Gazette of the United States. fuiLAn&i.faiA, SATURDAT EVXNING, AUGUST 3®. For the Gazbttr of the United STat&s. The Rbv. Abercrombib's SERMON. ♦ to the public. Having been inform d of several gross mif reprefenutions, which the vindiiliv? malice of party spirit Ivas circulated refpe&ing the SERMON which I preached on Sunday li.fl, in Christ-Church and St. Peter's, I have, by the advice of ir.any of my friends, transcri bed thepaffage which has given rife to the calumnies ; and, in vindication of myfclf, cheerfully submit it, as a public appeal to the coMcience and candoj of every honefl man and sincere christian ; assuring them that it is now given verbatim as delivered from the pulpit, and that it contains every sentiment in the sermon which could poffi- lily be fuppoled to have any political alhir ion. As a member of the community, I have a right to express my sentiments on fubjefts of a political niture arid I will express them. As achriftian mintfter, I not only have a right, but I conceive it my duty, when the interests of religion and morality are involved in the prevailing discussions of civ 1 policy, publicly and puof »si >nally to declare my opinions, and 1 will declare them. It is well known that I highly disapprove of political difqu'.fitions in the pulpit, except upon very extiaordinary occalions, and my conduft in this refpett, ever fitice I have bt en in orders, has uniformly corresponded with the opinion. But, there are periods, p-irticularly under such a government as ours, where there is no established religion, indeed in whose conflitution chrilhanity is not re cognized, when the interference and influence of the clergy in behalf of that divine system, is unquestionably proper; nay, in my opin ion, bt-comes a duty. Such I consider the I present : and I now earneltly and affettion- ' atety call upon my protefiional brethten of every denomination, t6 aid me in support of our great and common cause at this awful and important moment; for whit a monftcr of a solecism in religion as well as in polii cs would it be, for a chrillian community, vo- j i hintari'.y, to place at their head, as their ru ler and guide, an acknowledged unbeliever, and of course an enemy to their faith. Since the delivery of my firrmon, I have perused, with great fatisfaf my own. " I would feel I criminal, had [ exprefled myfelf with less warmth. I rather fear that I have not ri sen to what the cause demanded. Against Mr. Jeflferfon, I have no personal ref.nt ntent. ..He and I can never be competitors for any pl«ce of honor and emolument. Separate him from his principles, and I could write his eulogium." The Extract from the Sermon. htm lie Tort (I Ctrint hitr.t iCti Ctaf J| Ker/e j u Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." After endeavouring to prove that men may promote the glory of God, and to (how how it may be efletW, such as by national ojf ointments, and obfrrvances, and the powerful influence of individual exan - pie, particularly of those in elevated Ration*, I dated the fatal rffefts of a contrary con du£l, and the ban-fitl influence of irreligious chara&ers myfelf thr consequences of excels, a bea%y •head, a stomach surcharged, the loss < f reason, of health' anl of time, 1 will then eat only topreferve life ; my health will bt always equal, my ideas pure and luminous. All this is lb e»fy, that there is no merit in its performance. Aherwards laid Memnon, it is neceffar) to devote some tttention to my fortune ; n»y d-fires are moderate ; my property is securely loilged with the ieceiv»r general the Finances of Nineveh. I have an ample fufficiency to live in independence s That is the grcateft of bleilings. I lhall never be tubjt ctrd to the cruel neceflity of my court : I Qiall invy no one, nor will any envy me. This alf >is perfectly ea('\. I have fiiends, continued he, I (hall prc ferve them, because they can have no canfe of coutention with me. I lhall never be at variance with them, nor they with nir. In that there is no difficulty. Having thus formed his little plan < f wif lorn in his chamber, Memnon looked from tbe window : He saw two