. . % Great is Trvth and mti/t prevail. '■ f* JUST PUBLISHED, Andfir fate at No- 41 Chefnut-Jlreet by J. ORMROD, An Apology for the Bible, I By R. Watson, d. d. f. r. s. i Bifkop of Landaff, &c. I Being a complete refutation of Paine's 1 Age of Reason, F And the only answer to the Second Part. August 30. » I dtf Prime St. Croix Sugar & Rum, Landing at Cliffords Wharf, from onboard the brig v Pragcrs, Capt. Thomas Watson— c And For Sale by Pragers & co, j AuSuft 16. dlot - Wm. HOLDER.NESSE, [ No. 76 High Street, HAS received, by the latest arrivab from Europe and the East Indie*, a well feleftcd assortment of Silk Merciry, Linen Drapery and Hafeerdaftery Goods; which he will fell, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms; AMONGST WHICH J?RE, ( Some fine India muslins em'oroidertd with gold and fflver Superfine Book, Jaconet, and Mulmul ditto Do ' do do do Handkerchiefs * Some extra black taffeties,lut«£lringsand colored Persians I Bandano Handkerchiefs ** Long and short Nankeens e English Mantuas of the firft quality v Damaflc table linen and napkins, very fine Silk Hosiery, an elegant assortment Thead and cotton do a . Umbrellas—green silk, oil'd de. and do cloth c French cambrics, very fine n Irilh Linens, do. &c. &c. June 14 § ( Lottery ' * FOR raising fix thousand fix hundred and sixty-seven p dollars and fifty cents, by a deduction of fifteen per j] . cent from the prizes, and not two blanks to a prize, viz. f I Prize of 5003 dollars is dollars .5000 X 1000 iooo ® 4 3 —r 7- aoo ioco 40 100 1000 ( 99 So 49.5° »oo is J°°° tooo 10 ao,ooo 5 Last drawn numbers of 1000 dollars each, 5000 v t 333 a Prizes. 44,4J0 (3 4018 Blanks. j 63J0 Tickets at Seven Dollars each, 44.4J0 ' By order of the Directors of the Society for eftabtith- 11 ing UtfefulManufactures, the fuperintendants of the pat- ] erfon Lftttery have requested the Managers to offer the \> foregoing Scheme to the public, and have directed them to refund the money to ihofe persons who have in the former Lottery, or exchange the tickets for tickets in this Lottery. 1 The lottery has actually commenced drawing, and will continue until finilhed. A lift of the Blanks and Prizes 1' may be seen at the oflice ot William Blackburn, No. 64 t south Second street, who will give information where tick- j ets may be procured. . Dited this 17th day of June, 1796. ' J. N- CUMMING, ~) c JACOB R. HARDENBERG, Managers. a JONATHAN RHEA, ) dtf eo j .Treasury of the United States. 0 NOTICE is hereby given to all persons who are or may be Creditors of the United States, for any sums n ■of the Funded Debt, or Stock, baring a frefent intcrejl of fix C per centum per annum. si i ft, That pursuant to an A& of Congress passed on the a stßth day of April, 1796, intitlcdan aft in addition to an aft, intituled " An ad making further provision for the support of public cradit, and for the redemption of the <3 public debt," the said debt or flock will be reimbursed and t paid in manner following, to wit. " First, by dividends t to be made 011 the last days of March, June and Septem " ber for the present year, and from the year one thousand " seven hundred and ninety-seven, to the year one thou- " sand eight hundred & eighteen inclusive, at the rate of d " one and one half per centum upon.the original capital, r " Secondly, by dividends to be made on the last day of £ December for the present year, and from the year one c " thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, to the year . " one thousand eight hundred and seventeen inclusive, at }' " the rate of three and one half per centum upon the ori- 11 " ginal capital; and by a dividend ta be made on the last g " day of December, in the year one thousand eight hun " dred and eighteen, of such sum, as will be then ade " quate, according to the contrail, for the final redemp- ~ " tion of the said flock," ad. All diftin&ion between payments on account of 11 IntereH and Principal being thus abolished by the establish- t ment of the permanent rule of reimbursement abovs de- r scribed, it has become necessary to vary accordingly • the c powers of attorney for receiving dividends; the public - creditors will therefore observe that the following form 1 is eflablifhed for all powers of attorney Which may be v granted after the due promulgation ot this notice, viz. il KNOW ALL MEN BY "THESE 'PRESENTS, thai t I of in t do maicf conflitute and appoint of my true and lawful At torney, for me, and in my name, to receive the dividends "which are, *• or Jbatl be payable according to taw, on the (here? describing the C stock) Jlanding in my name in the bods of (here describing the books of the Treasury err the Commissioner of Loans, where the flock 1 % credited) from (here insert the com- ( mcijcement and expiration -« There was no difficulty about Mr. Jteeves being the author, for that was admitted by Mr. Plomer, I hisCounfel. The only qujft ion was, whether the ( author really intended to calumniate, traduce and 1 vilify the two houses of parliament, and 'to alienate 1 the esteem of the public for their funflions, by en deavouring to cause it to be believed that the legal power and kingly office could be exercised without* ' the two houses, and to dellioy the power of parlia ment, by