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: vain than this expectation —the cloud low
ers hedvily over them ali, ant? they all
cxpeCt that their OWII tifne will come in
, course, and the belt thing they can hope
■ for, is the chance of UiyiTcS in Poly
-1 ' p'ierne's cave, viz: That of being the
1 lalt to be eaten.
•6th. Where the expenfce of co!lastion (
or any other embarralsments, vexations,
■ and plagues, rieceflarily attendant on any
1 tax amount to mote than the value of
the tax it never ought to be irtpoled—l
conceive this will be readily granted—and
1 therefore a Stamp-Duty is inadmijjible. A
1 knowledge of the various stamps neceflafy
1 in every species of writings is a trade by
itfelf, which the honelt people of the
• country will never learn ; but if they could
• learn this, (tamped paper will not always
be at hand, and every obligation wrote
1 on paper not properly (tamped is a nulli>
ty, &c. See. The embarra'iimcnts, Vexa
tions, nullities, injuries, loiTes, Bcc. hence
arising, will amount t® four times the
proceeds of the duty, if it (hould be all
colledted and paid into the public treasury.
011 the whole* when a sum of money
is wanted, either in a nation or private
family, one way of raising it, may be
much eafierthan another—andlhe c-afieft,
and molt convenient method ought ever to
be adopted. A man (hould never raise
money by felling feed-wheat—the tools of
his trade—his house furniture, children's
bread, so long as he has goods enough for
the purpose, which are provided merely
for file, not for use. So a (fate (hould
never impose a tax, which will embarrass
or discourage, or wound the bsfinefs and
induitry, or feelings of the subject, whillt
there are fufficient articles of luxury, or
other meichandize which are convenient
objects of taxation ; and out of which
the neceiTary monies may be drawn, with
110 loss or damage more than the fimpls
account of the sum paid ; and as such ar
ticles are matters of general consumption,
the tax thence derived will operate with
more equability and due proportion than
any other tax whatever.
This leads to an answer of a question,
which never fails to be put whert this sub
jeCt is called up—viz : You object to the
proposed tax, can you give us any substi
tute ? I answer, 1 can in plenty—we have
many very expensive articles of useless, &
hurtful luxury, wholly untaxed, or light
ly taxed, which would afford a very pro- I
ductive fnbftitute, which would have the j
- who. of d-imiipiuary nrv^TdlelTcn their j
consumption—viz. Silks of all forts,
Jewellery, plate and plated ware, Dia
monds and other set (tones, fine Gam- J
bricks, Laces, Feathers, and many other {
gewgaws and baubles, which might be
taxed at 20, joor 100 per cent, without I
any inconvenience, and the whole present
import may be encreafed so far as may be
necessary to make up the deficiency.
It has been objected that sundry arti
cles of the excise are as much luxuries, as
the imported ones which 1 recommend. j
I allow that whiskey, country Rum,
Snuff &c. are as real luxuries when made
at home, as when imported— and I (hould
have no objection to taxing them, if the
collection could be made without being
coupled with, and partaking of the ca
pital mifchiefs, unavoidably incident to I
every excise. I
Citizen op Philadelphia. I
Philadelphia, May 12, 1794.
From the Philadelphia gazette.
To the reasonable Citizens of the United States. I
XX/'HEN Congress resolved to build fix I
V V Urge Frigates for the proteflion of our I
commerce Irom the Algerine pirates, to appro- I
p. isle a large sum of money to purchife a peace
and rati Tom our unfortunate citizens, to fornly
our pons and supply our ar f ena)s *
w.' pleased : Ihe zealous atlen.ion to
nal defence and the preparations againlt j n f u i, I
the auxieivro redeem the miserable fufFererv at'
&r >nincr »'" f <^ r -K 1
were lubjtcts of general apptaufe. ' ,
a u ?° ne Y is waD,ed Pay for all these
good things the tone is changed and people be ( '
Conrnrercets taxed than <
■ t can already well hear, and in cafe of war i,
wII yield little ; thit is tkerefore but a (lender i
rcfource. Land mu st not be touched ; ihat i s
> » a g r ee that is a proper obirft • a I i
may live very happily and lle P ver J c f• 1
?' But "cife, is an odious ihinL-vo, 1
must not touch domestic manufaflures, WeU if !
ommerce cant be laxed, if land cart't borax I x
f manufactures can't be taxed tho- of fupeifluou ]
luxuries, pray vvhatu to be laxed, where i, d
monty to come from to bund the frigate, 1o
fe.rnr f w "!' Aig,frs ' ,o " nf °™ PC
<pt V«s, to fort, ty your harbor,., r 0 purc P nafc
ar mmun ,t,on and military store. ? vou
rou borrow. Bui loans are as odious as excises • t:
funding fyltems „ e badge, ol fl„ery j iod lfyou ' c ,
* I
•won't lay taxes to redeem your loans, who
Will be tool* enough to trust such a government ?
