National gazette. (Philadelphia [Pa.]), 1792-07-21 00:00:00

National
Gazette.
By P. FRENEAU: Published WEDNESDAYS and SATURDAYS, at THREE DOLLARS per annum.
Vol. I.
SATURDAY July 21, 1792.
NUMB. 76.
AUSTRIAN MANIFESTO.
Published by the Governors General of the Low Countries.
[Continued from our last and concluded.]
THESE measures, which France seems now to have forgotten, were quoted to the princes of the Empire as an example proper for them to imitate in the respective states, and with which the despotic agents of the French Government would be satisfied.
"We shall avoid taking notice of all the calamities with which France is afflicted, we should leave to time the disclosure of the machinations perpetually recommended by a set of insidious writers in their dangerous publications, were it not evident that, at the moment of the intended aggression against these provinces, a resolution is taken to spread the poison of a seductive illusion on the pretended advantages of the French constitution, with a view to make those partakers of it who may be deluded by this means; but it is necessary that the people who are confided to our government be reminded and informed that the kingdom of France groans at this time, in the name of liberty, under the most hateful slavery, every species of vice, of the most unbridled passions, and of a species of anarchy which is without example; that rights and property are abolished; that the holy religion which we profess is there trodden under foot; that altars are profaned and polluted; that their true ministers are deprived of their just rights, ill treated, persecuted even in their retreats among foreign nations and replaced by intruders who have no mission from the hierarchy of the church; that the pastors of the people have even been deprived of the distinctive vestments by which they were known to their flocks; that in a monstrous code, rights have been extolled which man can not enjoy in society, and which he tacitly renounces, by being born in civilized associations; that pursuant to those chimerical rights, attempts have been made to abolish, overturn, and confound those real rights which have been transmitted under the protection of the fundamental laws of the kingdom, from generation to generation, to those venerable classes to which the French nation had in every respect, the highest obligations; that real property has given way to the name by seizing the estates of those who had been solemnly invested with them by time, by the laws, and by an uninterrupted possession a hundred times renewed and confirmed by the true representatives of the nation; and all this under the deceitful colour of an equality of chimerical rights not existing in fact, and annihilated, if it could for a moment exist, by that variety of character, impressed on all mankind at their birth, by which they share, in very unequal proportions, moral faculties, the very disproportion of which has always determined and will ever determine the ascendancy of genius, strength, patience, industry, and economy over the opposite qualities, together with all the advantages which may lawfully arise from them, and which may be transferred like every other species of property.
"Finally, it is necessary that the faithful subjects of his majesty be informed that, whilst pains are taken to extol the pretended glory, and prosperity of the kingdom of France, lately the most flourishing in Europe, there is now no commerce, no circulation of specie or goods, no public force, no justice, no police, and that the philosophical persecutors of all those who are not of their sect, know no bounds to their excesses, which they excite their people to commit, except a fatuity of crimes.
"Who after this, could be so blind or stupid as to place the least confidence in the promises and in the insidious assurances made by these tyrants to those nations whom they wish to subdue, that they will
respect their property, their religion, their rights, their privileges, and their constitution?—Tyrants, who, since they have usurped the public power and force in France, have trodden under foot, with an effrontery and audacity hitherto unheard of, the most solemn public treaties, all rights human and divine, and every thing which is held most sacred over all the world; who, the moment they should become the masters of one province, would seize, as they have in their own country, the estates of the clergy and the nobility, and the property of the citizens.
"Once more, having never had any inclination to meddle with the internal government of any neighbouring state, we should not have entered on these afflicting details, relative to objects which are foreign to the government with which we are entrusted, were it not that French writings and French emissaries, and even the recent acts of the new Legislature of France have a tendency to render universal a system of innovation whether good or bad for the French nation, certainly and decidedly ruinous to the people under our government; because it is subversive of all that political organization delineated by a constitution which they love, which the sovereign has engaged to maintain, and on which the happiness of Belgium has for ages been founded.
"It was our duty to warn the people of the imminent dangers with which they are threatened. We have laid before them truths which all well meaning persons will acknowledge to be striking, and they will of course, use their utmost endeavours to maintain peace and public tranquility within these provinces, and we shall consider those as enemies to the State, and treat them as such, who shall attempt to disturb them.
(Signed) "MARIE ALBERT. (Counter Signed) "BARON DE FELIZ."
FOREIGN NEWS.
Extracts from French Papers, to May 18.
PARIS, May 15.
The season of inconsiderate rashness is past. Concealing from the nation its real situation would now be the height of treason, and encouraging it to go forward when on the brink of a precipice. The real enemies of the people are those who deceive by flattering them: their true friends are those, who discover to them the nature and tendency of their disease, and show them how to apply the remedy. It is time that the people knew how to form a real opinion of ministers, clubs, factious and perverse writers, who would risk the safety of the kingdom, and the success of the revolution upon a sudden and ill advised war. We can no longer doubt that the army of M. de la Fayette, instead of marching to attack the enemy's country, is absolutely destitute of every thing, and that the division of his army, encamped at Thionville, was compelled to return to its quarters, without powder, ball, field-pieces or artillery-men.
MADRID, April 25.
"It may be set down as a certainty that Spain will not join the enemies of France in any war against her. As to the Swiss regiments which were to have been taken into the pay of Spain, the new minister has declared them unnecessary, and has given orders to break off all negotiation on this subject. It may be proper to remark that the court of Spain was in this temper previous to the news arriving of the assassination of the king of Sweden. This base action, which is evidently the work of a Swedish aristocracy, has confounded the French emigrants here who have for some days ceased to ding in our ears, that "a nobility is the support of a throne," and that "without nobility there can be no monarchy," and a thousand other similar absurdities which modern history confutes in every page. We persuade ourselves here that if France is obliged to go to war, she will only have to oppose the Austro-Prussian league. In
true of the family compact she can demand from Spain both troops and a man of force. The attachment of Spain to France may be considered as firm as ever, now that they have a great and good character at the head of their government, whose plans are pacific. In short, the Count d'Aranda is too well informed of the actual state of France, not to know that the peace of Spain depends upon an acknowledgment of, and support of the new government of France."
