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I ™=^L
OF ALL THE DISPOSITIONS AND HABITS
WHICH LEAD TO POLITICAL PROSPERITY,
RELIGION and MORALITY ARE INDISPENSA
BLE SUPPORTS.-—— ^tfty^fa', Lgaey.
MORALIST.
The Good Wife. =
THE good wife is one, who, ever mindful of
the lolemn coniraft which (he hath entered into,
is ftrialy and coniciencioufly virtuous, constant
and faithful to her husband ; chsfte, pure, and un
blemished in every thought, word and deed. She
is humble and modest from reason and conviaion,
submissive from choice, and obedient from inclina
tion : what die acquires by love and tenderness, flie
preserves by prudence and diferetion ; (he makes
it her business to serve, and her pleasure to oblige
her husband ; as conscious that every thing which
promotes his bappinefs must in the end contribute
so her own. Her tenderness relieves his cares,her af
fection foftens ids diflrefs, her good humour and
, c^pheetwy lefen andlubrine his tidier. Laft
ry, as a chrittian; (he lo®ks up with an eye of grat
itude to the great Dispenser and Dfpoferof all things
to the husband of the widow and the Father of the
fatherlefs, intreating his divine favour and affiance
in this and every other moral and religious duty.
The Good Hujband.
The good husband is one, who, wedded, not by
interest, but by choice, is constant, as well from in
clinatiou as from principle : he treats his wife with
delicacy as a woman,withtendernefs as a friend ; he
attributes her tollies to her weak net»,her imprudence
to her inadvertency ; he pafles them over, therefore
with good nature, and pardons them with indul
gence; all his care and industry are employed for
her welfare ; all his flrength and power are exerted
for her support and proteaion,betaufe ber'sis blen
ded with bis. Lafilythe good hufbadd is pious
and religious, that he may animate,her faith by his
praßice, and enforce the precepisof tbriftianity by
his own example ; that, „ they join to promote
each other's bappihefs in this world, they may unite
to ensure eternal joy and felicity in that which is to
, come.
POETRY.
The Pointed Epigram.
An Eton boy, who did not want'for wit,
In carclefs haste his excrcife had writ ;
How dare you, blockhead, quwth the mallet, bring
An epigram to me that has at fling ?
Pray, fir, forgive me, fays the youth, this once, 1
Another time you (ball not call me dunce.
) ; A wasp, next day, the dexterous stripling caught,
And, wrapp'd in paper to his matter brought ;
What have you here ? the purblind doctor cries,
An epigram, good fir, the boy replies.
An epigram ! remember what you bring,
You know what follows if it has no Ring.
He said —when, quickly by the painful (mart,
He found the rogue had not forgot the dart !
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Congress of the United States.
House of Representatives.
I Thursday, fee. 9.
A RESOLUTION was laid on the table,for the appoint
ment of a Committee to report, when it will be ex
pedient to close the feffioo.
The Senate informed the House, that they had disagreed
to the amendment proposed by the House extending the
right of regittering vessels to all the inhabitants of Louisia
na, on the 30th April h(L 4, This amendment toes origin
ally introduced by Mr yarnum, and it ar fa,ported by trim
Mefrs Lucas, G W Campbell, Redinger, Smilie, Dennis, Sloan,
and Holland ; and oppofa by Mrfrs riicbolfon, Dana, and
Heftingr The National Intelligencer, gives the following
general view oftbe arguments tiercor.,
By the former it was contended that according to the 3J
article of the convention with France the inhabitants o's
the ceded territory were to be admitted into the union as
soon as possible, according to the principles oftbe federal
constitution ; and that in the mean time they were to be
maintained in the enjoyment of their liberty, property and
religion ; that vefcls were property, and that consequent
ly the indifturbed right to all the immunities appur
tenant to them attached to all the inhabitants at the peri
od of ceffiou; that the treaty admitted of no diferimination
cmbrac : ng in its provisions all the inhabitants of the ceded
territory. To allow one description of inhabitants viz.
those whofod resided in the territory five years, according
to the report of the committee of cotferac to rtgifler
their veffeh, while those who had resided a shorter period
were prohibited, would be in effect to invade the rights
of: the latter by giving the former exclusive privileges. The
treaty being the supreme law of the land, it was infilled that
Congress did not peffefs the right of violating it, and that
should they make any diftipdioo, in hostility te it they
would give the inhabitants of theceded territory just grounds
of diffatisfa&ion, and might create a pretext on the part
of the ceding pow^r to obftru& its execution. It was fur
ther observed that the diftindion would sow the' feeds of
jealousy among the inhabitants of Louifiana,and diftarb the
trlnqail'ty and content; which it was the policy of the
United States to cherish.
