Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1792-07-21 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
A NATIONAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 15, of Vol. IV.]
SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1792.
[Whole No. 337.]
MANIFESTO of the GOVERNMENT at BRUXELLES in answer to the declaration of war on the part of France.
PROCLAMATION.
(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 cannot 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, while 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 satiety 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 those tyrants to those nations whom they wish to subdue, that they will respect their property, their religion, their rights, their privileges, and their constitutions? Tyrants, who, since they have usurped the public power and force in France, have trodden under foot, with an arbitrary and audacity hitherto unheard of, the most solemn public treaties, all rights human and divine, and every thing which is held most sacred all over the world; who, the moment they should become the masters of one province, would seize, as they have done in their own country, the estates of the clergy and nobility, and the property of the citizens.
Once more, having never had any inclination to meddle with the internal government of any neighboring 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 innovations 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."
Done at Brussels, April 29, 1792.
On Monday, the 24th inst. a Public Examination took place in the new Academy lately founded in Allen's Township, Northampton county, when the Visitors and Founder of the Seminary expressed their admiration of the improvement of the boys, and were pleased to congratulate the masters on their success in their respective professions. The following Oration was delivered by one of the young Gentlemen.
IN meditating on the superior advantages, which must in all places and at all times arise to those of liberal and moral education, no country has ever displayed so extensive a field to rising merit, as that in which providence has cast our lot. Favoured by heaven with a mild and happy government, we behold ourselves participating in all the sweets of liberty, enjoying without interruption the necessities, nay, the delicacies of a fruitful and friendly soil. Strangers to the tyrannic sway of arbitrary power, we no longer hear the piercing groans of the victims of oppression—we are no longer taught to consider ourselves the children of an enslaved people, subject to the caprice of no foreign usurpers, and exposed to the rigid impositions of no hireling of ill-gotten power, we possess (if we can but discover the means of enjoyment) no small portion of the most necessary ingredients of human happiness. Our country the most extensive, the most independent, of any in the Christian world, has within herself innumerable resources of growing greatness and wealth. Blessed with a vast variety of climate, her northern territories are plentifully furnished with the produce of those of the south, whilst they in return are indebted to the north for those superfluities, which are ever in demand by a rich and civilized people. Not confined to the limits of her own dominions, nature has prescribed means of her becoming great by the assistance of people removed from us by immense oceans, whose untriendly climates deny them the luxuries, which ours most liberally supplies. Peculiarly fortunate in her enterprizes, her ions now may justly claim that respectability, which must ever mark a great and commercial people—a people whose actuating principle is universal liberty, whose affairs are conducted by the most distinguished, the most patriotic members of the community, whose every wish regards the public good. Under whose lenient guidance we not only are strangers to those religious contentions, which have ever deluged the world with blood; but behold universal toleration of sentiment pervade every civil and political body; see amity reign between societies of various denominations, and the primeval spirit of equality upheld here, in a greater degree of purity, than in any other country under heaven. Under the influence of such invaluable advantages, ought we not to improve our opportunities? ought we not to endeavor to attain that portion of felicity, which life is capable of? that felicity (without vanity I express myself) which may be procured in this land of freedom, more easily than in any other part of the universe. To effect this end what particulars ought to call for the attention of parents? what claim their unremitting assiduity if not the education of their children? this is the basis of promotion in this life—this (if not perverted) is the ground work of eternal happiness. By this the soul is expanded and raised to views worthy of herself—by this she becomes acquainted with the stupendous works of her creator, and is familiarized with the most remote causes of things. How then can that which is big with such inestimable treasures be neglected? do we not behold the daily advancement of men of parts? do we not see merit conducted to its reward? have not liberal bred men of all countries met with encouragement in America; and shall we, who are entitled to superior privileges, deny ourselves a participation of those rights which as a free people we may justly expect? no, the spirit of ambition has operated, with success in different parts of the union, and still continues to spread its wholesome influence. The flame seems now to have reached this part. O! may it work up the resolutions of you my countrymen, to laudable an undertaking.
Polymni, the father of the celebrated Epaminondas, is said to have spent the most of the fortune he could give his son upon his education; the liquid of his life shews to what infinite advantage it was applied. Would this noble spirit inflame your bosoms, would ye devote part of the property which must be their's at your dissolution, to their education, you would not only discharge the duty of parents, but that of men anxious for the prosperity of our country—ye would make a more weighty, a more intrinsically valuable donation to the community by such an application, than by bequeathing the most affluent, the most excessive fortunes. Your children would be the props of your old age, an honor to themselves and pride of their country. Were men to think as the ancient Spartans formerly did, respecting the education of youth, no consideration could prevail on them to omit a matter of such public utility.—That wise and prudent people conceiving the Spartan youth to be more immediately the children of their country, than those of their respective parents, established seminaries, into which they sent all their youth—here they remained until the age of maturity, under the care of able masters, and from hence, as the inclination of each directed, launched into the employment of their country.
The wisdom of the Persians in the management of their children has been no less admired. They did not permit parents to dethrow what education they pleased on them; but obliged them to send them to schools founded at the public charge, where they received such instruction, as was deemed necessary to fit them for the various employments of their country. All those who accidentally did not partake of this public mode of education, were indiscriminately excluded from all the honorary services of their country? Shall Ame-
ricans then, in the enlightened days of Christianity, prove more remiss than those heathens? Shall they decline the acceptance of those favors, which Providence most bountifully offers? Shall they still remain unacquainted with the blessings which are in store for them? That ambition which operates in the bosoms of many of our countrymen to represent their fellow subjects in the legislature of their country, should stimulate them to furnish their children with the rudiments of wisdom, that they may the more certainly have it in their power to render her in their turn, those services, which they may one day stand in need of, and which their respective situations in life may make acceptable. This, independently of other more interesting considerations, ought to determine your doubts on this head. Let this then, my countrymen, call forth your consideration. A moment's attention must convince you, that no provision you can make for your children, will more amply answer your wishes, more amply repay the toils and difficulties which must be encountered by youth in the attainment of any kind of knowledge, than a good and virtuous education.
PARIS, May 10.