ROME, April 20.
"His holiness the Pope has some time since undertaken to drain the marshes of Pontini. Although, in ballads, they praise him for having succeeded in an attempt which baffled the wealth and ingenuity of the ancient Romans, yet the work is no farther advanced than to render the Appian way practicable, which has been for many years, in places, covered with water. To complete the work, 40 millions more are wanting, as well as at least 20,000 persons, of a very different description from the beggars and sluggards that are now employed. If indulgences had the same credit now as formerly, it would be a good method, and a cheap one, to forward the undertaking."
April 21. "The holy office of the inquisition continues very severe against the French settled, and coming here. In consequence of its rigour they are every day leaving Rome, and in a short time there will only be those here whose aristocratic principles prevent suspicion.—The pretence for proscribing the patriotic French is, that they are no other than missionaries of French revolution principles. People of understanding, however, are convinced that the patriotic principles of the French will disseminate imperceptibly. They are so general, so congenial with human reason, of a tendency so benevolent to the human race, that their universal adoption depends neither upon age, nor clime, nor prejudice. If the French tongue is universally spoken and understood through Europe, is that the fault of the French? Must they either be silent, or speak a language different from their own—Must they not build up their own houses, now tottering in ruins, for fear their neighbours should take the hint and build up theirs also?—If there is any fact in the world clear and evident, it is this, that in every country governments are the sworn enemies of liberty. The love of liberty, however, is so natural to mankind that the Declaration of his Rights by such a nation as France will surmount all obstacles, and will extend throughout the world without the intervention of agents and missionaries, which have ever been necessary to the cause of despotism and superstition."
TURIN, April 30.
At no period has the king of Sardinia been more profuse of titles than at the present. The titles of count, marquis, crosses of St. Maurice, &c. &c. are lavished upon the most contemptible characters. It is commonly said here, that his majesty is determined to annihilate nobility by making it universal: but the true cause is the fear of increasing the deficiency in the revenue. As his majesty has not wherewithal to recompense every deserving man that asks a pension, he in lieu thereof gives him titles and crosses. An application to the folly of mankind for the payment of debts, is a good conceit enough, but is by no means an inexhaustible fund. Honours bestowed indiscriminately lose their effect, and cease to be a distinction. The order of St. Maurice is so common here, that almost every man you meet might be safely accosted, Sir Knight. In a short time it will be as common as the order of St. John de Lateran at Rome, which may be purchased for a single sequin (2 dollars.)
PARIS, April 26.
Lately among the petitioners at the bar of the National Assembly appeared a lady,
who obtained permission to address the assembly on the subject of natural born children inheriting the estates of their fathers and mothers. In the course of her speech this eloquent lady (Madame Grandval) examined the principles of natural and civil right, brought into view the authority of ancient and modern history, and left no record untouched that could throw a favorable light upon the cause of the wretched victims whose defence she had undertaken. "Our ancient lawgivers (says her petition) would not perhaps have been so severe in this matter, had not the unavoidable uncertainty of fathers urged them to be so. But the uncertainty exists not with respect to the mother; and it is with reason some have said, no one is a bastard by his mother's side . Justice therefore demands that a general law should be passed in favour of bastards. Let them at least be lawful heirs to their mothers' property, if the father cannot be discovered. Those whom an inconsiderate moment led astray, will by this means be encouraged to look up in society, and, by adopting good morals themselves, necessarily instil them into their children. Hence, too, these hitherto wretched outcasts will have a chance of some education, and society may derive benefit from characters who have hitherto been considered as lost to their country."
NAPLES, April 15.
"There is much talk here, of four French emigrants, who are come to pay a visit to Mesdames , the French king's aunts, now resident in this city, in a palace they have hired. The moment these aristocratical gentlemen were introduced, the princesses saluted them, shedding tears of joy on the occasion. Indeed there is no doubt, they are four of the sincerest friends the princesses have in the world, and every body, without exception, speaks well of them. These emigrants are no other than four large dogs, which, as being particular favorites, the ladies have had brought from Versailles, to help pass away the tedious hours during their residence in Rome, and at Naples."
"Events that have recently taken place in Rome, have an ill aspect for a government such as theirs, the reins of which are naturally weak. The precautions taken to prevent mischief, seem to have a contrary effect. The people, notwithstanding their profound ignorance, have an evident inclination towards republican government, and there are not wanting those who will tempt them to revolt, by holding up the idea that they are soon to be subjected to power, absolute and despotic. A ferment of minds and discontent is therefore becoming more and more ripe, in every province of the ecclesiastical state. News is just come in that the people have risen and thrown into a well the prelate-governor of a town in the neighbourhood of Rome. It were to be wished, there may not be a general insurrection. As the people are armed, and naturally ferocious, terrible examples would be made, no doubt, and the rivers be tinged with blood. The opinion of the populace, that they are the descendants of the old Romans, seems to inflame their indignation; and there is nothing wanting but some Riensé to declare himself tribune of the people, lead them to the capitol, and the papal government would in a very short time fall to the ground."
PARIS, May 2.
