fov difl'ection. The unfortunate Parius Quirn by was callecl,to .the of a constable in taking the said pursuance of a pre cept from a joffice of' tliMnce ; and in attempt ing to perform that duty, he received two wounds froih the prisoner in the fide, whereof he instantly died. 4k The Chief Justice, with much solemn dignity, in a lengthy and sympathetic speech which drew tears from mod of the audience ; but the unhap py culprit flood immoveable, and apparently un affected. In touching upon the tender string of his wife and child, the Judge bnrft flood of tears, which a humane and fenlible hear could not suppress. • SPRINGFIELD, August to. Died at New-Braintree, the ult. Master 3avirl Force, youngetl son of Mr. Jonathan >f that town, aged five years, after a long and edious illness, occasioned by a bean, which he accidentally took into his wind pipe.onihe ioth day of May last ; which immediately caused an inflammation, and severe turns of coughing Fe was opened, his heart found to be contracted ; liis ligh s ramified and ulcerated ; the bean was found in the pipe, found and clean, having been in motion, no doubt, from the time he received ed it, until he died. PROVIDENCE. August 6. On Friday morning the 29th ult. at four o'clock, departed this life, at his house in this town, the Reverend JAMES MAN NING, D D. President of Rhode-Island College, in the 54th year of his age. He was born in New-Jersey, and educated at Naflau Hall. Soon alter he left College, he was called to the work of the mi niftrv, by the Baptist Church at the Scots Plains, near Elizabeth tow.n. After maknig tours to each extreme of the United States (then colonies) and preaching to different deft tute churches in sundry places, he removed with his family to Warren in this S'ate, preached to the church there, and opened a Latin School. In the year 1765, he obtained a charter of incorpo»ation for Rhode- Iflnnd College, of which he was chosen President. In the year 1770, the College was removed here, and became with it of comfe, where he has since prelided, and till of late years preached steadily to the Baptist Church in this town. In his youth he was lemarkablefor his dexterity in athletic ex ereifes. for the fymetiy of his body, and gracefulnefs of his pcr fon. His countenance was ftatcly and majestic, full of dignity, goodrn fs and gravity ; and the temper of his mind was a coun terpart of it. He was formed for enterprise, his address was pleating, his manners enchanting, his voice harmonious, and his eloquence irre(iilablc. Having deeply imbibed the spirit of truth himfelf, as a preacher of trie ; >fpc\, he was faithful in declaring the whole counsel of God. H' studied plainness of fp-ech, and to be ufeful more th.m to he celebrated. The good order, learning and refpe&abi liv, of the Baptist Churches in the eastern states, are much owing to his afiiduous attention to their welfare. The credit of his name, and his oerfonal influence among them, perhaps have ne arer been exceeded by any other chara&er. O: the College he mufl be considered as the founder. He pre"- sided with the singular advantage of a superior personal appear ance, added to all his shining talents for governing and inftrufting youth. From the fiift beginning of his Latin school at Warren, through many discouragements, he has by coriftanf care and labor raised thisJeat of learning to notice, to credit, and to refpeftabi lity in the United States- Perhaps the hi (lory of no other CbU lege will disclose a more rapid or greater maturity in the course ot about 25 years. + Although he seemed to he consigned to a sedentary life, yet he was capable of more a&ive scenes. He had paid much attention to'the government of his country, and had been honoured by this state with a feat in the old Congress. In (late affaii she discover ed an uncommon degree of sagacity, and might have made a fi gure as a politician. In clailical learning he was fully competent to the business of teaching, although he devoted less time than some others in his station to the study of the more abstruse sciences : in short, na ture seemed to have furniftied him so completely, that little re mained for art to ac,complifh. The resources of his genius were great. In conversation he was at all times pleasant and entertain ing. He had as many friends as acquaintance, and took no less pains to serve his friends than acquire them. death is a loss not to the College or Church only, but to the world. He is lamented by the youth under his care, by the Churches, by his fellow citizens, and, wherever his name has been heard, in wharever quarter of the civil zed earth, the friends oT fcieuce, of virtue and humanity, will drop a tender tear on the news of his death. His amiable lady, the wife of his youth, and the boast of her sex, with all her fortitude of mind, which is great, must have funk under the diftrefling loss, were she not sustained by Divine Grace. May Heaven continue to support her, for earth must have loft its •harms. Few persons ever enjoyed a more excellent constituti on, or better health Increasing corpulence, occasioned chic fly by his confinement to the labors of his station (for he was tempe rate in his diet) gave him some complaints of ill health, of late ■years ; but what in particular fumifhed him with a singular pre sentiment of his mortality is unknown*. He was seized with a fit of the apoplexy, in which he remained mostly insensible for