having all about him fo fubje&t to his law petually watching the fame mill-horfe
and rule, that they will " fly" at his word. round of public deception, of repeatedly
It is a maxim with him never to " lofe a
detecting the fame impofture, and of meet-
command," and he even perfeveres in a ing at every return the pertinacious repeti-
determination, when convinced of its in- tion of the fame dull, bungling cheat upon
utility because he will not lose a com- the people, is certainly vexatious-Yet it
inand." His children are generally obe- is a talk to which every honeft man is
dient when he is prefent, and are prompt bound by his civil duties, and rom which
in their attention to his orders; but if he the managers of public Journals above all
chance to leave them to execute his com-
others cannot fhrink without guilt. Some,
mands in his ablence, the impulie of fear time ago, when falfhood, if once detect-
is weakened by diftance, and they are apted, dare not fhew its front again in the fame
to be unfaithful. The elder brother has
difcovered the convenience of fetting a
younger to perform his talk, and he dom-
ineeringly acts over the fcenes which he
takes from high authority. Thus each, as
opportunity offers, acts the tyrant. This
is a true picture, and is it pleafant ? Can
it be profitable? Let any one live in thofe
fcenes, and then go with me to Neighbour

labours which employ the bleffed inhabi tants of the Pandemonium erected in A. merica by the difciples of France, Rǝbefpierre, and the Rights of Man.

What mind, not tainted or preverted by the arts of the ruling party, can fail to turn with abhorrence from the weekly reiteration as ftupid as it is talfe, and as fhameless as cither, of the applaufe lavished upon our prefent, and the cenfure caft upon our former, financiers. Already it has been proved that those who now keep the key of the treasury, not only have not the merit of bringing into it a fingle cent, but have to anfwer for having oppofed almost every measure, and of having avowed open hoftil:

fhape, this kind of care would have been
fuperfluous; but now, when it returns to
the charge, unabafhed by fhame, uncheck-
ed by remorfe, when it attempts to weary
one part of the people into acquiefcence,ity to the whole of the fyftem of finance of
and cajoles another into belief, fociety and
every thing valuable in it must crumble
to ruins, if fuch things, though they return
a thousand times to the charge, are not
as often encountered, and driven back.
Wearifome and odious to ourselves as the
tafk of repetition must be, we will perform
this duty ftri&tly and confcientiously. Our
readers cannot be furprized, if in answer-

-'s. He puts up with the follies of youth, and does not fcold at every little accident; and if his children do not "fly" like those of his neighbour, ftill he feems to convince them of the reasonableness of his commands, and they obey without re-ing luch tautologous nonfenfe, tautology luctance. I have never heard of his SWEARING at his wife, or any of his family, or even of an expreffion in anger at any time. His boys are remarked for their induftry, and are certainly more fprightly than his neighbour's boys. They labour together in the field without wrangling; and it is no bar to their pleasure in their recreation, that their parents are fpectators; while thofe of the other family will always feal out of their parents' fight, or they cannot enjoy themfelves.

Thus I have partly delineated a contraft actually exifting in two of my neighbours, and which prefents a picture to my mind of the moft melancholy kind. If this could be inftrumental to a reformation, I should confider it the happieft act of my life. If I could prefent the contraft to the public as ftrikingly as it exifts, all would yield to the neceffity of mild government. Yet government may be too mild, or rather too lax; and as there is a mean in all things, fo he who can hold the reins fo as to be felt, and fpare feverity, deferves to be remembered as a model.

OBSERVER.

Political.

FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.

TO be continually in a ftate of active hoftility against public impofition and falfhood, however laudable it may be in itself, to an ingenuous mind must be painful. To be condemned to the drudgery of per

their predeceffors, the productiveness of
which fy flem, nevertheless, they and their
agents have now the impudence to boat of
as if it were their own-Already it has
been proved to their teeth that the causes
of the expenditure of the public money
during the former adminiftrations not only
went hand in hand with the public will,
but were called for by the publie voice,
as a defence against foreign infult and
wrong; proved too that a part of it was
incurred by the fuppreflion of two infur
rections, abetted by fome of thofe very
men who blame that expense.
If every
drank in the Union, were known to be ta
fegar, and every glafs of grog or wine

