The Kentucke gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1787-09-22 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, SEPTEMBER 22, 1787.
H A G U E, April, 25 1786.
THE Turks, if we may credit the recent accounts from Constantinople, seem to tempt their own fate. If to the confusion that now reigns through that unhappy empire, a revolution in the seraglio be added, which the riotous behaviour of the Janissaries seem to indicate to be fast approaching, & the puppet they clothed in the Imperial robe be forced into a war with Russia, their ruin is inevitable. When an army after debasing the sovereign takes the field, adue to all subordination and discipline; their nominal leaders are their slaves, and must implicitly obey their caprices. Mutinous in the camp, cowardly in the fight, they will rush upon their enemies, and fly from them with equal precipitation; nothing therefore but ill success can be expected from them, and they give the empress as well as the emperor the fairest opportunity that could be wished, of further remembering that empire. Nor will the ambitious Bachas and Beys be idle, they have in general long shewn an ardent desire to make themselves independent of the Porte, and they will doubtless not neglect the present occasion to attempt to erect separate governments. Whether this event should it take place, will suspend the other projects of those potentates, time only can discover. It is more than probable that it will; but this suspension will only be temporary, and the small states in their neighbourhood must be equally on their guard against them.
Vienna, May 6. An engineer of this place has invented a mill, which completely grinds all sorts of grain, without the aid of wind, water or fire.
Paris, April 18. We have just now an express arrived from Pera, which mentions a dangerous insurrection at Constantinople, that raged so much as to occasion all the gates and avenues of the city to be shut up, and no person suffered to pass but under proper restrictions; all the ambassadors had shut themselves up in their hotels; the French consul at Pera dispatched this news.
Petersburgh, Oct. 1. We have received indispitable information that a body of Russian troops has been entirely defeated by the Cuban Tartars. Prince Potemkin the commander of our troops in the Crimea, is recalled, on account of having been so inattentive as to suffer himself to be surprised by the Tartars. All the officers of the regiments stationed on the frontiers of the Crimea, are ordered to join their respective corps without delay.
Vienna, Oct. 14. We learn that the Russians have taken two Turkish spies, in the environs of the Caucasus. They were hanged without any formal process. We are also informed, that the divan have signified to Mr. de Bulgakow the Russian envoy, that their complaints have produced no effect, preparations were making for attack and defence.
Tunis, Jan. 4. It is no longer possible to conceal the discontent which visibly reigns among the members of our administration, who are quite at a loss to know how to restore tranquillity to the state. The Venetians have made their appearance again on our coasts, and unhappily for us, have had better success than formerly; but what in some degree lessens our fear, and makes us hope their design is not at present against Suza, is the information we have received, that their sole intention is to watch the Ottoman fleet, which is now in a very distressed situation off Alexandria. Since writing the above we have just heard that the Venetian fleet have begun to fire upon Suza.
L O N D O N, June 13, 1786.
Mr. Pitt in answer to an enquiry of the earl of Surrey, in the debate in the house of commons the eighth instant, said, undoubtedly it was his intention to bring forward the business of the crown lands as early as possible; but he was fearful nothing more could be done this year, than using parliamentary authority for a more actual and accurate survey. As for the claims of the American loyalists, every step possible was taken to accomplish the business, but he did not imagine the house would be called on to come to any thing decisive on that head this year.
The last advices from the continent confirm the probability of an approaching rupture between the Russians and the Turks; and that the contest is likely to
be a bloody one, as the latter have been some time preparing secretly for war, and manifests a disposition to risk their very existence to a people to regain their lost credit among the European powers. The emperor, it is thought, will also be a party in this war for which he is to have an extent of territory: his present possessions, extensive as they are, not being sufficient to satisfy his rapacious mind.
Letters from Vienna, dated May 12, mention, that in case the house of Austria should think proper to make an alliance against the Porte, in favour of Russia the states of Venice had voluntarily requested to be included in the treaty; and were, supposing a war inevitable, preparing for it with the utmost alacrity. They had 11 new galleys on the stocks, and had purchased of the emperor at Trieste, 15,000 quintals of gun powder.
Feb. 18. A letter from Rheims, dated Feb. 27 says "About a fortnight ago, a boat, with 40 persons in it, crossing the Maese, near Dun, in Clermontois, was overset, and all on board, except the waterman, perished. There were eleven pregnant women among them. A labourer being told of the dreadful accident, mounted a stout horse in an instant and jumped with him into the river, from a bank twenty feet high. The moment he got above the waves, he directed his swimming, with his horse, amidst those heads of the women that appeared now and then above water. He seized eight of them by their hair, and let them successively go, till he found his wife, whom he carried ashore, and afterwards on his back to a public house, where she gave some signs of life; but nature, by so violent a shock, forced the offspring from its mother's womb, and they both died in a few minutes after. The husband, the unhappy spectator of such a dismal scene did not survive them long. Grief had preyed so fast on his heart, that he died next morning. They were all three buried in one coffin. The magistrates of the town would have punished the waterman for his negligence, or want of skill, but that, amongst the victims of his imprudence, were his wife and sister.
