National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-08-03 00:00:00, page 1

Jrroin the Virginia Gazette, oi July 22.j
To the Printers of the Virginia Gazette etna
Richmond an<i Manchester Advertiser.
»
Gentlemen,
a SINCERE confeffiun of error, has at
all times been deemed the ftrortgeft
f wom of philosophic virtue, as well as
of apoltolic faith. Under the pleating im
produced b. this sentiment, I now
acknowledge, how much I have beer# mis
taken and even frightened, with the ac
counts of " instrumentality, • tur
ni bed in several of your late papers. Upon
the tii ft reading, my imagination magnified
and multiplied each d ftinft fyllaj'ff ot in
jtrd-MEN-ta- li-ty into a complete
Hvdra, which I have beer, told wears li
ved monstrous heads, andeach head teemed
bulily igfd in devouring the products oi
tlie whole induftriotis labour 4 ot Amc ica ,
the imagination *vas more alarmed when
conteindaring the complete and entire
fabric of this devourtng rt'ontfer, it seemed
so v:t v ancf compiie ued, rhat all the
ft.. v V :7i A nerica would never be able
v,»\\ Ite.him, and I thought even the
rov? £ lilio 'me of France (which I am
told ci.-ts off but one head at a stroke) i-pon
anv poflibie exteiVho'n ot its mach«n-iy>
would probably be baftied in such a £0111-
p'jx. )2r ition ; Mft my fears and amaze
ment were bevo'.icF meaiur#, when I touncl
that to its or carnal Uru&ure and strength
was added the vxgVfativ'S quality of the
LABARUM or cross of our
blefled S WIOUR, which all good Chr.f
tians te-tainly knrow'vffirMflied for a time,
an e*h mlttefs fund ot piotis tralHck to the
best of the holy fathers of our religion, and
eafilv gratified the. profufe demands of
mauy tl\o jf. «d or opUlenc,devout pilgrims,
who travelled' oir foot, aod foixetimes even
ivith beans in' 11 ir (hoes, from the lour
corners of th.' earth', to the Holy City, tor
the sole purpbfe ef procuring thereiroui
ens magicd chip of gloriotf&falvation.
"'ThisjpntU. e, : E -"o taw ► U
-111 era as a diftiH-bed imagination, and ierves
only to prove the unlimited fcopeoUancy,
when suddenly excited by exaggerated ob
jects of terror ;■ fcr by a collected attention
to the true hift'ory ot IntlrUmeotality, it
feetns to poTefj many good qua
lities, it turns out to be like tne elephant
{Irons, docile, good humoured, faj;acioiis,
grateful to his benefsftors, and terriblepnly
to hii enemies. If I rf'collert right part
ot this Instrumentality remained in Europe
until it had completely discharged ali the
im It aim ?nts ot" the debt then due to
France, (a)
Other parts of it, finding scope for advan
tageous operations in America, boldly tra
versed the Atlantic, and upon its arrival
here regardless of its imperfect organiza
tion, instantly entered rhe service £>f the
nation, zealously applieditjelf to the put ■-
chafe of the public debt (A) and" the whole
or nearly the whole" of the little debt
-which was purchased frofn"Dccenlber 1 790,
to the end of 1702, was done by the lingu
lar exertions of instrumentality. (Vr)
But as there appears to have beeii rio
appt op'jate applicability Ot this fame in-
Orunientaiity to the purchase oi the pub'ic
debt in exclulion of all other governmental
objects, and as it was in fart 110 mote ap
plied to that, than any other object, it is
therefore fairly inferrable, and may be a]-
ferted with eqiial truth, That it was squally
"applicable to the support of the glorious
war waged against the Red People to the
weft.—That it was equally applicable to
the payment of the interest upon the Blejfe.i
public debt, which we have been allured,
will certainly commence the long expected
operation of ploughing and ditching all out
land?, &c. &c. and would never cease un
ti! the whole American wilderness Ihould
-in 4 up into cultivated, productive fields,
hilft the lazy happy farmer will have no
tion;; to do but tw gather and eat the fruits
thereof (d)— That it is equally applicable
to the payment of the hard-earned wages
of our Honorable cotjcript Fathers, whose
minds have been so terribly wrecked in
contriving aU these strange line things for