about five days before his death. On Saturday last his remains were carried into the College Hall, where his funeral was attended, and.a prayer by the Rev. D«. Hitchcock, and afterwards deposited in the north burial place in this town. Order of the PrcccJJion, Students. Steward. Graduates, or Sons of the College. Profeflors Forbes and Weft. THE CORPSE Mourners ;n a coach. Chancellor of thr College. Members of the Corporation, Clergy. Physicians. Members ot.ihc Baptist Church. Citizens in general. This fanrral is thought to have been the moll numerous and re fpettzble ever attended in this town. * At the lajl annudl mertin* of the Corporation of the College, he gave notice to them to lock out for a fuccejfor in his place. On the lajl Sabbath of April, he preached his farewell sermon to the Baptifl ( hutch iti PrOridettre : and within a jew weeks requejlcd in wiiting a meeting oj the BaptijlSociety, for fivjhing the n; ting-house and (ot> and in that requejtnenUoned thai it would probibly be his lujl. Tu'ors, Philadelphia, August 20. POLITIC 4L SKETCH. [concluded.] THE State of Delaware, though final!, is not an unimportant branch of the geueal Concede racy of the United Stares. She diltinguilhed herfelf by an early adoption of the new conlti tutiou, tliat equalizing fy Item, which in one great and eflential point, effected at once for every part of the Union, what the fovereisnty of none of the particular States could do for itfelf—and that was, to refcire the fmftll governments from the impositions of the large.—This community of fieemen has it in contemplation to revile and amend its conit irtltion of government ; may its decifijus be founded on wilclom, and. their ef fects more than realize its most sanguine expec tations. Delaware partook largely in the de valtations of the late war, and enjoys her pro portion in the honors of a spirited refiliance to tyranny —Time lias fir. Iwthed the furrows occa (toned by its devaluation's, and more than restor ed her agriculture to its former state of relpecta bility.—Her population is encreafed, and the additions conltantly making by emigrations,mult add to her wealth and individual importance in the Union. The Commonwealth of Mnffachufetts has pas sed ihro fnch an important change since th£con ftitution of the United Stares went into opera tion, as amounts alinoft, in fafhionable phrale, to a political regeneration : Previous to that event, her immense debt, induced such severe taxation, as enervated the hand of induflry, discouraged commercial enterprizes, and diffufed a universal gloom over the face of society. The measures adopted by the general government have had a moll: salutary influence 011 the affairs of ourconn try at large ; but their visible effects have been strikingly conspicuous in Maflachufetrs. That just and equal provision of the funding fyltem, by which the United States aflumed payment of the State debts, was at once wife and popular ; it relieved that State from a burden which an honorable enthufiafin in the best of causes had brought upon her, and at the fame time juftified the expectations which her citizens had always repnfed in the faith and honor of the union.— In consequence of this, Maflachufetts has relin quilhed the excise, and in other refpecls con formed her legislative a<fis to the laws of the Uni ted States in such manner as to give the happiest facility to their operation.—Murmurs and dis contents are no more—and under a wife, firm and steady administration, (lie is making rapid progress in diminilhing her debts, encreafing her resources, and promoting the general hap piness of her citizens. The manufactures of this State have b?en pro digiously extended since the peace—and her ar ticles of export have greatly increased—The ci tizens have enlarged and improved their plans of public education, and to their infinite honor have opened the doors of learning to the female mind, upon terms of jutlice and equality. The laws of the United States have in no instance ex cited cabals, remonstrances, or resolutions. The fecnrities of the United States are greatly difFufed among the citizens of Maflachul'etts.— The fubfcripiions to the funding system have been general and amount to a very large num ber of individuals*; the new revenue law, or ex cise is carried into prompt execution—for in this State,as well asin all the others, the most refpetfl able characters ate appointed, and have almost universally accepted as fuperv! « >rs andinfpe«fiors. The population of this State, notwithstanding the migrations have been very great, amounts to almost half a million," and all free—in the census lately taken by'the niarflial of the di(lri<ft —againll the word Jlaves it is written, none. New-Hampshire is nearly arrived to the im portant period when her constitution is to be re vised—and from the happy experience the States have acquired in tranfac'ting business in public allemblies, the happiest presages may be enter tained of a favorable illue to the deliberations of their convention. The citizens of this State, in their habits, manners and fenriments refeinble their neighbors of Mafiachufetts, but living in a lef's compact situation, their intercourse with each other is not so rapid, and intimate, and their info rmation in the interior parts of the go vernment is consequently more imperfert.