National gazette. — Philadelphia [Pa.], 1793-05-04 00:00:00, page 4

AMERICAN ADVICES.
RICHMOND, April 24.
THERE are chara&ers in this city,
who during the day of peace, were
permitted to snarl and obtrude their im
pertinent observations on the policy an l
politics of this country —Europe is now in
tumult—Tyrants and their llaves are in
league to destroy the liberty of mankind.
The public mind is occupied, and muil en
gage in favour of republicanism. Tht
Iriends of liberty mud aid ihe brave an'
noble efforts of our brcthien of France, i!
there are any who adhere to the Britift:
fyftsms an i politics, they will be permit'
ted to retire wi h their effedls to any othei
quarter ; but they will not be permitted tc
emit their venom againll the political ob
je£is us a people, whose deliruttion will in
volve America in ruin and desolation.
If the government does not interfere
and fay with botdne s, that fuc'n and such
chara&ers mull leave America, the people
will adt with decision, and brftow on form
of them, a livery, Inch as wa- sometime!
given in the years 1775 and 1776.
A letter from a gentleman in Londonderry
dated the 18th Mar.h, 1793.
" It is scarcely pofiible to convey to yoi
an adequate idea of the present state o
Europe. All its kings, all its rriells, an
combined against the new republic o
France, and many hundred thousand o
men are now in arms, to restore kingh
po-ver, and the influence of the church ii
that coun'ry. None of the hostile powert
have entered into this war with greatei
zeal and acrimony than England, the peo
pie whereof, at any rate a Rreat majority
of them, are as keen for exterminating li
berty in France, as they were formerly for
subjugating the thirteen American Colo
nies. The Scotch however are not lo
unanimous upon thisoccaCon as they were
then : a great number in bcotland being
againlt the war As to Ireland, I think I
may fafeiy lay, that two thirds of the peo
ple, in their present discontented state of
mind, are conpletely avcrfe to the exifling
fyllem of Englilh politics. As to the
French themselves if they were unanimous
at home, they might be a match for all
their enemies. Two of their generals,
Dumourier and CuHine, are men of won
derful fortune and ability : But the ques
tionable execution of their king, which has
estranged many moderate men from their
cause, and tht horrible diflentions in Paris,
conducted or excited by the execrablt fac
tion of Roberfpierre and Ma r at, have cauf
ed a doubt, at lealt a fear, that the really
virtuous among them are too few and too
weak to carry their upright intentions into
effeift. In the mean time the government
of Ire'and is carrying a high and strong
hand in conjusdlion with the English mi
ncer. A man dare not speak, nor scarcely
think, for fear of the secret committee of
the lords who have renewed all the arbi
trary proceedings of the Star Chamber.
Every man, or bods of men, who presume
to talk of liberty, or a reform of a corrupt
conftitu.ion in church and state, are pro
secute : and persecuted, fined or confined,
or both, after a very summary trial ; and
the lrifh Volunteers, once the glory and
the boast of theircountr*, are now openly
calumniated and proscribed."
THE attempts of some to persuade us that
the liberty and indep n ,ence of \ merica
is due to thv* king of France, and not to the
French nation, is so great a perversion of
reason and jullice that we ar..* under no ap
prehenlions for its consequences. They
m<iy again and again attempt it ; but we
truit they will a, T ain and as often fail. The
people of Americ.i know the lources from
which the power of the king of France to
afiift them in the day of their dlftrefs was
drawn—they know it to have been from
the French nation, notwithstanding the
denial of thit position by some—they
know that it was men of the French nation
who fought and bled for them—and that it
was money raised by the fvveat of French
men's brows which was loaned to them at
so critical a season, as that our present free
dom and independence it. a great meafuie,
if not entirely, depended on it. And (hall
we now be base enough to fay, that be
cause the vehicle through which this aflif
tance was received does not now exilt, the
debt we owe to the brave I and mod Rene
rous nation on car h, ;s cancelled—No—
forbid it every principle of justice, of ho
nor, of gratitude—America (corns it.
