feller's daughter has her Italian and French in
ftru<ftors—there are routs and card parties in the
garrets, and coricertsand suppers in the cellar—
the very lamplighters powder their hair, and
orange wenches paint their cheeks—apprentices
dress like puppies—tradesmen have country vil
las, and kept Miftrefl'es " How then are we
ruined?"
Last Monday the daughter of Mr. Na!h, at
Tenderden, in Kent, a fine girl about fixyeais
of age, being put to bed, was heard to cry out
and scream very much. The mother being
greatly alarmed, went to the bed, when flie
found the child's face bit and torn in a terrible
manner- On turning down the bed clothes, a
large rat jumped out of the bed, but the door
being; (hut, the rat was soon killed. The poor
child's face is so mangled and torn, that /he lies
dangerously ill.
EDINBURGH, March 23
IMPF. RI A L GOLD MEt) A I
Last week, Mr. Alexander Bruce, late mer
chant in the Weft Bow, but who has now re
tired frotn business, received as a present from
the Empress of Rnlfia, a gold medal of the fir ft
magnitude, a great number of which of different
lizes her Imperial Majesty ordered to be struck,
for the purpose of bestowing upon those whose
merits she might think entitled them to that
mark of her favor. This medal weighs about
twenty guineas in gold. On the one fide is an
elegant bull: of the Empress : On the other, aca
pital and well executed representation of the sta
tue of Czar Peter the Great 011 horseback, at St.
Pete {burgh, whose pedestal is theiminenfe piece
of rock brought to that city at so much labor and
expense.
This medal to Mr. Bruce was accompanied
with a flattering letter from the Empress's firft
minister, Count de BefborodkofF, and another
from his Excellency Count Woronzow, her Im
perial Majesty's Ambaflador at London.
Asthereafon for this dillingnifhed mark of fa
vour conferred upon Mr. Bruce, it is neceflavy
to mention, that that gentleman, several years
ago, had cotnpofeda molt ingenious trearife, in
tituled, " An enquiry into the pi incipal cause of
the wide deftrudtion of mankind in time of war,
and of the flow ineffectual progress and perma
nency of military and naval operations in gene
ral; comprehending the source of plague through
out the world."
Mr. Bruce, hearing of a great many deaths in
the garrison of Cronftadt, presented a manufcripr
copy of the above treatise to the late brave and
justly celebrated Admiral Greig, who, upon pe
rnfal of it, was so well pleased with the doc
trines it contained, that he determined to put
them in practice, and fotfn fouud their f.lutary
efFe<fts, by the preservation of the lives of thou
sands of his soldiers and sailors, who otherwise,
in all human probability, would have perished,
as had been fatally experienced on former oc
calions.
This induced the Admiral to communicate the
matter to his Royal Mistress, who immediately
commanded the treanfe to be translated itito the
Ruffian language by Mr. Nikettin, principal of
the college at Cronftadt, and at the fame time
ordered a very handsome present to Mr. Bruce,
which was tranftnitted to him bv Admiral Greig,
•with that politeness for which he was ever re
markable.
The medal which Mr. Bruce has now received,
was long since intended to have been sent. But,
owingto the unfoi tunate death of Admiral Greig,
and the fit ft minister of RuJlia knowing no orher
address for Mr. Bruce, than, " Mr. Bruce at
Edinburgh " it his lain in the Ambaflador's
hands at London (ince Augnft last.
D A N B U R Y, May 26
Sunday of Inft week, the wife of Mr. D. Mal
lei v jun. of Reading, in a dropsical cafe, had ta
k.;n from lier, qiar;s (if water, which weigh
ed r25 pounds. In pe feet health, Mi s. Mallery
•was supposed ro weigh 100 pounds.
BOSTON, May 26
An unfortunate accident happened on Mon
day lalt, in [he family of Capr. Lamb of this
town, a child of his, a beautiful boy of about
rwo years old, being in a thiid (tosy with the
•woman who attended him, ran inio the back
chamber, and fell out of the window, which put
an immediate end u> his existence.
His Excellency JOHN ADAMS, Esq. Vice-
President of the United States, was 011 Tuefda-.
elc&ed President of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences.
WORCESTER, (Mas.) May 16
Mr. Levy Bixby of Winchendon, now in the
forty-fifth year of his age, has killed 24 wolves,
33 bears, 10 deer, 5 moose, 16 otters, 17 bea
vers, 2 woolenegs, 22 racoons, 33 foxes, a'oout
I*o minks, 500 musquash, 7J fables, 17 porcu
pines, about 100 hares, j rattlesnakes, and jr
polecats, besides other small game and wild fowl
almost innumerable."
Philadelphia*, June 4.
