National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1792-12-26 00:00:00, page 4

For the National Gazette.
ANTICIPATION.
A GREAT FRAUD.
THERE lived in the (late of Georgia,
an ingenious man named Peter, who
conceived an opinion that he could turn
cyder into good wine ; and set about ma
ny collly experiments until he expended
almofl all that he had earned by other
hard indullry-—Ho%vever, at lad he hit on
the secret, and did actually discover the
art of turning cyder into good old Madei
ra wine ; which discovery greatly elated
him, being fully of opinion that his for
tune was now made, provided he cotild get
a patent for this hi 3 great discovery.-—
Accordinglyi he coliedted the remainder
of his finall estate and set out for Phila
delphia ; and there being at a loss how to
apply for a patent, he communicated his
invention to some that offered to be hi#
friends (particularly to John Filcher) and
they dire&ed him to apply by petition to
the Dire£lor of the Mint. But he was
greatly fiirprifed to find that his friend,
John Filcher, had also petitioned for a pa
tent for the fame discovery ; and a dispute
arose between them, who was the invent
or.—Peter proposed to leave the matter
to three Referees, as diredled by law ; but
the impollor infilled on having it referred
to the supreme court of the United States
.—as the law directs the Diredlor of the
Mint to refer filch difpntes, in cafe the dis
putants cannot agree as to the referees.—
To this mode Peter made (Irong objec
tions, alledging that he could neither at
tend at £t> great a..iilance, nor pay the ex
peuce. The Director of the Mint saw
the weight of Peter's objections, and was
forrv that the law left it not in his powei
to decide which of the modes (hould be
adopted ; for he plainly saw that Petei
would be wronged out of his invention.—
Now, to make a long (lory (hort, the con
sequence was as follows : Peter was not
able to bear the expence of attending the
court, and John obtained a certificate from
the court of Peter's default, which he car
ried to the Direilor of the Muit, and ht
was obliged by law to issue a patent for
said invention tofaid John. The cafe now
is such, that all the sons of Bicchus dc
lionor and congratulate the said Johr
Filch r on account of his great and glo
rious discovery ; and speak well of him in
all their jovial companies. But Peter is
poor and despised—He dare not even afleil
that he was the true inventor of the ari
of changing cyder into good old Madeira
wine, bccaufe he would not be believed.—
Indeed he hath even been heard to exclairr
" Cursed bo the day that I made the dis
covery, since it hath been my ruin ; fc
that I cannot even provide cyder foi
the making of my own wine—and if 1
could, 1 durll not do it without the per
mission of the man who hath robbed and
ruined me ; who now lives in pomp, splen
dor, and plenty, by the profits of my in
vention.*' A friend, to juflice si r[l pub
lifhed this account—and when Congress
heard thereof, they resolved to amend the
patent law, so as to put it out of the pow>
er of John Filcher or any other person
thus to defraud the true inventor agiin.
Those who have read the patent bill,
now before Congress, willgive this accounl
due credit. ARTIST.
From the A. Daily Advertiser.
I {corn the wretch, may vengeance btafl: hisfame ;
Who apes poor royalty in a<st or name.
BEING a cool and deliberate observer
of the various proceedings of the servants
of the people, as well in the national as in
the (late legifiature, I do not beg leave, but
claim the inherent right of a free and inde
pendent citizen, to write, and cause to be
published, through your ufeful paper, the
following impartial and republican senti
ments.
When I attend the courts of juflice, the
tympana of my ears are grated with the
lordly founds contained in petitions, See,
of "To the Worjhipfu.l Mayor," " Hi;
Honor the Judge," &c.—When in the
state legifiature, of—" His Excellency the
Governor," &c. When in that part o;
the national legifiature, to which I some
times have access (for the ma(lers,the peo
pie, are excluded from overseeing theii
servants in the Senate)with that of—" Hi:
Extellency the President of the Unitec
States," " The Honorable member whe
spoke lad," &c. These diabolical term?;
whether in humble imitation of royalty,
ar the tottering remains of a dying arilto
:racy, are surely repugnant to the divine
principles of a republican government !
