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.)'