WINE. at , wharf, TEME- ,t piKPK VVIXS.-oC .xCeHcntquaKry. in uii iis anil I-;i 1 r pin-, fur fa'e ! y "JAMES VARI). WbL OA. it'. eoßt ~TrT'be"Ler,,at a moderate Rent, , i-pH'i prist'iim of a HOUSE, wit'in a I ,hi>rt i'iftafi' eof the Coffee-h'.'ufe,.which has »tpg h.rn or. u- iid 1' 1- the l*a But month", confiding Ivive cf a fpo.l tlijiiss roam aud-paTlosr 'wpWroomi fay r a a .IrxiTi - ro:im. two gure's, ki'cKen, worii j ul .; r , vau't ami c-Uar, all in excellent 01'.er, fit for-tjw , . r^V^p'i.in of xfa'all fa nily. Noi;r rwetl am-iy but 'h-'-'e who are refpeilable and trqa'r • ar'the office of this Gazette. | the C Olybrr nifh ; N O T I C E. patle A LT, pff.n- InVWWeH rwlhe eflat# of To - n with J\_ Striker, late of Tinnecum Tevnfhiff, Buck's County, sre rcquefted to pay rff their f rtfpj flive tfebta and those havhi'g *ny J . e < ; n f ov rtisiuls ag<inft laid eflate, are desired to bring in tlicir arrfiunis, to :■ JOSEPH C'!.-iMJSEHLAIX, -2 ) Execu- UAI.ILT P2£VALT, S tors. Ofh< Sept. 18. q|iaw 4 _\f_ nera The Medical Lectures' 0 £ I-. TV Ifnire'Ttty cf Pennfylvanla, ?re post- V one<i until the iat Monday in November | ; ' 'oiaober it- _ _ • i of v The Healtb-Office j vc ' c !o I Ci'y-Hail, and i-Jrcptopen | • 2nd! dry wrier" hiving Win- f> may j \Vm. Hcaitli-Ofiicer. inft. P at " " N O i' I c E. i THE OJHc" of the Dep irtnunt of Wac.are for eigh s the prtfent near to the Falls of the Scuyl- ill ; till, on the Ridge Koad. er p; flypferr.her 4. IL_ ]y in MEDICINES. i !- op rvirykird nectffiry for ihe sick also, 5a- , an t po, Barley, and Oatmtl. for diet drink, ill kc I com <lei vered gratis iurirg the pre fat contagion, to ! th-fc who ar- unahle to pay for it. at j amj I.:.bora*or)', No. Jt4, Second Street. M EDICIN ES. . thoi 't"HE Pner who may find it inconvenient, from conl i'i*>arc ■, to make n'fe of Mr. Honrra's truly me- teIK rituri<His off r, will be fuppfied with meiicine=— t y g r.eo, barley, oatmeal. &c. by ap-lyinj at the labfcrib-r's tfo. ;,6', Mr.rket (Ireet. 11 ROBHRT S STAFFORD. mpf the Philadelphia, At/ion, and 1 ucierton f ] aVl Mi/A 11. STAGE. dife ~1~1I H. > r T->*riclnri leg Uuvt to infirm the tt b'.ic, that (i.'v eJlMficd a Stag! bctn ltn Pkih<k!/>bia, A Jim. It t"«, Hnm/yttn, Sfrfhutll, "rJ Martha Fur' v/rt, WaJi'g Rwr flUling mltl. Ik* turn Turl i» A'/-.- *>.7' a , '" i » a " i To W -.ill bm-fci, a nmfarUllt carries, ""d 9 'j"- fjt Jrivtr, for the (Mvr:a*ce of Its mail, pajfrngcriiaml , TLr Sift wi'.l flart mry'Ti'i'/Jay, "I 1° , ■ .HI., A. tVr./r.m Mr. Dxnitl Cmftr'l I'errrl and tile hJ;e that "•;!>! «' 7"*' at Lmgaariing ; \flnd talll i cm F'iJ.'y at 6 •'</«♦. P- At- ft— E- mel V3Tl't, in\ ~e<f>ir, 11 t»c!erf*n, d\"a-t from tktcily S4 at ( »;/.•r, ! fro* th AlUuttit 6, and from 111 EaJ! Groftng . 1 m.'ts J -ulxrp are gt.-d - 'j vtHer f, and -.ilcrt are cnmmciitiiii andfafe pajtgc boats fr.T.i, '•■/ to c-IV.-J Mfaf's C«p'-William War ma; ■viMu'i boufs, on Tucker's IJland, adjoinining the At- t ; cl Lmtie, b. r, are %r.od jceommoa.iliaiu, and a convenient ' fLc to Me ; tie rportf-tan wbo loijle, ti rcgJe bimfetf trilb frvlhn amt~fling, may at this pUe be M t fieJ. there Ling at .ilmofi every ftafm of the year foivt Call and fit in abundance.—Tbe Stage on its return, Jlar's tim from 'fc'afor'faid C. Evan's ii Ttscierfn, every thi: ,<!av, «/ A t'doch A. M breikfafis at John Bodines, at IV.iJiw River Bridge, lodge that night at Lon^acoming^ a,. lai I oe.'o-b, P. M. oi iVtdnrfisy. arrive at the ) esfir.fi It Cher's Perry. It is framed thatroute of bet en equal dtfante ni.il! be left expcnfnic, or furnijh tbe tra ful ve'-ler «■ th a greater v iriely of tmiftrrcnt, as be toill co , n-t orly hro, a p Want fill to tbe alUnt c fr),m Tucler- i-.n, but liav- the curnfiy of sonf on the road tvllber a Member if capital furntcss aid forger, and o e flitting . mitt, in comf'.e t ord-r, end at I; ge .tlemcn, too, nvbo tri( are otvn-rs, or faclors, of ary of tbe aforrfiid iron -worts, the fire filicited to encourage and 'fipport ibis jflage (by n b.tb