The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1787-09-01 00:00:00

KENTUCKE GAZETTE
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 1787.
MR. BRADFORD.
DESIRING that your Press may be extensively useful, will apologize for this, and any future ef-
I have heard in my good Citizen express surprise, that the Trustees of the Transylvania Seminary should so long delay the taking any effectual steps forward the design of that well devised institution.
But it is furnished by some, that the Trustees, being of various Religious Denominations, are each of them averse from the election of Teachers, until they severally can have the prospect of succeeding in the choice of those who are of their own Profession.
1. To keep up a kind of balance between the Secs, no Board may elect an equal number from each to be Teachers. This, however equitable and safe it may appear in theory, will leave it in the power of those Teachers who possess the most popular talents to propagate the Students to that System of Religion which they would promote;
2. Or, it may be ordained that the attention of the Students shall be solely confined to mere moral precepts and the knowledge of things temporal, without admitting any Theological Tenets to be taught, or Religious Exercises to be performed within the limits of the Institution.
which we are still shackled. It may however be objected, that this Remedy would be too unpopular to be attempted; or if it should, that the prejudices in favour of Christianity are so invincible, that few would encourage a Seminary of Learning from which is excluded a Religion they so highly esteem.
3. I shall, therefore, submit another Excellent that will be more consonant to the ideas of a christianized Country, and I think strictly conformable to the designs of a Seminary of Learning; which can neither be considered as a Political or Ecclesiastical Institution, but, like a private family, ought so to be conducted, as to be subservient to the true interest of both civil and religious life.
It only remains to consider, What Forms of Worship may be kept up in a Place of Public Education that is conducted on principles of equality? Nothing can be more proper than that those who are combined for the purposes of studying the Perfections of God, and his wonderful Works in creating and governing the World, should also frequently join together in his Worship.
or, if a diversity should appear, it will afford an opportunity of proving all things, and holding fast that which is good. As to those few who deny the authority of the Scriptures; they must confess it gives the most exalted ideas of the Perfections of God, and of what is praiseworthy in Man: they only doubt its Inspiration, whilst they admire the purity of its precepts and the harmony of its doctrines.
Thus, Sir, I have proposed a System as unexceptionable as that which has been universally adopted in every age; of committing the Education of Youth to Parents and Guardians; and far more safe and rational than that of discarding Religion from Seminaries of Learning, through which the Students may embrace that which is a true Religion.
TO THE PRINTER OF THE KENTUCKE GAZETTE, SIR
WHAT has been the language of the people and their leaders? Three conventions had deliberated upon the necessity of a separation after the third convention had rejected their decision to the general assembly; after the assembly had passed a law in compliance with every proposition made by Convention, and exhibited as great an instance of condescension as was ever given by a Leg.ative body; the advocates for a separation flattered themselves that the judgment of all men was fixed in conformity to their wishes.

and that they ought to have the sole and exclusive right of regulating the internal Government and policy of this State: therefore all officers of government, whether Legislative, or Executive are their trustees and servants, and are at all times accountable to them.
That all men have a natural and unalienable right, to worship Almighty God, according to the dictates of their own conscience.
That the Legislative, Executive, and Supreme Judicial powers of government ought to be so far separate from each other, and to rest an oppression, the people have a right at such period they think proper to reduce their public officers to a private station, and supply their vacancies by certain and regular elections.
That all elections ought to be free, and all free men having a sufficient evidence, common interest with, and attachment to the community, give a right to elect officers, and to be elected in office.
That all powers of making laws, or the execution of laws by any authority, without consent of the representatives of the people, are injurious to their rights, and ought not to be exercised.
That in all criminal prosecutions, every man has a right to be informed of the accusation against him, and to confront the accusers and witnesses with their testimonies, and shall not be compelled to give evidence against himself.
That no free man shall be taken or answer any criminal charge, but by indictment presentment, or impeachment, neither shall they be convicted of any crime but by the verdict of a jury of good and lawful men in open court.
That excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted.
That in all controversies at law, respecting property, and in suits between man and man, the parties have a right to trial by jury, which ought to be held sacred.
That general warrants, whereby an officer or messenger may be commanded to search suspected places, without evidence of the fact committed, or to seize any person or persons not charged with an offence against law, supported by evidence, are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be granted.
That every free man has a right to his liberty, is entitled to a remedy, to enforce upon the lawfulness thereof, and remove the same if unlawful, the writ of habeas corpus should not be denied.
That the people have a right to freedom of speech, and of writing and publishing their sentiments, therefore the freedom of the press ought never to be restrained.
That the people of this State ought not to be taxed without the consent of themselves, or their representatives in General Assembly, fees given, and that all taxes shall be levied equitable and just.
That the people of this State have a right to bear arms for the defence thereof, and as standing armies in time of peace are dangerous to liberty, they ought not to be kept up; and that the military should be kept under strict subordination, and be governed by the civil power.
That the people of this State have a right to assemble together, to consult for their common good, to instruct their representatives, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
REVOLUTION IN POLAND.
At three o'clock in the morning of May 2d, a number of patriots, who had preconcerted the great object which they meant to accomplish in the sitting of the Diet that day, assembled in the King's chamber. There, in the presence of the King, they engaged to each other the resolution that day, and they pledged themselves to each other, by a solemn engagement, not to separate until they had accomplished their end.
The assembly was opened at the usual hour. The galleries were crowded with spectators, and the house was surrounded with soldiers who could not pass admittance. Instead of the Marshals, the King himself opened the session. He said in substance, that "notwithstanding all assurances to the contrary, there was an alarmist rumour, confirmed by the advice daily received, that the three neighbouring powers would make up and terminate all their disputes and difficulties, at the expense of the possessions of the republic; that the only method of averse to Poland the integrity of its possessions, and of preserving it from the ruin which foreign politics were preparing for it, was to establish a Constitution, which should secure its internal independence. That in this view there had been prepared a plan of a Constitution, founded principally on those of England, and the United States of America; but avoiding the faults and errors of both, and adapting it as much as possible to the local and particular circumstances of the country."
In support of the information relative to the foreign powers, the King communicated to the Diet some documents received from the Minister of the Republic at foreign courts, stating how eager they were to pass an settlement of the constitution, and that every thing seemed to conspire clear of the designs of Poland. The King desired that the plan, which he submitted to them, might be read, and that they should proceed forthwith to mark it into a law, if they approved of it. The plan was accordingly read, and a very long and important debate took place.
As the representatives of the provinces of Ruthenia and Posen, declared themselves against the new form of Constitution,
M. Sacherzewski, who so recently distinguished himself in opposition to a number of an advocate for the people, and who is justly regarded as the principal author of the movements that have brought about the revolution, opposed this plan with great zeal. The patriotism by which he was animated, was animated by the Crown's being made hereditary. He advanced, and threw himself on his knees at the feet of his throne, protesting and charging his majesty, "to renounce his claim to the hereditary succession to the Royalty as it would be the ruin of the Liberty of Poland." Many representatives who were on the same side, alleged the instructions of their provinces, which prevented them from agreeing to make the Throne hereditary. They insisted that at least the plan should be taken ad referendum, as every other new law was taken: but a great majority of voices refused to agree to this. We must pass the whole this day: we will not depart from this place until the whole is accomplished." The position replied. "And we will depart until it is removed." The majority requested the King to be pleased to unite with them.
