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dwelling upon the lottery. II the manu
factories he alluded to were prohibited,
he asked, could the legislature withhold
compensation from those by whom they
were established ? and this he conceived,
quite analogous to the case before the
house. With regard to the lottery, he
appealed to tin* advocates of the measure
under discussion, whether that was not
.oriiy tolerated, but misery promote.!,
vt* order to collect revenue—whether
rune was not made the source of pub
lie wealth?
.• Ir. \ > it.nr.rforc m rr ;e about tluac
0 clock, and in a speech peculiarlv dis
tinguished ior eloquence and force of
argument, replied to the se veral objec
tions urged against the measure. To
those who sought v ith so much dili
gence ior all the ev ils to be found in the
darkest recesses of the country, in the
remotest quarter of P.urope, or in the
page of history, he observed that they
. ought them not for the purpose of re
moving them—no, but with a view to
bring them down to the house of com
mons, to lav them to their bosoms, and i
to let them and the slave trade pair off
together. We, • nq the ndvocat of
this abominhhle traOir, will allow all the
rvils we have received to remain undis
turbed, if you’ll give us hut the slave
trade. With regard to the complaints
that had been made of his conduct to
wards the W . India planters ; In had al
ways been as just towards those gentle
menus ne could. Jlchatl never behav
ed to them with any harshness but he
could never curry complaisance so far
towards them, or any set ol men alive,
as to compliment away the rights and
happiness of a great multitude of human
beings.— 1'he honourable gentleman
pronounced an elegant tulogium upon
the display of character and talent which
the* house had this night witnessed on
th-- side of humanity and justice, parti
cularly on the part of the younger mem
b< rs, whose lofty and liberal sentiments
re; ->mmcnded and enforced bv the cle
vati >n of their rank, and the purity of
tlei If rm, must pretend to produc e the
hapiest effects upon all classes of the
community. Such an indication c>f mind
and bcling must afford gratification to
an\ 11 fleeting man, and diffuse the most
salutary lessons throughout the cour.tr . ;
tme t show to the peopb ,that their Unis'
lators, and especially the higher or
der of their youth, were forward to as
sert the rights of the weak against the
„trong: to vindicate the cause of thc 0,3,
: pres, ed, and th.it where a practice was
! iotind to prevail, inconsistent with hu
manity and justice, no consideration of
profit could reconcile them to its contin
uance.
? I ISCCI.T. ANF.OUS THOUGHTS.
1 verv act oi intoxication puts Nature
to the i xpenco of a fever, in order to
discharge the poisonous draught. When
the is rep'-ated almost every day, it is
jeisyt 'fov. ee the.consequences. That
constitution must he strong indeed,
which is able long to hold out under a
d tily fever / hut fevers occasioned hv
drinking do not always gooff in a dav ;
they frequently cud in an inflammation
of the breast, f;\ er, or brains, and pro
duce fatal effects.
ir 11 E E LING,
Thursday, 4th Junk, 1807.
On Sunday last, James Pursel, an old
man, seventy years ol age, who lived by
himself, about 13 miles from this place,
near the road from this place to Wash
ington, wa • found hanged, and with his
throat cut, in his own house. He had
not been seen by any ol the neighbours
for four or five days before. A razor
was discovc red on the floor, with a quan
tity oi blood, 'l'h • floor was marked
with blood from the spot where the ra
zor was found, to another part of the
house, where he had a rope fastened to
a joist. 1 his rope he had on several
occasions refused to part with. When
the body was found, the flesh ol his face,
lips, an l h inds, had been eaten by the
ra’s. An inquest was held on Mornlav.
Fhtir verdict was, “ premeditated sui
cide.”
On Tuesday the 26th ult. at Zanes
ville, Ohio, John IVTIntire, Isaac Zane,
D..\ id I ’>-ie, and an apprentice of Ul ie’s
ol the l ame oi Nixon, were crossing
the Muskingum river in a canoe. The
canoe Idled with water and sunk. Uric
and his apprentice attempted to make
tlie wi st shore. i hey had swam but a
short distance in that direction, when U
rie was seen to turn and make towards
the east side of the river. He was very
weak from a r«. cent attack of the fever.
His strength failing him, he in a very
short time was enveloped in the vortex
ol the (mat Tails, and had »ot been
found on the morning of Friday last_
Nixon sue.reded in making the shore a
short distance above the Falls. M‘Id
tire and Zane remained near where they
first went down until the canoe raised
bottom upwards,when they seized it and
kept their hold until they were taken up,
by the ferry-men, about two hundred
yards below the Great Falls. To those
! who have seen these tremendous Falls,
it will i-• c* matter of the utmost surprise,
that men should be taken up alive after
passing through them.
Mr. Uric was a mill-wright, but late
ly out of his apprenticeship, and was
considered, bv those who knew him, to
be .unusually promising in his profes
sion. He i.-. generally lamented in Zanes
ville, particularly by Mr. MHntire's fa
mily, of which he had made a member
for some time past.
Burr had arrived at Richmond on
the 14th ult. (ien. Eaton, three gentle
men from Lexington,( Kent.) and others,
have proceeded for the same place, as
witnesses.
I
The Kentucky Gazette mentions that
tlie heavy ship Penrose, and two gun
boats, pasted the liapids, in safety, ou
the 5th ult.
Com m nic at ions.
LOGICA GENEVENSIS.
To pass from Brownsville to Wheel
ing, and thence to Chilieothe & Vincennes,
is out to descend the Ohio river, passing
to countries which we can approach and
defend hi/ means of navigation ; whereas
to pass to the British frontier on the lakes,
would he to extend our communications,
Inj land, to an important frontier, to which
roe cannot pass htj other means. The for
mer is u local, the latter a General inter
I
1 here are many people in the ncigh
' bourhood ol Wheeling., w ho have won
dered by what arguments certain mem*
bers of the Pennsylvania Legislature
w< re prevailed upon to wish to make
Washington a point of the Federal turn
pike road. 1 he above is extracted lrom
i a publication on the subject in the Lan
! caster Journal of the 20th February,
j 1807, and is a specimen of the solid and
| cogent reasons which were urged in sup«
| port ol this measure. This plan ol get
ting to Chilieothe and Vincennes, each
] of which is sixty or seventy miles from
| the Ohio, by descending the Ohio river,
, is a rare discovery, and it would be pro
per that the citizens of Wheeling should
| solicit some Farther information on thp