a great variety and brilliancy of colours, as purple, fleth, green, violet, delicately fhaded with brown or black. On touching the leaves, or arms, they inftantly contracted, and when fmall mufcles were offered them, they grafped them in their arms and conducted them to their mouths, which are fituated in the centre of the bloffom, and directly fwallowed them. Pieces of fhells thus fwallowed, were afterwards discharged by the mouth, perfectly cleared of their contents." The American Geographer further obferves, that the Sea Anemone, or Nettle, is faid to be viviparous, and to produce five or fix young ones at a time and that the Abbe Dicquemarre has fhewn by a courfe of curious but cruel experiments, that thefe animals poffefs, in a most extraor. dinary degree, the power of reproduction; fo that fcarcely any thing more is neceffary to produce as many Sea Anemones as we please, than to cut a fingle one into fo many pieces. If the Sea Nettle is plenty on the American coafts, and fhould be found capable of producing the genuine Tyrian dye, the difcovery will be no inconfiderable acquifition. The curtains of Solomon were tinged with colours from Tyre. When he was building the famous temple, he fent to Hiram, King of Tyre, to fend him a man cunning to work-in purple, and crimson," &c. Improvements. FROM A YORK (Penn.) PAPER. TO THE FARMERS. Mr. KIRK, who lives in this Borough, we underfland will give a faller defcription of this valuable machine, to any perfon defiring it by directing a line to him, poft paid. IN K. Mr. W. Clofe has made a great variety of experiments in order to alcertain the best method of making ink, which fhall not be discharged by time or chemical proceffes; as the refult of his enquiries, he recommends for black ink :-Oil of lavender 200 grains, copal in powder 26 grains, lamp black from two and a half to three grains with the affiftance of a gentle hear diffolve the copal in the oil of lavender in a fmall glafs phial, and then mix the lamp black with the folution upon a marble flab or other imooth furface. The compofition is to be put in a bottle and kept from the air. If, after a few hours, it be found. too thick, it must be diluted with a little oil of lavender, oil of turpentine, or alcohol. For red ink-" Take of oil of laven der 120 grains, copal powder, 17 grains, red fulphur of mercury 60 grains.' "Both thefe compofitions poffefs a permanent colour; the oil of lavender diffipated with a gentle heat, colour is left on the paper furrounded with copal a fubítance infoluble in water, fpirits, acids, or alkaline folutions. A manufcript written with them, may therefore be expofed to the procels commonly used for restoring the colour of printed books, without the fmalleft injury to the writing; and, in this manner, all interpolations with common ink may be remov [London Paper.] ed. HOME MANUFACTURES. Whatever tends to promote the manufacTHE ingenious TIMOTHY KIRK, who is ture of our own country to the abolition of well known for his fkill in mechanifm, has foreign exportation, ought to receive the lately conftructed a machine for threshing utmolt encouragement. The article of Clover feed, that tends very much to leffen itraw bonnets for ladies' wear has hereto, manual labour. The machine may be seen fore been exported to this country from in operation at Caleb Kirk's farm about two Europe, and on them has been paid a duty miles from this Borough. It will readily of 15 per cent. and have been retailed at occur to every intelligent perfon, that a from one to five dollars a piece. We now damp atmosphere, will increafe the difficul- find they can be made in this country, ety of threshing. With this machince,qually as well, quite as elegant, and at a however, a Man, a Boy and a Horfe will thresh ONE HUNDRED BUSHELS of Clover Seed in a month. The Horfe's draught will not be greater, than is required for ftirring fallowed ground. It is adjudged by thofe who have feen the operation, that it will at leaft fave the labour of fifteen hands per day, from the common practice of threshing. It is fuppofed that the machine will not coft more than Twenty or Thirty Dollars, including the Patent-right. Hand mills on the fame principle, will come confid. erable lower. much cheaper rate: In the towns of Wrentham, Franklin, and Bradford, in this ftate, we are told there have been made wholly by women and children upwards of four thousand ftraw bonnets in the courfe of the last and prefent year. They are carried to market and fold to merchants at from 75 cents to two dollars, who can retail thein at a handfome profit 150 per cent. cheaper than thofe imported. It may added that this article of drefs feems to be the first adopted by the fashionables of domeftic manufacture, in preference to for[Newburyport Paper.] eign. be "The defign of the Queftions is to call particular attention to important facts of and types of Chrift, and to prophecies, the facred hiftory, to undoubted promifes already verified by events, or now accomplishing before our eyes. The defign of the Notes is to caft light on the fubjects of fuch questions, as it might be difficult for the young and perfons not verfed in the facred criticism, to anfwer; and alfo to urge the application and improvement of inftructive facts and affecting examples. The Reflections, placed at the clofe of each of the five books, are intended to prefent a concife retrofpect of them, particularly comprising evidences of their di vinity. This