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I > A NATWNAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY JOHN FENNO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET
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o. 2, of Vol. IV.]
WHEREAS it appears, by the proceeding in
a certain cause now depending in th-" High
Court of Chancery in England, wherein William
Webb is the plaintiff, and John Porker (the exe
cutor of Thomas Bradley, dcceafedj is the defen
dant—that Henry Webb was put out apprentice
by the Greenwich School, for the sea service, in Qr
about the year 17 75, and who was then of the age
of 14 years, or thereabouts, and failed from Eng
land in the year 1776, to some part of North-
America, in the ship or veflel railed the ArtemifTa.
Captain Llewellyn, formerly a Spanish Trader, and
at that time a Navy Vi&uallcr or Transport, in
his Majesty's fcrvice. And whereas it appear?
that the said Henry Webb defertcd and run awav
from the said ship or veflel, and entered on board
a certain privateer or veflel, called the Revenue,
or Vengeance Privateer, of which one John Dean
was then matter or commander, then lying in
New-York, in North-America ; and that the said
Vengeance Privateer, on o* about the $<h of No
vember, i779> failed from New-York aforefaid to
Savannah, and arrived at such last mentioned place
in or about the month of March, 1 780, and failed
from thence in the said month of March, or in the
month of April following, to some portor place in
America, but to wh3t port or place is not known ;
and that in the Month of Mav, 1780, the said fliip
or veflel was seen at Barbadoes, in the Weft-In
die.*, but the said Henry Webb hath not since been i
heard of, and is supposed to be dead, it having
been reported that the Tender belonging to the
said ship or veflel called the Vengeance, which
ship was then commanded by Captain Knowles,
with a number of her men, to the amount of 20,
or thereabout (and among whom the said Henry
Webb is supposed to be one) were taken bv the
enemy, and carried into Philadelphia.
NOW, in pursuance of an order made in the
said caufc, bearing date the 3d day of December.
1790, any person or p.erfons who can give anv ac
count or information touching the fai-d Henry
Webb, or of the said ship Vengeance, or whether
the said Henry Webb is living or dead, and if
dead, when and where he died, are required to
give such account or information to William
Weli.fr Pepy s, Esq. one of the Matters of she
frid Court, at his Chambers, in Svmonds-Inn.
London, on or before the 6th day
of November, 1792 —and such person or persons
w ill be rewarded for their trouble by applying to
Mr. SamtJf. l Nay lor, the follicitor in the cause,
at No. 4, Great Newport.Street, London; or to
the Rqv. John Stamford, No. 46, William-
Street, New-York; or to John Pr f. tt y jorfN,
Esq. Bridge-Town, Rarbadoes.
(gwiaw)
THE following fotfions of the act entitled.
u An ast for raising a further sum of money
*or the protection of the frontiers, and for
other purposes therein mentioned, are repub
liflied for the information of all persons, whp,
on the 29th day of June next (1792) shall be
pofTefled of
WINES.
" Sect. id. A ND be it farther enadted, That
■11. all Wines which after the said
last dav of June next, shall be imported into the
United States, shall be landed under the care of
the infpeCW of the port where the fame shall be
Jancled, and for that pur pole, every permit for
landing any Wines, which shall be granted by a
Collector, shall, prior to such landing, be pro
duced to the said infpe&or, who, by endorsement
thereupon under his hand, shall fignify the pro
duction thereof to him, and the time when, af
ter which, and not otherwise, on pain of forfei
ture, it shall be lawful to land the said Wines.
