A SA IIOtfAL PAPER, PUBLISHED WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS BY 7 OHN F F.N NO, No. 69, HIG H-STREF.T, PHILADELPHIA [No. 100, of Vol. lII.] Wednesday, April ii, 1792. PHILADELPHIA THE ChiefsoftheFive Nations, last Monday week, met the Go vernor in the Council-Chamber, to return a lormal answer to his address, delivered to them, in the lame place, on the 28th ult. SAGOYEWATHA, or RED JACKET, firft addrellcd his Excellency, as follows : Brother Onas * Governor, OPEN unprejudiced ears to what we have to fay. Some days since you addreiled us, and what you said gave us great pleasure. , This day, the Great Spirit has allowed us to meet you again in this Council-Chamber. We hope that vour not receiving an im- . mediate answer to your address, will make no improper impres sion upon your mind. We mention this, left vou should fufpeft, that your kind wel come and friendly address, has not had a proper effett upon our hearts. We allure vou it is far otherwifc. Brother, Onas Governor, In your address to us the other day, in this ancient Council chamber, where our forefaiheis have often converl'ed together, se veral things (truck our attention very forcibly. When vou told us this was the place in which our forefathers often melon peace able terms, it gave us sensible pleasure and more joy than we couh express. Brother, Onus Governor, Though we have not writings like you ; vet we remember of ten to have heard of the friendfhip that existed between our fore fathers and yours. The pi&ure to which you drew our atten tion + brought frefh to our minds the friendly conferences that used to be held between the former Governors of Pennsylvania, and our Tribes, and (hewed the love which your forefathers had of peace, and the friendly disposition of our people. It >s ftillour wish, as well as yours, to prefcrve peace between our Tribes and you, and it would be well if the fame spirit existed a mong the Indians to the Westward, and through every part of the United States. Brother, OrtAs Governor^ You particularly exprefTed, that you were wrll p'eafed to find, that we differed in disposition from the Indians Wellward. Your difpofitioo is that for which the ancient Onas Governors were re markable. As you love peace, (o do w» also ; and we wifa it could be extended to the mod distant parts of this great country. Brother, Onas Governor, We agreed in council this morning, that the Tenements I have exprefled, should be communicated to you, before the delegates of the Five Nations, and to tell you. that your cordial welcome to this city, and the good sentiments contained in your address, have made a deep impreflion on our hearts, have given us great joy, and from the heart I tell von so. This is all I have to fay. AGWELONDONGWAS, or GOOD PETER, next addres sed the Governor. He fuft congratulated the delegates of the Five Nations upon so happy and friendly a meeting, and on having so good an op portunity of (hewing their peaceable disposition, and ot answer ing the Governor's friendly address, which had given them io much pleasure ; then turning to the Governor he began : Brother, Or.as Governor, I rake part in the joy you feel, in meeting your brothers of the Five Nations at this day on such peaceable terms, and I rejoice with my brethren of the Five Nations, on the fame account. This meeting brought to my rccolleftion the days when our forefathers were united as brethren. Brother, Onas Governor t Lei me tell you how much I wifli, that the hearty friendftiip ■which subsisted between our forefathers ftiould fubfiil equally be tween their children. What is there more desirable than that we, who live within hearing of each other, should unite tor the com mon good. This is my wifti. It is the wtfli of my nation, al though I am sorry I can't fay, of every individual in it ; tor there are differences of opinion among us, as well as among our white brethren. Brother, Onas Governor, Your country is happy. It has a complete and firm govern ment, whose peace is secured, and where all obey your voice. We are in a different fituction. Our government is not eftablifh «d like yours, and though many attend to the voice of our coun cils, yet some don't, especially the young men. They fometimcs, however, alio do hear us. Brother, Onas Governor, I have been long acquainted with some cufloms, and in a de gree with the natuie of your governments, and especially with n £ ovrmrn ent of this State, and of the difficulties you had in cibblifhing it ; and I with you to remember, that your forefa thers laboured much, notwithstanding ihofe difficulties, to live 10 T^ Ce us ' P rotc & us, notwithstanding our weaknesses. Dc » Brother, Onas Governor, that we shall derive some a ting benefit from this visit to your city, and carry home with an imprcfiion on our minds, that will make us keep Onas in mmd. This is ail I ftiall fay. ' he Governor t'nen delivered the following reply : Brother s, You have spoken the language of friendfhip and peace. rejoice to find that our sentiments, upon the piefent occasion, arr rtiuch alike; for I am persuaded, that the happiness of your nations, us well as of the United States, will be bell promoted b.y a mutual regard, and the liberal exchange of good offices. I hope, ind-ed, that, when the other Indian Nations behold the drifts of the harmony cftaWifhed between us, they will cn C » V ° r l ° °^ ta ' n *he fame blcflings, bv treading in the fame path. Titles giren to Governors of Pennsylvania. + A copy of the well known print of Penn's treaty with the Indians, fainted hy a young artifi in this, city, with which they were much pleajed FOR THE GAZETTE OF THF. UNITED STATES. COMMON SENSE, f To the rARMFRS simds Greeting. I ""HE holders ot the .blic debt arc held up to view in various A oair u: lights. \ hey are caPed harpies,cheats, robbers, &c. It in pri- :te life • y ar" really bad men, they will be despised js bad men alw~ iarc. If they have done any thing against law, the law «.