Jjj 3 shey can be si -v t ll accommodated) the continuance of ,rbub o( | ■trill much d,fend on their aid. The ratrs of poj.ngers and b-ogage are as filler, . For a pdffenger from t e ln ' aforrfaid Daniel Coofer's Ferry to Tuderton, deluding wt 14 11. of baggant, T-.VO Dolhrs ; fir it/ay pajengers ha fcr mile. Four Cents—l 5° ">■ °f ' P"f all fencer. P«/!agc of letter., uenvfpapers, SsV. -will be set uvr*rabU to la-tv* ,V. B. Ibe mail coffeefr m tbe Old Ferry. THOMAS iVARDLE Es" Co. ful Tucler!on, Sept. I?. Ofi.s. —2*vtf th I The Norfolk Mail STAGE. gr -"pHIS Sta S <Ttarts from the GEORGE Tavern, th 2. of the comet* of Second and Arcb Streets, in Philadelphia, ry. iy Tulfday, TLurfday, an A Satur- a s da~, at 1 t/'elack, in the irorning; arrives at Do- , vi*r the fir ft day, at Snowhill the second day, at Northampton Court House the third day, and on ap the morning of th- fourth day the pafTengcrs find m a fafe aad comfortable packet to convey them to' w; Norfolk. dt A packet leaves Norfolk for Northampton fetry, , every Tuefdny, and Saturday, and the Stage start» from this Terry for Philadelphia, every re Mon Jay,' Wednesday and »i J .ay; put» up at Snow of Hill th- firft night, at Dover the. ad night, and ar- J tives in Philadelphia in the evening of the third m C The diftanee on this rout^, between Philadelphia and Norfolk, is lo miles less than on any stage route b< between those places Too much cannot be said in favor of the road, fc] v.hich is most excellent indi»d. The proprietors willingly engage to whole fare to any palfenger, who, after having; performed this route, . wjll fay that he ever travelled in a stage for the fame iiftanee, so good a road in America. ai Anguft 11. . dim, eotf. c . * r,. r It Peale's Museum. This valuable repofitcry of the works of Na ture, so well calculated to delight the mind and enlarge the underfkndmg, i»opened daily, a. j ufiial It , (lands in an iiry and"healthy situation, and free from the epidemic th-t at present afSiila the city ;it may, therefore, be frequented with L the greateS fifety. As an Air.ufcment, the fludy of Nature is the most rational and pleating 1 as a Science, the mod j fubiime and infl'ru.live. It elevates the mind and expands the heart. They j «' iVbom Nature's nvtrls can charm, -frith God limf-f j O " Hold mnrerfe." u Many inrer.-flirg additions have lafty been. ; ] t nade to thii Muf:um : and the fathered tribe, j j-. eontairing a variety ff the most rare and >eauti'ul ( fub'ic&f, is now very advantaj-eoully arranged, j W'akCH Figures,of Men large as life (some of them j a cafis irom na.ure) are here cirtfTcd in their prep, r j e iahits and placed : .n afjitudes eharailerifiic of the»r » c rtf->eAive natloes. Here may be fecn tbe Korth- !j ( American Savage, and the Sav.ge of Pouth-Amer- , ea—a laboring Gbioefe, p. V I tne Chinnfc Gentle- j " t :.e fouty Afiic-.11, and the ICamtfdiadaU— j t with'fome Na'ives «l' the iou'h |flam.s. Tb- 3 Immenfc variety and inter;ilii'g diversity which t fhis Museum offers lo the view, may befeeabut arnno'bc described with fall Price only of a dollar,' t_ law Xf)e (gazette* " » P H PL A D E L P H I A , WfiDttKSDAY EVENING, October. t«. r ; I M IL..J, ' cf Health Office,, OA. 9, 1797. n ; */ Resolved, That the confuting and vi- a , {itjng physicians be informed, that the Board hive it in contemplation to publish on Mon fay next, and on every Monday following, w during .the present calamity, 3 Hate of the n health of the Cityfand Liberties, including y, ; th? public Hospital: they therefore request c ■the cpufulting and visiting physicians to fur- c , nifh as particulnr a return as possible of the t; patients under their care, who are affedted „ with the; prevailing fever." a Health Office, OSt. 16, 1797. fc The Board of Infpcftors having for the ], information bf their fellow-citizens (by the foregoing resolution of the 9th inft.) called { on the physicians connected with the Health t Office for a ftatc of the Hospital, and a ee neral state of the sick under their care. The