Fe.hralists, Attention. Daring attempt at Ufurfatitn, by the Jacobins A writer in tlie Aurora of'this morning-, in an address to the electors of Pennsylvania, makes the following proposition to wrest fr«m the Federal Republicans their rights. extract. "We have, therefore, one resource left one to which we can relort, without in infringe of the Constitution : The Legislatuke may themselves, appoint the Electors, We are, nevertheless, free to declare, that this muflbe considered as the ieaft eligible mode of inakin the appointment; in fadt, it is at once incapable of being juftified, in any cafe, where there \s an opportunity of having a choice made immediately by the people. Yet, as it apnears to be the only means left to Pennsylvania, for avoiding the monstrous and degrading injury of a total privation of the right of suffrage, on an occalion ot the highest interest to every American freeman ; I trufl it will be retorted to, and with fnc cefs. Driven, as this State is, by the ene mies of the people'* rights to the alternative of either disfrar.ebised, or of recurring to ail appointment of electors by the legi fix ture ; no citizen of Pennsylvania can hffi tate which to prefer, for although the spirit of the Federal Constitution oppofd a weight, and as is conceived an infuper.ible ohj-ftioh to a legislative appoinmtnt of eleftors, where a choice may he drily made by the Peo ple themselves ; that objection is never theless removed, in the present inftautv on a liberal conflru&ion of that inflrumenc, by the extraordinary nature of the cate. An appoinment being indispensably necefTary to the maintenance of our chartered rights ; and it bemg no otherwise pra&icable, than through the medium of the legiflsture ; eve ry citizen of P«nnfylvania who entertains a jll ft sense of this feriotis coufideratio* will contemplate the probability of the Legislative Reprefentativvs of the people being obliged as a mta'ure. *f unavoidable necetssty, to execute this trust for their conftituenu." Tor tbe GazEtrt: of the United Stai es. THE POLITICAL CONVERSION, No. 111. Mr. Editor, THE magnitude of my profeffional busi ness, and the consequent hurry and buttle which has of late attended it, have rendered it impoflible for me to present this commu nication to you at an earlier period ; my customers will not fuffir their horses to wait (tortured with flies and half dead with the heat) until / have fir.ithcd my political lucu brations ; ami even if they would, I should not; for I hold it as a good maxim, " ne ver to let politics interfere with my private affairs. In pursuance of this my ref'lution, lam now, at 11 o'clock at night, endeavor ing to prepare this communication for you, surrounded by my wife and children, who a 1 ar f.iit locked in the arms of M >rpheus.— $0 much by way of apology ; I (hall now •without farther digreflion, proceed to my proposed design. " Ha ! you have come at last, cried I, running up to Worthy, " now prove to me the: atheism of Jrfferfon, now disclose the horrid plots, and diabolical plans of the Ja fobin p -ny, n;iw " Softly Sottly," replied iry friend, do not be so impetuous, and vio lent, it will be an easy talk for me to per forin iny promise, and I will perform it. On your part however, you mult firfl allure me, tbat you will poflyfs yonrfelf of fuffi cient candour, to judge of all things, with an impartial mind, and that you will n»t permit prcjudire, in the ltaft, to influence your opinion." As I rarely form my judg ment, without a due examination, I imme diately consented to the proposition of my friend, and having seated ourfclves, he thus continued. You. have no doubt, been prin cipally miffed, by the fallehood, and mifre piefentations of t.Vie Aurora, aided by the malignant and a'jfurd fnggeftions of dis appointed, ambitious, and wicked men. Having no opportunities, yoti have been able only to skim over the furface of Politicks, and to form a precipitate opinion from a pnrtial View of one file of the queQion. It remains therefore with me to draw allele the curtain, and to place before you a true picture, by ex posing t\> your view, on the one hand, the proje&s of base, and designing men, who leek to obtain poweT, by any means ; and who would rather reign in Hell t than serve in Heaven ; and on the ether, men whose only aim is, to preserve inviolate, our in valuable Constitution, from the fangs of these fi,6s, of anarchy, a*d rebellion ; and to guard our sacred