For the Gazelle of the United Slater. Mr. Fen no, I underftnnd a Bill is depending in the Houfeof Reprefentativrs refpeding tlie Eflablillnneiit of Schools through out the State ; the Principles of which ' if I am rightly informed, will have a tendency to aboliih all the Schools for teaching the inferior Branches of Learu »ing, and creeling others upon a geneial Pun at a publicT Expence by County Taxes, and uut of the Funds of the Commonwealth. My Informant was not able to give the particulars of thia Plan, but the out lines he traced to me have occalioned the throwing out the followingobfervatio,is fir consideration. Aim >it every Religious Society in this have Schools under the care of IVuKeea or Overseers for the Edu cation oft heir own Children, and Youth . in .reading, writing and cyphering, and many Societies have Free Schools, to which are admitted Children of . other denominations ; now are Socie ties to pay an equal Tax to support the new Schools, wnile they support their' \ own, or arc :hey to drop their own and I trust that the new ones will answer the pu> pose ? Aie the Epifcop.dians, the Quakers, 'the Catholics, the Presbyterians, the German Lutherans and Calvinifts, &c. &c. prepared to dilcontinue the Educa tion of their own Youth in their own [religious Faith and Profefiions, in hopes that the Children of all Denominations .thrown together en mnjfe may be better educated ; of will they agiee in one mode, and the lame Matters and Books ? Jys the State of religious Opinion in Pe-n'fflvania so uniform and concordant t'iai 'a-Nsrforial' Education ia likely to a'nfwer the End intended'? 1 is a Religious Uniformity intended to be elUblilhcd by this mea. s, or is it poflible to e&ftjlifh it ? Will ft btr proper to tell Parents as w is done in Spaita you (hall not be in truded wiih the Education of your I Children, the State vvi.l provide School* by Taxes, which you {hall pay whether ' you think them piuper for your Chil . dren or not ? And after the old ones : are ellablifhed and you have paid your i q : .i >;a to the Common Expence of the new ones, if you dont like the public Schools you may provide for their Edu- I gation as you can. I do not profefs to understand the Subjedt thoroughly, but lo far as I can fee into it, I dotiot much, whether it ,has been maturely confidercd, and fuf wciently digclted, to take Effedt with jSatisfa&ion tojhe Citizens generally. Wi 1 errfo -e" l~SrouTa wim yoij wouKTTn- fert thcfe Hints in your Paper, or feme thing better of your own, in order to excite a little Enquiry, and produce an Explanation from feme abler Hand. Yours, &c. If nothing better is offered to the Printers on thi* iippoitant Subjedl, I »S(h they would copy this into their Papers. x i -% J Far the Gazette of iL United States. Mr. Fenno, YOUR coirefpondent, who dated that the " important bojinefs," wliich occalioned the late meeting of the De mocratic Soc ety, was to pass the refu tations refpedting public schools, found ed his opinion on the apparent connec tion of the notification and the publica tion of those refoltiuons. The fuggef lion appears to hava excited the irasci ble feeling? of a writer who signs " yf Suijcritcr," in your last evening's pa per—Not content with reviling'the pa ragraphia, as a vicious party writer, he has attempted to deprive the socie ty of the honor intended it by your correspondent, by faying that the im portant lufmefs was totally irrelative to ihofe refutations ; plainly implying, hat the buimria of public schools was tut considered by the Society as an im ortant[ buiinels. For my part, Mr. 