The corporations known in France under the name of secular-ecclesiastical congregations, such as Priests of the Oratory, of Jesus, of Christian doctrine, Mission of France and Saint-Lazarus, the Eudists, the order of St. Joseph, of Saint Sulpicius, and a thousand others are now entirely extinct and suppressed. Even the society of brother-taylors and brother shoemakers, as well as the various societies of religious sisters are annihilated, so that the shadow of incorporated bodies of any kind will not remain in France.

HAGUE, April 30.
"A cordon of troops are ordered to cover our frontier on the side of Leige. Several regiments are already on their march for Venloo, Maestricht, and the country round about. The discontent as well as the number of the patriots are increasing every day; and the recent example of the king of Sweden will shew to what enormities men will proceed when rendered desperate. Both the Stadtholder and his wife are ardently desirous of a reconciliation with the patriots; and for this purpose a general amnesty has been published, the prerogatives of the Stadtholder are abridged, and the orange cockades as well as all other external marks of party, be they what they may. It is easy to see, however, that this will not satisfy. The patriots are too much galled by a variety of unjust procedures against them, to give into any partial arrangements in their favour. Real liberty is what they want, and not trifling palliative concessions, which cannot heal an inveterate disease--besides, they lay, an amnesty, or general pardon, implies criminality; with which they declare themselves not chargeable, and therefore refuse to accept it."
A Society entitled the Friends of the people , associated for the purpose of obtaining a parliamentary reform , held their first general meeting at the Freemasons Tavern , London, the 26th April, 1792, and have published a declaration and address of which the following are copies.
DECLARATION.
"A number of persons have seriously reviewed and considered the actual situation of public affairs, and state of the kingdom, and having communicated to each other their opinions on these subjects, have agreed and determined to institute a Society for the purpose of proposing to Parliament and to the country, and of promoting, to the utmost of their power, the following constitutional objects, making the preservation of the constitution, on its true principles, the foundation of all their proceedings."
First. "To restore the freedom of election, and a more equal representation of the people in parliament."
Secondly. "To secure to the people a more frequent exercise of their right for electing their representatives."
Address to the People of Great-Britain.
No man, who is not ready to express his concurrence in our principles, by signing the Declaration, can be admitted into our society. The objects of it, as we conceive, are of a nature at all times fit to be pursued and recommended to the country. At different periods they have heretofore been avowed and supported by the highest authorities in the kingdom; by eminent individuals; and considerable bodies of men; by Mr. Locke and Judge Blackstone, by the late Earl of Chatham, and Sir George Saville; by the Duke of Richmond, the Marquis of Lansdown, Mr. Pitt, and Mr. Fox; by petitions from several counties and by repeated declarations from the city of London.
In appealing to the avowed opinions of men of established reputation, or of distinguished rank in this country, we do not mean to strengthen the reason, or enforce the necessity of the measure we propose, so much as to obviate all personal imputations, which the enemies of the cause will be ready to throw upon those who support it. It is not that, on our account, we dread the effect, or regard the impression which such imputations may produce. But we think it material to the credit and success of our proceedings, to shew that we are not aiming at reform unthought of by wise and virtuous men—that our opinions neither possess the advantage, nor are liable to the objection of novelty, and that we cannot be accused or suspected of factious purposes, or dangerous designs, without extending the same accusation or suspicion to the motives of men, whose situation and property, independent of their
character, principles, and abilities, have given them a most important stake in the peace and good government of the kingdom.
Convinced by our own reflections, by experience, and by authority, that the thing we propose to do is fit to be done, we have with equal deliberation, weighed the reasons that may recommend, or be objected, to the present time, as the most or least proper for bringing it forward. On this point we have no address to make to the determined enemies of a reform of every kind. Their objection, whether valid or not, is to the substance of the measure, and cannot be abated by circumstances. To those, who concur generally in the principle, but who may be inclined by particular reasons, to defer the attempt, we seriously wish to submit the following considerations: That admitting this to be a season of general tranquility in the country, it is, on that account, the more proper for temperate reflection, and prudent exertions to accomplish any necessary improvement; it is the time when practical measures for that purpose are most likely to be adopted with discretion and pursued with moderation. If we are persuaded to wait for other times of a different complexion—for times of public complaint, or general discontent, we shall then be told, that general remedies are not fit to be proposed in the moment of particular disorder, and that it is our duty to wait for the return of quiet days, unless we mean to create or increase confusion in the country. The result of this dilemma, if it be suffered to prevail, is pure and absolute inactivity at present, and forever. On the other hand, if it be true, as we are convinced it is, that, in this general appearance of tranquility, there is some mixture of discontent, as well as of strong and well-grounded opinion, on the subject of abuses in the Government, and corruptions of the Constitution, we wish it to be considered by men, whose judgment has been formed or enlightened by experience, and whose actions are most likely to be directed by prudence, whether, in taking proper measures to remove the cause and objects of such discontent and opinion, the choice of the time be not a material part of the measure; and whether the earliest time that can be taken, for preventing the encrease of an existing evil, be not the safest and the best?