rights, and liberties, from inroad of foreign, and domestic Aggri-fJion. It is observable to every un prejudiced wind, in his obferv&tions upon the movefnents ot the Jacobin, party, • that (belf sole with, is to entirely subvert our present Conffitution, and eredl upon its ruins, one (as they fay) belter calculated for the American People, but in reality, one better suited to obtain the objr£U, for which they have long fought in vain, Wealth and Power. Setting atide for future devetope ment, the farther obje As of this great defijf*,, I will atk, who are the men who thus zealously come forward, offering in the one hand, un heard ef libarty, and in the other, a new frame for our Government ? Are they Ame ricans ; did they (hare in that bloody ftrife, .which ended in the eltablilliment of our Liberty, and Constitution ? Or even, are they men, who by virtuous, and upright adions, have procured the confidence, and gained the etleem of their fellow men ? no, they are for the most part, the Itttffe, arid scorn of feciety, men, who having commit ted the molt atrocious cniWS, have' fled from impending, and deserved punishment, and have fought, and found, alas, (helter in the arms of deluded America ; to whom, to pay their gratitude, they' Are now fappi"g her Conllitution, and undermining her vii - Vu'.v-i Government. By .them, is the An-j ' rora, ana the reft of JucoYlnic.ll Newspa pers, upon which, you hive so much ielyed for authority, conducted, "and fiippar-ed ? By men, hofttle to our liberties. and mimi cal to our happiriefs ; by d'^raded'wretch,-! eminent only for their crimes, and oilT.n guifhed only for their infamy ; y;t thef are the persons who b >tdly advance, and aim oheir fWts of malice a gainst the miff refpeftable, aad sacred ehara&eri ; these are the men, who offer you a.ri infidel, lor C i-f M giftrate, in prefer ence, to a virtuous, and (ledtift Wiever in God ; these ate the aflafinS, wh* have afTtil ed the chara£\er of our belovocl Waihing ton, accufrd liim, of the greatest of crimes, and who have impiously attempted to blast his blushing honours, and tarnish his immor tal glory ; these are they, who bid defiance to virtue, religion, and God, and now hypo critic illy promise, to inftrud us in the true enjoyment of Liberty, and to eredt for uj a virtuous government, But here "laid my friend, I (hall for the present leave you ; con sider well what I have said. The conver f .tion shall shortly be renewed. I regret ex cedingly that my prcfeffional avocations, do not permit ray flaying, any length of time, or of repeating my vi fits, more fre quently— FaKewell" 1 made no answer, but involuntarily took his hand, and bestow ed upon it a mod cordial (hake, then fat down, and gave niyfelf up to refleftion. DICK VULCAN. For the Gazette of the United States. Mr. Wayne, I HAVF seen your request that the au thor of " Nates on Gallatin" would proceed to a further investigation < r lifting; of the " Genevan Sophtft," and altho' nothing can be more irkfame than to follow this mere pu tended Fiscal ckaraiW, through his crazy labyrinth, calculated vtith fuel) (tudied con fufion, as to render one of the plained re ports that ever was made by a committee of Congrels dark and intricate, yet I will ne vertheless follow him again, after you have republifhed tiie report of tb: Commit tee, which I know to be juff and true, as it is plain and conclusive. And who are they that can yet rely on the pretended declarati ons of Gallatin in favor of frugality, while it is so evident 'hat every step he lus taken has had a direst tendency to excite more infurre£lions ? Not contented with having put-the United States to thecKper.ee of a civil war in 1794. he was the principal cause of the continuance of retraining laws which prevented our arming the moment we were seriously insulted by the French in 1796, by which, according to the apellate Barlotu we funk at lead 20 millions. Add to this, Du-' ane acknowledges that Gallatin furnlhcd him with niott of the lyes h« pitbhfh'-d rcfpe&ing the Public Debt, Stc. l itre will not permit me to fay more at present, than that the two patnphlets of Gallatin are the n:oft bare faced and the most wicked ate nipt» to deceive that ever were ofFertd to an insulted public. AMEKICANUS. F rtbe Gazette tf tbe United Sates. Mr. Editor, THE enclosed oil a controversy, which at present engrofl" 9 much of tin at tention ot your readers ; and which demands the united talents the