Gazette of the United-States. (New-York [N.Y.]), 1791-08-10 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. 30, of Vol. III.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1791.
[Whole No. 238.]
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
A "Friend to Justice" has thought proper to come forward in your Gazette of the 30th ult. in a publication which it is well for him is not very long. The ignorance and presumption which it displays, had otherwise precluded it admission into your paper.
He appears to think that the people of America will "read and judge" for themselves. In this he is right. As one of the people, I read and judge for myself; and I shall make no scruple to declare, that when I read this author's piece, I judged it to be the production of some petty scribbler (such as he characterizes Publicola's opponents, of which, for aught I know, he may be one) who comes forward in the papers "merely to bring himself into notice." Let the good people of America pay no attention therefore to a performance written with such contemptible views. The author's vanity is sufficiently gratified by seeing his piece in print; and his end in writing it is accomplished. He did not write from principle, as an honest man and patriot would do, nor did he care how he bewildered his countrymen, by his rash and unfounded assertions on so important a subject.
The "Friend to Justice" ventures to say, that the Vice-President is not the author of the pieces subscribed "Publicola." This may be true; but I believe the "Friend to Justice" knows no more whether the Vice-President wrote them, than the people of Greenland do—notwithstanding our author has the "best authority" for what he says. The dignity of truth has often been violated, by those who had the "best authority" for doing it.
Our bold author will also venture to assert, that "there is not a sentiment in the writings of Publicola which can justify the charges of ARISTOCRACY made against him, or in the smallest degree infringe the liberties of the people." This assertion need only be pointed out, that its falsehood may be exposed and reprobated. The writings of "Publicola" are "aristocratical" in the highest degree, and would be extremely dangerous, did not "the good sense of the people of this country enable them to judge" and discern their pernicious tendency. Very likely the "Friend to Justice" may have only simply erred here; for I do not believe that he knows what the term "aristocracy" means.
"Publicola" is likely to meet with his deserts; nor can the feeble "Friend to Justice" rescue him from the "stings" which evil actions leave behind them.
Let me amicably part with the "Friend to Justice," and advise him never more to take up his pen, until he understands his subject—never wantonly to write for his own amusement, but always to write on the side of truth, and with a view to benefit his country. By pursuing this conduct, he will gain the approbation of the public—he will gain what is infinitely more delicious an enjoyment, the approbation of his own heart—and, instead of the statures, he will gain the approbation of A FRIEND TO TRUTH.
A view of the number of Inhabitants, and consumption of Provisions, in London, from a late calculation.
THERE are in and near the city of London, one hundred alms-houses, twenty hospitals and infirmaries, three colleges, ten public prisons, fifteen flesh markets, one ditto for live cattle, two for herbs, and twenty-three for corn, coals, hay, &c. fifteen inns of court, twenty-seven public squares, forty-nine halls for companies, eight public or free schools, 131 charity ditto, which provide education for 3054 poor children, 207 inns, 447 taverns, 551 coffee-houses, 5975 ale houses, 1000 hackney-coaches, 400 hackney-chairs, 7000 streets, lanes, courts, and alleys, and 130,000 dwelling houses, containing one million of inhabitants.
Provisions consumed annually.
  Black cattle, 93,274   Sheep and lambs,   Calyes, 194,760   Swine, 186,932   Pigs, 52,120   Poultry and wild fowl innumerable.   Mackarels sold at Billingsgate, 14,740,000   Oysters, bushels, 105,530   Small boats, with cod, haddock, whitings, besides great quantities of river and salt fish, 11,431 
FROM THE ARGUS.
MR. HOWELL,
A WRITER in one of the New-York papers, under the signature of PHILODEMOS, who has undertaken to answer some of the sentiments advanced by Mr. Adams, in his "Defence of the American Constitutions," in his 3d number, introduces a quotation from the xxxi letter of the first volume with these words—"The main drift of Mr. Adams's book, is to shew us the utility and necessity of different ORDERS of men, and an equilibrium of powers and privileges." Soon after follows another to the same effect from the 8th page of the preface. With certain restrictions, no person, who ever attentively read the writings of that gentleman, could presume to dispute the truth of this assertion.—The expression "orders of men," as applied by Mr. Adams to this country, I presume was never intended to convey the idea of a superior race of men, or distinct species of beings; neither can it mean an hereditary order. There undoubtedly are in America, as in every other country under Heaven, different classes, ranks, degrees or orders of men, and things; yet there is no physical necessity, that any of them should be hereditary. One instance alone has ever been afforded by this country of an hereditary order of men. This distinction now no longer exists.—It is abolished, without leaving a single example to prove that it ever had a being. Mr. Adams evidently inculcates "the utility and necessity of different orders of men, and an equilibrium of powers and privileges," in opposition to the sentiments of Mr. Turgot, in his letter to Dr. Price, where he observes that "he is not satisfied with the Constitutions which have hitherto been formed for the different States of America. By most of them, the customs of England are imitated without any particular motive. Instead of collecting all authority into one centre, that of the nation, they have established different bodies; a body of Representatives, a Council, and a Governor: because there is in England, a House of Commons, a House of Lords, and a King. They endeavour to balance these different powers, as if this equilibrium, which, in England, may be a necessary check to the enormous influence of Royalty, could be of any use in Republics, founded upon the equality of all the citizens, and as it establishing different ORDERS of men, was not a source of divisions and disputes."
