MR. ADAMS'S LETTERS. LETTER XvT Amsterdam, Oct. 26, i7Sp. SIR, YOUR fifteenth qusere is, '' Did not the Etiglifh army lay cut its pay in America ? At how much can the yearly benefit he calculated ? Are not the jrifoners provided for in America? Who has the care of their maintenance .•* How was Burgoyne's ar my supplied ? WHEN the English army was in Boiton, they bought all that they could, and left considerable sums there in silver and gold. So they did at Rhode-liland. Since they have been in New- York, they have purchased every thing they could of provisions and fuel, on Long-Island, Staten- Island, New-York-Island, and in those parts of the States of New-York, and New-Jersey, where they have been able to carry on any clandestine traffic. When they were in Philadelphia, they did thefame ; and Gen. Howe tells you, that he fufpetfs that Gen. Washington, from political motives, connived at the people's supplying Phi ladelphia, in order essentially to serve his coun try, by inlinuating into it large fumsof silver and gold. They are doing the fame now, more or less, in South Carolina and Georgia; and they cannot go into any part of America without do ing the lame. The British prisoners, in the hands of the Ame ricans, receive their cloathing chiefly from the English; and flags of truce are permitted to come out from their lines for this purpose. They re ceive their pay also from their mailer ; and spend the mol> of it where they are ; they also purchase provisions in the country, and pay for it in hard money. I am not able to ascertain exatftly the yearly be nefit ; but it mull be considerable: And the addi tion now of a French fleet, and army 10 supply, will lyake a great addition of calli and bills of exchange, which will facilitate commerce and privateering. And the more troops and ships Great Britain and France fend to America, the greater will this refonrce neceliarily be to the A mericans. I have the honor to be, &c. JOHN ADAMS. MR. CALKOEN. From the HERALD ok FREEDOM. MR. PRIVTER, I WAS highly gratified bytliefhort observations of your con efpondent Agricola, in the He rald of Tuesday last. He difcovercd in his ad drefsto the" wife," so candid and good a temper, so much real judgment, and such a zeal for the liberty of my country, that 1 long to know him, that I may thank him. I must, however, content ruyfelf with exprefung, in this manner, my gra titude to him, and my cordial agreement in his sentiments. Ido not generally approve of con demning whole profellions of men at once, or determining upon the motive by which they are governed, but these clergymen are fair game, and are not entitled to the common rights or charily of mankind. Much has been said of their good behaviour during the revolution, but your correspondent has found a motive which at once f weeps off all their merit in this affair, and frees lis from the obligations which some fooliih people supposed we were under to them 011 this account. Certain it is that they cannot be friends to freedom, because they pray again(l anarchy; nor can they truly love liberty, because they are averse tolicen tioufnefs ! They have proved that they are not genuine whigs, in your correfponilont's sense and mine, for they were, to a man almost, united againit that high and glorious friend to liberty, Gen.ghays ; and what is far worse, they appear ed as unanimously to approve of our new ieileral conilitution, which deitroys the liberty of paper money and tender ac r ts forever, and will prevent that anarchy, without which your correspondent and 1 shall never beno'.iced or honored. Thev have also had the confidence to discover a great affection and regard for President Washington, who, notwirhitanding his pretended zeal for li berty during the revolution, appears to have as great an aversion to " licendouftiefs and anar chy," as these black coated gentry, by which means he has loit his merit with your correspond ent and myfelf, and all others like minded. If there had been proper gtiards against the opprefuons of our rulers and to preserve the con fetjuence of the people, established by our con stitutions, I should not have joined so fully with Agricola in his brilliant observations, but every body knows that our rulers pofiefs absolute pow er :—That the people cannot turn them out of places, nor eletft others in theit room, and that our great men have been remarkable for acft ing directly contrary to the sense and will of their constituents for many years part. Our govern ment is so far from being democratical, that we are in the utiPcft danger from monarchy anddef potifm, and every' man ought to do all he can to weaken the force of and increase the consequence of the peoj~*l e - I am also gratified to fine? that your good cor respondent is cautioning the public against the encroachments of tliefe iniiiifters, for if we cio not soon take the alarm, they will loon overrun and enslave us. They are, Mr. Printer, so very rich; they have such nionltrous overgrown liv ings,that they will soon be able to buy out all the country ; and then they are so independent too ! Everybody knows that they aie under no re straint or controul from a fear of incuringthe displeasure of their hearers. They cannot be removed from their places, nor puniflied if they do amiss, but amidst their pomp, their power and their riches, they bid defiance to all around them. I cordially hope that my friend Agricola will continue his humorous publications, until our li. berty shall be thoroughly eltablilhed, and we shall be no more troubled either witli religion or go vernment. IRONICUS. RETIREMENT. him Ipraifc, who from the world retii'<l. i.