The example and situation of another kingdom are held out to deter us from innovations of any kind. We say that the reforms we have in view are not innovations. Our intention is not to change, but to restore; not to displace, but to reinstate the constitution upon its true principles and original ground. In the conduct of persons most likely to reproach us with a spirit of innovation, we see a solid ground for retorting the imputation.—Their professions of admiration of the beauty and of zeal for the security of the constitution, appear to us too lavish to be sincere, especially when compared with those practical violations, with which they suffer this beautiful system to be invaded, and to which they never refuse to give their concurrence. They will not innovate, but they are no enemies to gradual decay; as if the changes insensibly produced by time, and nourished by neglect, were not in effect the most dangerous innovations. But what security have we that the dispositions of such men are not something worse than passive? How are we assured that, in praising the constitution, their intention is not to adorn a victim, which they wish to sacrifice, or to flatter the beauty they are endeavoring to corrupt? Let their intention be what it may, we answer their accusations in the words of one of the wisest of mankind; *" that time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and if wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end? "
By the reform proposed by lord Chatham, he declared in the House of Lords, that he meant to infuse a portion of new health into the constitution . The Duke of Richmond has declared, § " that his reasons in favor of a parliamentary reform were formed on the experience of twenty-six years, which, whether in or out of government, had equally convinced him, that the restoration of a genuine House of Commons by a renovation of the rights of the people, was the only remedy against that system of corruption, which had brought the nation to disgrace and poverty, and threatened it with the loss of liberty. "
* Lord Bacon § Jan. 1783.
Other authorities in favour of a parliamentary reform, as direct and explicit as these, might be quoted in abundance. The public is possessed of them. We rather wish to encounter, because we are sure we can efface, in every rational mind, the impression which may have been made by a view of those events which have attended a total reform in the constitution of France. We deny the existence of any resemblance whatever between the cases of the two kingdoms: and we utterly disclaim the necessity of resorting to similar remedies. We do not believe that, at this day, an absolute avowed despotism in the hands of the executive power would be endured in this country. But who can say to what conclusion the silent unresisted operation of abuses incessantly acting and constantly increasing may lead us hereafter; what habits it may gradually create; what power it may finally establish? The abuses in the government of France were suffered to gather and accumulate, until nothing but an eruption could put an end to them. The discontent of the people was converted into despair. Preventive remedies were either not thought of in time, or were not proposed until it was too late to apply them with effect. The subversion of the ancient government ensued. The inference from this comparison is at once so powerful and so obvious, that we know not by what argument to illustrate or enforce it. We mean to avert forever from our country the calamities inseparable from such convulsions. If there be, as it is said, in any part of this kingdom, a disposition to promote confusion, or even to arrive at improvement by unconstitutional and irregular courses, we hold ourselves as strictly pledged to resist that disposition wherever it may appear, as to pursue our own objects by unexceptionable methods. If, on the contrary, it be true, that the mass of the people are satisfied with the present state of things, or indifferent about it; if they approve of the representation as it stands, the form of election, and the duration of the trust; or if, condemning these things, they are determined, from indolence or despair, not to attempt to correct them; then indeed the efforts of individuals may be ineffectual, but they cannot be injurious to the peace of the community. If the spirit of the constitution be dead in the hearts of the people, no human industry can revive it. To affirm that extensive mischief may be done by a statement of facts or arguments, which make no general impression on the public mind, is a proposition that contradicts itself, and requires no other refutation. We trust it will be proved by experiment, that these inconsistent assertions are equally unfounded, and that the people of this country are no more disposed to submit to abuses without complaint, than to look for redress in any proceedings repugnant to the laws, or unwarranted by the constitution. Between anarchy and despotism, speaking for ourselves, we have no choice to make, we have no preference to give. We neither admit the necessity, nor can we endure the idea of resorting to either of these extremities as a refuge from the other. The course we are determined to pursue, is equally distant from both.
Finally we assert, that it must be blindness not to see, and treachery not to acknowledge,
That "† the instruments of power are not so open and avowed as they formerly were, and therefore the less liable to jealous and invidious reflections; but they are not the weaker upon that account. In short, our national debts and taxes have, in their natural consequences, thrown such a weight of power into the executive scale of government, as we cannot think was intended by our patriot ancestors, who gloriously struggled for the abolition of the then formidable parts of the prerogative, and by an unaccountable want of foresight established this system in their stead." Our general object is to recover and preserve the true balance of the constitution.
THESE ARE THE PRINCIPLES OF OUR ASSOCIATION, and on our steady adherence to them, we look with a just confidence to the approbation and support of the PEOPLE in the prosecution of our object. A measure so likely to be opposed by the united strength of various interests, can never succeed the declared and hearty concurrence of the nation.
RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That a motion be made in the House of Commons, at an early period in the † Blackstone
next session of Parliament, for introducing a PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
RESOLVED UNANIMOUSLY, That CHALES GREY, Esq. be requested to make, and the Hon. THOMAS ERSKINE, to second the above motion.
Signed by unanimous order of the Meeting, W. H. LAMBTON. Chairman.
[The above was signed by twenty-two members of parliament, and a great number of the most respectable names in the kingdom.]
[From the spirit and tenor of the above address, it is most presumable (says a correspondent) that the late proclamation of the British king, against what are termed seditious publications and associations, is not the less pointed at the friends of the people, and other societies now forming in England, for obtaining a reform in parliament, than the order of the king, in council, for an encampment on Bagshot-heath of an army of seven or eight thousand men, to commence on the first of July (instant) and terminate on the sixteenth of the same month, assuredly is, to overawe that rising spirit of revolution, which government thus obviously betrays its fears will manifest itself throughout England, on the commemoration of the anniversaries of the great and glorious revolutions of America and France on the 4th and 14th of that month.]
For the NATIONAL GAZETTE. MR. FRENEAU,
IGNORANCE is the only cause of the misery and oppression of mankind: tyrants are so sensible of this, that they prohibit all talking, writing, and even thinking on subjects calculated to instruct the minds of the people---at the dawn of the present glorious revolution in France, political clubs frequently met at the coffee-houses; the king issued an edict prohibiting such meetings---The kings of Europe are at this moment using every effort to prevent their subjects from investigating the principles of religion or government: And a junto of American aristocrats, influenced by the same spirit, are pursuing similar measures. A venal press, considered as a necessary appendage to the general government, is constantly employed in bestowing fulsome commendations on the most unwarrantable acts of government; and in abusing those free citizens who presume to come forward with their opinions on public measures. But the friends of mankind are not discouraged. At a time when the light of the French revolution is procuring the rights of man to the long oppressed people of Europe, American citizens certainly will not sacrifice their acquired rights to an ambitious and avaricious junto, who have the vanity to measure the prosperity of our country not by the general safe and happiness of the people, but by the palaces, sumptuous feasts, and parade of the well-born few, supported by the plunder of their fellow citizens. July 17. BRUTUS.
