i
Domejtic Articles.
NEW-YORK, Nov. 17
Mr. Adderlej's Lectures on Belles Lettres.
(Continued from our paper of yefterdajr.)
Avid after farther knowledge we apply
; to Geography which invites our contempla
tion to the earth itfelf. It examines its
mountains and its vallies. Itdefcribes the
vulcanoes, their eruptions, their lava,
, altd their effedts. It treats of the natural
productions of each climate a.id country,
and of all that relates to the philosophical
state of the globe- It then extends its en
quiries to the inhabitants of the earth, and
endeavours to determine their number,their
manners, language and habits* It exhibits
the divisions, magnitude and contents of
e&ch country, and ends by making us per
fe6t with the produdtions of every clime—
New motives for curiolity and refcarch.—
We-commence the study of nature, taking
for our guide the bed authors on the
subject, we delight in l'eeking in mines for
thole tolfils of which we begin to perceive
the claliiticatiin. With pleal'ure we range
the field for plants,whole gender and proper
ties we commence to diftmguilh. We be
come botanilt,. All hature has for
us new charms, and •continually presents
frefli otyecss far admiration and inftrn&ion.
Solicitous to underlUnd the lcience of the
operations of nature, we study natural philo
fojihy, by which we become acquainted with
thole bodies that nature produces,and which
we discovered from our knowledge of natu
ral history. Experimental philosophy and
chemistry next teach us i uw to tnalize the
Compolition of bodies, and to dilcover the
alterations of which such compolit ons ar,;
susceptible. Hence, while in the purluit of
agriculture, and on opening the bosom of
the earth, we dilcover that it abounds in
metals, which by patient experiments, we
have made applicable to ruflic ends or com
mercial purposes. Not coutent, we dive i
Hill deeper, we drag the rich metal from the
bowels of the lordid mine, then with the
falhioning hand of the enlightened artist,
■we give it that llamp and polish, to which
if is indebted for all its acknowledged worih
and currency.
But 'tis not necelTary to dwell on every
eircujjftance which tends to the improve- :
ment of »ur nature. I (lull pals over Ana- j
tqßiy, Pharmacy, General Grammar, the j
dead languages, Eloquence, Poetry, Politics, j
Juris udenee, Political and Kural EocO- j
liemy, ko. Stc.—l Ihall not Ray to prove the
influence «f music cb the u»ind, or the grace |
which dancing lieftows on the body.
■ flow much politenefi embellilhes, how much j
manners adorn. .But I mult take care to ;
dwell utxfu a tubject to the knowledge of
which it is we v we moll of our fuperiotity
over the unlettered man. ljViean religion.
Omit this and ill the acquirements recited
would b.- futile —perhip? dangerous vain.
The laws are watchful that one citieen
fiiould not hurt another; and they punilh
all attempts upon perlons and property
but there are certain duties which they
cannot prescribe, and the tranfgrelfions of
which elcape their sword—such as those of
father, of huiband, of triend, of superior, of
inferior; the) therefore, become the fubjedt
of a morality which nothing but Christianity
can inculcate, or religion ellablifh in our
hearts. It is difficult, by scholastic learn
ing, always to persuade men how much it is
their interfft to be confUntly virtuous- Al
most all are dil'pofed to depart from
the principle ei morality wljen they
believe tliey may da it with impuni
ty ; it belongs to religion to teach
them, that if they flatter themselves to es
cape from punishment, and from the dis
grace which attaches to those who break the
agreements of focifety, yet they cannot in
the fame manner avoid the eye of the Al
mighty, whose exillence all nature demon
strates to them. Conscience, awakened
by a fenl'e of religious obligations, comes
forth and writes, in charadter, too legible,
upon the wall, 4 Thou haft been weighed in
the balance and art found wanting.' It ex
hibits the sword suspended by a thread
over the head of the criminal. It checks
the robber in the streets by night —it causes
the instrument of death to tremble in the
hands of the highwayman, and it an ells the
feet of the vile l'educer, at the very moment
that he advances, with the steps of a Tar
quin.to violate the honours of the virtuous
house.
