A CARD. To the President of. the United States. WILLIAM COOPER, and ARTHUR NOBLE, present their respects to the President of tl.c United States, and request his acceptance ot fonie samples of Maple Sugar manufactured at Cooper's Town, in the llate of New-York—they beg leave to congratulate the President upon the immense acquisition of this manufactory to the interelts of patriotism and humanity, being wen convinced, that a fufficient quantity of this lugar may be made in a lew years to supply the whole United States. I hilade/phia, Align ft 6, t 79 r. To which the President was pleased to return the f'ilio-iuitig Reply. THE President of the United States is much obliged by the polite attention of Meflieurs Cooper and Noble— he thanks them for the prefenr of Maple Sugar, and learns, with great pleafuie, the progress of that promising manufacture. Augujt 8, 179? ■ COMMUNITY OF GOODS. [EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH OK JUDGK WILSON'.] IN the early settlement of America we find two experiments on the operation and effects of a com.ii unity of goods : the iflue of each was very unfortunate. Virginia was the scene of the firft ; an inflruction was given to the colonists, that during five years next after their landing, they ihoulil trade jointly—that the produce of their joint industry fhonid be depofiied in a common magazine, and that from this common maga zine, every one should be supplied under the di rection of the council ! What were the conse quences r 1 relate them in the words of the his torian of Virginia. " And now the English began to find the mis take of forbidding and preventing private pro perty ; for whilit they all laboured jointly to gether, and were fed out of the common (lore, happy was he that could flip from his labour, or slubber over his work in any manner. Neither had they any concern about the increase ; pre suming however the crop prospered, thai the public llore ninft maintain them, even the molt honefl and industrious would scarcely take so much pains in a week, as they would have done for themselves in a day The second experiment was made in the colo ny of New-Plymouth. During A?veral years, all commerce was carried on in one joint itock— all things were common to all ; and the necellaries of life were daily distributed to eve y one from the public store. But these regulaiionsfoon fur nifhed abundant reasons for complaint, and pro ved most fertile fouvces of common calamity. The colonics were sometimes in danger of starv ing"; and severe whipping, which was often ad miniltered to promote labour, was only produc tive of conltant and geneiwl difconient. absurd policy became, at lalt, apparent to eveiy one; and the introduction of excluiivc'property immediately produced the mult comfortable change in the colony, by invigorating-the pur suits of its inhabitants. The right of separate property seems to be founded in the nature of men and things ; and when societies become numerous, the eltablifh ment of that right is highly important to the ex istence, to the tranquility, to the convenience, to the elegancies, to the refinements, and to some of the virtues of civilized life. INTEMPERANCE. [EXTRACT FROM THE NEWPORT HE HAL D.J lAW-GIVERS, and men in authority, should consider themselves, as they are, the guar dians and protecftors of the public health and eco nomy for the time beirg, and that they are ac countable at the tribunal of conscience and rea son, for the good or bad use they make of their power: they should fay to themselves, as a Tro jan said to himfelf when he was Emperor, " Now lam Emperor^l will do what I wiihed Emperors to do before I was Emperor." Fifteen years ex pens; ce has taught lis that the earth will bring forth its fiuits, and that men may eat, drink and sleep, as much and as well, without Nobles and Kings, as they did with. —Let us next depose the tyrant Rum—let the privilege of felling rum be confined to Apothecaries, and let a dollar a gal lon duty be paid oil every gallon consumed in the government, it will then be ftifliciently cheap for medicinal purposes.— A tyrant so mischievous and cruel, cannot be too llraitlv confined.—How ma ny wives and children have been obliged to leave the delirable manfion-honfe and homestead, with all its delightful yards,gardens, walks, meadows, fprmgs and orchards, occasioned by the loss of time and expence of tjje huftxaacJJs drinking rum —The wretched sot so coHtfatf'ly drenched in rum, as rever-to afFord time til superintend his own ground, or his own team—when all is ("pent, we fee late in life, compelled by hard necessity, cultivating his neighbor's field, for a part of the crop, which he wheels home in a barrow. 