From the Eagle.
THE FARRAGO.
" MticaJl:tdy is a weariness to thr jlejh
Yes, and of thcjfpirit too, said Plod,
with a yawn, as he (hut up Simpfon's
E":lid. What porter that has trundled
baits in his wheel-barrow all day, from
the bottom of Button Pier to Msfs.
Drudge fcf Company's store, at the south
end—what Irijh porter has worked
harder, than I have at these demonitra
tions.
" Shut the book up for ever, if an
• gles and triangles vex thy patient spirit.
Plod," .fays Hcali/if looking anxiously
at the mathematician, *• why fhouldeft
thou die before thy time !" Go, burn
each diagram and let the rust gather on
thy dividers ; hasten to the Hotel, and
call for
" Punch to drown all fir——»
With the merry fellows quaff,
And IXtigh aloud with those who laugh)
And drink a jaco-ferious cup,
With foul*, who've got theif spirits up. 1 '
Gi le your purblind mind an opportuni
ty to search for her {pe&acles, and, on
the morrovt, (he r.'ill difcerri perhaps
the forty seventh proposition. But if,
rvith jaded attention, and with that
aching head, thou wilt persevere, and
still keep turning the laborious windlcfs
to Trulh't well, ftrugling in Vain to
draw the reluctant damsel iipy the vio
lence of the exercifr will watte thy vigor ;
and the pain of the fide, irid the hectic
heart, will deCrop thy studious plans,
and calcine to athes the busy fibres of
that brain, which, even now, throbs j
with anguish." This "fine harangue of
Health is doubtless the mult pertinent
tht ever pronounced, and, if her ad
vice were followed, we (hould fee more
rosy cheeks among cloistered students,
and their volumes would contain moiey
though the number of their pages, per
haps would be less.
King Salomon, wKen at the CfUege
of Jerulalem, was. according to the bell
accouftts, a very hard Undent. But he
fuou found, that of reading many books,
as well as making them, there was no
end. So he rose up, one day* in a pet,
threw the book, whith he was readingy
into the fire, muttering fortiething a
bout vanity and vexation of spirit. Now j
it does not require a thimble full of So- j
lomon's wisdom or experience, to appre- j
ciate this matter, at the present day, as j
juftlv as he. That class of methodical 1
readers, who read over and over again j
each page ; who go on from {helf to ;
fhelf, till they have toiled through a li
brary as ample* as the Vatican ; who
wear green silk before their dimmed
eyes, and chafe, with camphire their
temples, to relieve their heads aching
with the ponderosity of knowledge, the
whole'tribe will tell you, that too much
learning hath made them mad : aye, and
foolifh too. Fettered by systems, their
minds are paflive—they read and believe,
impatient of thinking, and afraid to
doubt. A few books at once original
and excellent, diligently meditated, and
well digelted, would have rendered
them genuine scholars. But now, the
fountain of intelligence is turbid by too
much foreign in Her ; it is like—for 1
dearly love a John Banyan's similitude,
to illustrate aljlraS positions, it is like
my neighbor Heedlefs's well, which he
dug " by the way fide," and negledis
to cover.
Thelofs of the Alexandrian library has
been greatly deplored. The last and ge
neral conflagration is a trivial event, accor
ding to some of the literati, in comparison
■with the burning of certain ancient books.
On the contrary, I think it matter of ex
ultation ; and the anniversary of the de
finition of so many myriads of vapid vo
lumes should be a day of thanksgiving,
among at! the students in Christendom.
Were the most judicious feleilions of books
annually to be visited by Don Quixote's
curate and barber, and to undergo the fiery
trial, which those Purgators would inflidt,
I am positive, learning, like one of my
dingy tobacco-pipes, would come out fair
er from the fiair.es. During the ages of
fnonkery, the scarcity of books was a just
topic of complaint: literature then fufFefed
from excefiive leanness; now, from ple
thora. Books in every art and science ire
so multiplied, that the astonished student,
entering upon any department of know
' iedge, fees before him an interminable
profpeft.' If Solomon, so many centuries
ago, when books were comparatively
scarce, faftidioufly pronounced much Jtudy
a iveanne/s ; what would he fay now, if
a lawver should tell him that an abridge
ment of iurifprudence filled one and twen
ty folios ; pr, if a divine should count only
one half of the controversial writers, and
repeat the names of Gill, ofFlavel, White
byandßurkitt ? Why the preacher would
fay, that the labor of such reading was a
« for; travail" indeed, and the prince af
firm, that the clack offet'tn hundred wives
and three hundred concubines were more
tolerable, than such trumpery.
