Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1790-12-04 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, MARKET-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 63, of Vol. II.]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1790.
[Whole No. 167.]
ACCOUNT of M. DE LA TOUR,
Late Painter to the King of France, of the Royal Academy of Painting at Paris, of that of Sciences, Belles Lettres, and Arts, at Amiens, &c. &c.
M. DE LA TOUR was born at St. Quentin, in 1765. His active genius displayed itself at an early period, and the margins of all his school books were embellished with the effusions of his youthful fancy. Frequent floggings, however, rewarded the striking caricatures of his pedagogue, which appeared conspicuous in various places. On his leaving school, his father suffered him to pursue the bent of his inclinations, and placed him with a master, who taught him the first rudiments of his art.
Here he made no small progress, but was much more improved by a journey to the Netherlands, where he had an opportunity of studying the chefs-d'œuvres of the Flemish School. Cambrai was at that time the seat of a negotiation which employed the ministers of many powers. The portraits of several of these were painted by the young LA TOUR, with such success, that the English Ambassador prevailed on him to accompany him to London, where he received the most flattering encouragement.
On his return to France, an extreme irritability of the nervous system forbidding him the use of oil-colours, he was obliged to confine himself to crayons, a mode of painting, to which it is difficult to give any degree of force. The obstacles he had hence to encounter served but to animate his zeal; and he sought every means of perfecting his art, by the constant study of design; to which he added those of geometry, physics, and even philosophy, which he rendered subservient to his grand object, painting. The fruits of his profound study gave a new merit to his enchanting crayons; and whilst his lively and agreeable conversation alleviated the irksomeness of sitting confined to a particular posture; the features of the mind became imprinted on the canvases, as well as those of the countenance.
Admitted in the royal academy of painting at the age of thirty three, it was not long before he was called to court. His free and independent spirit, however, led him to refuse what most as eagerly covet. At length he submitted to the monarch's commands — The place in which Louis XV. chose to sit for his picture, was a tower surrounded with windows. "What am I to do in this lantern!" said la Tour: "painting requires a single passage for the light." — "I have chosen this retired place," answered the King, "that we may not be interrupted." — "I did not know, Sire," replied the painter, "that a king of France was not master of his own house."
Louis XV. was much amused with the original sallies of la Tour, who sometimes carried them pretty far, as may be conceived from the following anecdote. Being sent for to Versailles, to paint the portrait of Madame de Pompadour, he answered surly, "Tell Madame the Marchioness, that I do not run about the town to paint." Some friends representing to him the impropriety of such a message, he promised to go to Versailles on a certain day, provided no one were permitted to interrupt him. On his arrival he repeated the condition, requesting leave to consider himself at home, that he might paint at his ease. This being granted, he took off his buckles, garters and neckcloth; hung his wig upon a girandole; and put on a silk cap, which he had in his pocket. In this dishabille he began his work, when presently the king entered. "Did you not promise me, Madame," said the painter, rising and taking off his cap, "that we should not be interrupted?" The king, laughing at his appearance and rebuke, pressed him to go on. "It is impossible for me to obey your majesty," answered he: "I will return when the Marchioness is alone." With this he took up his buckles, garters, neckcloth and perriwig, and went into the next room to dress himself, muttering as he went, that he did not like to be interrupted. The favorite of the king yielded to the painter's caprice, and the portrait was finished. It was a full length, as large as life, afterwards exhibited at the Louvre, and perhaps the greatest work of the kind ever executed.
M. de la Tour painted all the royal family; and both court and city crowded to his closet. But amongst his numerous performances, those which are the fruits of esteem or friendship, are easily distinguishable. In them art seems to have surpassed itself. We cannot here avoid particularizing the portrait of M. de la Condamine; in which it is apparent that the philosopher was deaf.
With an agreeable talent for conversation, just taste, a memory stored with extensive knowledge, and an excellent heart, he could not be destitute of friends. His house was resorted to by the most distinguished artists, philosophers, and literati, in the capital. Favored by the sovereign, and by the heir apparent, he was devoid of pride, and had the modesty twice to refuse the order of St. Michael.
In his private character, M. de la Tour was an useful member of society, generous and humane. The desire of making others happy was his predominant, or rather sole passion. Gratitude published, in spite of him, his continual acts of benevolence, and his door was continually surrounded by the needy. It is not easy to distinguish the truly unfortunate from those whom idleness reduces to want, when both equally appeal to our benevolence; and he would rather give to those who abused unsuspecting charity, than hazard the refusing succour to the really deserving. Even if he had found one whom he had but just relieved returning to entreat his assistance, he would suppose that he had new wants, and again afford him aid.
Amongst the useful establishments to which M. de la Tour turned his thoughts, painting, the source of his fame, and in a great measure of his fortune, particularly claimed his attention: he gave four hundred guineas to found an annual prize for the best piece of linear and aerial perspective alternately, to be adjudged by the academy of Paris. Persuaded too of the benefits of good morals, and useful arts, he founded an annual prize of twenty guineas, to be distributed by the academy of Amiens to the most worthy action, or most useful discovery in the arts. He also founded and endowed two establishments; one for the support of indigent children; the other, an asylum for distressed age; and at St. Quentin, a free school for drawing.
Having enjoyed all the pleasures attached to celebrity in the capital, M. de la Tour at length retired to the place of his nativity, to enjoy the purer ones of rendering his fellow-creatures happy. His entrance into St. Quentin resembled a triumph; and to this the benefactor of mankind has surely a far better claim than the conqueror, whose path is marked with horror and devastation. Here, at the age of eighty-four, he finished his career.—May all, whom fortune favors with her gifts, stimulated by his example, make as good a use of them!
