A SA IIOtfAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY 7 OHN F F.N NO, No. 69, HIG H-STREF.T, PHILADELPHIA
[No. 100, of Vol. lII.] Wednesday, April ii, 1792.
PHILADELPHIA
THE ChiefsoftheFive Nations, last Monday week, met the Go
vernor in the Council-Chamber, to return a lormal answer to
his address, delivered to them, in the lame place, on the 28th ult.
SAGOYEWATHA, or RED JACKET, firft addrellcd his
Excellency, as follows :
Brother Onas * Governor,
OPEN unprejudiced ears to what we have to fay. Some days
since you addreiled us, and what you said gave us great pleasure. ,
This day, the Great Spirit has allowed us to meet you again in
this Council-Chamber. We hope that vour not receiving an im- .
mediate answer to your address, will make no improper impres
sion upon your mind.
We mention this, left vou should fufpeft, that your kind wel
come and friendly address, has not had a proper effett upon our
hearts. We allure vou it is far otherwifc.
Brother, Onas Governor,
In your address to us the other day, in this ancient Council
chamber, where our forefaiheis have often converl'ed together, se
veral things (truck our attention very forcibly. When vou told
us this was the place in which our forefathers often melon peace
able terms, it gave us sensible pleasure and more joy than we couh
express.
Brother, Onus Governor,
Though we have not writings like you ; vet we remember of
ten to have heard of the friendfhip that existed between our fore
fathers and yours. The pi&ure to which you drew our atten
tion + brought frefh to our minds the friendly conferences that
used to be held between the former Governors of Pennsylvania,
and our Tribes, and (hewed the love which your forefathers
had of peace, and the friendly disposition of our people. It
>s ftillour wish, as well as yours, to prefcrve peace between our
Tribes and you, and it would be well if the fame spirit existed a
mong the Indians to the Westward, and through every part of
the United States.
Brother, OrtAs Governor^
You particularly exprefTed, that you were wrll p'eafed to find,
that we differed in disposition from the Indians Wellward. Your
difpofitioo is that for which the ancient Onas Governors were re
markable. As you love peace, (o do w» also ; and we wifa it
could be extended to the mod distant parts of this great country.
Brother, Onas Governor,
We agreed in council this morning, that the Tenements I have
exprefled, should be communicated to you, before the delegates
of the Five Nations, and to tell you. that your cordial welcome to
this city, and the good sentiments contained in your address, have
made a deep impreflion on our hearts, have given us great joy,
and from the heart I tell von so. This is all I have to fay.
AGWELONDONGWAS, or GOOD PETER, next addres
sed the Governor.
He fuft congratulated the delegates of the Five Nations upon
so happy and friendly a meeting, and on having so good an op
portunity of (hewing their peaceable disposition, and ot answer
ing the Governor's friendly address, which had given them io
much pleasure ; then turning to the Governor he began :
Brother, Or.as Governor,
I rake part in the joy you feel, in meeting your brothers of the
Five Nations at this day on such peaceable terms, and I rejoice
with my brethren of the Five Nations, on the fame account. This
meeting brought to my rccolleftion the days when our forefathers
were united as brethren.
Brother, Onas Governor t
Lei me tell you how much I wifli, that the hearty friendftiip
■which subsisted between our forefathers ftiould fubfiil equally be
tween their children. What is there more desirable than that we,
who live within hearing of each other, should unite tor the com
mon good. This is my wifti. It is the wtfli of my nation, al
though I am sorry I can't fay, of every individual in it ; tor there
are differences of opinion among us, as well as among our white
brethren.
Brother, Onas Governor,
Your country is happy. It has a complete and firm govern
ment, whose peace is secured, and where all obey your voice.
We are in a different fituction. Our government is not eftablifh
«d like yours, and though many attend to the voice of our coun
cils, yet some don't, especially the young men. They fometimcs,
however, alio do hear us.
