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NOAH EMERY, of Exeter, in
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You have published in your Gazette
that general Muhlenberg, of Pennsyl
vania, has been appointed, by the Pre
sident, supervisor of that state—an of
fice heretofore filled with firmnefs and
exa&nefs, by general Henry Miller, of
York town. There is no true Ameri
can that has not heretofore rejoiced,
when the valor and services of a vete
ran and meritorious soldier, were re
warded with the offices in the gift of
his country. Are our sentiments on
this fubjed changed with the change of
the executive chief ? or are we Hill a
live to the feelings of honor, gratitude
and justice ? Whether general Miller
was or was not a soldier of merit, let
the following biographical, but imper
fe& sketch, given principally from per
sonal knowledge and observation, de
cide. General Miller entered the ar
my immediately after the battle of Bun
ker's Hill, as a firfl lieutenant in colo
nel Thompson's rifle regiment, which
received the firft commissions issued by
Congrels, and took rank ofevery other
regiment. The company in which he
was, arrived firft at Cambridge. His
gallantry and zeal inspired him to at
tempt forme military ad, before the re
mainder of the regiment might arrive,
which could only be a few days. His
active and intelligent mind formed a
plan on the second day after a march
of 500 miles to surprise the British ad
vanced guard at Banker's Hill, which
was submitted to his captain, who not
po/Tefling the fame heroic foul wilhed
to decline it, alledging as a reason, the
smallness of their numbers, & a want
of knowledge of the ground and works.
But General Miller, who never was
checked in his military career by the
appearance of danger, informed his
captain, if he declined the command,he
would solicit general Washington to
appoint him to it. Thus situated, the
captain was compelled to be of the par
ty —Miller commanded the advance,
went on, and never ftopt till he was in
the thick of the guard, notwithflanding
a smart fire from the out-centinels.—
But he was in the end obliged to retreat
(without accomplishing all he wished,
but not till after killing several and
taking some prisoners) owing to the
reserve under the command of' the cap
tain not coming up to his fopport
His captain found it convenient to re
sign not long after, when general Mil
ler was appointed to the command of
the company. From this period he
was diflinguifhed by general Washing
ton as a moll enterprizing, intelligent
and valuable officer. He took a gal
lant and adive part in the general en
gagements of Trenton, Princeton,
Brandywine, Germantown, and Mon
mouth, (in the latter of which he had
two horses (hot under him) with most
others in the middle states. He was
feleded as one of the best partizan of
ficers, and had, until promoted, a com
mand in general (then col.) Morgan's
corps. In ihort, to enumerate the ma
ny engagements he was in, as well
general as incident to light corps,which
came within the knowledge and infor
mation of the writer of this, would re
quire more time and more ability than
he can give to the fubjed : he"thinks
he might wirh«confiJence state that he
muff have risked bis person in fifty or
lixty conflicts with the British foe, dur
ing die American revolutionary war,
through the whole of which he served
with the highest reputation, as an he
roic, intelligent and ufaful officer.—
M.,rs. l A unlt W Broien.
IT is a long time since I have per
mitted my mind to be agitated with
any political question, or to comment
upon any of the a&s of our govern
ment ; being contented as an individu.
al, whilst the principles of our Consti
tution were preserved pure and uncor
rupted, that such organs might be em
ployed in the administration as the su
preme executive should think proper.
But a circurrtftance has recently occur
red, which I confefs disturbs the sereni
ty and fubmifiion of temper, which I
had prescribed to myfelf, and though
not of national or general interest, is of
such a nature, that even our president
ought not to refute information of the
injustice he has caused to be done ; nor
will, I conceive any of your readers be
diffatisfied with the exposition of the
fad.
An Inttre/ling Biographical Sketch
MISCELLANY.
From tie Baltimore Federal Gazette.
NEW-YORK, JUNE 27.
“ T7, ough Ifreak ivitk the tongue of men,
and of angels, and have not charity, I
am become as founding brufs, or a tink
ling cymbal." St. Paul.