PHILADELPHIA. JULY 21, 1792.
The spirit of party in New-York, respecting the late election for Governor of the State, is said to have risen to such a height as to occasion several duels. Amongst these, Col. Marinus Willett, and William Wilcocks, Esq. had a meeting, and exchanged a few shots; but their friends interfering, prevented any bad consequences. Col. Willett is friendly to Gov. Clinton's election, which is opposed by Mr. Wilcocks.
The Rev. Mr. Thayer, Catholic Missionary at Boston, has challenged John Gardiner, Esq. of the state of Massachusetts, to a theological disputation, in public, on the truth of certain doctrinal tenets of the Romish Church, such as transubstantiation, purgatory, &c. Mr. Gardiner having asserted the whole to be unintelligible nonsense.
According to the Albany Gazette, a deputation from the Chiefs of the Five Nations are on their way to the Miami village, where a treaty is shortly to be held by the hostile Indians. This deputation is sent under the direction of the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, and charged with a message from the executive of the United States to the said Indians, demanding a cessation of hostilities until measures can be taken to bring about a general treaty of peace.
The same Gazette says, "Capt. Joseph Brandt returned through the city of Albany on the 6th instant, from his visit to the President of the United States. Capt. Brandt has expressed himself much pleased with the reception he met with from the

President, and the polite treatment he has received during his whole tour. We are informed that his best endeavours will be used to establish a treaty of friendship between the United States and the present hostile tribes of Indians; and that it is more than probable, on his return home, he will immediately set off for the Miami village."
George Clinton, Esquire, on the 3d inst. was qualified into office as Governor of the state of New-York; and the day following was elected President of the Society of the Cincinnati of that state.
It is mentioned in a Salem paper, (M.) that a superb plan of a capitol has been forwarded to the commissioners of the federal buildings in the city of Washington, by an eminent artist, resident in Salem.—Also, that the ingenious Mr. Perkins, of Newburyport, has been sent for, from this city, to execute the coinage of the United States.
The anniversary of the French revolution was celebrated on Saturday last, in New-York, by the Tammany Society. A number of respectable French gentlemen attended, upon invitation, and made a handsome address to the Grand Sachem of the society, which was suitably replied to. An elegant collation was soon after prepared, at which seventeen toasts were drank, highly expressive of the part each nation took in commemorating their respective revolutions.
An address appears in a Belfast (Irish) paper, addressed to the people of Ulster representing to them in a strong light the miserable situation they are actually in, their still worse prospects if they remain, and advice to emigrate to the forests of America, rather than exist in a country where the strong arm of power crushes the inhabitant to the dust, without hope or remedy. It is said, that in consequence of this address, and other incitements, a large emigration to these coasts will soon take place. Sincerely it is to be hoped that the wisdom of our government will so compromise matters with the Indian tribes as to give these foreigners a safe asylum in the western woods; that in flying from the sceptre of tyranny, they may not fall victims to the scalping knives of the irritated, uninformed savages.
The anniversary of American Independence has been celebrated far and wide by the friends of America and republican government.—The 14th of July, as far as we have yet heard, has been the object of almost equal attention by the patriots of America, and will no doubt in future be considered as our second day of eminence in the calendar of Liberty.
A paper maker of note in England has discovered a chemical process, which renders paper, made of any rags whatever, as white as those made of the finest kind. This discovery at once cheapens paper 25 per cent. This is mentioned in all the London papers we have seen, as a fact.
The Fourth of July having turned out to be a rainy day at Carlisle, the inhabitants put off the celebration of the glorious event. Independence, to the 5th, which perfectly answered their expectations. From this example it would seem proper in future to advertise, "Independence to be celebrated on the fourth of July, or, if bad weather, the next fair day after."
If peace with the Indians can now be accomplished upon moderate terms, (as is intimated in the Centinel) after their success, it is a proof of the inexpediency of the Indian war. It shews that peace or war, is within a small circle, and that a few individuals can decide on this business, as it suits their convenience. It is suspected, that certain characters, finding that the war department arrests the attention of the public, are now closing the scene, and preventing a thorough investigation, by holding up the prospects of peace.—But it is hoped that Congress, when acting on the report of their committee, will adhere to the doctrine of responsibility, which has been made the plea for high salaries, &c.—and bring every man who has been blameable in this disgraceful business, to answer for the blood spilled, and the money expended.
[Bost. Ind. Chron.]
There is a degree of respect due to every government which a rational man will never lose sight of, and will carefully preserve in his words and actions as well as in his strictures and reflections upon its faults and abuses. Truth offered with decency ought never to offend, and however deficient a country may be in men who are
not afraid to tell the ruling powers the truth, it seems to be proved from constant experience that they will never want for flatterers and universal admirers:
"We're oft to blame in this ('Tis too much prov'd) that with devo- tion's visage, And pious actions, we do sugar o'er The Devil himself."