womei walking in the (hade of the Palm Trees, near'bis house. One was ugly and thought left. The other was young, handsome, and appealed to be greatly di lire fled. She fished, the tears flowed down h*r beauteous cheeks, aiid rendered her more graceful. Our fape was moved, not by the beauty of the Lady, (he disdained such weaknels) but by the nffloftion which Ibe fußcred. He came down, 1 and approached the young Ninevite wich the intention of consoling her with wisdom. This beautiful person recounted to him with the mod pathetick naivete, all the injuries which (he filtered from a pretended uncle, the artifices by which he had deprived her of a fortune which (he had never poflefledand all tnat (he had to dread froni hi* violence. You appear to me so excellent a counsellor, said (lie that would you condescend to come home with me and examine my affairs. I am onfident you could extricate me from the cruel embarrassment in which I am involved. Memnon hesitated not to follow her, for the purpi fe of sagely examining her affairs, and of giving her good advice. The afflitted lady conduced him into a perfumed chamber, and placed him near her on a fopha, on which they fat opposite to each oth.r with their legs eroded. The li dy spoke with downcast eyes, from which fometimej escaped, and which when unfortunate adv«ntare will engross my thoughts, I fh >ll not eat, and sickness will enf»ie ; It is better ta enjoy a frugal repast with my intimate friends. In the charms of their society, I It 'll forget the follies of the morning. He goes to the rendezvous ; his deje&ion is apparent. His friends force him to drink to dissipate his melancholy. The moderate use of wise is a lemedy for the diftal'es of mind and b^rty—Thus does the sage Memnof think, »nd he becomes intox icated. After the repast, play is proposed. A moderate game with friends is a polite aimjfenient. He plays ; they win from him all the rponey in his pu-fe, and four times as much on his word. \ dispute arises re lative to the g;".ire ; one of his intimate friends throws a dice-box at his head, and deprives him of an eye. The sage Meinnon is carried home ftate of intoxication, without money and with but one eye. He throws himfelf jon his couch ; and as soon as the fumes of the wine he had im bibed are diflipat d, he fends his valet to pro cure Jome money from the Receiver General of the Finances of Nil eveh, to pay his inti mate friends : he is inf. rmed that his debtor had that morning cominitt-d a fraudulent att of bankruptcy which reduced an hundred families to beggary. Mamnon transported with rage, goes to court with a plaifler on his eye and a petition in his hand, to demand ot the King, juflice again (I the bankrupt. In the falloon he meets several ladies, wh« with an air of ease wore hoops of the cir cumference of twenty four feet. Pne cf them, who was (lightly acquainted with him, 1 coking alkmce at him, cried, ah the horrid creature ! Another more intimately ac quainted with him,(aid; good evening, Mr. Memnon ; in truth, Mr. Memnon, I am extremely happy to fee you ; apropos, Mr. Memnon* why hiv* yon lull an eye ? And (he pa (Ted without waiting his aufwcr. Memnon concealed himfelf in * corner, and waited for an opportunity of throwing him felf at the feet <;( the Monarch. That op portunity presented itfelf. Thrice he killed the earth, and presented his petition. Hi? gracious Majesty received him very ftvorar bly, and gave the petition to one of his Sa traps that he might c nnmunicate to him its contents. The satrap draws Memnon aside, and with an air of haliteor and a smile of contempt, thus addrefled him : Are you not 1 ridiculous blind man, to appeal to the King in preference to me ; and still more ridiculous, to dare to ask justice again!! an honest bankrupt, whom I honor with my proteftion, and who is the nephew of one of my miftreffes's chamber maids ! Abandon this pursuit, iny good friend, if you have a *ilh to preserve your remaining age. Memrien having thus in tie morning re nounced the sex, intemperance, gaming, quarrels, and above all the Court, had before be elofe of the day, been