The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1788-11-22 00:00:00

K E N T U C K E G A Z E T T E,
S A T U R D A Y, NOVEMBER 22, 1788.
LEXINGTON: Printed by JOHN BRADFORD at his Office in Main Street where Subscriptions, Advertisements, &c. for this paper, are thankfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition.
L O N D O N July 18.
It is confidently asserted, that Sir Joseph Banks, Lord Rawdon and some other noblemen and persons of distinction, have lately set on foot a scheme for exploring the interior parts of Africa, and that proper assistants are immediately to embark for that purpose.
The annual profits arising from the African slave trade to Great Britain have been computed at £270,000.
July 10 It is said the dey of Algiers has declared war against the empress of Russia, and that a fleet had lately sailed from that port, manned with crews of desperate fellows. It is also said that the dey sent for the chief d'Escaffre, with the rest of the principal officers, when he promised a reward of 2000 sequins to the first that should bring and lay at his feet the head of the English rebel Paul Jones.
Last Monday's Gazette contains the sentences of Messieurs Van Weiserveld, and L. H. Van Dyck, of Harlem and Elbourgh. One of the above is a burgomaster; they are both banished for life, as well as two ministers of the gospel, a lieutenant colonel, and many more; some others only exiled for a particular term of years. The burgomaster Rauwenhoff was sentenced to have his head topped off on the public scaffold, and the gates of Guelderland have in consequence been closed, and condemned him to perpetual imprisonment, with the pain of death.
An Adventure of 23. A letter from the port of May last by a Genoese man of war, which was after a severe and bloody combat with a Turkish galley on board perished. So desperate was the combat, that the vessels were the incidents to the last, that they were both on fire, and almost incessant fire with small arms out of the tops, and from different parts of their ship, into the man of war, as they were sinking, which killed and wounded above twenty men; most of the latter died the next day, owing to the balls which the pirates fired being all chewed.
The court of Spain has come to a resolution of tolerating to a certain degree, every Christian sect, that admits of the mystery of the Holy Trinity and the incarnation of our blessed Saviour, as contained in the creed of the Apostles; and it was expected that on the 25th of July, being the festival of St. James, a pragmatic sanction for the purpose would be issued out at the castle of Idelson.
Official dispatches were on Monday last received from the duke of Orléans. They state, that the French dispatches from India mentioned an expedition which the Governor of Pondicherry was undertaking against Trincomale, in consequence of a sloop that was dispatched in November last, with the information of the probable rupture between France and the country, and authorising the Governor of the French settlements in the East-Indies to arm, that this armament was in consequence proceeding.
To the Printer of the Kentucky Gazette.
SIR,
When my mind is disengaged from those pursuits, which necessarily call for your attention, when freed from care or anxiety, I submit to the superior impressions of Religion or Philosophy, I find such moments the happiest of any. It is then, Sir, I view the common employments of life as beneath the constant drudge of an intellectual Being my mind expands: Affection warms--Devotion captivates my soul, and the whole system beats in unison.
There is some thing peculiar in this Western Country which gives truth to devout affections;--The beauty,--the fertility,--the pleasing Woodlands a present decorated in its golden hue, together with the abundance of every necessary for the food of man to support his Being, and to cheer his mind, all conspire to raise his Angelic Nature, and to address the Beneficent Father of the Universe who bestows on us every blessing we enjoy. If Sir, amidst the variety of subjects, which employ your Press you think the following Hymn
not unworthy your notice. You may observe in it that I have only remained a short time in mostly ex- tracted from Mr. Thompson's Seasons, where I have ventured alterations, it has been with a view to adapt it to our situation. I am Sir Albany O. 21, 1788. yours, A. B.
THESE as they change ALMIGHTY FATHER, these, A bout the varying GOD the rolling year Is full of THEE! Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, thy tenderness and Love; Wide o'er the Hills, the softening Air is balm, Echo the WOODS are round, all Nature smiles, And every eye, and every heart is joy.
Then come thy Glory in the Summer Months, With light and heat refulgent: then thy Sun, Shoots full perfection, thro' the swelling Year; And oft thy voice in dreadful Thunder pecks, And oft, in gentle Drops in hollow whispering Gales.
Then BOUNTY shines in Autumn unconfin'd And spreads a common feast for all that live In pleasant weather, with Clouds and Storms, And the rich Harvest of the Tempest roll'd And the soft Dewdrop on the whirlwind's wing Bathing the world, and the world adore. And northern Blast, with thy northern blast.
Then come, my GOD, thy coming Soul With power and great majesty of the sky! In awful majesty, in radiant rale TO HIM YE VOCAL GALE Spirit in your breathless breathes In solitary Glories.
