ful prop ? Can he (Lire to cancel the mrift sacred ties of society, and audaciously trample on the Laws of God, and his Country ? Can any man im piously presume to ruih unbidden into the presence of an offended God, by a voluntary acft, in con fcious violation of Laws, human and divine ? It must be so It is the epidemic madness of the age, which no Laws, wisdom, or power, but that of a Pruftau Monarch, have yet been able radically to cure. £• C. FROM THE SAME. THE LONDON CIT. LONDON is the world in miniature ! thrice happy Cockneigh ! who can'lt fafely fee those hor rid monsters, which erst prowled the dreary de serts of remotest regions, led captive to thy Tow er ; there, thou may'ft approach, fearlefs of their dire fangs, and dreadful rage, and equally ft cure from the more baneful influence of thole barbarous climes,which them engendered: There, dry-lhod, thou may'ft fee trophies of bloody fields, and all the glittering implements of war, in bril liant order ranged : There, thou can'lt view a Crown, decked with the richest spoils of diltant Ihores :—Thou too once more can'lt boalt a na tive King ; but here defcrjption fails : Crimes lose their color when applied to Kings : A King can do no wrong: MURDER IS ROYAL SPORT : Great GEORGE the Third !( ajlet theghofts of mur dered (b) Millions, whose putrid carcases have Itained pure Ganges' sacred ft ream ; or fed the Vultures, on the desert plains of the once fertile Sip a, (peak to thy feeling mind, paternal fraife : Let RAVAGED AMERICA preserve her monu mental bones, sacred to Thee, and Kings : Let the loss of an immense Empire, and the price of King doms lavished in vain, to obtain a Pepper-Corn, proclaim thy wisdom : Let the brave and virtuous surviving foils of victorious, independent Ameri ca, declare thy Power. Stupendous London ! where brutes are taught to act like men, and men like brutes ; where the learned Pig (c) gives wholesome leflons to the un lettered Lord; and upbraids the balhfulSoldier ; andlhewsthe ltall-fed, paniper'd Git, how hardly earned, and dearly bought, the bread and laurels of the brave. Thou too, blelt Cockneigh ! haft a magazine of wonders ycleped Museum ! There thou may'ft fee the harmless native coats of beasts, and birds, anil quondam, noxious, frightful, creeping things, of multifarious kinds ! rare infedts too ! foffils, and other strange, and curious things ! and thou ex ulting, can'lt behold, towering o'er thy lofty spires, the " cloud-capt" Dome of thy St. Paul's, as Rome her great St. Peter's: Thy pretty mo dern Obelifts peep forth—humble epitomes of the aspiring pyramids of Egypt ! And thou can'lt boast, at thy Vauxhall, of thy little, curious, gen tly-murmuring, glittering, tin Cascade ; sweet, rnodelt emblem, of the roaring, thundering, deaf ning, cataracts of Niagara, in the savage wilds of America ; these allay thy temperate thirst, and thus, without toil, or peril, dost thou poilefs all that the world affords of rich and rare—pleased with the flattering, fond idea, that thy Mother's lap contains them all. NOTES. ' (a) This piece was written some time before His Britannic Ma jesty's Phylicur.s declared him in fine ; but years alter the Ameri cans thought him so. si) Three millions of poor innocent people were said to be starved to death in the kingdom of Bengal, by the monopoly o; Rice, contrived by the servants of the Eait-India company, for th. purpose of gain : Their bodies flopped the great river i.anges and others were strewed over the fields and roads of their nativf country : And yet, at such a time of hoiror and diilrcfs, it tht farmers failed to bring in their taxes to the Company, they i*:rc taken without any form of trial, tied fact round the middle, and suspended from a hook in a post—the circulation being thereby totally flopped from all communication with the lower parts o! the body, in the course of a few days they rotted off in that cli mate, while the remainder of the body dill retained lite ! (c) At some of the Theatres in London, a Hog, called the learn ed Pig, is introduced on the llage, and required to spell any po lysyllable propofedby any one of the companj—the letters ol th alphabet are written in capitals on feperate pieces of paper, anc thrown promiscuously on the ftage—from these the Hog picks ou the letters that compose the word, in regular order, and carrit: ihem in his mouth, one by one, to his mailer. fti) Dogs are introduced to storm a fort—they are dreflcd in i military uniform, and scale the walls through a very hot fiie. FROM THE SAME. THE FEDERAL SHIP Is now ready for sea, let us therefore proceed 011 our voyage without further delay, and with the help of able navigators we may expedt ere long, to establish a due confidence at home and abroad, and to reap the rich fruits of an extenfrve commerce and credit : If we should want to bor row, there will not be wanting those who will lend, when there is a fair profpett of being re paid. And it is