the exertions of all the citizens on a just and true level. It ought not to be omitted, that'the wisest and uioft celebrated writers in England, constantly and publicly aflert that, where there is no excluiive corpo ration, the competition will regu late the price, much better than any aliize—among many fatfts which are adduced in fuppori of their opinion, the following is cited, viz.—The method of lix'tng theaflize of bread, eltablifhed in the reign of George, 11. could not be put in practice in Scotland, oil account of a defect in the law. its execution depending upon the office of Clerk of the mar ket which does not cxiit there— fbis defect was not removed nntil the reign of George HI. the want of an afiize, as is declared by an emi nent Scotch writer, occasioned no fenfire inconvenience, and tlieeita blilhment of one in a few places, •where it has yet taken place, has produced i>o i'ciitiWe advantage— in the greater part of the towns of Scotland, however, there is an in corporation of Bakers who claiin exehvfive privileges. InMafiachufews there is no incorporation of Bakers thev enjoy no exdulive privile ges they poflefs no authority to rertrain or limit their number—or to combine, in ariv banner, for the purpose of raifuigthc price of their labor, or the profits of-ibeir (lock— The only apology, then, for fucli a law in Kngland; happily for its ci tizens, does not exist in America. This Jaw enforced in a few towns only—and the citizens im media ely injured by its operations, are filial I in number, compared to the re It of fqcieiy, who, though er rdijeouily, may fancy themselves gainers by its existence—to this fup poted ft If iiiierelt of a majority of the conf.iiunity we mnft impute the continuant-is of a Itafute wliich yet re mains a blot in the hittory of Ame rican jit; ifprudence. It'is not generally known (hat Diiiiiounpr Ji.fil |p <be earlier part ef his life diiluigui(hM h.imieif as a captain of infantry. In a celt braced engagement ne was left tor dead -on the field of battle. Incon- Ifequtn'ce'oF-ifl health, be was per muted to transfer his ferviees to a civil line. His return frmira diplo matic to a military capacity, has been diftinguilhed with his former spirit and iiddrcfs. The victory at Ja mappe may be attributed to bis coil dud. He fought with his bayonet in the milks. Like Marlhal Saxe, he threw bis'flrafF in the middle us the enemy: Knbwing the nature of his troops, he placed them 50 deep, so that the fit It racks, prelled forward ft em behind, found it im pofiible To retreat. I houf inds were cut to pieces, but the frelh fucceilion of ranks rendered them at lalt irre liftabie. Gen. Adv. On Friday the Senate of this Commonwealth had under their confideralion the hill' lent from the HotrteTof trepiefciHaiives for alter ing and amending the incorporation laws of Philadelphia—the principal of which is, to veil the judiciary, legiflatiye and executive powers, exercised by the corporation, in dif- I ferent bodies. —A motion was made by Mr. Morris to pojtpone the firft feiftion, for the purpose of introduc ing a fubititute, the purport of which was, to let the prel'ent mayor and aldermen retain their powers during the citne for which they were elected into otlice. This motion for pottponetuent,after tome debate, was parried ii* the affirmative, io.to 7, as follow : Ayes—Meilis. Coats, Edie, Hogs, Hanna, Jenks, Morris, Sellers, Schroyler, Scott and Thomas—iq. —Mefl'rs. Brown, Heiil.er, Montgomery, Moore, Smiley, Smith and Kennedy, 7. The fnbltitute was then under confidera.iou and agreed to ; fpme other amendments were proposed by Mr, Morris, particularly a claule for altering the corporation, so as to alliotilate it.:o the conftitntion of the Ignited States, by dividing it into two branches. This was de bated, and finally agreed to, viz. T hat there lhall a common council and a triennial council. Tlx following is copied from a Si. Euflotm paper of March 8. PARTICULARS ■ • of the ' EXECUTION of LOUIS, XVI. [Extfafied from a French Paper, January »!.] ON Sunday niglu he visited ins family for the last time, and after (pending some time with them he returned 10 his own a partmerri and i'upped as utual ; he ilept tolerably well that night, and arose about 7 o clock on Monday morning, when af ter some time fpeat in private devotion with his confefTor, he informed the officer he was ready ; the carriage being fewt for, he, with his eonfeifor appointed to attend him, went inland proceeded to the place of execution, guarded by a party ot the national guards; when they arrived there lie ascended the fcafrold with great firm nefs; ej soon as he got up, the execittipn er cut off his hair, at which he ihewed some emotion, but soon recovering him felf, he advanced to the front of the fcaf fold, where he addrelled the populace in the following mannei Frenchmen, I die innocent; it is from tlie fcafftili n t'ne pvefence of Almighty God I tel roil so. I forgive my enemies and hope— Here a confuftd cry of Grace, Gnu:? A'as heard from the people around tin fcaffold ; on which he was flopped aiK fevered from his body at one (Iroke ; the executioner carried it twice round the fcaffold, and then,.with th£ body, it wa: thrown into a bufket and conveyed to withfoiiie quick-Hme in it. The blood which flo-.ved from Louis XVI. was gathered up, by fotti<" in paper, and by others in white handkerchiefs, and this was done by persons who had not the air of attaching a political superstition to it—Two young men of good appcarance were particularly noticed ; one of them who was a foveignir, and had the appear ance of an Engiifhman, gave 15 livresto a child and requested it to steep a very ot blood that remained—the other young man seemed to have much at heart the ob jnd fonfte of the haii of Louis, for which he D»id a louis d'or. members, 737 of whom were preferit at jpon its being put to the vote whether he [y.