Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1789-12-02 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
[No. LXVII.]
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1789.
[Published on Wednesday and Saturday.]
THE TABLET.—No. LXVII.
“Triflers not e’en in trifles can excel.” THERE is no better way to estimate the understanding of a man, than by hearing him converse on what he has discovered in his travels. Many men, who adventure abroad, never get rid of their prejudices; and whatever falls within their notice, is viewed under such an eye of prepossession, that it eludes a fair examination. A traveller of this cast may add to the number of his ideas, but he does not diminish his errors, nor really add to his stock of truth. It had been better for him, upon the whole, to have tarried at home; for he would then have spent less money, and acquired fewer habits of vexing his friends by his pertness, or deluding them by his mistakes. If he attempts to relate any incident, he generally forgets the most material circumstances, and always gives it a false coloring, or draws from it wrong inferences. We can, however, bear with the mere errors that are imposed on us by a traveller; because, as we have not the power of detecting the fallacy, we feel no disposition to complain of the deception.
But there is a description of travellers whose conversation soon becomes irksome, if not intolerable. I allude to those frivolous characters, whose minds are only occupied upon trifles; and who, wherever they go, or whatever they see, can never acquire or communicate the least degree of useful information. The habitual levity of deportment, these triflers discover, soon renders their mirth insipid, and their observations uninteresting. There is no force of talents to invigorate their remarks. If they affect to show wit, no person perceives the edge of it; and if they relate anecdotes, it is impossible to find the pith of their story. In short, a man of this trifling turn must continue of that character, whether he travels or stays at home. He can never arrive at excellence even in those habits, which peculiarly belong to him. The truth is, the more expert any one is, in displaying frivolous accomplishments, the less excellent does he appear. We can never associate any ideas of merit with qualifications that produce no advantage, and indicate no capacity. However ostentatious a man may be, if he has not solid attainments, he is soon penetrated, and his companions determine at once, that he does not trifle for the sake of being pleasant, but because he does not know how to be serious, and can never be wise. Men of good sense and gravity sometimes relax their usual tone of demeanor, and can amuse themselves with trifles without being contemptible. It can be perceived that the part they have taken, is assumed only for the moment. But noted triflers so flagrantly deviate from dignity of manners, that no person will mistrust, they act from a character they have taken up, but from one, they cannot lay aside.
My young acquaintance GARRULUS has lately returned from his education and his travels. His friends imagine he has made great improvements; but he is much more indebted to their partiality than to his own acquirements, for the estimation in which he is viewed. It was easily supposed that so pert a boy must, if well-educated, make a smart man. He early discovered symptoms of vanity, and these were mistaken for indications of genius. Full of flattering hopes, his parents conceived the idea, that he must be sent to Europe for an education. He has completed it, and once more resides in his native country. I will not pretend to say, what he would have been, had he continued at home; but he has, by no means, lost his pertness or his vanity, by going abroad. GARRULUS well remembers the numbers of years he has consumed at schools and universities, and has not yet forgot the names of the authors he was compelled to read. It diverts children and servants to hear him recount the tricks and frolics of his academical life; and I believe this is the only amusement his education is calculated to afford. The reader will expect to be entertained with an account of the travels of this aspiring youth. But here I find myself at a loss how to gratify such an expectation. Though I am frequently in company with him, I have yet to learn, whether he has gained one useful idea, from traveling two years through the most celebrated countries in Europe. He has often boasted to me, that he dined with six young noblemen, at an hotel in France; complained that he found bad inns in Italy; and declared that he eat salted cabbage in Germany. But he seems to dwell with peculiar delight in relating how rapidly the stages drive through England, and how complaisantly he was treated at houses of entertainment. He mentions such circumstances with an air of triumph, because he alleges that in these respects, the English are, beyond comparison, superior to his own countrymen. Nothing fills him with more rapture, than to be able to point out any particular, in which
the Americans have not arrived at equal perfection with the Europeans. It happens fortunately for us, that GARRULUS has extended his observations to nothing, of so much importance in itself, as to render it a point worth contending, in which country it holds a pre-eminence.
These trifling characters, however, find easy admission into the best circles of company, the world affords. This may seem the more extraordinary, as a person of this stamp so soon becomes tedious in private conversation, where only a social interview is intended. We can easily find a solution to this difficulty. A talkative, impertinent body may be called a bon companion by all men, though no man views him with any respect or friendship. There is a convenience in having such an associate. We feel free, and unembarrassed in his presence, can learn from him the news and fashions of the day, and send messages by him to any part of the town. But there is yet a greater advantage, one finds in such an acquaintance: It is well known, that in mixed companies, few people have a turn for general conversation; and unless some person is present, who has a good share of impudent prattle, there will be too much dullness and reserve. Every modest man of the party feels relieved, when any of his companions will take his share of the conversation. In this way, men of bold, assuming manners, however ignorant they may be, endear themselves, as companions, to all denominations of society. I have observed that in most clubs or parties, sensible men are fond of admitting some persons of levity, merely to make diversion for the rest of the company.
It is to be regretted that some worthy youth are beguiled into an opinion that impudence is desirable, because it meets with attention. They draw this conclusion from the notice that is taken of such characters as I have been describing.—Could it be discerned, from what motives, men of a forward, ostentatious deportment are received into company; or could it be known in what light they are generally estimated, they would no longer be regarded as objects of envy, or as patterns for imitation. Every young man should conclude with respect to himself; that, if his talents and accomplishments are not so conspicuous as to attract esteem and admiration unsolicited, he can never acquire any real influence of character by pertness and self importance. It is true he may gain a numerous acquaintance, but he will find few friends: People will entertain him kindly; but they will place in him no confidence; they will trust him with no property. Upon the whole, his life will be neither honorable to himself, nor serviceable to society.
THE OBSERVER.—No. VII.
The fluctuating value of Paper in circulation oppressive to the poor.