If France be conquered, there can be
no doubt but the species of government
iinpofed upon that country will ba arbi
trary monarchy. That form of govern
ment extends itfelf 6f course to the seve
ral poflefiions of such governments in
America, which mud become hostile tc
the free and independent spirit of the in
habitants of the United States—! he re
fult would be war—and —a sim Lr com
bination against America of those ver)
powers, including France, to fay, com<
let lis divide the United States amongll us,
we will have no republican governments. —
Need we (ay more on this head than tc
instance the partition of Poland ?—
Of France indeed we fliouid defervi
such treatment tor our base and inconfif
tent ingratitude.
Those who pretend, in this country,
such extraordinary regret for the down
fall of despotism in France, in the perfor
as the king, and are wishing to excite the
ri-fentment of the United States against
France on that account, have not so much
regard for his m mory, a3 they wish tc
make use of his name to ess ft the views
of a party in the United States, to wh m
they are generally contemptible tools.
They aie speculators in the British funds
as well as probably in those of America,
and want the union of the two countries
(contrary to the interests of America) to
add to the security of thqir property, es
pecially that in B;tain, which perhaps
a French invasion, foolifhly provoked by
the British government, will reduce to a
cypher.
We are warranted in this opinion by
the conduct of certain fuf t icious charac
ters, who fear the reading of an indepen
dent public paper, left they ftioula meet
with any thing therein in favour of re>
publicanifm, so grating to their monarchi
cal feelings. Some of these we know tc
have been speculating in our public debt,
~nd who, per ; ps, not knowing the peoph
of America, (being fu jedts of Britain;
apprehend the government too much in
their power for tlieir fafety. They therefore
want our government to be m-.deled as
ter the British fafhion.— But while out
country can boalt of a Jefferfon, a Madi
son, and a Giles, and many other equally
valuable patriots, the profefTors of mo
narchical principles will be obliged to a
bandon her peaceful shores, and republi
canism will prevail with us and our poste
rity till time (hall cease.
THE days of religious intolerance and
priest craft are gone by ; and to them
have iucceeded a happy era, in which eve
ry man can pay homage to his maker, in
any manner his heart shall dictate to be
right. But let not those who believe in
the efTentia ity of particular forms and
ceremonies, from hence take oceafion to
inveigh against the times, and to date the
decline of piety, virtue, and morality. It
is a mistaken idea that enlightened men are
to be frightened into their duty. Eveiy
rational mind, when it contemplates the
harmony of nature's works, and fees and
feels, the parental care which is (hewn by
the creator over all the works of his hand
mujl, '\l cannot avoid it, mujl feel the emo
tions of lively gratitude and adoration ; and
these are all that religious inllitutions
ought to inculcate. The detufions of an
tiquity vanishing, mankind will fee the
absurdity of falling out by the way, about
modes nf jaith, and forms of -worship ; and
as the principles of universal fraternity ex
tend, the fintiment* of a late liberal
preacher mill obtain celebrity ; " 1 would
not fays he, persecute even the atheist, I
think he has a right to toleration, and,
for my own part, I pity him, for he wants
the consolations which I enjoy.
" I would support the sublime domes
dedicated to the worship of Immanue/, but
I would not destroy a beautiful Pantheon-
I wish to fee riling in the neighbourh >od
of a Christian meeting house, the minaret
of a Turhijh mosque, a Chintft pagoda, a
JewiJb fynagoguc, with a Temple of the
Sun, if any Persian is to be found in this
country to worship the God of his idola
try The sole business of government
is to take care that they do not perfe
cnte one another, for maukind in all ages,
and of all defcript ions are the fame."—
These are (entiments worthy the enligh
tened period of 1793.
Extract of a letter from Edinburgh, da
ted Jan. 25.
" Your remarks on the French p'.-li
tics coincide with my o«'n ideas. The
comparison you draw between the happi
nefsand consequence of an American far
mer, and one in this country, is injeed
striking, and I doubt not, as you fay, that
if the fadts were publilhed and known
here, the emigration would rapidly en
creafc, to such a land of enjoyment. But
my dear friend, to speak lerioufly, to such
a length are things going here that if I had
published such a letter as yours, which in
peaceable times would have doi:e no harm,
the printer and his author, if he could be
found, would be certain in a few days after
to receive an indictment for sedition, and
perhaps fine and imprisonment would fol
low ; but trials are now become frequent,
and a man is scarcely fafe in writing to
his friend. The drinking of toads, even
In intoxication, has been found fufficient
to condemn, where they have any tenden
cy to liberty or reformation."
