Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-11-09 00:00:00

Gazette of the United States.
PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHILADELPHIA.
[No. 56, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1791.
[Whole No. 264.]
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
I HAVE been just reading the address of our illustrious President, to the Senate and House of Representatives—its communications afforded me the highest pleasure, and I make no doubt of its having the same effect on every friend to the prosperity of the United States. Many are the important objects submitted to the consideration of our general legislature; but in my humble opinion, the establishment of a National Militia, ought to be one of the first that should engage their attention. The more I reflect on this subject, the more I am convinced that a well regulated militia is the natural strength of a country, and absolutely necessary for its safety and preservation. A more pernicious idea cannot enter into the heads of our citizens, than to imagine that an institution of this kind is incompatible with civil liberty; for to remain without it, is the ready way to abridge the continuance of that liberty, we have so happily established among us.
The freedom of every commonwealth must be protected ultimately by military force; military force depends upon order and discipline; and without order and discipline, even the greatest number of armed men are only a contemptible mob, that may be dispersed by a handful of veteran soldiers. It follows then, that our citizens at large must submit to the ordinances of a well regulated militia, or commit the protection of their lives and properties to a distinct body of men, who will naturally in a short time, set up a professional interest, separate from the community at large.
To this case we must attribute the subversion of every free state that history presents to us—the Romans were certainly the first and most glorious people that have figured on the face of the globe—they continued free the longest; every citizen was a soldier, and a soldier not in name but in fact; by which is meant, that they were the most rigid observers of military institutions. Let it then be the glory of every American to have arms in his hands, with some knowledge how to use them, on proper occasions, against the enemies of his country; and let it be established, as a point of honor, and the criterion of a virtuous citizen, to pay the greatest deference to the common and necessary laws of a camp.
While I was engaged in this speculation, I happened to find among my papers, the English Militia Law, and judging it might be of some use in framing one for this country, I made an abridgement of the same, which I have now sent you for insertion in your useful and widely circulating paper, if you think proper.
I am, Sir, your very humble servant.
INSPECTOR.
Elkton, November 2, 1791.
An Act for the better ordering of the militia forces in the several counties of that part of Great-Britain called England, &c.
Whereas a well ordered and well disciplined militia is essentially necessary to the safety, peace and prosperity of this kingdom.
Be it enacted, that from the first day of May, 1757, the lieutenants of counties shall arm and array proper persons; and the lieutenants shall appoint their deputy lieutenants and give commissions to lieutenant colonels, majors, and other officers, whose names shall within a month, be certified to the king.
The lieutenants of every county shall have the chief command of the militia of that county.
In each county shall be appointed twenty or more deputy lieutenants, if so many can be found qualified, each of whom shall possess four hundred pounds a year, in freehold, copyhold, customary estate for life, or an estate for some long term of years, determinable upon lives, or shall be heir apparent of a possession of eight hundred a year. A lieutenant colonel, or major, shall be possessed of three hundred a year, or heir apparent to six hundred. A captain shall possess two hundred a year, or be heir to four, or be the son of one who possesses, or at his death did possess two hundred. A lieutenant shall possess one hundred a year, or be the son of one who possesses, or at his death did possess two hundred a year. An ensign shall possess fifty pounds, or be the son of one who possesses, or at the time of his death did possess one hundred. One moiety of the estate in all these cases, lying within the county.
In counties where twenty deputy lieutenants with proper qualifications cannot be found, it shall be sufficient to appoint so many as can be found.
An ensign or lieutenant may be promoted to be a lieutenant colonel, on extraordinary occasions, on account of merit.
The king may displace any deputy lieutenant or officer, and the lieutenants shall appoint others in their stead.
Every deputy or officer shall give in his qualification to the clerk of the peace, and take the oaths to the government, within six months after he shall begin to act, on penalty of £200; on deputy lieutenants and all above the degree of captain, and 100l. on captains and those under.
Peers are exempted from serving by themselves or substitutes; but they and heirs apparent of peers, may be appointed deputy lieutenants, or commission officers, and their qualifications need not to be left with the clerk of the peace; and on taking the oaths, &c. they may act without being otherwise qualified.
A commission in the militia shall not vacate a seat in Parliament.
At the end of every four years a number of officers shall be discharged, equal to the number of those, who duly qualified shall solicit for admission.
To each regiment an adjutant shall be appointed who has served in the regular forces, in which he shall still retain his rank; and to every company of militia shall be appointed two or more serjeants (in the proportion of one serjeant to twenty private men) out of the regular forces, who shall be entitled to the hospital of Chelsea; and serjeants appointed from that hospital shall be readmitted on producing certificates of good behavior.
No persons selling liquors by retail shall be capable of being a serjeant of the militia.