Had the people of America, in complaisance to this opinion, at once determined utterly to abolish the forms of government, which then existed, collected all authority into one centre, A NATIONAL ASSEMBLY; their motives and principles might have been much more conformable to those of Mr. Turgot, but how much less advantageous to themselves, every one will decide, as shall prove best adapted to their interests. Happy for that gentleman, it pleased GOD to take him from this world, before he had an opportunity of experiencing the pernicious consequences of his system upon his own country.
But what is the signification of different orders of men, as used by Mr. Turgot? It evidently means no more, than separate bodies, or distinct branches of government.—And in no other sense is it used by Mr. Adams, when applied to this country.
Our National Government consists of those "three orders, and an effectual balance between them," which are considered indispensable in every American Constitution. Our national Senate, appointed by the State Legislatures, is a distinct order from the House of Representatives, appointed, or chosen by the people. The Senate may be said to represent, Representatives of the people; the House are the immediate Representatives. The President of the United States is a distinct order from the Senate, equally with the King of England from the House of Lords. These orders differ essentially in one very important point, that of hereditary descent.—but surely there is not a single advantage, power, or privilege, of any kind, withheld from either order in our government, merely because they cannot descend.
The Governor, Council, Senate and House of Representatives in this State, are each of them different orders of men, whose authority is delegated to them for one year. Upon the expiration
of their terms, the orders are extinct. When a new election takes place, the orders revive, though, perhaps, not in the same persons with which they expired. To render it still more evident that Mr. Adams had no idea of a distinct order of men, as such; I shall take the liberty to use his own words in the first volume of his Defence, letter xxiii.
"In every country we have found a variety of orders, with very great distinctions. In America, there are different orders of offices, but none of men; out of office, all men are of the same species, and of one blood, there is neither a greater, nor a lesser nobility.—Why then accused of establishing different orders of men?" From this passage, it is evident, that an order of nobility, nor any kind of hereditary distinction was ever intended.—Words of inheritance, are by no means necessary qualifications in the character of an order or office; on the contrary, the most worthy, should be terms of conveyance, and election the method of investiture, or induction. A sentiment, or expression, was scarcely ever committed to paper, that did not contain some word, admitting different significations, and variety of constructions;—perhaps no example will better illustrate this truth, than the word—ORDER.
It is worthy of observation, that a majority of the writers in newspapers throughout the continent, address themselves to the readers of newspapers, rather than readers of books; supposing that the generality of people will implicitly confide in their assertions, without consulting originals—This method is undoubtedly favorable to their productions; for to men of reading, and real information, both the writings and their authors are equal objects of pity and commiseration. The whole system of these writers, appears similar to that of a merchant, attempting to dispose of adulterated liquors, by giving them a superior recommendation to those which are pure.—I wish a more salutary system to be heard in opposition.—Its brevity will probably be the best recommendation. If health of body, and tranquility of mind be objects worthy of consideration; my advice, as a Physician and Divine, would be this:—Never attempt to allay thirst at an impure stream, when the waters of the fountain are so much more pleasant, wholesome and palatable, and so easily obtained.—If this prescription does not answer the purpose for which it is intended, well may we exclaim—O cæcas hominum mentes!—O pectora cæca! NEW LIGHT.
DESCRIPTION OF A MACHINE
For restoring Respiration to Persons Drowned, or otherwise Suffocated.
[Invented by M. Roland, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Paris.]
LET there be made a double bellows, the middle board being common to both. In the centre of each external board, or back, pierce a round hole for the insertion of a valve. The extremity or point of this double bellows must be cemented into a copper box, including two valves, which communicate with the inside of the bellows. The cover of this copper box, which screws on with an intermediate piece of leather, is shaped like a funnel, to the pipe of which is joined a flexible tube, made of spiral wire covered with a gummy taffaty, with an ivory pipe at the end, to be inserted into the nostril. If you rather choose to introduce it into the mouth, the ivory pipe may be flattened a little. Each of these four valves consists of a copper neck, closed at one end by a piece of gummy taffaty, larger than the bore of the neck, and hinged by a strong silken thread, wound round the neck, so that the valve opens when you blow into the tube. These valves fit into other copper tubes fixed into the bellows; but so disposed, that the two external, and the two internal valves may open, the one inward, the other outward, so as to work alternately. The two valves within the box communicate with the bellows through one common tube. Having fixed the ivory pipe of the flexible tube in the nostril of the subject, you gently open the bellows, by which operation the bad air in the lungs will be drawn out into one half of the bellows, and the other filled with atmospheric air. You then close the bellows, the atmospheric air will thus be forced into the lungs, and that air, which was drawn out of the lungs, will escape. By thus continuing the operation, you will oblige the lungs to perform the act of inspiration and expiration, and gradually induce the organ to resume its function, if the subject be not absolutely dead. The operator must be very careful not to proceed with too much precipitation. If you choose to apply phosphoricated air instead of atmospheric, it is easy to perform a communication with one of the external valves, from a bladder, secured by a cork, containing that air.
RECIPE FOR INFLAMED SORE EYES.
