FROM THE NATIONAL GAZETTE. To SIDNEY AMD the WHISKEY-DRINKERS. YOU are an unreasonable set of fellows, to make such a plaguy rout about a paltry excise. What! do not you know it has the ianction of some of the moil experienced dis tillers in the United States, men of wealth and opulence, wno could buy and fell the whole ragged race of whi Ike y-drink c:, twenty times over ? When Mem beiis of Congress rile in their places, and mode ft ly inform the House that they are person ally concerned in some of the most extensive distilleries in New-England, you cannot furelv imagine those honorable dis tillers would be such fools as to join in any plan to ruin the d:l ---tillerv—that of rum and gin* I mean —tor as to your vulgar whilkey, it is not to be expedited that gentee!, well-bred men, ftiould pav any regard to such mean plebeian liquor. When they a (fur 3 you that New-England gin is equal at least, it not superior to any th at is imported, can you question the truth of their disinterested aflertions, or hesitate to swallow their rum and their gin, together with their excise, in prefer ence to your filthy whilkey, that is only fit to poison the hostile Indians ? ~ If you were not an ungrateful antifederal crew, you v, <-».. ici thank them for sparing you the trouble of distilling toi your felvcs. All the plague and pother of whilkey-brewing « ill now be at an end : You will have nothing more to do henceforward, than to drag down your grain to the sea-coast, a trifling diftaice of five or fix hundred miles (which is nothing to a back-woods-man) and there barter it for the ambrof.al juices of the New-England stills. Ought you not to think yourselves happy to (ret any thing for the redundant produce of your farms? How much worse would be your situation, if the yn distillers were to take it for nothing ? Take a hint from a friend : hold your tongues, and either pav the excise dutv, or break up your stills, left an army of militia, collected from the gin and rum distillers, ftiould be sent out into the back country, to make you ling a diiterent tune over your whilkey. llecollecr the law that has been lately palfed, authorizing the Vrefident to march and counter march the militia as. lie pleases. Recollect and tremble : tor although the present chief magistrate would never confetit to murder his fellow-citizens for drinking liis health and toaftmg th- federal constitution in a glass of un-excised whilkey, wiio know, what freak his fucceflor may take into his head, il ever he get; it heated with higli-proot rum or gin > FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE world mav be considered as a new settlement. Tiieie is only a patch under good improvement. Part of Europe is the flower-garden, and yet what a multitude of foul weeds. They have grown rank by manuring and hoeing the- p.&nts But they seem to be weeding and new lavmg out the garden. Even in Europe, what briars and thorns, and barren shrubs. Ruflia is a naked heath. Spain is the field of the lluggard.— On every ilde what room for improvement. India indeed is the homestead which leems to produce the most abundantly for the family of mankind. America is abu (h pasture for the young cattle. It will soon become the garden and the wheat field for the hungry world.—But Africa is the range of wolves and Hons, some on four, some on two legs. It would he some consolation to an old philosopher, to fee tuc labor of maiikind directed to the bettering and bringing to, the great common farm.—The time will arrive when our poflenty will read extracts from the Gazettes of Angola, and will hear of the universities of the Hottentots. The juries of Bengal will try causes, and the free representative afl'emblies of Con stantinople and Grand Cairo will be diftinguilbed for their elo quence and wisdom. Industry will cover the earth, now bar ren, with plenty, The fogs of ignorance will vaniili, and man restored to his eve fight, will fee nature and exert all his power to adorn and improve it. Is this a vision > Why tell us so ? Let the imagination regale itfelf with a feaft of its own cooking. Bvit is not this progress evidently begun and tar advanced, and what shall stop it > The Goths and Vandals, and Huns and Tartars are not to renew their irruptions and to destroy the arts. The Northern hive swarms no more. But science and the arts shall penetrate the regions where the Roman eagles never flew. The wild Arabs shall be sedentary and improve the arts by their inventions. The Caspian lea lhatt be hospitable to commerce. The future ages will won del-at the barbarous state of the present. The human mind cannot remain inactive,either knowledge ahd civilization must turn retrograde or continue in their present-progress till ig norance and barbarism are banished the earth. Philadelphia, May 19. ABSTRACT OF FOREIGN NEWS. A foip arrived at New-York on Tuesday, in 39 days from Glasgow, by which European accounts are received to the 29th March—These fay, that incredible quantities of all kinds of ammunition daily arrive at Namur—-That the Emperor of Germany died suddenly in the arms of his wife, at Vienna, the firft of March, of an inflammation in the lungs and bowels— subsequent articles in the Engliih papers fay that he was taken o;f bv poifon —the lufpicion tails on various defcnptions of perrons—the Monks, the Brabanters, the Emigrants, and the Jacobins, are mentioned —probably all innocent but the great inuft have something extraordinary to kill them. Immediately on the Emperor's decease, his foil Francis "took the reins of government in the Austrian Monarchy—the garrison of Vlenna took the oaths to the eldest foil of the Emperor two days after lik father's death. March 16. Medals made of the iron bolts of the Baihlewere presented to the members of the Legislative Aifembly. When the Queen of the French heard of the death of her brother the Emperor, Ihe said, " If my misfortunes were not before at their height, their measure would now lie filled." Reports of every kind are in circulation in Paris great tommotions are said to exist in Flanders. — The day after the news of t! " Emperor's death was received, the fifh-women were marching to ptefent a pike to the Queen; they were flopped however by the guard.