4 Is this a dagger which I fee before me
the handle tow'rd my hand ? Come, let
nie clutch thee—l have thee not, alid yet I
lee thee Hill. Art thou not, fatal vision,
fenGble to feeling as to fightor art
thou but a dagger of the mind, a falfe crea
tion proceeding from the heat opprelTed
brsin ? I fee thee yet, in form as palpable
as that which now ldraw, See. &c. There's
no such thing—lt is the bloody business
which informs thus to mUie eyes. Gra
cious God ; if this be the language of him
who meditates the crime of murder, what
are to be the accents of-hirn who has already
committed the flagrant deed ?
After a scene like this I know of nothing
that can yield a more sensible pleal'ure to a
refledting mind, than this fpe&acle, tc
figure to onefelf one of your ancestors rc
viliting this land which he only knew whei
inhabited by Aboriginal tribes, —which he
only knew wbile it prefentcd a nation
without a esuntry, a people without laws,
and a worship without charadter or disci
pline. What would be his emotions or
discovering yourcities—your palaces—youi
temples—your edifices of legislation and
juris prudence, (landing perhaps on the very
{'pot where flood the huts of the wretches
who fir ft presented him the calimut of peace
or offered the figurative ensign of friend
flyp and concord. What would be his as-
tonilhment to fee the flag of his defcen- j
dants, soaring proud ahd sumptuous, in
seas where Indian intellect is 1011, or glid
ing triumphant in the immenle rivers and
bays, where he firtt beheld the rude canoe
of the innoGent native coming to gaze at
cautious distance, or to give the needed aid,
or grant the wanted succour. For him, to
find a country, which at bed he must have
left an infant, colony, rel'peded abroad
immenie and flouri filing at home, would na
turally excite this enquiry. 1 his iplended
change, to what powerful attribute is it
due i Merciful God 1 would the holy man
exclaim, it is due alone to thee. 1 had not
where to lay me do^n—-no temple in which
to worlhip ihee—no alter at which to offer
up my praile. My God, and the God ot
my fathers, were not heard of or known.
But the li.Jvt of thegolpeland the learning
with which thou haft endowed my offspring,
have given them the comforts and bleflings
which I did not merit at thy hands, lhcy
behold around them all the glittering em
blems of chriliianity & that cross Evangeli
cal which loars from the highest Pinnacle of
cyery department. Now may I exclaim
with the (tranger who firlt visited the camp
of the people of God.
" O Israel how beauteous are thy Tents !
0 Jacob what order what harmony are in
thy pavalions ! ! !"
In proving the influence of knowledge on
the human character it may be understood
that I consider that Bhilofophy and the Sci
ences Ihould cunltitute the principle study
of man, and that from his youth he Hiould
fuccellivcly pats thro' the several branch.s
1 enumerated. In truth with the addition
of the dead languages the lan will be
found a complete I'ylteiJi of human know
ledge. It may be deemed a vafl one but
in its vaftnel's, itsgreateft utility con lilts.
Education is th« novitiate of life : and in
life manifold and various are the Rations.
One cannot decide which of them would
beftfuita fubjeft of whose dispositions and
capacity, we are ignorant; but by teaching
him during his youth to know the different
means of being ufeful to society, he will be
prepared to serve it afterwards in all it em
ployments ; by opening to him the entrance
—by (Irewing roses in his way—and by
pointing out to him the traft of the diffe
rent courses he may travel through, he will
have acquired, light lufficiciit to chufe that
which agrees the belt with bis taste and
with his talents. Having made thi> choice,
another fyltem of education demands h.s
immediate attention : 1 mean a profei&onal
one. To the want of this it is that we are
to attiibute the errors fe vitible in humaH
conduft. Weeccul'c the lawyer of duplicity
and ignorance ; we reproach the minitter
of want of morals and zeal ; the phyfieian
of want of knowledge and humanity, and
the merchant of want of integrity and prin
ciple. The history of every day exhibits
the unfortunate mariner fleering with fan
cied iecurity for the rock or the (hoal on
wh'ich all his profpettsand your speculation
pcnlh ; and the account of every battle gives
a portrait of ihe thoughtlels soldier revelling
t on the furface while the mine advances in
secret which is to deltroy the foundations
oil which his numerous ariiy (tands.
