The Phoenix — Dover [N.H.], 1793-02-23 00:00:00, page 2

3EXTRACT.
THE name of HESSE awakens a th^n- ;
choly remembrance! It wa^ this prince who,
to fill his coffers, jft@ so many of his fub-<
jeas to England; so save in the last Ameri
' can war; riot'under the flandard of liberty—
burthe bloody flag of defpen ism.—These un
iffl^nate wretches, torn from the bosom of
their country, saw. themselves counted over
tiehfo
<ifebWY^ ^^ wb ° had ne
ver offended theory o¥,''
facre the generous inhabitant, who mad for
med no other intention but to free themselves
from a fhanleful 'dependence on the" mother
ffyhtry, whicti had treated! them like W.e|;i
:itaate childrens ; , [Q^ -raw^
„ The sovereign of these Hessians fold .them
' ' by the head, as the ferocious African feils his
underftanditig, and then to convince them
'hat more disputes may °e fettled in an anli
cable way than by going to law, w h e re malice
appears to exist as the ruling passion, in near
ly all the cases which now originate—or else
the plaintiff is advised toll by some pettifog
ger. — And I believe that the whole reason
why there are not more good lawyers—
is that there are so many of who are a dis
grace to the bar—=and : unlefs the good ones
were to defeend to low actions they would
hardly be able .to fobfift upon their profeffion
,—Then what a pity it is Mr. Ladd, that
so many great beef eating fellows Should ftu
dv law—When some Blacksmith's or Car
penter's trade would suit both their conftim
tion and capacity much better—there are now
more lawyers tban are necessary, then in the
name: of common fenfeJet some of the old
ones go off, before so many young ones are
introduced. —— I believe I may venture to as-
Grt that there are more such in this county,
for the number of people, than in any other
part of the work! —I asked the other day how
those young Students could Tpend so much
money on extravagancies——When I knew
their parents were unable to support them
one month in the way they live— I was an
swered 'that they screwed itfrom poor people
the widow and the fatherlefs—for being al
lowed the juflice fees, before they were ac
quainted with the firft rudiments of law—
able to attend them those ignoramuses would
fikl that theyo^ht to study, before they
prh&<fe——Thdcountr, people ' in::thisquafc
ter have been imposed upoh top long already
, and they will soon find thalt their great
est enemies are the Lawyers—yet there are
some good Lawyers now in practice— whose
genius is competent to their profeffion—but
they are few—and r in general the Lawyers
who are now on the stage, and arc Bill com
ing on, are unfit for the profeffion in evety
refpea—and from such a fef gPod Lord de
liver us! —f t
A Friend to Good Lawyers.
and resolved tshave spending more at any rate
—they would Solicit the colleaion pf every
twopenny matter, and Cue every thing that
come in their way-—-fummonfog people for
fitly miles round, for one two and three (hil
lings— and the defendants being too poor to
attend Court of, employ an Attorney, are de
faulted—-that in the room of paying an
honest debr of two (hillings, are taken with
an execution for a huge bill of cost of three
pounds—thus, has many a man been ruined
by such tricks—yet such things are'=-I think
their masters are very much to blame, for
Offering such things—, —ffieir ignorance is
unparalled, and ,Qeir impudepcq fli(l greater.
—I have Known fourqut 'ot five of their
writs to fail—l therefore wilh that feme
measures may be adopted far exterminating
such a set of pettifoggers From the face of
the earth—Or the country and the people
will be ruined.—And were their defendants
"E^aa of 4 letter from a gentleman in
^Philadelphia, to bis friend in Berk
/hire.
" I wrote you about three weeks ago from
New-York, and told you of the opposition in
Congress to refer to the secretary of the trea
sury for a plan to redeem the national debt.
The secretary's report has been about a month
before the public; and notwithflandimg the op
position .to the reference, the enemies of the
f cretary have not yet come forward to state a
- tingle objeaion to the report. I believe they
will find it a difficult matter to lessen its in
,trinfick merit, since it contemplates nothing
but tease and convenience to the people.-
Whether the redeeming system will beaccep
ted by Congress lam unable to fay—l have
found, in the course of my attendance on the
debates, that opposition apparently to mea
sures, is in reality founded in dislike to the
men who bring them forward, For trance
4 —there is debt due to the bank of the United
States, from the government, of two millions
of dollars, for which the latter pays 6 per cent
interest—one of the northern members bro t
in a bill which, among other things, contem
' plates to appropriate one million gco,o©o dol
-Ilars moW lying unemployed in the treasury)
towards paying the debts due to th^ffir";
This too met with the usual opposition, al
' though the delay costs ttie government ,4
dollars per day; and if the opposition have in-
Hd mil aid I
FOR THE PHENIX.
M R . LADD,
I wife you to public the following very
remarkable DREAM, whteb. hap
pened not tong face. .