FROM THE PORTSMOUTH, (N. H.) SPY.
[THE following beautiful LINES, wrote on the death of Miss M. — L. — n, and Miss L. — L. — n, twins, late of Exeter, cannot but be pleasing to our fair readers, especially to those, whose hearts of "thousand strings" vibrate at the tale of distress.]
BY A GENTLEMAN IN THIS TOWN.
TWO beauteous flow'rets on one stem, In one fair garden grew, Smil'd at th' invigorating beam, And sipp'd the soft'ring dew.
Not woodbines thro' the fragrant air, Did balmier scents disclose, The lily was not half so fair, Nor half so sweet the rose.
Each eye beheld the matchless pair, With admiration mov'd And wonder'd how they grew so fair— They wonder'd—prais'd and lov'd.
But ah! one lovely flow'r declines! How languishing it lies? (What art can frustrate heav'n's designs!) It droops—it fades—it dies!
Farewell, (sweet heav'nly plant! Ah, say, How will thy partner mourn! Snatch'd from thy lov'd embrace away, Ah! never to return!
But see, the tender sympathy Pervades the widow'd flow'r! The lonely mourner, left by thee, Pants for the final hour!
It comes! adieu, sweet flow'rs, adieu! Forgive these streaming eyes, I see you, wrapt from mortal view, Now blooming in the skies!
VIENNA, August 30.
ON the 7th inst. in conformity to the intentions of the late Field Marshal Laudon, 2 carriages filled with plans and manuscripts, were brought from Huntersdorf to the war-office. They consist principally of plans of fortresses, of sieges and battles, executed in a superior style, enriched with historical observations on many passages of the memoirs on the Austrian military. The greater part of these works were by the Marshal.
MAYENCE, August 28.
An insurrection lately took place here, in which the cockade was worn. As soon as the landgrave of Darmstadt was informed of it, he sent six hundred soldiers to the assistance of the elector, who restored order. This insurrection is supposed to have taken place in consequence of the instigation of some French travellers in Germany. The French appear now desirous of overturning every constitution in Europe.
OSTEN D, September 3.
Vandernoot's Crusade against Limburg has failed. The peasants which he had collected together, from the different districts, to the amount of 40,000, entered the Province. A body of 15,000 Limburgers, and part of the Imperial troops, retired till they got the enemy into a convenient situation between Huy and Liege, they then made the attack and entirely routed the Patriots, and pursued them to the gates of Liege, where they were refused admittance, in consequence of the agreement made between the Liegeois and Leopold; great numbers were therefore killed—report says 7000. Three or four hundred of the prisoners, who were undisciplined soldiers, and therefore considered as mere rebels, were hung, among whom were about 30 Capuchins, and 80 Priests.—This action took place the 23d.
The committee of this town received this intelligence officially, in a bulletin from the States of Flanders, in which they say that such another action will put an end to the religion and liberty of the country, and invite all those who have any regard for either, to come forward and exert themselves.
Sixty-nine waggons with wounded peasants, arrived at Louvain, and 50 more at Brussels, there being no room for them at Namur. The number carried in them we know not.
This intelligence is also confirmed to us by another letter, which mentions that most of the monks in the different convents of Limbourg are confined on suspicion of being concerned in fomenting these disturbances.
LILLO [Dutch Brabant] Sept. 20.
A proclamation from Baron d'Aspre the Austrian deputy commandant, under the direction of the Governor General has appeared, requiring every parish and community to furnish one man in ten armed: every parish to furnish a waggon with provisions for one week, in order to repel the attacks of a similar expedition among the
Brabanters. All the volunteers to receive one schelling a day, and to be at liberty to return home at the end of a week, upon giving three days notice for a substitute to arrive.
This proclamation had nearly excited some clamour against this early exercise of the Austrian prerogative; and the emissaries of the Congress in the Province fomented it at much as possible. It was complained of that they demanded too peremptorily what ought to have been requested with moderation; but a softening interpretation of the Edict, being immediately published by the Commissaries, the contents of it were cheerfully complied with, and such vigorous measures taken, that 16,000 Limburgers are now under arms, all firmly resolved to contest the passage of the Brabanters to the last: the remembrance of the horrors committed by the latter at Herve are heightened by the late pillage of the towns of Esneux and Honti, and the resentment of the Limburgers is proportionate. They have besides received a reinforcement of Bamberg troops from the army in the country of Namur, which Baron de Bealieu has spared them; having raised the camp of Nalomont and another advanced station, in order to detach those troops for that more important station. They have now numerous bodies of peasantry intermixed with troops, who line the Banks of the Meuse and the smaller rivers of Ourte and Vesce, in order to prevent an irruption.
The Compte de Gontreuil, who is indefatigable in his arrangements, has taken station near Chence to observe the motions of the Belgians.
The last accounts from Luxemburg have raised the desponding spirits of the Limburgers and the Austrians; they advise the arrival, on the 4th inst. of 600 Wurtzburghers and 400 horses, with 400 of Bender's regiment from Friburg; and they positively expect the advanced column of the grand army by the end of the month: the Compte de Braun, General of Artillery, who is to command the whole army, is expected in a few days, and there are no longer any doubts of the march of the rest of the troops. Application has been made to various of the circles for the passage of 40,000 men.