impofiible toafcertain, before out Clip is afloat, whether lhe will fail exactly upon an even keel, it is palpably absurd to keep hei longer in dock, through fear that she may poflibly have a lift to port, or itar board. We have, alas loft many of our belt and ablest hands, who for w ant of employ at home, are gone into foreign service : The French and Engli/h exult in the acquisition, and as it strengthens them, and wea kens us, the policy of nations cannot point out two stronger motives to jifive them all pollible en couragement : There are many more who will loon be obliged to follow them, urged by the fame diftrefles, unless we can speedily find employment for them : This may be conlidered not only a great, but an irreparable loss, as they are iucli men, as cannot be replaced. Let us therefore seriously refledt, before it be too lute, that though our Ship may not be quite so perfect as ihe might pofliblyhave been conftructecl, yet there appears no def eats,but what may be mended on the voyage; but by keeping her too long out of employ, we may become foexhaufted, and iinpoverifhecl, that we may at last findourfelves unable to fit her out, and shall then be driven to the iiard necelfity either to CHARTER her, or let lierperifli by the walls. Tacitus fays : Nihil in difcordiis civilibus fef " tinatione tutius, übifaflo mag'ts quam confulto op:n " effet." And again : Nullus cunClutioui tocut ejt in " eo confilio, quod non poteji laudari nift pera&um." " Nec cunt att one opus, übi per?iiciofor ft quiet, quarn " temeritas." E. C. [The following cannot require an apology for its re-publication.~\ To THE PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES. OFT times, when rapture fwellsthe heart, Expreflive fiJence can impart More full the joy sublime : Thus WASHINGTON, my wond'ring mind, In every grateful ardor jo in'd, Tho' words were out ot time. The muse of peaceful lhade, Gave way to all the gay parade For transports of her own ; She felt the tear of pleasure flow, And gratitude's delightful glow Was to her bosom known. Triumphal arches—gratulating song, And shouts of welcome from the mixed throng, Thy laurels cannot raise. We pi aife ourselves ; exalt our name, And in the scroll of time, we claim An int'reft in thy bays. But 'erst on Hudson's whit'ned plain, Where the blue mists enlhroud the slain, And Hero's spirits came ; Anxious to seal thy future fate, Each on his cloud, in awful state, Pronounc'd thee good as well as great, And fill'd thy cup of fame. While we the favorites of Heaven, To whom these western climes are given, And halcyon days await, May bless oui (elves, and bless our race, That God by his peculiar grace Chose thee to rule the state. Fame as she flies, her trump shall found, To all the admiring nations round, And millions yet unborn, Will read the history of this day, And as they read will pause—and fay , Here nature took a turn. For in the annals of mankind, Who ever saw a compact bind An empire's utmost bound ; Who ever saw ambition stand, Whuhout the power to raise her hand, Wnile ONE th* people crown'd. NtW'Jfcrfey, May 1789. PROCEEDINGS of CONGRESS. In the HOUSE of REPRESENTATIVES of the UNITED STATES. Saturday, May g, 1789. The bill regulating the collettion of the impost, was read a second time. The House then went into a Committee on the bill, for laying certain duties on goods, wares, and merchandise. Mr. Tucker proposed a reduction upon distil led spirits Jamaica proof, introductory to a ge neral deduction from the funis annexed to the fpecified articles in the bill—This was support ed with great spirit by several Speakers- High duties, it was contended would operate unequally and oppreflively—would produce smug gling and defeat the views of Government by leflening the revenue—they would contravene the ideas and expectations formed by the peo ple, under the administration of the new consti tution—upon the danger and disagreeable con sequences of smuggling much was urged—that it wouldbe extremely,difficult if not impossible topre vent it to a very great degree,as muftbe obvious to .hose who contemplated our local conveniences or it—that to calculate upon the virtue, and pa diotifm of individuals, when powerful tempta tions were presented to disregard both, would be found fallacious.—Moderate duties leflened he inducements to fraud, would make fmuo-. gling infamous, and make the collection less ex ljeniive, and lupercede the neceflity of an unpo pular, and rigorous system. In support of the duties as they now stand, it was equally well observed, that the system hav ing had three different discussions, it should seem as if nothing eilentially new or important could be offered upon the subject. That the duties proposed had been the result of much inveftigationof the subject—that it was hardly probable that a change of sentiments could take place.