When 1 consider tfhat noWe efforts hive b«ti u jade in Britain on behalf of the poor negroes, tl ; t h refpeft to abolilhing the Slave Trade, I hope l ' o <>oe will blame these hasty efforts on behalf of c Uofe, who are the countrymen of a AN INDIVIDUAL. o Note. I have just seen with pleasure, the rcfolu- l ' ion proposed by a Foreigner " that the commit ee of commerce and manufa&ures, be inftrufted 1 0 enquire into the propriety of making effeftusl £ irovilion for preventing the kidnapping of negroes 1 nd mwlattocs, and of carrying them from their res- ® (Utes, contrary to the lawt of the said tates."—Such a proposal (in my opinion) does * •■•edit to any man, and would have been honorable •vea to a Pcnnfylvanian, if he \Vas ever so well ac juaiated with the hiltory of his couhtry, and the mmcrous pleasing accounts, which were given by iur happy anceflors, of that reciprocal ftiendfhip ivhich subsided (with such dignified energy).for so long a time, between the native aborigines, and j, the white inhabitants. P. S. As there are several namej alluded to in the course of these foregoing remarks, I dare be- j lieve, that though I know not the perfotis of any of ibofe gentlemen, they will not be offended if I { refer them to a pretty story in this day's paper (the 20th indant) concerning a free black man of the name of Derry} whose generous benevolence to his ancient Midrefs is, like a grand example, > worthy of due attention. * ■Mil 1 /OR THE GAZETTE OF THE UNITED STATES. ' Mr. Frnno, ' AT the synod of Florence, Gemifius Pletho 1 foretold to George of Crete, that mankind would ' unanimoitfly renounce the gospel and the Koran ' for a religion iimilar to that of the Pagan#. To ' this opinion he was led by feeing the number of 1 new and elegant Poems which nude their appear- 1 1 ance in Italy about tbi* time, in which the mytho- ' logy of the heathens was introduced as the machi. nery of the poem. Had he lived in the present age and beheld the inundation of navels, the avidity with which they are read, and the ftuperftirious notions of ghosts and vifiont with which they abound, he would, in all probability, have prophe- ' cied the return of the darkness and fuperdition of I the middle ages. But far be it from me to pre dia the return of ignorance ! I have too g«cd an l opinion of the enlightened sense of my fair country- I women, to fuppole that the idle nonsense of a to- ' tnance can ever overset their firm and well establish- . ed principles of Pbilofophy. But, as the continued dropping of water may wear away the harded rock ; they should be on their guard againd the unceaftng • adults of prejudice, leait it wear away their ada- \ mantine philofxphy. j The human mind may be compared to the Ca- i meleon, which derives its hue from the colour of ' the fubllance on which it feeds. If the comparison 1 , is just; how careful ought we to be it» food 1 is of the purest kind ! The happiness of our life? de- \ pends upon the choice. If it is a bad one, what- j ever may be our situation in life, misery will be our ; conllant inmate, Hut, if ■ good one, it will fu »i - in nt a shield to ward off | " The stings and mwi »f outrageous fortune." ' If so impoitant then are the coufequencet 1 involved in the choice of those works from which ' wt derive our ideas ; let us attend* for a few mo ments, to that fpeciw of books now under confi- , deration. It is a well known fact that the huirsn wind it prone to fuperflition. Every age, every nation, 1 confirms the truth of th(safTcition. In our eariieft 1 youth, when yet the mind is incapable of judging for itfelf, the legendary tale of ghoftt and witches is carefully inftillcd into it ; and it it not 'till rea- , lon has made great progress, if at all, that Wf are enabled to,expell the poison thus fucked ill with our infant breath. Every thing therefore, tlMt hat to fader fuperflition it a real evil t*» lb- ! ciety. And what can mpre completely encourage it than to introduce it into a high wrought tale adorned with all the charmi of langaage. Such are the books of which 1 am now (peaking ; which, under the garb of entertainment, convey fuel to a flame already containing every noble trait of reason. There is another species of romance so nearly allied to this, that I cannot help speaking of it here. 1 mean that in which a number of circureftancet occur, which at fiift fight ate tfnyight fupcrnatural, bur which at the close of the novel turn out to be nothing more than natural. Asa fprcimen of this kind ofcompofition I shall jive the following short epitome of a late novel called the Abbey of Saint Afoph. " The author has thought it eom pliapcr with the present rage for the terrible, to conduit the reader into a horrid cavern, (where the father of the I eroine has been (hut up for the unmerciful term of nineteen years,) and there to terrify him with a fiery fpeftre emitting from its gaping jaws sulphureous flames and fending forth horrid screams, and with a moving and shrieking (keletojit—only that he may afterwards have the pleasure of finding that he had no occaffton to be frightened, the fpefkre being only a man, its infernal flames being nothing more than a preparation of phosphorus, and the inhabitant of the skeleton not a ghjl but a Tat:" To attempt seriously to reason on the ridiculousness of such absurd performances, might with propriety excite the smile of contempt, and 1 shall only remark, that the mind which is con tinually occupied in perusing such writings, like the stomach lorigufed to an improper diet, will at length be unable to receive and digest its natural and wholesome food. THEOPHRASTUS. LONDON, March 4. In the neighbourhood of London it is only fr?m a very late date, that the farmett have found out the valtie of the sweepings of the streets, and coal ashes fifted, as manures. The'print of Marybone a few years ago, paid to the scavengers 5001. to re move these—now the scavengers pay the parish Joyol. per annum, for the liberty of carrying them away. A nobl:mati of Mgb rank, ordered his coach ta nurrtoj!_■ a load of draw : wlte:i It tit eatritd {tome, it was inwWwtyty p threshed, and, to the fitprize of the Duke, and fe- I' gentlemen who attended to oSferve the pro- ti cefa, yielded a bushel and a half of cbrtt.- Such b a fhameful wade of so necefTary an article of life, h owing entirely to the neglect in the farm't*, cer- b tainly calls for the interference of out rr Two days hundreds of people in this me- n tropolis. were eye-wkneffrt of thegreal plenty that S prevails at prefeat. In Back llreet, : Portman rt square, a quantity of straw was spread opposite to si twohoufet, to prevent the noise of coaches from n diflurbing some sick persons. Many pool people b were employed far hours shaking off the grain that t! had been left ip the ears, and carrying it away in e hat fulls, n ■ 1 mi — n PROVIDENCE, April 23. B Yesterday afternoon, at a very numerous and t refpeflable meeting of the Merchants. Traders, and n other inhabitants this town, a memorial to the b house of Representatives of the United States was b unanimously agreed on, recommending that provi- c fion be made for carrying the treaty with Great- f Britain into immediate effect. A committee of 15 was appointed to ftgn the memorial, and transmit the fame by this day's mail. POSTSCRIPT. By a gentleman lad evening from Newbury port, we are informed, that On Saturday lad, the inhabitants of Newbury port assembled for the purpose of taking into consi der at ion thefubjt-ft of the Treaty between Great Britain and the United States, which they conceiv. Ed to be of the greatest importance to the corumu* nity at latge. After hiving chefen General TIT.