compelled to row after as yi the barge all the morning. These are fa£ts, which, if Bsceffarjy c:an be attested by all that were on bosrd, belonging to the Olive-Branch. POWERS ETHERIDGE. By this Mail; MEW-YORK, October 17. GRATITUDE TO PATRIOTISM. Ye Herd ay the citizens of New-York ex hibited a fpJendid proof of attachment,to the federal government, by their honorable reception of 'the President of the United States. , Agreeable tf V rev cap tain Loyell and Lamb's tr taken p'ace. It renders all attempt- to reduce the new fyflcm to p.ra&iec so as tojfc c luce a favorable contrail between the pivfent a*renuocs to retain them, l>ut cither power will cuk them ratlur than break oft* the negotiation. A. third attempt to negotiate wi 1 be impcfljble ; the prefect must therefore fucceed.^ The Jacobins, to prove how completely tKcy re»- femble their father, the devi*, pronounce the len tence of condemnation, where peity acquits. Mr. Hamilton's pamphlet, so far as it contains a confeflion, is particularly otlious to the Jacobins — Such an exaaiple is a mirror they cannot face. Clodius accufat maechos i> a ftron«r phrafc of Ju venaFs to express the absurdity of that mail, who, guilty himfeif, criminates his neighbor. Whin a trio of Boston demos undertake to revile Col. Ha milton, because he Was seduced by Mr*. Reynolds, he might exclaim* 44 gentlemen, it U extremely cu rious that an intrigue ftiould be blamed by whore- % mongers, adulterers, and even this publican." f iValpole pap, No news-papers were received from the Eajlward of New-Tori by this day's mail— No BoJlon papers have come to hand ftnee Monday lajl. 4 GAZETTE MARINE LIST. J Arrived at A*eiv»TTori. Pays. Bhin Citizen, Whtaion, I ifbou 59 Schr. Nancy, Taylor, Aux Cayes JnJi Published, and now Selling, By BENJAMIN DA VIES, At his-BoOK-SToRe, Nd Hi"h-Street, The AMERICAN REPOSITORY and A if X ISA LJtRG fS ~ERforth UNIT ED STATES FOR THE Y E Aft. 17^8: Conrainirn complete and correct lilts of the Erecu t vc, I cijilHtive and Judicir.ry l DTP;\HTMEN'I 3 of GOVERNMENT, And a Variety of life nl tables, r;cccffaiy to bt Va'owii in < very State of ths Dniou. Emiuilijbti w'tk I'x'o band[mt Engravingi, One c,f >vluch is depiilive of a melancholy fccr.e that occurred dur.ng the Americas v/ux. Oi 1 .. 18. From the XN. T.) Time Pifc's. Doctor Caid\Veli ofPhilatlclpliia, in publicly announcing his intention to difeon tipiie his fn'sfcriotioa to Porcupine's- Ga zette, appears afliduous to obviate any "eon jedlure* which might thereby arise of h's "fa vouring republican principles. He declares hfrnfelf a zenloifs si : erid to the measures of the late nail present administration ; and that at tlie commencement of this moll ob noxious gazette, it was,in his op'nion, (in w*.ich, as well as the opinion now entertain ed of it, all men of fcr.fe and refinement, he Vays, wil concur with him) " a work of great public utility, a repository of lifeful fafls, of valuable principles, and acute and ingenious speculations, good sense forming, the body, and energy and correftnefs of ftik the dress"—that on account of its re cent ohange from nfeful and judicious satire, to low vulgarity and abuse, producing, in the present calamitous crifi3, mifehiefs never to be atoned for by any pqffiblc future fcri vi ces of the Editor, ■he has deemed it incum bent on him no longer to encourage its cir culation, and profefles hiir.felf ready, when ever Mr. Porcupine's account againfl him fliall be exhibited, .to difeharge the fame ct fight. Most of this Editor's fubferibers, he observes, are " men of considerable acqpi fitions in fcicnce, of high refinement in li terature, } .idges of (entiment, judges of style, judges of every thing embraced in the extensive region of talle."—lJe therefore prsfumes condemn hiin, in his public ca pacity, for his notorious want of delicacy in not accommodating his paper to the talieof his readers. Much fault is found with his numerous quotations from the True BMton, a paper, the condu&ors of which he deems below contempt, wotwithftanding they ad vocate those principles of order and found policy which he w/fhes to preserve their as cendancy in Britain. If the Doftor has been eoir.njiiTioned by the fubferibers at large to convey these tvholefotr.e lefTons nfaothority to. Mr. Por cupine's ear, it might not have been am:fs explicitly to have said so ; if not, it may well be conceived that all he had to do was to withdraw his own name at discretion, and leave other fubferibers (particularly those who are men of tafie and science) to follow their own inclinations. If Mr. Porcupine chufes to offend them all, hirafelf, and not the Dr. will be the fufferer. A friendly hint 011 