Brother, Onas Governor,
I have been long acquainted with some cufloms, and in a de
gree with the natuie of your governments, and especially with
n £ ovrmrn ent of this State, and of the difficulties you had in
cibblifhing it ; and I with you to remember, that your forefa
thers laboured much, notwithstanding ihofe difficulties, to live
10 T^ Ce us ' P rotc & us, notwithstanding our weaknesses.
Dc » Brother, Onas Governor, that we shall derive some
a ting benefit from this visit to your city, and carry home with
an imprcfiion on our minds, that will make us keep Onas in
mmd. This is ail I ftiall fay.
' he Governor t'nen delivered the following reply :
Brother s,
You have spoken the language of friendfhip and peace.
rejoice to find that our sentiments, upon the piefent occasion,
arr rtiuch alike; for I am persuaded, that the happiness of your
nations, us well as of the United States, will be bell promoted b.y
a mutual regard, and the liberal exchange of good offices.
I hope, ind-ed, that, when the other Indian Nations behold
the drifts of the harmony cftaWifhed between us, they will cn
C » V ° r l ° °^ ta ' n *he fame blcflings, bv treading in the fame path.
Titles giren to Governors of Pennsylvania.
+ A copy of the well known print of Penn's treaty with the Indians,
fainted hy a young artifi in this, city, with which they were much pleajed
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THF. UNITED STATES.
COMMON SENSE,
f To the rARMFRS simds Greeting.
I ""HE holders ot the .blic debt arc held up to view in various
A oair u: lights. \ hey are caPed harpies,cheats, robbers, &c.
It in pri- :te life • y ar" really bad men, they will be despised js
bad men alw~ iarc. If they have done any thing against law,
the law «.«• ~jjrn to punifli thein. There ar? charges against them
as eli v 1 .in?.l men, more proper for a grand jury than a newspa
per. T hole who have any thing to do with them, will look to
their pnncipjes ot moral conduct. The public has nothing to do
"i the affair of their private chara&ers but the rage of those who
<2 i them such hard names, carries them to other assertions. It is
pretended that every other order ot men has fuffered in propor
tion as thefajjmcn have profiled by the funding fyftern. To give
a food colof? to thf.r auger, anil to gain adherents, they affett to
ie*l conteine-d for the injury fuffeied by tbe landed inter eft.—ls
there anv ground for faying that the landed interest has fuffered
by the funding ast ?
The price of land has rifcn in consequence of that act. The
great increase of a&ive property has promoted foreign trade, <o
that the market for the produce of the land in foreign countries,
is induftriouflv fought out and supplied. It is not only easier tor
a farmer to fell his land than formerly, but it is alio less difficult
to borrow money to pay off legacies, or to make improvements.
Canals also, and roads, and schools, and innumerable advantages
to the country in general, and many of them peculiarly and emi
nen'ly beneficial to jhe farmers, are set on foot, which would
not have been (o much as thought of, had not the means ol fun
plying such expences been increased by converting the public
debt to such a6tively ufetul purposes. By these means, as well as
by the spirit of the farmers themselves, the landed interest is
growing in wealth and importance more rapidly than any in the
United States. The increase of this most valuable order of men,
in point of numbers, exceeds all the other orders of society put
together; for all our new settlements are wholly compoled of
farmers. And yet this is the class of men who are internperately
told in every paper, that they are fuffering and finking in conse
quence of the taxes, to pamper up the certificate men.
It will be said, the public debt is a public burden, and it falls
on the farmers. True, it falls on all consumers of foreign arti
cles. It is a burden—but is the burden increased by funding ihe
debt? Take the answer from matter of fact. Before the debt
was funded, heavy direst taxes were paid, and yet :ts credit funk
to almost nothing. It did not answer as money. Since the new
government funded the debt, it has been railed above par with
cash ; and the taxes have been scarcely felt, and not felt at all to
the oppreflion of any body.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
ODE to CHARITY.