The number of private men serving in the militia shall be; for Bedfordshire 400 Berkshire, - - 560 Bucks, &c. &c.
There shall be no more than one captain, one lieutenant and one ensign, to eighty private men.
Where the proportion of men directed by this act to be raised in any county, shall be judged by the lieutenant to be too large, the privy-council, on application may regulate it.
The lieutenant of each county with two deputy lieutenants, or three more deputy lieutenants in the absence of the lieutenant, shall meet on the twelfth of July, 1757, and on the first Tuesday in June, in every subsequent year, and require the head constables to deliver in a list of all the men between the age of 18 and 50, in their several districts, except peers, officers of the militia, officers of the regular forces or garrisons, men of either university, clergymen, teachers of separate meetings, peace and parish officers, articled clerks, and apprentices and seamen, noting in the list the men laboring under any bodily infirmity.
Every deputy constable, or other petty officer, shall transmit to the head constable the list of his division, having first affixed it to the door of the church or chapel for one Sunday.
On the day appointed for receiving these lists, the lieutenant, and deputy lieutenants shall settle the number to be taken from each hundred, or division of the county. They shall then subdivide themselves, and three or more deputies, or two deputies with one justice of the peace, or one deputy with two justices, shall meet, within a month in every subdivision, to hear the complaint of those that think themselves entitled to exemption; and upon any just cause shall correct the lists. They shall then settle the number to be raised in each parish, and chuse the individuals by lot; and within three weeks afterwards the persons so chosen shall appear before them; each of whom shall take the oaths and enter into the militia for three years, or bring one to serve as his substitute, or forfeit ten pounds, and be liable at the end of three years to serve again.
Three deputies, or two deputies and a justice, or one deputy and two justices, shall meet in their several subdivisions occasionally at other times, and annually on the Tuesday before Michaelmas; and if any person thirty-five years old shall shew just cause for his discharge, it shall be granted and another chosen by lot in his room; and the vacancies by death shall be filled up in the same manner.
A militia man removing to another parish, shall serve the remainder of his time in the new parish.
New lists of men qualified for service shall be made every year.
A new body shall be chosen every third year, so that all persons duly qualified may serve in their turns each for three years.
A list of the persons serving in each parish shall be transmitted to the lieutenant.
An officer neglecting to return his list, or making a false or partial list, shall be committed for a month to the common gaol, or be fined not more than five pounds, or less than forty shillings.
Every private man serving for himself shall be exempted from statute work, from serving peace or parish offices, or in the regular forces.
He that has served three years shall not serve again, until by rotation it comes to his turn.
Married men having personally served in the militia, if called out in case of invasion or rebellion, shall be entitled to the same privileges of setting up trades in any place of Great-Britain, or Ireland, as by an act 22 George II. is granted to mariners or soldiers.
A Quaker refusing to serve shall hire another in his stead; and if he neglects a sum shall be levied upon him by distress, sufficient to hire another man.
Within one month after the return of the lists, the lieutenant and two deputies, or without the lieutenant, three deputies shall form the militia of each county into regiments, consisting of not more than twelve, or less than seven companies of forty men each; appointing the commissioned and non-commissioned officers to each company.
They shall be exercised thus: On the first Monday in the months of March, April, May, June, July, August, September and October, they shall be exercised in half companies, and on the third Monday in the said months in companies.
And once every year, on the Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of Whitsun-week, they shall be exercised in whole regiments.
No man shall be exercised in half company, or company more than six miles from his own house.
Notice of the time and place of meeting shall be sent by the lieutenant and two deputies, or without the lieutenant, by three deputies, to the high constables and by them to the petty constables, who shall fix them upon the door of the respective churches.
The lieutenant shall appoint at pleasure a regimental clerk, a serjeant major, out of the serjeants and a drum major out of the drummers.
In counties where the militia do not amount to seven companies, and therefore cannot make a regiment, they shall be formed into a battalion, under the lieutenant and field officers, one adjutant who shall be a subaltern in the army, a serjeant major, a drum major, and a clerk shall be appointed them, and they shall be exercised as a complete regiment.
Where a whole company or half a company cannot be brought together, they may be exercised in smaller numbers as the lieutenant or deputy shall direct.
One commissioned officer shall attend the exercise of the half company, and inspect their arms and accoutrements.
The arms and cloaths of the militia shall be carefully kept by the captain of each company, in chests, provided by the parish where they are deposited. The muskets shall be marked with an M. and the name of the county.
The king's lieutenant, or the colonels, may seize, or remove whither they shall think proper, the arms, cloaths and accoutrements, when necessary to the public peace.
Any person entrusted with the custody of any arms or cloaths, delivering them out, unless for exercise, or by command of his superior officer, or by the order of any justice of the peace, under his hand and seal, may, by two justices, be committed to the county gaol, for six months.
