a %be (E-ajette. * v - PHILADELPHIA, . FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22. Juftum et teiacem propofiti virura, Non civium ardor prava jabentium, Non vultus inflantis tyranni, Mente quatit folida. [CULAR PROVIDENCE. It is not dovbtcd that Ttit-rffiirs" oftliis world, even sometimes in their minutia, are interfered with, by that Being, without •whose notice not ;i Sparrow falls to the ground. But the extreme lengths to which this do&rina has foiUetimes been carried, h.ive given occalion to much mauvaiseplais anterie, on the part of sophists and unbe- lievers. That particular and signal crimes do draw down particular anf signal judg ments, is inconteflible ; but tiie profiitution of the idea, when in common parlance, it is said, such wi one flipped on the ice, and providentially l-renking his Kg, is abi'urd. Does. tide in the river, bear down with equal indifference a drown ing man and a log ? The celebrated zealot,. Bunvan, has indulged to excels in this be lief ; and ohe cannot forbear a smile, at the lingular applications of it, which appear in his Grace abounding 16 the Cbuf of Sinners, a work written purposely to substantiate the doftrir.e. Bunyan fays, that being in the fic-Id with one of his companion*, an adder pafled the road, which he puri'ued, llruck. and having stunned her, forced open her mouth with his Hick, and plucked her fling Cuch deteftafele monsters ! Is there a virtu out withhis fingers ;by which act (lays lie) ons mar, i» America that would excham". bad not God been vurcijul to mc, I might common civilities with the mffereant, whr have brought myftlf to my end. At ano- would dart to perpetrate, i>r even to advifi ther time, he was drawn out to Ik liege a: fa atrocious, an act ?—lf pte fundamenta town, and another ibldier going in lii's place, j inllitutions t>f focii'ty, M" religion, and o " was (hot into the h> ..d w >') a muflart bul- j morals are nut sv-re mere fh clows, tli.n let and died which he deemed a merciful ! appear, Q£_ vanifti. at th«- calls of pol.itica interpoiltion of Divinity in his own behalf. expedience, the F.-cnch Republic should b. ——— con fide red, and treated by all nations, a: British Depredations* hoflile to the hu:r ir> race—and so (ht reaih EVER since the Board afGommiffion- | S by all, except the corrupt ers, inflituted to fettle the cUims of Briti/h tr " cheroUS ' a " : "penary court of Berlin. Creditors, h.:s been di'TjjveJ, many of the r ,■ ,• r r , ™ »i- • . / rn- i r j i\ i the famous chief of the Chou public prints (pioklkalv federal) have teem- or ,„ at- » • rir o • r „ . j • , r D h i j • \ ai.s, ttyliijg hi Bile If Caprain for Louis ed with reports of Bntiih depredations : and c l • • r * r r.l r i t I r r j A V ioJ.. or the circuits of A v ranches anc some of thele paragraphs have been ieafoned. r +*. i l it /t- t • i • , j it j c r n i ■ Uoutances, has been a{T;:ffinated ov some oi with ncr {mail degree of aiperity arainft both .. . • .. . . ' . . j 3U. . r the brigands ot the revolution, near Avran the nation and government. Why thele " complaints have made their appearance so T ■/ i r , . much oftener since, than they did before, the ■ By * ° f lr ° m f :e Department of L'Ar event above referred to, I icave to be ex- T M , 5 0r ° plained hereafter: what I have principally ,>e ' l a ''" r «. • -j- • i P ears i t|Wt u Ihe mfurccents of the Unoei to notice, at present, is the avidity with £> , ~ 6 , . . , tU V - . • J r . commanded by the ci-devant count ■which thele reports (the major part of them • r> i rr c ii, j . A 1 jr ae Pawlo [so otten but ytftalivel he utterly fahe) are copied from paper to paper, r i/' , . y , i.. -» as matters of fact and quoted by Fed ral , 'en, '! " 10 n,ake f mailer: as proofs of the hostile spirit of the Brit.si, ~? C P rii,cl F' the Department o government ;in order, doubtless, to revive _ rn j ' , , r « • ,• • i , . enhit under the banners of rovaltv. Alrea ancient ammolities, and to prepare the pub- j , } A lie mind for a serious rupture. Ido not h *° "7 even to the walls o know Whether to call this a stupid defi,n, ''""""s; b ut the repubheans ol that com 'or a malignant one, so much of C* V° ; ht? V °' CC ° f the " both qualities ; but I will not helitate to 3*7' spontaneously rose m a mass to # P declare that it is both difingenurus and cow- e 1 S ° 1 elieni y f lTien » wo ardly to charge it, as some federals have "7 ind ' hl ' C ' ie " M to " fo «» dt - d 10 done, on the democratic party : such a mis- f C /* % S f?. 1 as C] y * wa! representation, is inconsistent with the iuftioa kj* u' ji leans f.;Mned an impcuetra due even to eg Nick. a,K ' at r d,e mom , ent wl *» th The leaders of the democrats are mm of °' j ° ? C + ummoned them to fur talents; they have too much craft to excite Cr * 13 answered bun by a general dif a war agairft Great Brit .in at this time. and by cries of Lonj Although they hate King George and his y R 'P uh ' ,c • r U * n Y ot f'ofe roya mir.iflers mod since rely, as they do all other ,' r , f f 111 an d thf reft were le Icings and miniilers, that eppofe their doc- r" 1 S ?J Ut t ! > t?^ c * ' ,c i'»:bleft ceur trine of the Rights of Men, they are too °a U , not b**' P aU '° •.unniiig to provoke hostilities, that will ter- W C °7 er 1 ® e ' ds ''ke a At thi ninate in their ewu ruin. Communicutiuns are re-eftai The object that engroiles tii-.-ir prefnt thoughts is to seize on the powers of thi weak, tottering government, faiisfied if their favorite printiplrs arc well clt.iuliihjJ only iu the United States. What greater tri umph can they wilh for, than to provide an asylum for Jaconinifm in this fixteniive conn try, after it lias been exiled from all others ; where the rebels and affaflins of Europe will fly in the day of vengeance, that is ha(tenin;r, and find fafety, if they can but find velfels to trahfport them ! It is theretore list then policy to rufli into a coatefl with the war lik- maritime, nations of the old world, that can burn their sea-port towns, deflroy their marine, prevent the escape of their friends, This is the policy of weaker heads than theirs—of your half-way-gentry, an ambphi bious r;ice, who art: perpetually vibrating from lide to fide, like the pendulum of a clock ; vainly believing that, beeaufe they vibrate, they regulate the motions of the machine ; without once reflecting that their vibrations have no eifeft whatever oil the machine, and are owing only to their own lightness. If, therefore, a clamour (hould be railed aga'inft the Britilh government, or Britilh cruisers, and any pains lliould b'e ta- ken to disfigure either to the public eye, the Jacobins are not the firft men to be fuf- pefted. However much these may contribute to disturb the government of their country, to render it contemptible to all nations, and, of course, the fitter for their own exclusive purposes, the Jacobin leaders have no desire of a war with Great Britain, in the prelent posture of affairs. So long as there is no danger of An alliance with her, they are quite , willing to preserve a nominal neutrality. An alliance with a wife and powerful nation, ■which has experienced the benefits of a well poised and energetic government for centu ries, is the evil they dread and deprecate the mofl. Next to an alliance, they dread a war with luer. Peace is their element : it affords full Icope tp their aftive talents. In peace they are sensible they grow with our growth, and ftreugthen with our strength ; lor a democracy, wh'ch is only a cant name for the triumph of scoundrels, acquires ftvength from the right of universal fuffrage, as -.laturally as licentiousness, rapine, and murder grow out of th-'abfence of law, or as crowi fatten on a carrion. It is your fmalF federalifts, therefore, whom I iufpedl of fabricating* these exagger ated tales ; the men, who, after five years tamenefs, under French outrages and insults, that would dtlhonor a Genevefe,or an Italian Gaftrato, now glow with sensibility for their country's wrongs, and are ready to draw the sword, becnufe the British have bren so un civil, as not to ftiffer us to carry their ene my's property in lafety. -c?cpe£t. lifcewife that by proposing a piratical war again fl Britilli mer 'chantmen, they will allure the great herd ef democrats, by the scent rf plunder, to defer: their leaders, and to join the federal stand ard ; and that by this