Study, so far from "being a weariness,"
either of fiodv or mind, is molt delegable
when rationally indulged. The rules for
renting are concise and practical. Selert
original books, and toj y not toil with them.
Solomon fiimfelf ntver complained of w<a
rineft perufhig the chronicles of his fathers,
or the sublimity of Mofts and Job ; no, he
had been pouring Oyer some dispute of the
rabbies, concerning their Talmud, when
ihe complained that his flefli was weqry,
' and his spirit vexed. Let the studious
' youth thcrtforft who, emulating the wif
j dom of Solomon, deprecates his corporeal
j and mental weariness, remember to avoid
polemical divinity, and verbose law. Let
! hint exclaim, with Dr. Armllrong,
Solomon.
Peacr to cach heavy metafhy Kc fnge.
Let him fnerr at syllogisms and the logic of
Aristotle ; drive a door nail through the
books of those prelbyterian dunces, Htuch
efon and Fordvce, and peruse the praisli:*al
ethics of Paiey. If ambitious of elo
quence, let him read Cicero, and light the
midnight lamp with the report of ltobcrf
pierre. If a poet, Isaiah, Homer and
Shakespeare, will leave no room for Mils
Hannah More or Dilla Crufca. —Through
thcendlefs mazes of history, he may wind
his easy way, if with the Claflic, he afVo
riate l'uch intelligent guides, as Sully,
Hume, and Oibbon. And Wllv, let no
conliderations induce him to read the dull
} Dutch commentary, instead ot the lumi
' nous text; or to substitute the tuneful
echoes of Pope, for the Bucolics of Virgil,
and the venal translation of Smollet for the
Gil Bias of Le Sage.
The following is translated from a Ger
man Periodical paper. The accounts
are said to be taken from Swiss pa
pers to the 16th April last.
The Chapter of Arlefheim had met
at Fribourg in Brifgaw, in order to
eledt a new bishop of Basil, and it was
expedted that one recommended by the
court of Vienna, would be raised to
this dignity. But since that, it has
been undtrftood, that the said eledtion
has been deferred and the Chapter has
adjournid without day. The diftridt
of Erguel which is inhabited by Pro
testants and belongs to the bifhoprick
of Bafi!,' is all along in a state of irvfur
redtion ; and the dilorganizing princi
ples as the Fiencfi, are by all accounts
much liked there. The Ex Maire Li
oniri, and a tertain Curroilier, called
Voifin, bo'fn in the mountains of Va
lengin, are gone to the National Con
vention, in order to solicit that the dif
tridt of Erguel and the adjacent places
might be incorporated with the Frenc -
Republic. And it! order to make it i
plaulible that this incorporation was the J
i with of the people, they had procured I
the fubfeription of 500 names, molt <
of which had been forcibly obtained j
from children. It is undoubtedly the
result of Jacobin intrigue, that thi% in
confidcrate step has been taken ; for it
is but too true that the guilty revolters
who tyrannize France have their emif
fariea in Switzerland. In the city of
Chur (or Coire) a Jacobin club exists
already, tfverfince the year 1789, which
is connedted with the Jacobin Club of
Paris, as will appear by the address pre
sented in the name of the 3 leagues,*
to the National Convention in 1790.
Ever since the prefciiting of the said
address the above mentioned Club
has been indefatigable in piopagating
their anarchical principles in the coun
try of the Grifons, by making the
public papers at Chur speak the fame
language with those of Strafburg, and
by diiTeminating all kinds of seditious
writings, sent thither by Strafburg.
By these means they succeeded in erect
ing three other Jacobin Clubs one at
Magenfeldt, another in the Country of
Davos, both in the leagues of the ten
jurifdidtions, and the third Ilanz in the
Gray League. These Clubs, at the
time when Scmonville and Maret were
arretted, took the utmoit pains to oc
casion an infurredlion among the peo
ple, but a spirited declaration, which
the Imperial Minister published in pro
per time, was the cause, that this at
tempt tnifcatried, or at lead that the
execution thereof was deferred to a more
favorable time The dearth of articles
of the firjt neceflity, occasioned in part
by the prohibition of the exportation
of grains from Suabia, revived the ex-
pe&ations of the seditious : and having?!
