The Newhampshire gazetteer — Exeter, N.H., 1790-04-24 00:00:00, page 1

FREEDOM is inimical to bigo
try : The revolution now carry
ing on in the Austrian Netherlands,
though it commenced in ah enthufi
aftick zeal to defend certain religious
establishments, which in their con
firuaion have a natural tendency to
confine and contraa the human mind
=will eventually produce a glorious
emancipation, establish the right of
human nature, and deliver the peo
ple from the tyranny of superstition.
An ACT to eftablife an uni
jorm Rule of Natural
ization.
BE it enabled by the Senate
and Houle of Represen
tatives of the United States of
Americajn Congress affembkd.
That any alien & being a free white
perlon, who fhail have resided with
in the limits and under the jurifdiai
bn of the United States for the term
of two years, may be admitted to be
come a citizen thereof, on applicati
on to any common law Court of re
cord, in any one of the States where
in he Ihall have resided for the term
of one year at lealt, and making
proof to the fatisfa&ion of such
Court, that he is a person of good
character, and taking the oath or
affirmation prescribed by law, to sup
port the Constitution of the United
States, which oath oraffitmation such
Court ihall administer, and the Clerk
of such Court ihall record such ap
plication, and the proceedings there
on , and thereupon such perlon ihall
be cbnfidered as a citizen of the Ü
bited States. And the children of
such person so natura)ized, dwelling
within the United States, being un
der the age of twenty-one years at
the time of such naturalization, Shall
also be considered as citizens of the
United States. And the children of
citizens of the United States that
may be born beyond sea, or out of
the limits of the United States, Shall
be considered as natural born citi
zens : —Provided, That the right
of citizenship Shall not deScend to
persons whose fathers have never been
resident in the United States.
Provided also, That no per
son heretofore proscribed by any date,
shall be admitted a citizen as afore
laid, except by an ad of the legisla
ture of the State in which Such per
son was proscribed.
tHE PRESENT STATE OF
Austria.
NEWHAMPSHIRE GA ZETTEER.
Here you may range the eWorldfrom pole to pole, Increase your know!?, and delight y^rfal; Travel all countries^ info%/oufo^^ "™'"
Frederick A. Muhlenburg,
Speaker of the House ofßeprtfcntatiies.
JOHN ADAMS, Vice Prudent
of the United States, and
President of the Senate.
Approved, March 26th, 1790.
GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Pref dent of the United States.
(True copy)
Thomas Jefferson, Sec'r, of State.
AfURDAY, ABRIL 24, 1790 J
MISCELLANY.
Published by H. Ranlet, in the Main Street, Exeter ; ^ where Subferiptions, Advertisements, and all Favours, are gratefully received.
CONGRESS.
AT a grand dinner in January,
given in London, at the Lon
don Tavern, in which Sir Joseph
Mawbey, member for the county
of Surry, was President of the table,
a Gentleman of the company
greatly extolled the beauty of the
Baronet's watch, and requeued he
would permit him to take a nearer
lurvey of it, which was inftandy
granted, and the watch put into his
hands. The Gentleman appear
ing much delighted with the work
manship efit, allured Sir Joseph that
he was going to have two made im
mediately, to present to two particu
lar friends before he left town, and
added, he Should esteem it a very
particular favour, if the Baronet
would allow him to take it For a
quarter of an hour to the jeweller's
in Cornhill, for a pattern, and that as
he was an entire Granger to him, in
filled on leaving a bank note of 501.
until his return. Sir Joseph in vain
remonstrated against accepting the
note, 'and on the Gentleman's
ordering the waiter to call a coach,
Sir Joseph begged he would do him
the honour to make use of his car
The views of the enlightened Patriot
will never be bounded by any obje&,
Short of the full establishment of a
free conflitution ; the means to effe&
this are various, and none will be
considered beneath his notice, that
has the remotest reference to the ul
timate design ; for the work once be
gun, the profpea enlarges, and every
pafficn of the human mind may be
subservient to the cause of liberty. —*
“ The proposed league of the State
of Flanders will, if eifeaed, raise a
most formidable power in Europe ;
as it will comprehend the United
Provinces, the Flemings, and thole
of the Austrian Netherlands ; to this
will probably be added as allies, the
King of Pruflia, Duke of Cleves,
Hanover, Brunswick, &c. Before
such a Combination, the Houle of
Austria must Shrink, and even the
imperial diadem may be loft to the
present family. The majority to the
eledorates always going with the
most powerful party, as was evinced
by the Elector of Bavaria's being
chosen Emperor, when Joseph was
young, thro' the influence of the
Court of Versailles—but loft to his
family when success attended the
arms of Maria Therefa"—This re
volution has been effcaed thus far,
with aftonilhing unanimity ; in the
Assembly that deliberated on throw
ing off their allegiance to the Em
peror, there was not a diflenting
voice—their boldhefs and decision
has ensured them the approbation of
the enlightened of all Europe.
There is one lesson that the people
have learned, and that is, that UNI
ON is paramount to every obstacle,
ahd ran infallibly effta every obje&
the people with to atchieve ; a leion
that may make the tyrants of the
earth tremble.—CßOWNS do not
appear to be so durable an inherit
ance, as they have heretofore been
considered by their poffelfors.
[U.S. Gaz.]
AN ENGLISH TRICK!
THE
tutor, at Oxford.
