'tia# rAm what I have catcher! up here arwl there, thM it is a fort of a man that puts on libj fp'.ii's firft and then hi* boots —changcs firlt his coat, and therv puts on his fhiif—knocks you down, and then inquires whether you have injured or offended him—if his cabin wants fweepingyhewiMet iton ftfe, iiyftrder, as he fays gravely, "to purge it enieftu al'y, . Now tins vyafe never tfiy way. It always fetmed to Ciftie handled to me to begin at the other end.—lf I was going to remove the old brufh-feoca rou:id my torn field, when the crop was growing, (for 1 own a little farm) I (Tumid fay to myiclf) " Now if I take away this, poor as it is, before I have got my posts and rails for a new one, anil carted them to the spot, ten chan ces to one, the cattle and hogs will watch the opportunity and destroy my «rop. If 1 have not iluff enough to renew the whole, 1 will repair as far as in\ materials will go-, and let the reft be till I can get better prepared to com plete it."—lf I undertake to make my neighbor a pair of boots, I do not set my fancy at -\o< k to hit the handfomeit niape, or itudy the nieelt proportions, Willi a view or paring the long heeland crooked shin of the weaver to fit the boot; but I take his meallire, and if my cultamer. tanhot Wear an elegant boot, I endeavor to make him such boots as hi* can wear. We poor tra'defrtien don't have much time to read ; when a so enter taining as the Rigtj/s of Man, is hand led, however, we drain a point. Mr. Paine litem a to be a rt}ighty nice writer 4 he lay? ath as he goes. Whert lie encounters the ab surdities, the abiifes and tile prejudices that (;xiit among- mankind, he makes {napping work; he is as bold as a lion. None of your half-way, {so for-the-pre feht, milk and water notions for him. Mr. Paine knows what is what, I war rant you. 0, if I could write like that fame Tommy Paine, I am not cer tain you fh<rald'always hnd Ned Nipper at his last and his lapftone. I ihould, perhaps, fuoner chufe Mr. Paine to write for me, however, than to make fyflems of government for my country. When I read his works, 1 endeavor to keep my eyes fixed steadily upoji the book, and while I do that, all feemi to go 'on as it (hould do ; pa laces, c! 'TcheS, priions, ruins, kings and priclts iwivn, like a raree (how, be fore my eyes, and vanish away ; but many a fine reverie have I spoiled by ftijferiug my eyes iuadTertentlv to wan der {ruth the page* and to dwell for a moment or two, upon the ohje&s which furrtmnded me. I have dreamed cf being iii ,tlle rfiolt delightful garden, where nothing was to be seen but the m-oft beautiful fruits and flowers; no thing hetfrd but the mullc of the birds and the ll,earns; nothing smelt but fragrant odours j nothing felt but the breath of the breezes: When the rat tling of a Ihtttrle has awaked me to the fame old smoked walls, noisy rats in the cieling, the stink" of my leather and my pitch, and abundance of fleas and hed-bugs. We bane already pubtjjhcd an ac count of the infernal butchery tvhich took place at Fort Dauphin in July lafl but as the following is a more clear and fatisfaSoty detail of that buftnefs than has yet appeared—and as fuih inflances of savage cruelty ought to be held Up to ei>er liijting execrationy no apology can be neces sary for the p lefeut republication. From the Delaware Advertiser. Jeremie, July 19, 1794. " Sincc yesterday evening our fouls are a prey to consternation ijnd sorrow, occasioned by an accpunt of the horrid treachery of the Spaniards at Fort Dau phin, who, on the 7th of this month, abandoned, andcaufed to be aflalTuiated by the army of the negro Jean Fran cois, all the wretched Frenchmen, wo tnen> and children, to the number of 750, who had lately arrived from the continent in this town, all of them land holders in the province of the North. The Spanish government, by a procla mation which you must have I'een, had, by the mod flattering promises of secu rity and protection, invited all the pro prietors of this province to return to their plantations. In consequence of this proclamation, many haitened back to their ancient poffeffione ; but imme diately upon their artival, weie received with such coolness and marks of uneali nefs, that they could not forbear remon strating- with the Spaniards on this ac count, and reminding them of the con tents of their proclamation. The only answer they could obtain was—That it was a stratagem of war. " The army of Jean Francois, inlli guted, no doubt, by the governor, had complained openly of the