ken from the banks and the waters of
Lethe, thofe democratic agents could not
think the people of America more ftupid,
more left to all recollection of the paft,
more obliviously drunk and infenfible than
they must think them when they imagine
them to be capable of fwallowing luch

fhould appear; for invention must be ex-
haufted where its labour is great, and its
food but little. The purveyors of falfhood,
fo far from being afhamed of dulness, can-
not be ashamed of any thing! and impu.
dence confers upon their affertions a fpu
rious air of authority, and impofes atten-
tion where modeft virtue can scarcely ob-
tain a hearing. So that though they are
far from being worthy of a reply, they muft
be answered, that they may not be dange-
rous. At the fame time we declare, that
if it were not that the ingenious, who are
always unwary, too often unthinking,
might become the dupes of thofe tricks,downright, direct contradictions of truth
clumfy and bungling as they are, we should
be rather difpofed to laugh at the grave
confidence, or to turn with difguft and
contempt from the cold, torpid, phlegmat-
ic difregard of fhame, difplayed by thofe.
who advance fuch things, and repeat them
again after they have been refuted, than to
confider them as worthy of ferious refuta-
tion. Thole worthy democrats feem as it
condemned for their fins, like Sifyphus of
old, eternally to labour in rolling up a hill
the huge ftone of falfhood, which rolls.
down again upon their heads, and keeps
them in the endlefs, fruitlefs labour of the
damned.

"Then Sisyphus, the nearest mate in woe
Drew my regard; he with distended nerves
Aye rolls a ponderous stone up a rugged rock :
Urg'd up the steep cliff slow, with hand and foot,
It mounts; but bordering on the cloudy peak
Precipitous adown the slopy side;
The rapid ofb devolving back renews
Eternal toil, which he, with dirt besmear'd,
And dew'd with smoking sweat, incessant plies."
Thefe, or fuch as thefe, are the Tartarean

and matter of fact as they offer them, not once, but decies repetita. Thus though over and over again answered, though rolled like Sifyphus down the hill with their falfhoods on their heads, they come for. ward with the flale, democratic flang flory, that the former administration was extravagant, compared with the prefent, when any man who has brains enough in his pate to fill the cranium of a gander, knows that the caufes for that expenditure ceafed before the present adminiftration came in. to office, and that therefore to have done

otherwife than retrenched it, would have been committing a fraud upon the public -For not committing a fraud in this inlance, they are welcome to the merit claimed for them. Honefly, or at leaft the femblance of it, is the best policy. And here, for once, the policy of the party is of ufe to the public.

As they act upon the fuppofition that the American people have no intelle& or memory, fo they feem to imagine that the American Almanacs have no dates by which the periods of particular events cal

it from thefe refources. Then from what
did it come, but from the refources crea-
ted by the wifdom and financial skill of
the federal governments, which were of
courfe more productive in feven months
of 1801, than they could have been in
feven months of 1800. Oh wonderful!

be afcertained, elfe furely they would not |
propound fuch an extravagant propofition
as that Mr. Gallatin's abilities had effen-
tially served and filled the treafury. In
April he came into office; in the De-
cember following his puffers ftate the
treafury to have had an increase, by his fi-
nancial exertions, of one million one hun-wonderful! As Shakespeare fays, "fuch
dred and fifty four thousand fix hundred a deal of wonder is broken out that ballad
and feventy three dollars. Probably they makers cannot be able to exprefs it."
mean the public fhould beleive by this that
he had procured to be adopted, carried
into execution, and reaped the fruits of a
new plan of finance, benefiting the nation.
to that amount.

Extract of a letter from a gentleman in
London to his friend in Philadelphia
dated March 17, 1803.