THE house of the Jacobins is to be sold, therefore they must seek out for another spot on which to hold their sittings—with a change of place, it is hoped they will change their measures—The universal cry is, the Jacobins have ruined France—They have lately moved that the protection of the State shall be put into the hands of what they call a national legion, to be composed of Invalids! They have again revived the absurd idea of transferring the French crown to the House of Brunswick—a short time will determine at what value this precious diadem is to be eliminated.
A bill has been stuck up in all parts of the town, intitled, a petition of ten millions of the French nation! it is however only signed by six Jacobins; it recommends depriving M. DE LA FAYETTE of all military command; it says, his victories would be more ruinous than our late disgraces; so that it appears every thing is to be wrought for France and Liberty by magick, or rather the cause is to work itself.
Rochambeau is said to be no less than a traitor; that he is in an infamous league to enslave both France and Flanders;—the proceedings at Lisle are spoken of, as, in some cases which could be named, worthy of imitation! The subsequent observations have a retrospect to the Manifestos issued by the House of Austria and their General in the Brabantine provinces, to justify the combination of that and certain other continental powers against the reformed government and constitution of France.
Nothing can afford a clearer proof that governmental reformation is far behind national reformation, than the principles which the Governors general in the Low Countries have dared to publish & disseminate in their proclamations. We there find assertions the most false, imputations the most slanderous, and the denial of facts the most notorious. They deny, for instance, that the emigrants have either been protected or tolerated in Germany; and that the French travellers and residents in those dominions have been insulted, abused and plundered. This audacious impudence that can coolly deny facts known to all Europe, is not new in their system of politics. What is most astonishing is, the deliberate coolness with which despotism publishes the catechism of its faith, and repeats the ancient creed, at the present period as it would have done 30 years ago. The sacred name of God is introduced to sanction their worse than Gothic abuses of true government, the perpetuity, we may say, the eternity of the most absurd institutions, couched under the respectable appellation of fundamental laws, but in fact annihilating the rights of men, who have tacitly renounced those rights, merely for the benefit of associating together, and living under a despotism, that has made them its absolute possession and
property. And these are the base principles which are preached up to Europe at nearly the close of the eighteenth century.
LONDON, May 8.
The letters by the Flanders mail delivered yesterday confirm in every respect the total defeat of the French in the two actions before Tournay and Mons. In the annals of the French history, we believe their troops never met with similar disgrace, which is heightened by the cruelty of their conduct towards their officers. The Romans made it a practice to administer every soothing comfort to their Commanders under misfortune,—the refined manners of the new order of men in France make the Turks their example. [English Triumph.]
At the affair of Mons, 200 French emigrants were present, but without arms and without commissions; and their conduct was so displeasing, that they were ordered to quit Mons in 24 hours. Those still remaining in the Low Countries are seen every day passing through Brussels, on their way to join the Princes, for fear of being struck out of the military roll.
This instant orders are issued to the emigrants to quit Liege, Montmedy and Treves, to prevent the electorates from being attacked on their account.
Extract of a letter from Haerlem, May 11.
"We have received accounts from the Austrian Netherlands, that the approach of the army of M. de la Fayette had made some change in the position of the Austrians, who had retired from the posts they had taken possession of; and that as M. de la Fayette advanced by hasty marches towards Namur, the Austrians drew in all their outposts, and had fortified themselves within the Citadel; that a very serious rencontre had taken place between an Austrian detachment and some of the troops under M. de la Fayette, in the neighbourhood of Charleroy, in which it is said each party claim the victory. The action is said to have been brought on by M. de la Fayette, making a feint attack to Charleroy, which drew General Brown out to succour the place, and an action ensued.
"Letters from Namur, of the 6th of this month, say, the army of M. de la Fayette had not then appeared before that place."
A letter from Rome mentions, that the Abbe Maury is at length invested with a public character by the Pope; his Holiness has created him an Archbishop in partibus, and has appointed him his Nuncio at the Diet to be held for the election of an Emperor. He has further granted him the sum of three hundred and thirty thousand French livres for the expence of his equipage.
The detachment of the French army, who marched to St. Ghislain, were preceded by a band of music. Whenever they arrived at an Austrian village, they halted, and regaled the ears of the frightened inhabitants with their favorite tune CARRA. This was continued till General Beaulieu spoiled their concert by the sound of his trumpets, when the philosophical Musicians hastily decamped, in a chorus of sauve qui peut, leaving their BATTERIE DE MUSIQUE in the hands of the enemy.
FRENCH POLITICS FOR 1791.
Without acknowledging the truth or propriety of the following LITERAL ALLUSIONS—we insert them as being the production of a female pen.
  The Throne is A, B, C. Abaisse, cast down.   The Clergy D, C, D. Decade, dead.   The Parliament K, C. Casse, calhered.   The Kingdom D, P, C. Depecé, torn to pieces.   Frenchmen H, B, T. Héte, stupid.   Good — O, T. Ote, removed.   Evil R, S, T. Resse, remains. 
Two incendiary newspapers have been for some time published in Paris.

entitled, The Friend of the People, and The Friend of the King . Although apparently in opposition to each other, they had the same object in view (says Gazette de France ) to conduct the nation to anarchy, and from anarchy to despotism. The assembly has issued a decree of prosecution against Marat and Royou, the editors and authors, who are both aristocrats.
Mr. Bolton of Birmingham, has applied the steam engine to coining. By his machinery, four boys of ten years old can strike off 30,000 guineas in an hour. The machine keeps an unerring account of the pieces struck."
The Queen of Portugal is better (May 21) though mending very slowly. Her age, which is near three score; her habits, sedentary and dull; her temper, sadly superstitious; all are against her."
A letter from Coblenz, dated May 5, says, the two brothers of the King of France are more active than ever. The Prince of Conde is now at the head of 20,000 of his countrymen."
Despotism and superstition will, from all appearances, contribute at least half their property, to work the downfall of the reformation in France.
ROME, APRIL 24.
In the vicinity of Frescai, have been lately discovered the remains of the ancient city or Gabii, which was overwhelmed many ages ago by the eruptions of Vesuvius. In the first digging many fragments of marble pillars have been discovered, the ruins of temples, and mutilated statues. This fortunate discovery promises fair to enrich our cabinets with precious antiquities, the invaluable remains of the genius and arts of ancient Italy.