No pay, arms, or cloathing, shall be issued, nor any adjutant or serjeant be appointed, till four fifths of the men shall have been chosen, and the officers have taken out their commissions.
The officer who superintends the exercise shall call over the list and certify to a justice the names of those who are absent from exercise. The justice shall examine the excuse offered, and if it be insufficient, shall punish the defaulter for the first offence, by fining him two shillings, or setting him in the stocks for an hour; for the second he shall fine him four shillings, or send him to the house of correction for four days; for every offence afterwards, he shall fine him six shillings, and if it be not paid, send him to the house of correction for any time not exceeding one month.
If any man shall be convicted upon oath before a justice, of being drunk at the time of exercise, he shall forfeit ten shillings, or sit an hour in the stocks.
He that shall be convicted on oath before a justice, of insolence or disobedience to his officer, shall for his first offence be fined two shillings and six pence, and in default of payment, be sent to the house of correction for four days; for the second be fined five shillings, or committed for seven days; and for every offence afterwards be fined forty shillings, and committed to the house of correction for any time not more than a month, nor less than fourteen days.
If any man shall sell, pawn, or lose his arms or accoutrements, he shall be fined a sum not exceeding three pounds, or in default of payment, be committed to the house of correction for one month; and if he cannot then raise the sum required, for three months.
He that shall neglect to return his arms in good order after exercising the same, or the next day, shall be fined two shillings and six pence, or be sent to the house of correction for 7 days: if he neglect to return them by Monday after Whitsun-week, he shall forfeit five shillings, or be sent to the house of correction for fourteen days. And the person entrusted with the captain with the arms and cloaths, who shall omit to complain of such neglect, shall forfeit twenty shillings.
The soldier or non-commissioned officer, that shall be absent from his annual exercise, shall forfeit ten shillings a day, or be committed to the house of correction for a month.
If a non-commissioned officer shall be convicted upon oath of being negligent in his duty, or disobedient or insolent to the adjutant, or other superior officer, he shall be fined by a justice a sum not exceeding thirty shillings, or in default of payment be committed to the house of correction for 14 days, and may be discharged by the lieutenant.
No man shall be censured for absence occasioned by attending an election.
The militia are to be subject in military affairs to their own officers, and in civil to the civil magistrates.
In case of actual invasion, or upon imminent danger thereof, and in case of rebellion, the king first notifying the occasion to

Parliament, if then sitting, or in their recess to the privy council, and to the people by proclamation, may direct the lieutenants, or any three deputy lieutenants, to draw out their regiments, who shall march by his majesty's order to any part of the kingdom, under the command of such generals as he shall appoint, receiving during the service, the same pay with the regular regiments of foot, and the officers holding the same rank with the regular officers of the same denomination. The militia, during the time of service shall be liable to the law martial then subsisting; and any man wounded shall be entitled to the hospital of Chelsea. A militia man not appearing, or refusing to march on such occasion, shall forfeit forty pounds, or be committed to the county gaol for 12 months.
The militia or regular troops shall be tried in courts-martial, each by their own officers.
The militia shall not, on any occasion, be compelled to go out of the kingdom.
All fines and forfeitures shall be paid to the regimental clerk, and made a common stock in each subdivision; of which an account shall be given to three deputies, or two deputies and one justice, or one deputy and two justices, who shall apply it to the erection of huts, and the provision of gun-powder, to be used in shooting at marks; and the remainder shall be distributed in prizes to the best marksmen, or employed in any other way for the use of the militia.
Persons committed to the house of correction upon this act, shall be kept to hard labor.
These are the principal clauses of this act, the remainder chiefly contains provisions respecting the privileges or conveniencies of particular places.
L I S B O N, August 13.
ALL foreigners here, who have no other residence than inns, have been summoned before the Corregidor, who has interrogated them respecting their names, their qualities, their country, and their business. Verbal processes have been drawn up in consequence of the informations taken, and orders have been given to those persons, whose business or intentions were suspected, to depart the kingdom as soon as possible. We presume that a similar procedure has taken place in all the towns of Portugal.
L O N D O N, August 31.
On the 3d of January the Nabob of Arcot received a pistol shot from an unknown hand, which carried off one of his fingers, and made its way through his arm. His son-in-law was shot thro the body. These alarming circumstances happened during a review, and are indisputably owing to the army being kept shamefully in arrears.
