The Kentucky gazette (Lexington [Ky.]), 1791-10-29 00:00:00

THE Kentucky Gazette.
NUMB. VII.
Quicquid agunt homines—nostri farrago libelli. Juv. Sat. 8. v. 85.
VOL. V
S A T U R D A Y, OCTOBER 29, 1791.
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HOLLAND'S ESSAY In three parts.
I. Containing the contract of Creation and Redemption. Shewing that the fundamental doctrines of Calvin and Arminius joined together; compleatly forms the foundation or system of Universal Restoration, without the smallest diminution or addition.
II. The method and manner of the restoration of all to its original state of rectitude and innocency in which it was at first created, opening a plain and familiar light into the Prophet Ezekiel's visions and the Revelations.
III. The Apostolic mode, of Church Government, shewing the two Olive branches which thro' the two golden pipes empties the golden oil out of themselves, or the formation of the man Christ Jesus out of his members. When the above is put to press, the terms will be made public.
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Lexington Sept. 27, 1791.
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Taken up by the subscriber in Woodford county on Glens creek, a black horse, three years old, 14 hands high, a small star, branded on the near Faw and shoulder K and on the buttock C Appraised to £.5.
James Stepp. July 26, 1791.
A NUMBER of horses the property of the United States, stray-ed from the different brigades and in almost every county in the district of Kentucky. The horses are branded US; Any persons delivering any such horses to Capt. Root. Sanders on Cainrun in Woodford county, shall have ample reward for so doing. Paid by
R. B. Benham, or Robt. Sanders.
August 21, 1791.
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STRAYED or stolen from the subscriber, living in Woodford county, a brown horse, about 14 hands & a half high, nine years old, not branded, a scar on his hip, occasioned by fire, and a scar on the top of his head, occasioned by the poll evil: Whoever delivers said horse to me shall have the above reward. Marquis Calmet.
October 20, 1791.
THE meeting of the Committee of this county on the third Monday in October, being prevented by the badness of the weather; This is to give notice that a meeting of said Committee is appointed on the second Friday in November next, at Mr. Crawford's meeting house, called the Walnut hill.
C. Morgan, C. C.
October 20, 1791.
A STEADY Lad, of about 14 or 15 years of age, who can read and write tolerably well and of good character (and no other need apply) will be taken APPRENTICE in this Office, by
The PRINTER: Lexington Oct. 15, 1791.
Taken up by the subscriber living on the waters of Cane run, Fayette county, a sorrel mare, 14 hands high, 3 years old last spring, branded on the near shoulder H and on the near buttock HH. Postea and appraised to £7. 10.
Charles Shepherd. Oct. 11, 1791.
Taken up by the subscriber in Fayette county, on the waters of Hickman, a bright Bay Fieley, 3 years old, about 14 hands high, a blaze face, her off hind foot white, and her near hind foot partly white, branded W on the near shoulder. Appraised to £7. Roger Patten. July 9, 1791.
ALL those who are indebted to, or have any demands against me, are desired to come and settle their respective accounts as soon as possible; As I am under obligation to start to the settlement on the 15th of next month.
SAMUEL AYRES. Lexington, Oct. 20, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the waters of Marble creek, a red steer, with a little white under his belly; marked with a crop and swallow-fork in each ear, and underkeel in the left, about 3 years old; Appraised to £1.5.
John Baker.
April 9, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the town fork of Elkhorn, a brown two year old heifer, with a white face and white on her belly; marked with something like a half crop in both ears; Appraised to £1. 10. Kitty Miller.
June 14, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber in Fayette, a draught Ox, about 14 years old, his back and belly white and his sides brindle, appears to be a little hipshot, marked with a crop in the right ear and a kind of a swallowfork in the left. Appraised to £2.8. James Patten.
July 9, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Woodford county, about 2 miles from Shannon's mill a red and white pied steer, 2 years old past, marked with a crop, and an underkeel and overkeel in the right ear, and a crop and underkeel in the left. Appraised to £1.4. George Harper.
October 15, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living in Woodford county near the Courthouse, a Roan Mare, about three years old this spring, blind in the off eye, 13 hands and a half high, neither docked nor branded. Appraised to £6. John M Cumpsey.
