•Tv e variety of maKer, inftrnsive
a ,J entertaining, tontai.itd in his lee- j
l ures, is ? a ma Y be'«*l >e £Mt from j
a knowledge of almost all languages,
j, i uncommon acquaintance with books
and a very tenacious memory.
The Revd. Dr. Robert Davidfon,
(who as well as all the other profefibrs
„; ve daily attendance at the College)
delivers k<ft"res ®n Grammar, the En
glish language Rhetoric and Oratory,
("kograyhy. Chronology, Hi dory, and
Natural Philofs>phy.
Mr. -Jam« M'Cormick, inftru£h
th?'clafl'es, is all the branches of .the
Mathematics, in Arithmetic, Geometry
theufeofthe Globo, Surveying, Na«
ration, Aftrouomy, &c.
"Mr. William Thomplon, (lately from
the academy of Newark in the ilate of
Delaware where he has taught many
years with much reputation) has the
care of the Grammar School, and in
structs theclaffesin the Latin and Greek
languages.
You will. observe, Sir, that I have
been more particular as to thj; branches
taugHt in this fjmi nary,, than would be
necclfary merely for your own informa
tion; in order to enable' you, if you
(hould incline to publifti any thing on
this fiibjeft, to fatrsfy tjie public fully,
as to the importance of this inlti-
*• ■ ■> i
tution.
1 have not mentioned those things, as
if they were only marked out by the
governors of the College, as a,gene
al pl«n of education, biU to inform the
public, in what manner yodng gentle
men are actually carried through a ge
neral course of learning here ; 1 mean
as many as will bellow the time and at
tention whfehare absolutely requilite, for
the pr.rpofe.
It is hoped the institution will at
tract the attention of the Legislature
in such a manner, that will pre
serve it from finking, as without their
aid it certainly will: and efta
blilh it up >1 a permanent foundation.
A luitable building, and a considerable
enlargement of the fund are absolutely
necessary.
N. B. Our number in college, is
generally >out 50.
22.
The Roebuck Britilh Packet for Octo
ber, arrived at Halifax the 26th Novem
ber ; fne left Falmouth the. ja&jQiSebei.
" lnr -x mut 1 w4S~lpoiicii 7 an gointj into
Halifax, and information received that no
event of any importance had occurred. —
Lord' Howe's fleet was at sea when the
Packet failed.
S.ryt a Corrcfpotuknt,
Fashion in opinions is often as wide from
propriety as in dress.
If the laws are not oppressive, no part
of the community will be inclined to re
> lift.
'J!h« Infurre&ion proves the contrary.
The federal couftitution has no enemies
and therefore the name of antifederal
Ihould be prolj.Tibed.
The man who brieves that has no doubt
"been in a trance for five years pall; other
wise he would have heard and seen so much
he could not believe it.
The exeife caused the infui'reiStion.
It was the pretext not the cause. Faction
caused it. Faction had a feat in ihe legis
lature, and by speeches, votes and lying
letttrs, raised the resentments, the ambi
tion, and the hopes of the Weltirn peo
ple. The caufefhould be known, and the
concealed ; u hors marked.
The leaders of the anarchy party in go
vernment are honest and sincere, but un
der the influence of some errors which
will soon be renounced by themselves.
Their accusations against government
have been solidly and circum/lautlally re
futed. Yet have they changed their tone
or measures ? When a party struggles hard
for power (the power to make the consti
tuted authorities a nose of wax) are they
fatisfied or exasperated by disgrace and
disappointment ?
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
On Thursday the 18th inft. a corn
commencement was held of the young
ladies academy, conducted as principal
by Mr. Poor of this city,, at which were
present the Lady of the President ef
the United States, the members of the
House of Representatives of this state
and of the United States, and a very
refpe stable number of citizens—theex
exercifes were introduced by a peitinent
, and well adapted prayer, by the
Dr. Magaw—a number of orations and
dialogues were pronounced by the young
ladies with considerable grace and elocu
tion—foft music being heard in the in
tervals. An ode was also performed by
the ladies on the future destinies of their
country ; eight of them having com
pleated their (Indies received honorary
testimonials in the nature of diplomas,
from the principal, and the whole was
closed by an «xcellent address to the Su
preme Being, imploring his general pa
tronage of the interests of science, by
the Rev. Dr. Green.
