feller's daughter has her Italian and French in ftru<ftors—there are routs and card parties in the garrets, and coricertsand suppers in the cellar— the very lamplighters powder their hair, and orange wenches paint their cheeks—apprentices dress like puppies—tradesmen have country vil las, and kept Miftrefl'es " How then are we ruined?" Last Monday the daughter of Mr. Na!h, at Tenderden, in Kent, a fine girl about fixyeais of age, being put to bed, was heard to cry out and scream very much. The mother being greatly alarmed, went to the bed, when flie found the child's face bit and torn in a terrible manner- On turning down the bed clothes, a large rat jumped out of the bed, but the door being; (hut, the rat was soon killed. The poor child's face is so mangled and torn, that /he lies dangerously ill. EDINBURGH, March 23 IMPF. RI A L GOLD MEt) A I Last week, Mr. Alexander Bruce, late mer chant in the Weft Bow, but who has now re tired frotn business, received as a present from the Empress of Rnlfia, a gold medal of the fir ft magnitude, a great number of which of different lizes her Imperial Majesty ordered to be struck, for the purpose of bestowing upon those whose merits she might think entitled them to that mark of her favor. This medal weighs about twenty guineas in gold. On the one fide is an elegant bull: of the Empress : On the other, aca pital and well executed representation of the sta tue of Czar Peter the Great 011 horseback, at St. Pete {burgh, whose pedestal is theiminenfe piece of rock brought to that city at so much labor and expense. This medal to Mr. Bruce was accompanied with a flattering letter from the Empress's firft minister, Count de BefborodkofF, and another from his Excellency Count Woronzow, her Im perial Majesty's Ambaflador at London. Asthereafon for this dillingnifhed mark of fa vour conferred upon Mr. Bruce, it is neceflavy to mention, that that gentleman, several years ago, had cotnpofeda molt ingenious trearife, in tituled, " An enquiry into the pi incipal cause of the wide deftrudtion of mankind in time of war, and of the flow ineffectual progress and perma nency of military and naval operations in gene ral; comprehending the source of plague through out the world." Mr. Bruce, hearing of a great many deaths in the garrison of Cronftadt, presented a manufcripr copy of the above treatise to the late brave and justly celebrated Admiral Greig, who, upon pe rnfal of it, was so well pleased with the doc trines it contained, that he determined to put them in practice, and fotfn fouud their f.lutary efFe<fts, by the preservation of the lives of thou sands of his soldiers and sailors, who otherwise, in all human probability, would have perished, as had been fatally experienced on former oc calions. This induced the Admiral to communicate the matter to his Royal Mistress, who immediately commanded the treanfe to be translated itito the Ruffian language by Mr. Nikettin, principal of the college at Cronftadt, and at the fame time ordered a very handsome present to Mr. Bruce, which was tranftnitted to him bv Admiral Greig, •with that politeness for which he was ever re markable. The medal which Mr. Bruce has now received, was long since intended to have been sent. But, owingto the unfoi tunate death of Admiral Greig, and the fit ft minister of RuJlia knowing no orher address for Mr. Bruce, than, " Mr. Bruce at Edinburgh " it his lain in the Ambaflador's hands at London (ince Augnft last. D A N B U R Y, May 26 Sunday of Inft week, the wife of Mr. D. Mal lei v jun. of Reading, in a dropsical cafe, had ta k.;n from lier, qiar;s (if water, which weigh ed r25 pounds. In pe feet health, Mi s. Mallery •was supposed ro weigh 100 pounds. BOSTON, May 26 An unfortunate accident happened on Mon day lalt, in [he family of Capr. Lamb of this town, a child of his, a beautiful boy of about rwo years old, being in a thiid (tosy with the •woman who attended him, ran inio the back chamber, and fell out of the window, which put an immediate end u> his existence. His Excellency JOHN ADAMS, Esq. Vice- President of the United States, was 011 Tuefda-. elc&ed President of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. WORCESTER, (Mas.) May 16 Mr. Levy Bixby of Winchendon, now in the forty-fifth year of his age, has killed 24 wolves, 33 bears, 10 deer, 5 moose, 16 otters, 17 bea vers, 2 woolenegs, 22 racoons, 33 foxes, a'oout I*o minks, 500 musquash, 7J fables, 17 porcu pines, about 100 hares, j rattlesnakes, and jr polecats, besides other small game and wild fowl almost innumerable." Philadelphia*, June 4. A letter from Petersburg inform?, that the Empress of Rufiia is making immense preparations to guaid and secure the fron tiers of the empire—they could not be greater if a war was inevi table. In Livonia and Courland are 60 battalions of infantry, 22 of grenadiers, 80 squadrons of cavalry, and 12 regiments of light troops—all of which have seen service', many more regi ments, and 200 pieces of artillery, are to be added—soc pieces of cannon have been sent to Riga and Dunaburgh. The prepara tions on the fide of White Rufiia are equally great; the number of large battering pieces destined for "Skloff and Mof eow, amount to 120. There will be a c<*rps de reserve of 30,000 men in Little