EVERY public measure, which subjects needy citizens to the imposition of the rich, is repugnant to justice. Great numbers of the rich are also generous to the poor; but it is not the character of all to whom a wise Providence hath distributed wealth. One man of great opulence and a hard heart hath power to oppress a whole vicinity of needy people. Among the present means of oppression in the United States, none is greater than a circulating paper of unsteady and deceitful value; and yet there are those who with a confident face will assert, that the measures which lead to this are designed as an easement to the necessitous members of society. Those who are poor and in backward circumstances unwarily are taken by the fair pretences—they are told and believe that it is for their benefit, and bless the measures which sap the vigor of their industry. The wealthy can make their choice between several mediums in circulation, and if there be a bad kind of money, we shall always find it in the hands of those who have least policy and riches: thus the indigent lie under a double disadvantage, the quantity of their money is small, and it is of the worst kind, not being in demand to procure the necessaries of life. It is a maxim forever true that the worst kind of circulating money will in the end fall into the hands of those who are least able to bear a loss. Those States which have partially funded their debts pay the interest in paper certificates or indents, which pass into circulation for the payment of taxes—these certificates are issued as an equivalent for gold and silver coin, and in every view of the fact they are a depreciated paper money, of very different value at several times of the year and in different districts—they may be purchased in large sums through most of the States from one hundred to one hundred and fifty per cent. discount. Taxes issue by authority on the supposition that it is their real value, and it is their real value to those who can purchase at the right time of sale; it is also their value to a greater
part of the public creditors, whose distressed situation obliges them to sell on any terms, the first moment they can obtain the interest from the public. Still it is fact that one half the taxable inhabitants purchase them nearly at par with gold and silver. The poor man and those of little enterprise, but industrious, delay purchasing until they are driven by the hour of payment, and then make the best bargain they can, either with some neighbor, or public officer; prepared for the benevolent purpose of accommodating all such as could not purchase in time for themselves. In this way provision is made for the poor, and those whose circumstances are decaying; some of these make payment in hard labor, and some by promissory bonds, induced by a short credit they fall into the snare and are effectually ruined.
Take the following fact as proof of my assertion. In March, 1787, one hundred pounds specie was sent to Boston to purchase State paper, then receivable in taxes, which paper was put into the hands of a person in one of the western counties of Massachusetts, who returned the principal in November of the same year, with a net profit to the owner of the hundred pounds, of sixty pounds six shillings and one penny. It is to be remembered this agent charged very high for his service and expences, so that it is certain, those who paid the taxes, paid at least forty shillings for every twenty which the State received. These were the very people, who a little before had been scourged into obedience by a military force. For insurgency they were criminal, and government was right to check their phrenzy by the most coercive means; but to palliate their conduct which we wish to bury in oblivion let it be remembered that oppression will sometimes make wise men mad. It is but a few articles the poor planter has for sale, and these perhaps not in demand at the time necessity obliges him to sell, so that he can exchange them only for the worst kind of circulating money, and that at its highest price. The same necessity obliges him to sell at the lowest price, and between buying and selling, he makes a loss of one third. I could mention a thousand ways in which a depreciated circulating medium is oppressive to mankind, but especially to such as have small property; and nature admits not of a possibility of remedying the evil, but by wholly removing the cause. No facts can be more fully proved than those I have mentioned, but there is so strong a propensity in some people to have a cheap kind of money, that they will think the writer hath mischievous schemes in his brains, and that everything is endangered, until the parish Priest, or town pedagogue, or the incendiary of the neighborhood, some of whom may chance to remember a phrase of school Latin, shall have founded the alarm. With wasps and flies the Observer promises great patience, and will only drive them gently, not aiming at their life, for it is the nature of those insects to buzz round the scent of honey, though they can make none themselves; but should any of the higher class of peculators, who have grown rich on spoil, under the appearance of much honesty and concern, unwisely throw themselves in his way, he pledges himself to disclose things concerning them, which the heart of the public hath not conceived. The old man Abraham was honest, he made payment in the current money of the merchant, it is the money of the merchant which the poor ought to receive, and no other kind of circulating medium will do justice in the community. Whether this money be gold, silver or paper, it is a matter of little consequence, for a fixed value and general demand constitutes its worth. At present it is not possible for the State governments to give this value to their certificates or indents; but the United States, if the whole debt could be brought into one fund might easily effect it by a connection with the great mercantile banks within the Empire. Bank money is the money of the merchants, and the whole commercial influence of the country will preserve its value. Suppose the sums of a rich and poor man's taxes to be apportioned according to their real wealth and ability; the rich man by purchasing the depreciated medium in proper time and a small price, makes an easy payment; the poor man purchasing at almost double price, finds the demand intolerable; and if to this there be added fees for travel, and others which have no legal name, he sinks in ruin. These, ye poor and embarrassed citizens, are the blessing of a cheap paper money, for which too many of you have been advocates. [ American Mercury. ]
HERALDRY.
A SANGUINE Frenchman had so high an opinion of the pleasures to be enjoyed in the study of Heraldry, that he used to lament, as we are informed by MENAGE, the hard case of our forefather Adam, who could not possibly amuse himself by investigating that science, nor that of genealogy.

EUROPE.
STOCHOLM, Sept. 15.
THE last post from Finland brings advice, that Brigadier Stedinck has had another engagement near Nylat, in which the Swedes were conquerors: The particulars of this affair are not yet received.
BRUSSELS, Sept. 25.
General Alton having, by the Emperor's order, presented a Golden Medal to two of the Dragoons who restrained the citizens of Tirlemont on the day of the riot there, they were both found the day after with their throats cut. The commander in Chief having ordered Major Vogles to make enquiries concerning it, and the Major having imprudently mentioned that order, his body was some days after found in the barracks cut in a thousand pieces. Strict search is making after the assassins.
VIENNA, OCTOBER 6.
His Majesty the Emperor has been pleased to raise the Prince of Save Cobourg to the rank of Field Marshal, in recompence for the signal services he has rendered his country, and particularly in the late victory over the army of the Grand Vizir, on the 22d of September.
