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Whatfpecies of policy mutt that be which
would oblige a man to pay tax for his misfor
tune ? Is it not diftrefsful enough for a man
to be poor and naked; but mull be also be
taxed for his poverty,’ and.loaded with a fu*
pernumerary tax merely because his puTuits
have been unfucccfsful ? Should not a man
be taxed according to the meafureof what he
hath ; rather than be obliged to pay for what
he hath not ? If it is a priviledge to enjoy a
Rate of matrimony, let the^offeffor pay in
proportion to the privilege enjoyed—and if
it is a calamity to drag out life in a (late of
celebaey, pray don’t add the whip of op
preflion to the scourge of misery ; this would
be to bang a man and make him pay forty
fhiilinge: Besides lam not certain that these
harmless creatures, which Mr. .Puer, with
so much ill nature calls old Batchelors, are so
ufelcfs to society as he would have them tho't
to be. Nor have 1 heard of their making
much diliurbance in the world; unless some.
times by stealing to the lodgings of young
Mifles of fourteen or fifteen years of age, and
creeping between the fneet—and if it be
found they grow tootroub’.eforoe in this way,
I am willing they ihould be iubje&ed to the
discipline of the Mother and the Daughters,
with their bruih and nsshifpering-pot of scald
ing water, to punish them with the common
race of Bugs and Fleas in proportion as the
crime deserves ; But can never give my voice
to have them loaded with a tax.
What 1 have said in defence of old Batch
elors (io called), £ hope will be coufidered,
as so much said in favour of poor di/con/olate
old Mattis. As I wiih to wipe the tear of
sorrow from the check of wee, rather tbar;
sow feeds of affliction, in that heart which is
already fek by reason of hope too long defer
red. Ye who have seen and heard" thorn weep
and- sigh in secret places 1 Ye who*have seen
difpairing Maids with tearful eye count the
unwelcome wrinkles' in their face ! Ye who
have heard them in midnight ihade, beside
the silent itream-, whisper out their tale .of
woe I If your hearts are made of jltjh, fay, if
you wiih your taxes to be lessened at their ex
pence. Shame to that worldling-politician
who would fill his pocket from their fcanty
earning 1
Bet I forbear faying any thing in favor of
widowers or widows; least Mr. Puer once
more ihould lift his fearful pen, which like a
fcalpiog knife cuts horrid g a files in the heads
©f the afflicted; or least a hl tie of feience from
his spouting brain ihould inundate the world*
SENEX.
From the NE IT YORK DAILY GAZETTE.
Mr. M’Lean,
J^VERY benevolent heart muff be agitat
ed witb mingled fentiinentr of compaflion
and horror, at the late well authenticated
accounts of the mafiacre of eight or ten thou
sand white people, men, women, and chil
dren ; and the total deftru&ion of the city of
Cape. Francois. And what ha»‘ occasioned
this horrible carnage and devastation ? Ft ap
pears;' from what we have been able.to learn,
shat it originated in a dlfpute between the
oommifiFontrs SonthonaX' and Polverell t and y
For ^ American Herald of Liberty.
The BACHELOR’S DEFENCE.
MR, RAN LET*
IN your Heralp of Liberty, July ?d.
I took notice of a new ptopofed method
of taxation, which we are told wili happify
Society, displace a burden from the (boulders
of the c-oochlng Publie, and make the wheels
of Rate run easy ; which advantages might
be realized, if government would impble a
tax on Dogs, al one fourth of a dollar each.
Happy thought ! How will the wandering
world Rare at such improvements! and the
Siges of antiquit y blush that they we e
fools fd long* The hearts of the people in
this country will be glad, and the trees of the
foreß will clap their hands and rejoice in the
happy profped of Regeneration in the po
litical world— O happy country, in which
a nation of such vui/dam is born in a day ! ’ !
Such an Hercules in wisdom mult bruise the
aspiring heads of Aristocrats in this land of
liberty, and be as deßruftive to those herds
cf cabling politicians that n lour publicCoun
ciU, as ever a clais of School-boys were to E
race ofTparrows.