•By a prefellional education such compli
cated evils may not only be diminilhed but
nearly avoided. From Horace and Quin
tilian, Demosthenes and Cicero, the lawyer
and 4egillator draw rules and examples
of taste and eloquence ; but they must tirll
be prepared by Seneca and other moral
writers for the reading of their works.—
They mult, b) a preliminary knowledge of
the human heart, its inclinations and ca
prices ; by a certain acquaintance with
manners and with prejudices, and by a ha
bit of observing attentively both vices and
virtue* he able to discover them where they
are, and know how to exhibit the true, im
partial,pifture to the public in its real light.
Physic being a fciencethai cannot be I'ulfi
ciently explored ; it is fit, for the happincl's
of the human race, that young men of the
gre'atefl genius i of the uioft vigorous, the
most just & sagacious spirit (houldalone apply
themlelves to its Itudy—this truth be
comes more manifeft when we exa
mine the parti, the delicate and
frague springs, of which this machine
called the human body is composed
To know how to feleft and properly apply
the molt efficacious remedies for the remo
val of each disorder,& to discover the latent
xaufe, can only be the fruit of much talents
and application.—Let the parent of the
candidate, therefore, for this profeflian be
cautious not to ule any compulsion. Let
him refleft well that it is an important, a
truly important qufOion he is about to de
termine. It involves this awiul one, whe
ther his son is hereafter to be conlidered the
phyfieian or the atTalTin ot society. With
| out he be perfeftly qualified he ftould not
j make the choice. Arms Ihould not be put
! into the hands of a person who may inflift
| wounds which no medicine can reach—
j which all the powers of reason will be una
i ble to cure ; the youth in the years of rea
son mull discover his errors—his mind will
refufe to be comforted—-" "1 he spirit of a
i man may indure his infirmities, but a
wounded spirit who can bear."
The mariner requiring less information
(liould never be clalTed among the ignorant,
r Being a good Mathematician, he ought in
i the course of one year to acquire from
> Astronomy Navigation and Geography fuf
. cient intelligence to circumnavigate the
i globe, and bring his hard earned wealth in
: l'afety, into the bosom of his country, with
) out fearing the rocky channel or the (hallow
, found.
The soldier has dill an ealier tra£l to pur
i sue." he kas however to study what made
r I Turenne fuccefsful, and Conde great .*
I ! What gave Saxe viftory and Malbro' re
, nown : What bellowed on Walhington
; immortality, and on Warren the Itaried
: tomb. /
If, while imitating such illuftrioHs names,
. he vjould invent, improve, produce, he
might become not only a soldier, but a
learned man, a refplendant genius—even
the benefaflor of his country, if Providence
ftiould permit.
Of all the profeflious I come from enu
merating, none requires more univerlal
knowledge than that of the Merchants.
He ought to have a perfect notion of the
laws and productions of his own country
and be equally intimate with the diftinguiflj,
ing charafterifti'cs of every other. H«
ftiould poflei's a thorough ftatilHcal infor
mation, be a Linguist and Piiiloiopher.—
His mind should be liberal and vast. His
heait ihould not be the slave of avarice,
nor that of luxurious excels. He foould
be acctidomed to vitw Commerce as a libe
ral proiVifion, which binds I'ociety in bonds
infinitely more firm than any other whaifo
ever, aild consequently regard himfeli as a
mong the firft class of his countrymen, and
not Hoop to any dishonorable l'pecalation or
degrading traffic, which certainly belongs
not to his office or charafter.
