderation, and a reliance upon constitutional
redress, would become all good citizens. If,
ii,ftead«of this temper, the public mind Ihould
be actuated by desperate resolutions to abandon
the Union, or a premature diffidence of our
means to maintain it ; the difordefrand weak
ness incident to small and jarring confederacies
would expose us to the loss of national impor
tance, and individual liberty.
We unite with your Excellency in deprecat
ing the pernicious effects of that party spirit
which has proved the bane of every Republic,
and which is the principal, if not the only fourcc
of the calamities which threaten a free and in
dependent People. The evils arising from the
exceflive indulgence of this intolerant and un
facial spirit, among those who are not the im
mediate agents of public affairs, are fcrious ob
flacles to general prosperity and private happi-°
nefs. But if in any elective government, not
merely the People, but their Rulers, shall be
come infested with this malignant spirit of par
ty ; if, burning from the confines of private cir
cles, it (hall shed its fatal influence over Ma
cistrates and Legislators, then indeed
will'the public intcreft be facrificed to private
attachments; then will merit languifo in obfeuri
ty and diftrace, while honors and promotion, a
wait tbe jelffoand unuortby ; then will such a
nation realize, that paper Constitutions are
feeble barriers against the devices of sophistry,
or the assaults of violence. We trust, how
ever, with your Excellency, that the mild cha
racter of our fellow citizens, and their general
information will save us from those excesses of
party zeal, by which other nations have been
disgraced. This salutary object is naturally
promoted by the moderate and conciliatory fcn
timents of a Chief Magistrate, when sanc
tioned by his conduct and example; and it
is a tribute of justice due to your Excellency
to declare, that your disposition to assuage the
acrimony of party is not left to be inferred
from your declarations only, but is apparent in
the whole tenor of your Excellency's public
conduit.
The particular fubjeds detailed in your Ex
cellency's address, are entitled to, and Ihall re
ceive, our diligent attention ; and we (ball as
siduously co-operate in affording that dispatch |
to the business of the session, which the public,
convenience, at this season of the year, peculiar
ly requires. 0
Answer of the Senate.
May it pleas year Excellency,
THE Senate sincerely congratulate
your Excellency upon your re-elevon
to the firft office of this Commonwealth.
And however delicate or arduous may
be the duties, which you are called to
perform, we doubt not they will be
difcQarged with that wisdom, impar
tiality and regard to the best interefts,of
your conftitutents, which have hitherto
marked your public condud, and secur
ed to you their esteem and approbation.
In all our deliberations we shall en
deavour to keep our excellent Consti
tution steadily in view ; to make it the
rule and guide of our condud ; and
we hope that all our measures will tend
to promote the invaluable objects for
which it was ordained and established.
We are sensible that government is ne
cessary for man ; without it he cannot
enjoy the blessings of society. And it
is with gratitude we refled that the citi
zens of the United States are blessed
with the freeft governments on earth ;
which emanated from themselves, and
are administered by men of their own
appointment. To prove the foperiority
of these governments, to preserve and
it would le veil if these frames ilould
be saved ; for it will be difficult, if not
importable, to procure as many more of
equal value. In some exigency, pro
bably not remote, they might be the
means of saving the honour of the
nation. But this latter is a facing which
the present administration seem never
to have thought of—And it is much
to be feared, that all rhe rest of their
penny-facing wisdom, will come out to
be mere folly n gross.
Maflachufetts Legi/lature.
STANTON, (Pirg.) MAT 12.
The following elections will firve to convince
that the report of Mr. Jefferson's losing his pop
ularity in Virginia as fall as he acquired it, is
not without a good foundation.
Frew tie Lynebburgb Gazette.
We have heard from the elections of Camp
bell, Amherst, Bedford and Pittfylvania.
John Clark,jun. and Achille^Moorman, Esq.
(Federalists) are elected in Campbell.----- Isaac
Otey, Esq. (a Fedcralift) is ele&d in Bedford—
And Thomas H. Wooding, (a Fedcralift) is e
lcdled in Pittfylvania.
When the Indian embassy was at Washington
last winter, every thing was done towards for
warding their civilization, increasing their com
fort, and ameliorating their savage Slate. One
day the Prifident sent for the chief of the embaf
fc Little Turtle, and the interpreter, and told
him that he had one thing to communicate
of very g rest importance to him and his children,
the red people. He then informed him that
the Great Spirit had lately made to the enlight
ened white men a mail precious gift, which
Would forever Secure them from that terrible
plague the Small pox, which had been so repeat
edly dcflrudlive among the tribes of the red
men. Then he gave him an account of the
Kine Fox, and its operation by inoculation, and
told him that all the nations of the white men
were following the practice. The Sagacious
Chief heard him with marked attention, and at
the coucrafibn, exprrffcd a wish to undergo the
With your Excellency we feel the
necessity and importance of preserving
the union of these States. On it, under
Divine Providence, depend our respec
tability and fafety as a nation, and our
happiness as individuals. Incalculable
are the evils which might flow from
their disunion. It is therefore the du
ty of all, but more especially of those
who are placed in public office, to cul
tivate and cherish such a spirit, as will
best tend to avert an event so justly to
be deprecated. As the best means,
however, of perpetuating our union,
the citizens of the United States fliould
be impressed with a due sense of the
importance of preserving the Federal
Constitution inviolate.
perpetuate them, to tianfinit them un
impaired to the latest pofferity, must be
the highetl ambition of every honest cit
izen.