\ By no cnliv'mng gen'rous paflionfir'd, On flow'ry couches (lumbers life away, And gently bids Ins atlive powers decay ; Who tears bright glory's awful face to fce, And fhunsrenafwn as much as infamy. But blclt is he, who, exercis'd in cares, To private leisure public virtue bears; Who, tranquil, ends the race lie nobly tun, And decks rcpofc with tropies labor won ; Him honor follows to the sacred lhadc, An4crowns, propitious, his declining head ; In his retreats their harps the Muses itring, for him, in lavs unbought, spontaneous sing ; Fiiendfhip and truth on all his moments wait, Pleas'd with retirement better with ftatc ; And round the bower, where humbly great he lies, Fair olives bloom, and verdant laurels rife. The JoHoxuing is an ADDRESS of the TRUSTEES oj Dartmouth College, and presented by the President of said Colle/e, on the 14th ihjl. at Neaj ~ v ori, To THE PRESIDENT of the United States. SIR, A PROVIDENCE, that overrules the affairs of menandof nations, has luade in every age of the world fotne extraor dinary display of pdwer and goodness in favor of the human race. Greattr events have been afligned for the eighteenth ceniu ry than ever before took place in the anrrals of time. Among these events the revolution of our d*y in North-America may be recorded as the mod important. The discovery of the new world was made by a spirit <jf enterprise and peifeverance ; the advancement of it in people, in arts," and in wealth, was effeftcd by prudence, economy, and industry : But a revolution from a state of opprcflion to that of freedom and independency ; and a political refurrefiion from a state without harmony, difpa'tch and power, to that of order, vigour arid glory, have been the achicv mcnts o> all the combined virtues, which can adorn the Itatefman and the heio. Through these most intending scenes the eyes of mankind were turned to you, and in you they confided. Guard ed and direfled by the-aulpices of our' Divine Parent, you have justly merited those fublimc and endearing epithets-Tik Saviour of your Country, aud the Founder of a New Empire. influenced by those ideas, and imprefled with a fenfeof that du ty and gratitude which are cla.racd by services for humanity,and arts unrivalled in thcannals of fame, we embrace the firft oppor tunity, as a Corporation, to express those feelings of obligation, whiclican never be erased through the devastations of time. We beg, Sir, of you to accept - our finccre desire, that the Father of mercies may piotraft your life and health to a remote pertod of time, you are invited to angelick joys and fublimcr tri umphs. We pray, that you may uninterruptedly experience all that felicity, which the vim.ous, wile and beloveef Chief of mili ons has reason or delire ; and that every may be extended to your illustrious family. In the finccrcll fcntmients of duty and gratitude, -we use the liberty of fubfenbing ourfelvc's, Sir, your most obedient And very humble servants. Signed in behalf of the Board of TruJires of Dartmouth College, at their annual neeting at fid college, this ud day oj Augujl, ,789. JOHN WHEELOCK. THE FR ESIOENT'S AJSWIR. To the WARD of TRUSTEES of DARTMOUTH COLLEGE C E NT L EM EN, TN' afligning so important an agency to the endeavors of an in- X dividual, as mentioned in your address, you render a tribute to ray fcivtees which a sense ot propriety forbids mc to affumr ror the flattering terms in which you are pleased to exprefc your sentiments of those services, and for the kind withes which you prefer in mv behalf, I thankyou with grateful sincerity To the animated fpiritof freedom that pervaded our country and to the firm temper of our citizens, which braved all dangers ir. defence of their privileges (under the protedfing careof Divine Providence are we indebted for the bleflings of political ,nde pendence : To the enlightened polfcy which has direaed our public councils, we owe the reform and cftablifhment of our fe derall conftituiion : Under its auspicious influence, aided by the industry ot those: citizens, who compose the great family of our Union, we may hope for the substantial enjoyments of individual happiness and nathonal honor. From your fupcrintendmgcare, Gentlemen as the guardians of a feminarv arid an important [nXwerZa'ta"' '° Ttetyourlib'or may be crowned with success, and render you happy in its confequenfes, is my sincere prayer. GEORGE WASHINGTON. FRO.M A LATE ENGLISH PAPER. T ORD C AMDEN had enclosed part of a com -111011 and {topped up the thorough fare : fee ing a country fellow go up through the ground, he called and told him he had no right to %o thro' that ground. The man told his Lordfliip, he had gone that way ever since he was a child, and did not know any reason why he should not 00 ihen : scratching Ins head he begged to aflc his Eordfliip a quelhon : « Suppose a man fhouJd Ileal some of the geele that were feeding there, what would they do to the person who took them !" He would replied his Lordihip, be carried before a justice _I a ,ul P ra y» what would be done to the man who of 7? common from the geese ?" His Lordniip made him no answer ; but the man was never in terrupted in palling that way afterwards. congress o? the UNITED STATES Bcfgun and held at the City of New-York, on Wcd'ntfdavrt,. r , of March, One Thousand Seven Hundred snd Eighty !l a. act „ Captain in the army of the United Slates be allowed to tvV 1 de Glaubeck, from the nimn day of Mareh, one thousand hundred and eighty one, to the twentv-fourth da-/ of Aurnft thousand seven hundred and c:ghtv-two, to be paid , n X, manner as other foreign officers in the service of the United C,T have been paid,. tll: ' FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG Speaker of the Houf,- of HetreCentu JOHX ADAMS, and President of HestJ tli Approved, September the 29th, 1780 < GEORGE WASHINGTON', Prefident'of Ui, CWfoi». An ACT to alter the time for the next Meeting o/Con-refs. BE it evaded by the Senate and Houfc of R:prefcnt alius tftlu Uvl States of America in Congress ajjembled, That after the adiotm, ment of the present feflion, the next meeting of ConmL fh.li be on the firft Monday in January next. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Sfvker of the Houfc of Rcprefenti(k>< JOHN ADAMS, Pice* President of the United Statu, and President of thrScnaic, APPROV ID, SfTFMRE R THE 20th, 1780 GEORGE WASHINGTON, President ofihe Uiiki botes. RESOLVED, That the Survey dire&ed by Congress in their ast of June the sixth, one thousand (even hundred and eighty-eight, be made and returnedto the secretary of the treafur without delay ; and that the President cis the United States he r qucfted to appoint a fit person to complete the fame; who IUI h c allowed five dollars per day whilst a&ually employed in the said service, with the expehces necessarily attending the ewoitioa thereof. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG. Speaker of the Houfc of Reprefentatiw 4 JOHN ADA MS, Vice-Prejident of the United States, avd President of the Senate, Approved, Aucust the 26, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President 6f the United States. RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Rebrefentatives ojthe United States of America in Congress ajfembled, That it be re-, commended to the Legifiatures of the several States topafslaws, making it expressly the duty of the keepers of-their gaols, tore, ceive and fafe keep therein all prisoners committed under the au thority of the United States, until thev sHall be discharged by the due course of the laws thereof, under the like penalties as in the :afc of prisoners committed under the authority of such States refpe&ively ; the United States to pay for the use and keeping of such gaols, at tl«c rate of fifty ccnts per month for eachprifoiur that shall, under their authority, be committed thereto) during thetime hich prisoners shall be therein confined ; and alfoto(up port such of said prisoners as (hall be committed for offences. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker of the Houfc of Reprefentdtvis. JOHN ADAMS, Vicc-Prtfident of the United Statu, and President of the StntM. Approved, September the 23d; 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the UnitedStW RESOLVED, shall be the duty of the Secretary of State, to procure from time to time such of the Statutes of the several States as may not be in his office. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG. Speaker of the House of Reprcfcritativu. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-President of the United States, and President of tke Senate Approved, September the 23d, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States. RESOLVED, by the Senate and Houf; of Reprefentatiw of tk United States of America in Congress ajjembled, That John White, late a commiflioner to fettle the accounts between the L T nited States and the States of Pennsylvania, Delaware and Mary land, and his clerks, John Wright and J'ofhua Dawfon, be con sidered as in office until the fourth day of February, onethopfand seven hundred and eighty-nine. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, Speaker ps the House of Reprefentntwit. JOHN ADAMS, Vice-Prefdent of the United States, and President of the Scmtt, Approved, September the 59th, 1789. GEORGE WASHINGTON, President of the United States., ' From the NEW-HAMPSHIRE GAZETTEER. ANECDOTE. THE late honorable Judge Sewell y went into a hatter's stop, one day, in order to procure a pair of second-handed brufli es, for the purpose of cleaning his shoes ; at which the matter of the (hop presented him with a .couple, which were become unfit for his own use. " What is your price," fays the Judge: "If they will answer your purpose," replies the other*, you rnay have them and welcome." The Judge heating this, laid them dowrron the plank, and with a graceful bow, he went out at the door. At which, the mechanic faith to him, •* Pray Sir, your Honor ha* forgotten the principal design of your visit." L ' By no means, replies the Judge, " if you will please to set your price, I Ha™ ready to purrhafe : but ev^r since it has fallen to my lot to occupy a feat on the bench, I have Itudioufly avoided receiving a single copper, by way of donation, left in some future period ot it might have f(Mie kind of influence in determiningmy judgment- ADVERTISE ME XT. TIIF. Gazette oj the United States circulates in every fart 6! the Union—being by JuhJcribers in South and Sort Carolina, Virginia, Maryland. Delaware, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode-lfland, Maffachvfrtts, and Diflricl oj Maine, Canada, Europe, and the Wejl Indies. ThistX' tensive circulation renders it a proper vehicle for Advertisements bfii general, commercial and governmental import:—ity the desire and advice, therefore, of a number of its patrons, this papi' wil/ be open for the reception of advertisements of the above dejenptron, rohich as they will convex intelligence of an interefli-ng nature, M* '* /or hopes their infer t ion mill meet the approbation of hisjrien s in general. Should the number at any *time amount to more than a page »* the Gazette, they will be given in a Supplement. A' FEN SO New-York, Nov. 28', 1780. ADVERTISEMENT. MR. ADAMS's LETTERS witch have appeared mjfi <*• zcUcy are part of a series, 26 in number, wrote by his Exce ency Holland—the whole arepublijfied in a pamphlet of 64 p a S es ' to-l'tfoldb by Mejfrs. Berry & Rogers, Hanover-Square* Mr. 0 , Hodge, Qkeen-Street, and by the Editor hereof. PublifUed by JOHN FENNO, No. 9, Maiden- La nf, nenrthc Ofwcgn-Mtrkcl, New-York.—[3 Jd-p'-
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