Beared 'channel of commercial intercoure
with that extensive and rich country.
At present, the land-carriage between
the navigable waters of the Monongahtla
{a fork of the Ohio) and; the navigable
waters of the is less tba.-1.4d
miles; and a good waggon rciad is open
between the fwei water:-.. Men of judg
ment on the iubjeel of inland navigation,
h?.ve examined the ground between the
branches of the Potoins-k,, and
those of the Ohio, and have been decidedly
of opinio!:, that the iar.d-cafiijige between
the two places where bouts nmv come to
each, can be red weed to fifteen n;.i!es; and
they have fcur.d nothing to convince thejn,
tl.at these v.-aters may not, hereafter, be
made to commnnunte with each other.
The lettlers on' t'fif Ohio and Mdlfippi,
«s ill of coflrfe carry their heavy produce to
a market down those rivers; but their re
turns wiil be mast natural through the Po
tomiack, for they cannot ascend the VVet
t -rn Water?, without great or
nuch loisof time ; the current there being
so rapid, that a (harp boat with fix oars
can fcarcdy ascend firteen miles a day.
[to bs continued.]
To the Editor of the General Advertiser.
Sir,
I have observed in some of your late
pipers certain ftrifturca on a fpcech of one
of the Mernbers of Congrcfs from Mas
sachusetts, which I consider both harsh
and immetitted, and, tending to prevent
that freedom of debate which has been so
wifely provided for
The writer's opinion and inferences are
by no means worthy of notice, otherwise
than as they fnew a difpolition to pervert
the truth, and abuse the liberty of the
press. That Member's chaia£ler as a
friend to genuine liberty and good go
vernment, is too well eftabliihed to be af
fected by such miftatements and scurrility,
as is contained in the paper of "Monday ;
neither is such a mode of writing calcu
lated to make a favorable impriifion on
the minds of many of your readers.
Paris of a sentence, or even of a fpscch,
may be fg stated by designing partisans as
to appear very exceptionable, and this is
believed to have been the cafe in the pre
sent instance ; because, independent of the
known principles of the member, some
people of chara&er who "were prefcnt,
declare they heard no expreflions that
would bear the ccnftruCtion which has
been attempted.
Gracchus fays 'f he would be unfaith
ful to his country, to let such sentiments
pass unnoticed in thi3 he claims some
merit to himfelf, while he pays but a poor
compliment to his friends in Congress,
who let such expreflions as he has stated,
pass without reprehension ; and to be a
ufefal watchman, he ought to pay more
attention to his recitals.
Per the Gazkttr of the United Statu.
Mr. Fenno,
According to the " opinion" of a wri
ter in the General Advert ifer, " on the
condudt that America ought to adopt in
future"—it appears that the wisdom of
this country would be evidenced in the
firft place, by throwing every thing into
confufion among ouifelves, and in the se
cond, by immediately plunging into a
war with all the world—our agents at home
and abroad are to be dismissed—and all
the measures which have given prosperity
to our country, and secured that prospe
rity by peace and domestic tranquility, are
to be subverted and overturned, if this
is the way to preserve our name in exist
ence as a nation, if this is the way to ena
ble us to help our friends, preserve our
peace, our liberties, and our independence
—then the modern do&rines of volunteer
quacks in politics which run counter to the
experience of man in all pad ages, ought
to prevail—ln vain have the people of A
merica fought for freedom, deliberated on
the best measures to secure the inestimable
jewel, and established a just, wife and com
petent government as the only mean con
ducive to that object—if, the nature of
our species is inverted, and confufion and
every evil work is the only preparative to
peace liberty and fafety—the politics of
maniacifm will not prevail, for the parti
zans of diforganifatum are not like Samp
son, willing to be crushed themselves in
the ruins they contemplate with so much
pleasure—Our Councils will not be influen
ced by hairbrained politicians who, rcfleft
ing 011 the fortunes which have been accu
mulated in the convulsions of Europe, are
anxiously demons of trying their hand in
tjiia happy retreat of freedom and peace.
Y. Z.
From the Columbian Gazetteer.
