PkVNSYLV SIA, jf. • ■ j
In the name and by the authority of the
CpmmoiVarealth of IVniifylvanii.
Br THOMAS MIF F.1%1 M
Governor of, the said (Commonwealth;.
A PROCLAMATION.'
Whereas, the infpe&ow of the Health
Ofiles? of the port of Philadelphia, have re
ported to me, that in their judgment, it 15 •
«o longer neceflarv to impoie a general qiuir- j
antine'on vsffels arriving in this port, from ,
any of*the \Veft-India 1 il'inds from New
Orleans, or from any Bvitift, French,
Dutch, or SpanHh ports on the Maine.—
Therefore, I have issued this proclama
tion, hereby revoking proclamations
heretofore by -me issued, bearing date the e
leventh and fifteenth days Or August lail ;
and allowing and permitting all vessels vVliat
foever, arriving from any part beyond seas,
to enter the port of Philadelphia, without
being fubje&'to the performance of quaran
tine, unlffj'the rcfident fihyfician (hall on
vifitirjg arty such veflel, deem the fame to be
in a ,fiekly and dangefons state, when such
readable quarantine (liall be performed, as
tVie Infpeftors ps the port (hall direst and
cilablifh.'
Given under my and the great.
Seal of the State, at Germantown,
- this twentieth day of OAober, in the
(l"S.) 0 f oar Olle thousand se
ven hundred and ninety-seven and of
the common wealth the t wen tyfecotid
thomas Mifflin.
By the Governor,
. Trimble, Sec'rj-.
A MEETING
Of tht SELECT and COMMON COUNCILS
of the City "f Phila»fi.vhla, will lie hell On
Thiirfda? at eleven o'clock in the morning,
•it tha State-house.
By order. /
IT. TQD.
Cleik of the Selti'l Council.
EDWARD J. COALE,
Cleik of the Common Conncil
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NOTICE,,
KJ". SAMUEb Richardet, "peftfully
informs the gentlemen, fubferibers the
Exchange, tliat on Thuffday n«;xt, the 26th
inft. it will fee openfor their accommodation.
EJe begs leave acquaint his friends and
the public, that the City Tavern will also
be ready for the reception of gentlemen
boarders.
An ordinary as usual at three o'clock.
Oaober 21. diw.
Samuel Sc iVJicrs tifher,
ARE NOW OfE v ING t ,
t their Wwehoufe, No. 17. Dock Street, a ffe£h
of Woolen and other gopdi. suitable to
The fcifou, received by--tht late arrival! from Eng-
Jund. . ' fc. ,
77.-V have fir Sale, y
' :(T>on,
1 encriiTe. ( f pipcf,hhds. and quarter eafks-
Sherry, ana (
port \ ir ines, J
' Assorted queen's ware in crates, &c.
jorh iiv)' (iiw.^taw
Walker & Kknnedy,
No. 73, South Front Street,
for sale,
100 Hogflieads of prime Georgia Tobacco,
ALSO,
50 Pipes of Bonrdeaux Brandy,
1® Pipes of old' Port Wine-
Q&. it. " w tf-
Choice St. Croix Sugar and Rum
Co(Tre
Madeira and TenerifTc Wine
For Sale by
yames TareL,
No. —.South Fourth-flreet.
o«ft. 6. _ d.^w
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
(If not before disposed of at private fate)
(\N Friday* the frft of December next, at fix
o'clock in the evening, at the Merchants' Cof
fee House, in Philadelphia. Forty Thousand Nine
Hundred and Thirty Nine acres of LAND,
now or late in the County of Washington, and Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania, and the waters of
Frefo and Wheelipg; Creeks and Ten Mile Run.—
Thcfc ; Lands arc fertile and well timbered, and were
pirenfeed early in except 37 00 acres or therea
bouts, which were patented in f° urt h
of the purchase money 10 be paid at the time.of fa'/,
for the residue a credit of one, two and three monies,
1 will be given, on intcreft and good security. /
Oaofcer 6. 3 a^ l £
To be Sold at Public Vendue,
(If not before disposed of at private file)
ON Friday, the firlk day of December, at fix
o'clock in (he evening, at the Merchintt' Coffee
House. in Philadelphia, Twenty Six Thousand Sf
vsn Hmd'cd and Eighty acres of LAND, in the
State of New-York, between the northern bounds
of PrnnfyKania and the now, ot late,
in the tnwnfhips of Hamden and Warren, and coun
ty of Montgomery One fourth of the pur,chafe
money dc paid at the time of sale ; for the te
fidue a credit of one, two, and three months will be
given, on interell and good security.