means they will fruf trate a conspiracy that threatens the federal government ; but they are milUken : the democrats will range under no standard bat their own, of which we want no alearer. proof than M'Kean's answer. They know their strength ; and their motto is, Aut Cxsau, aut Nihil." VUR INUXDATIO.W OF FOLI.ASD. IF the French succeed in cficir design to inundate the low provinces of Holland, ev ery Dutchman in the country deserves to be drowned, it they do not rife in a body, and exterminate thufe D/mons in huma* shape, by all manner of means and contrivances, by, ('word or by bullet, by fire or by water. It' was bard to image any crime they had net: committed before, but this last will certainly Cap the climax. How depraved mull that wind be, that does not (hrink with honor rem a connexion of peace and amity with Rapinat, ex-commifiary in Helvetia, thus replies to an officer ot general Schawen bourg's ftafT, who had denounced him. '*! 1 read in the Freemen's Journal, that a citi zen attached to general Schaweubourg, re proaches me with having generously given to that general, a sum of 30,000 friincs, drawn from the treasury of Berne, and that sum, was, in his words, for the expences of his table. I will observe to you that that citizen is an error j it was not 3°>ooo francs that I delivered to that general", but 35,537 francs, which he had advanced from his funds allotted for his secret expences, for the 18th regiment of cavalry, which was in Switzerland under his orders." They fay, it was the Germans and Irish who put M'Kean into office. Perhaps St. Patrick had a mind to have a little bit of fun in his new country, by setting tip an auld Paddy, with a bob wig and a queer phiz, for a scare crow to the children. COMPLETE ALLITS,RATION. Of this meanest amongst the nugjc of li terature, sometimes pleating, but oftener the fubflitute of sense and foltdity, the following, by an old writer, is at once complete and unaffedted. " Bsgot by Butchers, but by Bifliops bred, " How high his honor holds hit haughty head " The lenient and pacific French, hating al ways litigations, feetn resolved to finifh the dispute in Holland by throwing cold water on it. The disposition ef a Jacobin is very much like that of a miser: The more liberty you give him, the more mifcrable, turbulent and refUefs you find him. It feeir.s now almofl forgotten tbat Buo naparte's name is Sbr.ler, and that he was born in Middletown, Connecticut: But such is ever the fate of the unfortunate ! It might not be amiss for Jacobins as they are, like Mirabeau, fond of revolutions, if they were to take each a tug, like nim, at the wheel of Ixion, for a reasonable space of time. An old wretch in England of the name oi lowers, h.is attempted in tsvo lung and lying volumes, to (hew that the French re volution is the,commencement of the Mil lenium. Pleafitrrt yrofpedt to look forward to i thousand years'of fach felicity ! It was pleasantly remarked of an hfpocri- I tical icderalift, who Ins long been known for " au old Iti nking- Jacobin" at bottom, j that his eye seemed to turn inward, under a j consciousness of guilt, as if to enquire, whe | tlier all went well there, or not. The nature of libei ty, whether civil or religious, bis been grossly misunderstood: It confifls not as in England, of having an option of (laying at home or going abroad ; of keeping a fiiop or going to faa, or joining the army; of paying a moiety of your mo ney, for fate-keeping of the reft:—of (hew ing denionftrations of reverence for the Al mighty quocunque modo ; —but as in France: of (laying at home, or being proscribed as an emigre ; of joining the army, or being (hot as- a defcrt'er; of paying with a good will all you poTefs, or having it li-ized by requisition.; and of bafphemiiig the Al mighty, at all times and in every manner. I Ihe life apd adveptuivs of democracy, in -thi-s caurltry, wou ; d be a curious and novel tale,— rivalling fbiliewhat in inteivft and still more in magnitude;, the pleafatit romance of De Foe, or that of the bearded hermit, Philip Quarll. Like an ancient French Che valier d'hidustne, who, having funk the Fril'eur, in the ttarch and pompous Habili ments of an undertaker, passed oil from city to city, aflonilhing the weak minds ef the Datives and railing up crowds of thdfe im pertinent and mushroom gentry called cre ditors ; it has made its promenade through the continent, at eccentric intervals, now destroying oxen, with Achillean rage, at one town, now Skipping and dancing at another, to the Ga Ira, Carmagnole and murderous Marfeiilois. We read, in certain Gazettes, that tlie Hon. Robert Livinglton, Chancellor of the State ot New-York, has discovered a method of making Paper out of river weeds. 