Yesterday evening another courier arrived here from the Prince de Cobourg, with the important news, that he had again attacked and beaten the Grand Vizir, and driven him back as far as the Danube; that 3000 Turks were left dead on the field; that our troops took 17 pieces of cannon, 300 loaded camels, 400 buffaloes, 2000 oxen, 5000 loaded waggons, 70,000 tents, with the whole of the Grand Vizir's treasure and equipage; and that the booty was altogether immense. The Courier brought a superb tent, and a number of costly sabres and Turkish knives with him, which his Majesty ordered to be deposited in the Arsenal. Baron Kiesemayer, who came as courier on this occasion, also brought a pair of Turkish colours with him, which he took from the enemy with his own hands.
FRANCE.
NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, Sept. 26.
The National Assembly having considered the urgency of circumstances, and read the report of the Committee of Finance, accepts confidentially the plan proposed by the first Minister of State.
Such was the decree on the Memorial of Monsr. Neckar, after a debate which lasted from nine in the morning till half an hour past seven in the evening.
The Marquis de Montesquieu opened the debate by reading the plan of Administration drawn up by the Committee of Finance, in which were proposed the following reductions:
   Livres     The household of the King Queen and Princes, 8,000,000   Foreign Department, 8,300,000   War ditto, 8,900,000   Marine ditto, 2,000,000   Finance, do. 1,000,000   Pensions, besides the reductions already made, 6,000,000   Intendants and Delegates 1,800,000   Registers and Farmers General 2,600,000   Mint, 1,700,000   Premiums and encouragements to trade, 600,000   The Royal Gardens, 36,000   Library, 62,000   Stud (to be suppressed) 800,000   Contingencies, 2,500,000   Fund reserved for Lotteries to be suppressed, 173,000   Plantation of Forests, 817,000   Clergy, 2,502,000   Charities, 5,511,000   Livres 53,301,000  
It next proposed to establish two public banks, one at the disposal of the Executive power, with an annual receipt of 205 millions of livres, the amount of the National expenditure after the above reductions; the other, with an inalienable revenue of 273 millions charged with the interest of the National debt, and the expences of the provinces, the former of which was estimated at 240 millions, and the latter at 29.
A motion was made to carry all the plate of the churches to the mint, for the benefit of the public.
The Archbishop of Paris immediately said, that the Clergy, who had often succoured the State in times of distress, were still ready to make the greatest sacrifices for the good of their country; and that they willingly give up all the Church plate, only reserving as much as was necessary for divine worship.
This patriotic proposal was received with general applause, but necessarily gave place to the main question.
M. de Mirabeau proposed an unqualified assent to the Minister's plan. As it was too extensive to be discussed in a short time, it was absolutely necessary to confide in the wisdom of its author. If it should fail, all Europe would exculpate the National Assembly and the blame would fall on M. Neckar—If it should succeed, the merit and the honor would be exclusively his.
This motion was carried, as stated above, by 405 voices, against 127.
In the evening, the decree respecting the revenue was carried, as drawn up by M. Anson, with some amendments.
September 29.
A letter was read from the Jews, many of whom had been driven from Alsace into Switzerland, and the President was directed to write to the municipality of Strasbourg, in the name of the Assembly, recommending them to the protection of the Executive Power, as equally entitled to the benefit of the law, with the rest of his Majesty's subjects.
PARIS, Oct. 14.
TO MORROW will be the last day of the National Assembly's sitting at Versailles; they are then to adjourn till Monday, when they will meet in the great Hall of the Archbishop's Palace in Paris, and continue their meeting there until the new Hall in the Palace of the Thuilleries is got ready.
The Assembly will not in future have occasion for so large a space, as near 300 Members are already decamped, and many more only waiting an opportunity to do the same.
We have reason to believe that the majority of the Members of the Assembly were extremely averse to go to Paris, fearing their lives to be in danger. But the repeated invitations of the Parisians, who would not be easy without them, at length determined their removal, though not before the Assembly had received a formal Deputation from the Commons of Paris, who engaged to answer for the personal security of every Member.
The capital is again tolerably quiet, and things go on as usual—The mob seems perfectly contented with the imprisonment of the Royal Family, whose escape was so much the object of their apprehensions. Their Majesties had another levee of the Foreign Ministers on Wednesday last, but the King spoke but little, and looked desponding and melancholly. The Court was but thinly attended, and had much the appearance of a dumb shew.
The most particular circumstance which engages the public attention at the present moment is the charge alledged by M. de Mirabeau, in the National Assembly against the Count de St. Priest, Minister of State, with the answer of M. de St. Priest to the charge.
This affair has made a great noise in the city for some days past, and the popular cry was of course considerably to the disadvantage of the Minister, who accordingly has thought proper to refute it in the most unequivocal terms, before that the accusation was brought to the proof.
M. de St. Priest's letter is addressed to the President of the Committee of the National Assembly, to whom the charge was referred for investigation. It is rather too long for an entire translation, but we shall give all the material points of it:
To the President of the Committee of Enquiry. SIR,
I UNDERSTAND that the National Assembly has received a denunciation from the Count de Mirabeau, which is expressed in the following terms:
"A Minister, called the Count de St. Priest, said on Monday last to the phalanx of women who demanded bread of him,—When you had but one King, you had bread in plenty—Now you have twelve hundred,—Go and ask it of them."
I think it my duty, Sir, not to wait for your researches, but to declare to you positively on my honor, that the fact alledged by M. de Mirabeau is maliciously invented; nor have I furnished the slightest pretext for the assertion. M. de Mirabeau does not say he heard me, and I am willing to believe that he has been deceived. I declare on my honor, that I only spoke to a few women who entered dans l'œil de Bœuf , (the King having ordered me to go there and hear their complaints, and answer to them.) I believe there were an hundred witnesses who heard my discourse, and I doubt much whether one of them will affirm he heard me mention a single word about the National Assembly.
To the complaints of these five or six women, for there were no more, I answered that the King had done every thing in his power to procure grain for the Kingdom and the Capital; that grain had been brought from all parts of the world; that in short the care of provisioning Paris had been for two months past under the management of the city, to which the King and his Ministers, had united all their endeavors. I do not recollect that the conversation turned upon any other subject—besides is it possible to call five or six women a phalanx.
