Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-10-01 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 45, of Vol. III.]
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1791.
[Whole No. 253.]
FROM THE NEW-YORK DAILY ADVERTISER.
Messrs. CHILDS & SWAINE,
The following is an extract of a letter from Doctor Priestly, to the Rev. Edward Burne of Birmingham; as the publication from which it is taken, may not be generally read, the insertion of it in your paper may possibly be not uninteresting to your numerous Correspondents.
ON this account I rejoice to see the warmth with which the cause of Orthodoxy (that is of long established opinions however erroneous) and that of the Hierarchy is now taken up by its friends—Because if their system be not well founded, they are only accelerating its destruction. In fact, they are assisting me in the proper disposal of those trains of gunpowder, which have been some time accumulating, and at which they have taken so great an alarm, and which will certainly blow it up at length, and perhaps as suddenly as unexpectedly, and as completely as the late overthrow of the arbitrary government in France.—If an inhabitant will not submit to a thorough examination and reasonable repairs of the building he occupies, the consequence must be that without gunpowder, or even a high wind, it must some time or other fall, and happy may he think himself if he can escape unhurt from the ruins. If this should be the case with the Church of England, the Clergy cannot say, they have had no warning;—They are laboring for its destruction more than I am!!! If I be laying gunpowder, they are providing the match, and their part of the business seems to be in greater forwardness than mine.” What a contrast is exhibited between the two rival nations of France and England, and how many Englishmen blush to look upon it!
Another foolish and unjust war, like that with America, which was chiefly urged by the Clergy (and such another, if the court proposes, the Clergy will second) can hardly fail to bring their affairs to a crisis. If they be wise they will consider the signs of the times, and be very temperate in all their proceedings. Et as est and ab haste doeri.
Let them take care lest by too vigorously resisting our application, they should do themselves the most serious evil. I have always been an avowed enemy to all establishments of Christianity!!! But many dissenters are not so. I foresee however, that they soon will be, and that by means of these discussions, the sentiment will become more general in the Nation at large. It begins to be adopted even by the Catholics.
The utility of ecclesiastical establishments is a question that it behoves the Clergy always to keep out of sight as much as possible; and if they proceed as they have began, I should be sorry to ensure their system twenty years longer. Whether I be more pleased, or displeased with their present violence let them now judge. The greater their violence the greater is our confidence, and final success.
Nations, and all great bodies of Men, will learn very little except in the dear School of experience.”
This letter carries with it its own comment. Compare the bigotry which it breathes, with the hypocritical meekness which characterizes the one he addressed to the inhabitants of Birmingham, and let an impartial person decide which contains the real sentiments of the Doctor—which we should be induced to believe to be the real and true principles of the dissenters as promulgated by their Apostle; those which in an hour of security were presented to the world, or those which were extorted under the dread of an English Lanterne. The Fanaticism the Rancor, the intemperate zeal entertained against the established Church, with which the foregoing letter is so replete, must fill every religious mind with apprehensions for the security of their opinions; and makes us almost rejoice at the destruction of those writings which (if we may judge from the past) could only contribute to substitute dangerous scepticism for religion, and under the mask of Liberty to introduce anarchy and licentiousness.
ARISTIDES.
BIRMINGHAM
Is the largest manufacturing town in England, and is situated about 110 miles N. W. of London. It is no incorporation, and therefore is free for any person to go and settle there. This has contributed greatly to the increase not only of the trade, but of the number of the buildings. In the year 1782 there were about 10,000 dwelling-houses; and the number has since been continually increasing.
FROM THE VERMONT GAZETTE.
MR. HASWELL,
If you deem the following worthy insertion, by giving it a place you will oblige a customer.
THREE gentlemen who late in converse sat, Thoughts bumper-rais'd inspir'd a learned chat, Aspiring fancy fled on airy wings, From well-prim'd grog to supernatural things. One said the moon was nothing but a log, The second said, he'd lay a nip of grog 'Twas like the earth—because he could esp'y, Both land and water with his naked eye; The third, a grave, well-fatt'n'd, witty man, Slowly arose, and gracefully began, My friends, I have a proof its weight will bear, It is not land which we discover there, For if it was, the jobbers of New-York Would have their patents there, and men to work.
BERLIN, July 20.
THE rejoicings that have lately occupied our Court, on account of the contract of marriage, which was signed the 17th instant, between our charming Princess Royal and the King of England's second son, an event that seems to give universal satisfaction in this country, have been succeeded by the various arrangements necessary on the breaking up of the camp of observation that had been formed with things that wore an hostile appearance, but to which the prudence of your Court has, it seems, put a happy termination.
Our roads are filled with the regiments going to their different garrisons, from whence they will not be summoned, for some time at least.
The Deputies from Dantzic left this city yesterday, highly satisfied with the success of their mission, and the condescension of our new Prime Minister; they are still to remain under the protection of the Court of Warsaw; but, on the other hand, accorded some valuable commercial advantages to the Court of Berlin.
LINTZ, July 14.
By letters from Vienna we learn, that on the 4th inst. the Marquis de Noailles, the Ambassador of France, had a private conference with the Prince de Kaunitz, who desired him to inform the National Assembly, that his Imperial Majesty had determined by no means to intermeddle with the affairs of the French Constitution, so long as they related only to France; but that faithful to his personal ties, faithful to the duties of blood, of friendship and alliances, he should consider the ill treatment which the King, Queen, and Family, should suffer, as done to himself, and the outrages committed against Royal Majesty as violations of the respect due to him.
