P& "®3B£ ■« Ik. tetaAM \ I yet had hi; trV. 'T' other-murder is a filicide. A p-pfi-n h.-id received land' war rants t'rotn a "tfftdc 111.10 in this (late, and h.ul applied 'tb.-",! improperly. The gentleman apjjiicd to the man to' know what Ue liad done with the uiarrwrtk and the man giving him an untrue (htemeiu ol' the business. he pro duced letters which co lit radioed him. Wp orTthat, the man retired and cut his throat. BALTIMORE, August 15. A number of Americans taken from dif ferent vefftls, and confined on tyard the French privateer that took them, we are in formed, alofe on their captors, overpowered the pirate, and carvi«d the vefiel into Mar tinique, where they fold her, and stared 600 dollars each, prite money. Several of the above seamen, lately in the employ of Mr. B. Owings, whose vessel was taken are said to have arrived in town. - r%ijf P H I L A D£ LP HI A . SATURDAY WU4.' 4.5 to 47 , ./; i» -Pennryl»is». -'to * I o J * V .,41»W,. -4- fafura "a " .' Oil London, 51 at 30 days 50 at 60 a 90 day* A'.nljcrdam, 3 per florin Hamburgh 30 () a 100 per Mark Par.co. Print Current at New-Orleans, on the \tho< June, ijgg. D. C Tlour, half sups. & fine 4 5c Htmp, per cwt. 6 Salt Pork, per bbl. 6 ' Cotton, per cwt. 20 Logwood, per ton' 60 Sugar, count rymjde, per cwt. I None 62 t Shaved Deer Skins, per lb. 30 *»* The Proprietors of the N w Theatri have leafed it to Mefs'rs Wi ;n ll anc ■y"' APPROACHING election. No. IT. so the Eleftors of Pennsylvania. Mr. M'Kran's desire to provoke a war w:th Great Britain is not .even denied by the . Ele&ion Committees. In answer to this charge it is indeed (aid, that " he; was op posed to certain parts of our arrangements with that country, because he anticipstcd that they might unnece(T»rily involve js in a •war with another nation, and imprudently impose heavy burdens in various ways upon the American people. Nevertheless, it is afierted that »n'anxiety to produce a war did not rxilt in his bosom, for furelykn op position to a peaceable arrangement,' is no proof of a desire to avoid a prolongation of dispute. It would no doubt a curious f if it could be afce/tained from what cause t lis equivocation proceeded. Perhaps the Chief Justice, when warnied by opposition, or when heated by vine, snay iu,the artificial openness of his heart, have given free vent to his feelings and his Can it that the Committee, aware of fomefuchcir cuniftance, have "found themselves compel led to vefort to this contemptible evasion ? As Mr. M'Kean's Ration afforded him no opportunity of publicly expre fling his opin ions On the dispute which fubfilled between the two countries ; it would be impoflible to ascertain his individual sentiments, from his political l condutt. But as filir a criterion by which to form the judgment may easily be found, arising from the p;i*t adopted by h s prpfc.it associates, with whom he then b c.Hßie united, and who now so gratefully reward him for his scandalous apcftacy.— That every injury we received from Great Britain was theji as grossly exaggerated, as those we now receive from France are mean ly palliat-d, extuftd and juilified ; thatmea fwres, amounting to offenlive war, were then as violently tn lifted on, as thole merely of a defnifUei n.tf.ire are n»w warmly and vigo r mfly opposed ; that a feque ((ration of Bri ti;h debts w;.s flrenuoufTy urged j anon im pirtataoi! refutation entered into by the i ' ml': of lleprefentatives ; and an embargo athia'ly laittliy tlie whole government ; are fo notorious as to be perfeftly familinr ti the minds of those who are moll inattcn tvc to the political affairs-of the nation. Nadoujn therefore can remain that although M-Kean " may deem it quite impro- P r noy to -encounter a war with France," lie WSS very anxious" then to provoke one * ' th C ' ni:,t B« fay the commit. t e confidercd what influence l the uoftrine held by Messrs. Dallas and M'Kcan themielves, may have had in pro ducing the claims now made by the British lommtJsior.ers, which, whether