METEOROLOGICAL OiISE RVAIIONS..
April 1793*
D. H >Bar. Tier. W.nd. Weather*
Tuesday, 23. 6 30. it 42 N.NE. Fair,
3 3°- 63 > W. do.
Wednejday, 24. # 30 5 44 aim jfair.
3 30. c 08 do : do.
Thursday, 25. fc 29. c -a.m. Clout y.
"• 20. 8. 65 ! do.
Friday, 2b. 6 19. S 53 E. \C.ouay,
; <' 57 Rain.
Saturday, 27. 4-, N. £ Raitl.
3 29 46 do
Sunday, zb. c 3c. c 44 N. E- Ram.
3 30, 1 54 do. Stortny
Monday i 29. t 30. c t"air t
3 3°- 3 59 I do. A
PRICE current.
\ Dollars. Cents.
/A.HES, pot per ton i2od/»i2sd
pearl ditto 134 d to i4od
Bacon, flitches per lb Bto 9c
(houlders do yc
Beef, Boston per barrel 12c)
Country do to 1 jd
Beer, American in bottles
including buttles per doz. id 40c
ditto per barrel 4d 67c
Bees wax per lb 26c 28c
Brandy, Coniac per gal 90c 100 c
common do 80c to Bjc
Butter in kegs per lb 12c 15c
Cheese, Country per lb 8c 13c
Englilh it) c
Chocolate ,8c 2 oc
Coal per bitfhel 24c 33c
Codfilh per cwt 3d 33c
Coffee per lb 12c 17c
Copperas per cwt id 67c
Cordage, American per cwt -ji\ 67c 8d
Cotton per lb 26c 38c
Flax per lb j ic 12c
Fiaxfeed per bu(h. 90c
Flour fiiperfine per barrel 6d 25c
common 5d 67c
Bur-midd!ing:, bell 4d 47c
Meal Indian 3d 13c
Rye, do 3d 13c
Gin, Holland per cafe 4d 70c
per gallon 80c 90c
Ginseng 20c 24c
Gunpowder, Fine glazed per qr c 4d
Grain, Barley per bulhel id 3c
Bed shelled per bulhel 2d 67c
Buckwheat per bushel 40c
Indian corn 60c
Jersey, do 631
Oats 25c
Rye 603
Wheat id 7c to id 25c
Hams per lb 9cto 10c
Hemp, imported per ton !20di46d67c
American per lb 4c 5c
Hides, raw per lb 9c 11c
Hops 21'.
Hoiey per lb 8c
Indigo, Carolina per lb id id ioc
French id 20c id 53c
Iron, Bar per ton 84<!
Cartings per cwt 3d 4d
Nail-rods per ton io6d 67c
Pig d 2 41]
Sheet 173 33c
Irons, fad 133 d 33c
Lard hogs per lb 10c 1 ic
Leather, foal per lb 17c 20c
Myr'lewax per lb 12c.
Molafles per gallon 44c 47c
Milliard, flour, in bot. per doz. id 20c
second qualicy, per doz. 87c
Nails, 8d lod i2d and 2od per lb. 10c
Oil, Linseed per gallon 63c
Olive 87c
per cafe 2d 50c
Pepper per lb 38c
Pimento 19c
Pitch per bbl id 73c 2d
Porter per calk jd 33c
London per doz id toe
Amer. bot. inciu. id 60c
Pork, Burlington, per bbl 13d 33c
Lower county i;d
Carolina 9d
Rice per cwt 3d
Rum, Antingua per gal id
Barbadoes 87c
Country, N. E. 62c
Jamaica id 12c
Saltpetre per cwt I4d 33c
Sait, Allum, per bufn 33c
Cadiz 25c
Lisbon 27c
Liverpool 33c
Snakeroot per lb 20c 42c
Snuff, per doz. but. 4d jd 6oz
peril, 33c 40C
Soap, Brown per lb 6c
Wh.se 8c
Siarth per lb 7c
>ugar, Bavannali, white, per lb 17c 18c
I Brown nc 12c
Mulcovado per cwt 13d ijd
[Lump per lb 24c
I Loaf, single rc fined, 24c
double diuto 33c
Tallow, refined, per lb gc
Par, New-Jersey 24 gal per bbl id
Carolina, 32 gal 2d
Tea, Hyson per lb 93c id 28c
Souchong 50c 93c
Bohea 33c 36c
Tobacco, James River, best 4d 33c
inferior 3d 33c
Old 4<l 67c
Rappahannock 3d 33c
Coloured Maryland jd 33c 8d
Dark 2d 40c
Long-leaf 2d 40c
EalVern-fhore 2d 23c
Carolina, new 2d 7c 3d
Old 3d 3 : 5 C
Turpentine per bb* 2d 35c
Wine. Madeira, p. P. ij6d 2^''d
Lilbon laod i«6d
Tentriffe per gal 67c
Sherry 90c to id cot.