The King of France is now busily employed in making the way clear to universal toleration throughout his dominions. So much has his most Christian Majesty this object at heart, that, contrary to practice for time immemorial, he has admitted into the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, members who have withdrawn themselves from the pale of the mother church.
The Court of France, since the commercial Treaty has been sur la tapis , have been careful to remove the idea of religious differences, and would have us to understand that there is no dissension now between the protestant and Romish tenets--that we should look upon one another as brothers. Some cry up this recantation of doctrine, as the blessed effect of Philosophy--while others scruple not to call it the fly manœuvres of policy; but " sub judice lis est ."
L I V E R P O O L, June 26. Sad Consequences to be apprehended from Precipitate Interments.
A young child in the hands of a dry nurse at Troys in Champagne, which had been ill of a violent fever was found one morning, to all appearance dead. The nurse wrapped him up immediately in a winding sheet and his parents being gone to Angodema, acquainted the curate that there would be a burial in the afternoon. The curate insisted on the woman's not burying the child till the next morning. In the middle of the night, the nurse, who was really fond of the poor babe, began to look at him with redoubled affection, and shedding a torrent of tears over him, took him up, and clasped him to her bosom. His heart beat, he cries, he lives! he lives! Her joy was equal to her astonishment. She hastened to deliver the dear child from the fatal bonds of death, he opened his eyes, smiled upon her, and stretched his little arms, now at liberty. Those hours of profound sleep had perfectly restored him to health, and by this most lucky circumstance, the child received new life at the very instant he was to be lain among the dead.
A SCENE from an Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African. Translated from a Latin Dissertation.
LET us turn our eyes to the cloud of dust that is before us. It seems to advance rapidly, and accom-
panied with dismal shrieks and yellings, to make the very air that is above tremble as it rolls along. What can possibly be the cause? Let us enquire of that melancholy African who seems to walk dejected near the shore; whose eyes are steadfastly fixed on the approaching object, and whose heart, if we can judge from the appearance of his countenance, must be greatly agitated.
'Alas!' says the unhappy African, 'the cloud that you see approaching is a train of wretched slaves, They are going to the ships behind you. They are destined for the English colonies; and if you will stay a little time you will see them pass. They were last night drawn up upon the plain which you see before you, where they were branded upon the breast with a hot iron, and when they had undergone the whole of the treatment which is customary on these occasions, and which I am informed that you Englishmen at home use to the cattle which you buy, they were returned to their prison. As I have some dealings with the members of the factory, which you see at a little distance, (though thanks to the great spirit! I never dealt in the liberty of my fellow creatures) I gained admittance there. I learned the history of some of the unfortunate whom I saw confined, and will explain to you if my eye should catch them as they pass, the real causes of their servitude.'
Scarcely were these words spoken, when they came distinctly into sight. They appeared to advance in a long column, but in a very irregular manner. There were only three in front, and these were chained together. The rest that followed seemed to be chained by pairs; but by pressing forward to avoid the lash of the drivers, the breadth of the column began to be greatly increased, and ten or more were observed abreast.
While we were making these remarks, the intelligent African thus resumed his discourse: 'The three whom you observe at the head of the train, to be chained together, are prisoners of war. As soon as the ships that are behind you arrived, the news was dispatched into the inland country, when one of the kings immediately assembled his subjects and attacked a neighbouring tribe. The wretched people, though they were surprised, made a formidable resistance, as they resolved, almost all of them, rather to lose their lives than their liberty. The person whom you see in the middle is the father of the two young men who are chained to him on each side. His wife and two of his children were killed in the attack; and his father being wounded, and on account of his age incapable of servitude, was left bleeding on the spot where this transaction happened.'
With respect to those that are now passing us, and are immediately behind the former, I can give you no other intelligence, than that some of them, to about the number of thirty, were taken in the same skirmish. Their tribe was said to have been numerous before the attack; these, however are all that are alive. But with respect to the unhappy man that is now opposite to us, and whom you may distinguish as he is now looking back and wringing his hands in despair, I can inform you with more precision. He is an unfortunate convict. He lived only about five days journey from the factory. He went out with his king to hunt, and was one of his train; but thro' too great an anxiety to afford his royal master diversion, he roused the game from the cover rather sooner than was expected. The king, exasperated at this circumstance, immediately sentenced him to slavery. His wife and children, fearing lest the tyrant should extend the punishment to themselves, which is not unusual, fled directly to the woods, where they all perished.
