The recorder, or, Lady's and gentleman's miscellany. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1801-1802, 1802-06-23


& fx nalY yay3yF yU5:a fbs far ibsy could |
es baqs ben britt soiflout re tNrcbaje of a /
& fngks aoUy yard sUksa The tad is TIE jurd |
& prcvi9RNy esiEing in PbiiGde!bbiu ovas |
e Jit'17c ently ia5g," II requires great |
deal OF perseverance for man V no snot per- |
fonally concerned 70 give chace &c one ofthefe |
jGGl maas,5, Eeiute them as often as may
be; they immediately uiiunc new ground.
They oppc!e the mott uncomfortable truths,
and the noit unanfwerabic arguments, by ap-
pcating to fcme other fact, created perhaps at
the infant 10 fuit the purpole, and to iecure
the flare of appreciation, or the laugh of ap-
plaufc, from a few surrounding and deluded
dupcs. Every days experience proves this,
and, there is not man who ihai! read this
paper, unlefs it be the fact makers then,felves,
who, within the Ia1t two years, has nos been
impofed Upon in this way.
l am now going to deny, in the mott pof-
tive terms, that he may gard prsUioaGy sx-
iGing IN PbiiadeiPbta aUGy Gf67'tisnf!y large
FOR one icventy-four, much LET'S FOR Gx. / his
was notorious ID every man of oblervaton,
while TIE frigat wa ouI.ding. ] ne work
was greatly Te;a-3c TOR want o. room. flo,
as 20 the trlgate, how much more 70 would it
have been as to feven -four? And how I'M
poilible, If all the timocrsio. fix feventv-fours
had been collected to the !por? The very nj
ling and unpiling Of the 'n;ber would have
employed, and exhauifed more time, than one
of the lhips would have been worth BeGdes,
there was not iufic;ent fpace to have built
the fevera fhips, 70 as to launch them after
they were built into the water. I am Gure
thar there is not man, Samuel Harrifon
Smith excepted, who then reEded, or who
now refides in Philadelphia, who knows fhip
from a Wagon, who will not fubicribc TO
this, as a truth.
Mr. Smith iays exprenly, that the yard
prev,ouly exiting in Philadelphia was fIf6-
ciently large for the fix ieventy tours. ~
this he teem5 tacity to admit, that, if this ward
had not been efficiently large for the whole.
1t would have been proper 20 make further
acc a'ttlop. have juf proved that it was
infuftlcient even for ans ieventy-iour, 70 that
The only remaining queition was, whether the.
aequiiitlon ihouId be made by renting, or by
purchafing.
Reader recoIleet ,nat MIR. Stodders was
TO build fix feventy-four gun Hips, and rhae
they were to be built in different paris IF th,
United STATES, and not all together ~ Phfia-
delphia, as the National Intclijqencer prete ,ds.
ar, IN MR. SToDDERr's OFFICE. rs fbs
sn-'Jqigators jesm To haze t59Agbt. RecoIleq
that evena ve(el Of 50 IONS burther caunor
be buiir wirhovt having the convenience of a
ya!d, The purPote (Which IS TO fpread abroad
all the different tIn7bsys, 70 that, as The work
proSreties, e archce6t way, with cafe and
certainty, fei=6t the piece w,,ici, NAV bef
GIit the thing next 70 be done.
Every body, rher knows any thing about
hip, knows alto, that, when timbers a,e OBJ
tained, Il IS uiuai 70 preferye the natural
crooks and bends; becauf Il IS By far better.
and otter taves much labour, mhen one Of
theie can re rad to fu;t the purpoCe This
can De determined at once bythc eye, and rule,
when the rimhers are fnread abroad. This i
70 clear, and 70 invariably the cafe, that ever
man who knows any ti:ug about il, viii tb;pk
this explanation unnccenary But ther.. are
many vel informed and we'll meanino inc,
who perhaps never did, and perhaps never
will fee Of know any tbing about the proc,rs
q 5iii!di:e 2 chip, and who viii really believe
Ghat the navy yard in Philadelphia, which ]
have juit tbewr was toe FINAL for fngle
Frigate, would anfwer, at the fame sine, for
the numerous wofkrnen who might be en-
ployed in building the fevera! fevcntv-follrs
a. Port!uouth m. Hamplhire,) Ctarjefon,
(Mafachuictts,) New York. PHILADELPHIA,
Goiport (Yirginia,} and the City Of Wafh-
Ington.
Can there be any thing more foolih thanto
believe ms? Or more wicked, fnot Believed.
then to -ulate it with view to iniufc ,he
chara6tel of MIR. Stoddert.
Mr.. Smith ays that the navy yard in Phi
sadciPflla was Efficient for al thefe purpofcs.
For the fake Of s%bgGag him TIE mlre, viii
admit II 70 nc 70. How iiiculons would it
then be to fee tlnau vedsis difpatched from
different parts Of the United States for few !
plec9eo. Sober, and aDo 20 fee eli the work |
'nen Idle Tor tie want IF thofe timbcrs, which !