From the Ne-whaven Gaxette, <Jc.
A BIT of ADVICE. '
NOW, good people) I hare a word
of advice for /on. I will tell you how
to pay your taxes and debts without
feeling them.
Firit fe£ no lawyers.
You fay lawyers have too high fees,
I lay they do not. They Golt me not
One farthing. Do as I have always
done, and lawyers fees will be nn trou
t.'e at ail. If I want S new* coat, of
my wife wants a new gown* we have
agreed ;o weir the old ones till we have
got cash or produce to pay for them.
X !ien we buy—we pay in hand—we
get things cheaper than our neighbors.
Merchants never dun its—and we have
no lar.yers fees to pay. When we fee
fli*?n<Ts and duns knocking at the doors
of our neighbors, we laugh at their fol
ly. Befidea I keep n lit tie drawer in
Jny desk, with money enough in it to
pny the next tax J and I never a
farthing till the coludW calls. Now,
good folks, if you will all take the lame
method, yoli will favc out of lawyers
fees and court charges, on the most mo
derate calculation j Zo.oool. a year.
Secondly, 1 allow my family but 2
gallons of rum a year. This is enough
for any family, and too much for most
of them. I drink cyder and beer of our
Own manufacture : And my wife makes
excellent beer I assure you. I advifc
you nil to do the fame. I am aftonffhed
at you, good folks. Not a rtreehamc,
or a laborer goes t« work for a mer
chant, but he carries home a bottle of
rum. Not a loud' of wood conies to
town but a gallon bottle is tted to the
cart (take to be filled with rum. Scarce
ly a woman comes to town with tow
cloth, but {he has a wooden gallon bot
tle in one fide of her saddle-bags- to fill
with rum. A stranger would think you
to be a nation of Indians by your thirst
for this paltry liquor. Take a bit of
advice from a good friend of yours.
Get two gallons of rum in a year—have
two or 1 three frolicks of innocent mirth
- keep a little fpiiit for a medicine,
and let your common drink be the pro
duce ov manufacture of this country.
This will make a saving of almost
400,000 gdllons of rum, or 80,0001. a
Thirdly, never buy any useless arti
cles of clothing.
Keep a good suit for Sundays and
other public days, but let your com
mon wearing apparel be good substantial
clothes and linens of your own manu
facture. Pull all the plumes from the
heads of your wives and daughters.
Feathers and fripperies suit the Chero
kees, or the wench in your kitchen ;
but they little become the fair daughters
of Independent America*. Out of
the dry goods imported you may make
a saving of jo,oool. a year.
Thtfe tarings amount to 150,000!. a
year. 1 his is more than enough to pay
the interest of all our public debts.
My countrymen, I am not trifling with
you. lam serious. You feel the fatfs I
irate. You know you are poor, and- you
ought to know the fault is your own.—
Are you not fatisfied with the food and
drink which thiscountfy affords f the kef,
the pork, the wheat, the corn, the butter,
the cheese, the cider, the beer, thole lux
uries which are heaped in profuflon up
on your tables ? If not, you mull expect
be poor. In vain do you wilh for
mines of gold and silver. A mine would
be the greatest curse that could hefal
this country. There is gold and silver
enough in the world, and if you have not
enough of it, it is bccaule you consume all
you earn in useless food and drink. In
vain do you wiih to encreafe the quantity
01 cash by a mint or by paper emissions.
Should it ram millions of Joes into your
chimmes, on your present system of ex
penses, you would still have no money.—
Jf would leave the country in streams.——
Trifle not with these fepous fubjeils, nor
ipeiid your breath in empty wilhes. RE
FOUM-OECONIMISE. This is the
Whole of your political duty. You may
reafon—(peculate— complain—raise mobs
ipend lite, in railing at Congress and
your rulers but unless you import leii
than you oxport—unlefs you spend less
than you earn, you will eternally be poor.
I would just mention to my fair friends
whom I love and esteem that feathers,
flowers and other frippery of the head are
badges of prostitutes in Europe ; and I
have seen Europeans, who upon the fight
of those gewgaws upon the heads of the
blooming daughters of innocence in Ame
rica, have mistaken them for women of ill
tame.
For the Gazette of the United Statet.