ample, and swore the same. "Every man that loves his country" exclaimed his Majesty, "follow me to the church, and thanking God, let us repeat the oath at the altar." All the Bishops, and the secular Senators, with a great number of Nuncios or representatives accompanied the King to the church, and there again they solemnly engaged before the Supreme Being and their Country, to maintain a Constitution, which combining liberty with subordination, and submitting the first citizen as well as the last to the law, secures all the means of happiness, and gives to each citizen the true enjoyment of his rights. It was by this solemn oath in the evening that the Diet was closed, and the new Constitution was announced to the people by the discharge of 200 pieces of cannon. There were but between thirty and forty Nuncios who did not follow the King to the church. The King, with his suite, returned to the Assembly house and adjourned the Diet to the 5th of May, after charging the Marshals to give the oath to all the Departments. The opposing Nuncios, seeing that all resistance was useless, received it prostrated against the new Constitution, by the promulgation of a manifesto, after which, they retired without noise to their own houses. There was no attempt made to interrupt them nor was any input what soever offered to their persons. Cries of joy filled the streets, but this joy was the expression of a pure and calm patriotism. Through the whole day there was not the smallest confusion, riot, or disorder, nor riot. At eleven o'clock the streets were so perfectly calm, that one would hardly believe that it has been the epoch of a new order of things.
It is pretended, that on the eve of this memorable day, a certain foreign Minister had endeavoured, voured by the dextrous application of 50,000 ducats, to avert the revolution: but it was foreseen and prevented. The business was executed in every point with as much address as it was framed. On the 4th instanc, eighteen Nuncios published their manifesto against the proceedings of the day before, and Mr. Sacherzewski returned the Cordon Bleu, with which his Majesty had invested him fifteen days before. On the 3d of May, the post was stopped, and even foreign Ministers submitted to the general order, but on the 4th, expressies were sent of in all directions.
In the sitting of the 5th May, the new form of Constitution was again proposed. The members present signed it unanimously, and they solemnly passed, sentence, by sentence, the twelve articles of which it is composed, and which are as follows:
 1. The Catholic Religion shall be the governing religion of the state, and the King shall protect it. But all other forms of worship shall be admitted, and a general toleration, civil and religious shall be a fundamental law of the Kingdom.  2. The ancient privileges and rights of the Noblesse are approved and confirmed.  3. At the same time all the rights and privileges of the people asserted, renewed or granted to them during the present Diet, are equally ratified and confirmed.  4. All strangers who shall arrive and settle in Poland shall enjoy full and entire liberty.  5. The peasantry are taken under the protection of the laws and of government. They are relieved from all arbitrary impositions, and do depend, henceforth, on what regards their rights and interests, only on the contracts which they shall make with their landlords. All foreign labourers are free to enter and leave in Poland, or to discharge their obligations at their pleasure, with the following restrictions: The government of Poland shall be of three branches. The Legislative power, and the ju- 
exclusively to the states assembled and composed of two chambers, to wit, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
8. The King shall exercise coactive power with his council, which shall be composed of the prime and five ministers, who shall each have a department. No order of the King can be put in execution unless it is signed by the minister, whose lives and fortunes shall be responsible to each other for the execution of their respective orders. As soon as any three of the Diet shall demand a change of ministers, the King shall be bound to dismiss them, and name others in their place.
9. The election of King shall never fall hereafter on an individual. A whole family shall be elected when the Royal family shall be extinct. Thus after the decease of the present King, (for whose long life the nation makes the most ardent prayers) the reigning elector of Saxony and his male descendants after him, shall succeed to the throne of Poland. If he shall have no male line, then Mary Augusta Nepomacene, his only daughter, now declared infant of Poland, shall succeed, and her husband, chosen by the King and the state assembled shall choose for her, from the crown and form the stock upon which that spring a new Royal dynasty of Poland.
10. In case of the minority of the King, his tutelage with administration of the government shall be in the hands of the Queen's mother, and of council, who shall be responsible for their conduct to the Diet.
11. The education of the King's children shall in like manner be confided to the council.
12. The judicial power shall be fixed for each province, county or district. The judges shall be elected at the Diets.
AMERICAN OCCURRENCES.
LEXINGTON, Sept. 17.
Extract of a letter from the Governor of Virginia, to Brig. Gen. Scott, dated Council chamber, Richmond, August 4th 1791.