proprietors, J federal government is at this moment return, and of this brtarfi of promise | applyirtg both arAs and itegociatiou to refptfdling the partition of their lands.. jj relieve you', and Ihould not have These complaints were tittered publicly fncceeded, would it b« extraordinaiy in the streets, by the black brigands, if our fufferings in this quarter far out and seemed to threaten very plainly the weighed your own, for arc not our catastrophe that was gathering. In the towns and inhabitants on the sea-coast mean time, tiie Fretacti, without fufpi- de(ti\.yed and accessible by a cion or arms, thought themselves secure foreign enemv than youis are beyond in a town, where they beheld none but the mountains, and have we not indeed enemies. They could not imagine that been fi;ftaining at sea, ravages on our the government which recalled, intend- property equal tc? U» any yours might ed to facrifice them. At length, how- have fufTered by the occafioual assaults ever, a general review of the Spanish you fullained. army and that of their black allies, was The vilits of the marshal to take fixed for the 7th of July. At yonrinhabitants before the federal court, appointed, the Spanish troops were ariling from a very general oppolition drawn up under arms on one fide of the to the laws of the United States in your public square, and the negroes on the county, cannot be enumerated as a other, to their left. The moment the grievance, tecaufe obedience to the review was over Jean Francois killed law which was but a duty would also the hand of the Spanish Chaplain, and have proved a, ftiield against this incon blew a whistle. This was the signal for vfmence arid it is liard to discover how carnage, and the black army immedi- any shall be indulged to complain of ately fired upon the French fpeiiators, ihar as an injtny to which only a plain wliorr. curiosity had drawn tb the|fquare. and notorious infraction of a previous They then divided themselves into pla- obligation had exposed them. tooiW, each containing 60 of thrfe mon- The excise is the prominent feature fters, and tufhing into the streets and of objection, and the oppolition to its houses maflacred all the men, women, collection, the iource of the preli'tit im and children they could find, except a pending warfare ; vet surely this was few whom they were directed to spare. ealily avoided if obje&ed to, by a tem- Among this small number is the Prieur porary fufpcnfion of the manufacture, family. During this horrid scene, the or by a patient forbearance till forae for- Spanish troops remained drawn up on lunate change had been operated in the square, quite unconcerned, and trans- your favor on this head. This was fixed with their bayonets, those who gradually approaching; in many quar fled for prote£tion to their line. The ten; the fyflem had been questioned as slaughter ceased only when no more to its projyiety, on the score of its un-> viftiins could be discovered. Sixty or productive quality; in others it had eighty French at moll escaped by sea been deprecated for its tendency to in to Morite Chriftr arid the Mole, and jure our growing manufactures ; the from this lall place, we TTave received TobaeconiiU and Sugar Bakers of Phi the above particulars. ladtlphia, equally with yourselves ex " From the lift of the persons mas- poled to this duty, were proceeding fecred on this occasion, given in to the llovvlv, but perhaps surely to obtaiua Spanish governor by Jean Francois, repeal of its, ia the quiet and confti they appear to amount to seven hun- tutional paths of remonstrance and dredand seventy one 1"—I wish to dif- change of repfefentation ; but your vi mifs the reader without any additional olence has frultrated their views for the comment upon so base and execrable a prefenr, and greatly injured the chance traillaCtion. Americans know how to j before you of a speedy repeal of the law think and feel upon these awful occafi-' complained of. You have armed the ons. A SUBSCRIBER. P. S. Many accounts may appear cdfity of firmnefs ii) government, am of this wanton and cruel butchery, very [ you have by taking arms again It the U probably greatly exaggerated ( but the ' nit\-cl Staten afforded but too much co quarter from which 1 deceived the above, lor to the aflerti.m, for fuel) 1 hope it •nay be relied on as authentic. I&lly is, th:;t your opposition is not so jwuch to the cxcife as \to the govern ! mint itlelf, which indeed canno* be I said to exist, ir again ft its authority a Frem the