Only think Mr. Printer, if such imraenfe
tarns may be railed, barely from taxing Dogs*
as will till our coffers and lessen taxation on
Poll and Ellate, and the necessary articles
of life* what a double blessing it would be
if this hew plan was prolecuted in its fev6ral
branches, by imposing a tax in equal ratio,
on all kinds of Puppies —such as snarling pup
pies— medling puppies—and icrtbling pup
pies—and the whole race of such canibals,
which scour the land I
But while I admire the force of g*nius that
produced the thought of taxing Dogs —l am
quite confounded, that the fame Author
ihould speak of railing a revenue from that
harmless race oi Bugs and FLas^h he has
reproached with the odious name of Old Bach
elors t no u one er if the mountain of
his genius after labouring to bring forth a
Mouse of (uch enormous size, should next be
laid in the Sira.™ *uiitb atom-tis.
the Governor Galbau, all ailing under the
authority of the National Convention, Gai
bau, it seem?, had been deceived at the Cape,
and inflated in the government, before the
arrival of the commissioners. This was deem
ed by these humble Citizens, an infringement
of their authority* a deprivatian of fame part
of their dignity. To support their cause in
opposition to the Governor, the mulattces are
introduced, the negroes are excited to wreit
the arms out of the hands of their mailers,
and s general deftruftion of the oefenceiefs
inhabitants ensues without any diftindion of
sex or age. Theft are the men who talk ft
much of equality ; but when they come to
ass we find that, rather than endure the
lead luppofed diminution of their power, they
will hazard the total demolit’on of a great
and flouriftiing city, and rhe shedding of the
blood of all irs inhabitant?.
———-—~~Man! proud Man !
J^reft in a little brief authority,
Moll ignorant of nsshat be s mu fl affur d.
Like an angry ape,
Play, such j anta fit tricks before high Heavin,
As makes the angels voeep.
(r is reported, that ar leak two rhoufand of
the wretched fugitives from that devoted
place, arc on their way ro seek an afylom in i
rhe peaceful abodes cf this happy country — (
they are coming with r.o more property than i
could be brought off by poor wretches flying i
in ccnfternation from a general maffatre. I j
have observed in {ome of the papers, an in
vitation ro the French people reGding in <
fhis city, co meet ar Corel's Hotel, for the s
purpose of celebrating rhe anniversary of the <
raking or the Bajlile. VsouTd it not be a ]
much more becoming specimen of their pa- t
trio’ifm, as well as humanity,’ to save the
expeoce of a sumptuous entertainment, and (
make proviflon for the reception of their
wretched countrymen, who will soon be here t
in a itaie ofnakednefs and poverty ? JUBA, \
From the Maryland Herald.
nr
2 HE exports of the United States for the
year ending on the last oi September, amount
ed to the er,onnons value of ■ 20,5180,14
dollars. They Rand thus :
Value of wares, cood and merchandize, ex
ported from each Rate, agreeably to the Ab-
RraCt laid b’fme Congress the twenty f vehth
February 1793.
Dollars.
New-Hamp/hire, 181,407
Maflachofetts, 2.389,922
Rhode Island, 698,084.
Connecticut, 749,925
New-York, 2,528,085
New-Jersey, 23.524
Pennsylvania, 3,820,646
Delaware, 133,972
Maryland,- 2.550,258
Virginia, 3,549,499
North Carolina, 503,794
South-Carolina, 2.430,425
Georgia, 458 973
Dollars, 20.518,014
Among the great exporting states it will be
a most pleasing thing to us to observe that
Maryland, which the year proceeding was the
fifth, is now the fourth in the United States.
The abftradls from the Treasury department
are not perhaps very generally met with. If
is to be regretted that they are not known by
every man in the Union. By them he would
be, furnifhed with incohteftible evidence of our
prosperity, positively beyond the omens of
misery which the ingenious politicians of En
gland held out after the peace. An acquaint
ance with a work entitled “ a brief examination
of Lord Sheffield’s obiervations on the Com
merce of the United States” would exceeding
ly assist in enabling himto form a just eftimatd
of the value of our national advantages. Lord
Sheffield is an Englifil nobleman, who served
against us on the continent last war. , When
he returned to England he found the mind and
feelings of that country warmly alive to all
forts of prejudices against us. He saw the ge
neral alarm that spread about the effeCt which
the difnlemberments of the British empire
would produce. He wished to appease it ;
arid (for an author who did not care what he
advanced) judiciously enough seized the mo
ment favourable at once to the national preju
dices, and to the sale of a work which was to
flatter them. He wroteto p’eale. To pleafc
he told them all they wished to fee proofs of.