causing it. to be believed that the-royal power could be carried on in all its functions as well as it is, although lords and commons were a bolilhed ? It was contended on the part of the prosecution that this publication had this tendency. Oh the part of the defendant it was contended it 1 had not, and that thefc expressions on which the charge was founded were merely metaphorical, and had no reference whatever to the idea of bringing the two branches of the legislature, the lords and commons, into contempt. This question being 1 agitated at great length at the bar, Lord Kenyon proceeded to deliver his charge to the jury, in the course of which he observed, among 1 other' thing 6, that a great deal tiad been said about < this fubjeft, so much indeed, that very little re- ' mained for Uim to address to them. Early in the cause it was delivered from all necessity of proof; . for the hrft step which the counsel for the defend- I ant took, was that ef admitting the publication of 1 the took in qnefti&n by Mr. Reeves. • The fubfe- 1 quent testimony, thefefore, he confeffed, appeared, to him to be unnecessary. To a fuperficial observer ] the contest of this day might appear very unequal. < The present prosecution was instituted at the 1 command of his majesty in compliance with the ad- 1 drels of the house of cbmmons. The king had di- j rested this prosecution against a private individual. It was a beautiful feature in the constitution of this j country, an instance of which was now exhibited I in the persons of the jury, that a prosecution com- ' ing with such authority, (which under a bad I government might overwhelm an individual) was I to be submitted to them. In this country there ,1 could be no oppressive measures carried into effect, ; if any such ever be attempted, for the jury ftept ] in between the oppressors and the oppressed, and ' the accused was tried by men taken out of the fame 1 rank with himfelf to decide on his guilt or inno- ' cenee, and who, in considering all c&ies, had a lean- I ing on the fide of mercy. This was a principle 1 which was adhered to in all cases, more especially 1 in those of a criminal nature, and that was one of 1 the principal • advantages of the administration of ; the criminal justice of thitcountry. , The attorney general, as had become him, enter ed into a display of great learning on the Britilh 1 constitution. He went to the beltfourcesof infor mation upon that fubjeft, and made extra&s that did him honour in the recital, for they were chiefly from authors who had written in the molt liberal manner on our constitution. But he did not think 1 that he was giving much information to any of those to whom he was addressing himfelf, for we all kijew, at lealt every man who had received a , liberal education knew, it was a knowledge which we all carried about us, that the legislation of this countsy consists of king, lords, and commons ; that the executive power rests with the king alose, but liable to be superintended, and corrc£led too by the two houses of parliament, becaufc the king or dered nothing to be done but by the advice of his ministers t and if they mifcondudted themselves they were responsible to the two houses of parlia | ment in this country. The ministers therefore, if they mifcondufled themselves in the advice which they gave to the sovereign, they were anfwerable'to, and liable to be puniftied by parliament. The power of free difcuffien was certainly the right ef all the fabje&s of this country ; and in his opinion we owed more to the free exercise of that * right, than that of any other of the .rights of the citizens of this country. He believed it would not be faying too much, to fay we owed to the exercise of the right of free discussion, the reformation, and, 1 afterwa.ds, the revolution of this country. It was to this *a« owing the success which attended the labours of Lulher and others who opened the eyes of the people, and led them to fliakc off aad re - nounce the foperffitioti of tint Church of Rome, a and released so considerable apart ot mankind from 1 its bondage. Free difcaffion had the fame good J effc£i in producing the revolution which followed s that reformation. If therefore there fliou'd be f of the King and Stockdale, which was tried before f : him in Well mincer-Hall. In that 6rofaution, al- 1_ though it came from the fame li'jfii authority as i^ie present, the individual who was the obje£l of it t was not weighed down by the authority of the. t prosecution.' He was defended with -reat Zealand si eloquesce, and was pronouneed not guilty. *he a jury did not think that they were bound to pro- o nounce the publication a libel, but h flurried to them , selves the right of judging for'themfelvts. Tliey a 3 asserted that light, and said that the defendant was i • not guilty. On that trial it was admitted that the t< J whole of the book ought to be examined by the | jury. They were advised to do what he should ad vise the present jury to do—to take the book alonjj with them out of Court, and consider the whole > of it candidly, fairly and impartially, and out of g the whole of it, extract what their judgment " ' rfught to be, as well on the passages out of which a . delinquency was attempted to be as