Oftofle 6 __* 3» wtS -
A Wet Nurse wanted..
A Healthy Woman, with a young bread of
milk, who can be well recommended, rtay
hear of a place by inquiring of the Printer.
Oft. 13. lvv
Wanted, to Hire,
A I arge and convenient HOUSE, in or near
the centre of the city—for which a generous
rent will be given ; to be taken for a year, or on
lease for a longer term. Inquire of th« Printer.
oa. t?. . cntf
o net
THE Office* of the Department of arc far
»he pri font removed ne;ir to the Falls of the ScuyV
kill, on the Ridge Road.
September 4.
The Health-Office
IS removed to the City-Hall- and is kept open
oirht and day, where persons having bufimrfs may
apply. ' Wai. ALLEN, Health-officer.
Sept. 4. dtf
' The Medical Le£tures
In the Ufliverlity of Pennsylvania, are port
jioned until the last iMonday in November
next.
oiloher 14. -*3W4W.
THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
-ill KI?T, FOR Tllf PBESINt, W'lll
CITY WALL.
*ep« ••
P 111 LAD EL P HIA ,
TUESDAY EVENING, Octobfr 24.
- : — 1 , 111
health office, Otlobcr
The consulting phyjic'uins report that tlere
are now in the bpMtal 33 patients, 19 if
whom arc flill tick, the remainder convalescents.
'The vifit'mgphyjleiam rsport that ftiice the
16th, they have hetn tailed (o 3; patients, 6
of whom have been sent to the %tfpifal, 2 have
died, I 2 are eonvalrfcents, the remainder fict.
The admtffions to the hufpital, the deaths,
and new cases for the lafl week hai)e so greatly
'diminijhed, that the irtfpeßoft of the health office
flatter themselves, that in their next publica
tion, they mdy with propriety aduife a general
return of the citizens—in the mean time although
the board wijh to be Cautious, yet they believe
itpetfefth fafe to remove in at pref nt, to any
part of the city, to the northward of Pine flreet,
Publijhed by order of the butird,
JOHb MILLER, jun. Chairman.
tht Printer of the Philadelphia Daily'
f , Advertiser.
I When a writer at Charleston, in South
Carolina, is giving his opinion about the
yellow Fever, I think he might as well leave
■ the Philadelphiant to judge for themfelres
about its origin, nnd not cxprefs himfglf in
this manner—" We (fays he) are all at a
loss here, an they are in Philadelphia, for
the origin of this fever." Now this, with
refpeA to Philadelphia, is so palpable an
error, that I believe it would be just for
the Inhabitants of this city to answer in
this manner:—We know to our sorrow
that the disorder was imported; that it
commenced this year to make it ratages in
one of the cleanliest parts of tht city,
which perhaps would have been the part
the lafl to be fufpefted, if it had not pro
ceeded from the mod evident cause, being
brought in by one or more infedted vefiels.
AVe know this, and many more particulars
refpefh'ng its importation ; and 'we have
rcafon to know the direful effefts of the
contagious nature of the mortal sickness in
its recent progress, both in and near the
borders of this metropolis.
With refpeft to the year 1793, tht in
stances of so m«ch mortality were so sudden
and alarming, that the ideas of the people
were soon confufed by a contrariety of opi-
and perhaps the more so, bccaufe
such was the deftruAion araongfl those who
brought the disorder, that they lived not
long enough to give the needful informa
tion : seVeral of the mariners were speedy
viftims, aud the contagion spread with such
rapidity that it was soon too dangerous for
impartial persons to make suitable enquiry.
