PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS B" JOHN FUN NO, No. 69, HIGH-STREET, BETWEEN SECOND AND THIRD STREETS, PHII.ADEI PHIA [No. ?6, of Vol. lII.] PREMIUMS THE Pennsylvania Society for the encourage ment of Manufactures and the ufeful Arts, raking into their consideration the Premiums pro per to be offered for the ensuing year, agreed upon the following : THE CONDITIONS ARE, That the specimens on which the premiums fiiall be claimed, mult be the produce or manu facture of Pennsylvania, Jersey, or Delaware, and that they be exhibited to the board on or be fore the fir(t day of December i 792. That those who may bccome candidates, will be expected to prepare clear and fatisfaJtory proofs, such as their cases may require ; and that the Society reserve to themselves the right to determine,not only the comparative, but the absolute merit of the specimens produced by the different candi dates, and of giving or withholding their premi ums accordingly. I. To such person as (hail exhibit the best spe cimen of Earthenware or Pottery, approaching nearest to Queen's Ware, or, the Nottingham or Dels Ware, of the marketable value of fifty dol lars— a Plate of the value of fifty dollars, or an equivalent in money. 2. To such person as Hiall exhibit the bc-ft spe cimen of Stone Ware, or ihat kind of Earthen Ware which is glazed with fait, of the marketa ble value of 50 dollars— a Plate of jo dollars va 1 tie, or that futn in specie. 3. To fucli person as (hall exhibit the largest quantity of Wool, not less than joolbs. wt. the produce of one farm—a Plate of ihe value of jo dollars, or the amount in specie. 4. To such person as (hall produce the largest quantity of bleached Wax, fit for candles, or ex portation, not less than 500lbs. wt. —a premium of Jo dollars. 5. To such person as stall produce tlie g:eat eft quantity of painters' colours, manufactured from materials found in Pennfy Ivania, New-Jei fey, or Delaware—a premium of Jo dollars. 6. To such person as shall make ami exhibit the largest number of Smiths' Anvils, not less than 20 of ioolbs. wt. each, equal in quality Ui those imported—a premium of JO dollars. 7. To such person as {hall make and exhibit the bed specimen of Stoves of cast iron, at least 400wt. approaching nearelt to the quality of Bath Stoves, in finoothnefs and evenness of the furface, and relief and elegance of the figures—a premi uni of 80 dollars. , 8. For the best specimen produced of frnall hol low iron Ware, three tons wt. approaching near est in Jightnefs, elegance, &c. to the imported— a priinium of jo dollars. 9. For the belt specimen of Stone or Marble Slabs, not less than 2000 square feet, sawed by machinery, moved by horses or water—a premi um of jo dollars. 10. To the person who (hall produce the next greatest quantity of Stone or Marble Slabs, not less than tooo square feet, sawed by machinery moved by horses or water—a premium of 2J dol. lars. 11. For the best specimen of Stone or Marble polillied by machinery moved bj horses or water, not less than square feet-,-a premium of jo dollars. 12. For the best specimen of red leather, at least ioo Ikins, approaching nearest in finenels of colour and dressing to the Morocco leather—a premium of 50 dollars. Published by order of the Board, Thomas M. Willing, Sec'ry Th'tladtlphia, Dec. 9, 179 T. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. r I present posture of onr national affairs A bavin® bccome a matter of such general contemplation, a few obfervatiortfc may perhaps be offered to the public (more especially fhoold they agiee with those of many judicious minds) without being thought obtruftve. All those who o(lifted jn the undertaking and eflablifhing of the independency and freedom of this country, have acquired certain indisputable rights, which rights are deposited, in trull, in the hands of a number of dire<flors, so to manage, as may belt conduce to the intereflof the whole; and there fore it cannot be nnderftoodat improper fo,rany one who has an interefl In this common flock, at any time ropffer such hints a* may fend to aid Wednesday, January j 8, 1792. the directors in cond ucfting their ineafures to the true point. From this view of matters, lam em boldened to '-ffer the following remarks rel'pect ing the Indian war. l"lie principles on which tills war lias been arried on, no one will lay are unjult, who has ny»knowledge of the raeafures taken by go enmient, to cultivate peace and a good under landing between the United States and the In lian tribes. Thar peace would have been effeft ■d with many of the tribes, is apparenr, were it lot for the Wabalh nation in particular; they icing numerous, and the great pofleffors ot the .Veltern Country, and admitting other tribes to ive, and hunt 011 their grounds only on fufFer mce, could prevent those from treating of peace, md oblige them to aHi It in war ; —this being the •ale, and the Wabalh generally inclined to war, :oercive measures have long since become indif lenfible. Tliefe circumltances have perhaps led he chief magjltrate to intimate the necelfitv of Force in Tome of his speeches to Congrels at the ipening of their feflions. We now discover, from two fruitleft campaigns, what might have seen done the firft, had that information been 3litaitied which is but lately received. We know lie force to be contended with ; we know the firmnefs with which rhev have, and will dispute ihe ground; and we know that a force but little superior to our enemy, will be obliged to pro crastinate, or great facrifices mull be made, and great hardfhi ps imposed 011 our troops. Then if we value the lives of our fellow-citizens, if we wifti to support our rights which we have pur chased heretofore at lo dear a rate, and at the lame time to spare the blood of those aboriginals, it inuft be by a well appointed army, which, in the opinion of the writer, ought not tocemfiltof less than eight thousand men—tliefe, with pro per compenlations while in