&(tzdU a national paper, published Wednesdays and D „ , ' A^6 BV JOHN F ENS'O, No. 34, NCXlll f / hVH-STREEI, PHW.ADI Uhi [No. no of Vol. IV.] JUST PUBLISHED, By Thomas Dobfon, Bookfclicr, at the Stone-Hoxfe, Secvni Jircc, Philadelphia, VOL U M F. IX, or ENCYCLOPEDIA: «K.A DICTION Ait Y Of ARTS, SCIENCES, "» MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, On a Plan intirel\ new : wHI c H T>H« D<r FEKINT SCIENCES AND ARTS .arcdi B eftcd into the.Form r>f D'.rtintt TREATISES OK SYSTEMS : ' THIS VOLUME CONTAINS HYDROSTATICS, Hygrometer, History of Japan, I.eland, Jrrufalem, Jews, India, Vrft-fl*, Insurance, Ireland, Italy, Kamfcha'kß, Language, Law, L'nerdtmain, with a great variety of Biographical and Iriifcel- Jaucous Anieles,—-Illuflrated wilt thirty-one elegant Copperplates. CONDITIONS. I. Ihe work is printing on a fuperfine paper, and new types, (call for the pmpofe) which Will be occasionally renewed before they con trail a worn appearance. 11. 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The opinion of the Piefident of the United Stacs, refpetling this work, is as follows : ' 4< I believe the American : Mufcum has met *vith extensive, I may fay 4 with universal ap probation from competent judges ; for I am of Opin ion, that the work is not only cmineuily calculated 10 d idem in ate political, agricultural, t>hilofophical, and oth r valuable infoi mation ; but that it h,«g been uajovmly conducted with tape, fittcntion, and propriety. It 10 these importaivt pbje&s be fuperadded the more immediate de 15sa of rescuing public documents from obli vion— I will venture to pronounce, as my fen fimcnt, THAT A MORI V SET If J. LITERARY ."■AN HAS NEV'ttt BEEN UNDERTAKEN IN AMERICA, or one MORE deserving OF PUB LIC ENCOURAGEMENT.'* J unc 5' FOR SALE, 1360 Acres of excellent fARMING or TOBACCO LANDS, IYING iii the county of Amherft, in Ihe -J itate ot Virginia, on one oi ihe principal branches of River, within fm inilcs of ihr latter, from whcncc it is nav'gabU lor boats of ten or twelve tons burthen, Besides the advantage? of ihefe lands, for the farmer or cultivator of tobacco, they are sup» ppfed, from a small though fuccefiful c*peri ir.cnt made by the iatcCol. Chifwell, lo contain an abundance of metals, wtiich. if not of a p>6- fious (as lias been ex en funpofed) arc certainly of » teiy valuable kind. The better however to • fcertain th.s fart, and plice the purchaser oil a fjfe foonng, in so hazardous a bu fine fa, ai all those fubterranenus researches, without the ut tnoftcertainty of an abundance of the dtfi'ed ore, arcfupDofed to be, every reasonable and nc< elLry alliftancc or indulgence will be ren der d thole inclined to make the expeiiinent, as ve/1 as every other ncceffary informal ion given by the printer of thu Gazette in Philadelphia, or JOHN NICHOLAS. QhajUttcfvillc 9 Virginia. This day is by M A T H E W CAREY, No. 118, Maikci-ft teci, Philadelphia, No. VI. of Guthrie's Geography, IMPROVED, The terms of Subscription may be fern in (he propo.Llj, at large. TI-JIS valuable work will contain (exf/ujive oj the maps in the London edition *'792) maps lit X<■ w-I]dn»j.>lhire f Mvllacbuleit Cofi ne6lirirt f R Ml,md, Vermont, N.Yofk, N\ I'cnntylyaniD, Delaware, Maryland, Vir ginia, Kentucky, N. Carolina, S. Carolina, («corgin, Switzerland, the Dtfcover ies of Cap tavn.s Cooke ami Gierke, and toe countries round t.he North Pole. Besides the great iraiprovcmentf in t-he Ame rican Geography, tf.c accounts of Fiance will be extrj£led from ifir French Geography, pub lathed since the rcvoiuiioiv; the-map of Eiancc will be engraved ariwaidy io ihe division into departments : the "hilloiy of Ruflia, which, in the London edition, is cariicd no fan her than '77S> 'k continued to I'ht- late execrable fnvuftoti of Poland by Catharine : the account ot Swe den his been compiled anew, and numberless othc» imp.oven.nils will be made in this edi tion. *** Sub for ipi ions are received byihel»ook fcjlers in Bo lion, New-York, Baltimore, Wil mington, R chrwund.'Chatlcftoii, &c. &c, ■}""<• '9- N 0 T I C E. '"P'HE STOCK.HOLDE RS in the SOCIETY ± tor ESTABLISHING USEFUL M.SNU FACIURES, arenquefttd to take noiice, that tiki fourth pnd Jaft paynunt is due, and must be tnjde on or before the I3'h day of July next, either to the Calhier of che.United States Bank Office of Discount and Deposit at N'w-Yirk— the Cashier of t*ie Bank of New-York—the Cashier of the Bajik of the United Siatesin Phi ladelphia— 01 John Bayard, Esq. in the eity of New-Biunfwick, in the fratt of New-Jei fey. And that the ftiarcs of all peifons neglecting to make Inch payment, 'and the mon'es by them previously paid., will then l>e foifciicd ior the common benefit of the foid fpciety. That the fublcribcj isduly authorised to tnak£ * the requfiLc iridorfments upon the certificates of shares. and that books of transfer are opened at hit olhcc 141 Front-ilreet. NICHOLAS LOW. no-York, June 12, 1793. f e P l1 3j) GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Philadelphia } May 27, 1 793. 