Agricultural. EXTRACT. The following is an Account of the method of making the famous Parmelan Cheefe; from the 7th Volume of Young's Annals of Agriculture. [Con. Cour.] "THE me of making the Cheefe is a. bout 12 o'clock; and they put together the morning's and the evening's milk.With the milk when cold, there is put into the kettle, about the fize of a walnut of carning, which is the ftomach of a calf, beat up with falt. When the milk is a little warm, they put a little arnatta into the kettle, and ftir the milk: this arnatta is a dye, they buy at a furgeon's fhop, that gives the particular colour Parmelan Cheefe has. When the milk is warm e nough the kettle is moved off the fire, and when it goes together, the curd is broke a little and then the kettle is moved on the fire again for a minute or two. When moved off again, the curd is broke very much first, with an inftrument like a churn flick, and then with a bundle of fmall rods, like what is called a whifk. After the above operation the kettle is moved on the fire again, and the curd conftantly flirred, till it is tough enough for a little of it to flick together, when laid acrofs ones finger. The kettle is moved off the fire, and when the curd goes to the bottom, they prefs the whey out of it with their hands, which makes the curd firm enough to admit of being lifted out of the kettle,into a veffel of the fame fort and fize with the bottom of the kettle. Out of that veffel it is turned over on a floping table, that the curd may run off from it, and when there, a wooden hoop, without any cloth is fixed round it. A coarfe cloth not unlike hair cloth, is laid on the top, and over it a stone, as large as a man can eafily lift. The ends of the hoop are not fixed together, but pafs one another a little; and through a knob on one end, is made a hole through which is run a fmall cord, with a knot at the end of it, which being drawn round the hoop, it ferves to tighten and raife it as the cheefe dries and finks below the edge of the hoop. The cheese remains in the hoop from ten to forty days, according to its fize; and after the fecond day, a little falt is fprinkled on the cheefe when it is turned, from 8 to thirty days, according to its fize. I For that time the cheese lays in a small place in the milk houfe, which is called the lalting-house. From the falting-house the cheeses are removed to the drying-houle, which is fitted up with fhelves, and in which is a great circulation of air.-There they lie till fold; which is generally from nine to twelve months; and during that time they every day turn and rub them with a piece of coarfe ftuff, not unlike a powder puff. -If kept longer, they are obliged to fcrape them instead of rubbing.-Parmesan cheese is beft at three years old." WHY fo much folicitude to converfe, on familiar terms, with men of diftinguish. ed abilities and fortune? Why fo much fervility for the attainment of fuch a diftination, or fo much uneafinefs at difappointment? There is a privilege ftill more valuable, within the most common reach : we may converse at pleasure, and without ceremony, with the moft illuftrious men in their works; wherein alfo they have been careful to fay thofe things which they thought the moft worthy of being faid, and in the best manner they could. Add to this, that fuch a kind of converfe, while it inftructs us at our own pleasure, is in no danger of alloy or interruption from the cafual variation and refentment of the human mind. Literary Motice. AMERICAN PLAYS. Propofals have been iffued for publiming the Dramatic Works of WILLIAMA DUNLAP, late proprietor and manager of the New-York Theatre. The work will be comprised in ten small duodecimo volumes, at one dollar each, in boards.-The whole to contain forty-two Plays, many of them entirely original; others tranflated or altered from the German and French. Amongst them are the best pieces of Kotzebue, dive fled of their imperfections, and prefented in an entire new drefs. EXTRACT FROM THE PROPOSALS. Most of the above pieces have been performed on the American flage, but have not beenpublished; a few of them have neither been performed or published-But the whole will be carefully corrected and revi fed, and many of them will be nearly re written. Age and experience, it is prefumed, will enable the author to correct many of the errors and inaccuracies in his earlier productions. Independent of any merit thefe plays may poffefs, the publisher hopes that Tome intereft will be excited in the American Public, to preferve in a refpectable form, the works of the first native of the United States who has devoted his time and talents to Dramatic compofition." Biographical. FOR THE BALANCE. MR. CROSWELL, SINCE WILLIAM EATON, Efquire, hav begun to make a confiderable figure in Atrica, I difcover feveral attempts to give a brief account of his biography, all of which are very incorrect. If you think it will be interefting to any of your readers, you may publish the following brief fketch, which may be relied on as abfolutely corre&t. WILLIAM EATON was bort, in Old Afhford, in Connecticut, about the year 1765. His father (who died laft fpring) was a