NEW BOOKS.
ROBERT CAMPBELL,
No. 54, South Second ijtreetj
Has received bv the Shin George Barclay
A large ajfortment of BOOKS,
Among which are,
Viner's Abridgment of Law and Equity, iz
vols.
N. B. Subfcriptiom are received fo * the above
work at 4 Dollars per Volume, 4 Volumes 10 iI be
received every fix months till the work is
ivhiih will bein the course of eighteen months*
Croke's Reports, 4 vols.
Lord Raymond's Reports, 3 vols.
Vattel's Law of Nations
Comyn's Divert, 6 vols
Gufchries Geography, a new edition in 4 to,
with elegant coloured maps.
Buyer's French and English DifV.onary in 4 &
8 vo.
Hume's History of England, 55 vols—Same
>jok with Smollet's continuation, 13 vols, ele
gantly gijt.
Mofheim's Ecclesiastical History,6 vols.
Gibbon's Roman 12 vols, gilt or
>Uin
Necker on Executive Power, 2 vols.
Hiltory of ancient Europe, 2 vols
Lavacer # on Physiognomy abridged
Large Family Bible with elegant cuts.
Chapcail's Chemistry, 3 vols
Munro's do. 4 vols.
Underw.odon Children, 2 vols.
Clarke on the diseases common in long voja
jes, 2 vols.
- on Fevers,
Metherby's new Medical Dictionary.
Gardner on the Gout.
P tt's Chirurgical Warks, 3 vols.
Nicholfon's Chemistry.
Lee on Botany.
White on the diseases of Lying-in Women,
fee. &c.
R. C. Will receive by the arrival of the
irft veiTels from Dublin and Glasgow, a large ad
iition to his present extensive afioriraent of booka
imongit which will be copies of all the new pub
lications of merit.
April 13. law. t:f.
I Have claims to about two hundred and
fifty thoulaiju acres of LAND in the i*ate of
Kentuckey, in different parts cf that country,
"ome of which I know to be equal to any ; all
wh ch I am inclined to difpofc of, either bj
entire sale, or by admitting one, or two partners,
;o whom the agency on the whole will be com
mitted.
One fourth of the contra# will be required in
Taad, either in cash, merchandise, or such aflTets
is may be converted to a&ive ule, the rcfioue
nay be apportioned in convenient instalments.
The purchasers to give fecuritj, on the land,
)r otherways,as suits them.
Knowing that there is a prejudice against the
irles of land in that Hate, which is more general
han just, lam willing to stipulate iu the con
raft, that a discount, or dedu&ion, lhali be
nade, where any land may be loft, by ieafon of a
lefe&ive til;le.
Any person inclining to such a pcrchafe, is re
[ceiled to write to me by pott, in answer to
vhom, more particular information will be given.
HENRY BANKS.
Richmond March 20, 1793. lawtf.
Department of State, to wit.
NOTICE is hereby given, to perfonsin
terefted in the property or the proceed
ngs of Claudius Paul Ragu.ect, a citizen of
Pennsylvania, lately deceased at Bordeaux,
n France, thai on application at the office
]f the Secretary of State, they may receive
nformation relative thereto, as tranfmit
:ed by Mr. Fenwick, Confulfor the United
states at Bordeaux.
GEO. TAYLOR, jun. Chief Ck.
Philadelphia, April 3c, 1793-
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