C H ARLEST O N, (S. C.) August 10. !Vlr. Bo wen, However iritereiting ami important your He rald is reputed for your happy l'election of lite rary and political communications, 1 have been lurprifed at the filenceof our citizens on the zeal of the Intendant and Wardens to erect a man lion for the orphan—to shelter thehelplefs tram the gripe of famine, and to rear up, in virtue, the tern lie, who otherwise unsupported, might fly t-o the covert of dilhonor for support; while the youth, thus preserved and educated, may be expected to fnine in some mechanic art, acquir ing fubfillence with honor, iuttead of seeking precarious support by depredations on the public. To what a torrent of fcrihbling malignity a gaintt official characters, we have fubmiued lafl: winter, and jet no pen has been occupied to be stow jnft praise on the nobjelt extention of the foul, which the candid have observed with aclini ration these few weeks pall. We have seen the head of the corporation, and a number of respec table members, fuppliauts for charity and advo cates for the raiment and education of the desti tute and expo fed. We have heard holy men co operating wiih their endeavours, and in the lan guage of their heart, and in the name of the So vereign of all Mercies, supplicating the wealthy to defend and succour the needy and the inno cent. Their prayers were nor in vain ; and for the honor of human nature, if any heart was cold or contracted, it animated and expanded by their divine eloquence. How delicious the scene to the pathetic petitioner of an hour. The hand that gave was inftaneoufly rewarded by the extatic raptures of the foul.—Gracious Benevo lence, how delicious is thy dranght !— As this fa t-red function is congenial with tiie foul, 110 won der the flame (hould be diffufive. This fubjetft will be resumed to-morrow at the Synagogue, where, doubtless, we may have an opportunity to observe a mixed assemblage of men oppofedin religious tenets, perfectly united in this divine attribute of God, without which, profellion is mockery and religion unsubstantial. BOSTON, August 29. Extract of a letter from Cape-Francois, daied August 6, 1791, to the Editors, brought by Capt. Joseph Hovvlatid, who arrived here on Friday I ait, in 18 days from the Cape. " Some of the members of our new j4[femblee Colonials, have met ac Leogane, near Port-au- Prince, for the purpose of executing the legilia rive part of the government of this colony. As soon as the body is formed, they will fix 011 a place to bold their feffio.is in future. Whether they will decide in favor of this place, Port-au- Prince, Sr. Mark, the Mole or Leogane, is as yet uncertain.* " The decree of the National Assembly, re fpediing the entire freedom of the Mulattoes, is •very ill received in the colony. The provincial assembly at this place, have written to the King, the National Assembly, and the people of France, in different addredes on the subject.—Other bo dies, of merchants, officers of the volunteers, &c. &c. have had meetings likewise ; and have vot ed and resolved similar to the meetings in New- England, previous to the commencement of the last war. " Tliefe portend future disturbances here ; and the measures already adopted speak the troubles at no great diitance. The forts in and about the town are puttingin order. At the Pacoiet, a fort which commands the entrance in to the harbour, commiflaries are appointed to keep an eye upon the garrison Rationed there. —At ihe entrance of the town by land, the forts have been put in order , and others in different places are not neglected : All tliefe preparations are making on account of the expetfted arrival of a considerable fleer, with 5,000 troops from France, which is looked for daily, and which, almolt unanimously, the colony are determined to oppose, (liould they attempt to enforce the de cree above mentioned ; —and it is certain this is the errand of the fleet from Bourdeaux, To prevent their entrance here, a chain is preparing to put a croft the channel, which will serve at lealt as a momentary check to their passage, while the fire from the Pacoiet will do it effectually 1 can fay nothing decifne what else will be done to prevent the execution of the decrce, which e ■very one is enthufiallically enraged at." * They have 3<l]"U»hed to Cape-Francois. - Y O R K, AtijrufV 31 N E W An opit ion has too much prevailed with wo men who fiickle iheir children, that indulging iher.ife'ves in the use of fruits and vegetables has a tendency to gripe their infants, and gene ratfc wind in their bowels. It would be a good rule for ihein, on this occasion, to consider, that 011 the prefervarion of