A letter from Petersburg inform?, that the Empress of Rufiia
is making immense preparations to guaid and secure the fron
tiers of the empire—they could not be greater if a war was inevi
table. In Livonia and Courland are 60 battalions of infantry,
22 of grenadiers, 80 squadrons of cavalry, and 12 regiments of
light troops—all of which have seen service', many more regi
ments, and 200 pieces of artillery, are to be added—soc pieces
of cannon have been sent to Riga and Dunaburgh. The prepara
tions on the fide of White Rufiia are equally great; the number
of large battering pieces destined for "Skloff and Mof
eow, amount to 120. There will be a c<*rps de reserve of 30,000
men in Little Rufiia.
Not wvithftanding all this, it is evident that the Emprefsis greatly
afraid of Frederick ; and it is highly probable that his iinmenfe
armv. co-operating -with the BrTtUh navy, will teach Catharine
moderation.
A letter from Havre de Grace, of 22d March, fays, the New
Constitution of France must come to a fair and honorable estab
lishment—that a counter revolution is impoflible—and that the
paper-money has not depreciated.
A late writer in a London paper on bodily exercise, lays it down
as a position, that walking is the most perfect exercise for the
human body ; every limb is put in motion ; every artery from
the hea r t to the extremities propels the blood quicker and more
equally in walking than in a.iy other exercise. The blood is
d rawn from the h?ad and upper parts, where it is most flow and
languid , and is circulated with rapidity to every part.
On the 19th of April a Committee of the City Council of Sa
vannah, (Georgia) presented an address to Gen.Jackson, expres
sive of their sensibility of his merit,and teftifying their approbation
of his condu6t in the Congress of the United States—at the fame
time regretting that he is deprived of the opportunity of continu
ing his services as a public chara&er. This address was politely
communicated, and gratefully received. The General concludes
his answer in the following words :— u I beg leave to return you
my fmcere thanks for the favorable opinion you have been pleased
to entertain of me, and to afiure you that I (ball rank the honor
now done me. and the refpeftful manner of its communication,
among the most valuable testimonies of my life."
A letter from Paris, of March 10, published in the General
Advertiser of yesterday, contains the following information :—
That the National AfTembly has decreed, that the importation of
Oil from any country but the United States of America, fhaU be
prohibited. The Oil imported from the United States in French
or American velTels, to pay a duty of twelve livres per quintal.
The new election being at hand, it is expected that the tumul
tuous and indecent party of Ariftocrates that now disgrace the Na
tional AfTemblv, will be thrown out.
The organization of the executive departments is compleated.
The rreafury is to be under three infpeftors; there will be fix
Ministers,, one for justice, one for inferior affairs, one for war, one
for the marine, and one for foreign affairs. They are all to be
appointed by the King—salary 20,000 dollars each ; the Minister
for Foreign Affairs excepted, who is to receive 30,000. The or
ganization of these departments is considered as a master-piece.
About 30 millions of AflTignats have been burnt, and it is ex
petted that in a few weeks 30 millions more will be committed to
the flames.
The regular troops are to be 250 thousand ; the enlisted militia
amounts to more than 300,000. You fee we are prepared for
any attack.
As to the Pope, we heartily wish he may refufe to consecrate
our new Biftiops—it would give us a good opportunity to bid
him ala fling farewell I fend you the performance of Common
Sense, translated, with comments, by one of our best writers. Our
friends in America wiil read it with pleasure.
By the last Pittsburgh papers we learn, that four companies of
ihe new railed troops had arrived at that place, and considerable
numbers were hourly expe&ed.
The Trees in New-Y >rk have lately been in jeopardy, through
an ordinance of the Cot poration— but agreeable to a poetical hint
in a poetical fupplica-ion to procrastinate their fate till next win
ter, the law has been fulpended till the firft of December.
The Circuit Court of the United States was opened and held in
Portsmouth, (N. H.) the 24th ult. before the Hon. Chief Justice
Ja y , and their Honors Judge Cushing and Judge Su li i v an.
The eleventh edition of Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the French
Revolution, is advertised irftjthe. Dublin Chronicle. A hod of
answers are following close at his heels—exclusive of Mr. Paine's,
seven are advertised for sale in Dublin.
Wednesday last was published, No. i, of The Mail; or,
Claypoole's Dai lv Advertiser.
Diflin&ions will take place among mankind, so long as there
is any difference between an honest man and a knave.
Were all the words now uled to express our approbation of
merit, to become extindt, would the difference between right and
wrong, truth and faljhood be diminiflied—or could that difference
be annihilated ?—Till human nature becomes totally changed,
the impulse to virtue and patriotism, must be adapted to the prin
ciple of emulation—a human being without this principle, is
" Fit for Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils."
The abolition of tnoft titles now in use, is perhaps the neceflary
result of that severe and just invelligation which many cuitoms and
habits, long faniltoned by ignorance and prejudice, have under
gone—the abuse of a thing often leads to its disuse and reprobati
on—But mankind will fuppiv the vacuum which their own hands
•lave made—and often do it to their cost. Cromwelljuftly observ
ed, that his power was more secure, exercised by him as Lord
ProteSor, than it would be, Ihould he aflume the title of King—
the prerogatives of a king, said he, are known—those of a protec
tor are undefined, and consequently unlimited.