In the coutfe of the exercises the sol
!->wii,g address was delivered by Jo km
Swanwick, Esq. <hic of the Trustees,
to the audience allemliled on this pleat
ing occasion.
bathers, Legtjlators, Fellow-Citizens,
THE revolution of every fun, which
to the United States is sure to convey
some addition of emolument, or of ci
vilization is peculiarly honored on the
present- occasion, with a fpeAacle the
mod touching. The representatives of
this great empire, joined to the represen
tatives of one of its most diftinguithed
members, present at an examination
held as to the proficiency in literature of
tins rising seminary— a scene so novel, it
is hoped will excuse a few observations,
dilated by the occasion, and which it
falls to my lot to deliver as one of the
Trustees, at present entrusted with the
care of an institution, so highly interest
ing.
You will easily perceive the pleasure
communicated to us, who are citizens of
Philadelphia, by the urbanity, with
which you -have been pleased to notice
our progress in the ufeful arts. The
flower garden before you, solicitously
cultivated by the care of an industrious
overseer, was indeed, calculated in its
own nature, to have engaged your feel
ings—but small indeed, had been our
lati»fa£tion, in this alone were we not
warranted by the hope, suggested by
many of your political arrratigements,
that new rcfources were dawning for
education, throughout America—
We have other fillers than those present
at this commencement, not placed so
fortunately for their own advancement,
on whom, as it were in perfpe£tive, we
behold your goodness lavishing a profufi
on of blefiings in as much as your la
bours shall have a tendency to endow
them with a nobler train of ufeful and
ornamental accomplishments. Certain
ly the exhibition which has been this
day offered to your view, is well ealcU
lated to support your ardor in this inte
resting undertaking—Youth and inno
cence prote&ed by the gnardian genius
of inftru&ion is here made to offer to
the conntry the brightest trophy of
which it could be proud—a trophy
equal to that obtained by the victory of
knowledge over ignorance, and one of
courfc well calculated to please a go
vernment whose peculiar boast it is that
its powers reft on the intelligence and
virtue of its citizens; The institution
JJ3* —t c niliruCU
on of young ladies in the various branch
es of polite literature is for aught 1
know one of the Angularities which
mark this happy country. In other
nations institutions of this kind have
been lavished in profufion on the other
sex ; but when was there seen before a
commencement for young ladies ? so
numerously attended and honored by all
that was dignified in the government of
the country ? This perhaps is a fpe£ta
cle as yet reserved for you who as equal
guardians of the community mult pro
tect the growth of knowledge alike in
all conditions and in all sexes : If so,
may we not congratulate America on
this new proof of her civilization and
lookup .vith confidence to you for its
future fuppoit and proteflion ; The in
fluence of the fair sex over our modes
of thinking ami of acting, has been in
every zj r/: yie theme of poets and histo
rians, How fortunate then mud it be
for us if that influence be secured in fa
vour of our government and laws in as
it were their infancy. We display not
to the fair sex our desire to monopolize
knowledge, or to check the growth of
their education ; consequently they must
be charmed with an order of things so
tavorabje to themselves; they will of
course recommend it to their children,
and all the obligations contained in the
invaluable name of mother, will be se
cured as a bulwark round our inestima
ble conllitution. What can be more
likely to secure the wi(h of the noble
Venetian for our country, I mean the
wish of its perpetuity of freedom and
of happiness—
Legislators of Pennsylvania.
