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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