National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-02-23 00:00:00, page 4

Verses composed at LITTLE NECK,
Point Judith —Bth month, 1787 —By a
Young Lady of Rhode I/land.
T OST to youth's enthusiasm,
Loft to all poetic fire,
The mind mull be an empty chafrn
That thcfe Icenes do noc inspire.
Whatever can warm the imagination,
Fleafe the eye, or charm the ear,
In enchanting variation
Bounteous nature laviA'd here.
Her?, the vast, unbounded ocean
His majestic billows rolls,
Raising mod sublime emotion,
Lifts and awes the altonifh'd f®ul.
There, his waves with hope elated
Strive the upland heights to gain,
But, like human hope fiuftrated,
BelJow to the distant main.
Still with indignation fwe'ling
Calls his surges from afar,
Still repel'd and still repelling
Rages, in continual war.
Here the waters idly sporting
Fondly wooe the gralfy fliore,
And more calm recedes courting
Shun the ocean's stormy roar.
ence, more tranquil jovs pursuing
Pettiquamlcott (teals awav,
Oft h»s peaceful course renewing
Winds along with lweet delay.
Lo ! the raptured eye beguiling,
How the distant profpeft charms,
Hocks, hills, vallies, meadows smiling
Rife, secure from all alarms.
To these the Grove his shade opposing
Overhangs the peaceful flood,
Above, his towering branches clcfing,
He rivals each surrounding wood.
l'ious awe and sweet composure
This fequeirred inspires,
While from its secure inclofure
Every ruder thought retires.
Moss-grown rocks the:r heads ere&ing
Heighten still the pleasing gloom
And their circling flowers protedling
Bid them, unmolested, bloom.
Here, the birds, the fun-beams flying
Nature's inspirations sing j
Echo, to their voice replying,
Makes the neighbouring vallies ring.
This fair fprt, with partial pleasure,
Vetti%uan7fc6tt % & arms entwine,
Leaves, with pain his favourite treasure*
Parting, feels regret like mine.
Soon again thy waves returning
Shall embrace this blifsful (hore,
Fate, my fondeft wilhes spurning,
Bids me different scenes explore.
Follow still thy sweet employment !
Wave, ye woods, and ocean roar !
Ye /hall give sublime enjoyment
When your Emma is no more 1
\_The redder toill observe, the following i
from a London Ministerial print. /!no
thcr account, from a more impartial quar
ter,fhall be given in a future paper.
Brief view of the Trial of Mr. Paine, be
fore Lord Kenyon and a Special Jurj
at Guild-Hall, Tuesday Dec. 18, 1792
The King againfl Thomas Paine.
THIS was an information filed ex ojji
do by the Attorney-General, againfl
Thomas Paine, author of the Rights 01
Man, for publishing in the second part o:
that work a scandalous libel upon the con
flituticn, laws, and government of Eng
land.
Mr. Percival, jun. Counsel for the
Crow", penned the pleadings.
TheAttorney-General then solicited the
moll feriout attention of the jury, to what
he termed a clear, plain, and indisputable
cafe, that he should lay before them, and
which referred to one of the mod seditious,
wicked, and dangerous libels, that ever is
sued from the prtfs. It was contained in
a pamphlet of which the defendant was
the avowed author, called the second part
of the Rights ps Man. The pernicious
consequences that bad flowed from th<
publication of this work, rendered it unnc.
cefTary for him to occupy much of tht
time of the Couit; and in the firlt place, il
■was a duty he owed to himfelf and the
public, to contradict a rumour that hac
been circulated, that the present profecu
tion did not correspond with his private
judgment.— Such a rumor was totally def
titute of truth, for he (hould think he
ought to be expelled from society, and
branded as the worlt of men, if he had not
molt cordially brought the defendant be
fore the court; the Attorney-General took
notice ofthe uncommon pains that had been
taken to eiiftribute the libellous pamphlet
throughout the nation. It was not con
fined to the judicious reader, whose judg
ment would refute its fallacious and alarm
ing do&rine as he went along in the peru
sal, but it was sent to all persons : to the
poor ignorant mechanic ; to the credulous
and uninformed of the lowest order; even
the sweet-meats of children were wrapped
up in it. It was the offspring of sedition,
artifice and cunning, and calculated not tc
inform the judgment upon any principa
topic, but to inflame the paflions, to with
draw the allegiance of the people fronr
their sovereign, and to induce them to o
verturn the constitution. The style anc
rompofition of it evidently proved, thai
his was the object of its author, for il
:ontained no reasoning, but consisted o
nothing but daring afiertions, unfoundec
descriptions, and falfe dogma. The offen
res he imputed to the defendant by thi:
ibel were of the mo!t serious nature. H<
mputed to him a deliberate intention tc
vilify the whole constitution of this coun
:ry, as fettled and explained at the revo
ution, and to eradicate that enthiifiaftu
love the people had always dfcovered foi
it. He charged him also with represent
ing the Legislature of this country to be ai
usurpation, and that the laws were foundei
on their usurped authority. The defend
ant had in truth said, that the laws wen
net binding, and of course that the peoph
were a lawless banditti.
