Philadelphia, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER *o, 1795. Extr&R of ft Letter, d*ted Reading, Berks county, November iz, 1795. Last week, the Grand Jury of this County, upon the recommendation of the Court, by Judge Rush, the President, voted, unanimoujly, the sum of twelve thousand pounds for a Stone Arch Bridge over the river Schuylkill at this town, on the high road leading to Harrifburgh." COMMUNICA TIONS. The friends of our country and govetntnent, I have a sure and certain basis on which to repose their hopes of a continuance of internal tranquility and external peace.—Those who disposed to excite commotions, convulfiois, and finally produce a concussion, appear to have forgotten the promp titude with which the people rallied round the ilandard of the laws and the conflitution, on a recent occalion. So great is the hurry of the Hollow Ware Com pany to get rid of their wares, and to enter into other butinefs, that they have l«lt all decency of conduit—They have long been fufpedted of wilhing to succeed the federal firm of " The People and Government nay some have been so unchari table, as to urge it as a direct charge against them ; but in the Aurora of this morning, they have taken away allcaufe of suspicion, or denunciation, on this account, by peremptorily ordering the Head of the Firm, the President of the United States, in emphatical terms to " Retire Immediately." Wanted, by the Hallow Ware Company, an expert hand at Fabrication. Fof particulars, enquire, at the Old Ware ho life, High street— of Valeriua-Pittachus-Belifarius-Cato, nick-named, [_ for the day, Scipio; 9urgo ut Profim, and Co. A foreigner- will br preferred, provided he has been obliged to fly his native country for crimes of fulicient importance to itifure his ttay in- this and if he is ripe for any thing, he may be sure of due encouragement. The attempt to enereafe the value of the nego tiable paper of Surgo ut Prosim & Co. com monly called the Hollow Ware Company, by another new signature, has proved abortive. As we still recognize the old -writing, aud no such person as " Scipio" being to be found, the paper will, of course, remain at the usual discount. 9 — * A correspondent relates, that being present at a debate which took place some evenings liner, on the fabje£t of the treaty, it was aflced by one of the company, how the minority in a certain afTem bly came to acquire the appellation of the virtuous ten? Why, fir, replied a facetious gentleman, I fee no difficulty whatever in felving the enigma, as well as (hewing that by expressing their number in figures they puflt'fs an iramenfe majority ; and 1 prove it thus :—There is Aaron the high pried, Muftsthe lawjjfrcrj St. J.>h» tin. b.iptill, St. James, St. Stephen, St. Timothy, and St. John the apos tle* ; with Alexander the coppersmith, Pliaroah's butler, and the President of the Sanhedrim, pro tem : This Angular of names accounts for their being calletrvirtuous. Again—if we re sort to figures, and place she nine last-mentioned members to the right of the high priest, it will constitute a number four times the amount of the population of France, and consequently give them a great majority—for example, 1000,000,000. * Saints of the Decadary Calendar, FOR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. To tbe good thorough paced Democrats in the United States. MATTERS are at length brought to a proper pass —the President mnfl be impeached —he has, clearly, violated the Conflitution ; read the Aurora of this morning. Whet your tusks, fliarpen your fangs, let i your nails grow, get good flout bludgeons, prepare your guillotine, bring OHt your slink pots, look big, talk loud, strut high, beHow libertas et natalefolum, now or never—Huzza for Bennf and tha Hollow-ware Comeany"'»li» ? a TCgStiip, he's a going—if we miss this opportunity we may never have another—the trea ty, the treaty, the treaty, the damnable treaty —Britifli influence, inlifling soldiers for a longer period than was warranted, taking more salary than was prefcrib cd, turning out a certain great man—these mult be your watch words, never flinch, we have a majority, now for equality, now for some fine picking# out of the aristocrats —we fha!l have flour, geese, turkeys, rice-birds, &e. &c. at the maximum—what we could not effect with all our caballing during the war—what the Pennsylvania infurreiftion could not accoinplifh is just about to be hatched—Oh! "the glorious epoch 1 anticipate—but it will not do to travel too far in the region of anticipation. : VIRTUS POST NUMMOS. STOCKS. Six per Cent. - - - - -- - 18/4 Three per Cent. ------ xo/y Deferred Six per Cent. - - 1 Tjia BANK United States, - - - - 31 to 33 pr. Cent. — I —— North America, ----- c j Pennsylvania, ------ 27 Insurance Company North America, 30 Pennfylvania,[lnt. off] 3 Tranjlated for the Gazette