On Thursday, July 5, the Brig Charles-ton, Capt. Garman, on her passage from this port to Charleston, and within one day's sail of the bar, was struck with lightning. Both masts were struck, but the foremast and its topmasts suffered most. A horse on deck was killed. The mate and several of the hands were knocked down, and remained lifeless for some time; and Mr. William P. Young, passenger on board, lay a considerable time deprived of his senses, and very much scorched and otherwise hurt. The shock was so great, that the brig, altho' going at the rate of five or six knots, was totally stopped, and continued motionless sometime.—It is somewhat surprizing that so little attention should be paid to arm vessels with lightning-rods, to prevent mischiefs of this kind. They might be put on and taken off at pleasure, with very little trouble.
On the 16th inst. a large number of patriotic citizens met at Corré's hotel, New-York, and passed a number of resolutions, expressive of their sense of the legality of Mr. Clinton's election to the office of first magistrate of that State, and their determination to support him if necessary in discharging the duties of his office.—At this meeting it was resolved that "a circular letter be addressed to the free and independent electors of the several counties of this state, earnestly recommending to them, to preserve the peace and tranquility of the community, and to adopt resolutions expressing their sense of the violent measures, which are now pursuing by a certain party, to obtain redress for a pretended injury committed on the rights of the people." Seventy-two respectable gentlemen of the city were appointed a committee for this purpose.—
On the 18th, pursuant to the resolutions, several of the committee, accompanied by a very large number of their fellow-citizens, waited on the Governor at the government-house, and presented him an address, congratulating him on his re-election, regretting the inflammatory measures pursuing by a party in the state, promising every assistance in supporting the constitution and laws of the country, &c. &c.—The Governor returned a polite answer to their address—and afterwards favoured above one hundred gentlemen with his company at a public dinner at Corré's hotel, when fifteen patriotic toasts were drank, exclusive of Gov. Clinton's, which was, The republican interest throughout the Union.
Extract of a letter from New York, July 13. It has been asserted that, "if all the votes had been canvassed, governor Clinton would have had a larger majority than he now has;" the following statement will show that this assertion is unfounded. Mr. Clinton had votes lost and destroyed, in Richmond 81—New-Cornwall 177—Jerusalem 11—Clinton 20—in all 289; to which add 108, the number by which Mr. Clinton was declared, and the sum is 397. Mr. Jay had votes lost or destroyed, in North Salem 40—in New Paltz 15—in Peterborough 49—in Genesee 19—in Tioga 100—and in Otsego 700—in all 923, from which deduct Governor Clinton's 397, and the remainder is 526, the majority for Mr. Jay. In this statement, the majority in the several places is alone estimated."
On Thursday evening a number of citizens met at the state house, pursuant to notice given, for the purpose of conferring on the proper means of forming a ticket for representatives in Congress, and electors of President and Vice-President of the United States. On motion, the meeting was adjourned to the 25th, at 7 in the evening.
** MARRIED at Middletown Point, in Monmouth county, East-Jersey. Doctor Thomas Barber, of that place, to Miss Nancy Edwards, a lady possessed of every amiable accomplishment, that can render the nuptial tie agreeable.
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The New Genealogy.
[From the R. Island Herald.]
 1. SATAN begat taxation, and taxation begat opposition, and opposition begat the war, and the war begat the old confederation.  2. And the old confederation lived four hundred and three score days, and begat speculation.  3. And the old confederation lived after he begat speculation one thousand three hundred and four score and ten days and begat sons and daughters.  4. And all the days of the old confederation were four thousand three hundred and four score days and he died.  5. And speculation lived three score and ten days, and begat the public debt.  6. And speculation lived after he begat the public debt three thousand eight hundred and four score and ten days, and begat sons and daughters.  7. And all the days of speculation were (he is living to this day, and in all probability, will live to the age of Methusel-h.)  8. And the public debt begat uneasiness, and uneasiness begat the convention, and the convention begat the new constitution, and the new constitution begat the new congress.  9. And the new congress lived five hundred and forty and seven days and begat the—funding bill. 
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FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
R UNAWAY from the subscriber in November 1791 a negro woman by the name of Absalom 25 years of age; she is a low well set wench something on the yellow complexion with a bushy head of hair something related to the East India molattoes, broad over the shoulders, has holes in her ears and rings in them when went away, she can spin and weave tolerably well, she has been at work in Milford and as high as Dover-Town in the Delaware state, in the month of May 1792. I expect she has made higher up. She at that time went by the name of Blake.—Whoever takes up and secures said Negro wench, so as the owner may get her again, shall have the above reward—Living in Accomack county, Virginia.
CHARLES TURNSELL:
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AT a meeting of the directors of the society for establishing useful manufactures, held at New-Ark, on Friday the eighteenth day of May 1792, at which time was passed the following SUPPLEMENT to an ordinance, entitled "An ordinance for securing the punctual payment of the monies due on the subscriptions to the society for establishing useful manufactures."
WHEREAS, by the third section of the ordinance, entitled "An ordinance for securing the punctual payment of the monies due on the subscriptions to the society for establishing useful manufactures," it is ordained, that if any subscriber or his assigns, shall neglect to pay the second third or fourth payment of his, her or their respective subscriptions for the space of three days after the expiration of the time limited by the law of incorporation for the said payments that is to say, the second payment, on the thirteenth day of July, 1792: that then and in that case, all and every share or shares, of such person or persons so neglecting to make such payments as aforesaid, and the monies by them previously paid, shall be forfeited, and forever thereafter vested in the said directors and their successors for the common benefit of the said society.
And whereas circumstances render it inexpedient to exact full payment of the second instalment on the said thirteenth day of July next, or within three days thereafter.
Be it therefore ordained, by the deputy Governor and directors of the society for establishing useful manufactures, that if the said second payment shall be made in manner following, that is to say, one equal third part thereof, on or before the thirteenth day of August next, one other equal third part thereof on or before the thirteenth day of September next and one other equal third part thereof, on or before the thirteenth day of October next, with lawful interest computed thereon from the said thirteenth day of July next, that then and in such case, the said penalty mentioned in the said section, shall not be exacted, any thing in the said ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding.