this fcrtre (though a liberty which some men of delicacy wouldhefitatetoaffume) might possibly have been well received if well meant ; but for the doftor, without autho rity, to take upon him the offic»of di3ator general is aristocracy witj) a vengeance; he might have spared himfeif his extraordinary pains to repel suspicions of Jacobinism after this specimen of an opposite temper. When Mr. Porcupine wishes for advice in hit own profeffion, he doubtless knows to whom he is to apply for it : unsolicited counsel would not, however, appear to less advan tage in a less diftatorial garb. But what can have rendered two avowed ariflocrats so inimical to each other? vAp pearances fceuv to indicate that the Doftor's principles extend further than those of his late colleague. Porcupine is friendly only to political monopoly; but medical monopoly (which with the Dr. is equally sacred) has not yet, it fcetm, been adopted as a his creed. Porcupine, though a medico-lay man or swine (the Dr. will furnifh a suitable term) has ventured publickly to give an p pinion on a medical fubjett: He has for oncfiqueftioned the propriety of Hood-letting, and this ii held up as a crime never to be expiated. If the one-has no right to haz ard an opinion for the .good of his fellow creatures on a medical fubjeft, what right has the other, for the benefit of his feliow fubferibers, to interfere in news-paper or political fufc}e£ts? Neither of them lay claim to infallibility; neiglvbctur's fare therefore must reasonably be expected. Porcupine has not profeffed any knowledge of medicine; his opinions therefore do not appear in dif puife: patients of found mind who compare taem, when accompanied with reasons, with those of a Physician, will judge for them selves what weight to attach to each, and if the u.lfupportcd opinions of one illiterate person be preferred to those of.abody of the faculty, it is an evil for which the alflifted may demand pity, but for which the hon ■ eft enquirer cannot deserve ceafure, Ad mitting Mr. Porcupine's motives to the be nevolent, and the contrary ought not light ly to be presumed, is he not to be commen ded for his endeavours to prevent the contin uation of what he really believes to be mis chievous and fatal ? would fye not be crim inally remiss in with-holding them? When his opinions (hall have been experimentally proved to be erroneous, all men liable to be atcaeied with the prevailing diftuder will be gainers by the discovery, and 4/il! become c6nverts to bleeding when experience fliall warrant its utility. Dr. Caldwell contends that negle£l in ti ling the lancet, or using it with too sparing a hand, in the early stages of this diieafe, is proved to be fatal by the frequent and copious hemorrhages which in this cafe, and not otherwise, nature too often ineffec tually throws out for the patient's . relief, owing to obftru&ions, the removal of which has been too long delayed, Porcupine's in famious and criminal paragraphs again ft the practice, he observes, have, to !As owu knowledge destroyed the lives of some citizens three in (lance-, are-adduced where patients, bow dead, have refufed to undergo the oper ation, merely from the reading'if them; and to this refhfal, under the otherwise favoura ble symptoms of their complaints, he attri butes their ceaih; every other practicable means for their reeoveiy having been care fully and anxioujly tried. So long a3 the doctor's premised can he maintained, his conclulio'ns are natural and necessary, but it be admitted on the other hand that those who advocate a cqntraiy practice, would in the cases mentioned, infer that bleeding would have accelerated the patient; difoluticft. Eeeaufe the I?j:. thinks proper to chsVgfe their ctsth to Porcupine, whom hefcruplis not to arc life of crimin»l intc;i tiou, he /iffres to taKe it fcr granted that i the latter mult cut his throat in rcmorfe for his crime, and that this without further ex amination will effctbnlly phtcethe system he advocates upon a firm and durable found aticn. What njptivccan Mr. .Porcupine be fuppofed-to have for wantonly fporii>.