The people whom you see close behind the unhappy convict form a numerous body, and reach a considerable way. They speak a language which no person in this part of Africa can understand; and their features, as you may perceive, are so different from those of the rest, that they almost appear a distinct race of men. From this circumstance I recollect them. They are the subjects of a very distant prince, who agreed with the slave merchants for a quantity of spirituous liquors, to furnish him with a stipulated number of slaves. He accordingly surrounded, and set fire to one of his own villages in the night, and seized these people who were, unfortunately, the inhabitants, as they were escaping from the flames. I still saw them as the merchants were driving them in, about two days ago. They came in a large body, and were tied together at the neck with leather thongs, which permitted them to walk at the distance of about the distance of about a yard from one another. Many of them were laden with

elephants teeth, which had been purchased at the same time. All of them had bags made of skins, upon their shoulders: for as they were to travel, in the way from the great mountains, through barren sands and inhospitable woods for many days together, they were obliged to carry water and provision with them. Notwithstanding this, many of them perished, some by hunger, but the greatest number by fatigue; as the place from whence they came is at such an amazing distance from this; and the obstacles, from the nature of the country, so great, the journey could scarcely be compleated in seven months.
When this relation was finished, and we had looked steadily for some time on the crowd that was going by, we lost sight of that peculiarity of feature which we had before remarked. We then discovered the inhabitants of the depopulated village had all of them passed us, and that the part of the train to which we were now opposite, was a numerous body of kidnapped people. Here we indulged our imagination; we thought we beheld in one of them a father; in another husband; and in another a son; each of whom was forced from his various and tender connections, and without even the opportunity of bidding them adieu. While we were engaged in these and other melancholy reflections, the whole body of slaves had entirely passed us. We turned almost insensibly to look at them again, when we discovered an unhappy man at the end of the train, who could scarcely keep pace with the rest. His feet seemed to have suffered much from long and constant travelling, for he was limping painfully along.
This man resumes the African, 'has traveled a considerable way. He lived at a considerable way from hence, and had a large family, for whom he was daily to provide. As he went out one night to a neighbouring spring to procure water for his thirsty children, he was kidnapped by two slave hunters, who sold him in the morning to some country merchants for a bar of iron. These drove him with other slaves, procured almost in the same manner, to the nearest market, where the English merchants, to whom the train that has just passed us belongs, purchased him and two others, by means of their traveling agents, for a pistol. His wife and children have been long waiting for his return, but he is gone for ever from their sight; and must now be di consolate, as they must be certain by the delay, that he is fallen into the hands of the CHRISTIANS.'
TO THE VIRGINIAN.
SIR,
I HAVE seen your late pieces against a separation, and as you are now my country man, I shall make no apology for asking you a few questions relative to your former conduct, and these last productions, that may cast light on both.
Did you not get elected to the first convention by haranguing a muster field audience?
By whom was it that "complaints were at first made of grievances in the administration of Government, and a great inattention in the assembly to the interest of this country?" And was it not you, and you alone that was so alarmed, and to whom "these complaints appeared so well founded, that they awakened in" your mind only, "a resentment like that which had been heretofore expressed against the abuses of the king and parliament of Great-Britain?"
When our Gentlemen of the first Convention were labouring so earnestly for grievances as for hid treasure, was you not second best?
Did you not labour with all your oratory in the first convention to inflame the minds of the members with resentment against the Government and Assembly?
Did you not read to them a letter from an Eastern correspondent, and a laboured composition of your own to strengthen your harangues against the said Government and assembly?
And to crown all, did you not then move that the convention should come to a resolution "that the Government of Virginia was become intolerable, and ought to be no longer born; and that the district should immediately take the reins of Government into their own hands?"
Did not your motion fail for want of a second; and did you not make the like motion a second and a third time without success?
And was you not the only man who spoke a word of a separation taking place in any short time? I think you was.
If the dispute has changed its appearance (with any man of sense) respecting the conduct and Govern-
ment of Virginia is it not with yourself: and did you not make the loudest complaints against them?
Did you not by a poetical prayer, addressed to a court yard audience and posted up at the tavern procure yourself a seat in the second Convention! and did you not then vote for a separation on the terms mentioned in your second piece!
At the election for a third Convention was you not out voted!
-----Ay, there's the rub! "To be out voted or to be out wited." "This is the humbling mortifying thought!" "To cease to claim success by confidence" "Must give you pause and stop your resolution;" "This is the intolerable sad reflection" "Which drags you on with so much fruitless toil" "And makes calamity of our Convention!"
With this change of fortune did you not change sides; and "By bold assertions and illiberal impositions upon a court house audience" did you not endeavour to procure your election to the Convention of 1786, by making them believe that the Government and assembly had changed their conduct---a conduct of which no one had so loudly complained as your self?
Are not your Pieces leveled more against certain persons who favour the separation, than the measure itself? and do you not point at your own conduct as much as any other mans?
When you was so piping hot for a separation, did you not then call yourself a Pennsylvanian?
And how is it that you have been so agitated; or to what magic may we owe it that a man of your good understanding should be so much like a weather-cock, to change his sentiments because he was out voted: and change his Country because he has changed his sentiments.
A NATIVE OF VIRGINIA.
