National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-03-30 00:00:00, page 3

Nj'.vport-P.ignel out ns lbs pulpit into ths
street, and I underlhind m i:!e him ling
44 Gael fav& the king They were going
to destroy a-gentleman's hoafe at Manches
ter, bur. lie and. his friends defended it—
and a meeting-honfe at Cambridge, but
■were prevented ; these things are laid to
the charge of the fufferers. The militia
are embodied—barrack* are'eredled in va
rious parts of the kingdom, anil the coun
try going to be plunged into a war with
F•. ice.—They have written upon tlv.
walls of Hackney—" D--n Dr. Priestly
and his servants are afraid to steep in t'le
house with him. And if this spirit en
creafes, where (hall we flee to, but to th.j
land of liberty, where you have arrived ;
where we shall meet with the descendants
of those who fled tiieie to enjoy their con
science and their ood. Many good people
think that some dark tempestuous season is
approaching : and those will certainly ail
a wife part, who from circumltancesper
ceiving these calamities approaching, these
itorms arilmg, endeavour, not at all e
vents to weather out the storm, but to
elude its force, and escape its dangers, by
making forfomc secure harbour."
1 William Duer, Esq. is peremptorily cal
led upon in one or the New-York, (cityj
pipers, to enter immediately upon the ex
planation of his alf.iirs (as promised in hi:
letter, dated New York Prijoti, March 24.
1 92) and to exhibit his accounts to the
public view ; to point out the fourcesanc
amount of his lodes: and to conflitute
an adequate fund for the ultimate redemp
tion of the principal and legal interest ol
all his debts.
A Rhode-Island paper mentions an infal
lible method to prevent the canker worm,
palmer worm, and some other infers from
committing their nfual ravages upon apple
orchards. The remedy is 110.other than
inserting a small quantity of quicksilver in
to the body of the tree a little before the
sap begins to ascend. The following is a
detail of the experiments of a reputable
farmer in Rhode-Island, who made this
discovery— 41 He had several orchards, but
the one the experiment was made in, was
an old orchard of very large trees. Nine
trees, the molt central in the orchard, he
bored with a fpike-gimblct about four or
fivefeet from the ground,an inch &an half
or two inches into the tree, rather slanting
the boring downwards. He procured one
ounce of clear quicklilver from an apothe
cary ; half an ounce he inserted into one of
the trees, a quarter of an on ice he inserted
into three trees in equal quant'ties; and
the other quarter of an ounce, as equally
as he could, he divided into five othet
trees. He then (Jugged up the holes tight.
This was done, I think in December.
Some weeks after he took out the plugs,
and found the quicklilver in the fame ftatt
he had put it in. He again plugged up the
holes ; and some time after the sap of tht
trees had began to ascend, he again took
out the plugs,and found the quick ilver was
gone, leaving behind something like the
(lime of a snail. The worms came as thej
had done the year before, and totally de
ft.-oyed all the verdure, &c. of all the tree;
except those nine, which were in as good
order as ever they had been, and yielded
their common plenty of apples, about one
hundred bulhels. The boughs of some oi
the nine trees interlapped, and were inter
woven with the branches of the other
trees ; and he said the fruit upon them was
equally good, while the branches of the
other trees so interwoven among!! them,
appeared as tho' they had been fired. The
tree 3 with the lead quantity of quicksilver
were equally protested or preserved as the
one which had half an ounce. He infertec
the quicklilver with 3 quill open at one
end. and the fide of it cut in the mannei
we make a pen, the more readily to let the
quicksilver into the quill."
We have it from unquefHonnble autho
rity, that in the two towns, Lynn and Read
ing, in Mafiachiifetts ,there are couflantl)
■fifteen hund ed persons employed in manu ■
facturing women's shoes. From the pro
duct of their labour are annually exported
from thence, to different parts of this con
tinent, 450x00 pair of shoes, which makes
a saving to the United States from the fo
reign importations of this article at 4ft
a pair, of 337,500 dollars; and they car
afford their Ihoes on lower terms than car
be imported.