WHITE Vitriol, one dram, acid elixir of vitriol, twenty drops, and boiling water, one pint: Put the white vitriol into the water, and when near cold, add the drops, and after add one large table spoonful of brandy, or very good old rum. If the above is found too strong, weaken each quantity drawn off for use, with more or less rose water.—Great benefit has been experienced by the above, in several recent instances.

FROM THE PROVIDENCE GAZETTE.
To the FREEMEN of the Town of PROVIDENCE.
Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of Ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air."
ON Monday next the petition of a number of respectable inhabitants, preferred to the last Town-Meeting, will be discussed, and the report of your School Committee heard.
An object of such importance demands attention. Patriotism and charity must awake the attention of the rich and the poor.
Let all reflect on the great and manifest advantages, to be derived from an adoption of the measure proposed by the petition. Let the patriotism of all induce them zealously to forward an attempt to secure our political felicity, by giving to the rising generation the means of acquiring a knowledge of the nature of civil liberty, and of the measures to be adopted to perpetuate the enjoyment of it.
A system, giving to all equal opportunity for the acquisition of knowledge, would tend more toward establishing in practice the theoretical rights of men, than all our Constitutions or Bills of Rights. The savage is inferior to the citizen in proportion to their advantages in point of education.
The same cause, in civilized life, works the same difference. The son of the rich man, enjoying all possible assistance from instructors and books, is more powerful in mental acquisitions than the son of the poor man, from whom the hand of penury, and the coldness of charity have withheld the means of perfecting his powers.
Had the latter possessed equal advantages, he had, perhaps, demonstrated to the world, that not birth and rank, but education and merit, produce in society the only rational inequality.
All other inequalities should, if possible, be remedied; but never can be remedied, while children, at the first dawn of reason, and through their whole lives, see such distinctions as now prevail in point of education. The unhappy being, who finds his instruction neglected and discouraged by the world, must surely think, that nothing useful could be expected from him, or that instruction had no power over the faculties of his soul. Is he in fact a genius of the first rank? He will then either waste his powers in idleness—or, from the irresistible efforts of his genius to activity, will become great in vice, and fall abhorred by the virtuous, a miserable example of the depravity of man.
On the present system of education, the mental powers of about a third part only of its citizens are ever known to society. The rest are not even tried. From this third part alone, can the people choose their magistrates, or fill up the professions of the liberal arts.
In case a plan could be devised, by which the whole rising generation might be placed nearly on a level in the means of acquiring knowledge, they would proceed equably, till by the operation of an emulative ambition the natural and rational inequality should be produced.
Here every genius would be tried—every faculty exercised—every talent excited—the most brilliant and useful discovered—and the body of men best qualified for the discharge of important duties selected, not from a third part only, but from the whole. Upon a plan of this sort, the superior mind, which on the present system is lost to the world, would come forward to its station, which might otherwise be occupied by his natural inferior.
To diffuse a general knowledge of the most useful learning—to place in such a situation the native diamond, oft encrusted with ignorance, that the splendour of its rays may add lustre to our day, is the object of the plan to be preferred on Monday by your School-Committee. By this plan a general system is proposed to be carried into effect, at the expence and under the direction of the town, by which all the children of the inhabitants will receive instruction in the same schools. This is not to be merely a Free School, to which those whose pride will permit them to acknowledge their poverty may send their children, sometimes to be taught, and oftener to be abused. This is to be instituted on the broad basis of republican principles.—Here all the young freemen shall for once be equal; they will here all be instructed, and alike instructed, at the town's expence.—Here, placed at one forum, the children of the humble and of the high shall make trial of their genius; and at the termination of their exertions, the scholar shall be compensated by the value of his acquisitions, and the applause of his townsmen.
This is no visionary scheme; it is not the offspring of a heated imagination, or an itch for novelty. It is framed by our wisest citizens, as an improvement on a plan long ago adopted, and successfully adhered to, in other places, celebrated for their love of freedom and good government.
See its effects in the town of Boston: I am credibly informed, that at least six out of eight of their principal statesmen, magistrates, lawyers and divines, owe the foundation of their eminence to schools of this kind. Without the aid of these, their parents, perhaps from poverty, had given them no education, or from ignorance of their talents had neglected to cherish them.
From the latter cause, frequently arises a most deplorable neglect of genius: But give the parent an opportunity to discover, without expence, the abilities of his child, and if the experiment succeeds agreeable to his wishes, he will use every exertion to forward his education, and thus from accident at first, and a certain parental pride, or tenderness afterwards, his country may be benefited by a sage philosopher, or a wise politician.
My indulgent fellow-citizens will pardon the liberty I have taken, while I only add, that it is my earnest request, and in which I am joined by a very great number of more ancient and influential characters than myself, that every free male inhabitant, heads of families in a more especial manner, would lay aside other concerns, and attend on the Town-Meeting next Monday, in the afternoon, to consider and decide on the important measure of establishing Town-Schools. THE SHADE OF BUSBY.
FROM THE VERMONT GAZETTE.
QUALIFICATIONS which a REPRESENTATIVE to CONGRESS ought to possess.
