t,\vr vrhea.. & (even freeholder* may find' it fieeefisry n> s k their opinion on f_»me other fubje&. Aa thcfjfewVtiftg* can be called immediately on jjown sn ,m*s taking a:>y important step, the ariftocrati will have neither time nor opportunity.to i*fnfe doubts, and raift arguments, their insidious projeftt may be defeated before they are mature for execu tion. The public mind at such a conjuncture will be like a clean (heet of white paper, without any, or with very few arguments pro. or. con. We Ihull then have its opinions witho.uc prejudice or biafs.— It', on *iir other hand, by the arts of placemen the meeting should be delayed or adjourned, a variety of obje&i >is and answers, replies and Rejoinders •Will be pnbl'.fhed by anonymous writers ; tne peo ple mjy nor be able to discover whether the re fpe£tivc writers are ariftpciai* or democrats, pub lic creditors, or insolvent debtors, and thus may be induced either to give no opinions at all or to gire such moderate and mistaken ores, as will grieve the ji-hteous foul of every zealous patriot, and ftrcßglhen the hands of the government, to the ut ter fuWei fion of our liberties. By the unfair dif cufiion above mentioned.a cloud of darkness and obfeurity will he thrown on the fubjeft, the pub lie will be divided, and unanimity, the glory ofa de- tnocraticlcwn meeting, will be frittered away to -i small majority. When the debate is carriedon in open town meeting the audience can fee who {up port, and who oppose, whether they are whigs or tories, members of Congress or candidates ; weight will l«f given to their fevcral arguments according ly ; the friends of the people will be applauded, their enemies will be hilled, or driven with deferred contempt from the hall, fhowersof stones will telti fy the indignation of all honest and candid men a gainst British stents, and public robbers, while reK olutions'couched in the animating language of mo- tlcjrrt declamation, and calculated tq rekindle the ex pVing flame of patriotism, (hall meet the loud re peated itclanatMn'ff of a f'ee unantmolis multitude A u,unerom herd of aristocratic Cavillers, some it terse gnd others in humble prose, have lately un their npwfpsper batteries upon the town o B for giving their opinion of the treaty hcfore they had read it. I alk why fhonld they have read it when they were fatisfied they could not give it their approbation ? were not many of them oppose ; to entering into any ncgoeiation at all, and could it be fuppmed that they who wete opposed to the negotiation wouid fanftion it when finirhed ? uati jh._-y delayed their resolution* till they had formed an the treaty upon calm enquiry mpd Ctyol deliberation, the Preiident might have rati tied it before theii sense of the measure could have rcJehed him. They were therefore obliged tither to' vote theii refutation? hallily, without re gard toA-he merits of the £[ue(lion, or to delay them till they would have failed of their effedl. But so pa tiotia was their zeal, so induftilous | irwr.'they to prevent the impending ruin, that great i and pteffing as was the cunofity of many who had not teen the Treaty to Icnow what its content# were they nobly preferred the falvatioit of their coun -try to the gratification of an inquifitivc difpofitio : ; they iranedia:ely condemned the odiou» bargain in the Bioft pointed and uo^alifie^t|; r Marlcnow itig all the bitizens from their refpe&ive advocati ons in order & discuss lb* tftmrriu of tnis ignoni m Hi-, Convention, they parted their vote of cenlurcj and then a refpeftable committee voluntary ofFe-ed to fnrnifh fiilficient reasons for their conduct : this offer was accepted, anr) the citizens leturned with unexampled regularity to the r refpeftive habitati ons. The members of the Democratic Sociefy were in9n-need by some particular reafont to urge an immediate decilion. Ever watchful for the com mon weal, they saw that by delay the public mind might cool ; they were apprthenfive, that fupiiie- j ncls and indifference to their sw.i intereih might creep upon tJ»e people,and that their enemies might tak; the opportujiity to peifuadethem (a 6 they had done with regard to other obnoxious naeafurel of government) that the "! reaty was not so very bad, a, it had tic en represented : So careful were the I frien.ls of the People to counteract the treacherous wiles of Ariflocracy. t think then that all good men and Hue republicans are convinced with me, that Town-Meetings are wholesome and cafy reme dies for all d>{orders iii the bodyjpolitic. 