May 3, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living in Bourbon county, a gray mare, and an iron gray colt, the mare thirteen hands high, branded on the near shoulder nearly thus Y short dock, 12 or 13 years old: The colt a year old, 12 hands high; Appraised, the mare at £2. and the colt to £4. Christopher Wolfe.
June 1791.

[Continued from our last.]
THEIR usurpations will be gradual, silent, deep and dangerous, till at length throwing off the mask, they will endeavour to perpetuate, or in other words to establish themselves an odious aristocracy. Thus we find, that a single house in the Legislative department, by whatever name distinguished, is not only inadequate to, but really subversive of those rights and liberties, which the institution of civil societies was originally intended not only to give birth to but to protect and secure. That the members of the lower house by their mistaken zeal and indiscretion are too apt, (though contrary to their intentions) to endanger a people's liberties even upon the misconstruction of a single statute, law or custom, and by that passion and hurry so incident to a multitude, to overturn rashly and confuse the settled and established regulations of political society. That the members of the upper house on account of their separate interest and consequent haughty and domineering spirits, are too apt to aim at rendering themselves independent of the people, or at least, if they do not aspire so high, are almost continually occupied in plots and machinations to plunder the people of their property to the increase of their own private treasures.
We are now I think reduced to the necessity, either of adopting two houses, or of tampering with a chimaera play upon a subject which involves in its consequences the felicity or misery of thousands. Shall we remain a single moment in suspense with regard to the propriety of adopting the former alternative? Two houses secure our freedom because they produce those real, actual and efficient checks which ought to exist in every government. By such strong barriers are a people's liberties preserved. They create a certainty that the interest of all ranks and denominations of mankind will be equally considered.
Now this great machine rests upon strong grounds. Every most minute part of it is equally safe and secure from the inclemency of the seasons, or the more boisterous and violent crush of a wreck of elements. It is said we suppose the two houses both villains and honest men at the same time. If the writer had allowed himself but a few moments more for reflection, he would easily have discovered, that that assertion of his was founded in a misconception of the subject. We only mean by it that the two houses should keep a watchful eye over each others conduct, in order to prevent an infringement of each others rights. For we know by experience that mankind though honest with respect to their immediate constituents, are yet very glad to pilfer any thing they can from other quarters. That it is that mankind though honest with regard to themselves, are not always so with regard to others. The senate would be apt to violate the rights of the constituents of the house of representatives if it was not for the interposing jealousy of this house, and so vice versa of the house of representatives. We know that a banditti of robbers or ruffians, though continually pillaging and destroying other people's lives and property, yet have established certain laws and regulations among themselves, which they most strictly and faithfully observe. They must do so or otherwise they could not possibly subsist as a body. Perhaps you may think this comparison degrading and invidious, yet is it perfectly consonant to an established and approved political maxim. That, in contriving any system of government and fixing the several checks and controls of the constitution, every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end in all his actions than private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it make him notwithstanding his insatiable avarice and ambition co-operate to public good. Perhaps you may deny, that every man is a knave. I perfectly coincide with you though at the same time I assert that there can be no harm in the supposition, as it will induce us to provide against every possible evil. Our conclusion therefore is, that the position is politically true, though false in fact. Indeed the
very end of government is to prevent the encroachments of the strong upon the weak, and the impositions of the wise and crafty upon the ignorant and simple. It is therefore but a necessary evil. — And to the jealousies and contentions which according to your assertion subsist between the two houses, it is but just to give the same appellation. And with respect to the delays and retardation of business which you so much complain of, it is but the price which every free nation must pay for their liberties. One house only in the Legislative department is a political phenomenon. The examples of our sister states are against you. I do not know that any harm hath resulted from it. The most of them have enjoyed internal tranquility, have been blessed with as great a degree of domestic ease and happiness, as any nation that ever existed for the same period of time. If there are any seeds of convulsion now engendering among them I know it not. The proposition of one house therefore is merely the ebullition of political conjurors. Nevertheless I should have no great objections to your plan, if you could possibly devise a method to evade that great and fundamental inconvenience afore-mentioned the having our legislative councils composed of ignorant men. For then would be