phical vagabond through many courts of Europe, and met with patronage at 1a It out of his own country. There may be nothing solid in this projectedicheme > butlet gentlemen be indulged — it will be most decent. The question for refering being taken, it was carried in the affirmative by a large majority, and a feleA committee appointed, viz. Meilis. Page, Wadfworth and Wayne. MONDAY, Januaky 30. The Speaker laid before the House a letter froni the Secretary of War, with copies ot the commu nications which have taken place between uie Supreme Executive of the Common wealth ot Pennsylvania, and that officer, relative to the railing of troops within and under the him.hoi )ty offaid Commonwealth —communicated by com mand of the President of the United States, pur suant to a request of the Honfe on the 25th inft. A mefl'rige was received from the Senate by their Secetary, with the bill to eflablifh the Poll- Office r>r. . I\>ft-Koads within the United' States— pafled ill-: ' cuatc with amendments, in which th»v "q', I*. :h- 1"011 s"ms'vcnce of the House. Th it fceine, 1 jd she Order of the Day was calle' for, on ■: making efFeiftual provision for N,e defence thr frontiers—and the House coir went int. the galleries were ared TUSEDAY, January 31 A report from the Secretary of War, on peti tions of fandry f'eamen of the late navy of the United States, was read—this report Hates that the several petitioners were neceflarily absent from their country at the time prescribed by law for receiving the balances due to them refpec lively, for their services—and fuggefis rhe pro priety of repealing, or suspending so much q/ the limitation ordinance, as precludes their re ceiving said balances—laid on the table. Sundry petitions, praying for compensations, pensions, settlement of accounts, renewal of 101 l certificates of public debt, &c. were read, and re ferred to the heads of departments. The Order of the Day was called for, on the bill making effectual provision for the defence of the Frontiers—and the House went into a com mittee of the whole—on whichchegalleries were cleared By the minutes of the proceedings of yefler day,-read in the House this day, it appears that the motion for linking our the 2d feiftion, which provides for three additional regiments, was ne gatived— 33 —to 18. PARIS, October 21 It is remarkable, that in the various tumults ■•that have been excited among the populace on account of the protestants being allowed to preach their doiftrines without hindrance, women have been the sole atftors ; and on several occafioua have gone tofuch mischievous lengths, that even the luweft vulgar among the men, have volunta rily assisted the city guards in reducing these priest-ridden viragos to reason. This ungovern able temper in our women, is not difficult to be accounted for. In times past it has been the po licy of tiie teaching clergy, always to fine of the miltrefs of the family. No pains having been previously spared to make them sincere con verts to the teueis of bigotry» and fanaticifm, Lite men, of consequence, became an easy prey, and were not so much attended to. The principles of intolerance having by these means taken fivch deep root in the minds of the lower class of our, females, 110 wonder that the laws of equity and ju(Hte find it difficult to infpiie thein with a to lerating (pirit in matters of religion. B O S T O N, January 19. LEGISLATURE OF MASSACHUSETTS, JAN U'A R y 16, Dr. Jarvis, Mr. Tudor, Dr. Euflfs, Mr. Breck, and Mr. Wedgery, were appointed a committee to consider the fubjetft of the balance fnppofed to be due from the United States to this Common wealth, and the expediency of reinonftrating to Congrels on the (abject thereof, and report. January 17. A committee, consisting of Messrs. Johnson, Tyler, Taylor, Fifk, and Nichols, was chosen to report the moil eligible method for the sup port of teachers of piety, religion and morality within this Commonwealth, and how to deter lnine the proper members in each lociety charge able with such support. FF. Ivl aL K HEROISM A very extraordinary circninftance arretted the attention of the House this afternoon. A petition was presented by a Mrs. Deborah Gan nett, who served with reputation, as a foklier, three years in the army of the United States, and received an honorable discharge therefrom. This extraordinary woman inlifted as a male, by the name of Robert ShirtlifF; and as such did her duty without a stain on her virtue or honor. She only prays, in her petition, for the pay