View the pride of nations, the great focus
of human refinement—the central and glo
rious fpst which gave the firft genuine
birth to the rights of man :—I mean
France. And let us, as I hope it is not
yet too lite, take from her a republican
lesion. There we find republicanism and
democracy, in the mod elevate 1 degree of
pure an 1 uncontaminated perfection. —in-
stead of the ridiculous epithets of—Sir—
Mr.—Efquire—Worfhipful—Reverend —
Right Reverend—Honorable—Excellen
cy, &c. which are all contrary to the prin
ciples of a republican government; and
defpicible to every citizen who thinks for
himfelf, we find the social and foul-warm
ing term Citizen applied even to the firfl
servant of the people, in that sublime na
tion. Let us endeavor to exterminate
every veltige of titles, as being the re
maining feeds of that cursed diltinftion,
that poifanous ariltocracy, from whence
we derived our origin ; so that, not a Tin
gle grain of that baneful weed may be left, tc
germinate in this luxuriant foil of freedom,
to spread its ruinous contagion, among a
happy and independent people.
DIOGENES.
A PLAN or \ PEACE OFFTCE for
the UNITED STATES.
[ From the A. Daily Advertlfcr.~\
AMONG the many defers which hnv;
been pointed out in the federal contlitu
tion by its anti-federal enemies, it is much
to be lamented that no person has taken
notice of its total silence upon the fubjefl
of an office of the utmost importance tc
the welfare of the United States, that is,
an office for promoting and preserving
perpetual peace in our country.
It is to be hoped that no objection wil
he made to the eltnblifhment of such ar
office, while we are engaged it) a war w:tl
the Indians, for as the war-office of the
United States was eilablifhed in the time
of peace, it is equally reasonable that ?
peace-office should be established in the
time of war.
The plan of this office is as follows :
I. Let the secretary of peace be ap
pointed to preside in this office, who fhal
be perfedlly free from all the present ab
surd and vulgar European prejudices upon
the fubjeft of government : let him be <
genuine republican and a sincere chritlian
for the principles of republicanism anc
christianity are no less friendly to iiniver
sal and perpetual peace, than they arc tc
univerial and equal liberty.
11. Let a power be given to this se
cretary to eltablilh and maintain fre<
j schools in every city, village and townfhif
of the United States ; and let him bf
made responsible for the talents, princi
pies, and morals of all his school-masters
Let the youth of our country be carefull)
initrudted in reading, writing, and arith
metic, and in the do£trines of a religion ol
some kind ; the Christian religion should
be preferred to all others ; for it belongs
to this religion excluiively to teach us not
only to cultivate peace with all men, but
to forgive, nay, more—to love our verj
enemies. It belongs to it further to teach
us, that the Supreme Being alone potfef
fes power to take away human life, and
that we rebel againll his laws whenever
we undertake to execute death in any way
whatever upon any of his creatures.
111. Let every family in the United
States be furnifhed at the public expence,
by the secretary of this office, with a co
py of an American edition of the Bible..
This measure has become the more necef.
fary in our country, flnce the banilhment
of the bible, as a school book, from molt
of the schools in the United States. Un
less the price of this book be paid for by
the public, there is reason to fear that in a
few years it will be met with only in courts
ofjullice or in magiftrates'offices; and
should the absurd mode of establishing
truth by killing this sacred book fall into
disuse, it may probably, in the course of
the next generation, be seen only as a cu
riosity on a fhelf in Mr. Peale's museum.
IV. Let the following sentence be in
scribed in letters of gold over the door ol
every house in the United States :
The Son of Man came into the World not tL
dejlroy Men's lives, but to save them.
V. To inspire a veneration for humar
life, and an horror at the (hedding of hu.
man blood, let all those laws be repealed
which authorise juries, judges, flieriffa, or
hangmen to afTume the resentment of in
dividuals, and co commit murder in cold
blood in any cafe whatever. Until this
reformation in our code of penal jurispru
dence takes place, it will be in vain to at
tempt to introduce universal and perpetual
peace in our country.