«• ~jjrn to punifli thein. There ar? charges against them as eli v 1 .in?.l men, more proper for a grand jury than a newspa per. T hole who have any thing to do with them, will look to their pnncipjes ot moral conduct. The public has nothing to do "i the affair of their private chara&ers but the rage of those who <2 i them such hard names, carries them to other assertions. It is pretended that every other order ot men has fuffered in propor tion as thefajjmcn have profiled by the funding fyftern. To give a food colof? to thf.r auger, anil to gain adherents, they affett to ie*l conteine-d for the injury fuffeied by tbe landed inter eft.—ls there anv ground for faying that the landed interest has fuffered by the funding ast ? The price of land has rifcn in consequence of that act. The great increase of a&ive property has promoted foreign trade, <o that the market for the produce of the land in foreign countries, is induftriouflv fought out and supplied. It is not only easier tor a farmer to fell his land than formerly, but it is alio less difficult to borrow money to pay off legacies, or to make improvements. Canals also, and roads, and schools, and innumerable advantages to the country in general, and many of them peculiarly and emi nen'ly beneficial to jhe farmers, are set on foot, which would not have been (o much as thought of, had not the means ol fun plying such expences been increased by converting the public debt to such a6tively ufetul purposes. By these means, as well as by the spirit of the farmers themselves, the landed interest is growing in wealth and importance more rapidly than any in the United States. The increase of this most valuable order of men, in point of numbers, exceeds all the other orders of society put together; for all our new settlements are wholly compoled of farmers. And yet this is the class of men who are internperately told in every paper, that they are fuffering and finking in conse quence of the taxes, to pamper up the certificate men. It will be said, the public debt is a public burden, and it falls on the farmers. True, it falls on all consumers of foreign arti cles. It is a burden—but is the burden increased by funding ihe debt? Take the answer from matter of fact. Before the debt was funded, heavy direst taxes were paid, and yet :ts credit funk to almost nothing. It did not answer as money. Since the new government funded the debt, it has been railed above par with cash ; and the taxes have been scarcely felt, and not felt at all to the oppreflion of any body. FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. ODE to CHARITY. HATL, Spirit of Heav'n, tail ! Well do I know thy seraph form, Descending from the realms of light : The foul-enlivening grace ! That well the torpid heart might warm, Spread o'er thy lovely face : Thine eye with sweet companion bright; Hail, Spiiit of Heav'n, hail ! When firft descended from the sacred throne, The Jlar of piety to walk the earth ; To clasp round purer hearts her blazing zone, And warm the mind into a heav'nly birth : Her daughter thou, where'er thefpirit turn'd, Gave thy sweet temper to the generous foul ; Whose breast with piety since then hath burn'd, Feels god-like Charity pervade the whole. Hail, Spirit of Heav'n, hail! Warm'd by thy melting breath, Benignant How a r d fought the dreary jail, To snatch the fufferer from the g r asp death. Mov'd by thy impulse, where the ghastly crew, F.'er-gnawing famine, flaring horror dwell, And peftilenceof ever-fick'ning hue, Her fateful breath around her blew; He smiling trod nor fear'd those fiends of hell. When thy life-giving light Beam'd thro' the big round tear That started from his pitying eye ! The wretch whose hopeless fight, Beheld 'till then, flafii thio' the dungeon's night, Nought save convulsed figures ol despair; Felt his heart beat with new-born joy : Such his unutterable extacy, As fill'd the foul of him whose eye, 'Till manhood's prime, was wrap'd with clouds around, And now his fight full found, Now firft beheld the world, and the bright blazing wonders of ! Thou pour'd'ft thy music from his tongue; And as of old, when to the fiend of hell, Immortal Orpheus brearh'd his melting song. The curjcr's madness fell; While fix'd in death-like filcnce all around, Furies forgot their rage, and lift'ned to the found : So when to tyrant Kings he spoke The just complaint of fubjefts griev'd, By laws which cruelty had form'd ; Thev felt their iron fouls with pity warm'd, Their frames, for once, with anguifti shook; They wifh'd, they crav'd to be relirv'd From fccnes, which starting to their view, Of tortur'd wretches piere'd their bosoms through. The lifl'ning Angels, leaning from the sky, To hear him urge ihe melting tale, Accordant breath'd a pitying ftgh, That flew to earth, borne on a heav'nly gale. Sound high with one accord, they fatd, The warbling flute, the (weeping lyre ; Let (acred fame to him be giv'n, Who fill'd with Charity from Heav'n ; To raise a hopeless brother's head, To flop the fountains of despair, Explores the gloomy dungeon's (Vade, Where death and lamine (talk around The wretch condemn'd to fetters on the ground. And pierce him thro' with p?