*as carried into the nieetlng-houfe, where an ingenious and well-adapted oration wnsdelivered, to a numerous allembiy, by John Merrick, Efq! His fellow-citizens were excited to such expref fionsof friendship and honor io his remains and iipemory, by a grateful sense of his patriotic and Leroic conduct in the late American revolution and particularly by the recolleJlion of his bra vely and fii muelSj 011 the memorable 19th of April, 1775, being one of the two who, at Con cowl bridge, led 011 the American militia to face and repulle the Bririfh troops. A number of fingers preceded the corpse, and as the procession approached the bridge, on the very spot where the deceaft-d, in 1775, gave orders to return the Briufh fire, they sung a well chosen hymn, and moved on singing tothe place of interment. Let nfing iu; s catch lteedom's fire, And nobly imitate their fire. Died ar Roxbury, on the 27th inftaiit, of a gra dual decay, William Erving, Esq. a Member of the American Academy of Arts, &c. formerly an Officer in the army of his Britannic IVjajefty ; whose service he quitted 011 the commencement of Ihe troubles between Great Britain and Ame ri cn. We hear tisat, oefides other charitiei, the Jate William Erving, Efq, has bequeathed 10001. to the University—the interest of which he has ap propriated by his will, to the Profellor of Clie miftry for the time being. PROVIDENCE, May 28 Yesterday, at or.e o'clock, P. M. David Com ftock, convicted at the Superior Court in March Jaft of t lie murder of Ephraun Bacon, was taken f*om gioi in a coach, to the place of execution. He was alii (ted in his devotions by flie Rev. Mr. Snow, and apoeared tranquil and resigned to his fare. He fuffered about three o'clock, and after hanging 25 minutes, l|is body was taken down, and )»!ive fd to his fri<Sfcds. A detachment of irihtia ended, and a prodigious concourse of ipet; aro: s were afleinMed 011 the occasion. Yefte.day was alio aligned for the execution of Thomas 'Viount, in the county of Walhington, for burglniy. & ' Sunday lift the ship Tristram. Capt John War ner, an ived here in eight weeks from Dublin. He has brought a number of experienced manu factuieis, for the cotton manufactory established 111 i his town. Dr. Carroll, Catholic B'diop of Maryland, ai med h:*>e on Monday evening" Jalh on his way to lioilon. & J E A S T O N, May 31. Mr. Cowan, A~cor> efp"ondent fends you the following extrafl of I n,i _l a litter jro#, Dnb.in,. JjU'd friar t*k ri2, 1 79 f EVERY rhipg wears here a fiugulaf afpedi We had yesterday a meeiing of the citizens, pursuant to summons from the high flienff, ii< order to censure that part of the address of the house of lords, moved by the Duke of Lei lfter, which infinnated, that thepeo ; leofl'eland weie a mifgnided set of men. This was agreed to with only four diffenring voices. It was unanimously refjlved, that we never will, as inagift rates or jurors, give operation to, or allow the force of, any English acft of parlia ment ; and that an imme Hare committee of cor- Tefpoudence be appointed to hold council with the reit of the aflbciations of Ireland. I he fecrerary came in about four, arid in a speech of a long duration endeavored to explain to the house the purport and tendency of a bill for regulating ihe intercourse and commerce be tween G eat-Britain and In and—after having urged a great variety of arguments to prove ihe propi ety of proceeding by bill in preference to any other method, concluded with leave to brino it in. . ' Mr.Connolly opnofedthc motion in the fuft inltance, declaring that the bill, if fuffered io be brought in, would totally take away their con ltitution, and leave them no commerce at all Mr. Fetter objected, and pledged his ho no,r(t"Blve ,c eve, T opposition in his power. Mr. Grartan, in one of the ableit and mod eloquent speeches perhaps ever delivered in this house of parliament, opposed the bill as a door ro vafialage and slavery, since it proffered com merce as a barter for constitution.—His speech >vas full of points—it-was interesting, attractive and sublime—The whole audience grew silent as he fpnke, and, having caught the enthusiasm were loft in admiration. " James, you know the little fellow, he was upon his poor little legs for two hours and a half. " T he iuftant he fat down, Mr. Montgomery, member for your county, arose—He appeared' vo be pel tectly familiar with the fubjetft, and as ulual proved his claim to patriorifm, reputation, and a man ol talents. The debate continued for some time with uncommon vehemcnce ; all the great speakers, and the diftinguiflied country gentlemen, took part in the business, and mem bers from every part of the kingdom declared themselves against such a system. " Parliament is now (thank fortune) pro togued until September.