That's true. Wnat a have not
kUI feme gold or filvcr mines! I hen there
would be no difficulty. Worse Hill, for the
people would 1 ecotne idle, agriculture would
decline ; rnunuf ttufces would expire ; all put>-
I'c lpjru w 'ulo be enfeebled, and we should
becomc ihe flavooi the fv ft foreign invaders.
Beware my fellow citizens, of tfiofe persons
amongst us who excite you againtt a govcr» ra '' l
which is (Training every nerve to proietl u
afamft your enemies { foreign emillaries wi 1
rejoice if the people to pay taxts, for then
your enemies may iulnit >ou with impunity.
If you fee newcomers clamoring again ft lixes
and inflaming you againftthc governmen?, you
mayjuftly fulpeft some sinister design. fr when
danger threatens from abroad, we are dif.uni
t"d at home, what >yiil becomc of our indepen
dence ?—roufe therefore, let every man contri
bute his share towards the defence of his coun
try, and »eprobatc those who under the cloak of
patriotism, are lapping the foundations of that
excellent without which we (hail
soon fall a prey to internal feuds and foreign in
vaders. The man who at this critical moment,
witholds his contributions and thereby exposes
the United States to ruin, (hews cleaily that
while he preunds to pa hotifii>,.he is nothing
bettei than a fi-lfifh inierelted person, worthy of
public execration. WARREN.
Foreign Intelligence.
FRANKFORT, March i.
| At the last Assembly of the States
; of the Circle of Swabiaat Uhn, which
; took place about thd latter end of lalt
j month, to take into consideration the de
mand of the Court of Berlin, to supply tUc
Prtrffrarr aftTryrmthe Rhine with provisions,
the majority of fufFrages was wholly un
favorable to the claims of the Pruflian
Cabinet; and it was even thought useless
to consult the other Circles on this subject.
It has been resolved on the contrary, to
fend an EJiafettc to the Emperor to solicit
his protection, and to induce him that the
above mentioned demand be withdrawn.
Meanwhile the Triple Contingent is" resolv
ed on, and they are already preparing to
pick out of the mass of the inhabitants, a
Militia of 40,000 men, who will be divid
ed into regiments, well armed, and pro
vided with regimentals.
The Courts of Wurtembergand Baden,
have already carried this measure into ex
ecution .
With regard to the Circles of Franconia
and Bavaria, intelligence has been received,
that they have positively refufed the demands
of Pruflia ; and the Eledtor Palatine of Ba
varia, who seems to be the least dil'pofed-t®-
approve of the plan of AVaR™, made a
formal proteiVagainft the Convention ot'.the
Six Circles at Frankfort, written and issued
by the Elector of Mentz.
The resolution which may be taken by the
Circle of the Upper Rhine is not yet known.
The Pruflian Minister, Count Hardenberg,
has been sent to the Landgrave of HeiTe
Caflel, to induce that Prince by negociation,
to give his vote in the Assembly of the
States, in favor o the requiiitions of the
Cabinet of Berlin.
His Pruflian Majesty fmd : ng that his plan
of iupplymg his army has been rejetfed by
lome of the Circles, and that of the Court
of Vienna, recommending the riling in a
mass, has gained the preference, has mani
ieiled his disapprobation of a general arma
ment of the inhabitants of the' Empire.
I The French commissioners dine almost
daily with General Kalkreuth. Their ne
frociations go on but slowly, and it appears
that they have not brought with them a fuf
iirient sum of money to pay off the affignats
limed at Mentz during the siege. They have
been obliged to demand frefh remittances of
the Committee of Public Welfare at Far is.
UNITED STATES.
CHARLESTON, May 1.
Capt. Rolando, of the brig Cygnet,
from New-Providence, informs, that before
PI u r the x fchooner Liberty, Captain
u t' I'°, m New " York > arrived there,
who had clcared for this port, and accord
ing to his account, was blown off the coast,
and obliged to put into that island in dif
treis ; where he communicated the refolu
i° Congress, for laying an embargo
on the .vessels in the United States. f n
conftqucnce of which the Governor of the
Bahamas immediately dispatched a packet
to England, to give information thereof
to the ctourt of Great Britain.