" we the people," that they have been ren -
dered unable to bestow a moment's < oii!i
deration on themselves or 011 their for
tunes (e) From this reflexion it is clearly
seen, that all these objects have b-en com
pletely effe-ted by the exdutive exei tions oi
Inftrnmemality, and the fame reinnt 1: will
equally apply to every other government. 1
object. All these great achievements,
however, were not effected without foifie
pretty favere wounds which appear f-
Numb. 80 of Vol. ll.] SATURDAY, A«guft 3> >793-
™ . <5 P n <h,<l WErtfPSDiYS and Saturdays, [Three Dollars per annum.^
Ry P. FR ZNR aU: (at No. 209, Market Street) Pubhjhei Wbi.^sdat
have been received abotit the 2d of Ju'y,
171J2, at least equal to the lof> ot all the
limbs of two lyilables ; (/) but thele
wounds and losses, produced 110 iiijtiry
Whatever, tor with the qualifies 6T the
elephant, Inftrurtfental'uy pofleffesthe moll
ii iguiar property ol the polypus, the pow
er ot' reunion or refproutivg ; by this pro
party the wounds were healed, the innant
tliey were inftifled. and Inflrumentality
Hood'ready 011 the (pot with recruited vi
gour, to undertake any other enter prise.
nowever laborious or hazardous. {£) ; 1
would be unpardonable to pats ever •'
lilence another valuable quality lately d'->-
ilayL'd : his steady regard for " pledget
faith,"for at the requ'eft of citizen Oiiniftei
Jenet,we utrderftand this fame InftrUmen
rality is once more rtturned to his old ap'
propriate deftinaliorj,• and is now refofutei]
engaged in propping up the tfeferted cr.ulf
of the Freneh republic. (h) In this reno
vated enrerprife, MAY GOD St-NP HIM
GOOD LUCK ! To which fervent pray
er, every true American will furcly faj
AMEN! !
After this solemn panfe, hear a sage
Admonition : Keep friends with Inflrn
mentality, for I ain told that some raft
fellows, who lately ventured to anger him,
a severe rap over 1 lie knuckles, and
thought themselves well off at that.
It is doubted, whether Inflrumentality
be an artificial coirpulitipn or fabric, or a
natural production It certainly fnrnifhc:
flron» analogies to nature ; inception,
growth, diffemm'atidn, decay, and thepow
,r of re-prodilfUorf, are common to the
whole animal and vegetable kingdoms; the
whole of these properties are attached to
Inftruin'ehtality. The various transforma
tions of Inllrumeniality, and the different
offices performed in each ftatc of exigence,
lee.n *00 tvowfrerfuf to obtain credit wit);
f.mie thick-(villi infidels; but we may here
continue to rrace its analogy with nature,
and li'er laws will easily (olve all f,-emiiu
difficulties ; take the common butterfly for
; it: :.e, v.e ill iuiow, it is lirft an egg,
men ichryjalis, then a craw li'>gcaterpil!cr,
and then a gaudy winged butterfly. Is
there more difference between Inflrumen
tality paying off the French debt under the
of the 4th of Augtift 1:90, or Inftru
me itality pwrchafing the domeflic debt un
der the act of tlie 12th of Augiift ? Or be
tween- Inflrumentality forming a depofil
for discount in the bank, or Instrumenta
lity lent out by the bank to speculators, (c
1 aife the price- of flock ? Or between 111-
Ifrv-mentality lying in the treasury undet
the legal check, or Inltrmhentality lyinj
fntig under the unchecked eontroul ot the
Secretary, (/) than there is betweei
the hiiry reptile catefpiller,' and the air}
flutter'ng butterfly ? This analogy may be
pursued even tothe Phoenix, the rarest am
most beautiful of all b rds. The world wa:
never blessed' with but one I'hoenix at;
time —I never heard of but onel nftrtimeri
tality, pofi'efling the properties ofthepre
fent—the fecundating quality of tlie Phoe
nix exists in its aflies after its complete dif
foltition ; this is presumed to be the cafe
with Inflrumentality. It is at lealt afcer
tairied that when part of it'was lopped of
frotn thfe nlaft m the market, about Jul)
2d, 1792, it was inflantly reunited fron
us own embers, and there is no doubt bill
that the portion of it now in the hands ol
citizen Genet, will be refufcitatcd, if due
care fhotild have been taken to retain it!
