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country, and therefore cannot but admire
at the credulity of certain well meaning
people who are frequently duped by de
liiinng characters into demoriltrations of
refpett wholly monarchical, and therefore
incompatible with the pra&ice oi republi
canifts and freemen. In iliort, if we are
really republicans let us act uniformly as
such; othcrwife, let us adopt all tile badges
without dillinclion,of royai ty—"a garment
of patch-work (fays Seneca) is, never very
houorable to the wearer."
Extract of a letter from a Juflice of the
Peace in the Country.
" Among many other vain titles, the in
ventions of natural men, and exprelfive of
dHHnflions which ought not to exist be
tween citizen and citizen in a free repub
lic, I consider that of ksqUIRE, as one
wholly unnecessary. In fact, this tack to
one's name is become so common as almoil
to have ceased to betoken dilHnftion. 1
had long Aifpe&ed it to be unorthodox, and
upon the fair ground of repub
lican equality, but am now more than ever
convinced of it, and have therefore seri
ously requeued of my friends and others,
when addressing me by letter, or otherwise,
that they would omit appending the word
Efpiire, as not only in a great degree tife
lefs, but favouring of that worldly vanity
so much reprobated by the apoftie and
other grave (tho' profane) writers. The
far greater part (no doubt) in the commis
sion of the peace will not choose to copy
my example. This, however, ought not
to discourage the friends of republican
fnnplicitv. It is well known that the edifl
of Peter the great, of Rufiia, for cutting ofl
the long beards of his fubje&s, occafioneci
much howling, and was for a long time
opposed by them on the score of old cus
tom ; and yet, in the event, we find from
history that the beards were voluntarily
thrown aside not only as vain ornaments,
but troublesome incumbrances."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
Cork, to his correspondent in this city,
dated January re. 1793-
" This country and England is at pre
sent in a state of perturbation : the people
publicly difapprSve of abuses that have
crept into the conftitntion and the con
duit of the present ministry, particularly
since Paine's Rights of Man ins made its
appearance: almofl every one is turned po
litician, they complain of 11 njuft reprelen
tation, and ministerial influence, which by
the bye is gone beyond all bounds- This
very year there has been twelve thousand
per annum in penlionr, added to the Irilll
lift. The Papists like wile iafifl, in positive
terms, to have all the penal laws against
them, abolilhed ; for which pnrpofe, they
have convened a national meeting in
Dublin, and have chosen a number of de
legates to form plans for carrying their
deligns intoeffeft. Mod: of the corporated
towns have advised their constituents to
oppose such innovations, and have publilh
ed resolutions to that effect. What the
end will be, the Almighty only knows ! It
seems they have a promise from the En
glish minifler that has encouraged them to
take such (leps, \\ hich it is supposed he has
done to strengthen his influence. Socie
ties are forming fact here, and in every
other town, to preserve their rights it is
supposed, more than to preserve public or
der. England too is in a slate ot'Termen
tation, they are arming fact, it is supposed
to go to war with France— s he people are
totally averse to falling out with France—
they have declared by printed resolutions,
they will not support a war against a peo
ple fighting for their liberty. Govern
ment arefo alarmed, they 3re taking eve
ry step to strengthen theirhands ; the par
liament is called three weeks before the
appointed time, they have planted cannon
on the tower, are rdiflng a militia, and are
ftrengthesing all their places of defence ;
the coufequences are in foine measure felt
already, as credit is greatly hurt, and a
damp in trade and buijnefs, that is, what
is carried on between the two kingdoms."