1 hat tl ey adminilter salutary correction t<i the faults and er rors of men ill Power. I hey arii in uuth power ful checks and balances in our republic, A repub lic is pteferved in its genuine purity only By checks, 6ppofitions, fadiions, and contradiction* : So said the grandfather o£ the patriotic Bach?. By .the expedient of of town-meetings, after 11 1*- officer* of government have with great Rudy and • onhderati on devised some fckrine to , promote our political welfare, we can withoatj interrupting i.Ur private btifinefs, wichaut > even troubling our 'leads with rcafoning-give our fandtion to tlieir cc dust, or if we think prope- can blow up a fire from New-hamp (tiire to Georgia, which wil coafurrte to the utter fji the plan and its A'uthsrs. Happy country, guards, the checks, the controls of whose con ation are so numerous "and 'well contrived, that no motion can be ande in one part of the ma chine without exciting a contrary motion in another The congress is the centripetal, the town-meetings #re the centrifugal force, which compel the govern ment to move iu its orbit, with a never ceasing whirl. Concrete cannot destroy our Freedom, because town meetings can fetter th«-ir hind*. Town-meetings cannot change ! he conlfitution because they have 110 right to ail. Though envy and British gold have barred out from the supreme legiflatme all incor ruptible patriots, yet unmindful of ingratitude, ne glect and tvrn contempt, they watch without wea riness, t<J deleft the macliin.uums and expose the con option of our rulers. If they have yet discover ed nothing, tWy have the more to difirover. Though our fix dollar watchmen, whom we have conftitu / tioually appointed, lulled by toe opiate 01 Briiifn influence, mayfometimes nod upon their -ofts, yet our volunteer Guards, the democratic so i<?tie», will never nft nor 'tilj they have pounded to «h»lt the fetters of-ariltocracy, and have JVctired our liberties beyond the pofliMh'y of fubveifion. Fniixh-iurg dr St. Anlotnt. A nvjiU, Tr~i . -n.u i.-KViRniA-rr.Lr, _ •f». atiesu ob a fiok man- 'Expire at this Office P Jt A tf C k. NATIONAL CONVENTION, July 13. Doulcet, in the name of the committee of p«b lie fafety, communicated two difpatchei from the commandtr in chief of the weilern army. The Srtt was dated head quarters of the Jth division, . 2o:h Meffidor, (July 8,) and stated that the Engliih and emigrants, were blocked up at Qiiiberon. . They had made a sortie t: e evening betoie, but were vig- oroHfly repulsed. They loft a howitzer and a camp fraggon, having on it the English arms — I,a Hauff.vye, andfeveral other emigrants, were left dead in the field. The second inslofure was from the,admi"ift-ator» of Morbihan, dated Vannes, 20th Meflidor, and llated that general Hoche had blockaded Quiberon _in such a way, that there was no poffioihty of the Chouans forming a juti&ion with the emigrants and English by land. . Bailleul, in the name of of gener al fafety, made a report on the intern.il ma! ceuvies bf the enemies of the tepublic, who, he oblerved, lavished ;he highelt praiife on the fagacit yof our enemies. They had circulated a rumour that one of our poits was in their hands, and rmintaineij that in fix weeks the government would no longer employ itfelf about supplies, and would deliver up the fubMence of the people,to' tne perfidious spec illations of jobbers. Lalllv they aficrted that the committor* had deiibeiated una iewval of the in famous fyiti'm of terror, and that there had been two votes only ag»init tliis ptopofition : but what added the repott, will they not fay? however ah furd these rumours may be, your committee has thought it expedient to contiadi£i them. [Infer tioii in the Bulletin.] * Goupilleau .Hated, that at Avignon the royal iftsand the ariitocrals allaflinitted all those who vot ed in 1790 for the union of Comtai to France. The dqj>s eat in the ftrcets t'«e bodies of the dead patriots. The national inditutiou of music entered. Tft e hall instantly resounded with those airs so dear io the friends of liberty ; the hymn,Ca-ira and several others excited theloudcll applause. Jean de Brie—" Let us rtftore to he public spirit all its energy, by those foiigs whicli were a prelude to the victories of freedom. 1 move that the Marfe.lleshymtr, whi h contributed to gain the lirit riftory ovet she corhblned (laves, b>. inserted in the minutes of the d ty, and tha the military committee ifTue ord rs that it he performed eVery day on the mounting Guard." Decreed. Legen ire, " On the day of the fellival of the 14th of July, it becomes a friend of liberty to speak to patrons. I invite the committee of general fafe ty to separate among the prifoneu, those who are 1 patriots 111 their hearts, and wh'.fe hands air pure, i 1 from the drinkers of blood. Undoubtedly the fef fionj have afel well in denouncing the teiroriiU, but it is poffi de that some trival injury, some private animosity, rhay have led to the arrelt of par ticular citizens ; and it is not fitting that th« ty rannyofthe oppressors should be fuc e.ded by the wf}B tSSy'fie'cfangerous to liberty a'B t\le public fafety ; but we ought not to leave in prison those who have served their country, and who may j tlill beferviceable." Applauded. i Bailieu!