The same letters state, that for some days past an invectery had manifested itself against the French Nation, which had never before been experienced, and which appeared likely to become general; and this disposition of mind indicated a rupture, which many persons already consider inevitable. They likewise add, that all the baggage of the Ambassador of France had been packed up ever since the beginning of the month, in which state it continued, which probably must have been occasioned either by his expectation of being recalled, or of his determination of quitting a country, where he had ever before enjoyed all the blandishments annexed to the eminent post which he occupies, and which personal considerations have rather strengthened than weakened.
ROME, July 13.
The prevention of the flight of the king of France has caused to disappear all the preparations which had been made for public rejoicings. The Pope, all infallible as he is, had ordered a Nuncio to go from Brussels to present to the King whom he believed to be at Metz, a brief, in which he extolled and felicitated his majesty and abused the French nation. The king of Naples went even farther, he caused Te Deum to be sung, stopped and dismasted the French vessels in his ports, and gave 3000 ducats to the master of an English vessel, who first brought him news of the flight of his brother in-law. A crowd of French quitted Rome to join the Most Christian King whom they believed to be in Germany.
BRUSSELS, July 18.
The King of Sweden, although expected, has not arrived here. The Congress at Aix-la-Chapelle has become highly interesting.—M. de Calonne is expected here from London, where it is said he has been unsuccessful. He will proceed to Worms, to communicate to his Prince
(M. de Conde) the plans concerted with the Cabinet of St. James's with respect to France.
It is reported, that the manifesto of the Diet of Ratisbon is ready for publication.
The French arrive here daily, among whom the lawyers adopt the uniform of the Princes, which is a blue coat, with red waistcoat, and gilt buttons with a fleur de lys.
Many Parisian girls, impelled by their aristocratic principles, and the apprehension of being more narrowly watched than heretofore, have lately arrived here.
JULY 26.
Public affairs are very far from having taken a regular channel in this capital; a buzz of popular murmur, which increases every day, and gains more and substantial advocates, is heard to prevail.
This morning their Royal Highnesses appeared on the parade at the Palace Royale, and rewarded the squadron of the regiment de la Tour cavalry with a gold medal, as an honorable acknowledgment of their vigorous conduct against the Patriots in the last campaign; the medal was estimated at 150 Louis d'ors, and bore the portrait of his Majesty Leopold II. besides other military emblems; at the same time the subaltern officers and soldiers, who had particularly distinguished themselves, were rewarded with a medal of honor, and the officers with the cross of the order of Maria Theresa. The above medallion was attached to the standard of their regiment by her Royal Highness Maria Christina, amidst the applause of an immense multitude of people, amongst whom were numbers of French officers, with legions of other French, in white cockades. The Prince de Wirtemberg assisted their Royal Highnesses in the ceremony.
VIENNA, July 26.
A new plan is spoken of respecting Dantzic and Thorne, which has been agreed upon by Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
It does not now appear that the Emperor means to direct his arms against France, which he probably would have done, had the King and his family effected their escape.
Nevertheless, several persons have been arrested here for having exalted the conduct of the French, and blamed the Austrian Ministry.
PARIS, July 29.
The apprehensions of an invasion daily increase.
The Marquis de Bouille has obtained the same rank in the service of Sweden that he held in that of France. His prediction, so much ridiculed, will probably soon be verified, of his leading on the armies of foreign powers, to overturn the new constitution.
The King of Sweden, it is said, has actually declared himself against France. He will no doubt be soon followed by the Emperor, and the other confederated powers.
The report of the revisional committee has been made to the other committees. It will be submitted to the Assembly in a day or two. It comprises all the decrees of the Assembly which are merely constitutional, and may therefore be termed the Magna Charta of France. In this form it will be presented to the King for his acceptance or refusal.
Their Majesties are never seen, and little heard of. They are as closely confined as if they were immured for life in one of the cells of the former Bastille to them, and from the present temper of the people, and the alarm which every where reigns, there is little chance of their unhappy condition being bettered.
It is affirmed in some of the papers, with great confidence, that certain merchants at Brussels have advanced a loan of 12,000,000 of livres on the credit of the Civil List, for the purpose of aiding a counter-revolution; but it is not very likely that monied men would part with their cash on such security.
It has long been expected by many, that the right of Priests to marry would be recognized by the National Assembly; and in proportion as the constitutional body approached to the termination of its labours, the decision of this point seemed nearer at hand. In the mean time several Priests have anticipated the wished-for reform, and entered, as the phrase is, into provisional contracts of marriage.
This day, at half past one o'clock, eight million livres of Assignats were burnt in the Courtyard of the Caisse de l'Extraordinaire ; 208,000,000

livres of the National Assignats (about eight millions sterling) have now been burnt.
Some few of the Departments have, as was anticipated, sent Addresses against the Decree of the 15th, but they are extremely unimportant; and we find, even by the exceptions, that France is united on the question of its Government by a King.
At the celebration of the 14th at Lisle, the head of M. de Bouille was carried in effigy on a pike, burned, and the ashes thrown in the air.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, JULY 26.