concentrated to a local point (as it were) all the proper qualities of legislators. — And I am sure, that it would be as safe, as easy, and as little expensive as any two houses whatever. But how can it be effected? There is but a small portion of mankind who can or will take time, for the cultivation of their mental faculties, or who have leisure to initiate themselves into all the necessary rudiments of the science of legislation. They are generally employed in their more important and more private concerns. — If then it is a truth that men are not born legislators, I fear new schemes are replete with the most insurmountable obstacles. — And besides so popular an assembly as one house only, and that composed of the immediate representatives of the people, would be generally passionate, violent and tumultuous, and not greatly superior in every point to a mob. — It is said that in England, the people rely upon the house of Commons for honesty, and the house of Lords for wisdom, which would be we may say a well placed trust, if the people were always virtuous and if wisdom was hereditary. But notwithstanding the converse of this proposition will readily be acknowledged by every rational mind, yet have the people of England confirmed and established their liberties. — If then in England where there is so great an inequality and defectiveness of representation, they have notwithstanding borne down with success every attempted usurpation of their liberties, much more rational will it be for us, to confide in our House of Senate and House of Representatives, for the abovementioned ingredients when our representation is so equal, and the fundamental right of suffrage so well fixed and ascertained, as to render the smallest deviation from it, an apparent repugnancy to the spirit of our constitution. — I will therefore refer it to the wisdom of the Convention, whether it be the most eligible plan, to fabricate the business of our Constitution in conformity to one which has stood the test of ages; or above such an imitative spirit, establish a new system with all the rage of modern improvements, and all the enticing features of phantastic novelties.
The disinterested CITIZEN. Fayette, August 31, 1791.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
M A D R I D, May 20.
THE king has given orders to the President of Castile, to inform the inhabitants of the kingdom and cities of Spain, that the deputies at the Cortes have received orders to consider of means for relieving the people, and to draw up a list of grievances, particularly of those
which may tend the general good, and restore the present system to the spirit of the Spanish constitution.
The captain general of Catalonia continues apprehensive of some insurrection on the frontiers next France. He has in consequence, informed his majesty, that if a single soldier is recalled from the station where he is appointed to maintain peace, he will resign his command, as he cannot answer for the consequences, if he has not a force superior to that of the mal-content.
P A R I S, June 29.
Mr. Giroy Dupre moved, yesterday evening, at the club of the friends of the constitution.
"That Louis de Bourbon should be provisionally deprived of all royal functions, until his trial before a high jury shall be finished, and that this jury do assemble, at the latest, on the 30th of August next."
Another member moved, that the king's wife should no longer be called queen; because by the constitution, there was no such position as queen. He was also for a council of regency, but to have no regent.
L O N D O N, June 30. A special messenger arrived at the Imperial Ambassador's on Saturday last, who is one of the emperor's body-guards; he was only seven hours on his passage from Ostend. A long conference took place between Mr. Pitt and his excellency on Monday, in consequence of the dispatches he brought over. The report is, that they contained information that the emperor has been prevailed on again to join his forces with those of Russia against the Porte—that the Danes have determined to join Russia in disputing the passage of the English fleet up the Baltic; and that Sweden has determined, in case of a rupture between Russia and this country, to recommence hostilities against the former.
The French East India company, notwithstanding the general depression of their country, maintain their credit, in the most exemplary manner, to one house alone, a few days back, they remitted in one bill, no less a sum than forty thousand pounds.
July 5. The National Assembly, it is said, have determined, that the king, by passing beyond the distance of twenty leagues from Paris, without the consent of the National Assembly, had, according to a constitutional decree sanctioned by himself, committed a formal abdication of the throne; that he was declared to be deposed; that the Dauphin was entitled to the crown, and should govern under a commission of regency, the members of which should be appointed as soon as possible; and that his education should be superintended by three commissioners, and by visitors chosen by the National Assembly."
It evidently appears that Louis 16th. intended to escape to Mentz, the capitol of the Elector of that name, where the chiefs of the counter-revolution now are. It is certain that he never meant to go to Brussels, and the report of the government messenger of his having passed Douay, is wholly unfounded. The King was to have met the Prince de Condé, the count d'Artois, and M. de Calonne at Mentz, where the two former arrived the 19th instant, accompanied by the Dukes of Bourbon, and Engien, and were received under the discharge of a salute of artillery, and on the parade by a company of grenadiers.
