FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURAST. In the Prefi, and will Jpccdily bt pubt'Jhed, A NEW PARTY DICTIONARY, CALCULATED for the accommodation of thole whole plcafurc it is to be dis pleased with Congress, but who find it diiilcult to remember, and who,' probably, never knew all the cau'esof t!?eir displeasure. The terms are not fully made known. The Worthy compilers of this work, having the public good foiely in view, have declared that the price lhall be set as low as can pollibly be afforded. It is their desire to extend the cir culation of this valuable book as generally as they can. Having a man in their, conftent pay, and who, in. the ordinary bufii-efs for which they hired him has prepared fl great part of materials of this Compilation, they flatter themselves the expence of authorlhip and even that of printing will be nearly saved, so that the purchasers will have the book for ajpioft nothing. They are undecided whe ther the types and paper ftiall be American or French. The nature of this great literary under taking will readily appear by perusing THE PREFACE. OUR rude Saxon ancestors spoke their mo ther tongue as their mothers did before them. It is not to be supposed that the Dictionaries in common use, tracing-words up to their ety mology and their queer old falh'oned senses, can be of use at this day of philosophy, when the world, in refpeft to its politics, seems as if there was another fun hung up to light it— Indeed there is such a glare that common eves are overpowered—it is dark with ex ceflive light—All France is groping about in the dark of too much light, as if every man's vision were destroyed by the intense adtion of aborning glass. They need a new Dictiona ry—for what could they read jit any old book, that would teach them the present state of their opinions in regard to religion. In their Dictionaries, King David is still in good cre dit—whereas, all the world knows, the Sec tion PoifTonniere, by a formal decree, has un king'd him, and unfainted him, and now he may {fcr.ke hands with Louis XVI. who is in the fame plight by a vote of the Convention. To come to our country, the necefiity of this work is equally manifelt. What would a found well principled party man do with the old Saxon Huff about justice and order and truth : It would stop his mouth before he had halt* done talking again ft the public debt and Congress and Mr. Adams and his Book. As our language and ideas change, so should the Di&iopary. Now this Di&ionary* would serve to fix both language and ideas. It would ast like a strong pickle on the mod periftiable of fal of the Gazettes, and keep it over the fea fon—lt would make every inflamatory pa ragraph common ftock—(o that the effoft would be an union of fentiinent and force. The man in Georgia and he in New-Hamp fliire by reading the Axioms gathered from the National Gazette, might help each other in their anger. Each would take the fame text and vouch the fame proofs. The urgent occasion for this work is appa rent from the torpid ftnte of men's minds. They scarcely think at all, and the govern ment does as it chufes. When they do think there is no end to their deviations from the new political truth, notwithstanding the pains that the virtuous writers against Congress have taken to enlighten tbeni. There is no manner of doubt these excellent friends to republican Simplicity and virtue have had influences from Monf. Petion, the fountain head. It is evident, if oaths are to be regarded, that this influence is neither di rest nor indirect. But some Sylph or Gnome, who is doubtless a good Anti, whiSpers it to the fate foretelling oracle, the National Ga aettb From whence,-in ftreanis pure and finOffking, like the drain from a whifkv dis tillery, it is conveyed to the reservoirs efta- blifhed ill every part of the country. The plants of satire and some of the flowers of rhetoric fpruig up where it flows. The para graphs againlt the laws of Conjjrefs, against the Vice-Prefidant and the Secretary of the Treasury, are (mart enough to raise blisters. Their writers have not wanted zeal, thev have not spared paper nor confidence—for re- " publican virtue they fay, smiles on their la bours. While truthlafted and would answer, * they fired it off. But ammunition failing, they loaded their pieces with what they could. Noinijjrefiion, however, is made on the peo ple. They have piped, but the people will not dance. Newspaper accounts of