Mr. Gregg, during the course of the debate, declared
himfelf so far friendly to the principle of the amendment
as to be in favor of extending the right to regifkr vessels
to citizens of the United States, Spanish fubje&s and French
citizens.
The opponent of the motion observed that the cooftfrution
had authorised congress to fix one uniform rule of natur
i ^fixation under which authority they had puffed a law re
quiring five years refidcuce previous to the naturalization
of any alien ; and that under the revenue laws of the
United States none but citizens were permitted to register
their veffeb ; to extend this right to all the inhabitants of
Lopifiana would- be to givc them an unjust and .unconsti
tutional preference over the inhabitants of the United States
who were not citizeus . It was allowed that When the in
habitants of the ceded territory were admitted into the
union they would be entitled to all the rights of citizens
of the United States ; but it was contented that, until such
admission, they muflbe viewed in the light of colonists,
fubjed to the defcretianary government of the United
Stales. The prupefed amendment was unjust, as it exten
ded important privileges to the inhabitants of Louisiana
denied by our laws te pur own citizens. For while a
citzen could not naturalize a foreign bottom ; ebis a
amendment would permit an inhabitant of LouKiana to
naturalize his (hips, which could be considered io no other
light than as foreign bottoms. It had been said that this
pavilion ought to be extended to all the inhabitants of
Louisiana, because the treaty had so prescribed. To this
it repled,that were there no other reason for rejewing
fa so, Utilmi#hi fifoafy* if wk 0% Mil
BrcHramtßmQ„_nfflffln„Bgnmgfflnfflß7
to establish the principle that the President and Senate, in
the exercise of the treaty making power, could make as
many foreigners citizens, as they pleased ; and chat on this
ground alone, were there no other, it became congress,
and especially that House, to resist the adoption of a prin
ciple so fraught with danger.
To this la&remark the advocates of the amendment an
swered that the treaty making power was unquestionably
under the constitutional control of Congress, who might or
might not carry a treaty into effe& ; but that after hav
ing carried it generally into effed, as had been the case
with the Louisiana convention, it became the supreme law
of the land, and a diferetion ceased to exist in the govern
ment to fulfil or violate it.
The amendment prevailed, as we have already Rated
Georgia Lands.
A resolution for referring to Commissioners die claims
of certain companies to land purchased of the State of Geor
gia and since ceded to the United States, occupied the
attention of tbe House through the day.
FRIDAY, FEB, 10.
Georgia Lands.
The House returned the . fubjedlof rhe Georgia Lands.
A long and interesting debate erfued, on the circumdanCT
funding the Yazoo (peculation ; and the consequences
likely to cM'ut from the intire difallowance of the claims
of individuals for compensation for lands purchased of
Georgia ; when about 6 o'clock, the question was taken,
on the following resolution,& carried—YEAS 6%,Nays 56.
Refolded, That the Secretary of State, the Secretary of
the Treasury, and the Attorney General for the time be
ing, be authorifed to receive proportions of compromise
and fettlcmeut from the several companies or persons claim
ing public lands in the territory of the United States lying
fouth of the State,of Tennefee. and Weft of the State of
Georgia; and finally to adjust end fettle the fame in such
manner, as in their opinion, will conduce to the interefli
of the United States; Provided, that in such settlement,
the said commissioners (hall not exceed thelimits prescribed
by the convention with the State of Georgia.
A refolutioß then palled for limiting the time of filling
claims to May 1, 1804.'