• g with the live-, of,his fellows? Their deaths can in no wife bentsCt him: If he does not con tinue to .recommend a measure after experi- (hall have proved it to be injurious, a caution to refrain from a practice the good effefts of which have, till lately, been ques tionable even among the faculty (a mere ne gative provision) is certainly less blameable than some positive experiments which hare been made Jjy physicians upon pitfents la bouring under a new disorder. " Let the * De-Jii have his due;" though Mr. Porcir p'inc may aim at the definition of our li berties, yet this has no connexion with an aitack upon our lives. A REPUBLICAN. \ Frcm the (New-Tori) Commercial Gazette» Among all the writers on the plague which has ravaged our sea-ports for some years none appears to have noticed the method of cure prescribed by Moses, in the 16th chap ter of Numbers. A plague broke out in tlx: camp of Israel ; which was then in a coun try extremely fubjedt, as it is dill, to the yellow fever, or plague. * The people were alarmed, and murmured agflinlt Moses and Aaron. [For the people were grumbleri then, as they are now, ar.d laid every evil, mora! and physical, to their rulers. Indeed ! this plague happened jufl after those jacobia ical fellows, Korah, Dathan and Abiram, i had been preaching liberty and equality, and i had been fwalie«,td up alive.] When Moses discovered the yellow fever among the Israelites, he directed Aaron " to take a censer and put fire therein, and put on incense—and go to the congregation and , make an atonement." Aaron did so, and ' " he flood' between the dead and the firing, and the plague was flayed." On firll reading this, one would be resdjf to call it a miraculous interposition of Provij dence. But why fnould we resort to such a conftruition of the passage ? The censer was filled with incense burning. Now if w« suppose a single censer only to be used, we cannot suppose the power of it, either by agitating the air or diffufing a wholefomi perfume, to be equal to the effe£t mentisnj ed,»viz. flaying a plague that had carried off fourteen thotffand. But is it not probable that vail numbers of confers were used, tho* the high priefl and his censer are alone men* tioned ? In the passage which relates to the affair of Korah, great numbers are mention, ed, and it is well known how much theyj were used in the Jewish facrifices. Combining a little philosophy with the historical account qf that plague, we may suppose that Aaron separated the sick and dead from the well, into a diflant part of , the camp, and that he employed burning ) censers to agitate and purify the air. i It is well known that fire creates a cir culation of air and though it has been asserted» that it is hurtful to kindle fires ia infe&ed places, because they deflroy the refpjrable qualities of the air, yet this iJ not true, un[ef» in tight vefTtls. It is true that flame deftfoys air; but it is only that whifch comes in contact with it—and this very circumflance is favorable, for by rfli dering that portion in contaft with it- lighter,' it rises, and the air bdlow rufr.es in to fill Up the deserted place. In this way fire creates perpetual circulation or adtion. Now by a law of fluids, action ia neceP fary to keep them pure, that is, all the in gredients which cornpofe them combined/ By water and air lose their pu rity—the parts separate and become un u-holt some. Stagnant water becomes thick and ofifenfive ; but we ar: that impure and putrid water at sea, is cleansed and ren dered perfectly fit for use, by agitation of the vessel, or by being pcured from one calk to Another. In the fame manner air may be mixed and purified by action. Fire creates aftion, and should a city, during a plague, be kept open, and every houMiolder be compelled to keep two or three fires, it is extremely probable that it would have a great effett in purifying the atmosphere', and arresting the power of its-contagious influence. ' It .is hot improbable that the aromatics consumed in the Jewish censers, might be ufeful in correcting the state of the air.— Bub the chief effedt Was probably produced by the aftion given to the air bp the fire and the motion of the censers. It ii desirable that we should avail our* selves of all the scraps of ufeful knowledge to be collected from ancient hiflory, as well as modern experiments. Whatever we may think of that old book, the bible, there is a vast fund of ufeful fa£ts in the Levitical laws; and particularly uffful for a people in hot countries. All the washings ana purifica tions, directed by Moses, had their use ; and we, when we grow Wife enough not to despise antiquity, (hall revive the praftice of many bf the laws of Moses. The by obeying the regulations of Moses, escaped the diseases of the cli mate—But the modern inhabitants of ~E gypt, by naglectiagthe fame falutarj* rules, perish with the plague by thoafands and millions. And so (hall we in America, uu lefi we change our habits of living, and our "mode of build i'-ig cities. . Walked <& Kennedy, No. 73, South Front Street, HA VK FOR IALI, ioc Hogfheada of' prime Georgia Tobacco, ALSO, 50 Piprt i f Bonrdraux Brandy, ,10 Pipes of old Port Wine - O,". lawtf. Tijh MAYOR'S OFFICE i« iurr, for t.he rassrNT, ax ths „ CITY HAU*. Tept 8.