" A total reformation (fays a French pa
per) has taken place in the republic ol
Geneva. Aristocracy and ariflocratic ty
rants are now rooted out, and under the
auspices of France, their governmen thas re
verted to the pure principles of democracy,
and frch as Athens might have cheriflied
in her mod virtuous days. Before this
revolution at Geneva, it is remarkable
that the mad despotic spirit of the tyrants
of Europe had taken full pofi'eflion of the
little ariftpcratic tyrants of this almofl in
visible spot of territory. These diminu
tive infects of despotism had the desperate
and audacious follv to throw their little
weight into the scale of the powers com
bined against France, and far from being
intimidated by the example made of then
neighbour, the late duke of Savoy, tliey
imagined that the victorious forces of
France would be repulsed before their
petty ramparts. In contempt of treaties
they invited Swiss troops into their pay.
It became therefore our duly to deliver
the people of Geneva from the tyranny of
a set of overgrown knaves, whole inso
lence deserved chaflifement, had it been
only for giving an asylum to our rebellious
citizens."
I From the American Daily Ailvertijer.~\
Is there a true American who does not
believe that the French nation is well dis
posed to this country ? Do not all of us
who have either as statesmen, soldiers, or
citizens, taken a part in the revolution feel
this truth ? Do we not wish well to that
nation—exult in their fuccefles, sympathize
with them in their misfortunes, and feel
mortified at their errors ? As men engaged
in an interesting conflict, they cannot be
alwaysright. But th- truefriends of Ame
rica, who will not juflify what they thinl*
wrong, will yet feel as true men ought tc
do—They will espouse the cause of the
abfeht friend —and I fear that the French
nation are conficlered by some in that light.
Whylhould Americans conceal their Sen
timents ? We are all friends of equal poli
tical rights, but not the levellers of proper
ty, as is insidiously represented ; we have
more reason—The fuggeltion is a vile trick
played by the minions of the kings of Eu
rope upon the unsuspecting citizens of thf
nations of the world. The French anc
Americanpj-inciples on this fubje&'coin
cide. Let all the citizens,asfuch,haveequa
riglits under the government, that is,equa
political rights. But this rational fylteu
of equality which is the glory of the Ante
rican free conrtitutions, never meant thai
my indullry ninft: be exercised for another
The difference is so plain that all may fei
it. I may gain £. 10,000, and a thoufaiu
industrious men may gain as much and w<
may all enjoy our earnings and tranfmii
them to our pollerity. But if lam a ty
rant my people are slaves —If I, and one
hundred of my people are tyrants—the red
are slaves in the fame manner —For tyranny
in one or many, excludes the enjoy;:.ent ol
liberty in others of the fame nation. Tht
kings of Europe and their minilVers, have
not a doubt but property will be secure,
3ut they tremble for their exclusive privi
eges, their titles, and their power, anc
knowing that this monopoly turns upon the
monarch as upon a pivot. The prefem
war is of the kingly power againfl that o
:hepeople of the world. It can be plainly
hewn, if it does not appear plain enougl
already, that all the publications on the.
•oyal fide, a flume the principle that equal
ty of property is the object of the French
•evolution, when nothing is more falfe—
The question turns entirely 011 thetquaii
yof political rights in the nation. Thi
jeoplc, we all believe in America, have
■ight to delegate to such perfiino of merit
is they think equal to the t (k, the powers
lecefl'ary for the adminillration of the go
vernment.
Oifmal Pii'iare of the manner of living a
mong the common people, in Ireland—
Extratted from a letter written by Pat
rick o'Hurley, to Mr. Wilberforce, da
ted July 20, 1792.