HATL, Spirit of Heav'n, tail !
Well do I know thy seraph form,
Descending from the realms of light :
The foul-enlivening grace !
That well the torpid heart might warm,
Spread o'er thy lovely face :
Thine eye with sweet companion bright;
Hail, Spiiit of Heav'n, hail !
When firft descended from the sacred throne,
The Jlar of piety to walk the earth ;
To clasp round purer hearts her blazing zone,
And warm the mind into a heav'nly birth :
Her daughter thou, where'er thefpirit turn'd,
Gave thy sweet temper to the generous foul ;
Whose breast with piety since then hath burn'd,
Feels god-like Charity pervade the whole.
Hail, Spirit of Heav'n, hail!
Warm'd by thy melting breath,
Benignant How a r d fought the dreary jail,
To snatch the fufferer from the g r asp death.
Mov'd by thy impulse, where the ghastly crew,
F.'er-gnawing famine, flaring horror dwell,
And peftilenceof ever-fick'ning hue,
Her fateful breath around her blew;
He smiling trod nor fear'd those fiends of hell.
When thy life-giving light
Beam'd thro' the big round tear
That started from his pitying eye !
The wretch whose hopeless fight,
Beheld 'till then, flafii thio' the dungeon's night,
Nought save convulsed figures ol despair;
Felt his heart beat with new-born joy :
Such his unutterable extacy,
As fill'd the foul of him whose eye,
'Till manhood's prime, was wrap'd with clouds around,
And now his fight full found,
Now firft beheld the world, and the bright blazing wonders
of !
Thou pour'd'ft thy music from his tongue;
And as of old, when to the fiend of hell,
Immortal Orpheus brearh'd his melting song.
The curjcr's madness fell;
While fix'd in death-like filcnce all around,
Furies forgot their rage, and lift'ned to the found :
So when to tyrant Kings he spoke
The just complaint of fubjefts griev'd,
By laws which cruelty had form'd ;
Thev felt their iron fouls with pity warm'd,
Their frames, for once, with anguifti shook;
They wifh'd, they crav'd to be relirv'd
From fccnes, which starting to their view,
Of tortur'd wretches piere'd their bosoms through.
The lifl'ning Angels, leaning from the sky,
To hear him urge ihe melting tale,
Accordant breath'd a pitying ftgh,
That flew to earth, borne on a heav'nly gale.
Sound high with one accord, they fatd,
The warbling flute, the (weeping lyre ;
Let (acred fame to him be giv'n,
Who fill'd with Charity from Heav'n ;
To raise a hopeless brother's head,
To flop the fountains of despair,
Explores the gloomy dungeon's (Vade,
Where death and lamine (talk around
The wretch condemn'd to fetters on the ground.
And pierce him thro' with p?*ns 'till tortui d Hie expire.
Too great —too good to live below !
O ! may he soon our high-born rapture know ;
To Heav'n be call'd where from our Angel tongues
Cel'ftial music falls, and varying flows in our melodious song!
A!i ! soon —too soon for man tne pray'r wai heard !
God spake the final word ;
The moital (aw the beck'ning hand,
And mounted into Heav'n at God's command.
Hail, Spirit of Heav'n, hail!
Tho' call'd from earth's deep night,
li;to the boundless realms of living light,
The tendereft, noblest fori!
O ! bid thy power fttll prevail,
Still, dill diffufe ihy spirit o'er
The human foul, from where the fun
Bums in the East, to where he gilds the (urge
Thatdafhing foams along th-- wcltern Ihore.
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111. LIN'
[Whole No.
LONDO N, February 9.
ACCORDING to the preliminary articles of rtie
treaty (igned at JafTy on the 19th ult. be
tween Ruflia and the i 'one, €t the Empress of
Russia keeps all the territory between the Bog
and the Dniester, conformable to theconvennon
(igned at Galacz, the 12th of Augtift* 1791* fcbe
restores to the Porte Wallachia, which is to be
governed in the fame manner it was before the
declaration of war.