z«al, it the indigna tion of the defenders of the religion of our forefathers, will I trull find a place in your paper ; not that they contain any tbing ex tremely new, but when it is recollefttd th;>t they are the opinions of, or approbated by that pious chrittian and profound t holar, Dodor johufon, they must be an appall I■> hod of evidence to the rooted in error and a convincing proas to the wavering and un settled. " WHERE there is a controversy, con cerning a quetlion in antiquities , or any other fubjed, in which human liappinefs, is not deeply intt reftid, a man may treat his antagouift'with pnhtenefs and even refped. But where the controversy is concerning the truth of religion, it is of such vast impor tance to hi in, who maintains it, to obtain the vidory, that the perfoli of our opponent ought not to be spared. If a man firmly believes that religion is an invaluable trea sure, he will conlider a writer who endea vours to deprive mankind of it, as a robber ; he will look upon him, as odious, though the Infidel may think himfelf in the right. A robber who reasons as the ganj do in the" Brg, a.s Optr ," who call themfeves practical phih fiphns,and may have as much lincerity as pernicious speculative philoso phers, is not the let's an objed of jult indig nation. An abandoned profligate may think that it is not wrong to aebauch my wife ; but shall I therefore, not detest him ? And if I catch h m making an attempt, (lull I treat him v.'i h politeness ? No I will kick him down flair?, or run him through the body : that is, if I love my wife, or have a true rational notion of honour," Of the confute pronounced from the pul pit our determination mutt be formed, as in other cases, by a coniiu.-ration of the adion itfell, and the particular rircunißances with which it is i.v/fted. Tie right of eenfure, and rebuke feenis necetTarily appen dant to the pafloral officei He to whom the care of a congregation, is entrutted, is as the Shepht rd of a Flock, as the teacher of a School, as the father of a family. As a Shepherd tending, not his own theep but those of his matter ; he is answerable* for those that (tray, and that lose themfelvrs by (travinf. But no man can tie anfwerahle for lolTes which he has not power to-prevent, or f r vagrancy which he has not authority to rettrain. As a teacher given i'-ffrtidion for wages, nnil liable to repri>adh if those whom he un deuakes to infoim make no proficiency, he mutt have thspawer ofrnforcing stteoij'iiice, of awakening negligence, and reprefiinfj con tradictions. As a father he pofTeffes the pa ternal an;hority of admonition, rebuke and puniflitnem. v Hi cannot without reduci-.g his office t:i an empty name, be hind-reef ffiira the exercise of any pr-i&lce necelLry to tlunulate the idle, to reform the vidous, to check the petui int, :md corred tlie ftuh born. It is true that the minifler has no 'onofer the power to press into the retire ments of coiticietice, to tortnre us by inter rogations, or put himf if in poueffiotf of our ficrets and outlives. But though vye have thus coiiknmled his ulurpations, tits just and original ™wer remains unimpairtd. He may Itill lie, though he may not pry : he may yet hear, though he may not qyeftion. And that knowledge which his eyes and ears force upon him it li still his duty so use lor the benefit of his floek. A father who lives near a wicked may forhid a ion to frequent his company. A minifler who has in his congregation a man of open and fcunda lons wickedness, rtiay warn his p»ri!Jioners to fliun his cnnverfatioim To warn them is not only lawful; but not to warn jhem would be criminal. He may warn them one by one in friendly converse, or by a parochial visitation. But if he may warn each man singly, wlut (hall forbid him to warn them altogether ? Of that which is to be made known to all, how is there any difference whether it be communicated to each singly, or to all twgether ? What is known to all; muff necessarily be public.