"I reached London on the evening of
the 8th inft. from France. At the very
moment of fitting down at my friends
houfe, a manufcript copy of the King's war
meflage was received at his office. Nev-
er was my aftonishment greater. It was
but three days fince I had left France in a
perfect ftate of peace and tranquility, and
as far as I could difcern, without any idea
exifling in the minds of the French peo-
ple, as to a prospect of a rupture with
this country. Sure I am that they do
not with for fuch an event. Next morn-
ing I was at all the coffee-houses in the
neighbourhood of 'Change. The King's

Readers have you ever read the Arabian Knights Entertainments-a book of profeffed miracles and falfhoods? If you have not, pray do read it that you may have the fatisfaction of knowing how much that far famed work of the east is furpaffed in one fort of invention by our democratic agents of the weft. Turn to the wonderful flory of Aladdin ! read that and then lay your hands upon your bofoms and fay, can the wonderful lamp of Aladdin be thought very much to furpafs the wonder-working heads of our financiers, it this affertion of theirs were true. In our minds the impoftor Mahom-meffage engroffed all the converfation, et's story that he went from Mecca to Jerufalem, from Jerufalem up to the feventh Heaven, where he held an interview of feveral years with God, and then returned again to Mecca, all in the Space of one night, is little lefs worthy of credit.

and deep confternation was pictured on
the faces of moft of the flock-jobbers.
It is impoffible to ftate what is the pub-
lic opinion relative to the prefent prof
pect of war. One portion of the people
are guided in their judgments merely by
interested motives: others are open mouth-
ed for war at all hazards; while others a-
gain are ftrongly oppofed to it, under a
ny circumftances, and infift that anewal
of hoftilities will totally ruin the country.
For my own part, I cannot think that the
government of this country is earnestly in-

tent to war.

In her prefent fituation, the idea appears to me too prepofterous for a moment's reflection. The army agents have commenced purchases of many articles—a warm press has existed ever since the meffage, and new warrants are iffuing every day, and yet, as I obferved before, Great Britain is in earnest for war. It is I cannot bring my mind to the belief that true, the exports have diminished fince

But let us afk thofe grave tale writers of the weft, what these miraculous means were, by which they pretend their treafu. ry friend performed this extraordinary fervice? Have he and his western affociates been seized with a fit of contrition for their whiskey freaks, and in penance paid the fum ftated, or even a large part of it into the treafury, as an expiation of their fins against the ftate, and as a reimbursement, fo far, of the expences of fuppreffing their infurrection? Or has it, upon the fame principle of guilt awed by confcience into remorfe, been refunded to the treafury by thofe democratic defalcators who were expected from the office upon a proof of delinquent peculation-not falfely accufed nor heaped with calumnies, which were afterwards controverted, as has been the cale of federal officers, but actually expelled upon incontrovertible, damning proofs of delinquency, peculation, and official guilt and default, proots from which even the hardened heart and brazened front of Gallic democracy fhrunk appalled, kulking from the light, and like APHORISM. The prefence of him is opa facred fifh hiding its head not abashed preffive whofe going away makes thofe he with fhame, but aftonifhed with fear. We leaves eafy; and he, whofe presence was rather think they will not fay that the treaf-oppreffive, was either good in bad or bad ury drew this mighty fum or any part of in good company.-Lavater.

the peace, and a great diffatisfaction pre

yails because the French refuse to enter in-
fufficient motive for war?
to a commercial treaty; but can this be a

"A fimilar diftemper to that which ra-
ges in Paris, prevails in London; but it is
not fo mortal.'

Balance Closet.

It will be recollected that we accused the democrats of using dishonorable means for the purpose of furthering their election. This has given rise to the following paragraph in the Bee :

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"The editors fay fomething about means ufed, &c. The federalifts will not thank them for touching on fo del"icate a fubject. There is a double en"tendre in the Spirit with which they are "faid to have come forward, that would "make their leaders rue the day in which "the hint was fuggefted, were we to ex"plain and expofe the allufion. People "who live in houfes of glass should nev"er begin to throw ftones at thofe whose dwellings are made of iron."

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A man must certainly have a head of "iron," and a face of brass, to pen such a paragraph without blushing. We now repeat, what we have often declared, that the federalists never desire to shrink from investigation. Instead of double enter dres and inuendoes, we invite the Bee, to state its accusations in direct terms; and, with a hope of inspiring it with a little spirit, we now declare that the despicable trick which the democrats attempted to play off upon a respectable class of citizens (we mean the society of Friends) at the time of the election, ought to cover them, and their "iron house" with infamy.

A respectable correspondent has communicated to us a bill of mortality, for Portsmouth, NewHampshire, for the year 1802.

