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flitri, Rotb, fr lb 11 Nutmegs, per lb. II
■ifies, pot p cr t*>r X ?° Oil, linseed, per gall. 133
IJO Olive,
%*.:rcr f , per gallon, ditto, per cafe\ 9
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'_7 r;:<riv, common,
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Mahogariy,pr foot Ditto per jar, 6
above are the jhallop Ditto per box ?
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' Myrtle Vfax 10 —American, per ton 133 33
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exvt. 16 a 18 Sugar, lump, per lb. 13
Catto*, per lb. 33 <» 30 — Loaf, Jingle res. 17 .
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Ravens II 3° " 1 Ditto broivn 16
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Flax, ditto II civt. 14 66
F/ax/eed, per bujicl I Sp. Turpentine pr gall. 66
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Common s 10 3® Liverpool 3*
—Bur middVings, betl\ 93° -—Cadiz 60
* Meal, Indian 4 £5*66 —Lijbon 56
. . ditto Rye, 3 building IV. 0.
Shipjiuffpet. 367 frames per ton 12 67
per ton, 13 >lUa Live Oai, 26
Gin, Holland per cafe, 30 Do. Red Cedar pr foot
Do. per gall. I 40 Shingtis 18 inches,pr I
Glut', per lb. t 18 M, 4
Ginger,'xuhite race,pfcwtlZ. Ditto % feet 9
Ditto, common 16 Ditto 3 feet dressed 16
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Ginseng, * per lb. 30 nuhitc-oakhogshead 43 33
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qr. caff, 13 1 Leogan 16 33
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—Barley, I 20 —Ditto red, I 20
——bejljbcliedpr.lb. —Martins ~'C |
Buckiubeat per —Filers 37
buff el, "73 —*Bea ye 3
Mams, pr. lb. J3 —Racoons 60 1
//W/, imported, per —Mujl-r*!), 37 I
to:, 300 —Beaver, per lb. I 64 |
American, perlb. IO —Deer, in hair 25 «33
-Herrings, ptr bbl. 6 Tar, 3a gall.
Hides, raw pr. lb. 8 #<9 P er
Flops, 10 —Carolina, $lgall. 130 '
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-e-Carotifia, I 100lb. 7 i 8 ,
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-trim, cajmigs per c-.ot. 4 —Potowmac 3a J
Pennfylv.bar scarce Georgia 6a 7
120*12667 *Carolina 4 a J I
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32 —Hyson Jlin, 83
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per-trwt. 5 —Bohca, 33 I
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DJleber 12.
the gazette of the united states.
x No. 11.
A FEW comments on T. Jefferfon't very ridi
culous and elaborate attempt to that the
' ncgrots art an inferior rait of animals, will place in
a just light the philtjophical merits of the aathor :
3 The /arxgoing paflage has been felefted because it
it among those which have been mod admired by
the author's friends.
Firll we sbferve an affected anxiety to emanci
pate the negroes of Virginia, why, " in order to
vindicate the liberty of the human race;" but this
commendable zeal prffently yields to a more inte
-5 . resting anxiety " to preferye the b;auly of the hu
man race."
0 To extricate himfelf from the embarraffmsnt in
-0 tc which he is thrown by the confliSing desires of
0 " vindicating the liberty of the human race," and
" prefervifig its beauty," he hits on the notable ex
pedient of emancipatiHg all the slaves of Virginia,
and then inilantly fhippttig them off, like a herd of
black cattle, the Loriknows where. The desire
of preserving the beauty of the human race pre
j dominates, however, in the mind of our philofu
-8 pher j for notwithllanding the Dave* are to enjoy a
4 momentary freedom, they arc fuddenlv after to be
seized, bound, packed on board vefiels, andagainll
their consent exported to f»Me less friendly regions,
where they might be all murdered or redaced to a
3 more wretched (late of flavery.—Soch are the no»
7 ble and enlarged views of philosophical politicians!