'Twere a good exchange, if many other luminaries ot democracy were to leave off pounding Government, and take, like our Chancellor, to pounding river weeds into paper. A man has some merit, for replenishing, in the latter part life, a stock, which he has either use lessly or to evil purpose, dilapidated in the foi mer. If thole who blot and wafto paper with idle, (lupid, or wicked productions, were fen tcneed, each, to replfcniih in his proportion, haw tedious would be the talk of a news printer. The American Government lias the honor able boafl of beholding amongst its support ers, the united Genius and Learning as the Country: But as the molt briiliant pidturc will have fonie dark (hades, there is here and thert, found, a wretch, so loft to the dignity of his nature, and. the right employment of his endowments, as to become recreant, and convert them to the deftru&ion of those ef tabhfhments which rescued him frem igno rance : But such exceptions are few j appar ent ran nantes in gurgite vafto. Nkw Publications. Mr. Carey has recommenced a work fosne time published by him under the title of " The American Muiemn." It is a collect tion of Essays, Selected principally from news papers, on various topics, chietfy political. Much of the vain and idle gabble of Demo cracy, amongst which we notice the fomniier ous Eflays of the American Merchant, is hare vainly attempted to be reScued from that negleA, to which its inherent and diS tiuftive qualities have irrevocably con'.igned it : a part ot the work, however is occupied with better Speculations ; amongst which we mention the ingenious and learned Efl'ay of the late Judge Bradford on crimes and pun ilhments. On the whole, as this work will be called for, principally by men oh whom the furor of Democracy' will rage in vain, it may be styled an ufeiul compilation. Mr. Spotfwood, an ingenious and ortho-. dox bookleller and typographer, ar. Boflon, has undertaken, by ivqlicit jst & number of gentlemen, the republication of the Due de Liancourt's Tra»ejs thraugh America. The Democratic prints, tlio' generally as vapid and witless :ts others, make, now and then, a just remark : One of weeks ago, exprc flld a litisf.iftisn in hear ing. that a celebrated and elegant EfTayift, was abolit to visit thg City; for, fays lie, we (hall then, be amused with at least one decent writer on the fide of Government. The sarcasm is merited ; it is a Ihamefui truth, that the few papers which do profefs openly to fide with Government, are not on ly turgid, and often middle-going, but dif j guftingly abound in naw-coined words and phrases. In addition to these things they are fhamefslly remiss—indolence podefies them wholly. If I except the Trenton Fe derals, Albany Centinel, Mr. John Rufiell's paper, and one at Charleston, I present near ly the sum and substance of federal industry and merit. The occasional effort? of lurai:,- ous private writers in various parts do uot detraft from the juflice of this reproach. To be reproved as a felf-created censor, would not be strange—but thele remarks are eh to be true, and as they to be tx- j srefied—it is no matter by whom. X ri-f-'-r Horace begins one of his Satires, by tell ing ug that, leaving' Rome, he travelled to Aricia. A traveller departing from Bhilndelphi? ■would have to fay, Egreffum magna ms ac repit Philadelphia lutum. * t - V- ' Extract of a Letter, dated United States.. at Sea, Nov. 6, received by brig West point, arrived, a.t Ne-a York. " We have been thretf days out, with fine The Coramiffioners fay, we are -joing to Lisbon." This goes by brig Weft weather. point. From J. Russell's Commercial