%iie (Bajette. PHILADKLPHIA, SATURDAY KVKKING, NOVEMBER 2J Julun et t':Bacem propofiti virura, Noo cirium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus inftantis tyranni, Mente qnatit folida. THE LAY PREACHER. " And behold among the simple ones, I ] descerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding." THE royal fun of David drank wisdom from the copious fountain of experience. The story of his life presents a ftrikittg moral to the sons of pleasure ; and his pointed apho risms evince, that even indulgence itfelf was made subservient to his improvement, and that heextrafted inflru&ion from sensuality. He tried the satiety of abundance, and fought for happiness from the delusive sources of vice and amulement. Wealth poured forth its trervfures to give a gout to his enjoyments, and the rich banquet of love presented the chnicefl d( licacies, which charm the eye or ravish the heart. As a win, the prince was carried down the ftreani of plea sure ; but as asa he l.as left us his ever memorable infeription upon the f'plendfd se raglio of earthly enjoyment.,—'• Vanity of Vanities, all is vanity." Who has trodden the round of dissipation, and will not acknowledge, that Solomon has correctly depicted its scenes, carefully point ed out its snares, and faithfully displayed its consequences ? When he saw, the adult re fs through the casement of his window, " in the black and dark night," he discriminated with an acutenefs, which evinces, that he saw not, " as through a glass darkly." The portrait displays the hand of a matter, and from the impressive features we con clude, that the pencil was not drawn at ran dom. The pidture is fraught with life, it is full of reality ; and h~. who has once seen the original, readily a pevfeft si militude. The fubt'.e arts and crafty devices of th« " strange woinan" are not a fubjett of easy description. Her lips " drop as an hoiwy comb,-Andber mouth is fmootherthan oil." With her " much fair speech," (ke beguiles the young wan of his rcal'on and his inno cence ; and by " the flattering of her lips," (he lures him to the chambers of riot' ai;d the pit of dtftruftiotn Her bed may be " decked with coverings of tapvftry, with c»*ved worls, with fine linen of Egypt," and " peifunitd with myrrh, aloes and cin namon," bnt her pillow is a pillow of thorns, and within her curtains is cnmeflied the un fortunate vi&im of lust and delnfion. Be ware, young man, of tlv- " peace-offerings" ©f the 'harlot, for they will alTufedly prove thy bane ; and rather gaze thou upon the bafiliflc, than look upon her, who " litteth at the door of hrr.houfc, on a feat in the "high plsr.es of the city, to call paffengrrs who go right on their .u ays." The great Socrates, might feel bimfelf in ftru&ed and delighted by the brilliant wit, the courtly elegance, and polished manner* of an Athenian courtezan ; and Pericles might derive leflons of eloquence from the persua sive wifdora of a Grecian harlot ; but none •will deny, thit, even amid this enchantment, the sage and the orator were loft to dignity and virtue in their debafmg pupilage in the school of lewdnefs. No fafcinating .Afpafis now decorates the abode of lust, no lelTons of wisdom and eloquence are now read to liflening greatness by the subtle harlot, nor is aught now in the brothel but the 4regs of passion and the lees of wretchedness. The abjett being, who seeks for pleasure among the votaries of feiifuality who throng the flews, may then justly be clalTed "among tlic simple ones," and ranked as a man '■ void of undeiftanding." The man who travels the by-path of secret licentioufoefs, tho' he may avois the igno- miny attend.mt upon open debaucbe i r .ij _ / e ■■ r ■ , , Tudge Paterfon has writtfn to the Leeif tot eicape tlit pings of conscience and the- it T ,r u . . , , . . lature of hew-Jc rley, now in femptt, that leaded condemnation oi the upright man. t | ie cempilation of the laws of that state, Ihe aftive vigilance of the mind constantly which he has at their requell commenced, ecurs to every deed of infamy ; and tho' the will be completed during the winter. This ilafted honor, the deflowered beauty, the def- 'frttkittan' merits the warmed pUudits which , ru- c j i ■rv . gratitude and admiration of his Country royed peace of his seduced n&im» may be • „ v • , • . , , , r ,• can inlpire and beitow. Yet in the prime hrouded by artifice from