General Advertiser. , •» »v. To Benjamin White, Esq. member of P aH of lhe community can tnLice their the legiflature.of Penhfylvania for / a Teßle of tbmgs in direct and mini the county of Washington. j '' opposition. ,S1 R. | Thf salaries of officers is the next The arguments which a call to ot der did not fuffer you fully to deliver on the floor of the House of Representa tives, it seems yoii have resolved to pre sent to the public through the medium of Mr. Bache's Gazette. The fame <iuty which would have made it incum bent upon me to have notiied them in my place will not, I hope, be miscon strued when it leads me to give them an answer through the channel yon have chosen. It appears that I (hould not diicovtr less zeal for my constituents than you have Ihewn for yours; it ap pears jult, that the public {hould be fatis fied, that your arguments such as they are have not been silenced by paffioti, but are refuted by the eafiell and plain est reasoning. The chief objects offered by you in extenuation of the pioceedings of the western counties appear to be reducible to one or other of these claflcs: the lo cal position and diilicultics of their situ ation, the trial of your people at a dis tance from their homes by the federal court ; the Excise and its consequent efFe£ts on your manufactures and re sources ; the extravagant salaries of the federal and (late officers contrasted with the small wages allowed to the soldiery, and the the impolitic sales of land o perating to your prejudice as settlers. On each of these I (hall make some cur sory remarks and examine whether, even if they were truly productive of all the evils you Hate, theyjuftify the resource to which the western people have ap plied for redress. With refpeft to the difficulties of your position they appear to arise from a scarcity of cash. the attacks of the Indians and the calls to militia service. The former is a complaint far more ex tensive than your diftrift, for it would be hard to find one wherein the scarcity of money is not at times the fubje£t of disquietude ; yet industry and economy, all the world over, rarely fail to supply enough of it for all the reasonable pur poses of life 5 nor is it easy to imagine, that the western counties are in this ref pe£i excluded from the common occur rences of chance and of time equally happening to all. The Indian depre dations and calls to militia duties are in deed more serious, but a moment's re flexion would conviuce you, that the friends of the fyilem with new r.cafons for iiiforcing it, dcduoed from the ne- I thing cenl'ured; but really I cannot perceive in your lift the extravagance you talk "of. Persons living at a dis tance in the country often view this kind of fubjeft thiough a iniftakcn and pre judiced medium, for want of refledHngv on the expences necessarily attendant on the different ttations fubje&ed to a iSty life. You have yourfelf an instance in yo'.ir own experience : you are yourfelf one o' tliefe salary officers, and received three dullars a day, but do you grow sb wealthy by your pay as to become a scare-crow to yoiiT neighbors ? Judge then of others by yourfelf, and do not let the language of prejudice outweigh with you the move forcible didiates of experience. You fay the Piefident gets 68 dollars a day to fit' 111 honor'b easy chair; but do you really conceive it 10 be such an easy chair, and is it so easy a taflc to conduct, and to conduct fatis fadtorily among so manyjarring interests the concerns of 4 or 5 millions of peo ple ? But were the chair easy even as you fnppof.- and honorable as it cer- J tainly is, wnat people' in civilization would begrudge it to the veteran who fought their battles and aflifted so great ly tq procure them independence. You sometimes how that in other go vernments an admiral, a general, gets thousands a year for life, and the foft retreat of a peerage for some paltry vic tory, the meteor of a moment, and you would deny an easy chair and 68 dol lars a day to a man whose fidelity and fitmnefs perhaps.l'ecured the poffefiion of tie molt elevated bleflings that you hold. But did not the President engage to keej\ au account of this money and to use nonfc of it but what the necessary expences incurred in the public service required, and whit more could reasona bly be cxpefted from him, unless not only all his days, but all his fortune too must be devoted as a facrifice to the in satiable thirst of a*ni&aken avarice. The corapenfation of the soldiery and the sales of lands may have