burjecl in his own lioufc,and lie was accordingly
interred there. A ftoneclofet was erected i:> ii
where he was deposited in a {landing polhne.
The hotife afterwards fold, with this express
condition that it (liould remain there.
According to letters from Truro in Cornwall,
a meeting of the principal proprietors of the tin
mines was held in that town on Saturday fe'n
night> when it was agreed to advance the price
of that article to 31. 12s. per hundred, a higher
price than it has been for many years ; and the
East-India Company have agreed to take half
the tin produced from the County at the above
price.
We are sorry to fay, that the spirit of turbu
lence and disorder has broken out at Sheffield,
where, in the course of last week, the lower class
of people discovered an inclination to riot, in
consequence of the enclosure of the commons of
Stannington and Hallain ; but by the timely in
terference of 1 lie military, which were sent for
from York and Nottingham, the rioters were dis
persed and a period put to the disturbances.
The rioters had previously set (ire tofeveral ricks
of hay, four of which were consumed, and gut
ted the houses of the Rev. Mr. Wilkinfon, the
Vicar, and Mr. Eyre, and done other damage
By the last accounts all is quiet.
DUBLIN, July 25.
Yederday evening a great nntnber of people
afl'embled in a tumultuous manner, near the Par
liament House, in consequence of some seditious
hand-bills which were didributed the preceding
day. • A bom eight o'clock at night, they pro
ceeded to Fleer-lane, where they totally dedroy
ed fifteen houses, committing at the lame time
many acts of ontrage. The police at length ap
peared, and a defpei ate bat,tle ensued, when the
police were cjmpletely vvorfted. Some lives
were lod on both fides. Elated with their vic
tory, the mob marched down Fleet-street, com
mitting great excefles. At ten o'clock this morn
ing. a large body of the rioters were employed
in levelling with the ground the honfes they had
destroyed the preceding evening, when a party
of the 80th regiment arrived, and put an end to
their amusement. The military, having, com
pletely dispersed the insurgents, returned to the
barracks.
GEORGETOWN, (S.C.) August 27
In America men live and die free and inde
pendent, for nothing obliges thetn to throw off
that liberty which is the mod lovely ornauien;
and mod valuable-prerogative of human nature
—the country abounds with all the neceflaries of
life and (tie inhabitants are both numerous and
rich—valiant and indudrious—the edablilhuient
of arts, trades, and manufactures, has madetheni
entirely independent of other countries for any
of the neceflaries or even the luxuries of life,
and every citizen is his own politician and eligi
ble to any public office, what ever may be his re
ligion.
B O S T O N, Sept. 17
Nathaniel Barrett, Esq. who arrived in town
yesterday, via Cape Ann, from France, which he
left the ill of August, informs us, that the nioft
perfect tranquility pervaded the whole of that
kingdom, united with a determined resolution
to defend the principles of the revolution against
all attempts against tliem, internal or external.
That the flight of the King did not excite an agi
tation of 48 hours continuance : That on the
promulgation of the decree, exonerating the
King from all culpability, and declaring hisper
fon inviolable, a few rioters aflenibled at the
Champ de Mars, to swear not to have a king,and
that two persons fell vitftinis to their rage,—but
that the Marquis de la Fayette, at the desire of
the municipality, immediately marched a body
of national guards (who to a man are true to the
constitution) and, after some opposition from the
mob, about a dozen of whom were killed and
wounded, difperfecl them ; and that since the
nioft pertedt order has been preserved.
N E W-H A V E N, Sept. 21
On Wednesday the 14th inft. the anniversary
Commencement of Yale College was celebrated
in this City ; after the exercifesof the day were
concluded—the degree of Bachelor in Arts was
conferred on twenty-fix,and that of Master ofArts
on 17 Candidates.
The honorary degree of Master of Arts was
conferred on John Allen, Eft], of Litchfield,
and Mr. Francis Chiles of the city of New-
York.
The degree of Doiftor of Divinity was confer
red on the Rev. Jo hn McKnight, of the city
of New-York, the Rev. James Muir, of Alexan
dria, j n Virginia, the Piev, Samuel MaccmjJ
t°ck, of Greenland, in New-Hanipfhire.and the
ev -Josfph Lathrop, of Weft-Springfield, in
Mallachufetts.
1 he degree of Docflor of Laws was conferred
*>P«n the Rev. and Hon. Joseth Willard,D.D.
resident of the University of Cambridge.