acceeded to '• - 1 .. . ■ ■ , '.V or, may, linked, rreate difcontsnts of a very serious that the ideas tbojt ■gentlemen ia'Jt breath ed, are. precisely those which are r»:a so loudlv clamored against as destructive of tbe principles whereon our independent was et chieved, " the effe&s of certain provisions in the treaty of 1794" may perhaps with justice be charged upon themselves. Oil this fubjeft, however, I (halj dwell more fully in a future number. - Much has lieen said in the Aurora, and other jacobin prints, on the lubjeft of the " St. Domingo pro]?dl." The argument' of those vagrant fcnbblers, whe blacken trie fides of these detestable trumpets of sedition and rebellion, have been so futile in them-, selves and have proeeeded fro,m so poisonous a source, as hitherto to have merited and received only the sneer of contempt : But (ir.ee men who are of fufficicnt importance to dictate to the people of Pehnfylvania, their choice of a Governor, ule the fame fac tious endeavors to create riot and insurrec tion, it is neceflary « give a brief history of the tl'alifa&ion. It is well known, that previous to the French revolution, the trade of St. Domin go was tie most advantageous and lucrative that France had ever enjoyed. With its su gars and coffee (he almost wholly fuppfieci the northern countries of Europe. Nut on ly did the profits arising from the sale of the produce itfelf, grant an immense aid to her commerce,but by being afforded an extenfivc carrying trade, her marine was confttfntly furnifhed with sailors. In confequence,how ever, of the Rsvolution, and the fatal tenets which, so puHappily for mankind, it has in troduced, this flounflnng Illand became the scene of a defolating-civil war; its merchants were driven away, and France, incapable of succouring, was compelled almost entirely to abandon their . The United States then be came the grand depot of the St. Domingo commodities, and by the exportation of them procured the principal advantages whioti our unnatural ally had beibre derived from her trade with her colony. This (late of things continued until the Diredtory began their pre frnt iniquitous fyflem of plunder towards ill the'neutral nations of the globe. St. Do mingo, in common with the other posses sions of the Republic, gave (lielter to a nest of abandoned pirates, wtio seized our vessels wherever bound, and under whatever cir- '»• Vf D.C. to 6. 25 yo 5 22 ' «5 8 »7 6 J 12 35 D. C. 6 25 5 cum fiances they were failing. Ever} when entering her own ports, upon the faith of ibleuin ailurances of protection, were they treachcroufly captured, and afterwards cor ruptly condemhed. From this cause, and from the other multiplied injuries and insults inflifted upon us by France, Congress resol ved, in 1797, to cut off allmtercourfe with her and her dependencies. During that and the succeeding year, the French agents were daily losing their influence in the island ; differences arose with the negroes, who in sact 1 poffefled there all authority and power : and Hedouville, the Intendant, was arrett ed and sent off to his conflitments. During the whole of tTii# period the government of' the United States is not even pretended to have fomented the disturbance, or to have countenanced in the On* lie ft degree the con duit of the infurgtnts. Soon after, Touf faint, the negro chief, declared ,the colony independent, entered into a treaty with the ' 6 5 Britilh commander in the Weft Indies, and dispatched an agent to America to form a commercial arrangement }vith us. Our ad nnniflration perceivingthat he had withdrawn the privateers who before had itlfefted bis coasts ; that by fuffering our citizens ts flip ply hinl with our commodities, the means of plundering our merchants would no lon- gerbe furniflied to the enemy ; and that the trade could not but b# highly lucrative and advantageous to oar country at large, acced ed to his request. The measure was then, indeed, clamored against as hoflile to France, but To has