— We have had aveiy long and a very interesting feflion, endeavoring to procure by threats what I fear will Coon be lhei el ult of blows. —If I guess in this pa r licular, 1 desire you may'give no credit to any of my future prognoflicationS." lfland Creek. ALBANY, May 30. On Thursday lafl this city was honored with the presence of Mr. Jefferfon, Secretary of State, accompanied by the Charles Fox of America, the celebrated Madison. We.are informed they in rend going North, as far as Lake Champlain, and from thence across the fifteenth Conflellation, Ealt to Connecticut River. Yesterday, between three and four o'clock, the thermometer flood at 94 degrees in the (hade; the hoteft day last summer, it flood at 91. NORFOLK, May 28 Extratf of a letter from a'refpeßable House in Bar badoes, to a merchant in this town, dated April 29. " The flour you shipped from Norfolk in "vTarch lad, turned out r*marfcably well ; and is thought to be equal if not faperior to what is imported from Philadelphia or Baltimore." On the Reception of the PRESIDENT at the several Towns and Villages, &c. in his Tour to the South. AN IMITATION. All tongues speak of him—aged fights Are peftacled to fee him : The pratling nurse Into a rapture lets her baby cry While fbe views him The rustic lasses pin Their richeff geeraround their fun-burnt necks Clambering the walls to eye him : flails, trees, windows An-fmother'd up ; house-tops and ridges fill'd With various ranks of men ; all agreeing In earnestness to frt him old Senators Do press among the popular throng, and puff To win a vulgar flation : beauteous dames Commit thi' war of white and damask in Their nicely gauded cheeks, to the wanton spoil Of Phcebus' burning kisses. Such joyful (horns As if the VERY DEITY WHO GUIDES HIM Were slyly crept into his human powers To give him grace and honor ! FOR THE CAZETTF. OF THE UNITED STATES. SONNET to JOY. H\IL ! heaven-de<cended Queen ! to thee I breathe . 1 his fervent song, the incense of my foul ! Too long has f-'rrow' dripping cypress wreathe O er-rcach'd the source, whcnce liquid pearls would roll, Thv fou!-reviving form ! I now behold In radiant beauty burst upon my fight, Thv clear blue eye,.beams with a pure deligftt, • Adown thv Holders wave thy Jock»aX.gal<l_ O'er all thy (i»ure glows a nameless grace, A btaiitv that no mortal can behold, When the foft smile illumes, thy blooming face ; And not d< clare thee of celeitial mould. O ! dwell with me thou angel from the flcy, And bid the Maid tear-loving sorrow fly. * " And wave thyJhadowy loch ojgold." Dr. Dar vin's address to May, Philadelphia, June 8. We are informed that the President of the United States may be expelled to ari ive at the Seat of Government, from his Southern tour, about ihe 2,5:h instant. Friday morning, for tin si.st time, arrived in this city, the wag. s°" w,c , henceforwa.d is to supply Philadelphia with Fish. The following gentlemen were chosen, at the late elefti-.n.to re prelc.it the city and county of New-Yo.k :—John Waits, William S. L.vingfton, John Wvlley, j. O. Hoffman, Will,am P. Smith, Henry Will, and Melanfton Smith, Efq'rs. F.xtrafl of a letter from Bojion, dated May 18. An action was tried here a few days fx.ice before a Juflice of the Peace, in which black Peter, a negro, was counsel for the Plain s iTltj ' a Law y er of feve "l )«rs Handing, counsel for the Defendant. The latter complained at being pitted with such an antagonist, and observed that it was unjust, and a rnanifeft dereliction of every principle of propriety—a discouragement to every effort to acquire a competent knowledge of the profeflion of the law, to obuin which much study was requisite, and great expence nccelTar.ly in. urred. The Juflice observed in replv, tha oy the laws of*he Aate, the plaintiff had a right to employ whom he rJr: and i* ~n e ad any th,ni; to fav f ° r his c|icm > he might go on—lt is fa.d that Peter and the Squire beat the Lawyer hollow; who loft ins c ause, and was verymurh chagrined." The Enjrlifh papers state, that intelligence is received from 'ndia to the ad December, but no thing decisive had then taken place between I ippoo and the British ariny. In cafe of Hoflilities be ween England and ivuma, Sweden is determined to preserve a per fect neutrality. r Ihe Dutch, by the last accounts, are fitting out a large fleet. ° Li.glifh Stocks were npagain on the 12th April, occasioned by a report that the preliminaries of peace were figncd between Raffia and the Por te It k very problematical what will be the iHue of the recent armaments in Great-Britain. If the Empress is firm, war appears inevitable. Papers from N'ew-York received by yefterdny's mail, contain an account under the Paris head o- April 4, of the fmeral preparations for the interment of ,\l. de Mirabeati the elder The di lcL'torycf Paris has resolved to wear mourning 47 BIRTfiA. eight days ; and the municipality, that twelve of their body, with the mayor at their head fliould attend his remains, and that they Jhould wear mourning for tliree days. All the places of public auuifement were fiint. His remains were to be conveyed to the Pariffi Church of St. Euitache, to be there deposited till a sepulchre is prepared for them. His death is a great loss to the cause of liberty • M. deMirabeau had been long conlidered as one of the great pillars of the new conttitutiou. Whatever "partiality our good Allies" ninv discover towards us in the Decree respeCting our Oils, a correspondent would be obliged to any one who would point out the advantages con ferred upon us by the Decree regulating the im portation of Tobacco. . The remarks which precede the Decree pub lished in the Federal Gazette, are