IN my dream asL was going through a town
I thought I saw a great number of people
going towards a (lately building, I inquired
of the citizens the cause of that gathering ;
they laid it was the General. Court —and to
fatisfy the curiufity of a wandering mind I
seem to draw towards the door, where I was
met by a man which I asked it I might go in
to the assembly He laid I might and con
du&ed mein thither ; where I saw a grave
old man fitting, and with attention, I observed
his solemnity for some time, and asked the
cause of his being there, they aid they could
not tell, for he had not spoke for three days,
and where his lodging was they knew not
and keeping.my eyes on him, and finding he
was next to real effate, that is to fay immova
ble—l asked again; the second time, and the,
said he lifted one hand yeflerday—which so a
mazed me that I awoke—and behold it was
a dream.
timid slaves to the insatiable European, who
chains them, and crouds them into his float
ing prisons, in which they are hbgried away,
to labour undeca ftourge of iron, upon a fo
reign foil.
" By this agreement, equally disgraceful
to both the contra&ing powers, the. English
were obliged to pay as much for those Hefli
ans who should be maimed, as if they had
been killed. Alas ! what an account was here
opened ; what a balance was to be (truck be
tween the two sovereigns at the end of the
war. Who could attend to the horrid calcu
lation without Shuddering ? You have deli
vered to me so many of your Subjects, to be
employed incutting the throats of mine.
Five hundred died in the voyage : Two thou
sand periled in different aaions : three thou
sand have been wounded in such a manner,
that they can exist only by the afliftance which
pity may afford them; confequcnfly I owe
you such a sum. Here it is—treasure up these
guineas in your coffers ; and disperse through
your date the unhappy witnesses of my de
feats and of your (hame."
Regifler for 1785.
On the third of sane, Col. Thornton ks.
cended at South Lambert in a balloon, that
was prevented by a rope from going beyond a
certain height. Byway of experiment, he
took up a dog with him; which he let d<op
fofpended by a parachute, or large silken um,
brella; but the Colonel wanting &illto ma.
nage it properly, the poor animal defeended
to the earth with great velocity, and was kil
led on the spot.—Mr. Blanchard then kfeen
ded in the fame balloon, liberated from the
rope, and about a mile from the earth, ^, —
downa cat suspended to a parachute. The de
scent of it was beautiful beyond description,
It hovered more gently than a feather, and was
wafted by the wind as far as Peckham, wh,r©
it was found fafe and unhurt in the nett ber
tween two branches of the tree on which it a
lighted. The umbrella was so well spread,
that it covered the whole tree. Mr. Blanchard
himfelf alighted at Woolwich.— This idea of #
defending by means of a parachute, was fug-'
gefted by the celebrated Mr. Montgolfier, who
as appears from the foreign prints' ,prevailed!
upon the faagiftrates of Lyons; in August jh&
to fuffer a criminal, condemned to the gallies
for life, to defeend by a similar machine, from
a tower near that city, about 160 feet high ;—
The man came fafe to the ground, and was
pardoned for his intrepidity.
J BOS TTTNTTTbrdary ii. °
Capt. James Prince, who arrived herd on
on Thursday lad from the Weft India Inlands
informs —That on the xfh of December last,
the Colonial Assembly of the island of Marti"
nico, declared that island a free, sovereign, &
independent State=That in ccnfcqaence, its
ports :were opened to all the nations of the
earth ; all contraband reftri&ions abolished ;
,and officers appointed to colled the duties for
the life of the"mod. That provisions had
"fen much If price, /Ort aCcoontof the demag^|
of the Planters therefor ; who were flocking -
their plantations with provisions for (attaining
a liege in case they Ihould be attacked.
Capt; Prince cantradi&s the paragraph of
the fubflitution of the National in the room
of the White Flag ;"'tie true that the National
Flag was hoisted by a Planter: at Baffe, point,
about the loth of December, but the Colony
sent a body of militia to lower it, and they
had returned fuccefsful ; but informs that be
tween the 12th and 25th of December near
2000 of the inlanders of Martinico emigrated
therefrom : That he carried a number of these
emigre© from Martinico,o St, Euftatia ; bot
the governor cf that Island would not permit
their being landed, on account of the great;
number of French refugees in that island ; andfl
that they were obliged to charter a Droghafl
to convey themselves to St, Kitts.U
Capt Prince further informs, That there hal
;becu an engagement between the Ariftocratm
and Democrats at Point-Petre, Guadaloupe onU
the goth of December, and near 140 killed in|
. the battle. "'■
LJr^H ^
fluence to prevent the application of the mQQ
for a year, it will ^e the loss of 78,000 dollars
—We who Gt in ihe gallery, fee and feel
Jbiro. But nothing is so aflonifhing as re
fee feme members from th© "northern llatese*
(Vermont) embark in the wild projects of ~pf
pofHion, Suppose an individual owed two
millions of dollars, and had one million thy,
hundred thousand dollars by him—would ra ;,
not be highly negligent of his affairs, if
kept that sum idle, when by paying it,
would save him 214 dollars 3 day, confeque4
ly 1498 dollars a week? If an individ^Jr
would be blameable for thus neglecting his in,
tereft, how much more culpable are those who
are facrificing the property of their conflituenk
to party rage. 9
" The army memorials are now before
Congrefs—from what has already appeared,
there is reason to expea that some members
who I have reason to teltevd are against the
applicants, will pretend to befriend them.—
This kind of duplicity is carried on merely to
promote party views, of which I shall give you
agmore diftin& account in about a fortnight,
when I propose to fee you in Hudson."
PHILADELPHIA, January 10.
The following account of one of Mr. Blan
chard's voyages, is copied from the Annual