A worthy citizen, whose immeasurable capacity has much puzzled many able calculators of the cube root, is now at Margate: previous to his voyage, he was advised to avoid the salt water, and told by his physician, that immersion might thaw all his solids. A letter to his lady he thus concludes: "Maugre all their nonsensical warnings, I determined to take the leap; and having, with no little difficulty, squeezed myself into a machine, was dragged to the deep. It is a prodigious fine thing, and such a help to the appetite!—As to their being amazed at my bathing, and astonished at my stomach—what's that to I? One little fellow, I have silenced by swearing: if he says any more about me, I'll stick him between two pieces of bread and butter, and eat him up like an anchovy; and as to all their gig about my floundering in the water, leaving a monstrous cavity in the sand, and the devil knows what, I think I shall silence them by a little poem of my own, which shall be in some of next month's magazines. Thus it begins,
"When in the flood I leap'd, the young whales gaz'd, The dolphin fled—the porpus was amaz'd; A shoal of herrings made a quick retreat, Thinking, against the chalky cliff they'd beat; Plaice, whiting, maid, would here no longer stay, Crabs, prawns, and lobsters, backwards crawl'd away. Thinking it a new isle, a foolish gull, First circling thrice around, dropt on my skull; While numerous wilks and lypets float around, And think in I they a great rock have found."
Thus do I begin, but after describing sundry plunges—thus I end—
"But now no more I seem a prodigy, But pass for an inhabitant o' th' sea."
D U B L I N, August 9.
The dispute between Paine and Syeyes on the great question, "Whether is Monarchy or Republicanism the better form of government," promises to afford much more information and amusement to the world than political disputes usually do.—The question is one of the most important to the welfare and peace of mankind, that could possibly be started. The ability and precision of Paine, the accuracy of thought and expression of Syeyes, admirably qualify the disputants to discuss it with effect, and to prevent the contest from becoming what such contests generally become a dispute about words.
Both of these proficients in the science of government agree in the outset, that "a government by representation" is the only legitimate one, and that no government is good, but so far as it is founded on this principle—What then must be their opinion of that government which rules over millions and is founded only on the representation of a few thousands? Would they not—would not every rational man—laugh at the ignorance or absurdity of him who would call the people so governed a Free People!
P O R T S M O U T H, Sept. 7.
Last night, after post, failed the Triton, of 28 guns, Capt. Murray, for Weymouth, to take on board Colonel Simcoe, and from thence to proceed to his Government of Quebec.
CONGRESS.
PHILADELPHIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1791.
THE report of the committee on the memorial of the sheriff of Suffolk county, in the state of Massachusetts, being called up,
Mr. Sedgwick moved that the house should accept the report, viz. that a committee should be appointed to bring in a bill, allowing to prisoners confined in any state, under the authority of the United States, the same privileges and immunities as are enjoyed by persons confined under the authority of the state.
Mr. Livermore doubted whether the house had a right to accept the report. Certain indulgences, he observed, are allowed to prisoners in some states, which are not granted in others; and he would ask, whether the house could establish any uniform rule for such cases throughout the United States. If the indulgence was only granted in conformity to the state laws, it would not be uniform. He wished, for the sake of humanity, that in every state there were laws equally indulgent to confined debtors: and were this the case, he would cheerfully concur in accepting the report. But since the case was otherwise, and that the adoption of the proposed measure would establish a system, not uniform, he wished that the report should be referred to the committee, that was proposed to be appointed, to bring in a bill for the establishment of an uniform system of bankrupt laws throughout the United States.
Mr. Sedgwick, after several remarks in support of his motion, concluded by expressing his hope, that the house possessed sufficient authority to make such provisions in favor of unfortunate debtors, as humanity itself dictated. He did not recollect to have ever heard so many disagreeable observations made on any subject, as on the confinement of prisoners under the authority of the United States, which was more rigorous than could be the case under the laws of the state which he represented.
Mr. White was against the appointment of a committee on this particular case, as it was one of many, that would of course occur in the execution of the judiciary system. He wished the case in question should be referred to the committee appointed yesterday, on the report of the attorney-general; and that every inconvenience that might be foreseen in the judiciary system, should as far as possible, be remedied.
Mr. Sedgwick having consented to withdraw his motion, in favor of Mr. White's proposal, The report was referred to the committee of the whole House on the revision of the judiciary system, as stated in our last.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7.
Mr. Baldwin, member from Georgia—Mr. Ashe, from North-Carolina, and Mr. Findley, of Pennsylvania, appeared and took their seats this day.
A letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing a report and sundry estimates, was laid before the House by the Speaker, which were read, viz. 1st. Estimate for the year 1792.
2d. Estimate of certain liquidated claims on the Treasury.
3d. Estimate relating to the Department of War, for 1792.
Ordered that 100 copies of the report, &c. be printed for the use of the members.
On motion of Lawrance it was voted that the Report and Estimates be referred to a select committee of three members—and Messrs. Lawrance, Baldwin and Ashe, were accordingly appointed, who were instructed to report a bill or bills, making appropriations accordingly.