These are- fails that arc well remembered.
I believe the yellow fever was at much im
ported in the year 1793, as 11 *** ,n
present year, when in this latter instance,
we well know, that many of the alleys,
and mod fufpieiotn places, in the middle
and upper parts of the city, were not fub
jeft to the dire disease, except it was com
municated t>y an intercourse with infc&ed
persons.
Piwfs enough have been adduced by
other writers refpefting the latter importa
tion ; and the cafe is rtowTo plain, that to
make a doubt about the origin of the dis
order,' would be just as reasonable as to
doubt that thousands of the inhabitants de
serted the city in consequence of
the expenses have been enormous, and the
.loss of lives a truly awful fubjedt of sorrow
and lamentation.
That the extent of the calamity was not
equal to that in 1793, is a cause for thank
fulnefs ; and I am one of those who believe
that thinning the city of its inhabitants by
removing to the country, was one of the
means, uuder Providence, of the preserva
tion of a very considerable number of my
fellow citizens from the dangers of a dive
contagion.
Philadelphia, Oftober 22d, 1797.
/torth gazette yrf; uniteb states.
Mr. Fenno,
It has been insinuated that Dr. Ruih de
rived the use of calomel, in the yellow fe
ver, from Dr.' Hodge and Dr. Carson ;
but that he could not have derived its use
from these gentlemen, the following consi
derations will afford the mod undeniable
proof. Dr. Ruih prescribed calomel in the
yellow fever as early as the 7th of August,
1793, as appears from his work on the fe
ver ; whereas Dr. Hedge and Dr. Carson
did not recommend that medicine till late
in the above mouth. Moreover, Dr. Rush
had been in the habit many years before,
of using calomel in private pradlice in bili
ous diseases ; -end in his lectures in the year
1792# the Do£tor strongly recommended
it in the cure of these diseases, and quoted
Dr. Clarke and Dr. Balfour as his authori
ties for such a praftice. But further, the
manner in which Dr. Rush gave calomel
fliews the improbability of his having de
rived its life from Dr. Hodge and Dr. Car
son. Dr. Ruih gave it combined with jalap,
in the fame way. that he had seen it exhi
bited by Dr. Thomas Young in the military
hospitals during the late war. He also gave
it in certain stages of the disease in frnall
doses, to ifiduce a salivation. Now Dr.
Hodge and Dr. Carson gave it in large
doses, u«comb;ncd with any purgative sub
stance, and only with a vifcw to excite purg
ing. It is easy to conceive how Dr. Hodge
might be Jed to suppose that be was the
author of this difeovery ; he haft just conic
from behind a counter, and probably had
not read a medical book, nor conversed on
a rhedical fubjeft, for fifteen or twenty
years. Ufeful hints in medicine have often
been taken from weak people, and even old
people. No man, I believe, is more dis
posed to acknowledge obligations to those
(b'urces of knowledge than Dr. Ruih, but
in the prefect instance the iuiinuation is
foundation.
A former Pupil of Dr. Rush.
AGE OF REASON. J
Mr. Erfkine's addvefs to the court of,
king's bench, on the trial f6r this publication
of Paihe's detestable and vulgar doCtrines in
his &ge of Reason, was one of the molt a
bleand elegant harangues in support of the
established that has to
boad The following are in it,
which we with pleasure seleCt in defence of
tjiechriftian caitfe, and in honor of its infpir
defender !
The book, he laid, appeared to him to
be as crtlel and mischievous in its eftefts, 3s
it was illegal in its principle?. The poor,
wham it affeCted to pitv, were daibb&i iri the
heart by it ; they had more need of conso
lations beyond the grave, than those who
had greater comforts to render life delight
ful. He could conceive an humble, inno
cent, and virtuous man, surrounded with
children, looking up to him for bread Which
hertiad not to givi t'aem, finking under the
lad day's labour, and unequal to the next;
yeft dill looking Hp with confidence to the
hour, when all tears (hould be wiped from the
eyes of affliction, and bearing the burthen
which he believed his Creator had laid upon
Win for good, in the mysterious difpenfa
tioris of a Providence which he adored.—
What a <change in such a mind might not
be wrought by this merciless publication ?