Without having the honor of being known to M. de Mirabeau, or having spoken to him in my life, I nevertheless hoped he would not have given ear to so trivial a circumstance on such slight authority, and only told by persons who a few days since wished to excite the people against the National Assembly: I hope likewise my general conduct will place me above such an imputation. I have passed many years in the service of my country,
and have labored for its welfare and glory. The Prince de Poix and the Duke de Liancourt were among the persons who heard me speak, and I offer to prove an alibi to every other conversation with these women, than what I have mentioned.
I do not dispute M. de Mirabeau's talents and eloquence, but I do not believe he is a better citizen than I am.
I have the honor to be, &c. Count de St. PRIEST.
Paris, Oct. 10th.
It is needness for us to add that this answer is found perfectly satisfactory to every one, but those who are not inclined to believe the truth.
LONDON, SEPTEMBER 24.
The following is the King of Sweden's letter to the Queen and Regency at Stockholm, dated Sweabourne, August 29.
On the 14th inst. at ten in the morning, the Russian fleet of gallies, under the Prince of Nassau and two other Admirals, in two divisions, attempted to surround our fleet, by attacking it on both sides with nearly a double superior force. The action lasted with great bravery until nine in the evening, when our fleet got into Swartholm so little damaged, that they will be at sea in two days. We lost one large galley and one toroma (a smaller kind) both which ran aground, and the Russians took another. Our frigate Trolle, also got aground with another toroma, the latter of which was blown up by her commander. The Russian officers taken and brought in prisoners, report that the attack was made by their whole fleet avowedly totally to annihilate ours, but which, by the bravery of our officers and seamen, they have not been able to injure materially.
OCT. 24. On Sunday, the celebrated Mole, Dugazon, Dazincourt and Fleury, performers at the French Theatre, or Comedie Francaise, presented themselves at the bar of the National Assembly, and in the name of themselves and other performers of that Theatre, made an offer of twenty-three thousand livres, to be paid into the Royal Treasury on the twenty-fourth of January next. The President thanked them in the name of the Assembly, accepted their offer, and did them the signal honor to invite them within the bar, where they staid until the Assembly adjourned.
His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to order that the Parliament which stands prorogued to Thursday the 29th of this instant, October, should be further prorogued to Thursday the 10th day of December next.
His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare the Right Hon. John Earl of Westmoreland Lieutenant General and General Governor of his Majesty's Kingdom in Ireland.
Many persons who have travelled in France, and have never observed any other than white cockades worn by the military, are at a loss to know the reason why, on a recent occasion, the soldiers assumed black cockades to testify their returning loyalty. The reason is, black cockades are properly the cockades of the King—as such they were often worn, as old officers will remember, in the time of Marshal Saxe.
Although neither the Madrid Gazette, nor any other periodical prints appearing in Spain, take the least notice of the revolution in France, nor its consequences; nevertheless, there are some very interesting pamphlets in circulation, translated into Spanish, concerning these great events, and which are read with avidity and enthusiasm in that country.
The Emperor (on his first return to Vienna, was employed for an hour for three successive days, in offering up public thanksgivings for his recovery, and prayers for the prosperity of the Empire. His Majesty knelt in the midst of the people, at the church of St. Stephen's and was remarkably fervent and devout the whole time.
THE BRABANTIAN TERRITORIES.
The celebrated Vandernoodt, the Dr. Franklin of Brabant, has been near assassination!—Four desperadoes, from Vienna, lately went to Breda on this detestable expedition—and one of them on entering Vandernoodt's presence fired a pistol at him, which happily missed him. The miscreants escaped, though closely pursued.
A like attempt has been made on M. de Marmol, at his seat near Breda—He had retired to this place ever since the senior Counsellors, to which body he belonged, were suppressed. He was in his garden, when a Marechaussee of Austrian Brabant came suddenly behind him, seized a spade, and struck him on the head.—He was rescued by his gardeners from the violence, and the fellow was sent to prison to take his trial.
Vandernoodt has long been obnoxious to the Emperor—His manly and spirited writings have successfully exposed that left handed Machiavel Linguet, and also inspired the people of Brabant with the principles they possessed when the Dutch Republic was formed.
ACTS OF CELIBACY REPEALED.
Among the reforms going forward in the Emperor's dominions, the approaching abolition of celibacy among the Clergy makes no inconsiderable noise on the Continent.
On some dignified Ecclesiastics remonstrating with the Emperor on this repeal, his Majesty ani-

were them rather neatly: "Gentlemen, is it then that you think the celibacy of the Clergy is more advantageous to population than their marriages?"—The ecclesiastics shrugged up their shoulders, and complimented the Emperor on his facetious raillery.
The Carron Manufactory in Scotland, is the greatest perhaps of the kind known in the world—Its weekly consumption of coals amounts to 11,000 tons, at 4s. pr. ton; and the consumption of each day is equal to that of the city of Edinburgh, during a whole week. As many coals are there consumed in the Carron foundaries, as would suffice to supply a city of 700,000 inhabitants.—A thousand workmen are duly employed in this manufactory, whose wages amount to 700l. per week, or 39,400l. pr. annum.
On Thursday last at Newmarket the Duke of Queensbury and Sir John Lade mounted on a brace of mules, to run from the Ditch-in for 1000l. This ludicrous heat was obstinately contested—the event was in favor of the Duke. The match was made over night, and over a bottle too, no doubt at the Macaroni Club—Nobly done, at least!
PARIS, OCTOBER 20. An express arrived at the Imperial ambassadors last night, with the important news of the surrender of Belgrade.
It is also reported that sixty thousand Prussian troops have entered Brabant, in support of the insurgents, and that the Dutch are marching, with all possible expedition, to possess themselves of the Barrier Towns.
A correspondent says, that by hints he has received from Brussels, the Emperor may bid adieu to that fine country.