observed that the communities of the
Gray league had (hewed the greatest
moderation in the cafe of Semonville;
it was thought necefTary to make the
greateit exertions amongll those, there
being no further occasion for it among
the reft. The principal members of
the Club at Ilanz were therefore ap
pointed to hold revolutionary speeches
to the people. As soon as the General
Diet of the three leagues, had aflem
blrd, a number of peasants of Luy
nctz who ftiled themselves Deputies of
* The three leagues are I, the Gr'ifon
or Gray League; 2, the league of the
Houft of God; and 3, the ten Jurif dic
tions ; the Deputies whereof meet annu
ally at Chur, in the month of March, in
General Diet.
their communities appeared at Chur,
md ptefented an addi vfs, with an in
tention to raise an infurreftion in the
communities beloaging to the three
leagues and to force the Diet to com
municate this address to thole of the
communities, whb hitherto had kept
themselves tjuieU ft ' s asserted, that
this infurreftion would not have
place, if a certain Swiss had not dit
tributed large sums of money, among
the populace, which sums had been
transmitted to him for that prarpofe by
the National Convention. 1 his is cer
tain at least, that a certain Colanbers
and one Bolet, both of whom have serv
ed the French Republic, are at the
head of the insurgents. The firft who
joined the peasants of Luynetz, were
those who were afl3iated to the Club of
Mayenteldt. The city of Chur like
wise added fifteen deputies ten oi whom
were members of the Jacobin Ciub.
They were afterwards reinforced by the
j whole Jacobin Club of the country of
Davos conlilting of 5 2 persons. De
puties from the Upper Countty, and
Partens Valley augmented their num
ber and at last arrived also the deputies
of the league of the Houle of (rod.
but only a small number and only &<;
audiendum et referendum (to hear and
to report.)
Those Deputies behaved tolerable
well in the beginning, it is to be ob
served aeverthelefs, that the Clubbifts
of Mavenfeldt, began to sing several j
patriotic songs highly offenfive to the
Imperial minister, Baron de Cronthal,
which has perhaps induced this miniftei
to quit the country of the Grifons. In
order to irritate the minds of the peo
ple, more and more, a civic feafl was
instituted. The Clubbifts, the whole
General Diet, and a numerous people
colle&ed in a large plain out of the
gates of Chur in order to take a lolemn
oath on the chapters of the republic of
the three leagues, and the three funda
mental laws, called the kettle patent,
and the reforms of the years 1684 and
1694. This ceremony was performed
with jhe greatell order. But soon af
ter those Deputies, contrary to the ex
press tenor of the law*, which they had
sworn to maintain, constituted them
selves into a National Convention with
out producing their powers for that
purpose; it was rcfolved to deliberate
with open doors, which was the cause
\ that '.he tribunes, or galleries ir.flueuce
ed the Swiss Legislators in the lame
manner as those at Paris, tyrannize the
French Convention The new afli-m
---bly cliofe heads, to wit, one head for
each league, in order to preside in their
Seflions. It was then resolved, that
on the 12th of May, a revolutionary
tribunal like that at Paris, to consist of ■;
96 judges, via 3 2 from every League, 1
be cftabiifhed. ,
Having finifhed their pretended com
'miffion, inltead of dissolving, this na
tional convention transformed themselves
into a criminal court, and obliged Mefirs.
j Planta and Trepp, to name the tranf
! greffors of the laws, which the firft had
made mention of in a Pamphlet, and
the other in a conversation. Mr. Plan
ta extricated himfelf by faying* that
all he new about the matter was ; that
Mr. de Salis Marfhlins was pofieffed of
a pasture in the Valteline, which the
community of CalHone hadr fold him ;
but that he believed this pasture field
to tje none of those, whereon the pack
horl'es of the GrifonS enjoy the right
of paftuiage. Mr. Trepp said, that
he was convinced that the President
Mr. Sehorfch enjoyed a political pen
sion from the Emperor, but that he
had no proof to produce.
Mr. de Salts Marthlins appeared of
his own accord, and having proved that
the pofleflion of the above Mentioned
pailuie grounds was not contrary to
law, the fubjctt was difmifled. When
Mr. Sehorfch was ordered to appear at
the bar, the informer had left the city
of Chur : people were therefore sent
to fetch him back by fair means or else
by force. They were thereupon brought
face to face, and Mr. Sehorfch continu
ing to deny what M r * Trepp afTerted ;
the court decrced that both (hould be
carefully guarded. The galleries in the
mean time made a great deal of noise,
and insulted those deputies who had not
the good luck to be agreeable to them.