The Austrian relations of the late affairs, which the Belgic details have so much boasted of, differ as usual; the former relate their whole loss in the close attack, so vaunted by General Schoenfeld, to amount to 17 men only.
They have published a list of the cannon and ammunition taken from the Patriots: One of the pieces was a gift of the ladies of Bruges, another was from the gentlemen of the same town, and a third was an offering from the town of Malines; the inscription of pro constitutione engraved on them, is perhaps, as applicable in the Imperialists hands as in their own.
The abode of Brussels is now become more dangerous than ever for the true lovers of justice and freedom; the outrages committed on those who have alone professed and practised those sentiments, are carried to the very utmost extent of horror. A relation of the atrocities committed last week with impunity, must assuredly open the eyes of every one to the true principles of the present Belgic administration. Some wretches of the volunteer company of Chasseurs, who have always been prostituted to the aristocracy, on Monday evening last, fell upon a young man of another company, as he was passing the Hotel d'Angleterre, and put him to death with repeated strokes of their sabres. This unfortunate youth incapable of making any resistance, having his right arm in a sling from a wound he had received in the Patriotic army, where he made the late expedition of forty days, had no other fault than that of being a true patriot, and not coinciding in the justice of all the measures of the present government: he thus fell a cruel sacrifice to the vengeance denounced by these wretches upon many others. Besides, the same evening they found another victim, and if there could be any aggravation to such atrocious crimes, it was that of putting a semblance of judicial proceedings on this second offence. They took also her young man to the guard house, and there in that supposed sanctuary they cut him to pieces with the same barbarity. But this is not all the horror! The hypocritical and bloodthirsty priesthood, far from denouncing vengeance on such guilt, gave it a sanction, by denying the mangled carcasses of these two unhappy youths the accustomed tribute of a consecrated

burial ground; a trifle however insignificant in its nature, yet, more than sufficient to encourage the fanatic rabble to a repetition of such horrid scenes. These are men who preach a holy war, and a sacred attachment to virtue, and who now go about the streets of Bruxelles singing nocturnal Masses!
Though it may appear strange, it is positively asserted that the King of Prussia is undermining the Emperor, and secretly fomenting the Congress to continue their exertions.
L O N D O N, Sept. 25.
Might not an offer to Congress, for a supply of seamen to serve on board our fleet, be a subject worthy the consideration of government? We have often applied to Germany for troops, and why not to America for sailors?
It is possible that such a measure might also destroy that resentment against Great-Britain, which many individuals there find it their interest to keep alive, and bring about an union between the two people, as sincere and permanent as the similarity of the language and religion would naturally warrant.
The King of France has sent the Croix de St. Louis to the young officer of the King's regiment, whose heroic courage, in clinging to the mouth of a cannon which the Swiss regiment were resolved to fire against the National Guards, under the orders of monsieur Bouille, at the gate of Nancy, we have mentioned. The name of this officer is not De Selli , but Desilles ; he was born at St. Malo.—The name and country of a true patriot is not a matter of indifference to citizens of the world.
The late Duke of Cumberland was on the day of his decease, according to royal etiquette, consigned to the care of the King's surgeon. The usual ceremony of embalming, &c. has since been performed, when the royal corpse was committed to its destined mansion, bedecked in the high style of royalty. Every limb, and every finger, respectively, lies bound in lawn, and covered with white sattin—the body and the face, in like manner, bound round with the same materials. The neck, wrists, knees, and feet, are elegantly ornamented with purple bows. The coffin lined with white sattin, richly ornamented, was immediately closed up for interment.
Sept. 28. What we some time ago announced is now on the eve of fulfilling—the retirement of all the Cabinet Ministers of France. The event was only delayed by the utter impossibility of procuring successors. At length we find the aspiring faction in the National Assembly will be able to carry their point of substituting committees to transact the business of each department—a wretched subterfuge of their own virtuous resolution, and which must be pregnant with ruin.
The situation of this country, in point of respect with foreign nations, cannot be better exemplified than by the indifference shown by those states who have lately concluded Armistices and treaties of peace. Great Britain has neither been mediator nor arbiter. In the very dispute in Holland, the Stadholderian party applied to and relied on the Portland interest. Mr. Pitt may attempt a general excise by management of a House of Commons, but he is not equal to the conduct of war and foreign alliances.
Mankind often, by their zeal and solicitude to conceal a fault, make the existence of it more generally believed. In the reign of Louis XIV. some people suspected, and not without reason, that a lady in the Abby of Moret was the King's daughter. She was brown, and resembled him in other respects. The King, when he placed her in the convent, gave her a portion of 20,000 crowns. The opinion she had of her birth, gave her an air of pride, of which the convent loudly complained. Madame de Maintenon (the King's mistress) in a journey to Fontainbleau, went to the convent, and willing to inspire the nun with more modest sentiments, endeavoured to banish the idea that nourished her pride. "Madame said the nun, the trouble which a lady of your rank takes to come on purpose to tell me that I am not the King's daughter, fully convinces me that I am." This anecdote the nuns of Moret remember to this day.
By a letter from Warsaw we learn, that the Polish Diet have at last pronounced sentence on Prince Poninski, who has been so long in confinement on a charge of high treason. He is declared a traitor to his country—stripped of all his titles of nobility, employments, and orders of knighthood—ordered to quit Warsaw within 24 hours, and Poland within 4 weeks; and if he is found in the kingdom at the expiration of that time, he is to be capitally punished. Agreeable to the mild laws now prevalent in France, this sentence only affects the condemned person himself, and does not reach to his children.