M. Maton de la Varenne, an advocate in the Parliament of Paris, has published an exact copy of a paper, found by him in the Bastille, the day after it was taken: these are the contents:
"Copy of a letter, written by me, Dufault, a prisoner in the Bastille, on the 1st of December, 1642, to Cardinal Richelieu, dangerously ill."
"There is a time, my Lord, when a man ceases to be cruel and unjust, and it is when his approaching dissolution forces him to descend into the gloomy recesses of his conscience, to weep for the troubles, sorrows, and misfortunes, he has caused to his fellow creatures; for now you must be sensible of what you never would be persuaded of, that the supreme and excellent Creator from above has made us all after the same model, and that his intention was, that men, should not be distinguished from one another, but by their virtues. You know, my Lord, that for these eleven years past, you made me suffer a thousand deaths in the Bastille, where even felons, and the most unloyal of his Majesty's subjects, would deserve pity and compassion: Much more I then, my Lord, whom you make perish by inches for having disobeyed an order of yours, that would have doomed my soul to everlasting torments, and made me appear in the presence of Almighty God, our tremendous Judge, with hands stained in blood. Ah! were you to hear the plaints, sighs, and groans, I incessantly heave, from the dungeon you have condemned me to, I am sure you would forthwith restore me to liberty."
I earnestly conjure you, my Lord, to do it, in the name of that eternal God, who is to judge you as well as my self; take pity on my cruel sufferings and sorrows! and if you wish to be merciful before you die, give immediate orders for my chains to be broken; for when once in the power of death, you will no longer be able to do me that justice I can claim but from you; and you would then prosecute me even after death, which God preserve you from, if you will vouchsafe to yield to the humble prayer of a man, who has always been a loyal subject to his Majesty.
"I am, My Lord,
"With veneration, respect, and submission,
"Yours, &c.
"DUSSAULT."
FROM THE LONDON PUBLIC ADVERTISER. TONTINE.
MR. PITT said the other day on opening the budget, "that from the present great plenty of money in the city, he was resolved to try the spirit of adventure in a Tontine."
Some readers of newspapers boggle at the word Tontine, and perhaps may search their Dictionaries in vain.—It was derived from Tonti, an Italian, who was the first projector of the mode of raising money on survivorships.
The old lady who is now living and enjoying 12,000l. a year, by having been a subscriber to Queen Anne's Tontine, has not yet been found. Has any body ever seen this old lady? Does any body know this old lady? Has any body seen the man that saw the man that saw this old lady?
The new Tontine, it is hoped, will have its effect on the manners of the age, and encourage temperance in eating and drinking, as the only means of survivorship.
A Tontine is surely the most pleasing way of asking for a loan; for every one has the strong hope of life; and willing to believe that to be true, which he ardently wishes to be so, pleases himself with the idea of long life, and thus freely ventures upon the wager.—Every Tontine is little more than a bet: I lay 100l. that I out live you—The present Tontine is certainly favorable to the public because it secures a large interest upon government credit.—Other Tontines may and have been involved in law suits, and consequently injury and delay;—this cannot be so circumstanced.—Lives too, in general, are little better upon the whole, than they used to be; and every member being confined to an annuity of 1000l. per ann. so that no long liver can ever receive more dividend, so much of the national debt is in fair prospect to be annihilated.—But the increase of premium will soon bring it to the price of the flocks.
A wagging correspondent informs us that among the number of those who are to subscribe to the Tontine, in hopes of survivorship, are the Earls of Mansfield, Bathurst and Guilford.—Macklin—Deputy Ellis, &c. &c. and other promising young men.
REFLECTIONS of ONE designed for a Nunnery.
Written 100 years ago.
To avoid the tyranny of lawless passion, The hazards of contempt and calumny, The heats and heftics both of fear and love, The qualms, and quarrels of a married life, The cumbers, hummings 'bout a family: To ride secure out of the reach of fortune, O'erlooking all those rolling tides of fate, Which a vain world is hurried with, and then To be wrapt up in innocence, a Devotee Dear and familiar to the Deity; Is surely a condition to be caught at With all th' expansion both of mind and body: But then again, to weigh the cancelling Of what I'm born to, tugging all my life Against the tide; still straining up the hill, The plains and pleasant vallies ever hidden. What is it less than the bold undertaking Of a perpetual war with nature? which how well I may come off in, is to me unknown. But does not nature in her genial course, Design all creatures for their fixed end? Did the wise God of nature give me sex Only to cast it off? Our passions, our affections and desires We are enjoin'd to regulate—not relinquish;— Why were these objects lent us, set before Our open eyes, and we forbid to view them? Our joys, our hopes, the feathers of the soul Were never given to become our torment: I cannot think so meanly of the Deity, That it should fill our sails with pregnant gales, And yet forbid us touch those pleasing coasts, That we thereby are driven to:—All spiritual is Too fine for flesh to live by; and too gross Is food corporeal all: As man is mixt, So his affection's object must. Love temper'd right Is chaste as cold Virginity. And since He merits more, that means, unbound, to pay, Than he that is ty'd up to strict conditions; I'll rather chuse to keep myself in that Estate my wise Creator did appoint me, Than to mistrust his Grace, and out of fear Lock up in forced chains my free-born soul.
For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
THE GUEST—No. I.
"IGNORANT OLD AGE, is the worst picture that Time can draw of Man."
HOW important is it to make provision in youth to alleviate the inevitable miseries of old age! that we may mitigate the sorrows of our declining years, by finding a substitute for those vacancies which time, accidents and death, will make in our friends and enjoyments! Though we cannot fly from our fate, yet we can ameliorate its severity. Nature in a thousand directions teaches us the most useful lessons of prudence, and forethought. We anticipate winter; we provide for its approach, and its inclemency is abated. The difference between a wise man and a fool is, that the latter lives to the moment; the former always calculates for the consequences of events.
