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delegated to Congrefle, by the f{edtion
vader confideratich—{ doubt it ; |
think power the hinge on which the
whole centitution turns. Gentlemen
have tallzed about Congress moving the
place of elections from Georgia to the
nlohawk river, but 1 never can believe
il, will venture to conjeéture we thall
have some honelt men in aur Congress.
We read that there were two who
beought a good repere, Caleb and Jolhua
~—Now, if there are but twoin Congress
who are honet men, and Congress
thould attempt to do what she geatlemen
{ay thoy will, (which will be bigh treajon)
tliey will bring a report of It—and [
stand ready to leave my wifeand family
~—ing my knapsack—travel weltward—
to cot their heads off. 1, Sir, since the
war, have had commerce with 6 different
nations of the globe, and [ have enquired
in what estimation America is held—
and if [ may believe good, hones, cre
dible men, I find this ceuntry held in
the fame light by foreign nations, as a
well-behaved negrois, in a gentieman’s
family. Snppofe, Mr, Preficent, 1 had
a chance to makea good voyage, but
I tie my captain up tofuch #trilt orders,
that he can go to no other iftand to fell
my vetiel, alchough there is a certainty
of his doing well—the consequence is,
he returns, but makes a bad voyage,
because he had not power enough to alt
his judgment—(for honeit men do right)
—Thas, Bir, Congrels cannot save us
from deltruttion, because we tie their
hands and give them no power; (I
think people have loft their privileges
by not improving them) and [ like this
power being veited in Congrels as well
as any paragraph in the Cornflitation
-——=‘or as the man lis accountable
—for his condu&, [ think thereis no
danger,—Now, Mr, Preiident, to take
all things into coniideration, something
more muit be said, to conviace me to
the coatrary, than what I have yet
heard.
{Several other gentlemen went largly
jato the debate on the 4th sect.—which
those in favour of it demonitrated to be
necelary.—Fir/f, as it may be used to
corre€t a negligeace in ele&ions.—
Secondly, as it will prevent the difiolution
of the government, by designing and
refrallory States, Jbirdly, as it will
operate as a check, in favour of the
people agzinit any designs of the federal
Senate, and their constituents, the State
Jegiflatures, to deprive the people of
their right of eleftion, and forthly, as
it provides a remedy for the evil, fhould'y
any State, bz iqvaﬁon, or other cause,
not have it in its power to appoint a
place, wherz the citizens thereol may
meet to chufe their federal Reprefenta.
tives. Those agaiaft it urged that the
power is unlimicted, and unncceilary :
But having entered so largly into the
debate oa this sect, already, notwith
flanding we have been at much pains
and expenie to prepare the speeches in
which the argaments are used, for the
-press, we muit omit them.]
( 1o be continued. ) |
DUBLIEIN, Sept.2y.:
Upon an altercation lately between a
poor illiterate feilow and aclergyman of
the eitablithzd church, relative to the
tyihes of his potatoe garden—in the
heat of resentment and paflion he withed
the whale fraternity at the D=l, The
ciergymanvery calmly remonstrated with
the man upon his impiety—aind alked
him, supposing his rath with fulfiled,
what wou!d become of his precious foul ?
< 0, replied he, nearly in the words of
fir T'oby Butler, don’t you think it would
be fafer to truit my poor Jjox/ to Gop —
than my little property to the clergy 2—
Finding him thus incorrigible, the cler.
gyman was obliged to deiilt.
SAL'TIMORE, ]4,
Extrad of a letter from aladyin England,
(whose mantal eydowments reflect honor
“on ber sex) to her friend in this town,
¢« You know our good Dottor, enter
tains his patieats with his converlation,
4s well as cures them by his medicine.