The high stiff cape is totally banished from our fashionable young men; and under the auspices of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, a low loose cape is to hang pendulous over the shoulder.
Oct. 1. The motion made in the National Assembly for a new election of Representatives, it is said, met with considerable applause; but it forebodes no good to the new form of government, as it will give an opportunity for many of
the moderate men to retire from a scene of anarchy and disorder, and afford to the Aristocrats an opportunity of seizing the reins of government.
On board the Dunmore, from Nassau, New-Providence, lately arrived, were shipped 522 bales of cotton, weighing 111,121 lbs. the growth of the Bahama Islands: the largest quantity ever brought in one vessel from that port.
Accounts were received by government within these few days, that a treaty had been proposed by the Empress of Russia, for a general junction of interests between the three Northern Powers, and, in consequence, dispatches have been forwarded to the Danish Court, with the sentiments and determination of our Cabinet, in case such an alliance should be formed.
Oct. 5. The Prince Royal of Denmark, and his Princess, made their public entry into Copenhagen, on the 14th of last month. It was impossible to exceed the brilliancy and good order of this pompous ceremony. The town was brilliantly illuminated the three following evenings. All the foreign Ministers Hotels were particularly distinguished, on this joyful occasion.
The Elector of Mayence at the request of the Count de Pappenheim, hereditary Marshal of the Empire, has signified to the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, that it will be necessary that a certain number of troops should be kept in his county of Hanau, adjoining to Frankfort, during the election and subsequent coronation of the King of the Romans and Emperor of Germany, to ensure the public tranquility, the safety of the head of the Empire and of the Electoral College.
The Duke of Sudermania returned from Finland to Stockholm on the 12th September, on board the frigate Camilla; and was publicly received by the Dutchess, on the Grande Place du Chateau, amidst the acclamations of an overjoyed multitude.
We learn, by a letter from Malaga, that eight Spanish vessels had bombarded Tangiers, but that the fire from the forts had been so brisk and well conducted, that the Spaniards waited for a reinforcement. The Barbarians seem to be greatly improved in the management of their artillery.
The Brussels Gazette contains several long letters from the Commander in chief of the Patriotic army, giving intelligence of different battles between his troops and the Austrians, in which as he says the former were always successful, though the carnage has been great on both sides.
This intelligence is so far certainly true—that there has been much blood shed, but we are not inclined to give any great degree of credit to what the Brussels Gazette contains, as it is wholly under the influence of the Congress, and dares not publish any other than partial accounts.
The Spaniards are forbidden, by a late mandate from the Court of Madrid, to send any of their children into France for education. These measures lose their end, and do not prevent the circulation of free remarks upon the procedures of the Government at Madrid. A print has been privately circulated there which occasions much alarm, and equal enquiry; but the offender has hitherto proved fortunate enough to have escaped detection. It represents a man seated at the foot of a tree, from one of the branches of which a loaf is hanging. Affliction and anger united are visible in his countenance. He looks up at the bread, and from his mouth issue these words: Se no baxas, me levanto; cui dada ati, Carlos quarto. "Unless you drop I must rise; and then, Charles the Fourth! beware!"
The tedious negotiation between Spain and this country appears to have very lately taken a more serious turn, and to have put on a more hostile aspect than ever.
Within these few days, Stocks have fallen between 1 and 2 per cent. and are expected to fall still lower.
The National Assembly now seem alarmed at the situation of the kingdom, and begin to feel some of the effects of so much precipitation in its proceedings. In endeavoring to relieve the nation it has almost annihilated it, by sacrificing so many great interests to flatter the multitude. Supposing the aid of this necessary to operate a regeneration, it has fallen into a false and dangerous system of policy. It is here the destruction of royal authority, the privileges of the nobility, the destruction of the parliaments, and the despoiling of the clergy have been effected by the aid of the people, but these have been dearly paid for by the abolition of the Gabelle, the suspension of imposts, and the license and impunity given to crimes. The disordered state of their finances is such, that the Assembly, protected by the multitude, can no longer make that multitude a return of service and protection. On the first shock there must be a division between the Assembly and the people. The efforts of the latter are now confined to applause in favor of the partisans of assignats, and a few motions at the Palais Royal and the Thuilleries.
The Duc d'ORLEANS' immense revenue is now reduced to 20,000l. a year, and his influence to a nut-shell. So rapid and violent a degradation of fortune is hardly to be instanced in the history of mankind.
P A R I S [FRANCE] Sept. 14. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY.
A letter from the Minister of war announced to the National Assembly that the King had issued orders to M. Bouille and Rochambeau to strengthen the frontiers and protect them from the bodies of foreign troops, who were encamped in Brabant.
Sept. 15. In the evening a deputation of the National Guards of Paris came to invite the Assembly to attend at a solemn funeral service to be performed in the Champ de Mars on Monday next, in honor of their brethren killed in the affair at Nancy.
Sept. 18. A letter was read from M. de Luzerne , announcing, that a hundred citizens, deputed by the General Assembly of St. Domingo to the National Assembly, had just arrived at Brest. They are come to complain of M. Pennier , who has ordered two bodies of troops to march from St. Marc to dissolve the General Assembly. The letter adds, that the municipality of Brest, as soon as the Leopold that brought the deputies, arrived, came to a resolution to stop the sailing of the Ferme, bound to Martinico. It was decreed, that no municipality should assume such authority; and the rest of the affair was referred to the Colonial Committee.