M. Desmouliers, from the Committee of Constitution. "It is unnecessary to trouble you with arguments on the importance of a deliberation on the mode of calling out the public force. Now that the revolution is almost complete, you will naturally be desirous of putting a stop to popular tumults, and re-establishing obedience to the law. A judicious law on the action of the public force will encourage the timid, and silence the calumniators of your labours; and if any of the emigrants should continue to shew hostile intentions, it will protect their property till new crimes oblige you to proceed to sequestration. This protection will be the only revenge worthy of you, and the great nation whom you represent."
The plan proposed by the committee was then read and adopted, by which insurrection or riot, under all imaginable circumstances, is defined, and all persons, whether enrolled in the National Guard or not, are required to succour the Gendarmerie Nationale, any magistrate or public officer, as soon as the words force à la Loi are pronounced, without any other requisition.
A letter was read by the Council General of Corsica, written on the news of the King's flight, expressing their resolution to concur in whatever measures the National Assembly should think fit to adopt for the protection of the empire, but at all events to maintain that freedom which they had so lately recovered.
A letter from Rethel announced, that General Bouille is encamped near the walls of the Abbaye d'Orval with an army of near 15,000 men, which were the Nucleus of a more formidable army that was soon to attack them hostily.
"Let them come," said the writer, "The Frenchman,— intrepid when he fought for his Kings, will be invincible when he fights for LIBERTY."
The following laconic address from the citizens of Verdun to the National Assembly, was followed by twelve folio pages full of signatures: "We are ready to die for the maintenance and execution of our Laws."
July 30.
Shall there be still any Orders of Knighthood in France.
This question came under discussion.—M. Camus, in the name of the Committees appointed to examine this question, endeavored to prove that military and honorary decorations ought, in a free state like France, to be considered as recompences simply to individuals; and no longer to serve as a basis for collective bodies which the new order of things does not tolerate.
M. Langrinus said, that it could only be by destroying the orders that they should at length be able to cleanse away the remains of the dung-hill of Aristocracy .
M. Anthoine did not oppose the retaining some military recompences; but he proposed that the King, and the princes of his family, instead of wearing a blue ribband, should for the future be decorated with one consisting of the three national colours.
Messrs. Regnault, Chabroud, and La Paule, spoke in favour of the extinction of the Orders.
Without insisting that all the orders ought to be preserved, M. Malouet maintained, that the prosperity, and even the existence, of the foreign commerce of France, depended on the retaining the Order of Malta. The reasons which he adduced, for his opinion, however did not convince the Assembly, which, after some debate, passed the following decree:
 1. All Orders of Knighthood, or other Orders, all Corporations, Decorations, or external signs, which suppose distinctions of birth in France, and similar ones shall not be established in future.  2. The military decoration at present existing being, like every honorary recompence, purely individual and personal, cannot serve as a basis to any corporation, and there cannot be exacted, upon conferring it, any other oath than the Civic one. The decoration of the heretofore Order of Merit shall hereafter be considered as the same with that of St. Louis.  3. No Frenchman shall be permitted to take any of the qualities and titles suppressed by the decrees of 19th of June 1790—even not by adding to their names the words heretofore, &c.  4. No public officer can receive any commission, deed or other writing in which these qualities shall make a part. The Committees of Constitution and Criminal Jurisprudence shall make out a plan of a decree respecting the punishments to be inflicted on those who shall infringe this law. 
4. Every Frenchman who shall demand or obtain admission, or shall preserve his title in any foreign order founded upon the distinctions of rank and birth, shall be thereby divested of his quality of a French citizen, but may notwithstanding be employed in the military service as well as any other foreigner.
On the motion of M. Tranchet, the following addition, founded upon the first article, was adopted:
The National Assembly reserves to itself to determine the sole and common distinction which shall be established to recompence merit, virtue, and real services rendered to the State—Nevertheless the Military may preserve that which they at present hold.
The election of a Governor for the Dauphin should next have taken place; but M. Freteau proposing that the nomination should be proceeded by laws defining the rights and duties of the Governor, the election was deferred, and the Assembly ordered that the plan of a law upon that subject should be presented to them in eight days.
L O N D O N, July 15.
Mr. PAINE the author of the Rights of Man , arrived in town on Wednesday.
Great numbers of French officers are at present in the Russian navy; and one of these, Mr. Trevenai, has lately been promoted to the rank of Vice-Admiral. He commands one division of the flotilla, and has a Dutch officer, M. Pelissier, for his captain.
The Admiralty at Amsterdam, lately destroyed by fire, not without suspicion of private incendiaries, was esteemed the most magnificent naval emporium of Europe.
July 30. They write from Paris, that the eyes of all are turned towards the frontiers; an attack of a very formidable nature being confidently looked for. This is to be directed by the Prince of Conde, against the Department of the Meuse the Moselle, where M. Bouille commanded. This Prince will make his invasion at the head of 7000 or 8000 gentlemen volunteers, supported by another body of 8000 or 10000 men, levied and paid by the emigrants, and the two brothers of the King.
