HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 16
Yesterday Mr. Burke, attended by Mr. Pitt,
Jklr. Fox, and a great number of Members, pre
sented at the bar the following mellage.
" My Lords,
" I am ordered by the Commons to acquaint
vonr Lordfliips, that the House of Commons is
ready to proceed upon the impeachment of War
ren Mailings, Esq. late Governer General of
Bengal, now depending before your Lordfliips,
whenever your Lordfliips will appoint a conve
nient day for hearing of the fame."
Lord Grenville some (iiort time after rose, and
having observed, the very great importance of
the meflage which had been brought from the
commons, atul which in his opinion required
their Lordfliips moll serious consideration : 111
order that the House might profit by the experi
ence and wisdom of their ancestors, Lord Gren
ville moved,
" That a committee be appointed to fearcli for
Precedents relative to the Hate of the Impeach
ment of Warren Haltings, Esq. brought up by
the Commons, and proceeded upon in the ]ast
Seflion of Parliament, and to report their opin
ion to the House."
The fame was, upon the question put, agreed
to, several Lords present were named, and all
the Lords who have been present this Session
were ordered to be upon the said Committee.
There was a wicked time, in the history of
this country, when a inan might lose his heart
in the crofting of a street. The good-natured dif
fidence of the preferit day relieves him from that
danger, unless he can fix his eyes to a pair of
legs, or fall in love with a curtain. As to eyes,
teeth, and other ingredients of beauty, he has no
more to apprehend from them, than if we were
a nation of Spaniards ; anditisfaid, " what the
eye don't fee, the heart will seldom feel."
The mode of attack, both in war and in love
is fubjetft to alterations and improvements. The
ladies who formerly conquered by the eyes, now
hide them behind a curtain, and present their
irrefiftable beauty of short petticoats and neat an
cles. This tranlition from one extreme to ano
ther, we cannot approve—Medio tutiffimus !
The damages occasioned by the fire at the Al
bion mills are estimated at 200,0001. independ
ently of any delay in business, &c. The infu
rancesmade at the several offices are dated as not
exceeding half that amount !
FRANKFORT, Feb. i>-
A few of the Turkifti provinces in the poflef
fion oftheßulfian troops, will furnifli them with
the means of adding conquest to conquest, till the
Empress, like a female Colofl'us, letting one foot
on Asia, and the other in Europe, and grasping
the isles in her hand, will aflame the daring pre
rogative of giving law to the world.
These things ought not to be.
NEW-LONDON, April i.
Extraß of a letter from a foreign corrsfpondent, to
the Editors of this paper, dated Jan. 21, 1791.
[Concluded from our lalt.]
" The good crops in the United States, and
in Europe, will make provisions so cheap, that
many of your farmers, I prefunie, will feel the
neceflity of cultivating a greater quantity of flax
and hemp this year. Providence seems to call
■upon you, with a loud voice, to encourage and
promote manufactures. And perhaps this voice
will be even louder a few years hence than it is
at present. The political revolution in France
will probably bring on a revolution in the agri
tulture of that country. The dnke of Orleans
has begun the English mode of farming, on one
of his own eflates, with English farmers. The
abolition of the Corvee, and of every other part
of the feudal system, will remove that load of
disgrace which has hung so heavily on the French
fanners, and will inspire them with new life
and vigor. They will plant a much greater
quantity of land, and improve their land like
the English, and probably supply themselves en
tirely with wheat ; except when their crops may
fail, as in England, through unfavorable seasons.
Where then will your planters find markets for
their wheat, unless they can find them at home,
111 your manufatfluring and trading towns ? I
wi(h to fee the farmer well rewarded for his in
dustry and ingenuity. Nothing will effect this
10 much as a great increase in the population,
confiding of these who are not employed 111 agri
culture. The manufadtut es of your own coun
try will require a great quantity of raw materi
als, iuch as wool, flax, hemp, silk, cotton, hops
and barley for breweries, hides and bark to tan
them ; iron, lead, copper, &c. Thus the farmer
will have opportunity to vary his crops, and to
ra 'ii thrive best 011 his foil, aud what
Wl << ra t ® le g reate st profit.
Manufactures more than double and treble
1 e v aJue of raw materials. Some of thein aug
f'lj' t '? e ' r va ' ue 20, some 50, and some an 100
" rt. So much do the goods you manufacture
8 to the wealth of your country. Moreover,
1 e wea hh will not only be great, but general,
without making many individuals too rich and
luxurious ; and therefore is the molt valuable
kind of wealth. Besides, they who carry on ma
nufactures run little or no l illv of being ruined,
except by their own imprudence. Whereas,
merchants mult venture much more, and some
of them may be ruined in spite of all their pru
dence and attention, while others are known to
acquire great wealth, and thereby promote lu
xury and dissipation, thebaneof morals, and the
ruin of empires.
