From the Columbian Cenlinel.
Mr. Rvssell,
What would be ths feelings of the ci
.l7.ens of Bolton, were they to fee'in a
Lioadoii paper the following paragraph
—" IMPORTANT-^-!F true"—
We learn from iiolluii, that a fire broke
Jin in that town, on the morning ot
;he 30th July, when seven large manu
factories of cordage and near one hun
dred houfe9 and buildings, with im
mense quanlitities of llores and furniture
were dell royed 1—" Ca ira ?"—Would
they not think that the animal who
could thus exult over human misery,
was much fitter to toil on a Weft-India
plantation, than to dwell in civilized
lociety ?
HUMANITAS.
From the Columbian CentineL
Mr. Russell,
What is the use and advantage of
clubs ?—lf there be none, honest men
whom candor will not deny to be found
among the clubbifts, (hoilld renounce
them. For honed men will fee and con
fofs, that if there be no use, there is
rtmch abuse resulting from them.
The pretence (it is not argument)
16, that by meeting together, political
-in format toft is collected and diffufed.
This supposes that a club has means oi
informal ion j which the people in gener
al have not. How do they get it* and
when ? Before they meet in club, or at
club ? If before, why (hould not th<
information be pmblifhed, and then the
whole people will be a club to weigh ant!
examine it.—How do they get infelli
gen?e, in confluence of e'titf connec
tions ? lc a mart the wiser for joining a
club, all of whom individually are delli
tute of information No, the pretence
: .<s ridiculous. A few fpOuteri, fame
fayj, deel lim against government, and
take the Chronicle, which they had be
fore filled with their own rant, as au
thority* Is this information, or mifin
iurmation ? Ignorance may thus be
nade too angry to be enlightened, arid
jrej till ice may be doubly a tyrant over
he mind ; but information is to be ob
•c' ' no filch wr~
rained ii> .. way.
To eltablifh facts, we usually inquire
forwitneflts who know them, and who
are honest and impartial. The clubbilts
are not such ; they are chiefly cOtfrpofed
of men who from the fii ft were enemies
of the Conllitution. Their
it may fuggefl to them numberless opi
nions, all tending to make others hate
it; bat what peculiar advantage do they
possess over others for knowing facts ?
Noni< Perhaps their correspondence
with the insurgent Societies, in other
Rates, may enlighten them. And are
the lies, many of them incredibly gross
and stupid, which were made by dozens
during the late moll interesting feflion
of Gongrefs, to be called information.
But why (hould tliey afTemble in the
club, to get frejh intelligence, which is
already in the hands of the public ? If
they carry on more secret cabals and in
trigues, such as they are obliged to
conceal; why should not Cataline
brag as well of his patriot ism as th'ey ?
They meet in the night, and their do
ings are wrapped in more secrecy than in
darkness. An honelt inquifitivenefs for
political truth has no need of skulking
and disguise. O guilt, what mifcrable
excuses do you not set up ! But what
occafiou for clubs to collcfk and examine
all the documents for a found judgment.
Men should judge for themselves and
not pin their faith on the vote of a
club, as if a parcel of men could throw
their real private opinions into a com
mon stock, and think aa the major vote
may direct.
if the citizens think proper to meet
ind consult, what better club can be
rlefired than a town meeting, where all
is day light, and the law has regulated
the proceedings in £utl« a manner as to
secure to every man his fair and equal
privilege. To talk of clubs in New-
England, is worse than nonsense.
It is often f»id that all men have a
right to meet and consult in a peaceable
orderly way. But is this the orderly
way: in our country, where better legal
and known ways are in use.
Left some thin pretext fhotild be
seized, it i» to be observed by way of
explanation that it is not the right but
the tendency of clubs that is in difcuf
fton. Suppose, for arguments fake the
ftrift right to meet in clubs is admitted;
yet it is not the exittence, but the abuse
of the right that is urged. An abuse
that mtjl flow in such a country from
such a source.
These clubs affect to be popular soci
eties. They are not so. They are
aristocratic. For what is their power
and influence but usurped and exercised
in derogation and sometimes in total de
ftruftion of the equal right! of others.
When we talk of a Republican go
vernment, what do we mean by it ? A
govetnment derived from the people and
veiled ill their reprefeiitatives, tither
directly or indirectly. In this way, the
people govern, and a man would be
thought to' want common sense who
i should fay the peopl* could govern in
any other way. Vet our clubbilts pre
tend to be advocates for the power of
the people,- when they openly affedt to
check, guide and influence public mfa
fures in some other way, a yvay in which
neither the people nor their reprefenta •
tives can have any agency. Is this mod
remarkable for impudence or inconflft-
ency ?