The Attorney-General then read fix 01
feren paragraphs from the pamphlet to the
jury, upon which he animadverted wit!
great ability : he dwelt a long time upor
that paragraph, in which Mr. Paine call:
the Bill of Rights a bill of wrongs and in
lults. He alio read a letter sent by the
defendant to him [the Attorney-General"
upon the present prosecution. This let
ter is dated froin Paris, and in it Mr.
Paine avows himftlf the author of the
Rights of Man. In the concluding part:
of this letter are several scandalous anc
treasonable refle&ions on his present Ma
jefty and his royal sons. Mr Attorney
General dwelt upon this part of the lettei
with great emotion and indignation, whicl
inspired every person in Court with thi
feeling of affection and loyalty to theii
sovereign, and indignation against his ca
lumniators. He added many other ob
fervations, and concluded a moll admira
Lie speech.
Several witnefies were called, who pro
ved the hand writing of the defendant, anc
that he was the author of the pamphlet ir
question. One of the witnesses laid tha'
Mr. Paine came to give diredtions abou l
printing it at one time while he was in <
state of intoxication : that when he wa:
drunk, his favorite fubjeft was religion
that he exprefled a great dislike to thi
Diflenters, whom heconfidered as a set c:
hypocrites.
Mr. Erfkine began an admirable de
fence for Mr. Paine, and declared, thai
his feelings and emotions were as great a;
those manifefltd by the attorney-general
when he heard the concluding part of the
letter dated from Paris read. No mar
felt a greater portion of loyalty for the
king, nor affedion for his royal sons, than
he did, but this (hould not detach him ftom
the duty he owed to his client. The
fruits of a fair and impartial trial were a
proof of the excellency of a constitution
and a good government, and it would be a
foul (lain upon the Britilh constitution il
the defendant had reason to fay that he
would not be defended upon his trial in
this country. Mr. Erfkine said that he
himfelf had been calumniated by ignorant
er ill disposed persons for becoming the ad
vocate for the defendant, although the ho
nor and integrity of the bar would be loft,
if counsel aftumed the power of prejudi
cing, and refufed to (land between the
crown and an accused fubjeft. Thank
God that was not the oafe in this court.
With refpeft to the letter alluded to, al
though he abhorred the concluding part
of it, yet there were truths in it that no
man could deny ; but this letter had no
thing to do with the charge in e;ueftion.
The strong ground upon which he should
contcnd, that Mr. Pa'nc ought not to be
found guilty, was, that there t xifted no e
vidence of any intention on his part to oc
casion an infurreftion, or to induce the
people lo alienate their affections from
their sovereign. His defence of Mr. Paine
was founded upon the principles of the li
berty of the press and the right of free dis
cussions of all political fubjedls, a right
which the Britiih constitution gave to eve
ry man, provided they acted bsna fide, or,
in other words, contemplated the happi
ness, and not the miseries of the people.
Mr. Erlkine dwelt upon this point a con
siderable time, and went into a long and
mod able argument to prove that the de
fendant's pamphlets were provoked by Mr.
Burke's attack upon the French revoluti
on, and not intended to fcduee particular
persons from their allegiance, but ought
merely to be conCdered as an appeal to
the universal reason of mankind upon the
defcfts and advantages of different forms of
government.
The jury found the defendant guilty.
Some few persons hifTed at the verdi£k,
who were immediately taken into cuflo
dy.
The court was more crowded than it has
been known for a number of years ; and
when the trial w?s over, some of the peo
ple took off the horses from Mr. Er/kine's
carriage, and drew him to his house in
Serjeant's Inn.
The following paragtaph appeared in th?
Albany Gazette of January ;8.
" Some complaints have of late, as well
as heretofore, been heard from the feat of
government, rcfpe&ing certain parts of the
pod-office law—but from no other quarter,
except in an indance or two, an echo from
some one of the southern Hates. In this
part of the Union, its good effe£ls are very
confpicuous—for waving the consideration
of nevi fpapers coming to hand with much
more regularity than formerly, already are
the establishments of the pod-office extend
ed as far as Whiteftown, to the well ; and
from thence letters, ne\rfp?.pers, See. are
conveyed, by regular Hated private polls,
thro' all the Genefee settlements, to Nia
gara, the capital of Upper Canada—To
the northward, the pod office is ellablilh
ed at Burlington, on Lake Champlain, in
the (late of Vermont, where it communi
cates with the edablifhed pod offices at
Montreal, Quebec, and other parts of the
provinces of Lower Canada- Thu3, thro'
the medium of the pod office, on its pre
sent edablifhment, not only letters and
packages, but newspapers, are transmitted
with fafety and expedition to almodeverv
quartc of this extensive continent.—Will
then the jiod office law be complained of,
because a few printers at the feat of go
vernment cannot fend their papers thro'
the continent /ret of expcnce ?—ls this a
reasonable requed, when the cit-zens of
every other part of America, pay to pri
vate polls a greater sum for pollage than is
demanded by the poll office law?"
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS.
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2 29. ( 48 S. Rair.
Mummy, »8. , 30. c 39 \v. l/ou.Cy
2 30. ] 49 | do. Fair.