" Before you set out on your journey tc
Africa- or the Welt-Indies, to examine in
o the miserable situation of negro slaves,
[ beseech you, my dear creature, to flop a
.vhile in poor old Ireland, and take a pte
it the slaves in this country. By my flioul
ny dear joy, but I think you need go no
arther. Here we are Ifarving in the very
and of promife,furrounded wi.h milk and
loney, and all the sweet things of creation,
r'or my own part, I (hall certainly go mad
f some charitable person or other does not
ake compaflion upon myfelf and my poor
amily. My old mother has been bed-rid
or four year.s—my wife not able to do any
hing since flie lay in of her fourteenth
hild, and nothing to do if file was ever so
ible; and whatdo you think, Mr. Wilber
orce, we live upon ? why, four pence a
lay, which is just two {hillings a week, tc
upport the whole of us. The gentleman
:hat I work for rents about two thousand
icres of land in the county of Limerick,
ivell flocked with all forts of cattle, and
producing wheat, barley, oats, &c. in a
nmdance ; and yet, as God is my judge,
leither I, nor my wife, or my old mother,
jr the nine children, which are all that
.leath has left us, has tailed either bread, or
beef, or mutton, or beer iince last Christ
mas day. To all this I know Mr. Wil
berforce will anfvver, How the devil then
Ho you all live, Paddy O'Hurley ? 811 as
:his is really a queltion which I cannot
solve, I'll tell you, in atifwer, how we
L-ontrive to starve. We break our farts
aponpotatoes and spring water; and fome
:imes a few sprats, and sometimes a drop
as buttermilk, and sometimes a grain of
fait, and very often when we grow weak
and agueifh for want of sprats and butter
milk and fait, we moisten our potatoes
with fait tears. Our cabbin, may it please
your honour, is a fort of round building
made of mud and wattles, with a hole in
the top to let the smoke out, when we can
get a bit of fire—in one corner of which,
we keep a pig (which I dare not tell you
how I came by) and in another corner \ie
all pig ourfelvcs, men, women, and chil
dren upon one straw bed. As for cloath
ing, the old woman who never flirs from
under th e straw, has ho use fo.f any : my
wile a.id four girls are pretty near half na
ked ; t!ic five boys intirelyfo; and as for
myfclfl wear an old great coat that was
given to me by the squire's coachman, God
bless him, aml that covers every thing.
1 have a relation who was formerly fet
tled in America, and used to work in t!ie
fame tobacco plantation with the black
Haves; and he allures ms tjhat there is no
comparison between the"manner fhey Jive
there, and in the WelMndies (where he
has alio been) and the way we flarve in
poor old Ireland. The black Haves, he
fays, eat and drink, and dance, and are
cloathed, and are merry, and would think
it the created of all curies to be sent bach
again to their own country, while the pool
white slaves in Ireland can get neither
meat, cloaths or any thing else, and are
every day flying in thotifands to foreign
countries for relief. Let me therefore
entreat you, Mr. Wilberforce, to turn
your bleifed thoughts upon our condition
in Ireland, and let yotir charity begin as
near home as polfible, und in so doing you
will greatly oblige, your obedient servant.
Patrick o'Hurley."
EXTRACT.
" The use of European luxuries, is degra
ding to the virtuous spirit of American Re
publicans. It is a wonder those penetrat
ing geniuses. who are perfectly mailers ol
the whole political arcana—who have tor
tured their invention for schemes to in
crease the revenue \\ ithont oppreflion
have not discovered, that a much greatei
source of revenue than that proposed by
the excise law, is attainable by taxes whiei
inflead of opprefling any part of the com
munity, would enrich the whole. Per
haps this may be doubted by Tome ; but i
very little refteftion on the enormous fun
that would arise from a heavy duty on
each of the following articles, will demon-
Urate the truth of it. Firfl, wines of al
forts, rum, and all other foreign elidillec
(pints, (ilks, velvets, and a thousand othei
European gewgaws—all which are calcu
lated to enervate the minds and bodies ol
our good citizens, to encourage vice am
dillipation among us, and drain us of out
calh. Cards, dice, billiards, &c. ('lhcwel.
bred, who efcapelhe effects of the txcifi
ast, would pay a large portion ofthefeduties;
Heavy taxes on these, and similar evils!
