wered them rather neatly : " Gentlemen, is it then that you think the celibacy of the Clergy is more advantageous to population than their mar riages ?"—The ecclefiaitics flirugged up their Jhoulders, and complimented the Emperor on his facetious raillery. The Carron Manufactory in Scotland, is the greatest perhaps of the kind known in the world -Its weekly confuniption of coals amounts to n,oootons, at 4s. pr. ton ; and the consumption of each day is equal to that of the city of Edinburg, durifig a whole week; As many coals are there conluined in the Catron foundaries, as would fufttce to supply a city of 700,000 inhabitants.— A thousand workmen are duly employed in this manufactory, whose wages amount to 7001. per week, or 39,4001. pr. annum. On Thursday last at Newmarket the Duke of gueenlbury and Sir John Lade mounted on a brace of mules, to run from the Ditch-in for ioool. This ludicrous heat was obstinately contested— the event was in favor of the Duke. The match was made over night> and over a bottle too, no doubt atthe Macaroni Club—Nobly done, at least ! Paris, October 20. An exprets arrived at the Imperial ambafladorslalt night, with the im portant news of the surrender of Belgrade. ' It is also reported that sixty thousand Prulfian troops have entered Brabant, in support of the insurgents, and that the Dutch are marching, with all polfible expedition, to poflefs theinfelves of the Barrier Towns. A correspondent fays, that by hints he has re ceived from Bruflels, the Emperor may bid adieu to that fine country. M. Matonde la Varenne, an advocate inthe Parliament of Pa ns, has publilhed an cxaft copy of a paper, found by him in the Baftile, the day after it was taken : thefcare the contents : " Copy of a letter, written by me, Duflfault, a prisoner in the Bafti/c, on the 1H as December, 1642, to Cardinal Richlicu, dangeroujty ill. " There is a time, my Lord, when a man ceases to he cruel and urijuft, and it is when his approaching dissolution forces him to dcfcend into the gloomy recenes of his conscience, to weep for the troubles, fotrows, and misfortunes, he has caused to his fel low creatures ; for now you mud be fcnfible of what you never would be persuaded ol.that thefupreme and excellent Creator From above h.ismadc us all alter the fame model, and that his intention was, that men, Ihould not be dillinguiftiedfrom one another, but hy their virtues. You know, my Lord, that for these eleven years pad, you made me fuller a thousand deaths in the Baftile, -where even felons, and the mod unloyal of his Majesty's lubjefts, ■would deserve pity and companion : Much more I then, my Lord, whom you in.ike perish by inches for having disobeyed an order of yours, that would have doomed my foul to everlaftmg torments, and made me appear in the presence of Almighty God, our tremendous Judge, with handsJlained in blood. Ah ! were you to hear the plaints, figb>, »nd groans, I inceflantly heave, from the dungeon you have condemned me to, I ain sure you would forth with restore me to liberty. I earnestly coniure yon, my Lord, to do it, in the name of that eternal God, who is to judge you as well as my felf; take pity oi» my ciuel furtVmigs and sorrows ! and if yon wilh to be merci ful before you die, -;ive immediate orders for my chains to be bro ken ; for when once in the power of death, you will no longer be able to do me that justice I can claim but from you ; and you would then profecutc ir»e even after death, which God preserve you from, it you will vouchfafe to yield to the humble prayer of a man, who has always been a loyal fubiett to his Majeftv. 11 I am, My Lord, " With veneration, rcfpeO, and fubmiflion, " Your's, See. li Duss AU IT ." From the LONDON PUBLIC ADVERTISER. TONTINE. / MR. Pitt said the other day on opening the budget, " that front the present great plenty of money in the city, he was resolved to try the spirit of adventure in a Tontine." Some readers of newspapers boggle at the word Tontine, and perhaps may search their Dictiona ries in vain.—lt was derived from Tonti, an Ita lian, who was the firlt projector of the mode of railing money on furvivorlhips. The old lady who is now living and enjoying i 2,0001. a year, by having been a fubferiber to Queen Anne's Tontine, has not yet been found. Has any body ever seen this old lady ? Does any body know this old lady ? Has any body seen the man that saw the man that saw this old lady ? The new Tontine, it is hoped, will have its ef fect on the manners of the age, and encourge temperance in eating and drinking, as the only means of furvivorlhip. ' A Tontine is surely the most plealing way of alking for a loan ; for every one lias the strong liope°of life; and willing to believe that to be true, which he ardently wifhesto be so, pleases himfelf with the idea of long life, and rhus free ly ventures upon the wager.—Every Tontine is little more than a bet: 1 lay iool. that I out live you The present Tontine is certainly favorable to the public because it secures a large interell upon government credit. —Other Tontines may and have been involved in law suits, and consequently injury and delay;—this cannot be so circumstan ced.