oppreflion and coAnptioti and conspiracies against liber • ty, cannot stir citizcrs who arc growing rich and live contented. Time and opportunity . happen to sill men. What will not do now may Succeed another time. Let the means be prepared and kept ready. I; there no way to prefei ve the fugitive and evanescent lies of the day for future commotion? There is —the party Dift onary. It wi 1 prove an ar senal of warlike Stores, from which the NewS paper militia rpay be armed and accoutred— let the Scattered paragraphs be arranged in alphabetical order. A man's Jiepd cannot lioid vvery thing—it will get full, ard then it will receive no more, except by crowding nut some of it's former contents. By ihe h< tp of ihis Dictionary, you may turn at once to the woid and find the thin;; you lock #or, though ever.fa hard puffed, you lay youi finger an :hc veiy Ipou For inltancj, in such a j)i£lionary, under the •word Dckt vou might read " Tins is a cuifid word. It was not I'pokeu by our fiiil parents in I'aiadife ; nor had it got a currency till a little nine bclote the flood, "i iieu the Victory of those timet tells us the peo ple became intolerably corrupt, becj'ufe they got i.no del t. The very jews were so (potted and •UleuL'4, that nothing l-'is than the water of Noah's ffood, could wash them to 'he decree* of pui uy ihat belongs to them at this day. That devilish woid, alter having ruined the world once aliead\, remained unknown in Ameiica, till some Scotchmen carrcd it into Vi»g;nia. The rffefts have been dreadful indeed—such is the foicc of the woid Debt 01 Scotchman, that on merely pionouncing cither, the peace of fa milies has been diflurbed, Coach whe-ls have run off. and the Courts of law have flood still. A hi.l was leponed to Congref*., regulating p»o ---ceftef in the National Couns, and providing that executions for debts should be falikfied in lilver or golo. The word, Debt, as if ink had been flied on the hill, obliterated the words filler and gold) so that thofc words do not appear in the act. Oil •he whole, there : s no greater enemy ol liberty, than Debt. It disturbs its enjoyment before it t;«kes away its life, which it is fu'r lo do iti the end. The word public Debt % is followed by a differ tat'On too long to he quoted. The reader must con'ult the woik iifelf, where he will Mbd the fubjtft most deleftably treated. It ij> proposed to give some fine plates, one in particular, repre lenting a Speculator broiling a soldier and kind ling the fire wiih the foldtcrs crutches and wood en leg. The compiler, if the expence of the plaies (hould not exceed his funds, will give in a widow or two. The word Fxc*fe is copiously treated. The people of (he New-F.ngland Slates, lays the Dic tionary, have fhrwo a very alarming irtdifterence to the evU-tendency of this act. Having been long accustomed to (late excifcs, they abfurdlv t'uft to their c*perience of the nature of them. This, however, is a niiferable otejudice. For what fignifies vulgar experience ? It only makes ignorance obstinate and unteachable, as this very cafe has shewn. Docs expeiience teach agrono my ? It affirms ihat the earth stands still and the fun turns round it—having caught it in one fib, shall we believe any thing it may tell us. Philo ophcrs, who would govern a nalion, ac cording to the tights of man, found their <heory on a better basis. They eftablifti firft principles, and then the whole work of politics goes on fcientifically. An eXcife. fays philofoihy, is the abhorrence of all free Rates. An exc\fe,fa> s experience, is not the abhoirence of all free ftatcs. Hold your tongue, fays the former, pe nalties and forfeitures take away wen's rights— they are fcgainft liberty. I do not remember any law, experience mutters, that gives-people liberty to break it. Oaths corrupt morals— Government requires oaths, thcrefoie Gov(rn ment corrupts morals — Hudibras a flu res us that, He who makes the oath breaks it. Net he who for convenience takes it. Theexcife ruins the farmers, witness the in creased price of grain, and the new distilleries of spirit, which are setting up in all pails of the country. For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES. ODE TO INNOCENCE. SWEET Innocence, the Child of peace ! Companion.