P R I C F. CURRENT.
\ Dollars. Cents.
/iSHES, pot per ton uod/oujd
-» pearl ditto 134 c! to 140 c!
Bacon, Hitches per lb 8c
flioulders do 7 C
Beef', Bolton per barrel 7d to 8d
Country do b&tojA
Beer, American in bottles
including bottles per tloz. id 14c
ditto per barrel 41!
Bees wax per lb 26c 28c
Brandy, Coniac per gal 90C looc
common do 82c
Butterinkegs per lb 12c 13c
Cheese, Country per lb 8c 10c
Englilh , 9 c
Chocolate 18c 20c
Coal. per bu.licl 20c 22c
Codtifh per cwt 3d 50c
Coifee per Ib 16c iSc
Copperas per cwt id 6-c
Cordage, American per cwt 7d 6ic 8d
Cotton per lb 26c. 36c
flax per lb 8c 10c
Flaxfeed per hlid. 9 d
Flour, Superfine per barrel 5d 51c
Common s<| j 3 - c
Bur-midlings, bed 4d 50c
Meal Indian 3d [0C
R ye, do 3d 33c
Gin, Holland per cafe 4cl 40c
— per gallon Bgc 87c
Ginseng, 2cc 24c
Gunpowder, Fine glazed per q c 4>l
Grain, Barley perbulhel id 14c
Best (helled per bufli. 2 d 67c
Buckwheat per bufliel 27c
Indian corn 6c c
Jersey, do 63c
Oats 23c
Rye 60c
| Wheat rd , 3c
Haras per lb 9c
Hemp, imported per ton nod i4(d 67c
American per lb 4c 5c
Hides, raw per lb .yc 11c
Hops 27c
Honey per lb 8c
Indigo, Carolina per lb id id 20c
French ulaoc id 53c
Iron, Bar per ton 93d
Catlings per cwt 3d 4d
Nail-rods per ton tied 11 id
P'2 24d 26d67C
' Sheet 173 d 33c
Trons, fad 33c
Lard, hogs per lb 10c tic
Leather, foal per lb 14c 17c 20c
Myrtle wax per lb 12c
Molafles per gallon 53c
Mustard, flower, in bot. per doz id 20c
second quality, per doz 87c
Nails, 8d rod I'd and 2od per lb 10c
Oil, Linseed per gallon o-c
Olive " 87c
per cafe 4d scl
Tepper per lb 38c
Pimento iße 19c
Pitch per bbl 2d 25c
Porter per calk 6d
London per doz id 60c
——Anier. bot. inclu. id 4c td (>7<l
Pork, Burlington, per bbl iod ("7c ml
Lower county 811
Carolina 9<l
Rice per cwt 2d 89c
Rum, Antigna per jal i,i
BaHiadoes 87c
Country, N.E. 6;c 67c
Jamaica id lO c
Saltpetre per cwt i2»l
Salt, Allum, per bu(h 53c
Cadiz joe
Lilbon 5jG
Liverpool 510
Snake root per lb 27c
Snuff, per doz. bottles >jd ;d 60c
per lb 33c 40c
Soap, Brown per ib 8c
White. 9 c
Starch per lb -c
Havannah, white, per lb 14c
Brown i,c 140
Muscovado per cwt 13d ijd
Lump per lb 24c
Loai', lingle refined, 25c
double ditto,
Tallow, refined, per lb "9c
rar, New Jersey 24 gal per bbl id 20c
Carolina, 32 gal ' id 33c id 67c
Tea, Hyson per lb 93c rd 28c
Souchong jOC 9^
Boliea 3JC 3 j c
Tobacco, James River, best 3 d 60c 73c
Inferior 3d -'3c
Old 4d 67c
Rappahannock 3d 33c
Coloured Maryland jd 33c Bft
Dark 2d 40c
Long-leaf 2d 40c
Eaftern-Ihore "d 2d 23c
Carolina, new 2d 7c 3d
Old 3d 33c
Turpenrine per hbl ul 6-c'jil
Wine, Madeira,p. P. i7fd 200 d 2261! (>~c
Lilbon , iSjdj'c
Tenet ilFe per gal 67c
Sherry id toe.
THREE POUNDS REWARD.
RUN A WAV from the fnbfcriber, on Sun
day rhe 73th of January, an apprentice
lad 10 the blacklmiths business, named |ohn Lay
ton, about eighteen years of a<?e, five feet three
or tour inches h gh, had on when he went Jiwav,
a half worn fn per fine brown coat, a (hort drab
furtout , baft ca(Timer breeches a little faded,
worftM flocking", his (hoes tird with black wor
ded brings he is remarkably fond of li
quor, is verv talkative when a little intoxicated,
and lpeaks with a coarse strong voice ; wheevc.*
apprehends said apprentice and secures him.fbn;!
have the above reward, and if brought home, rea
sonable charges paid.
ISAAC WOODLAND.
Georgetown, Kent county, Cross Roads, Ma
ryland Feb-4, 1793. law.Sw"
Those gentlemen, in different parts of the
Union, who hold
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