THE APOLOGIZER HAIL ! All hail theaufpicious xra of humani ty ! Avaunt ! Ye black difcriptions ot hu man nature, and of crimes against common fenle, good government and good order. Rejoice ye anti-feds ! Your apologizer triumphs ! He is read with applause ! What a glory his labors Ipread over you! Your opinions and practices, which heretofore have been supposed criminal, are prov ed to be the perfection of nature working by cross purposes ! Your honesty is demonftated, by a more felf evident truth, the circumscription of your understandings ! Howpleafing to the writer is the applause of his own con science, forrefcuing from the bar of public censure thole unpitied ones, who, bating the energy of his own quill, never could have had a defender ! Black fliade of Cata line ! Hear me, and be thou the patron-demon ot my undertaking; and may Arnold, thy antiiype in the present age, be a minlltering genius between me and thee, for my afliftance while I emblazon the integrity of our common friends. Reader, be not impatient, the mysteries of my factious devoti on are now ended, and I will again converfewith thy earthly understanding. A principle of felf preservation is a part of living nature, of which no creature is deititute ; a man and his mule e qually feel its influence. Even a fabulous exift cnce is dear to thepoHeflor—witnefs the felf pre serving exertions of Griffins, Unicorns and other imaginary beings of antiquity ; when science be gan to enlighten the mass of mankind, and they felt a faintnefs spread over their fabled being how they struggled to survive. If such be thy efforts, felf-prefervingnature, where thou art but imagin ed to be, what mult be the labor of thy creatures to continue, when they actually exist. No mat ter how small the quantity of being, if it be some thing—a little fometliing is as real as a great some thing, and, for ought we can know to the contra ry, feels as ltrongly the principle of felf preser vation, and the evil of extinction. Self preservation how sacred ! Is it not a jufti fying plea for whatever man can do ? Do not our laws and reverend judges allow it to be a defence against the highest charges ? And would you not sneer in the face of an anti-fed, for so far forget inghisown fafety, as voluntarily to subscribe a constitution, which requires capacities in govern ment above his own ? Doth any man love to go into company in which he cannot ihine ? I tell thee friend, that these questions carry death to a great number, whom the Apologizer wilhes to pre serve, and it may be thine own portion, while thou art gazing. Tho regard to public good be a laudable princi ple of acftion, it is, by no means so sacred or bind ing on any one as nature's own instinct of felf pre fervation. Reader, if thou art a great man in thine own State, I am certain these arguments will goto thy heart, and bring to remembrance the time when thou haft felt them. These feelings I ffiall never forget, for tho I am now one of the literati, I have been quite another creature, a great man in my own State. It was a vision. When I was medi tating this apology, on motives of pure benevo lence ; rhofe invilible powers came upon me, to whom jrreat authors are indebted for the inspira tion ot the qnill. In imagination, I was trans formed from a humble citizen full of love to my whole country, into the chief man of-a great State in the western territory. My title was the sweet est music, I had ever heard. Tho I found my mind prodigiously leflened by the operation, several of its pa (lions were increased, especially ajealoufy for my own honor. The proclamation for a general thanksgiving, coming out in any other name beside my own, was a cutting circumstance, but deter mining not to be insulted without revenge, I join ed my own name to the supreme fignaiure. Ah ! there is much in signing a name, sometimes it gives pence,and is half a man's dignity among the people. In the firft days of vision, I thought iny felf alone in these feelings, but gradually found that several counsellors and judges who surround ed me, felt the gnawing of the fame worm. They dreaded the approach of federal officers of a fiinilar department, and the mifchief of the whole was, we could not convince the people of what we felt so strongly ; that our own exclusive dignity was of more consequence than the public good. It soon became a common cause, and I shall not fail in due time, to inform the worldof those pangs in vilion which we all fuffered. Nature thou art powerful ! Yes ! It was thy felf preserving power, a&ing in them and in me, and we fliould have been suicides to resist. But greater things, than these, were before me, and lam chilled by the remembrance. This fatal tour thought 1 within myfelf ! What evil destiny has led the hero here ? Whether to befirft or se cond, in the house of my own kingdom, was now the queftioti. While in tornienting'fufpence, Po dagra, my guarding angel, who had favedmeout of many political scrapes, and made my folly pass for shrewdness, descended ! He seized me body, foul and joints, and hid me from the scheme ! ! ! (A M r K ! CA N* MeRCC'IIV.) No. 11l THE FINE ARTS. Extratt of a letter from New-Yoik, February 27. THE justly celebrated Trumbull is now bu sily engaged in his great undertaking—the productions you may depend will be a most valua ble acquisition to the world—to the American world in