following is the result. I a Do&ors Duffield and Stevens, consult- r j irig physicians, state, that there are now in v j the Hospital Fifty-four patients, thirty -two ; los whom are affected with the prevailing fe- c j ver, and Twenty-two are convalefcSnts ( Doftois Church, Coxe and vifit- : j ing physicians, state, that since the "gth' c j inft. they have been called to Ninety-one j I patients, Twenty-five of whomf have been c , font to the hospital, four have died, twenty- ; ; eighx are convalescents, the remainder dill ( ill ;%ioll of those patients were in the low- ] er part of the city and Southvvaik—five on- f ly in the Northern Liberties. 1 The Infpedtors of the Health-office at t an early period of the prevailing fever, re- , j commended to the indisposed, an immediate ] i application for medical aid. The Infpeftors , lament that tliia' recommendation has not i been generally attended to—the sick and ( those who have the care of them, should consider that even one day's delay may be at- 1 tended with serious consequences From , this cause the mortality has probably been ■] much increased in the city and liberties, but 1 moll certainly in the hospital, where many have been admitted in the last stage of the , difeafp. Publilhed by order of the Board, Wm. Montgomery, Chairman pro iem. ■ ' ' To the Printer of the Philadelphia Daily Advertifrr. Among the viftims of the calamity-os the present year, the physicians who have 1 fallen appear to to to deserve a peculiar memorial, as they have ventured their lives, at the most imminent hazard, to assist their fellpw citizens in time of great diftrcft. To mention thefirft and the last of these, may bring to the remembrance of their par ticular friends the whote of the melancholy \ lift ; and to those who were not of their acquaintance, a revival of their names oc- I cafionally, may be proper even in future ' times. Dr. Nicholas Way was the fir ft of this class, who was fpeeaily carried of by ' the mortal disease. He was a man advanced ' beyond the middle stage of life, and has f been mentioned in the paperaln a refpeft ful manner as a valuable member of the 1 community. Dr. Plcafants (1 believe) was the last of the vidtims above alluded to. » He was a young man regretted by hi» 0 friends, as one of those who has left upon their minds the most undoubted proofs of b his zeal for the works of charity. The ' other young men were unknown to me, but , they, and their survivors of the fame class, ? who were much exposed to dire contagion, ■' have undoubtedly deserved the sympathy of r all, who, as well as tnyfelf, have been pre '* ferved'from the mortal sickness. Of one affecting instance of fach expo furc I was an unexpected witness A,bout the time of the interment of Dr. Do'bel, I was accidentally near the church burying ground, and 3 carriage waiting near 11, the gate : the men with the chair-wheels in were returning from the grave, and soon r " after two young men, who I suppose were jJ doctors, came towards the carriage ; they , n appeared in a difpolition fuityd to the id mournful oceafion ; their youthful friend t0 was jult deposited in the earth, which no doubt to them was a solemn scene, and the? more so on account of their own appa r 1 rent danger: they had (hewn the last kind w office to their cotemporary ; and although ,r * Ido not certainly know who the young rJ men were, I have some reason to believe ,; 1 that Dr. Pleafants might be one of those itc benevolent tttendantp. If this memorandum should be accepta ble to the Printer, it is offered as a general >rs memorial of the renewed awful period of t J 1 797» when the nearcft relatives, like those ne in 1793, feparated from each other, and could not admfhifter in the extremeft cases a final consolation, or even (hew their love by the rites of a decent burial. Philadel. Odt. 16th, 1797. fa- n<V SINGULAR CUSTOMS, a * In the island or Metelin, the an cient Lesbos. jth EExtractedfrom a paper of the Earl of Char lemont, in the Jrijh Philosophical Society for :h .. e 