" If an early campaign takes place ffays
n letter from Kentucky) we iliall find re
lies—otherwise, we (lull have a bad fnm
liier. I have ju't returned from Lexing
ton j where I had an opportunity of hear
ing the people's opinion of the war; and
it is supposed, by the best judges, that,
with proper encouragement, an army of
two thousand of the befi woodsmen in the
state may be brought to action this funi
mer.—lt is high time that a decifiveftroke
was made."
ti We hear from Pittsburgh, that Col.Ebe
liezrr Sprout, of Marietta, is appointed
Adj litant General in the army of the Uni
ted St;:tes.
la a former paperit was mentioned, that
Col. l'roftor had left Pittsburgh for Fort-
Franklin, &c.—We, however, underltand
he is at Legiotivllle ; ai d presume, from
the accounts which we hear have been re
ceived from the Corn Planter, it will be
wioft prudent for him to delay his viiit to
that quarter for some time.
A bill is now before the general court
of MatTachufetts. in addition 10 an afl: for
preventing the entertainments of the The
atre. This biH iavefts the citizens oi
any town with power to permit or not to
permit fnch entertainments, as the majo
rity of them may determine.
'' The State of Massachusetts havecliofen
Senators to the Congress of the United
States, feverai times lince the adoption oi
che Federal Government, every one ot
which elections have been made by about
fifteen or twenty gentlemen of the upper,
or, as some affecl to call it, the Ariltocratic
Branch of the Itate legislature : this pur
pose has been effected by ujurpaiion, con
trary to the rights of the people, and their
immediate representatives; they iiaving
Plumed to themselves the right ot chufing
111 separate branches, and the Houleot Ke
prefentatives, being more numerous, are
generally worried into every meaiure,
v l . hich the perfeverence and obstinacy of
:his " chufe to impose upon
them.
It is most earnestly to be wished the prc
ent House of Representatives, may recol
ect that their conflituents expect from
:hem, at this time, a of firmnef.,
.hat former Houses have not shewn ; and,
:hat if the affirming Branch are indulged
11 their proud pretentions, our Represen
tatives in one Branch of Congress, are but
:he Representatives of a junto.
[Boft on Iml. Chron.]
Me firs. Hare, Morgan, Latimer, Swan
ivick. Woods,and Gibbons, members of
he House of Representatives of the (late
egiflature, have entered, on the journals
if the House, their reasons for dissenting
from the vote of a majority, in favour of a
bill, extending the power of justices of the
peace to cases of twenty pounds.
Mr. Genest. appointed Minister from
France, to the United States, is expe&ed
[hortly, in the Sandwich from Havre
Elbridge Gerry, Esq. a member in
[he last Federal House of Representatives
from the State of Massachusetts, is held up
as a candidate for the office of Governor in
that State.
The President of the United States hat
ore'ered the following organization of the
regular army. It is to be denominated
the Legion of the United States, and is to
be divided into 4 sub-legions—the whole
to consist of ji2o men, including officers—
The General Staff is to consist of 1 major
general—2 brigadiers general—l adjutant
—1 quarter-master—l deputy ditto—l fur
>eon —1 chaplain.—Field— 4 lieut. cols.
:ommandant—14 majors—Comtnijfioned—
56 captains—6o lieutenants —48 ensigns— 4
ornets —Medical Staff—4 fnrgeons —12
urgeons mates—6 fnrgeons mates, for ex
tra services.—(aids de camp are included
n the number of commissioned officers.)
On Friday night last, (fays the New-York
Daily Gazette) the wind being from the N-
W. a violent hurricane arose, which occa
ioned so high a swell in the North-River,
is to force feverai lengths of the fence,
ately ereited on the weft fide of the bat
ery, entirely from their places; the wind
it the fame time laid level with the ground,
jpwards of 180 feet of the beautiful new
r ence on the east fide of the aforefaid place,
-uzed feverai trees, &c.
The new ship Augusta, which lay in the
Ircain, and bound for Charleston, parted
ler cables in the above llorm, and was
Iriven on lhore at Long-1 (land.
