be the two largest in the world ; but that at Bo
loana is the moll lingular, except the icenery,
there is not a bit of wood in the whole building,
and the scenery indeed cannot properly be called
a part of the building. Almolt all the foreign
Theatres are uifulated. Surely tliey ought to be
so in such a metropolis as this ; where fires are
fo'frequent, and so fatal, the doors should open
outward, and the avenues be wide and straight.
In the road through the intricate paflages of one
of our modern Theatres, a country gentleman
lately enquired, Where wire the Finger Pojh ?
The politicians of Vienna and Peterfburgh
ronfider the capture of Conftaiuinople as almolt
certain, if properly attempted ; and dread the
corruption of Prince Potemkin much more than
the resistance of the Turks.
The degradation of the Grand Vizir, and the
confifcation of his effects, has been for some time
determined on in the Divan. The appointment
of a fucceflor alone delays the execution of this
resolve.
It does not appear that a Grand Seignior ever
takes warning from the fate of so many of his
predecessors, who have been either stabbed or
strangled. Sunk in the voluptuousness of a Se
raglio, how should he fufped: that the adminis
tration of his dominions is detestable, that his re
moter domains are difaffetSed, that his armies are
ill disciplined, or his Vizir faiihlefs ? the fortune
of the present Sovereign of Cotiltantinople will,
in all probability, terminate in some miserable
catastrophe
A military government, like that of the Turks,
tends to despotism, and in every despotic govern
ment the military dispose, sooner or later, of the
sovereign authority. The use which a despotic
Prince makes of his military against his fubje&s,
teaches that description of men what they can do
against their Prince.
BON MOT.
Lord Bute, who does know something of a
horse tho very little of a pidture, gave 200 gui
neas the other day tor a sea piece, which was ex
ecrably done ; for while the lhips appeared ro be
in motion, the sea was as smooth as glass. The
purchaser, desirous of taking Lord Scarsdale's
judgment of his bargain, Ihewed it to him, and
alking his opinion " why," fays my Lord, " -wav
ing the sea the painting would not be unnatu
ral."
BOSTON, May 4
It is astonishing what ideas some people have
of the Father of Mercies—The Empress of Rus
sia, has ordered all her fubjecfls to offer up
prayers to the Almighty for his goodness in grant
iu h«r aims so complete a vicftory, as the one
lately had at lfinail ! aud permitting her troops
to massacre 14,000 or 15,000 Turks ! ! !
The son of Mr. Seth Blake, of Dorchester, on
Saturday week, fell into the river, at Milton,
and was taken up for dead. A gentleman of
the faculty was called in, and after using the
means prescribed for resuscitating drowned per
sons, for three hours, he was again restored to
his joyful parents.
From the circumstance of the liigheft prize in
the semi-annual lottery being not yet claimed, it
is supposed to belong to some person at a distance.
One of the 3000 dollar prizes was drawn by a
deserving citizen of Philadelphia—One of the
1000 dollar prizes was fold in Carolina, and a
2000 in Newport.
It is supposed that the adventurers of the town
of Boston, loft 2 j,OOO dollars in the late lottery ;
besides wear and tear of conscience.
On Monday arrived here, his Britannic Ma
jesty's ship Alligator, of 28 guns, Isaac Coffin,
Esquire, commander from Halifax. On palling
the Castle, the Alligator saluted the flag of the
United States with 13 guns, which were imme
diately returned from that fortrefs. This mu
tual attention in powers who were but lately hos
tile to each other, shews the superior liberality
of the age we live in—and proclaims to the world
the verification of that memorable instrument
the Declaration of independence, in which our
political Fathers declared that they " fliould
hold the King and Subjects of Great-Britain, as
they did the reft of the world, Enemies in war ;
in pcace Friends."
BALTIMORE, May 10
The Bengal Journal, of the 4th of September
Jaft, furnilhes the following article of intelli
gence :—
" The commotions which had risen to a very
violent height at Mauritius, are said to have fi
nally subsided through the wife and timely in
terposition of fonie of the peacefully-difpofed of
the popular party —the rage which was firlt exci
ted against M. Con way and M. Macnamara, had
nearly ended in blood-lhed ; temporizing mea
sures pursued, had nearly revived the holtile
party from a spirit which they were said to have
felt at the despotic principles and machiaviliau
liodtrines broached by some of the parties du
ring the correfpondencc—the popular rage had
nearly vented itfelf on M. Macnamara, whom
they had led in rather an humble manner to the
House of Afl'embly—ths voluntary and manly
entrance of M. Conway, an avovvjl of himfelf,
alone being responsible for whatever atfts had
been done, quieted the minds of :he Aflembly,
and enmity was in an instant foigotten in the
magnanimity of the Governor's conduct—the
Aflembly continued fitting, and their intention
was to pass resolutions confirmingthe patriotic
measures adopted at Pondicherry,and followed
ac Chandernagore."
