National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-06-05 00:00:00, page 3

Ycfterday arrived hero the brig \urora.
Cape. Stro.ig, in feveu clays from Chnrlef
ton. It appears from the public prin's by
this vefiel, the late accounts ut I'idiaii tie
predatiotis in Georgia had been greatly
exaggerated. In the month of May, oiu
family had been cut off: and that high tip
the Oconee river. One or two (light fkir
mi flies had taken place between very !mal!
parties of Indians and Whites. The Che
rokee? were perfcftiy disposed for peace.
The Chickafavvs had declared war against
the Creeks, and it was thought would be
joined by the Chaftaws.—The ri<_e cro]>s
in Carolina had been conliderably diiniajjid
by a fuccetiiou of great rains.
Patriotic Innholders Ihould be careful
in tiiis country not tra exhibit 011 their iipns,
the heads or representations of kings, de
spots, despotic generals. Saracens, princes
khans, mamalukes, and other tyrannical
rharafters that disgrace European and Af
fiatic legiilation. A writer in vefterday's
Dafly Advcrti/er jullly remarks 011 the ab
surdity of a number of republican freemen
agreeing to meet at the J'riiice of \Val<ifs
tavern on the St.i infant, on the Canal bu
iinefi. —"What concern have we (fay*
with the Prince of Wales, tyr his head ?
We Ihonld rather appoint a day of thanks
giving that we are not obliged to discharge
the d.btsof this promilicg youth Since th<
glorious American revolut on he ha< colt
Britain at leal! twelve or fifteen hundred
thousand pounds and he is at pre
f#nt fnppoled to be another mil ion worse
than n'thing. In plain Knglilh, he is a
bankrupt for that sum, and an api■■ 1 aiio
is expected in parliament next fellion, t"
fatisjy his creditors; while in th? iiae
time, his illnltrious papa has filteen n;
twenty millions fierling at inte eli
Such are the buffings of royihy. and tht ir
happy constitution has become, as Mr
Burke affurf u-, the wonder of furrouiid
i.ig nation- !"
After a forfeit it int lligence,
it may lot be am.Ps to give our re:.den a
scrap from.the moon—'• Mr. Herf-hcli
(fays a Liverpool paper of April 11) ha:
now, by the aid of his powerful glalies, re
duced 10 a certainty, the opinion that the
moon is inhabited. He has difcovrred Unci
and water, and is en ibltd to diftinguilh
between the grte.i and barren mountain
ous spots 011 the former, which, as with us.
are subdivided by theft 1. Within til le
few days he has ditlinguiihtd a large edi
fice. apparently of greater magnitude than
St. Paul's; and lie U confident of fliortly
being able to give all accouut of the inha
bitants. "
Extract of a letter from Laucaftcr, dated
May v
" From tht tenor of some late accounts
from England and Holland, it appears to
me that if there is not more virtue in the
bodv of the French nation than in a major
ity of her councillors and g?neral«,the revo
lution will fall to the ground and monarchy
again take pi ice. Should a counter-revo
lution be etfe&ed, and a king set on the
throne, no doubt it will at firft be in the
character of limited monarchy, in order to
regain gradually from the people what
would not infantaneoufly follow from tilt
counter-revolution. I look upon limited
and despotic monarchy, with aristocratic
republ'ca'iifm, to be one and the fame in
their general effects, only the latti r 1 more
refined way of cheating the prople th «n go
vernment in the hereditary ' or 111 Siionidmo
narchy actually be re established inFrance
I have 110 cKiubt it will be th;* predomi >ant
fy'lem for a century to c >me in the oh
wcirld, and 'if the fpjrit of p i.iof.ipiv and
free enquiry fhoul-l be ijue ic 'i< d ; perhap
forever. In the probability of either ci 1,
let Americans be upon the 100 vat la'
well affiired by late emigrants, that "0
pains are spired in Britain no expence re
girded to procure a government in t ..