It was once my happinefson another,
and a more honoured occasion, to plead
before you the intercfli of science ; the
want of time, incidental to the clofeof
the lefiion, then prevented your investi
gation of this momentous fubjeft. You
have since been addrefled refpe&ing it
by a* higher authority, and have ac
knowledged your sense of its import
ance, yet may I ilill be permitted to re
peat to vou, in the language of the
constitution of the (late,
" That w soon
a? cortven ientljr.maybe, provide by lair |
for thteftabliflMneßtof
out t«,s state, in such nwoßtr ttif^tfee
pctor ; nȣ be taught gntn % aw? tbit
Jske Arts and Scicnm <ball be promoted
jo one or nip«t Seini(ianc»~of ksra
»ng'"
I am sure that you will not let tliefe
fpiiaiid clauses of our. frame of govern
ment remain any l inger inactive, but
will lie incited by this ; by every cir
cumllince around you ; to a vigorous
pursuit of this eflential bufiwefs. This
fnftitution itfelf will, 1 am told, be of
the number bf those who solicit fome
thingfrom your parental kindness during
the present session. lam confident it
wiii not, cannot a(k in vain.
Young Ladies,
I have felt the usual pleasure in the
progress visible in your studies j never
fuiget this day in the re
sult of those (Indies was honoured by
the presence of the reprefentativrs of
this great nation. Prepare laurels for
the brows of these fathers of the coun
tiy, who take so great a part in your
prosperity ; support their honour and
the value of their labore, when thev
themselves (hall be no more, and join in
the prayers, which are every where of
fered for their and felicity,
in things temporal and perpetual.
From the St. Jago Dt La Vega Ga
zette of the 2 *\th OHober.
In consequence of some late captures
the premium of insurance on Jamaica
veflels is said to have advanced in Lon
don, from io to 20 guineas per cent.
We acknowledge onrfelves much in
debted for the following authentic in
formation, which is of conliderablc im
portance to the trade of Great-Britain
and this Island, and comes to U3 from
unquestionable authority.
It is well known that a}l th|We(l-
India homeward bound fleets mud pass
within a few league# eithet to the east
ward or westward of the Bermudas, and
notwithstanding the great dread justly
entertained of the rocks, are frequently
obliged to pass in fight of the shore.
Lieut. Hurd has been, for a conside
rable time pad, employed by govern
ment to survey those islands, and hopes
to complete it by ihe end of the present
year. He has ascertained that the
whole navy of England might anchor
in perfedl fafety on the north fide of
St. George's Island, in a clear open
space of near four miles fquate, with
good holding ground ; which may be
entered by a fafe channel round the
ealtern end of the Island called St. Ca
tharine's Point; as alio by the north
rock through an opening in the ledge
flat* which surround those islands.
Th« latiViuWa longitudes of the
East and Weft-end of the islands, as laid
down in the books, «ffle vciy crroiVeous,
particularly in the requisite tables, where
they are said to he f"bm actual observa
tion, and Lampriert's chart is out one
whole degree in latitude. The follow
ing may betiepende.-i »n :
The latitude of '-he most southerly
pan of the land is 32. 11. N. off which
is a ihoal, for near two miles, called S.
W. breaker.
The latitude of St. George's is 32 :
22: 20: N. lonj—64: 29: W.
Latitude of Week-Hill, the western
most part of the imd, is 32 : 15: 20 :
N. 10ng.—64 ; 45 : W.
Variation about 2 : 50: W.
The best latitude to run for Bermu
da in is about 32 70 : the south fide
having no danger iff it, at the distance
of half a mile, excq>t the S. W. break
er ab'ove-mentionec.
From the [Ntw-Torli~\ Diaiy.
Mejfrs. Printers,
Please to give the following lines a
place in your paper.
THE other day, while perusing your
ufeful newspaper, I felt myfelf exceed
ingly surprized, and I may fay difgult
ed, with the elaborate speech of Mr.
Ames in the House of Representatives,
against. that rcfpeftable body of our
community, known by the honorable
name of the Democratic Society. I did
look for some reply to this scurrilous ha
rangue ; but considering virtue fcldotn
founds her own praise, I am contented
with writing a few lines in her defence,
in hopes of provoking an abler. While
1 felt sensations very opposite to that
of love, rising against the above men
tioned gentleman, 1 was pleased to find
some worthies in the houte who had
virtue and courage fuiScient to speak in
behalf of Democrats.