service, and proper rewards for their services when they may be dis pensed with, will give the neceflary Itimulous and exertion iji the operations. Of this number, when appointed, and every poilible exert ion used, more than three-fourths will never be collected at any one given place. Tliefe troops mult be taught to act in three different capacities, fay 1000 cavalry, 1000 rangers, and 4000 infantry, in the whole 6000—which number, perhaps, might be pot together in the Western Country, by the latter part of the present year ; they, at the fame time,(might give protection to our frontiers, and, by the funimer of 1793, may take the field ofFenfively. On these conditions, and with such a force, we might promise ourselves, by eftablilh ing proper polls in the Indian country, and by hsrralling them in their settlements by our horse and rangers, that we fhonld soon experience the happy effects of peace without the shedding of much blood—on the contrary, onr little armies will be cut up in detail, pur belt patriots fall a facrifice to the tomahawk, and an alinolt endl.efs expence accumulate. New-London, Januarys, 1792. THE number of inhabitants within the city of New-London, taken frotn the Marshal's Schedule, in the Cenfusof the United States, 1791. Males, 1177 ?t- . 1 / Females, 1288 } ° n Of the above 138 are Blacks. Bill of Mortality within the City of New-Lon don, in the Year i 791. 2 between 86 and 90 years 1 _ 70 _ 7J 4 — — 60 2 _ 3.5 _ 40 2 — 30 — 3 5 1 — 25 — 30 4 — 16 — 20 1 — 11 — — / 6 — — birth — 2 ~° J Total 37 173 1 19 Males, Females, Diseases. 1 Bilious-Cholic— 4 In flammation of Bowels—l Pleurisy—2 Peripneu inony—6 Consumption—6 Convulsions—6 Diar rhsea—l Dysentery—3 Canker—l Grave!— 2 Old Age—l Drowned. BIRTHS Males, 00 ? _ . Females, 69 5 1 otal 1 301 A CITIZEN, [Whole No. 284.] LONDON, o<ftol>er 10. A>: A to Dr. Priefl t*y, ncrreid upon at a me;t ---"!S °t tl: ' s Philosophical Society at Derby, Sept. 3. Sir, WE condole with yourfelf, and with the fci * entific world, on the loss of your valuable library, your experimental apparatus, and your more valuable mannferipts ; at the Came time we beg leave to congratulate you 011 your peifonal lafety, in having escaped the sacrilegious hands of the ravages at Birmingham. Alinoft all great minds, in all ages of the world, who have endeavoured to benefit mankind, have been persecuted by thein ; Galileo, for his phi losophical difcovei :es, was impt ifoned by [he in qniiition ; and Socratcs found a cup of hemlock his reward ft>r reaching, <« there is one God." Your enemies, Enable to conquer your arguments by reason, have had recourse to violence ; they have halloo d upon you the dogs of unfcel 'n£[ ignorance, and of frantic fanaticiftn ; they have kindled fires, like those of the inquifilion, not to illuminate the truth, but, like the dark lantern of the allaltin, to light the murderer to his prey. Your philosophical friends therefore hope, that you will not again rifle your peifou amongst a people whose bigotry renders them incapable of inftrudion : they hope vou will leave the unfruitful fields of polemical theology, and cultivate the philosophy of which you may be called the father ; and which, by inducing the world to think and reason, will filentlv mail fhal mankind against deluiion, and with greater certainty overturn the empire of fuperflition. In (pite of the persecution vou have fuitained, we trust, that you will persevere in the exertions of virtue and the improvements offcience. Your fame, alieady cohfpicuous to every civilized na tion of the world, Ihall rife like a phoenix from the flames of your laboratory with renovated vigour, and fliine with brighter corrufcations. R. ROE, Secretary. Reply to the Members of the Philosophical Society at Derby. Gentlfmfn, I KEEL myfelf greatly encouraged, 111 my pre» lent fufferings from the effeiSs of bigotry, by the lympathy exprefled by you, and by other liberal friends of science here and abroad. It will be a new thing in the woHd, if any thing truly valuable lose credit, or have alefs ra pid l'pread, in consequence of perfecuiion.' If any tiling will bear to be viewed and examined, it must derive advantage from whatever draws attention to it ; and such I am confident is tlip cause in which I fufFer. In conleqtience of this, far from being difcour raged, I feel myfelf more animated than ever ; and I am at this very time fitting about the re eitablifhmeiilofmy philosophical apparatus, and resuming all my former pursuits. Excuse me, however, if I dill join theological to philosophical (Indies ; and if I consider ths former as greatly superior in importance to man kind 10 the latter. But as these differentpurfuiis have never yet interfered with, but promoted each other, be persuaded that this will contiriyp to be the cafe. I am, Gentlemen, Your very humble servant, J. PRIESTLEY. London, $ept. 21 A Writer in an Englijh Paper on the Subjetl «f FIRES fays, WE may even now, here and there, meet with 3 matter, or by rare chance with a mistress, whose mind is not altogether so Shattered by the current habits of diilipation, but that thev con stantly walk the round of the house every night before they retire to bed, to fee that doors, win dows, fires, and candles, are all fafe. Thofewho expect that money is to do every thing, and that the services they pay for, is to exonerate them from all dpmeftic cares, which are left to vulcat minds, nniit run the hazards they wilfully incur fiom servants. who are full as careful to avoid vulgarity as themselves. ANECDOTE. A CHAP once afktd of a close old Griper To buy his grind/tones; add »g thev werfc low. *' I grindflones !" cried old Square Toes ; " no, you viper " \Vh?t made you think of me ? I tell you no!" Sir," said the man, 41 no evrl was intended; " An offer of my gtindftoms is not binding; *• Nor fbould I thus your worfliip ha*e offended, " Had I not known you very fond of grinding.)'
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