the mfpeftion of of j, fc he has (- ucee ffiveiy been Member ot .lie world, neither pswer nor canning can Cengrefs; and of the grand convention for :onceal them from the piercing ferutiny the adoption of the Federal Constitution, it the " mind's eye." Though the mod Gov * oi J er,l >' and now one ot the **•»- .edea feerecy envelope his de.ds, there will P™ ,e of th, Union—ln all ti,le ... - . hiffh and relpormbJe tituations, at the lame >e iound many to censure, anu many to ex- time thK he ' of manners, ilnd uprightnefsand inte j , r„ c ■ n- ! fixity oi charafter that has never even it endure t".e carles ot the agonizuig viftims • ' . „• , , , , , r , ° 6 ; private been nttatled by the breath ofcaluui ot - ns ,uft * i ny. New Jersey rm.ft feel proud of givi.-y There is no traufgreffion more fliainelefj,' birth to f.> good a flatefinan and incorrupt! known among men, than the visitation of ble patriot, and may look forward to the higl .... Li' i t , • ~ • r dillin&ion of claiming as lier own at fom the public itews. He who is in habits of c . , , r \ ... , ... . future period, the fir ft magiltrate ot tn this nature scorns, indeed, the hypocrtly of Um 01) , concealment; or rather-he hardiness of his . I ' ' , 3 ~ vice sets at defiance tl'e indignant frcwiv of public opinion. He throws aside the veil o! modesty, and with the f.ar.t rudenels tears asunder thegoed and wholelome covering of I common decency. He cannot but perceive, I that his pursuits mufl be attended with the lacrifice of fortune, health and reputation, and that they necetTarilv lead to unlimited .vretchednefs. But, with this perfed know ledge of confeqiier.ee?, he discards the domin ion o! reason, places brutal paflion on an eminence, and with Indian ftiipic'ity, and more than Mahomm*dan zeal, preiTss for ward to the homage of the God of his idola- try. The man of genius and the man of rank are not infrequently noticed within the walls of the brothel. Theft: examples, with weak nten, may (anilify the praftice. But let it be remarked, that he Can. have no spark of 'delicacy left, that his taft£ ftiuft be depraved bd«w the level of ordinary meanness," ;ind that his appetites mud be gross, " devilifti," Who can " (layer with lips astom mon is the stairs that mount the Capitol." In (hort, the secret debauchee and the avowed libertine, tt.e covert destroyer of fe male innocence, and the frequenter of the (lews, niufl submit to endure the bitterefl execrations of moral honefly and the un qualified contempt of the lovers and fupport eri of public decency ; and to be placed by every wife man " among the fimpie ones/' and bear a shameless forehead, legibly en graven thereon-T-" void of understa*d- The Lay Preacher of Pennsylvania. The fortune of a nation depends on its political principles and habits. These con troul fortune, and are not controuled by it. 'till the nation is funk in degeneracy and rotten rine for its deftruftiort. Is it, or is it not, the principle, the root ed sentiment of every American heart, thflt peace is to be preserved by every facrifice of honor, and by every facrifice of interest except that of immediate gain in trade ? Let those Americans whc» ftiil refufe to worship Mammon, disdain this imputation, and claim to be excepted from it. The honor of : a nation it itt inlerijl. France iufulted our I honor, and yet we are told it is our interest, j our trued interest, to dissemble the affront j and forgive the injury. If this be policy, :itis a coward's. If it be honor, it is a ! gamfter's. It ii a kick'd bully's courage, loud in boasting, eloquent in threats, meek in exeafes, tacoe in proffers of friendfhip to : his aggrtflbr. Such arc we towards France. If shame has a blu(h, let it glow, let it bum the eheeks that the evil spirit of facti on or the baser spirit of gain has covered •wills Asbestos. Our trade nothing, not even a days respite by out tamencf*.— Europe .has long ago pronounced UDon hs, that we are the Dutchmen of the New World, who notonly fubir.it to kicks with patience, but would be hired to take them ■ for.loiv pay. It onght however to be re peated till fools underlland, till cowards feel | it ! That the honour of a nation is its inter est, that the worll kind of war wi.h France is an imagined peace, and a treaty friend fhip. When the President exprefTed, as he did, in his Answers to the numerous addreffe* presented to him, thit America had every thing to fear from the hoftiiitr of France— and that an open war would be preferable to a new Genet game—what did the Fe deralists then think of him ? They then ad mired his iirmnefs !