The American herald of liberty — Exeter, N.H., 1794-06-17 00:00:00, page 1

In idea, we accompany you.—
We stand near you while you are
setting fail. We watch your eyes
that linger on the white cliffs, arid
we hear the patriarchal bleHing
which your foul pours out oh the
land of your nativity, the aspira
tion that ascends to God for its
peace, its freedom, and its prof*
peri ty/' Again, do We participate
in your feelings on firft beholding
nature in her noblest fcenes^ and
grandest features \ on finding than
busied in rendering himfelf worthy
of nature, but more than alb on
with philosophic
the Coming period
preicienw > » b
when those vau jmana leas w
shadowed with fails,
Lawrence and Miflihppf, m all
stretch forth their arms to embrace
the continent in a great circle of
interior navigation 5 when the pa
cific ocean fhali pour into the At
lantic •, when man will become
more precious than fine gold, and
when his ambition fhali be to sub
due the elements, not to lubjugatc
his fellow-creatures, to make fire,
water> earth and air obey his bid-
for, at your age, no one would
willingly embark On such a voyage
andfure we are, it was your wilh
and prayer to be buried in your
native country, which contains
the drift of your old friends, 'Sa-
Price, J ebb and Fothergill.—
But be cheerful, dear fir, you are
going to a happier wojld—the
world of Washington and Frank
lin.
SIR,
SUFFER a bociety which has
been calumniated as devoid
of all benbe of religion, law, or
morality, to bympathize with one,
calumny ofa similar kind is about
to drive from his native land, a
land which he has adorned and
enlightened in almost every branch
of liberal literature and of ufeful
philosophy. The emigration of
doctor Priestley, will form a (Ink
ing historical fad by which alone,
future ages will learn to estimate
truly the temper of the present
times* Your departure will not
giveevidericeof the injury which
philoßSpHy and literature has re
ceived in your person, but will
prove that accumulation of petty
disquietudes, which has robbed
your life of its rest and enjoyment:
[The following affectionate and fci
entijic Address to Dr, Priejlley,
on his departure from Europe, to
America, we have extracted from
the Belfaft papers received Uy
Capt. Norton.]
SOCIETY OF UNITED IRISHMEN,
' OF DUBLIN,
TO JOSEPH PRIESTLEY, L. L. D.
Volume VIII.]
Publi/bed on Tuefdays,.^ Stearns^ Winslow, in Main-Street, Exeter, CNfu>-HampJhire) at bfi per annum.
DR. PRIEST LET.
American Herald of Liberty;
THE
But you are going to a country
where science is turned to better
uses. Your change of place will
give room for the matchiefs ac,
tivity of your genius, and you will
take a sublime pleasure in bestow
ing on Britain, the benefit of your
future discoveries. As matter
changes its form, but not a parti
cle is ever loft, so the principles ,
of a virtuous mind are equally
imperishable, arid your change of
fituatibn may even render truth
operative, knowledge more pror >
duftive, and, m the event, liberty
itfelf more universal. Wafted by
the windsj or toft by the waves,
the feed that is here thrown out
as dead^ there flioots up arid
flourifhes. It is probable that
emigration to America from the
firft settlement downward^ has hot
only served the cause of general
liberty, but will eventually and
circuitously fcrve it in Britain.—
What mighty events have arisen
from that germ which might once
*Mr. BgßTHoiLtf difcbvered that
•oxygenated inuriaaiic gas, received in a
ley of caustic pot-aft, forma a chryftalli
zable neutral (alt, which detonates more
strongly than nitre.
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ding, but to leave the pure aetheri
al mind, as the foie thing in nature
free and incoercible.
Happy indeed would it be were
men in power to recollect this
quality of the human mind. Suf
fer us to give them an example
from a fcienceof which you are
a mighty mailer, that attempts to
fix the element of mind only in*
creases its activity, and that to cab
culate what may be, from what
has been, is a very dangerous de
ceit; Were all the fait petre in
India monopolized, this would on
ly make chemical researches more
ardent and fuccelsful. The chai-
I
ky earths would be searched for
it, and nitre beds would be made
in every cellar and every stable.—
Did not that prove fufficienc, the
genius of chemistry would find in
a new fait a lubftitute for nitre or
a power superior to it.* It requires
greater genius than Mr. Pitt
seems to poffds, to know the won
derful resources of mind, when
patriotifrh animates philosophy,
and all the arts and sciences are
put under a state of requisition,
when the .attention of a whole
fcientific people is bent on multi
plying the means and'inftruments
of deftru^tion, and when philoso
phy rises in a^ mass to drive on
the wedge of war. A black pow
der has changed the military art,
and in a great degree the manners
of mankind. Why may not the
fame science which produced it,
produce another powder which in
flamed under a certain compreflion,
might impel the air fa as to shake
down the strongest towers and
scatter deftruftion.
T UE S D A Y, June 1794.
CASH, Writing-Paper; or
Books given for clean
cotton and linen Rags at this
Office;
fei-SArk ■ M ■5 , . . V .. i.;...,.. - '
have been supposed to be loft for
ever in ch? woods pf America, but
thrown upon the bosom of nature
the breach of God revived it, and
the world has gathered its fruits.
Even Ireland has contributed her
Ihare to the liberties of America,
and while purblind ftacefmen were
happy to get rid of the stubborn
Prelbyterians of the North, they
little thought they were serving a
good cause in another quarter. —
Yes 1 The Volunteers of Ireland
still live. They live accrdfs the
Atlantic. Let this idea animate
us in our bufferings, and the pure
principles and genuine luftre of
the British Constitution, rtfleded
from their coasts penetrate into our
cells and dungeons.