[°"p e question thus decided, has arretted a large
Cure oChe public attention—ln the debate on the fubjed,
all the powers of Mr Cesar Rodney, and Mr.fa Randolph,
were called forth, against any allowance being made the
present claimants. As far as we underhand the fuhje& in
debate, it is this—ln 17,5, one Georgia Legislature fold
lands to different companies to the amount of Thirty-five
or Forty-Millions of acres ; but owing, as another Georgia
Legislature chufed to cenfider it, to thefale being obtained
through bribery, exercised by the original proprietors, that
Legislature declared the whole tranfa&ion void, and burnt
the records. Prior, however to this declaration (than
which nothing can be more vile and fraudulent) the pro
perty was transferred into other hands, who purchased not
on the faith of the individuals of whom they bought ; but
on the faith of the government of Georgia ; and that alone.
Thus the then holders were thrown into very embarrassing
fixations, and many of diem absolutely ruined—The busi
ness in this manner was hung up—Nothing was done on
it. It may, however, be necessary to observe, that the U
nited States laid claim to part of the territory fold—This
claim was productive of a Convention between the State
of Georgia and the United States; whereupon the former
ceded to the latter, the whole es the territory which they
bad previotfly fold, on condition that Georgia should receive
from the United States 1,350,000 dollars; and on a far
ther condition, that the United States ffiould appropriate
five millions of acres, and no more, to quiet the present
claimants. Accordingly this became the bafispf a report
made by fheCommflfoxrsW the United Stated lift year :
and the late warm debate in Congress has been, whether
these Commissioners (hall have a final adjustment of the
bufinef#, reftri&ing them, however, in the adjustment to
five millions of acres, which is about one eighth of the
original purchase. When this laud is awarded, it is prob
able it will be purchased by the United States ; and there
by the claimants be in part renumerated the heavy expens
es they have been at.]
The Committee of Commerce and Manuft&urcs pre
sented a lengthy report on the request of the inhabitants
of Nantucket, that the revenues accruing from duties might
be appropriated for the purpose of deepening the channel
of their harbour, which had become shallow, of late, by
an accumulation of sand therein. The committee state,
that they had considered the Survey rind egimate
made by Messrs John Foster, Williams, and Lemuel Cox,
appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury for the pur
pose ; and declare that the intelligent and" candid spirit of
the report and climate seem highly reputable to the gen-'
tiemen who made the survey; and after a high eulogium
,on the enterprize and (kill with which the inhabitants of
Nantucket pttrfue the whale fifhery; they report that
though the relief as prayed for cannot be granted, as the
success of the experiments proposed fan very problemat
ical ; yet as the object of the Petitioners is to obtain en
couragement for whaling, that a committee be appointed
to report to the House, how in their opinion it will be meft
expedient for Congress te ad thereon.
MONDAY, FSMRUARY Ij.
A committee was ordered to report a bill making pro
vision for the claimants of Georgia Lands,
The bill for reducing the Marine Corps being under con
lidbration, Mr Eppes moved to disband all the officers ex
cepting those ROW fcrviDg in the Mediterranean—Rejeded
50 10 45.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14.
Mr RM,,moved, that a committee be directed to inquire
into the expediency of fixing a standard of weights & mea
sures; but on the suggestion of Dr. Mitchell, that a fubjed
so important and intricate would require msch deliberation,
the motion was ordered to lie on the table until tomorrow.
The Bill for reducing the Marine Corps to I Captain,
and 12 Lieutenants, and proportional privates, puffed —
Yeas ,3 —Nays 40. [^,Tbe Senate rejected this Bill almost
without debate —lß to 8. Plauditte ]
TAX ON SLAVES. Mr. Bard's motion, that a tax
of ten Dollars be imposed on every Negro Slave imported
into the United States, was debated until the usual hour of
adjournment, without any decision. Messrs. Bard, Find
ley, S. L. Mitchell and Sloem supported the motion; which
was opposed by Messrs Bedinger, Macon, Moore and Huger,
Wednesday, feb 15.
Mr. Leib, after a few prefaratery observations, moved,
that a committee be inftrutfted to inquire into the expedi
ency of abolishing the offices of Accountants of §he Navy
and of the War Departments — Agreed to, Ayes 61.
Tax on Slaves.