deceived and rob jed by a beautiful lady, nad been intoxicated, bad gambled, qunrrell d, lofl an eye, and had been at court an objeft of contempt and ri dicule. Petrified with aftonithmcnt, and opprtffed with grief, be returns to his manlion. He vifhes to enter, but he finds thffe bail• if-, inpl.iyed by his creditors, in the adt ot plundering his house of its furniture. He :hrows htmfelf alinoft lifelefjs under a palm tree ; he then meets the beautiful lady whom he had fren in the morning, walking with tier dear uncle ; dilcovering Memnon with . olaifter on his eye, (he burst into a violeni fit of laughter. Ni%ht came ; Memnon reclined on a bed of draw near the walls of hi* house. He was attacked by a violent •ever; during its adVmn his exhausted frame, he slept, and a celestial Ipirit appeared to him in a dream. It (hone with lustre. It had fix beautiful wings, but neither feet, nor head, nor tail, and Wore not a rrfemblance to any thing. Who art thou ? cried Memnon. Thy good Genius, replied the other. Restore me then my e-e, my health, my fortune, my wifdoro, laid Memnon. He then recounted the mif fortunes #hich had in a day deprived him of all these. Thffe are adventures, said the spirit, ] which never happen to us in the world, which we inhabit ? A"d what world tlo>' you inhabit ? said the affli&ed man My country, said the spirit, it five hundred mil lions of leagues from the Sun in at little Star near Sirius, which thou feeft from here.— The delightful country ! said Memnon : what, you have there no base women who deceive a poor man, no intimate friend, who wins hi-; money and put out his eye. no Bankrupts, no Satraps, who while denying you justice sneer at you ? No, said the in habitant of the Star, nothing of that kind. We are never deceived by women, because we have none $ we are not intemperate, be cause we eat not ; we have no bankrupts, because with us, there is neither gold nor fiiver ; it is impsfGble to put out our «yes, because we have not bodies falhioned like yours ; and Satraps never do us injustice, because in our little star there is perfect cquaity. Memnon thei> said 5 ">y lord without wo men and without dinner, how do you pass your time ? In watching, said the genius, over the other globes, which are confided to our care ; and I come to console you. Alas ! said Meainon, why did you not come last night, t® prevent me from com mutiig so many folliis ? I was with thy elJeft brother Hafla«, said the cel«ftial be ing. He is more to be pitied than thou His gracious Majesty the king of the Indies, at whose court he had the honour to be, or dered both his eyes to be put out for a tri fling indiferetion, and he is now in a dun geon loaded hands and feet with chains. It is worth while, said Memnon to have a gooil genius in a family ! One brother has loft an eye, the other is deprived of both, one is on a bed of draw, the other in prison I Thy lot, replitd the spirit, will true that thou ftwlt always be deprived of on? eye, but with that exception, thou (halt always be fufficiently ha py, provided thoa never conceived the filly and vain prqfpedt of being perfe&ly wife. Perfcd wisdom is then unattainable ? cried Memnon. As unattainable, replied the othe% as perfeft (kill, perfect strength, p rf ft piwer, per feft h>ppinefs. Even we aie Grangers, to those perlediions. There is a globe where all th fe thii gs are found ; but in the hun dred th ufand millions of worlds which are scattered through space, there are different degrees of petft&iou. There is kfs wisdom and pkafure in the second than in the firft, less in the third than in thfecond, and so on to the iaft, where every O' e is complcat ly mad. I much fear, fid Memnon. that our little terraqueous globe is pr cilely the Bedlam of the universe of which you fptak. Not exa£Uy so, faii the fpiiit ; but almost : eveiy thing (hould be in its p oper ] lace. But, said Memnon, ce tain poets, certain philosophers are wrong iu faying that u whatever is, is right." Confideritig the arrangement of the whole universe said the aetherial Philosopher, tfcpy are perfeftly right. Ah ! replied p«or Memnon I