The Elector, accompanied by all the French general officers at that place, received their highnesses with great pomp; the palace was very superbly illuminated, and there was a grand supper in the evening. The count d'Artois resides at the Electoral palace. The Prince de Condé and his sons at an Hotel, where he is attended by a royal guard.
In consequence of a decree passed soon after the opening of the National Assembly on the morning of the 21st of June, M. de Rochambeau appeared at the bar. This venerable soldier observed to the assembly, that the decree which ordered him to head the troops, and secure the frontiers, imposed on him a responsibility, which perhaps exceeded his physical and moral powers, as he was then at the age of seventy years; but that he would nevertheless set no bounds to his zeal, and that the assembly and the nation whom they represented, might depend on his fidelity.
M. de Rochambeau was accompanied by a number of general officers, who as well as he, all bound themselves by oath to defend the constitution.
The last advices from China acquaint us, that the Emperor of that Kingdom had declared war against the Empress of Russia, and had forbidden the importation of Russian furs into the dominions of China.
A letter just received from Grand Cairo, the Metropolis of Egypt, by the way of Leghorn, says, that the plague rages there most violently, and has already carried off 120,000 people.
By private letters from Petersburg, received by yesterday's mail, we learn, that Mr. Fawkner had his first audience of the Empress the 11th inst. seven days after his arrival at Petersburg. The same day he was at Court, but very coolly received. The letters mention that the Empress made extremely light of being threatened into the measures of the allied Courts, by our sending a fleet into the Baltic. She observed that she had a fleet also, which was sufficient to protect her.
In consequence of these advices, stocks fell near one per cent. although there was no open market.
The king's departure from Paris was to have taken place five days before it actually did, and was delayed by his reluctance. He was not prevailed upon to move at last but with much difficulty.
On the road he insisted on stopping four hours at one place for refreshment, to which the failure of the whole plan is attributed.
It is the current report, that the king asked la Fayette, "are the national Assembly and the people disposed to put us to death?" To which the commander answered "Sir, the national Assembly, and the citizens, who tenderly loved you, commiserate the situation in which you have plunged yourself: but as to the queen I am silent."

Extract of a letter from Paris, June 29.
"When the Royal Captives entered Paris it was not a little remarkable, that of the immense multitude assembled from Neuille to the Thuilleries, no one pulled off his hat to the king. The soldiers too did not appear under recovered arms, but, on the contrary, with their muskets shouldered, thus shewing that they were not there to do honor to but ascertain the survey of, the Royal Family."
"The triumphal car, covered with laurels, contained M. M. Drouet, Mangin, and Guillaume, who arrested the fugitives."
"The king appeared tranquil; this is said to be occasioned by the consideration, that he had not sanctioned the decree precluding him to remove more than twenty leagues from the national assembly."
July 7. Baron Horix, Referendary of the Chancery of the Empire at Vienna, has just published a work, which is much spoken of. Its object is to prove that every citizen of Germany, who was born free, has, by virtue of such freedom, a right to aspire to any public employment or charge whatever; ---and that the exclusive right which is claimed by the Nobility, has no other foundation, than barbarous prejudice sanctioned by ignorance.
We seem to have at length reached the happy aera, when all the Gothic governments throughout Europe are to vanish, and make room for governments founded on justice and reason, and conformable to the grand objects, for which societies were originally instituted. Despotism and Feudality are now at their last gasp. Mankind are determined to be no longer led like a herd of brutes. In lieu of an unnatural instinct, they have substituted the light of reason, which now brings forth to view those rights, that have been too long concealed from the eyes of the people, and of those who govern them. Copy of the King's Proclamation to all the French, on his departure from Paris.
WHILST the King could hope to see order and happiness restored by the means employed by the National Assembly, and by his own residence near that assembly, he submitted to every sacrifice; he was even content to bear the loss of his liberty, of which he has been deprived since the month of October 1789; but now, when the result of all these operations is found to be the destruction of Royalty, the violation of property, the invasion of personal security, the establishment of a complete anarchy in every part of the empire, without any appearance of authority sufficient to restrain it; the King, after protesting against all the acts extorted from him during his captivity, thinks proper to submit to the eyes of Frenchmen an account of his conduct.
