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St be following is extra&edfrom the Morale
If Leoknong, an ancient Qbinefe Philo
faher. &
How to live long arid enjoy
health and happirtefs.
IN the firft place, undertake no reform
ing schemes against the current of
popular opinion, for the fruit of them is
always disappointment and vexation of
Spirit.' When the great Ihip lies aground;
it is rcadnefs to endeavour to tow her in
to the deep water with the little boat—•
wait but a few hours, and the tide will
crime in arid take her off of itfelf. The
common united sense of nations will al
ways, in [the end reform mistakes, and
rectify what former ages have done amiss.
Never indulge a fretful humor, or
make yourfelf anxiously uneasy about
what cannot be avoided. Confider Time
as the great restorer of all things ; if he
pulls down with one hand; he builds up
with the other ; it is he that gets the bet
ter of all resentments, brings over us an
oblivion of sorrow ; today lays us in the
dust, and tomorrow presents us with a
new exigence.
Be contented with your Striation in
life, whatever it may be. Tong gbatafn,
the hermit of the mountain Changti, liv
ed under a large tea-chest, and yet was
reputed the„happieft man in all China,
because he was determined to be a stran
ger to the pangs of care, which he put
beneath his feet.
Never place your heart so much on any
particular objed, as that you cannot be
altogether entirely willing to part with
it any time, without making wry faces,
or grumbling at the dispensations of the
power that disposes of every thing for the
best. That you may be entirely fatisfi
ed with life, it is necessary, too, that you
Ihould have proper ideas of death. This
is an objeft which mankind have ever
been inclined to shrink from with horror ;
it has been universally cortfidered as a
puniihment, instead of a repose of nature,
the relief form fetigue, and a Rate that
puts us beyond a consciousness of ill.—
But be not discouraged at the profpe&,
there is no such thing as absolute death'—
Life is in every thing, and I have no
doubt, that even this, seemingly, Jluggifa
earth under our feet is endued with a fa
culty of perception peculiar to itfelf—
nor is there a tree in the foreff but has a
certain clear and diftinft consciousness of
its own existence.,
Be not too ambitious—beftoW no atten
tion upon tbofe men who are continual
ly panting after brighter funs, and more
splendid planets than thim£|rth. For
roy own part, I have ej^^mteown
fun bright encugh ^^^^Rb 1
cannot look upos~i|^^^^^R||
but
To this Address, the President was phased
to reply, as follows:
Gentlemen,
THE sentiments expressed in your Ad
'drefs, are entitled to my particular ac
knowledgement—Having no object but
the good of our country, this uftimony
bf approbation and confidence, from ita
immediate Representatives, muftbe
amongst my best rewards, as the support
bf your enlightened patriotism has been
among my greatest encouragements. Be
ing persuaded that you will continue to
be aduated by the fame auspicious prin
ciple, I look forward to the happiest con
sequences from your deliberations,during
the present session.
G. WASHINGTON.
In pursuing every branch of the
weighty business of the present session,
it will be our constant study to dired our
deliberations to the public welfare.
Whatever our success may be, we can at
lead answer for the fervent love of our
country, which ought to animate our en
deavours, In your co-operation, we are
sure ofa refource,which fortifies our hopes,
that the fruits of the established govern
ment will juftify the confidence which
has been placed in it, and recommend it
more and more to the affeftioß and at
tachment of our fellow-citizens.
lose fight of the policy of diminilhiag the
public debt, as fall as the increase of the
public resources, will permit; and are
particularly sensible of the many conside
rations which press a resort to the aux
iliary resource furnifhed by the public
lands.
PHILADELPHIA, DEC. 17.
IT is with great pleasure we inform the
publick, that the President oftheUnit
ted States, declines receiving) vifig so
jmhfomexample worthy (fy^im-
ENGLISH ARTICLE.
A young lady near Chester, not long
rince married to a gentleman of confide
fable fortune and private worth, but ra
ther advanced in years, was observed for
some weeks past in a very gloomy and
perturbed state of mind ; every effort was
used todifcover the cause, and every mean
was allo tried to remove the effed, yet all
to no purpose.
A few days ago, however, the appeared
to recover her usual spirits, and her friends
fondly ^imagined they had accompliffi
ed their wifhe^ ; but on Saturday fenn.
after breakfasting with her family, she
retired to her bed-chamber, and desired
the maid to call her at twelve o'clock ;
as her head ached, fbe would lie on her
bed. '
The servant left her on the bed, and
departed ; in a short time the house was
alarmed with the report of a pistol ; the
servant ran up fairs, found the bed-cham
ber door bolted, which they forced, open.
And there saw their mistress in the last
agonies of death ; the pistol Hill in one
hand, and a novel, called " Content, or
the Happy Choice," in the other, a leaf
of which was turned down, inclofing the
pidure of a gentleman in her father's
neighbourhood, formerly an admirer.
