was in tears tlie wliole time, aiut only talked a little to the Imperial Ambaflador. The acivc to public felicity, that a wife Hcdthen hath said, " The only founda tion for national prosperity are, Piety towards the Gods, and Justice and Char, it yto Man ki nd." CI VIS. NEW-YORK, NOVEMBER 25. We are informed that liis Excellency Thomas Jefferfon, Efq; and family, embarked at Cowes 011 board the brig Clermont, belonging to Meflrs. Ilitfon and Bayard, of this city, and failed for Norfolk in company with the Montgomery, Capt. Bunyan. There will be Collections raised for theP.elief of the Poor in the three firft Presbyterian Chnrches in this city, on the enfaing Thanksgiving Morn ing—a proper mode of tellifying our gratitude to God for the signal mercies we are that day t» commemorate. \Vhen Boreas whistles from the Nortfi, And fends liis icy morsels forth, Turn not the wretched irom your door, Hut iced, andcloath, and warm tiie poor. For they to life's belt purptjfe live, Who know how blefTVd 'tis to give; " Thus happicll he whofeblifstul light," Purfui sby Ch a* ity's fair light, A glorious hope beyond the (ty, IVhere tfjrs arc tuip dJrcm evert eye. The Creditors ot the State Governments appear to be placed in a very ineligible situation incon sequence of the appropriation of the Impost to the purpoles of the Union—for it is very evident that if the Excifeand Impost united, v»ere 'not more than adequate to difchargingtlie interest of State securities—the funds now left to the individual governments,muft fall greatly fhortofthat objetft. The debts of the refpecftive States ought there fore to be placed upon a continental establish ment—and as there does not appear to be any o ther feazible plan of doing justice to this class of creditors, as meritorious as any in the li nked States, it must be pleasing to every honest citizen to findthattlic sentiment is ve ry general in various parts of the Union. ihould the creditors of tliefeparate States, be left to the mercy of local systems, and financier ing committees of State Legislatures, with only the excif'e to depend upon, u is pretty evident, that while Continental Securities are rapidly ap preciating, those of the Stares will as rapidly verge towards annihilation.