For the Gazette of the Untied Sta:es. Mr. Fenno, I By inserting the enclosed I*ll your very uGifr.l paper, you will much oblige a community that is much disposed to good order, and tranquility. 'At a meetir» if Rrffhlkan Cl'"vis v Fvtderf Count f, Virgin':-7, the (id drift to Alexander Smyth, hav ng ieti. rt.id. Ordered, unat.imou/ly that the follow ing 11 r fiver be returned to Citizen ALEXANDER SMYTH. "I'he leading principle in the Confti tMtion ofthefe dates, and of every bthif free goverment ia this:—that, " The will of a ma : oiity of the Citizens ex pressed by their legal representatives (li'all ; govern." If be true, we take j leav- to fav your address it » daring .'at- j tack on the independence tof the eiti j sens of the United State?.. For, not- ; withllanding the very florid language ol j this piece of declaraatioiij which by the j bve would do no great ciedit to a school boy, in plain Enghfh it runs thus— " To the people of the United States. Altho' 4 majority of you have deter mined on a Constitution for yourselves, wherein you have delegated certain powers to a chief magiltrate—a Senate ; and House of Reprelentatives—to the latter particularly- -the right of de claring peace and war:— —And al though your E.eprefentatives, at their \ last session (the firft in which you have keen equally reprefentedJ have, after mature invefig-'tion of the fubjefl de termined that it !s essential to the inte retts«if, the United States, and for the genera! welfare of the citizens, to avert, ! if pofflble, the Calamities of wir : and to that end have enjoined on all, aS of the utmost conlequence to their happi ness, to obierve a ftrift fieutrality tow aids artl the, belligerent powers—never- ; thelefs, I Alexander Smyth, having taken a retrofpeitive vietu of the pro- ; ceedings of government—having matched j each motion of those in poiver—l Alex- • a,ider Smyth, by virtue of the autho rity to me given, as a member of the Democratic Society in Wythe County, Do pronounce the Representatives and executive officers of the United States vnfaithful and corrupt —in as much as they have discountenanced the only true patriots and zealous defenders of liberty among US, who were about to commence hollilities against England and Spain, And I Alexander Smyth do further pVohounce that a majority of the laid Representatives and Executive officers Ought and (kail be dilplaced—trioie es pecially the chief Magistrate, however ji lfly meriting your gratitude and con fidence. —What though in the infancy of the' Republic, before your re sources can be drawn forth but with extreme inconvenierici: and injury to the Citizens :—what though ye can render no real service to our alliep by engaging at this time in war—What though a war will drag the citizens lar from their families, and expose them and their properly to all the dilfrelTes and losses which they have so lately experienced— Ye ali had better peri 111—than that the spark of liberty which I Alexander Sinytii have kindled should be extin guinied, Citizens what is despotism ? Ye will not dare to insinuate that 1 A lexartder Sinyth J,quint that n ay, while dictating to the United States?—l trust ye will not ; —remember the guillotine; may it have an attractive No citizens! Despotism cotifift3 not in the assumption of power in one or a few to dictate to or govern the majority of a community—it consists in the ma joiity's daring to difcountehance a foreigner, or individual patriotic citizen from plunging the community into a war, whether they will or not, and at the hazard of all that is dear to them. It sonfifts in the majority of the states ap proving of the nomination of a citizen for the purpose of demanding reparati on for injuries. Thcfe are 'he instan ces of Despotism which mark the corrup tion of government, and which call for immediate vengeance. Besides purging the different depart ments, and theieby effecting a radical cure here ; 1 Alexander Smyth have a nother Spark to kindle—-it is yet a la tent one indeed ; but by engaging you in the war, I meditate to excite such an txcefjive fridion, as to produce flame fnfficient toconfume the rotten edifices of the European Governments, on the ruins of which 1 Alexander Smyth mean to erect others." Believe us, Citizen Alexander Smyth, we have done no more, as you will ob serve above, than convey your meaning To the people of the United States in in telligible language. Believe us too by so doing, we aim not at popularity ; we have no appointment, no sinister end ■..'a vie v; tfis public welfare :s otijoii'y a 9<>?n.'. . v i'o.t'i'-i.j.i ftV P.i/I'.n , if we Ant may be permitted to era \ beliilli by f vaotation from Kuly Writ, c we may addVh.t ¥' Alexander (not ihe f jSn.y th hath done uj much t evil." ' 1 . | c From the American Miner oil. j — ( < Ths pi. .