particular. I have seen lorae of the pie ces, in which a tew heads and Tome portraits are finifhed—The /ikenejfes are PERFECT—the draw ing, NATURE ITSELF—and the dcfigns senti mental, elevated and just. In short, here is no risque—the objedl is sure, and the mind is per fectly fatisfied—it rests in the execution. (fyajf. Cert.) Fir'd with the martial toils that bath'd in gore His brave companions, on his native shore, TRUMBULL, with daring hand, the scene recalls, And shades with night Quebec*s beleaguer'd walls, Mid slashing flames that round the turret rife, Blind carnage raves, and great Montgomery dies. On ChdrUflown** height, thro* floods of rolling fire, Brave Warrin Falls, and fulfen hosts retire; While other plains of death that gloom the (kies, And chiefs immortal o'er his canvas rife 1 . O DarSv , did you ever feeaWhaJc? HuJli, neighhors, hujh, let Darby tell his talc." THE celebration of the Birth-day of our belov ed PRESIDENT has been general&harmoni ous, in small as well as in capital towns. Amongst others, a correspondent has communicated to us the demonstrations of the refpedi for this illustri ous character, which inspired the citizens of the town of Clijticejler, Cape-Ann. In the morning, Capt. Pea rce ordered the colours to be hoisted, at the dicliarge of a gun, on board several ves sels—and at 12 o'clock, desired Capt J. Coffin, who commands a large ship fitting for whaling, to fire 13 guns. Atone o'clock, a neat whale boat, on wheels, well-manned and equipped, with oars, harpoons and lances, with warp, &c. and each man drefled in frock and trowfers, was dragged by men in purfuitof a horse, which re presented a whale, having fins, &c. fixed to him ; and 011 coming up, the harpooner threw his har poon by the horse's fide, and the man on the horse catching the end of the warp, the horse immediately fat off upon the run—the men iu the boat securing themselves, and observing the fame rules as in real service. The horse at length flopping, the harpooner on coming up with him, threw a lance by his fide, and the horse, turning upon the boat as if in an agony, appeared to fight it; bur, after several attempts to extricate himfelf, being at length worn down, was represented as expiring—The whole affording a scene which gave much fatisfaftion to a great number of spec tators. At night, 13 guns were fired, and 13 toasts drank by the gentlemen of the town who aflembled on the joyous occasion. AGRICULTURE. M». Butler, THE growing of Turnips is justly reckoned a very profitable branch of hufbandrv—every hint, therefore, that has a ten dency to advance the cultivation of this valuable root, will be ac ceptable to the public. The Fai triers in this part of the country generally sow their turnips, for fall and winter use, about the 25th of July. I have beert long apprchenfive that this sowing is too early. Jhe wea. thcr at this of the year is generally very hot, and very dry, and drought has a direst tendency 10dwarf and spoil a field of young turnips :—The black fly also, a natural enefny of tTie tur nip, is at this period very voracious, and the crop is too often destroyed rendered unprofitable, by one or other of these causes. With a view to remedy these evil«, I sowed my turnips, the last year, very late in August. My neighbors laughed at me, and said I fliould not have a single mess : I had, however, m6re and better turnips than any of them. Encouraged by this success, I sowed this year on the 25th of August, a small piece of ground, eight rods only, with turnips. They came up well, and not a fly touched them. When they had four or five leaves, I dife&ed one of my men to clean them of weeds, and thin them f6 as to have them stand ten or twelve inches from each other. The ground was afterwards slightly stirred with a garden hoc. The leaves grew rapidly—covered the ground, and prevented the further growth of weeds. On the 1 ith of November I pulled the turnips trimmed and meafurcd them, and had on theeight rodsof ground (the twentieth part of an acre) forty-five bufliels of as large and well flavored turnips as I ever saw. This produce is at the rate of nine hundred bufliels per acre. The foil is a sandy loam in good heart, but by no means in high tilth. I sowed two other small pieces of ground, the one 011 the firft and the other about the eighth of Sept. Neither of these yielded like the one sowed on the 25th of August ; but each of them pro duced much larger and better turnips than any I have seen that were sowed at the usual time. I attribute my success altogether to the late sowing—then the heat is lcfs intense the rain more frequent, the dew copious, the fly harmlejs, and the crop abundant. YOUNG FARMER. Hampjhirc County, Dec. 1789. PROGRESS OF AMERICAN MANUFACTURES. THE Picfident of the United States having recommended to Congress a legifiative encouragement for producing, amonu ourlelves, the various articles of manufacture conducive to the de fence of the country; it may be fatisfaftory to learn the actual state ot one of these manufactures in Pennsylvania, as it appears in the following extratt of a letter from thence : " Being direfterl by the manufaauring board, lately to take «' upon mea (hare of an exienfive report,in which gun-poWder was " an article, I was muchpleafed and fuprifed to find that we have »• twenty-one powdcr-nuls capable of making fix hundred ' and twenty-five