<if the infant breast, Fond parent of domestic e.afc. And tranquil reft, Sav. in the solitary cell Dost thou with piety reGde, Far from the Con* of vice, who dwell , With poiqp and piidfc ? There dost thou smooth the brow of care Beam hope serene ob virtuf's woes, And lull the tranfporUot despair To foft repose ? Dost thou in some feqoefterld grove, With rural icndrrnefs retire,. There fan the fpaiks ot infant love . And pure deftre ? : Or with the nymphs in jocund play,. ' Hide from the (wains arfnid the b'oftets ] Or blooming laifes stray ■ . '• To cufi sweet flowers ? j Where, lovely stranger haft thou fled, Since weeping Eden saw thee rove, Then pensive beauty droop'd her head And left the grove. Return my once beloved gucft Bring thy (air friend Content with thee, Bring back the happy hours thai blest My iuiancy. - Philadelphia, Jan. sth, 1793. Foreign Affairs. Sunday -night lafl the November Packet arrived at New-York Falmouth. This vejjel brings European Intelligence to the 2cth oj November. BRUSSELS, November 9. YOU must have observed in my last, that the affairs of this country were taking a very different turn from what had been ex pected. The event of Tuesday last is too great a proof of this. The French attacked, on that day, the Austrian army near Mons, with so much impetuosity, that in the a&ion, which lasted from 8 in the morning till 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the whole Austrian army was completely routed, and retreated to Caftiau, a league beyond Mons. At 6in the evening, Dumourier tent a trumpeter to offer the place to capitulate. The capitulation was acccpted, and the French took potTelfion of Mons on'NV'edne/day at 12 o'clock at noon. As Toon as the fujfcri ority of the French army was known, orders were sent to the troops in Flanders to fall hack upon Mons, and succours were sent for to Prince Hofienloe's army. All thele suc cours, united, form still an army of 50,000 men, which is at present posted at Braine le Compt and Nivel'es, whilll the head of the French army is already at Soignies. It is as sured that the capitulation was signed on the 7th by General Dumouiier's adjutant and Gen. Beaulieu, who had remained in the city with 2 battalions. The capitulation fiat?*, " That the Aus trian troops fliall have evacuated the Belgic 254 Provinces before v the 15th of this montl , ex cept the provinces ot Luxembourg, Limberg, and GuelderJacd." Dumourier has planted the tree of liberty in Mons, and gibbets ior thole who shall manifefl a spirit of party, or fliall disturb the public tranquility. This ft rift police fliould tianquilize the inhabitants of the other cities; that, however, is not the cafe here, for since the day before yciierday, is in the greatcft agitation and alarm. Every body is gerting away, and tho the Duke of Saxe and the Archduke Charles a e liil 1 in tJ»e army, the Archduchess fat off yef terdav, fonie fay for Bonne, others lav f<»i the Hague. The Plenipotentiary Miniiter, as weil as all the members ot the government, are also gone to Rutemonde »n Guelderland. In fliort, it a general breaking up. The army of Bourbon, which lias fled troin the en virons, from Namur, arrived last night at the gates of this city, but entrance was rciufed them. The number of the fugitives to Holland had already filled the city of Antwerp, where a number of emigrants, who could not procure lodgings, attempted, {word in hand, to force the inhabitants to lodge them, on which the inhabitants fell upon them and their baggage, which they plundered. Domestic Articles. CkARLESTON, (S. C.) Novembers?, A most important discovery, to the great benefit . L. /-• _ : - I - - : -1 of the Commercial woild A gentleman of this state, by way of experi ment, had a Palmetto Tice fa wed into fhcathing boards ; about twelve months past, he had a fmallveflel Hieathcd with it and let her run the whole.summer without once gravirtg or clean ing, and on examination, found her bottom as found 3'd untouched (vv the firll day the was fhcathrd. He hod also funk a plank, of the fame, which lay under water for 6 months ; on taking it up, it was riot only perfectly found, but not even touchcd by worms, and became as hard as oak. It is well known, that fiom experience of near a century part all our wharves in this state have been built with logs of Palmet to, and have been found fouud after twenty or thirty years. Dc. 4. This day week, 65 members of the Houfc of Reprefcntatives met in the state house at Columbia, and proceeded to business. R O S T ON, December 26. The unanimity in lo many refpe&able states, in favor of the re-ele£lion of Mr. Adams, fnews in what estimation the fcribbJeis