The refelution on this fubjed was again difcuffed—lts
postponement until May was moved and negatived—Ayes
58, Noes 60—The r,folution was finally carried in the af
tirmative—Yeas 71.
THURSDAY, FEB 16
The Alexandria charter bill was taken up in committee,
agreed to, and reported to the House.
Mr. ~ Randolph reported a bill hying a duty of ten
dollars upon every flare imported iste the United States—
Read twice.
From GIB RALTAR, OCT. 22.
Nine Algerine Corsairs failed from Algiers, on
tte i6;h of September, on a cryife to the Eastward.
The Portuguese line ofbaitle (hip Vafco de Gama
appeared off that harbour on the 26th ; and,on the
following day, four of the Portuguese officers in
captivity, received each 1000 baftinadoes for a
, foppofed connexion with Mooriffi women
ORACLE POST.
TUESDAY, March 13, 1804.
MISCELLANY. °
From the Salem Gazette.
Mocha.
f"""''™, lately arrived from a voyage to
Morn, has politely handed us a (ketch of some
occurrences and observations, a few extracts
from which w e believe will be found entertain
ing :—
arrived at Mocha (fays he) on the 2 ;th
ofijune. On landing, it was with difficulty I
d upon the wharf, owing to the large con
, OTk of people collected to fee us ; for I had
prer >ufly sent a chit to the Banyans, by a fiffi
ingw'at, informing them I had letters on board
fort: era. On the wharf I was, received by the
Bar , its, and a numerous retinue, with drums
an. 'er muficaJ instruments, together with a
C %""^ °' h o rses, mules and jack-afles, all gai
i^^^'^ned, and coodi&d to the Dola's (or
C^Xfoi's) amidst avast multitude of people.
I was received by the Dola with politeness ; af
tet which he asked me several questions relative
to the length of our passage, the winds, cargo,
and refpeding the French and Engliffi, &c.—
gave me a cup of boiling hot coffee, without su
gar or milk—perfumed and tendered me the
hooker to fmoke-—offered his assistance in case
of necessity, &c. Iwas then escorted to the Se
cond Dola's, with the fame retinue, where the
ceremonies arid questions were similar. This
done, I waited on'tbe English Resident (the only
Englishman in the place) by whom I was po
litely treated, and during my stay received every
attention and information from him.
"Mocha is fituatdd on a very dry and level
(pot, enclofed,by a wall ten or twelve feet in
height .It is a very barren place,fcarcely a tree
within the town ; but without the walls, to the
fonthward, there are a few date trees ; eastward
and northward, for several miles, a perfeft de
sert, not a tree nor a shrub to be seen, the Dola's
garden and a place of worship (where there are
a few trees) excepted. The streets are very ir
regular and narrow, but level and hard, being
swept and watered every day to allay the dust.
The houses are built some of flat stones & mor
tar, but the principal part of miserable bricks,
are generally two stories, "but some four Tories
in height—the walls of the houses-two feet in
thickness and generally the rooms very fmall—
no land belonging to the house except what it
stands upon. There are three mosques (or pla
ces of worship) in the town, one of which is cal
led the grand Mosque, where the Dola vifitseve
ry Friday (their Sunday.) On this day all the
soldiers and horsemen wait on the Dola, and at
tend him to the Mosque. After returning, they
parade in front ot his house, and the horfetaen go
ihrouA That is called theit cxercife, keeping
the herfe in full gallop, and at the fame time
twirling a spear of 15 feet in length in different
directions, to the great amusement of the nume
tous fpeftators tha dolled to behold x, but ridi
colons enough to an American or European.
The soldiers carry their matchlocks (no firelocks
are used here) upon their right Ihoulder, and go
through the street without any order, bellowing
the praises of their Dola.
"The government is miserable indeed -
Nothing of consequence can be carried into exe
cution without the concurrence of the Dola, Sec
ond Dola, and Candi (or Chief Justice ;) who
seldom agree, bping fearful of disobliging the
Imaum of Senna, to whom they are fubjeft, and
upon whom they depend for their continuance
in office.
"The situation of the country is truly deplor
able, it being unfafe to go ten miles northward
of Mocha. Just without the walls there are sev
eral thousands of poorpeople, without the means
of subsistence, driven thither by the bands of rob
bers which infeft the country."