Twenty thousand citizens of Paris have enrolled their names as volunteers to proceed to the frontiers. Only 4,500 have been admitted to the honor of marching for the present. A considerable number of young gentlemen of Paris have offered to mount themselves, and to go at their own expence to form a body of light horse. But this offer has been declined, as tending to introduce into the National Guard a particular order.
The number of rioters killed in the late affray is not yet known. The detachment of National Guards was, upon that occasion, followed by carts, into which the slain were immediately thrown, that the populace might not be irritated to further violence by a view of the dead bodies.
The Americans have always professed to consider the King of France as their friend. Since the revolution there is hardly a man in any of the new states who is not attached to the National Assembly, which they consider as actuated by the same ideas as influenced the deliberations and decisions of Congress during the American war.
Monsieur Fayette has a critical and difficult task to perform. His popularity has ebb'd and flow'd at least twenty times within the last six months.
The American China Trade increases very rapidly. The greater part of the tea consumed in our West-India Islands is smuggled into them from Boston, New-York, and Philadelphia.
The dungeon or gaol at Birmingham was crowded on Friday last with the most active of the rioters. Deriving confidence from their numbers, they began to be unruly; and the gaoler, in imitation of his betters, began an address through the key-hole with Friends and Fellow-Churchmen .
Aug. 1. It is asserted in all the foreign papers, that the King of Sweden has received the Marquis de Bouille into his service, with the same rank and appointments that he formerly enjoyed in that of his Most Christian Majesty.
During his stay at Spa, a conspiracy against his person was discovered, and one of the conspirators taken into confinement.
COUNTER REVOLUTION.
What rumour has long without sufficient likelihood affirmed, seems now to wear an aspect more serious. From the frontiers, passengers assert that every day small parties of Austrian troops arrive, 20, 40, and frequently 60 together, generally in disguise. About 200 soldiers have deserted from the regiments of Berwick and Liegeois, to join the royal party.
The troops of the Emperor, which are now posted adjoining to, and on the banks of the Rhine, are said to amount to no less than 170,000 men.
M. de Bouille has had frequent conferences with the King of Sweden since his reception into his Majesty's service.
August 4.
P E A C E.
At an early period we submitted to the public the pleasing information that on the 6th, 7th, and 8th days of June last, the several propositions made to the Empress of Russia from our Court by Mr. Fawkner, for the accomplishment of peace between the courts of Peterburgh and Constantinople, had been acceded to on the part of her Imperial Majesty, and only waited the ratification of the Divan.
That ratification being acquired, and the Belligerent Powers having mutually pledged themselves to effect and perpetuate the great object— Peace upon honorable terms —which appeared all that the allied courts either pressed or wished, agreed thereto, on certain specific terms proposed for that purpose; and the Courts of London and Berlin approved of the same.
This approbation was the notification to Mr. Fawkner, for appearing at the Court of Peterburgh, in the dignified appointment of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the Court of London, in which character he completed the objects effectually that he commenced in a more private capacity, and transmitted officially the intelligence thereof.
Thus, in the space of two months, has Mr. Fawkner, with an uncommon degree of spirit and expedition, completed the intent and design of his mission, and been the happy medium whereby two jarring nations, which had been years at variance, have become reconciled to each other; at the same time that he displayed that consequence, rank, and exalted pre-eminence, which Great-Britain holds among the nations of the world, as the powerful arbiter of peace and war.
Among other benefits which will result to this country from the happy termination of Mr. Fawkner's mission, will be an increase of our trade with Russia; for the Empress has assented to a renewal of the Commercial Treaty which expired in 1786, and by which both countries were so much benefited.
One great end of our present armament being thus happily attained, a special messenger has been dispatched from the Admiralty to Portsmouth for a number of ships to drop down to their moorings in the harbour, that they may be paid off as soon as possible.
All contracts for the fleet were yesterday countermanded.
STATE PAPER.
The following proclamation by the King of Spain, clearly proves the apprehensions entertained by that court, that the French revolution may eventually be productive of discontents in his dominions.
To all Governors of Provinces, Alcaides, Justices, &c. &c.
"His Most Catholic Majesty, actuated by a just suspicion, lest the French, become fanatically addicted to that licentiousness which they term liberty, should introduce and circulate their detestable maxims of government, by means of tinkers, knife-grinders, and other itinerant mechanics, who, notwithstanding former regulations, have considerably increased; hereby commands, that all the Governors, Alcaides, and Justices of his Realm, shall especially watch over, and cause to be enregistered, all strangers following the above or any similar professions, without using violence to any such as may be peaceable, but carefully committing to prison all those upon whom papers of a seditious tendency may be found, whether printed or in manuscript, and also all those who may utter sentiments of a similar nature.
"Accordingly, I hereby command all and each of you, in the King's name, to see this ordinance complied with in your respective governments and tribunals. You are also to inform all those who act under you, of the nature and extent of the present decree, and you are to demand an exact account of all their proceedings, which you are to transmit to us.
"You are also enjoined to send us notice of every thing particular that may occur, so that it may be laid before his Majesty, who will in consequence take those measures which may seem most suitable to his wisdom.
"May God grant you long life and happiness! "LE COMTE DE CIFUENTES."
It is reported that Her Majesty has ordered a superb present of jewellery to the princess of Prussia, lately betrothed to his royal highness the duke of York.
His royal highness the duke of York is the first prince of the blood that has courted personally since Charles I.