-threc gave their voices in the affirma tive ; and of this number was Philipe E jralite, the ci-devant Duke of Orleans, The King made three requests to the national convention after his qondemnati >n, namely,. Thst he should be allowed a r igbt of his family for the purpose oftak ng a final adieu ; that he should be buri •d in the Cathedral church of Sens, by the ide of his fathers ; and a respite of his entence sot three days, in order to pre aare himfelf for eternity—The fir ft was rranted —the two latt were rejected. The following is extracted from the fame paper. Letter from the Marine M'ni/ler, iVutten to Citizen Montel, Governor of St. Lucia. Paris, Jan. 2, feeondytar of the Republic. The Executive Council has learned, from your dispatches of the 4th and Bth of October, that you did not join in the rebellion of Martinique j that, faithful tb your country, you were ready and willing to fpUl your blood to-defend it against ty ranny nr ufuipauot)—and that the brave foldiert under your command, together with the inhabitants of St: Lucra, acted with concotd and tfnattifnity, and were actuated by the like conduct. The National Convention have seen with indignation the excess of those mis- Creants who (tile themselves the Counter- Revolutioniiis of the windward iflarids, have decreed that a powerful force Ihould be sent to challife the rebels. Ships of the line, frigates, and transport ships are ready to put tofea, commanded by Cap tain Duval; the}' have .on board battali ons of those brave troops, of those intre pid volunteers who have banished the Ger mans from the territoties of the republic, and who have in one month finally con quered the Belgic provinces. They burn with impatient deflre to suppress the re bellion, and not with ftatjding the celerity of the pieparationj they complain of tho tardiness of the execution. To prevent 351 delays, several rewforeemcnts are to fuc cttd them &ich the utmost dispatch, ac conpanied»,if necefiary (i with avengers to the unfortunate: patriots. The nation, always iuil and fevere—t great and magnanimous, does not wffli to confound the innocent with the guilty, norljo (hut the door to repentance. Cle mency speaks in their favour, and civil commissaries will be sent out with thd troops to endeavour to obtain by metk nefs that which must be ultimately infur- Ed by her inviucible arms; —but if they are misled ,by ill-advisers, unhappy will be the lot of those who will dare to con- tend with the national power. The Fitniih, people have {hook. * throne, they hare made king 6 tremble, and they are determined to annihilate all mal-contents. Inform the inhabitants of St. Lucia from the executive council ; teltify to them their fatisfs&ion at the fentimenta they have manifefted ; atTure them that they will receive the necessary afliftance which the exigency of their situation re quires, and that the nation will ever re gard with attention her faithful fubjetts. I request you will make the contents of t his as public as poflible. ( Signed) Some remarks have lately appear ed in the papers refpe<fting (he pre ference given in certain public ap paitit merits to foreigners. A writer under the signature of /fa//?//, who hqte fe.v.ared--the public with vari olic (peculations during the courl'e of the past winter, undertakes to defend the policy of such appoint ments,. in an eflay which appeared nor long since in the federal Ga zette The following is an extratfl from a publication in the General Advertiser of yesterday in answer to Ruflell : " Would Ruflell present his pro- j pei ty to a stranger in preference to a filler or a brother I If merit was to decide the donation, perhaps he might meet with an equal if not aluperior degree of merit in a stran ger, why then will he not give it to, the moil deserving ? Our coun* trly is our common parent, and in the distribution of its benefits kin- I di;ed are to be considered before adieus. It is to be. hoped that ge nius, information, and virtue are not quite so rare, that with foreign n\anufaftures, we must be obliged toi import foreigners to govern our country! Hitherto our progress _in the one is unequal to European im provement, I have the pride of country so much about me as to sup pose, that in the other we are not exceeded by any nation upon earth. COMMU-RI(£ATK>NS. The man who has a great deal of money wishes to get nnre. Accord ingly we fee men who have enough, rilk all to gee more, which they do not