> '■' up as occasion miglit require a number of which were found on the way by which he pafled when he was taken to the justice to be examined. % * ~Pof the Gazette of tbt United States. Mr. Fenno, The following extrafl of a letter from a friend iu Virginia lb well deserves at tention at this time, that I perfnade my. felf you and every other impartial prin ter. who incline to encourage good or der and refpeft for the laws, will give it a place in the Gazettes. WHEN I refcd Mr. Jefferfon's Notes on Virginia, the followiug pajfages madr a deep impreffian on my mind. I confefs my opinion was not entirely with him then, but subsequent events have proved he was right. He fays r " Here I w>II beg leave to propbfe a doubt, the prefenl deft re of Americans is to produce rapid popul , on by as great impor tation of foreigners ils pojjille. But is this founded in good p-tlcy ? Are thej-e no in conveniences to be thrown into the scale AgainJi the advantage expelled from a ■multiplication of numbers by the importa tion of foreigners ? It is for the happiness ■of thtfe 'United in society to harmonize as much -as.pifible in blatters which they mujl of Hecefic'y tranfaS togethe".' Civil govern ments being the sole objed of farming foci (ties, its admirtijiration mujl be conducted by common consent. Every Jpeeies of go vernment has its fpecific principles. Ours perhaps are shore peculiar than ihof of any other in the unlverje. It is a lortipofition of the firjl principles of the Englijh conjiitu tion, with others derived from natural right and natural rectfon. To these nothing tan be more o .posed than the maxims of absolute monarches. Tetfrcm fach we are to expeS tbegreate/i numbers of emigrants. Tfity-tvtUJwitrg with them the principles of the goverrirfierit they leave, imbibed in their rarl: : ■■ >j±h - i-- •+ si.'Jr la c/'i it that ferioujnefsi which the importance of the critjis demands, luhat tire to be the confluences of that confujion — n>ihot-headed "violent people• are hurrying iu iitlb. OXce deprived of the proteSion of the laws, farewell liberty, happiness, and every thing that is dear to freemen. —IVe Jhall then, — the age of Newton, Boyle,Clarke,Locke, an.l Addifon, men of the firft rate ta lents ?—was theirs the age of ignorance ; —and has the dawn of reason been re ieived fag end of the 18th cen tury ?—i lus reason, then, which here ofore was efleemed at ribute %1 humdfiity iA all ages, mflit >e a species of revelation, communicated •• But lieftfo we give full credence-to he fi6ve!ty, it it not amil* to mak< oroe enquiryinto the character of th( tutflor, as weli as the raerii: of the sub eft.—To begin With the firft.—Thi neffenger has fofne (hades in his history which, when exhibited in one vieV' 'ender the parity of his intentions i ittle questionable. The busy tongui if fame reports that, not many year •go, he was an humble-iatellite of rdy Jty, to wit, a petty officer of the Bri tifll cuftoma ; —and that, in confeqneno ?f faifing to make up his accounts clear ifflie cafne over to America, for th< benefit of enjoying a freer air, than then was any chance of doing in the fleet' o Here he commenced afttthb: and patriot:—and to.compedfett hia sot liis writing! in favor of Independence which ca'tc'hrd' the public favor a fui-pfi'fingly, as lit' became a patriot, hi was made a clerk to the cemmitteeof so reign affairs. Not discharging his trust t< the iatisfa6lion of his superiors, he wa once mote reduced to a private ttation It is like wife reported that, dutin; his flay in Philadelphia, he spent grefc part of his time in beer-houses, and ii the company of a fair American, who in due feafonj honored our author a the father of one of her children*— Whether he had any qualms about pa tfonifing this frk'it of his unlawful amour or whether he had any reason for them we leave with the partiesbut, in < fhorf timt, he thought proper to re vjlrt the country of his fore-fathers There, if thepen jaf Jiiftory- be faithful Re spent his time m prcijedting bf various kinds, writing against kings and in reeling from one portei-fhop t< another.—lt appears moreover that thi people of England did not relish hi opinions, quite as vyell as he expected and that for one of his lad piecesj ai dcftru the fortui tous jumble of the times; :>r implicitly to adopt the religion of an] other coun try' < In the firft place then, ill jelling a part, I would advife,'and Ihave as good a right to advise as any cilprit in any of the balliics of France, i lay, 1 re commend it to my fcllow-.'itiy.ens of the I United States, to gire tie old religion a fair examination, and compare it with the new one proposed. Church hilloiy informs us that'the former made its way into the world; again ft the combined opposition of kings, piitfts and nobles, and contains nothing advirfe to a repub lican governmentthat, while it re mained unmixed with humau inventions, the profefToiS were diftingiiiJied by pu rity of manners, imiv' to this feftion. 9 committee agreed The second feftion provides, thataf. ter the palling of the aft, all the ,n_ plications in the land office on which the payments Hue are not made, lhall be considered as void. It was moVr . d to make an amendment to this feftion giving a limit# time for making the payments due on those applications. In favor of this motion it was principally urged, that the applications had beert lodged under the expedition ot' credit, and that to declare that credit at an end) without Warning, was unjuil; also, that those applicants who were at the feat of government would have an advantage over those at a diftapce, by making good {heir payments ; and, that monied men might, before the law was finally past, make applications for lands al ready applied for by pcrfons who had at much trouble acquiied a knowledge of them, but who might on the spur of the moment not be able to pay the pur chase money. Against the motion it wag urged ttlkt when the legiflatuir pasted the law rela tive to the land office during the last fef. fion, it was intended, that it ftiould then at a certain limited time exclude the delinquents ; but by a conitru&ion put_iipon the law by the attorney gene ral it was made to extend to only a por tion of the applicatiops, and that that intention; which was well known, but which had been defeated by an improper wording of the law, mult have been a fufficient warning to the delinquents. That the delinquents were chiefly speculators who defeived no indulgence from the state ; that it was a doubt whether the state had land enough to dispose of to latisfy all the applications in the land office, and that if they, should prove not to have enough; it would be unjust that those who had paid and those who had not, fhflnlii fair »P»" iu> _ ■ *>- The motion was finally by a considerable majority, and the fedlion agreed to. The committee then rose, reported progress and obtained leave to fit again on Monday. Adjourned. PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER ij; A correspondent observes, that the speech lately made by a certain Dema gogue, in a certain rcfpeflable Aflembly, must be regarded as a proof of the diflicul ty of corre>* 1 »' A "