the p r reft. They were bound to find the defendant guil- f< 3 ty, fi r absolve him, having regard to the particu- a t lar palTages taken out and felefted on the part of o c the piofecution ; but although they mull consider ti f . these passages so abllrafteJ, yet they might, and p t they ought, to go into the in older to b 1 give to the whole the qualification or description of 1 s the book, as well as that of the paffags obje&ed, P , n A nn waa-ivrrptiKKi to the author. h r With these ofcf*rvations, he should beg leave to v • state-to the jury, that which indeed the Attorney- f e General had candidly Sated, -that in order to find- h i the defendant guilty, they mud be fawisfied of the u c evil intention of the defendant. The quo animo t was the qfiellion to be tried. The.charge was, that u ,1 the defendant, intending to raise and dif ' t< contents among lifs rpajtftv's fubjeAs, and to alie- ) nate their affeflions, and to deflroy the eonili'.ution u il and the government of this realm, by dellroying f s the power of the two Houses of Parliament, and r . to cause it be believed, that the regal power might c as welt" be carried on in all its functions, although I n Lords and Commons in Parliament should be abo- v , liftied, as if they aflembled, did pablllh the book in ' t question. Or in other words, that the defendant t e endeavored to impress upon the minds of the pub- 1 il lie, the idea that the legal power may, confident- 1 ly with the freedom of this realm, be carried on r -j by the king, although the two House? of Parlia- i j ment should never alfemble. That was the 'sub- a fiance of the information. That wa6 the question, £ 0 (which depended on the qui) animo J which the ju- c ry had to try. They were to find whether their f t confidences were Satisfied that this was. the motive c - which influenced the defendant in puhlifhing this a e book. This the attorney*general and the defend- c ; ant's counsel admitted to be the charge. His lord- i . ship then said he had never read one word of this f book. He confeffed it had been in 'his power to . read it, but he abllained, because he thought he I , should come to that court on the trial fitter for the 1 purpose with his mind a blank in any other . condition. [Here the noble and learned judge then c e read the principal paragraph on which the charge f . was founded, and which we have copied in the be- » . ginning of this our (hort account of the trial.] t That was a paragraph of which the jury were to f s judge, and ingoing so, they should judge of the mo- f i tives with which the defendant publilhed it. That i - was not to be his decision, for with the decision he \ J had nothing to do, but it was tu be the desyfion of i s the jury ; but he would fay tbij, that if it were to \ e be his decision, if the verdict was to be his verdict, r , and not that of the jury, he would examine the t t pamphlet word by word, and take them together t J with him out of that court. He should afterwards l e decide with every fair leaning to mercy. With e- a - very fair leaning* he said to mcrqy, npt to do away \ the criminal law, for it was eftential to the iuterefts i e of this country to enforce the criminal as well,as the 1 y civil part of the law. But it was to be remembered if that alllaw, and efpecial'.y the crimirfal law,was to be' f administered in mercy 5 for the king himfelf, by his coronotion oath, was bound to adminifler the law in mercy. The cafe was now for the jury to de- • h cide, and with them he would leave it. The Jury retired and remained out of court an ' t hour. When they returned, the foreman said, X "My lord, the jury are of opinion that the pam il " phlet which has been proved to have been writ k " ten by John Reeves, esq. is a very improper pub-1 ' if " lication. But being of opinion that his motives 1 e " were not such as laid in the information, find him" 1 a " nolzuilty.'' h is RATISBON, June 20. , it The Emprets of Russia has caused her Ambaf it fador to uiake an oral deelaration to the diet of the ' y German Empire tp the following import. r- " Her the Empress of all the Ruffias, is in contcquenee of the lively interest she was always :s used to take in the prosperity of the German em i- pire and of ail its ftates'in general, has with great if attention observed the courfeof the war in which it 1 h is at present involved. Her majesty «ould as little ' J, refufe her approbation to the solicitude and zeal which she remarked in several of the states, who, ie partly, even at the price of very extraordinary fa is crifices, joined clofcly with the chief of the Empire at in defence of the common cause ; as, on the other ie hand (he had been forced to remark with regret, < it that all have not a&ed wirh the fame accord, and fc observed the duties of states of the Empire, v The d, closest friendfhip and the new treaties entered into as by her Imperial Majesty of Russia' with his Majefly ie die Roman Emperor commanded hsr to make it a es particular object of heT foliciuide for procuring an t/ .lOßorafcle peace, t« preffingly the meraberi ' '■* and ftetes ofMie Empire to fulfil faithfully tliri? sacred duties towards his Imperial Majesty wdtho Empire. FRANCE, June 3. Louvet is now daily printing letters from the