 1st. A sufficient common interest with his constituents.  2. A general acquaintance with their interests and feelings.  3. He should be a man of integrity, firmness and honor.  4. He should have information, and talents to communicate that information with ease and propriety.  5. He should sustain the character of being faithful to his employers, and persevering in his measures; not easily diverted from his course. The pilot, who veers about with every gust of wind, will inevitably endanger the ship.  6. He should however have wisdom to direct, and candor to influence him in every measure.  7. He should be able to remember where he came from and to know where he has got to.  Should any man without proper qualifications procure himself to be elected, I will venture to predict, that he within two years will find himself in a very public place without his breeches. VATES.
ANECDOLE.
SOME few years since, a counsellor Vanfittart, went the Oxford circuit, and that eminent and facetious counsellor, Mr. Bearcroft, went the same circuit. Mr. Bearcroft one day, in his usual droll manner, told Vanfittart, he thought his name was rather too long, and tedious to pronounce: "Suppose, for shortness, we agree to call you Van , and leave out fittart ." "With all my heart (says Vanfittart) if you'll do the same—strike off the croft , and let us call you Bear ."
THERE are situations in life, which, being conspicuous and elevated: never fail to bring with them as attendants, envy and jealousy. It will be needless to enquire into the effects which spring from these interested, selfish and black passions. It is well known, that those whose hearts are tainted with them, are watchful and eagle-eyed, and that they do not always miss, with their pernicious darts, of wounding the most upright and patriotic.
There are others who may appear, from their station in life, to be divested of these corroding passions, or at least to have no motive originally of their own, but still, from a desire to support their favorites, or from mere wantonness, or a kind of sportive malignity, will join the rest in a hue and cry, till the object of their chace is well worried, or altogether destroyed. It is the latter, by being most numerous, that are to be dreaded.—The former give the signal, and if they are powerful, enough will join their standard.
Although success does not always crown men of the above description, and happy for mankind that it is so: yet it cannot fail of being frequently productive of bad consequences to the person on whom the attack is made. His character must at least suffer for a while—and why should innocence bear with one pang inflicted by the hands of that demon—Envy? Such however, is the lot of mortals, that to live is to suffer. But let us hope for the best. We have seen the people artfully, and with uncommon perseverance, misled for a time; but no sooner has reason and cool enquiry resumed her just station, than the man whose reputation was but the other day blasted, rises in estimation, as his integrity and patriotism are known and understood, to the shame and confusion of his enemies.
A man whose early and decided conduct in the cause of his country, whose great learning and abilities are acknowledged even by his opposers—a man whose integrity, probity and patriotism, have secured, and as they are still in existence, will continue to secure the approbation of his country—a man whose disinterestedness, mildness, and native good disposition—I say, this man, and with these qualities, which ought at least to have procured him civility, has, in the most open and unprovoked manner, been loaded with a torrent of abuse. His opposers, in the most dogmatical manner have asserted him to be the author of a reply to Mr. Paine's rights of Man. The author, in his last number, has in the most unequivocal terms declared that the Vice President had no concern whatever in the publication. His adversaries, therefore, ought to be covered with confusion, and the public should resent the injury done to a faithful old servant. Notwithstanding the declaration of Publicola, there are those who affect to believe the Vice President still to be the author, vainly hoping, by this feint, to gain a little respite from the shock that this untoward circumstance has thrown them into. To them no doubt it has been a most unfortunate discovery! Their pens were already dipped in the gall, and they were resolved to employ the remainder of the summer in exhausting the stock. ANTI-CALUMNIATOR.
W A R S A W, May 11.
THE revolution so happily begun, will, according to all appearance, be completely consolidated, without violence or tumult.
At Lublin, indeed, a weak, ineffectual shew of opposition to it, has been discovered; but in Great-Poland, all ranks and degrees of men applaud it with transport.
On the 8th inst. the King, accompanied by all the Senators, Ministers and officers of the crown, went on Horseback to the church of the Holy Cross, between multitudes of the citizens and others, by whom the streets were lined. The air was rent by acclamations of Vive le Roi, Vive la Nation!
L O N D O N, May 31.
COINAGE OF ENGLAND.
The total amount of Gold coined during the present reign, up to the last trial of the Pix, in 1782, (adding to the above, the money coined from the year 1760, to the time of the Proclamation in 1774) was, in Guineas, 874, 106lb. Troy; in Half Guineas 96,255lb. and in Quarter Guineas (coined in the year 1762) 6,381lb. the value of which is—
  Guineas 40,842,602 14 0   Half Guineas 4,497,514 7 0   Quarter Guineas 298,152 7 6   Total Gold 45,638,269 8 6   Silver coined during the same time, 22,132lb. 68,609 9 2   45,706,878 17 8 
Upwards of forty-five millions and a half, in the space of less than thirty years; besides the quantity of the coin of former Kings now current, of which it would be difficult to make any calculation.
The following is an authentic account of the nett produce of the Taxes, consisting of Customs, Excise, Stamps, and Incidents, paid into the Exchequer from Jan. 5th, 1786, to Jan. 5th, 1791.