This is aflame every American {hould
glory in : yes my fellow-citizens, this
(hould be your glory. Moil certainly
aristocrats, Or if yoli please, Kingcrats,
will strive to pluck the plume from your
victorious brows ; but hold fall that
which valour has made you. The uti
lity of that society is obvious to all men
who are free from design. They are as
an eye to the people by which our li
berties are guarded. Their opinion
comes forward with more refpeftability
than an individnal citizen's. For want
of such an inflitution, how have king
dom's and empires loft their sacred
Y.y*';
rigirfs ! Tyranti admire the hidden
wars ofdarkix-fs—their play is-ill of an
uideihanded nature. Inllancii:i this
cafe many of tlie Roman ulurpers ; and
of more modern date, the infamous
Cromwell; cast your eyes across the
water; behold nations shaking off their
(hackles and emerging from slavery—
What is it occasioned by, but the very
agency of enquiiing Societies so much
despised by forne of the Congress of a
free and independent people ? The salu
tary effects of such a society may be ar
gued from the cruelty they meet with
from the hand of tyranny : as immor
tal monuments of this kind, behold the
persons of Palmer, ivltiit, Watt 9, and
Downie. These men we pity and ivm
pathize with for their laudable inquiry
and struggles after .Liberty. If they
were right irt railing and inculcating in
the minds of the people, the Democrats
are jullifiable io fuppoiting what they
j have gained. But I need not go abroad
|to defend the Democrats. I con«eive
our present liberties originated in such
Societies, though p.'rhaps not under, the
fame appellation.
It was in such despised places the in
iquity of the stamp-ast and all the op|
prefEon of the Britilh Court was firti
debated. If they were instrumental on
firlt discovering the yoke and then
broke it, 1 fay raise your necks to pre
vent it galling again. Yea 1 may ven
ture I think to ascribe all the liberty
that was ever expeiienced by any peo
ple, to such laudable combinations.—
New-England is peculiarly blest in this
particular ; they pofiefs the of
their foref&tntrs wl\o felt tile curses of
tyranny and fought freedom, amofigft
the principles of savage tribes. Their
pure Democracy is contained in the fol
lowing extract : " Finding that as free
born fubjefts of the state of England
we hithtr come with all and Angular the
privileges belonging to such ; in the
firft place we think good that it be esta
blished for an aft, that according to the
(rights) and due privileges of the fub
jefts aforefaid no imposition, law, or
ordinance be madeor impofeduponthem
at present or to come but such as (hall
be made and imposed by consent ac
cording to the free liberties of freebotn
fubjefts."* In that true Republic,
Democratic Societies have the fanftion
of the law. They hold their town
meetings which is only another name For
a Democratic Society. There they
discuss politics under the patronage of
the legislature. O ! happy country, if
all the state* wete ehccuragcd to make
such refearchcs ! And now permit me to
tell Mr. Ames, that the Democrats ot
rather the Democratic Society, is not
an intruder on the people. Hundreds,
yea thousands who are not members of
that Society wish them abundant suc
cess in the cause of liberty, properly,
understood, and wish them to remark
on thejßeprefentatives of the People;
and by mildness and wisdom guard our
rights.
Our Representatives have on differ
ent occasions called themselves the ser
vants of the People. By this worthy
declaration they acknowledge the Peo
ple to be their Matter. This, on a
piece of paper, of in a public harangue,
looks admirably well; but let us re
duce it to practice, and then fee how
matters work. For the fake, then, of
elucidation, we vvrll fuppofi a certain
gentleman fending his servant (who has
made many promises of fid lity) to ne
gotiate a piece of bufintfs for him.
According to the natural and common
notion of the word mailer, it is expect
ed he will infpeft the conduct of his
servant, to fee if he fulfils his promise.
It may be upon inveltigation this ser
vant's word is found to be " like pye
crust made to b« broke." Further this
agent is found not only to be faulty,
but when he is told of them, he turns
with frown and looks with impious
contempt on his benefactor. What
(hall we fay concerning such a wretch ?