Every body knows that the Insurgent
Clubs are used not for their information
but their political influence. The real
intention of their formation is best ex
plained by their proceedings. And
who is weak enough to suppose they
were made for any thing but the dirty
ilfes they are put to. Is this political
influence of Clubs, then popular, or
ariflocratical ?
Perhaps if a society of men.weie di
vided into bodies called Clubs, and those
so regulated as to aft equally and fairly,
order might be prcferved.- But' that
would be adifpute about names. Our
towns are virtually such fe&ion* of the
society. It i 6 easy to fee however that
if part only of the citizens are formed
into Clubs, and the others remain uo
alfociated, the Clubs though a minori
ty would have an over-ruling influence—
ajid that excess of influence would be
unfair, and utterly repugnant to the na
ture of an equal republican government.
By thus combining together, a few may
ever perplex an<l«niilca<l the many. In
a word, it is an ariflocratical partßer
fhip, the obje& of which is to increase
' the power of the afibciates and to an
nul of overcome the power of their com-
petitors.
A body of nobles are not to be dis
tinguished frotrt a Club, as it respects
the nature of their power. They like |
the Club claim more than an equal share
of power. The impudence of the f>o.
pular pretentions of these societies is
therefore no lef» to be vVondored Stl, than
the tendency of their fchefnes is to be
dreaded. We fee, .although it is thro'
a' glass darkly, who they ate and what
tTifcf d6-—the moll credulous, the mod
wort'Mcfs, and the most reitlefs men in
fottfety' glide tfirough the gloom of night
to a place of meeting. There we may
belitVe from what we know, the nature
of thofe'tranfa£lions which are hid from
us. I jit/ or is it not known to the
public, that they propagate and pr»
bably fabricate calumnies against men
and measures, that they agree on town
committees, drafts of resolutions, and
the candidates' for ele&ions, that they
cabal to carry points,' and that they so
carry them. Arc the' country people
the better secured 1 in therr privileges,
when they find thefr vote* are guided or
rendered null and void by the dark ca
bals in the cities ?
Another pretence' «,< that Clubs
:heck the tendency of the constituted
authorities to excess and abiife ; and
:hat they virtually foften the rigor of
government, and increase the popular
nfluence upon it. But though it /nay
le true that they augment the power of
jarty over the laws and the legiftators,
hey diminish and obftruft that of the
vhole people ; a point that has been
Hull rated already. The former part
if the pica for Clubs is no less fophif-
alfc.
tic«l and
We agree that we will do with as lit
tle government as we can. The less, the
better, but still there mud be enough to
secure peace, liberty and fafety. Now
a body of orderly, moral, well principled
citizens will do with very little govern
ment. The discontented and licentious
may wish to disturb the rights of the
others ; but if they are not embodied
into clubs, the orderly good citizens
will in a great measure take upon them
the office of the laws, and by watching,
checking and keeping in awe those who
are inclined to be unjust and turbulent,
they will prevent offences and tumults.
New-England has been long in that
happy state ; during the firft years of
the war, good habits and principle*
took the place ofgOod laws, which then
we had not.
Suppose, the turbulent men instead
of being separate and dispersed, were
embodied into armies, or clubs, which
ate no less adtire means of diituibance.
la it not plain that all good citizens
would call out for more law and govern
ment to proteil them.—they would fay,
we are not embodied, as the ftirrers up
of sedition are. We mull have the con
trolling powrer.of our own laws strong
enough actually to controul these strong
combinations.
Thus our confident clubbifts, affect
to make government less by augmenting
the neceflity so» more. Thus it is, that
strong parties are always aiming to make
government weaker than themselves.
For when thcconftituted authorities are
weak, the usurped authorities of clubs
and combinations are ilrdng. Tiie go
vernment becomes their too!, and iii
ftead of being the People's, it is the
club's. Thus the few bring it about to
rule the many. Experience fp<rak9 in
Another country, where the has written
her leflon in blood.
When a party can polTefs itfelf of the
government, it will iiot fpafe the go
verned. It is their own power which
they would net have resisted or curtailed.
The way to ilitrtfdixc defpotilm, is by
disorganizing government; and of all
ways of effe&ing this, clubs are the
molt efficient. They can life such a
language of !ib*rty, while they act the
part of the tyrant, tnat no conspirator
against eCjual right, will in future fit
up withbut their aid. They are what
the people never can be, precisely what
the enemies of the people woulct "Miufc
to be.