their own general good health, the health and thriftinefs oftheir infants will materially depend, and that, if I l ight,.the free and judicious use of ripe fruits and vegetables are moll likely to procnte these happy advantages to both, and the suspicion of their dif.igi eeii'g •. ith either is founded in error. Philadelphia, September 7. Extratt oj a letter from Bqftw, Augujl 25, " I have-seen the publication figncd a " real friend to public credit," it is a judicious calculation, and a truly sentimental per formance, and may be of Teal fervicc to the people in general. It is extraordinary that your Quaker City should dash beyond the Yoikers; however this spirit has certainly railed public funds, and tended to strengthen the general interest and the government ; the excess will find its own cure. It *s the opinion of some of our wife men that our funds will 111 a few months be equal to the British ; that the operation of the bank, the cncreafing emi grations, sale of lands—growing imports and exports, extending navigation, &c. See. must *11 greatly contribute to this point. The navigation of this port has greatly exceeded this year, what it was the last, it is said nearly forty percent." Emigrations from England to France, as from tyranny to free dom, would be a novelty in the hiflory of the world—and yet, strange as it may appear, the idea is contemplated by some per sons in England, as an event not the most distant or improbable. Oi.e good turn deserves another; it is about a century only, since Great Britain was the asylum of thousands of Frenchmen, who fld from the despotism of Louis le grand. At present the emigra tions from France ate a new thing under the fun, they consist of refugees from a country, now said to be the most free of any in Europe. So many dangers attend the perpetuation of any o'+ice whatever, by hereditary succession, that the people of America ought to tremble at the idea of feeing a law puffed, to establish even heredi tary Bailiffs or Conftabhs ; left, in the course of a few years, those officers should, like Pharaoh's magicians, convert their wands into ferpems, and claim the privilege of flinging their fellow-citizens to death, by hereditary right. Amer. Dai. Adv. MANUFACTURES. " In every countrv where perfect freedom is allowed to indi viduals to follow what budnefs they please, every inequality be tween the employer and the employed, will eventually find its natural level, without the regulating efforts of anv man, or any civil authority." This retniik peculiarly applies to manufac turers in this country —It has been insinuated that the eflablifh m nt of manufa6hires will tertd to make menials of our citizens, while'hey arc immured in the fa&ories conftru&ed for carrying on the works.— But let it be remembered, that we are all under the proteflion ofjuft and equal laws, that every man is free to chufe what occupation he plcafes, and that our boundless western territories will forever afford a retreat from domestic imposition, as they now do from foreign tyranny. It is highiy probable that much higher wages can be afforded to manufacturers and artifb, than are ufuaKy paid to those de scriptions of persons in Europe, particularly in Great Britain— lor it is very evident that while the great body of manufacturers continue poor and dependant, the proprietors amass immense for- tunes. The eftablifhmenr of manufa&ures in this country has long been a v ry defirableevent—This will afford a neW lourcc of employ ment for the poor, which will be conflantly increasing ; it will open a new demand for the productions of agri ulture, and en creafe the consumption of our raw materials, which are now ex ported, and fold to foreigners almost upon their own terms. -It will enlarge the consumption of prov'fions in proportion to the number of hands which might otherwise be employed in Agricul ture, and thus furnifh a fteadv market for the lurplus of our fields, when disappointed by the flourifhing crops, or the caprice of European countries. SAY* A CORRESPONDENT, All circumstances seem to concur to raise our national impor tance ; but the greatest profpefls may be over-rated, and no doubt our's will be ;—however this has not been the cafe hitherto, for there have been ten whose calculations have fallen short, to one, whose anticipations have gone too far. When the whole monied capital of this country is brought into a£tive circulation, (as it will be by the establishment of public credit) aided by the bank, mo ney will be much plenticr with men who have real property ; the holders of public stock may then put their whole capital into the funds, and hire money for their neceflary purposes in business— this will enable them to be munh greater stock holders than other wise they could be.