OBSERVATIONS.
The coldelt day iu December, 1789, in
this city, was the 20th of the month—
the Thermometer was 21 degrees. Fri
day miming hft being 10 1-2 degrees
colder. In Jan. 1790, the coldest day was
20 degrees—in February 9 degrees —in
March 6 degrees. By this the coldeit day
in the winter of 1790, wa» 41-2 degrees
colder than Friday morning last.
The coldest day in Philadelphia, in Jan.
1789, was 18 degrees—in February do. 7
degrees—in Jan. 1790, 12 degrees —in
Feb. do. 6 degrees—in March do. 3 deg.
in Dec. do. 6 degrees.
In Philadelphia, in Jan. 1791, 8 d<*g.|
in Feb. do. 5 deg.—in March do. 2 deg»
From the above remarks, being all I
could cofleft, we may not expecl to expe
rience but very little colder weather in the
' course of this winter, than was experien
ced the lail week.
On the zsd&24th ult. was held theexa
miuation of the several schools in the Tren
ton Academy. The scholars who had been
iludying Reading, Writing, Arithmetic
and Book-keeping, exhibited such proofs
of attention ar.d improvement, as were very
fatisfaftory to the trustees and visitors.
The Grammar school, under the care of
Mr. Whitefide, was examined in presence
of the Governor of the State, the Hon.
Isaac Smith, the Rev. Mr. Armftrongand
Samuel W. Stockton, Esq. who expreiTed
their approbation at the proficiency of the
students, several of whom diftinguilhed
themselves for their progress in the ma
thematics and natural pliilofophy.
A number of the (indents of this aca
demy have been fitted, from time to time,
to enter the junior chls in Princeton col
lege, with credit to themselves and their
tutors. Others have been qualified for
the mercantile and mechanical branches of
business, which arc here particularly at
tended to —and all, whofc morals are un
impeached, and who have made fufficient
proficiency, are entitled to a certificate,
under the fcal of the corporation, setting
forth the branches of literature which they
have fuccefsfufly studied.
Such is the healthfulnefs of the city of
Trenton, that not an in (lance of mortality
has happened since the firft establishment
of this academy, among the many scho
lars who have ccme hither to pursue therr
studies. This circumflance, added to the
eligibility of it? iituation, being on the post
and stage road from Philadelphia to New-
York, and the cheapncfs of boarding, ren
ders it' a desirable place for persons at a
distance to fend their children for the ru
diments of their education.
An Observer
There arc at present about eighty scho
lars in the several fchoolj: the house is in
complete repaii, and would accommodate
a much larger number with convenience.
As the schools arc under good regula
tions. and will be carefully attended to by
the trustees and visitors, it is hoped those
who may think proper to fend their chil
dren to this seminary will not be disap
pointed in their expectations.
For the G.iZETTf. of the United Sr.iTts.
To the SIEUR GENET, Minister
WHENCE it it, fir, that you alone,
among the diplomatic characters in America,,
have been felecled as the notorious object of
public animadversion ? Intercfting to vour
felf, as it is to Americans, this question
Mr; Genet, demands your attention.
G. BAKER.
New-York, 28th Dec. 1793.
TRENTON ACADEMY.
of France
In answer to this question, will you, in
the spirit of calumny and felf-admiration,
prefumc to fay, that the American press,
devoted to the cause of despotism, perse
cutes you as the martyr of liberty ? Inftcad
of thus yielding to the fedu&ions of pas
sion, rather, fir, for once, render homage
to the simplicity of truth, and refle6t whe
ther a more correct answer may not be
given ! Shall I mention one for your con
sideration ? Yet deem it not Angular, that
a person unpraftifed in the infidioufncls
of Courts, unversed in the sophistry of St.
Omers, and unambitious of rivaling you in
artincf, (hould give an answer very differ
ent from yourfelf, an answer which is plain,
simple, palpable. Tou alone, among the
diplomatic characters in America, ha-vc noto
ripujly offended agaittjl diplomatic propriety.
