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    cife in person, and whatfhull he exei
Mr Phimmcv cifcd by theii reprefentativeS. So Lav
~ ,' ' f:titl the people; hut what fay .the Demd
•i v> i> ,n h ' 9 rdn,rovtrf y cratic Societies? The people batcn^oft
With Air. lame, the able champion for too much confidence in their reprefent
epnfutu Republics, labours to atives, and we will form ourselves into
prove the cxiiteiice of wbat lie calls clubs to watch over, and cenfufe [but
" A httura/ Anfacracy," of Which he never praifej the candtift bf thelc re
-171 sa • I'pct'oilty of talents, a princi- prefentative6. The people have deemed
j>jl ingredient. Nor being able to de- themfdves competent by the Right of
live his favorite Ariitocracy from the Suffrage to choose person*, proper to
voice of the people, he endeavors to represent them ; but we know better,
trace it up to the dictate of nature, and we k.iow that from the great difference
to a fort of divine right." One of your of capacities among men, the people
correfpocdents, a " Ctlnaan Democrat," require individuals of superior talents to
Je- ms to have imbibed a similar notion, take the. guardianship over them to
!_"■ in a piece written expressly in jufti- rouse them from that lethargy, into
ncatio" of a political society, felf ere- which they will fink by the ut|fiequen
ated, ahd felt eltabhfhed, he makes it dy of ele&ionS, and modeltly to point
one topic of hts argument, " that m.en out to theiti, whom fhey ought to choose
are social beings ot -very different capa- as " haters of every species of decep-
Cines." Admitting this to be a truth, tion, intrigue, and intricate policy."
yet, to make Ins argument Conclude in The people, in short, have declared
fWor of Democratic Societies, we mult how far their governments (hail be de
take foi' granted, an intermediate propo- mocratical, but ceitain societies fay,
iu.on, which it items your correspond- tha, they fliaH be (till more democrati
ent lias not ventured to disclose, viz. cal j l'o they fay, while the mealures
tnar among the different capacities of they adopt for this purpose ; are ftrid
men, the members of the Democratic ly ariftocratical, as letting up a part, as
Society polfefs that Superiority which fupeiior to the vvhola, and arrogating
j intuits them in afluming a cenforflrip to individuals, a degree of wisdom and
on the ae l3 and doings of the conflituted integrity, superior to that of the whole
authorities. Ihe argument would then community. I will not pretend to lav
tand thus, " nature has made a wide that such proceedings come under any
difference in the capacities with which precise, or formal species of criminality;
me has endued men; we have been but it favours much of that, which the
favorM by her with superior gifts; French emphatically stile the crime of
therefore have a nght to form lexe nation, as being an oppolition by
into a society, which is to individuals to the public will, as mark-
tell the common people, what are their ed out in the national confutations.
„ "S hts ' al f I,ow thev , nulls ' P UI V Yonr correspondent has reminded us,
„ 5 t f e r T T neS ancl IIOW that we have not, as the French have,
r * dref9 4» e ™i what ate primary affembhes, and 1 will remind
„ P° lltlc .f , . he / efie f, and what 18 the test him, that these primary assemblies, are
" rthooox >';. f c ; 'II ma x n ' Jt felf-cenfliti.ted, but eltablifhed by
be aflcedit these men possess such a pre- the general will, that they aie not con
dense over the bulk of the commit. fined to individuals but open to all citi
t..t>, how has it happened, that they zrns, and that the great difference of
have not been difhngtufhed by their men's capacities is not made a pretext
neighbors, and that in the great variety for individuals to arrogate to themselves,
of constitutional offices, they have not : superior knowledge and probity. If
been thought of, by the people to fill , the Democrat wishes for primary affem
them . The Canaan Democrat, has an ( bites- in our country, let him come for
answer at hand ; it seems that, " the { ward, arid explicitly avow it, let there
rtt Un fr' ng C T 'be pi '° per a PP ,icat ' ons for making this
not get into public notice ,n the ordi-| alteration in our conflitutions, and if
b V,ay ' * nsi ,f ; t 7 torc a pofiticid Jit be the will of the people, let it be so
d'W- rii Vl ' the> ' 1,1 1,1 ' mean ,inie ' Ict him the reft
si' K iff n ■ !r f ,IS contcnt himfelf with piimary as-
A 1 th,s ,s very fine but I fufpeft it fembhes held .in the days of election
Lsi a ,™" 1 "' 3 ,"' 5 3 " d 1 P™ teft « il is '«c seems also to admire a Legislature
the firft fime, I eve,- heaad that modejly confiding of .only one branch,' and L
; % srtaswsrt
Tn f2a''that°u ce r y f n y th "« that us alio., a f oo t.