ment of her arrears ; but tubmits the circum of the whole—on which fiances of her fcrvices to the confidefation of the Legislature : And from the feelings which appeared 011 the occasion, cxpMTive of a itrong desire tu reward heroism like hers, there is 110 room to doubt that a compensation will be grant ed, adequate to ner lervices, and honorable to the government. Several members corroborated the facfts Hated in the petition ; which was committed to a re- Ipeifiahle committee. A representation from the committee for the sale of Euftern Lands, was read, in which it was itated, that there have been fold since the 1 alt -itting < t the General Court, about 2,100.000 acres of those lands, and that there are further applications for upwards of 2,000,000 acres more ot that valuable and fertile country. THEATRE Mr. Tudor called the attention of rhe house to the fubjec r t of a repeal of the law prohibiting The atrical Exhibitions. After dating the reasons which induced him thus early to life, he read the law above mentioned ; and moved that a committee be appointed to consider the expediency of bring ing in a bill for the repeal of it. The fubjetft was then committed to Meflrs. Gar diner, Greenleaf, Hichborn, Bowers, Klagg, Wafhburn, and Kinfley, to consider and report thereon. January 18. A remonstrance from a number of the inhabi tants of the town of Boilon, against the repeal of the law to prevent Stage Flays, &c.—Read and committed to the committee on that fubjedi. The bill eflablifhing the Bolton Tontine AfTo ciatioti, was read the firft time, and Wednesday next assigned for its second reading. PORTLAND, Jan. 9. In the account brought by Captain Clap, from Port-au-Prince, and lately published in this paper, mention was made of the murder of the Ne®ro and Mulatto women and children who were found in that town the day after the fire.—Capt. Clap has linee, however, declared that he was not knowing to the mall'acre of the children. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. MR. FENNO, Some modem European Phitofopher has fumijhed the American Papers with a comparative Sketch of the Civilized Man and the Savage—will you pleaje to publijh, as a counterpart TUT, SAVAGE AND THE CIVILIZED MAN. Savage rises in the morning, and prowls -0- through the sorest for food—if he finds it, he returns loaded to his wife, who cooks it for him ; her portion is, what he may leave of the hasty repalt : if he is unfuccefsfu) in hunting, he takes in an additional hole in his girdle, and his family pines in want. The civilized Man gets up with the sun—pur sues his daily occupation—and the sure profpeel of a reward to his industry, lightens the burthens of life—while the arts of civilization afford a per petual security against hunger, nakedness and cold. The Savage has a precarious support—nature, it is true, provides the crystal dream, and his i>ow may flop the deer in its course—but the Itream is often remote, and the track of the ar row is frequently untrue. The civilized Man may flruggle with misfor tunes ; but he has a never-failing resource in the benevolence of society. The inhabitant of the woods hasbut few ideas, and few pleafuies—thefe are of the ardent kind, and their acquifiiion often interferes with those of his fellow Savages—the consequences are fatal. The civilized Man has a bpundlefs circle of enjoyments—his views are expanded, his ideas unlimited ; his hopes are excited by innumerable objeifts, and gratified ten thousand different ways. The legal rettrainis on his pleasures, appetites and pailions, enlarge the sphere of his felicity. The Savage, disengaged from the chace, or war, leads a life of stupid infenfibility—cnere can scarcely be said to be any progress, or fuc celfion of events, in his exiltence—'tis one per perual nvw. The civilized Man lives in himfelf—in his chil dren— in the public ; —and as he participates in the labors, he enjoys the happiness of his coun try and of mankind. " The Savage feels no anxiety for the future welfare of his family, however numerous it may he"—he propagates his kind like the wolf of the defart, and his offspring are abandoned to a way ward fate. The cares, the solicitudes, the anti cipations and pleasures of life, are equally un known to him. The civilized Man has liis cultivated faculiies con.inually employed to promote the happiness of his family—every addition to it is a new pledge of future enjoyment.