United State , limUar to their n v 1 a id '■
the fame pnrpofes. Every a r t will H* •
for this e.id : let us therefo e w'i> li 1
public servants wit 1 the eve >f nnre"iitt n
jealousy. arid Ann d attemp" be m d' o
break through th" prt '<'P •' t rub
lican system, iet the of -1 ebe refetiud b.'
the people. The primip of our revolu
tion Ihoirtd be kept conltaiitly in view, and
practised. without which, tyranny w 1 soon
make her strides over lis, and crulli lis even
asthofe in Europe are crushed. It appears
to me that if the sacred fire of liberty and
Jiublic virtue is to be preserved in this
world, its temple 11111 ft he in America
(where virtue is yet fomeihing more than
a name, and (iifi.ntereftednefs not an abso
lute flranger) and that from hence Europe
jnuft be regenerated. This howaver can
only be effected by maintaining the put it)
of free republican government, growing
m are and more powerful and at length act
ing as a check upon monarchical ambition
Nothing appears to me more deftruftive of
liberty in America than the neglect of spee
dy rotation inimportant offices. Cincinna
tus after freeing the Romans, returned to
his 4 acres of ground and relumed the oc
cupation of the plough. We find few Cin
cinnatus's in our days ; but on the contrary
almost every public officer faying to his of
sice, eOo perpetua ! Ma)'tl thou remain
forever with me- Let us be grateful in
rewarding services and merit, but let not
our gratitude be at the expence of princi
ples.—N. B. J lift previouflv to writing this,
I have retehed some intimations gf Lu-
mojirier's treachery- Should this news be
vonSr-uwd.it will be another lesson to if
how much men ot' re 1 honor, probity. an<
principle, t>>i£ ht to he prized, yea. more
Mian the gold ot Ophir, when found- Bin
unfortunately time only can discover win
are the upright, and in the interim the
mifchief is awcoinpliflied. Were Ito givi
my dying advice to America, it would be.
not to ncglect elections. Sordid, ambiti
ousl and felf interelled perlons, and cha
racters rep ete with low cunning, are every
where foiftmg lhemfelve» into our repre
sentations. Hence it is that States truly
republican are frequently arifloiratic in
their representation. '1 he experience ol
every relielent freeman in the circle of his
own county or diltrid, might at all time*
determine vii are for the people and who
sor themfelvea."
Ei.trad ef a letter from Montgomery
county.
" Your description of the critical fitna
.-.tion of a reprefeiuative of the people in a
popular government, hnotonly «jutt one.
hut we fee it daily verified in this and other
countries ; and no man of parts, though he
may not be 4, tlie son of Jupiter," in my
humble idea, should riik his reputation
unong as„ lefled group of J!ate gambler*,
for the fake of popularity, in order to go
"nacks in their win ngs- —X on have been
»ro:ufr of "o jd la guagc to elifiuade me
from folic 'ting ai y i 6t nclion in this line,
•1 which I as rii i .-.fraid : for it is not
lie fir It invitation 1 have received from
refpertable perlonages in cur settlements
inn* I have redded -n the country, to ac
cept of that cfH ; to whom my answer
iia, eonfta itlv b '.n, " the post of honour
in t,mes of pi.b'lic commotion is a private
tation ii.d th .. p".b!'. employments,
from r/ ;ii* ;T lUulK'f, «■>'■ '<-■ tfiUcU ll
v, u: r r.ry fort of g«»ve, .Mnent., only
h to qtv lify one for a better
?i;oy,:i tile „ ■mafp.Jtate in
:hs even 'J of life, at 1 ' t. • place In the
pou er of thinjrs at pr. ie r t to give me,
:oii!d tempt me to ii". p tii and re
llnqr.i.h the ineffable f.vfets <»f independent
retirement. Sue. 1 , be been, you Well
.O ,my invariable declarations, both in
my public writing l ', as well as in my con
/erfatioas with m> friends, and I wish all
my arqu lintaiKe® now to know it.——l re
proach nor envy no man for the adventi
tious blelfings of a ;:ond edncj'tion u ' su
perior noderltandi 'g. Thele qualifications,
i ded by the experience of grey nittfl
qualify a m m. it any thing will, for taking
hi-- trick at the beiill of the ship of (late :
which characters, you inlitluate, may be
found in every townfl.ip a ,d fettleiuent.
whom our iotereft, cwme'ited together,
rm fleet tioffi e. But this i» a random
(hot of yours, ancf wide, I believe, from the
definition , f your views. Doleful txpiri -
enee,l am very sure.tells n» there re few
luch men throughout the Itate, w h>» have
not bowed the supple kn. # to Bail in the
polluted temple of devoted Niniveh. II
however, such men are really to b.-? fou'd
thev are prudent enough to Hand ulool
from the perils of public life.