very refpectable farmer. William, having received a good common school education, was fent to Dartmouth college, where he acquitted himself much to his honor. He then entered upon the fudy of the law, and finally commenced bufinefs in that profeffion in the fate of Vermont. He had been there but a very fhort time, when he was appointed clerk to the Vermont houfe of reprefentatives. Next he recruited a fine company of troops in Vermont for the western army. This compa cafe for forty hours, (only two or three Political. FROM THE UNITED STATES' GAZETTE. Spoliations on our Commerce. T EVER fince the introduction of "economies" into our fyftem of government, and the confequent reduction of our navy to the "least competent force," our neutral rights have become, fyftematically, an object of fcorn and derifion with every nation with whom we are connected. The armed fhips of England and France have, for nearly two years, been in the habit of blockading our ports and harbours; attacking and capturing each other within our jurifdiction; feizing upon our vef fels in fight of port, and impreffing our feamen and citizens in open defiance of our fovereignty and their protections. Nay, the miferable Spaniard, who has hardly an existence or a name among the independent nations of the earth, rifes into a momentary importance when put in comparison with a government still more pufillanimous than his own; and unable to refit the temptation of fhewing that there is one power on earth fufficiently contemptible to be fpurned and trampled on with impunity even by him, he too e THE cause of the People against Amos Muzzy, (poft-mafter) on the complaint of Sylvanus Dyer, for having unlawfully broken the feal of a letter handed him by the complainant to be forwarded by the mail, was tried before the court of common pleas and general feflions of the peace for the county of Oneida, at their late feffions. The facts in this cafe, as they appeared in teftimony, it is underflood, were, that a certain remonstrance was in circulation for the fignature of the people of the town of Sangerfield, to be forwarded to the Legiflature then in feffion; the object of which was to prevent that town from being again attached to the county of Chenango. This remonftrance was to have been forwarded by one of the mem. bers of the legiflature from Oneida county who was fhortly to go to Albany, and who, it was fuppofed was friendly to the object of the remonftrance. But the complain-reets his creit, affects to play the bully; ant had gotten the paper in his poffeffion, and enclosed it in a letter directed to Col. German; this letter was prefented by the complainant to Col. Muzzy, as poft-mafter, to be forwarded by mail, ftating at the fame time the contents of the letter. The queftion was asked what number of fign. ers there were to the remonftrance, and an answer was given, which, it was fuppofed, and as afterwards appeared, did not accord with the fact. It was wifhed by Col. Muzzy, who in common with others, felt extremely interefted in the fubject, that other perfons (hould fign the remonftrance, who were then ready to do it, and he therefore requested that the letter might be opened and the remonftrance produced for that purpose, and that it might be forwarded in the manner propofed. This being denied, Col. Muzzy called witnelles broke the feal of the letter, took qut the remonftrance, restored the letter to the complainant, procured upwards of thirty additional names to the remonftrance and forwarded it by the member of alsembly from Oneida county as was firit intended. The court allowed the defendant's counfei to go fully into this teftimony as a juftifica. tion, and the jury, after attending to the fame time preparing by force to repel future aggreffions if they fhould be found to be authorised, would be acting just as General Washington and Mr. Adams had acted before; and of courfe would be very unphilofophical and anti-republican. After much deliberation and confultation, a law was finally paffed juft at the close of the fellion, enurled An act for the more effectual Prefervation of Peace in the Ports and Harbors of the United States, nd in the waters under their jurifdiction.' This law enacts, that foreigners, in armed veffels, fhall not commit infults and outrages in our ports and harbors; and if they do, that our marfhals, and conflables, and militia men fhall go and take them out of their fhips of war and have them before our juftices, by whom they fhall be fined and imprisoned and sent out of the coun try, and they shall never come here again. If any thing was before wanting to ren ker us completely ridiculous as well as contemptible in the eyes of foreign nations, it was just fuch a law; a law, which was intended merely to be talked of, and to enable the friends of the administration to fay that fomething had been done for the vindication of our national rights and fovereignty; a law which at the time of its paffage we predicted would never be carried into execution; because, paltry and inadequate as it is, we knew that the administration would never have the courage to execute it. The event has verified the