—Many .will be further induced to do this from a prevailing opinion that money in the funds at 4 per cent, is preferable to 6 per cent, on loans made to individuals. There is a uni-erfal desire to hold stock in the public funds—this is the fpiritand sentiment of the present times-—these circumftanccs have conduced to raise the value of stock, arid will continue to raise it, much more than all the foreign speculations. But fo reign purchases are not to cease bccaufe the flocks are high.— It is with men of great capitals in Europe as it is here ; they like to have property in different funds, and in different countries—they juftlv suppose it is a greater security against the contingencies which happen to men and nations. At this period Europe is con vulsed, revolutions follow revolutions, monarchies are overturned, property rendered insecure. America, tho young, has a name for unexampled profpe&s— -her progress in raising her credit is unpareilclled ; the men of great fortunes therefore in Europe, may wifely placc part of their property in the funds of these States, that if their old foundations shake, they may have a supporting hope from the rising empire in the western world. From a Correspondent in North-Carolina. In this State there is not such a flow of national ideas, as there is in the Northern and middle States ; we are over-run with En glish and Scotch adventurers, fa&ors, and settlers, who engross the trade and corrupt the morals of the people by their examples; while our old citizens are too apt to be servile imitators of the manners and customs of these Europeans, so much lo that we can't think for ourselves, nor fpiirn the chains with which they cramp our trade. There are upwards of ten thousand Scots in one county only. The government as a State is not upon so ref peftablc a footing as I think it ought to be ; the Governor's salary is low, nnd all the appointments in the Slate are on the fame scale. —We do not fee that form and order in doing public business which prevails elsewhere, and which is necelfarv to inspire that decent refpedf for each other which should subsist between rulers and people. We have no fchools—noprovifion is made by law for the support and encouragement of learning. The last fefiion, efforts were made by the eastern members to establish a seminary, but it could not be done—the house would not grant more than £50 when 3000 was neceflary. As to business, fincethe eftablifh mcnt of the new government it is much altered and encreafed— the goods brought into the country have been to an immense a mount, to what were heretofore imported—money has grown scarce—silver nearly as plenty as paper. The bank system mufl extend the influence of the general government; it is a wife and politic mcafure. llow it happens I will not pretend to fay, but so we think tkc fd£fc is, that some of the Southern members ot Congress have been more truly republican in their r peechcs, than the Eastern : There is one idea however in which the people of this State agree with the North rn States, and that is refpefting being the carriers of our own produce to market. It is a general opinion that the (hipping owned by the citizens of the United States is at this time fufficient to carry off all our exports. The federal interest v ill and does encreafc here—notwithstanding there is too much of a disposition to depreciate our national charatter and importance, owing principally to the ioreign influcncc before mentioned. 151 Some pcrfons have expressed an apprehension that the intereflg or trade and commerce w&uld fuffer,and confcqnently the public revenue be diminished by fpcculations in the funds; but there is no jull foundation oHt'di on this head. The commerce of this country is keeping pace with our otfcer improvements, and mult on every principle of calculation continue to encreafe. This con sideration affords the most pleasing reflections on our profpe£ts— the increase ot the revenue from the present duties, while it will enable adminiflration more rapidly to diminish the public debt, agreeable to the law ena&ed for that purpose,—will also entirely preclude the nccellity of any additional burthens on the people. While the funds arc on the rife, the excess of private capitals will be attracted towards it—but this mult neceffaiily be a tcmoorarv business—a casual dream diverted from the broad deep channel of the commerce of our country, " which as it flows, forever wi 11 flow on." By an arrival at New-York, from Liverpool, English papers are received to the 15th July ; thev inform that the Avignon ar my continue to commit great devaftaiion in that country—that Carpentras is yet besieged—that an earthquake has been felt ac Rochelle in Fiance—that hostilities have recommenced betweru the Turks and Auftrians ; that a fire had consumed the Admiralty building in Amftcrdawi, with naval stores fails cordage, See. enough for j 3 ships of the line.