" Happy the man who innocent
brieves not at ills he can't prevent,
H stkiff does with the current glide,
Not puffing pill I'd againtt the tide.
He piddling by the fenffling crowd
Sees, utv oncerned, liie's wager row'd,
And wl en he can't prevent foul play,
1. ii joy - the fillies ot the fray."
B«t dul ili men join In opinion with this
poet, and con.ur in a tame acquiescence
•\ ith the nulverfitions of bad men, anil
D id me ftires in government, there would
■"-)i,i b. but two forts of people in the
\o Id—tvra .'i aid slaves. If all gooc
iir.n were riiibarked in the fame cause, we
1 m d ii >t be w nting for a more fictlfn.
i'io: tV n m V-if to preserve the fliip ol
'» >; tne 1 <Us and quUkfauds of de
. policy Let there be occalion.asyou
■ -re is for men of principle, wif
' i d abilities to serve in the importanl
'o - o; l-.-jiflation. But « here are they tc
be found ? How are they to he known r
Where have they diftingu'flied themft-lvesi
Wary experience a.d trials tell tis thai
r he fate of a whole people mutt he rilkei
r>elore they can have a decided charaiiter.
Rome never saw but one Regulus, one h a
biu , one CamillU', and one Sc.pio ; but
ii e groaned for many centuries under the
tyranny of herCefars. — Apropos I ob
serve a flaming firebrand to the tail of some
fox ill your city, and the press is chosen a:
the coinbuftible to scatter it among the
.rain and hay of the farmers. But yov
may reft lati fled, that such kind of reason
ingas' 1 ' afriewd 10 improvements, . ha'
made use of, will never convince thr fluh
l orn yeoiuenry of true republican princi
ple:,. that ..rbitrary laws, exclulive char
er.s, and oppreflive monopolies, are an im
provement in this or any other well regu
lated government. 1 hose laws which
promote and enconrape dillinctions among
c'tizens in a republic, haveevei been found
obnoxious to the people ; and history shew;
us a varietv of injtanccs in which the anti
dote has overpowered the poison. Conlider
the admi.nitration and tragical end of Ue
Wiit, Grand Penlioner of Holland. That
instance ought to caution our demagogues
not to over-rate the importance of wealth
and popularity, under the dominion of a
people, jealous of their equality, rights and
R- S-
Extra's of a letter from Trent or, June 3.
44 Perilling Gen. Dumourier'i letter to
tlie French nation, arid comparing "it with
;hat of Dottor Duche to Gen. Walhington
(dated Philadelphia, Oct. 8, 1.777*) I wa *
llruck with the remarkable fimiiarity ot
sentiment and language. Compare the fol
lowing extra# from the Rev. do£tor's let
ter with part of DumonrierV and you v ill
he convinced that the language ot treason
and fedicion is always the fame."— 44 After
this view of the Congress (having previ
ously called them the dregs of America)
turn to the army. The whole world knows
that its only exigence depends upon youij
that your death or captivity disperses it in
a moment, and that there is not a man on
that fide of the question in capa
ble of succeeding you.—As to the army it
felf, what have you to expect from them ?
Have they not frequently abandoned you
yourfelf in the hour of extremity ? Can
you have the least confidence in a set of un
disciplined men and officers, many of whom
have been taken from the lowest of the
people, without principle, without cou
rage; take away them who surround your
perfun, how very few are there you can ail.
to fit at your table !"
A London paper of April 15, mentions
the great fnccefs of the French cruisers in
the Mediterranean. Among others, eleven
fail of rich Englifli merchant veflels had
been carried into Marseilles at one cap
ture, the tatter end of March.
Englijh papers fav, that Gen. CuHinehad
evacuated Mentz, and was rapidly retreat
ing into FranM. Other accounts, howe
ver, contradict this, and alien the French
are in fucli force at Mentz, as to defy the
ntmoft powers of the despotic forces for
kt fix months."