And the said infpe&or shall make an entry of
all such permits, and of the contents thereof, and
each pipe, butt, hogshead, cask, cafe, box or
package whatsoever, containing such Wines,
fnall be marked by the officer under whose im
mediate infpe&lon the fame shall be landed, in
legible and durable characters, with progreflive
number?, the name of the said officer, and the
quality or kind of Wine as herein before enu
merated and distinguished. And the said officer
shall grant a certificate for each such pipe,btitt,
hogshead, cask, cafe, box or package, fpecifving
therein the name or names of the importer or
importers, the ship or vessel in which the fame
shall have been imported, and the number there
of, to accompany the fame wheresoever it fhali
be sent. And if any pipe, butt, hogshead, cask,
cafe, box or package, containing Wine, shall be
found without such marks and certificates, the
fame fnall be liable to be seized, and the want of
such marks and certificates shall be presumptive
evidence, that such Wine was unlawfully im
ported and landed.'*
" Sect. 11. And be it further enacted, That
every person, who shall have in his or her pos
session, Wides which are intended for sale, in
quantity exceeding one hundred and fifty gal
lons, shall /trior to tho said last day of June next,
make entry thereof in writing at lorae office of
infpe<sHor> in the city, town or countv where lie
or fee (hall reside, fpecifying and describing the
casks, cases, boxes and other packages contain
ing the fafne, and the kinds, qualities and quan
tities thereof, and where,and in whose pofleifion
they are ; and the officer of infpetiian, at whose
office such entry may be made, ihall, as soon as
may be thereafter, visit and inlpeft, or cause to
be visited and infpefted, the Wines so reported,
and Ihf ll mark, or cause to he marked, the caflcs,
cases, boxes ar.d packages containing the fame,
with progreflive numbers, with the name of the
person to whom the fame may belong, the kind
or kinds thereof, and words " Old Stock," and
flwll grant a certificate for each calk, box
or package containing such Wine, describing
therein the said cask, cafe-, box or package, and
the Wines therein contained, which certificate
fliall accompany the fame, wherever it may be
sent. And if any person who may have Wines
in his or her poiTeflion for sale, (hall not, prior to
the said last day of June next, make entry there
of, as above directed, he or (he, for such omifiion
or neglect, fliall forfeit and pay the value of the
Wine omitted to be entered, to be recovered
with costs of suit, for the benefit of any person
who shall give information thereof, and the
Wines so omitted to be entered, ftiall be for
feited." (ept29)
Wm. CLE LAND,
BOSTON,
Tranfa&s bufincfs in the Funds of the United
BANK STOCK, BILLS of EXCHANGE, &c.
(£3p Orders from New-York, Philadelphia, or
any other part of the Union, will be attended to
with Diligence and Punctuality,
June 1
FROM THF MARYLAND HERALD.
THO', Crlla, 'he clouds of adversity frown
And deaden the spirit that leads us to fame—
Tho' realon may prompt us the plan to difovvn
And despair be at hand to extinguish the flame—
Yot nature persists; and attach'd to her views,
Sliedifdaim to forego what has charmVi her so
;
Where theobj<£l forbids, she the image purfucs,
And Hope flill attends to conduct us along.
Thus pleas'd by those beauties which taught me to
fi K h '
And enamour'd of smiles that affected my heart;
'Twas in vain that refle&ion her strength wou'd
apply,
Tho' Celia, with coldness, had bade me depart :
Tho' her frowns fhou'd command all my sorrows
to flow
And my plcafurcs be cnang'd into anguish and
cares;
Still fancy will raise the dark curtains of woe,
And faithlefsly brighten the source of my tears.
Yet tell me, my fair, is thv nature at eafc,
When thy smiles have deserted their charming
domain—
When pity forfdk.es thee and scorns to appease
Thv honed AmVnior,ah ! pleading in vain ?
Then finifh thy triumph and banish its pride
And all the allurements that vanity charm :
Advise with thine heart to that heart are allied
A goodness to sooth it—a friendfhip to warm.
That goodness will learn thee to feel for my woes»
And heal ihe fad pains which imbitter my reft :
And fjiendlhip. more kindly imprefs'd with my
vows,
W. W. PEPYS,
Will cherish a pafTion so frankly confeft :
Theft goodness and fnendihip uniting in ieal.
And kindling the bosom by which they are
own'd,
Thy heart will fubduc and its foftnefs reveal;
And thus (hall my love with its wishes be
ci own'd.
Then Hor ?. must remain—'tiscemented withlovc—
And still shall that pafiion its triutaph maintain :
I fwcar from my breast it can never remove,
While goodness and friendlhip shall rivet the
chain.
And /lefpair now rejc&ed shall loofm its thorn ;
N T or e'er can my quiet its tortures annoy,
While beams of compoflion thines eyes cast adorn?
Or while thy sweet bosom can heave with a sigh-
May nature and art then aflift me to please
And gain for my bosom the raptures of love !
Mav Venus inflruft me some moment to fcize
When I find with my Celia the heart of her dove J
To be blefs'd, is to bless, to be happy, be kind,
To love—is to feel for such sorrows as mine :
Be kind, then, be happy, let love be combined —
And the morn of my bliss shall apprize thee of
thine. AMYNTOR.
Tor the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
Having lately had a conversation with a friend,
who has travelled in Europe, and made a great
many observations on men and governments,
1 have thought his sentiments, on the present
temper of American parties, proper to be
known. I have endeavoured to express the
substance of them in the following remarks.
FACTIONS are almost harmless in England—
and as our language is the fame, and our
form of government nearly similar, we are apt
to conclude that faction-, will be harmless alfoin
thi-, country. A great many persons seem to
like the budle of wrangling parties, ami the
Printers think their Gazettes insipid, and in
danger of losing cuftoni, if they refufe to mix a
portion of gall with their ink. They sometimes
want fprightlinSfs, they are often barren of in
formation—but their readers do not fay that
they are too milky. Accordingly we fee the
government bespattered, and the heads of de
partments, and members of Congress, blacken
ed; and ail the arts of infmuation and decep
tion put in praiftice, to make the people as an
gry as the writers seem to be.