ashes in the treaftiry, with tie due portior
of' Promethean heat. It is u hifpered thai
the President has been premature in dif
turblng its nefl in the bank, and thattht
Secretary thought it would do better it
lemain a little longer there, or even tc
take another turii in the market to raifc
the price of flock than be prostituted f
I'econd time in the cause of France, wh'icl
he thinks toft' much ia favour of the peoplt
to be much ifrfavdur of himfe'lf ; it is fait
too that the Secretary is apprehenflve tht
next congress (wh'iGi is known to be crnn
pofed of a set of thick-headed fellows) wil
believe he was really in eainelt when he
reported to the lair (w 110 nnderftood lome
thing of their b:if;nef.) that this inftrnmen
tality grew solely out of tile act of the 1 211
of August, and the President is. really ac
cused of a little fmaltering of Jacobifiifni.
for refuting to jive credit to the assertion.
It would be bad now for America, if the
l'refidert and Secretary II oultl spoil a'.l, by
a little immaterial difference of opinion
about th. piecife origin and fabrication ot
i:;flnunentality ; it might be bad indeed, it
the President ihould infill that the law and
his UlU'iKlion! proved it: fawce sr.d fix. J
its and the Secretary fhotild
infify tiiat his superior official Uifcretion
coulf 1 controul both law and inflru£lii>ns ,
but »e have good reifon to hope this will
not h- the cafe, because we are told by a
inerrv follow. \t ho has lately turn d up his
pipe- calls himfelf J&nathan Pindar, and
tVoir his name r.nd his notions may be ftp
pofed to boa Yankee, that the great folks
man ige these things better to the North ;
that they have got a fccond £oof£ whitl
Ir.ys joldeh eggs, ant! that inttead of the
foil- in hade of the failed boy, who killed
his ioofe to get ast the egjfs at once, the\
are jite content With a discovery b\
a little gentle squeezing, inltead 6t one, t.
get halt a ctoztn a dty;thatthey keep theii
-00'.: in good health and vigour, and thai
hie bids fa'f fo'r the longest lived aniftia
ever ,eard of in America; pofteri'ry wil
profci L.'y think tilt old man < t Prince Ld
waj ,vi ho has lately been dancing througl
aU the papers of the United State?, quite :
buy to tier. (It) .
I whl with the Secretary of the Tfea
iViry w .'id for once lay aftdc his JVlaiiV.nlt
hoi!re. talle modetlyj and publilh the nexi
ent ;i /.e of inlirutnentahty in all tin
nev (p. t ;>ers; then pe-rhaps a body - f '
a licht of it ; and who knows but it inighi
jt .ucured in mi liature fur ths uio o. I' ■■
rait' families, and in that tvent it woulc
jo lound extremely ulcful, especially it
:his part of the country aud at this parti. li
ar time,for We plainly fee that the great &
nighty Judges, (whole decree allous;!.. t<
reverence & nose dare refill) are CteK'i
ri -yd to. make us pajr the Britifli debts.
. on if we fhotild have paid them one.
Mx'er the faith of a law, which we are tolc
> Nothing,now thelites are turned to cor
3oralions, and a magical'fum, which lou'.i
'.■'only two debts at a tiiiie, would a
:uo:mt to the fame thing as if wt were
evholly exonerated f'.oni the payment of
he Brilifh debts.