But it seems this was an Age of Reason,
and the time, and the person were arrived,
that were to diffipatc the errors which had
oterfpread the pad generation of ignorance !
The believers in christianity were many ;
but it belonged to the few that were wife to
correct their credulity. Belief was an aft
of reason ; and superior reason might there
fore diCtate to the weak. In running the
mind along the pious lilt of sincere and de
vout chrididns, he could not help lamenting
that Newton had not liVed to this day, to
have had his (hallownefi filled up with this
neiu flood of light ! But the subjeCt was too
awful for irony ; he would speak plainly and
direCtly :—Newton wa6 a ehriftian. New
ton, whose mind had burft,from the fetters
cad by nature upou our finite conceptions ;
NewtoH, whose science was truth, and the
foundation of whose knowledge of it, was
philofophv—not those visionary and arro
gant pre'fumptioris, which too often u
surped its name, but philolophy resting
upon the basis of mathematics, which like
figures, could not lie ; Newton, who car
ried the line and rule to the uttermost bar
riers of creation, and explored the princi
ples by which, no doubt, all created matter
was held together, and exilts. But this ex
traordinary man, in the mighty reach of his
mind, overlooked perhaps the errors, which
a minuter inteftigatio» of the created things
on this earth might bave taught him of the
essence of his Creator. What (hould then
be said of the great Mr. Boyle, who looked
into the organic struCture of all matter, e
ven to the brute inanimate substance which
the foot treads on ; such a man might be
supposed to be equally Qualified with Mr.
Paine to look up through nature, to na
ture's God. But the result of all his contem
plation was the mod confirmed and devout
belief ib all, which the other holds in con
tempt, as despicable and drivelling super
stition. t
But this error might perhaps arise from
a want of due attention to the foundation of
human judgment, and the ftni&ure of that
understanding which God has given us for
the invedigation of truth. Let that ques
tion be anfwtred by Mr. Locke, who was,
to the higheit pitch of devotion and adora
tion, a ehriftian. Mr. Locke, whose office
was to deteCt. the errors of thinking, by
going up to the fountains of tho't, and 'to
direCt into the proper triCt of reasoning the
devious mind of man, by (hewing him its
whole process, from the firfl preceptions of
sense, to the last conclusions of ratiocination,
putting a rein besides upon falfe opinion, by
pra£tical rules for the condnCt of 4iuman
nature.
But these men were only deep thinkers,
and lived in their closets, unaccuftomcd to
the traffic of the world, and to the laws
which practically regulate mankind.
Gentlemen, in the place where we now
fit to adminilter the justice ofthi* great coun
try, above a century ago, the never to-be
forgotten Sir Matthew Hale presided, whose
faith in chriftianity,i»an exalted commenta
ry upon its truth, and reason, and whose life
was a glorious example of its sweets, admin
ftering human jultice with a wisdom and
purity, drawn from the pure fountain of the
ehriftian dispensation, which has been, and
will be in all ages, a subjeCt of the highest
reverence and admiration.
But it is said by the author, that the ehrif
tian fable is but the tale of the more ancient
fuperftitiens of the world, and may be easily
detefled, by a proper understanding of the
mythologies of the heathens. Did Milton
understand those mythologies ? Was he less
versed than Mr. Paine in the superstitions of
the world ? No ; they were the subjeCt of
his immortal song thouhgh fliut out
from all recurrence to them, he poured them
forth from the ftorcs of his memory, rich
with all that men ever knew, and laid them
in their order as the illustration of that real
jrld exalted faith, the unquestionable source
of that fervid genius, which cast a fort of
(hade upon other works of man—
He pa(Te4 the bouiMj of (laming (pace,
Where angeU tremble while they gaze,
He faw,.tiH blaflcl with exeefs of light,
His eyes were closed in endless night!