Portsmouth is situated 43 d. 5 m. North latitude, and contains about 5,600 inhabitants. It was visited with a constant succession of different epidem ics throughout the whole of last year; and the whole number of deaths, during the year, was one hundred and fifty two; eleven whereof died of the measles, and twenty eight of the consumption.

Our correspondent observes, that in the year 1801, there were a hundred deaths only in that town;

and what is very remarkable, just one fifth of them was by consumption,

Agricultural.

From the ENCYCLOPEDIA.

HOW TO PRESERVE FRUIT TREES IN BLOS-
SOM FROM THE EFFECTS OF FROST.

THE

Monitorial Department.

To aid the cause of virtue and religion.

FOR THE BALANCE.

BERTHA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND.

CHRIST

HRISTIANITY is fuppofed to have been introduced into Britain, either by St. Paul or by fome of his companions and difciples, a few years after the middle HE chevalier de Bienenberg of of the first century. In the 5th century, Prague, we are told, has difcovered a me- the Britons, invaded by the Picts and thod of effectually preferving trees in blof- Scots, called in the affiftance of the Saxfom from the fatal effects of those frofts ons, who were led by two brothers, Henwhich fometimes in the fpring deftroy the gift and Horfa. Thofe foreign auxiliaries, most promifing hopes of a plentiful crop of as might have been expected, after vanfruit. His method is extremely fimple. quifhing and expelling the Picts and Scots, He furrounds the trunk of the tree in blof- turned their arrows and fpears against the fom with a wifp of ftraw or hemp. The natives;-difpoffeffed them of their lands, natives ;-difpoffeffed them of their lands, end of this he finks, by means of a ftone tied destroyed the lives of multitudes, and reto it, in a veffel of fpring water, at a little duced the reft, except those who fled into diftance from the tree. One veffel will Comwall and Wales, to the moft abject conveniently serve two trees; or the cord flavery. The Saxon conquerors, who bemay be lengthened fo as to furround feve- gan in that island a new line of kings, were ral, before its end is plunged into the water. pagans and they established paganism; 'It is neceffary that the veffel be placed in which continued predominant, almost four an open fituation, and by no means fhaded centuries. It was by the influence of a by the branches of the neighbouring trees, Woman, in the first inftance, that those that the froft may produce all its effects on idolatrous princes, together with their nothe water, by means of the cord communi- bility and the nation in general, were concating with it. This precaution is partic-verted to the chriftian faith.. ularly neceffary for thofe trees the flowers of which appear nearly at the fame time as the leaves; which trees are peculiarly expofed to the ravages of the froft. The proofs of its efficacy, which he had an opportunity of obferving in the fpring of 1787, were remarkably ftriking. Seven apricot Seven apricot elpaliers in his garden began to bloffom in the month of March. Fearing that they would fuffer from the late frofts, he furrounded them with cords as above directed. effect, pretty sharp frofts took place fix or eight nights: the apricot trees in the neighbouring gardens were all frozen, and none of them produced any fruit, whilft each of the chevalier's produced fruit in abundance, which came to the greateft perfec

tion.

In

Mrs. EXTON and family, of New. Jerfey, last year made 800 Cheeses, which fell in Philadelphia at the fame price as cheese imported from England. They milk 40 cows. Their farm is 600 acres, of which the one half is wood land. An example of fuch well directed induftry & good management may be imitated by others with great advantage; and fhews that farming in the United States, when well conducted, is one of the moft profitable objects to which a man can direct his attention. [Mer. Advertiser.]

Clovis, King of France, in the year 496, embraced chriftianity, which then begun in that kingdom. In the 9th century, Ethelbert, King of England, of the Saxon line, married Bertha, the only daughter of Caribert, King of France, who was a defcendant of Clovis. Before Ethelbert was admitted to this alliance, he was obliged to ftipulate, that the princefs fhould enjoy the free exercife of her religion. While Bertha was zealous for the propagation of christianity, the fupported the credit of her faith by an irreproachable and amiable conduct; and employed every art of infinuation and addrefs to reconcile her hufband to her religious principles. The fuperiority of her education, the purity of her morals, and the engaging fuavity of her manners, gave her an afcendency over Ethelbert; and, at the fame time, rendered her extremely popular with the courtiers and thus paved the way for their reception of the chriftian doctrines.