—Has he changed his opinion—No—-he is the fame inflexible pa t iot—-the fame sagacious and able States man.-—Do these gentlemen, who have been free in their ceni'ures of the lace cmbafly, revert a moment to the constitutional and cir cumscribed powers of the American Ex ecutive ?—lf they did, methinks they would find a fuffieient apology for the meajure-for meafure lately purfaed—While ihejcaioufy of republicanism continues in America, her Chief Magistrate will ever be impotent—he may speak his private sentiments in anfwert to addrefTes, and even in i'petches to C»n grefi, but he can never aft with energy ; or if he does, he will be left without wm to sustain it- can- MAXIM. L 7' Ru J e! ' s Gax - [iV. r. D. y.id The follj wing ivtrr fnun General G.ipn, rc fiding near this city, Was fj»i? dtiy handed to us by the gentlemen tc> whom it was addrelled. PERMIT mc, gentlemen, in answer to your enquiries, to y:iu :md the friends of Mr. Jcnatba.i Smiib, janr. whole ahfence has octafioned them so much anxietv, that I :r,n wholly unacqiininted with any circum fUnces whatever, vhich could, in the most distant manner, lr d to a discovery of the fate or fitimion of that gentleman. I am not personally acquainted with Mr. Switli, not having to ftiy recollettion ever seen Kim, or I would take a pl?afure in join ing in the general;approbation which I have heard manifcfted for him. I am, gentlemen, Your obedient humble Servant, To George Tavlor, and > John R. Smith, Efqrs. November 23, 1799. 1 lie reason why the name of Sir Hyde | Parker was omitted by th? impartial tlal's ! ot our ephemeral politicians, is -.hat tbe ad roiral had the misfortune to be born in Eng land, and is now, unluckily, in the service of his Britannic Mtjefty. At the name o Great-Britain every rogue and fool turn: partiality, and towering independence wit! old whiggifin and new rhtfdomrmtade, wit! remember that we are under foine trifling asliy.tion? to that hateful iHani, whole de~ KrufUon is now lo laudably wifked. W< have run in debt co her to trie amount o' millions, or foine such small sum. W< hrve t-.ken up fame good? her (hop. for which even ou.it philosoj-hirs have for gotten to pay. Waen wi happen to be in ; Court of Justice, What of that virtue is me ted out to us, is borrowed from the flore , houles of Hale, and of Talbot, and o\ \ Mansfield, and of Kenyon, who, as the de vis would have it, were ail " to be found ir the prrcincl" of England. What littlt j knowledge we have of morals, and litera | ture and the fine arts we havs derived fron: Britilh sources. Thence come our style. anc taste. Even our comtron riewfpaper di&ion a plague upon the ingratitude of Editors, ii borrowed trom Sir Roger L'Eftrange, auc Tom 13'Urley, and the bell men of London and the loftieft garrets of Grubftreet. Ma ny of the bibles which we read were publish ed at the Clwendon press, and if our loving countryman, the learned Dr. Morse be right thi-. press isfeftablifhed at place called Oxford which has a school house, rather larger thar that of oar Univcrii\y of Cambaide. Se veral of the altirs, at which we kneel, anc those which are by far of the mod solid con ftraftion, and beautiful decorations, an made from Queen Elizabeth's pattern. Some scantlings in our political building, and thoft the most durable and found, were importer from Great-Britain, and are. to us what th< .pine of Norway, and the ficmp of St. Pe terfburjh are to her. LaflTy, with atf 0111 driving to ape the accent of France, we art Hill Anglo Gr.lilcans and " our sptecb be traytxb us." We speak English and it i: our mother tongue. PORTLAND, Nbvember it. Capt. Blake, in a fchoowr belortging to this has been captured by a French priva teer, and sent into a French port on the main. His mate, Mr. Strphen Pottkr, was inhumanly murdered by the savage ar.d blood-thirsty captors,, Ivlr. Potter has left a difeonfolate family, in this town, to la ment his unhappy death. NEW-YORK, November »i. On Wednesday evening last, departed this life, in a fit of apoplexy, G'JLian Ver planck, Esq. PrcGdent of the Ba .k of New-York. Yesterday the trial of David Frothingham, came on before the Supreme Court, now fitting in this city, for