It was also decreed, that the President at the head of the deputation of twelve members should wait upon the King, to signify to his Majesty the wish of the Assembly to contribute to his personal pleasures, and the regret they should feel if he should make a sacrifice of them.
FROM THE NEW-YORK DAILY GAZETTE.
THE LATE GOVERNOR BOWDOIN.
Bonum virum libenter dexteris. TACIT.
RENOWN may rise from vices and from crimes; but real honor must proceed from virtues. Admiration and affection are two very different sentiments; we may admire that which we hate, and we may love those whom we do not admire. The higher qualities of the human character—those superior talents which elevate some men, as it were, above their species,—may furnish subjects for applause and for wonder; we gaze at them as at the pageants of a public show: they animate our passions; they gratify our curiosity; but they do not satisfy our minds. Other virtues and other qualities, which come more home to the common business and concerns of life, are those in which we rest for the coloring of individual and domestic happiness.
In following an hero to the tomb, we have none of those sensations which we feel beside the grave of a friend, or of one whom we knew to have been the friend of others. If the tear starts from our eye when we behold the laurelled chief or the worldly great man, placed beneath the marble—we weep not for them, nor for ourselves, but over the littleness of human grandeur, and the narrow limits of human glory. When we lament the death of the great with personal affliction, our sorrow proceeds from the remembrance of private kindnesses which we have experienced ourselves, or the knowledge of it as exercised to others; it springs from the reflection of virtues that made others happy—of qualities that gave no offence—of power that did no injury, of pride that disdained to scatter mortifications—of an integrity that was unshaken! Hence it is that the death of GOVERNOR BOWDOIN occasioned a general concern among all ranks of people to whom he was known. It is much to the praise of men of high stations and ample fortunes, when affection follows them to the sepulchre; it was an honor that attended Governor Bowdoin's hearse; his manners were affable and condescending, his temper mild and conciliating—his disposition humane and benevolent—his purposes were honest, and he had a tender heart; he had an unfeigned love for virtue, and an utter abhorrence of vice. By every branch of his family he was beloved, and by all who were in his service he was honored. He had but few, if any enemies, and he had many friends. These were his honors! they will consecrate his dust; they will endure when the wreaths of human glory are faded forever,
"Quis desidero sit pudor aut modus Tam chari capitis."
I knew his virtues, and sincerely loved him! H O M O.
New-York, November 29.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
A HINT TO CHEMISTS.
THE present method of obtaining the vitriolick acid, is attended with such great expence, that few are able to carry on a manufactory of it. The great desideratum is to maintain the combustion of the Sulphur by a constant supply of air, with little expence.
May not this air be supplied in the following simple manner? Let the Sulphur be burnt in a common chimney, and the fumes instead of flying into the air, be carried into a room twenty thirty or forty feet above the hearth of the chimney, by a pipe communicating with the chimney and room.
LATEST ARRIVALS AT THIS PORT.
Ship Friendship, Earl, Port-au-Prince, 52 days. Sloop Phoenix, Bermuda, 30, New-York and Philadelphia Packet, Bird, (N.Y.)

PORTLAND, Nov. 15.
The stone work of the Light House, at the entrance of our harbor is now compleated.—On Tuesday the 9th inst. the last stone was laid, by Mr. John Nichols, of this town, master builder. The work is extremely well executed, and does honor to Mr. Nichols, and to the other gentlemen who assisted him.—The Light House is now seventy feet high. To this the Lantern, which is to be six feet in diameter, will add about fifteen feet—eighty five feet in the whole. The Lantern is now preparing; and will probably be raised and lighted by the first of next month.
BOSTON, November 20.
Since our last we have had two arrivals from Liverpool, in England. The papers received thereby are to the last of September—But they furnish us with no farther accounts of the state of the dispute between Great-Britain and Spain, than we have heretofore received. Reciprocal armings, and reciprocal threatenings are the most warlike features the accounts wear: If we may except the information, that there are in the port of Liverpool as many as ten Privateers of 20 guns and upwards, equipped, armed and victualled, ready to proceed to sea, (if manned) at a day's notice, in case of a declaration of war, and the English merchantmen in that port were hauled up. If there is truth in this information—War appears much more likely than it ever yet hath—for the British Ministry would be careful, if war was not inevitable, that the commerce of the kingdom should not suffer by an unnecessary flagration.
Philadelphia, Dec. 4.
Since our last the following Members of Congress have arrived at the seat of government, viz:
HON. OLIVER ELLSWORTH, Senator, and BENJAMIN HUNTINGTON, Representative, from Connecticut. HON. BENJAMIN FOSTER, Representative from New-Hampshire. HON. BENJAMIN GOODHUE, and GEORGE THATCHER, Representatives from Massachusetts. HON. ELIAS BOUDINOT, Representative from New-Jersey.
By the latest accounts there were fifteen sail of the line, besides a number of frigates, lying in Brest harbor.
It appears to be the opinion of the British paragraphists that the French intend seriously to assist their Ally, Spain, with a powerful navy; but this depends on quelling the mutiny which they say prevails in every French ship.
Mr. Pitt, it is said, has given up the right of establishing a settlement on the North West coast of America, if so, as Spain has consented to make restitution for the Merchant Ships, what cause of war between the two nations exists? And yet the English are making immense preparations—of provisions—but as for men—they are to be created—for so scarce are they, that a frigate lately returned from a six months cruise in the Atlantic ocean—not in search of an enemy, but of their own countrymen.