—Lives too, in general, are little better up on the whole, than they used to be ; and every member being confined to an annuity of ioool. per aim. so that no long liver can ever receive more dividend, so much of the national debt is in fair prospect to be annihilated. —But the in crease of premium will f'oon bring it to the price of the Ilocks. A waggilli correspondent informs us that a roongthe number of thofewho are to fubferibe to the Tontine, in hopes offurv'tvorfhip, are the Earls of Mansfield, Batliurft and Guilford.—Macklin— Deputv Ellis, &c. &c. and other proinilingyoung mew, REFLECTIONS of ONE designed for a Nunnery. Written 100 years ago. T A O avoid the tyranny of lawless paflion, The hazards of contempt and calumny* The heats and hectics both of fear and love, The qualms, and quarrels of a married life, The cumbers, hummings 'bout a family: To ride secure out of the reach of fortune, O'erlooking all those roiling tides of fate, Which a vain world is hurried with, and then To be Wrapt up in innocence, a Devotee Dear and familiat to the Deity ; Is furelya condition to be caught at With all th' expansion both,of mind and body: But then again, to weigh the cancelling Of what I'm born to, tugging all tny life Against the tide ; still {training up the hill, The plains and pit afant vallies ever hidden. What is it less than the bold undertaking Of a perpetual war with nature ? which how well I may cbme off in, is to me unknown. But does not nature in her genial pourfe, Dcfign all creatures for their fixed end ? Did the wife God of nature give me seX Only to cast it off ? Our paflions, our affections and desires We are enjoin'd to regulate—not relinquish 1 Why were these obiefts lent us, set before Our open eyes, and we forbid to view them ? Our joys, our hopes, the feathers of the foul Were never given to become our torment: I cannot think so meanly of the Deity, That it should fill our fails with pregnant gales, And yet forbid us touch those pleasing coasts, That we thereby are driven to.—All spiritual is Too fine for flefli to live by ; and too gross Is food corporeal all : As man is mixt, So his affection's object must. Love temper'd right Is chaste as cold Virginity. And since He merits more, that means, unbound, to pay, Than he that is ty'd up to ftrift conditions ; I'll rather chufe to keep myfelf in that £(late iny wife Creator did appoint me, Than to miftrult his Grace, and out of fear Lock up in forced chains my free-born foul. For the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES. THE G U E S T—No. I. " Ignorant old age, is the worfl picture that Time can draw of Man." HOW important is it to make provision inyouth to alleviate the inevitable miieries of old age ! that we may mitigate the sorrows of our de clining years, by finding a substitute for tliofe va cancies which time, accidents and death, will make in our friends and enjoyments ! Though we cannot fly from our fate, yet we can meliorate its leverity. Nature in a thousand direifUons teach es us the mod ufeful leflons of prudence, and fore thought. We anticipate winter ; we provide for its approach, and its inclemency is abated. The difference between a wife man and a fool is, that the latter lives to the moment; the former al ways calculates for the confequeilces of events. Providence hath llot pointed out any expedient to relieve tis under the infirmities of age, equal to knowledge, study and meditation. A taste foi these must be acquired in youth; while the mind is flexile and fufceptibleof impreflions, our stock of ideas should be laid in. These will prove oui lie vet failing friends and companions, when others desert us. With our books we can always find tlie best company.—The fprightlinefs of youth; the gravity of age *the politics of palt ages,and the current history of our own times paTs in review, and beguile the tedioufnefs of confinement. With these we connetfi the present with the past; and while we are on the limits of exiltence, we can fend our thoughts backwards and trace the inci dents of ufefulnefs, friendfhip and happiness thro' which we have palled. Chearfulnefs is the off fpring of knowledge and virtue, and it fmootlis the furrows of age—lt attra&s the company, love, and veneration of the young—lt fmootlis the pil low of lonelinefs—lt shuts the door to chagrin and fretfulnefs, and gilds the last moments of life with the rays of future glory. But a vicious and ignorant old age, is the foil that produces a congregation of miferies—lt adds a {hade to the shadows of the long nights, and clouds the snort days of the winter of life. Igno rance and weakness incapacitate from employ ment; and impose the mott irksome sensations ot idleness 011 the mind.—'Tis this makes old age to be dreaded ; for except its infirmities arc tempered by information, experience, and vir tue, it will bedeferted by the young and middle aged ; and cotemporaries in ignorance, chagrin and ennui, will add to the weig'.it that finks it. unpitied into dull. BASTILE ANECDOTE. THE DREAM BOOK. TMIESE lingular volumes, we (inderftand have been preserved 1 jnd we hope to gratify the Curiosity of our readers by the followiug authentic account of them. It wasihe custom of the Lieutenant Governor, or rather, as we believe he was called, the Major of the Baftile, not from any or der of government, but as a curious whim of his own, to enquire of any prisoner who was destined to liberty or death, On the morning of the day of execution or deliverance, concerning the dream of the preceding night. Whatever fancics had troubled or sweetened the repofc of the prisoner, we may believe to have been related with agitated fidelity, and the vtlion, whatever it might have been, being noted down by the officer, he always retired with great politeness, but never was known to commu nicate whether the dream of the night was or w'as not ominous of tiie event of the day. The Gentleman who inflrufts us in this article, and from whom w-lball receive further notifications concerning this horrid m»n tion, was once a trembling inhabitant of it. On the day of his dclivcrance, but before he had received any information concerning it, the Major of the Prison waited on liijn a* he ocCalionally did, and after forae officialcoHvetfation dc frred him to relate thedrea'.n of the preceding night.