. But it was the light of the body only
that was in liim extinguished ; *' the eelef
tial light (hone inward, .and enabled him to
vindicate the ways of God to man/' The
result of his thinking was nevertheless not
the fatne as the author's. The mysterious
incarnation of our blefied saviour, which this
; work blasphemed in words so wholly unfit
• for the mouth of a chriflain, or for the ears
. ' of a court of justice, that he durst not and
would not give them utterance. Milton
made the grand conclusion of the paradile
!oft, the reft from his fini(hed labtitirs, and
the ultimate hope, expectation and glory of
the world—
A Virgin is his Mother, '
Rut hit Sire the power of the Mod High,
He (hall afeend the Throne Hereditary,
And hound his reign with earth's wide bounds.
His glory with the Heavens, f
LORD ANSON.
PROSPERITY, wealth, and even fame
itfelf, are too often the casual' offspring of
mere chancy, and a train of incidents uni
formly lucky and fortunate ; but an exer
cised fortune, occasionally chequered, tra
versed, and clouded by the dorms of adver
sity, can educate and form the able
rpan, or the experienced mariner.
If lord Anfon, 111 his celebrated courf?,
had learned to brave the wintry season,
and bid defiance to the churlilh chiding of
the winter's \rinds, the seventh circumnavi
gation was our great marine,feminary, where
the fchool, the naval heroes of the
splendid aera from 1757 to 1763, were early
nnrfed and rocked in the cradle of adver-
Sir Charles Wager's well.concerted plan j
for the expedition in 1739, was fatally tra- j
versed and counteracted, in the equipment, !
destination, and departure of that fqwadron. I
LOrd Anfon triumphed over enemies more
formidable than the Spaniards, adverse sea
sons and unfortunate events, and feturned
home enriched, not so much by thetreafures
of tfie Manilla galleon, as by the more last
ing treafur«s of marine science, the extension
of our naval influence, and the reputation of:
our flag, fuccefsful in the South Sea, aud
formidable in China. As he commenced
that war with success, so he terminated it
with glory in 1757, by the capture of the
whole French fleet, loaded with treasure, off
Cape Finifterre.
The cotempofaries of this great faijor still
remember and speak with delight of his mo
desty and moderation. He seemed desirous
i>f the solid poffeflion of merk, and not of
the echo of renown. No man, jnftly confi
dent of his own virtue, ever envied the re
putation of another. A general patron of
merit, he rendered the moll ample justice to
a native of Ireland, protected only by his
abilities ; though his own glory seemed al
most eclipsed in 1747, by fir Peter Warren,
aiding his promotion, joining in the nation
al lamentation for the premature destiny of
that hero, over whose monumental urn the
Naval Genius of Britain lhal) weep, while
his memory is embalmed by the regret, and
preserved in the grateful recolleCtion of his
country. For the great service off Cape
Finifterre, he was rewarded with a British
peerage in 1747. Lord Anfon terminated
that war with glory, and rendered it as fuc
cefsful at sea as it had been unfortunate on
the continent; while his maritime fuperin
tendance from 1756 to 1762 —3, was the
primary instrument of lord Chatham's ad
miriiftration, in the most splendid xra of the
British annals. Let it .be remembered that
we owe that success to naval fuperintend
ance. Partiality has been imputed—a pre
ference of the Anfon school, of the (hip
mates of the Centurion, since unjust and
idle prejudices bare been formed in favor of
landmen presiding in the marine department.
Bat when we recolleCt the names of Brett,
Saumarez,Keppel,Weft, Bofcawcn, Hawke
and Rodney, the nation (hares the offence
—the loud voice of the community freely
confeffes the charge of partiality. Would
that we could look upon their like again 1
Would that we could fee such leaders, to
render England once more pre-eminent, to
extend her power as in that renowned peri
od, as far as winds could waft, or fails could
carry the triumphs of the British empire—
At that period the desire of Cromwell was
accompliflied, to render the name of a Briton
as memorable at that of an aicient Roman ;
but it is not in the enthusiasm of our coun
trymen, or in the praise of our own history,
but in Voltaire's age of Louis the fifteenth,
in 1759, in the simple title of a chapter, that
we trtfce our fairelt eulogium.
