Discourses on davjla.— Xo. x
(CONTJNTFD;
Wife if a MinifLr; but ii a Ki;r,
Metre wife, more just, more leant'd, moievevery thing. '
" the great seem infcnlihleof the easy price,
-L/ "ac wlneh they may acquire rlie public
41 admiration; or do they seem to imagine, thar
'■ to them, as to other men, ir must. be the pur
chase either of sweat or ot' blood ? By what
" important accomplishments is the young no
•' bleman inftrutifced to lu'pport the dignity of his
" rank, and to render himfelf worthy of that Ju
" periority over his fellow citizens, to which the
" virtue of his ancestors, had railed them ? Is it
<( by knowledge, by mduftrv, by patience, by
" felf denial, or by virtue of any kind? As all
" his words, as all his motions are attended to,
" he learns an habitual regard to every circum
" stance of ordinary behaviour, and.itudies to
" perform all those finall duties, with the most
" exact pi epriety. As he is conscious how much
he is observed, and how much mankind are dif
" posed to favor all his inclinations, lie atfts, up
" on the moil indifferent occasions, with that
" i< e?dom and elegance, which the thought of
" I his naturally inspires. His air, his manner,
" his deportment, all mark that elegant and
" graceful fenle of his own fupsriority, which
" those who are born to infciior stations, can
" hardly ever arrive at : thete are the arts by
" which he proposes to make mankind fubinit to
t{ his authority, and to govern their inclinations
" accordingto his ownpleafurc ; and in this he
4C is seldom dif.ippointed. These arts, supported
4< by rank and preliemineuce, arc, upon ordina
" ry occasions, fufficient to govern the world.
" But it is not by accomplifliments of this
" kind, that the man of inferiour rank muiUiope
" to diftinguiih himfelf. Politenels is so much
*' the virtue of the great, that ic will do little
" honor to any body but tliemfelves. The cox
" comb, who imitates their manner, and affetfts
" to be eminent by the superior propriety of his
" ordinary behaviour, is rewarded with a double
" lhare of contempt for his folly and fprefumpti
" on. Why lhould the man whom nobody
" thinks it worth while to look at, be very anx
-4< ious about the manner in which he holds up
" his head, or disposes of his arms, while he
" walks through a room .' He is occupied surely
with a very luperfluous attention, and with
" an attention too that marks a sense of his own
■" importance, which no other mortal can go
*' along with. The mod perfect modesty and
<( plainness, joined to as much negligence, as is
" confident with the refpedt due to the company,
" ought to be the chief tharaifterifticks of the
" behaviour of a private man ; if ever he hopes
" to diftinguilh himfelf, it mult be by more im
" portant virtues. lie must acquire dependants
" to balance the dependants of the grear, and
" he has no other fund to pay them from, but
" the labor of his body and the activity of his
<l mind. He mull cultivate these therefore, he
" must acquire superior knowledge in his pro
*' feilion, and superior industry in the exercise
" of it ; he inufc be patient in labor, resolute in
*' danger, and firm in distress. These talents
" he must bring into view, by the difficulty, im
" pojtance, and at the fame time, good judg
" ment of his undertakings, and by the severe
" and unrelenting application with which he J
" pursues them. Probity a,ul prudence, genero
*' lity anJ franknefs, mult characterize his beha
" viour upon all ordinary occasions ; and he must
" at the fame time, be forward to engage in all
" those (ituations, in whichit requires the great
" eft talents and virtues to a<ft with propriety,
,l but in which the greatest applause is to be ac
" quired by those who can acquit thenifelves
with honor. With what impatience does the
" man of spirit and ambition, who is deprefied
" by his situation, look round for some great op
" portunity to diftinguilfi himfelf No circum
" stances, which can afford this, appear to him
" undesirable ; he even looks forward with fa
" tisfatftion to the prospect of foreign war, or
" civil dillention ; aidwith secret tranfportand
" delight, fees, through all the confulion and
" bloodllied which attend them, the probability
" of all those vifhed-for occasions presenting
" thenifelves, in which lie may draw upon him
" lelf the attention and admiration of mankind.