Foreign - intelligence.
L O N D O M.
USE OF BALLOONSs
A letter from ari Officer in the Duke of
York's,army, dated Merchem, on the
way to Antwerp, July 7> has the follow
ing curious Speakir.g of (lie lur
render of Charleroi, he fays, " What
rendered thi« event mor* extraordinary
was, tltfat theFrehch ritre&cd all their op
erations according 'o the information they
received by the means of Br.lioon? suspend
ed iii the air,' at: certain height. From
that elevation, all the of the allied
army were Icen and made known to the
French Generals by Engineeis who went
up-in the Balloons; and VftVi. according
to the declaration ef deserters, Sketched the
politicn of their enemy, and communi
cated the paper 01 vffcich their fketchec
were made, and ofrier notices given of the
force and movemerts of Prihi e Cobourg's
army. Ovirtg tor this/ all the amazing
efforts of the allies miscarried, bceaufc e
verv tb:ng was fcrfcen and provided J
gainft.
UNITED STATES.-
ELIZABETH VOWNj OaobWi.
Every Am erica t! who contemplates the
distresses of Euroje/ ciftriot bm derive
fuiguUr pleafurc &sd |atiStst£l iprt from the
scenes of bis own wintry. Here are ob
served thi: blelTcd eJedts of religion, peace,
and ordrf. Theithe deadly eonfeqwen
ces thai flow from infidelity, v*r an( i
anarchy. Here, tie law reign*
we obey no man, but at lie is'the 6Tga n
that declares the -vill of the whole, lj re
viouCy fettled ao<i ®><>i»ulgated by the
pertplt, in flieir j'lft and equal reprtfenta
tion. There, tyranny and defpoth'm, with
all the instruments of death and torture,
are fecrificing millions to the caprice of
lavleis will. Here, the arts flouriih, and
the land well cultivated produces an abun
dant supply for man aird beast ; improve
ments tn agriculture are conftautly meet
ing the wants of an increased population of
citi«, and far diitant from these we be
hold the drfart, and the wilderuefs hlof
foming as the rose. There the fkilful ar
tificer and the induitrious hulbandman are
dragged from the fiiop and the plough to
the dreadful scenes of war and deflrucf ion
—whole cities burnt ana prostrated with
the ground, and their peaceful inhabit«nti
fufiering death individually, or in hundreds
from the ax, or the ball, as fliall happen
to firit the capricious cruelty of their ty
rants.
The foil uncultivated no longer yields,
her ilicreafe, and famine joins with tv ran
nfy and anarchy tq desolate the hud and
it! inhabitant —What, wiR be
the end Of tfcefe things in thejjld world is
beyond thf ken cf human fa'gacitv. Re
ligion and humanity oblige all who feel thtir
influence, tii pray that anarchy and
defbotliin may soon eeafe—that peace and
order may be rtflored to a bleeding and
diftra&ea world*
NEW-tfAVEfIV Otfober i.
New-Haven, Sept. 30, 1794.
The Committee, to make weekly re
ports of deaths and the state of the fi«k
nefs 111 this City, certify that the tallow
ing persons have died fines their bit re
port, viz«
24'h. Mr G. Cook) SgeJ 45 years putrid
fever, Amos Morrifon 19 . do.
A son of Mr, H. Huggins, 2 do.
25th. Mr. J. Townfend, Jun. 60 con
sumption.
56th. Stephen Herricfc, J9 putrid fever.
Dearing PhippS, 12 do.
27th. Mr. Abigail Pent 81 do.
Mi's. -——Aibro 49 do.
Miss Sarah Pratt 15. do.
28th. Wife of capt. J. Sabin 39 do.
Wife of Wm. Pluymerts6 do.
29th. Wife of Mr. N, Jocelyn 57 do.
Mr. John AJbro dd.
Mist Sarah Gourfey 15 do.
Mr. Sam. Post (Philadelphia )34 do.
30th. The Wife of Mr. Jo)'. Eel« 40 do.
They further certify, that there jure 15
persons sick with the putrid fever, ! of
whom are getting better ; 4 are dangerous;
and that the fever has not arrived to a crifij
with the other 3. And that there i» but
one person fiuk of the fever, in all that
part of the city north of George, and
weft of Vnion-fteeets.
ENEAS MUNSON,
HENRY DAGGETT.
LANCASTER, Ctfober t.