Rufiia. Not wvithftanding all this, it is evident that the Emprefsis greatly afraid of Frederick ; and it is highly probable that his iinmenfe armv. co-operating -with the BrTtUh navy, will teach Catharine moderation. A letter from Havre de Grace, of 22d March, fays, the New Constitution of France must come to a fair and honorable estab lishment—that a counter revolution is impoflible—and that the paper-money has not depreciated. A late writer in a London paper on bodily exercise, lays it down as a position, that walking is the most perfect exercise for the human body ; every limb is put in motion ; every artery from the hea r t to the extremities propels the blood quicker and more equally in walking than in a.iy other exercise. The blood is d rawn from the h?ad and upper parts, where it is most flow and languid , and is circulated with rapidity to every part. On the 19th of April a Committee of the City Council of Sa vannah, (Georgia) presented an address to Gen.Jackson, expres sive of their sensibility of his merit,and teftifying their approbation of his condu6t in the Congress of the United States—at the fame time regretting that he is deprived of the opportunity of continu ing his services as a public chara&er. This address was politely communicated, and gratefully received. The General concludes his answer in the following words :— u I beg leave to return you my fmcere thanks for the favorable opinion you have been pleased to entertain of me, and to afiure you that I (ball rank the honor now done me. and the refpeftful manner of its communication, among the most valuable testimonies of my life." A letter from Paris, of March 10, published in the General Advertiser of yesterday, contains the following information :— That the National AfTembly has decreed, that the importation of Oil from any country but the United States of America, fhaU be prohibited. The Oil imported from the United States in French or American velTels, to pay a duty of twelve livres per quintal. The new election being at hand, it is expected that the tumul tuous and indecent party of Ariftocrates that now disgrace the Na tional AfTemblv, will be thrown out. The organization of the executive departments is compleated. The rreafury is to be under three infpeftors; there will be fix Ministers,, one for justice, one for inferior affairs, one for war, one for the marine, and one for foreign affairs. They are all to be appointed by the King—salary 20,000 dollars each ; the Minister for Foreign Affairs excepted, who is to receive 30,000. The or ganization of these departments is considered as a master-piece. About 30 millions of AflTignats have been burnt, and it is ex petted that in a few weeks 30 millions more will be committed to the flames. The regular troops are to be 250 thousand ; the enlisted militia amounts to more than 300,000. You fee we are prepared for any attack. As to the Pope, we heartily wish he may refufe to consecrate our new Biftiops—it would give us a good opportunity to bid him ala fling farewell I fend you the performance of Common Sense, translated, with comments, by one of our best writers. Our friends in America wiil read it with pleasure. By the last Pittsburgh papers we learn, that four companies of ihe new railed troops had arrived at that place, and considerable numbers were hourly expe&ed. The Trees in New-Y >rk have lately been in jeopardy, through an ordinance of the Cot poration— but agreeable to a poetical hint in a poetical fupplica-ion to procrastinate their fate till next win ter, the law has been fulpended till the firft of December. The Circuit Court of the United States was opened and held in Portsmouth, (N. H.) the 24th ult. before the Hon. Chief Justice Ja y , and their Honors Judge Cushing and Judge Su li i v an. The eleventh edition of Mr. Burke's pamphlet on the French Revolution, is advertised irftjthe. Dublin Chronicle. A hod of answers are following close at his heels—exclusive of Mr. Paine's, seven are advertised for sale in Dublin. Wednesday last was published, No. i, of The Mail; or, Claypoole's Dai lv Advertiser. Diflin&ions will take place among mankind, so long as there is any difference between an honest man and a knave. Were all the words now uled to express our approbation of merit, to become extindt, would the difference between right and wrong, truth and faljhood be diminiflied—or could that difference be annihilated ?—Till human nature becomes totally changed, the impulse to virtue and patriotism, must be adapted to the prin ciple of emulation—a human being without this principle, is " Fit for Treasons, Stratagems and Spoils." The abolition of tnoft titles now in use, is perhaps the neceflary result of that severe and just invelligation which many cuitoms and habits, long faniltoned by ignorance and prejudice, have under gone—the abuse of a thing often leads to its disuse and reprobati on—But mankind will fuppiv the vacuum which their own hands •lave made—and often do it to their cost. Cromwelljuftly observ ed, that his power was more secure, exercised by him as Lord ProteSor, than it would be, Ihould he aflume the title of King— the prerogatives of a king, said he, are known—those of a protec tor are undefined, and consequently unlimited. To fay there