of the United States, From the Courier de la France & des Colonies. NANTES, September 2. What then is the colour which we mast wear hence forth to reft in pe«ce in the city and country, without having difputc-s with every one ? The Blue is proscribed by the peafanti; the White is the colour of the Royalists ; the Green that of the Compte d'Artais ; the Yellow that of the Prince of Orange; the Violet that of the Bishops; the Black that of the Clergy; the Red is conlidered as that of the men of blood—there is not any,-*ven to the mo dfeft Grey riding coat, which would not be looked up on with an evil eye by the Bonbomme Richard—lt is well said by the author of " The Emigrants at Qui beron," in the conchifion ef one of the couplets of his r pretty song: a Occupons nous de la Patrie, Non de la conleur d'un habit. HAVRE, September 14. To the Editor of " The OM'erver of Europe." As nothing is more eflimable than truth, and no- * thing more vile than falfehood, I think it my duty to \ make you acquainted with the former, that you may 1 despise the latter. t We have read in your Journal, that the mariners of Havre, united in primary SfTembly, have accepted the Conflitution and the decree of the 5 Fruitidor—Yes, 1 the majority has accepted the Conflitution j but how 1 can it be known that their vote included this decree, < since not the leall mentiotTwas made of it in the mode of giving their vote, uor in the holding of the Aflim- 1 bly—Who then has publiflied this error; why do I , fay error ? No, that is not the word. This is, with- 1 out doubt, a, f«n;>le of that result which they propose to present to us. Signed, . LATFRRE, fils aini. Citizen, We have read in your paper No. 45, that the Ma riners composing the army of thefea have not only ac- ! ccpted the Conflitution, but also the decree of the sth i Frudtidor, Fremanger, representative of the people within our walls has imposed it on the National ConventiQn —it is a falfehood, which he hath publilhed. Signed, LA BRETECHE. Latest Foreign Advices. By the Ship Camilla, from Falmouth. LONDON, Sept, 22. A Frenchman, son of the Ingenie ur Royale of France, hss invented a mortar, by which (hells are , thrown without powder, and with equal velocity. An ingenious mechanic at Birmingham is employ ed upon the fabrication of this mortar, which op- j erates by a spring. DELMENHQRST, Sept. 15. In consequence of the enemy having croficd th« Rhine, orders are iflued to this army to hold itfelf in readiness to march at * very fhoit notice. It has not, as yet, transpired whither we (hall move; ' but it is likely that the movement will be an advanc- ' ed rather than a retrograde one, as the baggage is to march in the rear, and at a oonfiderablt dillauce ' from the main body of the at my. 1 ! That the Ele£toiate of Hanover is the object of the Fiench, seems beyond all doubt ) and should they succeed in their attempt (in which 1 cannot conceive the lea(t difficulty,) they will aft with a new degree of ferocity towards the inhabitants ; the French very seldom f*parate the idea cis En glilhmen and Hanoverians, however widely they ought to be diltinguilVied. This morning we heard a veiy heavy cano»nade, but at a great diltaucftc from us. It nught have been the proving of can wort, as it might have been othcrwiie. It is confidently faiu, that the French broke through the. hue of demarcation, and in one place killed air officer and 6 Piuffi.in privates ! this inflation of treaty will be deemed a Peccadillo liv the Potzdam Pacificator. BRUSSELS, Sept. u. We learn that the French have at length crossed the Rhine near Dnfleldorf, afier a long and moil bloody conflidt, in which the Republican Heroes atckieved, as usual, prodigies of valour. After they had obtained this signal advantage,the French entered Dufieldoi f, The conflict mult have been attended with great (laughter, since an ertormo;:! quantity of wounded soldiers have been brought to the military h'ofpitals at Cologne and other places- According to all appearanees, the paflage was ef feflcd at different poiits at the fame time ; but of this we have not received any particular accounts Towards CsbVnta and Nieuwied, the firing still continues on both fides with a degree of violence, and so inceflantly, that the banks of the Rhine are not only rendered impassible, but absolutely under mined and destroyed. The town of Coblentz be gins to fuffer very much from the lire of the Ais , (Iriaus in the Fartrefs of Ehrenbritftein, fsveral boats on the Wof die have been funk by the (hot. We hepe that this renewal of eiucland bloedy hostilities will dispose all the belligerent powers to a general peace. Th» Empire, intimidated by the passage of the Rhine, will doubtless give a spur to its tardy negotiators. We hear from Luxembourg, that all the Repub lican troops who had been left in that province, have received