liiipecx that these gentlemen think mg of equality.
snore contemptiioufly of their left learn. . When the Democrat intimates that our
ed neighbours than they deserve. The Legislative Bodies may eftablifli an in-
Canaan Democrat may pofltft superior , " tereftin opposition to that of the Bulk
talents for writing in news-papers, and " ( ' ie People,'* he soars beyond the
7 ft his humble fellow-citizens mav r !' ;> common capacities, I always
not be less tifcful members of focietv's ug ,• thal our representative govern
he mav be more able to discuss political : guai " lnt f ed , b y tlle facl "fd Right oj
frf
to judge of the merits of government,' > femej and it remains for the Democrat tc
under which they enjoy peate a fid pfof- what motive men elected for one oi
penty. But if this amazing difference two years can have, to devise yokes whicl
of capacities really dl fqu alifies the bulk ! er!l ' c ' vcs and polterity must wear,
of the peopl' from iudmiiff of their or 1! ? what a y» tjiey possibly could (If f<
High., and the Jfii|„®. rf E ?■ 1 1 »°" '»» "
CI at) it is time.that we dismiss the trap- millions under Citizen Genet, and tiiereb;
pings and expence of eledions and of ce^e t0 he amenable to the laws of thei
reprefchitative bodies, and con;mit all Countl ')'-
the powers of government to political
iocietics, composed of men of superior
capacities, and pointed out by nature
as proper to instruCt and govern th
reft.
While every sentiment in favor of the
Rights of Man, and a warm attachment
to the spirit and form of a representative
republic, make me oppose the inference
your correspondent would draw from the
very great difference of men's capacities,
1 cheerfully concur, with him in main
taining that our conftitutidns, both
state, and federal, are in a high degree
democratieal. He justly observes that
this is evident from the forms of pro
ceedings in our courts of justice, and
indeed no man who considers the form
of our government, and the manner in
which it is adnsiniftered, can avoid fee
ing that no power whatsoever, can be
eonflitutionally exerted, unless it be de
rived from the People, But is it not
strange, that this truth should be made
a topic from which to prove the pro
priety of political clubs and Democratic
Societies ? The result in fny mind j s en
tirely the reverse. The sovereignty of
the ftatcs resides in the people, and is
exercised by the Right of Suffrage, that
darling attribute of a reprelentative re
public, the preservation of whith invio
late, insures onr public liberty. The
result then is that the people have by a
solemn compact established certain forms
*f government, in whith they explicit-
V declare powfts they wfll «er-
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr Fenno,
As the whooping cough is not a little pre
valent I fend you an extraa from an
EngUfh publication which contains a
Recipe that appears tt, be extremely
well recommended—Should it be of a
fsrvice, it -will compensate for the re
publication.
Tourt
Dr. Byrton of York, published his
treatile on the non-naturals in the year
1738; atthe end of this treatifehe has added
an essay on the Chin Cough « I ordered
lays he a tcruple of Cantharides and as
much camphor which when well mixed I
ordered to be mixed with three drachms
of the extract of Bark ; of which mixture
I gave the children eight or ten grains
every third or fourth hour, according to
the circumstances of the cases in a fpoonful
oi Ample water or julep, in which I
| difolved a little ballam Capaivi s the chil
rL en 8 'J, I'"*1'"* was em ulfio communis or the
Uke. By following this method, J per- i
formed the cures very soon, some in five I
or fix days.
Mr.Lutcliffof Settle in Yorkftire, has
for twenty years fuccefsfully a,dminiftered
■Ur. Burton s Medicine with some little va
riation. He gives tintfure of bark, tinc
ture of Cantharides and Elix : paracor.
This compaction was exhibited in small
quantities three or four times a dav, and
the dose gradually iucreafed till a flight
ftranpury was produced ; the dose ms
thendimhilhed, or taken at, more difUnt
intervals.
The whooping, fays Lutcliff, generally
ceases in three or four days from the exhi
bition of the medicine. Sometimes .the
paroxysm recurs only onee after the firft
dose, tut an expectorating cough frequent
ly continues for a week or two afterward.
