have been not a little surprized to find so Vopposition by many gentlemen, to the doc- Bl . u of discrimination in our laws relating to nations ; as it was in order to poliefs our l V this ability, that our late revolution in r V " n °inent was effected. It is laid, that Great °°- "n has made her trade laws upon maxinisof lt3 eft and she will not reccde ;it is true Ihe "•ll'not recede, while we fuffer ourselves to be ,V IJe dupesto them —as hitherto our weaknels has heen their strength. —It is not gratitude toothers, I justice to o ur r elves which requires a difcrimi __jt is ii. our power to place their interelt, "frelatino- to their commerce witli us, 011 differ -8 rounds, and effect a relaxation of their pre Ltllliberal navigation a<ft.-It is in our power produce the joint exertions of part of their Iwii dominions in bringing about fucli a relaxa -011 Thole who have aflerted, that the (abject of discrimination has never engaged the atten ion of other governments, could not have thought onthefubject': So far from this, I believe there "snot a power in Europe that has not difcrimina- Jjojis interwoven with all their aifts of a commer cial kind ; and without an attention to thispiin ciplein this country, we had better leave trade entirely to its own natural operations—and what pr o vcs more than all the propriety of it, is an as sertion made by a member in the Eritifh Com mons, that as our government would soon be dif ferent from what it had been, a different m ode of treatment towards us would become necessary. London, Apri l 14. Sir Peter Burrell yesterday gave his final orders toMr. Leslie, the highconftable, tc 'ttendWeft minlter hall 011 Tuesday the 2ill, when the trial of Mr. Hastings will commence again. Orders have likewise been iffuecl from the secretary at war for thehorfe and foot guards to attend. The doorkeepers and assistants have likewise received final directions. The Lord Chancellor has de termined to dedicate three days in each week until the trial is finally completed. There are to be two other charges preferred, namely, the contrails and presents. It is supposed that they will take a week each, and then Mr. Law will open the defence. Mr. Haftings's evidence oral and documentary, will be at least twenty days, and four days more will be neceila-y to take and record the votes of Peers upon the four charges. It is now generally conjectured, that the whole of this great national caule will be completed in about fix weeks; and as the Have trade will have undergone adifcullion in Houfeot Commons, this parliament will break tip about the early part of July. It is reported that the Prince Bishop of Ofna bnrgh, has written a letter with his own hand to their Majesties, requelling to be indulged with the honor of preaching before them at St. Paul's 011 the 23d instant, and, it is said, that the Right Rev. Royal Prelate's desire will be complied with. 011 Wednesday last the Earl of Caithness, af terbreakfaft at the Mount coffee-houfe, return ed to hishoufe, and put a period to his exilVence with a piltol. We hear that the unfortunate Earl had been four or five yea;s in expectation of mar rying Mils Dehanny, daughter of an Irish gentle man of respectability and fortune, and that the day ot their union was appointed, when, as the Fares would have it, Mr. Dehanny, actuated by principles of avarice, refilled his consent! Hence the cause of the fatal resolution of his Lordship. The fortune of the Earl of Caithness was 20001. per annum, besides what he derived from his rank as Lieutenant Colonel in the army.—His debts amounted to between 5 and 6000 pounds— His house is valued at 3,5001. and he poffelled near 40001. in ready calii—He was 3 3 years of age. 1 lie Coroner's inquest fat 011 Tliurfday 011 the body, and brought in their verdict lunacy. The last advices from Stockholm fay, the secret committee grant to his Ma jelly every thing he can w >ih, for prosecuting the war with vigor. On the firft instant, the bank paid him the firft monthly subsidy of three millions of dollars, ajout ico,oool Ilerling. his laid, that the King has ordered the nobili ty to dilcoutinne their ailemblies : and has also, m his own authority, reduced the number of the ecret committee from forty to ten members. DUBLIN, Decembf-r^-I. is with great concern we announce to our readers the decease of the Right Rev. Dr. Isaac j the learned and excellent Bilhop of Cork * a< Rofs, who departed this life 011 the 10th in ant, at Lath, full of years, and happy in the 1 pofleffion of the public elteem and in l" J i" 1 ?' watches the decline of men far r has for some time palt appointed a ucceflor to tliis good Biftiop the Rev. John Barr >' D -D- Dean ofElpliin. 