He told them they had loft nothing. He wrote
a large book, which many read this who have’
riever read, toprove that America, without the
aid and protection of Great Britain muit fink
into nerveiefs impotence, poverty and want ;
arid among other things that we Ihbu'd neveri
be able to make more wheat than we did a
bout twenty years since ! All things have pro
ved that he knew little of his fubjeft, and that
Will Whitfton was as good at prophecy as he
was- The author of the examination of Lord
Sheffield’s errors has wiih becoming modera
tion of remark and by inconvertible fafts and
reasoning o'd* them, completely refuted the
work of this peer. the difeharge 6f this du
ty (for however absurd the dodrines of the
Vrork, they had a dangerous tendency against
our trade———) he has re Ported to documents
of veracity,and managed the reasoning on them
with ability. In the detail to which his fub
jed led, he has presented an unexaggerated
view of the state of th c Union, in the hightfr
At length Marat arrived, and proceeded to
take his leat; he had on his head a crown
which he himfelf took off ; he was embraced
by all the citizens, women, and deputies ; af
ter which he mounted the Tribune, md made
the following speech . —
“ You fee a representative of the people
whose rights have been violated, but juftke
has been done him. Ifwear anew to elpouie
the cause of equality, liberty and of the peo
ple
He was loudly applauded.
The Cote droit, or minority of the assembly
had entirely left the hall.
Letters from Lyons announce that city to
be in the mod dreadful Rate ofconfufion ; and
thole from Britanny contain intelligence as dif
agreeahle. The 60 parilhes encamped at Sori,
mieres have, in antwer to the third proclama
tion of the Commissioners of the Convention,
pubiifhed a declaration, in which they ad
dress themselves to the commissioners in the
name of the true and only God whom the lat
ter have abjured. In this piece they set torch
tlieir firm reliance on Providence, in conse
quence of the justness of theircaufe;’ reproba
ted the designs and crimes of them and their
constituents ; and declare they will never,
whilst they breathe, submit to their laws, or
seek protection from them.
“ It is dated from the camp at Sorimieres/
the 10th of April, in the ift year of the reign,
oi Louis XVllihi
Nantz has been besieged for these thirty
days.”
JAMAICA.
KINGSTON, JUNE Is.
During the American war, starvation was a
very fafhionable word, and we seriously ap*
prehend that, at this unexampled period, it
will be too much in Vogue here. There is a
real scarcity of fiefh, dry imported provisions,
throughout the country, and no profpefl of an
immediate supply. The heavy rains have
washed away the ground provisions ; thousands
of negroes are daily pouring in upon us ; cat
tle and live flock of every description are dear
er and more scarce than at any former.pcriod
in short, if the port is not tnrown open to the
Americans, we have a profped of experiencing
all the horrors of famine.
, .. I ■ I ~ , J,
^AMERICAN ADFICES.
NORIH-C AROUND
WILMINGTON, JULY 6.
A correspondent from motives the moftdtf
intetefled,and benevolent, would wish to con
vey the following intelligence to such foreign
families, who, froth the prefenr disturbance in
the old world, may seek an asylum in the new,
that Charleftbwn, on the head of the C’hefa
peake,is a place conveniently situated for 'heir
immediate residence ; especially to such fami
lies who do not bring with them a fupera
bondance of cafii. This beautiful spot is di
re€Hy open to one of the fineft water profpeds
in the world, and commands every comfort the
heart can wifi), from this element. Provisions
of all kinds are remarkably good and cheap, as
well ar those iridifpenfible articles, fuel and
house rent. The town being direCily on the
poftroadof this immense continent, it may
with truth be asserted, that no place in the u
nion, for cheapness and convenience, health
Ac the head of the citizens were the Gen
dormes, and the Municipal Officers.
degree interefling and gratifying to every true
American. This examination already begins
to open the eyes of even Englifhtnen in En
gland. So inccnteliible are its reafohihgs on
fafts so forcible, that the very reviewers feel
and acknowledge its luminous truths. The
eXpofute of errors in general, is wholesome ;
of those in particular the influence of which
mif-dir:il the council of a trading nation with
whom we largely deal.
It seems to be of prime consequence that a
country (houid know its resources and advan
tages. The moral cfftfls retaking from this
knowledge a e seen in the quiet charms of
contentment,the political are felt in a sober and
dignified firrnnefs in their defence and wife
management — Fo know them on a larger scale
we must resort to thole works which treat of
them from the belt authority.
Permission being granted,they entered with
out arms, in great numbers, of both fexer, and
as many as could, took possession of the unoc
cupied feats, the tribunes and citizens crying
loudly, “ Long live the Republic—-Long live
the Nation—Long live Marat !”
A body of citizens, petitioners, appeared
before the assembly—they announced that M
arat had been acquitc d by the Tribunal Extra
ordinary, and they begged permission to defile
through the assembly, to (hew the reprClenta
tivesof the people their joy to find Marat in
nocent I
"Extract of a letter from Paris, April 21.
Latest European Intelligence.
FRANCE
NATIONAL CONVENTION.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24.
“ Citizens,
ENGLAND.
LONDON, MAY 9.