—Accounts ei e received that Aries, Carpentras and Avignon, were in a state of open re volt ; the anti-revolutionists had driven away or imprisoned all tl'e patriots. —M. Dumourier is appointed French Minister for foreign affairs, and M. Lacofte, Minister of Marine. Count Florida Blanca, Prime Minister of Spain, has been ar retted, and afterwards exiled, and his papers fealcd. M. D'Aranda is his fuccefTor. An express over land arrived at the India-House, London, the 24th March—The intelligence is said to be, that Lord Cornwallis took Seringapatam by storm on the 15th Novembei last. His loss said to be 433 Europeans, and 7000 natives.— That Genera! Meadows was killed, and Lord Cornwallis wounded. India Stock rose 2 per cent. r This turned out to be a hum.} The new King ftf Hungary, it is fait!, in letters from Vienna, of the sth March, had countermanded the troops that were marching, and had declared that he wo*dd have no concern in the disturbances of France. —The Prince Royal of Denmark has published aji arret, by which the slave-trade is to cease, and be forever abolished after 1803. The beginning of March an earthquake was felt in several parts of England—some old houses were ftiaken down, but no lives loft. By the shin Brothers, Capt. Anderfon, arrived here in seven weeks fromLifbon, accounts are received that Doaor Willis had arrived there from England—found the Queen in a very alarming situation— —but his treatment of her, had been attend ed with very favorable fymptoin* —*"he Oueen having lo far recovered when Capt. Anderfon fnilcd, as to lecognize those about her person. The Doctor will doubtless meet a suitable reward. The Princ£ Recent has acquired great reputation for the affectionate attention paid by him to his mother in the course of her illness; having constantly fliewn the most solicitous anxiety for her recovery. Salem, May 8. WAR BETWEEN FRANCE AND SPAIN. Captain W. A. Perry arrived at Marblehead on Sunday night last from St. Martins, which place he left the 16th of April, and brings the following important intelligence. That the dav he failed, a brig arrived from St. Lucie, the master of which (James Green) informed Capt. Perry, among manv other gentlemen in the public coffee-houfe in that place, that an Englifti man of tvar arrived at St. Lucie the day be fore he left it, the commander oi which informed the French Commodore there, that WAR was declared between France arid Spain. This intelligence was communicated by Captain Green in the molt public manner, so that no doubt ol its truth wai entertained at St. Martins. [This news was repeated by an arrival at this port from St. Xitts, but is most probably premature.] The Pre fide nt of the United States arrived at Baltimore last Saturday evening—he pursued his route on Monday following. We are informed that very large sales of lands, the property of this state, have been recently made—and fold on such prin ciples, and in such quantities as will induce a speedy populati on of the fame. Such is the present situation of affairs inmost of the European States, that we may reasonably expert great emigrations to this asylum of freedom. His Excellency Samuel Huntington is re-elected Gover nor, and the Hon. Oliver Wolcott Lieutenant Governor of the State of*Comie<sKcut. M U M. At the General Election at Newport, on the 2d instant, his Excellency Arthur Fenner, Esq. was chosen Governor, and the Hon. Samuel J. Potter, Esq. Deputy Governor of the State of Rhcde-Ifland. Morse's Geography is printed in London on fine wove paper. The Onartermafter-General of the state of MafTachufetts (fays a late Boston paper) has employed Col. Revere, of that town, to cast sixteen brals field-pieces, for the use of the Artil lery of that state. The last Pittlburgh Gazette, received by post yesterday, contains no account of any recent depredations of the In- dians. Extrad of a letter from a gentleman in Havannah to his friend " The famous Mr. Bowles and thrtc of the principals of the Creek Nation were brought in here a few days since—Mr. Bowles was conduced to the Moro, where he now remains, and it is thought the depredations he has committed on the Spanifli settlements will cost him his life. It is reported that he was in the action against St. Clair." The facts contained in the article entitled, " Reflections on the State of the Union," copied into the G. U. S. from the American Museum, are a complete refutation of the principal (landers on the people and their government, which constitute the celebrity of some publications.