will hot believe that until I (hall have recovered my Eye, ON MONDAY NEXT, (itt. September,) WILL BE SOLD, At the Merchants' Coffee.HouCu, at 1 o'clock. THE SHIP j§§f» LAVINIA, a we u known gJiod vcffel, No. laji. g at South strtct upward» of zoo ton* rea'y to take in a raiyo, anrt-nay brlmt •to fra with very little etpciicc, being full of atoref and is well armed. JOHN CONELLY. Angust »8 THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE PQK SALE, AT NO. 35, DOCK-STREET, 1000 Boxes heft marbled Soap," 80 Boxes Street Oil, From on board the SOO Halt cheft-i Luoo &1, Louisa, 7 Bale# Paper, from Leghorn, Rrimftone, * Parmesan Cheese, 0 300 Pipe* bed Bordeaux Brandy, ioo H igflieads Claret superior quality 700 i mich Sw»et Oil, 60 Cases Catherine Plumbs, 6 Carte 6 Prunes, 40C 'Boxes C apers, Olires, Ancho*ie» and Cor nichons, 100 do. allotted Cordials, DRY GOODS aflorted ' for tile Weft-India market, <* ' Claret in cases of a superior quilicy, London dry White Lead, A small int jicc of Coffee, 6 & 4 Pcui'd Cannon,mounted. Tbomas Murgatroyd Sons. May to. tuth&» if The Frenchman WHO refufed -to give up a S oOI.EN POINTER DOG when demanded of him on WeHnefday morning l*ft about fevcn n'clock, hy the f rvant of the owner, at the corner of Arch and Sixth ft eetj, is dcfire'l to fend him to the i ffice of this Gazette, cr di iigent (earth w 11 be mide ?fter him, and he will be pr fecufcd as the tbitf 'I he D'g is white, excepting a ye low spot on his Lark, ore yd at* ear, and two or three yellow spot« o« his forehead—the other ear is fp^ckled—he is vsry poor and hip (hot. An l.andf me reward \yill be given for the d; g, and l;ive Dellarson conviflion oj the thief. The Frenchman is i tall *hi,i man, ot a Ct.mj 1 xion vry dark, anil drtflcd in black cli thes ( xcepting a stripe 1 blue and wli 'e gingham c. atee) —He was seen with thr dog in comp»nv «ith a (hort fft ma", in Kaci near Seventh lircet, on Sunday afternoon Jaft. augnfl 48 d 4t whereas, AN attachment was lately iflued out of the in ferior court of common pleas of th* county of Essex, in the ft-ate of Niw Jersey. dire&ed to the fheriff of the said county, agair.fl the rights, credits, monies and effeils, good? and chattels, lanasand tenements ot Jtht Clevei Symmts at the iuit of William Welh, in a plea of trefpais on the cafe'to his dollars; — a Ithtrim, the said (heriff aid, at the term of June lift pall, return to the said < ourt that he had attached the defendant hy,a certain bond given hy ; Matthias Denman and Samuel Meeker to the said defendant, to the amount of near two thousand dollars,and alfoby sixty land warrants No%v therefore, xnlrfs the said John Clevei Symmes (hallappear,give special hail, and receive a declaration at the (uit of the plaintiff, judgment wili he entered against him, and his propsrty herein attached, will b<. fold agreeably to the : statute in luch cafe made a»d pr»v : ded. Aaron Ogden, Clerk, Wc. Flixsbeth-town July 8, I'go (»l) tawnm NOTICE. A CERTIFICATE, No. 15519 dated ift Jan uary 1/97. in favour o( Robert Limifay, of trharlc(l»n South Carolina, for one share of th- Dock of the Hank of the United States is loft— a duplicate of which will be applied for at the said Intlitution. ROBERT LENOX. August 7. m &t3tn Sand & Stone Ballast. ANY person wishing to have 1 quartity of Sand and Stone Ballalt .by receivn g it from the fliip ,A nn a. lying i» the stream abreast ol Vine ftrect wharf, may have one hundred tons gratis, Apply on board. A«g»tt '36, 4td ' TO PRINTERS. FOR SALE, OLD Long Primer, Small Pica on Pica Body, _ Eng'iifli, Chafes, Composing Sticks, and ag r "' variety of articles neceflary to carry on the tTint ing Business. They will be fold cheap tor calh- Apply to the Printer. July 31. A repart has been current for the two l.ifl days, that one of the Bulks of this Sate had failed. The State includes four,' one at Hartford, one at New-London, one at Nor. wich, and one at New-Haven. A gentle man from Norwich, who left that city fub llquent to the departure of the Uft Mail, and whole refpcdability and rank in i'nciety -ntitle his aflertions to implicit credit, as- Tures