prediction. Those very humiliating infults which that law was to prevent and punish, have been feizes upon our veffels public and private; daily increafing till there is now scarcely retufes to fatisfy our claims, which have a port of any confequence in the United once been acknowledged as fair and valid ; States which is not blockaded in form by and fuffers our minifters, one after anoth-armed veffels of fome foreign power, and er, to make him humble court; to pray, that he will graciously be pleafed, in his great mercy, to do us juftice; and then to depart as they went, leaving him here. after either to grant or reject our prayers (for they cannot be called demands) as humour or intereft dictate. may fcarcely a mail arrives that does not bring intelligence of fome violence committed upon the perfons or the property of the citizens of this "free, fovereign and independent nation." Where then is this formidable law which was to arm Mr. Jefferfun with power to overawe the nations of Europe, & compel them to obferve the laws of nations and refpect the rights of neutrality? Is it totally inadequate to the ob Such is the fituation of our foreign relations. Yet, "Gallio cares for none of these things." Our adminiftration, fufi. ciently occupied and amufed about horn-ject, that it fhould fleep in total inactivity ed frogs, falt mountains, and prairie dogs, leave the subordinate concerns of national rights to take their own course. It is true, that during the laft feffion of congrefs the clamours of the country became to great, in confequence of the injuries and infults that were heaped upon us, in our very harbors, that government was at length forced to affe&t fome folicitude upon the fubject. It then became a queftion what was to be done. To fend and remonftrate with thofe governments by whofe fubjects the outrages were comnited, demanding reparation and at the in fuch times as this? If fo, the more shame to those who made it and those who praifed it, when they ought to have been doing fomething that would be efficient to our protection and for the prefervation of peace in our ports and harbours. On the contrary, will it be faid by any one that the act was dictated by political wifdom, and that it is competent to the object for which it was made? The very acknowl edgment is the fevereft of all reproaches upon the chief magiftrate of the Union, who having in his hands the means of prote&ting our rights looks on with perfect unconcern, for month after month, and fees them made the sport, the derifion, and the prey of every paltry picaroon that navigates our waters, while he is amufing himself and the nation with knick-knacks and playthings that would difgrace a fchool boy. Hudson, October 1. <<&&&XX<#>NN&&&>> Be it our weekly task, To note the passing tidings of the times The Proprietors of HUDSON ACADE MY, are desired to meet at the Academy, on the second Saturday of October (12th) at 3 o'clock, P, M. for the purpose of choosing Trustees, &c. LOOK OUT! On Saturday night, an attempt was made to rob The shop of Mr. STANTON, Watch-Maker, in this city. The villain had cut off one end of a fold of the shutter to the bow-window,, in which a great number of Watches were hanging, when he was heard by a person who slept in the shop. He effected his escape, however, without being discovered.-Will not such facts convince the citizens of Hudson of the necessity of maintaining a night-watch? From the N. Orleans Gazette, Aug. 3. It was yesterday reported, and this morning we are told from a correct source, that the late Spanish Intendant, Morales, has received orders from his court to fell all all the vacant lands in Eaft and Weft Florida, and it is faid fales will be immediately made, even of lands, within the boundary claimed by the United States. From the Norfolk Herald of Sept. 11. CONFIRMATION OF THE NEWS OF PEACE WITH TRIPOLI. Yesterday arrived in Hampton Roads the United States' Frigate Prefident, Commodore Barron, Capt. James Barron, in 38 days from Gibraltar. By this hip we are relieved from all anxiety upon this interefting fubject, for not only does he bring the certain accounts of peace being con. cluded, and the release of our unfortunate countrymen, but he has brought Captain Bainbridge, his officers and part of his crew, a number of whom are now in town We offer them our felicitations upon this happy occafion, and fincerely hope that the pleasures they will meet in their native country, and in the embraces of their friends, will compenfate in a meafure their past fufferings. We are forry to understand Commodore Barron has returned in very bad health, The particulars which we have collected are corroborative of what has been already published-General Eaton deferves great credit; to his enterprize and cour- General Eaton's army was, we under- The refult of this action appears to have been an immediate propofal from the Ba fhaw for peace; Col. Lear went immediately to Tripoli and a treaty of peace was figned on the 3d of June, and our countrymen releafed the next day. The terms we cannot learn fully, but we understand that as far as we had Tripolitans they were exchanged man for man, for