334 cription, from the greatest to the finallest ; all thefe they would bring over Frenchmen to poflefs; making us their fervants and their labourers. To prevent us from uniting and rifing against them, they would crowd every town and village with their brutal foldiers, who would devour all the beft part of the produce of the earth, leaving us not half a fufficiency of bread. They would, befides, introduce their own bloody laws, with additional feverities: They would divide us into feparate claffes; hem us up in diftriéts; cut off all communication between friends and relations, parents and children, which latter they would breed up in their own blafphemous principles; they would affix badges upon us, mark us in the cheek, thive our heads, fplit our ears, or clothe us in the habit of flaves!--And fhall we fubmit to mifery and degradation like this, rather than encounter the expences of war; rather than meet the honourable dangers of military combat; rather than make a generous ufe of the means which Providence has fo bounteously placed in our hands? The fun, in his whole courfe round the globe, shines not on a pot fo bleffed as this great, and now united Kingdom; gay and productive fields and gardens, lofty and extenfive woods, innumerable flocks and herds, rich and inexhaustible mines, a mild and wholefome climate, giving health, activity, and vigour to fourteen millions of people; and fhall we, who are thus favoured and endowed; fhall we, who are abundantly fupplied with iron and itcel, powder and lead ; fhall we, who have a fleet fuperior to the maritime force of all the world, and who are able to bring two millions of fighting men into the field; fhail we yield up this dear and happy land, together with all the liberties and honours, to preferve which our farthers fo often dyed the land and the fea with their blood; fhill we, thus, at once difhonour their graves, and flamp difgrace and infamy on the brows of our chil dren; and fhall we, too, make this base and datardly furrender to an enemy, whom, within these twelve years, our countrymen have deleated in every quar ter of the world? No; we are not fo miferably falien; we cannot, in fo fhort a fpace of time, have become fa deteitably degenerate: We have the ftrength and the will to repel the hoftility, to chaflife the infolence of the foe. Mighty indeed, muft be our efforts, but mighty alfo is the meed. Singly engaged agamit the tyrants of the earth, Britain now attracts the eyes and the hearts of mankind; groaning nations look to her for deliverance ;-juftice, liberty, and religion are inferibed on her banners; her fuccefs will be hailed with the fhouts of the univerfe, while tears of admiration and gratitude will bedew the heads of her fons, who fall in the glorious conteft. Latest Foreign Intelligente. the jealonfy of Bonaparte in no common LONDON, AUG. 26. A private letter from Paris of the 18th inft. itates the following intelligence : "It is now understood, in the best informed circles, that the First Conful, before his departure to execute his grand projećt and his plans of campaign, exerciled the two principal privileges granted to him by a Senatus Confultum. By the firft, he will pals an amnefly in favour of all criminals in cuftody, except thofe confined for confpiring again the State, for murderly. and coinage; and that by the fecond he will depofit with the Senate the nomination of his fucceffor." AUGUST 27. Some of the late Confular measures in Holland having occafioned a remonstrance on the part of the Dutch, delivered, how ever, with all that humility which a fenfe of their hopelefs fituation could infpire, in which the inevitiable ruin that would come upon their commerce, by the adoption of the measures was forcibly pointed out, the Firft Conful, from hafty words to more hafty, at last declared, in a fit of rage, that he would deftroy the bafis on which fuch mercenary arguments were founded, by annihilating the trade of Holland fo effectually, that they fhould not have a fingle fhip of any kind left to them. AUGUST 30. In a Hull paper, which was received yef terday, the following whimfical account of a marriage is given: "On the 14th inft. Thomas Freeman, formerly of Leeds, but now of Wakefield, aged feventy, to Sarah Preflon, aged eigh. An amour has fubfifted betwixt this tender pair for feventeen years, and though about two years ago Cupil in one of his frolics had dafhed the cup of bifs from their lips, yet all fubduing love prevailed, and a few days previous to the marriage Venus eloping from the workhoufe, flew with rapture to the arms of her conquering Adonis, and implored Hymen to unite their future deflinics. Even the Gods connot resist the fair. The petitior was granted. degree against all those who ever were cop. nected avowedly, or who are fufpecled of being attached by principie to the Houle of Bourbon. What a diftreffing state then must be that of the emigrants who have re turned under the Firft Conful's Amnelly • It is mentioned accordingly in the lets to which we allude, tha inany of the re turned Emigrants have been airested, and thofe who are not imprifoned are place