An Englilii paper of April 17, mention?
the Austrian troops being within a few
hours march of Dunkirk ; and that the
French had evacuated the place.
Orteaccount from Gen. Cuitine's army,
f. fief that he had ordered back all the sup
plies of ammunition and provision toAl
faie. That Mentz was blockaded by
3 2 coo of the combined armies, and th.it
82,1*60 more piefl'ed hard upon him—That
ii was not in his power to oppose more than
50,000, & that he h .d reqUested a fucceffbr.
Communicationsfrom Corref pondents.
I thirk it is of iome importauce to the
Freemen of the United States, to have the
principle developed upon which two volun
teers on bo rd the privateer Citizen Genet,
were arrefled. : —If there was a laiv ol
the United States forbidding the citizens
of America from entering into foreign ser
vice., the arrest was legal ; but ii they
u ere apprehended on the flrength of the
proclamation, the freemen of this country
have degenerated into lulj \!< instead ot
being exalted into citizens. Have procla
mations the t>f la-w in this cvui try ■
Thisis a important qoeOion, for accord
ing to their validity 1!..iil we or fl ail w t not
need a leg flaltire. If proclamations are
to-haveth-? efftft of laws, better . t once,
convert Congrets into a'l ancient French
parliament for regtftering edicts, and let
us net be deHidul by i.ppearatices.—Pre
cedent i or Wi iitir'g for this mirpofe ; for
the king <>■.' the Learned government oi
Gre.lt Biit. i ,h is already afforded one bv
forbidding his Jubjetis from entering the
French service on pain of death. France
iv, at p. efent, the enemy of Great-Britain,
but were they friends, had France contri
buted to the freedom of Greats Britain, did
1 er r olitical happiness owe its cftablilh
ment to France, would the have if
fijed a proclamation to this effrtt Corrupt
as he is, he would scarcely have carried
his degeneracy to such a length.
This process again ft two sailors, who
have become French citizens by entering
into the service of Franee, by the executive
authority of the United States, is a fubjefl
of too much magnitude to pass by unno
ticed. It appears to involve a queltion
of t'.e firlt magnitude to Americans,
and that is, iv net her they are J'ubjttis
of the United States, or citizens? I
1 hope this bitfinefs will be explained ; and
as I wish for information, 1 will suspend
any further remarks on the fubjeik.
June 3, 1793-
Through your paper, Mr. Freneati, I
beg leave to aik—ilk. Are the poilsw hich
the Britilh lie-id within the territory of the
United States, at the cond ulion of the late
unnatural and bloody war, given up agree
jbly to treaty ? 2d. If not, what is the
reason ? 3d. Has any demand thereoi
ever been made ? 4th. Whose duty is it.
whether of the Legitlative or the Execu
tive of the Union, to demand the ctfiicm of
thole posts? sth. Is it the interest of the
United States tnat they be given up? If so.
I alk, is it not highly criminal in that in
dividual, or body, whose duty it »a to in
iilk 011 a compliance with the treaty, to
have deferred it to this time ?
The public are entitled to fatisfactory
answers. They will not be bamboozled.
This is not a lit foil for chicane or cov.rt
intrigue.
Of all the adronomers, Mr. Herfchrll
has been most fuccef»ful in bringing us to
an intimate acquaintance with our atten
dant planet, the Moon. He has totally
exploded the old opinion of there being no
atiiiofphere around her, h topfequently no
air, by his difcoverv of three bmrningroown-
tains, or volcanoes,on different p*rts of the
Moon's iurface, which could not exiit
without air. indeed, lam convinced that
an atmofpere more or less dense, is an in
separable appendage to all the opakebodies
of the nniverfe. Some of his mod recent
discoveries are mentioned in a late Daily
Paper, As to the large edifice, of the size
of St. Paul's, the less that is said about
it the better. I lufpett that it is rather
loine promontory, or broken cliff of im
inenfefize, which Mr. Herfchell has mis
taken for a building. Unfortunately tor
the curious, it is the grand imperfe£lion of
the telescope, that in proportion as it mag
nifies, it darkens. Hence the improbabi
lity that the inhabitants of the moon will
ever be difcoverabk; by means of glasses.