" The Porte cedes rn Ruflia a certain diftricftof
country on the fide of Caucasus.
" The prisoners taken in the war, of what na
tion soever, are to be liberated without ranfoni.
" The navigation of the Dneiiter is to be free
for all nations.
" Russia renounces the demand of 12,000,000
of piastres for damage during the war ; and the
Ruffian armies are to evacuate all the Turkish
territories by the end of May."
' We learn from Ceutathac Don J. Barcela, our
interpreter, has been nuirthered by the Gover
nor of Tetuan, under the fan<ftion of a fl;lg of
peace. Don Barcela repaired to the cam]) before
Ceuta, when the Governor of Tetuan perceiving,
him, without aliening any reason tor the at!t,
(hot him with a pillol. Don Barcela, who was
on liorfeback, fell immediately. His head was
sent by the Governor to the King of Morocco,
which proves that he was aflaflinated by the or
ders of that monarch.
His Royal Highness the Prince of Walts, the
patron of ingenuity and ta!le, was about t-vvo yearn
fir.cethe purchaferof a fnuff-boxthosornamented
and contrived :—lt was a double box opening on
both fides, with rims of gold. On one fide, a
splendid medallion appeared in the centre, round
which was a row of large pearls. When this fide
of the box was placed upwards upon the table,
the medallion upon a very flight preH'ui fcopened,
and an artificial goldfinch, executed in gold anil
coloured, so as to have a very near resemblance
to nature, sprung up. 'I he bird picked its wings,
hopped round the little circle allotted it, and,
for about two minutes, chirped the few notes
making the morning song of the goldfinch, lc
then parted into a delightful air of Haydn's, and
gave it so well, that the notes night have been
lillened to for their found, as well as for the cu
riosity of their production. So ended its perfor
mance and its appearance
A thousand guineas was the reward given by
he Prince to the mechanist of this admirable
fnuff-box.
The following hint, of importance to owners
and occupiers of lands, is given by Mr. Leyburn,
jun. of Hunmanby. This gentleman fays, that
in order to prevent manure finking too Jeep in
low and springy meadow or palture land,a I ufHci
ent quantity of the strongest lime that can be got,
should be laid on it ; that he has used Knotting
ley lime wit h great fnccefs ; the quantity not less
than 6 chaldrons to a statute acre, to be laid on
in the winter season. In 12 or ij months after,
by pntting a spade into the ground, it will be
found that the lime will be formed into a solid
body, which will prevent manure finking any
•lower than the lime, and consequently the lands
will receive benefit so long as the manure will
lalt. The lime should be laid in heaps til] it be
very wet, before it be put on the land.
The Ihip Grange, arrived at Liverpool from
Philadelphia, has brought over no less than 300
tierces of apples of that country.
A Mr. Swan, a gentleman of fortune in North
amptonlhire, hopp'd one hundred and twenty
yaids in a minute, for a wager of five hundred
pounds, which with difficulty he won. There is
lotne sense, ye Cits, in this kind of Swan bopping.
A very extraordinary legacy has lately been
left by the late Mr. George Tennant, carpenter,
of Bethnal Green, viz. twenty pounds a year,
which is to be expended for Jhav'tng a number of
the poor parilhioners on a Saturday night, by
two barbers in that parifli. The intention is to
facilitate the attendance of the lower class of
people at divine worship on a Sundaj.
Seventten thovfand pounds ! were loft by a noble
.it Brooks's lalt week. Such ruin, sure
itijd inevitable, attends the indulgence of sport
ing within this horrible vortex.
Conjugal Fidelity.—A female, wist to a man
sometime since transported to New South Wales
for robbing a bookseller, having the sum of one
thousand pound lately left her by a relation, has
engaged lierfelf as a paflenger to that fettleiiicnt.
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