We are told that the measures of government
have done but little good, and that littte was
Wednesday, June 6, 1792.
States;
{epxm & \awwri)
HOPE
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not intended—that, however, they have done
infinite mifchief, which was intended, and is a
part oi a plan of iniquity contrived by those
who administer the offices of the government.
This evil, they tell us, is ft til spreading, and
will be fatal to the property, rights and liberty
of the many, in order by their plunder to ag
grandize the few. That all these consequences
are the more to be dreaded, and are the more
certain, as the country is too extensive to be
subject to one free government, and the consti
tution has not made a proper definition and a
clue separation of its powers. Let any man
read the newspapers which have been publiflied
for some time past, and judge what consequen
ces the writers must intend to have drawn from
their premises, and what is the tendency of the
opinions they propagate so industriously. Doubt
less these writers wife to persuade the people
that what they tell them is true—and if the
people can be brought fully to believe them—if
they can fee the government and its officers in
as odious a light as they are exhibited, the event
is inevitable. The people having all power in
their hands, will certainly use it to destroy a
government that will destroy them., and which
they are told has already made great progress
the work.
Inflammatory addrefles to the passions of men
have a tendency to create disturbances and con
vulsions in all countries—but they are peculiar
ly alarming in our country from the nature of
our government, and the temper of our citizens.
In England, we fee, the most threatening ap
pearances have not been followed by civil war,
although from time to time it has been gene
rally thought inevitable : but England is an
island ; the sea like a band prefTes the State to
gether and keeps it from breaking to pieces ;
foreign enemies, stronger than itfelf are feared
fufficiently to keep the sense of national union
always strong. A King at the head of the force
of the nation, and to whom all men of property
cling with a confcieufnefs that all property will
jbe set afloat with the government, is able to
crufti the lirft riling against the laws. There
is no legislative aflembly, subordinate to the
Parliament analogousto our State governments,
to collect the discontented together and to ena
ble them to wield the lawful authority of a
diftrift against the whole of the nation.
More than all, habit has moulded them into one
indivisible nation, and has given a fan&ity to
the laws and constitution which no party man
can invade without shocking all his adherents.
Prosperous as our country is, and free and
enlightened as our citizens are beyond the reft
of mankind, we are so newly moulded together,
we have so little to fear from other nations,
and the sources ofdifcontent and division are so
fruitful and various, that the love of good or
der cannot be too fedulouflv cultivated—The
government being the work of the people them
ielves, and being their only security for the
preservation of liberty, (hould be viewed with
aflfeftion and supported with vigilance and care.
It (liould be well watched, it is true, and if bad
men gain an election, the only and proper re
formation is to chufe better men in their pla
ces. But let the friends of the union—let those
who abhor civil ftrife look to it, left while they
are unmindful of the turbulent and deftrut'tive
deligns of the enemies of the constitution, a few
million of the uncontradicted falfehoods which
are spread about (hould have poisoned the minds
of the people—like the eggs of the infe<st tribe
they are deposited in every lurking place, to
remain inactive till the firft season of ferment
ation shall hatch a venomous and loathlbme
race to canker and devour the fair fruits of
which we already fee the blodbms.
Our government is too new, and too feeble,
and its powers too much divided with the State
governments to bear the convulsions of vindic
tive factions. Perhaps there is no class of men
who are more interested in the preservation of
the present constitution than the Printers—
their business has grown and is growing furpri
iinglv ; yet although full of federalifm, zeal and
intelligence, it is painful to fee that they seem
generally disposed to prefer the publication of
such pieces as are unfriendly to the national au
thority. What is this owing to ? Surely not to
the desire of prostrating the government. Ge
nerally fpealcing, they are principled against the
fchetties of those who are laboring to fu'overt the
union : for the fiiccefsful progress of their art
depends on a free, firm government, and inter
nal tranquility,more perhaps than any other bu
siness whatever : The cause is to be fought ii)
another quarter; the blame of men and mea
fijrcs fells better than praise ; and, as a news
paper is supported by curiofity,it maybe doubt
ed whether the exclusion of such incendiary pub
lications would not injure the circulation of the
newspaper. Accordmgly, we fee that in every
country the nexufpapers are almost er.clufivelv
in the hands of those who complain of the ad
ministration. Let the priuters go on and pub
lifti—let the public hear all that the most angrv
man has to fay : But let the printers observe
that they ought to publilh the other fide of the
question also ; that they ought to let the answer
follow the charge, and that they are not bound
as good citizens to publilh and repubtifli the
falfeft and fouleft flanders of the principles of
the constitution, and of the men who exercise
its powers.