" The man of rank and diftincftion, on die con
*• trary, whose whole glory confiits in the pro
" priety of his ordinary behaviour ; who is con
" tented with the humble renown which this
" can afford lirm, and has no talents to acquire
" any other ; is unwilling to embarrass himfelf
" with what can be attended either with difficul
" ty or dilliefs ; to figure at a ball is his great
" triumph; he has an aversion to all public con
" fufions, not from want of courage, for in that
" he is feldoin defcdlive, but from a consciousness
" tliat lie poflei'les none of the virtues which are
" required in such situations, and that the pub
•' lie attention will certainly be drawn away
from him by others : lie may be willingto ex
" pose bimfelfto some little danger, and to make
" a campaign, when it happens to be thefalhion ;
'• La: \vi:h horror a: ;hc thought of
u any fituatlcn which demands the continual and
" long exertion of patience, industry, fortitude,
" and application of thought, "lliele virtues are
" hardly ever to be met with in men who are
" bom tothofe high Nations. In all govern
" ments, accordingly, even in monarchies, the
" higlieli: offices are generally pofl'efled, and the
'• whole detail'of the administration conducted
" by men, who were educated in the middle and
" inferior ranks of life, who have been carried
" forward by their own industry and abilities,
" though loaded witli the jealousy, and opposed
" by the resentment of all those who were born
" their superiors, and to whom the great, after
" having regarded them, firit with contempt,
" and afterwards with envy, are at last content
" ed to truckle with the lame abjeeft meanijefs,
" with which they dclire that the reft of man
" kind lhoiiKl behave to theinfelves.
" It is the loss of this easy empire over the af
fections of mankind, which renders the fall from
greatnels so insupportable. When the family of
ihe King of Macedon was led in triumph by Pau
las /tmilius, their misfortunes, made them divide
with their conqueror, the atiention oftheßoinan
people. The fight of the royal children, whofc
tender age rendered tliem inlenlible of their li
tnation, ltruck the fpeclators, amidll the public
rejoicings and prosperity, with the tendereft
sorrow and compaifion. The King appeared next
in the procellion—and seemed like one confound
ed and aftonilhed, and bereft of all sentiment,
by the greatness of his calamities. His friends
and miniiters followed after him. As they moved
along, they often cast their eyes upon their fallen
fovereign,and always bnrft into tears at the light
— their whole behavior denionftrating that they
thought not of their own misfortunes, but were
occupied intirely by the superior greatness oflfis.
Thegenerous Romans, on the contrary, beheld
him with disdain and indignation, and regarded
as unworthy of all companion the man who could
be so mean spirited as to bear to live under fucli
calamities. Yet what did those calamities amount
to ! He was to spend the remainder of his days,
in a state, which of itfelf should seem worthy of
envy ; a Itare of plenty, ease, leisure and securi
ty, from which it was impoflible for him, even
by his own folly, to fall. Hut he was no longer
to be surrounded by that admiring mob of fools,
flatterers, and dependants, who had formerly
been accullomed to attend all his motions ; he
was no longer to be gazed upon by multitudes,
nor to have it in his power to render liimfelf the
object of their refpeJi, their gratitude, their Jove,
and their admiration. Ihe paliions of nature
were no longer to mould themselves upon his in*
clinations. This was that insupportable calami
ty, which bereaved the king of all sentiment ;
which made his friends forget their own'misfor
tunes, and which the Roman magnanimity could
scarce conceive how any man could be so mean
rited as to bear to survive.
"To those vvho have been accuiloroed to the
pofleflion,or even to the hope of public admirati
on, all other pleasures sicken and decay.
" Of such mighty importance does it appear
to be, in the imaginations of men, to (land in
that situation which setts them molt in the view
of general sympathy, and attention ; and thus
place, that great objedt which divides the wives
of aldermen, is the end of half the labours of hu
man life ; and is the cause of all the tumult and
buttle, all the.rapine and injustice, which avarice
and ambition have introduced into this world.