A. MERCER, Deputy Governor. Extract from the Minutes, JAMES GRIFFITHS, Clk:
NEW-YORK & PHILADELPHIA STAGES Via Bordentown and Burlington, And SHREWSBURY & PHILADELPHIA STAGE, Via Bordentown.
THE proprietors of the New-York and Philadelphia land and water Stages beg leave to mention, that for the better accommodation of passengers, they have thought proper to remove the different packet boats from their former stand, at the Crooked Billet wharf, to the wharf or dock immediately next below Arch-Street, from whence, on the first day of July next, and afterwards, a convenient packet-boat will start for New-York, as usual, on every Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The passage to be made either by the way of Bordentown or Burlington, each place to be taken alternately. Fare for passengers from Philadelphia to New-York 15s.—For Goods pr. cwt. 6.
VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN, DAVID WILLIAMSON, Proprietors of the line of New-York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Bordentown. JACOB MYERS, AMOS HUTCHIN, NICHOLAS SCHENK,
Proprietors of the line of N. York and Philadelphia Stages, by the route of Burlington. The Shrewsbury Stage will leave Philadelphia in the months of July and September, on every Sunday and Wednesday, and return on every Tuesday and Friday. In the month of August, it will leave Philadelphia on every Sunday and Thursday, and return on every Tuesday and Saturday.
VAN EMBURGH & M'KEAN, DANIEL LOT, Proprietors of the Shrewsbury and Philad. Stage. Bordentown, June 25, 1792.
For freight or passage apply to the masters on board, or to M'KEAN & VAN EMBURGH, at their store on said wharf, immediately next below Arch-Street; by whom orders for the purchase of all kinds of grain, slaves, or other country produce, are punctually attended to.
For freight or passage to Lambert or Trenton, also apply as above. Philadelphia, June 27. 1aw t
HOWELL'S LARGE MAP of PENNSYLVANIA.
THIS work is engraved in the most elegant style, and will be ready for delivery early this summer. It is 63 inches long and 36 inches wide, and for the most part very full of work (except some small places of which materials were not to be had) and was wholly compiled from actual surveys, acquired at great expense of money, and more than four years labour, and from its manifest public utility, the Legislature has been pleased to grant the proprietor the sum of three hundred pounds.
This map exhibits the County and Township Divisions, and those of the Surveyors Districts in the New-Purchase, Donation and Depreciation Lands; the waters, portages, and the Canal, mountains and valleys, roads, towns, &c.
He thanks the Public for their very liberal subscription, and informs them that it is yet kept open. He sells his SMALL MAPS, on canvals, folded and cas'd for pocket carriage, at 10s6, and plain at 8s4.
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THE ISLAND-FIELD-NEGRO.
Written some years ago at a Sugar-Plantation in Jamaica.
IF there exists a hell, (the case is clear,) Sir Toby's slaves enjoy that portion here: Here are no burning brimstone lakes, 'tis true, But kindled rum full often burns as blue;
Here whips on whips excite a thousand fears, And mingled howlings vibrate on my ears; Here Nature's plagues abound, of all degrees, Snakes, scorpions, despot's, lizards, centipedes—
No art, no care escapes the busy lash, All have their dues, and all are paid in cash: The lengthy cart-whip guards this tyrant's reign, And cracks, like pistols from the fields of cane.
Ye powers that form'd these wretched tribes re-late, What have they done to merit such a fate! Why were they brought from Ebo's sultry waste To see the plenty that they must not taste?
Talk not of blossoms, and your endless spring, No joy to me these scenes of misery bring Where Stygian pictures half their shades renew, Pictures of woe that Virgil's pencil drew:
[The following are the Forms of certain Instruments referred to in the French Patent-Law, in our preceding papers.]
NUMBER I.
THE form of a receipt to be given from the Directory of Brevets of Invention, acknowledging the having received a petition.
"No. _____ Department of _____ this day of the month of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and _____ A. D. _____
NUMBER II.
FORM OF A BREVET OF INVENTION.
LOUIS, by the grace of God, and by the constitutional law of the state, King of the French: To all present and to come, salute. N. citizen, or N. N. citizens, having set forth to us that he desires, or that they desire to enjoy the rights of property assured by the law of the 7th Jan. 1791,
We have conformably to the law of the 7th January, 1791, conferred to Mr. N. or to Messieurs N. N. a brevet of invention, to fabri-
cate and sell in all parts of the kingdom, during the term of 5, or 10, or 15 years, complete and successive, (here it will be necessary to announce the object of the brevet) executed by the means assigned in the above description, and upon which shall be put, a stamp with these words, "Brevet of invention," and the name of the author, or of the authors, for him, or for them; and his, or their having cause, shall enjoy the said brevet in any part of the kingdom, for the time as above mentioned, in all conformable to the law of January 7th, 1791, forbidding in express terms, all persons from imitating or counterfeiting the objects, under whatever pretext that may be.
Willing to assure to N. or N. N. the enjoyment of his, or their brevet, that there may be made on this a proclamation in our name, that none may pretend ignorance; given and ordered to all tribunals, governments, and corporations to let enjoy and use fully and peaceably the rights enforced by these presents, to Mr. N. or Messrs. N. N. and his, or their causing, ceasing, making cease, all troubles and hindrances: Ordering, also, that the first request of the patentee, or of the patentees, that is presented, they shall have transcribed upon their registers, read, publish and post in their respective jurisdictions and departments; and execute for the term of their duration, as the law of the kingdom. In faith of which, we have signed, and caused to be countersigned the said presents, to which we have made set the seal of the state at the _____ day of the month of _____ year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety _____ and of our reign the _____
Signed, LOUIS. Lower, D E L E S A R T.