A CUSTOM, which has long pre,
vailed, and seems daily to become
more general, has hitherto been thought
too trifling to claim the lash of jfatire ;
but as it has frequently routed my indig
nation and resentment, I shall freely give
you my real fentimepts upon it.
The practice which thus deservedly calls
forth my censure, is that of standing be
fore the fire, with the hinder flaps of the
coat indelicately extended by the hands,
that the posteriors may enjoy the whole
warmth of the fire. To |fuch an excess
is this fafhion arrived, tnat I have fre
quently seen a powdered beau unbluih
ingl, Hand for half an hour together, iri
that indecent position, at a time whsa so
Yeral ladies have been seated round the
fire place, receiving mo advantage from
the benigh contents of the grate, and hav
ing nothing more than a peep at them
between the legs of the flrutting hero. ~
To convince you, ,sir, that this habit
is acquired from fafhion or example, I
shall only observe, that in the height of
summer, when the heat is almost infop
portable, if any of these rump chasers
mould happen to be in a room where
there is only a fire place, up go the flaps
of the coat in an instant, and the hero en
joys the extatic ideal warmth of a grate
illuminated. Till I had seen several in
stances of this kind, I never declared my
felf an inveterate enemy to thefehipmon
gers ; supposing them prompted to such a
practice by a natural frigidity of consti
tution ; but, being now convinced that
it is considered only as a fashionable a
musement, infteadof a means of, acquiring
warmth necessary for the exercise of the
animal functions, I shall equally hold the
pradice and the pardicers in derision.
have to me been the perfection of beau
ty itfelf, nor do I fee any necessity of
our being removed to other planets to
make us more happy than we may be
here, provided the dilates of reason are
attended to, which, however, by some
means or other, have been strangely ne
glected or perverted by man.
When the breath of a man is departed
and he is placed in the earth, be not un
easy for hirti—He shall exist here again,
but in other shapes, and for other purpo
ses than at present. But should he in the
mean time, lie orpid a million of years,
the difference is nothing.—Dead men
perceive not the flow movement of time,
neither do the hours hang heavy upon
their hands.—When they awake, all is
riew, and the past ages of sleep have no
place iri their remembrance."
To the Editor of the English Maga-
AMERICAN ADVICES.
SI R,
ZINE,
JANUARY §.
PEACE!
By Capt. Higginfon, who arrived here
yesterday from England, and who failed
from Milford-Haven the 21st of Novem
ber, we have a confirmation of the news
of the RECONCILIATION between
Great-Britain and Spain. Capt. H. saw
at Milford-Haven, a London paper of the
11th of November, which contained the
ARTICLES of CONVENTION, sign
ed by Count Florida Blancha, and Mr.
Fitzheybeft—in which, in addition to
the Declarations signed in June last, his
Catholic Majesty agrees.,o permit, on
Certain conditions, Engliffi vessels to trade
at Nootka-Sound— and to participate in
the southern Fisheries, provided the En
gliff vessels do not approach' within a
certain number of leagues of the Main of
Spanish dominions. No mention is made
in the articles, of any restitution for ar
maments, &c. nor of the payment of the
Manilla ransom. .This circumstance has
exasperated the people of Great -Britain,
who had been led to expe&, from the
immense preparations made—and which'
had cost the nation near P/vc Million ster
ling—that Spain would jfyfbfere tyfr
pelledei&ro tight, or ip,addition to a
^^^^■■ttoflito±tfflflrcGreat<
the
Capt. Wilkie, has arrived herein 22
days from Barbados —he informs, that
two days previous to his failing, there
arrived from England at Barbados, three
forty-four gun Ihips, and a number of
victuallers, with four thousand troops,
Who were actually landed on that island
the day before Capt. Wilkie left it.—
He also informs; that a reinforcement of
4000 soldiers more, Was daily expected,
with men of war and frigates. This looks
much like WAR',as Capt. W. is said to
be a man of veracity.
While Europe is agitated by warlike
preparations ; the citizens of the United
States enjoy that tranquility which always
accompanies security. Reppfing confi
dence in our WASHINGTON, and the
illultrious sages who compose the Augutt
Councils of the Union, we rest fatished,
that on the event of an European War,
such measures, and such only will be
adopted, as will add dignity to the cha
rafter of our country, and prosperity to
its citizens. , r t
Seventy-one fail of the line iri commis
sion— 5000 troops preparing for foreign
fervice —daily and almost innumerable
contraßs for provisions and warlikefores
—a constant promotion of Captains to Ad
mirals and from Lieutenants to Captains,
twenty at a time —are "Indications offome
mighty preparation ' —And all this has
been in Great-Britain. Peace or War.—
Expense is certain ! The preparations in
Spain are neither less mighty or less ex
peniive.
The purchase made by the Secretary
of the Treasury, on Tuefday the 14th inst.
of the publick debt, was at fifteen feilligns
and ten pence on the pound, for funded 6
per cents. Since then they have got up
to 16/8, and are ftiil rising.