- COMB, as moderator, the question was putt,— '• Will ydu petition Congrefsto make provision for carrying the tieaty with Great Britain into execu tion, atitis aowbecomethe fupteme lawof ihe land" which pa (Ted unanimously, except one, and upward* of 400 signed the petition tbat evening. Pbilsdelpbia > SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 30, 1796. • The Resolution for carrying into effedt the Treaty witk Great-Britain, was passed this day in the House of Representatives of the United States, 51 to 48 —without any qualification or modifica tion—and a committee ordered tobiing in a bill or bills accordingly. Extra ft of a Letter from Qapt. T.'xmas Tryx tun, to bit friend in tbii city, fated Baltimore, yfpril iitii, 179 A. " 1 got here on Saturday lift, when I found ray (hip Friends Adventare nearly loaded arirl ready to fail, but fe?l myfeif awkwardly situated, having applied far in surance on this vessel against all rifts, and received an answer that it had been determined for some days pall to write the Sca-Kilk« only,.until the House of Repre sentatives of the United States had decided on the reso lution now before tbeni) refpeifling the BritiOi Treaty; hejice it it, that I must either let a large and cxpenfive lhip of the burthen of near 800 hogsheads of tobacco, lay vith-a cargo on bard, or do an i<3 that prudence and julhte to jpy family forbid, ( fend her to sea unco- i ■rere*-) Von wHTpttierefofe," l»e : pieaifd tu me your opinion by return of pest, what ho;i« there is of the House speedily coming to a favorable determina tion on tbis great and momentous attrition ; and whe ther there is any profpetfV.of my effecting an mfiirance against riiks, in Phtladclph.a, on the above Oiip and cargo. Every gen leman that I have conversed with •n the fubjeA, whrther merchant or of any other oc cupation, seems to wait, day after day, with anxious hope of bearing the appropriation is voted, and ;ho' there appears a difference of opinion as to the p "ty of inftruAing a Representative, the unanimo>>< iv.lfe of the community (as far as I can judge) is for ear* rying the Britilh treaty into full . I com Wat effetfl; and I am sure such a determination it. Cortgrefs would caufea day jf general rejoicing in this fiourilhing town. " Some of my acquaintance have feared that Gene ral Smith would vote against the appropriation, but frArt the various conversations I have had with that gWtlemsn on the fubjelt, I have drawn my conclusion, their fears were nt well sounded—ps course, I have seen drooping fpirfts on that head revive." [The folllowing should have preceded the letter from Greene-County, pnblifhed vefterday.J ' ExtraS of a Letter from a Gentleman in Savannah, ( Georgia Jto bu friend in this city, dated %tb April, 1:96. " The enclofcd i an extra from the Chronicle press) praying to call's'town- j J i meeting, to meet this day } where they expected, j : by the of Di. Jarvis, to defeat tl t the object asd jrttcnt of that memorial. The ligrt- J S i er*-readily acquiesced in the measure | and this a morning, prcoifely at Io o'clock, afTemhled at Fa- f ntruil-Hall. 'Fhe Hon. Col. Dawes was ehofctl i C Moderator} and the Hall being too fraall ro hold j i the large bbdy.of citizerts who afletfibled, they im- I mediately adjotirned to that large and capacious ! r building the Old South Meeting-Houfe. A Item-'t s bled here, the Dr. opened the debate in a flaw of a • eloquence 1 , but which AVas mote addrefled to the t - paflions than to the reafotl of tlie citizens— He c ; was followed by Auflin ; but he was not' imitated X t in any thing but fopliiltry. To the Doctor, Mr. t Otis replied in one of the molt masterly harangues v ever uttered. Bnrfts of applause were involuntarily j 1 extorted by the fptendid display. He soared ttith ; i » his fiibjed, and eyed the solar rays of truth, rea- ;ii fun, and found policy. He spoke twite. Dr. j j Warren also supported the memorial in a very j handsome speech. The Hon. Mr. Jones defended I II the promoters of tl.c memorial in an eloquent, a- ! £ ble and animated rtianner—and some personal allu- J I" fton being made by the Town-Clerk to the Mode-1 "" rator, he requelled the leave of the town,"and de- { fended his aonduQ, ai a signer of the memorial, ' j ir .with great ability and effe#. The mo# argumen tative speaker agaiuft the memorial was Mr/ Mor ton—He analized the coultitution, and proposed, as a substitute to the memorial, a petition to the P/cfident ti/ give up the paper*. He was replied . ' to by Mr. Otis witb