They even forced the convention or
meeting to rescind decrees, which had
pafied by a majority of votes. Soon
after the LegiSators themselves knew
no bounds, corrupted, aa it is afTerted,
by the money, which a certain Jew had
brought with him from Zurich. It was
thereupon decreed, that full credit {hould
be given to an accuser on his oath. By
which means Mr. Sehorfch was obliged
to declare himf-lf guilty, and to confefs
that he had received of the Emperor a
pension of 150 florins. The fir ft suc
cess encouraged Mr. Trepp to inform
againlt Mefirs. Caftelbery, father and
son, Stundi Montalta, Capreta, Gabriel
and Capel at penfiooers of the Emperor
and the king ps France. It is fuppoled,
that the intention of all thcfe denunci
ations is to be revenged of those who
have been acceflory to the arreftation of
Semonville. A further proof, that this
new convention think themselves supe
rior to all the laws, is, that they have
summoned several inhabitants of the
Valteline to appear at Chur, which is
absolutely coutiary to the capitulation
of Melac.
The accounts, f.nce received with
rtfpeft to the Galons mention, that
the sober part of the people have quit
ted the party of the national convention.
But these nevertheless continue their
functions. They have appointed a com
mittee of enquiry, at the head of
which are Mefirs. Cadenale, 1 lorian and
Spreakes, three jealous jacobins. The
Revolutionary Tribunal has been trans
ferred to Reichenaw, the principal feat
of the insurgents.
Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, July ji
A letter dated Cadis, June io,
_
" This wife and good government
laving prohibited the life of round hats,
rnillotine waillcoats, long breeches,
furtonts, (hoeft rings'; fteck handker
chiefs, and a long train of other arti
cles of weaving appai which our gay
young men used to wear in imitation of
the English, fearing their very form in
troduced ja«obinical ideas into the pnb
lic tnind, I mult reqneit you not to
fund me any more of the modern cut ;
everything tr.uft be according to the old
fafhionfc ; for we aie so tearful of inno
vations, that we will not fufter even the
cut of the coat to be changed. This
order is rtiofttigoroufly enforced, under
pain of imprisonment, particularly fmce
our defeat in Roufillon, which has
spread terror and dismay throughout all
Spain."
J u 'y 5-
There is a lady now living at Fare
hsfn, in Hampshire, whose hnfband was
a captain in the navy, whose fori was a
captain in the navy, and whose brother
was an admiral—all ox whom are dead ;
and the fame lady has now living ano
ther brother an adrbiial, and another
son an admiral 1
Of the maimer in which the late cap
tain Henry Harvey, who died on Sun
day last of the wounds he received in
the late engagement under Lord Howe,
fought his ship in th* late action, his
commander in chief, andthereitof the
fleet, bear honourable testimony.
In the early part of the adtfon }ie
was wounded in the hand, which he did
I not so mu<?h as dress, but tying his
I' handkerchief round the wounded part,
ga«e his directions ; soon after, a gun be-
ing dismounted near him, a heavy fplin
tev of the carriage ft nick him on the
back which threw liifti, and rolled him a
considerable way on the fhlp's fide ; he
rose with great pain, but still continued
his station with unabated spirit and re
solution, when, towards the close of
the engagement, his right arm was car
ried oft by a twenty-four pounder. He
was ihen taken to the cock pit, and an
amputation took place, with every fa
vourable circumflancei
When he arrived in port after the
aflion, the contilfion which he received
on the back, and which he scarcely
minded in the heat of the action, grew
bad : in short, it brought on a fever,
and a mortification in the kidsies, of
which he died.
His Majesty did him the honor to re
wr.d his gallant services on Saturday
lalt, with the rank of Rear-Admiral ;
but his brother, Capt. John Harvey,
(<vho fought in the fame action, and
twice came to his fuecour in the day of
battle )j on bringing him the glad tid
ings, found him delirious—on the next
morning he expired !
The following is copied from a daily
paper, in which it is given as intelligence
received in|towftthis morning from Onend.
" Gen. Stesvart began to embark the
troops on Tuesday morning last, and be
fore night the town was completely evacu
ated, not a single man belonging to the
troops being left behind. The Ihips ijn the
harbor were all brought away, afi old In
diaman and a prifon-ftiip excepted, which,
by the wind blowing strong into the har
bor, couM not be got out, and were there
fore set on fire. The gates of the town
being set open by the inhabitants, the
French were seen from the shipping to en
ter the town to the number of about 5000.