Philadelphia, September 2
The Ichooncr Peggy, Capt. Wnite, arrived at New-York on
Saturday iaft, in lgdays from st. Maiks, Hilpaniola. He con
firms the accounts we had before received from that Island. The
diilreiled lituation of the white people almoil exceids description.
1 he negroes having desolated and deflroyed all the open country,
proceeded to attack the Cape (Francois.) They were deleated
with great slaughter in three deiperateattempts on that town. In
one defeat 2000 of thern were killed and 1500 taken prisoners, of
whom eveiy tenth man was beheaded. Many of the white peo
ple were alio killed in these conflicts—-one regiment alone left fif
ty me n killed in one engagement. The muiattoes had not joined
the negroes ; they were in arms tor their own defence, and had
informed the white people, that, if they would conform to the
decrecsotthe National Aflembly, they would afliit them to fup
prefsthe infurn dtion, We do not learn whether any or what an
swer has been given to this message.
Upwards of sixty fail of American vefTels are detained at the
Cape.
L'Anguille, on the Wabafh,the Indian Town deflroyed by Ge
neral Wilkirifon, has remarkably dittinguilhcd ltielf as a neii of
robbers and murderers, and is the only place upon the Wabafh
where our pritoners have constantly been put to the moil horrible
tortures
The two fuccefsful expeditions against the hostile Indians, can
not fail of making the moil serious imprdfions upon them, and
produce a solid peace, which is theXole object of the United States.
Indeed, since General Scott's expedition in June, a number 01
French inhabitants, who were fettled at feverai ot the Indian vil
lages on the Wabalh, had repaired to Poll Vincennes; and about
tnree hundred Ouittanon or YVea men, women and children, In
dians who have hitherto been hostile, bad followed their example,
and have fettled themfelvea within about eight leagues of Poll Vin
cennes, and declared themielves at peace, and under the protection
of the United States.
An alarming and treasonable riot lately took place in the coun
ty of Mifflin, in this State, occasioned, as it appears, by the enmi
>y of two men againflSamuel Bryfon, Esq. lately appointed Judge
of the Couit of Common Pleas ; thrfe men were ambitious of be
ing Colonels of militia, and against the commiflioning of whom,
as unfit persons, Mr. Bryfon as County-L'eutenant, had made re
presentations. Enraged at the promotion of Judge Bryfon—one
Wilson, brother to the Sheriff of that County, and one David
Walker levied a considerable force, and marched at the head of
about forty armed men with a fife playing, to Lewis-Town, with
an avowed determination to seize the person of Judge Bryfon,
whilst on the Bench, drag him from thence, oblige him to resign
his commiflion, and to accompany these persons to the rugged
narrows of Juniatta Rivers.
The mob was however fruftrated in their plan, thro'the spi
rited behavior of the Judges and the officers of the Court ; Judge
Bryfon escaped from their hands—and has repaired to the feat of
government. A body of the militia appeared the next day after
he riot tofupport and protest the Court—the rioters had previ
ously retired—and the Court was opened by the other Judges.
Col. McFarland who commanded the militia assembled 011 this
.ccafion, presented an address to the Judges on behalf of himfelf,
and the militia,declaring their abhorrence of the proceedings which
lad taken place—and offering at the hazard of their lives to pro
eft the Court—to which the Judges returned an answer expressive
of their sense of. the laudable zeal discovered by the ftip
port the laws and government of Pennsylvania,
The degree of Doctor in Divinity, at the late Commencement in
this city was conferred on the Rev. Mr. Afhbell Green ot Phila
delphia ; and on the Rev. Mr. Isaac Keith, of Charleflon, South-
Carolina.
The Provost of the University in his charge to the graduates, ob
served, that the wounds and fears which science felt from the un
natural hand of despotism, when her spirit was whetted against
this unoffending country, soon experienced the healing afliftance
of legifla ive authority, to the remotell corners of our confederacy,
liven amidst the ravages of war, and the attention neccffary to re
pel the invasion of a proud and disappointed nation, the State of
P nnfvlvania, ever attentive to the things which constitute her
ft ensrth and among the confederated States, erected
the University of Pennjyfvania at the public expence, without a fin
rle privati donation, or any application from public spirited in
vidualsfor legislative countenance and aid. The institution is
their own, and owes its origin to the wisdom, po'icy and fore
thought of her Representatives eleven years ago, in that dark and
cloudy day, when the scale of battle yet huug doubtful, although
' opcfully verging towards the fide of liberty and independence.