A message was received from the Senate by their Secretary informing the House,
That the Senate have passed the bill allowing further time for completing the enumeration of South-Carolina, with amendments—in which they request the concurrence of the House; these amendments being read, were agreed to by the House.
A committee of enrolment was appointed, consisting of Mr. Bourne of Massachusetts, and Mr. Smith of Vermont.
The report of the Secretary of War on the petition of John Torrey, was taken into consideration; this report was against the prayer of the petition—as the late Major Torrey died before the expiration of the war, and leaving no widow or orphans, his heirs are not entitled by any law to commutation or half pay.
Mr. Ames observed, that Congress stipulated with the officers of the army, that those which continued in the service to the end of the war, should be allowed half pay for life, or commutation.—The question then was, whether Major Torrey had performed his part of the contract, in his opinion he had—for though the army was continued in pay till November, yet it is well known that hostilities had ceased before the period at which Major Torrey died. Mr. Ames further observed, that this was a case sui generis —that the application was founded in the strictest justice, and were he to determine it in a judicial capacity, he should be as clear to decide it in favor of the prayer of the petition, as he should in the case of a simple note of hand. He added several other remarks, and concluded by a motion that the petition, together with the report thereon, be referred to a select committee, in order that the principle for which he contended might be fully discussed in the House.
Mr. White opposed the motion for a reference to a select committee—he mentioned several difficulties which must occur in the course of the discussion, on account of past decisions of Congress. The petition, said he, appears to create a debt which is not cognizable by Congress, as it did not exist agreeable to the act of limitation at the time of adopting the new Constitution. He said he should rather be in favor of a reference to a committee of the whole house.
Mr. Ames observed that he considered the application in a quite different light from the gentleman last speaking. It is not a petition for a grant from government—but for the settlement of a just account, and payment of a just debt, which really existed prior to the organization of the present government.
Mr. Boudinot observed, that all the difficulty in the case appears to arise from a difference of opinion as to the time when the war ceased. This he conceived might easily be determined, by the period to which the army of the United States had been paid and discharged.
Mr. Clark was against a reference to a committee of the whole—he saw no difficulty in determining the business—but if we go into a committee of the whole, it will appear as if we were fishing for applicants. This has been called a single case; but he believed, if the door was once opened, we should soon find a great many like it. He wished rather that the business should rest where it was.
Mr. Williamson said he was equally opposed to a committee of the whole, and to a select committee—he was in favor of proceeding in the usual way—and coming to a vote upon the report. Congress, said he, promised that the widows and orphans of those officers who died in the service of the country, should be entitled to half-pay for life—in the present case it happens, that there are neither widows or orphans, but some more distant relation who wants it. He enlarged on the confusion which would be consequent on establishing a precedent like that proposed, and concluded by saying that he had heard nothing sufficient to induce a deviation from the line already prescribed.
Mr. Page was in favor of a reference to a committee of the whole—for tho' he had an high respect for the opinion of the officer who had made the report, yet if an individual member of the house should at any time express a wish to have a report from the head of any department whatever discussed in the committee, he should be in favor of his being fully gratified.
A further discussion of this subject took place, the majority of the speakers, as Messrs. Sedgwick, Lawrance, Dayton, &c. were evidently in favor of adopting the report.
The motion for a select committee was negatived.
Mr. Ames then moved that the report should be rejected.
This motion was followed by one for a reference to a committee of the whole by Mr. Wadsworth—who observed, that he considered the application as involving this question—Whether the heirs or representatives of every officer who died in the service of the United States, at any period of the war, should not be entitled to commutation or half-pay for life.
The question for a reference to a committee of the whole was carried in the affirmative, to be taken up to-morrow.
The report of the Secretary of War, on the petition of John Younglove, and a counter-petition thereto, from sundry inhabitants of the state of New-York, was next taken into consideration. The counter-petition contained sundry charges of unfair conduct in procuring the pension granted to Mr. Younglove. The report exculpates the petitioner from any imputation of deception in respect to the means employed in obtaining the pension, and assigns the reasons on which it was granted by Congress—and concludes by stating this enquiry, Whether it would be expedient to repeal that part of the law which assigns a pension to the petitioner, agreeable to the prayer of the counter-petition?

FROM THE CONCORD HERALD.
THE NEW-HAMPSHIRE CONVENTION.