I am sorry to add, that a few horses were
under the difagrfieable neceflity of being
left behind at Nieuport.—The fleet failed
for Flushing.—l am happy to add, that
Lord Moira has eff'e&ed a junction \vith
Gen. Clairfayt.
Accounts were received in town of a
very disagreeable nature from Madrid, by
the mail from Corunna. The spirit of
| Jacobimfru has made iuch progreli in that
Priest-ridden country, that most alirm'ng
i'vmptoms of iniurre&ion have manitelted
themfelve* tin that capital; what is
more serious, the Sm ifs Guards have
plicitly declared that they are Republican*
in principle, and will not fight against the
people in their efforts to shake off the in
tolerable yoke under which they groan.
This intelligence vras Very generally re
ported yesterday, and seemed to gailicre*
dit from the refpeiflable names to which it
was assigned. If we may he allowed t(
draw conclusions from a letter received a
fortnight ago to a friend, an open and ge
neral infurreftion is most likely to happen.
—'• You cannot imagine," iaid this let
ter, " to what a height the spirit of cif
content has risen in this metropolis. All
the vigilance, the efpionige, and the me
naces of the government, are insufficient
to ftifle the murmurs of the people; and
i among the very firft ranks are to be found
op n and avowed advocates for liberty.
YoU will think it strange, but I allure you
it is true, that the measures which your
ministers have, with so much ease, carried
into execution to stop the progrefsof Ja
cobinical doflfines, the Spaniih Court dare
not imitate : they dire not arrest the men
zing the multitude ; for in cafe of alhock,
they have no dependance on any part of
the military force."
Advertifcment Extraordinary
Wanted a few good hards to negoci
ate a Peace with France; for which a
liberal reward will be given by applying
to tlie Treasury.
No obje&ion if it is made with the re
public, provided it (hall appear that wc
have no other view than to ttop the eflu
t fion of blood, arid restore order to that
unhappy country.
As the principle upon which we en
tered into the war was never defined,
there \« great scope for ingenious mtn
to get us handsomely out of it. Good
reasons in the shape of College Thefeg
tending to that end may be sent sealed
up to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and the Authors will be rewardedae
cording to their success.
No obieftion to the proposals if they
come from People in the Opposition :
their names will be concealed, they will
have free access to the Treasury, and if
they continue Members of the Whig
CiuH, fn much the better,
i No proposals can be attended to with
; out this preliminary article, viz. that
1' the present administration are to conti-
N B. Our Allies being heart3 7
tired of the war they need not be men
tioned, and the Negociators will have
a few iflardsto dispose of.
UNITED STATES.
NEW- BRUNSWICK, Sept. 4.
On Monday morning a detachmMit
t>f troops, unditr the command of Capt.
Sedam, confiding of about 100, march
ed from this place for Trenton.
ELIZABETH-TOWN, Sept. 3.
Saturday last the troop of Horse of
Capt. Williamfon's company met in this
town, when all present made a volun
tary offer of their set vices in the ft 1 eel
corps of 1200 to fnarch for quelling
the insurgents at Pittsburgh. We aifo
hear that Capt. Ward's troop at New
ark have made a like tender of the*
fervu.cS.
PHILADELPHIA,
SEPTEMBER 9.
From the General sldttrtifer of ihis
Morning.
WESTERN DISTURBANCES.
Dispatches were yesterday received"
from the Comtniffioners sent by the fe
dcralandftate governments, tooffer terms
to the infnrgents in the vveftern coun
ties of this state. The information
these contain, are not so favourable as
was anticipated from the disposition ex
ploited by the committee of conference.
It appears, that the propositions made
by the commiflioners, were laid before
the committee of fafety, confiding of
60 members, of which the committee
of conference were a part. They we. e
taken into conGderation by the grand
committee, 57 members being present ;
on the 27th ult. Mr. Gallatin addrefled
them in a speech of two hours long, in
which he treated the fubjett in a very
masterly manner; recommending obedi
ence to the law, and recouife to the
constitutional means of obtaining a re
peal of it. He was followed by Mr.
Bradford, who in a violent *nd inflam
matory harangue of considerable length
endeavored to tnake a contrary impveffi
on ; he contended, that resistance to
the opjjreffion of an odious excise was
not only a duty, but that in the then si
tuation of the western countiy it was
practicable to render that opposition ef
fectual ; that the only article wanted ta