'rinter, I do not think that the focie r ever tranfafted any business of real before—and tho' the refolu i some ideas whic{i the pro bave known to be falft and •et on the whole, it was ius in the members, as their fnpport to an in <h, y efft&ed, will piove civil liberty. uliarly meritorious in this ' their voice in favor oj •iflruttion among the i their patriotism, anc o retire from their la realize, that Democra e entirely fuperfluoui iteiied people. I re er, molt imcerely ii id hope all ranks, las as, will forego all thei importance lions contain J>o/er tnnfl h, \tmprallicaUe, i %hly meritoi vitizetu, to gi ititulion, whit Ike btilwai It It was pc- Soriety to gi" <inTtminatin^ people—it flie« that they mean —fir they ?'V Societies , jmong an enlij J°' ce > Mr. Prii •his profjicct ; f-S>|jn.l p of.lTk prejudice*, and join heart anjj hand in piomoiing the eltablifhntent of puhliv ichools, in which the interest of a.'/ is ra.jft deeply involved. Mr. Printer—if the " important luft neft" did not relate to public schools, pray what was it ? But I a(k pardon, perhaps a miltake has occurred in the notification by an omiflion of the word private, before •« important business." Our present corporation by their pa triotic conduct, are endeavouring to rescue our city from that odium, which has for lo long a time been justly cart on the city of Albany, tor its want »f public spirit, enterp'ife and improve ment. The sale of our wa'.er lots will have one of the happielt cffcdls. It will call individual indultry into ope ration; and before the close of the en ftting season, we expect a spacious and commodious range of wharves in front of our whole city. The pavements are to be completed ; the citizens of Pearl itreet are already providing the mate rials ; and if the pavement is judfeiouf ly confti ufted, this street will vie in beauty with the ftrft streets in New- York or PhilaJelphia. The fubferipti on fi>r a College was 60001. and altho* | we failed in our application for the elta blidiment offuch an institution, yet the Corporation merit the thanks of their, conllituents for their liberality on the occalion. Lamps for lighting the city, are providing, and neatly in readiness ; and there is a great profpeft that before the close of the season our city will be amply supplied with choice water, by means of aquedu&s. The aft to amend ffie poft-oflice law, pa'fled thj 25th ulf. has elUbli.Tied a pod road from Filhkill, by Kewbei gh and New Wincifor, # to Gofhen ; and a:>;thrr from Cooperftown, by Butter nut creek and Oxford Academy, to Um'oii-Toivn. By intelligence from Canada, we learn, that active and important mea sures are taking by the Governor and the English and Catholic Bilhop*, to extend religion and learning in fhat and , the Upper Prjvince. A happy har- ; mony subsists between those tiyo pious, 1 learned and benevolent Eeclefiaftics The Catholic Bishop may be called the second Ganganelli. 25 | Boob, Lowrifi, Norfolk 2 "Philadelphia, March t s . l f, — I Sloop Nancy, Munro, N. Providence 12 Mr. OJgooiPs Thank/giving Sermen. ! _ Widgeon, Sands, Curraco 48 . , Schr. Ruthv, Barns, Augusta 11 Ihe sixth Edition of Mr. Ofgood's Sermon Lively, Burden, Richmond 12 isjpiiblifhed at Albany. The publilhers Sloo p— » Inghram, Wilmington, 13 fay , The Sloop Nancy, arrived on Sunday if e j r ... from New-Providence, the Captain of It we can form a judgment of a pobhea- wll i c h informs us, that the Brig Betsey, tion from the number of copies fold, wefhall Capt- Roberts, from bound to not hesitate to declare this Sermon a judicious ® a ' timore » was captured and carried into j 1 ~ , New-Provider ce—Likewife, that the fri and valuable performance; and that the au- gate Vi<ftory had taken and earned into thor in an eminent degree deserves well of his laid port, the fchoortr Corkide, a-French country, for having written it at a time like P r ' vateer i from Charleston, with her the prefect, when something was wanted ,0 bound ts^Europe'' 1 *** be publicly said against the political herefie. Captain Stanton of the schooner Polly, which have for fometimj been creeping in a- arrived fame day from Aux Cayes. On I the 14th Feb. lat. 3;,, ic, fpokt the Uiip I Randolph, of Portsmouth, N. H. bound •o Gsorget wn, he had on the 7th carried iway both top-malis. March 8- spoke a brig from Jamaica )ound to Neuburyport, out 75 do"s— ■vhich had been plundered by a French irivateer. Captain Stanton left at Aux-Caves,fhif Aurora, of