I have deferred till bow to speak of the
f Ministers of the Gospel, though whoever
n are Christians, with minds humble by devo- q
tion mill) give them a Preeminence above J
theml'elves, and cotifeft that they hold a «
i coniiderable rank in civil and humanized
a governments.
He who would be a candidate for the
Church Ihould not waste his youth, as too
j many do, in Itudying Homer, Virgil, Ana
creon, Ovid and Catullus, who principally
paint the tenderness, the fury, or the volup-
ttoufnel's of ".he paflions. Ihe history of j
fabulous gods and heroes is surely not a j
proper one to form the heart or the under-
Handing. He ihould rather turn to that j
facrrd History which abounds in examples
t of virtue and fublunity. There let him
ltudy Chrillianity in its cradle and con
template the venerable charattcrs who
firfl gave it their unpurch'.fed sup
, port. He will find them fubjeft, turn- .
j by-turn, to persecution, iinprifonment (
and death. Content to dispense with the j
gilded Temple, and endeavoring to emit, ,
from ti.e dark Civerns into whxh they were ,
driven by the tyrants of antiquity some fee
blefpailis of tb«t light divine which sow ,
shines refplendant even through this land
which was supposed to be far beyond the in- |
.. fluence of its beams. It « plrafing to a
mind, not loft to refleftion, or lunk in brti- j
J tual purl'uits, to follow th fe eai ly pallors of ■
the Church »nd to fee with what humility
and zeal they performed their religious
I rights, or executed their various duties.
1 The> comforted the nftli&ed—vilited the
e sick dried the Orphans ;ind the Widows '
t»ars — carried the alms ot the Church into
J the hiding place of the unfortunate, —traver-
r led with their bleeding venerable feet the
depths of the valley and the (harp summit ;
of the mountain in order to diltribute the
j knowledge ; the comfort of the faith among
ta | the innocent inhabitants ot the fields and
of the villages.
This Hiltory alfcabouads with the best
models for pulpit eloquence. —The influ* 1
encei which St. Paul pofleffid over the pafii
ons of his hearers, is evident from this verse
taking from his farewell speech to the Ep- ,
hefian Eiders, which is a continued strain
of the pathetic.
" And having heard this, they fell upon
his neck and kilTrd him grieving mod of all
for the words which he uttered that they
should see his face no more."—But the (tyle
of this Apottle was more than pathetic it ;
was commanding sublime, strong. At one
time his voice i«uft have resembled the
thunder,:it another the music ofthe spheres.. ,
Hence did the abandoned Feltx trem
ble while Agrippa tho' a king and an infi- j
del cried out. I
" Almost thou pei fuadefl me to be a
Chri'tian."
Indeed I may venture to appeal to j
thofegentlemen are acquainted with,
Licero and Demol'rhenes whether there
be not much similarity, between their
harrangues and the Argumentations of
St. Paul, and whether any of the belt
orations ancient or modern can vie with
much less excels, his celebrated juftifica-!
tion to be found in iheAfts. The young
Candidate, ihould du y commit it to
memory, and repeated by heart. Ihi
sudden appeal he will find beautiful.
Agrippa believed thou in the Pro
phets," and his own as sudden reply, '
I know that thou believed," betrays
mitch eloquence and a profound know
ledge of the human heart.
In no work can any thing bp found
so truly sublime so inimitable as what
concludes the chapter i have alluded to.
Would to God that not only thou out
all those who hear me this day were not
only almost but altogether, such as I am \
Cave these bonds.
Let it not be fufpefted that the study
I thus recommend will render the stu
dent a bigot, a hypocrite or fedtarift.