The fame paper, dated Oiftobei 4, mentions,
that " the ftorni which had so lojg collected at
the Isle of France, had well nigh built on the
head of the magnanimous Geneal Conway—
his only refuge was at length in flight—and, in a
disguise, lie effected his escape, by getting 011
board a finall merchantman then lying in the
harbour, which immediately failed, and arrived
at I ranquebar, 011 the beginning of la:t month,
w here his Excellency now is, and iuter.ds to re
main till some future opportunity ofFerj of con
veying him to any other country but France."
Extratt oj a litter,
don, oj a late dat;.
" may be agreeable information 10 Johi
Churchman, and may favehimfome trouble ant
expense, to know that it is in agitation here, tc
fend out two (hips, on discovery, in Baffin's or
Hudson's Bay, as there appears 'from !ate ac
counts, to be some probability of the exigence of
a north-weft paflage. Their obfervaticns will,
probably, be made with instruments superior to
any that John Churchman will procure in Ame
rica ; and as they will, no doubt, be published
with gre-at aocuracy in a few years, he will be
likely to colled: from them the fa&s which he is
so anxious to fail to Baffin's Bay to obtain."
Extratt of a letter from Capt. Jams Frazier, of
the Schooner Eliza, of this port, lated at Port
au-Prince, April 11, 1791.
" About one o'clock, on the nwrning of the
Bth inft. on my paflage from this Place, in my
boat, down to the Leoganne, witl two of my
people and a paflenger, Mr. William Judah, late
of Baltimore, in gibing the boat, ftie suddenly
overset and funk, with my trunl, which con
tained, amongst other articles, 10445 dollars.—
Myfelf and people, in a dark and dreary night,
after struggling a considerable time, in a rough
sea and ltrong wind, happily, yet beyond ex
pectation, swam to the shore, distant, as I sup
pose, about three miles, in aweakand diftrefl'ed
condition ; bur, I ain sorry {o add, that the un
fortunate Mr. Judah was drowned."
A S O N N E T,
Tranjlutcd front the original Iri/k.
IT was on the white hawthorn, on the brow of the valley, I saw
the ring of day firft break.
The foft, the young, the gay, delightful morning, kiflfed the
crimson off the rose, mixed it with their smiles, and laughed the
season on us.
Rife, my Evelina, foul that informs my heart ; do thou smile
too, more lovely than the morning in her blulhes, move modest
than the rifled 1 illy, when weeping in her dews. Pride of the
western lhore, the sky's blue face, when eleared by dancing fuu
beams, looks not ferener than thy countenance The richness of
the wild honey is on thy lip, and thy breath ex'iales sweet like the
apple trees in bloom.
Black arc thy loeks, my Evelina, and poliftied as the raven's
smooth pinions. The swan's silver plumage m not fairer than thy
neck, and the witch of love heaves all her encUmments from thy
bosom. Rife, my Evelina, the sprightly beamof the fun descends
to kiss thee, and the heath reserves its bloom togreet thee with its
odour.
Thy lover will pick the strawberries from the lofty cragg, and
rob the hazel of its yellow nuts. My berries fiall be red as thy
lips, and my nuts ripe and milky as the love-bejotten fluid in the
bridal bosom.
Queen of the chearful smile, (hall I not meet thee in the moss
grown cave, and contemplate thy beauties in the wood of Mifco
ther ? How long wilt thou leave me, Evelina, mournful as the lone
son of the rock, telling thy beauties to the pafling galr, and pour
ing out thy complaints to the grey stone in the valley ?
And didst thou bend to hear my song, O virgin daughter of a
meek-ey'd mother!
Thoucomeft, Eveliua,like fummerto the children of froft, and
welcome are thy steps to my view as the harbinger of light to the
eye of darkness.
EXTRACT.