4 But some juftificatinn mult be given for the latter
. part of this emancipatiag and merciful project :
It was neceflary therefore to prove thtt the blacks,
(whose emancipation was requiSte to vindicate the
liberty of the human race,) were not in fa«t of the ,
hufnan rttee, for N this must be the author's meaaing,
' if there be any meaning in his work, for the idea
5 of two or more human races, a black human race, 1
and a white human race, is too abfuid even for
1 him to have suggested ;it is tme his exprefliensare '
1 so vague and contradi&ory that it is difficult to
t ascertain very precisely his meaning, but taking
t the whole together, it results in thu, that the i
> blacks are a peculiar race of animals below man and 1
above the eran outang, a kind of tertium quid, a 1
( high kind of btute, hitherto undefcribed. I am
3 at a loss to annex any other rcfult to the following '
expressions and observations, viz.—" The real dif
; tinftions which natare has made"—a difference in '
' ' the two races"—comparing the preference which 1
the blacks have for the whites to the preference of 1
; the or an outang for the black women—secreting less 1
t by the kidnies, and more by the glands of the 1
skin than the \vh'ites—difference of ftrudtifre in the '
\ pulmonary apparatus—being in reason much infe- '
rior to the whites—-different species of the Amt
t genus, or varieties of the fame fpeciee---their ex
-3 iHence participating more of sensation than .reflec
-5 tion—gradations in the different races of animals.
The confulion of ideas which pervaded the un
-1 derftanding of our author through the whole of
this very ingenious and learned dissertation mult be
manifeft. At one moment he is anxious to eman
cipate the blacks, to vindicate the liberty of the
human race—at another he difco«ers that the hlarks
are of a different race ftom the human race, and
; therefore when emancipated they must be inilantly
removed beyond the reach of mixture, lead he (or
! (he) should Jlain the blood of his (or her) mailer,
not recoile&ing what from his situation and other
; circumstances he ought to have recollected—that
; this mixture, may take place, while the negro re
j mains in slavery : he mud have seen all around him
> fufficient mirks of this flaining of blcod to have
' been convinced that retaining them in slavery would
not prevent it, and he must have been that
, the mixture would not be the less degrading from
r the emancipated late of the black. At another
moment he discovers that the blacks are indeed a
! part of the race, but than they are a differ
ent species of the fame genus, or they and the
j whites constitute varieties of the fame species. In
> one ptace he asserts with confidence " that thc-y
are in reason mucfc inferior to the whites jn ana
} ther he seems to'doubt it ;•" this difference of co
lour and perhaps of faculty;" to jnftify the eman.
ci pat ion of the blacks, they are made a part of the
human race, to jullify their emancipation, they are
classed with the brutes.
f But the molt extraordinary of all the felf con*
traductions of this phitofopltcr is found in a letter
; ! written, while secretary of Hate, to a negro named
t . Benjamin Banneier, which letter having a dose re
' lation to this fubjsdt may very propeily be here
introduced.
> We have seen from the above quotations that our
author was decidedly of opinion—j ft That there
t was a fixed difference in nature between the whites
1 and blackb—ad That this amounted td a diftinfti
on, conllituting the blacks a different race—3d That
, the blacks were in reason much inferior to the whites,
r their existence participating more of sensation than '
' reflexion—4th That this inferiority was evidently '
not produced by their condition, but by nature.
( The negro Benjamin was the reputed author of
( an Almanac, which was either dedicated to or sent,
with forae complimentary epistle, to his brother
author, our philosopher, whose philosophy was of
so pliant a quality that, ioltantly forgetting all his
• learned discoveries on the skin and f?arf skin and 1
kidnies of ths unsavory Afiicans he fat down and
wrote to brother Benjamin a fraternizing epistle, in '
which he rejoices to find that nature has given to
his black brethren talents equal to those of other co
lours, and that the appearance of a want of them,
is owing merely to the degradedcondition of their ex
, iftence, both in Africa and Ameiica." He then
adds his wifhe* for the speedy emancipation of the i
negroes in the United States, asfaft as circumstances 1
will admit. Here we find a direS and flat contra- c
diaion to all his assertions ob this fubjeft in his Notes;
from which we must infer, either that that work a
was compiled with so much inaccuracy, and such t
want of information or refleflion, that the mofttri- t
vial circumstance was fufficient to induce him so t
contradict ir» contents himfelf, or that.he was so I
influenced by a ridiculous vanity, so tickled by a a
filly compliment'from an unsavory animal of an in- r
, fertor race, as wilfully and publicly to contradict,
without any (hame or regard to public dcccncy, his t
i.l former afferrions, ft ill believing them to he we!!