STRASBOURG, May 8.
The declaration of war, by the Assembly, has produced here the most lively emotions of joy.—Our troops are in high spirits, and eager to engage the mercenaries of Austria. This, in a great measure, is due to the skilful arrangements, zeal, and patriotism of Marechal Luckner. This officer possesses in the highest degree the confidence of the army, and if conducted by him, will do every thing that men can do. He is one of those few men who can derive advantages even from misfortune. The late disastrous events at Mons and Tournay, have determined him to enforce the most rigid discipline, to prevent such disasters in future, and ensure success. The following is the address he made to his army on this subject, on the 5th instant.
"Marechal Luckner informs the army and the citizens that have taken up arms for the maintenance of liberty, that the whole amount of the killed in the repulse from Mons and Tournay, is about one hundred and fifty men. The Marechal is fully sensible that this failure of success cannot but re-animate the courage of all true Frenchmen. He well knows they are worthy to be a free nation, and as such capable of struggling against the blasts of adverse fortune. By a steadiness and resolution, characteristic of brave men, who are fighting for their rights, they will soon learn how to carry off the victory from hostile mercenaries.—As to himself (the General said) his duty as a good citizen, was to use his authority and experience, to instruct those under his command in those rigid duties of discipline, by which alone victory could be purchased—to guide them, to habituate them to the arduous toils of war, and to teach them all, that it is only by submitting the energy that animates them to the direction of their chiefs, that they can acquire or preserve the ascendancy that should characterize the soldiers of liberty."
SALEME, July 10.
A superb plan of a CAPITOL has been forwarded to the Commissioners of the Federal Buildings in the city of Washington, by an eminent architect in this town; and which, it is sanguinely expected by those who have seen it, will command the premium of a city lot and 500 dollars.
We hear that the ingenious Mr. Perkins of Newburyport, has been sent for to Philadelphia, to execute the coinage of the United States.
The first military efforts of the French Revolutionists appear to have fallen infinitely below their civic declamations. Their insubordination, and hacking their officers to pieces, will NOT do, will NOT do, will NOT do—whatever they may chant to the contrary in their famous revolution song.
BOSTON, July 11.
The Manufactures of our country daily and rapidly increase—our native canvass catches the swelling breeze in every part of the globe; wafting the exuberance of the produce of our soil and industry, to various ports. Agriculture, in all its branches, improves and flourishes year after year—and its product commands a good price, and ready cash. Money is plenty as the demand for it is great. The National Debt is decreasing—and our credit in foreign countries, is equal to any, and superior to many of the old nations of Europe—yet certain southern declaimers are continually canting—"we are going to destruction with a flowing sheet"—and are now on the verge of ruin!—But this is only the cant of our modern "sunshine patriots!"
A Monarchic Club is formed in Paris—divided into 68 Committees—It has attracted the notice, and will be vigilantly watched by the National Assembly.
The "Grumbler," in last Thursday's Chronicle, who could not eat his bread in peace on the Anniversary of Independence, is informed that the Executive Officers of the United States, to whose department it belongs, have been incessant in their endeavors to negotiate with the hostile tribes of Indians—And that there is now a rational prospect of a speedy settlement of the disputes between these Indians and the United States.
But it is expected that these carpers will still be on the watch to find something else to grumble about.
NEW-YORK, July 14.
Yesterday, the Committee appointed by the friends to Liberty, pursuant to public notice, assembled at Baradin's tavern, and from thence proceeded to the house of the Hon. JOHN JAY, attended by a number of respectable citizens, when the following address was presented:—
To the Hon. JOHN JAY, Esq. Chief Justice of the United States.
SIR, PERMIT us, in behalf of ourselves and the very respectable body of our fellow citizens which we have the honor to represent, to congratulate you upon your safe return to this city from the eastern circuit.
The Friends of Liberty have ever entertained a lively sense of the important services which you have rendered to your country, in every situation in which you have been placed. Whether they examine your conduct as a member of the general Congress, at the most trying periods of the late war, and of the Convention which framed the constitution of this state—or consider your agency in negotiating the treaty which secured to America the blessings of peace, liberty, and safety, they find a continual display of abilities and virtue which will hand your name down to remote posterity, as one of the illustrious defenders of the rights of men.
It was this sense, Sir, of your public services, which induced the independent freeholders of the state to nominate and support you at the last election as a candidate for the office of their chief magistrate, and procured you a decided majority of votes. Thus called to enjoy one of the highest honors in the power of a grateful people to bestow, it was not to be expected that you would have been deprived of it by the machinations of a few interested and designing men.
In contempt, however, of the sacred voice of the people—in defiance of the constitution—and in violation of uniform practice and the settled principles of law, we have seen a majority of the canvassing committee reject the votes of whole counties, for the purpose of excluding you and making way for a Governor of their own choice. This wanton and daring attack upon the invaluable right of suffrage, has excited a serious alarm amongst the electors of the state, and
united them in measures to obtain redress—In the pursuit of an object so interesting, we shall, like Freemen, act with moderation and order, but at the same time with zeal and perseverance.—Whilst we respect the laws, we respect ourselves and our rights, and feel the strongest obligation to support and maintain them. The cause in which we are engaged being the cause of the people, we trust that it cannot fail of success; but in every event, we entreat you to believe, that you will retain a distinguished place in our affections, and that we shall embrace every opportunity to manifest the unbounded confidence which we repose in your talents and patriotism.
By order of the Committee,
NICHOLAS CRUGER, Chairman. New York, July 13, 1792.
To which Mr. JAY made the following reply:
GENTLEMEN,
IT is far more pleasing to receive proofs of the confidence and attachment of my native city, than it is easy to express the sense which that confidence and that attachment inspire. When I reflect on the sacrifices and efforts in the cause of liberty, which distinguished this state during the late war, my feelings are very sensibly affected by the favorable light in which you regard my conduct during that interesting period. That cause was patronized by HIM who gave to men the rights we claimed: He crowned it with success, and made it instrumental to our enjoying a degree of national prosperity, unknown to any other people:—May it be perpetual! Such is our constitution, and such are the means of procuring order and good government, with which we are blessed, that while our citizens remain virtuous, free, and enlightened, few political evils can occur, for which remedies perfectly effectual, and yet perfectly consistent with general tranquility cannot be found and applied.