Salem, and sundry other res "els, the names of which he does not re :olledl. The (loop Nancy of this port, was con iemned at Aux-Cayes. (As unfit for sea.' before capt. Stanton left it. Price current at Aux-Cayes. Beef 10 dollars—Pork 16 to 20 —FIou; 9 ; Pilot bread 4 to 5 dollars per Bbl. Lumber very low. Captain Stanton also mentions, that the American vrlTrls to and from Britiih port: were very ill used by the French privateers who happened to fall in with them. A sloop belonging to Mr. Theophilus Brow er of this city, was boarded by a privatee belonging to Guadaloupe. The Captain and Supercargo was treated very ill by thi commander of the privateer. A parent. mong us. Mtjjrt. Dunlap Sj|f Ctaypoote, The following fublcription is now handing thro the City, which you are requested ' to puuliih for the information of those I who are willing to subscribe to so benefici al and ornamental an undertaking.—A sub scription paper is left at thcMerchantj' Cof fee House. WE the Subscribers desirous of adding to the beauty and health of the City, and <on ceiving that the planting of trees on each fide of fomcof the large streets in the unbuilt parts thereof,would contributcto so desirable | a purpofc, do agree to pay the sums feveraliy affixed to our names (whenever they shall together amount to five hundred pounds) to such persons as ihail be empowered to re ceive the fame by special appointment, from John Dunlap, Richard Wells, and Benjamin W. Morris, who are hereby nominated as managers to carry the plan into execution. ' By this Day's -Mail. 4LBANT, March 20. Befldes a number of elegant private buildings, which we underltand are to be ere&ed in this city, the ensuing season, the Tiultees Presbyteri an Church, have eontradled with the in genious Mr.. Eliftia Putman, of Lanfin burgh, to ®ui!d them a Brick Church 74 feet by 62.—The foundation of this Church was completed last season. It is in YVaftiington street. UNITED STATES. ALBANY, March 16, The Academy Hal!, eirefting at Pa ris, in Hcrkemer county, for tiie recep tion of the Prcccptor, Teachers and flu dents of;h; Seminary, which the Re gents of our Univeifity have Incorpora ted, by the name of the " Oneida or Ha milton Academy," it 82 feet by 41, and three ftorieshigh—it is elegantly fiiua ted and when fiuifhed, will be a superb and spacious edifice. A correspondent expreflfes threat plea fnre in the appearances that Vermont is returning to a leufe of its true interell in becoming a Federal Member of the Union. Mr. Paine, thefenator ch fen in the loom of Mr. Bradley, atid Mt. Buck, the reprcfentetive in the roam of Mr. Niles, are firm, decided feder alilts. and so are a veiy refpcCfrable body of their conftitutnts ; the democratic clubs to the contrary iir any wife not withstanding. CHARLESTON, March 4, Important Communication, The holders of all k nd« of public fe entities arc cautioned against specula tors, and are desired to take notice, (hat the price of the flock of the United States is not now to be regulated by the northern, but by the European markets. It is judged by men of the bed information, that the United States (lock will be «>n a rtrueh better footing than any in Europe, and confeqiiently be more valuable. There is the mod certain in/ormation, that a great num ber of orders from Europe, via New York, have been received, and that the long heads are at work to wheedle the more simple. NEW-YORK, March 24. The SansCulottes Society of Charles ton have fefolved to go in mourning ten days for the brave Dujjorortlier. 