part has appeared important to the author, as he believes that incidental evidence, or a few arguments occafionally preffed, has often fucceeded to convince and to confirm, when a profeffed and more extended attempt has been ineffectual. "Befide the object, explained above; which the author had firft in view, he indulges the hope that it may be found a profitable Family Bock; a pleafing mean in the hand of a parent to exercife the ingenuity and to improve the moral and religious knowledge of his child. The child's first tafk may be by reading the Bithe queftions; his fecond, to avail himself ble to obtain fimple and fhort answers to of the notes and reflections. In thofe fchools, from which the Bible has not been excluded, and in those which have admitted the felection, called "Beauties of the Bible," he thinks it might be made a religious exercife of excellent effe&t." Subfcriptions for the above work, as well as for "Forfyth on Fruit-Trees" noticed in our last, will be received at the Balance Office. Be it our weekly task, To note the passing tidings of the times. Hudson, June 14, 1803. PROCEEDINGS ON CROSWELL'S INDICT MENTS. On Monday, the fixth day of June, the counsel of Mr. Crofwell, prefented Certioraris to the Court of Seffions of the county of Columbia, then fitting, for the purpose of removing the Indictments. Mr. Spencer objected to forme defect in the recognizance prefcribed by the ftatute. After a long argument, both parties being unwilling to rifque the opinion of the court, it was accommodated. The Certioraris were allowed, and it was ftipulated that the indictments fhould both be tried at the next Circuit in this county, which fits on the leventh day of July. Mr. Spencer's object in attempting to retain the indictments in the Court of Common Pleas is evident. Crofwell must be convicted, or his reputation as a lawyer muft materially fuffer. Would not his fuccefs be far more probable before a court, a inajority of which were blown into official life by the breath of his noftrils, and whofe official exiftence depends not on their good behaviour, but upon his fovereign will and pleafure? His attempt, however, at the January Seffions, to bind Crofwell to his good behaviour, convinced him that men, whatever may be their difpofitions, may fail in ftrength of nerves. Did he not fear that his prefent attempt to drag Crof. STATE SENATORS-ELECTED. James Burt, John Woodworth, John Tayler, Edward Savage, } Thomas Treadwell, Middle District. Eaflern Diftrid. Caleb Hyde-Western District. In the Wilmington N. C. Gazette of the 12th ult. a reward of twenty dollars is of Extract of a letter from Liverpool, dated gands, it is fuppofed, are on fome fecret fered for apprehending Mr. Benjamin Our Collector had orders on Thuri- Extract of a letter from London, to a He allo "The markets in general are low, except! lumber, which is in demand 45 dolls. by the cargo. The town is rapidly rebuild ing, and every thing wears a favorable ap. pearance. pearance. There is at prefent in port, two "It is ufelefs to difguife impreffions which are irrefiftable. It really does ap-74's one 64, and two frigates. We un pear, as if the prefent adininiftration of derftand that Clarve, a diftinguished officer this country were determined at all haz. among the brigands, is mortally wounded ards to provoke a war. The French I am fure, are not willing to go to war with them, nor will they enter into it unless forced to it. As to the fuggeftion of formidable armaments in the French and Dutch ports, it is erroneous. The truth is, I believe, that Mr. Addington begins to find that he has made a bad peace, and is chagrined at the reluctance of the French to enter into a commercial treaty. begins to perceive, that the predictions of the Grenville and Windham party are in ports of the country begin to decline-all the course of rapid fulfillment. The exinfluence over the politics of the continent is loft-but then what good will a war produce at this time? It may, to be fure, put a flop to the French colonial plays; but it can neither force them into a commercial treaty, or cub their power or influence over the neighbouring nations. However, the public inind is very fretful under the prefent ftate of fufpence. The minifter certainly does not poffefs talents fuited to the exigencies of the nation.--He com. menced by the popular act of making a peace; it was a miferable one, in a political point of view; but he doubtlefs expected to obtain commercial advantages by a commercial treaty, which would compenfate for the defects of the terms of peace. s difappointed and bewildered. His measures are unftsady, and he seems rather to be governed by daily circumftances as they turn up, than giving a direction to folid and fixed measures." Since I had the pleasure of writing you from Natches, I have fately come down the river to this place, and have been here two weeks without accomplishing much bufinefs-indeed there is no fuch thing as felling merchandize at prefent; and many goods can be bought much cheaper here than in Philadelphia. The French adventurers who are coming over in crowds with the idea of making rapid fortunes are most fadly disappointed; they are obliged for their own fubfiftence, and for the purpose of paying the freight, duties, &c. to raise money, they fend their goods to auction, and are oftentimes obliged to facrifice them at one fourth the first coft.Such is the gloom in the mercantile hori zon, and I fcarcely