Providence hath not pointed out any expedient to relieve us under the infirmities of age, equal to knowledge, study and meditation. A taste for these must be acquired in youth; while the mind is flexible and susceptible of impressions, our stock of ideas should be laid in. These will prove our never failing friends and companions, when others desert us. With our books we can always find the best company.—The sprightliness of youth; the gravity of age; the politics of past ages, and the current history of our own times pass in review, and beguile the tediousness of confinement. With these we connect the present with the past; and while we are on the limits of existence, we can send our thoughts backwards and trace the incidents of usefulness, friendship and happiness thro' which we have passed. Cheerfulness is the offspring of knowledge and virtue, and it smooths the furrows of age—It attracts the company, love, and veneration of the young—It smooths the pillow of loneliness—It shuts the door to chagrin and fretfulness, and gilds the last moments of life with the rays of future glory.
But a vicious and ignorant old age, is the foil that produces a congregation of miseries—It adds a shade to the shadows of the long nights, and clouds the short days of the winter of life. Ignorance and weakness incapacity from employment; and impose the most irksome sensations of idleness on the mind.—'Tis this makes old age to be dreaded; for except its infirmities are tempered by information, experience, and virtue, it will be deserted by the young and middle aged; and cotemporaries in ignorance, chagrin and ennui, will add to the weight that sinks it, unpitied into dust.
BASTILE ANECDOTE.
THE DREAM BOOK.
THESE singular volumes, we understand have been preserved; and we hope to gratify the curiosity of our readers by the following authentic account of them.
It was the custom of the Lieutenant Governor, or rather, as we believe he was called, the Major of the Bastille, not from any order of government, but as a curious whim of his own, to enquire of any prisoner who was destined to liberty or death, on the morning of the day of execution or deliverance, concerning the dream of the preceding night. Whatever fancies had troubled or sweetened the repose of the prisoner, we may believe to have been related with agitated fidelity, and the vision, whatever it might have been, being noted down by the officer, he always retired with great politeness, but never was known to communicate whether the dream of the night was or was not ominous of the event of the day.
The Gentleman who instructs us in this article, and from whom we shall receive further notifications concerning this horrid mansion, was once a trembling inhabitant of it.
On the day of his deliverance, but before he had received any information concerning it, the Major of the Prison waited on him as he occasionally did, and after some official conversation de-
fired him to relate the dream of the preceding night.—The question he thought foreboded something, and he was not in a situation to suppose that it foreboded any good; however, after some time the dream enquired after was recollected, and was as follows:
The prisoner dreamed that he was walking in a church yard; that the path lay round the church, which was a very large and lofty Gothic building, and that a croud of persons of all ages and both sexes, who appeared entirely unknown to him, were taking the same circuit with himself. On a sudden a large globe of fire seemed to be suspended over the church, and in a short time the lead, melted by the prodigious heat, ran in streams from every part of the building, and as it fell on the people beneath, it instantly destroyed them. After some time a stream of the burning metal fell upon him, but without doing him the least injury, and he alone appeared to escape the horrid ruin that surrounded him.
The Major wrote down minutes of this dream, returned the prisoner thanks for his communication, and took his leave—It was however, ominous of his deliverance, for in less than an hour he was restored to liberty.
BOSTON, NOVEMBER 21.
AUTHENTIC NEWS FROM FRANCE.
On Monday last, His Most Christian Majesty's cutter, la Levere, commanded by M. Chevalier DE LA BOURDONNAYE, arrived here in 36 days from Brest, with dispatches for the Hon. CONSUL OF FRANCE, who in consequence thereof has given the agreeable official information that all the Free Ports of the French West-India Islands, are OPEN until the 1st of February next, for the introduction of Flour and Biscuit, from the United States.
At the departure of the above cutter, we can assure our readers that the National Assembly was still progressing towards a completion:—That the loan of 80,000,000 of livres was filled up:—That tranquility was intirely restored: And that there was every prospect that FRANCE was rapidly approximating to that state of respectability as a Nation, which her immense resources—the fertility of her soil—and the patriotism of her King, and People, intitle her to.
It is with pleasure we hear, that the MASSACHUSETTS, East-Indian, will be completely fitted with Sails, Cordage, Anchors, &c. of American manufacture. Yesterday her largest Cable, of 18 inches, and 120 fathoms, made at Messrs. AUSTINS' Ropewalk, was sent on board.
NEW-YORK, DECEMBER 2.
The present war between the Russians, Austrians, Swedes, and Turks, exhibits a most degrading picture of human nature—how humiliating the consideration, that to gratify the spleen, caprice, and ambition of a few individuals, whom a fortuitous concurrence of events, have placed in a particular situation, that whole regions should be depopulated—that human creatures should be classed together, clothed in a particular manner, wearing the livery of death, and marched through extensive regions; leave their wives, children, and habitations, all the delights of domestic enjoyment, to be slaughtered for the acquisition of an object in which they are not interested. Can it be possible that so great a proportion of our fellow men will much longer submit to such vassalage?—Oppression over the bodies, and estates of men in a time of peace, may well rouse the sufferers to resistance; but the cruel depredations committed by the tyrants of the earth upon the rights, the freedom, the tranquility, the prosperity, and security, not only of their enemies, but their subjects in a time of war, fill up the measure of human misery and degradation.
According to an accurate calculation the Interest of the Domestic Debt of the United States amounted on the 31st December, 1787,
to Dollars, 90ths, 8ths. 8,123,124 55 7
Two years Interest will be due the 31st Dec. 1789. } 3,396,521 43 7 The total due on 1st Jan. 1790, will be } 11,519,646 9 6
When it is considered how inadequate the funds of the Continent were under the old Confederation, for the discharge of this Interest—How inefficient the powers to bring those funds, insufficient as they were, into the Continental Treasury—When the accumulation of this Interest, and the consequent perplexities are taken into view, the dissolution of the Union, the loss of reputation, and public confidence, that must inevitably have ensued, had we been so judicially blind, as to have persevered in our bewildered system any longer, we never can sufficiently adore the wisdom, and mercy of Heaven, that arrested us in our career to ruin—and directed our footsteps to the paths of Government, Peace, and Honor.—In this view of the subject, it is extremely difficult, to account, upon the principles of honesty and common sense, for any remaining traces of opposition to the New Government.—It is no breach of charity to suppose that a virulent spirit of opposition discovered at this late period, indicates a mind, that would convulse the Universe to carry a favorite point.—Some such characters are now and then found floating, like bubbles, on the dead lake of Anarchy—but the Lake itself is in a fair way of being dried up, when, deprived of their element, envy, chagrin and disappointment will be no more.