WITHIN a few days past, there
have arrived here from the
fbuthward several brethren of the regu
lar clerical order of Hofpitallers of St. Ca
millus De Lilles, which order is eftab
lilhed on the top of a mountain called
St. Bernard, which is the highest of a
ridge of mountains called the Alps,
wliich divides Switzerland from Italy.
The cause of the voyage of these inde
fatigable men to these states, is to ob
tain assistance from the charitable and
humane, that they may be enabled to
continue in the exercise of those ads
of humanity, which their order has so
long been celebrated for.
That the citizens of this Rate may
fully understand the objed of their
million, it may not be amiss to fay a
few words on the nature of the institu
tion they belong to. Several hundred
years ago, a venerable clergyman who
had palled federal times between Swit
zerland and Italy, observed, that in
palling the Alps,, which are qonßantly
covered with snow many fatal accidents
happen to travellers, particularly when
eroding the mountain since called by
him the Great St. Bernard, where,when
the snow fell, the small path (for the
road is but a path) was so hid, that the
traveller either wandered till he was
frozen to death or fell into a dreadful
cavity and was never afterwards heard
of. To pi event these accidents, this
Such is the man our new executive
has dismissed from office. What could
be the cause ? Is it that he dared to be
free in his sentiments on public mea
sures? Or is it to gratify the resent
ment of one of thole minions, who
knows how to flatter even a wife man
out of his better judgment ? Could the
truth be drawn from the arcana of
state, I venture the bold assertion, that
noAmericanwas the author of thedegrad
ing measure ; it bears a foreign damp,
and smells strong of that resentment
and hatred which the wicked must feel
for the good, who would fruftrate his
rebellious machinations. A Gallatin
and foreigner, with impunity can fo
ment an infurre&ion against the laws
of our country—a Gallatin and for
eigner can be advanced to the highest
honors of our country,without rousing
even a spirit of scrutiny: a Miller, and
a brave and deserving soldier can be
difmifled from the office which gave
him bread, and the fame submissive
conduct is observed by our citizens.—
Tracing to a corrupt source this one
ad of individual oppression, my mind
is naturally led to a contemplation of
the extensive mifchiefs to which our
country is exposed, by the introduction
of a noxious exotic, to the exclusion or
neglect of native plants, of real intrin
sic virtue. It is an errorin the admin
illration which all can fee, but which
the weak nerves of the highest function
ary cannot refill or reform.
Since the peace of 'B3 he represented
the county of York in the legislature of
Pennsylvania, and soon after was ap
pointed prothonotary for the county,in
which he officiated until general Wash
ington appointed him Supervisor of the
diftrid of Pennsylvania. Before the
revolution he read law, but soon find
ing that he did not possess talents for
public speaking, he confined his indus
try and attention chiefly to conveyanc
ing and the less lucrative branches, by
which he not only supported a wife &
fevcral children,but acquired a surplus,
with which he purchased a house in
York town, and furnished it ; with lit
tle or no other fortune, he postponed
the care of the mod dear and interest
ing objeds of private life, to the honor
of serving his oppressed and injured
country ; and to such necessities was
he reduced to support his family be
fore the close of the war, that he was
compelled to fell the house over their
heads. He femetimes spoke of this to
the writer as a very hard case, and in
terms io pathetic, as to excite the most
tender emotions. At other times he
would fay,T have not yet done all in
my power to serve my much loved
country —my wife & children, I trust,
will yet fee better days; and in his plea
sant way, be has been heard to fay that
as to the house, the sale of it had saved
him the payment of taxes. In private
life he is friendly, social, and benevo
lent—and generous to a fault.
Vol. X[.
An OFFICER of '75.
No. 42.
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, THIRTEENTH YEAR
' ®rade of die Bap-
PR ICE I DOLLAR go CEN TS Per Annum
Morning, by WILLIAM TREADWELL, & C 9 Printers of the
States, in New-Hampshire.