TTi is is doubllefs a valuable discovery,
and we are happy to find that the experi
ence of Dr. Burton and Mr. Lutcliff has
been confirmed by a variety of cases which
have fallen Under tlie care of Dr. Lettfom.
Monthly Review, July 1774.
" The Commiflioners have afrived in
town from the Vveftward;
And were, reeomitutted under a flrong
guard.
Col. Simcoe has sent presents to his tawny
afTociates; .
The members of the democj-at'j society.
Greeting.
The distillers among the Insurgents have
fold lal-ge quantifies of Whifkty ;
Duty free" " To Alexander Hamilton
Esq."
" Macpherfon's blues slept last night
In a Cellar stored with brandy and other
spirits.
Yesterday the citr cavalry paff'd by a cross
road to avoid
Ail unruly Bull with a bar a cross his
Horns.
'1 he Infurgentshave setup an anarchy Pole;
See the Resolves of the Democratic lbciety
of laii winter.
Mr. S—"'s letter to Mr. White contains
His afliirance of an eledtion by a majority
of ten votes.
Mr. Israel Israel has answered Mr. Hender-
sons charge;
But we wait anxiously for the truth.
Morality of the Sans Culottes—for sale
price »j cents ;
By his Britanic Majesty's Minister Plenio-
potemary.
The alto clarions for the defence of the city,
Are charged with dillurbances
but are admitted to Bail,
At a meeting of the Republican society;
Five- Infiii-gents were caught two are com-
mitted, the reft pled ignorance.
The Poles have gain'd another victory ;
By command of'the Prciident—Ji. Knox
Secretary at war.
Tom Paints Age of Reason ;
Strongly recommended by the Methodists.
More Volunteers have offered viz.
An Old woman blind of one Sye and
walks upon crutches."
Foreign Intelligence.
From the Londvh Morning Chronicle, of
LONDON, July 19.
The Earl of Moira has applied for
his rec:J from the Continent, and ob
tained it.
The partizans of the ministers tell us,
that it was at firft right to attempt pe
netrating into the heart of France, and
that it was impotlible to forefee that the
-distance would be too strong. But
forefight is a quality efTential to a mi
nister, and the want of it in Mr. Pitt,
has cost the country fifty millions of
.money,
If the Prince of Saxe Cobourg and
his army should not be heard of in the
course of a few days, we underltand
they will be advertised as Jiolen or Jlrayed.
Ihe King of Pruflia fays he has
itii£Hy fulfilled the stipulations of the
subsidiary treaty. He has now on foot
a greater number of troops than were
bargaine d for; and as to how those
troops are to be employed, it was not
nominated in the bond.
The blue ribband which wag general
ly fuppoll-d to be intended for Earl
Howe, was given to the Duke of Port
land on very lolid grounds of preference.
To accept of a subordinate place in the
under the existing circumstan
ces, required a greater exertion of cou
rage than to beat the French fleet. '
If it be true, as has been reported,
that the French have prepared a number
of gun-boats at Cherburgh and St.
Malocs, there can be little doubt of
their destination. They mull be in
tended to co-operate with the army in
an attack upon Holland.
A. B,
Couthon and Robespierre have com
plained in the Jacobin Club, that Tome
of the Paris journals bedaub them with
fullome panegyric. The taste of our
Ministers is not so squeamish. Their
stomachs can digest any degree of adu
lation.
A hand bill, of which the following is
a tianflation, has been printed and
distributed on the Continent:
5 —To be Sold by Auc
tion, lome time in the Year 1794, a
large and brilliant Collection of Crowns
Mitres, Maces, Scepti-es.Croffes, Crooks'-
and Croziers ; among them arc a large
quantity of Friar* Cowls *,d Nuns
CROSS READINGS.
Veils; Cardinals Hats and Monks
Cloaks. There are Stars of all descrip
tions, Ribbands bf every colour, and
Gaiters of every variety, all of which
will bepofitively fold, as the owners have
no farther occasion for them.—N. B.
Among the haberciafhery'are the Pope's
Three Hats.
UNITED STATES\
EASTON, Sept. 16.
Cambridge, September 11.