publishing a libel again ft A. Hamilton, Esq. He was found guilty by the jury. From \be Oracle of Datpbtn, MR Wyith, Please to publish the following and oblige one of your fubferibfrrs. Ex*raft from the Spe'ech of Citizen Sieyes, Prelident of the Executive Directory, on the celebration of the anniversary of Au gujt 10. " Beware of considering as republicans ttooie who hare fcen in the overthrow of the throne, not the means of establishing a npw government dcfiredby the nation, but the right qf overturning at all times every thing that may be an obstacle to their pri vate ambition. Thbfe who beli*\e that to efUblilli is always bVfe, to destroy always a glory : who being inveterate enemies of every thing that is order, or which has the appearance of order, with to govern by noise and not by the laws, who would tear to pieces with their own hands the government they had themselves formed, because a go- 1 vernment, were it their own work, could never according totlieir fatiffatt ion, all the plans of their ambition, all the dreams of their madsefs ! No, these are not republicans ! those who cannut resolve to forgive the oldest and mo ft incorruptible ■friends of liberty ; who insult them even in proportion to the confidence with which they are honoured by the nation, of the services they have performed. Conquerors of the 23d Thermidor (August 10) you to whom the congratulations of this day are addrefled, you vourfelves have not been able to escape. These calumniators attack every oive who has acquirfd a name.; tb?Y wifb to tarrnfh tvciy glory. i Th'-fc are net Republicans whole f rv... ( __ t ,i,ain Cufhing rf Tli.lad?'-' f»u!s cannot cjncrive that the founders of phia, under adjudication, and leveral others l.berty and the Republic are republicans ; not recolle&ed, but none belonging to 8..1* who repeating the delirious in(tilts of the timorej '1 he aftive was kound from sf. v fame Court wlucn the roth of Anguft re- Orleans, to Baltimore, butcaptuted oij-.the versed, and wh:r!i they avciigp, ii. cc ti.vy | 13th September, and cariied into Nrwipn beconie its imit it«>rs., Hill endeavour to im j vide nee, where part of her cargo was cou pute-to them, ah the obj-ft :»f their I'rc.ret ; drmned under suspicion -t?f being Spanidf. wi(hes. I know not what phantom .of a | Captain Palmer had iikewife a number of King led round in turn to all those whom . letters broke open,, which- he has lodged in they with to destroy. Frantic detrattofs of- - the.pcft office here. Spoke the frigate Con* I hypocrite<;, who shutting their eyes againlt ; ftellatwn, rVpt. Barron, in. 22 fathom wa« ! all evidence, pei fill to be ignora;it>that the ! ter, and a ftiip ofT .the tapv, from New* man above ail itoft frequently attacked by | Bedford to Norfolk. this absurd accusation, have a thotlland I Schooner Buckftcin, captain Reynolds, i 3 times, and at the very beginning of the Re- ! days from Peit Republican. N ov -4i in the volution manitefled their ardent that ' bite of Leogane, ipoke the' United States the man, whom I will not even name, had brig Norfolk, on a cruise. Fell in with two always remained, he and his agents, in the French fiigates bound to the Capi. ranks of the enemies, in (lead of carrying Sailed in company with the following veffcis; uneasiness, mistrust, and danger into ours. Ship Orono, Stites", Philadelphia No ! Those men are not Republicans, who, Roebuck, ——, do. through the disguise of their demagogical Brig Ranger, , / do. language discover their (hametul predile&ion i Schooner Mille, —, doi for Royal superstitions, and every instant 1 Belinda, Henderlbn, North Carolina, seem to tell you that fmce they have track- i ed Kings, they tan with more jullice attack the Magistrates of the People.