"In the month of July, 1789, the King relying on his own integrity, came, without any apprehensions, among the Parisians. In the month of October of the same year, fully informed of the intentions of the factious, he dreaded lest a handle should be made of his departure, in order to foment a civil war. It is
universally known with what impunity crimes were then committed."
"The King yielded to the wish expressed by the army of Parisians; came, with his family, to reside in the palace of the Thuilleries; nothing was prepared for his reception; and the King, far from meeting with accommodations to which in his other palaces he was accustomed, did not even possess common conveniences. In spite of every constraint, he thought proper, the day after his arrival to give the provinces assurances of his residence at Paris. A more painful sacrifice was still exacted; he was obliged to remove his Guards du Corps, of whose fidelity he was assured; two of them were mangled, and several wounded in executing the orders, which they had received, not to fire;---All the art of the factious was employed to represent in the worst light a faithful Queen, whose conduct had been uniformly unexceptionable; it is even evident that all these machinations were directed against the King himself. It is to the soldiers of the French Guards, and the Parisian National Guard, that the care of the King's person has been committed under the command of the Municipality of Paris, from whom the commander General derives his authority. The King thus has found himself a prisoner in his own state---for what other name can be given to him, who is forcibly surrounded by persons whom he suspects. It is not in order to commit the Parisian national guard, that I repeat this detail but in order to state the real facts; on the contrary, I am ready to do justice to their attachment, when not under the influence of the factious. The King ordered the convocation of the States General; to the third estate he granted the privilege of a double representation; the reunion of the orders; the sacrifices of the 23d of June---all have been his works, but his efforts have been slighted and perverted. When the States General assumed the name of the National assembly, they revived the plots of the factious in several provinces; they revived those attempts that had been made to reverse the institutions of their constituents which appointed to be enacted in concert with the King. The Assembly have removed the King from the constitution, by denying him the privilege of sanctioning constitution al acts; in which class they ranked whatever acts they thought proper to subject to the third legislative body the privilege of refusing its sanction. They have given him twenty five millions, which are entirely absorbed by the necessary expenses of his household. They have left him the profits only of certain domains, saddled with oppressive forms; and have deprived him of the patrimony of his ancestors; they took care not to comprehend, in the article of expence, those services done to the King, as if they were not inseparable from those of the state. Let the different parts of the administration be examined, it will be found that the King has no longer a share; he has no part in enacting laws; he can only intercat the assembly to direct their attention to such and such subjects. In the administration of justice, nothing is left for him, but to dispatch the commissions of the judges; and to name the commissaries of the King, whose functions are much less considerable than those of the ancient procurators-general. The public part has been committed to new officers; and one prerogative still remaining, the most valuable of all, that of pardoning and remitting punishments, has been taken away from the King, and is now vested in juries, in consequence of their privilege of explaining, according to their pleasure, the sense of the law. Thus the royal Majesty is impaired, to which the people formerly had recourse, as to the common centre of goodness and beneficence. The internal administration of the departments is embarrassed by wheels which obstruct the motion of the machine;
and the superintendence of ministers is reduced to nothing."
[To be continued.]
July 8. A Gentleman arrived in town from Calais, informs us that before he quitted that place, intelligence had been received from Spain, giving an account, that on the day in which the Grand Tribunal of the inquisition holds its Court the officers being present, the people with one accord, declared they would no longer endure such despotism. The guards who surrounded the court, were called on to disperse the people which they refused to do---the populace thus seconded, seized the Chief, whom with Fourteen others, they beheaded instantly, carrying their heads through the streets.
Whatever may have been the immediate cause of Mr. Hammon's return from Madrid, we know not, but this is certain, that he has communicated to Administration that a Revolution is at this moment agitating in the bosom of Spain; and although every precaution is taking, it is much to be apprehended that kingdom will be deluged with blood.
It is greatly to the credit of administration, that they are endeavouring by every prudent means to increase the trade of America, and to render them and us united as it is our mutual interest to be. The corn act of the last session will be extremely gratifying to the Americans, and will most certainly be considered by them as a favor from this country.
Mr. Minchin's promised bill for the encouragement of the culture of hemp, which will be brought forward early in the next session, will likewise be advantageous to America, as we are given to understand that it is the intention of the promoters of that bill to introduce a clause for allowing a bounty on the importation of hemp, the growth of America.