People offenfe, it is said indeed, despise place;
that is to fay they defpi/'e fettingat the head of
the table, and are indifferent who it is that is
pointed out to the company by that frivolous cir
cumstance which the finalleß advantage is capable
of overbalancing. But rank, diftip<sU o n, pre
eminence, no man despises."
EASTON, June 8
"I , n
The convention of the Protestant Epifcopa.
church of Maryland, met at this place on the 27th
of laftmouth, and after tranfacling, with the ut
most harmony and concord, the important bufi.
liefs which came before them, they adjourned on
the Monday following to mcec at Baltimore-town
on Thursday in Whitfun-week, 1791. That re
fpectable body, we hear, have ratified the book
of common prayer, as eftabliflied by the «eneral
convention held at Philadelphia in September
last, which is to come into use, throughout the
ten flares which have adopted the fame, on the
firft day of next O&ober. VVe are authorized to
fay, that the liturgy is considerably improved by
the learned and enlightened body who revised
it, and there is reason to hope that it will recom
mend itfelf to every considerate member of the
Episcopal church, and by the blefling of Heaven
promote uniformity of sentiment and worJhip'
and confequentlv the interests of piety and true
religion, among her members throughout this
extensive empire. » 0
n SC T i 'f rge " n P r 'f'»> fij this paper bavin? been
Jtracv off jrom ths commencttntnt of the fecorid no/
; —Tvofevho htfiine to b -jcome fubfurther]
from that period, m«y be jurnijhed with the numbers
conip/eat.
496
New-York City Lottery,
SCHEME of .1 LOTTERY, for the purpose of raiGne Seven T,"
Jund five Handled Pounds, agreahle to an ACT of the Lt'gift,*.
turf of the State of N'ew-York, pafled Bth February, 1790.
SCHEME.
1 PRIZE of £ 3000 £ 3000
2 1000 toco
3 s"° J530
10 200 20go
30 30:0
£0 50 2JOO
1-0 8 0 :49> .
180 10 iir o
7y.5° i 3>Sj>"
8').16 Ptirrs, ) t- 1 . /
:66i 4 filaiik J 55000 Tickets at 4 0'.eaeh, £ , s s ?M
Subject to a dcdu&ion of Fifttcn per C<nt.
THEobjeft of this LOTTERY being ro raise a part <vftiie&-i
advanced by the corporation lor repairing and ii,eCi-
TY HALL, for the accommodation of CONGRESS, wn:ch.d > (i
so much honor to the Architect, as wrll as credit 10 thd city, y: „
managers prefuine that their fellow Citizens will cheerfi Jy c ..
cur in promoting the fa!e of Tickets, eloecially as tiic fuccc/i --''
this Lottery will relieve them from a tax, which .r Uii .
be laid to reimburse the corporation.
The above SCHEME is calculated in a manner very benelki 1
to adventurers,there not being two blanks to a priafe.
The Lottery is intended to commence drawing on the First
Monday in August next, or (boner if filled, of which time,';
notice will be given. A lift of the fortunate numbers will be pub
lilhed at the expiration of the drawing.
Tickets arc to be fold by the subscribers, who arc appointed
Managers by the Corporation.
Isaac Stoutenburgh, Abraham Herring,
Peter T. Curtexius, J oh n Pikiard.
New-York, 6thMwch,iygo.
Bethlehem Stages. |
THE great number of Miffrs, who from the banks ofiht i
ware East ward, even to Boston, are now at the'younglirfjgt
Academy at.Bethlehem, renders some regular,
ciieap mode of conveyance between that town and New
ceflary. To accommodate parents who hove daughters atthdtS^aJ' -
rifhing Academy, and others who may wilh tovifit that plttfe,; ;?
romantic hill, the ftibfcjibers are now running Ibgcs, *
continue during the fummrr, between Elizabeth Town R>iw
Bethlehem. Al each of these places a (lage will start f
day and Thurlday morning at 5 o'clock, meet at
avern the fame evening, exchange pafTengers, and the no# irf
return
Fare of each pafTenger from Elizabeth Town Point lo Bcthl -
hem 3 dollars—way passengers 4<i per jelb. of baggaee
the fame as apa(rer;er. Packages and letters will be received and
delivered at Mrs. Winant's, Whitehall, where feats may beta
ken-ear, 'age of a letter 3d— of baggaje allowed to each
paflrnger.