<.nt {kriud of revo!.' i-ishas j given birth t<i a book, called " The Age j | u! Reason," by ThSiiias Paine. How ever rer.;ark;>bie the age may be tor the J reason of iM'io-is or individual*, M.t. j Paint's head it certainly turned, and ' \Vith lilin, the pieferit age is the " Age , f of Jnia-uity." He begins ' is book as usual with ego tisms. He addresses to his fellow-citi- S • /ens oP America, this fliort inve&ive j against revelation, as his lad ottering— j i he has reserved it tor an advanced peri-; j4d of his life—or as Lord Kaims faidof j ■ his (fetches, " it is the child of his ! j «rey hairs." Indeed the decay and de- j j bi'lity of the father is ilamped on cveiy ■ limb <ft the child. However unfortunate it is, the fa£t ® is undeniable, ti.at men, during the de cays of old age and the Failure of intel lectual faculties, constantly think them selves growing wiser. The mi (Take lads, ; till old men are enfeebled down to the state of children. Mr. Paine is not an old man, but his faculties are evidently nipai'red, of lie could never have called j his book the " Ageof Reason." Mr. Paine defines revelation to be fomethiiig communicated immediately from G t\ to nran ; and he fays, that when the fanie thing is communicated from one man to another, it ceafestb ! be revelation ; depending for its credibi lity on human tettimoiiy. Thus he gets rid of all levelation at a single phrase. He ranks tire old Tcftament with the heathen mythology. He fays it was decid ed by vote which books of the old and new 1 Ttftament fjiould be called the word of Got! ; and the book of Luke was carried ' by a 'majority of one vote only. ' j After ridiculing the creation, by faying, • • every nation has been world-makers and I thelf'raelite*> hid is much right as others to ■ fit 6p the trade of world-makers, he goes : on to declare. 1 " When *r read the obfeene stories, the ' voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and 1 t "-turous executions, the unrelenting vin -1 dicftivenef.: with which more than half • {he bible is filled, it would be more con liftent to call it the word of a demon, . than the word of God. It is is a hiiiory of that has fervedto brutalize ! and corrupt mankind, and for my own part' I sincerely detefl it, as I detest every ' tiling that is cruel." Would the author ' theniupprefs all hiitory. of cruelties whether ■ sacred or prolane i However as he is a - great enemy to ancient cruelty, we could wife to know how his own imprisonment and the proceedings of the revolutionary tribunal, (it upon his mind. j The proverbs of Solomon he allcHVs to I be a good table of ethics, tho' inferior to - those of the Spaniards, or the maxims of r Dr. Franklin. Tile prophets, he allec'ges r were Jewish poets and itinerant preachers. J j Mr. Paine ranks Jesus Chrlit with r . Moses and Mahomet: tho he admits r Jesus to have called men to the prafticfc s of moral virtues and the belief of one _ j God. In (hort he thinks him to have . been a philanthropic and a very good r j man. But Mr- Paine admits a revelation . f a word of God; and this is the creation ? | we behold. He then goes on to describe _ f this word of God ; gives a fliort account s of the lolar system, and by the familiar )• and even vulgar manner of explaining it , . it is evident he wrote his " Age of Reason" for commoii readers in France and America. Such is the lall production of a writer who a began his literary career with common v sense. Whether this book is destined to - overthrow the system of chriftiarrify in a America, a3 his common sense contributed II to overthrow the Englilh government in a this country, we (hall not predict. Cer t tain it is, that the tendency of such books, which are industriously circulated by cer -1 tain democrats, is to level Jesus Christ, as well as the monarchies of the earth. We n trust however that the body of the people _ in America have too much good sense to be deceived, and that they will not ex change good laws, freedom and a pure re ligion, for the priciples of anarchy and in ' fidelity. t- ——————— al From the American Minerva. J- Mr. Necker's remarks on the present u state of France—on Executive power, n Vol. 2. 