The reply is, " Bring hither that wick
ed servant," and if not flay him, dismiss
him. Apply this if you please to our
Representatives. Are they our servants ?
We will dare them to infpeft their con
duct within the hallowed wall of Leg il
lation. Do they aft wrong, we will
presume to tell them of it. But, sup
pose they, like the servant jult quoted,
or Mr. Ames, should sbufe us by the
i name of Democrats, or felf-«reated So
cieties, we will pity their ignorance, or
impute their conduct to the treachery
of their memory ; supposing they have
forgot the errand on which they were
sent : so faying dismiss them for a bet
ter. OBSERVER.
'Hf
GEORGE MEADE's
COMPTING HOUSE is removed
to the South fide of Walnut-Street
Wharf, one Door Weft from the Cor
ner. Dec. 2 0.
* Plymouth Records.
By this Day's Mail.
NEW-YORK, Dec. »o.
MASQUERADES.
Extra fl of a Lttter from an Amcrka"
Cent/em an in London.
At 6 o'clock this morning T returned to
my lodgings from the Masquerade. Irh -
mediately on entering a vtrv large and
well lighted room, filled with figures of e
very defcriptionj in every fantaf
tic employment, which mirth and unre
strained bcentioufnefs can fnggeft , I four.d
my situation awkward and f..r a morr.tfct
felt fenfatior.t, bordering upon d:f?.gree
able. But the reflo&ion that 1 was niAlk'd
and unknown, with the apparent ease of
all around me; the intoxicating |flra>r,s of
the well adapted music, and above all the
iudifcribabiy contagious influence of the
place ; set me free from even* rcftraint,
and gave my foul the fame riotous sense or
plealure, which feemel to have full poi
fefilon of all a>ound me. i
After a time the feme became tiresome,
I discovered that the Nymphs and Nuns
and Shepherueilcs, whom I figured to
my mind as angels, were proftitutcs, or
those who appeared very willing to be-'
comefo ; and from the ufal lile.-ty. ccn
ne£ted with a maflc, certainly in a plain
■ road to the accomplifhir.ent of their de
' fires. Liceritioulnefs, folly, vice, infamy
and disease', by degrees lifted the maflc
and cleared my mind from the fumes of in
toxicating pleafnre. Atfuppccand after
the company presented a pSrfeft picture of
themoft debasing sensuality. Tlioie peo
ple of fujhion and reputation, who for the
purpose of intrigue frequent such cont'c
[rtiences, were now gorte ; and nothing
was to be seen but, broad glaring bare
faded vice. -
Such, wilt Masquerades ever be, in
every country where they arc introduced
tho those wlvo firft patronize them may
not look forward to their conferences.
How happy is it, my dear brother,
that this pernicious amusement has not
found its. way into our. happy country..
If we look for well supported charaoici,
we find it on the (tage , if we wifti
for the delights of music And dancing',
we aflemble > with our faces unmsfKcd
and oqr foul? lindifguifed in our faces.
Should any one, at some distant period,
attempt to introduce Masked Halls into
our country }. if a native, may he re
ceive the merited execrations of his fel
low citizens, if a Foreigner may he be.
chafed from the Land, with bilTea and
contempt.
ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.
AN Irilh gentleman, in company'the
other evening, the conversation turning to
political affairs, among other sensible and
witty observations, said, that, "by the'
time the Prince of Wales comes to be
King of England, by my foul, it will be
no Kingdom at all, at all! !!"
~ 11 i
PORT OF PHILADELPHIA.
Captain Guin, of the brig Nancy in 79
days from Liverpool ; in lat. 37, long'
69, spoke the fliip Eliza, Captain /.
Waller, from Woolwich Bay, in Afric,,
bound to New Bedford, out 50 days.
Arrived at the Fort this morning, the
Brig Captain, Fleming from Bourdeaux.
C O F F E E,
35 o barrels ) '
Jult arrived in the Rebecca, Captain
Hughes, from Jamaica.
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I The Writer of the abvve introduces the ftUci*:-
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14 Such s.detail will be neither void of
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