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.
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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
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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 ().