MR. HOUGH, WELL, Mr. Printer—as of late, Convention sat in free debate, In order duly to revive And guard our rights with eagle eyes, To mend them whereforever torn, And patch in places fairly worn— I took a seat on gallery-bench, To hear the daily eloquence, Nervous and strong as brals or iron, And sweet as comb in Sampson's lion, Which flow'd in Ciceronian strains, From heads compos'd of tongue and brains. The Bill of Rights first underwent The chemic-force of parliament, Wherein majority agreed, That all mankind were Adam's seed, And had an equal right by nature, To certain grants from God Creator; This was the general voice—the tome (Who prophesy of things to come) Contended, that great Nature's God Had plac'd the governmental rod In fav'rite hands, with power to use it, In whipping rebels, when they choose it, And plead their special reason for it, That they are much the better for it, By plastic hands much more refin'd, As well in body as in mind; Therefore, by reason mathematic, God made a few aristocratic, With full prerogative to rule, No matter whether wife, or fool— It must be so—for who (with ease) Can stem the current of decrees? Upon this easy ground 'twas urged, That legislation might be purged Of every thickscull'd, muddy head, Whole lining is compos'd of lead; And that all power of legislation Be plac'd in men of penetration, Of whom ('tis ascertain'd of late) There are but sixty in the State; Who, if empow'r'd with full commission, Would legislate with expedition, Make laws and things for simple sheep, More just, more gentle, and more cheap, More safe for any christian flocks, Because they're always orthodox!— And furthermore, that kind of rats Which some folks term aristocrats, Will never bite—like bugs—and fleas; And filly eat—the public cheese. It may be so—but yet—perhaps, 'Tis best to keep—a cat—and traps. The next achievement, worth attention, (Which felt the hammer of Convention) Was that heroic coup-de-main, Whereby the Common Pleas were slain, Condemn'd to end their wicked days, By magic force of yeas and nays: So vicious men, for breach of law, Once felt the weight of Sampson's jaw, Which, tho' devoid of tooth or marrow, Was certain death as gun to sparrow. Well, when they'd kill'd these naughty courts, Dame Fancy led to other sports— As, changing minim fish to flounders, And making two-pound shot four-pounders, Which, elevated two degrees, Will overhoot the murder'd pleas, And which, when fir'd across the trench, Will lodge in the Superior bench; When justice holds her golden balance, And weighs all coins, from mites, to talents. Good lack! thought I, what horrid flashes The Constitution feels—what gashes Are cut upon this great emergence, To manifest the skill of surgeons, Who sometimes busily are found Creating a tremendous wound, (The patient, dismal pain enduring) That they may show their art in curing. Nextly, when each had done his best, (This wound, secundum artem dress'd) A certain junio-cratick brother, Declar'd 'twas best to make another In some more noble tender part, Perhaps upon the head or heart, That when the subject's head is broke By the aforesaid random stroke, He must inevitably die, Or seek for cure in chancery; Which ipso facto lays the devil, As stroking carries off king's evil, And as by magic operation It chancres down all inflammation, Dispels the gout, the spleen, and agues, With many other pains that plague us; In short 'twill cure the deadly pithis, And bring about a sudden crisis. Thus while its friends said much about it, And swore we could not do without it, Other's declar'd, with honest breath, They'd rather die a nat'ral death; Would sooner close with grim disease, Than pay the chancellor his fees. In fine, the code ecclesiastick, Was fumbled o'er with fingers plastick, Which ach'd and itch'd to form a syst'm Of new made things—but could not twist 'em. Full many curious propositions Were made by zealous politicians, And then presented to the chair, Defining conscience to a hair; Which is, that every man and woman, Whether a Hebrew, Greek, or Roman, In order to be found, and good, Must live on Calvinistick food; Which, tho' a most delicious fruit To most—yet some it does not suit; So that their stomachs heave and work, Like squamish Jews at fight of pork! However, vile, ungodly crew, Your vain pretence will never do! Most certainly you must be cram'd; For he that doubteth must be damn'd! But stay—our catholic committee, Perhaps your dismal case may pity: Thus meekly—patiently be merry, And wait th' approach of February.
SPECTATOR.
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By the Rev. JEREMY BELKNAP, Are ready for Delivery to Subscribers—who may receive their Books on application to HAZARD & ADDOMS, at the Corner of Chestnut and Third Streets. The above two volumes contain the political history of the State, from its first settlement to the adoption of the present Constitution of the United States;—the third, containing a geographical description of the State, sketches of its natural history, &c. is in the press. ** A few copies of the first two volumes for sale—price 20/.
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By EBENEZER HAZARD, A.M. ** The price to Subscribers will be a Dollar for each Number, containing 160 large quarto pages; or Four Dollars and a Quarter for each Volume in Boards; to be paid as follows, viz. the first and second Numbers, or Volumes, to be paid for on delivery of the first; and each subsequent one (except the last) at the time of delivery. Subscriptions will be received, in this city, by THOMAS DOBSON, and HAZARD & ADDOMS, (who will exhibit specimens of the work) and in other places by the principal Booksellers there. Philadelphia, November 5. 1791.
