iliverfion andamufementofyour little innocent:,
you may not introduce a fatal poilon into their
habits, by putting some painted poilonons toy
into their hands, which have some lead or othei
poisonous paint upon them and only covered
with a flight varnish, which is soon rubbed and
walhed off in their mouth?, and lb much poison
introduced into their habits, as to become a
source of a long train of evils if not eventually
fatal.
I writ? unto you honest retailers, tobe atten
tive and ever jealous of your pewter meal'ures,
many of which have a great fliare of lead in
their coinpolition, and if acid liquors are per
mitted to remain any time in tlicm they will
be ttrongly impregnated with thepoifonous salts
of this mineral, and rendered extremely dange
rous to thole who drink the liquors.
1 write unto you cooks, that you be careful
of your pewter vessels or copper tinned there
with, that you do not fuffer your (harp or poig
nant fauces tobe prepared or ftandin tliofe vel
fels.
I write unto you pve and pastry makers that
you not only disuse pewter but that you be a
ware of your common courser earthen, whole
glazing is oflead and easily corroded.
J jrrite unto you painters, that ye bo cauti
ous of the poison, on the ufc of which your sub
sistence so much depend l ;, that you abstain from
that too eommwi practice (from a mistaken
idea) of taking by way of antidote, a double al
lowance of spirituous liquors ; for one devil is
not call out by another, else is satan's kingdom
divided.
Therefore be admonished while working your
lead to use spirits fpa'ringly if at all, and instead
of your ufnal nips, take half a jill of sweet oi!,
which will be found a great preservative to
health.
Now I write unto you limners, and thole who
use the pewter paints, that ye may take the a
bove precautions, and in particular that while
you are studying your devices, you do not hold
your pencil in your mouths, nor as it is too cul
toinary to clean it with your mouths.
I write unto you whohave devoted yourselves
martyrs, to Sir Richard, that ye may look well
to it, that old Saturn by an untimely stroke of
his sharp scythe, does not rob Sir Richard of his
facrifice.
To you bacchanalians, that the god you serve
may not be diflionored, nor robbed of the glory
which would be shortly due to him wore it not
for the interposition of this rapacious mineral.
Lastly, I write unto you vintners, wine fel
lers, who make use of this poison to disguise
the acid of your wine, that you may consider
the justice of your damnation, how inevitable !
how aggravated ! for it fwiftly comes from
that Hand,which is termed the avenger of blood,
and lingereth not. ANTI-SATURNUS.
* It has been observed that the colic has been lejs
Jrequent in this country Jince the introduction of earthen
instead of pecuter plates ; but perhaps the introduction
of iron tea kettles, inflcad of the copper, lined with
pewter, may be confidcred as jilutary a change in this
refped.
/ROM THE RATIONAL GAZETTE.
AN EXTRACT'
Mr. Freneau,
" A S a fubferiber and well-wisher
-1 V. to the National Gazette, I take
the liberty of advifmgyou against em
ploying much of your paper in re
plying to the court paragraphs, which
appear in the Gazette of the United
States. There needs no second Daniel
to interpret for that paper. A para
graph in favor of the excise can easily
be traced to a gentleman who holds
a poll under that virtuous system in
Baltimore. The eulogiums on the
fame fy(tein,in the Pittsburgh Gazette,
bespeak their author in every line ;
the eflays in favor of perpetual debt
flow from the brokers and their
friends—the difguftful adulatory in
a nfe is applied to the adminjlration,
not to the constitution ; for these are
different things, as times go."
Tor the GAZETTE of the UNITED STATES.
MR. FENNO,
IT has long been the opinion of
many peifons, friends to liberty and
the equal rights of election and re
presentation that the National
Gazette so called, is a paper efta
blifhecl by a junto for electioneering
purposes—and to subvert those fyf
terns, which though in their infancy,
l>a\e tranquilizer! this country, and
produced a moil aftonifliing change
in iis profpecfts and situation.