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JUST OPENED,
And to be sold on the most reasonable terms for cash, at the house of Mr. John Clark, in Lexington by
GEORGE TEGARDEN, CONSISTING OF a compleat assortment of linen and stuffs. Also, coffee, bohe tea, chocolate, mulcovado sugar, pepper, allspice, nutmegs, ginger, indigo, coperas, rosin, resons, rice, china and queens ware, glass tumblers, West India rum, writing paper, cotton cards, eight penny nails, &c. &c. &c.
ALL PERSONS
Indebted to Henry Work or the subscriber, by bond, note or book account, are desired to make payment on or before the first day of October next, as they may not expect any further indulgence.
Sept. 20, 1787. HENRY MARSHALL.
Aug. 23, 1787.
TWO DOLLARS REWARD STRAYED or Stolen from the plantation of William Stevenfon (near the surveyors office) a large bay horse, seven years old about four feet eleven inches high, has a small star, one white foot, and some saddle marks, branded on the near buttock B L, paces and trots. Whoever takes up said horse, and secures him so that I get him shall receive the above reward.
JOHN LITLE wheel-right, near Lexington.
Notice is given to the Separate Baptists that their next general
ASSOCIATION
Will commence on the first Friday in October next, at Tates creek meetinghouse, and will continue Saturday and Sunday: the reason of this publication is, that there has been a misapprehension in the appointment. Sept. 12, 1787. WALKER BAYLOR. C.A.
Fayette County September 12, 1787.
I Hereby give notice to the Gentlemen subscribers to an article of agreement, bearing date the tenth day of July last, for the purpose of settling on Col. John Harris's lands on main Licking, That we Horatio Turpin Esq. and myself, agents for said Harris, shall meet them at Brays tavern in Lexington on Thursday the the first day of November next in perfect readiness to proceed to the place, lay off their lots agreeable to contract, and give them possession. The strictest punctuality will be necessarily observed in this case on my part, and therefore hope, no neglect will take place on the part of the subscribers. The public utility of this measure if carried into effect, will merit the approbation of this county; but in a particular manner of those Gentlemen who hold large possessions of lands contiguous to that place, whom, I have not a single doubt will liberally contribute. This settlement will consist of twenty six men, situate within ten miles of the Ohio river, on the bank of main Licking.
JOHN CRITTENDEN.
A FRESH CARGO
Just opening for Sale in LEXINGTON by THOMAS JANUARY, Consisting of a Compleat Assortment of DRY GOODS!
Also, COFFEE, TEA, LOAF SUGAR, RAISINS, JAMAICA SPIRITS, WINE, LIME JUICE, BROWN SUGAR, SHIRUB, EMPTY BOTTLES, TEAPOTS, CUPS AND SAUSERS, &c. &c. &c. Which he means to dispose of very cheap for CASH.
Fayette, September 5 1787.
ALL persons who have platts and certificates in the surveyors office of Fayette, are desired to apply personally, or by their agents for them. All those who fail to apply as above, may expect I shall take the most speedy methods of recovering my fees on such surveys. Those who have open accounts are desired to settle, and discharge them or close them by giving some specialty for payment to their Humble servant.
THOMAS MARSHALL late surveyor of Fayette.
Danville, August: 24, 1787.
THE public are cautioned against taking assignments of two bonds I gave Mr. Maurice Nagle, of Danville, the first for £200 due next July, the other £210 due July 1789, as I will not pay them until said Mr. Nagle discharges some debts of consequence which I am liable to pay upon his account. On the first of these bonds there is paid £130 5 7, Virginia Currency, SAMUEL IRWIN
Lincoln, Aug. 15, 1787.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform the Public that he is now engaged in erecting a Paper Mill on a branch of Dicks river near his grist-mill, and expects to have it fully compleated by the first of November next. He flatters himself that in the execution of an undertaking which promises such advantages to this District, he will meet with the greatest encouragement from every good citizen, who wishes to see Arts, and manufactures flourish in Kentucky. But as a paper manufactory cannot be carried on without rags, he therefore most earnestly recommends it to all persons to be particular in saving all their old linen and cotton. Proper persons will be appointed in different parts of the country to receive rags, for which he will give a higher price in cash than is given for that article in Maryland, or Pennsylvania, JACOB MYERS.
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K E N T U C K E G A Z E T T E.
S A T U R D A Y, SEPTEMBER 29, 1787.
