rightly fettled, more uniformity, fleaainefs and spirit may be expected in the execution. The advantage you propose is the advancement of your navigation interell—this would probably be obtained, if the measures should be well taken and faithfully pursued on your part, and at the fame tune quietly fvbmitted to by your Rivals. But your good fenl'e must forefee that measures of this kind, tho taken with foine moderation, may soon iflue in at: interdict of all dirett trade be tween you. Still you conceive the interest of the British nation would fufferfomuch as to com pel her to bend her commercial laws to what is really the common interest of the two countnes. But if your reliance is, that fnjferings will produce concejfionsy you ought to calculate before hand with some accuracy the force of this argument as applied to yourselves as well as to us. Admit ting however that after duly weighing all cou fiderations the prepondei ance is so much in your favor, as to bring success within the limits of probability, let me ask whether any thing short of moral certainty ought to tempt you, in the present polture of affairs, to risque so much jor the chance of gaining so little ? Belide, if the British at present have the advantage of carrying more of your produce than they ronfume, are you not amply compensated by the immense purchases they make of that produce? Do they not restore to you as buyers all, and much more than all, the wages they require as carriers ? and do not both countries find a very great (if not perfectly equal) advantage from their intercourse ? and ■would it be no shock to the great body of your Cultivators and producers suddenly to banish one halj of all the capital employed in purchasing their surplus pf-odutftions ? Perhaps these ques tions may be answered fatisfasftorily, and I shall be told " that our necellity to buy is greater than yours to fell—that most of your commodities are of the firft utility to various parts of the British dominions, and that you are the greatest and befl: customers for our manufactures." All this and much more may be alledged with truth; and believing it to be true, I maintain that with these advantages on your fide you may fafely re ly on a firm, but temperate and liberal policy, to gain greater conceflions ultimately than can be reasonably expected from any kind of violence. Thisfeems the more prudent, as your population and wealth are rapidly increasing, while the fre quent interruptions of wars and alarms keep ours stationary.—The fvvorddrawn against Spain was scarcely sheathed, when we were called to arm again by the affairs of Russia. There is a per petual fncceffion of events of this kind, everyone of which obliges us to make a new estimate of your power, and (however relucftant) to recognize its importance " But I have already paffetl the hounds I had jreienbed niyfeTrwfien I Began this letter, and ecolle(fting your remark " that long difcoiirfes are generally dull, and dull ones always long," I bid you adieu." FROM THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL. THE PROMPTER When a man's name is up, he may lie abed till noon. BUT the Prompter's name is not half up—he can therefore take a short nap only. Our good country folks who talk English, when they mean to fay a man's fame is spread abroad, or his reputation extensively established, fay, his nam: is up, or he has got his name up. How blefl'ed is the man who has got his name up. Every body knows how a certain aftrononier got his name up for a great Almanack-maker, by foretelling snow in the month of May. The truth was, in the copy of his Almanack, in the month of May, there happened to be a blank space —he call about for something to fill the blank fpace—fnoiu was the firft word that occurred—and snow was written in the blank. Heaven, not by accident, for Heaven has nothing to do with the capricious things called accidents—Heaven had determined there ftiould be snow that y«ar in May, and snow there was, though the Almanack tuaker had as little foreknowledge of this as his horse-block. No sooner did it snow, but all the •vyorld looked into the Almanack.—" La, (said ttie world) our almanack tells ot snow at this very time. This is a knowing man—he is a gen ius" What a lucky hit ! The man''s name -was ip—no Almanack so good as his—and while he intinued to make Almanacks, Sir Isaac Newton imfelfwould have ttarved upon Almanackmak ng, within the fame of this mighty conjurer, 'hose Almanacks, by one mere guess, had got his ame up and drove all competitors from the mar ket: When this was done, he might lie abed .11 uoon. A Jingle blunder before his name was p, would have damned his Almanacks—after wards, fifty errors only gave credit to the work, pr, fay the world, great, men may miltake, but iiis man's name is up. I have known a man get his name up by curing ne belly ache, (excuse me, Sadies, for the ladies n Philadelphia of the tip-top fnfhion call certain oils of sweet cake by a much less delicate name) with a powder of unknown composition.