—" The committee of general fafety have anticipated the willies of our colleague.— Tli:y were la'l night engaged in difcuiTmg the means of reltorinjj to liberty, those true patriot! who have been unjnftly arretted." Applauded. The discussion was then opened again on THE NEW CONSTITUTION. Daunotl.—'• Your coromiffion of eleven persist in prcpofing to you the adoption of the article.*, that from the 12th year of the republic, it (hall be necefTary to be able to read and write, in order to be inferibed on the civic rcgifter, and admitted into the primary assemblies. These obje&iont which, have been urged might have some weight, if we wi(hed to demand fueh a qualification in the pre sent moment : but against whom will this regula tion now apply ?—Only agninll those who, being now minor», ftiall refnfe, at the age fixed, to acquire arts so ufeful in all the situation« of life. Is there any citizen wh« has not had an hundred timet rc»- son to regret his ignorance of reading and writing ? Despotism might dread the propagation of know ledge ; liberty ought to call in the aid of inflruc tion. The difFufion of knowledge is the best mode of producing a proper equality, which i» not an nbfuid levelling, but an inHrnment of protefling the citizens from the despotism of intrigue. How can citizen* be worthy of taking part in the choice of their legiflatois and magftrates, if they cannot read the laws of their country ; and, remark, there is no intention to exclude those from whom our old government ,withheld the means of reaiing and writing. All citizens of 2 t years or upwards will be inferibed on the civic regiller, and cannot be fit tick out from it. There is no doubt that the young people placed in your primary schools, bet ter distributed and better organised, will be able to acquire that simple and elementary inllruftion. Those will be without excuse who refnfe to learn what you put within the reach of all. I move, that you adopt the article, in the following terms : VIII. Young petfons cannot be inferibed on the civic regifler, if they do not prove that they are able to read and write, and to exercise the me chanical profeflion.—the. manual operation* of agriculture are included in the mechanical pro ftflions. This article (hall not be in force till the twelfth year of the republic. The article was decreed. A member called the attention of the conventi on to title 3'. relative to the primary aflVmbliei : — he ftatcd the necefiity of fubltituting eledtoral bo dies i ileadof the immediate ele£iioj>s of the prima ry 4flemblics, such as the commission of eleven had proposed. Bentabol—" This will have place in aiticle 14. I move that the order of dift uffion may not be in terrupted, and that we fir ft dispose of the thirteen rticles before we discuss this motion." Decreed" The firft eleven articles of title J. we.e decreed without alteration. Gaupilleau de Montnign, just. returned from his mifflon to the south—" You have already been told citizens, that a new fyllcm of terror was the order of the day iji the louib, where the enemies of the republic hate made every effort to ftiflc liberty. AfTafiinations, calumny, lies, falfe intelligence, eve* ry expedient, in flhott, ha* been resorted to, to ac complish rhis aim. A longer (ilenea on this head would be * ci-irae, the new terrorills have (bed more blood in the space of a few- months than was (bed by Rob«fpierr.f and hie agents. Children, old men, women and girls—neither age nor sex is spared by the homicidal Iword. The affaflins murder without (nercy all those who hare dtfplaycd any patnotifm." The prefidenf anno«nced that the mayor and pu!)fic ju.vufrr of Lyons were piefent. He tlxn addrellcd himlclf to rhem and tefiifk'd the indigna tion of the convention, at the afTalTmations com mitted in their commune. He demanded of them an account of their condtitt. The mayor replied that the afTaflinaliong alluded looriginated with.foreigners, who had kindled up the resentments excited by the recollcftion of what the citizens"nf Lyons had fuffered under the reign of terror ; the constituted authorities did every thing in their power to repress these excesses ; but their meat s were inftlffkient. 