I WAS not a little pleased, the
other day, upon paying a visit at
the house of a person of didinaion in
the country, to find the family assem
bled round a large table, covered with
maps, and globes, and books, at the
upper end of which fat a young lady,
like a profeffor, reading from the
chair. In her hand she held a news
paper. Her father told me he had
long accustomed her, while reading
one of those vehicles of intelligence,
to acquaint herfelf with the several
towns and countries mentioned, by
turning to the names in Salmon's
Gazetteer, and then finding them out
upon the globe, or a map; in which
Ihe was become so great a proficient,
as to be at that time in truth giving a
lecture in geography to her younger
brothers and fillers. It was his far
ther intention he said, that from
Campbell's Present State of Europe,
Ihe Ihould acquire a fufficient know
ledge of the hi&ory of the kingdoms
around us, as well as our own, to
form an idea of their importance and
intereftb refpeflively, and the relation'
each bears to the rest. Verily,thought
I to myfelf, this is reading a newspa
per to some purpose.
Children, very early in life, are
eager for the fight of the newspaper.
By being called upon in a free and
easy way, for some little account of
what is in it, they may gradually be
brought to read with attention, and
to fix upon thofc articles which are
most worthy of notice ; as also to re
member what they have read, from
one day to another; and put things
together.
After drinking a few glasses of
wine, he apologized for the necessity
he was under of quitting the party so
early in the evening, which he hoped
they would kindly excuse, on account
of prefling bulinefs; and taking ab
rupt leave, made off, where it is pro
bable, he will never be more heard of.
riage, which was then at the door.
After many polite acknowledgements
—his offer was accepted ; when in
stead of ordering the coachman to
Cornhill, hetdefired to be taken to
Lady Maybee's : On his entering
the parlour, gr informed her that Sir
Joseph Mawbey had commiflioned
him to call for all the ready money
fhecould poflibly collect in the House,
as Sir J. Mawbey had made several
puthafes, an&was then waiting his
return—and to enforce the veracity
of his demand Shewed her the watch,
and assured her that Sir Jofpeh's car
riage was at the door, in which he
came. As no Stronger proofs could
be deemed necessary, Lady Mawbey,
without the least hesitation, gave him
notes to the amount of near five hun
dred pounds; when politely wishing
her a good evening, he ordered the
coachman to drive back to the Ta
vern, and pretending great haste, as
he was going out of-town in so Short
a time, thanked Sir Joseph Mawbey
for the use of his watch, which he
returned, and took the 501. note he
had left in lieu of it.
The fo!lov)inc is an extras from N 0.26,.26,
of ar ingenious ivork, the ferodußion
of Je%erei literary gentlemen, entitled,
" Olla Po rida," (Notch Potch)
nchicb is noiu ^uh/ijhing in iveekly
numbers, aft:r the manner of the Spec-
ON NEWSPAPERS.
I While we are in the world we must
converse with the world ; and the
conversation, in part, will turn on the
news of the day. It is the firft fub
jed we begin upon ; a general intro
du&ion to every thing else. All
mankind, indeed, are our brethren,
and we are interested, or ought to be
interefled, in their pleafurcs and their
pains—gheir fuff^iings, or their deli,
verantes, throughout the world.—
Accounts of these ihould produce io
us fuitabfe emotions which would
tend to the exe cife of different vir
tues, and the improvement of our
tempers. We Should accustom our
selves hereby to rejoice with those
who rejoice, and sympathize with
those who mourn.
When any country is likely to be,
come the theatre of remarkable events
and revolutions (as, for instance, Hol„
land and the dominions of the Turks,
at this present moment) it is worth
one's while to refresh one's memory
with the hiftory of that country, its
constitution and the changes it has
heretofore undergone, the nature and
disposition of the people, &c.—a fort
oi knowledge which is sure to be call
ed for. The man who makes him-
Self perfe& and correct in it, will gain
credit, and give pleasure, in every
company, into which he may happen
to fall.
Whatever in ftruaion is reaped from
hiftory, may be reaped from a news
paper, which is the hiftory of the
world from day to day. It is the
hiftory of that world in which we now<
live, and with which we are, conse
quently, more concerned than with
those which have passed away, and
exid only in remembrance ; though to
check us in our too fond love of it,wc
may confider the prefentlikewife will
Soon be past, and take its place in the
repositories of the dead.
Accounts of the moil extraordinary
events in old times are now purufed
by us with the utmost indifference.
With equal indifference will the hif
tory of our own times be pursued
by our own defeendants; and a day
is coming, when all past tran faftions
will appear in the farce light, those
only excepted, by a confederation of
which we have been made wiser and
better.
There are few, perhaps, by which
we may not become so.
What nobler employment for the
human-mind, than to trace the de,
signs of Providence in the rife rnd fall
of empires; the overthrow of one &
the eftabliihment of another upon its
ruins ; toeatch diligently the differ
ent ftepts by which these changes are
affeded ; To observe the proceedings
of the great Ruler of the universe, aL
ways in Arid conformity to the rules
with which he himfelf has furnifhed
us; to Behold Generals with their
armies, and Princes with their people,
executing his counsels, while pur
suing their own; to view, upon the
date of the world, those feenes which
are continually fhifting, the different
adors appearing in fucreffion, and the
gradual progress of the drama, each
incident tending to develope the plot
and bring on the final catastrophe?
In the midst of these secular com
motions, these conflicts of contending
nations, it is ufeful to observe the ef
feds produced by them,on the date of
religion upon the earth ; while among
the powers of the world, some protect
and others persecute ; Some endeavor
to mainiatn it in its old form, and
others with to introduce new ; all per
haps: more or less, aim at converting
i; into an engine of state to serve their
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