390. ic Such are the new authorities which ;s have started up in the state, fueh the le different fupeiiorities which the confti in tution has produced, such the adlual inequalities which have fupplicd the 1, place of the vain diftindtions, the fup j preflion of which hai been celebrated g with so much oftentatiorv. By what 1- names shall we call them J What titles y shall we invent to express the fuprema ; cy of those who can, with impunity, d ilir up the people against the opinions nd jkrfons of public men ; who can, « j 1 Yith'i npuniljy draw insults upon tiie j b nonarch aud all who are connedted • L vith him; who can, with impunity, jt< : it down my woods, ravage my estate, 11 et fire to my habitation , who can, | 1 vith impunity recommend a traveller to | ] lopular outrages, or can themselves > c :on!train a peaceable citizen, by mena- { t :es, to fly his paternal abode, and be- | e ;ome an exile from-his family ■ What | :it!es aifo (haß we invent to express the r upremac" of tbofe, who have engrof- j ed exclusively to themselves the public j 1 :ar, who by their daily publications * :tmy the whole of the few precious r c moments that hufbardmen and artisans 1 1 :an devote to the improvement of their , t minds ; who thus govern the people by 1 t iies, inspire them with whatioever pal-" v fious and fentimerits their bate purposes c may require, and infcnlihly weaken in them every tie necessary to the main tainance of fotial subordination. Ah ! let us call them dukes, arch-dtlkes, prin ces and-viceroys ; let us treat them .vith the utmost deference provided they will engage in return to leave our property and our lives secure, and to repeft mo < rality and religion, and we (hall make j a happy exchange, we shall sign at the 1 piefent moment, the best of all possible ] contracts. For I repeat it, these are the matters which have been given us by a ccnflitution that has placed the 1 (cepter in the hands of the demagogues j of the multitude ; this is the terrible j, ariftoeracy \*hich that constitution has ; -renerated ; and yet we talk of liberty, J we boast of a system of equality, a sys tem that shall place r.ll men upon a level! It is tme the superiorities which here tofore existed are no longer to be feeri ; j but those who have fncceeded them are t a thousand times more terrible. We j have destroyed the parchments which J .conferred on the ancient chevaliers of { France their honarary prerogatives ; but we have given eommifTions of auda- j city and impunity te meii ftrarigers to | every generous sentiment. We have ' taken out of the profpeft the weather- j cocks upon the chateaux of the /loblefTe; ' but we have introduced on all fides the ; torches of incendiaries. We have de ilroyed the pigeon houses of lords of manors, but we have new peopled the plains with tyrants athiift for blood. We have broken to pieces the proud fcpulchres that remained as a memorial over the ashes of the dead •, but we have furrendeied with tremendous silence, and secured with tyrannous precautions ' the abysses destined to immanacle the, living. Menace has been every where fubfli tnted for the mild law of refpeft, and sanguinary vengeance for the efficacious ■ interpolition of a venerable authority. Government has been facrificed to the feat- of despotism, and there has imme diately sprung up a multitude os-tyrants, who, celebrating hypocritically the i charms and blessings of equality, have extended their yoke over the property, | over the persons, over the opinions and | over the consciences of men. Mean while they are not descended, as one might be led to imagine, from the land which Cadmus sowed with the teeth of serpents ; but they owe their origin to those fertile germs of anarchy which have coriupted the vegitation of the moral foil, of France, and rendered it prolific in malevolent demons and savage fpiritSi LONDON, April 15. The lenity and equality of the Lam of Scotland. On the 4th da"y of this month, Wil liam Pettigrew, an accomptant in Lrlaf , gow, was tried at the circuit court for jthe murder of hfs wife, in a molt cruel ; and barbarous manner He firll knock ied her down with abof.lc, which broke ' with the violence of the stroke, and then took that part attached to the neck, and cut, lacerated, and tore the muf ' cles of her neck in such a dreadful man ' ner that she died in great agonies fhort ily after. The charge was clearly prov ed—the Pannel (i. e. Prisoner,) set up a plea of insanity ; but upon minute en quiry it was rejeded. The jury found him guilty of Culpable homicide, being a Scots teim for wilful murder. The court passed sentence of transportation out of Scotland for fourteen years, with a certification of death in cafe he re turned to Scotland previous to that time. UNITED STATES. PORTLAND, July 26. 1 Melancholly Accidcnt. Wednesday last, being the time ap pointed for mounting a cannon on the new carriage lately conftruaed by the Engineer in this town, a large number of fpeflators was gathered by curiofitv, to fee the operation—the gun, which was an 18 pounder, being mounted, mounted, was charged with powder and c bail by direction, of the Engineer, the ] si ' crowd of fpeftators retired at a dittance, hi !to lee the explolion ; the cannon Mas ! I ■ then discharged, and btirft to pieces.