1 J Ti sto n , (Jamaica) April 18. ttrfMf ' e nil *o ht came on the court of quar keepe lo . ns > Halfway Tree, the trial of a book havii- 1 m f ' Andrew's, on an indictment for g entered the pen of Mrs. Savers, in the night, difVirifecl as a negro, for the purpose of serving a subpoena on the overseer of that proper ty ; After near half an hour's consultation, the jury withdrew to the church, where they conti nued till 3 o'clock next morning, and then re turned their verdidtGUlL FY. He was senten ced to pay i jl. with full colts, and fufFer eight days imprisonment. Philadelphia, JuneiS. I he Fourth of July (fays a correspondent) has hitherto been celebrated in a manner but lit tle honorable to the United States. Our corres pondent does not objedr to the pleasures of the table, iifed in moderation, being part of the en tertainment of the anniversary of our indepen dence ; but he proposes that the dinner ihould always be introduced by an oration, afermon, or a.n appeal to Heaven, in order to inform the ri 'ln§ generation of the deliverances which has been wrought for our country. In the oration or sermon, the names of the princpal persons who have been instrumental in the eltablifhment of our liberties, Ihould be mentioned. After this, the declaration of independence ihould be read. Odesfuitable to the day, Ihould be repeated, or fungafter dinner. The toalls (if any are given) ihould be few in number, and that disgusting uniformity which has hitherto cliaradterifed them, fbould by all means be avoided. An en tertainment thus conducted, will be the enter tainment of Men, and not of lieafts or Indians. The religious profeffions of a lawyer are per haps not so common as in many other orders ; but there is fometliing in the following extract from a late speech of Mr. Erikine's on the rights of ju ries, that deserves the attention and imitation of all.—" It was the firft command," hefays, " and council to my youth, always to do what my con science told me to be my duty, and to leave the consequences to God. I fliall carry with me the memory, and 1 hope the pracftice, of this parental lerton to the grave. I have hitherto followed it, and have no reason to complain that the adher ence to it has been even a temporal facrifice ; I have found it, on the contrary, the road to pros perity and wealth, and I shall point it out as such to my children." [_Hibertiia Mag.~\ New-Brunswick, June 9. We congratulate our readers 011 the profpetfts of the ensuing harvest, which, we are told, are more flattering than has appeared for many years palt, and promise to reward the toils of the la borious and industrious haibandman with a boun tiful supply to fill his granaries and barns. Albany, June 15. The distress of the inhabitants in the upper parts of the country in consequence of unequal led scarcity of grain, is truly deplorable. Many of those bordering on Lake Champlain, we arc allured by a gentleman of veracity who resides in that country, have no other dependance for sup port than the wild rootsof the earth, and the fifh which they catch in the lake. Lalt week a poor man, just able to roufter to gather the price of two bulhels of corn, and to nay for horse-hire, travelled upwards of thirty fix miles to this city, ere he could purchase the grain. His family, which was numerous, he said, had little or nothing to support tlieni till his re turn. A correspondent, who signs, " Homo sum, ni liil Hnmani a me alienum puto," sincerely willi es that fotne mode could be devised, and put in immediate operation, to obviate the dreadful ef fects of the present scarcity in the country. He would fondly hope, that those gentlemen whom providence has diftinguiflied by blefling their en deavors with the ample gifts of fortune, would take the lead which the occasion seems to force 011 them, and diftinguifn themselves as benevolent citizens and genuine philanthropists ! Religion, which comprehends every virtue, in the molt for cible language, inculcates the exercise of charity; and human nature cannot appear to greater ad vantage than when engaged in the cause of be nevolence, nor receive a more ample gratification than the consolatory reflection of having adini ftered relief to the cries of diltrel's. A fubferip tioti set on foot in this city and the towns adja cent, for buying and distributing grain to the meagre children of famine, and such other bene volent purpose as a committee might direct, would no doubt rapidly fill, and, in its beneficent oper ations, be productive of benefits of the molt ex tensive and l'alutary nature. NEW-YORK, JUNE 24, 1789. Extra!} of a litter from Savanna, dated Juni 11. " We have been more alarmed lately with ap prehensions from the Indians, than we have been since the commencement of lioftilities with them. Thirty or forty of them attacked John Lecoutre, three' or four weeks ago, but were repulsed. Four of them were killed, and several others from some appearances supposed to be wounded. Since this happened, Gen. Clarke was informed by some Cherokccs, who had just left the Creek nation, that they were meditating an immediate and for midable attack againlt our frontiers. We have however within a few days rcreiveJ more' agres" able intelligence from Galphin, who was feat b<- the commillioners with the last talk. He lias in-* formed the executive, that When he arrived in the nation, he was told that they, had a few days before dispatched fix