I am pleased with the rapid increase of ma
nufactures in the United States, from moral as
well as political considerations , they afford relief
to a number of poor industrious people, who
ought not to fuffer for want, while they are wil
ling to work;—they train up children in the habit
of industry, and thereby Secure them from the
vices ot idleness ;—and they have a tendency
toi reclaim lome who have contracted an idle ha
bit, and yielded to the temptations of vice, and
will leave them without excuse if they continue
therein, or run to extremes. In this connection
1 may obfeive the folitaiy confinement of cri
minals, and the hard labour to which they are
kept, by the new method lately adopted, will at
once promote manufactures, and thereby make
them ufeful members of society while they are
confined, and bring them into the habit of in
dultry, and give them time lor serious reflection,
and at the fame time put it out of the pjwer of
all to corrupt, or be corrupted by one another."
ELIZABETH-TOWN, (M.) April 6
The PRESIDENT of the United States has been
pleased to appoint MOSES RAWLINGS, Esquire,
to command the battalion of levies to be railed
in this State.
BOSTON, April 6.
On Monday lafl agreeably to the Constitution, the citizens of
this Commonwealth, met in their respective towns, lor the choice
o [ Governor, Lieutenant-Governor, and Senators, for
the year ensuing. The votes in this town for Governor, were, for
His Excellency ]OHN HANCOCK, Esq. 543
The Hon. FRANCIS DANA, Esq. 81
Lieutenant-Governor.
His Honor SAMUEL ADAMS, Esq. 540
The Hon. THOMAS RUSSEI L, Esq. 57
The Hon. SAMUEL PHILLIPS, Esq. 26
We have received information tromfeveral towns; in all which
the present Chief and Second Magillrates have been unanimously
or generally voted for.
In Worcester county, the Hon. Mr. Grout, has many votes
for Senator.
Major Franki is appointed Infpeftor of the federal troops, to
be railed in the Eallern States.
From New-York, via Providence, April 2, 1791.
I am informed trom good authority, that late orders have arri
ved from Holland to the Agents in Philadelphia, and this city, to
purchase all the ttnek they can lay their hands on—and from fomr
manoeuvres amongst the Stockjobbers, I am convinced of the
truth of it; but I hope our countrymen will have wildom lutfi
cient to retufe felling the price of our country's indeoendence for
a song ; and thereby prevent our becoming in fact tributary to
foreigners.
almanack for the year 1791.
The following lines, comprifingtwelve words,
will prove out the day of the week of any day of
the nionrh of the year 1791, by observing that
the firll letter tells the day of the firft of each
month.
Sad Toilsome Troubles Follow Subjcfts Wrong,
Foul Murders Threat'ning Savage Tumults Throng.
FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES.
SONNET, V
" O AY, what is Life ?" the sons of sorrow cry—
O "Isit to breathe a lingering of woe
" In vegetative being here below ?
" To eat, to drink, to lleep, and then—to die ?"
u Is it in Pleasure's airy rounds to fly ?
" To laugh, to dance ?"—the fouls of Joy would know—
" To plunge in lewdnefs, and no care bestow
" On what may greatly fit us for the sky ?"
No.—Tis the Twilight of a heavenly Day,
Whose radiant glories opening on th Soul>
Shall raise, and bear it, from ufclf away,
Far o'er the bounds of this terrestrial pole,
Wak'd to new rapture by the living lay,
Where GOD informs the immeasurable whole.
ELLA
Philadelphia, April 20.
On the 13th inft. the President of the United States d:ned at an
elegant entertainment, prepaied by the citizens of Richmond,
Virginia. On the day of his arrival every mark of refpeft and at
tention was paid, and every demonstration ot public joy exhibited;
in the evening there was a general illumination —previous to which
the corporation prefentcd a refpe&fu) address, which was answer
ed in the usual It Ile of d'gnitv, condescension and benevolencf.
A letter from Fore St. Tammany, Georgia, fays
the treaty with the Creeks, although in fonie
particulars difagreeeble to the Georgians, has gi
ven a new couiitenance to the inhabitants in this
quarter and will tend greatly to facilitate the
iettlement of this charming river.
A writer in a late paper, imputes the loss of so
many ihips which founder at sea, to the modern
mode of conftruc'ting their sterns, which are low
hanging and llightly built—and recommends t he
Dutch method of building with pink sterns, which
will always feud before a turbulent sea with
fafety
The superior price that Yellow In pi an Corn
commands, is mentioned, as a hint to Farmers, to
give that kind the preference in planting the
present season.