17890* , .... j The most remarkable thing in this island, 1' is a cuflom by which the women have here openly usurped those rights of sovereignty which in other countries are supposed to be 'tn long effcntially to the men. " Contrary," ,| fays his lord(hip, "to the usage of all other J countries, the cldeft daughter here inherits ; era ' and the sons, like daughters every where prr j else, are portioned off with frr.all- dowers, cir • or, which is (till worse, turned our penny | ]ef3 to feck their fortune. If a man hud two t r c '[ ' daughters, the eldest, at her marriage, isen- | titled to all her mother's pofTefllons, which h.: '■ aie by far the greater part of the family cf ic!l tnte, as the mother, keeping up her prero. jut gative, never parts with the power over an} portion of what (he has brought into tlx , | family, until th« is forced into it by th( mawiage of her daughter ; and the father _ did is also compelled to' r,nin iurtifilf by adding of whatever he may h tffcraped together by tlu his industry. The second daughter inhe- ths rits nothing, and i» condemned to perpetual fen celibacy'. Sl>e is ililed a which fig- tei nifies properly a religions woman or nun, fw and is in effeft a menial servant to her filler,« pa being employed by her in any office (he may ye fee fit to impose, frequently serving her as thi waiting-maid, as cook, and often in employ- pe mentS ft ill more degrading. She, wears a th habit peculiar to her Situation, which she th can never change ; a fort of monastic dress, wl coarse, and of a dark brown. One advan- of tage,however, (he enjoys over her filler, that fei whereas the elder, before Carriage, is never tic allowed to go abroad, or to fee any man, to her nearest relaitess only Excepted ; the ca- te logria, except wnen employed in domestic pa toil, is in this refpeft at perfedl liberty.— !wl But when the filler is married, the fitua- D t{on of this poor calogria becomes desperate j G indeed, and 03 rendered still more humiliat- | u( ing by the coraparifon between her condition bi and that of her happy mistress. The mar- ,gt ried filler enjoys every fort of liberty ; the j th whole family fortune is hers, and (he spends : w it as (he pleases ; her hulband is her obfe- cl quious servant, her father and mother are T dependent upon her ; (he drefies in a mod th magnificent manner, covered all over, ac- as cording to the fafhion of the island, with ra pearls and with pieces of gald, which are t'e commonly sequins ; thus continually carry- tl ing about her the enviable marks of afflu- ar ' ence and superiority, while the wretched ca- fn • logria follows her as a servant, arrayed in la ■ simple homespun brown, and without the te mod didant hope of ever changing her con- a: : idition. Such a disparity may seem intole- tl ■ rable, but what will not custom reconcile ? r: 1 Neither aVe the misfortunes of the family w ' yet at an end. The father and mother, with d : what little is;left them, contrive by their in- h I dudry to accumulate a second little fortune ; it 1 I and this, if there (hould be a third daugh- « • tcr, they ar? crfjligqd to give her upon her tl 1 I marriage ; and the fourth, if thfre (hould ti ' fbe one, becorAes her calogria ; and so on f : I through all tht daughters' alternately.— 6 ' I Whenever the daughter is marriageable, (he tl ■ can by cuflom cotnpel her father to procure a j her a h'ufband ; and the mother, such is the f power of habit, is enough to join her f lin teasing him into immediate compliance, c I though its confequcnces mud be tqually fa- t I tal and ruinous to both of them. From n ' 1 hencd it happens, that nothing is mor« com- i: mon than to fee the old father and mother I f I reduced to the utmod indigence, and even a : I begging about the (Ireets, while their un ' I natural daughters are in affluence ; and we > I ourfelrts have frequently been fiiown the '■ r I eldcfl daughter parading it through the I town in the greatest splendor, while her mo > I ther and fid«r followed her as servants and - I made