—The ques tion he thought foreboded something, and he was not in a situation to fuppofethat it foreboded any good ; however, after some time the dream enquired after was recolle&ed, and was as follows : The prisoner dreamed that he was walking in a church yard ; that the path lay round the church, which was a very large and lofty Gothic building, and that a croud of persons of all age* and both sexes, who appeared entirely unknown to him, were taking the fame circuit with himfelf. On a sudden a large globe of fire feeniedto be suspended over the church, and in a short time the lead, melted by the prodigious heat, ran in streams from eve ry part of the building, and as it it'll onrthe people beneath, it instantly destroyed them. After some time a stream of the burn ing metal fell upon him, but without doing him the least injury, and he alone appeared to escape the horrid ruin that surrounded him. The Major wrote down miuuteS of this dream, rrturned the prisoner thanks for his communication, and took h;s leave—lt was however, ominous of his deliverance, for in less than an hour he was restored to liberty. B O S T O N, November 21. AUTHENTIC NEWS FROM FRANCE. Oil Monday la It, His ]\loft Cbriftian Alajtfty's cutter, La Levrete, commanded by M. Chevalier de la Bourdonnaye, arrived here in 36 days from Brest, with dispatches for the Hon. Consut. of France, who in conl'equence thereof has given the agreeable official information that all the Free Ports of the French Welt-India IHands, are open until the ill of February next, for the introduction of Flour and Bifcuit,from the Unitecl States. At the departure of tlie above cutter, we can afl'ure our readers that the National Afleinbly was still progreliing towards a completion :—That the loan of 80,000,000 of livres was tilled up :— That tranquility was intirely restored : Ami that there was everyprofpetft thatFRANCE was ••apid ly approximating to that state of refpetf ibility as a Nation, which her imnienfe refoiirces—the fertility of her foil—and the patriotism of her King, and People, intitle her to. It is with pleasure we hear, that the Massa chusetts, Eaft-Indiaman, will be completly fitt ed with Sails, Cordage, Anchors, &c. of Ame rican manufacture. Yellerday her largest Cable, of 18 inches, and 120 fathoms, made at Meflrs. Austins' Ropewalk, wasi'ent onboard. NEW-YORK, DECEMBERS. The present war between the Ruilbns, Auftrians, Swedes, and Turks, exhibits a moll degrading piQure of human nature—how humiliating the consideration, that to gratify the spleen, caprice, and ambition of a few individuals, whom a fortuitous con' urrence of events, have placed in a particular situation, that wi )le regions should be depopulated—that human creatures Should be clafled together, clothed in a particular manner, wearing the livery oP death, and marched through extensive regions ; leave their wives, children, and habitations, all the delights of domelike enjoyment, to be (laughtcred for the acquifii ion. of an object in which thri are not intuited. Can it be poffjble that so great a proporl oa of our fellow men will much longer submit to fuel) vallallage ?— Opprcffion over the bodies, and efl .tcs of men in a time of peace, may well rdtife the fdffererito refiftariee ; but the cruel depreda tions committed by the tyrants of. the earth upon the rights, the fieedom. the ti..nqui!ity, the prosperity, and I'ecurity, not only of their enemies, but their /'V ' • ~tru "J Kar > U P the measure of human mifeiy and fcter/adatrjn. According to an accurate calculation the Inter est of"the Domestic Debt of the United States a mounted on the 31ft December, 1737, to Dc/lan, 90ths, Bths. 8,123,124 55 7 Two years Interest will be 7 , due the 31ft Dec. 1789. 43 7 The total due on Ift Jan. 7 6 6 6 1790, will be 5 7 ' When it is considered Tiow inadequate the funds of the Continent were under the old Confedera tion, for the difcliarge of this Interest—How in* efficient the powers to bring tliofe funds, ineffi cient as they were, into the Continental Freafury : When the accumulation oftliis Interest, and the consequent perplexities are taken into view, the difl'olution of the Union, the loss of reputation, and public confidence, that must inevitably have ensued, had we been so judicially blind, as to have persevered 111 our bewildered system any longer, we never can fufßciently adore the wif doni, and mercy of JTeaven, that arrested us in our career to ruin—and directed our footfteps to the paths of Government, Peace, and Honor. j— In this view of the fubje