To accomodate those who may with to take 'ethlehem in their
route ill iournevitig between the Eallern and Southern llates, a
stage will cnnftantly run between Bethlehem and Philadeljh
flirting at Bethlehem every Monday morning.
Mav 10.
ADVERTIEMEXT.
BY order of the honorable John Slofs Hobart Efqulrc, oneoi
the Juft.ccs of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the Estate
ot Ncw-\ ork. Notice is heieby given to Paul Deyrcil,now or
late of Long Island, fcfquire, an debt«r, and to ail
others whom it may concern ; that upon application and due
proof, made to the said Justice, pursuant to an ast of the Icgifk
ture, entitled " an ast for relief abfeonding and absent
debtors, pasTed the fourth day of April, 1786, by a creditor of
the said Paul DeyreU, he the said Justice has diretUd all his the
laid l'aul Deyrell's Elbte, real and personal, within this State, to
be seized ; and that unless he shall discharge his debts within three
months after the publication of this notice ; al! his Estate real and
pcifonal will be fold for the payment and fatisfaftion of his cre
ditors. Dated at the city of New-York, the twenty-seventh dav
ol March, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and ninety. March 31. uw 3 tn.
By Order of the Honorable Richard Morris, Ifq. Chief JuJlice of it,
State of New* York.
M OT 'CE is hereby given to LewisM'Donald, of Conncflicul,
. a j? ? blent debtor, that upon application and due proof made
to the laid chief justice by a creditor of the said Lewis M'Douald,
purfnant to an ast of the Legislature of the said State, entitß
An ast lor relief aftainft absconding and absent debtor," paf
if '!" r 4 J Apr '. l, 1786 : h< "> the fjid chii:f jufticc, has ditcficd
a I the laid Lewis M'Donalds estate, within this Hate, to befaz
e , and that Mnlefs he fhal] discharge his debts within twelve
months after the publication of this notice, the fame will be fold
tor the payment of his creditors. Dated the -id May, 17Q0.
New-York, 7 , , 7go . 3 (iw-tyf
§ CONTINENTAL j
§ STATE SECURITIES, &
p BOUCHT AND SOLD,
AT NO. 196. WATU-STRIIT. S
C A S'nerous priceiuill be givenfor Military Ri t gits of Lad'r
J ani Jcfiy Paper Money. May 4. J
t * gr> ton
ASH, and a generous price given for Conti
nental, New-Hampshire, Maflachufctts, and Rhode-Iflaiia
of every denomination, by
at xr THAYER, jun. No. 59, Wattr~StrctL
New-Yoik, April 17, 1790. J ™
"VX7ANTED Immediately, a Man as an Ostler, one that u
Vr lober and can be- well recommended, will'meM witli'eit- -
couragement, and find Ready employment, by applying to the '
m n ARCHER GIFFORD,
N. B. None but a sober person, and one well recommended
need apply. Newark, May 19, 1790.
T,,_ *-ET, andpo/fefion given immediately,
H. .. No. 87, Front Street.- A part of the FURNi- '
1 ***■ wl " be f°ld) on reasonable terms, to accommodate
the Tenant, if required. Apply on the premifcs.
June 12, 1790.
| O be SoJd, an elegant dwelling house, in every circumstance
X fitted for a gentleman with a large family, situated in a very
pleasant part ot Elizabeth Town, New- Jersey. The lot con
tains abont four acres, on which is a very good garden, and a
variety of the best fiuit trees. The terms of payment can be made
o easy as to suit the purchaser. Enquire of the Subscriber at No.
12, Wall-Street. 4 ELI AS BOUDINOT.
Junes, 1790.
WILLIAM CRANE.
FREDERICK BEUTEL.