I derive great satisfaction from the hope and expectation that the event which at present excites so much alarm and anxiety, will give occasion only to such measures as patriotism may direct and justify; and that the vigilance and wisdom of the people will always afford to their rights that protection, for which other countries, less informed, have often too precipitately recurred to violence and commotion.
In questions touching our constitutional privileges, all the citizens are equally interested; and the social duties call upon us all to unite in discussing these questions with candor and temper, in deciding them with circumspection and impartiality, and in maintaining the equal rights of all with constancy and fortitude.
They who do what they have a right to do, give no just cause of offence; and therefore every consideration of propriety forbids that differences in opinion respecting candidates, should suspend or interrupt that mutual good humor and benevolence which harmonizes society, and softens the asperities incident to human life and human affairs.
By those free and independent electors who have given me their suffrages, I esteem myself honored:—for the virtuous who withheld that mark of preference, I retain, and ought to retain, my former respect and good will—to all I wish prosperity, public and private. Permit me, gentlemen, to assure you, and your constituents, that as I value their esteem, and rejoice in their approbation, so it will always be my desire, as well as my duty, to justify as far as possible, the sentiments which they entertain of me: and which you, Sir, have expressed in terms, and in a manner, which demand, and which receive, my warmest acknowledgments.
JOHN JAY.
NEW BERN, (N.C.) June 30.
Saturday last was brought to town, from Washington, part of the crew (seven sailors) of the French Brig Le Bailli de Suffrein . Capt. Clairet.
These men are charged with the murder of the captain and mate of that vessel. On Thursday last they were examined before the Hon. Judge Sitgreaves, at the court-house in this
town. It appears that the brig sailed from Savannah the 10th inst. bound to Bourdeaux, with three hundred hogsheads of tobacco and some rice. Nothing extraordinary happened until Sunday evening the 18th, except that the crew once or twice complained of want of provisions. About ten o'clock at night, the mate's watch being on deck—one of the crew called him, telling him that there was a Dolphin a head; the mate went forward, and as he stooped to look, one of the crew struck him with an axe, and knocked him down, another gave him two or three strokes with a knife, and threw him into the sea. They then called the captain and told him that the mate had fallen overboard: He came up, and as he sat his foot on deck, was knocked down and thrown over the mate.
The crew went down and awoke an old French sailor, the cook, and a young woman whom the captain had brought with him from Savannah; informed them of what had happened, and threatened to kill them, if they would not promise secrecy—on the assurance they gave of not revealing the horrid deed, they were sworn, and the murderers went in the cabin and sat down the rest of the night, eating and drinking. The next day they divided the captain's and mate's clothes and money, and brought upon deck a watch and silver buckles which were sold at vendue—On Thursday the 22d they discovered the land, got into the boats, and endeavored to scuttle the vessel, this they could not effect for want of tools; they made the woman drink a mixture of rum, sugar and turpentine, which intoxicated her so that she fell a sleep, in the mean while, seeing a Schooner coming towards them, they rowed a shore, leaving the vessel with all her sails hoisted, and towards night arrived at Portsmouth.—On the next day they left the boat, and made their way to Washington. The old French sailor and the cook, refused to go with them, and after they were gone gave information against them. They were pursued and brought to Washington, where they were examined by John G. Blount and William Farris, Esq's, who committed them, and the next day sent them to this town under a strong guard.
BALTIMORE, July 14.
A correspondent observes (on the paragraph copied from the National Gazette , in our paper of Thursday last) that it is generally, if not always, a proof of partiality or design, when a publisher or conductor of a newspaper is uniform in exposing to his readers but one side of a question—For example, it is not fair to stigmatize the law of Congress respecting newspapers with having for its object the prevention of disseminating the proceedings of Congress, and to hold up a majority of the members of Congress as enemies to the liberties of the People. In the first place, the law alluded to obliges the post-office to convey all exchange papers, to and from printers, within the United States, free of postage—thereby enabling the printers in the several States to give due and regular information to the people of the proceedings of Congress—So far therefore from stopping information at the seat of government, it has rendered its transmission to the several States more certain than heretofore—Secondly, the law does not prevent, but authorizes the printers in the several States to send their papers to their customers in any manner they might find most convenient. It does not compel them to employ the mail stages; and allows them to use any other. In this respect, therefore, it cannot be said to abridge, in the smallest degree, the dissemination of newspapers or congressional proceedings.—Thirdly, if the fact be as the paragraph from the National Gazette states, viz. That the rates of postage will lessen the sale in the several States of papers printed at Philadelphia, it follows thence, that as the papers printed in each State will come cheaper to the people thereof than Philadelphia papers, the former will be preferred to the latter. And as there can be no doubt but that the State printers will insert in their papers all congressional proceedings, the people, by preferring their State papers, will be more informed.

mation, though the Philadelphia printers may some profit. But the fact is, that the regulation in question is calculated to ensure the circulation of newspapers by annexing to them the same sacredness and protection as to letters, while the postage is perhaps less than they would be carried for by a contract made by each printer, taking into the account certainty and regularity of delivery, which every subscriber will naturally consider of some importance. Whoever, therefore, will view the subject in this candid light, will be cautious how he admits malignant insinuations printed at the seat of government, whose tendency, if not object, evidently is to inspire the citizens with a dislike to the Constitution, by inspiring them with a dislike to the Laws, and an abhorrence of their Framers. At the same time every unbiased reader will expect from the printers of such paragraphs a corresponding insertion of those of a contrary nature, in which the Government is vindicated, that so their readers may at least have an opportunity of hearing both sides.
Philadelphia, July 21.
The Judges of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania have appointed the following times and places for holding the courts of Nisi Prius the ensuing fall:—
 At Norris Town in Montgomery county, 24th September.  New Town in Bucks county, 1st. Oct.  Chester, in Delaware county, 10th. Oct.  West Chester in Chester county, 15th. Oct.  Lancaster in Lancaster county, 22d. Oct. 