   Taxes from £. s. d.     Jan. 5, 1786, to Jan. 5, 1787, 12,389,555 1 1   Jan. 5, 1787, to Jan. 5, 1788, 12,923,134 17 2   Jan. 5, 1788, to Jan. 5, 1789, 13,007,642 18 4   Jan. 5, 1789, to Jan. 5, 1790, 13,433,063 11 3   Jan. 5, 1790, to Jan. 5, 1791, 14,072,978 19 7   To these add the yearly amount of land and malt taxes, not included in the above, 2,700,000 0 0  
Hence it is clear, that the public income for the last year has amounted to the astonishing sum of nearly Seventeen Millions! Taking, therefore, Fifteen Millions for the average expenditure of the year, there will be a surplus of almost Two Millions towards the liquidation of the National Debt.
This statement exhibits such a progressive increase of revenue as promises to alleviate the public burthens, and to advance the country to a state of unexampled splendor and prosperity.
The difference in the produce of the Tobacco revenue, between the last and preceding years exceeds 100,000l.
Of the benefits arising from the extension of the Excise upon Wines, the public will judge, when they are informed, that there were but 19,000 pipes of port imported into this kingdom in 1786, and in the last year above 42,000; and yet strange to tell! there was as much wine under the denomination of port thought to be drunk then as now.
JUNE 3.
Accounts were received yesterday at the Secretary of State's office, by way of France, that the plague rages with dreadful havoc in that part of Turkey next to the Mediterranean, insomuch, that in a small district, a thousand persons have died in a day.
June 6. The press upon the river has, within these few nights, been much less active than for several weeks before.
Notwithstanding the assertions in some of the prints to the contrary, we are assured that the last dispatches from Berlin, which arrived on Wednesday, are not of a pacific tendency.
Letters from Petersburg bring accounts of the astonishing activity with which the Empress has prepared her fleets. All the British officers in her service have been replaced by French gentlemen, on the recommendation of the Prince of Nassau.
According to the last accounts, the Russian forces consisted of 537,898 men.
June 12. A letter from Portsmouth, June 6, says, "If the negotiation carrying on with Russia does not take a different turn from what is at present apprehended, part of the fleet will sail for Leith Roads the first fair wind after Wednesday next."
A letter from Portsmouth, dated June 1, says, "a most calamitous event has been prevented here by a timely discovery: a plan having been formed to fire our dock yards, by means of foreign incendiaries sent to this country for that purpose. An express received by the Commissioner, brought intelligence of the plot, with orders to take every precaution for the security of the dock-yards and arsenals."
The popular toast at present on board the fleet at Spithead, is, "Perseverance to the Empress of Russia."
Translated for the INDEPENDENT GAZETTEER.
CAPE FRANCOIS, JULY 7.
THE black and white cockades will not take; it seems that those which appeared on Tuesday last at the Theatre were only put on for an experiment.
Some citizens in the gallery of the Provincial Assembly moved to send back to Bourdeaux, the first cargo of Negroes which should enter into this port from thence: A number of other motions were made, which appeared dictated by despair.
The President represented in the name of the Assembly, that the Colony alone had a right to express the people's sense of the measure. He informed them, that notice had been sent to all the parishes of the decree of the 15th of May.
Some members moved addresses to the National Assembly, but nothing was deliberated upon.
An Address of the Merchants of Bordeaux, to the Chambers of Commerce and Merchants of the French Colonies, on the subject of the decree of the National Assembly respecting the Negroes and Mulattoes, born of free parents, has been received.—It is couched in patriotic terms, and breathes a truly conciliatory spirit.—and recommends an acquiescence in the Decree, as "a law just in its principles, beneficent in its dispositions, and irrevocable as the constitution of the empire."
The Provincial Assembly of the north has decreed, that addresses should be sent to the National Assembly, to the directory of the department of Gironde (of which Bordeaux is the capital) and all the chambers of commerce in France. All those addresses will tend to prove how the execution of the decree of the 15th of May, would prove hurtful to the security and prosperity of St. Domingo.
The white and black cockades have disappeared, but the greatest part of the citizens have laid by the national cockade.
The free people of colour are quiet. The order of the Board of Police, against disturbers of the public peace, has eased the minds of those who were the most alarmed, and the greatest circumspection has taken with them the place of their former terror.
There is now at the Cape, and in many other parishes of the province of the north, but one party. The citizens who respected the decrees of the National Assembly, and those who executed them after their own manner, have united against the decree of the 15th of May. The Governor, who, in the eyes of many persons, was considered as an Aristocrat, has pleased every one by manifesting in his letter to the minister, his sentiments respecting the National Laws concerning the colonies.

A Spanish free man of colour, named De la Torre, has informed the Provincial Assembly, that he renounced the benefit of the decree of the 15th of May, and demands their protection. His example has not been followed by any other.
Mr. L'HONOREY DUBUISSON, Printer of the paper entitled, Le Moniteur Colonial , from which we have given frequent extracts to our readers, died at Cape-Francois, by a fall from his carriage. He was a man of letters and an undaunted patriot. His paper continues to be carried on IN HIS NAME, out of respect to his memory. His friend M. CASTELLON is the present Editor.
PORTSMOUTH, (N.H.) July 28.
This morning Capt. CASS arrived in town with a company of fine hearty looking soldiers, enlisted at Exeter for the western expedition; they make a short stay here, and will receive any new recruits that may offer—They are this day to embark for Boston, under the command of Ensign TILTON, and from thence to proceed on their way to the western country.
RICHMOND, July 29.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman near the mouth of the French Broad, on the banks of the Hudson, dated Treaty Ground, June 16, 1791.
