rf the feelings themfclves be not blunted. How Far this progress of science, and the peaceful arts of life, by the accumulation of ages, may pro ceed, it is impoflible to determine. But the time it is to be hoped, is not very remote, when the fiercer contentions ef nations will cease, when felfifhnefs and venality, which at present seem to be inseparable from commercial dates, will give way to generolity of temper, and upright uefs of conduct. ALBANY, Nov. 4, The legislature of Vermont have resolved to pay totheitateof New-York,thirt* thousand dollars, agreeable totrhe ift proposition con tained in the declaration of the cotniuiflioners of this state, appointed to dectfre thecoufeat of the legislature thereof. The legislature havfc also refblved, that a con vention be called for taking into consideration the conftiturion of the United States—the mem bers to be elected in DebemWr,and the convention to meet the firft week in January. The legisla ture have atfjourned, to uieet again on the firft Thursday in January ; for the purpose (we sup pose) of chooling senators, and affixing the time and manner of electing representatives to Con ■grefs. SALEM, Nov. 2 Tickets in the Marblehead Lotiery lately met with a rapid sale: Three Thousand •were fold in Boston in the course of lalt week— This does not indicate a scarcity of calh. tiEORGE-T OWN, Nov. 10 We hear that'tlie President of the United States, lias ordered three plats on different parts of the Fato-wmack, to be laid out—Nothing certain ref pe fifty-one—viz.— Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committor, that so much of the ast of Congrrfs entitled " An ast making provision for the debt of the United States," as aflumes the payment of the State debts, is repugnant to the constitution of the United States, as it goes to the excrcile of a power not cx pre'fsly granted to the general government. The State of Vermont has passed an Ast for calling a Conven tion, to deliberate upon, and agree to, the Conftitntion of the United States. The members are to be chosen the fiift Tuesday «f Drcembtr ; and the Convention is to meet on the firil Thursday of January next, at Bennington. Monday last the Honorable Henry Knox, Esq. Secretary at War, and his Lady, arrived in town from New-York. The Hon. John Buown, Esq. is re-elected member of the House of Ijleprefentatives of the United States for the Kentucky ditlrift, Virginia. ' According to the latest advices from England ; all is going wrong in France :—this may be the ease, but we have so often been amused by fictiti ous accounts from the Englilh papers, that pru dence will certainly suspend a full credence to the present—but the delays in compleating the revolution may lead us to fear, that the sentiment of the.immortal Shakespeare has not been du ly attended to by the National Afl'embly—viz: There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which taken at the flood leads on tofoitime V Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is boimd in (hallows, and in miseries. On such a full fca th' AlTembly were afloat : And had they took the current when it ferv'd, liberties had been fccui'd forever. The late Rcfolution of the AlTt mbly of Virginia, on the fund ing law, is a fubjeft of speculation to every man who feels inter ested in the tranquility of the general government, and that of the United States. This bufincfs wears at least an enigmatical com plexion ; for while the gentlemen who form the delegation to Congress from that State, have their condutt in voting lor the funding fyftein inipliedly approved of» by their constituents, in being re-clefted, a majority of their Jlate representatives appear in opposition to the law. 4< 9 Tis time to fhsathetbe f word and stare mankind From whence come wars and fightings (fays the inspired penman)— Come they not hcnce, even of your lulls? Of all the sources of di&ord and bloodshed in the family of mankind, without doubt the wqft produ his will, and then, 1 trust, it will be for the belt good of his and my people." The pliilofophers of Europe have long been in the habit of cotilidering the Americans as an infe rior order of beings. Even the philosophical Raynal has exprefled such an idea. The nume rous improvements in mechanics, agriculture, philosophy and politics, which have been made by Americans, are fufficient to refute this positi on. Every day produces some improvement in agriculture and the ul'eful arts. Let it be remem bered, that the great promoter of ele&rical knowledge was an American. America has lhewn the world the firft instance of a perfeCl govern ment, in which perfect liberty and energy are combined. Even in the fine arts she has proved the talents of her sons. Some of the firft paint ers in Europe are natives of this land. Trum bull has brought the genius of painting inter his own country. Barlow and" Dwiglit have shewn that we are capable of aspiring to excellence in the higher poetry, whilst the author of M'Kingal boldly rivals even the immortal Butler in lh# c9mic style. These are mentioned only as ex amples. Many other* have (hewn great abilities. B®f«eir merits are well known, not only to tHeir countrymen, but also foreigners. (Gen. Advertiser.) WILLIAM HARD MAN the Smith had three sons, Tom Ned, and George. George who wasth® youngeft,h« put apprentice toataylor ■> the two el der were otlierwfe provided for : He had by some means the opportunity of fending them to fchoo! upon a foundation, and afterwards to the .University. Will thought that this opportunity |to give his boys good learning, was not to be mif fed : " Learning,' 1 he said, " wasa portion which she D-v-1 could not wrong, them of ; and when had done what he " ought for them, they mull do for themselves." As he had not the fame power to proenre them liv ings, when they had fiuifhed their studies, they came tO'Eondon. They were both scholars ; but Tom was a genius, and Ned was, a dunce ; Ned became uflier in a school at the yearly salary of twenty ponnds and Tom soon diftinguiflied liim felfasan author : He wrote many pieces oflgreat excellence ; but his reward was sometimes with held by caprice, and sometimes intercepted by envy. He pafled his time in penury and labour j and his mind was abftra