" The English •victorious in the four quarters
of the Globe."
The riciffitudes of dates, like the ebbing
and flowing of the fmrounding ocean, are
perhaps prescribed by the wife decrees of
the, great Ruler, impenetrable to human
fagocity ; secondary causes oftfn contribute,
however, to their decline. The eJamina-,
tion of these reasons may rouse men from
a state of palsied torpor, of national lethar
gy, and political vegetation. Individual
happiness is an aggregate of public welfare.
If it be true, that they, can have no solid
enjoyment, even of their own.wealth, in
an exhausted and declining date, it follows
that those are the wisest who preserve their
own through the public intered. Hence it
follpws, that those half-witted, cunning J
mortals, wn"o purfne'the dictates ofa ftiere
felfifh intered, can have no praise for exer- !
cifing a faculty common to the brute crea
tion ; but fatally, in the present period,
the old goflipping maxim prevails, he mud
be the wisest man who does the mod for
himfelf; and the alarmid, who barters his
anxiety for vast wealth, is a paragon of wis
dom ; though, perhaps, when they pass off
the dage, they may have a claim to the
well-known epitaph of a Persian king,
" that he enjoyed life, had what he ate and
drank, and that every thing else was va
nity j" au epitaph which Aridotle consi
ders not as fit for a man, but a hog.
In o*ur rewards and promotions, tnerit is
lead confidcred; —writers oflafcourousworks
of national in ft ruction, are starved; while
the flippant authors of pamphlets are re
warded with princely fortunes. To inform j
is deemed presumptuous; to delude, is allow,
edj benyvplence and wisdom pass for infir
mity;' and fraudulent imposture is deemed
the bed proof of ability; while 110 reason can
be assigned for many important appoiiitr
ments, save only that they arc prizes in the
date lottery of official afangements. Our
enemies, it is but too true, pursue a contra
ry plan 4 and avail themselves of literacy gra
tification. Bift, on the contrary, if we,
look back to the feveri yeai*> war, we (kail
find every species of merit rewarded. In
1 759> a rfwsrd was advertised ia the
London Gazettt, by the Admiralty, to
the writer of a letter to a newspaper, if he
would perfor.ally explain a national propofi
tjon for pufelie welfare. Such reasons pre
vailed—-for all the state offices and appoint
ments, that probably othcrwife would uot,
have beep ch .a T*edi>y a general ballot.
The pyramid of Lord Chatham's admin
istration was fouaded ,on the wide base of
ifcerit, of graduated arrangements and pro
motions, of approved services, while his own
genius prefixed and crowned the summit of
the edifice.
" Those who are lighted ly a lamp Jhvuld
fesdit with oil:" the just reproach of Anax
agoras to Pericles, was not applicable to
Lord Chatham, Otnnifcience is not'the por
tion of men; he was not ashamed of acknow
ledging inftru£tions'( to use his own words)
not only by praise, but by promotion. If
lord Chatham derived his naval science from
the Lamp of Lord Anfor.'s experience, be
it remembered, that that lamp was rendered
more beneficially eonfpicious by its just po
rtion and fair elevation. The pnfthumous
eulogium of Lord Chatham, in paints
the true character of Lord ■ Asfon, who
would wi(h to aVnplify the defcriptibrt of
Anaxagoras, traced'by Perk ts or retouch
the potrait of Caesar, draw;: by CJcero. |
" Inflru&ed (said lord fjiaith irp in 1771)
by a great seaman, 1 have be; . cojiverfant
in marine (latious and arrai ::eToenrs, and
drew nfy infermatien fror- ft naval
authority that ever cxr 1 din tjhjs country,
I mean the late Lord An foil; l Ji'i spite of a
popular clamor, agaiqfl'l him, mijurtly ex ci
ted in 1 756, I-prefer 'dl; % at the "head
of the admiralty. * I 4>a«# Cod J had the
firmnels to do so. 1 nrrits.ofthat great
man are not so. junf*. r-• jy kn o v't r., nor the
memory ofthe> I f v ;-rmly'
refpedied as he d-. care, wis
dom, experience ar r .gilasce (j : fp«ak j,t
with pleasure and c. t) coili ' yis
much indebted. Th -, 1 ri gWie:'. of the
seven years war are to tx ft: : bed fo'ths sa
gacious counsels of,that g ciretiianavJga
ter - /'
W ALPOLE, (N. H.J Oftober a.