Inventions, Dijeeveries & Improvements.
The fubferibers, having set up the Salt-works,
in Dirchefter, Mass. upon the new invented mode,
think it proper, for the geneial good of indivi
duals and the public, to give some brief account
of the improvements. Those who have fetn, and
carefully looked into them, are agreed, they must
be of great utility. Evaporation, is the chief tho'
not the only objea improved upon.
The water is brought into througbs, elevated to
whatever height the owner may choose ,• and
from them, brought down upon the face of the
refteaors, which stand over inclined planes, or plat
fortas. The water is carried down by cleets,which
are also reflectors, which convey it forwards, and
backwards, over the face of the large refl.&ors,un
til it be brought down to the head of the platforms,
over which it is conveyed, again by cleets, until it
runs backwards and forwards (the little rivulets
being about 1 inch and an half separated) until it
traverses the whole furface, from which it is con
du&ed into Vats, and carried back again by pumps
into the troughs, If not fufficiently pickled ; and
then carried again over the fice of the refl dors,
and platforms, as before. The refkaors are allo
the roofs, which are much left cofl(y than those in
the evaporation, answer a most important purpife.
When the water is pickled, it also stands, underre
fkaors, and tenfts, if any choose to improve the
latter, which doubtless, will very soon chryffalze
the brine. An hundred feet in this way, it is be
lieved, will much exceed a tboufand in the former.
What is an agreeable confederation is, much of the
works in the old way may be added to thele, to the
ver y greft profit of the owners, because the chief
of their works are vats and roofs, the latter of
which only are loft. However, the advantage a
rising from the chespnefs of the roofs in the new
invention, and these being turned into refledors,
will a great deal more than repay the damage.---
One hundred feet, prepared for pickling the water,
will very soon prepare great quantities to be put in-
to the fait rooms or vats, in which the fair is made ;
and hence at comparatively a very small expence
of time, much greater quantities 0, fait, can be
produced, than ever have been before. Those who
wfh to.go into salt making, may here be let into
a full underftaorting of the mode.
We have not made the trial, but the above is our
opinion, and rhe opinion of all who have attended
to the process.
)AMES ROBINSON.
EDWARD ROBINSON,
American Antiquities.
Some very extraordinary fri& re § have lately fan
difavered cu the bnr.k, of the Little Miami river,
state of Ohio. Ibey consist of ftru& ures bearing eve
ry evidence of an acquaintance with the arts of civi
lization and of science, and f^cm their great extent
leave little room far enquiry as to the ancient state of
tcis continent, 'which fas afte all former hypotbejis.
These works, considered as military fortification,,
orend confined to one portion, nor to that rude unifr
!™'y which diji&nguijhes the nxurks of unrefined nr
\ tions.
The principal course offortifications which are Jih
Stated a few miles from the Ohio, are composed of as
number of squares and oblong sommurications, adapt
ed to the position of the ground, several rising bank,
and bills are chfen as points of defence- .and circular
as well as rectangular flruftures present themselves.;
which are conneßed by long chains If works—of va
rious lengths from half a mile to a mile.
It is remarkable that the communication is preferred
and fallyports open covered by interior breast works,
adjoining the neighboring springs ; the Jides of the
bids form a natural talus hr glacis to the general
j ran ^ e of the Works, and a covert way is cut from
\ each If the fallyports to the springs. In one points
I where there is a spring Jemewhat distant from the
main fortrefs a small fortrefs appears the jize of
the greater may be conceived by that of the left which
frins a parallel ogram of 66% —by 331 feet. The
Jides of some of the Jquaresare from 1000 to 2000
.feet, fnd one of tbe communications extends to the
; diflance of 2S6ofyfeet.
jOne of the most extraordinary of tbe difeoveries of
(these antiquities, 'if what we call a turnpike road,
I formed otflone,which issues from one of the fallypoftr
of the greater fortification more than 20 feet wide
and has been traced to 'the extent of three miles from
the works, in good order.
