as it may be carried on with vigor and facility without calling a single man from the plough or loom. Our nioft experienced statesmen, our wi sest patriots, our most enlightened senators, are convinced of this melancholy truth : The French Revolution is therefore generally execrated— and has only ..received the contemptible plaudits of an obscure society, composed of atheistical dif fenters, republican deilks, and levelling free thinkers, who impatiently long for the deftruc tionof our civil and ecclesiastical eftabliflnnent. 1 he celebrated Mr. Neckerhas sagaciously ob served, that it daily became more requisite than ever, to inculcate the general dklatesof religion on the minds of the people, as the only effeiftnal consolation to support them under the weight of oppretfive, unequal, and impoverishing taxation. But the necellity ol'enforcing this pious dodlrine is unhappily done away, as a redress of grievan ces, and a rellorstion of rights have already taken place—and it is a melancholy truth, that rever iionary felicity makes but a flight impression on those who have a profpeift of enjoying the' Co mforts of this life. ihe celestial fpecific so ear. neftly recommended by Mr. Necker derives its vital efficacy from theexertionsof arbitrary pow er, which compels us to purchase eternal joy'by a few years misery in this transitory ftateof pro bation. Ihe prielthood, influenced bythisfacred motive, have ever been the zealous advocates of defpotifin, except when their own privileges and immunities are endangered—as in such a predic ament, they are precluded from exercising their own judgment, and only ast astrultees and dele gates for the rights ofheaven. The late emporer, Joseph theCreat, who afton iflied the world by thefublimity of his genius and the grandeur of his actions, not adverting to this political axiom, seems to have committed a fatal error, in not conciliating the affe.)«« experien ced eve., -ttemiein, ajid w<:iyKii;c.ti. :s ;to&m a t companions, to whom I feel myfelf Sound with the strongest co, Js of love and eftcem. "n taking leave of ihii pcaceable, happy focietyj I beg thev would believe me truly grateful for their many pledges of affec tion ; and fully sensible of the advantages I have enjpved, in hav ing my youth fofmed by such examples ol domestic economy purity of morals, and reverence tor leligion. In taking leave of you, my lovely and dear companions, I am fupportcd by the plcafing reflexion, that the hill of Icience you are now afccnding, presents profpefh the most hap D ily calculated to alleviate a reparation from ypur relations and homes ; and that the road is plarfted with every flower, which, perhaps, it is oof fible for academic ground tu nurse. t speak from experience having preceded you ia these rural scenes and fcientific walks! Could I give form to fancy, or embody thought, each of you would be delighiri with the piilure my three year's study here lias impressed on my mind. My lovely companions I If life be the bounty of heaven, to en joy it rationally, is certainly the firft happiness of humanity - to observe it with a virtuous delicacy, the peculiar felicity of our feeble, dependant sex. 1 We are ,iot here managed to ride the ■whirlwind of th'oughtlefs dillipation. But in (hefe calm re treats we arc taught lefTont which dignify the character of our sex—entitle us to refpeft i«j society—and, if duly attended to, will have a happy influence in rende-mg us accomplished and aereea ble companions. Separated we soon (hall be, by returning to our several heroes ■ yet, by indulging a retrofpea of the fcie»ces we have here Itudil cd together—of the plcafure we have experienced in the company of each other; and the friend ships we have here contracted and cemented—(hall we not daily meet in this afytum of peace and innocence? Wherever accident or circumllances may place us I doubt not, but it will be our daily petition, that the perfons'of thofc whose time has been so sacredly devoted for our benefit may forever be encircled with the rays of a divine btnedi&ion and, that into a fnurcc whence we have derived so many advantal ges, a tide ol peace, success ?nd happirtefs, may forever roll. 1 Amiable and beloved TutorrfTes I With what language (hall I attempt to defcrihe the gratitude, with which my riling bosom glows (oi all your tcndtincfs and .ill your care ? Weie lan ora tor, and able.to ascend the highest ladder ol eloquence, I should there need an Adam to give namrs to fenfattons which no lan guage cau'now express.— If I have not improved, it cannot be charged to your neglect.—Should your p.iruality tor mc, fuppofc nie Dordermg on nnaccomphlhment, it is but a (mall return so' your unremitted ottentions. It is not necessary I (hould bringthefe, my lovely companions, in the arms ot the love and friendlhip I feel for them, and present them to your care—they are already infolded in the bosom of tour tendered affections. Could the personal virtues of leachets enlure them luccefs, there would not be one in this lovely circle but would answer the expeditions, and even the mod sanguine wishes, of those who haveTrnt them here t'of an education. These are not compliments lavished by vanity ; but truths• extorted by the jultice due your chara&ers as teachers. ' endcr mi "d to virtue, to science and ufefulnefs, be of the firft conlcquence m society, what praise is due him, who, With such impartiality, abilities and attention, prefidcs in this large, and increasing Academy ? Partijl as I am, Rev. Sir, to this mode ol education : warm as my bosom glows with refpeft and gratitude for your paternal and unhealing care for my improvements, I have not' risen to dtf.