founded. Hi 3 panegyrist may chobfe from the a
bove alternatives, that which maybe the leail inju
rious to his friend. He will probably attempt to
i- vindicate the philosopher by introducing his canior
ie Avhich led hire to recant an error. The wonderful
in produ&ion of Brother Benjartiin, he will fay> has
•; convinced him of the untruth of his former do&riije.
it But this apology will not do ; bceaafe the Aotes on
iy Virginia prove our philosopher had fcen the
• -uted works of other lilaeks, at leafl equal in
n'trit to Brother Benjamin's, and had fuggelled,
to that they were the production of fame white person,
is falfelf attributed to the negro. He had fully con
e- fidered and discussed this fubjeft : this appears from
j. the preseding quotations; but to leave no room for
doubt on this point, a further quotation (hall be in
n. ferted. Our author, hi his great zeal to support
as his doctrine of the inferiority of the race of the blacks,
id proceeds thus to the proof : " Thejr are in reason
c- much inferior to the whites; as, 1 think, one could
a, fearcely be found capable of tracing and compre
){ hending the ir.veftigatiorts <if Etidid ; in intagina
•c tion, rhey are dull, tasteless and anomalotis. Many
have been brought up to the handicraft arts ; some
have been liberally educated and all (in America)
a have lived in ceuntries where the arts and sciences
ie arc cultivated to a considerable degree, and had
(I before thetr eyes fa triples of the belt works from
abroad. The indians, with no advantages of this
a Irfnd, will often caive figures on their pipes, not
>. deft it utt of design and merit; they will crayon eit
I an animal, a plant, or a country, foasto p/ove the
;r existence of a germ rn their minds, wfiicW only
: wants cultivation. They aftoni/h you with strokes
8) of the mod sublime oratory, such as prove their
e reason and sentiment strong, their imagination
e glowing and elevated : but never yet could I find,
r, that nblaci had ujtercd a thought above the level of
( plain narration—never fee even an elementary trait
• t of painting and sculpture. Leve is the peculiar
, r ostrum of the poet : their love is ardent; but it
e kindles \hc sense only, not the imagination. Reli
-0 gionj indeed, has produced a Phillis IVhsdtly, but
g it could not produce a poet. The compolltions
c published under her name, are below the dignity of
d criticism. Ignatius Sanchi has approached nearer
„ to msnt in his compoiition : Though we admit him
n the firft place among thofc of his own colour, who
g have presented thenafelvcs to the public judgment;
yet, when we compare him with the writers of the
i, race among wh6m he lived, and particularly with
h 'he epistolary class, iji which he has taken his own
(land, we ate compelled to enroll him at the bottom
"s <f the column. This o*iticifm supposes the letters
c published under his name, to be genuine, and to
e have recttved amendment from no other hand, points
.. which •wou'd not he easy of invejfigation, (furpiifing
t the fame refieftiotis did not oqctir refpefting Bei«ja
. min, the almanac-maker!) The improvement of the
- blacks, in body and mind, in thefiifl injlance of their
mixture with the whites, has been observed by every
. one, and proves, that their inferiority is not the rffeft
t mcr 'b °f deir condition of life. Among the Romans,
t their flaws were often their rarrjt artifls ; they ex.
_ celled too in science, infomuph as to be utually em
c ployed as tut./rs te th-ir mafte.V children. Epic
s tetus, Terence and Phcedrus were ilavri; but they
J wirt of the race of •whiter. It is not their condition,
y then, hut n.'.tvrs, which has produced the diftinftion."
r F.om the above it is evident, that he had well
~ examined this fubjeft, and that his direfland Profs.