Saturday morning His lixcell'nc/ tht
Governor, accompanied by "j"" 1,
James Hols, his Aid-de-Camp, and f-lr.
Dallas his Secretary, fttt off for Tork
Town, Harriiburgh and Carlitlc.
Thursday morning, three troops ot
Udelphia horse under the command o
Captains Dunlap, Singer and Mc'Ccnnell
set off from this town for the wcitward.
On Fridiy evening 10 pieces ot Artil
lery arrived here under an escort or Con
tinental troops; next morning they set
off for Ydrft Town, on their way to the
westward. • « * • 1
Saturday forenoon arrived here, a ae-,
tachment of general proelor's brigade from
Philadelphia, under the Command ot Ma
jor Fi/ber, Captains Thompson, Seidle,
and Nice. Colonel Gurney's regiment,
consisting of Capt. Nelson's andcaptain ,
Cuficks grenadiers —and five othe~ '~ om "
panies, under the command of the follow
ing captains, to wit : Price, Afhmead,
Scott, Lawrence, C.-.rfon, aud Anthony ;
together with two other companies* under
the command of Major Me Pherlon, and
captains Baynton, and Mc'Eucn. Sun
day morning the companies under the
command of Major Mc'Phericn took their
route to the westward: the other companies
ft of on the fame route on Monday morn
ing.
Yesterday forenoon the Lancalter troop
under the command of Major-General
Hand, set off for Carlisle, to join the
troops going against the infurgeiits; and
this morning they wer.-followed by a com
pany of volunteer infantry, unuer the com
mand of capt. Mofher; they were all
elegantly equipped, and appeared in high
spirits.
The qnota of Militia rquired for this
borough and county, being alio completed,
will proceed on their march to morrow.
CARLISLE, Sept. 24.
Extras of a letter from a gentleman in
Hagerjlown, dated 2 if- infant, to a
gentleman in this town.
" I believe you were here when the
firlt liberty pole as it was called was set
up and cut down—the Monday follow
ing about 50 inhabitants of the towrt
under the command of Henry Bowartj
and about 250 from the country com
manded by George Hoff'ier, I'eter Ba
ker, and Adam Thorr, afiembled arm
ed with guns, swords, and clubs, in a
very riotous manner to oppose th? draft,
and set up another pole, which they
did in Court House square, and guard
ed it several nights—the fame week
great exertions were made by their lea
ders to recruit men to m ivch to Frede
ric-.town, and I have not a doubt but
they woukl have col'e&ed 1000 men
had not the FredericktoWiv people got
notice of their intentions, and
themselves to the number of 500, and ] In Revolutionary times it is hazardous
entrenched themselves about the maga- ' to cclcbrate any particular men ! an in
line, which appeared 1t be the Objedt toiice of this hazard has been lately cxpe
of the rioters 5 this intelligence alarm- : " en « d b Y«"? wmrofthi.
j r c .1 4 1 ! town, who, when the wind blfew a-la*
ed lo many or them that the number „ r • , r
J . . c . ; KJtnet) named a Imp alter that Jirt cmne*
which collected at the plact of icndez- . n f o tunately however, when the ship was
vous on the mountain on Monday even- J entering Bourdeaux river, fofay reports,
ing fait wa» but yo men, who conclu- the Captain finding that the name and
ded it ptudent to dhpeife and return bend of his (hip were unpopular, and might
[ lorne: endanger the veflel, took the precaution
" On' Wedneitlay a party of horse- i[? S lve * he cidevant AmbafTador a black
i, n , i- 1 ■ „ face, and erai ng the name irom the item,
m-en collected it this place and vrcnt rr f n e « jr •
, , riii 1 * ,ie hgure palled very well tor an African y
out, took about 20 of the leaders, the jor an abo r rigin of American. Peradven
next day 300 rm!rt?a arrived here from, j ture the Robefyierre may share the fame
Frederick, Baltimore and Motitgome-i fate.
ry, and parties of herfe h;:ve been con- '
ftantly out since, and are now out
bringing the rioters in» the principal
leaders art imprisoned, some of an in
ferior class bound over to coilrt, and
others discharged—there are very few
persons of any character or property
involved in the botinefs. 1 believe if
we had ioo muskets the business might
have been (topped at the beginning—
there is now upwards of 500 armed mi
litia here from below."
ALBANY, Septcnber 29.
Extract of a It it;r from Montreal.
" A Mr. M'Kcnzie of the northwest
company of this place has returned from
his discovery of the Western ocean ;
he took his depaiture from Lake A ra
bafka thti beginning of May, 1793 and
returned to it in September following
after falling in with the ocean about 30
miles northward of Nootka found.