We learn from North Carolina, that a fire broke out in the town of Washington, on Wednesday the 27th ult. which burnt nearly half the town—the loss in houses, goods, &c, is said to be very considerable.
Agreeable to the returns made into the office of the Secretary of Massachusetts the members for, and against a separation of the district of Maine from Massachusetts are as follows—for the separation 2074—against it 2524.
A man by the name of Joshua Abbot, jun'r. was tried for murder at Old York, district of Maine, the week before last, and brought in guilty by the jury—the deceased was named Moses Gubtail.
The late false news of the taking of Seringapatam was a complete take in—it was received with soft and blind credulity by the British ministers as well as by the court of directors—Letters from the Secretary to the India House, and from the first clerk to the Secretary of State, were sent to the Mansion House, and to Lloyds, with an account "that Lieut. Abercrombie was arrived with particulars of the taking of Seringapatam."
The anniversary of the French revolution was celebrated in various parts of the United States.
Among other patriotic toasts given at Carlsruhe on the celebration of American independence, was the following, viz.—National Credit—the Palladium of National Greatness.
The Pittsburg Gazette by yesterday's post contains no account of any recent depredations or movements of the Indians.
Capt. Cooke's company of riflemen has arrived at Carlisle from Northumberland.
The Boston Tontine is dissolved—and the fund appropriated to the Union Bank, a new institution incorporated by the legislature of Massachusetts at the late session.
The legislature of Massachusetts have appointed a committee to prepare or procure plans of a building or buildings, with suitable accommodations for the meetings of the Supreme executive and legislature, and for the offices of the secretary and treasurer of the Commonwealth.
Two persons were executed at Winchester, (Vir.) the 6th inst. William Johnson for horse stealing, and John Crane, jun, for the murder of Abraham Vanhorne.
In the Quebec Herald, a poem is advertised for subscription, entitled, "The YANKY PARSON, or ALE HOUSE-CONGRESS, in three cantos, written in the Hudibrastic style, by a gentleman during his tour through the United States."
On Sunday last a child fell out of the arms of a woman from a third story in Vine-Street, and was killed.
The "Examination of Lord Sheffield's Observations on the Commerce of the United States," is re-printed in London; also, Dr. Ruth's account of the sugar-maple-tree.
The brig Charleston, Capt. Garman, from this port, is arrived at Charleston. On the 5th inst. in the evening, there arose a heavy squall, attended with rain, and severe lightning, and thunder—during which the foremast of the brig was struck by the lightning, and very much shattered—passing from thence it killed a horse on deck, belonging to the Hon. W. Smith, and splintered the mainmast, melting a brass plate round it—thence descending into the cabin, swept in a man who was sitting under the companion and knocked down Mr. W. P. Young, who lay a considerable time deprived of his senses, and was very much scorched and otherwise hurt. The mate and several hands who were on deck, were all knocked down and remained lifeless for some time. The shock was so great that the brig was stopped in her way, and every person on board thrown into the greatest consternation.
The anniversary of Independence was celebrated with uncommon joy and festivity in Charleston. The military exhibition, consisting of a regiment of militia, battalion of artillery—the cadets, sappers and pioneers in uniform, was truly respectable; their appearance and deportment received the warmest approbation of a number of distinguished veteran officers.—Preparations were making in that city to commemorate the French Revolution, when Capt. Welsh failed.
Friday the 13th inst. arrived at New Brunswick from Albany, a detachment of troops, about 900 infantry, under the command of Capt. Guion, and 45 of Capt. Rodgers' Horse, on their way to Fort-Pitt—a number more are daily expected from the eastward. It is said the recruiting business goes on very briskly in some parts, a considerable proportion of the troops are already raised.
A considerable additional number of laborers will be wanted, at the city of Washington, and the Little Falls of Potomack: It is expected the foundations of the Capitol and President's Palace will be entered on by the first day of next month, and prosecuted with great activity. The Cut at the Little Falls is nearly dug out, and every effort will be made to get it walled, and the river improved to the Great Falls this season; so that by shifting the loads at the Great and Little Falls, there will by next spring be no occasion for waggoning the produce down Potomack.
In the proclamation of the king of the French, concerning the execution of the laws relative to juries, he speaks with great respect of the late constituent assembly, and congratulates himself upon seeing under his reign a legislation mild, humane, and appropriated to a free constitution, substituted for an oppressive system, more suited to alarm the innocent, than to deter the guilty.
The 17th instant an address from a number of the citizens of New-York, was presented to Governor Clinton, which, with the answer shall appear in our next. After the address, his Excellency dined at a public entertainment, at which above 100 of his friends were present.
A writer in the New-York Gazette, on restoring suspended animation, says, that the immediate causes of death in a drowned person, are the want of vital air, with loss of tone in the moving fibres of the heart itself.
This being admitted, the great object will be to renew the action of the heart and arteries, by obviating the causes which have interrupted their action; this is to be effected by three intentions:
 1st. By restoring the heat and respiration; this is to be accomplished, 1st. By wiping the body as dry as possible, and then by applying a gradual uniform degree of heat, either by placing it before a fire, simmering it in a warm bath, exposing it to the sun, by the warmth of another person's body, or by covering it with warm grains, warm ashes, warm sand or salt, or lastly by rubbing it with warm clothes. 2d. By repeatedly inflating the lungs, imitating the alternate motions of natural respiration; this can be done either by inserting a tube in the windpipe, or as recommended by Dr. Monro, by inserting it into one of the nostrils. 
2d. By more immediately restoring the action of the moving fibres, the means for answering this intention are, frictions, injections of tobacco smoke, vomiting, warm stimulating drinks, &c.
And 3d. By lessening the quantity of blood, thereby promoting its circulation; this is only to be effected by blood-letting, in the use of this remedy however some caution is necessary, lest we take more blood than is sufficient to fulfil this intention.
These directions have been found repeatedly successful.
Mr. Smith late Sheriff of Otsego County, New-York, concludes an address to the public in the following terms.