To the Honourable the SPEAKER and MEMBERS of the two HOUSES of GENERAL ASSEMBLY. The PETITION and REMONSTRANCE of the SUBSCRIBERS FREEHOLDERS, and INHABITANTS of the City of RICHMOND, and County of HENRICO; Humbly Sheweth:
THAT with minds filled with the deepest anxiety and distress at the alarming consequences of an act passed at the last session of General Assembly, intitled "An act imposing new Taxes," your Petitioners and Remonstrants find themselves impelled to appear before the Legislature, in vindication of their unalienable Constitutional Rights, and in opposition to a Law that has for its basis, principles which we humbly conceive are repugnant to equal right, common justice, and sound policy. That while in the decent, but firm language becoming freemen to use and the Legislature to hear, we offer our objections to the act in question; it is with peculiar regret, we lament the necessity of remonstrating against a measure which has for its object the discharge of the national Debt, the support of Public Credit, and a provision for the Exigencies of Government, because well aware of the public necessities we are sensible of the difficulties that attend in the adoption of measures best calculated to answer those great purposes, and under these impressions would with cheerful contribution afford our equal and common proportion upon every requisition of the Legislature, except those, an acquiescence in which might establish precedents dangerous to the Peace, Liberty, and Happiness of our country, and incur to us the just Reproaches of Posterity for betraying those Rights, which by every Principle of Honour, we are bound to guard and maintain.
We therefore remonstrate against the act, intitled "An act imposing new Taxes," as unjust, impolitic, and unconstitutional:--As unjust--
Because it imposes a tax on Houses in Town, not imposed on Houses in the Country, which is at once unequal and partial, and a departure from that wise & unerring axiom of politics, that the measure of all public Burthens should be equal and general, not partial and particular.
Because also those who impose this tax do not feel its unequal weight, and therefore are under no restraint to desist from oppression, contrary to another wise principle, that the governors and governed should contribute equally to the support of government, and feel in common all its burthens.
Because also the tax imposed upon clerks of one third their fees being founded upon the principle that the fees are too high, is derogatory to the Honour of the Legislature, inasmuch as it continues an avowed injustice, in order to drive a contemptible increase to the public revenue, whilst we conceive the true policy of the Legislature ought to be to render the fee-bill equal by granting to the clerks no greater reward than their services merit, and thus removing the justice of the Law, take away the temptation to sanction it for the purposes of Revenue.
Because also the Tax upon wheels, being beyond every rule of proportion, is an arbitrary restraint on the free use of property, while the Tax on professions is equally so of the exercise of those talents with which the God of Nature has endowed his creatures, and therefore the said taxes are subversive of Common Right.--And,
Because also whilst the payment of other taxes, for the coherency of the people, made commutable in Tobacco and public Securities, the Taxes imposed by this Law, are, as if designed to be marked with peculiar inequality and hardship, made payable in Specie only.
We also Remonstrate against the said act as impolitic for the following reasons:
Because it establishes a dangerous and alarming discrimination in the mode of Taxation, and moreover operates to discourage the growth and increase of Towns, the establishment of Manufactures, the improvements and progress of Science, and the free exercise of the human faculties in those laudable pursuits which tend as well to the honor and interest of the community, as the advantage of the Individual, contrary to the policy of every wise Government.
It establishes a dangerous and alarming Discrimination in the mode of Taxation, because by the operation of the Law for equalizing the land-tax, lands in the country continue to pay a fixed per cent. upon their averaged value without regard to their
present or future state of improvement, whilst lots in Town are by this act subjected to pay an increased Tax for all additional improvements; and moreover by being a departure from the equal principle of assessment, ad valorem , to the adoption of one founded on supposed local advantage, which being dependent on mere opinion, may be extended to answer every purpose of inequality and oppression, by changing and directing both its object and amount, so that we may quickly expect to see, for the same principle will justify it, that Dwellings contiguous to navigation, Counties situate upon Rivers, and farms convenient to Cities, shall be subjected to Taxes, from which the more distant Counties will be free.
It tends to discourage the growth and increase of Towns, because it takes from the individual that hope of profit which is his only inducement to build upon and improve his untenanted and uncultivated Lots; and whenever that Profit is taken away, by whatever cause, the resulting effect we have stated, is, in our opinion, inevitable.
It tends to defeat the establishment of Manufactures, because these cannot be established but in Towns, where the support and endeavours of all its various branches may be conducted and directed with uniformity, decision, and effect; and the same cause which discourages the one will ultimately also defeat the other.
It tends to check the improvement and progress of Science, and the free exercise of the human faculties, by a discrimination of professional men as the objects of Taxation, whose endeavours redound to the honor and advantage of every Community, and which cannot be effected but by the free exercise of those Talents which are the bountiful gifts of Heaven, and which, it being impious to disuse, no human Laws should or ought to restrain: And because too this objection will be found more strongly to apply when the principle of this Tax is extended to men of every calling, trade, or profession, as it certainly must and will if suffered to exist, thereby shifting the weight of the public burthens from all men generally and equally, to those of particular descriptions, unhinging the barriers of Government, and prostrating every principal of the social Compact.
We also remonstrate against the said act as unconstitutional for the following reasons:
1st. Because by the third Section of the Bill of Rights it is declared that the people have an equal claim to the common benefit, protection, and security of Government; of course the rule and principle of all Legislative Acts ought to be general and equal, not partial and particular.