Ethelbert, not fuddenly, but after taking a confiderable time for examination, renounced paganifm and embraced the chriftian fyftem; and his courtiers and nobility followed his example.-A most noble conquefta conquest of hearts, for the purpose of forming in them the principles of virtue and piety.

A Semiramis, a Zenobia, the Elizabeth of England, and the laft Catharine of Ruf.. fia, excite aftonishment, more than love. Their vaft capacities, their fplendid talents, equalled by a very few among monarchs of the male fex, are evincive of the pow. ers of the female mind.-But, in the dif play of ftrong mafculine features,

They roughen to the sense, and all The winning softness of their sex is lost."

Bertha, on the other hand, standing a. loof from bloody feats of war and from the mazy walks of politics, difplayed, in her exalted ftation, the genuine charms and evinced the irrefiftable power of te. male virtue. On her character, which was purely feminine, the graces fhed their mildeft luftre.

Poffeffing the kindeft of hearts ;-blest with a peculiar fweetness of difpofition; she won over, by her amiable manners and engaging addrefs, an idolatrous King and Court, the befotted worshippers of the idol Woden; and allured them to embrace the fyftem of divine truth. In that exalted woman, the fex beholds equally an object to admire and a pattern to imi

tate.

Miscellany.

From the N. Y. DAILY ADVERTISER.

GENERIC NAMES

FOR THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE OF THE U
NITED STATES OF AMERICA.

THE portion of terraqueous globe com. prehended by the great Lakes, the Saint Lawrence, the Ocean and the Miffiflippi, has no general denomination by which it can be conveniently diftinguifhed in geog. raphy. Its fubdivifions and local names are appropriate enough and fufficiently well understood. But there is ftill wanting one broad and univerfal appellation, to defignate and characterize the whole ap propriated and unappropriated territory of the United States.

It was a great overfight in the Convention of 1787, that they did not give a name to the country for which they devil. ed a frame of government. Its citizens are fuffering every day for lack of such a generic term. Deftitute of a proper name for their own foil and region, they exprefs themselves vaguely and awkward. ly on the fubject. By fome it is termed "United States;" this however is a po litical, and not a geographical title. By others it is called "America," and the inhabitants "Americans." But thefe ep

without reference to any particular ftate, || Never will they quit the hardy conteft un-
may be known and diftinguished as
til their deeds fhall be worthy of being re-
corded in immortal verfe, equally honour-
able to the bards and the heroes of FRE-
DONIA."

Thus, our nation is in poffeffion of a profaic word for its whole territory, FREDON; a poetical word for the fame, FREDONIA; a grave and fonorous generic title for its people, property, and relations, FREDONIAN; a fhort and colloquial ap- || pellation FREDE; and a convenient uni Let the extent of land ceded to our na- verfal epithet, FREDISH. A language fo tion by the treaty of 1783, be diftinguish-rich and copious is fcarcely to be found; ed henceforward on charts, globes, and in and it is hoped our citizens will make the elementary books by the name of moft of it.

One,

Be it our weekly task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

Hudson, May 17, 1803.

The following gentlemen are chofen directors of the Bank of Columbia, for the enfuing year :

fuch numbers as to refemble a shower of
fky rockets. The inhabitants happened at
the fame hour to be called from their houf-
es by the fire bell, which was rung on ac-
count of a fire that broke out in one of the
rooms of the Armoury, but which was
fpeedily extinguifhed. Every one, there-
fore, had an opportunity of witneffing a
fcene of nature, which never before was
difplayed in this part of the globe, and which,
probably will never appear again. Several
of thofe fhooting meteors were accompa-
nied with a train of fire, that illuminated
the fky for a confiderable diftance. One,
in particular, appeared to fall from the Ze-
nith, of the apparent fize of a ball of eigh
Stephen Paddock, Prefident-Reuben
teen inches diameter, that lighted for fever-
Folger, Samuel Edmonds, Elifha Wil
al feconds the whole hemifphere. During liams, Benjamin Allen, Samuel B. Webb,
the continuance of this remarkable phenom James Hyatt, Cotton Gelton, William
menon, a biffing noife in the air was plain- Ashley, Jacob R. Van Renfelaer, Wil.
ly heard, and feveral reports, refemblingham IV. Van Nefs, Daniel Penfield,
the difcharge of a piftol. Had the city James Nixon, jun.
bell not been ringing, thefe reports would
probably have feemed much louder. The
fky was remarkably clear and ferene, and
the visible fixed ftars numerous the whole The Norfolk Herald of the 5th inft.
night. We are anxious to know at what ftates, that by the brig Favorite, capt. Fre-
diftance from Richmond this phenomenon yer, from Bourdeaux, in 35 days, which ar-
has extended. It is hoped that perfonsrived on the 3rd. letters are received, an-
who have remarked it in other places, will nouncing the arrival of Mr. Monroe at
not neglect to inform the public of the par- Havre. The fhip Richmond in which Mr.
ticulars; as fuch information may add, in Monroe went, failed from this port on the
a great degree, to the knowledge of Mete- 8th of March-fhe must confequently have
orology.
performed her voyage in about 22 days.