1 he Democratic Society of Pkila delphia have at last discovered and 1 rcfolved that public schools are well calculated to teach men their rights and to secure the blcHings of independence ] and republicanism. This is admirable 1 But public fchoola, will afluredly be fatal to private puliticaKJibt ! The only State in the Union that has had public schools from its firft fettlemrnt, is almost the only one that is not infect ed with clubs and antfuUrulfm. SHIP NEWS. sfrrived at this Port. Brig Endiavour, Hill St. Eartholemews QUEBEC, February 26. HOtJSE or ASSEMBLY. Agreeable to the order of the Day. Wednesday, Eeb. 18. The House went into a Committee to conlider of the expediency of procee ding upon Bills originating in the legif lative .Council, that contain pecuniary penalties or forfeitures, which, after a very long and abledifcuflion was agreed to, provided that allfuch penalties there by imposed are only topunilh erpre.ent crimes and 1 ffences, and do not ter.d to lay a burthen on the fubjeft, either as aid, and supply to his Majtfty, or for a ny general or special purposes by late?, tolls, aiTeffments or othe,- wife. Thursday, February 19. ■'>, The Chairman of the Committee appointed to frame a Bill for the better making, repairing, and k.eping up the High roads and Bridges in this Pro vince, made his Report, an J delivered the Bill in at the Cle. k's table. Several of the Members complained, 'hat they I'ad been, contrary to the Privilege of the Houfr, fumnoned by the Sheriff to attend the Court i>f King's Beuch as fpei ial Jurors; ihe Iloule took the fame iniu'curfaJeiation, and ordered Mr. Speaker to write to the Judges, that they, the said M. mbcrs, have privilege not to ami tiiat they be not amerced foi liieir non-ap pcat-ance., Monday, 13. The order ot the cay or taking" into consideration His Excellency tl.e Gover nor s meflage of the 16th intlant being read the said melftge with the accounts and papers that accompanied it were'alfo read. A motion being made that a ftjpply be grafted to his Majefly, the lontidcra'tioii of it waspoltp-ned to Wednesday Alx:. Wednesday 15. 1 neengrofled bill from the Legislative Council to amend the Judicature Bill wa» read the third time and pafled. ■Hie House went into committee to con fid er of a supply to his Mujcftv— the Keport was ordered to be received to mor row. 1 heengrolTed Bill from the Legislative council obliging reikis coming from places uifedled witii peitilential fevers and contagious disorders to perform quatan tine, was read a second time—and after a conference with the Legiilafive Council, concerning the bill to amend the fudica turc A£l, the House adjoamed. MAPLE SUGAR. A gentleman who has visited Asia, fuggelts to his fellow-citizens who arc extracting Sugar from the Maple Tret, that it may be more advantageous to them to make the inciliun higher than they do at pr.fent, for the Aliatics al ways cut the Palinira tree jull below tiie rirll brandies, and of t!ie liquor they make both Sugar and an intoxicjt ing drink. If tin- faccliarine juice is formed by the. combination of the par ticular property of the Maple Tree, with the water which rif s fiom tile earth, it is natural to ftipp.iie that the present metli d of collecting the lap just above ground, before it has under gone much coin mixture, will be attend ed with its prelcnt result, viz. a great quantity of water, and very liitle 1) rup. If upon expeiiment it (hall be found that mine Sugar is made from a less quantity of sap, when the incision is made high up, one great advantage will be, that less labour will be requited to collcft the sap and to evapora.e the wa ter. PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. ARRIVED. DAYS. Brig Mary Ann, Kearny, St. Thomas 26 Amiable Creole, M'Keever, Port au Prince 34 I Schr. Three. Friends, Morgan, Havanna 13 CLEARED. I Brig Molly, Tremhill, Schr. Neptune, Hughes, Sloop Hunter, Weft, Mary, Bowen, Port au Prince Thebr g Amiable Creole, on the iith in it spoke the Brisifh frigate Thilbe, in lat. '32,44 long. 73. 1 On tht sth spoke the brig Tyfiphone, capt. Miller, out 11 days from St. Thomas bound to Baltimore, lat. 16, 10, long. 72. A large fleet of merchantmen, under con voy of 7 ships of the line, failed from the Havanna,a fewd ys befere the Three Friends supposed for Cadiz. Capt. Morgan came out with 9 or 10 fail, all bound to this port. The ihip Mary, Stephens, Brig Fair Ameri can, and Rose, Meany, and fchoouer Indus try, were of the number. Lift of American fJJelt at Bourdeaux t luben Capt. IV2 Idron failed. 