"SIR, I have lately received a letter from the Secretary of War, acquainting me that in case a more extensive combination of the Indian nations should be formed than is at present anticipated on the commanding General of the troops to the Westward is authorized to call for such numbers and classes of militia, as the nature of the case may require. Should such a demand be made, you will consider it as peculiarly your duty to assemble a portion in your power, to insure the most complete compliance with it. I am much disappointed at not having been able at yet to procure a complete return of the strength of the militia of your division. Let me impress your attention on this business. It is to be obtained by the next session of the General assembly, it is very satisfactory."
"I am Sir, respectfully, SEVERLY K. BRIG. GEN. Scott."
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ON A of the Town, found dead. SAP: Y'daughter or distils & wo, re'er thy sorrows and whoe'er thou art, For thee the tears of charity shall flow, Warm from the purest fountain of the heart. Perhaps tho' now neglected & forlorn A parent once survey'd thee with delight, The idol of a father's heart alone, Or the lov'd darling of a mother's flight. For thee, perhaps, they watch'd and toird and pray'd, On thy sweet innocence with trans- port hung; And well they tho't their tender care repaid, To hear the angelic music of thy tongue. When dawning reason shed her ray be- nign, And all thy excellence became re- vealed, How did they see thy opening virtue shine, And hear thy praise with raptures conceal'd. For who, alas! can tell thy secret worth! What soft angelic virtues might ap- pear! That bosom, laid defenceless on the earth, Might once be grateful, generous and sincere; Some base deceiver, practic'd to betray Might win thy easy faith, destroy thy fame, "Then cast thee, like a loathsome weed, away." The gift of fortune, and the child of shame. Poor wanderer! perhaps thou couldst not find The liberal hand, the slender gifts to spare, Infatiate scarce the soul confin'd, Or time, prudence, disbeliev'd thy prayer. Thou forsook the world, neglected and forlorn; Careless of life, & hopeless of relief, Thy agonizing heart return'd to morn, And breath'd its last and unmoistened grief. Unhappy shade! whate'er thy lot has been, From sin at least and sorrow thou art free; Thy debt to Nature it is fully paid, And wounded pity pays her debt to thee.
Nearly ready for the press, and will be published, as soon as a sufficient number of sub- scribers can be obtained. H O L L A N D E S S A Y, in three parts. I. Containing the contract of Creation and Redemption. Shewing that the fundamental doctrines of Calvin and Arme- nius joined together, compleat- ly form the foundation or ty- stem of Universal Restoration, without the smallest diminution or addition. II. The method and manner of the restoration of all to its ori- ginal state of rectitude and im- mortality, which it was at first designed to bring a plain and light into the Pro- vidential visions and the apostolic mode of statement, shewing which thro' pipes empties of themselves, of the man his members
JUST ARRIVED, And now Opening, by TUGARDEN & MCCULLOUGH At their old Stand in Lexington A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF DRY GOODS GROCERIES, HARDWARE & QUEEN'S WARE, which they will dispose of on the most reasonable terms for Cash, etc.
FOR SALE FOR READY CASH Two likely Virginia born negro women, the one about twenty and the other about thirty years of age, they are both excellent for house- work, and are otherwise a good pair. Any person desirous to purchase apply to the printer hereof.