As the princesses never go into public, the duchess of York will take precedence of all other ladies.
The fortune of the princess royal of Prussia is spoken of to the value of three hundred thousand pounds. The late Frederick, King of Prussia, left in his coffers between seven and eight millions sterling.

The exportation of gold from South-America has this year been greater than for many years...
Yesterday goods to the amount of one hundred and forty thousand pounds were entered at the Custom-house for America.
Capt. Bligh is now on his way a second time, for the purpose of transplanting the bread-fruit trees...
On the 4th ult. at noon, a miller at Minehead, Somersetshire, was trying an experiment, by burning a tar barrel...
PORTSMOUTH, July 31.
Friday evening the following experiment were made on board a ship in this harbour, by that very ingenious artist Mr. Hill...
1st. He stopped a shot hole on the outside of the ship, 4 feet under water, in the space of one minute...
2d. He stopped, in the same manner, a space in the ship's side, 4 feet under water, of 4 feet by 4 inches...
3d. An experiment on the chain-pump, with a new constructed wheel of Mr. Hill's inventing...
These experiments were made before the Commissioner, sundry officers of the navy, master shipwright...
BOSTON, September 21.
We are informed that the National Assembly has decreed, That the new Legislature of France shall meet at Paris on the 15th of October next...
The Societies in England, Scotland, and Ireland, which have commemorated the French Revolution, amount in number to near fifty...
The magnanimity and coolness shewn by Dr. Priestley, in his address to the inhabitants of Birmingham...
Mr. Benjamin Greene is chosen Treasurer of the Boston Tontine Association.
Lord Wycombe, son to the Marquis of Lansdowne (known in America by the title of Lord Shelburne) arrived in town...
The PRESIDENT of the United States has been pleased to issue Letters Patent, recognizing the appointment of RICHARD COOMAN...
NEW-LONDON, September 22.
Tuesday night last, a negro man broke into the dwelling-house of Capt. Gabriel Sistrare...
From a Country Correspondent.
As the raising of Indian corn is no small part of the improvement of the farmer...
PROVIDENCE, September 22.
Extract of a letter from a French gentleman, at New-London, to his friend in this town, dated September 14, 1791.
"Here I am, in New-London with my wife and family. I left the Cape the 26th ult. in the Brigantine Three Brothers...
GEORGE-TOWN, (M.) September 24.
Monday evening last the PRESIDENT of the United States, his LADY, and Suite, arrived in this town...
DOVER (N. H.) September 21.
The Convention of this State, which met at Concord to revise and amend our State Constitution...
FOR some time past our whole attention Has been engross'd by the Convention, At Concord held...
Philadelphia, October 1.
The Pittsburgh Gazette of the 17th inst. contains the resolutions of a meeting of Delegates at Pittsburgh...
The Decree of the National Assembly, confirming the inviolability of the King...
Major Snead was tried the 15th ult. at the Supreme Court at Wilmington...
Previous to the organization of the general government the States individually, were almost constantly engaged...
What a scene does the present situation of affairs exhibit; relieved from the intolerable burthen of continental legislation...
Party is the engine by which the worst characters often work themselves into popular favor.
There is no government however perfect, which is not alloyed by a party spirit...
The maxim of party is, that the end justifies the means...
There are characters in the world who possess so much probity, dignity and independence of mind...
It is almost impossible that a party man should be dispassionate, disinterested or sincere.
The collision of parties is destructive of the public happiness—for while the people are warmly engaged in supporting the contest...
Such is the imperfection of human wisdom, that the best administration that ever existed in any country...
"IN times of general agitation, Some rise like scum in fermentation; Who push and kick the whole world up...
There is a species of pride among mankind which remarkably distinguishes some characters...
"The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity, and pride, and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher...
It has been doubted whether any human mind is totally free from the passion of envy...
"An ass will with his long ears fray The flies, that tickle him, away; But man delights to have his ears Blown maggots in by flatterers."
The following very judicious paragraph is copied from the FREEMAN'S JOURNAL.
It is more than probable (says a correspondent) that the human race will never behold a government founded altogether on the principles of equity.
On Sunday morning departed this life, in the 73d year of his age, Mr. WILLIAM BRADFORD, many years the Editor of the Pennsylvania Journal...
His remains were interred on Monday afternoon, in the Presbyterian grave-yard, in Arch-street...
Total Average PRICE OF GRAIN, in ENGLAND and WALES, from April 1790, to April 1791.
Table with 5 columns: Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Beans. Values range from 6 3/4 to 50/6 per Bushel.
From PELOSI'S MARINE LIST.
ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. Ship Adriana, Robertson, Liverpool. Brig Alfred, Earle, Madeira...
PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES.
Table with 2 columns: Funded Debt, Unfunded Debt. Values include 6 pr. Cents, 3 pr. Cents, Final Settled, Indents, N. and S. Carolina debts.
Tickets in the NEW-HAVEN WHARF LOTTERY, warranted undrawn the 22d of Sept. being the latest intelligence from thence...
HAZARD and ADDOMS, BROKERS,
HAVE removed their Office to the corner of Chestnut and Third Streets—where they purchase and sell CERTIFICATES, BANK STOCK, &c. &c.