VI. To subdue that passion for war,
which education, added to human depra
vity, have made universal, a familiarity
with the in&ruments of death, as well as
all military shews, (hould be carefully a
voided. For which reason, militia laws
should every where be repealed, and mili
tary dresses and military titles (hould be
laid alide : reviews tend to lessen the hor
rors of a battle by conne&ing them with
the charms of order ; militia laws generate
idleness and vice, and thereby produce the
wars they are said to prevent ; military
dre!Tes fafcinate the minds of young men,
and lead them from serious and ufeful pro
feffions; where there are no uniforms,
there would probably be no armies. Last
ly, military titles feed vanity, and keep up
ideas in the mind which leflen a fenle of
the folly and rniferies of war.
In the seventh and last place, let a large
room, adjoining the federal hall, be ap
propriated for ttanfacling the bulinefs and
preserving all the records of this oflice.—-
Over the door of this room let there be a
(ign, on which the figures of a lamb, a
dove, and an olive branch should be paint
ed, together with the following inferipti
on in letters of gold :
Peace on earth ; Good nv'iH to wen.
Ah ! VPby tuil! men fcrget that they art brethrenT
Within this apartment let th'jre be a col
lection ofplough-fhares and pruning-hooks,
made out of fworis and spears; and on
each of the walls of the apartment, the fol
lowing pictures as large as the life :
1. A lion eating draw with an ox, and
an adder playing upon tiie lips of a child.
2. An Indian boiling hij venison in the
, fame pot with a citizen of Kentucky.
1 3. Lord CornwaUis and Tippoo Saib.
under the (hade of a fyoamove-tree in the
Eafl-Indies, drinking Madeira wine toge
ther out of the fame decanter.
4. A group of French and Auftr.an
foldlers dancing arm in arm, under a bower
erefte l in the neighbourhood of Mons.
j. A St. Domingo planter, a man of
color, and a native of Africa, Icgiflating
| together in the fame colonial allembly,*
To complete the entertainment of this
delightful apartment, let a group of young
1 ladies, clad in white robes, affe nble every
1 day, at a certain hour, in a gallery to be
' ere&ed for the purpose, and sing odes and
' hymns, and anthems in praise of the bles
sings of peace.
' One of thtrfe songs 'hould consist of the
following beautiful lines of Mr. Pope :
' Peace o'er the world her olive wand ex
tends,
And white-rob'd innocence from Heaven
descends ;
All crimes shall cease, and ancient frauds
shall fail,
Returning jultice lifts aloft her scale.
f *At the time of writing this, there
I exifled wars between the United States
' and the American Indians, between the
. British nation and Tippoo Saib, between
: the planters of St. Domingo and their
' African (laves, and between the French
1 nation and the Emperor of Germany.
CHARLES BITTERS,
No. 120, South Market, near Fourth-Jlreet,
' Has received from New-York, and ma
nufactured by Lot Merkel,
A large and p;eneral aflortment of
Muffs and Tippets, Trimmings
and Edgings,
Great Coats, Caps, Mitts and Gloves lined
with Fur, which he will fell,
Wholesale and Retail,
at the lowest prices.
Nov. 24- 2a\vtf
Bank of the United States.
Philadelphia, Nat/. 20th, 1792.
THE stockholders of the bank of the
United States are hereby informed,
; that according to the statute of incorpora
) tion, a general election for twenty-five Di
p rectors will be held at the bank of the
United States, in the city of Philadelphia,
on Monday the seventh day of January
next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon.
And pursuant to the eleventh fe£tion of
f the bye-laws the stockholders of the said
bank are hereby notified to aflemble in ge
, neral meeting, at the fame place, on
Thursday the eighth day of January next,
at five o'clock in the evening.
1 By order of the Prelidentand Directors..
JOHN KEAN, Caihier.
1 ' t. J. 5.
Terres a Vendre
Dans un pais bieti peuple,-—
S AVOIR, foixante cinq mille, trois cens, fo!x
ante et quatorze Acres, en une feale piece,
dans le canton le mieux peuple de la Caroline Me
ridioaale, le Diftiict de Ninety -Six. Ces terrej
font fituees dans une contrce agreable, et falubre,
ou Jes fievres font inconnuesj a environ vingt lieuea
de Colombie, la Capitale, et contigues ala ville
de Cambridge, eu il y a College, et Cour fuperi
eure, A environ douze lieues, i 1 y a bonne navi
gation jet il eft tres probable, que dans quelque
tems on rcndra navigable le Grand SaJude, riviere
qui arrofe les terres memes. Elles font agreable
ment diverfifiees de coteaux et vallons charmans
propres a la culture du tabac, du coton, du maTs,
et du petit grain } et dont une proportion consider
able fe peut aifement convertir en prairies fertilesj
il n'eft peut-etre gueres pollible de rencontrerune
pareille piece de terre a vend.e dans aucun autre
desE'ats Unis ; et pour les conditions de I'ach at
on les rendra tres commodes.