—That favorable accounts had been received by the British from India ; that no fleet was to fail for the Baltic this season ; that Vienna and all Hungary exhibits no thing but an appearance of war; that the Ruffians made an at tempt to fur prize Brahilow, but without effect—and that the Captain Pacha had failed in search of the Ruffian fleet on the Black. Agreeably to the late ast of Assembly, empowering the Gover nor to appoint Notaries Public, the following gentlemen been commissioned as Notaries for the City ot Philadelphia: Clement Biddle, Lewis Weiss, Edward Fox, Assheton Humphreys. Peter Stephen Du Ponceau, TOASTS drank at the Hotel ofthe Miniflcr* Resident of the Unit ed States of America, in Lisbon, on the 4th of July, 1791. 1. The DAY, and the remembrance of those who had an agen cy in making it memorable. 2. The President. 3. The Queen of Portugal and friendly powers of Europe. 4. An extensive, happy, ana durable intercourse between the fubje&s of her Mod Faithful Majesty and the Citizens of the Unit ed States of America. 5 May the prejudices of nations give place to universal bene volence. 6. The Legislature of the United States, 7. The different branches of the Executive of the United States. 8. The Agriculture of the United States. 9. The Commerce of the United States. 10. The Manufa&ures of the United States. 11. The Literature and Arts of the United States. 12. May Americans whe/cfoever dispersed remember their country, and do credit to it. 13. The fair Daughters of America. :4. Additional prosperity from the acceflion of States. 15. Happiness to mankind. * Col. Humphreys. Died in New-York on Thursday lad, after a short illness, WILLIAM MALCOLM, Esq. Brigadier-General of the militia, of that state. A citizen who has left a large family to deplore the loss of an affe&ionate father.—A citizen who united in his character, the amiable qualities of an unshrinking patriot, a Heady and sincere friend, and an honed man. OUR City Boys are grown so bad, All admonitions scorning, That Andrew whips them over night, And Johnny in the morning. The pavement cannot reft in peace, With iron'd tops they peg it— They squib our women in the ftrects, And then like heroes leg it. French, Spaniards, Irish emigrants, They mal-treat as they're walking; They stare them out of countenance, Or mock them whil« they're talking. What (hall be done to these vile b©ys To keep them in due order ? Let them be taught by brokeu bones, Or any thing, but murder — Let Carlijle with his myrmidons, Seize on the raggamuffins; And pack them off to jail like rogues, Street robbers, thieves or ruffians. For such another plaguy gang I'm sure there's not in Dublin, Who in the Gazettes, night and morn, The world itfelf are troubling. Yc bovs and lads, both great and small, These dreadful thieat'nings ponder, Left on your heads great paragraphs* Should fall like claps of thunder. <c Ye parents who have children dear, O think what ills may come; To have them fafe and found abroad, They mud be kept at home." * See American Daily Advertiser of yejlerday. From PELOSI's MARINE LIST. ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. Brig James, Roc, Cape-Francois Ceres, Cheefeman, Bo(lon Sacra Famiglia, Lando, Havanna Schooner Fricndfhip, Wclfh, Charleftort Sloop Fame, 80/ den, Turk's-Iflarid Swallow, Ranger. PRICE CURRENT.—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. «'/ P '■£■ "f\ i 2/5 12/8 12/9 ■ • - I. 6 pr. Cents 3 pr. Cents Defered 6 pr. Cents UNFUNDED DEBT, Final Settl. and other Certificates 2cjS Indents 12/6 N. and S. Carolina debts, *4/6. Bank Subscriptions, 160 LOUISIANA. ALL thofc persons who have an inclination to fettle on the rich lands ot the Mifidippi, can have a paflage to New Orleans about the 20th of Oftobei next. Each Tingle man on his arrival there, will have a grant of two hundred and forty acres of land, in fee fitr.ple, gratis, without rents or taxes; and each married man, a larger quantity, in proportion to the number of his family. For further particulars, enquire of MellVs. Stiwaut jtNisjux, No. iSouth Water-Street. Philadelphia, Sept. 7, 1791 Guandell, Barrett, New-York Bnfton 105 pr. cent. 62 do. 63J do. IC2J do. 621 do. 165 Dollars, raj
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