"Presuming you may wish to know how Governor Blount proceeds in the Treaty with the Cherokees, I take this opportunity to inform you that as yet no Cherokees have appeared, but there is now every reason to believe that the fullest representation ever known of that nation will be in by the 20th, and that a good treaty will be formed. The Governor has had much difficulty in securing a treaty, for he certainly has been opposed by more designing land jobbers, speculators and abandoned miscreants, who live among the Cherokees, than ever before fell to the lot of man."
Philadelphia, August 10.
A proposition to enter into a non distillation agreement in order to counteract the excise, having been made to the distillers in Providence by some of the distillers in New-York,—a writer in a Providence paper, suggests the following queries on the occasion:—Whether such a measure has not a tendency to tarnish and dishonor the rising credit of our country, in counteracting one of the best, most productive and most popular sources of its revenue, agreed upon and established by Congress, after the most careful and deliberate consideration, at two different sessions? Is this the most eligible mode of effecting what is said to be desired? Will Congress, the legislative body of a free and enlightened people be driven, by an agreement of this kind, to abandon the interest of their constituents collectively considered? If any thing is wrong, in the system, Congress will undoubtedly be willing to hear and redress every well founded complaint: But before a measure which has the appearance of so much temper , as a non-distillation agreement, is adopted, some more feasible mode of taxation should be pointed out.
The transactions of the general government respecting the Indians, are and have been founded in justice and humanity—but the machinations of unprincipled land jobbers are the offspring of fraud, treachery, and insatiable avarice. The treaties that were formed under the old confederation, had for their object the security of the frontiers, and calming and securing the Indians in their unceded possessions; but the feeble arm of government was not sufficient to restrain the rapacity of land speculators, hence the yellow savages have too often found the treaties a feeble barrier to the murders and depredations of the white savages. But it is to be hoped that government will in future enforce the laws, and carry their benevolent plans, and the stipulations of their treaties, into prompt execution, by the strong arm of power.
The late Revolution in Poland in favor of the liberties of that country, may justly be considered as another instance of the advantage derived to mankind from the independence of the United States, and the reference in the King's speech to the new Constitution of this Republic, is a truly honorable testimony to the wisdom and patriotism of the illustrious Convention which framed it.
A free press is essential to the preservation of liberty; but a licentious press almost destroys the utility of printing:—for tho' a free government will not attempt to suppress the fullest and freest discussion of public measures, yet a general circulation of lies and misrepresentations will sooner or later destroy all confidence in the vehicles of public intelligence. The unbounded licence assumed by the French Printers and Editors of Paris, in canvassing public characters, must greatly confuse and perplex the public mind. Aristocrats and Democrats , are equally the objects of the most virulent satire and abuse—and the allegations are as positively denied as they are advanced; so that like opposing bodies in exact contact, both charges and denials fall to the ground. The National Assembly appears unmoved amidst this clashing of opinions, and steadily pursues its great object, the compleat organization of the government.
POLITICAL SKETCH.
[CONTINUED.]
THE benign influences of the general government are strikingly apparent in the patriotic state of New-Jersey—the limits prescribed on this occasion will not admit of descending to particulars—sufficient for the purpose of enforcing the truth of the observation, is that general tranquility of the state which has been produced by the equalizing operation of the laws of the union. When New-Jersey lost her excellent Livingston, she repaired the breach by her Pateron—a gentleman whose election was equally honorable to himself, and to his electors—May the future elections of our country be conducted with equal unanimity, moderation and wisdom. The evil-eyed demon of jealousy does not appear to have influenced on this occasion—and the merit of an upright federal legislator, did not prove a disqualification to serve the state in the highest of its offices. New-Jersey, as the connecting link between Philadelphia and New-York, with a laudable spirit of enterprize, is now engaged in plans to facilitate the communication from each to the other—and such is the ardor with which these plans are prosecuted, that in a period not very remote, we may expect to see her enjoying immense advantages as the rewards of her exertions, from her bridges and improved roads;—while the general benefits derived to the community at large will excite surprize, and enkindle a laudable emulation in her neighbours.
In adverting to the situation of affairs in the state of New-York, a cluster of ideas rush on the mind. Tho' placed in the focus of the late war, the intrepidity and patriotism of the whigs of that state, rose superior to an opposition, formidable both on account of internal and external enemies. How astonishingly has she emerged from the effects of war and desolation!—her circumstances as a government, are the wonder and admiration of her sister states, and of the world! and if she is just to herself, and will repose a decent and manly confidence in the wisdom and advice of her best informed citizens, her abundant resources will be applied to plans of such public utility, as will be productive of advantages that cannot be calculated—but on the other hand, should a contracted, heavy policy prevail, which shrinks from an immediate expence, that will be almost infinitely reimbursed, the wings of her fame and prosperity will be clipped, and still keep her in the rear of her enterprizing rival, the state of Pennsylvania.*
The natural advantages of this state are so great, that a comparatively small expence to improve them, would place her in a most eligible situation. Her recent accession of territory, and increase of population, while they extend the sphere of her trade and commerce, enhance her importance greatly in the political scale of the union.