Under the Secretary's u:odef} Jilence, thf
veipl * in the back woods never hoard oi
:ti* vvyagt Of irfiirumentality from Hol
laud till iaieiy, !m w r a iglt turn it tot;!;
n the market,nobly to ft and by atid-over
ee the purchase of the debt, and it is laic!.
:har until February last, Cotigref» them
selves were not permitted to participate in
:he secret. It would be very gratifying il
the Secretary with his inlirumentality,
uould ast like citizen Blanchard with hi'
balloon and parachute. He jublifhes ir
all the papers w hen he intends t'o exhibit
and all rhe pfioplg may fee, pay or not pay ;
now this is generous, and clever and quite
above Hoard, as a" body may fay. Win
would have believed that mortal mail eoule
leap two miles in the air, and descend un
feared and unhurt ; or that he could have
lent three jolly companions, a dog, a cat
and a squirrel, upon a v'rfit to the moon,
and brought them back in a hail, merr;
mood, full of lunatic intelligence for Mr.
Herfchell; if he had not called the ver\
oyes of man, to gaze and tu admire ! !
What an age of WONDERS aud revo
lution's!! The balance of POV.'LR ii
Europe turned topsyturvy; ftbje£fs turnet
citizens; citizens turned foldiets; peasant:
turned rulers ; palaces turned to prifens ;
kings turned to dull; titles tu/ned ti
Imoke; Dun.curicr turned traitor; his
patriotic army re-turned to the itandard oi
liberty ; the combined de-spots turned dif
niayed ; paper turned to gold; half Old
England turned bankrupt; exchequer of
fices turned to ware-houses. The confti
tutiort of the United States turned upfielc
clown ; (/) proclamations turned to laws ;
law's tiirried to pipe ftcms; state give fo
ments turned to dependent corporations.
The Pr'eliden: of the United States, turning
on one fide despot, on the otherrnpiirij;
Jacobin?. (»«) Debts turned to b'effirtgs ;
figures turned tools ; words turned to anj
meaning you plt-afe. The people tiirnec
inquilitiv;; H.Tniflton turned penitent; In
ltrumentality turned advocate for fiance :
and fmce tlii-slaff tiiri 1 ,1 myfelf tin ned ad
vocate for Inllrtinientality—whirl! citizei
Blanchard, d'-ftiaining tie ryptile fiate ol
mar. upon the earth, mounts into the air,
and takes a luirf au.ongft the GODS 1
TUkU- COAT.
A 0 T K S.
(*) " Ihfli umeiuality, is the term cho
sen by the Secretary of the 1 re a fury, t u
the fittgular e ttert or agency oi
the foreign monies feci etlj' draun to A
merica, in puithafing the public debt,
vvithout expending one fartliin" there of
for that purpose, uiul without carrying one
farthing to the crcelit of the linking fund,
or giving tkf f:ua!j?fj Jsigt rf ifcs n g;
to the coirimlflioners ct that fund, as ap
pears by their report of 25th February,
1793-
(a) The Secretary in fabricating apolo
gies and conjecturing about his own mo
tives for dra\Ving tile borrowed monies
from Holland, makes the following afler
tion f " I fell uiyl'elf the more at liberty
to do it, because it did not interfere with
a complete fulfilment «.f the public engage
ments 5n regard to the foreign debt. It
could be done confidently with a full re
imbtirftfrtrent of all arrears and inllalmenu
which had accrued o'n aicdtmt of that
debt."—Dub it AT UR.