Every paflage to be found tends to en
courage liberality and toleration. —Be-
tween God and the heart of man it gives
no authority to interfere. It no where
fays that religion is to be inculcalated
, by violence that it consists in the pofi
i tion of the body, the motion of the lips
or the elevation of the fight. On the
' contrary it will rather teach him. that it
: is formed of the ftritteft praftice of vir
-1 tue united to devotion to God and be
nevolence to man. And its study will
' teach him to conclude the beautiful
- words of Do&or Blair.
: O Devotion to thee we owe the highest
: improvement of our nature, and much oi
- the enjoyment ot our life» Thou art the
i fupßort of our virtue and the reft ot oui
1 foul?, in this turbulent world. 1 hou com
pote (I the thoughts. Thou calmelt the pal
, lions. Thou exalteft the heart. Thy
: communicatioas,and thine ojily, are impart-
Ed to the low, no less than to the high—to
the poor as well as to the rich. In thy pre
sence, worldly diftinclions cease ; and un
der thy influence worldly sorrows are for
gotten. l'hou art tbe balm of th; wounded
mind. Thy fan&uary is ever open to the
miserable ; fliut only to the unrighteous
and impure. Thou beginnefl on earth, the
temper ot' heaven. In thee, the hods of
AngeU andblefled spirits eternally rejoice.
BALTIMORE, November (7.
It mud afford real pleasure to every ci
tizen «f the state, to know that we have lo
rich a treasury as will appear from the fol
lowing, taken from a communication made
to the general affeinbly of Maryland, by
Robert Denny, Esq. and gen.
An estimate of the state debt, made up to
the fiift of Nov. 'BOO, leaves a balance of
£.129,272 13 6 current money, and alio
643.074 dollars 81 cents, in flock of the
United States, to the credit of the i'tate of
Maryland.
The different species of flock are
Dots. Cts.
188.759 6
123,650 30
330,635 45
Six per cent
Deferred
Three per ceat
State of the polls in Cecil county, for an
election of President and Vica Presi
dent.
Thomas. G'lpin,
Norwich, lft diftri& ,134 5 J
Elk ton, 3d do. 20 353
Charleston, 3d do. 132 78
battle Swamp, 4th
From Annapolis—November 15. \
« I enclol'e you the mod ijitcrcPing tranf
aftion of the ieflion. The old Council and
Governor Ogle are continued. Therepub
i licans in the house can do nothing at a joint ]
i vote. The aristocratic votes of the Senate, (
overrule all their propositions."
By the Senate, Nov. 11, 1800. .
Centlemen, 1
We propose on Thursday next (if agreea- j
ble to your house) to go into a joint ballot
for the elettion of a len&tor to represent this ,
(late in the Senate of the United States,
Iter the third day of March next.
By order, 1
Wm. GREENE, Clk.
House of Delegates.
The committee to whom was referred the
message of the Senate of the 11th inft. have
taken the fame into confideratiofi',, and do
thereupon recommend the following mefl'age
in answer thereto, viz.
By tie House of Delegates,
Nov. 13, 1800'
Gentleman of ths Senate.
Your mefiage of the Uth inft. highly
merits and has julUy obtained our ref
peftful attention and our mod leriout '
consideration. And could we conGs- '
tently with our ideas of the impreflive
duty we owe to our conllituents, we
I would willingly accede to your pro
i position of proceeding to the Eleftion of a
Senator, to represent this State in the Se
nate of the United States : But perfuadud
as we are, that the interefl of the Republic
would be greatly advanced by a reference
of this momentous fubjeft, to the confide
' ration of the nex: General Aflembly,we are
unwilling at this lime to proceed to the
eleftion, the event of which will be obvi
"* oufly of such. extenGve and lading import
: ance.
By order.
LEWIS G VSSAWAY, Clk.
On tha i'econd reading of the report of
the committee appointed to answer the
meflage of the Senate of the 1 lth inft. for
ppointing a senator to represent this State
a the Senate of the Un'ted States, the
qurllion was put, that the following be
received at an amendment to the laid
message.
Yeas—3s
Nays—4l.