under the most irkfomic fervillance. la deed there can be little doubt that Bonapart will confider thefe men as in fome dege hoftages for the conduct of the Roval Fm. He knows full well that they ca be attached from principle to the C can line. He knows full well, that thought they fubmit to his power, they do notre pect its origin, and do not wifh its permi hent eftablishment. It cannot be expect ed, that as Royalifts they fhould respect he idea, at once to them anti-monarchical at well as anti republican, of his nommeting his fucceffor, and what has been fo often ridiculed as the height of monarchical abur dity transfering them and their county, like a herd of cattle, as a legacy to alavourite, in the utmoft delirium of his for tune, he could not have hoped for this Mult he not diftruft then the men who w tended the Houfe of Bourbon for fo mar years of adverfity, and who only lett from a wearinefs of exile-from a dig of dependence in a foreign land—and, h a with to be Frenchmen once again, e They under the fceptre of a Corfican. can fcarce give any pledge to fatisfy the diftruft of the mafler they ferve, precife becaule it is not natural that they fhould ferve him from affection, or obey him tron neceli y. It is much to be leared there fore, that many of them will be placed in We do the most difagreeable fituation. not blame them for returning to Fiance der very hard terms and worfe profpects It is difficult to define the extent of the f delity they owe the man, whom circum ftances have placed at the head of affairs They muft, however, conftantly be the b je&ts of fufpicion to the " untitled Tyran. If they have influence with their fel fubjects, if they are fuppofed capable d giving the impulfe to any opinion un vourable to the exifting power, then the must be doubly chnoxious to the King de fatto under whom they live; and as they are protected by no conftitutional bul warks, no legal privaleges, their cafe is the more deplorable. It is certain that the French Government is extremely vigilant to prevent any of the former leaders of the Vendeans carrying on any intercourfe with their old partizans. There is a report which we hope is not true, that fome of them have been taken prifoners. They ought to be extremely cautious Amidit all thefe alarins however, Bonaparte will find it difficult to fpare a difpofable force for the Invasion of England. That he has fuch a lorce, without weakening points which he is now more than ever obliged to guard, we are very much inclined to doubt. The number of his troops is grofsly exaggerated. In the mean time this county has only to preferve a vigorous, elevated, and menacing polture, to convince Bonaparte that he has no chance of bringing the War to a conclufion by a defperate coup de main or even of making any impreffion likely to give him any preponderance in Negociation. He may therefore ferioufly encourage the Mediation of Foreign Powers, to extricate him from a moft awkward dilemma. 66 SEPTEMBER 1. A letter from Paris, dated August 20, ftates as follows: Two bankers were laft Wednesday lent to the Temple, becaufe they had given bills of Exchange upon Hamburgh and Frankfort for three millions of livers. deftined for the ule of Louis XVIII. and which the police has found out to have been fecretly fubfcribed by fome Royalifts at Paris, fince his refufal to refign his right to the throne of France was publifhed here. Remember this refufal was known here on the 1ft inftant, and that thefe three millions were fubfcribed here only." DUBLIN, AUGUST 17. Lady Jerningham, of Coffy, in the county of Norfolk, has propofed to raife and command a corps of 600 females, for the purpofe of driving away the cattle from the fea coafts, in cafe of an invafion. Duoson, October 18, 1803. APPOINTMENTS, BY THE COUNCIL OF APPOINTMENT. Charles Holt, Captain, Marfhall Jenkins, jun Leutenant, and Leverett Cruttenden, E fign of a company of Light Infantry, in the city of Hudson. [Albany Regifter.] That the above appointments have been made, is true; but the " company of A murder of unequalled horror, has happened at Hamburgh. It was committed by a ftudent, in the fiftieth year of his in a fit of melancholly delirium. He had been out with his family, returned, and all retired to reft by eleven o'clock. In the night he got up, and deliberately murdered his wife and fix children, fparing two other children who were in bed with his own and without disturbing any one in the houfe, in which were leveral lodgers. He then proceeded to where a fervant girl flept, informed her that he was going out, and fhould return at feven o'clock; but not coming home at this time, the girl proceeded to get the child. ren up, and call her miftrefs, when the found them dead, weltering in their blood. On the alarm being given, he was purfued, and near a mill, about half a mile from Hamburgh, he was found with his throat cut, but not quite dead. He was conveyed back to Hamburgh. [New-York pap.] Much lamented, at Claverack, on the 15th inst. of a painful disease, which terminated in a pulmonary Pthisis, Miss JANE HOGEBOOM, eldest daughter of Stephen Hogeboom, Esquire, in the 