THE lower class of mankind are generally in
jured by being deprived of the means of educa
tion, and then insulted for not being intelligent
and orderly. But it is time to correct our ideas
concerning government. Good government is
not bed supported by ignorant people. In Eu
rope the maxim has been to corrupt the enlight
ened few, in order to enslave the ignorant many;
but were the mass of the people enlightened, it
would be impoflible to corrupt them, they would
then be what the Englilh nobility are said now
to be, and what the enlightened of these States
really are, the guardians of their respective State
constitutions. A State which has 30,000 inha
bitants, and among thofeinhabitants but one per
son fit fora judge in a court of subordinate juris
diction, as has been said of the itate of Delphos
in the Peuinfula of Cambria.—ls such a itate pro
perly a republic ?—ln a republican government
we are told the supreme power derives from the
people.—But what fort of power will that be,
which flows from an ignorant people. The facft
is, the power does not flow from such ignorant
people, the enlightened and wealthy few alone
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written by a gentleman in Lon-
pofiefs the power, as is evident from the history
of Delphos, where it is said, that at an election,
the niafs of people, are so ignorant, that they ne
ver consider who is a proper person to make or
abrogate laws, but uniformly, vote for the rich
elt man in the diitriift to represent them, and they
are represented accordingly.
Philadelphia, May 14.
Among the innumerable discoveries of moderir
times, there is none more surprising than this,
that the business of legillation, which in all ages
has been arduous and infinitely perplexing, is
now found to be one of the easiest and fimplelt
things in nature; and this simplicity and perspi
cuity is applicable to all inferior objeifls of dif-i
cipline and government —not only good citizens,
but Patriots. Lawyers, and Divines may now bei
formed without a tedious procefsof orders, rules,
and gradations. )
According to some recent calculations the mil
lennium is to commence the last year of thepre
fent century.
For then, O then the time will come,
Whco contradiction (hall be dumb.
And all that pleas'd mankind before,
Shall never, never please them more.
E'en fceptici now believe it true,
" That all old things, are growing new !"
As, by the Conititution of our natures, men
are formed to think differently—we (hould che
rifti the molt unlimited spirit of liberality to
wards each other—an intolerant temper of mind
is the basis of all the tyranny that ever existed.
Whenever an universality of the fame senti
ments and opinions is contemplated, the free
agency of man is loft fight of; and the reverie
has reference to fou>e species of being totally
diftin(fl from man.
There are some circumstances which attended
the commencement of the late Fire, that excite
strong suspicions of its originating in design.—
Mr. 1. Israel, one of the principal AifFerers, has
offered a reward of One hundred dollars for a
convi&ion of the perpetrator, or for such infor
mation as may lead to a conviction.
By the New-York papers we learn that several
persons have been prosecuted and severely fined
for having opened, set on foot and carried on pri
vate Lotteries—one person was lined five hundred
pounds, another ninety-tour—and both commit
ted to jail till the fines are paid.
This Spring has proved very favorable to the
Shad and Herring Fisheries of the United States.
Different accounts from the Northward concur
in proving this fact. In the Patowmac uncom
mon numbers have been taken—Shad have been
fold there at 6f6 per hundred, and Herring pro
portionably low.
Gulian Verplanck, Esq. is ele&ed Prefxdent of the Bank
of New-York. Hon. Isaac Roofevclt declining to serve any
longer.
On Friday the 6th mft. was executed at Newark, N.J. pur-I
fuant to his sentence, William Jones, for the murder of Samuel |
Shotwell—Jones confeffed the deed. /
The Secretary of State furnifhed the copy of Mr. Paine's Pam
phlet, from which the second edition was published in this city.
In a note to the printer, the Secretary observes
" I am extremely pleased to find it will be re-printed here, and
that something is at length to be publicly said againil the politi
cal heresies which have sprung up among us.
" I have no doubt our citizens will rally a second time rouad
theJlandard oi Common Sense."
Sacred to the memory of thi late
JUDGE HOPKINSON.
GRIEF ! from our presence vanish ! cease to rend,
Those hearts, which gentler pafTions should befriend.
I fee thy pallid cheek fuffus'd with tears ;
Thy agonizing groans assail my ears.
Yes, he is gone—and Genius has confefs'd,
O death ! thy empire o'er the human breast.
Yet, whilfl on earth efteem'd, belov'd, admir'd,
The Sage to everlasting bliss afpir'd ;
And views, whilst Heav'n with drains of rapture rings,
The Judge of Judges, and the King of Kin^s.
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a Printing-Office.—Applications, it is requejled y may
be made to the Editor of the Gazette of the United
States, who will rtply to all requisite enquiries.
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