shall be no titles or diftinftisns legally annexed to merit and otfice, is in fact, to open the widest door, to the most ulfome, flattering, absurd and abominable epithets that the grati tude, wcaknefs, ignorance and folly of mankind can adopt for they will have their savories—and to fay that they shall not express their feelings in their own way, is to deprive them of the liberty of speech—And if it is left optional to withhold or bejlow what titles they please, experience shews that their inventions are unlimited. However, there can be no doubt that the titles now i i use, havebcen used long enough—and if there is no other ob jection againftthein, their age is enough to ensure their condem- iii '.on, Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Neiv-Tork, J - ° /o his friend in this city " I HAVE jult finifhed Cecilia, and agreea bly to your request, will transmit to you some irleas which occurred to me on a cursory reading of it. " Confklering it as the work of a very young lady, it certainly is entitled to applause. The characters are greatly diverfified, and extremely well supported. Several of them are to me ori ginal. Mortimer Delville, and Cecilia, are very amiable, and excellent personages Mrs. Delvili.e, tho poilelled of manj' uncom mon, and brilliant traits, is on the whole not a : leafing character. Her husband I despise — Even old Bricgs is by no means as di(agreeable. 43 The infuflferable haughdnefs, unlimited pride, and full-blown conceit, which are so conspicuous in " Don Pedigree," l ender him an object of contempt and di'fguft. A parenr, whole whole nappinefs conhlts in recounting the glory of an cellors, who perhaps had fmatl claim to merit ; and who is so deflitute of feeling as to force the nearest, and molt important interests of his child, to become subservient to his own pride and weak ness, is a monster in exiltence. Perhaps there is nothing more consonant to human imperfec tion, than family pride : Certainly there is no thing more opposed to the perfection of human reason. To experience a degree of fatisfadtion upon hearing the viitues of our progenitors ap plauded, is rational and to please ourselves with a descent from persons, whose on ly merit was an ellate incapable of alienation ; or to take pride in the dignity, and importance, of a parent, or grandparent, whose career commenced on the dunghill—is beneath the character of a human being. Yet, notwithflanding t lie jultice of these observations is acknowledged by every person, how many are there, even of our acquaint ance, who are ready, and disposed, to facrifice the highest happiness of a beloved child, at the (hrine of mammon ! Is it not aftonilhing, that multitudes of people, who in most circumstances, judge rightly of human life, when property is concerned, will persuade themselves that no re gard is due to the fined: and most exquifire feel ings of the foul ; and that, even in the business of marriage, a daughter, possessed of the moll re fined and delicate ideas on the fobjeiS, ought to force herfelf into the arms of an unfeeling brute, whose only attractive charm is an ellate, and whose conceptions never extended beyond the limits of a well drawn purfe-llriug ? " These observations I consider as applying ro the charadler of Mr. Delville, in Cecilia. Alany things, however, may befaid in palliation of fa mily pride in an Englilhman. The English na tion has long been in the habit of considering wealth and merit as inseparable companions— and it is certainly a happy circumrtance for many, that worth is an hereditament; otberwife their situation would be truly deplorable. Bun in an American (and there are many Delvilles in America) it is altogether without excuse. Ve ry few families in this country can trace their pedigree farther back than two degrees, without (tumbling on an ancestor, whose itate and con dition in life was at teajl humiliating. In fact there is considerable danger that family pride, in this country, will experience firft orlafl. a rood fatal mortification. For who will fit and observe the ebullitions of this species of pride and not revert back, on the lift of anceftors,to find if the firft of them who fettled on this fide the Atlantic, were not fold for their paflage, or transplanted for felony." Hon. Thomas Tr eadwe t. L is chosen member of the House of Reprefcntatives of the United States, for the State of New- York, in the room of James Townfend, Elq. deceased.. A correspondent fays, that those who are solicitous that fails should appear refpefting the letter from Lord Mansfield, may reft allured that ijit is possible, the parties concerned will give due fa tisfaftion. MARRIED—Last Monday evening, by the Rev. Dr. Nefbit, president of Dickinfon College, the Re». Dr. Witherspoon, president of New-Jersey College, to Mrs. Ann Dill, widow of the late Dr. Dill, of York county in this State. A SHERIDANISM. A. YOUNG Gentleman and Ladv, who were soon to be made one, were lately purchasing wedding clothes—she frequently ap. pealed to his judgment in chufing the articles, till at lift he gave her one general answer, by faying—" Shoot yourfelf Molly, and you will shoot mr." ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. 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