been some times the fubjeft of imperfect regulation or of a misguided parlimony ; but why fliould you excltifively complain of what others patiently fuffer, especially with the blight example before you of tlie late American armies who retired from I the field where laurels vitere almost their only acquisition, without a murmur, or complaint. What indeed had been the consequence, if only mindful of tlicir own wrongs, they had r>t he fit a ted to avenge them, on what, however un grateful, they could not cease to vener ate as their proper country. Yet were I to admit with you that the various oljje&s you complain of were all ftri&ty fpeakifig real grievan ces : Suppose me to yield to the charge of the extravagance of salaries and the general mifcondudl afcriLed to our rulers who after all may err and are fubjeft to err like other men, Would this juftify your coimtiy'a appealtofire and lwordjor would it prove that they acted as virtuous citizens ought to do when they have occaficned all thehor rprs with which we now are threatened aiid an expence of money in one instant of more amount than all the ; falaric* atid all the vexations complained of put together. No fir, their conduct would bear j» littlp the fctutiny of figure* as it would stand the test of the cool inveftt- gation of reason or of common sense. . - I pardon fir for this prolixity but the kit paragraph of your letter effaces in my mi.id iiiuch of w hat precedes if. You deprecate the fate of what you term your finking country and yoif make a pathetic appeal to the sympathy of government : a representative never looks so amiable as when he discovers filch a fondnefsfor his conflituents, and our government tho' it rr.py frown 011 your country will not fink it. In all its efforts it will regard it (till with a parental eye; its commiflloners at firft evinced its temper, and its army if it be really forced to march, wiil'ho less dis play its mildness, a drift diftipline will doubtless be enforced, the obedient will be encouraged and prottdled, the hat m lefs productions of nature will not be as in Europe offered to the vmdidiive po licy of a despot, but succeeding spring will find your country beautiful as before tho' not so riotous. It i* turbulence and the firebrand of pafilpn that might indeed inflame and devattate the weltern counties but the eagle of America is too aspiring in its views to take any pleasure in the ruin of any pari of its own empire. J. SWANWICK. PHILADELPHIA, SEPTEMBER 16. We are credibly informed, that the spi rited exertions of the Chief Juitice, and Judge Yeatis, to suppress the seditious meafurts wlrlch some violent people were fomenting in Cumberland County, gave offence to their nartizansj who determin ed to be revengv V on the Judges, for ar resting Mr. Petriken, and others.*' On the evening of the day that the Judges left Carlisle, about two hundred armed men marchcd into the borough, and being disappointed in their main objeift, they e rected a liberty-pole near the Court-lloufe, with some seditious inferiptions, and burnt the Chief Justice in efTigv. Another.pole was erecSed near the door of one of the persons arretted, amidst the Ihouts of the mob, having " Liberty and Equality" inferibed on it. They fired many Vol lie* during the night time, and difperfetf about day-light. Next day Mr. D. Watt cut down the pole : He has fmce been infuk «d, and it is fa id that Col. Blaine (who has also been active on the fide of govern ment ) has been fired upon as he was going from Carlisle. The magazines of military stores have been threatened, but are guard ed by Capt.,Sparks's company of Conti nental ( * See Gaz. U. S. tf the 12th injlant. By thijs Day's Mail. NEW-YORK, Sept. 15. Yesterday arrived from London, af ter a paflage of 9 weeks—but left Fal mouth the 29th of July, the (hip Fran i cis and Mary, Capt. Reid, with whom came pafiengeis, Chevalier De Friere, Portuguese Ambafiador, and his lady, with ieveral other relpe&able cabin passengers ; who were so very obliging as to favor us with the loan of London Papers as late as the 25th of July, which they procured while at Falmouth. One of these papers, [London Packet of the 23d July] contains the paiticu lars of the UNION OF THE ISLAND OF CORSICA TO THE CROWN OF GREAT-BRITAIN, which has been finally, and formally concluded.