been every aft, calculated to pre fcrve our moll edential intercfts from destruc tion, and our indepedence from total abafe menl. Ihe British government, deubtiefs, in order to prevent any ainDai raffmcnts arif tng from a collision of interefls, between its iubjecls and our citizens - } about this time had entrusted General Maitland with the power of making an agraement with us on the fubjeft. What were the particulars, of this agreement Iras not yet entirely tranfjiired ; but from the general policy of ouradminiftra tion and from all the fa&s yet' before the pub, lie, itmuft be concluded to have been pure ly commerciaj. Wak this not obviously ne ceflary in order to prevent new disputes arif. ing between two nations, now rivals in commerce, and so lately rivals in arms ? and would it have been tortured but by the malice of a jesuitical jacobin Into a pro*f of an exclutive attachment ta Britain. Even if our government had meanly refufed to treat with ToufTaint, left offence tliould thereby b« given to France, still he would have received and been benefited by our produce ; For'our merchants would have lent the articles he flood in need of to the British and rifutrJl Weft-India lilands, from whente they wo»ld have been exported to him, * Foreigners would then have become the Carriers of our tammodities, and have solely enjoyed the profits to he v niade by the exportation and sale of those Irom St. Domingo. Thus, then, becaule a participation has been secured to us in a commerce which otherwise would, almost solely, have fallen into the haftds of Britain, our administra tion is c.harged with surrendering its country into her hands. What must be the purity of our rulers, when it is found necessary to it so r t to such contemptible expedients in or der to ruin their fame and hurl them from the'.r offices ? What the" wicked malignity, or unprincipled ambition of those whocon defcend to make an attack with weapons so bale and unlawful ? But it is said that Touflaint, in one part of the Island, had committed depredations on our commerce ; while Rigaud, who pre served his abftained from them in the other : although with the one we have . / "*fv , J opened an InWixourC.- Milch Hill remains closed with the other. The iatt is denied, ami iid3 been, i think, fully difprvvfd bnt even if it WW) true, tin; polity of uurgov ernment woiwl itwti have been.fto j'eis hen eft and.wife. commilfioned an envoy to the United StfWs ; h*.* never for mally proinifcd ;o prvteel' our \effels ; nor ■did lit ever duty the authority of tliofe de crees of the French republic, by which Hie* unefjrtivocallydeclared waragainft ys. When he makes the fame propolition, on thefT.mie tr rifts as TouiFaint has done, he will, doubt letV, meet with the fame encouragement. What connexion enn poflihly exist be tween the treaty fcf '94 and the St. Domingo project of ''99, it is reserved for the ingenious and candid «le£tion committee to discover. From what provision ofthc one, could the other have arisen ? l'hty are as unconnected, as Mr. Cone's treason during the revolution was with Mr. M'Kean's pa triotic desire to attain and permanently es tablish our independence; but the cbjedt is obvious ; and the means are worthy of the men who employ them. Toroufe the fedi-,, ment of old discontent, and to create nef> caufcs of confuQon, has been the effort of fadlion, from tlie Crist'. : of the world to the present moment. To discolour the purest conduct of our Executive, by the prejudices formerly entertained agfcinft the treaty, is evidently aimed at by the committee. That instrument is doomed by them to be the source of eve-y evil, and t* diflatisfy the people with every bk ifing which they receive. It is a melancholy truth, menkiod * partial fondnefs for their own children both of the body and the brai.i ; and, as among the for mer, the weakcfl ufuallyfhare most largely in the afltttions of the parent, so among the latter, the very firft-born of nonsense is commonly the favorite child