FOR SALE Seven hundred acres of land, on Taylor's fork of Silver creek, near Madison court house and adjoining Irvine's station. The land is of the best quality and Taylor's fork runs through a part of it - one half the pur- chase money to be paid when the conveyance is made, and the ba- lance at two annual payments - for further particulars apply to the subscriber in Lexington. CORNELIUS BEATTY. N. B. The above described tract of land is the one half of the settlement and preemption claimed by John Hart. Lexington July 13, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living at the cove spring, on the road leading from Harrodsburg to Brant- on's creek, 3 fleers, 2 of them are red with white in their faces and on their backs, also along their bellies, marked with an underbit in one ear and a hole in the other; 3 years old, the other a black, marked with an underbit in one ear, and a slit in the other, 3 years old; Appraised at 2 15 each. Thomas Lillard.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, a brown stone horse colt, 2 years old, with a star and strip, was branded, about 4 feet 8 inches high, appears to have some blood; Appraised to £ 3. Thomas Rankin. May 19, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, a bay mare, 4 years old,unkinkfully received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition. Advertisers, a small strip of m... and 2s. each time after, and longer ones in proportion. lf, between the nee
TAKEN up by the Subscriber on the fork of Hickmans creek Fayette county, a sorrel mare 13 hands and a half high, 3 years old branded US on the near buttock; Appraised to £ 9. Samuel Trotter.
TAKEN up on the head of Fox's creek, a bay horse, 13 hands and a half high, 3 years old, branded on the near buttock with a small US; was brought in by a negro man, who says he found it on the road leading from the county road to the river. Appraised to £ 10. Henry Conrad.
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the fork of Hickmans creek, Fayette county, a sorrel mare, 13 hands and a half high, 3 years old, branded on the near buttock with a small US; was brought in by a negro man, who says he found it on the road leading from the county road to the river. Appraised to £ 10. John Hart.
WISH to contract for a consi- derable quantity of flour to be delivered to me in Lexing- ton, next fall. Spring Bailey would be preferred. Also a quantity of well cu- red Hops. PETTON SHORT. April 13, 1791.
NOTICE is hereby given to the public that I have appointed Mr. W. Martin my Attorney in fact, during my absence from this country - to whom all persons indebted to me are requested to make immediate payment. As persons having just demands against me, will please to make them known to my Attorney aforesaid, who will attend them to be discharged with all expenses. PETTON SHORT.
PURSE RACE, Will be run in Lexington, the third Thursday in October next. July 29, 1791.
Strayed away from the sub- scriber, a black mare, with a bald face, branded on the near buttock and buttock HP and on the off buttock IG has got a good many saddle spots and one of her hind feet has got a little white, about sixteen or seventeen years old, about fifteen hands high; Whoever delivers the said mare to Christopher Kiefer (Lexington) small house, two dollars reward will be paid before his expenses. Whoever finds her and brings her back to the subscriber, will be paid by that fact, wilfully and feloniously stole the life of the said Daniel Griss.
WISH to lease for the term of one year, the Distillery and adjacent plantation, late the property of Mr. John Craig on Clear creek, Woodford county, and the Mill on the same whereas the said Craig has removed. Possession of the said Distillery will be given on the first day of September next. for further particulars apply to the subscriber in Lexington. PETTON SHORT. June 19, 1791.
FOR SALE DOLLARS STOLEN from the subscriber on the 10th of May last, the sum of about 15 dollars, in a small bag, which was found on the road leading from the county road to the river, by a negro man, who says he found it on the road leading from the county road to the river. Appraised to £ 10. John Grant. Woodford county, April 13, 1791.
FOR SALE A quantity of well-cured Hops to be delivered to me in Lexing- ton, next fall. Spring Bailey would be preferred. Also a quantity of well-cured Hops. PETTON SHORT. April 13, 1791.
LOST or STOLEN from the pro- prietor of the United States, the sum of about 100 dollars, in a small bag, which was found on the road leading from the county road to the river, by a negro man, who says he found it on the road leading from the county road to the river. Appraised to £ 10. John Grant. Woodford county, April 13, 1791.
A PERSON who understands the Rope-making business may hear of good encouragement by applying to the Printer. At a county Committee held at Col. Todd's old place in the county of Fayette, the 12th. September 1791. RESOLVED, that it be re- commended to the different county committees in this district, to depute two or more members from each of said committees, to meet at Lex- burg in the month of October next, for or pending the... JACOB MY
at their PRINTING OFFICE the corner of Main and Cross Street, where subscriptions are received, and PRINTING in its different branches done with Care and Expedition. Advertisers,