NORFOLK, MAY ty.
THE two negro fellows, who about the be
ginning of this month, were found guilty
in the Borough Court, of being concerned in
the late conspiracy amohg the negroes, and
whose sentence was respited, were yesterday
conveyed in a cart to the place of execution,
where one of them, named Jeremiah, fuffercd
death ; the other, named Ned, was respited un
der the gallows.
The experience of all ages has prov
ed,that there is no evil, to which free
nations are more exposed, than the pre
valence of party spirit. It is, perhaps,
the necessary offspring of free govern
ments ; but it frequently proves their
bane and deftru&ion. Itis incumbent,
therefore, on every good citizen, care
fully to watch over and suppress such a
spirit in himfelf, to frown upon and dis
countenance it in others. They who,
to promote party purposes, or, to raise
themselves to office, invent and give circu
lation to tales of calumny' refpe&ing
public charafters, whataver may be
their profegions,muft have hearts total
ly devoid of every truly virtuous and
patriotic principle. They not only in
jure the persons whom they calumniate,
but they do irreparable injury to the
community. They discourage good
men from accepting offices of trust and
responsibility.—They introduce men
unprincipled, and regardless of charac
ter, in their Read. They thereby pave
the way for the deftrudion of our pre
sent free Government, and will enable
some popular and fuccefsful ufarper to
eftablilh his empire on their ruins. We
flatter ourselves that the mildness of
the American charader, and the good
sense of the people will preserve them
from these evils ; but it ought to be
deeply impressed on their minds, that
the only way to avoid the calamities
which have befallen other free nations,
is to avoid their errors.
To strengthen our national union, to
give stability to the “ Constitutions,
which we have in the mod solemn man
ner engaged to support," to promote a
generous confidence in those who are
called to administer our Govern
ments, and at the fame time a vigilant
attention to their measures of adminis
tration, are not less the dilates ofin
tereft than of duty. Wetruft that the
good sense and patriotism of the peo
ple will forever preserve the principles
of our Constitutions from violation ;
and if, under the influence of party zeal,
or a mistaken desire to promote the
public good, any ads fliould ever be
passed incontinent with those principles,
that they will not obtain the fanftion of
time. And we deem it proper on this
occasion to declare, that we confider an
Independent Judiciary as one of the
best supports, and most essential attri
butes of a free Government.
The several fubjeds which your Ex
cellency has pointed out for our con
federation, and any subsequent commu
nications which you may be pleased to
make, shall meet a prompt and refpeft
ful attention. We shall endeavour to
expedite the public business by an ard
uous attention to it. We doubt not
your Excellency's disposition to render
the session agreeable to the Members of
the Government, nor of your ready
concurrence in every measure calculat
ed to promote the public good.
United States.
From Portsmouth, (n. a.) Charles Peirce.
From Boston, Joseph Bumftead, Ebenezer T.
Andrews and John Weft.
From New -Haven, Isaac Beers and Co.
From Stonington, Samuel Trumbull.
From Hartford, John Babcock.
From Albany, Whiting, Leavenworth and
Whiting.
From New-York, Hugh Gaine, Isaac Collins
and Co. Samuel Campbell, Brown and Star,(bu
ry, Geo. F. Hopkins, Wm. Falconer, T. and J.
Swords, Evert Duyckinck, David Longworth,
Peter A. Mefier, T. B. Jansen & Co. T. S. Ar
den, A. M. Boyle, Naphtali Judah.
From Philadelphia, Patrick Byrne, Wm. D
uane, S. F. Bradford, W. Bradford, Matthew Ca
rey, Abraham Small, W. Y. Birch, Jacob John
son, John Bioten.
From Baltimore, Warren and Hanna, Banfol
and Niles.
N. B. Considerable numbers of the Booksel
lers from different parts of the Union are expect
ed to arrive this day and to morrow.