TO BE SOLD, BY JOHN CAREY, No. 26, PEAR-STREET, A COLLECTION OF Scarce and Valuable BOOKS,
Which may be seen every day, until five o'clock, P. M. Among them are the following: Folio. HOMER, Xenophon, Plato, Plutarch, Eusebius, Sozomen, Theodoret, Virgil, Horace, Livy, Tacitus, Paternculus, Pliny, Concordantia Lat. Concordantia Gr. Thesaurus Ciceronis. Biblia Junii and Tremellii. Bible de Martin, Wells's Maps, Scapulae—Phavorini—Martini—Hoffmani Lexica, Vossii Etymologicon, Antiquit. Eccles. Britannica, &c. Quarto. Pindar, Cyropædia, Bentley's Horace, Terence and Phædrus, Ovid, Juvenal, Manilius, Ciceronis op. om. Cæsar, Suetonius, Julius Pollux, Hederici Lexicon, Vossii Ars Gram. Cluverii Geographia, Justinian Code, &c. Octavo et infra. Homer, Anacreon, Aristophanes, Longinus, Theophrastus, Hesiod, Poëtæ minores Gr. Isocrates, Phalaris, various editions of Horace, Virgil, Terence, and Ovid, Tibullus, Plautus, Lucan, Martial, Claudian, Val. Flaccus, Ausonius, Buchanan, Sallust, Curtius, Florus, Justin, Val. Maximus, A. Gellius, Hilt. August. Scriptores, English and French Translations of some of the Classics, a great variety of Greek and Latin Grammars, &c. &c. Catalogues may be had of Messrs. Rice & Co. Booksellers, Market-street, or of JOHN CAREY. October 31. (ep t.f.)
Funds of the United States. ALL kinds of the Public Debt of the Union, bought, sold, or exchanged; Foreign and Inland Bills of Exchange negotiated; Merchandise of all sorts bought and sold on Commission, and all other Business in the line of a Broker, transacted by WILLIAM CLELAND, At the Office next door to the Custom-House, State-Street, BOSTON.
IMPERIAL HYSON, SOUCHONG, and BOHEA TEA, REFINED SUGARS, COFFEE, & SPICES, &c. &c. Of the first quality—by retail, No 19, Third-Street, between Chestnut and Market Streets
MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY. CLASS SECOND. THIS Class will positively commence drawing on Thursday the 24th of November next, at 4 o'clock, P. M. which will be completed with all expedition. The Managers pledge themselves that no consideration whatever shall induce them to postpone the drawing a moment beyond that time. Boston, October 15. 1791.
PUBLIC SECURITIES, BOUGHT and SOLD, on COMMISSION, by SAMUEL ANDERSON, Chestnut-Street, next door to the Bank, No. 97. MASSACHUSETTS SEMI-ANNUAL, AND NEW-HAVEN LOTTERY TICKETS, To be had at the same place.
JOHN PINTARD, SWORN BROKER & AUCTIONEER, PURCHASES and SELLS PUBLIC DEBT of every description, on Commission, at the following rates: ON the specie amount of all sales at auction, one eighth per cent. On ditto at private sale or purchase, one-half per cent. On remittances, ditto. Receiving interest at the Loan-Office, one per cent. on the amount of the interest. For making transfers at ditto, seventy-five cents per transfer. Such persons as may incline to favor the subscriber with their orders, may rely on their being executed with punctuality, fidelity and dispatch. His long experience and extensive dealings in the public stocks, together with a well established correspondence throughout the United States, enable him to conduct his operations with peculiar benefit to his employers. JOHN PINTARD, New-York, No. 57, King-Street. October 15. 1791.
Lectures on Government & Law. THE Honorable JAMES WILSON, L.L.D. Professor of Laws in the College and Academy of Philadelphia, proposes to deliver, next Winter, two Courses of Lectures. One Course to begin on the Second Monday, the other on the Second Tuesday of December. WILLIAM ROGERS, Secretary to the Board of Faculty. Philadelphia, October 12, 1791. (ept D)
WANTED, A NUMBER OF Journeymen Cordwainers, Who will find constant employment and generous wages, by applying to the Master Cordwainers of the City of Philadelphia. October 22, 1791. [ept]
Wanted, a good COOK, To whom genteel wages will be allowed. None need apply who cannot be well recommended. Enquire of the Printer.