Every circumstance concurs to evince the truth of the sentiment long since uttered, that in case of a war, Great-Britain, dismembered from America, would feel most sensibly the diminution of her naval strength: The proposition in a late English paper, of hiring American seamen, is a fresh corroboration of the fact, if it had not before been abundantly verified by the arbitrary impressing of our countrymen into their service.
A series of propositions were lately moved in the National Assembly of France by M. Duval, one of the members, which appear to strike at the vitals of the revolution. They created great confusion: A motion was made for committing the author to prison; but the result does not appear in the English account.
When the motion was carried for the emission of the 1200 million of livres in Assignats 513 to 417, the minority was exasperated into frenzy—they rushed upon the President, and tore off his robes: He bawled out that he was in danger, and gave his signal by covering himself.
Thus in the most uncertain and perplexed situation do the English papers leave the affairs of France, at the latest period of our intelligence.
The National debt of France is said to be four thousand nine hundred and fifty two millions, one hundred and forty five thousand, sixty five livres—two hundred and six millions sterling.—[How much the National Assembly will lessen this sum, time alone must determine.]—By a late statement it appears, that since the meeting of the National Assembly, their expences, and the debts of the Clergy, payment of which they have assumed, with incidental charges, amount to nineteen hundred millions of livres!—Query, whether the national bankruptcy of France, supposing such an event possible, would not affect the neighboring powers, particularly Great Britain, whose debt is about the same?
Owing to the immense emission of Assignats by the National Assembly, it is said, that letters from London of 6 October, mention, that Exchange on Paris has fallen to twenty-four pence half penny sterl. pr. Ecu, or little more than eight pence pr. livre tournois.
The late Peace between Russia and Sweden it is said was brought about by the King of Prussia,
at the head of 30000 men, within ten miles of Petersburg!
The face of European affairs exhibits a very motley appearance, according to the accounts from Great-Britain, the only medium through which the long columns of recent foreign intelligence has been received: But such is the present state of news-paper publications in that country, that it is utterly impossible to form any precise ideas on political subjects from them, any further than they detail stubborn facts, and these are so thinly interspersed in their multifarious lucubrations, that you have to pioneer through whole columns of rubblish to find them—conjectures, suppositions and speculations, which are generally void of foundation and which, if plausible, are connected with contingencies, that the people of the United States are as uninterested in, as in the dreams of the Bramins of Hindostan, form the aggregate of these accounts.
The Legislature of New-Jersey adjourned sine die on Friday the 26th ult. The next session is to be held at Trenton.
The election of Members for the second House of Representatives in New-Jersey is to be on the Fourth Tuesday of next month.
Among others, acts have been passed at the late session of the Legislature for building bridges over the Rariton, Passaic, and Hackinsack Rivers.
We hear that the Legislature of Virginia have voted the sum of 110,000 dollars towards defraying the expence of erecting the public buildings for the use of Congress, on the Potowmac; and the Legislature of Maryland a further sum of 70,000 dollars for the same purpose.
An act for establishing a bank in the town of Baltimore, to be called the Bank of Maryland, has passed the Legislature of that State. In pursuance of which a subscription is to be opened for three hundred thousand dollars—in shares of three hundred dollars each—and the following gentlemen are appointed to receive the subscriptions, viz.—Samuel Smith, William Patterson, Jeremiah Yellot, Engelhard Teiser, Robert Gilmor, Thorowgood Smith, Charles Garts, Thomas Hollingsworth, James Edwards, James Carey, Otho Holland Williams, and Nicholas Stubey.
We hear that the Glass Manufactory in Boston, is now in such forwardness, that the article of Glass will probably be made in great quantities in that town the ensuing winter.
The Hon. Charles Carroll is re-elected a Senator of the United States by the Legislature of the State of Maryland.
It is expected that the Hon. Jeremiah Wadsworth will be elected member of the House of Representatives of the United States, in the room of Pierpoint Edwards, Esq.
The principles of union and urbanity which possess and govern the minds of our citizens, and are evidently extending their benign influence thro' the States, are the surest pledges of internal tranquility, and national happiness—there is a prevailing disposition among all ranks, to pay a just tribute of applause to the exertions of genius, and the progress of the liberal and useful arts, in whatever part of our country they appear.
Monday next is the day appointed for the meeting of Congress, in this city. Many of the members are arrived in town; but it is not expected there will then be sufficient to form a quorum.
The public building assigned for holding the session is now nearly ready for the reception of both houses—and will be fully competent to the object. In the Hall, appropriated for the Representatives, a very capacious Gallery for the auditors of the debates, is built, which will, it is supposed, independent of the accommodations on the floor, without the bar, hold about 300 persons.
Under the old Confederation the people of the United States now and then used to hear from Congress, by the way of a solitary straggling resolution in the newspapers: How altered is the state of things! So far from being that strange scare-crow of an unknown something, called a Conclave, the whole nation, from the district of Maine to the state of Georgia, is more fully informed of the proceedings of Congress than they are of those of their own particular state legislatures—and this is justly to be ascribed to the editors of newspapers, who, under the auspices of the Federal Legislature, have been indefatigable in their exertions, to bring governmental transactions home to the door of every citizen.
Translated Extract of a letter from one of the French Emigrants to Sciota, dated Crique des Buffaloes, on the Ohio, October 20.