A request has been made by the inhabi,
bitants of LOUISIANA-,# dillrid of
South America, belonging to the Crown
of Spain to be taken under the protection
of and to receive the benefit of the laws
of the National Assembly of 'France,
The firft 400,000,000 of Affignats, is
sued by the French National Assembly,
bore an interest of 5 per cent. —Od. 8,
the Assembly decreed that the interest
should cease, after the 16th of that month.
• —Some call this an ex pof fado law.
Mons. Duperne, is appointed direc
tor of the French Treasury, in the room
of Mons. Necker, who has retired to
Switzerland.
The National Assembly, in some of the
French papers, is denominated the Long
Parliament, They labor incessantly, Sun
days and all days—but they seem to be
weaving the web of Penelope—
RROM PHILADELPHIA— dec. 20.
"Who though foefl outl, did befir bed,
Her finishing was ne'er the nearer."
FROM NEW-YORK—vie. io.
BOSTON, DEC. 22.
December, 29.
OF FRANCE.
^,The Printer hereof informs
bis Cuflomers in the (owns of Newmarkett
—Lee—Madbur, and Barrington, that,
their Bills are made out for fettlraent-r^d
if at Mr. John Shute's, Newmarkett—
Lieut. A.Folfom'j, Lee— Lt. E.Demerit'/,
Madbury, ana Mr. Isaac Waldron's, Bar
rington—where the, are def red to lodge the
pay b, the middle of tbi's month.
Exeter, Jan. 8, 17,91,
Take Notice.
THE fubferiber, desirous of
1 having hii Accounts fettled op to
the gift Dec. inst. in order to prevent
every d)fficultyand expence that'might
otherwise hate happened, hereby requests"
ALL persons, who fiend indebted to him,
either by ^te of Hand, or Atffint, that
unless they call, and make payment, on &*
before the 15th day oFferia, best, they
will po fitively'b^ purin foit without
further notice,—Afa, all; ;perfcn,s, to
whom he may stand indeke^, or who
may have accounts open,, ff^defired to
exhibit the fame a# soon a^fon^i,,)
in order to receive, their respective bar-,
urn.,, ^ WIGGIN.
indents]
V^EL TENNEY.].
fflq,wwfftatr ^ ^v^ :t
.* „ tyMfyl #&&itfacUiiA q$ - . %
yards, feet,, inches and barky-corns irM^r
given difl&ncefay, the diameter of the earth's
orbit ; and in every, calculation be would
produce? the.true answer in less time than
ninety-pine men in an hundred would take
with their pens :"And, what was, perhaps,
more extraordinary, though interrupted in
the progress of bis calculation, and engaged
in dtfeourfe upon an, other fabjea, bis ope
rations were not thereby in the left deranged,
so as to make it necessary for him to begin a
gain, but he would go on from where he had(
left °ff> '’"' could give any, or all, of thefad
ges through which the calculation had faffedl
His firfteffay in numbers was counting the
hairs in the tails of tbe cows and borf*
which be was ft, to keef. With little is#
f radio* be would have bem able ta-ufi-wp
plats of land. He took great notice of the
liner of land which be badfeen surveyed. He
drew just ccnclufions from fads ; Jurprifagi,
so, /or bit opportunities. Thus died Negro
Tom. this fell taught Arithmetician, this
untutored Scholar \—Had bis opportunities
of improvement been equal to tbofe of thou
sands of bis fellow-men, neither the Royal
Society of London, the Academy of sciences at
Paris, nor even a Newton himfelf, need
have been aJbamed to acknowledge him a
Brother in Science.
for all the leap years that happened im
time ; and should give the number of A
seven times. He could give the number
months, days, weeks, hours, minutes and.
DlEP] —At Alexandria, in Virginia,
NEGRO TOM, the famor.s African Cal
culator, aged 80 years... He was the pro
perty of Mrs, Elizabeth Cpx, of Alexan
dria. Tom was aver, black man. He
was brought tothis Country at the age of 1%
and was fold as afave with man, of bis un
fortunate Countrymen. ,
This man was a prodigy. Though 1
could neither read nor right, he had perfeU
ly acquired the art of enumeration. Trc
conds in any period of time that any per
chose to mention, allowing in bis calculat\
multiply seven into itfelf, that produ& by
and the prouna, so produced, by feven,'
power of recollection and the frength of 1
mory were jo complete in him, that he co
eries is not of a guinea's importance—y
the vellcis of all nations have long en
joyed that privilege — and the trade to
Nootka, they conted is too inconsiderable
^n object to incur a thousandth part of the
money it hath coff. All the press-gangs
had been paid off, and discharged, pre
vious to Capt. H's sailing—Expresses
had been lent to,reland, and other party,
to countermand the orders for the embark,
ation of troops—and every thing wore the
afpeft of fettled peace. The above may
be relied on as authentick. But whether
we can congratulate the American pub
lic on the event, we acknowledge we are
doubt.
EXETER, (Saturday) Jan. 8.