38th year of her age. Through the greater part of her illness, she was unhappily afflicted with mental derangement, by which it might have been expected the vigour of her mind would be impaired; but, during the last stages of the disease, being restored to the fuli possession of her understanding, and warned that her dissolution was approaching, she prepared to meet it with much becoming fortitude and resignation. Possessed of the most agreeable and interesting manners, the qualities of her heart were such as equally adorn every condition of human life. To her friends, her relations, and her numerous acquaintance, she has left a fair and impressive example of private worth and domestic female virtue; -to them the loss of so amiable a character is truly irreparable. On the morning of the 7th inst. a child of Mr. Seth Stratton, of this city, aged 18 months: Its death was occasioned by its night gown, (which was made of cotton) taking fire. [Gazette.] At Farmington Conn. on the 21st ult. of a consumption, Dolly, second daughter of Mr. Zenas and Mrs. Polly Cowles, aged 16 years. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. Mr. BEVERLY BENNITT, a son of capt. Increase Bennit of Kinderhook, aged 23 years, was instantkilled a few days since, by the accidental discharge of a musket, which was lying in the bow of a canoe. The motion of the canoe, caused the market to fire at a half crck, and Mr. Bennitt unfortunate ly standing before it, received the whole charge in his eyes and forehead. Two brothers of the deceased, who were present, were witnesses of the shocking sight. On calling their father and mother to the spot, the latter fell into a swoon, and though medical aid was called, five hours elapsed before she received her senses. A jury of inquest brought in a verdict of Accidental death" i he funeral of the deceased was attended by nearly an hundred people; and the loss is much lamented by his relations and friends. PROVIDENCE, (R. I.) OCT. 1. On Monday laft, before the Supremely Judicial Court fitting in this town, came on the trial of Jacob Burk, a truckman, charged with having committed a Rape on the body of Elizabeth Stafford, of Coventry, in this flate. The invefligation and pleading lafted from half paft eight in the morning, till nine in the evening when, after a fair an impartial trial, the caule was committed to the jury, who, about one o'clock next morning brought in the verdict, Guilty. The court yefterd v prnounced fentence of death upon Burk, [Correspondent.] The Wreath. EXTRACT. ELEGY WRITTEN BY A YOUNG GENTLEMAN IN A SICKNESS, I yield to thy subduing sway, And all my frame a listless languor feels. Dim are those eyes that once resplendant shone, And all my sorrows are by sighs express'd. Few are the transports I may hope to share, And retrospection sharpens every pain. The sport of youth, in which I once partook, Nor know but that may be the last I take. The social converse of my only friend, So pleasing once I now can scarcely bear; E'en should an angel from the skies descend, His fine toned accents would disgust mine ear. The frowns of censure, and the smiles of praise, In vain I've tried each Esculapian art To sooth my anguish, and my health regain; Life's vital tide scarce issues from my heart, And slowly creeps along each circling vein. When o'er my glass these heavy eye-balls stray, And almost doubt if his myself I view, How chang'd, how alter'd from my former plight, The dreams of pleasure which I ther pursu,d For sickness yields not to the great or wise. Alike regardless of my friends and foes, for a man to wear long hair, as alfo the pect it, and he gains a victory merely by WHOEVER would deceive the multi. tude, let him not defpair of perfuading them to believe any thing in the world, except truth. ibid. A witty writer favs, as all mankind live in We, the magiftrates, who have finged this paper, for the fhewing of our own innocency in this behalf due declare and manifeft our diflike and deteftation against the wearing of fuch long hair, as againít a thing uncivil and unmanly, whereby men doe deforme themfelves and offend fober and modeft men, and doe corrupt good manners. We doe therefore earneftly in-mafquerade, whoever piefumes to come a treat all the elders of their jurifdiction, as often as they fhall fee caufe to manifelt their zeal against it in their public adminiftrations, and to take care that the numbers of their respective churches be not defiled therewith; that fo, fuch as prove obftinate, and will not reforme themfelves, may have God and man to witness against them. The third month, 10th day, 1649." WHEREVER Bonaparte advances, we are prefented with a dull repetition of the fame fenfelefs addreffes, and the fame naufeous adulations. We find, at Amiens, that a circumftance took place, which, in foine degree, varied the uniformity of the fcene. A rich merchant's daughter had been fo inflamed by heroic defcriptions of the First Conful, that a moft violent paffion took poffeffion of her whole foul. She waited for his arrival with the utmoft impatience. No fooner had Bonaparte entered the apartment, than the young la. dy