of the imagi nation. Hence it conies to pass, that men, who, in some things, merit refpeft and ad- miration, in others, run into such wild the ories and extravagant absurdities as render them unworthy off any place in the abodes of mankind, unless it be a mad-house or at school of Frenchified, philosophers. Hence it is, that whether a man has introduced a new dogma in religion, or a new jfalhioned collar to-a coat ; whether he has let himfelf to demolilh a fyfteni of goycrniiHKtt, or a head of hair ; whether, like Voltaire, he ha 9 undertaken to reform religion and go vernment by the power of reason, and to prove all mankind, except himfelf, to have been dupes and fools ; or, like Lequipco, to fraternize a province by the music of a fiddled whether, as an occult mason, he ha s attempted to improve the happiness of so ciety, by removing every pillar on which fotfety reds : ot, like Lord Monboddo, ha s seriously undertaken to proye that long tails were, originully, a part the human body ; he feels in himfelf an undoubted title to the charafter of either a discoverer or reformer, and grows big with the confidence that no doubt, iijible lady in this country. if such " wifiom" is found in ir,.li-, iduals, what may we nut exprtt from the urityi ef forts of a whole nation ? Turn yi'iur eyes to France, or to thole enlightened citizens of America, >vh(S dirive'theii- wildom at fceand hand, from France, and you will fee the l'ubjeft in its True -light. It would be vaifi to attempt eveji an enumeration of all the Vise measures adopted by that Republic ; nor is it neceflary : For the information, of those whe .may not have paid particular attention to the fubje«\, I will give you a Angle specimen, from which you may easily judge of the reft. Not long since, it was dilcnvered, "in France, that literhiure had become very aris tocratic, and created, among the citizens, invidious dirtinitions, inconsistent with a re- publican government and the pure principles of equality. It therefore became a duty incumbent on tie government to discourage and it pollible to suppress it. This they ac compliiSied to effectually, by the means of contempt tnd in a fliort tijne/any conliderable literary attainments became a fufKcier-t difqualification for any public rifice. From, a course of experience, however, it was discovered, that though ma ny advantages resulted from this they were (till attended with l'oma. little in corveniencies. The legislature, therefore, attually pafled a decree, that every officer (hould be able to read and write, ariftocrat ical as it is! But, knowing that even a de cree of the national convention would not enable them to do it, without the use of : frlne means, and that, as they had abolished aIL the public fchoojs and univer sities abng with the other odious remains of tyranny, it now became incumbent on the legislature of a free and equal people to de vifif some republican method of education. Public schools were objefted to, because, in ■them, Lnftrudors might be superior to their pupils ; and t-hat is aristocracy. Parents might not be left to choose their own me thod, because these who are learned or wealthy would be likely to bellow upon their own children too much. Some proposed I that children should be brought to hear the debates oT tftc and of tht jaco bin clubs, in order t® imbibe wisdom ; oth ers rrißftea ilm riiey fcyuld be allowed, on ly to " read the great .book of nature." With great difficulty, however, a desree was fi nally obtained ; that a certain number of schools fliould be established, under the im mediate infpedlion of the officers of govern ment, in which " children, under six years of age" should be taught " gvmnaftics, ge ometry, geography, natural philosophy, the hiflory of all free nations, and that ®f alf tyrants, the rights of man and the pa:riotic songs." In this ariflocratic country, where our minds ..re enslaved and epprefied bv religious fupcrftition, old falhioned prejudice, arbi trary government, and