— Whether it (hall be public at once, or pub lic by degrees is the only question. And of a sudden And solemn publication the im prefllon is deeper, and the warning more cffedßal." ******** Tie following paragraphs seleSed from London pabcrs to August 10, wiil be found worthy of notice. Three Quakers arrived at Weymouth on Thnrfday ; they accosted his JVJajtrfty. and told him a young friend of theirs, lately from Philadelphia, expressed a wifli to fee the King and his family ; they all met hj» Majesty on Saturday on the Kfplanade. The American having held some conversa tion with the King, he took off his hat and r. tiring a short diitance, offered up a Jrmg prayer for the fafety of his Majesty and his house, and in consequence of his escape from the late attempt against his life, concluding his prayer with a fervancy that the Almigh ty would b'efs our Sovereign, c ntinue him long lobe the father of the little island, and the happiness of < is pewple. It iscurreutly reported and generally cre dited at Hamburgh, that the Court ot London, is upon the point of a perfeft re conciliation with the Emper-r Paul. What renders this desirable event more credible is, that the arred neutrality is no longer the topic of difcaurfe. Under the Frankfort head of July 22, we find iht following paragraph : "To sac litati the conclulion of a peace, Buonaparte will ii.imfclf repair to th® vicini ty of the plxe where the Co grefs is'eld. and will be iLCompanieJ by I lie Minister of fjreign affairs, Talleyrand. ' Accounts from Dresden fay, that two great foreign powers will no longer view with indifference the progress of the French in Germany, and the ruin of the continent, to promote the advantage of certain maritime connection*. •The report that Buonaparte had written to the King of Sardinia t» rtruin to his dominion!, in the mod flattering terms, is unfounded. Our accounts from Egypt by lalt mail, date the renewal of hoHilitits to have been even more calamitous than had been before represented j as, instead of only ten thou faud men having fallen in the battle with Kleber, the l urks 1 ,ft upwands of twenty thousand by the sword. dby f bfequent hunger, third and fatigue in the desert. Among the numerous persons who fell info the hands of the French general at the battie of Ca ro. was Mr. Moiea, secretary to the British embafly to Conftantihople, who experienced from Kleber, and from the otbrr generals, the moi diltinguifhed attention & kindness. The account of the detention of the Danilh frigate and her convoy, was on the 6th , comm-inic ited by the telegraph to Paris, where it is laid, Denmark, though goaded by Kuflia and Sweden, is averse to to take any ftcp againlt England, from the apprchenfion of her eastern pofieflions. The obje&of the expedition which failed from Portfraouch on Wednefd.y, and com priftd about ie,ooo soldiers, continue! to be, as it ought, a prof, und secret. Every thing than diltinguifhed gallantry can at chieve may be expefted from them. Admiral Mitchel and the squadron he commanded are it is stated to receive two hundred thousand pounds lie.ling for the (hips taken at lielder. The Liberty which the Fren.h seem to be giving to Piedmont, is that freeing the people from being bound by fortrefles, all which, tne moll beautiful and celebrated in the world, are ordered to be d-moli(hed, that Pi druont may hereafter afford a fret enterence to every plundering foreign army. Pope Ganganelli in one of his letters, compares Italy to a fine pi&nre. of which t e Alps formed the frame. Where he now alive, how would it affeft the heart of a good old man, to fee this pi£lu e so disfigur ed The harvest throughout France promises to be more produftive than in any other year fincc the commencement of the Revo lution Another profccution fro foreftalling at)d re ;ratiug comes before the Court of King ( s Bench next term—Lord Kenyon has refu ftd 20001. bail for the -individual, who is renowned io the trade. I F id?y dollars to the am ant of a million i sterling, brought from Jamaica hy the ; Brunfwick man of war, for the use of the merchants, were conveyed to the Bauk in in three waggons* Extradl of a letter from an officer oh board the (hip China, capt Jafiah, dated Ba- I tavia Roads, 17th April i8»o. 1 "We trade Java Head is 86 days, from J I?eedy Island ; saw nothing on our passage j we could not leave or come up with ; 110 , flip ever behaved better, (lie i:> a moll easy, excellent sea boat. " The William Penn has failed for Cal cutta, Camilla, far Canton and lam told it is uncertain if we load here, owing to some regulations which have laiely taken place, obliging all vessels to take certain quantities of sugar &c. Canton has been mentioned SU oiir deflination—a freight in offered there. We are landing our outward cargo. Our flay here will be Dut short ; great dispatch is used- There are two American veff Is here. We are all well. From the /Heisndrta Mirror