2dly. Because by the wise principle of the Bill of Rights which provides "that no man or set of men are intitled to exclusive or separate emoluments from the Community," it is inseparably inferred that no man or set of men can or ought to be subjected to exclusive or separate burthens or inconveniences, otherwise inequality might be the rule of Government whenever political expediency should suggest, inasmuch as particular burthens on a particular class of Citizens, must always operate to the general exemption of the other Citizens from their equal participation in the burthens of Government; And this We humbly conceive, is the direct, obvious, and certain consequence of the act in question.
3dly. Because this act by being unequal, partial, and particular, is a departure from the fifteenth Section of the Bill of Rights which declares "that no free government can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to Justice." And it is equally indifferent to the governed whether this departure be found in those acts of the Legislature which establish an unequal mode of participation under the common burthens of Government, or in those which by choaking the fountains of Justice render our jurisprudence an Evil rather than a Good.
Lastly. We Remonstrate against the said act as true friends to the constitution and Government under which we live, solicitous to preserve the Rights and privileges secured to us by the late glorious Revolution, at the expence of the best blood and treasure of our country, and anxious to avoid that innumerable train of evils consequent on Disunion, Dissention, and Discord, which, we fear, are inevi-
table from a farther continuance of the measure in question.
For all which reason, your PETITIONERS and REMONSTRANTS humbly pray that the act, intitled "An act imposing new Taxes," may be repealed.--And,
FINALLY, That an all-wise and gracious Providence may enlighten your minds and direct your measures to the advancement of his Honor and the true Interest and happiness of your Constituents. And We, as in duty bound, shall, &c.
Extract of a letter from Petersburg Dec. 19.
"Accounts are received from Captain Ijmayloff governor of Kamtschatka, that two armed ships, under English colours, from the coast of America, with a cargo of furs were put into the island of Metmi; that on their arrival they were not allowed to land or even traffic for fresh provisions, but after making the prince some valuable presents of European articles they had entered into a league of friendship with him for the carrying on a traffic with the Japanese for the disposal of their cargoes, which chiefly consist of furs, that before the sloop which brought the intelligence sailed from Metmi, they had made several voyages to the coast of Japan, and met with great success; that they were preparing to leave some of their people on the island to whom the prince had promised protection, and had actually betrothed one of his daughters to the supercargo, who was to be left in the island as commander of the party for the carrying on a correspondence with the Japanese and the Kurile islands."
Extract of a letter from Trieste, Jan 20.
"The Imperial frigate Jacobine, Captain Leraude, of 26 guns, has just brought in here an Algerine galley, mounting 18 guns, and carrying 86 men, which she took off the point del Nicolia, after an engagement of forty minutes, in which the barbarian lost several men. This vessel has been long on the Tunisian coast, and taken a variety of vessels."
Extract of a letter from Malaga, February 1.
"The Portuguese man of war, La Languaire, has nearly scoured these coasts of the Barbary corsairs, with which they have been so very long infested; two of those vessels, under the Salletine flag, have been sent in here, and will be conveyed to some of her most faithful Majesty's ports as early as possible. By way of reprisals, their crews will be sent into slavery."
Extract of a letter from Constantinople, March 6.
"The Divan are not very well pleased with the overtures which the Empress has made them, that they should cede Bessarabia as a dependant state of Crimea. This request puts a war beyond a doubt. The Ottoman Minister has declared, that after a close and strict examination into the conduct of the Pacha of Azisko, he has not found him guilty of anything deserving punishment; and he cannot therefore consent to the requisition of Russia to give him up. As to the Empress establishing a Consul at Varna, the Divan cannot be responsible for the people, nor have it in their power to correct abuses which they may commit in their hours of blind indignation. And as Russia will not be satisfied with these representations, the Divan considered it as their duty to prepare for the worst. The levies of land forces, the equipment of fleets, appointments of Generals, &c. every thing speaks an approaching war. On the 22d of February, Imael Pacha left Constantinople to go to Oczakow, and take the command of 19 regiments, who will be ready to march in a few days. Three other Generals, at the head of 20,000 men, are to pass into Crimea; and a fleet sailed on the 28th of February, to complete the expedition.--This fleet is composed of 10 ships of the line, and is to be reinforced by 300 smaller vessels, and to be commanded by Admiral Cassick Elvaste Oglu. These are not vain preparations; what passes in Hungary shews that matters are come to a crisis. Orders are given for 100,000 men to advance towards that quarter of the frontiers which is most exposed; the foreign powers are begun to busy themselves. France has declared, that in case Russia persists, she will be the cause of a general rupture, as the French will be obliged to assist the Turks."
Letters from Vienna say, on the 28th of March last the Emperor caused the following notice to be sent to the French Minister: That he received with pleasure the French king's declaration of the 19th, of his determined intention to preserve the peace of Europe; but that, as great disputes still subsisted between the Porte

and Russia, which had not come to any one point of decision, and a war seeming to him inevitable, from the difference which there was in opinion between the cabinet of the Porte and the people, he declared, in case such event happened, he would remain neutral. However, in the mean time, following the example of the French king, he would use every means to settle all difficulties, if the people were disposed to peace; but should his endeavours prove unfortunate, he should observe a strict neutrality.