PHILADELPHIA
[Whole No. 524.]
FROM THE AMERICAN MUSEUM.
REFLECTION'S on the STATE of the ITNIOS,
Concerning the manufafturei of the United States.
IN purfuingthe confiderationof American ma
nufactures as beneficial and neceilary to the
southern states, it will be ufeful to take a curl'o
ry view of the indications of attachment and
disposition to them, which are discoverable in
that quarter.
Virginia appears to be making a greaterprtf
grrft in merchant mills than any state in the
union, though some are yet far before her in
those beneficial works. Maryland and Delaware
which are in the southern moiety, are second
only to Pennsylvania in this branch. There is
little doubt that more pig and tar iron is made
to the southward of Pennsylvania, than to the
northward of it. A lead mine has been opened
in Virginia, whica is extending its supplies
through the union, and promises fair to be coirt
menl'urate with the present demand : and there
is one, which is now worked, in the territory
south of the Ohio. But no lead mines are in
considerable operationinthe ftatesnorth or eatt
of Virginia, though a fnr.ill beginniag upon one
in the western part? of Pennsylvania is made.
An alTociation in Virginia, another in the ter
ritory south of the Ohio, and a company in the
western distriCt of South-Carolina, have [provid
ed themselves v.-ith carding and spinning ma
chinery on the British plan, to manufacture
their native cotton. The planters in the south
ern states raise quantities of this raw material,
unthought of before the war, and until the dif
cuflions of the (übjeCt of manufactures, which
took place after tiie treaty of peace. The fa
mily manufactures in cotton are much greater in
the four fouthemmoft states, than in the four
eastern states. There are not wanting consi
derable numbers of Jheep in the five southern
states, yet by the two returns ofexports, it ap
pears that no meo/has been sent from thence to fo
reign markets. It has been couimoa to receive,
wool in Pennsylvania from the eastern states,
though they manufacture so much, but it is not
known that any is ever received there for sale
from the foutliern states, Wool has been trans
ported to Salem in North-Carolina,and to Wui
chefter in Virginia, from the city of Philadel
phia, for the hat manufactory.
There has been full as great a current ofe
migration of flour mi/lcrs, black-smiths, timers, hat
ters, cabinet-makers, dijlillers, coopers, &c. to the
southern States from those north of them, in
proportion to numbers as of farmers; so that
the worklhops of the middle and northern states
yield a double benefit to their fellow-citizens in
the south, in supplying them with manufactures,
and artizans,
There is greater variety in distillation in ths
four southern states than in the four eaflerr—
that is, the manufactory is ejlablifhed on a bioader ba
ft. It is also more certain in the south than in
the north. In the latter, molasses is the prin
cipal ingredient, and being from an external
source, may be loft to the eastern distillers.
Their manufactory is even now at hazard, un
less they resort to the grain of the country to the
southward of them. But in the southern states
they manufacture spirits from molalTes, peach
es, apples, several kinds of grain, and probably
will, as their country is cleared, extend it to
the grape. This has been tried with success in
the experimental way, at Galliopolis, near the
Scioto,
The legislature of North-Carolina made a
loan of money since the late war, to aflift the
introduction of the paper manufactory.
An affbeiation, containing forty of the most
respeCtable planters arid farmers, in the western
, diftriiSt of South-Carolina, has been eftabliihed
within a few years for the promotion of manu
factures, and agriculture. A fubfeription to
the amount of about 25,000 dollars has been
made in the territory south of the Ohio, for the
purpose of carrying on the cotton manufactory.
An indication of zeal not equalled in any mid
dle err northern state, corifid?ring that the whole
population of the government is 3 3, 000 whites,
and j,ooo blacks.
The preparation of tar, pitch, turpentine,
spirits of turpentine, and rosin, in North-Caro
lina and its vicinity, may bedeeiried a manufac
ture as justly as the making of linseed oil, pot
ash, or ordinary tanning. A very small quanti
ty indeed, of these articles, will be made in the
dates north of Virginia, because nature forbids;
but they will, from obvious reasons, increase in
the south.
During the existence of the state impdft laws,
twoof the foQthern states (Maryland and Vir
ginia) imposed extra tonnage, not only upon fo
reign (hips, but upon those of the other states,
by which they evinced a strong disposition tt>
encourage the manujaflurc ofjhips. The fame
two states laid duties on the importation of spi
rits manufactured in the other parts of the
union,
The state of Maryland imposed considerable
protecting duties to encourage their own manu
factures. The legislature of Maryland have
encouraged the glass manufactory in that Itate
by a conliderable loan. That of Virginia pasT
ed a fpetial ast since the peace, to encourage
the manufiftory of fnuff and tobacco.
There ale more factories of cordage and cables
intwo of the'fouthern states, Maryland and Vir