—All at once the Doiftoris sent for to cure the belly ache —Even the boys who eat green apples mult have the belly ache Doctor.—Skill, science, wisdom, prudence, are all prostrated before the Doiftor and his powder, if his patients die, no matter; his name is up, and he will still have business. It is a good thing to get one's name up—especi ally for curing fone disease that no body else can cure—one that is commonly fatal. The more terrifying the difetfe, the better—as the consump tion or cancers, for example. But the most de legable way for the faculty to get up their names, is, to adveitife as German doctors, topref cribe for all diseases by inlperting a sample of the water—liulh—but to receive bottles from all quarters. I once knew a (hopkeeper who got his name up as a cheap trader. And did indeed fell cheap —wondrous cheap—even below sirs} cofi. He be gan to trade with little capital—fold goods for less than he gave—and yet grew rich. How can this be ? The Prompter thinks it is very easy. That article which every body wants and knows the value of, fell very low ; even lower than firft cost —get your name up—draw all the world to your shop—and then put double profit on other goods. It is very easy and very common ; the greatest blockhead can do this and make a fortune. So when gets his name up he may re tail all manner of nonsense, and it will find a ready market in public opinion. A good Eflay appears in the newspaper—who wrote it ? Dr. Franklin, it isfaid, wroteit. Well, itis like him —it is a masterly produ<ftion. Some time after, the real author appears to bea young man, who, as the poet fays, is unknown to fame ; and as I fay, whose name i< not up—impoflible ! he cannot be the author. Who ever heard of him before ? 1 am sure Dr. F or Gov. L helped hiin— In fa (ft his na?ne is tint up. I was once travelling through a neighbouring State, and enquiring for the best inns on the road, was directed to a noted one, whose owner had got his name up for the befl entertainment.— He had a large house well partitioned into small rooms for single lodgers. His stable was excel lent—but the cookery at his table was wretched —mean indeed—l could eat nothing. But every traveller would seek this noted inn—he would ride half the night, and pass half a dozen better bouses to get to this noted inn—in faift the man had got his name up and he might lie abed till rtoon. A young lady gets her name up for a beauty, or a fortune—all the world are sighing and dying for her. Wit, sense, accomplishments all distin guish her—beaus hang round her, like flies about a calk of sugar—suddenly Ihe has a fit of sickness —the roCesoJi her cheei d'-'-ajr—it-is she has no fortune—her admirers draw off—(he is a clever girl, but she is not ft clever as 1 tho't her. I once knew a very sensible woman who took a great fancy to names. One of her whims was that her daughters should marry names beginning with H. She could give no reason for her incli nation but this—she had known several of her neighbours who married men beginning with H, and they all made good husbands. They were not the greareft men, lhe said, but they were kind, good natured husbands, and would fuffer any thing rather than be offended. All the neigh bourhood were in love with the letter H—nothing would do for a husband, but this letter H, which some squeamish grammarians will have to be no letter. But the name of the letter was vp. To conclude, a man by the name of Wafbing ton some time ago palled through the village where 1 live. This was soon known—Mr. Wa/h ---ington ! What, a relation of the President's ? This indeed was not known—but every body really thought he looked a little like the Presi dent. All the world collected to get a peep at him as he pa (Ted the window of his lodgings every body bowed as he p.ifTed—every body looked and admired ! The man was indeed a ve ry great scoundrel—but he new human nature he a (Turned the name for travelling purposes the President's real letters of recommendation could not have procured him more refpetft. When a man's name is up, he may lie abed till noon. r LONDON, March i. Branches of reform already effetfed by the French I Revolution. I abolition of arbitrary and partial im- I 1 ports. The abolition of Lettres de Cachet, and all other ■means by which persons were liable to fevereand lindefiniteI indefinite punishments, without trial or equity. The deltrudion of the Bajlile, and of all other places of cruel and inextricable confinement, in which persons innocent or meritorious might pnguifh out their lives in extreme fuffering and despair, without their imputed crimes, their ac cusers, their fnuation, their life or death, being known to the public, or ;o any inierelted in their relief. 