130 PARIS, June 16. Exlrall of a letter, dated Madrid, May 20. " T"*HE King has ordered the President of X Castile to give notice to the inhabitants of the kingdoms and cities of Spain, through the medium of deputies to Las Cartes, to express their grievances and point out means o( relie., on all matters that concern the public good, ltill keeping in view the ancient Spanilh constitution. " The Captain General of Catalonia still fears infurreiftions near the frontiers bordering on France, he has in consequence written to his Majesty, that it a fmgle one of the soldiers stati oned on the frontiers of Spain to preserve tran quility was withdrawn, he fliould fend his resig nation, as he could not possibly answer for the consequences, without a very refpetfable force to oppose the manoeuvres of the nial contents. LONDON, June 12. A jealousy is arising against Prince Potemlcih in Rll Ilia, similar to tliac entertained, towards the latter end of Qiieen Anne's reign, against the Duke of Marlborough, in England. The splendid fuccelles of both have drawn down this (haft of envy upon them. The Elector of Saxony, at the fame time that he accepted the reversion of the Crown of Po land, either for himfelf or his daughter, ex pressly made this reserve ; that according to the Saxonic constitution, he niuft firft conlult his faithful fubjeifts, and obtain the consent of the State of his Electorates. The state of tile humbled nobility of Fiance has been thus whimsically described—that fotne of them have been compelled to fell their coats of arjns to purchase arms for their coats. The mark of King Tom, to a giant which was produced in the House of Commons or. Wed nesday last in the debate on the Sierra Leona Bill, by which he made over a tradl of land in Africa to King George the 3d, produced an hear ty laugh in the House, and reminded a stranger in Ihe gallery of the dark ages when Kings and Prime JVliniders in Europe, unable to sign their names, ratified public inftrnments by affixing the sign of the cross. Should civilization take place 011 the continent of Africa, future inhabitants of ihat parr of the globe will read with as muchaf tonifhnienr of the mark of their King Thomas, as of the simple of our ancient Princes. Philips the t'laniac was on Saturday questioned by Sir .ampfon Wright, as to the cause of his visit at Buckingham House.—He replied, that it was love, all powerful love, for the Princess Royal, and difcompofcd the gravity of the Ma gilirate by faying— " And pray don't you think I have a good la/fe Sir Sampf'pn ?" The manner in which Mr. Fox moved his bill on libels in tfi"e house of commons, (hewed at once his abJl'ty and the nobleness of his mind. Far from deprive others of their (hare "Sf honor, itated the revival of the question -tyy his friend Mr Erfkine, in the Dean of St. Afa"ph's cafe, exhibited his argument on that oc casion as a matter-piece of eloquence and argu ment, and held it in his hand, while lie called upon the house to afferc upon its principles the Liberty of the Press The merits of Mr. Erfkine on the fobjeift of Libels were felt and admitted by the meeting at the Crown and Anchor, in their stillest extent ; but as they properly directed their view to what Mr. Fox had so virttioufly, though unfuccefsfully attempted to ncconiplifh—an 'enquiry into the pra&ice of the courts, which would have opened the way to a complete reform ofever.y error, they thought it right to confine their resolution of thanks to his motion only __ _ — - J . Madmaedu Barre, whose diamonds lately paid a stolen visit to this metropolis, refufes either to pay the reward advertjfed for flopping them, or ro grant an indemnification againlt any other claimant ro the person in whose hands they are. The court of king's bench yellerday staid pro ceedings on an application to compel their being delivered to her. The only new illumination of brilliancy on tlie'birth niglit, was that of the Hayniarket The atre. Their loyalty and tafle displayed a mag nificent transparency, surrounded by columns of lamps, conceived in a very grand style. The fnbjecft was—Jiiftice and mercy exhibiting the medallion of his Majelly, which fortune was crowning with laurel. „ Mr. Thomas Paine,-author of the " Rights of Man," was born at Thetford in Norfolk, and is fa id to have been bound, apprentice at T tin bridge, in Kent, to an employment heappears afterwards never to have followed ; for lie became soon an exciseman, and was many years an officer in the excise at Grantham in Lincoln/hire, and Lewes in Suflex: from the station of a supernumerary aJ. the former place, he had the misfortune to be removed, and he then undertook the employment of .keeping school. When Dr. Franklin was lalt in England, Paine was accidentally made known tiv him from his knowledge of electricity. The Doctor", • perceiving his abilities, took him