The National Gazette of the 4th
instant—a day that ought to be sacred
to union, harmony and pleasure, ap
pears to juftify the observation, 'bat
benefits conferred on fonie minds
ttreiijgtlien their obduracy,
" A> sol's blest beams turn vinegar more four.',
I have read the fevera] columns of
that paper and cannot find one idea
honorary to the people of the United
States, favorable to its government,
or to the persons adminiflering the
lame : On the other hand between
five and fix columns are filled with
abuse of the government ; while the
people are reprefemcd as the weak
lieedlefs dupes of a few, who have
tricked them ouc of ,their property
and liberties by purfuading them to
adopt the conllitution of the United
States.—All this however is but a dust
railed to cover tbe advance of the
main de/ign, which is nothing less
than to oitj/ from the government al
most every man now in the adminis
tration.— 1 have attempted a dilfecftion
of the principal parts of this extraor
dinary publication of the 4th July—
and it is at your service :
WHEIIEAS the government of the
United States in the firjl dawn, of its
exillence, fay the writers in the Na
tional Gazette, has diverged from its
republican principles,and in uirnaidin
a<sts has explained away all the limi
tations of the conllitution r and " pre
cedents and phrases" have been
" fliufßed in without being adverted
to by candid or weak people, the dit
ped part of tlie majority," though
anticipated and discerned by us, the
then dormant, but penetrating guar
d ians of liberty—And whereas " the
public niind in a heedlsfs and unfcttled
itate," (i.) while we were eichernot
in the country, or were otherways
bitter employed, " let the press" hold
up to view the advantages of peace,
liberty and fajety under the auspices
of a firm republican government, e
(tabliflied by the people theiufelves ;
without any attempts on our (2.) part
that were fuccefsful,to persuade ihem
that there was 110 neceflity for any
union, justice or harmony in theflates
—And whereas the debt incurred for
the general defence ought to have been
annihilated a: the ceilation of hoflili
ties and the declaration of peace ;
inflead of which, the government of
the United States, agreeable to the
constitution, but contrary to our nd
vice, opinion, or judgment in the
cafe, lias contumaciously, and in de
fiance of every principle of our creed,
funded said debt on terms advanta
geous to the holders thereof, and to
the government, bnt without one
farthing's immediate benefit to us, who
never owned a (hilling of it, and who
never did, or ever can, or will flake
a doit 011 the iflue of any contelk what
ever, for the public good And
whereas the Congress of the United
States, consisting of the Hotife of Re
presentatives, chosen by the people,
and the Senate, with the President of
the United States, chosen also by the
people, have parted '* an atfi making
provision for tbe debt of the United
States," in such a manner as "to let
the whole be such a mystery, that a
jew only can underlVand it; and have
let all possible opportunities and in
formation fall in the way of theje few,
to clinch their advantages over the
many,"that is, the people. (3.)— And
whereas " the members of the legifla
live body," chosen as above, by the peo
ple, are deep gamblers, and can " al
ternately speculate and legislate, and
legislate and speculate, and fell and
buy and buy and fell," till by such
arts they have " speculated the pro
perty of their constituents into their
own hands," which, like arms taken
from an enemy, they will turn against
their constituents—And whereas a
debt thus constituted and applied will
contribute to the ends which these
gamblers, tricksters and speculators
(4) have in view, viz.
ift. The poflefl'ors, the "favorite
few" whether within or without the
government, will g% through thick
and ihin to support it in all its ufur
paiions and oppreflions.' (j.)
2d, Their money will give them
consequence and influence even a-
(i.) Ihet? arc no greater contemners rtf the
people, than those \vho under a pretence of amm
tng thctn on account of the dangers which thre'rZ
c n their liberties, arc constantly reproaching then}
with their ignorance oF what concerns their peace
and freedom—while at the fame time they never
devise or propose any praflicablc modes of en
lightening them—five a reprobation of the clergy,
and an a b use of all the iyftems of education extant,
and of those parts of the -Union where the mott
ample means of mlhuflion are enjoyed .
( a■) I; cannot be said with truth that tire confti"
tutmn has been unattended to by its enemies, ouc
moment since its p.omulgation-the partisans
who commenced their attacks on it before its a
dopttnn, have since betn'conftantly. as they now are
Keepmg up a random fire at the fvftcin, the so
vernment, and its administration.'