us, that the report is altogether uu, bounded, and that the Coniectieut ILnksare n the best circumdances for specie capital hat they have ever been in ; the shares fell it a handsome advance, and the lall dividend vas superior to the general dividends of the Banks of other States. ... NEW-YORK, August 29. Letters from Providence, K. I. mention that the yellow feyer rages there. A gentleman at Newpmt, writes his bro ther in New-Torkj that several persons em ployed in cleaning the lowrrhold of the fri gate General Gretr e, in that harbour, had b?en fe ze 1 with a malignant fever ; but that no yther perfors employed as caulkers, &c. were affe&ed. The sick were renmved to the hofpiial, ani the tows continued very healihy. '.t There is a report in circulation that the J United States flnopof war, Warren, Captain Newman, has been taken by the British fri gate Quebec, on accouhtof carrying SpSnifh money, from Verra Cruz to Havennu We do not thfnk there is any foundation for the report. Capt. N. had no right thus to em ploy hit (kip. We underfland that three or fourperfons of good appearance have been arretted in this city, who are fuppofcd to have oelonged to the gang which committed such depred .tions in Baltimore. They had commenced their operations With great f) ftejn and adroitness. That these gentlemen have been arrested so soon in their proj'fts, refletts great credit on the intelligence and a&ivity of our mu» nicipal officers. man {perhaps .one of the above men tioned fraternity) yeflerday entefed a honfe in Stone fireet, and very leisurely proceeded to load hipitelf with all th# plate which the Xideboard and closets contained, and had left the houfs unprrc'ived by any belonging to it. Fortunately foitiebody passing at that moment, fufpefted him, from feeing him thus muffled up and loaded, and went in (Untly in the noufe to enquire if any thing was miflirg. The discovery of tfie theft was immediately made, and the porfuit was fortunately fuGcefsful. | A By this Day's Mails. BOSTON, August 26. Connecticut Banks. * i ROWLETTs Copy-Right. DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA— to vriTi BE IT REMEMBER! 1), fhat on the 3iftday of July, in the 15th year ot the Independence ol the Urii ed St. tes ol America, John *owlb r» of the said Diflri& f.ath deposited in this iffice the Title of a Bock, the righr whereof he claims » Proprietor, in the words following, to wit Tables of D.fcount, or Interest, ON l»l«r DOLLAR, FROM one to two thousand ; on eveiy ten dol la- ,f rom two tb uland to two ihoufand five hun dred •, i n ev.ry fifty, lrom two thousand five hun dr. d to three thrtul'and, and on c»< ry five hundred from thiee ti.oufar.d to si» thoulr one 'ay to fiity four 'ays inclufiv», A I i-lX PER CENT. Comprizing, it, the whole, »pwar,i» of one hundred and thirty two t'louland one hunred aud fi)ty.calculations 01 D.fcoui,t ; alf performed arc rdi .g 'o the cq iita Ie pru ciples ih Banks, and as pra&ifed between individuals throughout the Ui.ited States WITH NOTES Preceding the work, ihewing how, by meal" of thaTables to ascertain the 1 ileount AT SEVEN and at EIGHT PPR CEN T, recnomng either f>o or 36} days to the year—explained hy examples. /. L S f Anoth r Vote, underth- firfl pr.trcof the W«rk, thewing Iha m«de of k' ach ilat rcfpeiliveTy. and between all th> f and London and Paris, ati-iffirnt iete« ef Fxchange. By JOHN ROWLETT, Accomptant, Bank of North-America. IN CONFORMI rY to the a milts from Cot per's Ftrrf t ar.d 7 from Burlington ; ONE LAUfth TWO STORY Brick - House, T7IVK and thirty feet fquar«, four rooms gh each floor, and a cellar linger the whole.— -Liiewif* adjoining, a forty foot front Lot, situ ate on Mill flreet, near the imrkitt, with a new Carriage House 3rd Stabler on the rear of th« Lot, fronting a public alley. For further p&r ticulars applv t> MAHLON BUDD.or ISAAC CARR, in Burlington. Who will ftiew the pretr.ilcs and make known i the terms, or of the lubfcriher in Burlingtoi, br whom an indifrutatle title will be »iven. MICAJAH ELLIS. Burlington, July 9» 1800. July *9 < od V » I si h v $ /, A >: i < ■*>. - V V