want, and would not, if they had it, know what to do with it. Oi teh by their running imprudent rifts they We all. The human mind wHI not (land still. A people rich in liberty are very apt if they can not have more,to wif'h for something different. Having all, they cannoc incre .fe their stock, but they would change it. Many are fond of trying new things, and in this temper pre cious old ones are often flung away. It is not true to affirm, that oppres sion only, will excite a desire for change. It is in the nature of man, and the friett nation may be made to figii for new schemes of politics with all the ardor of fuffering free- men, Those who sow jealousies and dif .ord in the union have the address to hold up the allurements of new theories, as fpccious in argument, as they would prove pernicious in the trial. Liberty is certainly one of the gifts to man ; it is hu ftaie of perfection.—But like his state in paradise it is i'urrotinded with temptation. The serpent is every where tempting the people to pludk the fair frnit.—Thofe who tempt, would be the firft to revile and tortnent them in their fallen itate. May the Liberty of America which has not yielded to fufferiug and danger, eUape the arts of those ttllaffins who flatter to destroy—who would pull down government nn. ■tier the pretext of gaining more H berty to a nation already has-» all. • Our felf fuffici'ent political refor mers condemn the Ipeculative lyl tems of finance apt} batiks and all tne myltenes of money traiii'iic'liona as well as of the cabinet. would expect 10 fiiul tliel'e loveisvt plainness and fiinpticiry—.thefeil¥»t» •ter-of-fatft-men who nate fine fpuit reafoaings, the very dupes of their own-vifioiis and crack-brained tpc cnlations ! Yet so it is—our new lights, our inspired refoimei3 dH dain to be guided by theiigiit of experitence, or to adapt their poli tics to the nature of man. To fnp pofe that man has palfinns and ap petites, and that the good of all may require that each should be put under some check, is ariftocra tic—ir is usurpation.—They would build their work on prefeut fury and euthnfiafm. They would very properly found their Babel on a quagmire. Trace the theory of our fault-tinders and mark its inconlift encies. They hate banks, yet they always favor the making more.— They hate fine spun theories, yet all their schemes are repugnant to na ture and expeiience. They sup pose men. devils as soon as they gee into office, and yet they aff'ciU a pu rity in t heir theory of government, that angels would scarcely prove able to carry iuto effe#.: They, are confident and uniform in one obje.dt only, and that is to fay -<»nd do any thing to make the government of the union detelted. Mongne. Exlrit(i of a letter Jrem the Wtft-jiard. " 1 know not whether the ap pearances of reform in England and Scotland are to be- conlidered as favorable to liberty. I should have liked better to find Mr. Fife continue in the pride of his power till the people thenifelves burlt their (hackles. I fear if the reform is to come from government it v.ill be like the amendments of the federal conflitution—a tub to the whale.— It may be otherwise, and will doubt - less be a more peaceable way, but it is dill building; on it bad founda tion. " T like the spirit from wljich the pf-efent fafhionable address of Ci tizen proceeds ; but, like a new cut in cloaihs, I cannot help thinking there is a little affectation in it — This feeling a little time will re move, especially as the appellation is of an endearing nature —I flionld like better to have the name only. As you know fafhions take feme time to arrive here from the me tropolis, I mud take a little time to reconcile myfelf to it ; and get o thers here to keep me in countf nance. For this once yon will there fore excuse me, and not think me an aristocrat if on the outfida I re tain the former appellation. But here 1 (hall fubferibe myfelf, My dear Fellow-Citizen, Most sincerely yours." Mail. Israel Smith, Esq. is re-fcle<?Ved a reprefebtsL- • tive in Congress from the state of Vermont. A New-York paper fays,the King and court of Great-Britain have put on mourning for the death of Louis XVI. ARRIVED at the PORTo/PHILADFI.PHIA. Ship Ann, Torrii, Honduras Brig Isabella and Ann, Haripton, St.Euftafia Hannah, Sch'r Nancy, Farnhara, Sloop Dove, Abby, Alfred^ 6 per Cents, . . 18/j 3 per Cth», , Deferred, 11J3 Full (hart! Bank U. S. * 15 per ccni. prcm WHEREAS a BRIDGE is to be built over Raritan River, at the city of Nt w-Brunf. wick, in the state of New-Jerfcy—-to accomplish which, will require the ferviee o* many carp<?u ters and masons of experience ; Notice is there fore hereby given, that any pet Toft or persons in clining to undertake the whole, or auy part there of, by applying to the fubferibers, on or before the firft day of May next, may have an oppoitu nity of conirading for the famr. JOHN BAYARD. JACOB HARDENBURGH, JOHN DENNIS, Sat. Brunfwick, Msrch't±ih. efviv SHIP NEWS. Port-au-Prince Richmond Carmel, Block, Th< mas, Virginia Merchant, Newburyport Eanies, Boston Shuhan, Hifpaniola PHILADELPHIA. PRICE OF STOCKS. ADVERTISEMENT.
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