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ANEW system of mercantile arithmetic,
adapted to the Commerce of the United States, in its
Domestic and Foreign Relations ; with forms of accounts,
and other writings usually occurring in trade.—By Mi
teffAEL WALSH, a. m. Second Edition.,
/ The Proprietor feels a degree of confidence in
/ presenting to the public a second edition of Walsh's Mr
/ cantih Arithmetic. Within two years a large imprcflion has
( been fold, and although the plan was entirely original, no
previous work having combined with the common rules of
Arithmetic as taught in our schools, a general knowkdge
of infantile calculations' at home and abroad, including
^^^fy^ange as it has aahall, exited in the j,etf inter
''" &%n countries, Uni - ucoued
has been given to this woik, and Its iutrouuaion
Academies and Schools would have been uni
the number of copies been adequate to the de-
To fay the mechanical part of the work is equal,
fatirfy, and we hesitate not in declaring it better
than any Arithmetic now extant.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
Newburyport, May I, 1800.
<WE the fubferibets having teen Mr. Walsh's New
System of Mercantile Arithmetic, and being fatisfied that
is better calculated than any yet published, to fit a youth
for the business of the compting house, cannot but ^, it
an extensive circulation. The happy elucidation and ex
tended application of the common rules, together with the
many original improvements, while they accomplish the
fludent for commerce, are aBo extremely well adapted to
iffift and inform the merchant, the mariner, and the trader
in their various occupations.
Dudley A. Tyng, | Ebenezer Stoeber, William Bartlett,
Sam'l A, Oti„jr. I Mafa Brown, Ricbare Bartlett.jr.
%ifram Cefr, [ William Wyer,jr. Wm. W. Prout.
Michael Little, | o h
Bfo, May t6tb, 1800.
WE the fubferibers, having examined Mr. Walsh's
New System of Mercantile Arithmetic, and being perfuad
cd that it is better calculated than any we have met with,
to qualify young men for admission into compting houses,
we with that it may have an extensive circulation. The
clear exemplification and pertinent application of the com
mon rules, together with the many ufeful additions and im
provements which it contains, will render it extremely ufe
ful for the merchant, the mariner, and all the other trading
chfa of society.
mfr Wafa Stefan Higfofon, | Arnold Weller,jr.
Jolin C. Jenet, John Lowell,jnn. | Jena. Jackfen.
Join Cadman, J^W Resell, | *
' . Salem, Oil. „h, 1800.
1 WE the fubferibers, merchants of Salem, convinced of
the necessity of rendering the forms of business, the value
of coins, and the nature of commerce more familiar to the
United States, a#a commercial people, do approve of the
Mercantile Arithmetic of Mr. Walsh, and recommend it
as calculated to fubferve in th# belt manner the inftrudion
yjuth, and the purposes of a well informed mer
1 ' a . c " Gowniffiel^
Lenjan Hodg%l Jacob Afoton, 1 Elias H. Derby.
B. Pickman, \ William Prfott,\
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published in this country, he has liberty to return it and
receive his money.
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Genuine Almanac, for 1804:
—CONTAINING—
ECLIPSES for 1804—The Author to
the Curious, 1804 ; Times of the Commencement of
the Four Scafons—Vacations of the several Colleges in
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Ufeful Tables for calling interest, and for reducing (hillings
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Agricultural.
Method of preferring frut of different kinds in a a freffi
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tend ; valuable essay on making and preparing Manure; by
Lord Kames—On the Culture of Potatoes; New Drfcov
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Curious, Ufeful, & Entertaining]
A curious article never before published, containing the
fcntenee of the Cardinals, Deacons, &c. of the Roman
Catholic Church in 1633 against Galileo, the forerunner >1
Newton for maintaining the then pernicious, and Grange
doctrine that * the Sun is in the centre of the Syflem and
inifhoveable, and that the earth moves even with diurnal
motion" —and the public and solemn abjuration of Galileo
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Rainbow, of the Blowing of the winds, &c. Account ol
_• Comet—A new and valuable Gyptic which will
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Anthony's fire—Simple ^nd certain cure for 1 Cancer-
Recefy/for a cold-Old Jim Blab's advertisement extra
for the fate of Goods at Public auction ; which, if it doci
malate a misanthrope laugh, he is beyond all Cure ; C u .
rim Dialogue between Cato and Cuffy upon Politics-
Rule, of Economy, containing ufeful and necessary rules
far t Exaufe for finning; Maxim—A
fofrof excellent ANECDOTES.-POETRY,&c.
tytiCALLENDER' PAGES contain the usual
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4 Vol. XIV.]