, twenty miles above the greater fortification on the
fame river is another fries of works, upon Jimilar
principles. Lhere are no ditches to any, but great in
genuity is perceptible in the choice of portions and the
application of art to the line of apparent defence.
A Mr Ludlow found in one of the works an iron,
ball of 70 pounds weight, which has thrown great
difficulty in the way of enquiry. May it not have
been adventitiously placed there ? Or does it belong to
the ancient works ? Aurora.
APPOINTMENTS'
Made by the Piefidmt during the recess, and confirmed
by the Senate.
James Moaroe, miiifter plenipotentiary of the
l United grates to the government of Great Britain,
vice, Rufus King, resigned. Tobias Lear, Consul
general of the United Stales for the city and king
dom of Algiers,and a c^mniffiouer to treat of peace,
with the Bafliaw of Tripoli, vice, James Leander
Cathcart. John M. Goetchius, of New-York,
consul forth# Port of Genoa. Isaac Coxe Barnet
of New-Jersey, commercial agent of the United
States for :he port of Havre de Grace, in France,
vice Peter Dobell, refigoed. Levitt Harris of Penn
fylvanis, consul of the U. states for St. Petersburg
in Russia. Thomas R>dney of Delaware, a judge
of the MiffiGppi territory, vice, Seth Qewis resign
ed. Nathan Sanford of New-York, attorney fo^
the United states, for the diftrid of New-York. -
Jareo Mansfield of Connecticut, furveyar gene
ral of the lands of the U. states north weft of the
Ohio, vice, Rufus Putnam, removed. Isaac Briggs
of Maryland, surveyor of the i^koftbe U. states
fouth of the state of Ttrnoke. E^w^rd Turner
of the Miffifippi territory, k flier of the land of
fice within the fame lyng wft of Rari River, in
the county of Adams. Charles Jones Jenkins of
ifouth Caroline, a commitlioner of the United states
, under the ad of cortgrefs providing for the valuation
of lands and dwelling houses, and for the enumera--
t tion of slaves for the f hdivifion es fouth Carblina.
ITench Coxe of Peonfylvania, purveyor of the
public fuppliee of the U. State, viqe, Israel Who
' jen. He%ry Warren of Massachusetts, colleftot
of customs for the Diflrift of Plymouth in Mafia-.
>chufetts, and infoedur of the revenue for the port
I of Plymouth. Isaac Ilfley of Maflachufertx, collec
: tor fcr the djftri& of Per land and Falmouth^ Sam
uel Ward of Massachusetts, naval officer for the
Idiftria of Salem and Beverly. Thomas Durfee, of
I Rhode Island, Infpea>rof Revenue and Surveyor
-for the port of Tiverton in Rhode Island. Abraham
, B:fhop,of ConneSicut,coll&rfcr the difrift of N,
t Haven in ConucaicuL Samuel Ofgood,of New*
s York, naval officer for the diftrift of Nrw-York.
t Callender Irvine, of New-York, Infpedor of the
revenue and furveyo roftbe port of Buffalo creek ill
; New-York. Robert Lee, of New-York, colledor
I for the diftria of Niagara in New York, and In
, fpedor of revenue for the port of Niagara. Jere*
> miah Bennet, juo. of New-Jersey, coll&rfor the
1 diftria of Bridge town in New-Jersey and mfpec
, tor of the revenue for the several ports within the
fame diftria, vice, Eli El.rer removed. Charles
e Gibson of Maryland, infpedor ofrhe revenue and
e surveyor for/he port of Eafton in Maryland. Thc
- mas Dudley, of North Carolina, now surveyor of
. Swanfo trough in North Carolina, to be inlpedor
e of the ,c Y ^ue for the fame. Briar Hellen,of North
s Carolina, ^kaor tor the diftria of Beaufort in
f North Carolina and infp& of revenue for the
f port of Beaufort. Joseph Turner, of Georgia, cob
- leda for the diftria of Brunswick in Georgia, and
? Inlp^or of the revenue for the port of Bruafwici.
, Hore Brow fe Trift, of the Miffifippi territory, cel
- lector for the diftria of Miffifippi inthe said territory
, and infeedorof revenue for the port of Fort Adami
* vice, .Carmichael, removed.
■*.»?jiMasuuja
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