The THEATRE was unusually crowded on Monday Evening—The Campaign bids fair to close very much to the satisfaction of the Old American Company—Recent exertions have in a peculiar manner contributed to their success, Sat verbam, &c.
The Acts and Resolves in the fourth page of this number completes our publication of the Laws, &c. of the first session of the national Legislature under the new Constitution.
ARRIVALS.—NEW-YORK.
Tuesday, Schooner Edward, Smith, Shelburne. Sloop Fanny, Randolph, Philadelphia. Brig Mary, Niel, Bristol, 39 days.

SIR,
YOUR fifteenth quære is, "Did not the English army lay out its pay in America? At how much can the yearly benefit be calculated? Are not the prisoners provided for in America? Who has the care of their maintenance? How was Burgoyne's army supplied?"
WHEN the English army was in Boston, they bought all that they could, and left considerable sums there in silver and gold. So they did at Rhode-Island. Since they have been in New-York, they have purchased everything they could of provisions and fuel, on Long-Island, Staten-Island, New-York-Island, and in those parts of the States of New-York, and New-Jersey, where they have been able to carry on any clandestine traffic. When they were in Philadelphia, they did the same; and Gen. Howe tells you, that he suspects that Gen. Washington, from political motives, connived at the people's supplying Philadelphia, in order essentially to serve his country, by insinuating into it large sums of silver and gold. They are doing the same now, more or less, in South Carolina and Georgia; and they cannot go into any part of America without doing the same.
The British prisoners, in the hands of the Americans, receive their cloathing chiefly from the English; and flags of truce are permitted to come out from their lines for this purpose. They receive their pay also from their master; and spend the most of it where they are; they also purchase provisions in the country, and pay for it in hard money.
I am not able to ascertain exactly the yearly benefit; but it must be considerable: And the addition now of a French fleet, and army to supply, will make a great addition of cash and bills of exchange, which will facilitate commerce and privateering. And the more troops and ships Great Britain and France send to America, the greater will this resource necessarily be to the Americans. I have the honor to be, &c.
JOHN ADAMS.
MR. GALKOEN.
From the HERALD OF FREEDOM.
MR. PRINTER,
I WAS highly gratified by the short observations of your correspondent Agricola, in the Herald of Tuesday last. He discovered in his address to the "wise," so candid and good a temper, so much real judgment, and such a zeal for the liberty of my country, that I long to know him, that I may thank him. I must, however, content myself with expressing, in this manner, my gratitude to him, and my cordial agreement in his sentiments. I do not generally approve of condemning whole professions of men at once, or determining upon the motive by which they are governed, but these clergymen are fair game, and are not entitled to the common rights or charity of mankind. Much has been said of their good behaviour during the revolution, but your correspondent has found a motive which at once sweeps off all their merit in this affair, and frees us from the obligations which some foolish people supposed we were under to them on this account. Certain it is that they cannot be friends to freedom, because they pray against anarchy; nor can they truly love liberty, because they are averse to licentiousness! They have proved that they are not genuine whigs, in your correspondent's sense and mine, for they were, to a man almost, united against that high and glorious friend to liberty, Gen. Shays; and what is far worse, they appeared as unanimously to approve of our new federal constitution, which destroys the liberty of paper money and tender acts forever, and will prevent that anarchy, without which your correspondent and I shall never be noticed or honored. They have also had the confidence to discover a great affection, and regard for President Washington, who, notwithstanding his pretended zeal for liberty during the revolution, appears to have as great an aversion to "licentiousness and anarchy," as these black coated gentry, by which means he has lost his merit with your correspondent and myself, and all others like minded.
If there had been proper guards against the oppressions of our rulers and to preserve the consequence of the people, established by our constitutions, I should not have joined so fully with Agricola in his brilliant observations, but every body knows that our rulers possess absolute power:—That the people cannot turn them out of their places, nor elect others in their room, and that our great men have been remarkable for acting directly contrary to the sense and will of their constituents for many years past. Our government is so far from being democratical, that we are in the utmost danger from monarchy and despotism, and every man ought to do all he can to weaken the force of government and increase the consequence of the people.
I am also gratified to find that your good correspondent is cautioning the public against the
encroachments of these ministers, for if we do not soon take the alarm, they will soon overrun and enslave us. They are, Mr. Printer, so very rich; they have such monstrous overgrown livings, that they will soon be able to buy out all the country; and then they are so independent too! Every body knows that they are under no restraint or controul from a fear of incurring the displeasure of their hearers. They cannot be removed from their places, nor punished if they do amiss, but amidst their pomp, their power and their riches, they bid defiance to all around them.
I cordially hope that my friend Agricola will continue his humorous publications, until our liberty shall be thoroughly established, and we shall be no more troubled either with religion or government.
IRONICUS.
RETIREMENT.
NOT him Ipraise, who from the world retir'd, By no enliv'ning gen'rous passion fir'd, On flow'ry couches slumbers life away, And gently bids his active powers decay; Who fears bright glory's awful face to see, And shuns renown as much as infamy. But blest is he, who, exercis'd in cares, To private leisure public virtue bears; Who, tranquil, ends the race he nobly run, And decks repose with tropies labor won; Him honor follows to the sacred shade, And crowns, propitious, his declining head; In his retreats their harps the Muses string, For him, in lays unbought, spontaneous sing; Friendship and truth on all his moments wait, Pleas'd with retirement better than with state; And round the bow'r, where humbly great he lies, Fair olives bloom, and verdant laurels rise.
The following is an ADDRESS of the TRUSTEES of Dartmouth College, and presented by the President of said College, on the 14th inst. at New-York,
TO THE PRESIDENT of the United States.