1 Ship El/za, David Smith | Sally, Rouse ( Henry, Samuel Parker Brig Kitty, John Pc-afe i George & Harriot, John Dingley Mary, B. Horaans Union, W. Duyis Bee, John Gray Schr. Atlas, W, GovJiball Susanna, W.Todd Clarifla, Barner Speedwel;, Geo. Price Sloop Brilliant, David Coiman Georgia Packet, Fair ley, in 32 days—all of Boston. This Day wills be Landed, At Messrs. Willing and Francis wharf, from on board the Brig Minerva, Rich. Wood, mailer, about SEVENTY BALES Best Cayenne COTTO] A FEW CASKS Annotta Dye (or Rocou) And for sale by t Jehu Hollingfworth Gf Co. 36 at The following extract of a letter from St. Thoman'n of the 18th Fib. re ceived by the Mary Ana Capt. Kear ney is communief ted to the public for the information of merchants tra tHng to .the Wett-Indie«. " The English lately iflued a procla mation declaring the iiland of Guada loupe In a (late of blockade, and tl-.e French of' that island in return have declared the -Enghlh iflandi, to be in a limilar ftate,-'and take all neutral vcl* K'l» taking lupplic* to or blinking p o duce fr. m lhence.—-Thry have already captured and cofa}< mncd leveial and fume American vefTcl*.— 1 heir privatrers »re numerous and mif enievout and notwitMUiuiing that e}ch British Island has at the puMrc.cxprjice fit ted out privateers to check them, their number and depredations incrcafe. : A t'h'p Br'g anO Schoonef, inward bound were at Keedy Island yetterday. PRICE OF STOCKS, 6 per Centa 3 per. Cent* Deferred Bank of tW United Slates Pennf/lvartta Niirtl»-America CLARET of the firfl: quality. At ELEVEN o'cloiS, To'Kforrow Morning, be fold by au&ion, on die lower fide of Walnut Street Wharf, Far approved notes at 60' days. 136 hhds jo cases of JO ( Of P*imi Cuut. bottles each J 9 tierces }0f Vinrgnr. Just imported in the schooner Maria, Cap wifl Waldrm, from Bovkdeaux. F.dward Fox March 25. COLUMBIANUM. A Stated Meetinj of the Society wilMe held in the Philofopjiical Hall, *t Peak's Mu f<um, on tie 6th of April, » Wslock, P. M. N. E. Officers to ! e elcdcd. By Order, R. Claib me, Sec'ry. March 24 ' 4t , NEW THlfc EVENING, (Not performed this Season) a COMEDY, written by Mrs. Cowley, called BELLE's STRATAGEM. Mr. Chalmers Mr. Morris Mr. Whitlock Mr. Mar (hall Mr. Green Mr. Darley jun. Mr. Cleveland Mr. Moreton Mr. Harwood Mr. Warrell Mr. Bliffctt Doricourt, Hardy, Sir George Touchwood, Flutter, • Saville, Saville'g Servant, Viilers, Courtall, Gentleman, Gibfon, Dick, Lctitia Hurdy, Mrs. Morri» Mrs. Racket, . Mrs. Shaw Lady Francis Touchwood, Mrs. Cleveland °gle, Mr.. Solomons Kutty Willi., Mr.. Row Con la ail 4, a GRAND MASQUERADE. To itilich -will be added, (The 3d time) a MUSICAL DRAMA, in two a<Ss, called The Children in the Woecf. Sir Rowland, Mr. Green Lord Alford, Mr. Marihdl Walter, Mr. Hanvood Apathj, Mr. Bate. Gabriel, Mr. Mor.tou ' Mr. iJarley jun. ivir. BJiilut St. Tliomai Hifpauiola Helen, Jof phme, Winifred, Boy, Girl, B< X one Dollar— Pin } of iDn ar-and GaJ ery 4 « 'toll JI• The Public are refpeflfully informed that the Doors of the Theatre will open <,t a quar ter after five, and the curuuA rife precifelj- it a quarter aiter fc o'clock. I it'ke.t ami p.,tc»s !.>r thr Boxes to be t k«u ol Mr. Weils, at t e Tueat « f.oinTEN'til one, an* - from ten -i three • c ck. Alfoat Rice's Borkftore, No. 50, and and Carey's No. xig. Marker ftrtet. No money or tickets to be returned, noi* any person on any account *hatfoevcrj ad mitted behind the ferries. Vivat Refpublica! Wants Employment, A h fin: who at«.erAbie k o\rl !» ol CONVEYANCING a ge ral i-rc* it-Hge "I Art-u'lts a.-id Figi, *■~ ai.it wiir e a ha; d. J!e H»t <1 engage by e • > tr>er in sui Cffi.e o Mtrt(-nt'» 'mpM-jr! u f e A lii.e add (Act! to J B. nd let at (he Oifice ct the Ca'/e 'e ui the U i e<i States, tnJilte «iui) «tui;dedio. -sc. to eo<U f jq/5 »«/ l 3j> 28 Auft'r. EA TRE. , M-iRCH jj, • Will be Prcft&tSi , -H • • y Mrs. 3o!omon» Mr?. Marlhaii Mri. Rowfon M.ifter Parker s Solo,woo {/
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