The account we gave in our I'aft, relative to the corifpira'cy of the Negroes in this town and the adjacant counties, ials arc still g'ing From the Boston Centincl. " A 7 ant Jket-Road, Sept. 17 1 °OC. l 'M jo B. Ruff I, Ed tor of the Ccntinck D at Si>', The accuracy of M r . Gou d's Patent Log I with to acquaint all my brother leameo, with ; I therefore certify, that the United States Frigate Boston, under my commmd, ran from the Race Point of Cape Cod to Boston Light-house in three honrs. Mr. Gould's Patent Log was hove, as I sup. posed that this would be a favourable time to prove the accuracy of the machine. It mcafured 14 leagues and one mile, and I have not the doubt, that is the only machine wtkich will measure the distance wish ac ctiracv. Yours, &c. GEORGE LITTLE. P. S. The Mariher must take care to have a small leal on the lit e ore fathom from the tag, when the ship is going from 12 to 14. kno's ; and to have double the stray line, as in a moderate breeze; so as to keep the log under water. G. L." An officer of the Boston, in a letter dated the 18th fiys," I never saw so good and ordeily a crew—so much so, ( that th- wo'ft on board have not needed enrreftion—Every thing [.romifes a happy cru f ■ MOM Gazette Marine Lift. r * PORT OF PHILADELPHIA. •ARRIVED, d'.ysj Biig Harriet, Sweetzer, Charlellon jt Rice ; Kuflel and Boone Schr. Nancy, Morris, Richmond ; Coal, &c.—to captain ! Sleop Sally, Webb, do. I Coal and tobacco | Schr. Ann Virginia, Aberden, Norfolk j Rum 5 G. Plumltcad Fiiendfhip, Delllter, Newbern 9 Rum Sic.—Taggcit, &,c. t I I Nancy, Franklin, Richmond p Coal, &c —to gaptain Sloop Genet, Whtlen, Charleston 9 Rice ; } Biy'n Maria, Roderick, Newbern 10 Na'-el {lores; to captaia CLEARED, j Barque Juliana Margarstta, Marchafon, St. [Ciox Brig Tartar, Clark, from hence, has ar rived at Cape Fi an :oiv m Schr. Nancy, Ford, from hence, has ar* rived at Cape Francoi*, hip Aiiantic, Water*, from Calcutta and Madras, .hao arrived at Marcat Hook. Schooner Fri.endfhip, Taylor, from C. rFrancois, and schooner Hetty, (laleM'Kia lcy) frocl Savannah are belo*" . . . Sloop Genet, Whelen. from Charleston, arid schooner Friendlhip, Delifter, from Newborn, are below. Ship Fame. Griffith, from hence, to Ha vanna, threw all her guns overboard in the late gale. Philadelphia wjfclt July 2<). Ship George, M'Collom, to fail itP'o day 1 * Richmond, Glenn, do 4 do. Harmony, Wickham, do do- Brig Trvphenii, Arnold, do 8 do. Ann, Gildea, do —. Lovely Lass, Shields do 25 do; - V. ILMINGTON (D.) c ept. 22. Arrived fc!it. Freedom, R.ihinfcn, St. Mgrks. Sept. in lat 35 38 long 74 32 spoke brig El za, Bunker, of New York, 20 days out of savanna, in tow with a Dan (h brig bound to Baltimore who informed, that on Thtfrfday the nth Srpt at 1 p. ALEM. S-ptmber 13. Tuesday arrived the fchomer Rachel, 2 Jtai.i Storev, 39 d.iys t'roin BUboa. Siil :i o company with the fchoonrr S ratoga, Jr;ves, of Marblehead. Left there August ?, Captains S r(';m Ind Bartlett, of Ply mouth ; fchr' Suet'fs, B nnetr, »f Caps ; Cuptvis Sv.'ty and iJulf-I, cf Mar bl bed: and ion' Ent-rp- ■, Hammond, of this port. August g, fpok; in lat 44, loi.g 9, (poke an Englilh lugger. AUgufl 12, Lit 44, long 16 was bo r icd by a French privateer brig of 16 funs, 10 days from l'soid-aux and treated politely. AUi'i ,r l 14* ■at 44, lon . 18, fj oke the United States' F i. a- Philadelphia, Stephen 0. a tir, El'q. c mmand • , :;nd informed him of the French brig' m i ich he had fnoken two days before. George Davis, A"#. 319, High-Street, HAS IJUST RECEIVED, Per Airiana from London, A few Tiunki and Gales of 4 4, 7-8 8c 3-4 Iriili Linens, AND Gentlemen's, Youtlif, and Boys, Fine BLACK HATS, Which he will fell on moderate terms, at a reasonable credit. leptember 24 mwf^w. An Invoice of ( |$ Playing Cards. If SUPERFINE Columbian, Harry the VHlth, and Merry-Andrew Playing Cards, for sale cheep for cafh —Apply at this Office. fepfember 13. I 6500 lbs- New Orleans Indigo, Entitled to Lrw.vbjck. 200 VijTfheac 1 * Vi'ginia Tobacco, 4 54 kegs of Virginia Twill, " F R SALE Br Tunis & Annefley, Walnut Ureet wharf. 9 mo. ill, iSso d6t TO PRINTERS. FOR SALE, A PRINTING PRESS complete, Old Long Prirser, Small Pica on pica body (new and old Pica, do. (two small founts) 16 Line Pica. Sundry Frames, Furniture, I roii v»'9rk of $5" Tbey wii at the office «.<£ Baltimore . ... SlCiOMcc'' Hardy'e Inn, . General Poll y ' . I ■ « .. . f JumSU^ •t/ "4, ;C^