The Literary Convention, or (as it has
been improperly stiled) Fair, in this city wears
a very promifag afpe&: Refpedable characters
from various parts of the Union have [hewn
their interest in its success, by a general attend
ance ; and while so judicious an institution pro
miles the most solid advantages to the members
individually, it opens a bright profpedt to the
rising literature of our country, a liberal and
social intercourse between Booksellers is eftab
lilhed, which tends to promote harmony, and
by the exchange of their refpe&ive publications
a new life infufed through every part of the
body :—The dormant volumes are no longer
fuffer ed to grow mouldy on the (helves, bur cir
culate, and brighten into fpecic. The support
afforded by the union of so many interests, here
tofore discordant, to the undertakings of each
individual, will enable us to publish among our
fclves almost every work of merit, and in a great
measure preclude the necessity of importation.
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BOSTON, JUNE 9.
Toajh given at the Anniverfar, Eleflion of offi
cers for the ancient and honorable artillery in tioflon.
I. The Day —and our renowned Forefathers ,
whose example taught ns never to fear Dagger ;
Dor to despise Religion, Learning or Labour.
2. The Commander in Chief of Massachu
setts—who extorts unwilling praises from his
Enemies; and eiQuliaftic eulogies from his
Friends.
3. The Memory of George Washington —
whose virtues rendered the Eighteenth Century
illustrious; —and who enabled the New Wbrld
to Challenge the Old for his Rival.
4. The Sage of Mount Wallafon* —who firft
afeertained the true limits of Constitutional Li
berty ; and demonftrated,by his Example, that
he knew how to reduce his theories topraaiee.
5. The Admioiftrations of WASHINGTON
and ADAMS—whose onlyfju#—even their
Enemies fay, is—that they expended the PUB
LIC Money ; for PUBLIC purposes.
6. The remains of the United States Army;
be they '' more or left!'
~ The industrious and honorable Mechanics
of the United States. Who are yet pure, incor
rupt and independent, though they may " twirl
a diflaff, or be occupied at a worL-beneby
8. Our new Neighbors in Louisiana. With
the return of their Religion, may they remem
ber the loth Commandment, and never “ covet
their neighbour's wives, nor their mud-Jervant,
Dor ANY THING that is theirs?
* [Now called Qoincy.J
The President of the United States has ar
rived at Washington, from Monticello.
Colonel Humphries, one of the displaced
Ministers of the United States, has arrived at
the fouchward from Europe."
_—o- —
On Sunday, last week, at Fwt Independence,
in confining Thomas Langdon, an Iriihiaborer,
who, we underhand, had abufid several of the
foidiers, he refitted in a desperate manner, and
knocked down two or three of the perfens wha
were conducing him to the guard-house. At
length he was secured: but it was food after
wards discovered, that he had received a
wound, supposed to be with a bayonet. The & *
attention of the Surgeon was unavailing—
he tried on Tuefday. The usual Heps of the
law have been taken.
c-
A letter from a gentleman in Europe, to his
friend in this town, dated April 16, 1802, fays,
“ Talleyrand dining at Me. Livingston's, fatten
tween Mr. Livingston and Mr. William Smith,
of South-Carolina. While at dinner he propos
ed to these gentlemen to take a bumper with
him,toa tojft which he fheuld give. They
readily assented ; and he said, " Alexander Ha
milton—tbeffman of year country. Gentlemen,
bowing to Livingftou and Smith. I had this
from one of them."
Look Out !—Caprain, Livbfyar.
rived at New-York, from CurAloa,
states, “ That on the tyh May, ne r
the city of St. Domingo, he was boaid
ed by the French frigate fraternity,
who overhauled him very ftri&ly, and
said if he was caught near the South-
Coast of St. Domingo again, he fh<£d.
be taken. The frigate had thegm
fion the brig Union, Thomas, of Phila
delphia from Naples, for Aux-Cayes;
and a Sloop, name unknown ; which
were to be sent to the city of St. Do
mingo.—The Captain of the frigate
informed,that he had taken two Ameri
can vefcls," charged with a design to
supply the negroes.
operation himfelf. ac^urdirglv ire R.v Lr
Gano, Chaplain to Congress, inoculated him and
fourteen other warriors. And when they were
about to depart for their own regions, the Pre
sident caused the interpreter to be finifhed with
the Kine Pox-matter, together with an abtiraa
of the inflruaiena for couduaing inoculation,
which had been sent to him by Dr. Water
house. The gentleman who favored us with
this anecdote, adds, " I fee no reason to doubt
but these Indians may condua this inoculation
with full as much regularity as our own plan
ters." This occurence may form a remarkable
sera in the Indian nation. £^^ # Cbro.]
NEW-YORK, JUNE 3.
Yesterday, agreeably to public notice, was held
the Sift American Literary Fair, at which
were prelent a confidcrabic number of Printers
and Booksellers from different parts of the Unit
ed States :—
AMERICAN LITERARY FAIR.
The proceedings of the Meeting wete opened
by the appointment of Hugh Gaine as President,
and Mathew Carey as Secretary, after which
committees were appointed to name rules for
the future management of the business of the
Fair.
From Richmond, William Pritchard.