I cannot help giving it as my opinion that it was but a shallow pretence for so horrid a violation of public right, and that the evidence produced was by far too slender, on which to have determined a matter of much less importance. I despise the person who made the affidavit, they mention, with a view to insinuate a fraud on my part—and I despise the man, who, under pretence of believing it, condemned my conduct without a hearing, or even informing me that I was suspected.—I know that I have a conscience, and that I sustain a character which will support me under all the calumnies of party—and, I possess a firmness and fidelity to my trust, which all the bribes and all the offices in the power of a monarch to bestow shall never make me relinquish for a moment—I feel the insult offered me by the committee—I despise the drunken fool who made the affidavit, and however dignified his station in the county may be, I am not afraid to contrast my reputation with his. I am seldom seen staggering about—neither am I in possession of those talents for chiring and servile flattery, by which he is so eminently distinguished—which mark him as the qualified tool of party, and fit him for any dirty work his masters may choose to set him at.
RICHARD R. SMITH, late Sheriff of Otsego. Cooperstown, July 4, 1792.
Extract from the National Gazette. "Ought the people, in any part of the Union to be diverted, like the whale by a barrel, from enquiring into the cargo of their own ship, and the conduct of the crew they have themselves put on board? Or is the enquirer to be perpetually vilified as plotting "to subvert the harmony, peace and happiness of the United States;" as asserted in a paper of last week,—which also takes occasion to make an observation (in its application utterly false) that "every man in the United States sits quietly under his own figtree, and has none to make him afraid." MR. FENNO, the grumblers ought to have been excepted.
THE Government of the United States has been compared to a ship—we like the simile; the ship is thank heaven now under an easy sail, with a chosen complement of officers and men; the crew contented and happy—every man understands his duty, and sedulously performs it—the prospect is flattering—and though the voyage is long, the concerned have every reason to hope for the most prosperous issue to the adventure.
There are some fellows who wished to enter, but all the births being taken up, they were not received—and it appears fortunate—for there is great reason to suppose they would have raised a mutiny on board—they turn out to be a quarrelsome uneasy gang—and are fabricating and circulating the most infamous reports respecting the voyage the officers and men—it will not be their fault if the enterprize does not finally miscarry—and the ship founder, or be run on the rocks or quick sands, and there be stowed to pieces.—These fellows have a few emissaries on various parts of the coast, who hang out false lights and make other false signals—but the concerned repose the fullest confidence in the wisdom and honor of the commander, officers and crew; they know them to be old sailors, that they have been tried and proved in tempestuous seasons, and have never failed bringing the ship into a safe port, and are firmly persuaded that the present voyage will be the most prosperous ever undertaken.
"A House divided against itself cannot stand." This is a quotation from a certain book, which contains doctrines highly important to the interests of society and of men. There was a time when its full import was felt by the good people of this country—and they now realize the blessed effects. To perfect and perpetuate the Union of this confederated republic, the genius of Columbia brought us from the fountain of wisdom, the present constitution of the United States, that new bond of amity and strength—this cemented our councils, gave us laws & security—created a firm basis for our credit—gave wings to our commerce—hope to our manufactures, and nerved the arm of agriculture. It opened the strong box of the miser; blasted a baseless paper medium—built a strong tower of public and private confidence, and what is more than all—defined government, and laid in the principles of equal representation, so broad a foundation for civil liberty, that the people of the United States can never be enslaved, except they enslave themselves; and this they never will do till by the arts of unprincipled men, they shall be induced to think contemptibly of their union and government.
There is no reason to think that a change of measures, without a change of men in respect to the government of the United States, would satisfy the present set of grumblers; habituated to a complaining, fault-finding temper, there is no other way of silencing these croakers, but by giving them, as the song says, "something else to do."
It is said in some of the northern papers that the complaints against the measures of government proceed principally from a disaffected junto at the southward; this idea cannot be supposed to extend further south than the seat of government—for excepting now and then a stray paragraph, produced probably in the only hotbed of ant federal politics in the Union, there is scarcely a single idea of disaffection to the measures of government to be found in a month's publication of all the newspapers printed at the southward of Philadelphia—and there one paper only, enjoys the singular honor of depreciating the government, by publications, which if founded in the least semblance of truth would justly render it more detestable than the old despotism of France.
The present situation and circumstances of the United States, contrasted with what they were in 1787, is a point blank refutation of the slanders of that ant federal junto, which labored so incessantly, but ineffectually to procraftinate the happiness of this country by preventing the adoption of the new Constitution. This junto, reduced to a very small number, has lost its influence, but has not lost its venomous disposition—it has lost its prudence and consistency, if it ever possessed either, but has not lost its propensity to mischief.
The Constitution of the United States is republican—it is founded on the people, the only legitimate source of power—the friends of this Constitution are principled in republicanism—they imbibed republican sentiments with their mother's milk—they were nurtured and educated in the doctrines of equal rights and equal liberty—and yet so confident is the junto, that they accuse those men who have fought to establish the freedom of this country (for these are the men who compose the administration of the government) as calumniators of republicanism; as agents to a faction (sometimes it is a faction itself) who are "paving the way to hereditary monarchy on the fly destruction of popular government." It is hardly possible to conceive that the authors of such paragraphs can be so weak as to believe what they write.
A correspondent observes, that the enemies of our peace are not only mortified at the successful operation of the measures of government but they appear to be vexed and chagrined that the people are contented—and more so that they should acknowledge that their situation is prosperous and happy.
It is really difficult to determine with what propriety the term sedition is applied to the friends of those measures of government which have retrieved the affairs of this country from that wretched situation into which they were plunged previous to the adoption of the constitution—and yet these real confident and competent friends of the people are not only denominated
adversaries, but are with great meed and decency called "proud and vain worshippers of aristocracy and monarchy"—Surely "the grace of impudence is a growing grace." But the people of the United States are fully apprized of the characters and views of those persons who are adepts in nothing but finding fault.—Their object is too apparent to be mistaken; for, said a gambler, "I must complain that the cards are badly shuffled, till I have a good hand."