a melancholy part of her attendant f I train. r I " Thefons.as soon as they areofanage to - I gain a livelihood, are turned out of the fam e I ily, sometimes with a small present or por- J f I tion, bnt mort-ff®qucatly without arry thing t k " Ito support tlicm ; and thus reduced, they t i I either endeavour to lire by their labour, or I 9 I which is Jhore usual, go on board some trad- ' - I ing vefTclas sailors or servants, remaining a- > e I broad till they have got together some com-! ' is I petency, and then return home to be hen- j 1 '• I peeked. Some few there are, who, taking | ' is I advantage of the T urki(h law, break through i n this whimsical custom, who marry their ca- 1 >f I logrias, and retain to.themselves a compe '* 1 tent provision : but these are accounted men i' I of a Angular and even criminal disposition, »> and are hated and despised as conformids to "1 the Turkidi manners, and deserters of their 1 J f I native cudoms ; so that wt may suppose e- I they are few indeed who have the boldness Ito depart from the manners of their coun -- I try, to adopt the cudoms of their detested J t I masters, and to bra*t the contempt, the de- I rifion, and the hatred of their neighbours and g- I fellow-citizens. ar I «< Of all thefc extraordinary particulars :1s I X was informed by the French cohful, a man >n 0 f sense, ?nd of indisputable veracity, who re had refidtd in this illand for several years, ty I and who Solemnly assured me that every he I eircumftance was true : but indeed our own "d I observation left us without the lead room no I for a doubt, arid the singular appearancei id I and deportment of the ladies fully evinced 'a- I the truth of our friend's relation. In walK nd ing through the town, it ii easy to perceive, I from the whimsical manners of the female "g I paflengers, that the women, according to :ve I the vulgar phrase, nvettr the breeches. Tliey 'fe I frequently (lopped us in !he (Ireets, exam- I ined our dress, interrogated us with a bold ta- I and manly air, laughed at our foreign garb ral I and appearance, and (hewed so little atten of I tion to the d<jeent modesty which is, or sfe 1 ought to be the true charadleriftic of the er, I sex, that there is every reason to suppose eft I they would, in spite of their haughtiness, eir Ibe the kindest ladies upon earth, if they I were not ftriftly watched-by the Turks, 1 who are here very numerous, and would be I ready to punish any transgression of their ungallant law with arbitrary fines. But na ture and nativemanners will often baffle theef- I fortseven eftyranny. Inalltheircuftomsthefe ar- manlyladiesfeenvtohave changed sexes with for the men. The woman rides astride, the man sits/sideways upon the horse ;*nay, I "d, have been effured that the husband's dillin ere guifliing appellation is his wife's family "ty name. The women have town and ctJfi*- te- try houses, in the management of which ft" the hu(band never dares interfere. Their ker gardens, their tfervants, are all their own ; ts ; and tbe huftand, frpm every eircumftance ere 0 f his behaviour, appears to be no other ers, than his wife's firft perpetually n y- bound to her service, and (lave to her ca price. Hence it is that a tradition obtains en- in the country, that this island was form<;>- iich ly inhabited by Amazons ; a tradition, how ef- evi.f, founded upon no ancient history that -ro- I know of. Sappho, indeed, the moil re any nowncd female that this island has ever pro the duced, is said to have had manly inclinati the oas: in which, as Lnoitn informs as, fl>: did but Conform with the fingjjlar manners pes of her country women : but I do not find I c tliat the mode in which (he chose to (how lan these inclinations, is imitated by the present tha female inhabitants, who seem perfectly con- to tent with the dear prerogative of absolute W sway, without endeavouring irt< any other fit; , particular to;change the course of nature ; onl yet will this eircumftance serve to (hew, that to the women of Lelbos had always fomethißg the