The state of Connecticut exhibits perhaps the most perfect model of a republican government, of any community that can be mentioned—and this is probably the case more from precedent and usage, than any other circumstances. In the late revolution she bore a conspicuous part; and in proportion to her population, furnished perhaps the greatest number of distinguished officers of any state in the union—while her troops were of the best and bravest veterans in the armies of the continent.
Her literary character is second to none in the states—and for uniting the useful with the pleasing in fugitive speculations, she takes the lead, and sets an example to all the rest: These speculations are republished thro' the union, and received with universal approbation. An incredible number of newspapers is printed and circulated thro' this state—they are read by all the citizens—they understand and are tenacious of their rights, because they are enlightened—and they are enlightened, because the rays of learning illumine every part of their country—the means are accessible to all, without distinction.—Connecticut is making great progress in commerce, agriculture, and the useful arts—and is continually strengthening her claim to that celebrity which she has acquired as a manufacturing state. [To be continued.]
* While the state of Pennsylvania has appropriated upwards of 25,000l. currency, for the laudable purpose of promoting the intercourse and navigation in the interior part of the State.—The Legislature of New-York, it is said, has appropriated only one thousand pounds for a similar purpose.
SPECULATION.
WHAT magic this among the people, That swells a maypole to a steeple? Touch'd by the wand of speculation, A frenzy runs thro' all the nation; For soon or late, so truth advises, Things must assume their proper sizes— And sure as death all mortals trips, Thousands will rue their faith in SCRIPS.
REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF LONGEVITY IN A HORSE. DIED—Last week at the Pennsylvania Hospital, the old horse called Braddock ; supposed to be about 41 or 42 years of age. There is no reason to question his being one of the horses employed on the expedition of General Braddock in the year 1755. He was blind with age, and his teeth being fairly worn down with use, he was scarcely able to eat hay the last year of his life.
ABSURDITIES.
THAT the children of those, who by a fortuitous concurrence of circumstances, or by industry and the practice of the severer virtues of economy, temperance and sobriety, have acquired a fortune, should be educated to the practice of similar virtues, or any virtue whatever, in order to preserve what their fathers have acquired for them.
That discipline should be thought necessary to form the body or mind to activity, health and virtue—when other animals, which it must be acknowledged, are less manageable than the human species, are trained to usefulness, without restraint, bit or bridle.
That vicious indulgences, idleness, profaneness, lying, baseness and cruelty, should be considered as indicative of an education that will lead to infamy, to depredations on society, to ignominy and a premature death.
That the art of speaking is better than the art of boxing—and that to inculcate the principles of justice, clemency, and sensibility on the minds of children, will probably make them better members of society than the arts of petty peculation; a shameless contempt of the miseries of the unhappy, and a savage delight in doing mischief.
That learning, virtue, honor and fame, are the result of discipline, study and diligence—that the hill of science is steep and difficult to ascend—and that a total relaxation of all rule and order in society, whether on the larger or smaller scale, is pregnant with disgrace, disappointment confusion and ruin. IRONICUS.
Yesterday arrived here from Rochefort, a French Ship of War of 24 guns,—having on board M. TERNANT, Ambassador of France to the United States.
Several of our Brethren of the Type, (says the Salem Gazette ) are publishing in their papers, Mr. PAINE's Answer to Mr. BURKE's reflections on the French revolution—without having (as fair play would seem to dictate) first given their readers the reflections themselves. We are sorry to observe such a partial disposition respecting political discussions, in a country where so much has been said in favor of free inquiry and impartial presses.
A COLUMN, 19 feet in circumference and 30 feet in height, was lately erected on the north end of Baker's Island, at the entrance of Salem harbour, as a land mark for mariners.
Another expedition from Kentucky to the Indian Country is now in operation—it consists of 500 men under the command of Col. Harrison, who have marched from that State.
Died the 30th ult. at Harrisburgh, Mr. JOHN HARRIS, who was the proprietor of that borough—Mr. Harris was aged about 65 years, and was the first white man born on that part of the Susquehannah.—At Hermitage, near Trenton, Mrs. MARY DICKINSON wife of the Hon. PHILEMON DICKINSON.
At Providence the Rev. JAMES MANNING, S. T. D. President of Rhode-Island College.
From PELOSI's MARINE LIST.
ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
  Brig Missouri, Boys, Bilboa,   Sloop Ann, Osborne, Antigua,   Ship Friendship, Earl, Belfast,   Barque, Philad. and Amsterdam Packet, Rice, Amsterdam,   Sloop Sophia, Connell, Curacoa,   Brig Mary, Cassady, Londonerry,   Ship Diana, Goodwin, Rotterdam,   — Favorite, Evvers, Rochelle, 
Arrived at New-London, the Revenue Cutter Argus , Jonathan Maltbie, Esq. commander, from Swagochee, who will soon proceed on a cruise, to destroy black fish, and protect the fair trader.
Brethren in Navigation, shun the appearance of evil, keep your loines girt with true faith, honor and honesty.
Patience and perseverance, are sovereign remedies against all attacks. T. Allen's Marine List.
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Charlestown (Mass.) Lottery.
CLASS XXII.
THE MANAGERS of said LOTTERY present to the Public the following
SCHEME
Of the TWENTY-SECOND CLASS, Consisting of 7000 Tickets, at THREE DOLLARS each, 21,000 Dollars.