*ns 'till tortui d Hie expire. Too great —too good to live below ! O ! may he soon our high-born rapture know ; To Heav'n be call'd where from our Angel tongues Cel'ftial music falls, and varying flows in our melodious song! A!i ! soon —too soon for man tne pray'r wai heard ! God spake the final word ; The moital (aw the beck'ning hand, And mounted into Heav'n at God's command. Hail, Spirit of Heav'n, hail! Tho' call'd from earth's deep night, li;to the boundless realms of living light, The tendereft, noblest fori! O ! bid thy power fttll prevail, Still, dill diffufe ihy spirit o'er The human foul, from where the fun Bums in the East, to where he gilds the (urge Thatdafhing foams along th-- wcltern Ihore. 397 111. LIN' [Whole No. LONDO N, February 9. ACCORDING to the preliminary articles of rtie treaty (igned at JafTy on the 19th ult. be tween Ruflia and the i 'one, €t the Empress of Russia keeps all the territory between the Bog and the Dniester, conformable to theconvennon (igned at Galacz, the 12th of Augtift* 1791* fcbe restores to the Porte Wallachia, which is to be governed in the fame manner it was before the declaration of war. " The Porte cedes rn Ruflia a certain diftricftof country on the fide of Caucasus. " The prisoners taken in the war, of what na tion soever, are to be liberated without ranfoni. " The navigation of the Dneiiter is to be free for all nations. " Russia renounces the demand of 12,000,000 of piastres for damage during the war ; and the Ruffian armies are to evacuate all the Turkish territories by the end of May." ' We learn from Ceutathac Don J. Barcela, our interpreter, has been nuirthered by the Gover nor of Tetuan, under the fan<ftion of a fl;lg of peace. Don Barcela repaired to the cam]) before Ceuta, when the Governor of Tetuan perceiving, him, without aliening any reason tor the at!t, (hot him with a pillol. Don Barcela, who was on liorfeback, fell immediately. His head was sent by the Governor to the King of Morocco, which proves that he was aflaflinated by the or ders of that monarch. His Royal Highness the Prince of Walts, the patron of ingenuity and ta!le, was about t-vvo yearn fir.cethe purchaferof a fnuff-boxthosornamented and contrived :—lt was a double box opening on both fides, with rims of gold. On one fide, a splendid medallion appeared in the centre, round which was a row of large pearls. When this fide of the box was placed upwards upon the table, the medallion upon a very flight preH'ui fcopened, and an artificial goldfinch, executed in gold anil coloured, so as to have a very near resemblance to nature, sprung up. 'I he bird picked its wings, hopped round the little circle allotted it, and, for about two minutes, chirped the few notes making the morning song of the goldfinch, lc then parted into a delightful air of Haydn's, and gave it so well, that the notes night have been lillened to for their found, as well as for the cu riosity of their production. So ended its perfor mance and its appearance A thousand guineas was the reward given by he Prince to the mechanist of this admirable fnuff-box. The following hint, of importance to owners and occupiers of lands, is given by Mr. Leyburn, jun. of Hunmanby. This gentleman fays, that in order to prevent manure finking too Jeep in low and springy meadow or palture land,a I ufHci ent quantity of the strongest lime that can be got, should be laid on it ; that he has used Knotting ley lime wit h great fnccefs ; the quantity not less than 6 chaldrons to a statute acre, to be laid on in the winter season. In 12 or ij months after, by pntting a spade into the ground, it will be found that the lime will be formed into a solid body, which will prevent manure finking any •lower than the lime, and consequently the lands will receive benefit so long as the manure will lalt. The lime should be laid in heaps til] it be very wet, before it be put on the land. The Ihip Grange, arrived at Liverpool from Philadelphia, has brought over no less than 300 tierces of apples of that country. A Mr. Swan, a gentleman of fortune in North amptonlhire, hopp'd one hundred and twenty yaids in a minute, for a wager of five hundred pounds, which with difficulty he won. There is lotne sense, ye Cits, in this kind of Swan bopping. A very extraordinary legacy has lately been left by the late Mr. George Tennant, carpenter, of Bethnal Green, viz. twenty pounds a year, which is to be expended for Jhav'tng a number of the poor parilhioners on a Saturday night, by two barbers in that parifli. The intention is to facilitate the attendance of the lower class of people at divine worship on a Sundaj. Seventten thovfand pounds ! were loft by a noble .it Brooks's lalt week. Such ruin, sure itijd inevitable, attends the indulgence of sport ing within this horrible vortex. Conjugal Fidelity.—A female, wist to a man sometime since transported to New South Wales for robbing a bookseller, having the sum of one thousand pound lately left her by a relation, has engaged lierfelf as a paflenger to that fettleiiicnt. -~o8."| »/ j
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