trials are usually made, better than tlia common dies, and pronufe many advantages, if adopted, to the manufactures of this country. Died lately, at Shirehampton, in his Bift year, after a long and painful illness, without a ftru<r gle or a groan, the Rev. Walter Chapman, Doc tor of Divinity, Mailer of St. John's Hospital, Bath, Vicar of Bradford, Wilts, and Senior Pre bendary of Bristol. He held the very valuable Mastership of St. John's Hospital 54, and Preben dal Stall in the Cathedral 45 years. He was not only a contemporary, and Fellow Collegian, but in habits of the cloi'eft intimacy and friend(hip wilh the late Dr. Samuel Johnson, Shenftone, and many other literary characters ; he partook of their several excellencies, and was t-ijually dif linguiflied for deep and universal erudition, a brilliant and piercing genius, and a challe claf fical taile. He was unrivalled in pulpit elo quencc, the happy effect of which was experi enced by numberless converts to the truth " as it is in JESUS/' He bore his last fatal illness ■with manly fortitude and chrillian resignation. FALMOUTH, (Jam.) May ?. The (hips now employed by government to carry out convicts to Botany-Bay are, bj stipula tion with the East-India Company, to load home with Cotton.—This may be a very ple.aftng cir cumstance to the manufacturers, but cannot be very agreeable to our Planters, vvhofe interest is never permitted to (land in competition with that of the Eaft-Jndia Company. K I N G S T O N, (Jam.) April 16. Saturday morning, in consequence of a difa greement of Tome Handing, a rencounter took place between Robert Ewart and Walter Brett, Esquires, in the piazza adjoining Edie's coffee houfe, in which the former received a pirtol ihot in his body, which almolt instantaneously put a period to his existence. An inqweft was imme diately held on the body, and several witnefles examined, when the verdicfi returned was, " That Robert Ewart, the deceased, did on the nineteenth of April, aflault Walter Brett, of the parish of Kingston, gentleman, with a whip, which he, the said R. Ewart, then and there had in his right hand, and did strike the said Walter Brett several times with such whip : whereupon the said Walter Brett, in his own defence, drew a pistol from his pocket, and then and there (hot the said R. Ewart through the body, by the means of a ball, which the said W. Brett, in his own defence, fired from the said Pistol ; by means of which fliot or wound, the said R. Ew art came by his death." Mr. Brett immediately forrendercd himf'clP iu ilic officers orjultice. Oh the inquest, a loaded pirtol was found in the pocket of Mr. Ewart. On Tuesday Mr. Brett was removed by habeas corpu3, from the goal of this town to Spnnifh- Town, and entered into recognizances before the hon. \V r . Jackson, Esq. one of the judges of the supreme court, himfelf in 40001. and two Jureties in 20001. each for his appearance at the ensuing affixes for this county. Wednef I ly the grand jury found a bill against IMr. lit ctt, for the murder of Robert Ewart : and yefterd.iy his trial came on at liie court ho life, when after a long and patient examination of evidence, the general tenor of which went to ex culpate the prisoner, and to involve in inextrica ble infamy the character of the deceased, a few arguments were heard from counl'el on both fides, and the jury, without hesitating, returned a verdict of not guilty ; to the fatisfadtion of a crowded audience, who testified their approbati on by repeated fliouts of applanfe,—The trial lasted from eleven o'clock in the forenoon, until near fix in the evening. J he advance in the price of raw fngars has, as it might be expecfted, had considerable effetft on the 1 etail price of what is refined ; single is now at fiftten pence per pound, powder-loaf at eigh teen pence, and doubie refined at twenty-one pence halfpenny. There are (aid to be, at this time, upwards of thirty fail of large ships engaged in the African (I tve-trade alone, at the port of Havre de Grace, which trade the merchants there carry 011 with a very high hand ; notwithllanding our humane Have bill has actually caused a very considerable rile in the price of (laves, not only in the Welt- Indies, hue 011 the coast of Africa likewise. GEORGE-TOWN. June 8 Extra!} of a litter from a gentleman now in Philadel- phia, to his friend in this toivn " T t a town lie not formed accommodating, to lerably coinmodioiifiy, the government and its numerous followers, delay will be urged by the partizans of Philadelphia, at all events, if not a change of the place of Permanent Residence with what success, may be conjectured, from the near equality of partizans forandagainft Potow mack. Therefore it behoves those, who consider the public happiness to depend, in some degree, on a central governmental flaiion, to Ilir in due Arsj 1. 50, season, a:nl Co promote with zeal those measures which will remove all the existing obftruiftions. " As for the little politics of your town, and your neighborhood, it is not for me to deter mine between you—Suffice it, that you will all be right if the Public buildings are To placed as to encourage private improvements, where, with out Inch aid, they would go on with the mod ra psdity—And you will as certainly be all wrong, if the fituatioii of the buildings fhotild have a tendencj io encourage private improvements, wheie, in the nature of things, they cannot grow into importance in f'o Ihort a period as ten years. 