>iift you wit.i a catalogue of commendations, of which, few of votir cq uainta nee—none ot this society, can be ignorant. That refoeft mi have taught me to entertain, for the , na |) virtuous and d-lerv ing, 1 feel for you.—The ufeful and moral precepts I have so of ten received from you, I will endeavor to carry with me into the woild, and hope I may be able to improve lipori them as I ad vance in life. Whilst the finger of fcicnce, so evidently points to this innocent sublime retreat for the education of our sex, may no demon of discord be permitted to efiter these peaceful groves. May the roots of this tree of knowledge of good only, you are di recting our feeble sex to approach, be forever supported and en riched by the unshaken foil of virtue* and its branches continually encircled by the rainbow 6f refined and ufeful science. io the late Director of this infant Academy, and h's amiable lady, a tribute is due which I will not fully by attempting to de scribe. —Their places being so agreeably, and refpe&ably filled, coes not leflen our love and elleem for them, or with us, eclrpfe a ray of the purity with which their chara&ers forever shone. Had n»t an important demand in the church called them to a more ele vated situation, pleasing would it have been to this Academy could they have continued a charge,for which nature and education had o happily formed them. The winds, on whose wings our fobs w ere wafted to Letitz, and the Lehigh with whose waters our tears were mingled, can witnefsto the grief and relu&ance with which we bade them the last adieu. Their friendly images arc too deep ly engraved upon the tablet of our hearts for time to erase.—May the gentle breath of peace foreverattend them ! I have now amved at the mod diftrefling scene, circumstances have ever forced me to endure. —: -* Ihe curtain of Reparation is now drawing .. .... ..i. ~ I nuvft bid you a long perhaps some of you it will be an eternal adieu.- May our feparattng not break or weak- but extend and ftrengtben the cords of love and friendfhip with which we have hefebcAi bound. Toyouvown breasts, my belcfrved ami dear friend#* I AppcwnW * «i*fcription of the fen farions with which my bolom is now agitated. With the sincerity of a friend the duty of a child and love of a filler I bid you kll a final adieu! OTHAT no Virgin woQldincline an ear To wild profeilions from incenftant youth, But nobly fcoin a sentiment to hear, That fcems to laugh at innocence and truth. For if no just difplcafure fiie reveals, Time will convince her dearly to her cost, That step by step the sweet delusion steals, Till fame and honor are forever loft. The female mind may bid its terrors cease, Who never made her fofter feelings known, Nor fear a thought deftruftive to her peace, While prudence tells her to conceal her own. But if, alas ! In some unguarded hour, Erom this advice (he madly lhould depart, She gives her lover an unbounded pow'r To wound her honor and to break her heart. In vain the fair to such a crifis,drove, Iri sense or foul superior will confide ; For when hasreafon triumph'd over love, Or inclination been fubdu'd by piide? LAW OF THE UNITED STATJES, _ ' CONGRESS OF T'lE UNITED STATES : a je ,j AT TKI " C °^ B tituo*. Begun andheld at the Citv :^. Yo , k> on Mon() th , f • J anu "y. one th Qu fr a d frven hundred and ninety. Al^ r . a^. tO . enable the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia line on Continental Eft ibliihment, to obtain titles to certain lands, lyin ? northwest ot the river Ohio, between the little ;''iami and Sciota, ?" a ", anJ H *'f< *f X'prtfcnUtiw of the Uni £ef. of she -vItTT 'f ,7* r/ ' alcmHed ' That ,hc °< Co "- v n , JU ' ! ' ° ae thousand fcvcn hundred and gh'y-«„ht, relative to certain locations and surveys made by or on account of the Virginia troop. „n continental eftablifhmenf'tiD the Oh.o K h ," leMid < n ' "> a rivers, north weft of the Oluo, be, and tjie fame , s hereby repealed. And whereas the agents for fuck of the troops of l. c ft ai , 0 f Virgima who served on the continental eflablifhr-.. -, m of the United State-, during the late war, h>- re;-' ' ecutive of the said state, that there is not a fufficu 1, 'I on the southeasterly fide of the , iv, r- Ohio, according to the ad of teflion from the said state to the U . Jv. , . a „j g ?, 7,°' mmalßgned by the laws of the L d to 'rf ■' , " for the bounty lands due to then,, i, .ftofcSS' l£ P$ to the intent therefore,that theduV»,„ce betw«l Lt ,\ ,wj : been located for the said troops, •„ t(»c Omh-eafterly fide o'f'the said river, and the aggregate of what it duetothe while of the said troops, may be located on the nc ith-w, fterly fide ofihe said r„r, ana between the Sc.ota and l.tt.e Miam, rivA-. a, Be itfurther emitted. That the „r , of war, lhali make return to the e ' Ton so originally entitled to bUty lands' toTis aft?''and^the 562 ufeof heirs or assigns, or his or their legal re[Srclentative Or res,,* fentativcs, his her or their heirs or alliens the land's defoliated the said entiies : Providedalwayf, that