Since writing the above, we have been informed, that fevera! of the largest of thefe fhooting meteors, were obferved to defcend almoft to the ground before they exploded. Indeed, many of thofe which we faw, appeared to approach within a few yards of the houfe tops, and then fuddenly to vanifh. Some perfons, we are told, were fo alarmed, that they imagined the fire in the Armoury was ocofioned by one of thefe meteors, and in place of repairing to extinguish the earthly flames, they bufied themselves in contriving to protect the roofs of their houses from the fire of heaven.

The circumftance of the fhooting stars. defcending within a fhort distance of the ground, is however, a fact highly important to be known; as it has been generally fuppofed, that meteors only proceed in a horizontal direction, and never fly perpendicularly upwards or downwards. Thofe which we particularly remarked, appeared to defcend in an angle of fixty degrees with the horizon; but as the fmaller ones were fo numerous, and croffed each other in different directions, it was only poffible to af certain with any precifion, the paths of the largest and most brilliant.

APHORISM. Be afraid of him who meets you with friendly afpect, and, in the midst of a flattering falutation, avoids your direct open look.-Lavater.

MR. MONROE.

[Evening Poft.]

and devoured them. A few days fince, a number of the brigand officers came to the outer pofts of this town with a flag of truce; the officers of the town went to meet them and invited them to dinner, but the arrange. ments they have concluded on are kept fe. cret it is reported, however, that the bri. gands offer to return to their mafters, provided they are affured that they will be re. ceived as hirelings, not as flaves.

"A French fhip arrived off this port, and after learning the ftate of the market, proceeded with her cargo for Port-auPrince, but was taken in the Bite by bri. gands, the captain and crew maflacred, and the fhip burnt to the water's edge.

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General Rochambeau has removed his

headquarters to port-au-prince, where he intends to gather all his troops, and march by land to the port; it is faid he will begin in July.

The inhabitants feem to be cheerful, and every thing wears a more favorable al pect. Trade begins to flourish and I am in hopes, in a fhort time, every thing will be more tranquil." Ibid.

OF AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Several gentlemen from Newburyport, fince the date of the laft paper, printed in that place, inform, that the intelligence brought by Capt. Rutheford, inflead of announcing the actual declaration of War between France and England, goes no far. ther than that he was informed, the British would have 70 fail of the line in readiness, in cafe of actual war. They likewife add that the veffel fpoken had been out 36, in ftead of 33, days.

the

Pofitive teftimony of War is yet but fly. ing report. The Cabinet of St. Jame's is ftill clofed, and Minifters are extremely re ferved on this interefting queftion. Th fituation of either country, and particularly the political arrangements made, and about to be put in execution, between France & Spain, are by no means of a pacific tendency and we may venture to predict, that a permanent eftablifhed Peace is yet diftant. The detention of Malta, contrary to the ftipulation of Amiens, is faid to be the oftenfible object of contention; but the policy of the British Cabinet, has undoubtedly a fpeculation under confultation far more important to them, and fill more alarming to the ambitious projects of the First Conful, than the fimple question rei pecting that Ifland. The ceflion of Louhana by Spain to France, is a fubject by no means indifferent to the British Gov. ernment; and however it may be confidered, as it refpects the United States, we may rest affured that they will not paffively fubmit that fo extenfively a territory fhould fall into the hands of their imperi ous rival; and that their American provinces fhould be fo immediately under the control of the fame nation, from whofe pol