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 .
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