"AN accident having happened to one of our boats we have put into a small creek, on the east side of this great river, to repair the damage. I am now writing on the stump of a tree we have just cut down, so that you will not look for elegance or fine sentiments in this short letter, which I send you by a young man, a native of Pennsylvania, who is going into New-Jersey. We travelled by short days journeys to the place of embarkation, and cannot say much in favor of the manners of the inhabitants on the road by which we passed, a very few excepted, who paid some attention to us, and sold the productions of their farms at a reasonable rate; as to others, they took every advantage, and frequently imposed upon us in the most shameful manner, demanding three or four prices for the casual refreshments of which we and our little ones had occasion. We hope soon to arrive at our new territory, where we shall find things in their original state, such as God made them, and not perverted by the hand of ungrateful man.
"To some, these surrounding woods might appear frightful desarts; to me they are the paradise of nature, waiting to be cul-
tivated by the hand of urbanity and civilization, not by mere savage sons of the earth, whose ideas and manners are, if possible more wild and uncultivated than the bears and wolves that alarm us with their nocturnal howlings.—What happiness do I anticipate in those sequestered solitudes to which I am hastening—there are no hosts of greedy priests to devour the gleanings of the needy; no seas of blood to wade through in order to recover lost liberty—here all is quiet, and the savages themselves shall soon be taught the art of cultivating the earth, refinement of manners, and the duties of genuine devotion. Under this free and enlightened dominion the unfortunate and oppressed of one nation shall ever find an asylum; their language and customs will here be preserved in their original purity for ages to come, and France shall find herself re-novated in the western world, without being disgraced by the frippery of kings, or seeing her best blood wasted in gratifying the ambition of knaves and sycophants.—The weather is already cold, my hand is benumbed, and our little temporary cubbin is so full of smoke, that I dare not venture in—so I bid you adieu; to-morrow we pursue our route, and hope to be fixed in comfortable houses before the 25th of December."
A correspondent observes, it is the just boast and honest pride of every true American, that his country is an asylum for the oppressed of every class and religion, in the old world. Great praise and much honor are due to those of our humane fellow citizens who distinguish themselves by their active and spirited exertions, in procuring assistance and relief for the sick and distressed, not of a particular state; not of United America; but of the habitable Globe; the peace and happiness of which, will ever be the narrowest limit and boundary of American philanthropy and freedom. Dai. Adv.
ANECDOE.
The Sheriff of the County of Suffolk in Massachusetts at all public entertainments announces the toast—the origin of which follows.
GOV. SHIRLEY of Massachusetts, while on a public commission in France, married a French woman: On his return to his government, at a public entertainment, after the King and Royal Family were toasted, he gave, the Earl of Holderness, who was then Prime minister. The Door-Keeper, who at that time announced the toasts, said, "His Excellency gives his Holiness!" The Governor with astonishment and indignation vociferated, "You rascal I did not." Col. P—— being present, and at that time Sheriff of the county, started up, and repeating the toast as it was really delivered, caused the agitation the company was thrown into by the incident; and from that time this service has always devolved on the Sheriff for the time being.
Postscript.
BY THE MAIL ARRIVED LAST EVENING.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 4.
THE Ship Ceres, Capt. Coles, arrived at New-York the first instant, from London, and brought papers to 16th October: The position of public affairs in Great-Britain is not materially changed since the accounts by the packet, which were to the 6th of Oct.—Another messenger was hourly expected from Spain with a categorical answer.
Proposals for re-establishing tranquility, in the principality of Liege, had been rejected by the male-contents.
A plot to bring about a counter revolution in France was seasonably discovered and prevented.
On Sunday, Sept. 20 last, the Rev. JAMES MADISON, D. D. President of William and Mary College in Williamsburg, was consecrated Bishop of VIRGINIA, at Lambeth Chapel, London, by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury—assisted by the Bishops of London and Rochester.
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FOR NOVEMBER, 1790.
CONTENTS.
ORIGINAL ARTICLES.
PROSE.
METEOROLOGICAL observations, made in Philadelphia, Oct. 1790. Observations on the weather in do. Medical Cafe. The Temple of Hymen. Anecdote. Fragment. Remarks on locust trees. A sketch of the nature and causes of diseases, explained upon scientific principles. Remarks on capital punishments. Peter Pennyleaf—a fragment—by John Carey. Short sketch of the life of dr. Franklin.
POETRY.
The Temple of Hymen. Female love forsaken. Song to absent Laura—By W. P. Carey.
SELECTED ARTICLES.
PROSE.
Character of Dr. Franklin. Account of a curious spring. Wild cherry tree sprouts poisonous to cattle. Description of the falls of Niagara. Method of checking the progress of fire. Dr. James Malone's receipt for the cure of a cold. Number of vessels entered at Philadelphia, from March 1785 to March 1786. Remarks on frugality—by the Rev. Joseph Lathrop. Thoughts on censure, family disagreements, &c. by Sir Wm. Keith. Essay on the influence of religion in civil society. The origin of despair. Eulogy on early rising. Reflexions on the custom of burying the dead, and the danger of precipitate interment. Influence of death. Life of Julia, or the penitent daughter. Public virtue to be distinguished by public honors: by the late Gov. Livingston. Remarks on beauty and grace. Essay on good humour. Census of the inhabitants of Charleston. Enumeration of the number of people in different towns of the state of Rhode-Island, in 1782 & 1790. Amount of tobacco exported from Virginia. Number of people in Boston. Extract from a masonic discourse. Receipt to make an excellent American wine. Remarks on salting pork. New method of feeding silk worms. A Georgia planter's method of spending his time. Account of the culture of silk in Newhaven. Constitution of New Hampshire. Constitution of Massachusetts.