—He feels the protection of civil government, and contributes to its fapport—protedled in his acquifiiious by law, he cofttemplatesthe tranfmiflijn of his name, his inheritance, his rights and privileges, to his polteriiy, with unspeakable pleasure. 319 The Savage has no abiding place—his only de fence from the inclemency of the Ikies, is in his cafe-hardened carcase. The civilized Man, wifely calculating for the future contingencies of the seasons, in the retreat reared by the joint labors of affiliated industry, << smiles at the tempest, and enjoys the norm." The Savage, while young, feels, and glories in the v,g our 0 f hi s nerves ; like the young colt, he fnuffs the wind, and braves the teinpelt—— hue mark his declining years—Time very early (cars his visage. and the hanging down-drawn 'lip „f the aged Savage, fully evinces that iiis lajl are not his bej] days. The civilized Man preserves, by temperance the vigor of youth, till an advanced period—his declining years are crowned with refpeft and ve neration—and his J alt repose is in the arms of filial affetftion. Philadelphia, February i. iJotflor Wi hard, Pfelident of Cambridge Uni versity, Mad. has lately been elefled one of the honorary Members of the London Midical Society. We are informed that a committee of the Ma nufacturing Society are to meet to view the Ra ritati on the 20th of February next—and tiiac Nehemiah Hubbard, Esq. of is ap. pointed fuperintendant-general, with a salary of two thousand dollars a year. We are farther informed, that the society ex perts from Lyons in France, early in the spring, a company of manufacturers for the Ribbon and Wire department. A correspondent has observed that some accounts from Quebec papers, via England, recently pub lished in the papers of the United States, inform, that Lord Dorchester did not leave the Govern ment of Canada with-the unanimous approbation of the citizens of Quebec. It is but justice to fay that those Quebec papers contained counter pub lications, highly approving of his adtniniftration, signed by numerous bodies of citizens of allranks and profeffions, French and Enghfh. Extral7 of a letter from Bcflon " I wilh to be informed what the probable in tentions of Government are.—Some of our Six per Centers, &c. and the 1 uke-warm friends to the Government of the Union, are oppofedl to a further prosecution of the war—but difinterefled men, and our old soldiers and officers, will exe crate the Government, if it fuffers the Frontiers to be deserted, and our citizens exposed to the fury of the bipeds of the wilderness." The English cf a certain letter, said to have been written in Quebec, if it has any meaning, fays a correspondent, is this :— " The Indians are affronted, and ifyoudonot buy a peace of them on any terms, they will, next spring, perhaps this winter, bripg an army of twenty thoafand men into the field, andfweep all the settlements on the Frontiers, from the Miffifippi to Lake Champlain.—You cannot kill more than two in an hundred of ihem—whereas they are sure to kill eighty in an hundred of you : These circumstances are so fully known to them, that though they have heretofore refufed to make peace with yon, yet at the moment they are slushed with vidlory, and glutted with plunder, you will find it the molt favorable time to nego ciate a treaty !" v The United States have made no encroach ments on the lands of the Indians, and yet they are charged by letter-fabricators with beingguilty of acfts of greater injustice than ever were perpe trated towards the savages by any ot the Euro pean powers who have ever attempted to make settlements on this continent. Thefpringof ma ny remarks of the above complexion, is an inve terate hatred to the government and honor of the United States. The primary object in the institution of civil government, is the security of Liberty—but it is as unfortunate, as it is true, that the reverse idea has been all along inculcated upon mankind. The vital principle of a free government is an equal representation— This is the fountain, which if kept pure, will water the Tree of Liberty, and make it immortal—This fountain inuft be preserved from contamination by the virtue and vigilance of the people in their ele&ions—and in this way alone, they can hope to perpetu ate their freedom—for all other modes of feekmg redress of public grievances, under a free government, has uniformly ended in mak ing bad, zvorje. Died—Mrs. Henrietta Hillegas, wife of Michael Hil legds, Esq. t Mr. Peter Markoe—author of several publications in prose and verse. 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