He gave me an account of Her/ehe/, who
he looks upon as a very extraordinary
felf-taught philofopher,—He came from
Germany with the Hanoverian army,
was a fifer on Coxheath ; from thence
to Bath, where he maintained himfelf
hy mufick ; bat his chief study was the
heavenly bodies.—He has contrived a
{peculum of a very bright metal, four
feet diameter ; this he pelithed himfelf,
and, at one time, worked upon it for
thirty-fix hours without ﬁopginz ; his
sister, (who is likewise a philosopher)
fapplying him with neceflary food,—
This plate of polished metal he has put
at the bottom of an iron tnbe-~I have
forgot the feet in dength ; but he h?s
{caffolding to ascend to the top of it,
from hence he looks down on this ilate;
and fees the heavenms as in a looking
glafs, He has discovered voleanos in
-he moon.—He is now near Windsor,
is a great fovourite at court, and will
want no afliltacce that majesty can
glve ™!
NEW-HAVEN, Jan 24.
The rain which fell lat Saturday did
considerable damage in the country ; se
veral mills, and bridges being torn from
their foundations.
Danbury, January 14,
On lait Saturday morning Mr. Joseph
Gregory, of this town, went from home
with his tcam after wood ; but noi re
turning at the time expeted, and his
team coming home without him, his
wife was alarmed for his fafety, and re.
quested some of her neighbours to go in
quest of him., They went into the
woods and found him dead, his dog
licking his blood that ran from a frac
ture in his fcall.—From circumttances
it appeared that he had placed one end
of a lever on a rock, with intention to
prevent the tree he was cutting down
from falling into the {now. The tree
fell in a different direftion from what
he expeéted, and firiking the end of the
lever which projefted beyond the rock,
the other end broke his scull. He left
a wife and three {mall children, to la.
ment the loss of a very kind hofbaad and
tender parent.
NEW-YOORKK, Jk 10
Yesterday afternoon arrived from
Sandy- Hook, his Most Christian Ma
jelty’s frigate L’Aigretts, of 40 guns,
Chevalier de Bouliere, Commander,
which left Brest the 14th November.
His Excellency the Count de MOUS.
TIERS, Minister Plenipotentiary of the
Ceurt of France to the United States,
his son, the Marchinefs de Brehen his
{ifter, with her son the young Marquis
de Brehen, and several other gentlemen
of his Excellency’s family, came pas
sengers in this frigate. On her appear
ance in the harbour f{he was saluted by
the Fort, which was returned with the
customary etiquette, His Excellency
landed in this city about four o’clock.
WORECESTER, jJabi gy
We learn that very great damage has
been done to trecs of all kinds by the
rain on Saturdzy night last, which freez.
ing an the limbs as soon as it lodged on
them, so everloaded them with ice, as
occasioned them to break off ; and the
woods and erchards for an hundred miles
round, we are told appcar deprived of
their branches, which lay in heaps on
the ground, as if piled there by the hands
of the pruner. A large number of ap
ple and peach trees are eatirely ruined.
Even the moil stately elms and caks are
in some instances split, and main as well
as {fmaller branches broke off,
HUMOUR and SATIRIE,
" ON’T meddle with that gun,
D Tommy,’’ said a careful mother,
“if it thould go off, it would kill you.’
¢ It is not charged, mother,’ fays Tom.
¢ Well ! but may be,’ fays the good old
woman, it will go off, even if it is’nt
charged—* But there is no lock on it
m2’am.” ¢ O dear Tommy; lam afraid
the hollow thing there, the barrel, I
think you call it, will shoot if there is
no lock.”
Don’t langh at the old lady. Two
thirds of our fears and apprehensions of
the evils and milchiefs of this life,
are just as well grounded, as her’s were
in this case. There are many unavoid
able evils in life, which it becomes us as
men and as chriitians,to bear with forti
tade : and there is a certain period
afligned to us all, and yet drcaded by
molt of us, wherein we must conflict
with death, and finally lose connexion
with all things beneath the fun, These
things are béyond our utmost power to
refit, or sagacity to evade. Itis our
wifelt part, therefore, to prepare to
encounter them in such a manaer as
shall do honor to our profeflion, and
manifeft a perfet conformity to that
dire&tory on which our profeflion {tands.