ASYLUM fa theDE^F & DUMB.
A very numerous and refpedable
company of the friends and supporters
of this benevolent institution dined to
gether at the London Tavern on Fri
day last, the Right Honorable the
Lord Mayor in the chair. Alter an
excellent dinner, which did honour to
the gentlemen who acted as Rewards,
and to the tavern, we witnessed a spec
tacle molt truly interesting to everyi
one who feel as a man, a Briton, a phi
losopher or a chridian. About forty
children, male and female, at present
under tuition in this rfylum were in-;
troduced ; health glowing on their|
cheeks,and intelligent fatisfadion spark-;
ling in their eyes; they exhibited fpe-I
cimens of their penmanship and pro-|
grefs in arithmetic, and gave proofs of :
their acquisitions in written and articu-.
late language by the pertinent answers ;
they returned to questions put 10 them,
and some of them speaking some lines:
prepared for the occahon jn so diftiinft ;
pious man by his exertions obtained
funds fufficient to establish a monastery
on the top of this dreadful precipice,
and to support a brotherhood or order
whose sole business it should be to pat
role the roads for nine miles on each
fide of the mountain, to shew the road
to each traveller they met, and ifhe was
in ditlrefs to bring him to the convent
where he was treated with the greatest
hospitality for three days, and then pi
loted down the other fide of the moun
tain : or if he was froft-bitten, to con
vey him to their hospital, where he
was carefully attended until his recove
ry or death. From the day of its insti
tution to the present time, this order
has continued in this pious and benevo
lent calling ; and such were the happy
effects experienced from the labors of
the brethren, that the merchants of
Switzerland and Italy contributed fuf
ficient fumsannually for all their wants.
But the feene is changed; the fatal
war which has raged for a number of
years past in Europe, has not spared
this benevolent institution ; for the lit
tle town of St. Bernard, in the Vallais
on which the convent of St Cammilles
depended has been entirely laid in ru
ins by contending armies, which have
also put a flop to all trade between Ita
ly and Switzerland, France, &c. by
which means the sources formerly re
lied on have failed them. In this
dreadful situation, the venerable prior
of the order, Father Ignatius Sperron,
has sent several of his order to the U
nited States of America, to implore
the afliftance of its generous inhabitants
to enable him to repair the convent &
hospital, and to continue to give assist
ance to the distressed traveller and in
firm poor.
It may be Did that a^ this is an inftitu
tic,n founded under the authority of the
catholic church, that it should look for
afliftance from the supporter of that
church ; but to such let it be known,
that these men who have devoted their
lives to the service of humanity, know
no diftindion in men ; the Christian,
the Turk, and the Jew,ct hen in distress
are treated equally alike ; their convent
is open to every unfortunate man, be
his religion what it may.
John Baptist Longinotti, & John Bap
tifl Miller, are two of the missionaries
here ; —they keep an exact lift of the
names of every person who is kind e
nough to assist the purpose of the mis
sion : which Lift will be faithfully re
corded in the books of the convent. It
may be pleating to those who contri
bute to think that what they give will
not be unnoticed, and that sometime
hence, when they or their descendants
may have occasion to pass over this o
therwise inhospitable mountain, they
will visit the convent, and will there
fee their own or their ancestors names
mentioned as benefactors to this ufeful
institution."
That the public may be assured that
the brethren ®f the order now here are
what they pretend to be, it is only ne
celfary to fay, that their paftports are
in the most authentic form, and have
been acknowledged as such by his Ex
cellency James Munroe, Governor of
Virginia, John Marshall, Esq. Secreta
ry of the department of St.^e of the
United States, James Majifon, Esq. of
the fame department, by his Excellen
cy John Drayton, governor of the State
of South Carolina, Thomas Gibbons,
Esq. Mayor of Savannah, A. Jones,efq.