500 Dollars Reward. WtfKREAS a certain THOMAS SLOS»S GANTT, has lately made his escape from Baltimore County Gaol, to which he was commuted under a charge of having robbed the Eaitern Mail, on the sß;h day of January Jaft : Notice is hereby given, that a reward of five hundred dollars wtl! be paid at this Office, to anv prrfon or perfojis who ftiall apprehend the fajd Thomas Slajs and deliver him into the tuftodv of the keeper of the said Gaol, or into thecultody of either of the Mnrfhals within the United S'acesj so that the said Thomas Slofs Ganit may be effectually {ccured, and forth coming to answer the above mentioned charge. TIMOTHY PICKERING, The following is a description of the above named Thomas Sioss Gantt : He is about fix feet high, strait „nd well made, has light co louied hair, tied behind, fair complexion and has a down look when spoken to. FROM THE GENERAL ADVERTISER. Mr. Bach e , I FIND, from the newspapers, that there is a great deal of fuii among the folks in the city, about war in Europe and the Frefident's procla mation. I obferve,too,that two Ame ricans have been committed to gaol, to take their trial, for entering on board a French privateer, and aililt- ing to take f'onie vefleU belonging to the British, with whom it is said, we are at peace, and ought therefore to live In rtriift jriendjhip< with them. 1 wilh, Mr. Bache,that you would explain all this to us flnipletons in the country, who are at a loss to understand your city language, particularly when you talk at duty, intercjt, jriendjhip, ini partiality, peace, &c. I believe that your city-folks have I'ome better dictionaries than Jnhnfon's and She ridan's, when you set about explain ing thefehard words. Forinftance now, you talk of.being at peace or in jriendjhip with Great-Britain : But let me aik you, I. If Great-Britain were to seize upon ihe cities of Boston, New- 437 Wednesday, June 1 795- Pojl-Msjicr Genera/. ork and Philadelphia, and to place li 'iro British garrifVms ii, iheni, io we tijcr, Li-at pi ace with her ? 2. Jf this would ivot be peace, but war, how will yoflr government men be ai>le to make it out, that to have our wfefterw ports held from 6s, and gjurifoneil by the Britilh, is flat war also ; or at lealt very uis fr'tcn'Siy ,condii<Tt—efpeeially when it: is added, that these fame BritWh gat rifoua rob us of the fur trade, and encturage the Indians to mur der our jieople on the frontiers ' ?. If the two privateer's men | ihouid be punt/li«d for entering into the French service, then, 1 suppose, every man who enters inro foreign service without leave ofour govern ment-men, is liable to be piinilhed alio ; at thin rate, will not Col.'Os wald, Maj. £yilace, and many other brave Americans, who are now pay ing a debt ef * -«ur old friends the French, be liable to se vere punishment, if ever they re turn |o their native country Do, Mr. Bache, be so kind as to procure an ajifwer to thef'e three queries from some of your corres pondents, particularly the second ; for I am very desirous to know bow we can be at peace with a nation, that holds forcible patfejjion of a num ber of polls in our country. Yoarj, ijc. FH6M THE GENEfi.iL ADVERTISER. Mr. Bsche, You will oblige me by giving flace to the jcllotving anf-wer to the farmer. TO A FARMER. ' IF I underhand your Queries,tliey unplv a Itrong advocation of a war wilh Great-Britain : Permit me in return to ask you a few quefti- OIIS. Can America join France against Great • Britain, without bringing up on her the enmity of the other com bined powers ! Placed by nature at the dillance of 3000 miles frrtin France, and ijoo from anj of her pofl'eflions, what aid can we give to either without a naval force ? To the united navies of Great- Britain, Holland, Spain, Portugal and Russia, what lias America to op j>ofe but 12 custom house boats ? What would be the expense of building & equipping a naval force equal to render active assistance to France, and protection to our own comirerce ? If this be impollible, and our com ■ merce be of course ruined, what proportion will the price of wheat and the other productions of the Farmer bear to the present i If tiie duties now paid at the cus tom-bouses by commerce ceal'e, how are we to raise money for the exi gencies of the proposed war, but by direct taxes 011 land, See. &c. or by