threw her felf at his feet, and declared her paffion in the most romantic firains. With ineffable condefcenfion the little great man raifed up the afflicted beauty, and confoled her in language not unworthy the knight of La Mancha. Madam Bonaparte joined in this tender fcene, and with all due fenfibility, comforted this unhappy lady, whom her husband's charms had overpowered. Next day fhe prefent mong them barefaced, muft expect to be abufed by the whole affembly. ibid. TERMS OF THE BALANCE. Hither the products of your closet-labert bring, FOR THE BALANCE. OBSERVATIONS ON POPULATION. THE ty four years, this new race, at the period Men, the most inconfiftent beings, known among all God's works, are ever HE number of inhabitants on quarrelling and fighting for territory; yet this globe has been computed at nine hunthere now is, ever has been, and, unless dred and fifty millions. According to the human nature fhould be radically chang. eftimate of Mr. William Carey, a gentle-ed, always will be, room enough and much man in England, it is about feven hundred and thirty one millions. Do&tor Morfe thinks the laft eftimate confiderably too large; and particularly that the population of all America, including the iflands, which Mr. Carey reckons to be above ninety millions, does not actually exceed twenty millions. If Doctor Morfe's i deas on the subject be correct, the prefent population of the whole world is rather below than abové feven hundred millions. This number of people, vaft as it is, might, in a few centuries, proceed from one more than enough for all. The habitable -- -a number more than four times as great as that of the actual inhabitants of the globe. culture and of the other neceffary arts and sciences, to obtain a univerfal prevalence, 66 making wars to cease to the ends of the earth," and warming every bofom with benevolence; and were this Irappy ftate of things to continue a few centuries, the whole world might be filled with people "the folitary places would rejoice” in a fullness of inhabitants, and the wildernefs, under the hand of peaceful cultivation, would "bloffom as the rofe:" but while human nature continues to be marked with fraud, malignity and violence, fo that " man is a wolf to man," a full population of the earth will be impoffible. BALANCE QUERIST. Question. W HAT is the most remarkable range of mountains within the limits of the United States ? Anfwer. The Alleghany mountains are vaftly preeminent in magnitude and length. This vaft chain of mountains is nine hundred miles in length, and from sixty to an hundred and fifty and two hundred miles in breadth -it divides the States into Atlantic and Western, and is called the back bone of the United States. Though lefs than feven centuries and an half, in the ratio of New England population, (that is, reckoning twenty four years to be the period of doubling,) would, from one pair, replenish and even overcharge the world with people, yet fuch repulfive, unfriendly, malignant quali repulfive, unfriendly, malignant qualities there are in human nature, that, were the world to continue forever, it would never be filled with inhabitants, unlefs mankind fhould be generally and radically changed and meliorated. Were the chril-filippi, into Georgia, and terminates iixty tian religion in its power and genuine purity, attended with the knowledge of agri The chain of the Alleghany commences with the Kaats-Kill, in the neighbourhood of the Hudfon river, in plain view and appearing near from the city of Hudíon : thence it extends South-Wefterly, nearly parallel to the coaft of the Atlantic, be tween that, the lakes, and the river Mif miles South of the Northern boundary of that State. Through this range there run feveral rivers, "which appear to have broken their way through folid rocks :" other rivers, particularly feveral which empty themselves into the gulph of Mexico, have their fources in this vaft reiervoir of waters, the Alleghany. flicks to his man, even though his man of all public agents, are too high and, in (hould neglect to stick to principle-is dif. fact, infufferable; and, on getting into the honeft! and ought to be defpiled and a. majority, and getting into office, remains || voided. It behoves every man, there- filent on that head, and freely pockets one fore, who is in pursuit of truth and infor- of those enormous falaries, without mur. mation, to attend particularly to every fyl-muring-let us-But, hold-this brings lable that falls from the lips of political the bufinefs rather too near home. Let him obferve whether preceptors. they always fpeak one language-whether they always talk alike, and tell one ftraight they adhere to one uniform fet of principles-whether their o pinions of any particular measures are the fame under one adminiftration, as under another; or whether, on the contrary, fomething like office-feeking, has not induced them uniformly to condemn one fet of men and uniformly to applaud a nother fet of men, without regarding their conduct. "Bones and fhells, (fays Mr. Evans,) which efcaped the fate of fof er animal fubitances, we find mixed with the old materials, and