beforethe fealof the Uni ted States (hall be affixed to fueh letters patem, the secretary of t (,J department of war (hall have endorsed thereon thit the gran tce therein named, was originally entitled to such bounty lands, and that he has examined the bounds thereof with the bocik of entries filed in the office of the secretary of state, and finds the fame tiul» inferred ; anti every such letters patent lhall be counterfigntd hi the secretary offtate, and a minute of the date thereof, and ul thj name of the grantees (hall be entered of record in his office, ml book to be*fpe;ially provided for the pu'rpofe. ' And be itfurther enaded, That it shall be the duty of rhe fecretjj ryof state as soon as maybe after the letters patent (hall be (o completed and entered of record, to transmit the faint to ihetxe. cutiveof the State ofV'rginia.tobe by them delivered toeach ran. tee; or in cafeof his death, or that right of the grantee (hall have been legally transferred before such delivery, then to hislegalre prefentative or representatives, or to one of them. And be it further emlled, That no fees (hall be charged for f uc b letters patent ari4 record, to the grantees, their heirs 01 affi-ns or to his or tlicir legal reprefeiuative or representatives. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG Speaker t>fthe House of Reprehtative< JOHN ADAMS, yice-Prefidtnt of the United States, and President tsj the Senate'. Approved, Aucust iiu tenth, 1700 GEORGE WASHINGTON, Prejident of the Umld Statu. (Txue Copt) THOMAS JEFFERSON, Secretary „JState STOCKBRIDGE, AUGUST 10. \V e have the pleasure to inform the public that by an ettimate submitted to the National Legis lature, the produce of the duties of import and tonnage, without calculating on the improving resources of this country, will annually amount to 2,622,570 dollars—and thatthe whole Aim ne cellary for the support of government, and the payment of the incereft of the domestic debt, in dependent of that aflumed of the State debts amounts only to i,660,861 dollars and 40 cents' leaving a ballance to be provided for, of 37,201 dollars and 4° cents. The annual provifjon for the aflumed debts will amount to about 7J8.332 dollars ; l'o that there will remain to be provided tor 111 the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, 795.623 dollars. The excise yet re mains untouched, and is beyond all doubt capa ble of producing a sum greatly beyond what is required, and may provide a very handsome fink ing fund From this ltate of fad:s, we with pleasure congratulate our countrymen on the happy profpeft of the re-eftadlifhuient of public credit, without the neceflity ofimpoling that most grievous of all burdens, and the molt deftrutfive of the agricultural interelt—dtreCl taxes. TILE fABLET. ■■ -No *39- . " ' t th-, jI. ah'e h viitb imp trait?. F 1 ' nai ? has acemtn pofttion firom which JL- he wiffies his character may be viewed.— J here perhaps is no one To n'otorioufly vile, as not to flatter himfelf that his good qualities are more than a balance for his bad. This kind of leli deceit is one of the principal checks against a p.-oor- iave improvement in virtuous habits.— . uc.lt virtues, as can most conveniently be prarti fed, or as best accord with our peculiar turn of mind, are deemed so eminently praiseworthy as to afford an apology for omitting to prattife others lets convenient and agreeable to ourselves. xaj isjt happens that every profeffion of men have charadleriftic virtueand vice*, and far this realon the opinions and the condudl of a philo lopher are not predicated on any model ed lrom mere profeffional people. There is a right and a wrongjnherent in the nature ofevery | a.tion ; and there is a species of artificial right and wrong wh.ch takes it character from a view, that is merely local or profeffional. As mankind can only be held together and carry on tbaope tations of society by forming small aflociations oi communities, andastbefemuftalj liavediftima maxims and regulation, Anted to their particular fituatiort it most be expecfted the bulk of mar kind will be governed i„ their cond. : c by a very narrow v »ew °f circumftancM. The different in ftitutimts that have been formed in thtf world have generally adopted their principles oa too contracted a scale. For when only teiuJrary advantages are proposed, or local objects regard^ T, - D . t h? t Wi,h a cban«eof.'ht:ation, . . •'' ~ r' e ,f ""'I be annihilated. The and the i?,n «° Ver " mei ». the overturn'of States, and fvf>. " T erab J C Cha "g es in religion fe«9 nnr h' " ""v. U n ver y much owing to their mumblt C - D , nilt ° nlhofb im mutable principles, whose force could of* in different situations of society. I r p l eri rf f ivc ba , fls bu vvhich raoft institutions e erected not only renders the term of their T™™ Pt-ecarious, but subjects their votaries n " a '" local f celings and habits, not confon kinrftbe Sr eral sense an< l happiness of man ' . ,0 e P eo ple who are strongly attached arr ,L? f m °!? es of government or religion, aie apt to suppose that their affections/hould flow" e l u f ,, y circumscribed as the parties 1 110 t - hey adhere. By this means, if they are ' ous and honed to their peculiar sects, they eem to imagine they acquire a right to indulge exe '. ci e .the nnfocial passions in their in tercourse with the world at large. 1 * •»£./