orders to ha !en, by forced marches to Coblentz. Only a few of thsfe corps which fuffered mod at the fiegc of Luxembourg will re ■ main in that fortrefs. FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 17. The leaders of the Convention no longer make a secret of their intention of quitting the metropo lis ; already do their journals propose this means, as being just and reasonable. It is certainly jult to ruin the city which brought aboHt the Revolution; it is necelary to remove to a uiftance from those who have dilplayed knowledge, courage, and a just sense of their own rights. It will also be juft'and necelTary to furroujid themfelv.es with a eonliderable armed force, and to govern a free people from the recedes of a battile ! All important queftton will doubtless be submit ted by the Convention to the Primary AlTcmblies ; those who have been silent will be officially alked in what manner their silence is to be explained, and whether they meant to accept or rejedt the de crees ? The Sections of Paiis dill evince the fame fiim nefs and preserve tne fame tranquility. Of 100,000 voters, four or five hundred have voted for a King, and al4 equal number for the Convention ; all the reft have accepted the Conflitution, and re jected the decrecs. Louvet has affirrted that the Seiftions of Caen were divided in their opinion of the decrees of the sth and 13th Fiu£tidor. Louvet lies, as ha does every d?y. Caen rejected the decrees unanimously. The Son of the celebrated Mohtefquieu lately died at Bourdeaux, deeply regretted by every vir tuous mind. He had been thrown intoprifon du nncr ths reig* of Tyranny ; find i\t the time of his arrtft, the iDu»uf:rip!Bof his father we« dilperfed, and a ma ;r«ificeut herbal, which cojiflituted the chief delight of this man, was destroyed". A traveller who ar ived, here ytftrrday from Ly- ; ons, fays, that when he left that city, it was filled j with troops ; the gates were (hut, and the people were in the utm>ft confirmation. These prelimi naries enable us to form a.probable conjecture as to the result of the Primary Afiemblies of that great city ; but for these nfts of violence, there is every reason to believe, that the people of Lyons, would j never have voted for the preservation of those who ' deftroyej their fellow-citizens with grape (hot. At Befancon the Conftiuttion has been accepted, and the decrees rejected. The Primary Aflemblies have voted themselves peimanent. The fame Resolution has been adapted by all the Primary AfTeitiblies of • Doubs. By a, private letter from the Department ef the ! Yonne, of the 9th Sept. we leatn, that the Primary Aflerablies of the different Cantons have been little frequented. At most of them the inhabitants of the sountry would neither accept the Constitution, nor name electors. In the towus, the Constitution has been accepted by the scanty fufFrsges of those who are callud the Bourgeois; the citizens of the lower clafies left the assemblies, and refufed to vote. The people seem to be tired of their sovereignty, since they are so careless aboul the exercise of the rights which are attached to it. A letter was read from a justice of the peace of a csmmune in the difttift of Chavolts, informing j the Convention that several persons had proposed, 1 in the Primary Aflemblies of that commune, the eftablirtiment of a King, and of the Roman Catho lic Religion j and that they were not contented with declaring their wilh, but dilturbed the afl'em bly to such a degree, that it was obliged to dis solve itfslf. BALTIMORE, November 16. G:atral /ijftmbly of Maryland, The proposal froirj sundry,, perfoos of Baltimore town, Tuta »!ow bank, has been presented to the house, and referred to Messrs. Pinckney, Key, Winchester, M'Mechen and Diggs, to report thereon. The plan, vvc are assured, has many ene mies in the Legislature ; but it has also many warm friends, who aie exerting themselves to carry their beneficial feheme into effect. The bills to incorporate the Roman catholic ar.d Get man reformed congregations, impowering them in conduct their temporal cone ems, have had a fiVft reading in the house of delegates. All iirmenfe number of iiifolvent petitions have been prefeuted. A petition for an lnfuranre company has been prefeiitcd, read, and referred tc a committee. The tcport of the committee of claims has been submitted, *»d printed by order of the house. The following remarks are taken from an excellent Sermon, preached by Dr. Dvvight before the Cinciifr.ati of Conrtc ftitiit, July la ft. Government is rendered effectual by two great [ engine^—force and pnfuafion. Force is the in ttrument of defpotffni, and perfuafiow ms free aid ra ; tioiial government. To produce perfusion, it is . always neeefTaiy to iiifptre confidence. To inspire confidence in fubjefts towards ifffers, it is neceffarV ! forfuhjefts to be