peculiar, and even peculiarly masculine, in the their inanhers and propensities. But be am this as it may, it is certain that no country mil wiiatfoevcr can afford a more perfeft idea fig of an Amazonian commonwealth, 01 better oui " serve to render probable those ancient r,ela- not tions, which our manners would induce us T"u to efteim incredible, than this island of Me- to telin. These lordly ladies are for the mod (hi part very handsome, in spite of their dress, tia ' which is fiugular and disadvantageous. wl Down to the girdle, whicb, as in the old ho I Grecian garb, is raised far above what we co j usually call the waist, they wear nothing but a (hist of thin and transparent gauze, c ' e | green, red or brown, through which every be thing is visible, their breads only excepted, an : which they Mver with a fort of handker- 1,1 , chief; and Jns, as we were'informed, the Turks have obliged them to wear, while P e : they look upon it as an incumbrance, and cl< . as no inconsiderable portion of Tflrkjfh ty- mi i ranny. Long (leeves of the fame thin ma- vv ' ■ t'erial perfectly (hew their arms even to ca . their (boulders. Their principal orrjaments . are chains of pearl, to which they hang tc . small pieces of gold coin. Thejr eyes are an i large arid fine : and the -nose, which we at ; term Grecian, usually prevails among them, Wl as it does indeed among the women of all ed these islands. Their complexions are natu- fei 1 rally fine, but they spoil them by paint, of ■ which they make abundant use; and they i disfigure their pretty faces by (having the . hinder part of the eye-brow, and replacing ; it with a straight line of hair neatly applied c,t . . with some fort of gum, the brow r thus continued in a straight andtiarrow' line 1 till it joins the hair tin each fide of the i face. They arc well made, of the middle - size, and for the mod part e they are diftinguiflied tyr nothing so much e and so universally as by a haughty, difdain e ful, and supercilious air, with which they r seem to look down upon all mankind as , creatures of an inferior nature, bom for . thefr fer>ice, and doomed to be their (laves ; ii neither does this peculiarity of countenance 1 - in any degree dimini(k their natural beauty,, r but rather adds to it that fort of bewitching n attta&ion which the French call piquant." e CHINESE IHEOLOGY. a e The following decree published by the Em- c peror Ton tthing, who succeeded Kang hi t! >- in 1702, forms a kind of confeffion of 11 d faith, and a declaration of what he viewed a it as the religion of his fubjedls. The oc- -b cafion of its publication is fufficiently ex- <1 o prefled in the preamble. 1- " Some of the principal officers of our [•- provinces hate given a wrong interyiretation j ( jr to the meaning of our orders, transmitted a y to them, rcfpedling the means of preventing a >r the damages eccafionfcd in Hie copntry by t 1- deftruitivc infe&J, and have understood them : 1- in a sense quite different from our intention, f i- | They have erroneoufiy concluded, that I » i- j have fallen into the ridiculous error of those v g I who believe in the spirits called couei chiw, as \ h if I imagined prayersoffercd up to thsfe pre- L a- tended beings, could remedy our present as- ' e- fliftioms. My meaning, therefore, is as c :n follows : r n, " Between the Tim or Supreme Being and 1 to man there is a relation, a certain and infal- - :ir lible correspondence, as to what concerns : fe punifliments and rewards j when our plains i •fs are desolated, either by inundations, drought ! n- or infe&s, what is the cause of our calami- ' ~d ties ? They are perhaps occasioned by the ' lc- Emperor bimftlf, who deviates from that 1 nd integrity and justice so ncceflary for good 1 government, and thereby Jays the Tien un- 1 irs der the necessity of employing these pur.iih- 1 an ments to bring him back to a sense of his bo duty. Perhaps they may be occasioned by rs, the principal officers of the province, upon ry which those misfortunes have,fallen, in not vn consulting