ByavefTel (arrived at Baltimore) that
eft Cadiz the 17th of January, feverai
)ieces of verbal intelligence were handed
:o the public, such as that Spain was vi
»oroufly preparingfor war against France;
that four thousand regular Spanish troops
lad deserted to the French—that a French
irmy was entering Spain, and on their
narcl) to Madrid, &c. &c.—Capt pow
er, however, who arrived here 011 Fri
fay last, and left Cadiz the 29th of Janu
lry, fays not a word of tliofe extraordina
■y movements. We may therefore con
:lude the accounts by the Baltimore arri
. al to be erroneous.
The resignation of Mr. Jefferson
ivas some time lince talked of, as about to
ake place soon ; we have lately heard,
through a very refpeclable channel, and
:oinmunicate it with pleasure, that he is
lot to relign. [Gen. Ado.~\
A few days since Mr. Lazarus Beach (of
Connecticut) presented to the Museum in
Sew-York a quire of paper, jnade at his
saper mill in the town of Danburv, which
he hottest fire would not consume.
" The rife of sugar (fays a letter frn>m
?ort-au-Prince,of January 31) isoccalion
:'d by the plantations being set on fire, and a
revolt of tile negroes, who have been here
tofore peaceable, till within these 10 days
past ; and now there is a general infurree
tion throughout this part of the island —
there marched out yesterday 1 ;co men.
and 400 light horse lince which there ha:
not been any accounts of their progress ;
but there has been an incefiant firing kept
up all day—nothing further to acquaint
you of, only that bnlinefsis ftagnatcd, and
American produce 20 per cent, cheaper
than at Bolton."
Married on Thursday evening last hj
the Rev. Doctor Aflibel Green—.Dotfor
George. IV. Campbull, to Miss Charlotte
Craig, daughter of John Craig, Esq. oi
New-Jcrfey.
[From a Corrcfpondent.]
" Metaphysical science may nt the pre
sent day be conlidered as in the last 11;sge
of its existence, for this plain reason, that
its obje£(s being, what the word itfflf im
ports, bey->ud nature, are therefore win;
propriety referred to and involved in a dif
ferent condition of things. And yet there
are instances, in the prelent day, of states
men adopting this f.iplefs mode of reason
ing, infcparable from abfolnte obfeurity
when all that is required to be known foi
the general and requisite ptirppfes of infor
mation might be read and underilood b)
him that runs, if fair play were confultcd
Tliere is a certain fifli in the southern seas
which, when pursued, emits a black liquid
extremely fnbtile and diffulive, fomethinj
'ike ink, that instantly discolours the watei
:o such a degree, as to render all furthe;
mrfuit ineffectual. The inlliuctiye (acul
y of this filh may be applied to more Win
ers than one in the political world. Me
:aphyfical subtlety, or a studied obfeurit)
■>f reafoninjr, are no way adapted to tin
iraftical affairs of mankind, and he wlu
eforts to them on such occasions may noi
mproperly be reckoned at least firft cou
in to Swift's mathematical taylor in the
'.land of Laputa, who instead of takinj
lieafure of his customers in the ordinal )
way, to fiirnifh any one of them with a fuil
3 fcloathes, tooktheirdimenlionsof height
H'eadrll, depth, &c. with a finical quad
ant ; and finally walled more time in ma
-:ing the preparatory calculation's only,
than another would have required for the
completion of thefuit."
From another corre/jpondent, -who sign.
hi mj elf H cno r . ]
" It ir generally called plaglarifm for one
author to borrow from another withotu
giving him credit for it; but what the gen
tlemen of the type call borrowing fro it
each other (or culling if you please) I J<
not know. They may have a greater la
titude of indulgence allowed them, or the)
may perhaps a[fume it ; but this does not
render the thing in itfelf unjust. In read
ing a certain paper of this city, the other
evening, I observed that the printer hat!
not only copic-d the debates on Mr. Giles's
motion, verbatim, from the GENERAL
ADVERTISER, but that he had even co
pied the exordium without giving the
Imallelt crcdit to the author for it. II
this is not rank plagiarism, I am certain!)
it a loss how to ; pply the term. Whether
ir may be thought a degradation of any
printer to inform his customers that he is a
copyist, or whether his pride will not al
low him to confefs that the Kditors of o
:her papers may have now and then excel
ed him, I w ill not take upon me to deter
mine; but thus much I will take the li
berty to determine, that such conduit ar
rues a great want of modejty.