(3 Rytt? many, in the junto ftilc. is alxvavs to
be under flood the peop/r,—another immaculate
compliment on the p to pU and on the *,« whom
they have repeatedly honored with then fuffrages.
(4.) Thcfe epithets are juftifiable in the Nation.
<11 ij^zeue—they are there in point !
(5 ) The public creditors are here rentefen'ted
hefc ' U " dc,ft - Tool in
■ e ,a^e 01 the gooie which laid a golden eg-.
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mong thsfe who have been tricked
out of it (6.)
3d, An hereditary ariftcicracy will
be ready prepared againlt a proper
occasion,
4th, Great taxes will ensue, numer
ous offices, oppression, resistance, a
STANDING ARMY, &C. &C.
And whereas Come fa<fts refpecfting
the excise have-been published in va
rious parts of the United States, and
fat'ts being a mltcfeiv to our insinua
tions and reprefentatious—it becomes
neceiTary to ftifie these facts by saga
cious ftvggeftions respecting their 01 i
gin ; though the devil who has often
deceived us (7.) knows that we know
nothing about it ; and whereas the
people of the State of Pennlylvania
in contempt of many wholesome ex
hortations for?nerly given by us, and
our connections, on the superior ex
cellency of a government constituted
with one branch only, have seen pro
per to new model their constitution
upon the plan of the national govern
ment §nd many other things have
done, which we mufl disapprove—and
have left others undone, which we
fondly anticipated would have been
done—particularly at their last session
have omitted to dillurb the union,
by not encouraging refinance to the
laws of the United States ; and at tiiis
moment encourage the " apes of Bri
tish" nobility by not carrying the law
against horse racing into execution,
while at the fame time an excise is
collected in the State: And whereas
the National Bank is a machine that
gives facility totradeand commerce ;
affords a general accommodation to
the public, in the payment of the
revenue, and in a thousand ways con
duces to the interests of the people,
while at the fame time it promotes
that of the men immediately con
cerned in it, and in this way is an in
stance of the wisdom of the govern
ment—and whereas the United States
benefiting by this institution, are sub
ject, as a stockholder, to a proportion
of the charges and expences attend
ing the fame—and though it is an in
dependent corporation, yet members
of Congrel's being chosen by the
stockholders directors of the institu
tion, is a dire (I violation of the con
stitution of the United States—And
whereas " all this corrupt specula
tion and avaricious jobbing have pol
luted the infant character of our go
vernment, and is a mortifying cir
cum'.lance to [us] its real Iteady re
publican friends ; and as the con
duct of those whose integrity and fidelt~
ty have yielded to the allurements
of diflionorable gain is the more un
pardonable and odious, when com
pared with the purity, the disinter
estedness and the magnanimity of the
example at the head of the govern
ment's.) And as much is to be hoped
from a pruning and lopping offofrot
ten branches from the tree ofgovern
ment —for though we hate it both
" root and branch," yet we find it is
prudent fometime3 to fay that we will
"carefully l'pare the treeitfelf ;"(9.)
And whereas the people of this coun
try are in great danger of enjoying
too much peace, tranquility and civil
freedom, of finginga requiem to their
former sorrows, and of " sleeping too
soundly at the sleeping hour"—And
■whereas " [nice the glorious and konora
ble peace of 1783, (10.) artifice and de
ception has efftfted one revolution in favor
of <the ye w, (11.) another revolution mufl
and will be brought about in favor of the
pkople —Now therefore to effect
this valuable and important purpose ;
to support and maintain our proper
characters, and to prove the truth of
that ancient record, which fays that
the fans of Anarch will never ccafe from
troubling, Know ye, That as the peo
ple of this country, injuied and op
pi efied by a diflant government over
which they had no controul, once as-
(6.) 1 his is consonant to human mtuie—the
people according to thef'e writers, have To little
underllanding as not to be able 10 distinguish their
friends from their enemies—nay, lake the latter
for the former.
(7 ) " Ihe devil was a lyar from the begin
ning."
fB.) This is evidently teeth outwards, a mcer
f,;|vo—its covfijlency with the general tenor of the
National Gazette of the 4th of July, u too obvious
to escape notict!