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Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Items include Ashes, Bacon, Bees wax, Brandy, Butter, Coals, Coffee, Cotton, Flax, Flour, Grain, Hams, Hemp, Hides, Indigo, Iron, Castings, Nail-rods, Pig, Sheet, Lard, Lead, Myrtle wax, Molasses, Nutmegs, Oil, Pepper, Pimento, Porter, Pitch, Pork, Rice, Rosin, Rum, Salt, Skins, Snake-Root, Sugar, Tallow, Tar, Tea, Tobacco, Turpentine, Wine, Lisbon, Teneriffe, Faya, Port, Sherry.
Society for establishing Useful Manufactures.
PROPOSALS to contract for the following purposes, will be received at New-York by Nicholas Low, at New-Ark by Elisha Boudinot, at New-Brunswick by John Bayard, and at Philadelphia, by Charles Pettit: viz: 1st. To cut a canal from the river Passaick, beginning at a point near a station, where stands a stake marked No. 1, and continuing thence to the brink of a precipice at or near a rock marked No. 3. This canal must be thirty feet wide, and must be sunk to a level with the surface of the water in the driest season. 2d. To erect flood-gates in the said canal near the brink of the precipice. 3d. To erect a dam on the river Passaick above the Great Falls, and below the place of the canal. The dam to be four feet above the level of the surface of the water at the driest season. 4th. To erect a dry wall across a gully adjacent to the abovementioned precipice, in a direction from the said station No. 3, to another station being a stake marked No. 6, on or near the summit of a hill, extending from thence to the other; and to make a wooden trough upon the said wall sixteen feet wide by seven feet deep. 5th. To extend a trough of the same dimensions, from the said station No. 6, to another station being a tree marked No. 7, with a dry wall on one side, the whole length thereof, of the thickness of six feet. 6th. To erect at the town of Paterson, near the Falls of the Passaick, a stone building, fifty five feet long by thirty-two feet wide, four stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof. 7th. To erect another stone building at the said town of Paterson, seventy-eight feet long, by thirty-one feet wide, three stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof. 8th. To erect another stone building at the said town of Paterson, thirty-eight feet long by twenty-seven feet wide, two stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof. 9th. To erect another stone building sixty-eight feet long by thirty six feet wide, two stories high, exclusive of a cellar the whole length thereof. 10th. To erect fifty houses of stone or wood, as may be afterwards determined, each twenty-four feet long by eighteen feet wide, in height from the lower floor to the plate twelve feet, with a cellar and a garret. Two houses to be under one roof, with a party wall. The proposals will specify severally the rates at which these buildings will be undertaken in stone and in wood. Descriptive plans of the several objects above specified, No. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, may be seen in the possession of Nicholas Low at New-York, Elisha Boudinot, at New-Ark, John Bayard, at New-Brunswick, Charles Pettit, at Philadelphia and William Hall at the said town of Paterson. The said William Hall will give such explanations as may be necessary. A descriptive plan of the building above specified No. 6, may be seen in the possession of the four first abovementioned persons and of Thomas Marshall, at the town of Paterson who will give such explanations as may be necessary. A descriptive plan of the building above specified No. 9, may be seen in the possession of the four first abovementioned persons, and of William Pearce at the town of Paterson, who will give such explanations as may be necessary. All materials are to be found, brought to the spot, and erected by the contractors, to whom liberty will be granted under certain restrictions to use the stones or timber which may be on the lands of the society. The proposals may comprehend either the whole or any one or more of the foregoing objects. The proposals may accompany their proposals by the suggestion of any other methods which shall occur to them for constructing a competent wall across the gully from station No. 3, to station No. 6, and for conveying the water from thence to station No. 7, and the terms upon which they may be disposed to contract according to those methods. All the works for conveying the water must be warranted for seven years. Proposals must be in writing, and under seal addressed to the society for establishing useful manufactures; and delivered to one of the said persons first mentioned, on or before the twenty sixth of July instant. July 10. 3t.
TEN POUNDS REWARD.
BROKE goal at Monmouth court-house on Sunday evening, the 10th inst. a Negro Man, named SAM, sometimes calls himself George; is of a yellow complexion, high cheek bones, large white eyes, and impudent look; said negro is about five feet ten inches high, had on and took with him when he went away, a sheeting shirt and trowsers, oznabrigs frock, and an old felt hat. Whosoever will deliver said runaway to his master, or lodge him in any goal, so that his master may have him again, shall be entitled to the above reward to be paid by me, ELISHA JEWEL. Freehold, Monmouth county, June 22, 1792. 1aw4t
A FARM FOR SALE.
To be sold cheap for cash, a Farm situated on the Banks, and on the north side of the river Raritan in the state of New-Jersey; eight miles from the city of New-Brunswick, and one from the town of Bound Brook, containing 191 acres, and 40 acres about a mile distant apportioned to it for woodland: on this farm has lately been erected a neat and convenient house 28 by 34 feet neatly finished, built on a cellar the dimensions of the house, with a kitchen forming a wing 24 by 18 feet completed: 50 acres of it being meadow renders this place truly valuable; the healthy airy and pleasant situation makes it an agreeable seat for a gentleman: the meadow and fertility of the soil, an object for the farmer, & its being surrounded by the most wealthy and opulent farmers in the state, a very eligible stand for a store. The ride to and from Brunswick, on either side of the river, is delightful: for the price apply to the editor of the National Gazette. 6w 1aw.
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