This information produced an immedi
ate rife in the price of provisions in the
Bahamas; and rice fold at a guinea the
hundred weight. S
DIED, on Tuesday l a st, i n the 70th
year of her age Mb. Mary St. John, wi
dow o. Mr. Audipn St. John deceased.
NEW.YORK, May i O .
Europe at this moment presents a fpec
•acle more interesting and august than was
before «hibited on the theatre of
\
this earth—France, with an arm* of ~
hundred tboul'and men, combatiji-r h a ts
Europe, and a body of 60,000 infirm,
in the heart of her te.:itones ; th , whole
country fubjeft to a high military arillo
cracy or to marlhal law : P ar ; s and "
towns distressed for food ; jealoufyand diT
trtiil reigning in the Convention ; n art ;
diitradied with violent diffentions, and al.
ready calling for a dictator: vet a.niHft
all these evils, a brave soldiery defeit tS
foes and threaten Europe with deioij
on :_lhe combined powers, defeated and
alarmed, making every effort to s upport
their tottering cause; compelling allneu
tral nations to take part in the quarrel •
Prussia wavering, and retained in the wlr
only by money ; the Germanic Hates rac
ing their peaiants in a , na f s to resist 1
French troops and to finifh lhe horr £
picture of deflation and.carnage, the R„?.
lians and lurks are preuarin^
hostilities What will be the l a st 7""*
the cataltrophe of this great, this compl'
cated political tragedy, God only know
But what madnels, what infancy woald
t be for America to engage in / he
test ; a contest that may kil for years-x
that may overthrow all the arts and the
uleW initiations, as well as government!
of Europe, and reduce mankind to a itate
of barbanfm and despotic power! Super
u mm ? J l C ° nflder this c °»teft to b
what it adtually was at fir ft, a ftru g fc fw
liberty on the ptrt of
France. But there is Willing more in
this controversy. A general devolution
in Europe will probably be the confe.
quence . and such 9 change is K likely to
end in general despotism, as fll the J fta .
blifhment of free governments. Look
at a.l the great civil commotions of
Greece, Rome Carthage, England
have they not all ended in tyranny ? Eook
at all the great conquests of ancient and
modern nations, and find one that has end
ed in freedom. Violent parties and fadu
ons always ead in reducing the weaker
party to the iron rod of despotism. The
military powers of a (late of war are in
conlmcnt with a free government ! it is
now an equal chance that some Cefar or
Cromwell, either by address or the plea
of nccefiity, will put himfelf at the head
of the French army, render himfelf die
tator, and make the civil power bend to
the military. And the people, tired of
war, ordiltrefs, of feftfon and the guil
lotine,- may otwd undei a dictator's ban- ♦
ners to Ihelter themselves from the fury of
the ttorm. God grant that such appre
hensions may be ill founded !
PHILADELPHIA,
MAY 13.
A Correspondent asks whether it confifis
with the independent spirit of Americans, to
lacrifice our own interests for the benefit of
any other nation ? If the real motives with
many for taking off the Embargo was that
France might be the more ealily fupphtd
with provisions, and if the taking it off will
again expose our vessels to condemnation in
the W eft-Indies, is this not preferring the
interests of trance to our own fafety ? *
Extradl of a letter from New-York, dated
yesterday.
" We are just returned from feeing Mr.
Jay embark—ln consequence cf a note in
the Daily Advertiser, that he would go on
board at to o'clock, upwards of a thousand
people assembled before Trinity Church,
from whence they escorted him to the ftip—
they gave three cheers on his going on hoard,
and as the ship passed the Fort, thty fired a
fahite.
Mr. Jay has taken paffagein the fiiip 0-
hio, Capt. Kemp.
ExtraS of a letter from Bojlon, dated A
pril 30, 1794.
" I observe your remark refpe&ing the
returning reason of some of our folks—it
is indeed matter of rejoicing that they are
not quite delirious—l think fobt'r reason
ing prevails more than it has for some
time part ; and hope in time it may rule
the present wrong heads. But so long
as men aim at felf exaltation above all
things, and will facriiice every thing to
climb the ladder of promotion, so long
will our country Be cursed with dich bawl
ing mock patriots.
" The Court Printers of this Town who
publilh the Chronicle, and some at the
Southward, publish papers which are
sources of corruption and nuisances in a
free country ; but so it is, and our honest
patriots iri government, must not relax
their exertions because they receive abuse
from such enemies to their country's wel
fare.
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