(q.) Partizans who taik about another revoluti'
on, 4t spare the tree !IV
(1 o.j "1 his is undoubtedly a flip of the pen
(11) It is here tlicy let the cat out of the bog,
fociated, combined and formed con
rait tees ot correlpondence f ur h „
laudable pnrpofeot counteraiW; I
designs ot diltaiit J J
we prcpofe that the people fnould
form foc.et.es in every county of the
United Stares, upon y/TOz/ar principles
for the purpole °f "P'eveuting abuses
power,( 12. j encroachments
upon the hbert.es of the people''
made under the admimltratic, of that
government which the people them,
lelves have adopted, established and
confirmed-, hns to arm the people
again ft the people. Societies tb„
formed for .nltruding the people
(lin their natural and political
rights, would deserve the title of
Friends to the People !" We<ta
not propose that theft societies should
be feledted by the people, by a deli
berate choice ; that they ihould be
confined to any particular objedts, be
under the diiection of any particular
rules or principles, take any oath, or
be under any obligation to obfe'rve
the laws or the conltituiion—Such bo
dies we find are not to be trolled, &c.
(12.) Silent encroachments! for about nine
months part we hive conttanily been told <»t the
open and during »ttacks upon the liberties ol the
people ! —
(13.) That 11 according to (he creed of the junto
— No, rather let the foundation of freedom and
virtue, be laid in the education of the rifmg gene
ration—tbis will enable (he people 10 discern bci
tween those who are their real friends, and those
who feck, only their own pnvau aggrandizement.
BOSTON, June 28- J
FRENCHWAR.
Englifli papers as lace as 30th April
[received by Capt. Norton from Li
verpool] mention, tbat the declara
tion of war against the King of Hun
gary and Bohemia, was formally pro
claim ed throughout Paris, 011 thea-iit,
am id ft the greareit concourse of peo
ple ever seen on such an oceafion—
That the Ruflian fleet would pafi the
found in a few days, and rendezvous
either in the Downs or atTorbay;
but none of the Britilh ports were ex
pected to be open for their reception
—That the French commerce wis
likely to fuffer in the contest, as pri
vateers from various States would
rendezvous at Oftend, and (ailing un
der Brabant colours, would pick up
[the merchant fliips of France—but
that great preparations were making
in France, for the immediate capture
of tbat place.
Every recent letter from Spain
brings some new inrtance of the grow
ing spirit of revolt in that country.—
It firft manifefted itfelf in Catalonia,
where the hardy disposition ofthe na
tives is proverbial. Caltille and Ar
ragon have followed the example,
and if the recitals which have reachei
us be well founded, Despotism and
the Inquisition have both seen their
day.
Lad Saturday was brought into this
town, by Benj. Joflyn, esq. ofNew-
Braintree, a-Calf of eleven months
old, weighing, alive, 840 pounds.
ALBANY, June 21.
Tlie following is the CHARGE of the
Hon. Judge Cooper, to the Grand
Jury of the county ot Otfego, at
the opening of the Court of Com
mon Pleas for that county, on the
19th instant.
Gentlemen of the Grand Jury,
LONG custom, as well as ihe (It
tute laws of our (late, renders it ne
celTary that, before you leave the bar
for the purpose of taking upon you
the important charge of correcting
the errors of the country, you flioul
receive from the court every inK"
mation relative to your duty, t
the bench may be poliefled of—as we 1
personal as official —'o serve as wac
tuaries to your deliberate procee
ings. But, gentlemen, as you art
brought forward from the e,a .
parts of the county, much more >
reafonablv to be expelled from yo
own knowledge of right and wrong,
and careful enquiry after the honor
and true interest of the country, t
what possibly can be given „
charge by the court-Therefore^!!
only fay, that it is our durytocha g
yoa» enquire after, and your
to prefenr, every species 01 P
lottery. Gentlemen, we chnig y ■
ro have a careful eye over dtforderly
taverss and every breach 0. t P
I lament with you, at the
couraging profpec'f, ccca.ior.-'
CRITO.