'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.