I have not the honor to be ranked among
:he brethren of the Type, but this does
not preclude mj from giving an opinion,
when I fee a deviation from the common
rules of propriety."
[From a Lor.don paper. ]
On the 14th of December a debate took
place in the French National Convention
on the fubjeft of eftablilhirfg public fchoois.
On this occasion a speech was made by M.
clu Pont, a member of consider. ble \veight,
which was received with unanimous ap
pliiufe, except from two or three of the
clcrgy : it may therefore be conlidered as
an expoiition of the creed of that enlight
ened aflembly : the speech is translated
from l,e Moniteur, a Paris paper of Dec,
16, and is as follow s : —
" What ! Thrones are overturned I Scep
tres broken ! Kings expire I anel yet tilt
Altars of God remain ! [jHere there was 1.
murmur from Jome members; and the Ab
be Ichon demanded that the perjon Jpeaking
mi™ht be called to order.] Tyrants, i:i
outrage to nature, continue to burn an
impious incense on thole altars !—[Some
murmurs arose, but they were lojt in the
applauses from the majority of the Ajfem
bly.~] The throne? that have been rever
sed, have left these altars naked, unsup
ported, and tottering. A single breath oi
enlightened reason will now be fulficient
to make them disappear. And if humani
ty is under obligations to the French na
tion for the firli of these benefits (the fall
of kings) can it be doubted, but that tii*
French Pc-ople, now sovereign, will be
wife enough, in like manner, to overthrow
those altars and those idols, to which those
kings have hitherto made them fubjeft ?
Nature and Reason, these ought to b; the
(rods of men I These are my Gods I [Here
the Abbe Audrien cried out, " There''s 1:0
bearing this; and rujhed out of the Afein
bly. A great laugh I] Admire Nature—
cultivate Reajoii.—And you, Legislators,
if you desire tiiat the French people UIOIIM
be happy—make hafie to propagate these
principles, and to teach them in your pri
mary fchoois. instead of those fanatical
principles which have hitherto been taught.
The tyranny of kings was confined to ir.ai:c
their people miferabie in this life ; but
those other tyrants, the Priefls, extern!
their dominions into another, of which they
have 110 other idea than of eternal pimi!!:-
ments ; a* do£trine which fonie men have
hitherto had the'good nature to believe.—
But the ri'omcnt of the catastrophe.is come;
al J these prejudices niuft fall at tha f.itfv?
time. We mufl dcftroy them, cr ihey iv/i*
dejlroy us.—i'or myl'elf 1. I honestly avow
to the Convention—l am a Deifi ! [Herts
there was Jonie rtcije and tumult: —6t<t
great number of members cried cut, what
is that to us P you are an honejl man.] —
But I defy a (ingle individual, amongst the
twenty four millions: of Frenchmen, to
make against me any well grounded re
proach.—l doubt whether the Christians,,
or the Catholics,'of which the last Speaker,
and those' of his opinion, have been talking
to us, can make the fame challenge —
[great applauses. j There is another con
lideration.—Paris has fnltaineri great lof
fes.—lt has been deprived of-the com
merce of luxury ; of that factitious splen
dor which was found at courts, and invited
ftrangershither.—Well ! We must repair
these lodes. — Let me then represent to
you the times, that are fait approaching,
when our Philosophers, whose names are
celebrated throughput Europe, Petion,
Syeyes, Condorcet, and others will be sur
rounded in our pantheon, as the Greek
Philosophers were at Athens, with a crowcj,
of disciples coming from qll parts of Eu
rope, walking like the Peripatetics, and
teaching Mankind the true system of
Univ.erfe, and developing the progress of
human knowledge ; per;ectioning the So
cial system, and (hewing in our decree of
the 17th of June, 1759, the feed of the in
furrectiim of the 14th of July, and the 10th
of Augult, and of all those infurreftions
which are spreading with such rapidity
throughout Europe—so, that these young
ttrangers, on their return to their respec
tive countries,may spread the fame lights as
may operate, for the happiness of mankind,
similar revolutions throughout the whole
world."