Died suddenly, on Saturday last, at Salem, New-Jersey, BENJAMIN HOLME, Esq.—his remains were next day interred in the Baptist burying ground, where a sermon suitable to the solemn occasion was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Skillman, from Rom. vi. 23. The large and respectable concourse of people who attended the funeral, bespoke the great esteem in which the deceased was held. By his death the community at large, his neighborhood in particular, and the Baptist Church, of which he was a generous and ornamental member, sustain a very sensible loss.
*** A number of Citizens having met at the State House on Thursday evening last, pursuant to notice in the Newspapers, for the purpose of considering on the proper means of forming a ticket for Representatives in Congress, and Electors of the President and Vice-President of the United States, it was, on motion, agreed to adjourn till Wednesday next, at 7 o'clock in the evening, at the State House, when the citizens in general are requested to attend.
SHIP NEWS.
ARRIVED AT THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Schooner Friendship, Welsh, Charleston. The Brig Rachael, Captain Sutter, is arrived at Newcastle from Newry with 240 passengers all well. We hear the ship Canton, Capt. M c Gee is arrived in the river from the same port with upwards of 700 passengers.
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EXTRACT FROM THE ZENITH OF GLORY: A MANUSCRIPT ODE.
Sir Peter Parker's and General Clinton's Attack on Fort Sullivan, 1776.
SIR Peter, loo's'd the bellying sail; His Squadron caught the rising gale, And swept the wat'ry plain;
With them, in pride of warlike force, Brave Clinton snap'd an equal course, For Charl'son's rich domain.
Forth from the camp with rapid haste, Athwart a sunbunt, sultry waste, Lee's chosen columns sped:
Now swifter po'sts the rushing steed When urg'd along with doubling speed, Earth scarcely feels him tread.
Now past the shelving sand form'd bar, At once began the storm of war Wild pouring on in flame.
Here Parker's call, the tar inspir'd, There Moultrie's voice his soldiers fir'd, And Jasper purchas'd fame.
On purpled billows slaughter rode. From deck to deck fell carnage strode. Death sought the bold—the brave.
Heav'n, earth and sea were veil'd in smoke, Shells, mortars, cannon, raging broke, Borne upward from the wave.
In vain the toil—firm, unsubdued, The strong Palmettoe tow'ring stood, From dawn, till darkling night:
When the whistl' ensign's given sign, Recall'd the shatter'd, sinking line, And clos'd the horrid fight.
Maff. Mag.
Ebenezer Hazard,
STOCK-BROKER,
HAS Removed his OFFICE to No. 128 north Second-Street, where he continues to purchase and sell on Commission, Certificates of debt of the United, and Individual States, Bank Stock, Canal, and Turnpike Shares, &c. &c.
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TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JULY 6, 1792.
THE Subscriber offers for Sale, a Mill-Seat on Rock Creek, deemed by those who have examined it, equal to any in the United States. The Mill-Seat may be placed within one quarter of a mile of the river Potomac, half a mile from the market house in Georgetown, and one mile from the President's square, in the city of Washington—on tide water, navigable for vessels of several hundred bushels burthen. The stream is sufficient, the year round, to turn four pair of stones, and the fall may be made from 25 to 30 feet. It is unnecessary to dwell on the advantages of such a situation.
The purchaser may be accommodated with a few hundred acres of land adjoining the Mill-Seat, if that should be an object.
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TERRITORY OF COLUMBIA.
JUNE 28, 1792.
PURSUANT to the last Will and Testament of the late Rev. ALEXANDER WILLIAMSON, deceased, will be exposed to Public Sale on Thursday, the 11th of October next, at GEORGETOWN, on a credit of three years, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date—That valuable Seat of Land, in Montgomery county, called HAYES; the late dwelling plantation of the deceased, containing between six and seven hundred acres, the greatest part of which is rich, heavy timbered land, extremely well watered, and capable of affording a very considerable quantity of fine meadow—Situat'd about 6 miles from the Federal City, and the same distance from George-Town, in a gentle neighbourhood, and a remarkable healthy part of the country.
The improvements are, a very elegant two story Brick Dwelling House, (with four rooms and a passage, or entry, on a floor) and the necessary out-houses.
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Selection of PSALMS, HYMNS, and SPIRITUAL SONGS, taken from different Authors, for the Use of those who believe in the Restoration of all Men. Published by Order of the Convention holding said Faith, met in Philadelphia, May, 1791.
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RUN AWAY the 30th March last, a NEGRO WOMAN, by the name of CHLOE. She is five feet two and a half inches high; quick spoken; upper tooth open; no eye-brows at all; is about 30 years old, but looks much younger. She is well clothed with cloaths, long gowns, jackets, &c. She is now passing for a free woman, I understand, and has changed her name—Whoever takes her up, so that the owner gets her, shall receive the above reward; and if brought home, all other reasonable expences, from the subscriber.
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HISTORY OF New-Hampshire,
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NOTICE is hereby given, That there will be paid at the Bank, after the 10th instant, to the Stockholders, or their representatives duly authorized, the following sums, being the dividend declared from the commencement of the institution to the first instant, viz.
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For each share complicated in the month of April Ten Dollars, Sixty Seven Cents.
For each share complicated in the month of May, Nine Dollars, Thirty-three Cents.
For each half-share. Eight Dollars.
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GENERAL POST-OFFICE,
PHILADELPHIA, July 7, 1792.
FOR the information of Merchants and the Masters or Commanders of vessels, are published the following extracts from the Law for establishing Post-Offices and Post-Roads within the United States.
In section 10, it is enacted that there shall be charged "for every letter or packet brought into the United States, or carried from one port therein to another by sea, in any private ship or vessel, four cents, if delivered at the place where the same shall arrive; and if directed to be delivered at any other place, with the addition of the like postage, as other letters are made subject to the payment of by this act."
In section 12, "That no ship or vessel, arriving at any port within the United States, where a post-office is established, shall be permitted to report, make entry or break bulk, till the master or commander shall have delivered to the postmaster, all letters directed to any person or persons within the United States, which, under his care or within his power, shall be brought in such ship or vessel, other than such as are directed to the owner or consignee; but when a vessel shall be bound to another port, than that at which the may enter, the letters belonging to, or to be delivered at the said port of delivery, shall not be delivered to the postmaster at the port of entry. And it shall be the duty of the collector or other officer of the port, empowered to receive entries of ships or vessels, to require from every master or commander of such ship or vessel, an oath or affirmation, purporting that he has delivered all such letters, except as aforesaid."