1 myfclf, continued he, feiied one of the instigators, when, in an in stant, another made his appearance, a man of a ve ry tall stature, wearing a mask. In one hand he held a sword, in the other a pistol, but in spite of his arms I apprehended him, and delivered him up to the Gens d'Armes. These acts will prove to you unquestionably, that we were very far from peaceably fuffering these exeefles to whi;h these ter rorills proceeded. He next recurred to the senti ments which animated the. inhabitants of Lyons, whose inviolable attachment to the convention he atteftfd. He urged, that they had replied by their conduct to the calumnies circulated against them, and cited a trait truly honorable to them. They were each of them reduced to four ounces of rice per diem, when 50, COO quintals of corn arrived from Marseilles for Paris ; money was needed for the transport ; the national chelt was empty ; of this circumstance the merchants of Lyons yfereap piir.ed, and they did not lofc a moment in tender ing 600,000livres for" the purpose of the transport. The mayor eoncludcd by declaring that he was ready to reply to any charge that might be bro't ngaind him. Rovere bore te p (imohy to the patriotism of this citizen, •add moved that a« well as the public acctl fcr, he should be admitted to th* honors of the fit »>nß- This was opposed by fe*errl member!, who ob ferved,that the invelligation was not yet concluded. The convention referred the affair of Lyons to the committee Fertnond, in the name of the committee of ge neral fafety, made a report on colonial affairs. He observed, that noiwithftanding their small number, the republicans of St. Doningo had refitted the efforts of the English and Spaniards. The report w?.s terminated by a decree, that the brevet of ge neral of division should be sent to general Lavaux ; that the tanks granted by that general to -fevcral i .ffit-cro are <-""^"-med; and that there shall be no .colonial aflemblies, unti" !t {hall have been oFlered by the constitution. Tki» decree to lie dispatched instantly to St. circumftancts will allow.' It was decreed, that the conrention should meet at trn o'clock to-morrow morning,' when the nati onal establishment of mulic should execute airs ana logous to the feftival of the 14th July, to be then celebrated. 28 Meflidor, July 16. The Convention proceeded to the discussion «B THE NEW CONSTITUTION} The following article! were decrced : IV. The primary affesnbiies are provisionally constitut ed under the presidency of the senior member in poin> of yeart. The youngest it provisionally to fill the office of secretary. V. They are definitively constituted by the appoint ment by ballot of a president, a secretary, and three fcrutineert. The convention terminated by dtcrteing, at a priri cipd, that the elrflbral bodies are preserved. By the plan of the committee of eleven they were fupprefled, and the primary aflemblies allowed the right of all the elf<sVions. Philadelphia, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER »6, 1755 TO cokresfondknts. We arc greatly obliged by tlie friendly sentiment* expressed by " a Ftdtralifi. " We are iure that the time will come, (in any event, at to pending politi cal queftiont) when a difceinine public will fanflion hit observations. On rtfleftion he will conclude that the publication iu this Paper would be improper. Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia. Brig Vigilant, Small, Porto-Rico 22 days Phoenix, Jemmeny, Great Fgg Harbour Schr. Sally, Tupman, Fredeuckfburgh Gov. Brook, Hilton, James River Delight, Bird, Arrived at the Fort. Schooner Hope, Bartlftt, Boston, via, New-York Renflelacr, Wendell, Lanfinburgh, via N. Y. Triton, Waite, Kingston, (Jam.) Sloop Delia, Watson, New York. (O* 7'lt Letter-Bag of the brig Lavinin, for Falmouth, vuill Is taken from the PoJl-OJice on Thursday afternoon, at 5 o'clock. BY THIS DAY'S MAILS. NEW-YORK, September 25. Committee of Health. The Committee appointed to prevent the introduAion and rereading «f ]nft£liou» Diseases ia this city, 1 REPORT, That Fourteen perfon9 have died in this City, and Five at Belle-Vue, of the present Epidemic fiuce their report of last evening. By order of the Committee, JOHN BROOME, Chairman. Thurfdaj Evening, Sept. 14, 1795- Died, yeft'erday mormrtg,' Mr- Jam* Rhodes, merchant, ,of thi« city-, of the feoufc of Jame* Rhor)«B 8c Co. 2J years of age He obtained and merited, the esteem and love of a refp;£labic circlc of friends and acquaintance. Ship Neptune, Cambridge, ALBANY, September s, The treaty with the Oncidas was concluded on Wednesday-—particular! we have not obtained.— The quantity of land purchased of them is about iOG,OOOairc9. . The treaty at Fort George, opens this day— The commiflioni'is of the United States' and this (late left this city on Thursday. It is cxpedted as many asfiom four to five hundred of the St. Regis or Indians have arrived at the place of treating. Died—on Monday last, af,?r a few days iflnefs, Henry Ten Eyck, Eft{. of ikw t-iiy. Htf wms a citizen much refpedied and iflerintd— »d in liis death tile public have fultaiited an ii reparabU loss. , at Stherre&ady, Mr. Nuhulat Tatts, bro* ther to h!» honor the Chief Justice.