the public good, and neglefting >m to take jultice as the rule of'their condudl— icej And may not these calamities be owing to ed the Governors of cities, who neither a£t [k> with equity, nor give the people good ex re, "amples or Suitable inftrudtion ; cr because, ale in certain provinces and diftrifts they vio to late the laws, contemn eftablifiied cudoms, iey and lead difordeily lives ? The heart of man m- being thus corrupted, that happy union aid which ought to subsist between him and the irb Tien, is interrupted and disturbed, and end en- less misfortunes overtake us ; for, when or men come (hort of their duty, that benefi the cent regard which the Tien had for them ; ofe becomes changed. ;fs, " Convinced of the truth of this infalli ley lible dodhine, when I am fr,formed, that ks, some provincefuffers, either by long drought be or excessive rains, I search my own heart ieir carefully, examine my pad conduit, and na- think of reforming those irregularities which •ef. may have crept into my palace. Evening iefe and morning, and all the day long, do I ith confine myfelf within the bounds of fear and the refpcct. I endiavourto give the Tien con , I vir.cing proofs ot my uprightr.efs and piety, iin-- in hopes that, by a regular life, I fnall be lily able to make the Tien change the resolution Pu- which he hath formed cf-punilhihg us. It lich is in your power, O ye great officers vyho ieir govern provinces ! it is in your power to -ai m ; lift me ; it is in yours, yc people, fcldiers, nee and others, whatever quality ye be, it is in her your power to acquit yourselves also of this ally duty : humble yourselves with fear; exa ca- mite your own condu£l ; drive to attain to ains perfection ; aid artd mutually exhort one a ner- nathcr ; refoiTn your manners ; endeavour j or- to corre& your repent of your that crimes ; follow the paths of truth ; (luin : re- those of er.-or ; and be affiired, if we cn pro- our parts, perfeftly discharge our duties, the lati- Tien will fulTer himfelfto be moved by our <h? well rtguTaic-jd cpuduft, and will gr?at ua his peace and proteAioik These injur. I canndt too often fepeatr To pre rent ca lamities, there are no means more certain, than to keep a ft rift, watch over ouvfeltes, to live in fear, and to strive for perfe£tion s „ When they tell you to pray and invoke rits, what do they mean ? It is, at M only to implore their mediation, to represent to the Tien the sincerity of our refpect»a))4 the fervour of our desires. To therefore, in any manner, that ihefe prayert and these invocations/can remove our cala mities, and avert misfortunes, while we lose fight of our duty, negleft to watch over our dwn conduct, live not in fear, and have not our hearts filled with refpe&towards the 7"ten, in order to is attempting' to draw Water after having shut yp its source ; it is omitting the essen tial part, and attaching ourselves to that which is rieceffary only. How can you hope by such a conduft to obtain ac complishment of your desires.? " Hear then again, what I think: lam clearly and fully persuaded, that there i« between Tien and man, a reciprocal and a perfeit correspondence. It fs for your inftru&ion,. O ye great officers, it is for yoq that I have not difdained'to take up my pen, and to explain .my thoughts in the clearest manner I could in order that yon may conform to the sentiments which I have expressed, this is the only cause of the present inftruftions." The present emperor, who succeeded Yon tching in 1736, holds the fame sentiments; and thus this do&rine of the existence and attribntes of the supreme being, and the 1 worlhip and homage due to him, has subsist ed in China without change, during a long "" series of ages. /< LB ANT, October 9. COMMUNICATION. " At a ball lately htld hi the vicinity of this city,there were dancing on the jloor at onetime, btjides nine other persons: I Grand-mother, -with 2 grar.cl-daughtcr s, I Mother, with I daughter, I Father and one mother, with 2 daughters, I Step mother, with oneJlcp fan, I