Extract of a letter from Arthur Donaldfon, one of the ContraClors for improving the Navigation oj the Schuylkill, dated the t $tk May, 1792. " I took paflage 011 Sunday in a boat from Reading for Philadelphia, as well for the oppor tunity of observing the effe(ft ot the work which was done 1a ft season, as for an easy conveyance to the city. I had the fatisfatfiion of observing the set of the current at half frerties, and per ceived that they have a different effect on the navigation than was generally apprehended. And I shall be better informed how to remedy the defeats, in a more fatisfatfory manner than has hitherto been praftifed. On enquiry of the boatmen, I find that about 12 boats have been employed in the vicinity of Reading, each ot •which has made ten trips, carrying generally from to 16 tons. Some few lately have not exceeded 5 tons, since the waters have fallen ; but they may, I think, be fairly estimated at 10 tons per trip; making in the whole, since the firft of March last, 1200 tons. The country have brought in such quantities of produce, that much remains on hand." A society for the promotion of Agricultureand domestic Manufactures, has been recently eftab lilhed in Culpeper County, Virginia. Society for establishing Ufeful Manufactures. Notice is hereby given, That the certificates for (hares in the (lock of the society are nearly completed, and will be ready to be delivered to the original fubferibers, or their legal repre sentatives on the firlt day of June next.—All per sons therefore having claims to said certifi cates aredefired to forward them without delay to the fubferiber, No, 14, Cortlandt-ftreet, New- York, that they may be examined and the certi ficates be prepared for delivery. Benjamin Walker, Commissioner. Neiu-York, May 18th, I 792. In pursuance of a resolution of a Board of Di retflors, the following extraift from an ordinance passed 20th January latt, is publiflied :— " And be it further enabled, That all assign ments of the certificates lhall be in form tollow- jng, viz.— • For value received certificate or share of flock in the society for eftablifliing ufeful nianufaftures, do aflign, trans fer, and let over unto executors, admini strators, or assigns, all right and iliterelt in and to the said certificate, mentioned as follows, viz : — And ro the ltock therein mentioned, together with all the privileges and emoluments retailing from the fame. Witness hand and seal this day of I 79 Sealed and delivered ? in presence of 5 At a meeting of the Directors of the Society for elfabliftiing nfeful Manufactures, held at New ark, on Friday the 18th day of May, I 792. •Resolved unanimously, that the town of Paterfon be located upon the waters of the river Paflaick, a distance not more than fix miles from the fame on each or either fide thereof, between the feat of Mr. Isaac Gouverneur, near the town of Newark and Chatham bridge. Resolved, That Mr. Low, Mr. Bayard, and Mr. Boudinot, or any two of them be and they are hereby autliorifed to locate the said town within the limits in the foregoing resolution, and to make purchafesof such lands as they shall deem requisite for the purposes of the Society, and to employ such surveyor or other persons under them, as they (hall deem proper and neceflary. Free extract from the minutes, JAMES GRIFFITHS, Clerk By late arrival 1 ; from France the subsequent intelligence is re ceived, viz—That the Emperor Leopold died apparently of a Vomica of the lungs; his sudden death had given room for many conjectures at Vienna—That his successor was very sick—That bv the Emperor's death, France will be quiet the cnfuing fall, and providence will provide for the reft—That the three ministers, M. Cahier de Gerville for the home-de partment, and M. Molleville of the marine-department, and M. Narbonne of the war-department, had demanded and ob tained leave to relign ; M. Narbonne wilhed war to have been declared agaiuft the Emperor 011 account of his declining to give France the explanation deinanded-of him the 12th of January ; he always giving evasive answers; but M. de Lef fart and the Kingbeing of a different opinion,compelled him to resign : The f 1 rft news from France will inform us of the fate of M. de LelTart, who, it is said, is arretted—That a few days after the arrival of M. Burgoin, at Madrid, the famous Count Florida Blar.ca was disgraced and difinilTed—That Count d'Aranda has succeeded him ; that Minister was advising the King of Spain to break his alliance with France, and had in troduced into Spain such inquilitori.il regulations and ways of governing, that it was dangerous to speak about political af fairs—that he is not at all regretted—That all his schemes have fallen with him—and that Count d'Aranda is now re pairing all the wrongs he has done to the French, and to in dividuals." " The a r ticles produced by our farms for many years past, have been liberally paid for. Agriculture therefore has not languished—every branch of mechanic industry seems at no loss for its due recompence—and the state of our public funds and exchanges do not show any scarcity of money, or want of zeal to employ it." named in the annexed An freaking of the late Emperor of Germany fays :— u Wherever he himfclf went, tranquility followed his ftep~. In Hungary every symptom of difcoateut was done away by his prefence.