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS
WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY
RELIGION AND MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLE SUPPORTS. Washington's Ls,
z#eh =^fe '■■■■u ====== =^===B^^^ ===
3 MORALIST.
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A Cbrfiax is the bigbeftft,!e of mart,
And ie there, who the bluffed trs wiftec off,
Ac a foul bhd,fromfb" difancred brow ?
If angels tremble, 'tie at fueb a Jigbl ] —
The wretch they quit defending of their charge,
Mortfrack with grief or wonder, who can tell ?
\„ Torn,
. -—Slant Manibus arae
Coralies moeftae vittis atrogue cuprefo.
Virg. Mar. IE. Lib. 3.
A Strict adherence to the duties of religion is important
in all our concerns in life. A fewfifematic tenets, fubfehbed
to in the commencement of our 4/rr career, and fcrupulouf
^C'nied as Icking la<id-uk.iks,&ii be fou^d converznr
as well as in prosperity as adversity ; as well in youth as
when our locks are filtered with old age. An affectionate
love for religion & the precepts, which it enjoins, is as in in
teresting to the heart, as the diced music is to the most re
fined ear. And he, who does most in the vineyard of the
Lord, is more deferring of praise, than the greatest orator
at the forum, or the greatest monarch on the throne. Hu
man life is mingled with pain, sorrow aed difappointmenc
as well as delight and real fatisfadion through a root of
bitterness, which is continually Bringing within ns. The
vegetables, the rocks, the hills, the mountains the growth
and decay of each—nay the great globe icfelf is a m^al
(chool. At one season of the years we fee a sorest dressed
in its gayest attire—at another, withered and faded—at an
other, bound with icy fetters, and sparkling with hoar froft.
We fee the brutal creation alnioft at the moment of their
birth capable of taking care of themselves , but man in his
infancy is week and feeble, not able to provide for himfclf;
though he is nourished and bro't forward in life by the foft
ering hand of heaven bourn charity.—Though helpless in an
early stage, and taught to be humble in every Gation, he
has reason to rejoice and be glad, that he has a mind cap
able of expanding and being warmed byihe congenial rays
of feience—that he is a candidate for immortality. To at
tach a solemn, yet pleating awe to religion aud its duties, a
due attention to funeral obfequiee, monumental inscriptions,
badges of mourning, and the fahdluary shrouded in black,
has a tendency to feelingly imnrefs the heart, not chilled by
apathy, or hardened with inaudibility. Virtue it fond of
reward. And these operate as powerful incentives on the
thinking mind to ihun the broad road of vice, and pursue
the better path. Hence it is incumbent on furviying
friends to pay the lad duties to their departed connexions
with becoming solemnity—to commit the claycold mortal
parts to the bowels of the earth from which they fprung—
and record their good properties on the mod sacred page
of the memory. The ancients in the Pagan world, who
had but final! means for the acquisition of true knowledge
and religious inftru&ion were Gridl in the observance, of
funeral rites ; without which they deemed it impossible to
be carried to the Eltfan fields. Mounds of earth were erected
for tombs ; and altars were raised to their manes, mournfully
decked with leaden colored wreathe, and beautiful cyprefe ; around
them the Trojan matrons were wont to fund, with dijbcvclled
bate, ar tokens ts grief. If these things were thus attended
to in darker days —so beautifully do they impress the mind,
one would funpofe, that something of the kind could not
with impunity be tugua^d io a Christian period. -
' =MISCELLA N1T =
For* the Oracle.
Messrs. Treadwells,
I wish through the medium of your valuable paper, te
communicate to the honorable Members of our Legifla
cure, a proportion, which perhaps, is not unworthy of their
attention.—l believe it is agreed by all parties that none
Ibut an armed nation can difpence with a (landing army,
which if we allow to be a fa& any thing tending to pro
mote and benifit the militia, muG be received with plea
sure and Satisfaction.
The proportion to be made is whether ic will not be
politic, reasonable and just to allow our military officers
and privates a compensation adequate to their expences.
I am well aware that this proposition will meet the en
tire disapprobation of many of my fellow citizens, but I
feel confident that if they will divest their judgments of
prejudice, 8c reason on this fubjedt as they would on oth
ers equally important, that they would immediately fee its
utility, and benefit. My obje& in this piece is to adduce
but few of the arguments, which might be brought in sup
port of this proportion ; or answer but few of the objec
tions, which will be ufcd against it. I (hall humbly leave
this to abler hands, confidently trusting that feme of the
honorable body, to whom this proposition is made will do
it.—But what 1 (hall here Gate is from a real desire to ben
efit our common country, and exped lto receive no other
individual profit, from the adoption of this plan, than to
be my proportionable mite with the red of my fellow crea
tures in paying its expence.