(b) In speaking of the whole balance of
the foreign fund drawn to America, the
fect'etary makes the lollop ing unqualified
aii'ertiun : >• The residue of thefum drawn
lor is applicable to the pitrchafe ot the
public debt." There remains to be re
ceived according to the terms of sale,
632,132 dols. 2 cents. Treafnry Depart
ment, Jan. 3. 1793-"
Here is but one definite object to which
the foreign money was to be txclulively
applied, nothing is said at this time of di
rett motive';, leading mclii'vts, inducing
motives,' collateral motives,
iiiot'Vej, &c. &c —rtor of haViftg one eye
:othiso'j. 1 r Jve to that ot'iift,. a
.hird eye to a tlifever.y L;anil a half a
Jozen other eyes to 1..h 1 doi.-n oihcrdif-'
finitobjeiU,&c.—But the Secretary ba
ring deliberately madr this unhappy ;.i;er
.ll, and refolviiig to ftipport it, in direct
opolilion to the fact, anticipates an obvi~
qi cltibn, and makes the loilowing iii
•eniSus a'nfwer iii'a fubfeqdent report ef
13th Febiuary, 1793 : " enquiry natu
-aily arises here—Were the fjrfonie. which
.fere drawn flow Kurope oh account of
he foreign loans, the inlYi uir.ent of the
jurehafes, to which theft benetnial efrLclti
ire afcrihed ?
•' 1 answer, that these purchases are to
je attributed to the niftrtimeiitaliiy of that
unci—that had it not been for this re
ocrce they could not liavo been made at
he early periods, when nio.O of them were
Dite Ihe com it of the trahfajtliili ivitt
lei'iilly and wi.li more JJropriffy CXJ ....„•
:d in another place."
(c) The Secretary, in reasoning to
hat the foreign fund as the imlrument
>f purchases, made with domestic refour
:es, comes to the folbowing sage conclu
ioil : " But wheil if is cdnfidered, far the
eafons which have been fiatcd, and which"
a ill hereaft'fr be fortr{iedby Others, tei'd
ng. as I conceive, to give tnem fconcliifsve
ore?, that the film in i.'he treasury at the
jeriod iii qucftion, wit, ba'rely what ought
.0 have been there for fife ty, and far due _
upply to current d/m'ands—lt will follow
hat the whole 1 or 'nearly the whole of the
jurchafes which were made previous to'
July 1792, were made by the means or in
trumerttalrty of the foreign funtl."
It Ihoiild be recollected that Hot one far
thing of the foreign mo.tey found its way
:sto tiit Ti'esfury, 'till Augufl 1791, and
that the purchases commenced proioui to
December 1790.
('I) The fundingf;(l em was recon:men
tled upon the Utopian idea, that a pnllic
L'ebt could be mouldt d into an atci (11011 of
valuable capital, and instead ef dra\\iig
.he annual lix per cent, from the bowei 1
jl the earth, it wouid litfil out to betl.e.
>ery lifeand fotil of agriculture and every
jther produ&iye employment.
(s) It is supposed that I'oitie cf the con-
Vri;)t members ol the laU Cofigiefs, who
entered the public fen ice with 1 ery fiei.-
Jer refoiSrc'e's, are now ilinongll the rich
est citizens iii America, at leail they j of
fers . conlider :ble uealtll h.iflily ;y.,.c-: —
these men are continually f<}liiGbingag..':i:[t
all free comments upon governmental'
measures, because th'e commentators ai'-J
less opulent th'm themklves, ind they ilh
to lie fling as they are, or to p'rogic'fsli
len'.ly vith the diftrimirat ng prtiic'iple.
(f ) The Secretary t'iil harpine upon the
neccflhiy agency of the foreign fund, a-d
d fproving a iatt by iriain Ji.rce ot rtafon
inu, to this lingular concltifxn: —
" Had it not been for this atijuKary, ami
that of the loan from the'bank, the ttva
fury would then have b(.cn in an tar,
_iB4,1 f-'o dollars and 62 ccnts. I. therefore
neieflatiiy follows, that for the purchafea
to thai period, tt'Lkh smou::tcd ia specie
to 942.672 dollars and 55 cents, at lealt
1484,169 do'iiars ai d 6a cent, ji.t.f . hi_\e
come from the foreign fund."
fj>) In the aycomp-anymg papers Oi'the
report ol lyth of February the for
reign fund is foind rntirt and ha wholly
'ojtjs? appropriate Vo'tl.t iVr-'
[Total Numb. 184..]