Business of all kinds, in their line, transacted on Commission. They have for sale, TICKETS in the Second Class of the Massachusetts Semi-annual Lottery...
To be let, on moderate Ground Rent, forever, A Lot of Ground, eligibly situated, in Kensington, fronting on three streets.

FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
I NOW send you a third Elegy, which is the only remaining one that I shall publish. I do not know but that the situation of mind which I am now going to describe is entirely new; at least, I never remember to have heard it taken notice of. Congreve , in one of his Comedies, makes a lover say that, irritated with the treatment of his mistress, he had determined to forget her. To assist himself in conquering his passion, he made a list of her imperfections; which he got by heart, and repeated so often, as to become, at length, attached to them. This appears natural—for the habit of thinking on any thing, for a long time, commonly renders that habit agreeable—and generally the thing itself. This may possibly account for what I am going to mention. It is now several years since I found myself prompted to write the first Elegy. I need not relate to you what have been my feelings in the mean time; the two pieces which I have already sent you sufficiently declare them. The custom of dedicating a particular part of every day for the purpose of reflecting on a subject which so much interested me, has induced a habit very pleasing, and not to be departed from without pain. The effect of this habit has been to place the object of my affections always in a pleasing view; and it has, latterly, been constantly attended with delight. So far am I wedded to this enjoyment, that I much suspect whether any other situation in life will be able wholly to take it from me. And so much have I accustomed myself to think of her with pleasure, that I believe, even her marriage with another person, (if he were respectable, and capable of making her happy) would hardly so far affect my habit of contemplating her, as to make it painful.
I have placed these remarks before the Elegy, to prepare those who read it for what they might otherwise condemn as a singularity, without existence in nature. Few persons feel interested in things of this kind—and in truth few things are so disgusting as what are commonly called Love Elegies. There seems to be an indelicacy in a person's making his affections public, which shocks the mind too much for it to relish the beauty of verse, or the pictures of passion. Perhaps I deceive myself—but had I not thought that the pieces, which I have sent you, would be of use to mankind, the considerations already mentioned would have deterred me from sending them.
ELEGY III.
FROM the wild fury of the tyrant Love Escaped, a gentle passion fills my breast, That whispers peace, and calls my soul to prove The milder influence of Affection's rest.
Soul of my soul! where'er I chance to stray, Thy pleasing image cheers the rugged road; Smooths with fresh smiles the variegated way, And gives delight to Sorrow's bleak abode.
Still as I view thee, in whatever light, Thou look'st perfection to my partial eyes; In female worth most excellently bright, In woman's real duty truly wise.
Where, with such moving, such affecting grace, Is filial piety so fair display'd? The look of love, of sympathy the face, Is thine, to fondest parents, happy maid.
In all the business of domestic life, Thy toils relieve a darling mother's cares; And, a bright emblem of a worthy wife, Thy hand the labors of the household shares.
Studious of science, silently retired, I see thee bending o'er the page of truth; And with unceasing vigilance inspired, Deriving knowledge from the tales of youth.
Thine is the power to ope the liberal stores Of real learning, and to seize the spoil; To mark its stream of treasure as it pours, And pierce the fountain with rewarded toil.
The slanderous charge of vain and haughty man, Who talks of female pedantry and pride, Affects not thee; self-taught on wisdom's plan, Who shew'st the instruction which thou seem'st to hide.
Thine is that secret, and that nameless grace, By strangers honor'd, or thyself their guest, Which lights up pleasure in each circling face, And yields soft ease to every anxious breast.
Thine too that dignity of female charms Which gives fair order to the festive dance; And that accordant gentleness which charms The soul with force fresh pleasures to advance.
In friendship's confidential hour, 'tis thine The heart, attentive to thy voice, to cheer; To ope affection's inexhausted mine, And waken pity's sympathetic tear.
"Still let me view thee in this pleasing light," Mistress of every power the soul to move; From the sweet action spreading mild delight, To that which thrills with agonizing love.
Arm'd with Anticipation's eagle eye, I pierce the mystic veil of future life; And, with unutterable pleasure, joy In thee the glory of a perfect wife.
At home, abroad, with strangers, or with friends, Thy deeds, delighting, spread around thee joy; Thy steps accordant ecstasy attends, And bliss, whose transports live without alloy.
With the same look that holds thy husband's heart, And binds to thee his confidence and love, I see thy eyes a mother's smiles impart, Thy lips parental tenderness improve.
Thy flattering hand, and loved embrace, delight The child whose little lips are raised to thine; Thy hand maternal rocks, the winter night, The infant cradle where thy hopes recline.
Oft as the lips of innocence are prest'd, With all a parent's fondness, parent's zeal, To thy caressing, and supporting breast, I see the look of rapture o'er thee steal.
And as thy arms their lovely charge sustain, Whose little sports the tears of joy beguile, I see thy prayer a heavenly audience gain, And draw from heaven an approving smile.
And now futurity's loved pictures fly— In real life I see thee as thou art; A friend whose cares can dry the tearful eye, And breathe calm comfort to the unhappy heart.
Now should my constancy hereafter fail To win thy tongue to answering words of love, May one more worthy, and refined, prevail Thy yielding heart with passion's power to move.
For with such pure, disinterested care, I with thy weal, 'twould be my highest joy, Thy love forgotten, and unfeigned despair, To see thy bliss a good man's tho's employ.