Farewell, great and good man 1
Great by your mental powers, by
your multiplied literary labours,
but greater still by those fioufe
hold virtues which form the only
solid security for public conduct,
by those mild and gentle qualities
which far from being adverse to,
is most frequently attended with
severe inflexible pajrlotifm, rising
like an oak above a mddeft man
sion. Farewell, but before you
go, we beseech a portion of your
parting prayer, to the author of
good, for Archibald Hamilton Row
an, the pupil of Jebb, our brother
now buffering impribonment, and
for all those who have buffered,
and are about to buffer, in the fame
cause, the cause of impartial, And
adequate reprefentatidn the cause
of the ConfthutioiL Pray to the
best of beings for Muir, Palmer,
Skirving, Margarot, and Gerald,
who are now of will fhonly be
crofiing, like you, a bleak ocean,
but to a barbarous land. Pray
that they may be animated with
that fame spirit which in the days
of their fathers, triumphed at the
flake, and shone in the midst of
flames. Melancholy indeed it is
that the mildest and most humane
of all religions, should have ever
been bo perverted as to bang, or
burn men in order to keep them
in 6iie faith. It is equally mel
ancholy that the most defcrvedly
exlolled of civil conftitutions,'
fhouid recur to fimHar inodes of
coercion, and that hanging and
burning are hot now employed,
principally becaube measures ap
parently milder are considered as
more effectual. Farewell 1 Soon
may ydu embrace ybur bohs oh
the American lhore> and Walhing
ton take you by the hand, and the
shade of Franklin look down with
calm delight, on the firft ftatebman
of the age extending his protedibn
to its firft philosopher. •
March 28,1794. . , . ,
[The papert accompanying tbit Mtf age "are
let ter i to aridfrom the Governor of KtntitcF^
and the Secretary of State. Ihe former fdyi\
that notvoithfanding his private opinions',
and difncUnatidn to refrain any one, to'grat
ify or remove the fears of the MiniJi er of'A
frince j (^fatti/h) v.ho ‘withholds an inval
stable right, he viill discharge the injuneliont
of the Frefdtnt. fbefe injunctions v. er tie
Juyprefs any expedition against the S r 'anijh
territories
' t v.
HOUSS OF REPRESENTATIVES, MAY
u A, report was read from the Secretary of
the Treasury, stating that a Joan of 3
lions of florins had been made in Hol land)
at 5 per cent, besides a moderate premiuttii
The commiflioners employed to make this
loan congratulate the executive on the Ha
vodrabfe terms of if, whilst the EmperoP
cahnot obtain money at ev|n a much
er interest.
s ; i In Senate^ May 26... x
THE .following written meflage
received from the, Prefideoc .of 'he
United States, by Mr. Dandridge, his
Secretary^, ; a (
. . United States, 20thMay»i;94.
. Gentitmen. of the Senate, , t
and of the House as Rest efent aiitutt, 1 -
. in the communications, which I
made to Congress doting the present Self
fion, relative to .foreign .nations, 1 have or
mined no opportunity of my anxiety to
preffrve, the .United States ia peace. Ic
is peculiarly therefore my duty at thia time,
today before,you the prefent.ftate cf cer-
Um threats, against the territories of Spain,
in ouj neighbourhood.
The docymepts which accompany thia
meflage, develope the measures which 1 h^ve
taken to fuppre/s them,and the intelligence
which has been lately received. , *
|t. .will be seen from thence, that th.e
fubjeft h^s not beep neglected ; that every
power, veiled in the executive on such oc,-
cafions, has been, exerted ; and that there
was reason to belie,ve, that the epte-prize
projected against the Spanlfh dominion's,
Was relinquiibed, < • ,
Put it appears to have l>een revived uppn
principles which set public order at defi
ance, and. place the peace of rhe United
States in the diferetion of unauthorized in.-
diyiduajs. . The means already deposited
in the different.departments of government,
aredhewn by experience, not to be adequate
to theie high contingencies, although such
of them as are lodged in tile hands of /he
executive, (hall continue to be used with
promptness, energy and decision, propor
tioned to the case. Rut lam impelled by
the politico of our public affairs to recom
mend that»'provifipn be made for a ftron|ef
and more vigorous opposition, thah can be
given to £uhh hoflile movements under the
laws as they now stand.
. philadel^hla, hir 30;
The bill impofipg a tax on pleasure HF*
riages,, pa fled the Hoofe of ReprefehtiH^ ,
of the United States jeflerday—alio aHi 1
autborifing and empowering the Kefid^ , c
of the United States, tblay an Emba^b J ia
the recess of Congefs, if in his judgmto lt ,
the public exigencies should render it) ue *
Qeflary—was passed to be engrossed. A ’ mo
tion to add a legion providing For the It y j og
an Embargo from and as far the ibcS Bf f une
Mb was almost flhUimofly RtgMiih .d.
‘ r ' A-’ • • * ’ V i *2/<J
... , MAY 2s.
Mr. Murray reported t bill for thd
registering and protection of American
seamen, which was twice read and referred
to a committee of the whole for to-morxo'w^'
Mr. Giles moved that the President b$
authorifed to pay to the French Mißift'er
out of the three millions of*florins borrowed
in Hblland', such fams as may not be want
ed for the immediate Service of the United
States, ^Rer some opposition, the refolu.
tion was carried in the committee, agreed
to by the House, and a committee appoidU
ed to bring in a bill.
t ..
[Number 50.
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Congress.
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