The report being read througho*t, the
question was put that the House concur
therewith.
Yeas—42
Nays—3s
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N<*v. li.
A Boston Play Bill, announcing the
Tragedy of DOUGLAS, avers that it is
" written by David Hume, Efq ! !—The
historian of England did not write plays ,•
and the author of Douglas was John
Home, a clergyman.
John Langdon, the simple Senator
from New Hampshire, has written a let
ter to Esquire Ringgold, 6f Maryland, and
this sagacious epistle is copied into the
Aurora. The democratic Knight con
gratulates the democratic squire upon the
circumstance of " Gentlemen of property
and influence, coming forward at this
eventful moment, in the common cause
of our country." These are "big found- 1
ing words of vanity," master Langdon,
but who told you of the gentlemanly
qualities of Democracy, or of the proper
ty of a beggarly and hungry faction ?
It is believed that Jacobin gentility y
wealth and influence are equally in nubi
bus ; and that the " eventful moment *
which you talk of in your sonorous stile,
is indeed approaching, when you and
' your afiociates will be consigned to the
! grave of political obfeurity, and not
without *s*e chant of a requiem.
The »apient senator proceeds, "I
have no doubt we shall yet be saved."
Here, Mr. L. must certainly be dreaming
of that political Millenium, expedted
under the Deiftical reign of Mammoth.
For, Mr. Jefferfon excepted, no other
saviour is adored by Jacobins.
This Langdonian letter concludes
with repeating some qf the hackneyed
stories of Tenche, touching the private
conversation of the President of the
United States.
. "In the conversation held between
Mr. Adams, Mr. Taylor, and myfelf,
Mr. Adams certainly expressed himfelf
(as far as my memory serves me) in the
very words mentioned in your letter, viz.
That he hoped or elxpefted to fee the
day when Mr. Taylor and his friend
Mr. Giles would be convinced, that the
people of America -would net be happy with*
out an hereditary Chief Magijlrate ant
Senate—or at le-ajt during life."
The composition of the closing para
graph of this classical epistle is so curious,
so darkly mysterious, so whimfieally am
biguous " so iwestly mawkish, and so
smoothly dull" that we cannot refill the
semptation of quoting it for the benefit
of those inquisitive spirits, who wish to
be initiated in all state mysteries.
Here Mr. A. " certainly expressed
himfelf," as far as the weak and treacher
ous memory of Johnny Langdon can
serve him in the very words mentioned
in " 'Squire RinggoLPj letter." This
is a beautiful example of that mode of
testimony, peculiar to the Irish witnels,
so honorably quoted by Junius for tefti-
I fy» n g " according to the befl of his knoiu
| ledge and belief.
643,074 81
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Gazette of the United States.
PHILADELPHIA,
TIIWRSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER, SO.
ACCURACY.
Unfortunate Accident.
At the celebration of the President's
Birth-Day, at Portsmouth, just at even
ing, the following misfortune happened :
—Mr. Greenlief Clark, a sprightly, pro
mising son of Jonathan Clark, Esq. of
that town, being on a wharf, where he»
and a number of his acquaintances had
aflembied for the purpose of firing a can
non, unhappyly while in the aft of ram
ming down cartridge, the piece not be
ing properly fpunged, the cartridge took
fire and went off, taring his right arm
so badly, that he was obliged to have f
it cut off a few inches above the
elbow, he was otberwife badly burnt,
by his clothes taking fire, but being
very near the capstan of the wharf,
the explosion blew him over into the
water, which immediately extinguished
the fire ; fortunately no other person
was injured.
The letter from Lancaster, in this
day's Gazette, completely unveils the ob
ject of the Democrats, and betrays their
fears.
We congratulate the Federal Repub
lican on the favorable afpett of the elec
tion in Maryland and N. Carolina —
Adams and Pinckney will certainly be
the choice of the people.
Cooper's letter ihall be noticed in
due time.
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