r contradiction of all this do&rine, so soon after,
t fpiung entirely from a ulifh to acquire a little popu
•- lari, y Wltfl tfle free HCgroes. No other solution can
, be given. What mult we now think of i philofo
e pher, who, in one publication, afTeru '« it to be
1 P r ™ d > that inferiority of the blacks it not the
t effedt merely of their condition of life, but a diflinc
n " on o J ra " produced by nature;" and in another,
r " at " " owin g W<rely to the degraded can
a dition of their existence." Did he flatter himfclf
that his letter to Banneker would escape pfiblica
c tion, and only be handed round among the free
a who probably never had read his Notes, or
P it they had, would forgive the pafl injury, on tc
- count of ,llc P'.efent recantation > Did he hepe
thus ,o escape deteaion, and then artfully t9 ob
- J. a,n ,ht tharaderof a great and sagacious pbilo
e ropher with the friends of negro slavery, while he
e would be rewarded with the plaudits of the aboli
tion Wt.es and free negroes ?—Whit (hall we
. think of a secretary of Jl,ate thus frattrnixir.,g with
r negroes, writing them complimentary epi/tles, ftil
j ing t cm his black brethren, congratulating them on
the evidences of their genius, and a {Turing th C m of
e wLf fl thf j r fpced >' 'mancipation;
what must the nuzens of the southern slates, par
r ticularly, whofc llavcs are guaranteed to th em as
e property by the couftituiion and taws of the
IIT K U r CS la r k "! 8 f«ret*ry of tki United .
■ ™' "hose peculiar/Juty it was to watch over
t the tnterefts ot evety part of the Union, who at
, c ha " rd of the primary nit«re(ts of these states
n promulgates his approbation of a lpeedy emanci'
such a cam!,date for the officc of president of the
f United States ?-What will they fay to thc£7^,v
, ° f e /°" ll ' er " who (hall be f 0 entirely re
r gatdlefsof the interests future peace and tran- '
{ qu.lljty of their count.y as to vote for such a per- '
s lon. But th.s fubjeft, from its importance, requires
3 a further confutation. ,
1 PH OCION t - X 1
» *• • " ''
> Latest Foreign Intelligence, !
'Br THS rXANXUH. ,
ROME, July go.
' AlK in " t de P 3rturf ° f tbe Fr «ch princefles for ,
: Albano, the ancient arms of Franco have been ta. I
5 ken downfrom theirphce, as well as ftom every i
- other public place in this city.
; _ The late penitentiary processions were efcotted bv l
: a numerous body of treops, and attended by more i
. than 40,0c0 person,. These public ads of devo!
' t ! on ar ® fa ' d have Succeeded in allaying animoft
. ties to such. a degree, that several Sre-arms, dagger'- i
> &c. have been deposited and h.ng upon the flu ri ' |
i and on this account they are to be continued feve! I
- ral days longer. j
, Even the envoy of hi. halinef.. p ],ys his part in
s thu Italiaa trag,-comedy. On hearing the . ;<• -| <
4
rell nes of Wi-.rrtfer, He flopped all conference wii
a- the dire&jry, pretending that his pojv et6 w erc Do j
ju- fufficient. £ince the defeat of that general, h
10 modestly renewed hit solicitations for a peace. Th-4
!or rpoftolic Nuncio should, however, be told " t) la j
ful his million is not of this world." We do not
las fact, make war against the pope, but againlt 'the
#e. king of the Romans.
on The individuals who raised the infurre&ion at
he Cape-Francois, when general Laveaux was impri
in foned, are arrived at Bayonne. They are fourteen
:d, in number, iucladisg their general, Vilatte They
>n, are confined in the citadel un;il further orders (hail
>n- arrive.
•m Piince Borghefe has arrived here from Naples
: or with a considerable contribution towards the ex
in- pence* of the war. Other feudatory loros are ex
jrt pe&ed in the fame manner.
is, The inveftigatian of the miracles and heroic vir.
R on tues of St. Benedia Joseph Labre, having term ;_
ild nated, his body has been taken tip, and temcmd
•e- in the presence of feveial cardinals, prelates and
ia- Other nobility.
ne < DARMSTADT, August 9.
a ) The French have now ceaf-d to treat us with
:es raildnefs. On oQr country, .which is other wik
ad fuificiently burdened with debt, a contribution of
m 5,000,000 livres has teen imposed. GinfTeri with
lis itsdiflrifts, is to pay 150,000livres. Bur.it being
ot inipoflible immediately to taife so large a sum, tlic
,t French have sent fiat petfons of diltin&Lu as hof.
le tages to Strasbourg.
ly i'he republicans also l«vy heavy contributions on
es other countries and difiriftn. Nafllu Dillenburg is
ir pay 1 So,coo livres j the county of Hacken
>n tutg, 90,000 ; ar.d Wetzlaer, 80000 livres. The
d, county of Witgcnftein Berlenbiirg, though com
as proinifed in the line of demarcation, is alfu to pay
it a contrioutior. The French commissary Gauticr,
3r has orders to levy the reft of the contributions at
it Wctslaer.
jt LONDON, August 26.