South, all tending to demonstrate, that th< late plot was conceited with the reyalifts, and aft-J ; n co-operation with Conde's aiiry. Upon this Tub- tcmpefate reflections 314 written by the Editor of L'Eclair. We must cxpedt these fables from the South, but we should receive them with diltruft, come thro' what channel they may- For their imaginantion is fo~ardent that they fee nothing under its true point of view : there every thing is exaggerated—. ' sentiments become passions. We cannot, there. fore, too seriously intreat good citizens in thofe parts to distrust the propriety of their jufteft resentments, to be Hipon their guard against every plan of ven? geance, to repel every thing tending to re-a&ion, and to look to the government alone for the redrefi of every grievance. If we may believe the letters from FranV.fort the army of Conde has reeeived orders to march for Italy, to cover the imperial dominions in that quar. tcr. > From the Rutland Herald. About 6or 8 year? pad, in - the month of Au. gust, Governor Marsh's barn, in Hartford, Vermont was consumed by fire, with a large quantity of hay and grain. Various were the conje&urea with rcf« pest to the cause of its taking fire. Many suppo sed it done by some evil minded perfou some were apprehenlive it was occasioned by the fermentation ot the hay, which the governor hath pra&ifed put ting into his barn, the day it was mown, and bat partly k'ried. Others were of opinion that vegeta ble fermented "heat could not become so intense.— The Governor built another large barn, and has pradtiied putting up his hay as ufoal ; it would heat and smoke for some time, until the n.oitture was evaporated, and then those appearances would subside. The present year, the governor mowed his hay early, when full in the sap ; and put up as usual, about 40 tons in a large mow : it continued to ferment longer thart usual, and the smoke was unusually great, On the 22d Augult inft. two of -the neighbours were pafiing tlie barn, and difcorer jng~the smoke increased beyond what, had been usual, went into the barn and ascended the mow ; the smoke prefled violently from near the centre of the' mow, where it had been hardefttrod when mowing ; observing with attention, they discovered now and then a faint slash of blaze rife and extinguish intha k vapour. They immediately alarmed the neigh bourhood, who collected a quantity of water ; they" took the handle of a fork and ran it down .where the centre of heat appeared ; it went down its length after paffingthe hay on the top, without, meeting reftflajice, and on pulling it out, the flame followed * it. They immediately ftifled the Same, and went to unmowing the hay, and by their vi gilant exertions, and the application of'upwards of one hundred buckets ofwaier, and unmowing the hay, the bam and hay were saved, except near the centre <>f the mow ; diameter", of about fix or eight feet, uid lather larger perpendi cular, wasreduced to perfect coal. ,lt is supposed it had been burning a number of days. E. B. Mode of Breaking STEERS to the draft ma few Days. LET the farmer carefully yoke his fleets in y close yard or (table, and not move them till they get fufficiently accustomed to the yoke, fu that they will eat their food when yoked ; which will be in the courfeof a day. Let them again be yoked the second day, and a pair of gentle horses or oxen be faftened before them, in which ftatioulet them stand until they become familiar with said horses or oxen, which will generally bp effected in one day, except ing the steers fhouid be uucommonly wild, which will occasion a second day's pra&ice, after the fame manner ; and the next day the steers be yoked, ' the horses or oxen put before them as usual, and let them be faftened to a waggon or any other caniage, theyfearing the cariiage behind them, and being accustomed to the old oxen before, will proceed for ward without being whipped or hriil.fed.. TW the above piocefs.the farmer will never fail of success in having good working oxen. A FARMER. THIS DAT IS PUBLISHED, [Price one quarter of a > Embelliflied with a curious Frontispiece, The Adventures of a Porcupine; Or the VILLAIN UNMASKED, BEING" the Memoirs of a notorious Rogue lately in .' the British' army, and ci-devant member ol an eitenuve , light-finolßed association in England, Containing* . narrative of the mofl extraordinary and unexampled c pravity of condm& perhaps ever exhibited to the wor , in a Letter to a young gentleman in Sew-York. " These things are strange, but not more strange th»n trus." , 1, To which is added, A Postscript to Peter Porcupine: Being remarks on a Pamphlet, lately, publilhed by im, , entitled, his " Life and Adventures, i BY DANIEL DETECTOR. " I'll tell the bold fae'd villain that he lies. Sold by A. & J. O. Henderson, cornerof Relief and Carter!* Alley, back of No. 77, Dock-street, an ) , different in this city. wf&m • For Sale, : «\ A new Printing Prefrj r PRICB-NINETY-FIVE J3QLLARS, CASH.— Enquire, , of the Primer. co d 3 t. i ?e P l - 3- __ I- To be disposed of, ' time of a healthy NEGRO WOMAN, who --A X has between four and-five years to lervo- . ' can be recommended for her sobriety and hone f • 1 oarticulars enquire at No. 132, Chefnut-ftrtti. Auguit 3, • ■»«»• .