They have seen, I trust, said he, with secret plcafure, the fruits
of their early attention to the interests of literature, in the gradu
ation of upwards of 260 students, besides those that have been gra
duated this day, in the short space of eleven years; the blollbms
of manv of whom begin to unfold, and to promise us the rich
f ru-.ts of a splendid addition to that stock of knowledge in philo
sophy and physic, in law and divinity, which enriches a nation,
and makes them more excellent than their neighbors. And this
day we are happy in exhibiting to their view, and in ushering in
to life, under their auspices, in thecourfeof the present year, as
numerous and refpe&able a class of students in philosophy and me
icine, as were ever graduated in the State of Pcnnfylvania.—And
if any thing be yet necefTary to complete their original plan of
enlarging the human mind, and ex3hing the genius of our citi
zens, as feemsto be the cafe in the general idea, and wish of the
♦riends of literature in the State, we doubt not, but the wisdom
and magnanimity of one of the largest States 111 the Union, will
vie with the most forward of the confederacy, in piacing their
University upon as refpeSable a footing as any other in America,
and in making it as extenfivcly ufeful to the interests of science,
religion and government.
In full confidence of the liberality and wisdom of the Legisla
ture, the Trustees have erected an elegant and spacious anatomical
theatre and chemical elaboratory, for the accommodation of the
medical students, which will be ready for their reception on the
firft of November next, when the medical lettures will commence;
being fully sensible, that it would be impoflible for them to an
swer the designs of their conftiturnts, or support the encreafing re
putation of the medical institution, without such a ftru£lure.
Every fiiend to virtue, science, and the bed intercfts of society
and the rising generation, must he delightrd on reading i he ingeni
ous, pathetic and truly elegant Address of the Hon. Mr. How eli,
inferte'd in this day's Gazette—it can scarcely.be peruftd withou
pleasure and advantage by persons of every age ; but to young
minds in particular, it conveys the moil important lessons of life.
SAYS A CORRtIPONDZNT,
Good Government is to be considered as an ordinance of Hea
ven, principally on account of its the medium thro which
we receive all the bleflings of society. Withou*. government there
can be no society, and 110 civil freedom ; all the advantages de
pendant on property arise from government ; and here we mav
di(tin«ui(h the difference between tyranny and government; under
the former, there is nothing but she name of property—for what
we cannot call our own, we cannot be (aid to pojfe/s. That is not
government, but despotism, whether in the hands of one, a few
or many, which does not pay a sacred regard to the rights of pro
perty, as well as to the rights of man ; indeed they cannot be fe
paratcd, for when the former are invaded, the springs of industry,
and a laudable ambition, which are eflennally conne&ed with the
equal rights of man, are attacked and undermined.
175
If is With Government as with Religion, the world abounds
with different systems of each, and the fV6ts which adhere to them
refpeftively pretend in a greater or lefler decree to infallibility—
hence the intemperate heats and animosities which interrupt, and
often destroy the peace of society.
It is now generally considered as indicative of narrowness and
bigotry of mind, to deny 10 otheis the right every one is fond e
nough of assuming to h rnfeli, ol judging in a tides of faith. Why
(nould not equal liberty be allowed in chufing our political creed ?
" To err is human"—and mankind are perhaps more liable to er
ror in what concerns their political intereil, than they are in what
relates to modes of religious belief.
It has often been confidently affcrted that religious zeal and
bigotry have deflroyed more of the human race than any other
cause of diflVntiou ; yet the contrary will appear when it 1? conti
dered that mankind have been perpetually at war about civil and
political rights, and their temporal poll ilions—whereas religious
wars have raged only at particular periods,and tliofe remote from.
The late accounts from the Weft-India I (lands present the mod
gloomy fpi'ftacle that perhaps has ever been exhibited on the thea
tre of the globe. To reflect on an handful of people (compara
tively speaking) being absolutely in the power of an immense mul
titude of blacks, untaught and uncivilized, whose fenle of injuries
has been constantly receiving an additional keenncft to its edge for
ages, must harrow up every feeling of humanity ; and tho there is
something in our natures which revolts from slavery, and every ge
nerous American must ardently wish to fee the period arrive
When Afric's sons [had freely range their groves,
Pluck their own fruits, and woo their fable loves.
Yet as the new system of tne world is gradually ameliorating the
condition of our species, it is rather to be feared, that the period,
when universal freedom shall be enjoyed, must be retarded, rather
than accelerated by such horrible attempts. On the principle
therefore of universal benevolence and philanthropy, if impelled
by no other motives, the Government of the United States is bound
to afford the most prompt and etteftual succour and relief to their
allies.