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A late writer judicionfly observes, that he had
rather be guided in his opinions by one exper
ienced man of bufmefs, than by an hundred theo
ritts, who are veiled only in books.
A celebrated Law Profellbr in one of the States,
once laid, that it would be bell to raise all public
revenue entirely by a land tax, because all taxes
come ultimately out of the land. The old financiers
of all countries, who know mankind, would laugli
at such an opinion, tho advanced by an able law
character. Some of the bell argunienis in Con
gress, on the funding system, 011 excise, and the
bank, appear to be built on the fame sandy basis,
jallacious theory—otherwise it is impollible to ac
count for the refpecftable oppolition made to the
1110 ft necedary measures of government*
A gentleman in this city has drawn three thoufjnd dollars in the
Maifachule ts Scmi-Annual Lottery.
Died in this city, on Saturday morning last, Nicholas Eve
l ei gh, Esq. Comptroller of the Treasury of the United States.
Sunday last arrived here the ship Atlantic, Capt.
Swaine, from Liverpool ; this ihip had the ex
traordinary run of 2086 miles in ten running
days, and was only 22 days from Cape Clear, to
the Capes of the Delaware.
Accounts received by this vessel are to sth
March, and state, that on the Bth January the
people of Conltantinople were in such a ferment,
as to excite apprehensions of a revolt ; that the
republic of Venice is to furnilh the Porte with
three Ihips of war ; that the city of Geneva was
all in arms ; 6000 men alio in arms in the de
partment of Gard and Ardecht, in France, the re
port of which did not appear to alarm the Na
tional Aflenibly—that Monf. deNoailles is Presi
dent ; that affairs in the North wear a more pa
cific appearance, Catharine being more difpolecl
tor peace—and that great military preparations
are making in France.
We hear that a very interesting discovery has
lately been made at Naples. It is said that the
inoit violent hemorrhages are immediately flop
ped by the volatile fluor alkali. Repeated ex
periments made in the hospital of tha.t city have
had the compleatefl success. The moll Angular
is the last, which was made on a man who had
his leg cut off ; cotton dipt in volatile fluor al
kali was applied on the part cut, which imme
diately flopped the blood, and cicatrized the
wound.
The nabob of Arcot has filed a bill in the court
of Chancery agair.fl the East-India Company,
calling them to account for seizing his country
and plundering his revenues for 10 years past :
how many years does a suit in Chancery lequii e ?
The number of conviifts to be sent to Botany
Bay thisyear amounts to 1200 ; 2-Sths of which are
females ; a fruitful source of emigration ! But
what colonists ?
The hereditary general of the ports of the Em
pire and the Netherlands, has forbid all persona
employed in these pofts,to admit the circulation
of a number of the French Gazettes.
Leave has been given to the British House of
Commons to bring in a bill for dividing Canada
into two provinces, agreeable to the King's mes
sage.
The directors of the bank of England are ta
king spirited measures to prevent the minister
from taking pofl'eflion of the unclaimed dividends.
By the above arrival from Europe we learn,
that a peace is concluded between Austria and
the Porte—every thing to remain as before the
breaking out of the war in 1788. The Turks,
so far from being disheartened at the loss of lf
mael, are determined to prosecute the war againlfc
Ruifia, with vigor—the Sultan has accordingly
ordered an immediate augmentation of his army
by a reinforcement of 40000 men—and all the
Baflas or Governors of Provinces, are ordered to
enlilt every man from 1J to 60 years of age.
The Editor acknowledges with gratitude the favors he
has received from his poetical correspondents Ella and Bi rtha;
their produttions would do honor to any miscellany whatever.
The readers of the Gazette have doubtless been pleased, and the
pleasure will be heightened to surprise, when they are informed
tharELLA is but a youth of 17. The authors arc unknown t#
each other.
But, truth and genius boajl a fov'reign loot,
Which minds congenial to each other draw ;
While one bright objett, centers every aim—
Their mufe,on Virtue, builds a deathless fane.
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ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA
Brig Ann, Smith, Norfolk, 8 days.
Schooner Polly* Jacobs, Savannah,
Do. PoMy, Coffin, Halifax, 16,
Sloop Betsy, Brooks, New-York. 6.
Do. Harriot, Kerby, Charlelton, 12.
Ship Delaware, Art. Charleston, 9.
Do. Atlantic, Swaine, Liverpool, 22.
Sloop Polly, Valentine, N. Carolina, 12.
Do. Nancy, Stolett, Virginia. 6.
The (hip St. James, from New-York for Londonderry, is aihrre
Lo idoudcrry river. '
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