1 look not forward to a century hence ; nor is it ndw the question, what events may a rife m jo or 100 years.—Remember that your time of probation is only nine or ten years !" A Correspondent informs, that a {'peculating gentleman who made large purchases of Federal City lots has in Contemplation to import from Eu r°pe, Jour thoujand bands! viz. Brick-makers, Hone cutters, masons, carpenters, &c. to build a number of elegant edifices ; the plans of which for some time pall have engaged his whole atten tion and time, ( lajiat think you of the Federal City >10111 ?) Jamaica, April 9. Capr. Hanna, lately re turned from Virginia to this island, discovered on his passage, in lat. 19, 53, N. long. 63, 40, W. a ridge of breakers, lb etching north and south, about a quarter of a mile in length : they lie a little above the furfaceof the water; and as the weather was moderate, Capt. Hanna could the more ealily determine their situation and appear ance. 7 hey are not laid down in any of the charts, so far as can be discovered. Philadelphia, June 29. The PRESIDENT of the United States has been pleased to ap point Oliver WolcotTj jun. Esq. Comptroller of the Trea 'urvofthe United Siates. Saturday last arrived here from Charleston, the Hon. Ralph Izard, Senator, and William Smith, Esq. Representative of the State of South-Carolina in the Congrels of the United States. We hear that one thousand fharcs in the Bank of the United Stales, by the last account from that place, are already fubferibed by the Citizens of South-Carolina, principally by the Merchants and others ol Charleston. Between seven and eight thousand dol lars, part of the specie deposit, were lodged in the Bank of North- America this week by William Smith, Esq. A fubfeription for twd thousand four hundred shares in Boston was filled in four days, and the specie deposit, amounting to sixty thousand dollars, paid in to-the Maffachufctts Bank. By a proclamation of the 18th ult. of the Governor of St. Kites, the provisions mentioned in an ast of parliament prohibiting an intercourse between the United States of America, and the Ifiands, are (ufpended until the twentieth of next. The Right Reverend Bithop Carroll,"before he left Boston, on his murn to Maryland, suspended Mr. Rouffelet from his minis » of the Roman The Legislature ig pror d to the second Wednesday or JaTrtra-ry-J.^ xt-—-pre- vious lo which, the further confiderationoF'*T7>«~ petition from the inhabitants of the Diftridt of Maine, that the Ealtern part of the Common-. wealth might be separated and made an inde pendent Stare, was postponed to the next feflion. In die English papers, there is a royal procla mation, and a reward of 100 guineas offered for difcoveringand bringing to justice Richard Perry, of Bristol, charged with having felonioufly and forcibly taken away, and compelling to undergo a loini or ceremony of marriage in Scotland, Clementina Clarke, an infant of the age of fifteen years European politics have for some time part been involved in clouds and thick darkness. Great- Britain, not long since, incurred an enormous expence to arin the nation—ro negotiate—that ne gotiation it isfaidturned out favorably fortheni but whether the advantages counterbalanced the colt, has never appeared. They are now arming again; some letter-manufadturers on this fdrnf the water, fay this is all king-craft to divert the people from revolution-making, and to prevent the contagion of the French lever—the ostensi ble object, however, fs to preserve the balance of power, by preventing Catharine from adding to her immense dominions the empire of the Turks. Commercial douceurs have doubtless been ten dered to the British government by the Porte, to induce this interference; there is every probabi lity that they will interfere; whether luccefsful 1y or not, is uncertain—the profpetft is in favor of a peace between the Belligerent powers with out another campaign, 'i here is, however, a very great opposition in England to a Ruffian war. Some of those ideas have been called up which would have operated against the Turks a century ago—but at this day, the only oljetf with nations is to promote their immediate interelt, at the facrifice of every other confederation. Our allies of Trance are pursuing the work of reformation—the Revolution is a great work; and tho it has been long in hand, we ought to re member that its ohjecfts are itnnienfe. Nothing less than ro regenerate twenty-five millions of fouls ! —and this regeneration has refpedi not only to turning this 2J millions from darkness to light, and to transform them from idolators of the Church, the Pope, aud the Grand Mcnarqne, that 71 ttiey may become enemies to all three—but it also includes the idea of annihilating all factitious me rit, and tiiles of honor anil nobility founded 011 f'uch fallacious ideas—to which, by precept, edu cation and hnbit, the people of France have for a series of ages been accuftomcd and attached— tills regeneration alii) refpefis the mercantile cha racter which the French nation is to aflume, and there is no doubt at