effeti, and I think with con- ) viftion. - Never, perhaps, were there greater exer- 1 tions of oratory firce men was endued with the ] - powers of fpeecb—Fiafh succeeded slash, in conti- 1 e nued co Mis. it ions. The Dodtor was by far the n j most powerful; and had he advocated the inherent <, right of the citizen to petition the legiflatar, he i- mud have been irtVinci'.le. He, however, moved 11 that the queflion ftjould be taken at 4 o'clock :— not thinking it nefrflary to cottfume another half J day, his motion v**3 negatived. He then moved '0 that Mr.'Mat-lay's million in Congress should be 1 >, read, and Mr. Otis moved, as an amendment, that in additioir eo that, the Prefident'* meflage on the '' treaty papers should also be read. Both motions j were, after debate, withdrawn. Th* motion foi n taking the qfiiellio . by yeas and nays at 4 o'clock, ft made by th* Dotlor, then renewed, and again negatived bv a great majority. The quedioii was y then taken, " whether the memorial contains the • fenfeof the town"—and here description would fail e .to paint forefl of hands, which rose in fa*roui of it— of the bed informed of their party coufefs there were ten to ore in favor of the memo ,e rial—l retogfoMTy better-- more—There could not >f be less than 1300 hundred voters on the occasion : 1- and lam cniifident there were not one hundred and and fifty hands held up in opposition.— I was in ® the gallery, and had a vety fair opportunity of fee 'h ing all the tianfa&inii* The Tote was so accord ar.t to the feeling* of the citizen*, that notwith u Handing the sense of gravity which tbe place in >' spired, there were no lef* than nine cheer* given v so loud and unanimous as to be heard, lam truly lf told, in several of the ft reels a confidrrable way r * from the Houfc- I enrlofe you a Centinel extra, j and a handbill—lk addition to the intelligence , contained therein, we hau a- IS gain be conneded ,n upwards of 40© peifons, expressly Hates, that they ■ >r are not recept convert* to an apptobation of the in British treaty, but that they have always been >e friendly to it. t 8 "If 1 adbre any thing (said a member of Con gref*) it is tbe voice of the people."—What i* now that vplt<; ? 'Error reirafirci, or The Richmond Detree aguinjl the Treaty reversed. ' Extract of a Letter from a Gentleman in Rich mond (Virginia) of April 25. <1 It was thought inexpedient 10 take m-afures toafcertain an expreflion of the public mind uuder the violent prejudice* with which it had been im- Ij prefTed, so long as a hope remained, that the House s ' of Representative*, might ultimately consult the intereH and honor of the nation ; but now when " all hope of thi* has vanilhed, it wa* deemed advise able to ask the opinion of the inhabitants of this I city and it* vicinity ; accordingly a m< thi* day held, which wan rnpre numerous than I >n have ever seen at this place, and alur a very aulent, ie and jealous discussion, which confuned the day, a ie dccided majority declared in favor of tht inckf.d ' rrfolutron ; the refutation with a petition drawn by an original opponent of the Treaty, will be for warded by the next pod to Gongrtfs f the fubjeft wilt probably be taken up in evcty County in the (late, or at any rate,in yety many of them." At a meeting of the inhabitant* of the ci*y ps Richmond.and its vicinity, at the capitol, purftiant to notice o'i Monday the twenty fifih day of April 1796, the following refolulion wai agreed to ; The Hon. James Wood being appointed Chairman, and John Stewart Secretary to the meeting. Refolvedy as the opinion ps this meeting, that ' the peace, happiness and welfare of thefc I nited I States, not lets than their national honor d.ep', d, in a very great decree on their giving with good faith Rill" effcA to the Tieaty lately negotiated with ! Great Brt till. Attift ' JOHN Secretary. 14 ' ■ I Died, in Cumberland county, (Si J.