over with him to America, and procured him the a pointment of Secretary for Foreign Affairs Congress, where he presently difjinguiaied hi m ! felf by an avowed antipathy to die governiii" IIC of his native country, and a more than Roiiia' n deteitation of the name and office of K ing. Jun: 6. Lord Grenvjlle, a relation of Mr. Pitt Chancellor of the Exchequer, quits the inteiior department, to act in the foreign, which he ha* been filling in the interim, since the refio-nation of the Duke of Leeds. Mr. Dundas Heps j nto 1 the place occupied by Lord Grenville. AMERICAN GRASS. The new American grass, which was lalt year praised as poffefling the moll wonderful quali ties, the feeds of which were fold at the emir mous rate of 681. sterling the bufliel, has upon trial been found to be good for nothing. Of the feeds sown, few of them ever germinated ; but enough of plants made theirappearance, to ascer tain, that thegrafs,in refpeift of quality, is among the poorett of the tribe, and that it is an annual plant, and altogether unprofitable to the farmer. Q_UERI ES. What good reason can our modern critics as sign for allowing only 24 hours to be occupied from the commencement to the completion of a tragic plot, rather than 25 years ?.—Cannot that fertile genius that can imagine he fees, in the scenery, the azure canopy, and kings and heroes risen from their graves, after an interval offonie hundred years, to flirt an hour upon the (tage, with equal facility, and much more propriety, suppose a rational time admitted for the fulfil ment of the fares of conspicuous personages, and the revolutions of mighty empires?— Why ac cuse a Shakespeare for carrying his scene, in pursuit of his game, beyond (eas Mnft the fact fubmic to the critic, or the critic to the fad ? Is it more difficult to suppose that you are now in France and now in Britain, than that you are altogether in France ! or that the whole thea trical exhibition is not a mock ? ST. J O H N's, (Antigua) June 20, No less than four public duels have been with in this few weeks pa'.t fought in Guadeloupe,one only was attended with death ; another was said to have been'fought on Saturday last, said to be by special licence from the Governor. NEW CANDLE MACHINE, i AS the abridgment of labor by the improve, ment and use of MACHINERY, is highly favor able to the maiiufafturinir interests of America, • ( " a Machine, the nature of which is defciibed be low, is offered, wuh a confidence, that it is found ed 011 the knowledge of its utility. This Machine is fufficiently large to make one ton Candles per day, without the addition of any other utenfiis, th;»n those now required in the common mode of making them. A boy, who has acquired a fufficient knowledge of the manufac ture, to spread a Cotton, can, from the ease of working, and the neatness of finifhing, which ap pertains to this Machine, make ;6o rods of Can dles per day, with as much fafety and difpatcli as a journeyman, to whom the highest wages an paid. The simple conftrucftion of this Machine, is one of its great recommendations. Any ingenious man may easily conftrucft the whole, with a very trifling expence of wood and labour. Thegreac saving occationed in the article of labour, by us ing this Machine, cannat be estimated at !efs than one hundred and eighty dollars per annum. The terms on which ihefe Machines are offered to the patronage of the Tallow Chandlers, throughout the Union, are these :— The complete Machine, to be delivered to the subscriber, in this town, at forty-five dollars: Directions, by which the subscriber (hall be ena bled to eredt one himfelf, at twenty dollars: The firft Machine, or firfl copy of diredions, to be delivered as soon as a fufficient number are fubfcribeit for As the season for making Candles is at band, those who are inclined to subscribe are requested to forward their names immediately, that the Machine may be ready fo.r delivery (if the plan is fiifficiently encouraged) by the 29th of Sep tember next. Orders for the above Machine, or directions for conltruCting it, to be forwarded (if by letter, poll paid) to the Subscriber, Soap-Maker ant Taliow-Chandler, Bolton, Maflachufetts, or to William Frobijher, jun. Taliow-Chandler, New York. WILLIAM FROBISHER, fen- ALBANY, August 8. On Saturday the 6th inliant, the July term o the Supreme Court ended. At this tern Whiting Sweeting, late of Stephen Town, in the couiny of Ranflelaer, convicted of the murder of Darius Quiniby, received sentence of death, and is or deved to he executed on the 26th day 0 f "K" I. in!h between the hours of 12 and 2 o'clock 0 that day—and his body, after execution, ' 3 tiered to be delivered by the flier if?" to a luig e ® - BOSTON', AUGUST ().
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