The orders from America for woollen goods have much increased the quantity about to be exported from Leeds, and its neighbourhood only, amounts to nearly Six hundred thousand pound.
There can be no doubt of the possibility of rendering America as serviceable to this country, in the production of raw materials, as the most strenuous advocates against a Russian War contend that Russia is; and it is presumed that every Englishman, from the similarity of manners, the same language, and the same habits with his brethren of America, would prefer a trade with them to any other people under the sun. Nothing is more certain, than that the Americans prefer a connection with England to any other nation, and that they are daily becoming more attached to this country than they ever were.
Letters from M. Bouille are industriously circulated, with an intention apparently, to destroy that confidence, which the people have un-
servedly placed in M. La Fayette, and other leading characters in the revolution---but these may be denominated Arnold plots , and there is no doubt but the authors of this, in due time, will share the fate of traitors. It is said, that the people of Paris have destroyed all the statues, and effaced the names and effigies of the king and queen, throughout that vast capitol.
LEXINGTON, October 29.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Goochland to his friend in Kentucky, dated September 28.
"As for foreign news it occurs, I saw a paper yesterday which gave an account of a dreadful riot or mob in the mother country on account of a doctor Priestly, who was head of the Presbyterian society, and appointed a day for the people of the same, to celebrate the revolution of France, on which account the Presbyterians were obliged to flee for protection elsewhere, and the mob destroyed in the Town of Birmingham Houses and effects to the amount of one hundred thousand pounds."
The following note, by the sagacious observing, and philosophical traveller, Lt. MOORE, appears in a new Edition, just published, of his view of society and manners in Italy.
"Whether the French imbibed their love of freedom from the progress of philosophy and good sense in their own country, a complete alteration in the political sentiments of that nation seems to have preceded the late revolution in their government; A revolution more extraordinary than any which the annals of mankind present to our admiration. The inhabitants of a great kingdom, in one instant by an influence as sudden as that of electricity, are shocked at the idea of their being Slaves, they start up, and assert the rights of mankind to be free, and they are free! Long may they continue so, and may their example be followed by every nation now suffering under the scourge of despotism."
MR. Edward Bullock has commenced Post Riding; He will leave Lexington and be at Bourbon Courthouse, on the 11th. and 15th. of every Month, at Boonsborough the 2d. and 16th. at Madison Courthouse the 3d. and 17th. at Lincoln Courthouse the 4th. and 18th. at Canvill the 5th. and 19th. at Harrodsburg the 6th. and 20th. at Baird's Town the 7th. and 21st. the 9th. and 23d. at Louisville, and from thence up Brasfield's creek to Lexington; but the time he will be at any particular place between Louisville and Lexington, cannot yet be ascertained, but will be made public when known. Mr. Bullock is hereby authorised to receive any subscription money and receipt for the same, which shall be good against.
JOHN BRADFORD. Lexington, Oct. 29, 1791.
FOR SALE
TWO Hundred acres of Land seven miles and a half from Lexington, on the waters of Boon's creek, about thirty acres of cleared land; about four of which is meadow, a small Peach-orchard, exceedingly well watered; For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises.
James Thompson.
Oct. 24, 1791.
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A large company is expected to meet, at the Crab-orchard on the 14th of November, in order to start early next morning through the wilderness.

The MAID. LET Bachelors scribble In their own dull strains And lack social commerce With us, for their pains. I'll swear I'm a Maid, And tho' now growing old, I ne'er was ill-natured, Or e'er deem'd a scold. Thanks to Bachelors, So far, I've liberty kept, Or in youth, I like others, In bondage had slept. My fortune not large, Is enough to maintain Myself, a companion, A female quite plain. Arrived at an age, I have learned to despise The giddy, the proud— But respect those who are wise, Old Bachelors, lastly, I cannot abide, Or scarcely allow them To sit by my side. I strive to live quiet, And ne'er be afraid To die as I've liv'd— A respectable maid.
A N E C D O T E.