Mr Fenno,
A friend of mine called on me last e
▼emng, and proposed our taking a pot
of porter together at a certain tavern
north of Market-street; not being in the
habit of frequenting public houses, I
made some abje&iona to his propofa];
upon his telling me that he k^d
ptwnifeJ to meet a fefeft party, who
were to fettle matters relative to the eufu
ing Ehtiion, aud giving me forrte other
rea forts equally important, I agreed to
Accompany him : arriving at our delti
nation, we were ulhered into a room
where we found fourteen gentlemen af
fembled# who by the bye were all Gran
gers, except one 5 however my friend
| having formally introduced me, >ve foori
; became'acquainted, and, after talcing a
■ few hearty draughts of the good brown
; (tuff, we got to be very Sociable with
( each other, and puffed the time agieea
; bly till near ten o'clock, at which time
| One ol the gentlemen stood up, and In j
! a long labored, and incoherent speech
j of near an hour, expatiated on the ne
cefilty of bringing in at the e!e,£lion
now approaching a proper person to
' represent the city in Gongrefs ; adding
! with a great degree »f acrimony that
i our present member had a&ed a partial
i pnrt in the butinefs of the late embargo
j whi.ll agitated in Congress, to favor hinft
-1 felf and his friends $ arid consequently
| ought not to be returned again. So
mnch had bfen said on one fide- and
the otlier, and feeing plainly that the
meeting was designed to answer party
ptlrpofeg, 1 wiflied to have an end to it.
I therefore asked the: gentleman who
the person, wa3 whom he conhdered as
proper to be brought in to succeed the
fitting member Good God ! Mr.
Fenno, who do you think he proposed ?
Why Sir, ho less a man than a certain
member who reprefentg the city in our
State Legifature, remarkable for his
loquacity, and a great deal of ambition
which the unexpected acquisition of a lit
tle property hath btfen raising in him
for the last two years ; and equally re
markable for not pofTefling a single
principle in polities detached from his
private interejl, although he has lately
cloathed himfelf in the ga>b of a De-
Strange times Mr. Fenno,
when a man of this description is at
tempted to be brought forward to fill a
place of so much dignity, and of so much
importance to this city, as well the date
in general ; and that too, in Opposition
to a man whole character for abilities
and integrity is so well eftablitfied in the 1
world ; a rWan, who, for many years,
and in a variety of ways, has devoted 1
so much of his time, and facrificed so much
of his interejl, and domejlic happiness, to '
! the public service, and a man who has i
give*; the mod unequivocal\proah of his t
attachment to the general interest of his «
country.
But we have been told (arid the
would-be Congress-Man has taken no
small pains to ioiprefs it oil the minds
of the public) « that he had aft«d a
partial pan in the affair of the Embar
go, in order to favor himfelf and his
frieiids. As this matter has been al
ready difcufled, and every suspicion,
which malevolence had fuggefled to
prejudice him in the opinion of his fel
low-citir.ens, has been long since remov
ed, it is ueedlefs to fay any tliiag more
on the fubjed ; it may not however be
improper to observe, that although this
modern Jltittfman was one of the most
votifcrous in favor of the Embargo, yet
he was one of the molt adive at the fame
timet in loading veflels by night and day,
even Sunday not excepted ; and went so
far, when he found that he could not
get them loaded, so as to fail before the
law should take place, as to hire shallops
to take flour down the river to them
—but he failed in his project.
I (hall only add, Mr. Fennoy that if
the citizens of the city and county of
Philadelphia, should determine to make
any change in their Representatives in
Congress, it is to be hoped they will fix
upon men of refpeSabil'tty, and merit, and
men whojt services gives them a title to
public confidence ; in short it is to be hop
ed they will fix npon men who will fill
that exalted ftatioh with dignity, and
do honor to their choice.
SIC DICUNT MULTIi
For the Gazette of the United States.
Mr. Fenno,
WHEN a man commences author to
court popularity and poflefles the virtue
of money—rthere ig a moral certainty,
that the near approach of an election,
will louse that virtue into acftion, when
all other means have uniformly failed.
I have been led to make this obfer
fervation, from the industry with which
the frequent speeches and long letters of
a certain little orator have been publish
ed and republifhed in the newspapers,
within these few weeks pad, while
perhaps the modest and inftruftive essays
of an indigent writer, have slumbered
undisturbed in the corner of one soli
tary paper. This circumstance howe
ver, is not the result of any partiality
on the part of the printers, because, it
is quite as juftifiable in them to take
payment for republifhing a column of
Tropes and Figures, as for inferring
Ati advertlfement annooncing tiie sale of
houfehptild and kitchen furrr.'ure It
js to the virtue of money therefore, that
we are tb ascribe this seeming preference.