Gazette. REFLECTIONS , Occasioned by reading some attackl on 'Mr Fenno. Truth: iuoud youteaeh, or fovea Jinking land, Alljbun, none aid yau, and fexu under ft and, Pope. Every good riiEn mull lament the irrepa rable injury done by the French, to the cause of liberty, virtue and religion, throughout the world. There were always in France, men whose enlightened views were faithfully directed to the public welfare, and whole auvice, (f it could have been heard, might have bevn fol lowed, and it followed, would have fnved that country from fame of the mife/Ws it is doomed to fuller ; but as they neither flut tered the mob, nor the ruk-rs cf the mob, they were viewed with jealousy by both.— Those men would have taught that the main tenance of a republic, perfectly free, requir ed an habitual preponderance of jwfl. feini ments among the people, and that tliele could be only produced by the united exer tions of wile and honed citizens, co-opera ting with a juil and confident adminillration of the government;: but \n'France, all the avenues to public opinion have been exclu lively .occupied by wrong-headed zealots, 01 unprincipled demagogues, by unfeeling ty rants, or obsequious Have? ;—every honed attempt to JVrve the people of France, or f.tve their country, from ruin, has been easi ly defeated by the power of the press. The French press has been licentious and profli gate to an extreme, but never free—at one time it subserved the moll audacious attacks or every man of known virtue, and prepared the deftruftion of every one who dared to suggest a salutary was not bale e«ough to adore the ravings of a giddy populace, as the sober dilates of reason, or the sacred voice of God from the deteflable employment of varnilhing ths follies and vices of the people, it pafled to the more detestable employment of vindica ting firft, tbe errors and follies, and finally, the crimes of their masters. The example of France in all the features of its revolu- ; tion, fliould be kept in remembrance, as a warning to every people who wilh to avoid its miserable fate. There are miuiy evils which it would be ! easy to prevent, but whi«h would be hard to bear, and impossible to cure -=a total de privation of the American press is not likely to happen soon ; but if there be any indica- i tions $f that fort, the maxim of " obsta \ principHs" will be applied by all independent I men, who recollect that the liberty of the ! press, and the liberty of their country, will j die as they have lived together. There 13 a difference between free and licentious writings ; between those that are merely bold, and these that are Seditious ; between writings calculated to inftru<ft or jufily to censure the administrators of pub- i lie affairs, and writings injurious to public order and happiness. The Sedition ait is bottowed upon these diftindtions. It by no means precludes a free, manly uiquiry into public measures. It Supports the rights, while its tendency is to prevent the abuses of the press. <oasette £oariiu JLift. Port of Philadelphia. ARRIVED, days Schr. Phtebe. Golding, Havanna ' 17 Sykey, James, Frederickfburg 8 Commerce, Hammond, R. Island 6 Fair Trader, Qrmond, N. York 8 CLEARED, Brig Fair American, Pittman, St. Thomas Schr. Suianna, Killey, Richmond Sloop Sally, Thompson, C. Francois Bsthiah, Butler, Norfolk Harmony, Elfwood, Alexandria Capt. Golding faiLd from the Havanna the 4th iuft. in company with the bri;j Anne, of and for Charleston, brig Two Betfies, of and for Baltimore. Spoke no vessels on her passage. Left at Havar.na several Amercan vessels, among them were tHe brig Ruth and Mary, Arnold ; bri? Beaver, Elliot, of Phi ladelphia, and brig Nelly of Baltimore, to <4"aii in 7 or 8 days. New-Tori, September 21. Schr. Federal, V■.n Antwerp from Ha vannah to this port foundered 4 days after Ihe left tliere in a violent gale of wind. The brig Lucy, Steed, from Norfolk to Jamaica was loft 27th Od\cber.between the North Caueois and French Key. The cap tain and crew were picked up by a Schooler tor Baltimore and landed at Norfolk the 11 inft. PRICES OF STOCKS. Philadelphia, November 21. Six per Cent. IS fy to IO Three per Cent. g[(, Deferred 6 per Cent. to 9 8 per Cent Stock —fun'led—lnterell frum ift Ooi. 11 per Cenc. advance. B\NK Umt€dS**t«»» j| * -*-** ■- 1 ■■■■ VwaSfU/ah, J4 /*% >i■■ ».M -Hggt& Attktfr l«*v - * 50 - - o- ' h#f<inrai»e co«»f(.fcA. Qiarn tj O r ■ '' Xptd^m^jfSigf^' i$ ' J S gUgg A. par, - \ ~ ; toad Ytejttttti ioo*a"tL ', ' * _ _ COURSE OF, EXGfiANC & On. London, 51 at 30 days 50 at 60 a 90 day* AmPrrdam, 3J 37 a-ioo per florin Hamburgh 30 Jj a-zeo per Mark Banco - < V , - -'J • ; Natural Philosophy. 