—ln Bohemia all was made ea- at his word—Such effects do virtue and justice ever carry with them ' " By his death, it is much to be feared, very different scenes may be opened. A young Prince, in the Archduke, and heir to his crown, may be too fond of war. He may liiten too rea dily to the inHnuations of the emigrants, and be too hasty to revenge l'uppofed aifronts upon his territories. 111 short, by the death of the late Emperor, we may again fee a great part of Europe deluged in blood. At all events, the loss of a good man is ever to be regreted, especially in a Prince; and when it happens through foul means, the instigators and perpetra tors are all equally tO be detested and confide red as acknow ledged enemies to mankind." There has been just publilhed in Boston, a book entitled, ii The Foresters, an American Tale; being a iequel to the history of John Bull, the clothier, in a ieries ot letters to a friend." Wit, learning and humor, are here happily united in a concise hiltory of the American Revolution.—Publilhedby Thomas & Andrews. Extrafl of a letter jrom a gentleman at Gibraltar, to his correspondent in this city, dated March 1. " The emperor [of Morocco] Yezid, having made a forced march, and eluded the army commanded by Ben Alfar, puflied 011 to the city of Morocco, where he arrived about the lecond of February, but the gates being flint against him, he attacked the place, and carried it on the 6th, when he committed the greatest excelfes, and once more gave up the devoted Jews to plunder ; many friends as well as enemies fuffered from the rapacity of the army.—On the 12th Muley Ifhem reached the plain of Morocco, with a considerable army, said to conljft of thirty thousand men, where the emperor with about halt that number met them, and after an engagement which continued from ten to two o'clock, obtained the victory. Oi Ifhem's army thirteen hundred were killed, and eight hundred taken priloners, some difperled themselves, but the greatest part re treated towards Jaffe. The emperor's lofswas inconfiderabl#, but he was himfelf wounded in two or three places, and the use he made of his success was to put the prisoners to death, not one of whom did he pardon. He ordered them to be nailed up against the walls, and upon the floors where they happened to be, and he prohibited all persons from administering any kind of relief to them. He also put to death, without any ap parent reason, two Christians that had been several years em ployed by his father as stone-cutters, and two Frenchmen who had pafled into the country from Ceuta. In lliort, from the 12th to the 16th such a scene of slaughter was exhibited as, in Morocco, has feldombeen heard of. On the 16th, however, it pleafetl heaven to put an end to it, for on that day the em peror died of his wounds." Extract of another letter from the fame gentleman, dated March i 6. j " Slema (or rather Selima) who I think will govern at last 1 in the kingdom of Fez, has, upon the whole, an amiable cha racter. He is humane and temperate, religious and supersti tious, a dutiful son to his mother, and a lover of peace. He has declared himfe'f a friend to commerce, and an enemy to every thing cruel or treacherous. An Alcaide, who had at tached himfelf to the late emperor in a diflinguifhed manner, upon the death of his master retired to a fan&uary, but Slema Cent him a meflage applauding his condu&, telling him lie had nothing to fear, and exprelling a wifli that, it ever himfelf should be reduced to distress, he might have a few such faith ful adherents, as the Alcaide had been to his brother— u By the best and most moderate accounts the number of people Yezid (the late emperor) caused to be put to death from his ar rival before the city of Morocco, until he died, which was a bout two weeks, exceeded twenty thousand ; among whom were, without refpeft to age or sex, all who had any connec tion with the late EfFendi." The Classes of the d uring the (econd Cc SENATORS of >ngrefs, commencii 2 Years Class. Mr. Basset t, Mr. Butler, Mr. Di cki n son, Mr. Few, Mr. Joh NSTON, Mr. LEE, Mr. Stanton, Mr. Strong, Mr. WiN GAT E ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Industry is the source of wealth—mines are found to impo verish a nation, because more is loft by their leaving off work than is dug out of the earth. Toproteftand encourage in dustry therefore is the true way to augment the wealth of our nation. The certain protection afforded to property in En gland is probably the principal cause of the wonderful prospe rity and almost inexhauftable resources of that people. Free and prosperous as our country is, it becomes us to fee whe ther our laws have not raised some obstacles to t?he industry of our citizens, and if we discover any such it will be proper to reform them. Men would not work if others could intrude into their affairs and controul the disposal of their earnings. The mode of taxing by arbitrary afTellment which obtains in most of the States is unfavorable to indultry. In theory it is right and proper that the contributions to govornment should be made in the ability of those who pay. But if this equality of afledment is to be obtained only by laying open the dealings and private tranfaftions of those who pay taxes, it is better and would give more fatisfaftion to obtain the sup plies for the State a furies by some other mode. Equality however, after all the prosecution of the most drift and invi dious enquiries is not to be obtained. In some of the States a man is taxed for the profits of his calling or trade; it becomes his interest to conceal his gains instead of enjoying the repu tation that (kill and industry are entitled to. It is scarcely poflible to imagine a more effectual damp to the spirit of en terprize ; if a man drains a fwainp, and it becomes a fine mea dow, the tax gatherers are sent after him as if he had smug gled the property without paying the duties. Thele things ought not to be so. Calumny is an odious vice ; the propensity to it marks a mind devoted to malignant paifions, and deeply corrupted. Accordingly the worst and baieft of men are thole who most readily believe ilanderous reports. The conversation of some persons turns wholly on the faults and vices of their acquaint ance. They deal so much in dark suspicions and foul pra&ices imputed to others that at length it becomes their sole delight. Virtue, worth and talents, or any clean wholesome fubjeft of praise, disgusts these Hottentots in morals ; they chufe to live by carnagc, and to be drefTed in the putrifying spoils of their vi&ijns. Those who are known to deal much in calumny of 451 the United States, ing 4th March, 1791. 1 6 Years Class. 4 Years Class. Mr. Burr, Mr. Cabot, Mr. Car roll, Mr. El lswor th, Mr. Fos r er, Mr. Monroe, Mr, Bradley, Mr. Gun n, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Henry, Mr. IZARD, Mr. King, Mr. RE ad , Mr. Robinson, Mr. Rutherfurd, Mr. Lancoon, Mr. Mor r 1 s, Mr. Sherman ten leave us in doubt of the characters they havd traduced, but they fix our averiion to their own. Worthy perions are neither very lulpicious nor very censorious. Those who de light in the (landers against Congress which of late ieein to rain upon us from the newspapers Ihouldlet a guard upon their own hearts, left they iliould be tainted with the malignant paifions which ihfpire their authors. Foreigners and the back country people on reading the inlinuations against ipeculators in Congress, and innumerable other vile flanders agaiiilt the members which touch their integrity as men, wouiu at once conceive a deep abhorrence of a government infuch abomina ble hands ; they would conceive them to be men without caa ratter—without principle, without Ihame. As theie iions are thrown chiefly 011 the supporters of the funding sys tem the bank and excise, they are doubtlels intended to pro duce their full etfedt with those who are averle to those acts, in order that those who hate the measures may be persuaded that the men who agree to them are still worle. To all this nothing can be replied. Thole gentlemen coni'cious of the pu rity of their characters and views, can only wonder in iilence at the audacious profligacy of the llanderers. " The people of America can never be too careful of their liberty," and of that government on which its exiftcnce de pends; for, as a late writer, speaking of the French He volu tion,fays, there is as inseparable a connection between liberty and government, as there is between defpotilin and slavery. The people of the United States are now in pofTeflion of what great part of the European world are laboring to obtain— a government of their own choice. This is the glorious re ward of our facrifices in a long and bloody war—this com pleated the revolution—and while every real friend to the happiness of mankind molt ardently wishes success to the strug gles of opprefled humanity in