fatisfied, that their rulers are pof 1 feiTed of knowledge to difeern, and of virtue to , aim at, the general good. To inspire confidence, in rulers towards fufejefts.it it neceflary for rulers t* . be fatisfied, that their fubjefts possess knowledge f to discern, and virtue to approve, the real ivifdom and equity of public measures. Wilh these prere | quifites, tulcrs will with confidence pursue the pub , lie interest ; and fubjefts will with equal confidence . support their administration ; without them, the ruler, fearful anj, fufpieious, always in perplexity & . always in danger, will feel himfelf obliged to have . reconrfe to art, cabal, and contrivance, to keep In | motion the wheels of government ; and fubjefts, anxious, jealous, and impatient, will continually . fluctuate between hope and fear, flock at every call , to the ftandnfd offaftion, and prove the prey ofev . cry demagogue. , Calumny agafuft the several officers, employed in governmental duty, is one ef the most obvious me . thodsof weakening government. The esteem of ( the community is, in all countries, an object of 110 [ small importance to perions in public agency ; but, in this country, it is of the highest importance . The magistrate, here, is raised above others by his office only j and the esteem, which he wi(hes to ob tain, is the esteem of his peers and companions. To deprive him of this esteem is to deprive him, it» a sense, of his all; and to do it wantonly and mali ciously is to aft the part of ail enemy, and a fa ; vage. " Thou (halt not speak evil of the ruler of . thy peopL" is equally a law of revelation, and of ( 'common sense. If rulers, transgress, and aft with , fiaud, or iiijnflice, the path of regular impeach ; ment is open, and ought to be pnrfued. Mere po ■ litical (lander is the result of ambition, or of malice ; . and is as mischievous in its effects, as base in its ori ! gin-—The length to which it has already proceed ; ed, is great ; thelengt'j, to which it will proceed, : cannot be calculated. A small degree of forefight, will, however, enable us to decide, that, (hould . it not be checked, the pofTcffion of office will, of ; itfelf, be esteemed, tre long, an adequate proof of 1 diihoncfty. • Extract from Prefideut FITCH's valedictory Address to the Candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts, at the firit Commencement 1 at WilliamsChll.-ge,(Mafs.)September 2, 1795. " IN a country so extenlive and growing, it is ' important that many should be well versed in jural science. Our Laws protest us in the enjoyment of our dtarelt rights ; and it is neceflary that we 1 have men, whofc profeffional bulinefj it is, to tin ; derltand and explain them. i " Jurisprudence is also highly ufeful and necef faryas it relates to the important science ef Lcgif ' lation. In this you may be called to take an ac ■ tive part. Ii) this we are deeply interested, as men, • as citizsns and aschriftiaus. We live under a form of government, the bell in the theory 31.d'pra&ice, ( that ever v. ns devised fcv the wisdom of rcan. Wi •re members of a Republic, which notwijhftandir; some present unfavorable sippearnnces of greundlelo jealousy anddifeffedtion, will probably (.IK- day en j bolom the molt numerous, free, enlightened ar.ri ; happy people, th?.t the fun ever saw united under i oue system of na'ienal pb'icv. If this should not be the c«fe, it will be chargeable to our own (lupi ! dity, folly and wickedness. No nation ever set out ! with such advantag s for becoming great, rirtuotw ; and happy. No in modern times, has cx ! perienced such (ignal int. rpofiiions of Piovidencc. And if, afier all, we fink into vice and crumble in- -' to factions—if, forf-king real Liberty, and the true •spirit of our Cpiiditution, we follow that ghtsilly Phantom of Liberty and Ffjuality which ilalked . f:om the Pandemonium of the Jacobins, with eyes | darting fury, and hands dipt in 'the blood of more than half a million, we shall fee the fame ttagic scenes of devsffation, bloodshed and honor re-afttd in tins peaceful country. We shall fee eur h»ppy Coultitution trampled in the dirt, and a despotism erected on its ruins more fangtiinary and intolerable than that of Turkey. To ward off these evils, and to ensure the blefliogs which Hearen holds out to us, you are boiiyd, yourg Gentlemen, to contribute your share of laboi, wisdom and patriotism. Fix it , in your minds that you can never do too much for ' the Country which gave you birth, which has as ; forded you the advantage of a liberal education, : which embosoms your dearest friends, and which ; I ] rote&s you in>the enjoyment of the best civil and , j religious rights. Reflect on the wisdom, fortitude, : | piety and patriotism of your ancestors, on the wel fare of the present generation, and the happiness of [ unborn millions. Be the supporters of law, jultice, and