And tuck's Cliffs the Cedars wave And the brown shade with religious awe And ye whole border Notes are heard afar Who share in astonish'd World lift high to heav'n Th' impetuous Song and say from whom ye rage His praise ye brooks attune, ye trembling rills, And let me catch it, as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents, rapid and profound, Ye faster floods, that lead the humid maze Along, the vale, and thou majestic Main, A secret world of wonders in thy self! Sound his stupendous Praise: whose greater voice Or bids you roar, or bids your roaring fall. Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flow'rs, In mingled clouds to HIM, whole Sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, beth, ye harvests wave to HIM. GREAT SOURCE of Day best image here below Of THY CREATOR EVE, pouring wide From World to World, the vital ocean round! With Nature write on ev'ry beam HIS PRAISE.
The Thunder rolls! -- Behold ye prostrate World, When thick Cloud to Cloud returns the solemn Hymn: Eternal Father! earth ye Hills, ye mossy rocks, Retain the sound the broad responsive low Ye valleys raise; for the GREAT SHEPHERD reigns, And his unjarring Kingdom yet will come.
Ye chief for whom the whole creation smiles At once the head the heart and tongue of all Crown the great Hymn. Ye different sectaries, Who thro' the Land on one great errand lent, In various places meet, diff'ring in part, Essentials still the same; whether in costly Sumptuous Edifices, or lowly cots, Or recluse in the Woodland's graceful shades, You make the forest echo to your Songs: Let all resound the great JEHOVAH'S PRAISE! And as each swelling sound, increases each In one united ardor to Heaven.
For me should I forget the darling theme, Whether the blossom blows, Summer's Sun Ripens the plains, alsping Autumn gleams, Or Winter darkens in the naked East; Be my tongue mute, may fancy paint no more, And dead to joy, forget my heart to beat. Should fate command me to the farthest verge Of the green earth, to distant barbarous climes, To Rivers unknown to Song, where first the Sun Gilds Afric's Mountains, or his setting beams
Warms num'rous Indian Tribes--- 'tis nought to me since GOD is ever present ever felt In Savage wastes as thro' this fertile Land, And where HE vital spreads there must be Life.
When e'en at last the solemn hour shall come, Which wings my mystic flight to future Worlds, I chearful will obey: I cannot go Where UNIVERSAL LOVE, not smiles around; Sustaining all your Orbs, and all their Suns, From seeming evil, still adducing good, And better still, and better thence again, In INFINITE PROGRESSION, but I lo'e My self IN HIM! IN LIGHT INEFFABLE! Come then expressive silence muse his PRAISE.
T O R K, July 31.
Friday the 25, was appointed by the inhabitants of this place as a day of public rejoicing for the happy progress of the NEW CONSTITUTION: but from the appearance of the weather on Thursday evening, the meeting was postponed until Monday last.
The day was opened by an alarm gun-- the morning being very wet, and the weather continuing bad until twelve o'clock, attendance at church, which had been part of the plan, was necessarily omitted. At half past 12, a signal was given for repairing to the place of rendezvous by a discharge from the artillery.
On the procession being formed, a signal was given by a shot from the artillery, when the trumpets sounded a march -- on their ceasing, the drums and fifes struck up, they were relieved by hanzboys!
On entering the town, the bells began to ring, and a number of gentlemen who had formed themselves into a band, gave an elegant march on violins and flutes. -- On the arrival of the procession at Federal Green, a gun was fired from the artillery and a volley by the infantry. The company then proceeded to the choice of a president and vice president, when Thomas Hartley, Esq; was appointed president, and William Scott, Esq; vice president.
An Oration suitable to the occasion, was delivered by Mr. Charles W. Hartley.
Dinner was then served up in the utmost order. After dinner the following toasts were given by the Flag carriers of the respective trades and classes.
1. United States Flag. May our Prows explore every inlet of the habitable Globe -- Our Flag ride Triumphant on every Ocean -- May Impartiality wield the Sword of Justice, and Impetuosity the Sword of War.
II. Flag of the State of Pennsylvania -- The State of Pennsylvania -- May she hold the Federal Balance and become the Arbitress of the Continent.
III. Magistrates Flag. May Justice by her Sword protect her Scales -- May nothing but Righteousness turn the Beam, and may she write on Sophistry what convulsed Beltsabazzar, "Thou art weighed in the Balance and art found wanting."
IV. Farmers Flag. Perpetual Laurels to the men who have "beaten the Sword of Civil Dissension into a Plow Share" -- Who have sown the seed of good Government; may it spring up without Tares, and may each revolving Harvest witness its Increase.
V. Masons and Bricklayers. May the component parts of the Federal Edifice be squared by the Plummet of impartial Justice inseparably attached by the cement of Citizenship.
VI. Clock and Watch makers Flag. -- May virtue be the Main-spring of our new Government -- Patriotism keep its works in order. May the popular voice wind up its chain, and may its hand point to the public good.
VII. Bakers Flag. May an Oven "seven times heated" be the fate of him whose only objects are the "Loaves and Fishes."
VIII. Stocking Weavers Flag. May he who first broached the formation of a new Government, have a wreath of Laurels twisted round his brow, and a garland of honorary flowers wore for his reward.
IX. Tailors Flag. May Fate with her shears cut the thread of that mans life, Fame dishonour him with the name of Goose, and society baste him, who endeavours to Cabbage from his Country.