— tl ! The Captain of a Swedilh vessel now h ! lying in this harbor, was fobadly wound- c< [ cd, as to expire in agony in a few hours, y, i A Mr. Coibv was iikewife badly wound- a< - ed in the leg. P We, have heard of no other person's ! receiyiiui' any damage, although many c; : than those who were hurt, d § Tiiis is%e third melanchc.lly instance si ■ which has happened in this town in the U 1 course of a . few years—and whiltt it « > reads us a serious lelfon on the miccrtain- a (ty of human life, it is earneftty hoped * i that it will tend to check that curioitty. « | which often leads to danger aud to y death. PHILADELPHIA, J AUGUST 7. c Says a Correspondent, Diseases of Nature, War and Mur- t der are avenues fully fufiicient to rid us r pvcmaturely of exigence. Carelessness seems however latterly to be not the ) least dreadful verge on which we daily 1 totter. Lad week a Gentleman walk ing up Chefnut street, at night, preci- t piiated himfrlf in a large round hole; « ifometime open and digging in the street opposite the State-Hoafe, then nine ' ; feet deep. He was exceedingly bruised. ] t A few nights finoe, a refpeflable man, ] a clerk to a Pi inter in this City, fell . in one of a oumber of new-contrived and dangerous holes, at the corner of < i ■ Market, and Third street ;he prevented 1 : ; himfelf from falling thirty or forty feet, < 'i by spreading out his arms, and caught ' 1 * when he funk to the fhouldvrs. He 1 F £ is exceedingly maimed. A Child which I ' was miffiag. la(l Tuesday evening, and j • i cried by the Bell-Man, was found yes- ' ) ■ teiday morning in the Cellar to which : ' one of the ab?ve holes, in the above - j place, was an avenue and died of its ; ' woqnds. Humanity and Police, where : 1 arc you : ! ! f democratic SosiEfr. e . —T At a special meeting of the I)emo- I i ' cratic Society of Pennsylvania, held at { il Philadelphia, 011 Thursday the 31ft day j e * of July, in the year of our Lord 1794, . and of American Independence the j s • nineteenth : The following resolutions j e were proposed, considered and adopted : j ! Refolded, as the opinion of this focie- j ' tv, that in a democracy a majority ought | d in all cases to govern : and that where j [ a conflitiition exlfts which emanated j '• j from the people, the remedies pointed j e | out bv it against unjitft and oppressive 1 laws, and bad measures, ought to be s > \ resorted to : and' that every other ap e r peal but to the constitution itfelf, except c I in cases of extremity, is improper and '> | dangerous. d j Resolved, as the opinion of this society l- S that altho' we conceive excise systems to e jj he oppressive, hofiiie to the liberties of this { country, and a nursery of vice and fyco j: ? phancy, we, notwithstanding, highly dif , approve of every otipol'ticn to them, not 0 J warranted by that frame of government, b : \vh ich has received the fantfion of the peo- | e j pie' of the United States. it J Resolved, that we will use otir u'mofl: ■ e efforts to efi':6t a repeal of the excise-taws by eonflitutional means ; that we will at all times make legal oppofnion to every measure, wl,. h ffvall endanger the freedom j of our country; but that we will bear tef : timony against eve. y nßConflitutionaliSt tempt to prevent 'he execution of any law j fanftinned by the majority of the people. : ■ i'ublilhed bv order of the Society. GEO. BOOTH, Sec'ry. >r •' From the 'Gafumbw'n Mirror. Mr. Psicf, Sir,I—Uear:ng1—Uear : ng ofthelofs 'j of a very valuable member of the coir.mu d nity by the bite of a mad dog, and willing ;, to prevent atiy accidents of the like kind, f- ; I with pleasure communicate to you a re j_ ceipt which by accident has fallen into mv hands, and wish you to publiih it in your ufeful paper, from You obedient humble servant I. H P — j Infallibl<• cr.rr f r the Bite of a Mpd Dog, a TAKE the leaves of rue picked from the {bills and bruised, fix ounces ; garlick ' picked from the stalks and bruised. Ve- 1 nice treacle, or mithridate, and scrapings h of pewter, each four ounces : boil all these together over a How fire in two quarts of e. ale till one pint is ronfumed ; keep it in a bottle close flopped, & give ofit 7 fpoonfuls a little warm, to the person hit seven morn ings fucceflivcly, and fix to a dog, to be given nine days after the bite—apply some of the ingredients to the part bitten. N. B. This receipt was taken out of Cathrop Chureh, in I.incolnlhire, the whole town abuoft being :,itten, and not p. one person that took this medicine but le what was curcd. II MeflVs. STUART & CARROLL, v, Gentlemen, :h , DEFEATED