Delegated, as French miffipnary, to the
constituted government of the American
Republic, your mifTion, as relative to this
'government, was either a million of peace,
or a million of perfidy. What then has
been your conduit, as relative to the Ame
rican government Have not your pro
ceedings, instead of evincing a Minister 01
peace, branded you as the Apoltle of dif- .
cord ? And was such the purpose of the
nation whom you claim to represent ? No !
fir, however zealous you may be to ca
lumniate the French nation by confound
ing them with vourfelf, we acquit them of
the charge : Never can we believe that
the republicans of France would appro
bate a million of perfidy. To do juitice
to the French people, we mull then be
careful to discriminate between them, and
yourfelf. And, making this discrimina
tion, we are conflrained to regard lome of
your proceedings, fir, as meriting no flight
reprehension.
Could we totally abltratt your diplo
matic character from your proceedings,
while you hold and abuse that character,
»'e might regard your language aa but the
intemperate effufions of a felf-adminng
fciolill: And, in this abftrafted view, the
combination of fatuity and vanity, being
regarded a? innocuous, might afford mat
ter of transient mirth. But when, i« abu
sing your diplomatic trust, you claim t,hat
your language (hould be refpefted as t'ue
voiee of France, the fubjeft inllantly ai
fumes a very different afpeft ; and your
publilhcd declarations, whether refuiting
from ignorar.ee, vanity, fanaticifm, or per
fidy, become seriously interesting ty the
friends of true republicanism : For, whe
ther you betray the republican cause, from
ignorance, vanity, fanaticifm, or perfidy,
whether you betray it from want of wis
dom, or from want of honelty, Hill, fir,
you injure the cause which you ought to
benefit, and which, notwithstanding its be
ing profaned by your profeflions of devo
tion, is precious and facredto Americans.
" That you are not destitute of talent,"
ha 3 been already conceded in the address
which 1 presented to you, through the
Gazette, in consequence of the letter, of
the 13th of August, which you wrote tor
the press, and sent to the President. My
generosity, as one of the people, having made
you this concefiion while there appeared
some room for hoping that you would
listen to the voice of inltruftion and reform,
although your own own conduct has since
reduced you, in point of ehara£ter, to be
but a mcndicant penfiotier on the charity
of, public opinion, yet, while I scorn to
despoil the beggar, I scorn to revoke my
generous conceflion. But left, from your
pronenefs to eulogize yourfelf, you should
abuse this concefiion to your own injury,
let me remind you, that, in kind, as well
as In degree, talents are various. And, as
" you are not destitute of talent," so nei
ther was an ancient noted incendiary, one
trait of whose chara&er seems not altoge
ther inapplicable to yoUrfelf" Satis lo
qucnti#, fapientitc parum
Considering that a person in your station
ought not to be so ignorant of clallic lite
rature as you profefs to he of some of the
moil celebrated works on national law, al
though I do not question your profefled
ignorance, I now credit you as having the
ability to underiland a (hoi t sentence from
: I, accordingly, omit giving you
a version of this which I have just cited.
And, leaving it to your own moments of
temperate refle&ion, if ever you have any,
I observe, that the chara&er at large may
be worth your attention. You may find
it delineated by Salluft, in his hillory of
the Catalinarian -war. And, while you
are meditating on this fubjeft, let me urge
you to reflett, that, however much or
however long you may have abused our
patience, yet the incendiary, who makes
profefiions of virtue in the cause of vice,
and boaits of patriotism for the purposes
of sedition, will not eventually find more
support in America than your prototype
found in Rome.
The injtdioufnefs of your profejjions, the
illegitimacy of your doctrines, the audacity of
yourpretenfions, have conspired to provoke
and juftify typographical ftri&ures. Ap
pearing before the American public in the
novel' and amphibious character of typo
graphical Minister, your claims to public
animadversion are various, urgent, and un
rivalled. Whether we contemplate you as
the foi-difant oracle of national law, as the
expositor of the American Constitution, as
the exotic guardian of the sovereign people
of the United States, as the public accuser
of their constituted authorities ; or whe
ther wc contemplate you. as a diplomatic
Proteus transforming yourfelf inte a mul
tiplicity of shapes, and adopting -such V -
rious forms as you may think adapted t<>
aid your machinations —whetheryou adopt
the form of epiltolary correspondence, di
plomatic communication, consular protes
tation, circular address to American com
mittees of beneficence, circular inftru&ions
to French consuls, or any other form which
anarchial zeal may fuggelt; still, fir, we
find no cause to deny you tne character of
which you seem so ambitious, the charac
ter of an Apostle of Discord.