Intendant of Augufla, and Henty Ur
quhart,Efq. Magistrate ofWilmington.
From a London Paper 0, April 13.
Although this benign disease is now
palling with a rapid Rep through all
ranks of society in Europe, and'altho'
it has full credit with characters molt
distinguished for information in every
profeßion among us, yet a great many
others Rill remain doubtful of its af
fording a complete shelter from the at
tack of the most loathsome diseases
From the spurious and all explained
cases that have occurred,(arriving from
taking the matter at too late a period)
this Rate of doubt is pot to be wonder
ed at, and nothing can effectually diff,
pate it, as submitting one disease to
the test of the other. ' In this situation
one faeft is wortli a thoufard arguments
A fubfeription has already commenc
ed,to enable a few dozen people(whofe
time is their efate) to repair to the hos
pital at Brooklyne, to try if they can
take the small pox, after having gone
fairly through the kine por. Seven
have already been tried in tha' holpi#
tal, and twice that number at Ipswich
and Marblehead, and all escape#
infect ion.
It seems really necessary to eftablilh
a central point, to which every thing
relating to this new inoculation ma,
be directed, and from whence every ray
of light that comes from a single place
may be reflected, and every where ex
tend its power of illumination. It has
been hoped and expected that some
Medical or Philosophical Society would
form such a centre ; in which case, the
reflecting ray would become not only
more brilliant, but even generative at
the point of repercussion. But as a
propitious season is fall passing away,
without any profped of such an advan
tage, Dr. Waterhouse is constrained to
adopt a more diminutive plan, and to
go on in this business as he began it—
alone.
He, therefore in a most refpe&able
manner, would request all those prac,
titioners who have already put the kine
pox to the tefl of the small pox, with
success, to transmit to him all such
cases thro'the medium of the poll-office.
Many that have already come to hand
are not clothed in that particular and
fpecified form,in which he would chose
to lay them before a Scrutinizing public.
To fpecify every particular is needless,
but names, ages, dates, and place of a
bode, is abfelutely necessary. That
such a procedure is requisite to eftab
lilh the credit of this most precious dis
covery, will appear to every one, who
conliders the prejudices,and rigid laws
in some parts of the Union, in regard
to the promifeuous inoculation for the
small pox.
CT Dr. Waterhouse, takes this me
thod, most refpeCtfully to suggest some
thing to his brethren at a diflance, in
which the honor of the profeffion, and
the cause of humanity are particularly
concerned.—lt is well known to the
faculty, that notwithstanding thousands
of well attested cases of kine pox refill
ing the infection of the final! pox, can
be obtained from England, and other
parts of Europe, yet as it is found, that
people are not so ready to believe what,
happened a good while ago, or a great
way off, it is neceffar, to collect and
lay before the American public all such
cases as have occured among ourfeives
before every one will be convinced that
the kinc pox is a perfect security against
the small pox. More than 200 cases
can already be enumerated among
ourselves, where persons have been in
oculated with the small pox, after hav
ing g o ^ through the kine pox, without the
leatttrait of infection—Connecticut a
lone can furnilh more than an hundred.
and audible a manner that all prefect
acknowledged their surprise and fatis
faction at being able clearly to compre
hend words uttered by those c±o never
heard an articulate found, and who
previous to their admission here, - were
unable to make one. This pkafing &
grateful fpeCtacle being withdrawu,fuc.
cefs to the institution was drank with
enthufiaim, and in the course of die
afternoon many of donations and an
nual fubferiptions were announced by
the worthy and reverend Secretary, a
mounting in all to between fix and sev
en hundred pounds : he also commu
nicated the pleating information that a
manufactory is erected at the Asylum,
in the Grange Road, Bermondfey ; so
that the labour of the hands is combin
ed with the improvement of the head
and heart, and this unfortunate class
of beings rendered, not merely intelli
gent, but industrious members of the
community.
WASHINGTON'S L RGA .„.
A CARD.