To fay there shall be no titles or diftinftisns legally annexed to
merit and otfice, is in fact, to open the widest door, to the most
ulfome, flattering, absurd and abominable epithets that the grati
tude, wcaknefs, ignorance and folly of mankind can adopt for
they will have their savories—and to fay that they shall not
express their feelings in their own way, is to deprive them of the
liberty of speech—And if it is left optional to withhold or bejlow
what titles they please, experience shews that their inventions are
unlimited. However, there can be no doubt that the titles now
i i use, havebcen used long enough—and if there is no other ob
jection againftthein, their age is enough to ensure their condem-
iii '.on,
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Neiv-Tork,
J - °
/o his friend in this city
" I HAVE jult finifhed Cecilia, and agreea
bly to your request, will transmit to you some
irleas which occurred to me on a cursory reading
of it.
" Confklering it as the work of a very young
lady, it certainly is entitled to applause. The
characters are greatly diverfified, and extremely
well supported. Several of them are to me ori
ginal. Mortimer Delville, and Cecilia,
are very amiable, and excellent personages
Mrs. Delvili.e, tho poilelled of manj' uncom
mon, and brilliant traits, is on the whole not a
: leafing character. Her husband I despise —
Even old Bricgs is by no means as di(agreeable.
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The infuflferable haughdnefs, unlimited pride,
and full-blown conceit, which are so conspicuous
in " Don Pedigree," l ender him an object of
contempt and di'fguft. A parenr, whole whole
nappinefs conhlts in recounting the glory of an
cellors, who perhaps had fmatl claim to merit ;
and who is so deflitute of feeling as to force the
nearest, and molt important interests of his child,
to become subservient to his own pride and weak
ness, is a monster in exiltence. Perhaps there
is nothing more consonant to human imperfec
tion, than family pride : Certainly there is no
thing more opposed to the perfection of human
reason. To experience a degree of fatisfadtion
upon hearing the viitues of our progenitors ap
plauded, is rational and to please
ourselves with a descent from persons, whose on
ly merit was an ellate incapable of alienation ; or
to take pride in the dignity, and importance, of
a parent, or grandparent, whose career commenced
on the dunghill—is beneath the character of a
human being. Yet, notwithflanding t lie jultice
of these observations is acknowledged by every
person, how many are there, even of our acquaint
ance, who are ready, and disposed, to facrifice
the highest happiness of a beloved child, at the
(hrine of mammon ! Is it not aftonilhing, that
multitudes of people, who in most circumstances,
judge rightly of human life, when property is
concerned, will persuade themselves that no re
gard is due to the fined: and most exquifire feel
ings of the foul ; and that, even in the business
of marriage, a daughter, possessed of the moll re
fined and delicate ideas on the fobjeiS, ought
to force herfelf into the arms of an unfeeling
brute, whose only attractive charm is an ellate,
and whose conceptions never extended beyond
the limits of a well drawn purfe-llriug ?
" These observations I consider as applying ro
the charadler of Mr. Delville, in Cecilia. Alany
things, however, may befaid in palliation of fa
mily pride in an Englilhman. The English na
tion has long been in the habit of considering
wealth and merit as inseparable companions—
and it is certainly a happy circumrtance for
many, that worth is an hereditament; otberwife
their situation would be truly deplorable. Bun
in an American (and there are many Delvilles
in America) it is altogether without excuse. Ve
ry few families in this country can trace their
pedigree farther back than two degrees, without
(tumbling on an ancestor, whose itate and con
dition in life was at teajl humiliating. In fact
there is considerable danger that family pride,
in this country, will experience firft orlafl. a rood
fatal mortification. For who will fit and observe
the ebullitions of this species of pride and not
revert back, on the lift of anceftors,to find if the
firft of them who fettled on this fide the Atlantic,
were not fold for their paflage, or transplanted
for felony."
Hon. Thomas Tr eadwe t. L is chosen member of the House
of Reprefcntatives of the United States, for the State of New-
York, in the room of James Townfend, Elq. deceased..
A correspondent fays, that those who are solicitous that fails
should appear refpefting the letter from Lord Mansfield, may reft
allured that ijit is possible, the parties concerned will give due fa
tisfaftion.
MARRIED—Last Monday evening, by the Rev. Dr. Nefbit,
president of Dickinfon College, the Re». Dr. Witherspoon,
president of New-Jersey College, to Mrs. Ann Dill, widow
of the late Dr. Dill, of York county in this State.
A SHERIDANISM.
A. YOUNG Gentleman and Ladv, who were soon to be made
one, were lately purchasing wedding clothes—she frequently ap.
pealed to his judgment in chufing the articles, till at lift he gave
her one general answer, by faying—" Shoot yourfelf Molly, and
you will shoot mr."
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