founded 011 facts, and merit attention. The true interest of the United States consists in being as detached as pos sible from European connections, views and po"- litics. ' Abetter from Amsterdam, dated the firft of April, an extract of which is published in the Patowmack Packet, faj's the credit of the United States is firmly established in that country, and that it is expe&ed their securities will soon be above par. It is the opinion of many eminent Physicians, that canine madness is principally owing to dogs not having ready -access, in hot weather, to frefh water, in the streets of large cities and other places. A free press is not only a fafeguard to freedom, but is also an honor to the country or (late in which it is ellablilhed For a 9 thro'prejudice, error, pride, folly, and a natural independence of spirit, mankind will imbibe and maintain various and opposing opinions, it is only from a fail statement of the arguments on both fides of every fubjeft, that just and solid principles can be deduced. SAYS A CORRESPONDENT, I do not think with the paragraphs in your last, that age alone uggefts a fufficient reason for the rejection of any customs, forms or ceremonies, which have heretofore obtained among mankind; hut I do conceive, that as the rays of knowledge and common r enfe extend thei* influences thro' the civilized world, thfc barbae rous ideas which have kept our species in the lowest degree of de gradation, will be exploded, and man become more the friend and alTociate of man—which never can be the cafe, so long as riches, titles, honort and iijlincltons, draw such a line of eparation between them. c The credit of the United States, through the benign influ ence of the general government, and those financial arrangements which have been formed under its auspices, has emerged from the mod deprelTcd and abject situation. Theftocks have risen beyond all experience and all parallel. If the expectation only of punc tuality on the part of the government has been equako producing such furprifmg effects, what may not reasonably be anticipated from that great aßive capital which will be crcated by the Bank, fvftem, to aid and facilitate the payments of individuals to the go vernment, and of the government to its creditors ? There can be little ooubt of the fix per cenis being very fhort 'v above par. The holders of public paper would do well there fore to deliberate leisurely before they part with their flock. The interest of the general government, is the intcreft of the States, individually—they (land or fall together—this idea pro ved paramount to that local jealousy, which, while it produced a wretched schism, would have kept us forever weak and de graded. The clause in the law for establishing the bank, of the United States by which any particular State is precluded from a larger credit than 50,000 dollars, so far from (hiking at the fuvereigntv of the individual States—is, fays a correspondent, calculated to produce dire&ly the reve.fe effect ; it puis every State upon an equal footing, thus precluding jealousy; and consequently no par, ticular State can avail ufelf ol superior fun Is to enhance its credit with theTreafury of the United States,and to encreafe its influence in the Union to the injury of its neighbors—neither is there an un due ftimulous held out to a powerful State to aid in measures. which might be injurious to the others. The disinterestedness of the provision is equally conspicuous with the justice and found policy of It—for the general government thereby precludes itfelf from offering a douceur to a particular State, for any fmifter pur pose whatever. ' " Extracts from a Pamphlet jufl publi/hed, againfl the BANK of the UNITED STATES. J * VIEW rt"' p.;tof the bank flock which consists in funded to , be m " ch w ° rfc tha " nothing: I had rather have the cafU drht W fh MhJ V lfthc interest on the public I k be reduced, or should not bt ttnaually paid (both of which are very poflible) the bank would (hake to its centre—the dividend, mujl cease, or be rediued, bank-flock would instantly/,//, and a" public Applies from the bank mufl be flopped."— p, not wondcr lf the bank should be an ninilate the state governments." p. g. " If the immense flock of the new bank should be thrown into operation the aggregate sums would vaflly exceed what the trado and business of the country could either require or support."— p. g, Married, on Saturday evening last by the fiirht Bishop White, Mr. James Poster', Merchant g g o Duffield, daughter of Mr. John Dufßeld, of thi. city. Died, on Saturday last, in the 53 d year of his ««, Mr lo.ebh Carson, Merchant, o! this city. • JOSEBH ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA. Sloop Three Sifter,, Johnson, 7~ ™ e n r Au S uftus > Robinson, Br.g Molly, p au , „ * . Plnto ' Oporto v" y',!r' C Majcfty's Packet Grantham, Capt. Bull, arrived Hahfax Urdaylaft ' in 56 dl >™ from and PRICE CURRENT.— PUBLIC SECURITIES^ FUNDED DEBT. 3 pr-c'm,' l7 ff P r - ccnt - Defcred 6 pr. Cent, lt f\ UNFUNDED DEBT. . inal Scttl.ani other Certificates 16/4 16/6 82A Indents -,/• „/ » N. and S. Carolina debts, 12/6 14/. 47 ° Providence St. Euftatia St. Croix
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