TO BE SOLD, And possession given immediately, That pleasantly situated FARM Whereon the subscriber now lives. IT lies on the road from Princeton to Brunswick, about a mile and a half from the former. It contains 213 acres, whereof 47 are woodland, upwards of 30 meadow, and 20 more may be made. Also a young orchard of 200 apple trees, besides a variety of peach and cherry trees, and a large garden; the whole under good fence. There are on the premises a two story stone house and kitchen, with an elegant piazza, the whole painted and finished. Also, a smoke-house, work-shop, granary, waggon-house; barrack cow-houses, two stories high and 90 feet long, and a good barn, with stabling. From the buildings there are charming views of Princeton, the neighbouring farms, and Monmouth hills. Any person inclining to purchase, may know the terms by applying to the subscriber on the premises, or to ISAAC SNOWDEN, No. 141, South Second-street, Philadelphia. ISAAC SNOWDEN, Junior. Princeton, October 10, 1791. [ep 2m]
W. M'DOUGALL'S DANCING SCHOOL, Is now opened at his School-Room, No. 28, Carter's Alley.
HE returns his sincere thanks for the great encouragement he has experienced these eighteen years; hopes the reputation of his school for decorum and good order, as well as the performance of his scholars, will still ensure him a respectable share of the public favor. A number of new Cotillions and Country Dances will be taught during the season. Those who please to honor him with the tuition of their children, may be assured, they will be taught in the most approved style, and that proper attention will be paid to their carriage and manners. A general practising for the improvement of the scholars, will be held at the New Rooms, every other Wednesday; when the employers, and strangers of genteel deportment, will be admitted. These practisings will be attended with no expence. N. B. An EVENING SCHOOL will be opened for grown Gentlemen, as soon as a sufficient number offer. Philadelphia, September 14, 1791. (t. f.)
Forty Dollars Reward. LAST night was broke open the Store of the subscriber, at Bordentown, and stolen from the same the following articles, viz. One hair trunk, containing womens' wearing apparel; 1 small box, containing four clocks and one dozen teaspoons; 1 ditto containing one bottle green cloth coat, one striped vest and breeches, two shirts and a small bag with 36 dollars and 20s. to gos. Jersey coppers; 1 keg containing a large bible, with other small books; 1 box containing 447 real oilish feathers, some of them large and elegant, and of different colours; 2 barrels rye meal, branded Stout and Imlay; 1 barrel pork, 1 ream paper, and 1 dozen paste-boards. —Stolen at the same time, a large Batteau, with black sides. A reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the above property, so that the owners may have the articles again, or in proportion for part thereof; also a further reward of Twenty Dollars will be given for the security of the perpetrator or perpetrators, so that they may be brought to justice, by JOHN VAN EMBURGH. Bordentown, New-Jersey, Sept. 1, 1791. [ept]
Thirty Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY, some time in August 1789, a yellow NEGRO MAN, named ABRAHAM, late the property of Nathaniel Wickliff, deceased—about forty-five years of age, about five feet eight or nine inches high, pretty well set, with a large woolly head and large beard, walks with his knees bent, often complains of pains in his feet and ankles—by trade a bricklayer, stone mason and plasterer. He is a very handy fellow as a house-waiter, and is fond of such business. He is a great dissembler, and no doubt pretends he is a freeman. He has been clapped so long that no description of his present clothing can be given. It is supposed that he went to the Northern States, as he often mentioned having friends there.—Twenty Dollars reward will be given to any person that will secure said Negro in any jail, so that the subscriber may get him again; and reasonable charges will be paid—or Thirty Dollars will be given if he is brought to Prince William County, Virginia to Mr. JOHN KINCHELOE, by CHARLES WICKLIFF, Administrator. October 12, 1791. (iawgw)
HOLY BIBLE.---Royal Quarto.
MR. THOMAS, of Worcester, Massachusetts, most respectfully informs the public, that he has this day completed the Old and New Testaments of his Royal Quarto Edition of the HOLY BIBLE. The Apocrypha and Index, &c. will be finished with all the dispatch the nature of the work will admit. Such Gentlemen as hold SUBSCRIPTION PAPERS, he begs will return them to him at Worcester, or to him and Company at Boston, by the last day of November next, and as much sooner as they conveniently can. He is happy to inform the public, that the work has been examined by many gentlemen, clergymen and others, and has met with their highest approbation; both as to the execution of the printing, its correctness, and its cheapness compared with English copies of the same size and quality. As this very laborious and exceedingly expensive undertaking, is carried on solely at his own cost, he is led to hope that all those who wish to possess a large Family Bible, will so far encourage this laudable undertaking of their countryman, as to add their names to the subscription. Worcester, Sept. 29. 1791. ISAIAH THOMAS.
Blank Powers to receive the Interest, and for the transfer of the principal of public debt, agreeable to the Rules established in the Treasury Department: Also Blanks for abstracts of Certificates, to be sold by the Editor.
ADVERTISEMENT. BY late arrivals from France, the Editor has received from No. 10 to 31, both inclusive, of a Publication which comes out twice a week in Paris, entitled, "CORRESPONDANCE NATIONALE." From No. 1 to No. 10, have been shipped, but are not yet come to hand. Any person who may incline to subscribe for this work, which appears to be ingenious, impartial and patriotic, may be furnished with the numbers as they arrive by applying to the Editor of this Gazette.