22 ! The abolition of unknown and unlimited fions for no service, or the worst iniuri«r„ v.duals, and crimes the molt dangerous aoj, the community. "g*ir The extinction of venal hereditary office jultice. * wwce The surrender of local provincial priviif(T „ .neon, pat,ble with a general syst em 0 f \ conititution. cases' 6 eftabliflla,ent ° f trial in criminal The establishment of a representation of , he people, full, free, and equalized in a very hill degree. 3 b' 1 The encouragement to freedom of enqcirv The suppression of th. summary, arbitrary,,,,,, local power of admin,ftering jull.ee i„ confined limits, and not fubjecl to the public eve ,v„ cifed by Lords of Manors. The suppression of the game laws. The suppression of other partial, arbitrary- and 6ppreffive privileges over the persons and the property of the people. The abolition of firft fj-uits and lines to the Pope, as a badge of dependance o<*a foreign in rifdiihon. The fnppreffion of plurality of benefices. The abolition of tithes, and the substitution of provision for the clergy, less difcouragingto agri cultural improvement, less injurious to the effect of their inftrudlors, and mole compatible with peace and good intelligence between them and their parishioners. The removal of private patronage in the *4/ lie office of religious inftru&ion. Jfl- de la Fayette, who speaks English with accuracy, reads the London Prints .secularly, in order to know how the London -Editors dispose of him—they drub him, he fays, and he does not feel a blow ; they (how him in a contemptible point of view, and he is sure of enjoying the fulleft confidence of his fellow-citi zens ; they make him run away from Paris, while be thinks of nothing but remaining at his post, and deferring well of his country. Mod Hiltorians fa)' our country took its name from the coming of the East Angles ; but Mr. Selden, a writer whose authority is very feldotn doubted, entertains a notion which he thinks much more probable, that it takes its name from 'Uerigift, whose reputation, wars, and government were above all the other Germans fnoft noted on the British (hores—and in an old English Couplet it fays— u He called it Engiftc's Land, " Which alterwaids was fhortfd, and called England." Sucli is the superiority of the Malabar oak to any found in Europe, that the Britannia, a veflel built of it, is now about tp proceed- on her sixth voyage to and is supposed able to two or three more. We lament to fee the fine talents of Mr. Burke so miserably employed, and that he should fofar disgrace himfelf, as in his old age to become the tool or the champion of arbitrary power. Hi» circrumftances possibly may require some assist ance from government, and if so, we will chari tably fay of him, as of the apothecary in Rome* and Juliet, his poverty and not his will confms. The ascertaining of the quantity of horned beasts attendant on the British army in India,for which a motion has been made, will be extreme ly difficult. The enquiry would make many a forehead tingle. The Smithfield dealers, and many a fat bull in the city, are alarmed least a limilar enquiry fliould take place at home, in which cafe many curious discoveries will be made, and the number will greatly exceed all reasona ble calculations. —v The word Rout formerly meant the defeat of an army—it now fignifies the deiirudtion of vate families by gambling A person in a severe paroxyfuj of the hydro phobia, was effe&ually cured by oil, taken in ternally, and applied outwardly, as an unguent, for three days, without remission. Ex trails from the Reforti of the London Humane Thomas Fry, shoemaker, was found appa rently dead in the field, and taken to his lodging without any signs of life. Every stimulus recom mended by the Society was made life of, and persevered in above an hour, before the pulsation of any artery could be perceived. In about three hours after the firft exertions, he fell into strong convulsions, and in about two hours more beg:in to speak. The man bears a good chara&er, ana is sober; he informed ine that coming f ro ™ Maidftone the evening before, he found a giddi liefs in his head, and got into the fields as the shorter road home. From all the circumstances I could learn, he mult have lain in the fields abo\e fourteen hours. He is now perfectly recovered, and is an ad"'" tiona] instance of the necessity and importance of paying the most serious attention to every !;ind of sudden apparent death, as experience now proves, there may be various causes of fulpena ing animation. 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