against him are held bv the people. For three years pill, foirie'of our papers have teemed with repeated and re-rcpeated denunciations ot his politics and his condu&. The meanness of private ati e dote, the quibbling of law—craft, and the un biulhing insinuations of falfliood, have, in rota tion, been employed as weapons agninlt him — To the aid of tnefc, industry has been called in ; and while a D sat the feat ot government has spread hrs malevolence* in every direction, an £—I—s has mounted his Rofwante, and has alfailed every quarter to prevent his re-ele&ioti, by endeavouring to injure his reputation. To the sober sense of the people the appeal has been made— and they have given their verdi£t. They have emphatically said to " Envy be dumb —and Malice Ihut your mouth, Or squirt your venom on the Frebean Chore."— We may, therefore, for a time, expert a cefia tion ot the obloquy, and the people be tfifreby relieved from the insult of wtitings whiwh'dif. play nothing bnl. the malevolence of thefr au thors. A writer in the 11 Courier Politique de I'Uni vers" of Monday, concludes some observations on the state of affairs in France, with these lines —«« We can only fay, that whatever may be the issue ol flie war, it is our most ardent w;(h that France may adopt the bafts of the English Con ilitntion—(hat Constitution which Tacitus considered as bordering so near to perfection as to be impra&icable, and which the pen-m'an of the Book of Ecclefiafles, fecms to have defcribea in that emblematical vcrfe. li And if one pre vail againjl him, two /hall uithjland him ; and a threejold. cord is not quickly broken.*' December 31. Saturday arrived here ship Mai y, Capt. John lon, in 52 days fiom London—The following is extracted from the Londou Gazetteer of Oc- B. W. f tober 23. No communications were yefteiday received from Paiis, but the Bruflells Gazette, of the ißih inft.ariived ; and the following articles, relative to the affdiis of France, are extruded from it. Mayence, OQ. 11. Our garrison is icinforced every day, by Im perial tioops, which defile through Francoma. We expe£l, the day after to-morrow, a consi derable body of Huflais from Efterhazy, which will be followed, next week, by fdilfeici>£ divi lions of infantry, of the regiments of Schroeder, Devins, Mdufr< dine, Kinlky, and by a gieac number of artillery men. F« A NKFORT, Oft. 12. On Saturday last, two battalions and two squadrons of the Prince of Helfe Darniftadt, fol lowed by 12 field-pieces and 4 howitzerr, with a great quantity of ammunition, passed through this place. A new division of ilie troops of the Prince of Hfffe Caflel directs its route by the en virons of Hansu. We have this day received the intereftin.' news, that the French evacuated, yellerriay as. ternoon, the town and the environs of Spire, re tiring to Landau. While they occupied tins principality, the Ptince Bijhvp was at Pommr.r feld, a country feat of the Prince Bifliop of Barn berg. Two hundred Buffers of Eflei'iazy patted yes terday, through this place, ftom Bohemia ; they continued their march for Mayence, where they wait lor further orders. Wal court, Oft. This (own on tie iiihinit. by two Thouland five hundred mc.i from the garri son ol rhil:;pcvil]c, who carried av.ay all the money, plate, coppcr, linen, and provilion, which ihty could find. v n 4 Oft. Yeftcrday mmn.ng, Mrly. an „ palled through heiesuiug.tiuiglw 10 Vi . he left u» certain intelligence, that a r-toci had been agieed on between the Combine A,, ni-.es and that <$f France, con(|>rmaWy t-, »h:ch the two armies were to reiniia at ihe dilfjnceof eight leagues from each other,'and 10 t Je d 1 hoftil tieson the frontier*. AU the tf.mL were on matcli, 011 both ftde»(we»c to hail k ,.„ they wtrc. " w A Coogu-fs wa o to l-e hilu at l,Hj<o^>ur s h to whtebthe ivatioiui Ct>i*vVi»Mor\ of Fiance %«sto : fend*<lepmaiion iTn. aim * m ■ _-ed, A pail »bir.li !