the balance of Americans remaining we are to pay '69, ooo dollars. Some provifion but what we cannot understand, is made for the Ex-Bafhaw his wile and family who were detained as hoftages, are to be liberated, As the official accounts are gone on to Washington we muft fufpend our curiofity as to the other article for the prefent. The following is an extract of a letter from commodore Barron, to William Eaton, Efq. dated MALTA, March 22, 1805. "You must be (enfible that in giving their fanction to a cooperation with the Ex-Bafhaw, Government did not contem,. plate the meafure as leading neceflarily and abfolutely to a reinftatement of that Prince in his rights to the Regency of Tripoli: They appear to have viewed the cooperation as a means, which, if there exifted energy and enterprize in the exile, and attachment to his perfon on the part of his former fubje&is, might be employed, The Prefident left Syracufe the 7th Ju- to the common furtherance and advantage ly: The following was the diftribution of of his claims and our caufe; but without the American squadron at that time. The meaning to fetter themfelves by any fpecif Frigates, Conflitution, Conftellation and ic or definite atttainment as an end, Effex, with the brigs Syren and Vixen, which the tenor of my inftru&tions and and Bombketch Hornet, were at Sy- the limited fum appropriated for that spe.. racufe; the Argus had failed for Egypt,cial purpofe clearly demonftrates. I fear.. and the Nautilus for Meflina. The trig. ate John Adams and two Gun-Boats anchored the day the Prefident failed. General Eaton failed for the United States in a merchant veffel. The Ex-Bashaw was at Syracufe when the President failed. The Prefident on her paffage to Gibraltar got near the Spanish Coaft was taken for a British Frigate, and fired upon from the Batteries. It may be grateful to the friends of the officers, who have been in captivity, to know where they now are, we therefore know where they now are, we therefore have procured the following account of them. by the Convention you feem to think of making with Hamet, that a wider range would be taken than is confiftent with the powers vefied in me for that particular object. These apprehenfions may perhaps prove groundless on further reprefentations from you, but under prefent imprefGions, I feel it my duty to flate explicitly, that I must withold my fan&tion to any convention or agreement, committing the U. S. or tending to imprefs upon Hamet Bafhaw, a conviction that we have bound ourselves to place him upon the Throne. The confequences involved in such an engagement cannot but ftrike you forci A divifion of the enemy's flotilla, confifling of four praams, forty brigs, and twenty fchuyts, put to fea on Wednesday laft from Dunkirk, and after fuftaining fmart attack from feveral of our cruizers, fucceeded in anchoring in Calais roads, clofe in with the batteries. On the following morning, at dawn of day, they weighed and stood along the fhore for Boulogne, the grand depot. Private letters from Paris, of the 17th ult. ftate, that an immenfe number of expected to vifit the camps at Boulogne. A private letter from Boulogne, ex- "I have seen here the finest fpectacle in bly,and a general view of our fituation in LONDON, JULY 24-AUG. 9. The utmoft activity prevails both in the marching of troops to different points of the coaft from the Texel to Boulogne, and the naval preparation for invafion. A large depot of artillery, baggage and stores of all kinds, is forming at the Helder; all paffports have been difcontinued, and an embargo was,according to private accounts expected every hour to be laid on all shipping in the Batavian ports, I have alfo feen the English ranging at North, the fort of Creche to the South, A letter from an officer belonging to Admiral Calder's fquadron, who took charge of the two captured Spanish fhips after the engagement off Cape Finisterre, with the combined fleet, and conducted them into Plymouth, (Eng.) fays, "I found one of them in a moft terrible fitua tion, having 150 men killed and 40 wounded; next day took her in tow they are both Spaniards; one of them an 80 gun hip and the other a 74. On board the two captured fhips were altogether 500 men killed and wounded. The Brifh Fleet not above 50 killed in the whole and not many more wounded." Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Norwich, Con- APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT. JOHN BRECKENRIDGE, Esq. Attorney General for the United States. JOHN COBURN, Esq. Judge of the Territory of REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, DEATHS BY THE FEVER. Sept. 17.-Everard Benjamin, Phebe Johnson, Ann Boles, John Van Wart, David Jones, William Smith and James Smith-7, and 14 cases. Sept. 18.-Dominick Lively, James Bazen and Maria Miller-3, and 7 cases. Sep. 19,-John Maxwell, John Thomas, Mr. Steward, Lewis Bache, James Hawey. William Knowland, Henry Luke, Nancy Sweeny-8, and 7 cases. Sep. 20th-Caleb Smith, John Long, Mary Sep. 22nd.-No deaths-3 cases. Sep. 23.-No deaths-16 cases. Sept. 24-Grace Sharp, Robinson Hazard, Mary Dunn, James Kirkwood, Nicholas, 5, and 30 cases Sept. 25.