SIR,
PROVIDENCE, that overrules the affairs of men and of nations, has made in every age of the world some extraordinary display of power and goodness in favor of the human race. Greater events have been assigned for the eighteenth century than ever before took place in the annals of time. Among these events the revolution of our day in North-America may be recorded as the most important. The discovery of the new world was made by a spirit of enterprise and perseverance; the advancement of it in people, in arts, and in wealth, was effected by prudence, economy, and industry: But a revolution from a state of oppression to that of freedom and independency; and a political resurrection from a state without harmony, dispatch and power, to that of order, vigour and glory, have been the achievements of all the combined virtues, which can adorn the statesman and the hero. Through these most interesting scenes the eyes of mankind were turned to you, and in you they confided. Guarded and directed by the auspices of our Divine Parent, you have justly merited those sublime and endearing epithets—The Saviour of your Country, and the Founder of a New Empire.
Influenced by those ideas, and impressed with a sense of that duty and gratitude which are claimed by services for humanity, and arts unrivalled in the annals of fame, we embrace the first opportunity, as a Corporation, to express those feelings of obligation, which can never be erased through the devastations of time. We beg, Sir, of you to accept our sincere desire, that the Father of mercies may protract your life and health to a remote period of time, before you are invited to angelic joys and sublimer triumphs. We pray, that you may uninterruptedly experience all that felicity, which the virtuous, wife and beloved Chief of millions has reason to expect or desire; and that every blessing may be extended to your illustrious family.
In the sincerest sentiments of duty and gratitude, we use the liberty of subscribing ourselves,
Sir, your most obedient And very humble servants.
Signed in behalf of the Board of Trustees of Dartmouth College, at their annual meeting at said College, this 22d day of August, 1789.
JOHN WHEELLOCK.
THE PRESIDENT'S ANSWER.
To the BOARD OF TRUSTEES of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.
GENTLEMEN,
IN assigning so important an agency to the endeavors of an individual, as mentioned in your address, you render a tribute to my services which a sense of propriety forbids me to assume. For the flattering terms in which you are pleased to express your sentiments of those services, and for the kind wishes which you prefer in my behalf, I thank you with grateful sincerity.
To the animated spirit of freedom that pervaded our country, and to the firm temper of our citizens, which braved all dangers in defence of their privileges (under the protecting care of Divine Providence) are we indebted for the blessings of political independence: To the enlightened policy which has directed our public councils, we owe the reform and establishment of our federal constitution: Under its auspicious influence, aided by the industry of those citizens, who compose the great family of our Union, we may hope for the substantial enjoyments of individual happiness and national honor. From your superintending care, Gentlemen as the guardians of a seminary and an important source of science, we are to derive great assistance in accomplishing these desiderata.
That your labor may be crowned with success, and render you happy in its consequences, is my sincere prayer.
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
FROM A LATE ENGLISH PAPER.
LORD CAMDEN had enclosed part of a common and stopped up the thorough fare: seeing a country fellow go up through the ground, he called and told him he had no right to go thro' that ground. The man told his Lordship, he had gone that way ever since he was a child, and did not know any reason why he should not go then: scratching his head he begged to ask his Lordship a question: "Suppose a man should steal some of the geese that were feeding there, what would they do to the person who took them?" He would, replied his Lordship, be carried before a justice;—"And pray, what would be done to the man who stole the common from the geese?" His Lordship made him no answer; but the man was never interrupted in passing that way afterwards.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Began and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the Fourth of March, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine. An ACT to allow the Baron de Glaubeck the pay of a Captain in the Army of the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the pay of a Captain in the army of the United States be allowed to the Baron de Glaubeck, from the ninth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, to the twenty-fourth day of August, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, to be paid in the same manner as other foreign officers in the service of the United States have been paid.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, SEPTEMBER THE 29th, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
An ACT to alter the time for the next Meeting of Congress.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after the adjournment of the present session, the next meeting of Congress shall be on the first Monday in January next.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, SEPTEMBER THE 29th, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
RESOLVED, That the Survey directed by Congress in their act of June the sixth, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, be made and returned to the Secretary of the treasury without delay; and that the President of the United States be requested to appoint a fit person to complete the same; who shall be allowed five dollars per day whilst actually employed in the said service, with the expences necessarily attending the execution thereof.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, AUGUST THE 26, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That it be recommended to the Legislatures of the several States to pass laws, making it expressly the duty of the keepers of their gaols, to receive and safe keep therein all prisoners committed under the authority of the United States, until they shall be discharged by the due course of the laws thereof, under the like penalties as in the case of prisoners committed under the authority of such States respectively; the United States to pay for the use and keeping of such gaols, at the rate of fifty cents per month for each prisoner that shall, under their authority, be committed thereto during the time such prisoners shall be therein confined; and also to support such of said prisoners as shall be committed for offences.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, SEPTEMBER THE 23d, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
RESOLVED, That it shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, to procure from time to time such of the Statutes of the several States as may not be in his office.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, SEPTEMBER THE 23d, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
RESOLVED, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That John White, late a commissioner to settle the accounts between the United States and the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, and his clerks, John Wright and Joshua Dawson, be considered as in office until the fourth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate.
APPROVED, SEPTEMBER THE 29th, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States.
From the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER.
ANECDOE.
THE late honorable Judge Sewell, went into a hatter's shop, one day, in order to procure a pair of second-handed brush-ees, for the purpose of cleaning his shoes; at which the master of the shop presented him with a couple, which were become unfit for his own use. "What is your price," says the Judge: "If they will answer your purpose," replies the other, you may have them and welcome." The Judge hearing this, laid them down on the plank, and with a graceful bow, he went out at the door. At which, the mechanic saith to him, "Pray Sir, your Honor has forgotten the principal design of your visit." "By no means," replies the Judge, "if you will please to set your price, I stand ready to purchase: but ever since it has fallen to my lot to occupy a seat on the bench, I have studiously avoided receiving a single copper, by way of donation, left in some future period of my life, it might have some kind of influence in determining my judgment."
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JOHN FENNO.
New-York, Nov. 28, 1789.
ADVERTISEMENT.
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