the constitution, the prote&ors of injured in . nocence, the patrons of virtue, and the benefadlor* of mankind." From the Columbian Hsrjid, Pitblifhed at Charleston, (S. C.J \ Mejfrs. Harrifon Ifj 80-wen, Many firidtures on the treaty have been made by ; f° me worthy and refpe&able men, who are oppo ■ fed to it froin principle. The treaty 1 think is de fedfive in some points, but I confcfs my greatest objection to it is, that it has given an opportunity <*> every knave to come out from his lurking place , an£ * insult the public, by setting himfelf Up for • patriot. Men, who for their tnifdeeds had found I it convenient to be ft eluded from public obfenati on, now come daringly forth and depend on the present fuppoftd discontent of the people to faife ' themselves to importance. They ure creduh t:s e nough to fancy, that torrents of inventive againll charafiert heretofore rexeisd, w ill w,••{!»'awnv the remembrance of their own infamies, .md that in the depreflion of others, they will be elevated. Eut they grossly mil'ake the public opinion ; the people ■ of this country are warm, but they ;:re generous ; t if, they are hally in wrongly condemning, they are , not flow in exculpating ; if a few can be deceived by the profefiions of the unworthy, the mrrn are keen lighted enough to fee through their paltry ar ' tificcs arid to despise them more than eyer. The American public will not easily forget the set vicei the virtues, and the patriotism of their old and tried ' friends, anci when the firft impreflions of a milltkeo c irritation are rrmored, they will abominate the im ! poftor who took advantageef their warmth to ex cite their refentn er.ts against their bell friends : they 0 are not so pur blind as to millake calumny for pa '» trietifm, nor so ignoiant of their own interests ap 8 to place eonfidencc in men whom they have long e been acculltimed to despise : they will not easily be II difpttfed to trult their great public concerns in the hands of thofc to whom they would not enmift " their fmallelt private concerns, nor will they ea r lily be pcrfuaded that a man of a notoriously tad e private character can be a faithful public officer Whatever fliort lived applause these ptelencicrs may * meet with, in certain emergencies, from the igivo -1 rant, the p»fl]onate or the prejudiced, they will re '» lapse intotheir former infignificanceas foonas things > 7 are rellored to their fettled slate, when even their few admirers will unite their detection to that of the rell of the world. Let these restless dirturbers then recoiled, that there are men so bad that the B only chance they have of avoiding universal execta " tion, is by keeping themfehres in obfeurity ; let '' such men not presume too far ; patiencc beyond a 0 certain point ceafcs to be a virtue ; the ears offome » of them are thought to be p etiy callous, but a tale might be told which would even make them tingle 5 NESTOR* Marine Intelligence. Arrived at the Port of Philadelphia. i- Brig Pilgrim, Eail London 56 days f Capt. Earl left London the 17th Sept. and the 'f land's end the 21ft. He spoke the schooner, Capt. h Day—s days frcm Boilon, bound to Martinique^ !• who supplied capt. Eail with a barrtl of bread. ' I- 1 1 . - Notice is hereby given that an at tacliment was ifiued out of the inferior court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Cumberland, in the ftat'e of ', New Jersey, returnable on th« twenty-fifth day of Febru ary last, against the goods and chattels, rights and credits d landi " ad tenements of George Hutz (not being a resident - at that time within the state of New Jersey) at the suit of Jonathan Btdlinger, indorsee of Job Butcher, which was " levied by the sheriff of the county of Cumberland «on a certain sloop or shallop called the Fly of Philadelphia" with its appurtenances, as by the return of the said sheriff will more particularly appear—and notice is also herebr / further given, agreeably tS? the direction of an a& of tn '* X-egiHature of the state of New-Jersey in such cafe made it and provided, that unless the said George Hutz fliall a»- . pear and give special bail to answer the suit so as a/ore" said instituted against him by th: said Jonathan Ealliiieer' , Wlthm fu , ch t,me a3 is prescribed by law, " that then and in il .hat cafe judgment (hall be entered" against the said Georfre t Hutz «by default, and that the said iloop «r shallop so as e aforefaid leized on the said attachment" will be fold fo die fatisfaction of all « creditor, who fliall appear to bt justly entitled to any demand thereon, and ihall and* far that purpose." r * 7 f- Dated at Salem, in the county of Salem, ki the fa<'d f- 6tatc > tile thir ty first day of M»rch A. V. i Lvciiu Horath Stockton, "> ' '» Attorney for the Biff. J 11 April i . r giaww
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