all that this great transfor mation will take place—but then they will require time, except political regeneration is like rl-ec tßl city—which indeed fceins to be the cafe. The Emperor of Germany, by pursuing a dif ferent line of conduct from that adopted by his brother Joseph, lias tranqtiilized his dominions for the prefeut ; but some appearances seem to indi cate that the embers of infurreciion are but slight ly covered, and that the firfi. untoward wind that blows, will puff them into a flame. Whether Leopold will desert Catharine, is uncertain—some accounts wear that complexion ; others fay, he never will abandon so faithful and powerful an ally. The petty states of Germany, who were afFeifl ed in their property by the French revolution, and who appeared to be making preparations to aflert and vindicate their claims, according to some late French paragraphs, have had their de mands liquidated, and no apprehensions are en tertained of their attempting any thing lioftile to the revolution. An article has however ap peared in a late paper, purporting that M. de Conde had aflembled an army of 10,000 men in the neighbourhood of the frontiers—time, the great interpreter, will ascertain the truth of all reports. " Who shall decide when Doctors disagree."—But do they so essentially differ that their advice cannot fafely be followed ? The condu£t of mankind in general puts a negative on the qneftion. At the last extremity, at least, the Doctor must be sent for—and if we have faith in their prescriptions at the most critical and difficult moment, surely it is more rational to take their advice, when dis ease has but just begun its attacks, and when nature is able to co operate with art and medicine in our favor. Intemperance is said to destroy more than the sword ; but it may well be queried whe ther want of information docs not destroy more than either. The Faculty have long since had my applause awarded them ; as pro felfional men, their benevolence and philanthropy is abundantly exemplified. May they not ftlll add to the lustre of their charac ter, by publishing in those vehicles which insinuate themselves al most every where, such hints % cautions, admonitions, advice and pre ftriptions, as the fcafon of the year, and the apparent state of the public health may require ?—There is but one obje&ion to this proposition that I can think of—and that (hall not be mentioned. Forthelaft fifty years the world has been amused with the dreary anticipations of gloomy fpeculatifts, who have been conti nually predicting the downfall of the credit of Great-Britain but, judging from thepajl, there is no great reason to conclude that the experience of the juture will fanclion the dreams of fucb vj_ fionarics. The present Prime Minister (Mr. Pitt) has abfolutelv checked the accumulation of their national debt: He has funk, moie than fix millions of the capital during his administration which is at as great a rate as is compatible with the real, eflential intcrefts of that people. For let any one soberly rcfleft on the -ttobable consequences which would result from suddenly paying WJ *"*"~" , .the whole debt of Great-Britain, and they wiil be 1-5 ' >|c£ would not produce greater precious metals as lith ronvince< mifrhiefs than such an immen would in that cafe inundate the country.— * Mr. Pitt are to preserve the refpe&ability, the of his country —these are the only solid basis on which the iriduf try of a country rests—an undifiurbed produ£live industry will work out the political salvation of any country on the face of the globe. IC7* Preparations are Mating for a fplcndid ex hibition at Gray's Gardens on the tfh'july— next Monday. From PELOSI's MARINE LIST. ARRIVALS at the PORT oj PHILADELPHIA. Ship Harriet, Ellifcyi, Georgia. Brig Charleston, Gardner, Charleston. Gayofo, Grayberry, Cape Francois. Pratt, Florence, Aux-Cayei. Polly, Gyer, Cape Francois. Adventure, Potter, Antigua. Lord Dorchester, Breeo, Jamaica. Active, M'Keever, Cape Francois. Eliza, M'Kay, Jamaica. Sch'r. Maria, Horton, St. Johns. Ruby, Glover, St. Euftatia. Industry, Stiles, Cape Francois. Sloop Sally, Conklin, Martinico. Diana, Welsh, St. Auguftme. Phcenix, Burrows, Jamaica. Liberty, Montaine, St. Kitts. Jafnn. Beak. Turks-Island. PRICE CURRENT—PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 18f pr. /. 1 3 pr. Cents 10f Defered 6 pr. Cents \of UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Settl. and other Certificates Indents 10f N. and S. Carolina debts, T3_/ is_/"6. LIK E N E PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, NEATLY executed ill Profile, have jufl cometo hand, and for sale by Messrs. Carey,Stewait and Co. Mr. William Young, Mr. Robert Campbell, MeTrs. Rice and Co. Bookfellcis, and by the Editor.—Price One Dollar. Philad. June 29, 1791. Funds of the United States. /\ LL kinds of the Public Debt of the Union, bought, fold, or ex- ITy* changed; Foreign and Inland Bills oj Exchange negociated ; Merchandize of all forts bought and fold on Commi/ftony and all other Business in the line of a Broker, tranfatted by WILLIAM CLELAND, At the Office, next door to the Cujfom-Houfe, State-Street, BOSTOX. 90 pr. cent. 50 do. 50 do. 85 do. 50 do. SS E S OF TH£
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