by your own letters in all your former efforts, I am aftonilh cd that you again plume yourselves such flight grounds, as the letter vo " have obtained from my friend Colon 'i Deakins. This Gentleman is g nnc to the Springs for the recovery 0 f j,;° health, and has declined all business of course ; how -well mujl youjland your own treasurer when you could ex a<ft no more from him for your present purpose ? Indeed 1 admire his candour, ani j cannot conceive how you can hope to draw an unworthy conjlru&ion, f„ )m a Tingle sentence of his reply: the p rc . fcnting of a few tickets from the checks which you, as well as the public know - are payable at Philadelphia, mealy t0 | I■ilain a denial, Wa| pitiful, the trick cannot escape the notice of a child of yeflerday—and do you now pretend to believe that your wanton athek, on a public institution, wtyich you knew at the tirrie, was the legal property of thou sands of your fellow-citizens was dif. chaiging your duty to the public ? On the contrary, I beli<°ve you will find on due enquiry that you have committed a crime which might have laid you under a severe pe nalty if you had been fuccefsful in what you call the « arrejling of a Lottery in lit progress." The turn you have endeavoured to give to the typographical error in the date of the letter is rendered abortive by the reference which follows, when I a(k, Why in the sale of OBoler 1793, you depart from a rule established bv yourselves in the letter dated 6th of January, fie gentlemen ! And now to notice for a moment your extreme vanity, viz. yorfr idea of " a high (landing in your favour"—« your disdain, &c." I would a(k of what par ticular importance the former could be to me r Pray who are you,and what are you, that you fliould thus elevate your selves ? Is it for your knowledge in ar chiteßure, surveying, or the art of cim dudiug a private sale that has given you the ftH fufficicnt confequcnce of which you vaunt ? for my part, 1 have here tofoie considered you as plain country gentlemen, of little experience in the world of business, but of good moral chara&er. You were appointed to take charge of the lands which 1 had given in common with the other proprietors ' for public purposes ; and at the parti | cilar request of the late Secretary of ' State, I chearfully endeavoured to ■ | a (lift you in some matters in which you ; then con ft: (fed your inexperience, and : ! you fecmed for a flioit time to attend to j advice, but in the only important in. : fiance that occurred, viz. the extcnf.ve , ' private sale you loft fight of yoijr helm, I ■ and were lauched into a fta of error, I >' from which 1 fear it will be difficult in deed to reland with credit: Yet 1 hope . you will be enabled to convince the pro prietors and the public in general that . you meant well, more than this you can- I not do. As 1 answered all your queltions with candour, do you hope that either thp j proprietors or the public will believe 1 that your evalion viz. your ",difdainiog" " to answer mine, in turn, will be deem " ed proper and latisfactory ?no gentle -1 man as a proprietor, I call 011 you in ' the name of your Landlords, to ren der an account of your Stewaidftip; } vou are well afTured that your eondutt s has been publicly queftiontd for more t than 6 months before J mentioned the ' fiit.ject, and Ia& but the part of a 1 friend when I request your explanati ons in answer to the queftion*propokd r in my last. It may be well again to repeat, that the two lotteries were brought tor ward under the fame official authority* Kiit the former uwltf pcrfonal fectirity only, while the latter has received the s addition of ample real fccuritv, the pun lie confidence in the latter has becoire F greater of course. I was pkafed on his .account to find that Mr.'Jolinfon had v withdrawn himfelf from this useless con r troverfy. Dr. Stuart will undoubtedly be the next to perceive he has been du ped, but Mr. Carroll for certain reafonJ with which he is well acquainted, »i r. probably keep up the Bali as long as ie n may be countenanced, by mifguidt'i ic - k leagues. I w.lljuft give you a hint.ttaf (hall end this addrefs.—lt il now w 1 I s pered that the ostensible matter 111 our 'r controversy is meant by yon as atu to a the whale, merely to check the enquiry Is into the errors of the private fal'i an 1- that it will be necessary for you ,e write again in order to set the P u 1C le right. Slwordtothcwif''> 1 f' J Jr L ' cn ' rf Youi'B, &C. • e S. BLODGET. at N. B. I leave town order to supply the vacancy " 1 . , itej, during; the absence «>i my " c Col. Deakins. From an EXETER of Mar ° h The society for encouraging th £ l "' :
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