It has a long time been my opinion, that
the luminous portions of the moon's fur
face are seas, and the dark parts land;
and, to the lunarians, the seas and lands of
this earth, no doubt, exhibit an appear
ance greatly iimilitr. A man Handing on a
hill in a dear day, In view of the ocean,
ivill at once observe by carting his eye on
:he two elements of earth and water, that
:he latter rtflectJ the light much more
Irongly than the former, and fumething in
:he manner of a polished mirrour.—lf the
moon isno other than an atterdant, or fer
yant, of the earth ; if we are the parlour
Si she the kitchen,as all astro lomers agree.
I do not much regret the imperfeilion of
:elefcopes in not affording a more exact
knowledge of her interna! ceconomy. If
his earth, which is thirteen times larger.
*nd superior in every refpeft, exhibits fucli
wretched scenes of blood, misery, and de
flation, as we daily fee or hear of, the
moon, being no other than her kitchen, it
jy fair inference a world of w.ir and ven
geance, without the !■ all interval of paci
'ication, & the meni is that inhabit her are
indoubtedly a set of blackguards.
Lately died, (or more properly was kil
ed) at his feat in Anfon county. Nor:h Ca
olina, the Hon. S«mvel Spencer, L.
L. D. and one of the judges of the fnpreme
.ourl of that (late.-—" Judge Spencer's
lealth had been declining (f.ys the N. Ca
olina State Gazeite)for about two years,
nit he performed the lalt circuit three
lionths liiice, and We understand intended
o have Jelt hom<- in a few days for T'den
-011, where the superior court is now lie—
ing, hail it not been for the following un
rortunate accident, which it is thought haf
ened his death : —He was fitting in his pi
izza with a red cap on his head, when a
large ccck turkey palling, (he judge being
leepy, began to nod, when the turkey mif
caking the nodding of the red cap for a
;hallenge, made so violent and unexpected
in attack on his honour, that he threw liinx
out of hit chair on the floor, and before he
.oulil get any afliilance, so beat and bruised
i>in, that he died within a few days alter."
In this degenerate age
YVhnt hods of knaves engage !«—
Do all they can
To fetter man.
Dreading lie si ould be free !
Leagu'd with the scoundrel pack
tven turkey-cocks attack
The c A J> of Liberty.
PROBATIONARY ODES-i.
[Continued from cur
ODE 11. t
TO ATLAS.
JofcAT&AN turn'd fptcutatcr, in behalf of the
whole corps addieflcih their great btrteJuSibf
and patron,
Ingieditur loio, et taput inter nubi!» condlr."
Vir S >
nunquam dimoveas !
voo, great Atlas ! prop the ftat*
* ' Nor totter underneath a weight,
That would a giant crulh j
Let p>gmy Vtights in Congress-hall
Set jparrttv- traps to work your fall.
Regard them Aot a rulh !
A lion should a fpar.iel bay
The kirg of bealts would keep his way
Nor heed the babler's throat :
Then deig-n Hot, Atlas, to look dowa
Or pum/h 'tvitb a fmgle frown
The anf ry l'nailer's vote.
Whilst on your paper 11 rone you fit
VVi:h foiid gild beneath jour feet x i
Fear not a regicide t
v our faithful f anizarirs all
-.ball mutter thick in Corgrefs-hall
To guard their leader 'slide.
Co en ! great Ck if f. to make us all!
Mor horn yout [urhhiers calf the ba 11^
Led we, Ii should drop.
A-ho on a golden pippen prey y
l ill hiipl/ on fume ftorni) day
'Tis Hi a ken from the top.
CARD.
FLIJAH RUSSF.L, cf CoNcbRD (New
Haniplhire,) Printer, presents his compii->
ments to the printeis of newfpapert in the
United States —and will thank them to for
ward him their papers, in return for which
he v ill regularly fend them his—N,
Please to write on the paper without en
ilofmg it under cover.
Died,- on the 28th of May, Mrs M\rV
House, an old and refpe£tablw inhabitant
«f tiiis city, ajjtd 62 ycam*