Something should be done, by the
Constituents of this modern Cicera to
reward him for hit unwearied exertions
to promote their welfare—-what ought
it to be—a Bull ? The idea is too ludi
crous. Honorable mention on the
journals of the Democratic Society r
That might injure his election. Shall
he be sent Ambassador Extraordi
nary to the Infiirgents ? that is the
very thing of all others for which he is
qualified. The gentlemen, who lately
went on that errand, did not employ
those means which vfrere molt likely to
insure success—The fad is, they were
so imprudent as to proceed to down
right sincerity in their prOpositions—a
convincing proof, that they were un
acquainted with the real character of
the people with whom they were treat
ing. T here, is not the fmallett danger
however that our little Plenipo would
give into this errpr. He will endeavour
fn the firll instance to imprefsthe minds
of his old friends with a perfect idea of
the importance of his million He
will inveigh against the odious na
ture of excise laws- He will admit
that they Operate more oppreflively
in the four counties than elsewhere—in
short he will cpbdititnt 90 part of their
conduct, but that of. their having*
thrown offthe mask, befoft tfherr friends
in other parts of the unioVi' vs-Yrg pre
pared for legal rejijlance. He will tfiefl
proceed to point out the policy of af
fe&ing to submit for the present—the
necefiity of a vigorous exertion to ob
tain a new representation—to affect
which the fnuff makers and sugar re
finers have promised him their support
in his own dilhidi—Perhaps he may
think it proper also to address the
goddejjes of the weft—lf. so, he can
tell them of the fine things he has said
(not done) to the pretty misses of Phi
'adelphia—and that if the insurgents
of Pennlylvania were to follow his ex
ample, there would not be a male or
female whifoey drinker in the course of
fifty years ! ! ! Whatever may be the
sentiments of my fellow citizens with
refpedf to the success of his embassy—
I for my own part have but two wishes
to form on the fubjtfk—Tthe firft one
is, thiit he may go—the other, that
the insurgents may ljke him so well as
to keep him. A. B.
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
SPEECH or Mr. SWANWICK,
On the Motion made by him, in the Hob/.;
of Representatives of Pennsylvania, for
a proposed grant of Money to the Uni
verfily of the State, and to Dickenfon
College at Carli/le.
M*. Spfakeh,
Notwithstanding the many efforts
that have been made, in vain, in this
and former Houses, to procure attention
to fuffering interests of Literature, I
(hall not be difcooraged to renew them,
even at this late period of the session
while I am conscious of so decisive a
support from the Constitution which
we have all Avorn to maintain, 1 cannot
but imagine that the legislature will at
least include something for these semina
ries of ufeful knowledge in the appro
priation bill now before them. The
fubjeft is momentous—it is of the last
importance to this country to difleminate
knowledge and information throughout.
The framers of our constitution wife
ly recollected that Education and Vir
tue are the only Basis on which a re
publican government could reft—they
therefore did not leave it merely to the
discretion of the legislature the provid
ing for these public institutions—but
they particularly charged and enjoined
on them by a poiitive article of the fe
cial compact, that the arts and sciences
(hould be promoted in one or more se
minaries of learning. This clause has
been with others included in the oath
we have taken to support the constitu
tion of this state ; yet lamentable to
tell, though it is four years that th«
constitution is in force, yet as far as re
lates to this, it still remains a dead letter.
Never yet hath the legislature, as far as
I know, granted a single farthing under
the constitution to either of these insti
tutions, or to any; for the promotion
of the arts and sciences. I know rot
how gentlemen can reconcile this to
themselves.