the Hkr, we are apt, at firft, to be a little fufyrifed that «• chil dren, under fix years of age," ihould he ca pable of learning all these abilrufe sciences. But we fliould recolleft, tliat in France, equality, perfeft equality had been decreed by&fokmn aft of the logijlatuie ; of course, citizens " fix yearS" old we re obliged, by law, to poflefs as much ftrengtli and liability of judgment as the legiflatorj themfclves. In moll rrfjje&s, they would doubtless not be found inferior. The whole Of this fine fabric, was, how ever, by one untoward accident, tumbled into ruin. A system ofeducatiorf, for youths of a more advanced age had been devised, to include, among others, a normal school » or a school, in which, as the na>ne nn- ports, w&re to be taught the re publican rules of fchoo)v!;eepin£. But this, some sagacious legillatoj 1 discerned to be a feudal institution, becauft* normal must have i'oine reference to Normandy. So the whole failed, and young citizens were again left, as republicans ftmild be, to take their educa tion the natural way. " No doubt but these are the people, and wil'dom (hall die with them." the Lay Preadcr of Pennsylvania. Ext raft cf a letter from a gentleman in Vir ginia to his friend in Philadelphia. dated Aiiguft 5, " . , . " The noted George Nyty>l« of Ken tuckey, by a prpvilenttil depart* ed tfefe wejrk before lash Of conffe ptcpte qf tha( SWeV w at lesft » rnajo. rity of them, - wiH jWi be d»«J«tsd iq the iß»refis;of tte .'* 4as% - r.vv . s&*" >V« ...A. ~V ' ' ~ ; f • w'V'.- "i mUU§mS& ~ -' :25' -j^'7 :r"*r' Sip, . ••- y - <- >, w w Pert iff Phlhdetph-m. V-, £-j 'ARRIVED, •?•• r; 4**r !chr.' Sally* Wei fh, . tf. Vi&ory, I folates, Lib«rtyv ■yri&to *"'' V > ;, iflffWji • .••<.. CtEARBB? : 1 Scbr. Yeatrnan, longhead, »jCtafJfltaiJ| r3 Favourite, J6hnfen r '.\ of 12a fail of Amrrican * convoy of the United Stal« csptain B&inbridge, cn<3 <»»,'" > —i—.Xhe p§ot &y» pr.Vateer off the twi» 4 4 brigs* . ..i. ~ : ' > For Sale at Pub lie A*B on Wednesday At I -o'clock, P. M. at the Cofee- House, J|a OIL lIA\.- lajsir ■■ ' wharf, With her gunn.fmall irms, -«-nv.miti m.ftor- ,&e. an inventory of whith may tic i'c-tn at ibe auciijn room. The CaA-y,, 4 \ The i6th of flepfarih«rnext. at to io fotenfton, . " - i Will■•#■ Upptr Uviltfi tbwn/lip, Mcnmlhurf ' 5 i« *>U< from VtS$E£Z hel/mllei/iom Sloßf ' limas fyoip One Tra&. ' ■ 1 old YoTlcroad r fiifjr ' &C. I( is i trot, and weH-alculajed- fqg.i' '' tuMf&tvUinif, a»d £mTJ- • , ttMUi ,/Ot/rfi jpHHy. Tie ' be one third hir other third in tweWe.jnoirtliss «*Hi i*ttef«sk aa4 v such f«tiite£ort fccurity M may !(g/r«q#ir«l ' Jt ' either b«.&M entire,, or "darkled in ' •.'•>•" f. -• vV'.'N fifty' jtcttes of CWlfiftipy cbtfni t h..,rf,'.. cbifmct inwg Jrftfjfcs.who ; >km:vAwfc; ,=,,. • , *9#f 7. -*r * • ' CHAMJt# PfegASAWT*, r;'"\ '-' '• ■ ■&&&*? ••'•. "• f? ;*«sh» 1 " jlivtii* lu(h; -> Moo on the perf«n»l eft«|* *1 JQ&ifjh&J&'Tittf, '- V due of Warwick, ia "-rij f*ffeTrir]r l rtiiiir ilfi ; A ' {wrioDi h»vwg ", i.are He? * v « .vouohcrs flicr»of, tp the * , *. iht firfdajr M K by be exclidtd from •^ / ' Subscriber, living in Warwick, Cecil County, Hod (Debanias Noni) on the personal cftate of JOHN FANCE, Utc of Warwick, in Cecil ' agaihft the /'aid deceafiid, are hereby warned to exhibit the fame, with the vouchers thereof, to next—They may othrrwife, by law, b e excluded . V 6 » Inters of Administration, on the personal ef t.itcof S/iMUEL HEIV E7*7*, late ol said Coun ty, diceafed. All person. having claims agairft the (hid deceased, are he/eby warned, to exhibit the fame with the veuthers thtreof, to tre Sub fcribtr, at or before the firll day of March next I'hty may'ethcrwife, by law, be excluded from Aug. 17. NO TIG E, ALL persons indebted to the Eitate of Aarr n Thcimpfon, Hu ti, formerly cf Woodb uy, i New Jcrfey, and iatcot Darby, deceafecf,vare rtqucflftd ; to make immediate payment—And all peifdns ba j-virig ; , I ■V. ' u * *s• ' "Ma .• T -- . • *** •*-' J' ' f* s *