— 1 lie duties it was allowed were high in some instances, compared to what had been paid by some of the States, but not so high as had been collected in others, and were in proportion to those collected in other countries— L hat it was merely matter of opinion whether duties Avei'e high or low—that high duties o:i some articles weie easier collected, than low up on others —-that it was conformant to the ideas y:d | wishes of the people—that luxuries Ihould be taxed high—that notwithllanding it was so eai. ueftly contended to reduce the impost in gene al, it would be found that the amount to be produced upon the fyfteni now under considera tion, it was 10 be appi ehended would prove in- ( fuflicieMt for the public exigencies. The question being put 011 the proposition of Mr. Tucker, it was negatived. 261019. Monday, May 11, 1789. A meflage from the Senate, purporting that they had appointed a committee 10 join with liicif committee as the Houl'e may appoint, to confer upon the fubjeift of a title which it may be pro per to give to the President of the United States was read— Upon which Mr. Parker moved, that arefo lntion Ihould be adopted to tins eftedt—That the House, could not concur-with the Senate, having already decided upon the subject unanimously. Mr. Page supported the motion—he was fully of opinion, that by the Constitution the Houle had neither a right to suggest or propose anything upon the subject: He considered it as anti-repub lican, and apprehended great evils would refnlt si 0111 the measure, Ihould Congreft take any steps in it : He conceived that the real honor and dig nity of the government, did not consist in, or de pend upon titles, and that he had had his ieel ings hurt, when he heard gentlemen addr el's the members of that House by the stile of "The Hon. Member He thought that the House had already fully and explicitly declared its fentinients, inthe ( report of a former committee, and was sorry to, have the fubjedt again introduced. Mr. Tucker was in fentimentwith Mr.Page, but observed further, That he had always been opposed to the appointment of any committee in the firft of the business—and was equally averse from taking it up now: The Constitution was expressly against giving any titles whatever: The introduction of them would bring us back to mo narchy, and would juftify what had been faidup -011 the Constitution by its enemies.—What coulJ be the delign of the Senate ? Did General Waft ington wiJh for a title Did he fight for this !by no means. —Real dignity coivGfts not in tbefe dis tinctions : Titles bring equipage, etiquette, pa rade, &.C. to fuppo t these, liberty mult be l'acr;- ficed : And from fullainig the character of inde pendent freemen, wefhall degenerate intolervi lity—we shall no longer be men—we ltiall depre ciate into apes—a baseness of imitation. Mr. Tucker concluded, bywilhing the subject might be difmifled, Mr. Trumbull moved for a committee,to er.- quire into the difference which appeared in the votes of the two Houfes,upon the report of the join' committee upon this f übject, as now held out ffl the meflage from the Senate. Mr. Bukke was opposed to any further pro ceedings in the bufiHels, except it was to expref their entire disapprobation—and to that purpose he proposed a refolutionagainft the introductioi of any tide, more especially all imitations of Euro peanlliles, or titles, whether given to Emperor Kings, Princes other dignitaries whatever Mr. Madison was in opinion with gentle®' opposed to a title—he was not however, for ft® mary proceedings with the 111 efiage of the Senate he urged the propriety of a decent and reipeci ful attention to it upon a variety of principle 1 and then observed—that he could not fee the u 1 or advantage of adopting titles, that it was dent that they did dot confer power or influence* many of the poorest and most infignificant Stat' hadaffumed the most pompous and high fouiW titles—what greater or more lofty title could afliuned, than that of " High Mighdnefles a stile almost bordering upon impiety —what "* advantages had been deriv ed from it ? Had eveif functioned the idea ? Titles he considered as«| constitutional and contrary to the general fen ment of the people Should it be determine 1 ' adopt them, we must either borrow or enti tle! ones we should find inapplicable, and 11 would be considered as servile imitations, ® nev> ones, he feared, would beabfurd and ri® lous.—The true dignity of a republican ment, he considered as independent oft l *'' he hoped that gentlemen woi.ldnot difco' ver l warmth upon the occasion—had no doubt butT fame unanimity would now be fliown as upon this question, and he was therefore in *'7 of a committee of conference. Mr. White was opposed to the appoint® of a committee of conference, and fuppo' e best to put a period to any further difcuifion, informing the Senate, that the House had al rl dy determined the question; by unaninw adopting the repoVt of the joint committee «? this fubjeCt.
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