tons per annum : That they retail at Q7s.6d oer " quarter of 251b. and offer to fell, in quantities, under 6l per i. that E "§!' m Pnce after deducting the boun'tyof t 75 !i 6 • fterlms ' ° r 61 >°d. currency,per cwt EngliO, powder ,s now nearly done w.th here, and one yea; • Will entirely exclude I- lam convinced this edenti.lly necef • fary manufaflure befidesenfunng defence, is worth above 200 < .000 de.lavs. It has furpnlcd me as much as the paper-mills." -388- Barlow's Vision, NEGRO DEPUTIES IN THE NATIONAL AS SEMBLY. PARIS, November 17. IN tlje Island of St. Domingo are 30,000 free people, viz. 6000 whites, and 24,009 people of colour, moll of whom are negroes. The for mer, in the begining of the new Cotiftitution called a meeting in the Island, and, thinking it but just that they should be represented, sent their Deputies to Paris, who were at length admitted into the Aftembly here. In process of time, the lafter, i. e. the free black people,called ameet ing also, in the fame Island. They stated that they were the fubjetts of France ; that they paid their taxes in the lame proportion as the former; that they could fee no difference between the blacks and the whites ; and that, for these and other reasons, they ought to be represented also. They therefore determined upon fending depu ties and actually nominated three, who arrived in Paris about a fortnight ago. Upon tliejr ar rival they demanded an audience of the Aflem bly, into which they were admitted. On stating their claims, M. Fretau, the president, a most zealous friend in the cause of liberty, afl'ured them that they need not be dispirited ; for that the Aflembly knew no distinction between Blacks and Whites, but considered all men as having equal rights. The circumstances, however, of the nation were such, that their claims could not be imme diately difcufl'ed ; (and here permit me to ob serve these circumstances are the very fame which defer the consideration of the Slave trade alfo)but that they shall have a provisional feat in the National Aflembly. This provisional feat may be thus explained : Three Members of Parlia ment in England put up at an elediion, and two are returned ; the third complains to tihe House of an undue election ; the House resolve tocon fider the cafe on a fixed day, but till then the two members who were returned keep their feats. So it is, in the present cafe, the three black re presentatives are allowed a feat till the cafe is determined ; and you may therefore fee them every day in the National Aflembly ; and so far as I can find, they stand in no danger of losing their feats at a future time. This circumstance I have beei) acquainted with for some days, but was additionally informed last night by Monf. de la Fayette, that it was one of the articles of the deputation to appoint him Commander ip Chief of the 24,000 people of color—which com mand he has accepted. New-York City Lottery. SCHEME of a LOTTERY, for the purpose of raiGog Seven Thou fund Five Hundred Pounds, agreable to an ACT or the Legisla ture of the State of New-York, pasTed Bth February, 1790. SCHEME. t PRIZE of 2 3 10 3° 5° no 180 7950 8346 Prizes, ) 16654 Blanks, J 2 5°°° Tickets, * 4 os > «»ch, /.£QOpt Subje£t to a dcdu£tion of Fifteen per Gilt. THEobjcft of this LOTTERY being to raifc a part oftbefum advanced by the corporation for repairing and enlarging the Cl- HALL, for the accommodation of CONGRESS, which dors so much honor to the Architett, as well as credit to the city. The managers presume that their fellow Citizens will cheerfully con cur in promoting the sale of Tickets, especially as the success of this Lottery will relieve them from a tax, which roust otherwise be laid to reimburfethc corporation. The above SCHEME is calculated in a manner very beneficial to adventurers,there not being two blanks to a prize. 1 he Lottery is intended to commence drawing on the First Monday in August next, or sooner if filled, of which timely notice will be given. A lift of the fortunate numbers will be pub lilhed at the expiration of the drawing. Tickets are to be fold by the fubferibers, who are appointed Managers jby the Corporation. Isaac Stoutknburgh, Abraham Herring, * >ErER T. Curtri*ius, John Pintard. New-YorA, 6th March, 1790. William Taylor, Has for Sale, at his EASX-INDIA GOODS STORE, No. 4, Burling-Slif, Aflbrtinent ofEAST-INDIA GOODS. Among which are the following Articles: BOOK Muslins 8-4 6-4 5 - 4 || HUMHUMS, Jackonet do. jj Long Cloths, Hankercluefs,of various kinds, Caffas, Chintzes, | Seersuckers, Ginghami, j Boglapores. A Variety of handsome painted MUSLINS. With many other Articles, which will be fold by tke Piece «r Package, low for cafli. And a few pair large handsome Cotton CO UN/ TERPANES, much warmer than Blankets. New-Yorkj 1789, A LIVERY STABLE, Kept by BENJAMIN POWELL, at the upper end of Qulis- Str eet, Np. 11 J, near the T.ea-Water Pump. "VVTHERE hetakesinHorfes by the night, week, r , , or year, at the most moderate rates that can be af orded. He thanks his former customers for their favors, and flat ters himfelf that care and attention will again be paid to such gen tlemen, as mayputtjieir horses in his charge. Boarding and Lodg ing may be had by applying as above. Feb. 25. £.3000 2000 is°o 2000 3000 2500 2400 1800 31800 £■.3000 1000 500 200 100 5° , 2°
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