In section 13, "That the postmaster to whom such letters may be delivered, shall pay to the master, commander, or other person delivering the same, except the commanders of foreign vessels, two cents for every such letter or packet; and shall obtain from the person delivering the same, a certificate specifying the number of letters and packets, with the name of the ship or vessel, and the place from whence the last sailed; which certificate, together with a receipt for the money, shall be with his quarterly accounts, transmitted to the Postmaster-General, who shall credit the amount thereof to the postmaster forwarding the same."
For general information, the 14th section is published, "And be it further enacted, That if any person, other than the Postmaster-General, or his deputies, or persons by them employed, shall take up, receive, order, dispatch, convey, carry or deliver any letter or letters, packet or packets, other than newspapers, for hire or reward, or shall be concerned in setting up any foot or horse post, waggon or other carriage, by or in which any letter or packet shall be carried for hire, on any established post-road, or any packet, or other vessel or boat, or any conveyance whatever, whereby the revenue of the general post-office may be injured, every person, so offending, shall forfeit, for every such offence, the sum of two hundred dollars. Provided, That it shall and may be lawful for every person to send letters or packets by special messenger."
AMERICAN LEAD MANUFACTORY.
STEPHEN AUSTIN, & Co.
HAVE just now opened their LEAD-WORKS HOUSE, two doors south of Walnut-Street Wharf, adjoining their New Factory—where they have now made, and ready for sale, a general assortment of SHOT of all sizes, with SHEET and BAR LEAD, the production of the Mines in Virginia. As they have employed a number of experienced English workmen, they warrant it to be equal in quality to any manufactured in Europe, and at a reduced price from the cost of imported.
They also continue to manufacture all the above articles at Richmond, in Virginia. All orders addressed to either of the above Factories, will be thankfully received, and executed on the shortest notice.
N. B. Wanted, industrious, sober, Labouring Men, at the said Mines, where constant employment, good wages, and other encouragements will be given, means of conveyance being provided, and houses for their reception.
For further particulars enquire of Messrs. MOSES AUSTIN & Co. at their Factory in Richmond, or as above.
Philadelphia, December 3, 1791. (ti)
BOOKS,
PRINTED AND SOLD BY
MATHEW CAREY,
No. 118, Market-Street, Philadelphia.
AMERICAN MUSEUM, from its commencement in January 1787, to December 1791, in ten vols. Price, neatly bound and lettered, sixteen dollars.
This work, which is now conducted on an improved plan, containing the best pieces published for and against the proceedings of government, will be found to contain at least as great a variety of political, agricultural, and miscellaneous essays, as any ever published in America. Perhaps in no one work are so many valuable documents respecting the history of this country, collected together. His Excellency the President of the United States, has declared of it, that "a more useful literary plan has never been undertaken in America, nor one more deserving of public encouragement." The subscription is two dollars and a half per ann. Gentlemen in the country who wish to be supplied with this work, are requested to give commission to friends in the city to subscribe for and receive it—Any of the back numbers may be had in order to complete sets.
2. Ladies' Pocket Library, containing Miss More's Essays, Gregory's Legacy, Lady Pennington's Advice, Marchioness of Lambert's Advice, Swift's Letter to a newly married Lady, Mrs. Chapone on command of Temper, More's Fables for the Ladies, Price 6/6.
3. Smith's History of New-York, from its first settlement to the year 1732. To which is annexed, a description of the country, with a short account of the inhabitants, their religious and political state, and the constitution of the courts of justice. Price a dollar and a quarter.
4. Elements of Moral Science, by James Beattie, L. L. D. professor of moral philosophy and logic in the Marischal College, Aberdeen—Price three-fourths of a dollar. Of this book the Critical Reviewers (vol. 69, p. 68) say: "We have seen nothing on these subjects more plain, more perspicuous, or more generally useful."
N. B. It is introduced into the University in Philadelphia.
5. Beauties of Poetry, British and American, containing select productions of the most eminent British and American poets—Price four-fifths of a dollar.
6. Blair's Sermons, containing the whole of the three volumes of the British edition, in two—Price two dollars.
7. Necker's Treatise on the importance of Religious Opinions—Price four-fifths of a dollar.
8. Examination of the Observations of Lord Sheffield on American Commerce—Price, on very fine paper, 5 8ths of a dollar.
9. The Constitutions of the several United States, with the Federal Constitution, &c. Price five-eighths of a dollar.
10. M'Fingal, an epic poem, a new edition in 12mo.—Price three-eighths of a dollar.
11. American Jett Book, in two parts, with two very neat engravings—Price, bound, three-fifths of a dollar.
12. Garden of the Soul, by Bishop Chalenor—Price, bound in calf and lettered, three quarters of a dollar—plain, half a dollar.
13. The Doway Translation of the Vulgate Bible, in quarto—Price, elegantly bound and lettered, 50/—plain, six dollars.
14. Devout Christian's Vade Mecum—Price a quarter dollar.
15. Think well on't, or reflections for every day of the month—Price a quarter dollar.
16. Christian Economy, translated from a Greek manuscript, found in the island of Patmos where St. John wrote the Apocalypse—Price, fifth of a dollar.
17. History of Charles Grandison, abridged—Price a sixth of a dollar.
18. Poems by Col. Humphreys—Price a third of a dollar.
19. Select Poems, chiefly American—Price a sixth of a dollar.
Said CAREY has for sale, a large assortment of Books, European as well as American editions, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. Country gentlemen, who favor him with commands, may depend upon being supplied in the most satisfactory manner. A liberal allowance to such as purchase quantities for public libraries, or to sell again.
NEW TEAS.
IMPERIAL, HYSON & SOUCHONG,
Of the very first quality, and latest importation from Canton, via New-York, by retail, at
No. 19,
Third, between Chestnut and Market Streets.
TO BE SOLD BY THE EDITOR.
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