SUMMARY.
INCIDENTS ABROAD.
The French mirnicks, it i'<ems, are now
performing the last aft of their monstrous
farce of liberty. Bitter Jealousy rankles
among the council of five hundred, ambition
dictates the councils the dire&ory, and
tbe Grand Turk of , iitary despotism ar»
bitrarily governs the free and equal Parisian.
The eonftitutibii is violated by the interfer
ing soldier, two of the French tyrants clamor
for peace, more invoke Ate hot from hell;
the rovrlifts rear their heads, and the dis
jointed fabric of fhawilowy rc publicanifm
lhakrs, like the old beldame of the poet.
Peace at Lisle walks with grave, flow and
measured ftepa. Peace between France and
Portugal is concluded. A judieloifs paflenv
ger iu the Minerva states that England,
though alone, is fuffieient to guard her
conftitnt'on agaifift muting at the Nore or
the invajions of the French.
Spain is' 3 dumb Tffachar, couching un
der the burthen of fraternity,—Holland
builds Ihips, aflis for a De Ruyter, and pru
dently detains them in the Texel, —Germa-
ny fofters letters, hangs op the helmet and
sword, and lefts from the labors of war—
and Italy is o:\ tar scan. -to Mi* »ek yoj.c,
the infallible Buonaparte.
In the London papers *we find the usual
column of wit and plcafantry. Francis, a
noted placeman, is happily compared 50 his
great predecefTor in Shakespeare's Henry
IV. he is always ready with his "'anon,
anian, fir-" This might be pertinently ap-
to some of our time-serving and ob
sequious gentry.
" Better to reign in Hell" is now the
motto of the minority : therefore they at
tempt to raise the hell of anarchy, to get in
to a warm birth.
The long waist is attempted to be again
introduced by certain starched tabbies. This
is the consequence of imperious neceflity ; if
youth and beauty would give leave every
old maid in the kingdom would be as (hort
waifted as Shakespeare's Julietta. A young
woman lately in a fit of love threw a con
gragation into great consternation by at
tempting a forcible seizure of a Jiifs from a
clergyman of the Parish, \Wiile performing
his clerical fun&ions.
Mrs. Inchbald has written an account! of
her life from the age of thirty, which com
prehends the hiftory'of her own times, fu
far as relates to the stage and her literary
connexions.
Mrs. Powell, the aftrefs, though not
partial to the Dutch is said to be not averse
to Holland.
BOSTOft, October 16.
[By desire of the French Conful.J
CAPE FRANCOIS.
Extradl.of t}, e R e gift C i- of Deliberations, of
the Commission delegated by the' French
Government to the Leeward Islands.
Seeing ti petition presented to the Com
mission on the 6th of last F r 'maire, by
Hughes Wilson, command®!' and owner t>f
the schooner Anna Maria of Baltimore, ill
consequence whereof, AUgustus Love, cap
tain of the privateer La Vertu, of I'Anft-a-
Veau isaccufed of having ill treated the .pe
titioner, of having eapturcd his vefTel, dis
posed thereof, as wtll as of the cargo with-
I out a previous judgment, pronouncing the
validity of the prize :
Seeing a letter directed, on the 30th Flo
real lalt, to the commission,' by the Consul
General of the French Republic, near th«
United States of America, by which it ap
pears, that said Auguiins Love, commits
in the leas of Hifpaniola the moil hon'id pi
racies under divers flags ;
Considering tbatjthe bulk ofinformatiVn»
given to the commission, or wtyjch theyhav#
collided themselves, about Augustus Love,
is equivalent to public notoriety, of the ex
cefies by him committed, againlt the rights
of nations and individuals.
Considering that thp violation ef those f«*