Extract of a letter from Madeira, April 27. "The Queen of Lisbon, a frigate of 36 guns, bound from thence to Lisbon, met in with an Algerine galley that had been cruising about these islands, and had taken several vessels; a smart engagement ensued, which lasted two hours, and the Algerine having most of her men killed and wounded, struck her colours, and is brought in here, to the no small joy of the inhabitants."
H A L I F A X, June 21. By the latest intelligence from England, we find the Russians and Turks are actually at war-- That France seems determined to take part with the Turks-- That the other powers appear rather disposed to stand aloof at present, than to engage on either side. --A fleet of 33 sail of Russian men of war were expected in England; an agent having arrived to provide stores, &c. for them.
B O S T O N, April 6. The following are handed to us as true copies of two intercepted letters from one of Shays's officers to his friends in Charlemont. They were attested to be genuine, by a person of credit, at Dorset, in the state of Vermont, March 12, 1787, and are here inserted verbatim et literatim:
"to my wife and parents and brothers and sisters and other friends wishing these lines may find you all well as they leave me and a blessing may follow you all I shall give you a small peck of time thear are gone one boat from Canady of a very large number from Boston that they will take me to Boston under Canady and the proposals to settle under the King and are moving from their parts he offers One hundred acres of land a man fifty to child one Cow a man and your Kitchen oven to too a id farm tools and three years provision this may be depended upon and that they are leaving their farms at Connecticut and fling here from Walter Avery."
"now I take this opportunity to write to my friends in the bay to inform them that the fairs of this world works well I discourse with a number of officers of this State which are under the protection of Canady which informs me that they are all ordred to be aquit with a good gun and bayonett and amonition by the first of may and further that the preparation of war at the northland is unimaginable for some time past and further moar that car. ton is at congress with the articles of peas to be fixed and the agreement to be fulfilled which is out of their power I hear no news at the present but I saw a number the last C. Shays at Caperrill give my regard to my father and mother brother and sisters and brothers I expect to be at home the first of June and I expect I shall come to the old farm without being meted by lints fools if any thing turns up now I wish you would send a loat at Cajarh wK es berington and I can get a y time this from your friend and will w'sbor and I desire to be to be rememrad to all Shays boys Cr hit is well I am get agoing to the lake I expect to be there to morrow w'sbing you well Walter Avery."
W O R C E S T E R
Extract of a letter from Warwick, dated May 22.
"Last night about two tv men under arms, surrounded the house of doctor M c ad Pomeroy, of this town-- Took the Doctor prisoner, and made their escape towards Vermont State, leaving with Mrs. Pomeroy a letter, of which the following is a copy, verbatim et literatim, which you are desired to publish if convenient."
"This are to Certify the Commonwealth of the Massachusetts that the person now taken are in to be Reserved as hostage to Secure the Life of Jon Parmeter and Henry me Culler who are Condemed to Deth by Said State, & to assure you that if the above persons are put to Deth by Said State, that the persons taken as above shall be put to Deth in the Same manner as soon as the news arives and that without Deth, & therefore pray you not to be Dejeved but pray to save Life."
Previous to the insurgents capturing Dr. Pomeroy, they made a prisoner of Joseph Metcalf, Esq. of Orange, as he was returning home from a journey. Doctor Pomeroy found means to make his escape; Mr. Metcalf, as we are informed, was carried a prisoner into the state of Vermont; but a number of spirited militia, hearing of this high handed outrage, soon armed themselves, and were in pursuit of the rebels, who, gaining information
of the intent of the militia, thought proper to release Mr. Metcalf, and seek their safety by flight.
B E N N I N G T O N, May 7.
As many unfavourable allegations have been spread abroad to injure the good people of Vermont, relative to their harbouring the insurgents of Massachusetts, the following transaction may serve to shew our disposition, not to encourage factious and rebellious fugitives who have fled from justice.
On Monday Je'nnight about 100 of the rebels from Massachusetts, who fled from justice, met at Capt. Galsbury's, in Shaftsbury, in Convention to agree on measures for continuing their opposition to that government. The authority of Shaftsbury being alarmed, at such an illegal collection, immediately met, and demanded of the Insurgents the occasion of their meeting. A committee, consisting of Col. Smith, (who was appointed their president) and four others were chosen to make answer to this demand, which was "that they were driven from their country, and had convened with a view of concerting measures whereby they might return and enjoy their properties," and being duly questioned, they produced two letters, one from Shays, and one from another of their principals, encouraging them to hold out and be spirited in their opposition for a few weeks longer, and they might be assured of relief. Judge Olin, who acted as principal on the part of the authority, conducted with a spirit true to patriotic and noble. He informed them that if they were met for the purpose of petitioning the legal authority of Massachusetts for pardon and leave to return, that their proceedings would be deemed highly commendable; but if their views were hostile, and the business to concert plans for committing depredations and continuing opposition to that government, they must disperse immediately, for no such unlawful assembling could be allowed in Vermont. Col. Smith answered, that the hopes of any advantage by petitioning was now at an end.