might, in a certain degree, prevent thai
baneful, yet prevailing, viie, gaming—
might operate, in a great meaiure, as j
prohibition to unneccfl'ary importation
and as a flimulus to the improvement o
our own nianufaftures. By this means
our foreign debts would be continually de
;reafuig, and our internal wealth conllant
y accumulating : the necefl'arv expen.es
of government, (I would not be under
llood to include the support of a Handing
army among them), would be freely ant
punctually paid, without foreign loans, 01
that bane of democracy, excise. It ap
p. : s evident tha'a Handing army is requi
lite to support the excise law , and the ex
cife law to support a Handing army. In
terelted men urge the necelfity of a Hand
ing army, by magnifying the dangers te
which the United States a:\. exposed, frou
the depredations of a few naked savages
!i proper men and measures were em
ployed in the adminiflration, the citizen
of the union might cultivate their lands ii
peace, unrlilvurbed by Indians, and the In.
ciians might pursue their favorite employ
nent, unmoleHed by us. When the liber
ties of a nation are attacked by thofi
uhofe bounden duty it is to cherilh ant
protest them, an army beeonres necefl'ar;
n screen the traitors from the juH veil
of the people, as well as to enforei
the execution of those partial edicts, whicl
~re calculated to destroy democracy, am
to ereCt aristocracy on its ruins. Such i:
the excise law ; and, therefore, the aver
lion to it, which generally prevails, doe
not derive its origin front a reluftancy t(
contribute to the support of government
but from aconvifiion of its being, to t+n
iaft degree, partial and opprefiive; partial
as its whole weight rells oil the llroulder
of one particular class of citizens; whih
those who contrived, and those who de
rive their support from it, are unaffeftee
by it ; and oppreflive, as it fliackles hon.e
manufactures, and affords encouragemen
to the importation of foreign luxuries
which ought by all means to be discounte
nanced irr such a country as this, which i
capable of yielding at leait.all theneceflarie:
of life in the greatelt proftifron."
[from CorreJpendents.~\
The future political happiness or mise
ry of the United States will in a grea:
ineafure depend upon the nature of tin
information that is conveyed to the peo
ple through the medium of free prelies.
Time was, when an afluming party, njo
narchifls in their hearts, and rapacious vul
tures in practice, imagined by puffing ofi
every meafnre from complaifaut prejj'es.
they could mould the people and the con
fiitution, in a few years, into whatevei
lliape they pleased, as belt adapted to »::■
fuer their own ambitious or mercenary
views. Forfome time the people fuppo
n. d a great and/killing light "had appeared
in Ifrad" togihde their licps in tlie path
nf knowledge. Time, however, I'.ss till-
covered its gleam to be of the fan:e natwi
with that faTfe light ilfiling from the c- v>.• >
of putrid full in « dark cellar, which hum;
only by means of corruption, ar.d daon'
inltead of directing how to walk in the
right way. Ar.y honed endeavours niadsr
to counteract the nrifcliievotis tendency «
the effuiions of ir.tercfttd paper jobbe. >
and unprincipled (Vriji-iiionger.s mult natii
rally expect to encounter ihe Hide afcfffe
ot an irritated, tho' in feme degree ilitcp
pointed faction, their countlcis train of
runners,and dependants, who, with then'
prompters, arc only waiting an opportu
nity, an<l indeed frequently lament in
some of the public papers, that tht-y have
not already the power, to t eftrstn w isc
they call the licentiousness of such prcfles
as will not condescend to clhnie in with
their own note. The people will, how
ever, judge for themselves, and hat ing al
ready been, in great part, the dupes cf
f'unding-fyilem-inet), and other {lavilh f;. !-
tents imported from Britain, they will'be
cautious how they give full credit to
the mere aflertions oi those whose interell
it is to deceivcand darken the public mind
for purposes that at present ne behind a,
very thin screen ofdifguife, but will fliort
ly be revealed in the glare of full day.