—[The articles of agree ment, speeches, See. on this fubjeft lake up abeut nine columns of the Lon don Packet—if we can pc-ffibly obtain a loan of the paper long enough to co py it, we (hall lay it before our readers to-morrow.] The Constitutional Oath was taken in the' words following : " I " Iwear for myfell, and in the irame of " the Corfican nation, which I repre " sent, to acknowledge for my Sove '' reign and King, His Majctty George " the Third, King of Great Britain, " to yield him faithful obedience, «vt " cording to the Constitution and the " Laws, of Corsica, and to maintain " the said Constitution and Laws." The Constitution and Aft being entire ly completed and finiflied, the Prefidenf adjourned the Seflion, and signed the above, as did also the Secretaries, the year, month and day above mentioned. [June 19, 1794.] (Sighed) Pafrjualc de Paoli, Pref'dent. Carlo Andrea Pazzo di Borgo, Sec'ry. Gio. Andrea Mufelli, Sec'iy. The pafll-ngers inform that it was re ported at Falmouth that A ntwerp had been taken hy the French, and that Lord Grenville, Secretary of State for foreign affairs, and Earl Windham, Se cretary of war, had positively left Lon don for Germahy, on business of the utmost importance with the Emperor. The Ohio failed from Gravcfend the 22d of July. Mr, Jay does not return in her. Bejidesother IMPORTANT INTEL LIGENCE in th? papers by the. above arrival, •which <we runnot crcud in this day's Gazette, they cot n the follow ing Advices, which are copied, chiefly from the London Packet of the 2 J//t «f7 ul y• LONDON, July 24—45. The Diet of the Helvetic Body was on the 9th inft. opened at Frakenfeld, in the Swiss Cantons. The Paris Com mittee of Public Welfare have sent thi ther Commiflioners, with the following demands:—l. All the French Emi grants to be expelled from Switzerland. 2. The French to enjoy, through all the Cantons, the right of buying hor ses, provisions, See. &c. 3. The Hel vetic "body immediately to recall all the Swiss regiments that ate in the fer vite of foreign powers. 4. Itfhallbe allowed them to enter that of France And, Jthly, The Swiss mud provide those troops with the neceflary ai ms and ammunition. The firft. article of these demiiidt ii not likely to meet wr'Ji much oppafitioti, but the other four will be fti'Cnglyeon letted. 5 ; - Wc are informed by persons of cre dit who have efcnped from Ghent since the French have been in pofieffion of it, that every tiling is in a state of requisiti on. Plate, both belonging to the church and individuals, brass, iron, all lortß of clothes, in short every article, is demanded under pain of the guil lotine. Some persons have been put to death at Tournay by that firft Minister of the Republ c. It is also fail 1 , t'iat they have demanded 100,000 men from Flanders alone ; and, as they have been difermed, they ruuft march when or dered. All the Emigrants who furvivcd the siege of N eupoit, reduced from about 500 to less than 20 j, were savagely massacred, upon the glacis of the place j immediately on its iurrendCf, amid the shouts of Vive la Republique ! We &!fo learn, that at Oftend, though an assurance had been publiflied at the time the.enemy entered the place, that every thing that, was pafTtd (hould be buried in oblivion, some one or other continues, to be executed every day ! The molt rigid measures are pursuing both by the executive and legislative government of Holland, to fupprefi that seditious spirit which might, un reli rained, tend much to favor the pro gress of the French. Liege is almost wholly deserted. All the nobles and -lergy have fled towards Germany, and the religious have quit ted their convents. More than four hundred boats, loaded with the mott valuable property in the town, had drop ped down the Metife, and the utmost consternation prevailed. By accounts received from the Pjfnce of Orange, it appears, that upon the nth, he was at Rotellaer, and was to hav« a camp. behind the Dyle, and his head 1 quaiters at Kecr bergen. His pofitioti was such, that his right wing extended to the Duke of York's krmy, and his left to the corps under the Austrian General Kray, which is joined to Prince Cobourg'j army. Postilions and the drivers of carria ges in general, are now forbidden to take any letters or packets fiom any pait of Holland. Tire Miniftvy at Hanover has again opened the trade for grain upon the Elbe to Hanover. The relolution contain ing the order for this reeafuie, it dated July 8. Since the French Toulon fqtiad na has been blocked iip by the the French have drawn much o£ tWtr force from Piedmont. The W'Ap. The following has bee« handed about, as the new plan for pig. lecuting the war.
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