The embarkation of the Dorset vo
lunteers took plaee ydterday afternoon
about five o'clock under Capt. Newton
and lieutenants Trippe and Wright, by
orders fiom Brigadier General Ecclellon
One hundred men, officers included,
embarked on this fukrt.n occasion amidll
the huzzas o: a large body of their fel
low citizens who had colledted on the
shore to maiiifell their refpedl for these
gallant and patriotic republicans; and
their veneration ot those principles of
genuine cilizenlhip which regulate the
conduct of the volunteers. The tititioft
good order, sobriety and cheerfulnefs
marked the deportment of the troops.
The scene called forth the most interest-
ing reflections ; and preiented a happy
pref;>ge in favour of federal republicanism
as it evinced beyond doubt that law
and energy—military energy, and free
dom are compatible, and are reducible
to the p raft ice as well as the theory of
the republican form. Sueh a fight mull
have staggered themoft inveterate doubt
er in Europe on the point of energy and
order in free ftates—lt was better thkn
a volume of political philolbphy to prove
that a free country may he governed by
law; aud that free militia citizens, at
the call of their conflitutional magift.
rate will encounter any difficulties' and
dangers to fulfil the expe&ation of a
free constitution—to quell infurreaions
and carry the laws of the union into ex
ecution ! This morning they set fail at
funnfe with a fajr wind to Baltimore,
whence they will with the other
militia of this state proceed to the scene
of aft ion. The long established milita ■
ry fame of Gen. Smith, who commands
the Maryland line, infm es them the hap
piest auspices. And while we sincerely
implore fnc«efs and victory to that
officer and his countrymen, if the delti
fion of the Insurgents lenders the use of
aims tieceflary we Hill entertain the hope
that a return of rcafon and sobriety
among these mistaken men may avert
the neceility of so solemn an appeal.
Great praiie is due to the addicfs,
good sense andaftivity of our Brigadier
General of this militia diftridt, for the
prompt compliance with Governor Lee's
general orders. 5
FROM COP RESPONDV.NTS.
We hear from good authority that in
Dorset the most spirited condudl and sen
timents prevailed on the late meeting of the
battalions. Volunteers turned but and
glory in a military iervice fan&ioned by
civil liberty and neceflary to its perfla
tion.
In this country nothing but information
generally diffufed can lave our liberties.—
Had the people of the Union been as ig
norant elsewhere as they are among these
Insurgents at Pittsburgh, we ihould not
have seen the indignation against trfafon so
general as we undertake to afiert it to be in
this state. But the enlightened citizens
know that in a free republic laiu mull rule
—for law is the will of the majority—laws
not men govern here. Bin 'it men are above
law they ufu'rp and are tyrants—Such are
the traitors of Pittlburgh—fuch all the'
knowing anarchists of the country.
PHILADELPHIA,
SEPTEMBER 4J .
Translated for this Gazette—from
the Courier Francois of yesterday.
ExtraS of a Letter from St. Domingo,
dated at St. Marts, the id and I~jlh
Augufl—to a frhud hi Philadelphia.
( Concluded.)
Two bananas cost a quarter of a dollar j
and they are obliged to go jhe or fix leagues
to get pro'cijions. Every day from 20 to
25 perjons die of hunger. ' Vilatte conduits
himjelf with some humanity. But the mofi
eruel person there is a white named Ro
dTidue ; formerly a soldier of the Cape re
giment, from which he was expelled. M.
Cormaux de la Chapelln, and the old,—are
Jlill at the Cape, t.ujar Oalbaud is yet in
prison. Lc Jiorgue twill save himfelf if
there is no treason ; there are 7 or 800 de
termined men• La*vaux continues at Port
de-Paix -he is in a pretty good situation.
The evening of the de, arture of this <Ves
sel from the Cape, two American irjjels
entered that port with prouifions. it ij
said that they bane also Jome militaryJlores
—1 cannot believe, it.
We go out to day with the Engli/h com
mandant M. Bnjbane, and 150 q men.
We know nothing here po/iti"ve, if the
affairs of Europe.
Aligull 27. IVe returned with M. Bris
bane. Our enterprise has been *very J~uc~
eejsful. We ought not to expert after the
treason at Gonaii'e, to enter immediately
on stir plates •without firing a gun. M•
Brijbahe has beg un to ejlablifr trde>—-The
negroes are Submitting, andccming
all quarters ; they are here the jwor„ e>*.
mi " °f Spaniards— uho have per
ZrTT f " v ' ththe E "M h "mmandant,
tonfinted to evacuate la petite Riviere de
1> T tbe £ "SWf.u S is nw
Jlj'ng even to I'Artibonite.