A 1 other-in-law, with one jon-in-law, I StepJiJler, with oneJlcp brother, 1 Husband, with one wife, 2 Jijlers, and but five Persons." BALTIMORE, Oftober 13. The following was politely sent in by captain Etheridge, of the snow Olive Branch', whs arrived from Aux-Cayes on the xth inflant, at North-Point. SeptMnber 9th, we left at Aux-Cayes in company with the brig Swallow, o£ New- York, and brig Friendship, of.Bofton, cap- < tain Cutter. Saw nothing until the morn ing of the 15th, when we were spoken by an Engliffi tender from Port-au-Prince and bound for the Mole—with politeness en quired from, and wi/h us a good paftage. Same day, at 5 P. M. being between the • Mole and Cuba, observed txvo small boats (fchoofter- rigged) making towards us with ail poflible speed, but night coming on, and • an English frrgate heaving- in fight '3' Ifftt'i • to windward of the Platform, they gave up 1 the chace and dropped to leeward of us— faw nothing more of Hhem that night.— [ Next morning, 16th, we had got a good . way to windward of the Moie ;• at 6A. M s little Or no wind, we observed two small . boats, supposing them to be the fame we . had seen the preceding night ; at 8, we djf -5 ceroed them to be French row-barges, and rowing for us, being becalmed; at 11, J boarded us. Thefi barges had a great mariy - fwivds mounted, and between4o and $0 s armed men between the two—i wore we were s from an Englilliport, and directly took pos t feflion of tbe velfel j they then demanded nil _ my papers, which were immediately deliv. g ered tliAn 5 -on their examining the papers, t they said we were from Aux-Caves ; they d made several attempts to get them all deftroy -- ed, but by the exertions of Mr. M'lntofh, the supercargo, myfelf, and a gentleman is passenger, were prevented, and prevailed on y to return them to me ; at the fame time n promising that they (hould be kept fafe, ,t and delivered up to the officers of the ad g miralty, whenever we should arrive at the 1 port they intend taking us to. In one'of o the barges they had two American sailors, t whom they took out of the Hoop George, c- of Norfolk, which sloop they sent that morning into Gonaives, for condemnation, 3- with a brig belonging to Philadelphia, name s, unknown. To those two iailori they offer in ed 20 johannes each, if they would fay >n they saw Us in an Englift port. Ie attempted to bribe all the people of the i. Olive Branch ; and to the gentleman. pafiVn ;n ger on board, they offered 1600 dollars, to 5- mention that we were from an English pert, r. Finding our cargo valuable, they ii'ga'in di- • mqndcd all the (hip's papers, which were li- politely refufed them by Mr. M'lntofh and at mvftlf; telling tl'.em at the fame time, that ht the different admini ft rations of St.'Dohiiugo, in not fatisfied with ta> jig ou.' had nd granted commifiions to every class of citi :h zens, to plunder our veflels and,interrupt ig , our commerce on the high seas, and that the I ship's papers were on the only weapons our nd good government permitted us to carry, for m- the defence of our veffcls and cargoes againit :y, our good and faithful allies the French—but be that, however, the papers were ready, and on would be produced at the requelt of the It the admifHtv at the port thev ho meant tcr carry u: to (a port in Cuba, ca'led a s- Barracoa ). After detaining us all that day, rs, and taking us out of courfy they plundered in the cabin of every thing that VVa's valuable ; his taking with them atelefcope of mine, which ca- colt me tfcn guineas in England ; ail our to wine arid oth.'r liquors, 4 »nd almost all our a- provilioßS. After'force confutation they >ur concluded, that 11 nee the papers were not jur destroyed, they could make nothing o'f us, iun by tdkiug us. cither to a French or Spat|ifn on port, they left Us, faying " go vbo-t your the bvfinefs, y r-t. American rafca!s !" One of the jur aforementioned American sailors they pbf his on board' of us-»bc£,h of vvhoia had Lewi
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