^ —His luiiiidl was on YVednefilay last. "" ' , in this city, on Tutffday lift, Captain John, on* of the Oneida Sachems, and the princi pal orator and public speaker of that nation ; and on Wednesday, his remains were interred in th« Preftjyterian cemetry. The deputation of chiefs and fachcms of the Oneidas, then in this city, at tended the fitneral, and performed the fulcmnitiel thereof according to the custom of their nation. Shenandahoi has recovered. On Wednesday lalt tlie commissioners appointed by the legiflatute, to negotiate with the Cayuga, Onotidago and Oneida nations, completed their business". ''They have purchased from the Cayugai about 60,000 acres, from the Oneidas upwards of 100,000 acreß, and from the Onondagos their comiron right of the Salt Springs and tlxf Intuit adjoining. These fevetal tra&s (except what be longs to the Salt Springs) are to be surveyed gut into lots of 250 acres, and maps and field books filed in the office of the furveyor-getreral in Albany, in the office of the secretary of alie (late in New- York, and in the office ot the elerk of the county in which the lands lie, and public notice thereof to be given in the newfpapeis in cach girat dillriet of the state, for the space of two months, imme diately after the fitrvey (hall be completed. And afterwards the day ot sale is to beadvertiicd in like manner for the (pace of two months, to tlie end that all perfoni inalii ing to put chafe may have time to Tiew the land and make their artangements,— The terms arc *ery easy, viz.—Ten Pounds to be paid doVn 011 the purchase of each lot, a d ten years credit given for the remainder of the ptnehafe j money—lnteieft at fix per cent, per annum. A raoft melancholy aciident happened here last Sa turday afternoon. M after Thomas Wayne, ion of Richard Wayne, Esq. a fine prcmifinj hoy of about 9 years of age, unfortunately fell 'into the river at Cun mgham's wharf, and instantly funk. Every attempt made during the afternoon and evening to recover kim proved ineffcAualj he was not found till i»ext morn ing, confequeiitly top late to restore him to l.fe, and tn his afflifled parents. Died, on Monday last, Capt. David M'Culloiigh, of the ship Wilson. He was an inhabitant of Philadel phia and had fallen down with his ytfTtl to Five Fa thom Hole, bound for that city ; but Fate had deter mined him (or a voyage to that port from whencc no traveller returns. His remains having been brought to town were on Tuesday decently interred, after be ing refpeitfully attended to the grave by many,of th« principal citizens of this place, who remembered in Capt. M'Cullough, while he commanded the kattle fnake armed (hip, which 'ay in Savannah river Iqr some time during the Revolutionary War, the old Patriot and Friend. So daily drop the Fathers of the Land, And soon mult all that Patriotic Band Mingle with dust, resign their martial breath, The' vidtors once, be conquer'd all bj Death. For Falmouth, to fail on Thursday next, A. VYN I A, ■ Jit* Cbarnwi, Master, SHE is iheathed with copper, and has good accommo dations for paflengers. For paflage only, apply to the Mafteren board, at South flrert whirs; cr to Sept. 16th. For HAMBURG THE SHIP MEKICAN, *'*"7 William Shallcrefs, mafler, AT Mr. Russell's wharf—She is in good order, and now ready to take in on freight, and intended to ftil on 30th O&ober. —Apply to the mailer on heard, or tc Jehu Hollingfworth & Co. September 26. New-York. LOTTERY OFFICE, N°. 6 4,Jbutb Seconds rut. GANAL Tickets for lale, and cash ox tickcts given sos any lhares that may be drawn. Information given refpeding Washington lottery, and eafii or Canal tickets given for ftures that may ti« eirawo. Both lotteries commence drawing September jßth BOOKS will be kept of drawing in both lot teries, afid open gratis to the enquiries of the poflcfforsof Tickets purchai'ed at the OFFICf.. Halves, quarters, and eigluhs of Tickets may be had at the above Offics. Sept. 16. § B r ROPERT CAMPBELL, Anarrativeof the Br it ijh Embajjyto China In the yeajrs 179-1, 1793, and 17.M, Containing the various circamftsnces of the cmbaffy, witk " accottrits of customs and manners of the Chiacfe, and a description of the country, towns citus.&c, Br £A £4S siN DliJiSOiX, Than »n &e fcrvice of his eseellenoy Earl Macartney, K., B. Ambaffidor from th« Greut-Buwiu to the- - ' Sept. 2»- Arrived' at this Part) September 21. SAVANNAH, Sept. 3. Philips, Cramond, & Co. it. This Day is "published, No- 40, feuth Sccona-llreet, [PRICE ONE DOLLAR li|cENT«.] • Halifax* 6t t&f.
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