The question fecms naturally to divide itfdf into two
heads ; firft, are the militia necessary for the welfare and
fafety of our country and Secondly if necessary why not rea
sonable and just to allow them a compensation for their Ser
vices ? that the militia are necessary for the welfare and
fafety of our country, 1 presume no one will deny, I Shall
therefore admit it as an established fad. That it is reason
able and just to allow them compensation for their services
I think will evidently appear from various circumstances.
It has always been a matter of wonder to me, that while
our Gate and town officers, receive a compensation, deemed
adequate to their duty, that our military officers receive
none ; when perhaps the latter are is important as the for
mer in the preferring of the welfare and happlnefs of our
country : and the cxpences of a commanding officer of a
company in country towns is nearly equal to that of one of
their Selectmen. If every individual in the community pat
-6 ticipated alike in the cxpences and labor of there militia, I
am ready to acknowledge that there would be no injustice
in the present establishment ; but as a large proportion of
the opulent and vigorous never do milita duty, and as the
community at large pofftfs ample means for paying, with
out embarrassment, those who do ; do it, their not doing of it
appears to me great injustice and very impolitic. But per
haps it will be said, that our militiary are paid by the hon
or which our country bestows upon them. Will such hon
or as our militia receives, give food to the hungry, or
I clothes to the naked ? will it purchase farms, and improve
them ? it will be readily answered in the negative ; then
how are they paid from this Source, when many families
can witness that the time and money devoted to military
purposes, is robbing them of the common ucceffaries of life.
It will bp objected that our militia of seventy-six were not
paid, that we have been so long in the present habit, that
it wonld be doing great injustice to thofc, who have borne
their proportion of the military burden, now to have other
eGates taxed to support their successors.—This is the mod
important objection, which can be brought against it, as
this greatly interests our regard for the heroes of feventy
fix.— It tea good rule, that when society at large can re
ceive a much greater benefit, from the facrafice of an indi
vidual or individuals, than it otherwise could without their
making this Sacrifice, it is the indifpenfabk duty of such indi
viduals immediately to make it.—That in 76 there was a
cause for such a Sacrifice, I think can be proved— That
their now exists no such cause or necessity so think may be
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TUESDAY, December 6, 1803.
proved.—-That when the cause or necessity of such a Sacri
fice is removed, that for individuals to be under the neces
sity of continuing to make it, is injustice I think may be
made evident. And that continuing a long time in an er
ror is no argument that it is wrong, 1 think will be readily
granted by all.
"" ""' wa Y unqualified for a newspaper writer
1 am fully fenfible.^ Having no pretentions to fcolarfhip or
experience. And if this fubjeft had been taken up by any
bther person 1 (hould have been happy in remaining filebc.
That 1 Shall receive the fevers criticism of many I do not
doubt or care. The honorable body, whose attention is re
qucGed to this proposition, 1 trust look more to the matter
than manner, and to their wisdom and judgment I cheer
fully dedicate it.
A CITIZEN OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
(r Singular Discovery.
Frem a Hudson, New-York Paper.
* rverd workmen engaged in digging a well for
tr, jn^foWiatft a few rods from the high up
?W&Rk which tens the bank of the river in front
of the city of Hudson, a few da, s tince threw up a
number of fragments of well burnt bricks, which
were found about 40 feet under the furface
of the earths The account which the workmen
gave of a dilcovery so lingular was at firft considered
as a trick to impose on credulous people, till two
gentlemen, to convince themselves, descended to
the bottom of the well and with a pick axe dug out
of the hard compaded gravel, several pieces which
still retain perfealy the impression of the mould.
No whole bricks were seen, though a workman
broke with his fpade,t which he thinks was entire,&
fays the pieces when put together would have made
a brick about Sor 9 inches in lengh. The horizon
tal or alluvial strata of earth, perforated in digging
the well, were as follows, or.nearly so ; § feet yel
low land, 16 feet yellow clay, 17 feet marl, very
ponderous, and of a blue color, resembling that of
the lime rock in this vicinity ; if foot reddish
oehreous land gravel 6 inches hard pan, or gravel
cemented with marl, 1 1-2 feet fine yellow sand,
and 3 feet coarse flaty giavel. All thele are under
laid by the primitive fhiftic rock which forms the
margin of the river. In the stratum of reddilh
gravel and sand the bricks were found and also
leveral large round granical Rones.