the eastern hemisphere, he will spurn with indignation every infiduous attempt to blast the profpe&s of his country, under the auspices of that govern ment whose basis is freedom, and the equal rights of man. The funding system is the 44 Att making provision for the public debt." Had the system made no provision for the pub lic creditors, we should have heard no complaints; at least from those who uever trulted their property on the uncertain ilTue of the contest with Britain. To pay, is the rub, with those who feel neither for the prosperity, dignity or freedom of the United States, let their pretences be what they will. The speculators have bought up the certificates, and they have centered in the great trading cities, at a price far below their present value. The blame is thrown upon the funcfing system, upon its author, and those who supported it.-—ls this just ? The delay of the funding law in its paflage was made by its foes, not by its friends. If then a long space of time was af forded to draw the certificates from the distant states, the fault, if any, must fall on those who caufedthe delay. The low price of the certificates was not owing to the friends of the law. The opposition was so great as to make it improbable that the state debts would be aifumed; and it was very doubtful whe ther the other debt would be funded at all. This hazard de pressed the price of the paper. The value would have funk to alinoft nothing, had the law been finally reje<sted. The price paid for the paper before the law palfed, after allowing for the rilk, was, poflibly, as much as the true value. Had the law been reje&ed, the paper would have been left on the hands of the buyers, and the fellers who now complain would have received three times as much as the market price. Would any one have had a mind to make up to the buyers of state paper their loss, if it had not been afluined. However, the transfer of the certificates, under such cir cumstances of disadvantage to the holders, is truly to be re gretted. No occupation requires less talent or merit of any kind than railing and finding fault. It is the opinion of many who know the authors of newspaper calumnies, that those fucceedbeft iu this way, who are totally unqualified to ast in any other. To bawl knave, (peculator, aristocrat, partizan of monarchy re quires but a trifling (lock of modesty, candor, refpeft, for truth, decency, or the public tranquility. Says a correfpondent—lt is not to be wondered at that a cer tain limner in London was puzzled to find an original from which to paint a likeness of the Devil. His Satannic Majejfty is of all (hapes and (izes, and is recognized under all the co • lours of the rainbow, and all the variety of (hades arising from their combinations. For the truth of this, I will just repeat some of the remarks which were made in a retail (tore a few days (ince :—A piece of linen, devilish yellow—one piece of dark calico, devilish black —another, devilish grave—ano ther, devilish gay—another, devilish ugly—and another, devilish pretty, &rc.—and how common is it to hear it laid, devilish handsome, devilifti homely, devili(h tall, devililh (hort, cW?vilifti great foot, and a little devil of a foot! In (hort any, and all colors, and no colours whatever; any (hape, features, form or size, are equally descriptive of the prince of darkness, who, with the greatest facility, accommodates himfelf to the exigencies of those who are puzzled to fill a gap in their ideas. By a vessel from Hamburgh arrived yelterday in the afternoon, an account is received of an attempt to assassinate the King of Swe den, the 16th March—He was wounded by a pistol, but not mor tally—the perpetrator is aCapt. Angerftrom of the King's guards, lately discharged.—Further particulars in our next. Late accounts from St. John's, New-Brunfwick, fay, that 30 fail of veflels, chiefly square rigged, are building in that Province. We h jar that General Wilkinfon has lately established a post and built a Fort between Forts Hamilton and Jefferfon. The Fort is called Fort St. Clair, and has a strong garrison, with several months' provision in it. Died, in England, the Earl of Bute—aged 79. SHIP NEWS. ARRIVALS AT THE PORT OP PHILADELPHIA. Ship Roebuck, Bliss, Brillol, Brig Eliza, McKay, St. Marks, Betsey, Eagldon, Cape-Francois, Alfred, Thompson, Teneriffe, Mary, March, St. Bartholomew, Maria, Pepper, Boston, Sloop Flyin* Fi(h, M'Michael, New-Providence, Rainbow, Pote, Cafco Bay, Mary, Larrabo, Bay Fundy. PRICE OF STOCKS 6 per Cents, ... a/ 3 per Cents, ... Deterred, .... Indents, ... 12^3 Final Settlements, - - 18/6 Half Ibares Bank U. S. 50 per cent, premium. Shares Bank North.America, 15 diito.
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