S*informer a rimprimerie de la Gazette Na
tonale. Sept. 5*
LANDS for SALE,
TN a well fettled Country. SIXTY-FIVE
_ THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND
SEVENTY. FOUR ACRES OF LAND, in sne
b )dv, in the nioft populous part of the state of
South-Carolina, in the diftritft of Ninety-fix —It
is situated in a fine healthy climate,free from fever
& ague,about fixtv miles from Columbia, the feat
of government. The land is contiguous to the
town of Cambridge, where are a seminary for the
inftruftion of youth, and a superior law court. It
is at prefeat within about thirty-five miles of good
navigation, with a probability of having the river,
called the Great Saluda, that flows along one fide
of the land, made navigable. The land is beauti
fully diverfified into swells and vales, and is per
fe&ly well calculated for the culture of tobacco,
cotton, Indian corn, and final! grain j a great
proportion of it may be made meadow ground.
The e is not, perhaps, such a body of land, focif
cnmftanced, for file in any other of the U; States.
The terms of payment will be made conveniait sco
the purchaser or purchafeji. Apply to the Printer.
Auguit 29. lawtf
Nevj-Tork and Philadelphia
STAGE S,
AND
Bordenton, Burlington, and Trenton or
Lamberton
PACKETS.
Til E proprietors of the New-York and Phi
ladelphia Land and Water Scages, beg leave
to mention, that for the better accommodation of
the they have removed their different
packet boats from their former stand, at ti»e
Crooked Billet Wharf, to the wharf or do k im
mediately next below Arch-ftieet ; from wi.ence
a convenient packet boat starts for New-York,
as usual, on every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday, and retains on every Tuefdav,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The pa(Ta<?e to
be macie either by the way of Bordenton or Bur
lington j each place taken alternately.
Fare for paflengers from Phi I ad; to N. York 15\f
For goods per Cwr. do of
Van Emburcjh and M'Kean,
David Williamfon,
Proprietors of the line of New York and Pbiladel
pbia Jiagcs, by the rout of Bordenton.
Jacob Myers,
Amos Hutchin,
Nicholas Schenck,
Proprietors of the tine of New-York and Pbiladel
pbia pages, by the rout of Burlington.
Bordenton, 0&. 1.
For freight or palTage apply to the matters oa
board, or to
M'Kean and VanEmburgh;
Who have for sale at their store on said wharf,
immediately next below Arch-ftrcet,
Old Madeira, Muscovado,
Teneririe, and SWin es . Loaf, and SSugars
Mountain j Lump j
Jamaica Spirits, Mo la fifes,
Antigua, 1 Coffee,
Moniferat & >Rum. Chocolate,
Newbury J BoheaTea,
Rocheilc 3randy Burlington Pork,
in pipes, and Hams,
demijohns, Flour,
Gin in pipes and cases, Bar Iron, See. &c. &c.
Orders for Grain, Staves, Bills of Scantling, or
other Lumber, punctually attended to.
For freight or palVage to Lamberton or
Trenton, apply at said wharf* to Thomas Afli
moore, William Douglafs, John Afhmoore or
Alexander Pouglafs, (Masters on board) or as
above, to M'Kean & Van Emburgh. .
Philadelphia, Odtober 6, 792*
THEperfon who borrowed aSILVER WATCH
last August from a person near this City with
! the letters M.T. (initials of the owners name) in
! cypher, on the outside cafe, the number 4452, is
desired to return it to the printer of this paper,
or he will be advertised in a manner that will be
difgraceful to himfelf#
4t. 2aw*
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Either in a Dry-gooi or Grocery fiore —
A young man that is acquainted with both;
and can be well recommended —
Enquire of the Printer.
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