According to the late accounts from Cape-Francois, the following
seems to have been dictated by the spirit of prophecy—
An Address from the Tozun and Commerce of Nantes, to the National
Ajjembly dated May 20, 1791
Gektlemen,
YOUR decree of the 15th May, sublime in the eyes of philofo
phy,and dictated by the\love of humanii y,will not prevent (per nut
this freedom to our patriotism) its being the mod inhumah, if us
execution was not iniprafticable in thr Colonies. More terrible
than thr hurricanes which ravage these rich countries, ?t would
carry with it ail the evils re-united, it goes forth to rc-kindlc upon
these shores already the fpeftacles of horror, the firebrand of dif-'
cord and civil war ; rivers of blood is going to be shed — under
this burning the paflions are extreme, hatred ai d ven
geance will display in their true colours their fanguinaiy tffefts.
Ah do not flatter yourselves that these dreadful misfortunes are
iranfient : No, gentlemen, as long as your fatal decree ihall ex: ft,
the whites and coloured pedple cannot live together ; one party or
tl e other inuft be exterminated : there is no alternative ; and the
conquering party enfeebled by its victory will fall a facrifice to the
(laves, too crafty to let flip the favorable moment of breaking their
chains. Then will those terrible words be realized which have
already made your walls resound, May the Colonics per ijli— this bar
barous wifli is granted, they are no more —our commerce ruined,
our marine annihilated, agriculture languishing, our manufafturcs
abandoned, ten millions of Frenchmen reduced to the deepefl mi
sery, without the means of fubfiftcnce, wanting bread ; these are
the unhappy consequences, the effect of the loss of the colonics :
bankrupts innumerable, and a general distrust among individuals
will give a fatal itab to public credit ; our fpeeie will flow with
rapidity into the dominions of foreigneis, a general mourning will
cover all France, and more than a third of the inhabitants will be
forced to leave their country, to carry among strangers those ta
lents and that industry which their native foil can no more em
plov.
However gloomy this representation may be, it Is the exa£h ft
truth, and it will make you tremble. It the love of humanity and.
the desire of rendering all the fubje£U ot the empire happy, ani
mated you when you palfed the decree of the 15th May-—in the
name of the colonies, so precious a part of the French monarchy—•
in the name of those whose happiness you wish, while you expose
them to almost inevitable deftruftion—in the sacred name of hu
manity—in the name of ten millions of our brothers who will fall
victims to the most wretched misery—repeal this crucl decree;
confccrate and adopt in a solemn manner that of the Bth March
179° • g rant to the colonies that privilege you promiled them;
themselves alone can re-eftabli(h and maintain good order and
tranquility. This privilege is their palladium, without which our
Colonies cannot exist.
The accounts from Cape-Francois as published in a Boston pa
per, fay That the Negro Insurgents amounted to 70,000, that
they had killed all the Whites, men, women and children, and
burnt all the plantations for 60 miles round—the light of the fire
was so great, that they could fee to read on board the packet
which brought the news to New-London, the night after she failed.
The Beacon, lately ere&ca by the Marine Society of Salem, on
the north end of Baker's island, is 22 feet base, and 55 feet high.
On approaching said island, the following dire&ions, from accu
rate fuiveys lately taken, may be observed
From eastern point C. Ann, to said beacon, S. 74
deg. W. distant
From Gale's Ledge, S. 51 deg. W. distant
From south breakers of r aid island, N. deg.
W. dtftanr
From Half-Way Rock, N. 3 deg. W. distant
From Harding's Rock (the body) S. 81 deg. E.
distant n-20ths of a mile.
From Tennappoo, or Bowditch's Ledge, S. 68
deg. E. distant mile.
SHIP NEIVS.
ARRIVALS at the PORT of PHILADELPHIA.
Sloop Kx.periment, Crawford, St. Thoma*,
Schooner Trimmer, Stanton, Antigua,
Bug Fanny, Stevenson, Cadiz,
Ship William Pcnn, , London,
Pallai, Collins, Amlterd^m,
Birm ngham Packet, S'mons, B ftol.
Brig Maria, Atwood, B »fton f
Molly, Rafer, Havre-de-Grace.
CaDt. Atwood saw two large ships standing into B>flon Bay,
under jury malts.
Capt. Rafer left Havre-de-Grace the firft of Augufl, at which
time all was quiet in France.
The French Packct Le Suffrein, is arrived at New-York from
L'Orient.
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