Yes, I could see him fold thee in his arms, And strain thy beauties to his raptured heart; And bend, enamour'd, o'er thy world of charms; If thou to me would friendship's balm impart.
O come, with lenient care my spirit sooth, Exalt each noble virtue of my soul; Win it to friendship, dignity, and truth, And bid the Muses' blessing o'er it roll!
1791.
C A R R Y L.
IMPERIAL HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA T E A S, REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, & SPICES, &c. &c.
Of the first quality—by retail,
No 19,
Third-Street, between Chestnut and Market Streets.
LOTTERY TICKETS.
New-Jersey, 2d Class—to commence drawing 26th inst. 7 P.M. Massachusetts Semi-annual, 2d Class, 13th October, 5 lively May be had as above.
Forty Dollars Reward.
LAST night was broke open the Store of the subscriber, at Bordentown, and stolen from the same the following articles, viz. One hair trunk, containing womens' wearing apparel; 1 small box, containing four clocks and one dozen testaments; 1 ditto containing one bottle green cloth coat, one striped vest and breeches, two shirts and a small bag with 36 dollars and 20s. to 30s. Jersey coppers; 1 keg containing a large bible, with other small books; 1 box containing 447 real ostrich feathers, some of them large and elegant, and of different colours; 2 barrels rye meal, branded Stout and Imlay; 1 barrel pork, 1 ream paper, and 1 dozen paste-boards.—Stolen at the same time, a large Batteau, with black sides.
A reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the above property, so that the owners may have the articles again, or in proportion for part thereof; also a further reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the perpetrator or perpetrators, so that they may be brought to justice, by
JOHN VAN EMBURGH.
Bordentown, New-Jersey, Sept. 1, 1791.
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W. M C DOUGALL'S DANCING SCHOOL,
Is now opened at his School-Room, No. 28, Carter's Alley.
HE returns his sincere thanks for the great encouragement he has experienced these eighteen years; hopes the reputation of his school for decorum and good order, as well as the performance of his scholars, will still ensure him a respectable share of the public favor.
A number of new Cotillions and Country Dances will be taught during the season.
Those who please to honor him with the tuition of their children, may be assured, they will be taught in the most approved style, and that proper attention will be paid to their carriage and manners.
A general practising for the improvement of the scholars, will be held at the New Rooms, every other Wednesday; when the employers, and strangers of genteel deportment, will be admitted. These practisings will be attended with no expence.
N. B. An EVENING SCHOOL will be opened for grown Gentlemen, as soon as a sufficient number offer. Philadelphia, September 14, 1791. (t. f.)
PUBLIC SECURITIES,
BOUGHT AND SOLD, ON COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON,
Chestnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97. MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL,
AND NEW-HAVEN
LOTTERY TICKETS,
To be had at the same place.
MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY. CLASS II.
THE MANAGERS of the STATE-LOTTERY assure the Public, that the second Class of the SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY will positively commence drawing on the day appointed, viz. On Thursday the 13th of October next, or sooner, if the Tickets shall be disposed of. As the Managers have in their several monthly Lotteries commenced drawing at the hour assigned, so they are determined to be equally as punctual in this.
S C H E M E.
NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE.
25,000 TICKETS, at Five Dollars each, are 125,000 Dollars, to be paid in the following Prizes, subject to a deduction of twelve and an half per cent. for the use of the Commonwealth.
   PRIZES. DOLLARS. DOLLARS.     1 of 10000 is 10000   2 of 3000 are 6000   3 of 2000 6000   6 of 1000 6000   10 of 500 5000   30 of 200 6000   80 of 100 8000   90 of 50 4500   100 of 40 4000   120 of 30 3600   161 of 20 3220   200 of 10 2000   7585 of 8 60680   8388 Prizes. 125000   16612 Blanks.  
25000 Tickets.
TICKETS in the above CLASS may be had of the several MANAGERS, who will pay the prizes on demand; of the TREASURER of the Commonwealth; of JAMES WHITE, at his Book-store, Franklin's Head, Court-street—and at other places, as usual.
BENJAMIN AUSTIN, jun. DAVID COBB, SAMUEL COOPER, GEORGE R. MINOT, JOHN KNEELAND, } MANAGERS.
Boston, April 14, 1791.
Blank Powers to receive the Interest, and for the transfer of the principal of public debt, agreeable to the Rules established in the Treasury Department: Also Blanks for abstracts of Certificates, to be sold by the Editor.
IF THOMAS FRANKS, lately of Little York, in Virginia, (but originally of Scarborough, in Yorkshire, Great-Britain) will make himself known, together with his present place of residence, either to his brother JOHN FRANKS, who is now in this Port, or to the subscriber, he will hear of something greatly to his advantage. THOMAS ROBINSON.
Portland, (District of Maine) August 20, 1791.
P. S. In case of the decease of Mr. FRANKS, his legal heir or heirs are requested to forward their names and places of abode to Mr. ROBINSON, as above.
GEORGETOWN, September 9, 1791.
THE Sales of the Lots in the Federal City will commence on Monday the 17th day of October next. The Commissioners finding they may engage materials and workmen for the public buildings to any desirable extent; with a view to draw the fund into action, so as to facilitate the work, instead of a deposit of 8 per cent., will require 1-4th part of the purchase money to be paid down, the residue to be on bonds with security, payable with interest in three equal payments. The manner of improvement will be published at the sale.