Be ye merciful.— A King had condemned one of his slaves to death. The slave, in the anguish of despair, knew no bounds but abused the Prince, his Master, with the most bitter reproaches— "What doth he say?" said the Mon- arch to his favorite, who stood near the slave. "Sir," answered the fa- vorite, "he says, that the golden gates of Paradise open themselves to the merci- ful; and he entreats your forgiveness, with the most earnest supplications." "I grant forgiveness," said the King.
A list of Letters in this Office.
 A Benjamin Archer.  B John Bowes. Mary Burch. De- borah Burnett 2.  C Captain Thomas Clay. Charles Cosby, Mercer. The Clerk of Lin- coln.  F Mr. Foker, Woodford.  G William Gray. David Graves Fay- ette.  H William Hopkins. John Henderson, Lincoln, Enoch or Web Hayden.  K Capt. James Kenny Bourbon. Mo- ses Kedy.  L Robert Lockhart. Miami. Stephen G. Letcher, Fayette. Levi Luc.  M John M'Ferren. Archibald Mar- shall, Bourbon.  N William Neal.  P Nathaniel Parish, Bourbon. Robt. Poor, Mercer 2. Sarah Poor ditto. Philip Philips.  Q John Quin.  R James Richie, Fayette. Edmund Ri- cardson. Thomas Ray.  S James Scott. John Sleet, Lincoln. Thomas Sullenger, Woodford. Jo- shua Stevens. Richard Stevens. 
Rev. Robert Stubbs. Samuel Scott, Mercer.
T Evan James Thomas 2. David Til- ford Mercer. James Thomas, Fay- ette. Bennet Taber, May's Lick. Kenneth Thompson 2. Howel Ta- tum. Samuel Timmons, Mercer.
UV. Joseph Underwood, Nelson 2. Jos. Vance, Woodford 2. Edmund Vaugh- an, 2.
W William Watson. Robert Wallace, Fayette. Peter Wilson. Malcolm Worley. James Walker. Henry Wal- ker. Ben. Withers. James Watkins. James Wallace, Fayette. Jacob Woodward.
Two Dollars reward,
STRAYED from the subscriber, liv- ing near Lexington, about the 1st of July last, a small roan horse, 8 or 9 years old, branded on the near shoulder W and buttock H has a blaze in his face, all his feet white and is junk in the Crest, had on a good bell fastened with a black leather strap: Whoever brings said horse to Mrs. M'Con- nell's Mill, shall have the above reward paid by Isaac Wilson.
NOTICE is hereby given to the public that I have appointed Mr. W. Morton my Attorney in fact, during my absence from this country—to whom all persons indebted to me are requested to make immediate payment —All persons having just demands against me will please to make them known to my Attorney aforesaid, who will direct them to be discharged with all possible dispatch. PETTON SHORT.
L O S T
IN Lexington Streets, or on Scott's road, a parcel of papers, folded in a letter directed to me, in which was a power of attorney from James Cole- man, a judgment against Thomas Mer- ry, obtained by Thomas Wood, with a bond for the delivery of arrested property; an order for William San- ders's wages on the Maufree ex- dition; and a receipt from the printer; I should be much obliged to any per- son finding such would leave them with the printer, or give me or Thomas Steppintelligence where they are. And oblige their Humble Servant, SAMUEL BROOKINS. Oct. 11, 1791. (C.W.up.)
W A N T E D
An APPRENTICE to the COPPER- SMITH's business. An active lad of about 14 years of age, will be taken an AP- PRENTICE to the above business. CHARLES WHITE.
B L A N K S
OF ALL KINDS May be had at this Office. All kinds of blank books for Merchants Clerks &c made and ruled to any pattern, Also old books new bound at this office
F O R S A L E
ONE thousand acres of land with- in the forks of Licking, at or near a place known by the name of the log pond within four miles of Bourbon court house. The title of which has been adjudged to Parmenas Briscoe by the Supreme Court of the District of Kentucky—Also six hundred acres on the waters of Eagle creek, by an ad- judication as aforesaid—Negroes, hor- sed cattle, sheep or good horses will be received in payment, but a Special Warranty of the title will only be give- en.
James Twyman, Attorney in fact for Parmenas Briscoe. Woodford, Oct. 15, 1791. E3 3W
F O R S A L E
A LOT on the Seminary land, con- taining one hundred and forty acres, for which the Trustees will give a lease; For terms apply to Mr. John Bryan near the premises, or the sub- scri- ber.