1 | THE Trustees of the University of P'»nn r r.ia, having given me the use of the a'ppar»tW belonging to that in ituti in, for th« pnj j ofr of delivering an Experimental eourfe of T.sfh/res on At - tural Pbiiofifhy, \ (hall deliver the r;/ fjtftnreat the University onTuelVay evening ret* at 7 o'clock, and (hall Icilure every Tuesday »r> fhurfday evening, at that place, until the ccurfi 3 completed. TIIOMAS P. SMITH, No. 19, North Fifth Street. Nov. 21 .•'r ~~l . Forty fqtir liogflieadsprime Kentuckey TOBACCO. FOR SALE. By Neill Isf Na. ijg, Market street. i,y* Nov, FOR SALE, The unexpired Time OF AN INDENTED GERMAN BOY, • who t 'us eight years te strte. He is ailive, healthy and strong, and fold for want of employ. *.J* For terms apply to the Printer, nov. 21, daw 40 Dollars Reward. RANAWAY, on the night of the 10thinft. from the fulvfcrihet, living in the town* (hips i East rfnJ Wefl-Brndford, in 'he county of Chfcvic?r, and state of Petmfylvanh. two ap prentice fad?, one named EM.MCR THOMAS, iS ye«rt t-f age, by a taylor, fair com plexion, hair ; had on and took with him, a light colu::Ye<l coattee, lined with whit? flan nel, a tlarh*' jfidelotft uaiftccrat, lined with iindcey, a ftt . Vd cafii.ii.ere coat and trowfers, three (hirts o} : ome m?de linen, two pair of dockings, two pair of flioet, and two hats. The other named AAUON PATTERSON, turned of i 8 yeail of age,, about j feet 7 or 8 inches high, dirk complexion, long black hair which he usually' wests tied, black eyes, ha» loft one or two of his fore teeth, long flat feet which bear the of being badly foalded, by trade 1 hatter 1 had on atid took with him a dark coloured cloth coat, one dimity and ohc corduroy waistcoat, two Jhirts, one of them muslin, two pair of trott-lcrs, one plain r.ankeen I the other qorduroy, twtf pair of blue woollen : flockings, two pair of cotton, do. one blue and I white clouded, the other white, two pair of ; lhoe>, and a rorum hat. Whoever takes up and , facures the above said apprentice lads, in any ■ goal jn the United States, so tha* their master* may get them again, stall be tHtitled to the ■ above reward, or Twenty DollaTi for either of 1 them. I DAVID LEWIS, | ABIAH TAYLOR, junior. | nov - ; . 3tf j Just Imported, In the PACIFIC, and other veflels lately arrived froru England, and j FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, J 2 Bales of low priced Broad Cloths, j 2 do. Rose Blankets,. J 1 do. striped Duffil Jo. j t do. Twilled Coatings, I 3 do. Flannels aiTorted, i do. fine Plains and Swanfdowns. i do. Moreens, Wildborei, Tafflbo t cafe Muflinets—and 4 lon of bhot assorted and in 1-4 swt. bags. A fniall parcel of .Cordage, A Ruffia fail Canvas, ♦ftf «. FOR SALE, T _ _ i * ' By ELLISTON and JOHN PEROT. OiSober 11. COPPER, Proper far sheathing vessels, and for Coppersmiths use, FOR SALE, By JOHN ALLEN, No. 122 SPRUCE STREET ALSO, A few Crates Glass Ware, affortecL November 14. eolot MEDFORD and WILLIS Have received this day, by the Active and Amt l rica, from London, Fancy striped Ginghams & > entiled, to Madras Handkerchiefs, 5 Drawback, Blankets, in bales, White and red Lead, in calks, and Sail Clotb. ' ON HAND, London Pewter, Scarlet Cardinals, Holier)', Buttons, and Peterfourg Hemp. iCT" Enquire of. JOHN DORSEY. November 18, 1799. TO LET, THE HOUSE Ne. 9 South Water Street. 0- Enquire at No. 55 North Warer street of J° H N CLARK. rhiliriclphii, Nn. :8. .jtf A NEWS CARRIER. AN a<Sive. and faithful MAN, who can jiv* fetnfoftc*? reference as to chanter, will me-.t empioy in the above capacity, 0(! ing at the office of thii Ga»e»e. November 23. /\p r S Ct 0 " mJ \ . »t. diw , i v-; - - ' » *« v- '"
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