—N. B. All forts of weapons are allowable in a cause, the advocates of which, stick at no thing. A correspondent observes, that the paragraph copied from the National Gazette, in our last, refpefting counterfeit certi ficates, is a specimen of the ftimfy foundation on which the moll: formidable charges against public measures are raised. Let it never escape the recolle&ion of the friends to the union, that the persons who now oppose the government of the United States, and its administration, are of the fame cut with those who have kept the world in a state of fermentation thro' all ages. " As there never was, so there never will be a perfect system of government —but, that system ispofitively bad, fays Chro nus, which X have no hand in administering. In this countrv, the people made and uphold the government. It lives and moves, and has its being from them. Their power is seen and felt not only in revolutions which alter its form, but in the ordinary arts of its administration. Not a particle of authority is held but from them. They chufe the legisla ture they make their voice heard after they have chosen them, and if they concur in their wifties, the general sense is obeyed. The government trusts the execution of the laws to civil force, to the marfhaJ, and the people themselves called, if necefTary, to his afliftance. They, as grandand petit jurors, have the laws in their hands, and in effect, as well as in ap pearance, wield the sceptre. They may be said, as truly as any people on earth, to be a royal people. They are sove reigns, and have already (hewn sense and prudence enough to make us throw up our hats and (hout.—God save the people— Long may they reign. This is no rant, but a truth which even' American, unless degenerate, will glory in. But men , are not wanting who dare to represent to the people this go vernment as a despotism. The newspapers are (luffed with licentious invectives as if they were aimed at the administra tion of Turkey or Tippoo Saih—and all this while a man who (lands unrepro&ched as well as unrivaled (its in the chair of authority, while the nation prospers and grows in numbers, in wealth, in refpeflability, while knowledge increases, and adds something daily to the security of liberty and the means of happiness. What will happen when adversity, to which all nations are liable, (hall have (harpened the edge of discontent, when personal rival(hips (hall have engendered and armed fac tions with deadly hatred,when the little remnant of authority left to government after these deductions, (hall be turned a gainst itfelf, heaven, that disposes of men and their concerns, and makes them the instruments to puni(h their own vice and folly, only knows. 443 in New-Port, dated April 10. FROM CORRESPONDENTS'. LOAN OF THE UNITED STATES. BY- the 44 Ast supplementary to the ast for making provi sion for the clebt of the United States," it is provided that the term for receiving on loan that part of the domestic debt of the United States which hath not been fubferibed purAiant to the above ast, flia.ll be extended, on the fame terms as in the above ast is provided, to the firft day ot March, I793~~" Books to be opened bv Commiflioners oi Loans in each State, on the firft day of June next. Non-fubfcribing'creditors to receive an intereifc equal to the lubfcribinp, on interelt and principal of To much ot their re fpe&ive demands, as on or before the firft day oi March fliall be registered. The term for receiving the unfubfcribed part of the state debt, agreeable to the fame ast, is extended to lit March, 1793 —the books to be opened as above, on the firli ot Jnne next. The CommifTioner of Loans for North-Carolina is not to be allowed to receive any certificate ilTued by PatrickTravers, or by the Commilfioners of Army Accounts at Warrenton. The debt due to foreign officers, the interest whereof is payable in Europe, to be paid off and discharged, principal and interest.—The reft of the ast relates to the finking fund. The whole lhall appear in the next number of this Gazette. APPOINTMENTS. Joseph Howell, Accountant to the War Department. Caleb Swan, PayreSrfter to the Army in the V/eftern Territory. SHIP NEIVS ARRIVALS AT the PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. Ship Brothers, Anderfon, Lisbon, Sampson, Howell, Canton, Hope, Trefdale, Port-au-Prince, Brig Nancy, Horton, St. Johns, Polly, Charnock, Cape-Francois, Industry, Franklin, St. Thomas, All veiTels outward bound arc to rendezvous at Reedy Island, and on Monday next proceed from thence to sea, wind and wea thei permitting, under orders and directions of Capt. Lawler, who will then lead the way with the (hip of the largest draught of water. Mail. rice of Stocks as in our laji Twenty Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY from the subscriber, on Monday the 9th cur rent, a NEGRO MAN named ROBIN, is 55 years of age, flout made, and bred a farmer ; oncof his thumbs much {welled; is 5 feet 6 incites high ; had on when he went away a big purple coloured cloth coat, a short linen coat, a pair of fuftian breeches, a ruffled shirt, an old beaver hat, with (hoes, stockings and buckles, all good. Also, a young; NEGRO BOY named SAM, is 19 ycaisofage, ftoutand well made, 5 feet 9 inches high, mucii marked with the small-pox ; had on when he went away, a big blue coat, a brown short coat, overalls of a mixed cloth, fulled stockings, a new wool hat, new (hoes and buckles. Whoever will secure said Negroes in any gaol, or bring them to the sub scriber, lhall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid. ALEXANDER ROBERTSON. 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