POETRY.
Address of a lady to her husband, on his return from a long absence. Song: in imitation of the warry god. To a lady—caressing her children. Elegy to Laura: by W. P. Carey. The hermit: by dr. Beattie. Verses on the marquis de la Fayette. Fragment of a poem on the creation of the works at Dorchester, Philida's riddle. Verses, addressed to miss M. A. A. Ode, sung at Bennington, August 16, 1790.

Discourses on Davila.
No. XXIII.—CONCLUDED.
Utrumque regem, sua multitudo conataverat.
THE Hugonots delivered from the fear of punishment, by the publication of the Edict of January, had begun to recover courage, and held frequently public assemblies; their party appeared considerable, both by their number and the quality of their members: and their forces were not inconsiderable. The Prince of Conde had openly declared himself their head; he was, in appearance, reconciled with the Guises, in obedience to the orders of the King: but, in his heart he burnt with an impatient desire to revenge himself, against his principal persecutors, for the outrages which he had received. The Admiral, who in the view to aggrandize himself, as well as his brothers, more strictly united than ever to the party of the Hugonots, moderated the ardor and vehemence of the Prince, by the maturity of his counsels. Under these chiefs, and in the same sentiments, were engaged the Prince of Porcien, the Lords of Genlis, of Grammont, of Duras, the Earls of Rochefoucault and of Montgomery, the Barons of Adrets, of Bonchavannes, Soubire, and several other great men of the kingdom. With any, the least authority of government, they were in a condition to resist, and oppose boldly the opposite party.
The Queen, forced as she thought to take advantage of a conjuncture so favorable for her own defence, and that of her children; and reduced to the necessity of embracing the first party which presented, however dangerous it might be expected from time and events, the unraveling all their intrigue. She feigned to be staggered by the reasonings of the Hugonots, and disposed to embrace their opinions. To confirm them she was more in this opinion, by exterior demonstrations, she caused their ministers to come into her apartment, and appeared to hear them with pleasure. She manifested great confidence and benevolence to the Admiral, and the Prince of Conde, in the frequent conversations she had with them. She deceived the Duchesses of Montpensier, by her false confidences, and made use of her, to allure the principal Hugonots; the better to color the promises and hopes, which she gave in secret, by apparent measures. She wrote even to the Pope in equivocal terms. Sometimes she demanded a free and general council, such as the Calvinists desired: sometimes, permission to convoke a national council. Another time she solicited the use of the communion in both kinds, a dispensation to priests to marry; the liberty of praying in the vulgar language, and other similar innovations, as the Catholics called them, which the Hugonots wished, and introduced. De Lisle , the French ambassador at Rome, seconded her so perfectly, that, by exciting doubts concerning her faith in the minds of the Pope and the Catholics, she obliged them to observe great caution in their own conduct, for fear they should irritate her, and disgust her against the Roman religion. By the same artifice she deceived the penetration, and gained the hearts of the Hugonots, by persuading them that she was wholly disposed in their favor: to such a degree, that the implacable hatred which they once bore her, had given place to confidence and attachment. It was not only the people that she amused by these appearances: the Admiral himself, in spite of all his appearance, policy and penetration, had suffered himself to be seduced. He hesitated not to give the Queen a circumstantial account of the number, forces and designs of the Calvinists, of the correspondences which they maintained, both within and without the kingdom, and of all other particulars which concerned his party: as soon as she gave him to understand, that she desired to have exact information before she declared herself, assuring him that she would embrace openly that party, as soon as it should be sufficiently powerful to place her out of the reach of the vengeance of the Catholics and the triumvirate, composed of the Duke of Guise, the Constable and the King of Navarre. Thus, by a change equally prompt and incredible, the King of Navarre attached himself to the Catholic party, and Queen Catharine, at least in appearance, became favorable to the Hugonots. These variations were at the time attributed to the levity of mind of the King of Navarre, and the natural inconstancy of the sex of the Queen: and it is thus that some Historians have since judged: who were either not capable, or had not opportunity, like Davila , to unravel the secret springs of these resolutions.
Is it possible to place an unbalanced government, in a light more despicable or more contemptible! Can human nature be more disgraced, than by this endless series of unions, separations, coalitions, combinations and tergiversations? And yet it is most obvious, that such a series must forever be the effect of a constitution, where there is no legal quilibrium.
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Boston, July 28, 1790.
Ebenezer Hazard,
At No. 128, in Second Street, between Race and Vine Streets, BUYS AND SELLS ALL KINDS OF
PUBLIC SECURITIES.
N. B. Persons having Business to transact at the Public Offices, may be assisted, or have their Business done for them (without the trouble and expence of a personal attendance) on very moderate Terms. November 29.
This Day is published,
By Carey, Stewart, and Co.
No. 22, Front-Street,
THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE DOWAY TRANSLATION OF THE VULGATE BIBLE,
Containing 990 Pages in Quarto.—(Price Six Dollars) Subscribers are requested to send for their Books. Nov. 29.
IMPERIAL, HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA TEAS; REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, and SPICES, &c.
Of the first Quality—by Retail, No. 17, Third-Street, between Chestnut and Market-Streets.