loan ? If direct raxes prove inconveni ent to rail'e the neceflary funis, (hall we have reccurfe to foreign or do mestic loans i If to foreign, from whom (hall we borrow when at war wirh all the world ? If to domestic, will the Kariner and his friends place fufficient confidence in the justice of the quarrel, the success of its event, and the faith of govern ment, to lend their property ? If the payment of the iirteieU on the present debt of the United Stares, contracted during a war into which we were driven, and which termi nated in the eftabliihment of free dom and happiness, be a grievance, (hall we diminifli the evil by ad ding ten millions of dollaib a year (the average expenle of the late war) to that debt, by wantonly en gaging in a quarrel with which Wc When the Farmer talks of the western polls, he seems to forget that there are two banks to a river ; it would be difficult to prove tfoaj forts oppofire to Detroit and ra would be lels troublesome to us than they are ; or that an Indian canoe, or Britifli armed vHFeI cebld not as well navigate on the fide of t he lakes and rivers wlMrh are theft s by treaty, as on our fide; In the ■M>niihn «if. we hai e I nid a«id l>o'U enough aTreiuly : when we want more, 1 prefuine the Farmer will gallantly turn out and help us get them. But from the importance which the Farmer gives to his argument: of the f" 11 r 1 ride, I am induced to fufpei r t that he is really a Hatter, and t hat tlie advantages which might derive to his branch of business front a free trade with the Indians, is wifely considered by him as an am ple compensation for what all the other clafle® of fodety muff fufFer, from the interruption which war would give to every other branch of com merce. A FARMER. I will I hank him, however, toan fwer me, whether he really fippof es, that the Britifli garrisons in Ca nada would give iels encourage nveirt To the Indians to murder i;s in the time of war, ihan they do now ; —or whether the Fur Trade would flouridi under fuel) circumftanres ? Left from the tenor of these que ries. the Farmer should call me an Englifhinan, 1 tliink it proper to af fore him that I am a native (not an imported) American. And that be having served my country in one war, I have learnt to eflimate its ca lamities more juflly than he appears to have done. MR. F e N N«, IF we recur to the history of part ages, we shall find, that enthusiasts ( in religion 4s well as in politics, have nevfcr frriipjed telling ten thousand lies in defence of their l efpec tive lyliems—And the events of our own times will go to prove, that the prejudices which governed some of our ancestors, ope rate witii equal force on the minds of their posterity. Itisllotmallyyearsnl.ee, that a few il literate perrons conduced by a woman of ill tame, made tlieir appearance in the neigh borhood of Albany and calling thernfelve, the chosen people of God, introduced a mode of worlhip which from its novelty attract d the attention ofevery body—All intercqurfe be tween the two sexes was interdicted The married were prohibited from cohabiting to gether—every 1,-iipulle, however abfutd, was considered as Supernatural—jig tunes were substituted for hymns, to which they dan ced until they we.e quite exhaufteri—they wallowed in mud holes—ran naked into the high ways and excepting the framing of ad d relies and ridiculous toaft.s, they did every thing that could pollibly operate to their own degradation and debarment. Thu lLy cal/,d true religion. The fame farce is acting at this present moment with relpeft to politics. If a group of persons, fay forty or fifty, calling themlelves the citizens of Philadel phia lliould llraggle out towards Gray's ferry no matter what the pretence—we are sure to be told the next morning, that the roads were crouded.—lf a hundred meet in the evening to chufe a committee, the number as it by magic encreafes immediately to thou tands ! It is to this prolific squad that we are indebted tor a knowledge of the feve al dc'- grees of perfection attainablein their proprefs towards liberty and equality—When a man tor mflauct can stand upon his head as well as />J>3 [Whole No. 452.] have no concern ?—For if 1 rend rightly, (.itizrii Gci.er, in his pub lic answer to Citizen iiutci inltjn, &c. &c. on liis arrival in town, de clared, " With regard to I v. ill declare openly ai.d freely, (for the ruiuillers of Republics fljould have no secrets, no intrigues) that from the remote (Irnauon of Ame rica and other cii cuitilhnues,France does not expert mat you should be come a party in the war." AN OLDSOLDIER. June 14 For Ike GAZETTE of the UNITEDSTATtS. V
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