Nothing is a plainer proof of the flrong
propensity to arillocracy, in at leait, many
ut the trading towns of the United States
than the lamentable effufions on the decap
itation of Louis the X\ Ith, and the un
qualified abuse that is lavilhed upon those
who refufe to join in the melancholy con
dolence. The great charge against those
who cannot yet fubferibe to the injultice
of the sentence pafled on the unfortunate
monarch, is ingratitude, on the score of
his having ajjijted and delivered America
ill her hour of distress and difficulty—lc
is well know 11 that the aid furnilhed by
France to this country, under her old gov
ernment, originated in the jealousy cf o;:e
despot towards another : England and
Fiance were inveterate iocs ; another war
between them was an object not very re
mote, and to weaken England by tvei*y
pollible means was then the leading fylieiu
of policy with the French court. Under
this view, the obligation to Louis (indivU
dually) doe-s not appear in a very ft ri king,
[joint of view, particularly, when we coj.-
ider further, that, when the war was en
:ied, the fame policy manifelled a jcaloify
i>f our prolperity, and edia upon cd;ct
Ihewed a llrong inclination to clip the
wings of the " new republic."—lt may be
remarked, that it ill becomes 10/eigners,
who have been bred tip idolizers of royal
ty, to abuse (he good people of the United
states tor not joining them in chanting the
jraifes of fallen despotism. if they ihem
elves are fuft'e. Ed (while here) to ling th.ni
ir, peace, let them not prcftime to force it
upon others who think it their firlt and
jreat duty to abhor kings, despots, and
.very species of kingly government. If
:here be any American w ho mourns tor the
fallen monarch, and yet counts as nothing
ihofe multiplied murders ot the feoplz,
which are no more than a confequencc of
'lie usurpations of kings, he mult be of
the degenerate class, who have facrificed
every benevolent sentiment to that fordid
and felfifli habit, which, with the Hidden
accumulation of wealth, hasformcd a le
cond nature, and will in time, if not check
rtl, (tamp our national character.
" l'cr feir and nature, iinlt'd in une gicat frame,
Shews true telr-love and nature are the Ume.
Eternal matter to one centre brings
Men turn'd to beads, and infetis dianjj'd t king' :
Who dares with lorce on r>aiure's chain to itr; Ue,
On men or infers jars the chain alike,
On lelf, uhich changing, never quits the chain
in lite or death transmits or ioy or { ain."
Just come to Hhnd, from Pittsburgh, a'.d to
be Soldby John M'Cuj.locii, No. i,
North Thirdflreet.
MODERN CHIVALRY :
CONTAINING TIIE
Adventures of Capt. J. I ARE ACQ,
A N 1)
Teague O'Regan, his fe>rvant,
VOL. 111. .
J. M'CULLOCH Has aljo for SrJe,
Spectator, S vols.
Goldlmith's History «f animated Nature, S
vJfs.
Blackftone's Commentaries, 4 vols.n
Smith's Wealth of Nations, 3 vols.
Moore's Travels, 2 vols.
lirydona's Tour, through Sicily and Malra.
Montague's Travels.
Rights ot Women, i>y Mary Woollionc:aft,
Seneca's Morals.
Junius' Letters;
-Knox's Eflays, 2 vols.
Peter Pindar, 2 vols.
Cullen's Pra&icc ot" Physic, 3 vols.
Humphries'Woilcs.
Zimmerman on Solitude
Preceptor, 2 vols.
Evelina, 2 vols.
Eifkine's seleCt Sermons.
Anderfon's Sermons on Faith.
The Child's InftruClor j beinya Spelling: Bork
on a new Plan : By a Teacher in Philadelphia.
The Mocking-Bird : a Collection ot a
number of which aie ftt to Mulk.
The American Letter Wiiier.
Fairy Tales, c.
IN THE PRESS,
A Collection of Cin.icn Mulic and A-ithcrni •
tc contain 290 Qcraw P-ges.