THOMAS JOHNSON, } Commissioners. DAVID STUART, } DANIEL CARROLL, }
PHILADELPHIA, 20th July, 1791.
THE Commissioners appointed to receive Subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, do hereby, agreeable to law, inform the Stockholders of the said Bank, that an election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the City-Hall in Philadelphia, on Friday the 21st day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the morning.
THOMAS WILLING, DAVID RITTENHOUSE, SAMUEL HOWELL.
B O O K S.
CAREY, STEWART, and Co.
No. 22, NORTH-FRONT-STREET, HAVE FOR SALE,
A large collection of BOOKS;
Among which are the following AMERICAN EDITIONS.
LOVELASS on Bills of Exchange. Dallas's Reports. Clerk's Vade Mecum. Kirby's Connecticut Reports. Gilbert's Law of Evidence. Conductor Generalis.
New Edinburgh Dispensatory. Buchanan's Domestic Medicine, Cullen's First Lines of the Practice of Physic. latest edition. Rush's Medical Enquiries. Clark on Diseases of Horses. Brown's Elements of Medicine. Gentleman's Pocket Farrier.
Osterwald's Christian Theology. Jenyns's Internal Evidence of Rise and Progress of Religion the Christian Religion. in the Soul. Beattie's Evidence of Ditto. Necker on Religious Opinions. Think Well On't. Fordyce's Addresses to Young Men. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum Sermons to Young Edwards's History of Redemption. Women. on the Religious Affections. Poor Man's Help and Young Man's Guide. against Chauncy. Newton's Dissertations on the Prophecies. Booth's Apology for the Baptists Lectures delivered by Soame Jenyns. Doway Translation of the Vulgate Bible. The Christian Remembrancer. Enfield's Family Prayers. Future State Eternal. Methodist Hymns. Russel's Seven Sermons. Watts's Hymns and Psalms. Price's Sermons.
Ramsey's American Revolution. Life of Baron Trenck. History of America. Smith's Wealth of Nations. Morse's Geography. Paley's Moral Philosophy. Siege of Gibraltar. Smellie's Philosophy of Natural History. Shaw's Abridgement of Bruce's Travels. Nicholson's Natural Philosophy Keate's Account of the Pelew Islands. Junius's Letters.
Pike's Arithmetic. Hale's Affectionate Epistles to his Children. Gough's Arithmetic, altered by Workman. Beauties of Johnson. Clark's Introduction to the making of Latin. of Sterne. Doddsley's Fables. Percival's Father's Instructions. P. Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoses, l. X. Lady's Advice to her Daughters. Philadelphia Latin Grammar. Emma Corbet. Ruddiman's Rudiments. Accomplish'd Gentleman. Schoolmaster's Assistant. Ela, or the Delusions of the Heart. Selectae & Veteri Testamento Historiae. Adventures of Maria Cecilia. Historiae. Adventures of Alphonso and Dalinda. Scott's Lessons on Elocution. Beattie's Poems. Sargeant's Short Hand. Conquest of Canaan. Wettenhall's Greek Grammar. Chesterfield's Principles of Politeness. Young Man's Companion. Economy of Human Life. Catechism of Nature. Fables for the Ladies. Hervey's Meditations. Freneau's Poems. Young's Night Thoughts. Mackenzie's Lounger. Thomson's Seasons. More's Sacred Dramas. Rudiments of Taste. Present for an Apprentice. Rudiments of Taste. Klopstock's Messiah. Lavater's Aphorisms.
IMPORTED BOOKS.
Kennet's Roman Antiquities. School Dialogues. Trimmer's Sacred History, 6 vols. Andrews's History of the American War, 4 vols. Nicholson's Navigation. New Annual Register. Alexander's Experimental Enquiries. Vattel's Law of Nations. Experimental Essays. Walker's Academic Speaker. Huxham on Fevers. Life of Robinson Crusoe. Virtues and Efficacy of a Crust of Bread. Saville's Miscellanies. Edinburgh Pharmacopia. School of Wisdom. Burke's Speeches and Political Tracts. Knox's Sermons, 2 vols. Beauties of the British Senate. Description of 300 Animals. Davies's Dramatic Miscellanies. Boyle's Voyages. Miss Murray's Mentor. Sterne's Sentimental Journey. Stuart's View of Society. The Apocrypha. Richard Steele's Correspondence. Marmontel's Belisarius. Man of the Moon, 2 vols. Journey through Sweden. Dramatic Pieces. Dupaty's Travels. Philadelphia, August 6 1791. Stretch's Beauties of History. Allison's Essay on the Nature and Principles of Taste. (w & g 13w 61)
ADVERTISEMENT.
BY late arrivals from France, the Editor has received from No. 10 to 31, both inclusive, of a Publication which comes out twice a week in Paris, entitled, "CORRESPONDANCE NATIONALE." From No. 1 to No. 10, have been shipped, but are not yet come to hand. Any person who may incline to subscribe for this work, which appears to be ingenious, impartial and patriotic, may be furnished with the numbers as they arrive by applying to the Editor of this Gazette.