——o
Interesting Discovery.
Extra/! of a letter from fohn de Caro Doßor, of Medi
cine at Vienna to Doßor C. F. Haug aft Raftadt,
dated 334 Augufl 1803. j
“ A thing, which will excite,my dear friend,your
furprize, and that of all the world, is a new discov
ery made by two Physicians, M. Aubondi at Con
stantinople, and M. Lafond, at Salonica (i^Greece)
—The experiments of those two Physicians, who
never had a coftefpondence with each otheA con
firm the idea, that vaccination is a defence Q,inft
the PLAGUE !—The proofs of the firft are op*
ofOOWOerfons vacinated at Conft^utinop!— foo
one nas been infeded with the Plague; that clro
dien, made to luck the milk of mothers who had
the Hague, have themselves escaped ; that an Ital
ian Physician, who has devoted himfelf in Turkey
to the study of the Plague, thoroughly convinced
of the antipeftilential power of the Cow-Pox, exposed him
felf in every possible way to persons infeded
with the Plague in a hospital destined for that pur
pole.—They have difeovered in the villages round
Constantinople the disorder among the Cows, and
in the hands of those who milk them : that it refulis
from the accounts of these persons, that in their
country neither the Plague nor the Small-Pox has
raged epidemically, when those scourges have made
the greatest ravages in the neighbourhood ; that
when an inhabitant of those villages, has caught the
Plague in other countries and returned with it to
his awn country, has died of it or been cured, nev
er his the disorder spread.— That finally, the confi
dence of many ciaffes of people, particularly the
Armeniansjn the antipeftilential power ofthe Cow-
Po%is so great that they annually vaccinate a great
number of men, as a security against the Plague.
The Physicians of Conftatinople have requeued
rod to make this new discovery public.
From New-Orleans, Oflober I.
Addressed to the Editor of the Philadelphia Gazette.
“ The important news of the ceffiou ol Looifi
ana to the United States, was received here very
early, from official lources,dire& from France. I
am sorry to perceive that an idea seems to gain
ground at home ofthe little importance of the
weftern part of the province, and that it is likely
to be exchanged for the two Floidas. If we re
gard foil, situation, populations and produaions,
with the immense benefit that may be derived from
it, it exceeds the Floridas as much as Pennsylvania
fu'paffes the lower country of Delaware state, and
iu a few years might be "made co produce as much
#3 Mis of the United States ; while the Floridas are
a sandy d<fart, defireable only for the port of Pen.
facola, which will not admit of a fh:p of the line,
nor of an, thing drawing above 21 feet water, and
in all probability would be shortly offered to us by
Spain, to rid her ofthe enormous expence of de
fending it. In Wcft-Florida, the only part which
is of any value, is a trad of country contiguous to
the line of demarcation extending from the Miflif
fippi 20 to 30 miles cast, and as much or perhaps
40 miles fouth : and this with a few spots fit for
cultivation on the banks of some small creeks ana
rivers is all that is not a pine sorest ; while to the
weft the country is every where good, watered by
many fine rivers, tas a conGderable population, is
rich in its productions, maintains an immense India
trade, contains, independent of the low land in me
diately bordering on the Mississippi, a large extent
of country in the Atacepas, which may be devoted
to the culture of the fugsr cane, for which we are
dependent on other nations, and (hall continue to
be dependent, if we give up the wefteru bank of
the Mississippi ; as the narrow strip on the eastern
fide on the iflaod of New-Orleans is all that canbe
possibly applied to that culture, which is ,0,, lh
adequate to il e object of freeing the United States
from that fate of dependence (for an article now of
necessity) on other nations.„
“The great bulk of the population and riches, if
we except New-Orleans itfelf is on the weftern bank
The rivers being more numerous, accets to the in
terior is ealy ; and the country better than the eel
tern. The Miffburi presents a river watering a
country more extensive, and blessed with a better
foil, than that through which the Ohio runs, with
out being fubjea to the impediments which the lat
ter prelent to navigation, in consequence of the
lowness of the water, during at least 8 months io
the year. ..