Table with 3 columns: Prize of, 2500 Dolls. is, 2500. Rows include: 1 Prize of 2500 Dolls. is 2500, 1 1000 1000, 15 100 are 1500, 20 50 1000, 20 40 800, 20 30 600, 40 20 800, 60 10 600, 70 8 560, 80 6 480, 2008 4 8032.
2335 Prizes, 4605 Blanks, Deduction, 17872 3:28. 7000 Tickets, Amount, 21000. This Class will commence drawing on or before the 1st of September.
Tickets may be had of the several Managers in Charlestown, and at the usual places in Boston.
THOMAS HARRIS, MATTHEW BRIDGE, SAMUEL SOLEY, Managers.
Charlestown, May 25, 1791.
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No. 173, Market-Street, HAVE TICKETS in the above, and in the Massachusetts Second SEMI-ANNUAL LOTTERY, for Sale.
A YOUNG Gentleman, who was bred to business, and can be favorably recommended, intending to visit the Manufactories in the South of France, the ensuing Winter, will accept of Orders for Goods, and execute them on a moderate Commission.
N. B. He will continue there, if encouraged. Applications directed to A. Z. and left at the Printers, will be punctually attended to.
Philad. August 6, 1791.
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For making transfers at ditto, one dollar each transfer.
Such persons throughout the United States, as may be pleased to favor the subscribers with their orders, may rely on their being executed with punctuality, fidelity and dispatch, as considerable experience in the public stocks, together with extensive connections in the city of New-York and different parts of the continent, enable them to conduct their operations with peculiar advantages.
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March 15, 1791.
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THE MANAGERS of the NEWARK BRIDGE LOTTERY will begin paying the Prizes drawn in the First Class on Monday the 11th of July, by which time the Tickets in the Second Class will be ready to deliver to applicants agreeable to the scheme. To accommodate holders of Tickets undrawn in the First Class, the same numbers in the Second Class will be lodged, if convenient, in the same places where the first were sold, as soon as possible, and if not, such holders must apply to the Manager who signed their Tickets. Such persons will please to take notice, that application for renewal in the Second Class must be made before the 11th of August next.
JOHN N. CUMMING, JESSE BALDWIN, JOHN D. ALVEY, Managers.
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Newark, June 27, 1791.
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New-Haven Wharf Lottery.
THE Legislature of the State of Connecticut, at their session in December last, granted a Lottery for the purpose of extending Union Wharf, in the harbour of New-Haven, to the channel; and appointed the subscribers managers, who having given bond for the faithful discharge of their trust, present the public with the following
Table with 3 columns: S, C, H, E, M, E. Prize of 10,000 Dollars, is 10,000. Rows include: 1 Prize of 10,000 Dollars, is 10,000, 1 5000 5000, 1 4000 4000, 2 2000 are 4000, 4 1000 4000, 5 500 2500, 12 200 2400, 30 100 3000, 45 50 2250, 50 40 2000, 61 30 1830, 100 20 2000, 140 10 1400, 5390 8 43,120.
5842 Prizes. 11658 Blanks. 17500 Tickets, at Five Dollars each, is 87500. NOT TWO BLANKS TO A PRIZE. Subject to a deduction of twelve and a half per cent.
The public utility of extending this wharf, is too evident to require any comment, to those who are acquainted with the town and harbour of New-Haven; to those who are not, suffice it to say, that its beautiful situation is not surpassed, if equalled by any; being in the heart of a country, which may, with propriety, be said to be the garden of America. The harbour lays open to the sound but by reason of the flats, this wharf is necessarily extended to the channel, where ships can load and unload; and when completed, will be the most extensive and commodious wharf in America, the whole extent being about 3/4ths of a mile; and not only the mercantile interest of New-Haven and the towns adjacent, but the maritime interest of all the States will be benefited by it. The general wish that prevails in the minds of all classes of people, for the success of this enterprize, together with the very great advantage which this scheme holds out to adventurers (there being more capital prizes for the number of tickets than any yet published in America) induce the managers to believe the tickets will meet with a speedy sale.
The drawing will positively commence at the State-House, in New-Haven, on the 13th of September next, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
A list of the fortunate numbers will be published, and the prizes paid on demand, by the managers. Those prizes not called for in nine months after drawing, will be deemed as generously given for the use of the wharf, and appropriated accordingly.
MANAGERS:
JAMES RICE, MICHAEL TODD, JEREMIAH ATWATER, ELIJAH AUSTIN, JOSEPH DRAKE, JOSEPH HOWELL.
New-Haven, April 14, 1791.
TICKETS in the above Lottery may be had at the Compting-house of Messrs. STEPHEN AUSTIN, and Co. corner of Front and Pine-Streets.
Who will pay the prizes which may be drawn by Tickets purchased of them in said Lottery.
Tickets in the Massachusetts Lottery that have drawn prizes, will be received in payment for the above tickets.
PHILADELPHIA, 20th July, 1791.
THE Commissioners appointed to receive Subscriptions to the Bank of the United States, do hereby, agreeable to law, inform the Stockholders of the said Bank, that an election for twenty-five Directors will be held at the City-Hall in Philadelphia, on Friday the 21st day of October next, at 10 o'clock in the morning.
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