To day we s et oJFfir GonameJt Tern
Neuve, and doubt not kve Jhali return in
t.vo months, having other fvcceJs—We
jhnttfoon be at Dondon, &c.&e. The r„J,
I' C '2 h ' da J s /'»*, -Jacmcl, (from
'Whence the Commifioners SonthoJ/Z
Polverel embarked in a French vJll) <■
j taken from tbe negroes—'The mufattoes fa-
I vored the coup-de-mam, with faf r„
and. part of the legion of Monlulember't.
y s ent ' m mediately to Port-au-Prince
for an English officer, <who now has aSual/v
the command there,
-t T £ e C L d ' t ° r °f the Co " r 'er Franco s adds in a
iV. IS. « This was sent to the editor of this
paper by a fubferiber."
Nathaniel Ramsay, Esquire is ap
pointed Naval-Officer for the port <>f
Baltimore.
The /hip Betsy, Capt. Parker Phelps
ot Laltimore arrived at London, alter
a paflage of 38 days,
At a meeting of the Officers of the Fir/1
Dtvifton of the Militia of Pennjylv a .
nta, yeflcrday morning, GENERAI
STEWART delivered the fc/lowino-
Address. °
Gentlemen,
THE Governor being cullt-d on his
executive duty, which "ill detain him
some time from the city of Philadel
phia, has dire&ed me, in cafe any
emergency should arise duiing his ab
sence, to aflift by every means in mv
power, the civil authority, either by
drafts from the division I command, or
by such other mode as may appear mod
likely in connexion with the Mayor to
secure the peace and order of the city.
Many of the citizens have already ex
! pieflcd a ftrcng desire that a corps of
men not included in the lequifitjon a
gainst f!:e western inftirgents (or who,
si om peculiar circumltances could not
leave their occupations, or are exempt
from militiaduty ) fhonld be embodied in
the city and its suburbs, as they justly
conceive it will afford great consolation to
those worthy citizens, who have left un
der our charge, the facted trust of their
families and propertv.
The Governor has also directed that
the commanding officer at Fort Mifflin
frail apply to me for such drafts from
the militia as may from time to time
prove neccfiary to preserve the peace
and neutrality of the Port.—This must
prove a further incentive for such a
corps being at this particular time or.
ganized, and I now propose that you
immediately exert yourselves to bring
forward from your refpetlive commands
or from such other of our fellow ci'ti
zens as may be willing to engage in this
particular service, Five hundred men
properly offictered—arms will be deli
vered to commanding officers of com
panies, for such men as are not already
provided, but it is expected that no
others will apply for them.
It is, gentlemen, among the firft du
ties of freemen to be at all times pre
pared to guard the liberty and vindicate
the laws and constitution of their coun
tr y> —when called on to a prompt dif
chargs of this duty, an apathy can ouly
anfefrom our undervaluing the blcffinu-s
we enjoy, or prizing our ease more than
our security. The United States have
been insulted from abroad, and. at
home ; and as they are able, so (hould
they be prepared to repel every repe
tition thereof. In a distant part of the
ft ate, where the burthen was light, and
profpctity great, rebellion haa boldly
reared its crest, and dared to menace
the union,—at the call of our Chief Ma
gistrate our brethren in arms have nobly
ftept forth, to chastise the insurgents,
and avenge the injuries of their country
the patriotism which they have display
ed is the furefl pledge of their doing
their duty;— Let us follow their exam
ple, be preparing to preserve the fights
of neutrality, our domcitic quiet, our
liberty and laws—they are it is true,, so
well understood and so highly valued by
the good citizens of this part of the
{late, as almost to forbid the idea ps any
aggrefiion among us, but freemen should
lieverthelefs remember, that the surest
way of preventing such aggrelfioos, is
to b« at nil times prepared to repel
them.
Under a conviction that these truths
will be felt and acknowledged, I have
(during the absence of our brethren in
arrhs,J made this call on the patriothm
of my fellow citizens and flatter myfelf
it will not be made in vain.
Philadelphia» Sept. 25, 1794.
Extrafl sri m the prsfentmcnti in Burke
County, Georgia.
We present, as the greatest grievance
that the state of Georgia ever ezperien*