The constitution, indeld, goes fur
ther ; and enjoins, that schools (hall be
fftablifhed throughout the date, in which
the poor Ihould be taught gratis—but
then it adds, that this shall be done at
soon at conveniently mtly le—and under
this keeping clause the schools are lively
to repole, as under a broad shade, for
some time to come. But with refpedt
to the arts and sciences, the injunction
is positive, pressing, and immediate
they (hall be promoted in «ne er more j
eminaries of learning'—yet, for aß.tfaft,
jothing ig granted. It is indeed ftatfd,
Aat the art a&ti&Uf
Sfugbt—yeii but tfecf qtteftidn kj #ri
tkey prom«ted ? -fa
this is the injun&ion of the constitution
There was indeed a time, when thi
Home of Representatives of Pennfyl
rania were seen at our. Commencement
the Fathers of the Country, fanftione*
sy their presence the noble emulatior
as our youth-—and encouraged by thei;
plaudits the meritorious exertions o
?ljr fchopls. But, alas! 'this is over
Dne feffioo pafles *ver after another
ind nothing is done—dill the plea i
jhe fame—The Republic still fays tc
Learning—Go thy way for this time
>t « more convenient season I will fenc
For thee: but ddlruaive confc
juencea may arifefroni thig postpone
Hent ? already in the Wcftern eountiei
the defeat of knowledge is woefully vi
Sble. It is said insidious men pra&if<
an the credulity of these people H««
:ould this happen if they were inform
;d ? for want then of information, thej
it! like madmen, and the Treasury o:
ihe state must be laviflved to fubdui
hem—soldiers are to be sent where
perhaps teachers might have fufficed
|nd 120,000 dollars are voted at onct
sol 1 arms—which might have been eftl.
plciyed more profitably in ichoola anc
eminaries of learning. Dickinfon «jl
ege is situated on the bordert as it wen
>f tha infufre&ion, that beacon, thai
igbt-houfe erected for illumihating th<
yeftern world, wag conduced by ar
ible and venerable pastor; was jt fur
srifing that the insurgents ihould hav<
incensed at hi® ? It is said the]
ire to far and feather him—this ig j u (l
?nat taight have been expedled— 'it ii
o that Jgnerance is always deflrous tt
übmerge talents, and to ftifje the lighi
>f reafot). What more natural than at
nfurgent attacking a college? Th<
3otha and Vaudalg equally bore dowt
>efore them' the fine monuments of th<
irtsin Italy; Stfrely, however, the state
night have bees eXpe&ed to fupp^rl
he college in iuch a crisis, but no fuel
hing is done ; we are to adjourn—ma
iy of us perhaps neves to meet heri
iny more, and the collfege and its £ro
roit are to be left ju ft as we found them
hat is, without assistance.
. ® ut "is (aid we are not acqilaintec
with the wants of these Seminaries, wh]
Vlr. Speaker had these inllitntions brti
ileut ? eVc'n the itones would have fpok
; n > they aie fait falling into Ruins, oil 1
iles contain their petitions, they (fane
»efore 113 in forma pauperis—they pref
m our attention the Univerfif
eproachcs us not merely with apathy
>ut with injnftice. They fome.ycar
igo, under the former conftjtution, hat
illotted a grant of 15001. a year bu
he funds have been taken from them
■he state gave what was not its own
and the University was evicted ofal
but about 5<501. per annum—hence th
• 1 « /• •
tutors are unpaid, and science languifti
es. Let it not be said then that we
are uninformed ; neither are we with-
out means; fortunately our finances arc
in good order; our debts are paid or
paid to a trifle and all the appropriati
ons we shall make will require no addi
tional funds to be raised ; contrail this
with the Hate of the country in 1779,
then in the midst of a foreign war and
of surrounding danger the State found
ded her University, and gave it nomi
nally indeed as it turned out, but gene
rously as to the intention 1 jool. a year ;
now in 1794 W e are at peace and in
prosperity, and yet were I now to talk
of 1500]. a year I think I ftjould alarm
the house, this sum then so freely given
would now petrify the members j I have
therefore left the sum blank ; fill it up
with what you please, but let it be said
to your honor that you gave something,
were it even like the wirfuvv's mite. I
hope the house will excofe my delaying
them so long ; I have at least done my
duty, whatever their decision mav he—
I have fulfilled my obligation ; and as
this was my motive, so will it be my
consolation, /hould my present efforts
fail of the merited success.
The houfc urged the want of time,
negatived the motion, referred It to a
Committee to enquire as to the
ety of a grant, (which one would think
fufficiently felf evident) and that Com
mittee recommended it over to the next
ensuing legislature ; it is to be hoped
with a chance of better success than
with the present.
UNITED STATES.
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 20.
1 lie following is a letter from a citizen
of Philadelphia to an inhabitant of
Pittsburgh, in answer to one giving
some account of the late tranfaitions.
( Concluded.)