} on Sa» ' turday the 16tii in(l. and in the 76th yeat< of h-ia asre, MASKEXt. EWIN'G, Esq. Hewaajuf* tice oftbe Peace and Judge of the Pleas in that county for many years, both before and fmce the revolution ; was a Deacon and Elder in the Pre terian Church of Greenwich, about 45 years ; li ved in die married (late with his only wife (whom | he has left a widow) 53 years; was the father of ; 10 children, all married and fettled long beforehis ' death 1 and what is remarkable, himfelf was the firft I person that died in Ills family. ! ■-—— COMMON ICATtOK. J It w!t9 said by one of the anti-federal member# I of' a certain corps the last fefiion of Congress, that I he l 4 (»ped the British never would make compenfi tiontoour merchant! for the spoliations oa Otir trade—being aflted hii reason—he replied, becauf« 1 in that cafe, the whole mercantile iiitereft will join our party, and we will the'n contrive " ways, and meant" to make Up their lodes. •Mk fjgt kls be remarked, that if the. machinations of the avowed enemies of the Constitution of the U S. <0 not succeed, not one of the numerous evils which they have b«en predicting for seven year's past will ever be realized to juftify vjieir anticipations. It is mortifying, in the extreme to be always in the wrong. THEATRE. The new Comedy of the Deftrted Daughter was I wcill received by a refpe&ablt company. After the play Mr. Wigncll made a handsome p address to the audience, intimating his intention of I leaving this country, in order to recruit his Tkea* trical Corps.—His address in our not. Mr. Benefit. ' On Monday, evening the friends of the Drama, and Dramatic excellence, will hare an oppoittinity ' of gratifying their tafle, and tcftifying their dispo sition to encourage merit.- The entertainments si r the evening are felefted with judgment, tljcy ir.« elude sentiment, fancy and humor— 1 he exertion* to please will be commensurate, particularly on fit part of the candidate, whole undeviating eaertions hroug! out the fe-tfou —whose rapid irtrpiovemenU, . and unr»v«l!pd attainments, ate atwafiives to the ('illingutfliing patronage of the citizens of Phila« delpbia, which will not, cannot, be refilled. fORT OF PMLAIHLLVhIA. 1 ARVrza. VATS* Schr. Polly, Wad'i - Jamaica 54 Sloop Jefferfon, Cooke, Jeremie 22 ■ Scl:r. Sea-flower, Robinson, Martha Brae 3 1 Betsey, PetKJule-nn, - - — -Nr-Carolina 9 CLtUSSD. Ship Thomas, Holland, Cotk ' Brig Planter, Hawkins, St. Croix A british 64 gun (ht'p and a frigate w»re feert 1 cruizing between the Capes of Delaware and Vir» ginia, a few days ago. Capt. Kirkpatrick of the Snow Bofloo, ssd«y» from Liverpool, in iat. 39, long. 45 was board ed by a French frigate, 14 months from L'Orient, I the capt. of the frigate informed him that he had taken 7 ptizes; he detained capt. K. about 3 bouts in order to communicate feme dispatches to the French minister. 1 The Ship Alexander of this po't, from Demata . ra, bound home, was taken by the British, and sent 1 into Grenada, whete her cargo was libelled. For SALE, or CHARTER, -• " »ico barrels^ —a {hunch good vessel, about Ave years, old —ready to receive a cargo. Apply to Peter Blight. April 30. eodaw.s '■ Notice is hereby Given, THAT in pursuance of ati ad cf the General Assem bly of Pennsylvania, entitled " an Aft to enable tho " Governor of this Common wealth, to incorporate a Com " pany for making an artificial Road from an iiuerfe&ion " of tho Philadelphia and Lancaftcr Turnpike road near' " the Gap/I'avern, m iAßcafter county, to Newport and " Wilmington inthe State of Delawarethe tonunif fionere in said a& appointed will procure fire book? land j attend at the refpe&ive places direSledjtherein to receive fuMcrptions for Stock in the company, viz.. One book will be opened in the city Philadelphia." One la the ' Bornugh of Ltncafter, one at} Striffbi.rgh in theouunty » of Lan |jtT, one in the Borough of tV and one at thehoujeof Samuel Cochran in the county us.Ches ter on Wedfcelday he ift day of Julie next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon and said 1 ooks will be kept oper. at least 6 hours in every day, for ttr.-e days if three frays shall be • neceflaryand ;on the £f ft NAtHL. LEI'HS, ASIJAH DA IVES. 3 Philadelphia, April 30. lawtjttn.