—No ! these men are not Republicans, who cat) perform no other part but that of ccllertirig', inflam ing, and exciting dilconteius against the eftablilhed order ; those men, who in for mer times thought it peceffary and proper to punifli with death all those who durll ven ture not to be content ; those men who would consider peace as an evil, who would regret victory, who calculate upon our difaflers as the means of increasing their influence ; those men wfio repose their hopes upon in ternal didr&clion enjoy no happiness but in animosities. '1 hey denounce withaudacity before the multitude, but flirink back when they are called upon to sign the denuncia tion. Thirilingforvengear.ee they exclaim again ft the salutary delays which the law perfcribcs both to save innocence, and to tend "iVith more certainty to reack the guil ty. Those men are not Republicans, who by the frantic violence of their provocatiens, strike dismay to the hearts of the sober citi zens, who dry up the sources of public wealth, give a mortal wound to credit, anni hilate commerce, and paralife all industry. Who incessantly {jpeafc of our calamities, and yet at their caprice, increase the number of the wretched, call themselves the friends of the People and only exasperate in fit ad of serving them ; influence each other against the foreign enemy, firmly determined, how ever not to expose themselves in the com bat." JAMES GUNN. [Though the preceedingextraft contains little more than the substance of what has been a thousand times said in this country, y«t at it comes from the highest authority, from no less than the PreGdent of the Ex ecutive Direftory, it is presumed it will be listened to by the republicans. I know they.wiil exclaim that they have no refpeft for (he French, and (hat they detrft them even more than the Federalists do. B«t let them fay what they please, hail is not mow surely engendered by cold, nor the hydrophobia produced by thr bite of a mad dog, than is the present spirit of discontent and disorganization produced by the revolu tionary pr.nciples of France. To convince them that I Sim right, and that they are in fe&ed with this distemper, let the excluCve repulicans lay their hands upon their hearts, and alk themselves tbefe quefiiona, vis Wtie ther if Mr. Jefferfon were President iflrtead of Mr. Adams, and our messengers of peace to tngl?riure administration of Mr. Jtffcrfon, in ! (lead of the corrupt one rt Mr. Adams ? I fay. I t them alk thcn>felv:s, whether a ftarding army in time of peace* would in that cafe be really such a hug bear as it now appear? to their frigh'ed imaginations ? Whether the alien and ledition laws would I appear in the fame hideous deformity they du at present ?and whether the Ha rp a", the house tax. the window taxi the horse tax, the en t tax, the ]-leugh tax, &c. &c. f would be such monstrous evih and violations of the constitution as they have reprefeuted them to be ? Bjt to return to citizens Sieyes—it must be admitted that he harrangues very pathe tically ; but the citixen is comparatively but a young Republican, and unacquainted with the intffica y of political preachments. Some of us Americans coald tell him a fe creat, vix: that he might as well " keep his breath to eool his porridge," and that like the men who cut short a teJous cere monial, by declaring that " wherever he fat was the head of the ta' le," he may de pend upon it, that if the fatlion ke repro bates (liould be able t6 out number his own, the true Republicans will they b*, even though h« should prove them scoundrels to their own, and the universal fatisfa&ion.} * This ftapding army in time of peace, is mere ly a temporary one, oa th» appearance of war. ' f Th» good Republican* WiU -not forg« ■ the h«i>4 kill Itrtwmn they p<-.trtutically apprized tfetir fcllow««iliS(B> of rtiefe uiti. (®f#ette £@attnt Hilt. Port of Philadelphia. ARRIVED, s«hr. Ler.nder, Nichnls, Beftoo Karkqu\n, Viii'.pe-*.', New Yerk Beifey. Gr;iy, do. Sloop Ind'.iltry, Dr: rr, Work, Bcfion Haiti ;riore, fflX'Ctnicr 21, Arrived, Giptain P.ilmer, | 10 days' from N. P. I,tft there, I YcfWcfay arrived here the ship Eliza, rapt. Robinion, from New Jtaftfr, I Hand of Cu ba, in si days. Coffte, fug3.f, and, hides, to Th. Brower. Ship Eliza, M. Robhifon, Cuba ; fchr. Profperitv, Kelly, Hallifax. Sclir. Harmopy is taken and carried into Guadaloupe. Brig Columbus faifel.frfcjti ifcc BsiKitflo* thu port the i jth Oftrf* Trufleei. PETER MACKIE, j November ng POINTER IK>Q; «bo« fct «oocth« VM, Bis body wfcite. JnrerfpedW wit!) gmYMttjt-* >« cm of * dark fiver M*ckj i Jug* tak spot i» dew claw*—his nußei r .BßU4& wjft -return the f»id doj to Mr. Cltttrt J»» Sfouihwatir, or to the Office of C«teitc &*;rb« haa<3foiiic lf rewwdad. ■ ' November »j Strayed or Stolen, ONtl* niplir »f the 21.1 ifft. frrm the ?faMe of the hubfcriher, a Dsrk Eny ft arte, bUtl marsanrf tail, sine years oM, fil'u r *ud an hctf h*acf hiifh. Whoever deliver* fair Horse to .!.« fufcfonbtr will l,e eencrcuflv rewar f-d. . JONATHAN PENROSE. November *, <