Mr. Metcalf,)whofe family lives in
Albany) had failed from thenee only
9 days before Mr. M'Keniie arrived,
and had he had the good fortune to
meet that gentleman, it was-his intention
to have gone to China and thence to
London : about half way between A.'a
bafka Lake and Nootka he ctofled a
large high mountain covered with snow
but when he descended into the plain
he difeovered a ricli and feitile country,
well watered I at the foot of the moun
tain he embarked on a forge fine river
the course of which he followed for two
days, dut finding it took a southerly di
rection he quitted it find took a more
northerly >otite till he came in upon
other rivers, that bro't him to hil jour
ney'* end."
NASSAU August 26
We arc informed that a frigate from
Fnuiee lately appeared off Aus Cayes
and that Polverel and Sotithenax fceing
invited on board to an eiitertaimr.n.t,
were with their suite, carried off in her
to be prcfented to tLe Naij, ;.u3
vention.
BOSTON, Sept. 27.
In Yelterdavs Chronicle we had*
pompous account of the ic\cia! del
eriptions of Citizens (said to be 400)
which compote the Conllitutional So
ciety to called, now the public would "be
gratified to know how many there ai e of
" Civil and Military Officers of the it ,;e
Members of the Senate aud Home of
Representatives. Gentleman of theboatd
of SeleClmen and Overseers, Merchants
of Fortune and of great commercial pof
(feffinos old Committees of Corrt ij oti
, denee, Officers and SoldieiJ "oFtlirtste
Continental Levies, Justices and Con.
1 stables, Manufacturers and Mechanics"
belonging to it; it is (hrewdly fnfj etf
ed that a particular account would t efeni
ble that given by Falitaffin the play of
the number of Robbers that beset him
—It is truly laughable to find several
lug'd in head, and (houlders and under
d ffcrent deferiptions—A Senator Mer
<fliar>t of Fortune Manufacturer and
Mechanic—he counts for four — ,rv
member of the House of Representatives
Justice of the Peace, RelefSmen and
Officer in old Continental line, lie iilfo
count* for four—Juilge of tire Court
of Common Pleas, County Officer, late
military officer of the (late, ju.ticc of
the Peace, Seleftnian and Mechanic—he
counts for fix ; Jo that three from the
variety of profeffions which they fuftaia
are multiplied to fourteen.
Go on redoubtable ftrs in your cookery
hide your names eternally from the pub
lic view, and eoAtir.ue if jot) , tp
tell the Story of " Sinbad the Sailor,
~ but be afiured that your works will
follow you and that the People of Ame
rica, composed of 4,0000,000, will
nc*ar brdiftated to bj ' 400.'
A facetious correfpoiident informs u»
that the celebrated Thomas Piiiw, waa
considered by many intelligent people
in England, to be the best ocamjl fhat
country ever gave birth to; for he had
{ opened the eye# of John Butt with
I out ctuching, or making ufc of an.
J other inifrument than the tfiiit aft
The Regent of Portugal, has order
ed a squadron of live ships of the line,
to reinforce the Englilh fleet.
POOL's MARINE LIST.
New-London September 83.
SaiPd, Sloop———, A oyej, for Savanna,,
•with 90 men oh board, bound to the river
St. Mary'j, ta cut timber for the Shift or*
dered by Congress.
PHILADELPHIA,
OCTOBER 4.
CAMP,near Carl'iflc, Tvfjay Sept. 30.
(Extraifl of a Letter.)
" We arrived here on Sunday at 2
o'clock, and cncampcd at the back of
the town—near us lay the Jersey troops.
" Nothing material has occurred,
except that yesterday a detachment of
20 horse (df which I was one) under
adjutant Jacob Cox, was diipatched
with a constable at their head, to take
several of those who are here called
Wlnjkey Boys—Two were taken, but
some other*, having notice of our ap
proach, escaped. One'of the dragoon'*
piftolß went off by accident, and flint a
man in the groin, of which he since
died : He was brother to one of the
persons we were in ptirfuit of, and du
ring a parley at a farm-houfe, the acci
dent happened.
" The two pcrfons we brought in
were last night examined by the Attar
ney-General, which proved their inve
teracy to the government, and it is pro
bable some of these gentry will foort
fufier for their ill judged enmity to the
befl of countriet and mildest of govern
ments.
" We rode through the woods in
various dire£tions in pursuit of thcfe
jockiea ; thofc wc took did not appta