elegantly preferved in the loofe flones and rocky bafes of the high-tory-whether eft of these hills." Unwilling to credit Mofes's hiftory of the deluge, which Mr. Evans deems too great a miracle to be believed, he attempts to account for the local fituations of those bones and thells, by fuppofing that this world was formed out of the ruins of another ! The Alleghany mountains are next in fize and length to the Andes: there is a probable conjecture that they were orig inally a part of the Andes; and that the gulph of Mexico which intervenes, had been a part of the continent, and either formed by the continued force of the trade winds, or the land funk by fome terrible convulfion of nature, leaving the iflands called Weft-Indies, which were the mountainous parts of the land, above the furface of the waters. THE PLOUGHMAN. FOR THE BALANCE. Messrs. EDITORS, POLITICAL OLITICAL preceptors, otherwife called demagogues, like every other evil, may, if properly employed, be made to yield fome advantage. The perfon who intends to receive any benefit from them, fhould pay the ftriéteft attention to their precepts. He should remember minutely all the doctrines and opinions advanced by them at one time, and carefully compare them with thofe contended for at another. The politician whose principles and fentiments, at all times, and under all circumftances, are ever found perfectly confiftent-whofe opinions do not vary with every change of adminiftration-who will not applaud when in the majority, what he had condemned while belonging to the minority, who, in fhort, is the advocate of principles, not of men ; and who has but one language, and that the language of his heart-is honeft. H is entitled to the respect, the esteem, and the fupport of the independent yeomanry. But the fupple, trimming, accommodat. ing, fycophantic demagogue, who changes his character, his conduct and his language, as often as a ftage-player-who If a man tells us, during one adminif tration, that a law which prevents malcious lying is unconflitutional and tyran. ical; and, during another, that a law which prevents the telling of truth is juft and falutary-let as avoid and delpife him. If a man tells us, at one time, that none but tyrants will deliberate in fecret; and, at another, that republicans fhould not be blamed for it-let us avoid and defpife him. If a man clamors vehemently again one adminiftration for taxing the poor, and then extols the next, for reducing the taxes of the rich, without lightening thofe of the poor-let us avoid and defpife him. If a man blasts one prefident for appointing tories to office, and praifes another, who appoints four times as many -let us avoid and despise him. If a man, in the year 1800, curfes a public debt, and in the year 1803, declares a measure wife which increafes our public debt, fifteen millions of dollars-let us avoid and defpife him. If a man tells us it is wrong for one adminiftration to place money at the dif cretionary difpofal of an officer, and that it is all right for another adminiftration, to put two millions of dollars in the hands of the prefident, to be accounted for "we know not when"-let us avoid and def pile him. If a man condemns one prefident for making too many appointments of men of his own political feet, and juflifies another for turning out of office, every man, however capable or faithful, who differs with him in political fentiments-let us avoid and despise him. It a man, while in the minority, and without office, declares that the falaries You must know, Meffrs. Editors, that my preceptor formerly talked charmingly on the fubje&t of high falaries-indeed, he once went fo far as to tell me, that a rich man, if he was a real patriot, would ferve the people for nothing. But he always infifted upon it, that every public officer in the United States, received at leaft twice as much as his fervices were worth, He had the patience, about four years ago, to reckon, with a piece of chalk, upon my hearth-ftone, the exact fum which the pref ident of the United States received for ev. ery day that he was in office; and then, looking round on my family he exclaim. ed, "Sixty-eight dollars and an half a-day, in cash, this man receives, taking Sunday, rain and fhine, all together-more money than a farmer spends in a whole year; and this (adds he) is not the worst of it-every petty officer in the union receives proportionably extravagant." wages ་་ "It I remember right (faid 1) twenty five thousand dollars a year, is ty eight dollars and a half a day. Some prefling bufinefs called my precep. for away; and I had no opportunity to fpeak with him, until after he had obtained a very lucrative office for himfelt. My! preceptor is rich; yet I cannot learn that he has offered to ferve the people for noth ing: Nay, I am credibly informed that he receives as high a falary as his extravagant predeceffor; and that he has never once been heard to complain of its being to high. I earnestly beg my fellow.t mers to think of these things, at fome mo ment when they are wholly free from prej udice or partiality towards either party. ; A PLOUGHMAN, At his Dek. |