(Numbcrlefs ipplaufes arose, alnioft
throughout the w hole' afi'embl) —and in
the galleries.]
VOL T A I Tv E.
The man 1111 ft be very simple who fufferf
himfelf, at this enlightened and emancipa
ted slate of the w orid, to be impofcd on by
the stale trick of certain zealots gravely
publishing to the people ingeniousfoßgeriesf
against men of eminence, after their death,
who had exposed the abominable absurdi
ties and mischievous impofitjons of those
zealots. However fticli publications may
impofc on some weak, well-meaning peo
ple, yet men better informed in biography
and general hillorv will receive them with
caution, as they from former ijnpp
litions, how little credit is due to them.—
The (lory taken from the Gallerie dp P
ancienne Cour," w Inch wa-piiblifl.efl fofne
days (ince in one of the Philadelphia pa
pers, carries oh the face of it the falfity &)id
the delign of manv ot the like complexion
that have gone before it. The death ps
Voltaire wos followed with this unfound
ed tale, which is so like }vhat has been tpld .
of other eminent men, and so unlike the
charufler of the deceased, that no person alj
all knowing his difpoiition, his itrongjjn
derflanding, and his extercfive benevolency,
and know ing the extravagant forgeries of
religious bigotry, could easily believ? it to
be true, altho' Voltaire's physician fiotild
really and indeed have told Jomebody tln|t,
a few hours bslore his death, he heard him
try ont in great agitation of mind, " je
meurs abandonne de Dieu et des Hom
ines." [Mail.]
Adyices from Martinicpand Guaclaloupe
fay, that the governors of both those
islands have fled, and taken with them a
seventy fenr gun (hip, a frigate of forty
guns, a Hoop of war of twenty-guns, and
several tenders. It is not known to what
quarter they are gone.
A number of permce-makers and hair
drclTers in Baliimore 1 ave agreed and no
tified the public, that they intend to keep
the .Lord's day holy, by refraining from
the (infill, heathenifli cullom of hair ciref
fing and (having their cuilomers on ih: t
day.—No signatures, how ever, appearing
to their advei tifement, they have been
publicly ijallcd upon to make thcn.fejves
individually known, that the propl a: ■ 01
t .e cr ft may be rewarded act ordinjjly.
Wili.iAm Patterson, Ffq.' isle-e
---l.'cled President of the ol Maryland
for the ensuing year.
We are informed that Oliver FyAN.%
the patentee of the l;:te improvement: mai
by him for Itllening the labour in tile art
of inanufa.iltiring grain into flour, hath
lately made the following further imr rove
ment 011 said art, viz. He applies one of
his patent-machines'to collect the mid
dlings (or coarse flour j as it falls from the
boult, and returns it into the eye of the
Hone, in a continual stream, by .wbkh
means it is ground over regularly with the
w heat; and all the fuperfine flour, that is
polfible to be made, is in de at one opera -
t on of the mill, and much labour and tin.
is thereby saved to the miller. We are
further delircd ro inform the public, tliac
his price for full pt rmiiTon ior nling the
whole ef his improv tments, is to be forty
npLi.AKS atiiiil, after the firft day of/. .
pril next N. B. Said Evans is abcut
to publifli a new work on the principles or'
water mills, : :.cl the art of mantf e.tiling
grain into flour on the improved plan.
March 13,