But why need we anticipate unavoidable
evils, and ¢ feel a thoafand deaths in
fearing one }> Why need a woman be
everlastingly burying her children, in
imagination, and spend her whole time
in a fancied courle of bereavement,
because they are mortal, and must die,
some time or other ? A divine teacher
fays, ¢ {ufficient for the day is the evil
thereof ;’ but we put new and unneces
sary gall in all the bitter cups we have
to drink in life, by arfully mixinE,
sipping, and {melling beforehand —like
FEBR U ARY
EBRUARY, the second month,
Freckoning from January. It was
added to Romnlus’s caiendar by Numa
Pompilius. The word is derived from
Februa, which was a certain kind of
ceremony performed in that month, in
which wax candles zad flambeanx were
lighted at the graves of the dead, and
oblations offered to their names. Some
learhed authors have given it as theiy
opinion, that it will answer to join in
wedlock in this month, as it is a short
one, and tiie honey moon sooner over,
e A N M e =~
TUMULTUOUS forms an awful
murm’ring keen,
And rock the world, with all its carés,
to sleep :
The ehatt’ring teeth confels th’ incle
ment {ky,
And tears unbidden flood the twink
ling eye :
Still the groves murmur, and the winds
complain,
But Hope presages balmy skies again.
PORTSMOUT H, February 6.
Notwithstanding the great prepa
rations made for a war between
England, France and Spain, by the
latest accounts we have been able
obtain, the florm seems to have
blown over, and the profpeét of a
war betwixt those powers appears
now at a great diitance.
The diftarbances in Holland, ap
pear to be nearly atan end; the
Stadtholder being reinfiated in all
his prerogatives, by the affifance of
the Pruflian army.
The Turks and Ruflians are
aftually at war, and by the accounts
from Europe have very large armies
in the field.
The General-Assembly of New-
York, we hear have resolved that a
Convention be called, for the pur
pose of assenting to, and ratifying
the Federal Conflitution—~to mect
at a short day.
Upwards of 10,000 hogtheads of
tobacco, of the last crop, were in
fpefled in the town of Petersburg,
Virginia, in O¢t. and Dec. last.
A letter from the Bay of Hon
duras, dated Sept. 29, 1787, fays;
a severe and violent hurricane came
on here 2d of this month, in the
Morning, at 5 o’clock ; it continu
ed with unceasing fury until one, 2
space of about 6 Eours, accompanis
ed with an inundation from the
sea. This gale carried with it
more perfeét defiruétion than ever
Whoelefome SCR APS,
T HOSE who know most, are molt
desirous of knowledge. Themoit
virtuous are the most desirous cf improve
ment in virtue. On the contrary, the
ignorant think themselves wife enough
—the vicious are, in their owncpinion,
good enough,
In our endeavours to promote the
public good, we should remember, that
though we may not accomplith all we
propose, still we have employed our
selves to good purpose, and will not
fail of our rewurd, even if we should
fail of success.
Let no man complain of the shortness
of life, but he who can fay, he has never
mifpent an hour.
Never cast your eyes upon a good man
without resolving to imitate him.——
Whenever you {ee an Initance of vice or
folly in another, let it be a warning 10
you to avoid it.
The principal part of repentance is
reformation.
Hear the accused, bsfore you con
demn,
~ He who knows the world, will not be
too bafthful—He who knows himleif,
will not be impudent.
Insult not another for his want of a
talent you possess—he may have others,
which you waat.
Defer not charities until death : he
that does so, is rather liberal of another
man’s than of his own.
the squeamish patient, who, by viewing
and thinking on his physic, brings a
greater distress and burden con his sto
mach, before he takes it, than the physic
itfelf could ever have done. 1 would
have people be more careful of fire-arms
than they are : but farely, a gua-barrel
unconneéted: with powder and lock,
is no mote dangerous than a brocm
ftick.