Isaac Wilson.
TAKEN up by the subscriber on the head of the four mile creek, a black mare, two years old, about 13 1/2 hands high, neither docked nor branded; Ap- praised to £9.
Also a white steer, branded about the head and neck, white face, some brin- kle spots about his body, about 7 years old, marked with a hole in the right ear and a slit in the left; Appraised. £3 12.
Jacob Crossfield. August 4, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Paint Lick creek, a dark brindle Heifer, with a small white spot in her face, and some white spots on her body, marked with a smooth crop and slit in the right ear, and an unmarked in the left, upped to be one year old last spring; Appraised to £1. 2.
Isaac Burton. July 22, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Shawane run Mercer county, a bay station colt, one year old, a star in his forehead, both hind feet and off fore feet white: Appraised to £2. 8.
Jesse Loatum. August 17, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on Clarks run, a dun 2 years old horse colt, with a black streak down his back, a small white streak near his shoul- der, and a dapple gray spot on his near but near his hip, about twelve hands high, was cut before pesting: Appraised to £3. 12.
John Davison.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, liv- ing in Woodford county, on North Elkhorn, a black horse, branded on the near shoulder H has had the poll evil; Appraised to £2. 10.
James Kelly. Sept. 8, 1791.
TAKEN up by the subscriber living about 3 miles from Lexington, an old spotted cow, marked with a half crop in each ear, branded on the rump on Q posted and appraised to £2.
John Vanpelt.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, living on the North fork of Cane run, a red brindled Heifer, two years old last spring, marked with a crop off the left ear, some white in her face and some spots under her belly: Posted and ap- praised to £2.
Hugh M Williams.
WAR DEPARTMENT
May 30, 1791.
INFORMATION is hereby given to all the military invalids of the United States, that the sums to which they are entitled for six months of their annual pension, from the 4th day of March, 1791, and which will become due on the 4th day of September ensuing, will be paid on the said day by the Commis- sioners of the Loans within the states respectively, under the usual regula- tions, viz:
Every application for payment must be accompanied by the following vouchers.
1st. The certificate given by the state, specifying that the person possessing the same is in fact an invalid, and after- taining the sum to which as such he is annually entitled.
2d. An affidavit, agreeably to the following form:—
"A. B. came before me, one of the Justices of the county of _____ in the state of _____ and made oath that he is the same A. B. to whom the original certificate in his possession was given, of which the following is a copy (the cer- tificate given by the state to be recited) That he served _____ (regiment, corps or vessel) at the time he was disabled, and that he now resides in the _____ and coun- ty of _____ and has resided there for the last _____ years, previous to which he resided in _____"
In case an invalid should apply for payment by an attorney, the said attor- ney, besides the certificate and oath before recited, must produce a special letter of attorney agreeably to the fol- lowing form:—
"I, A. B. of _____ county of _____ state of _____ do hereby constitute and appoint C. D. of _____ my lawful attor- ney, to receive in my behalf of my pen- sion for six months, as an invalid of the United States, from the fourth day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety one, and ending the fourth of September, of the same year. Signed and sealed in the presence of } Witnesses.
Acknowledged before me—"
Applications of executors and adminis- trators must be accompanied with legal evidence of the respective offices, and also of the time the invalids died, whose pension they may claim. By command of the President of the United States, H. KNOX, Secretary of War.
[The Printers of the respective States are requested to publish the above in their respective newspapers, for the space of two Months.]
A PERSON who understands the Rope making business may hear of good encouragements by applying to the Printer.
I WISH to lease for the term of one year, the Distillery and adjoining plantation, late the property of Mrs. John Craig on Clear creek, Woodford county; also the Mill on the plantation whereon the said Craig now resides— possession of the distillery to be given on the first day of September next— of the adjoining plantation and Mill aforesaid on the first day of January following or earlier, with the consent of Mr. John Craig.—For terms apply to Mr. William Morton, Merchant, in Lexington. PETTON SHORT. June 19, 1791.
I Wish to contract for a con- siderable quantity of Barley to be delivered to me in Lexing- ton, next fall Spring Barley would be preferred. Also a quantity of well cu- red Hops. PETTON SHORT. April 13, 1791.