H The Bruflels papers to the 21ft, which we re
jf ccivcd yesterday, fay, that the advanced posts of
rr the French which have taken Lindau, Conflance
m and Bregentz, have advanced as far as Memigen.
, 0 another column coming Ulm, has joined/'
. the advanced guard of the iCrmer, and are both
,e marching to Munich. The Auftrians have taken
a formidable position behind Lech.
, n General jourdan has refufed to treat Ratifton
m as a neutral place.
A letter from Wilhelmfoad of the 15th instant,
0 announces that the advanced guard of the Fren*h
u is ft' l ' at Schambach, near Ratifbon, and often
feuds reconnoitering parties in the fubuibs, on the
~ lef t bank of the Danube. Prayers had been offer-
Ie ed up at Munich for the welfare of the ttase, the
jr maintenance of religion, and a speedy conclufioa
of peace.
I! t LONDON, August 27.
s> The fallowing is a letter from 3n officer on board
{ * the Repulse man of war, dated off Helvoet, Au
j. R '7 •—" Our little squadron, confiding of the
Repulse man of war, Amphtcn and Greyhound
, y fr 'g»tes, Albatross, Hazard and Argo, floyp* u s
f war, have been for these ten days off this port,
blocking up the Dutch fleet, which consists ot the
jj Resolution, of 74 guns ; Brutus, of 66 ; Dels;, of
r 50 j Fuiy, of 36 ; and Mercury, of 24, befjdes a
r b, 'g a "d a schooner. They have twice (hewed an
inclination to come out and engage us, but return- /
ed again. Admiral M'Bride's squadron is now off
° the Texel."
1C Armifiice between :hi French Reptibi c ar.d the Circle
ef Franconia. ,
|_ C We, the undersigned members of the general
convention of the circle of Franconia, charged in
r » the name, and with the full power of, all the coitt
'* tries of the said circle, including the immediate
Franconian Knights of the Empire of all the fix
places, and Atignlfus Ernout, general of divifi .n,
e &c. farnifhed with proper powers on the part ef
the citizen and commander tn Chief Jourdan, anima
ted with the tiefire of lecuring the tranquility, of
c the inhabitants of the circle of Franconia, and of
consolidating the poffefiions which the vittoriou*
1 armies of the French republic have gained, have
made an agreement conhfting of the lollowing ar
ticles :—
c Art. I. The orders (hall be given for
1 the moll scrupulous obfervancc of the proelainati
on, publicly printed and promulgated by the com
' mander in chief, refpefting the iecurity of person
' and property, the maintenance ot religious worfhtp,
» and the laws and cnfloms of the country.
IT. By virtue of the preceding article, every in
-15 habitant is enthorifed to airett, orcaufe to be a'rrtf
® ted, such soldiers or other persons belonging to the
army, as shall be found plundering or committing*
r other exce/Tes, and they shall be delivered up to the
' next commandant, and punidied according to the
!• rigour of the law.
Hi. All the inhabitants of the circle of Frarf
conia, with tl;» illuitrious Rates who have left their
e refseflive residence to avoid for a moment all the
horrors of war, are at liberty, with their families
and feivants, as hkewile with all their property to
return within two decades (20 days] to reSfton from
the publication of the present inUiument, they (hall
then enjoy the fame lecurity and the fane proMM
tion as the other quiet inhabitants, who take no
( P arl ln the events of tha war. After the expirati
on of the two decades, none of them shall be allow
ed to return without special pcimiffion from the
commander in chief.
IV. The circle of Franconia /hall pay to the
French government, a contiibution of eight miili
r ons of livres in ready specie, of which however,
- two millions may be set off by furnifting neccffi
f rics or provisions for the armies.
V. The payment of the lix millions in fpecic, is
f to be made to the paymafler-general of the French
e army (according to the fevtral terms), fixed the
- whole within forty-five days.
VI. aud VII. Relate to the manner of difchnrg
, ing the two remainiug millions in necessary provi
, lions, &c.
111. The circle of Franconia (hsll elfo furnifil
2000 horses sot the cavalry, in two Hated terms.
1 IX, and X. Rdate to the re-partition of the
f -ontributiow, for vvhich sit military ccnunii»de-'>