I heard of in any similar ca'amity,
levelled every dwelling with the
ground, defiroyed all kinds of gcods
and property, and 7 lives on the
thore, 25 or 26 fail of vessels, of alf
descriptions, were firanded, and
aground on the shoals and keys;
from those veflcls 143 lives were loii;
7 ships not recoverable ; One brig
and most of the small craft may be
raised and saved. ‘The lirnits ot a
letter will not allow me to give you
an account at large of this dreadiul
scene,
DIED.] Mr. Henry Foss, aged
70 years; Capt. Samuel Briard, aged
54 years ; twochildren of Mr. Jobn
Redding, and Kittery Tucksrman,
a negro man, all of this towa,
NAVALOFPICE
Port of PiscaTaqQua, Feb, 6, 1788.
LB AR
Brig Cooper Sellers Demarara.
Brig Elizabeth Riley = Welt-Indie<.
TR AN S ST STR AR SO [WAB - T oy
WEEKLY ALMANACK
For PorTsmouTn,=—Lat. 43d4. 5 N,
Feb.lr.Of. 1b‘.%_ea.1;..f.l Calendar.-
6] 7 o 5110 24| 5 49] Ath Wed,
71 658 6{ll 8] D sets; Pleasant.
8] 657 6]ll 51| 6 36/ 7*sf.shs3m
9] 6 55 6{12 34| 7 38| @flcl.lsm
10| 6 54 6} 1 18‘ 8 42{1ftinvLEnT
11636 t 3. 31 & 46} Pleasant.
12/ 651 6] 2 5010 51| CCPSpring
State of New-Hampihire.
YOTICE is hereby giver to the.
non.refident proprietors and own
ers of land in the townihip of Croydon,
who are delinquent in paying the taxes
for the year 1784, that unless they pav
the fame to me the fublcriber on or
before the sth day of March next, so
much of their lands as will pay the fame
with incidental charges, will be fold at
public vendue, at the town-house in
said Croydon, at ten o’clock before
noon, unless prevented by previous
payment, N. R. D.Q'ty 3. d. 9.
John Downing 18 1 o 50 o 10
john Temple 42 0 2.100 0 7 2
ditto 13 6o 6
timber lot 13 3
meadow lot 18 3
fames Taylor 19 $ 100 1 3 ®
Widow M. How zo PlO B i@
Eben’r Rawson 11 2 100 ¥ 3
Ephraim Sherman 2 1200 1432
ditte timber lot 17 3
John Stow 6o 2. 300 1 1
ditto meadow lot 36 3
E. Sherman, jr, 22 12100 7'%
ditto meadow lot 30 3
Gerfhom Wait g 7 6o 1
Luke Drewry 5 2 100 g ¥
SAMUEL R. HALL, Constable.
Croydon, Jan. 25, 1788. o
State ot New Hampfihire.
NOTICE is hereby given to the
non-resident” Proprietors and
owners of land in the town of Fiz.
william, that there is a 2 tax cn each
lotof land in faidtown of fix /billings
and fix pemce two rarthings, and the
fame iscommitted to me to colledt,
DANIEL MELLEN, Colle&or.
Lo Fiawilitam, Jan, 18.
State ot New Hampshire,
NOTICE is hereby given to
the non-resident proprietors
and owners of land in the township
of Dublin, who have not paid their
taxes for the year 1784, that un
less they pay the fame tv me the
subscriber, on or before the 3ith
day March next, so much of their
land as will pay the fame, together
with incidental charges, will be
fold at public vendue at ten o’clock
A M. on said day, at the dwelling
house of Capt. James Chamber
lain in said town unless prevented
by previous payment.
No.R. Q’tys. d.q.
M. Thornton 3 1 96 131
Amos Rionton 5 1 100 0g o 0
Daniel Peitce 22 2 100 14 2
Eben. Blanchard 2 5 100 2 1 0
Daniel Peirce 22 3 100 172
Jotham Odiorn2z2 6 100 1 3 1
SamuelAmesd ] 7 190 243
118 % 160’090
Nath’l Page 18 '8 100 17 2
David Willfon 7 10 100 06 3
Joseph Hayward, Collector.
Dublin, Jan. 21,