„,ni c d the blockade of Thionvill, h.ive atrtariy re'trcd —- 3000 of liiejt- troops, owki" ihc coi-ininid of . CoU'ii de Willis, arrived the ri»y br'cn yrftcr-' . S»<bour(!, near Ilohcn. ■- loe is advancing Bouo Mtmz : we txpect 4000 n»oic by wa:er; 10,000 men from thi ai my til Bnlcaw, are advai.sing ty very 'aptcf marches. ' .t . ' [The following contains the best conne&cd account of the causes which led tothe retreat of the Combined armies, we have Jcei .j PORTLAND, December 25. Capt. Titcomb, in ;c£ Ihip Aiadr.e, arriv ed here 011 Saturday last, from Liverpool, which place he left the 2oth if October. J>j( t before Capt. Titcomb failed. Fie ';.w and con versed with the noted Col. Tarlton, who was then direftiy from the Duke of Brunf wick's army. The account given t>v the Col. was as follows : That the French General, Dumourier, had taken poiTeffion front of the Duke of Brunfwick—That he had polled the other two French arj» ies, one on the right, and the other on the left of the Duke. f>u mourier gave way, and retreated "before the enemy, (carrying with him the people of the country, together with all tine* livp ijtock and all their provisions) till he had drawn the Doke's army into Champagne. .Here du mourier made a Itand, and proposed a truce. Mean while, the two armies on the right and left of the Duke, were marching towards his rear; and in their progress, were, like Du mourier, either taking or caufmg to be removed, all the live ftoi k, provilioa and forage in the country. It was the time of the vintage, and the provi lions of the Auf trians and Prulfians falling lhoi t, they had recourse to the grapes which abound in that country. The immediate consequence ot which was a deadly flux among the troops. In this lituation, the Duke readily agreed to Dumourier's proportion of a truce. This was jufl as the latter would have had it. An interview took place betwixt tie Generals, in which Dumourier, after a dallying confe rence of several days, informed rhe Duke that he could do nothing decifivc till he had writ ten to, and heard from the National Conven tion. During this time, however. theFrenct armies were improving every moment. Thai of Dumourier had taken such portions as ren dered it abfolutelv impregnable. Those on the right and left were progrelling toward? the Duke's rear, and as they Svent,fwept witl them every article of provilion, whether foi man or beast.—Aster a truce of five or fix days, and when the Auflrians and Pru<rian« Vere reduced to the u tin nit dift'efs, foine 01 them starving to death, others dying 0: the bloody flux, Dumourierpietended to grow difiatisfied, and said he would break the tract up ! The Duke altonifhed and confounded proposed to continue it ; and it was at this time, probably, that he made tiie concefiions and adopted the kind and conciliating Jan. guage which has been mentioned.—Dumou rier, however, said " NO—he had continuec the truce long enough—now he mu ft fight"— A truce betwixt two parties is a thing that i: well enough, while both t.'ill to it, bu! when one of them dijagreci, it will always hap pen that the other must either fight or rui away. This was precifelv the Duke's fltua tic:i ; and he chose to run away. By thi: time, however, General Kellerman had gainet his rear ; and although his army was not o: fufficient force compleatJy toftoptiie progref of the Duke, it was llilleqval to the purpo e for which it was intended, viz.—to retail and harrafs him ; and itrip the country of e very kind of provilion. So that famine ant desolation were spread on the right, the left and in the front of the Duke and his retreat ing army ; disease and death iu the centre . and in the rear was Dumourier and the sword The retreat was as rapid as it could he mad« with an army of lick, disheartened and dyiilj soldiers—numbers «;f whom were left behind as also their baggage, artillery and militar; {lores, in immenle quantities.—Nothing was laid in the Duke's army at this time, on tin fubjeft of Marijcjlos ; and if he is hurried 01 at this rate, he may not have time to ilfu< another till he gets "fairly out of the Frenc! territories—or if he should, it is poflible tiia Dumourier might not ft op to read them. HARTFORD, December 31; A correspondent informs us, that a tew week since, his Excellency Governor Hancock, 1 conformity to the humane difpofiiion of il heart, and in the true fpuit of Jibcrty and cqt lity, gave a BALL, in l is own house, to the t .Negroes o'ttoc town of Bolton. PRICE OF STOCKS, 6 per Cents, 3 per Cents, Deferred, Full [hares Bank IJ. S. I (l 3"" PERSONS (it a dijlance from this y rvifh to Jubfcribe for this Gazette, arc i"Jorj ihatiht condition ms advancing fix months ju-bfft ■tion. or making provifton for its being paid hi muji be compiled with* utherwrje the papers cants forwarded—The Editor hctvivg beenfnerefy n fay the poflugt of Letter the orders by jor tU Cuzitlty ma\ It:fail turn jree cj that end ao/6 "(3 itjg 35 per emu prc^
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