Ai a farther perfa'afive t* temper
and moderation the extraordinary f anc
tion to the wenue from diflillcd f p ; rits "
given by the union of local intereflg ta d
parties in the measure, ought to attract
the particular attention of our western
fellow citizens.
On the queflion, in ,h e House of
Representatives, whether the excise up
°, n f P'". ts d 'ft>"ed from the produce of
the United States should be it,nek out,
sixteen only were so, fl r ;ki ng i, ollt
and the natoess of Madison and Ames,'
Giles and Sedgteick, Senty and She,!
man, &c. &c. appeared in favor of the
excise. In the Senate there were or,,v
five votes agair.it the zdt, of which but
one was from the fouthem states, one
from the middle Hates, & three fropiNtw
England: The names of Monroe and
King, Butler and Ellfworth, Hawkins
j and Morris, See. &c: are to be found
among the senators, who voted in favor
of the duty. The observation
that laws pal Ted by majorities so large,
and uniting so great a degree of local in
terests and politic al opinions, really can
not be opposed by force, without an
absolute prostration of free government.
You mention, that you proposed, in
a publication in Philadelphia three rears
ago " thefufpenfion" of the excise Jaw,
during the Indian war, and you now
again propose it, as a mealiire which
may fatisfy the western counties at this
time ; add.ng, that if the other parts
of the union shall submit til the excise
then (at the dole of the Indian war)
your part of the country might pofiibly
Upon the fubjed of such a iufpenfion,
it is not my intention to offer you any
remarks, but you will permit me to
state, that it appears, from what you
have said npon the proportion, to b#
your reflected opinion, that the ohjec
t tions to the excise, on the score of liber
ty, might be then given up, This af
fords a new ground for persuasion a
gainst any intemperate meafnres of op.
position from those, who think with
you, that the operation of the excise
would beacquiefced in at a future day.
It merits particular reflexion in the
western country, that those dift rifts of
the union, which make great contribu
tions to the national service in the form
of duties on domejiic ant foreign spirits,
| may not feel very favorable towards
j those, who refufe to pay the excise only.
! New Jerky, on the north, for example,
con! times great quantities of imported
spirits, and considerable quantities of
New England, New-York and Phila
delphia made rum, and yet the excise
collected in a year, in that small Itate,
amounted to i 9*ooo dollars : and your
nearest neighbor Virginia, which having
many ports, also coniun.es largely of
foreign spirits, -and spirits made from
molasses, has contributed by excise up
on spirits fiom fruit and grain, near
80,000 dollars, in a fjngle year.
I | It is probaW., that th.fe two states
; Will not cpnfider themselves more un
f acquainted with the nature of free go
vernment, than the inhabitants of our
weitern counties. They may not there
fore acquiesce in the continuance of your
entireexemption from this revenue upon
a plea, which may be deemed at once de
rogatory to their charafteras enlighten
ed freemen, and which is evidently inju
rious to their jult pecuniary rights, itj
our federal republic. Nor is it proba
ble that the application to the Briti/h,
which you fay is spoken of, will inspire
them, or your American brethren in
general, with a disposition to forbear to
prefsyouout of an armed opposition.
In this fettled and happy republic, an
application by any part of it, for an
alliance, or an union with any foreign
power whatever, and particularly one
with whom the United States havebeea
recently at war, and with whom a new
diflatisfattion is not yet finally adjusted
I mull have effeds upon the minds of the
| people, the mod serious, and the moll
extensive. It will appear extraordinary
to your fellow citizens, that you (hould
contemplate the ruinous and inipradtica
ble measure of separating from them,
on account of a national excise which is
fcai cely a tenth of our revenues, and re
sort to a government, that adually col
lects eaccifes to tlv.* amount of near five
tenths of their public taxes.
It will also appear ft range, that with,
ont a fipglc sea port in the four Western
connties a moment's thought fhonld be
entertained of catting yourfcltea off
from the refourrc of the Atlantic port#
of the union, in wh/ch near nine tenth*
of our revenues arise and thus obliging'
yourselves to impose heavy exciles upon
every neceflary of life, and to bear down
the unhappy cultivator by exceflive land
taxes. Can it be supposed, that Great
Britain already engaged in a contest
which has been termed by persons iq
their own government, a war of defini
tion, vrill return our overtures for peace,
by a conduit that mud make a new
enemy of this country, the annual con*