—The Mate has recently taken measures to facilitate a more general circulation of intelligence by es tablishing po(h—the feflions of their Legislature have latterly been held in an inland town—in which a public paper is eftablilhed, and which is supported with spirit and genius.—These cir cumltances combined, will conduce to dillemi nating full information among the people. One article in the funding fyitem appears to have ex cited some disapprobation on the part of New- * The last of March, the fubfcnptions in this State amounted to 3'£34>73 ( 6-too Dollars. 131 ' r jfcfc. ». « <tO» y Ufc G. 2* Hampfltire—the afTumption ; but to '.his {he will \ be reconciled on general principles, especially V when it is cortiidered tiiat a final liquidation, mult do jultice to al! parts of the union. This Staie diltinguilhed itfelf greatly during the war, her yeomanry are among the hardieit sons of Columbia—the furiiilned her proportion for the cabinet and field of able statesmen and legislators, V and intrepid and diltinguilhed officers. At the j moment of the reunion of the Sta-.es, amot g her citizens s\ere found the molt decided friends to freedom and government, thro whole exerti ms VJ the ratification of the conllitution was effected— t\ This State in common with her.neighbors is pro- pS> grefling in population agriculture and commerce. } N dicTtment Hated that the prisoner had robbed i V, on the high seas, Henry Williams, master of the > \ Hoop Men imack, of eleven Doubloons, of the j value of 165 Mexican Dollars. It appeared i.n K evidence that this woman had taken her pafli.ge J 011 board the shove sloop at Salem ( MalTachnfetts) J for this ciry—and alter the \ellel came to her moorings in the river, the money on searching \ " was found in the shoes and Itockings of the f.tia Eleanor. '1 he Jury having been out some tiiite, , returned with the verdidt—That the prisoner is not ' ' guilty in manner and form as she Jlands indifit .. v '\ k l[% s Sunday, Angult 7, Capt. Phelon, v itli a detac\i- Nj ment of 200 Continental Troops and Levies, ar rived at Pitifburgh ; also a detachn.ent of poo Le vies, under the command of Major Clark. A London Paper, of the 7th of June, mentions, that " the Empress of Russia hail repeated her Allbrances to the British Fats ory, thai in cafe of a War, their property should JTot." l>e liiolelted,.. and that the British Ships, tratfiHg'to her should be luffered to pass and* f-epafs as ufuali"' . As an encouragement to entering into the mar riage state, the public are frequently entenain-t,', ed in the newspapers with acccounts of divorces," family quarrels, elopements, &c. 011 all these occasions the woman is be the blameable party —but among all the various modes adupceA in our country to promote the honorable cost- . neftion of marriage there is none more than those cunning, sprightly witticifuis at the expence of the ladie9, which run Through \ many of our public Gazettes. One would b& led to suppose that printers of newfpapeis are - mod unhappily connected themselves, oihc wife ; they would not gratify a vicious and depraved* taste by republifliing and giving currency to 1 hose pitiful efFufions, which exhibit: the vvorlt fide of human nature. Census of the State of Virginia, as taken by the Mar- Jhal of that Dijlrift, pursuant to taw, Free white Males of 16 years and upwards, Ditto under 16, Ditto Females, All other free persons, Slaves, According to the census just taken, the State of New-Hampshire contains one hundred forty-two thousand and eighteen pet sons. Since our lafl arrived in town from South-Carolina, the Hon. Pierce Butler, Senator of the United States. Died, on Wednesday la ft, Mr. James F. Sebor,a refpe£}a!le citizen of New-York.—On Thursday his funeral was attended, from Mr. Thompson's, in Fourth-street, bv a great number of the inhabitants of this city, to the burying ground iu Chuft Churchr yard—where hisrema ; n< were interred. From PELOSI's MARINE LIST. ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA, Ship Dtfpatch, Cunningham, Tenrriffe. Brig Charleston, German, Charh fton. Ann, Qlover m Oporto. Columbia, Oswald, Gibraltar. Barque I'hilad. & Amsterdam Packet, Rice, Amdeidam. Schooner Dolphin, Bailey, New-York. PRICE CURRENT.— PUBLIC SECURITIES. FUNDED DEBT. 6 pr. Cents 20/6 pr. £. 3 pr. Crnts 12/3 i 2 yg Defeied 6 pr. Centi 12/6 UNFUNDED DEBT. Final Settl. and other Certificates ?.cf par. Indents 12 f3 12 f6 N. and S. Carolina debts, l sj^> Bank Suhfcriptions, 160 to 165 Dollars, New-Haven Wharf Lottery. (BY ORDER OF THE MANATERS.) Nr.n-Haver, July 20, 1791. THE Public are informed, thatth Tickets 111 tnt New-haven IVharJ Lottery have met with a rapid Sale;—mott than two. thirds arc already difpoftd of. The DRAWING wll positively commence on the 13 h September next. Thofc Ferfons who have received Tickets to fell, arc reqtn ftcd, without Jail. t<» return to ihe Managers what shall remain unfold on ihe toih September. Thofc who intend to become Adventurer.< in this Lottery. will do well to secure TICKETS immediately, left, by delav, they loose the ( HANL Eof m king their FORTUNES ;as tin Managers have no doubt the Tickets will all be SOLD before the 10 h September. A few of the above TICKETS may be had (J applied Jor foori) of Messrs. STEPHEN AUSTIN & Co. corner of Pine and Front-street*—who are author?fed to pay the PRIZES, Philadelphia, August 13, 1791. 1 I 16,1 3 J 21 5,046 12 P6B 292 627 747, 6 '2 io*?£ pr. cent. do. 65 do. '3/
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