The Sheriff of the county, who had been previously notified, was present, for the purpose of dispersing them in case they refused to withdraw. The rebels pleaded for leave to be by themse yes a few minutes, which was granted, after which they dispersed and proceeded immediately to White Creek, in the state of New York where we have under foot there was a considerable body collected, who sit in Convention from day to day without opposition.
The Governor and Council of Vermont have given the strongest assurances to his Excellency Governor Bowdoin, that in case the insurgents residing in this state pursue any measures that are hostile, the most effectual measures shall be taken by the forces of this state for apprehending and delivering them up to his authority and punishment.
N E W Y O R K, April 12.
It appears by a return of the army lately made to the Empress of Russia, that their number consists of fifty regiments of cavalry, containing 61,819 men, and ninety two regiments of infantry, containing 213,002 men, making in the whole 274,821, exclusive of guards and artillery; and that twenty five regiments of cavalry, and thirty five of infantry, with five corps of chasseurs, are found necessary to be kept in constant employ to guard the frontiers of Turid, Cuban, and Caucasus.
Aug. 7. The general assembly of the state of Franklin, at their last session, have divided that state into two districts, and appointed Col. D. Kennedy, brigadier general of Washington district, and Colonel William Boke brigadier general of Elholm district. They have likewise appointed the honorable William Coke, William Nelson, and George Elholm Esquires delegates to wait on Congress, for the purpose of being admitted into the federal Union.
From the frequent murders committed on the people of Kentucky, Cumberland, and unwary travellers to and from those countries, by the Creek and Chickamauga tribe of Indians, the state of Franklin has lately resolved to place a strong garrison at the mouth of Highwanee river, in order to give a check to the future progress of such a banditti of blood hounds, who make it their business to live by their predatory excursions, and likewise to secure the great number of emigrants that are daily settling on the frontiers of Franklin.
L E X I N G T O N.
Late accounts from the lower parts of Virginia say, that there is the appearance of the greatest scarcity heretofore unknown, the drought has been so great this summer, that a number of people have cut down their fields of Indian corn, in order to save the fodder, and repair the land for seeding; Twenty shillings per Barrel is offered for corn and take it as soon as it is gathered.
** The general Muster for the County of Fayette is appointed on Thursday the fourth day of October next at Lexington.
ALL PERSONS indebted to Alexander and James Parker, are requested to come in and settle their accounts before October court, for they need not expect any further indulgence,
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD,
Strayed from the subscriber living near Strodes station, the latter end of February a likely bey filly, a year old in April, branded with an I on the near shoulder, has a large star in her forehead. Whoever takes up and secures said filly so that her owner may get her again, shall receive the above reward and reasonable charges paid by Sept. 26. JOHN CALAMAN.
Lincoln, Aug. 15, 1787. THE subscriber begs leave to inform the Public that he is now engaged in erecting a Paper Mill on a branch of Dicks river near his grist mill, and expects to have it fully completed by the first of November next. He flatters himself that in the execution of an undertaking which promises such advantages to this District, he will meet with the greatest encouragement from every good citizen, who wishes to see Arts, and manufactures flourish in Kentucky. But as a paper manufactory cannot be carried on without rags, he therefore most earnestly recommends it to all persons to be particular in saving all their old linen and cotton. Proper persons will be appointed in different parts of the country to receive rags, for which he will give a higher price in cash than is given for that article in Maryland, or Pennsylvania, JACOB MYERS.
A FRESH CARGO Just opening for Sale in LEXINGTON by THOMAS JANUARY, Consisting of a Compleat Assortment of DRY GOODS Also, CHOCOLATE, TEA, BROWN SUGAR, TEA CUPS, CUPS AND SAUSERS, RICE, ROSIN, JAMAICA SPIRITS, STRONG BEER, EMPTY BOTTLES. &c. &c. &c. Which he means to dispose of very cheap for CASH.
Fayette County September 12, 1787. I Hereby give notice to the Gentlemen subscribers to an article of agreement, bearing date the tenth day of July last, for the purpose of settling on Col. John Harris's lands on main Licking, That we Horatio Turpin Esq. and myself, agents for said Harris, shall meet them at Brays tavern in Lexington on Thursday the first day of November next in perfect readiness to proceed to the place, lay off their lots agreeable to contract, and give them possession. The strictest punctuality will be necessarily observed in this case on my part, and therefore hope, no neglect will take place on the part of the subscribers. The public utility of this measure if carried into effect, will merit the approbation of this county; but in a particular manner of those Gentlemen who hold large possessions of lands contiguous to that place, whom, I have not a single doubt will liberally contribute. This settlement will consist of twenty six men, situate within ten miles of the Ohio river, on the bank of main Licking. JOHN CRITTENDEN.