The fenooner Industry, Capt. Trefethen
failed from Cape Francois in company with
rhe French fleer, and continued with ir three
days—daring which Capr. Treferhen fpeke
with several of the merchantmen, who in
formed him that they were bound to the
Delaware ; he also understood that the men
of war and frigates,after convoying rhe fleer
into the Chefapeak and Delaware bays,would
bear away for Boflon.
The meeting then unanimously agreed, to
fee on foot, amongst the. citizens at large,
whose families and property appeared to be
menaced,a {ubfeription, to rai'e 6000 dollar*/
through rhe medium of the banks,ip be plac
ed in the GovOrnour’s hands, for the deience
of the port ; under an expeflation, that rhe
Legiflarure, ar their next session, would’pro
vide for thereimburfement.
Extrafi of a letter from Paris, dated in .April.
“ You will judge, my dear friend, to
what height public fpiric has risen in this ci
ty. About 2000 young people of 14. or 15
years of age/ but Who have not completed
their 16 th years and therefore not liable to
enter into the National Guard, came out of
what is called the battalion of children, and
have been at the National Convention, to'
present on their knees a petition to go to the
frontiers at the expence of their families*
swearing at the fame time they would not
rife until they, should have justice done their
demand. The members of the Convention,
could not refrain from tears at the interest
ing fight of youth so coUrageoufly offering
itfelf. They ruftted forward to embrace these
generous children, who, without changing
alttitude, intreated the iegiflatcre immediate
ly to pronounce their concurrence, the leader
and orator of this affe&ing deputation, turn
ing himfelf towards his brethren, addressed
them in the words following, which were fre
quently interrupted by his te*rs.
‘
Monday there was a ver# unmerous meet
ing of the merchants and trader? of this C'k',
at the Coffee Houle, to rake into ccnfidera
tion certain measures which appear to be
pursuing, tending to a breach ot rhe neunaL
icy of this country, and contravening rhe
Proclamation of the Preiiflent of the United
Stares. In difeufling tb's f.bjecl, Inch evid
ence was adduced, as amounted to proof, that
the brig, la«ely called the Little Sarah, had
been armed in this port, and was probably
bound on a cruize against some /over now
at war with France—Whereupon a Urge t-nd
refpe&able committee was appAttc to wait
on the Governor, to communicate rhe in
telligence they had received, and to effore
him of their firm adherance to the laws c r
the land. In rhe evening, at the adjourn
ment, the committee reported, that they had
not only seen the Governor, but likewise the
heads of departments in the government of
the United Stares—that ths Secretary of S are
said, he had authority for believing, that
the brig wpnld nor proceed until the arrival
of the President, who was expedled intown
on Wednesday. The Governour, with rhe
greatest candour, related whar had passed,
as far as he was concerned ; and that, among
other inflances of his activity, he had early
applied toM. Genet. On the occaiion it ap
peared that orders had already been given to
the brig, to repel by force, any obf.rudion
ihe might meet with.
Every preparation was made to obey the
orders cf the Executive cf the United States,
which are now waited for.
This day arrived here, 22 fail ofveffels, part
of the fleet from Cape Francois, having on
board a great number of pafferger?, &c. bom
different islands in the Weil-Indie-—Theta
are only scattered vessels from a fleet of jco
fail, with 5000 paffchgers, ail bound to this
port.
This forenoon a committee of merchants
were appointed by the citizens of Baltimo e,
assembled on ’Change, to visit the French vcf
lels arrived here this day, for the purpole of
enquiring into the different Rates and condi
tions of each paflenger on boaro. T his is
done with a view of affording relief to those
citizens who had to flee from the dreadful car
nage, and shocking massacre of the whites by
a savage enemy, at Cape Francois, cn the 23d
ult.
BALTIMORE, JULY 4.
A Vessel arrived at Norfolk. Cap!. Viclt
ry^ in ten days Pom Eofton, spoke a brig
fromßri(lol,qnly 28 days out ; the Captain of
which informed him, that the French had
gaired a signal victory over the combined
armies of Austria and Prussia, nsar Dunkirk
—that they beat them in al! polhiones.mKk
ing great (laughter, and taking of prifouers.
and p!cafantner«, is mere deGrab!y fltuated
while it is peculiarly well adapted to be ren.
dered the feat of the arts and sciences. The
generous printers, those liberal bene tailors of
mankind, wili oblige, by inferring 'this para
graph in their several papers,and if convenient
in the French language, so that the uninform
ed flrangers, cr (offering traveller, may be be
nefired by its communication, aud the infor
mant thereby amply rewarded for bis trouble.
MARrL A N D.
PHILADELPHIA, JULY 10.
NEW-YORK, JULY 11.
JULY, 9.