-Jane Mills, Rebecca Byass, Chloe Coles, Michael Feely, Mary Collendon, Dominick Purcell-6, and 23 cases. The knell. DIED, At Charleston, (S. C ) on the 28th Aug. General CHRISTOPHER GADSDEN, a revolutionary patriots aged 82. At Savannah, Mr. EBENEZER HILLS, (formerly of Massachusetts) aged 58. At the city of Washington, of a fever taken at New-York, Mr. JOHN HODGKINSON, the celebrated comedian. At Bath, Georgia, Col. ROBERT WATKINS, OF Augusta, aged 40. On Saturday the 14th ult. Widow ABIGAIL ARMSTRONG, Æt. 85, of this city. FOR THE BALANCE. THE TIMES. THE real poet, by his useful art, Should for his country all his skill impart : Our commerce with our fame began to flowOur land an asylum was to all below. Th' oppress'd, and all degrees of men came o'er To shun distraction on their native shore. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Diversity. EXTRACTS.. 1 USEFUL. A MACHINE has lately been put into Her chiefs, her warriors, and her statesmen praise, M'Bride, of South-Carolina, but late from the Secretary of State's office, by Mr. John And for the meed divine men's wishes raise, Sometimes a strange transaction calls forth men, The good, the just, the brave, were then in rule, Brought up and nourish'd in the fed'ral school, Safe whilst the Constitution, bravely sway'd, Fair freedom's charms to distant lands display'd; No power o'ergrown, no tyrant to controul, They gave to virtue all the force of soul; This, like rich soils, gave vigor to the root, Made bold by freedom and renown'd for truth. To add increasing worth, behold the man Who early for her freedom first began, To have an empire rising in the west, That should in virtue vie, beyond the rest, This he attain'd by a successful warWas to his soldiers still their guiding star. In times of danger ever undismay'd, His steady soul by weakness ne'er betray'd, When freedom he, and independence won, Then glorious shone the soul of Washington, To his dear country his commission gave, His sword laid down, when he did nobly save, In peace to rest, till time should call again To vindicate the rights of freeborn man. Thus Doria, for his country bravely fought, And her salvation by his actions wrought. All conquerors seek rewards in wealth or fame, By either he unmov'd, was still the same; The same retirement that for war he chang'd, He sought again when peace was well arrang'd. His country grateful for such blessings won, Their love resolv'd to him their darling son: Call'd him again, in peaceful rule to sway, And gild with radiance the just dawning day, Which Liberty then gave this western clime, To grow in virtue, and to drop with time. Sweet roll'd the years, tho' war two realms harrass'd, Sweet peace was ours, that others' peace surpass'd; The vine and fig-tree shade men then could use, And freedom, link'd with peace, their bliss diffuse: Tenneffee, and a patent taken out for fecuring the profits thereof to the ingenious inventor. This machine, which is called the Columbian Spinfter, is lo contrived as to gin, card and fpin, at the fame time; it is operated on by one perfon, who is perfectly adequate to the whole direction of it. This model fpins twelve threads, and machines may be fo enlarged as to fpin any greater number. The machine requires no other attendance, than the perfon who feeds it with the feed cotton, who alfo turns the wheel by which the operations are carried on. It might be advantageously worked by water: the owner of the prefent model finifhed one of fifteen threads (which he left in Tenneffee) that by great exertions, extended each thread feven yards in a minute. Many ladies and gentlemeu of Wafhington and Georgetown have seen this model, and expreffed the higheft latisfaction at it. We with our ingenious countryman fuccefs in his invention, and we fincerely hope he may be rewarded in the fale of his machines. No doubt a difcerning public will fee their utility and avail them of the ufe of fo valuable an article. [Washington Paper.] CHILDREN. I am a great advocate for whipping chil. dren. Some perfons talk of reafoning with fuch beings; it is impoffible; they cannot be governed by appealing to their good fenfe, their dutifulnefs, their love of parents, and refpe& for inftru&ions. How paffionate, irrational a creature is man at full age, in the height of his faculties, in the bloom of his excellence! Do you think children more reafonable because they are younger? If they play truant, would a lecture on the importance of education be to good to their minds, as the rod to their backs? Parents may rely on it, that they are too indulgent, if they never whip, and feldom fcold. The mother has generally the care of the young, and very often contrives to hide from the father the faults of the child, and fometimes even he hides from himself the wicked tricks of the boy or the girl. The child deceives both, and the inftructor deceives all. Butler fays, Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat; and when I furvey the education, commonly practifed, I am apt to think Butler was very right, for never did I read or remark fuch a general fyftem of cheats, cheaters, and cheated. [Monthly Anthology.] |