You may aft'eit a tremulons concern for
the Prcfideiit, and, with the modesty pe
culiar to yourfelf, profefs to the public,
as in your letter to Governor Moultrie,
your "grief at feeing General Washington,
that celebrated hero oj liberty, accessible to
men whose scheme: could only darken his glo
ry" But in vain may you expect that
such arts will delude the informed Ameri
caus. The weeping of the insidious cro
cadide deludes none but the ignorant.
If he has become the obje&of your pi
ty, General Washington is fallen indeed.
Are you so vain, Sir, as to imagine, that
his, or his country's glory depends on you?
Learn then to know thyfelf; and be af
furcd, that it is not the breath of Genet,
but the energy of truth, which fvvell# the
trumpet of fame.
After considering, that, in your letter
of the 2 7th of October to the Secretary of
State, you have charged President Wash
ington with usurping power which the
ennftitution does not allow him ; when we
further observe, that, through your sub
altern Dannery yon profefs, to the Exe
cutive of MafTachufctts, an anxious sensi
bility left holSlities ftiould interrupt " the
ever-dear fraternity v between " two nati
ons yet JiJlers," and that -you also at the
j fame time exhibit a manifcitcJ again ft our
National Executive ; the language of such
communications excites, in the American
mind, at once, contempt and indignation.
Ate we to b«* duped, or terrified, from the
maintenance of our own internal fovereigu
ty, by the insidious profeflions, or mena
ces of a diplomatic or consular di&ator ?
Will you, fir, fay, that there is danger
of hostilities between France and America?
If so, whence does this danger arise ?-—
Whence, but from functionaries who, in
trusted with affairs of France, abuse the
confidence of an high-spirited people ?—
Whence, but from such persons 33 your
felf?
Mr. Genet! will you, while Miaifter
of France, pretend to be ignorant, that
your Mailers have rcprefentedfederalifm at
the evil genius of anarchy of rebellion ot
royalifm, as a monfttr threatening dellruc
tion to the unity and indivisibility of the
Republic ? Did yon tlien, in ordering
Dannery to denounce the PreCdent, pur
pose to excite in America the very spirit
which has been excited at Marseilles, at
Lyons, at Toulon? Speak, Sir! what
was vour purpose in that infidious'denunci
ation ?—What, but to divide and command
the American People ? Accordingly, the
moment of our national difmiflion, would
have been the moment of your congratu
lating yourfelfas Di&ator over America.
Not to particularise ail the insidious
communications which you have been ea
ger to publish, and without now remark
ing on the illegality of the doctrines which
they contain, the publications alieady no
ticed, especially those relating to the affair
of Duplaine, fufficiently brand you as the
Apostle of Discord. And, on reviewing
the conduct of our public functionaries, and
considering your various insinuations and
direst charges again ft them, the mind is
impressed with one concluding sentiment.
To be the first of warriors, and
yet to be accused for being the friend of
peace, is the peculiar honor of Waftiing
ton ; an honor worthy the first func-
TIONARY OF THE FIRST REPUBLIC IN
the universe. Formanifefting himfelf
to be the vigilant friend of peace, as well
as the firm affertor of our national sover
eignty, he is honored by the approving
voice of his country, and has shared, with
other officers of our government, in your
calumnies, and in your honorable hatred.
ALFRED.
AMERICA.
JAMAICA, Nov. 9.
Uindecided Engagement.
Extract of a letter written on board the
privateer brig Eagle, Captain Ogie
dated at Cape Nichola Mole, October
28.
" Lad Thn' fciay noon, while in com
pany with the (loop Sufon, Capt. Young.