hundred warriors, to attack the frontier counties ; and that twenty three hun dred more were preparing to follow them 3 but that by his own exertions and those of his brother, they were prevailed on to desist from'the expe dition, to recall those Who had already marched, and to consent to meet the comtniffioners 011 the twentieth of this month, at the place appointed for holding the treaty. This intelligence of Galphin's is corroborated by a letter from M'Gilvray to him. I am rather apprehensive that from the feeble oppoiirioii which the In dians have met with, and from the unreasonable ness of their demands, that it will be difficult, perhaps impollible, to procure an amicable adjift-. mentof ourdifputes with them. Should this not be the cafe, I fupjiofe you will receive early in ftruclions of the event from the Executive, as we ihall require federal aid, if Congress flnjuld be in a situation to afford it. The present is the maiden feilion of our Ameri can legislature, and has beer, diftinguiffied by the predominance of as pure principles of patriotifin, as ever graced alegiflativeatfcinbly. No future feflion of Congress, will ever have so arduous and weighty a charge on their hands. The business of legillation is always attended with difficulties, and requires the combined ex ertions of genius, talents and experience ; but the present Congress have 110 precedents, that apply to the circumstances of the United States, to direct their footfleps—no examples to imi tate, and no striking historical fads oh which to ground their decisions—All is bare creation. They have a constitution to unfold and display, that is original in its conftrudion and design. Interests to attend to, that never were before' blended and made cognizable, by a legislative body—an example to set original in its formati on—and anticipations to juftifv that are founded upon the 1110 ft exalted ideas of hifman perfedion. Added to these, their materials are few—their ob jeds numerous—and expedition boundlefs.—ln such a situation, those that undertake the con duct of our public affairs upon right principles, when time fliall do them justice, will rank with the firft patriots and friends of mankind. The unfolding, difplaying,and establishing the various parts of a new and untried system of go vernment is an arduous talk. Mankind are as different perhaps in the forma tion of their perceptive powers, as in the linea ments of their countenances : Hence a variety of conftrudions is often put upon that, which has but one precise and definite meaning ; and that which in the very nature of things mull be vague and uncertain, it is often contended has the molt limited and confined lignification. These consi derations fuggeftthe importance ofpatience, for bearance, and moderation ; for those truths, which are the result of the molV diligent, lioneft. and laborious investigation, like gold that bears the liotteftfire, will be found the 1110 ft pure, du rable, and important. The science of government, independent of the eftabli/hing a new Constitution, is intricate and difficult to a very great degree. A free go vernment is infinitely more sb than an arbitrary one: The rights of the citizens require the utmolt exertions of the human faculties to devise ways and means for their security—Hence the necellity of a great variety of laws ; but in an arbitrary, or a despotic government, there is but one law, and that is the Will of the Supreme Power. While our country calls for the exertions of every individual—and on those exertions, at the present moment, depend the fucccfs of our new government, and the happiness and prosperity of the United States, in all the succeeding periods of their existence—let all inferior conficlerations be facrificed to the ennobling one of attempting to make a NATION HAPPY. " Mind your Business" said the Congress under the old Confederation. This is amoft ufe ful injunction : Let every one attend afliduoufly to the duties of his particular calling—for it is as true as it is obvious, that the peace and prosper ity of the whole are constituted by the happi ness and tranquility of individuals. $3" Gatimozin does not come zvithin the limits of the phim of the Gazette of the United States—but the author is entitled to our thanksJor hisfriendly design. ARRU'ALS. NEW- YORK. Saturday. Schooner Bctfy and Polly, Butler, Baltimore, 6 days- Schooner Fanny, Burdington, Edenton, N. C. 6 davs- Sloop Cynthia, llodgers, St. Euflatia, 18 days. Sloop Bctfy, Higgins, Savantia, 10 days. Sloop Beverly, Davidfon, Alexandria. 13 days. Sunday. B>ig Adventure, Joy, Baltimore, 9 days. Sloop Friendship, johnson, Baltimore, 7 days* Sloop Union, Watson, George Town, Vir. 14 days. Monday. Schooner Betsy, Strong, Virginia, 7 days. Sloop Betsey, Denton, Baltimore, 10 days. Sloop Christian, Aden, Philadelphia, 5 days. Sloop Industry, Stone, Boston, 8 days. Tuesday. Ship Grace, Armour, Amsterdam, 80 days. Brig Nymph, Palmer, Amsterdam, 80 days. Sloop Dolphin, Carpenter, Savanna, 10 days-
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