"Independent of commercial or agricultural ad-fl
vantages, found policy would induce us to holda
and occupy both banks, to prevent foreign powers
from the possibility of tampering with our weftern
brethren. It has been objeaed, that by keeping
possession bf the weftern bant, we fall extend our
selves to much, as to endanger our union ; but can
not the U. States fell or retain the lands in their
own pnver,nd prevent the emi,r,ti nr or fatfeme'?
on hnds belonging to the public ? Itthev carMof
do this or have not the power of prevemirig it. will
they be able to prevent any foreign power, into
whole hands that country might fall from attending
their people by gratuitous offers of lands and settle
ments, on condition of becoming their fubjefts, and
opprfed, if necetLTy, to the United States? Would
not such a measure have an instantaneous & prodi^
gious effe&? and how is it to be avoided, but b,
the government of the U. States retaining thecoun.\
try > —Will not perpetual quarrels and difagreemen^ \
arise between two trading and rival countries, hav @ \
ing an immense river, navigable to its source, for a
a common frontier ? Will it not be necessary to keep
upa large force and a chain of forts, to preserve this
frontier from sudden invasion? And how can the law
have force or vigor, when, by merely crossing the
flream, the offender is out of their reach ? Would
not these evils be obtained, by pushing the frontier
further back, to a territory where for ages no qu ar.
rds or diflentions could arise, from the scantiness of
its population ? Finally why now relinquilh to a
foreign power, a country rivalling our own in its
produ&ions, from whole commerce we would be
debarred, & which we now have a right exclufird,
to poffels?
“These and a number of other reasons occur in
favor of retaining the weftern country. Let the
policy of the United flares be what it may with re
fped to what it gives away, I sincerely hope it will
adopt just and proper regulations for what it re
tains ; that it will suit the government to local cir
cumstances, and to the habits and ideas of the new
ly acquired citizens : that those who may be ap
pointed to preside over us will be men of talents,
possess a knowledge of the world, and have autho
rity fufficient to correct and prevent abuses, and to
administer prompt justice.—We are unfit at prefect
fora state government ; and (hall require a very en
ergetic one, until we learn what the principles of a
liberal and republican form are, and can put then
in pradHez. We shall rc^fo a grea; many allow
ances for old habits and customs, and the law* to
govern us ought to be moulded, in many particu
lars, after our prejudices. Without the government
do this, all will be uproar and confufion here, and
he will be happiest who firft elcapes from the Icenc.
"I entirely coincide with you in opinion, that to ,I
the fortuitous union of circumstances and those of a
kind most opposed to the views of France, and net '
to any judgment, talents or good management of
our own, we are indebted for the great acquisitions
we have obtained ; and I greatly fear, if we are
tempted to give up any part of it, it will in the
course of few years revert into the possession of
those who ceded it to us, and who may then be
tempted to quarrel with us for that part which we
may think proper to retain. Should England lose
any of her weight in the Icale of Europe at the
next peace, we (hall be forced to submit to whatev
er France may dictate."
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, SEPT. 29.
INVASION.
The important crilis is rapidly approaching. It
is most honourable to the national character that we
can announce this without creating in any part ofthe
country the slightest dismay. Upon the funds in
deed a considerable impression has been made. They
have been falling for the last two days. The de
pression on Tuefday, was inconfiderabie. That of
yesterday was very great. About 12 o'clock the
Omium was at 9 per cent, difeount, and the 3 per
cent. §3 1-8. But soon after 2 o'clock the fall was
more rapid—the Omium was at 10 per cent, and
the 3 per cents. §2 34. But after the market clos
ed the depreflion was still greater. The considera
ble fail is attributed to an opinion said to have been
expressed by very high authority at the Commander
in Chief's Levee, that an invasion might be expec
ted at no remote period. We have every reason
to believe that the attempt will bemade very ffiort
ly. Bonaparte it is rumoured, has arived at St. O
mer's to superintend the preparations, and give the
necessary orders for embarking the troops. The
attempt is expected to be a simultaneous one from
all the ports of Holland, Flanders, and France be
tween the mouth of the Scheldt and Brest, It has
been calculated, upon what data we know not,that
there are in those ports, between 5 and 6,000 gun
boats, flat bottomed and other veffcls capable of car
rying between 40 and 50,000 men. Whether this
be the fa&, whether they be completely ready, „d
whether that number of troops be affcmbled on the
French coast or not, we know not. The decree
for excluding neutrals has been carried into such
rigorous executions, and our blockade of the French
coast has been so ftri&, tta we have received no
later news from France than the 9th, and we are
totally ignorant of any event that has occured in
the capital of France, or in the departments since
that period. Perhaps, indeed, if we bad received
the Paris papers wfeh all the regularity we were
won; to do, we should have derived little informs*
tion upon the real situation of France, or the actual
state of the preparations for the the invasion. But
it is known that French troops have been dealing
HHRm PM.,
[No. 8,