think the political one is much better. What will be the fate of this as well as of all the western country, I am at a lofs to imagine, though I think they depend one on the other, and that they muft ftand or fall together. There can be no doubt but that a confiderable body of French troops will very fhortly arrive here -the prefect is turning the custom houfe, ftore houfes, rope walk, and even the al fembly room into barracks for foldiersin the mean time, he finds confiderable difficulty in making contracts for provií. ions, &c. The American merchants have refused to enter into any engagements with him, as he wishes a credit of one and two months-The French and Spanith fettlers are equally backward. After the example of Le Clerc's bills in St. Domingo, I do not at all wonder at this refufal; but I am afraid that a requifition will be the conle been told, within a few weeks, for advice | quence as foon as General Victor arrives. that infeft our streets--is it not MADNESS nefs was feen to bite feveral others laft Nothing but depriving a people of their means of fubfiftence, can make them think fdifuniting themfelves to be governed by "When a perfon hath been bit by a dog haughty French prefect, and to fee the that is apprehended to be mad, it commonayonets of Bonaparte's mirmados, glit-ly happens that the dog is killed before ring in their towns. The people of the one is affured of his condition, and the perVeftern Country, have as yet aćted with fon bit continues in a cruel uncertainty. almnefs and propriety, and I hope they M. PETIT, an eminent furgeon in France, ill continue fo to do they ought to rehas difcovered an expedient for putting an ember that it is a Prefident of their own end to this uncalinefs. He rubs the throat, articular choosing, who treats them thus the teeth, and the gums of the dead dog -that it is their own beloved heroes of de- with a piece of meat that hath been dreifed, ocracy & no taxes, who fupport him, & taking care that there be no blood to fain at it is the federalifts of the Atlantic it, and then offers it to a living dog. It he ates alone, who with and endeavor to refufes it with crying and howling, the aintain the rights of the Weftern trade. dead dog was certainly mad; but, if it be hink there can be no doubt, but that the we!! received and eaten, there is nothing to ench mean to keep poffeffion of Louifiafear." ■. They are endeavouring to purchase e Floridas, alfo of Spain. We fhall then in a manter furrounded. Difpatches from our government, arri. d here about a week ago-Tue fubje&t them was the opening of the depofit. t whether they contained any difpatches m Spain or their minifter at Wathing. , is not known-however our conful e was told by the governor, that nothing uld be done at prefent, with regard to oing the port. It will therefore reft with e French, who no doubt occafion it to fhut. CHILLICOTHE, MAY 21. Tis morning, about three o'clock, an exprefs arrived in town from old Chill cothe. with information, that yesterday afternoor Capt. Herod, while at work in his field, Capt. Herod, while at work in his field, had been fhot and fcalped by the Indians, and who was not dead at the time he was difcovered by his family, but was able to relate fome of the circumftances and died foon after, having had two balls through his head. A body of upwards 40 Shawnees from Sandusky, had been for feveral days lurking between Weftfall and that fettlement and who immediately after the der, went to the praire, drove the horfes over the creek, and took as many as they wanted and made off. On the alarm be. Have within a few days paft become a ing given, the citizens of this town imme ror to the inhabitants of this part of the diately turned out a company of volun e--we noted a few weeks fince, the dep-teers, who left this about day-light.-The ations committed by one in Bridge-alarm through the country being general, we hope to give a good account of them in ELIZABETH TOWN, MAY 31. n; fince which we have heard of fevinftances of others having been feen in ous parts of this neighbourhood-one pringfield, a few days fince, bit a man moft fhocking manner; he immediate, pplied to Dr. Steele, at Belle-Ville, pronounced it the worft wound he ever feen occafioned by the bite of a ; this man is the FORTIETH patient has applied to the fame doctor, we have our next. mur fent them in the next Congrefs, and he is a friend and political adherent of the prefent adminiftration.-He cannot be miflèken as to facts and his opinions are highly wor thy of credit." New-Orleans, 14th April, 1803. "I have been here eight days, and find our affairs in ftatu quo-The intendant He wears in the moft folemn manner, will not open the port or give us a depofi. that the depofit fhall not be granted while he remains in the office.-Many of his friends are well affured that he wishes to turnifh a pretext to the Americans to make a defcent upon this port and country; ifter of his Catholic Majelly to purfue this and that he is fecretly inftructed by the min measure. profeffions to the Americans are amicable "The French Perfe&t has arrived. His at prefent; but I think on the establishchange his tone. He is waiting for Genment of the French government he will eral Victor and the French troops before he begins his adminiftration. Every expedient will be tried to inveigle our government and Gink it into fupinenefs. Now is merican to feek redrefs and future fecurity. the crifis, the important crifis for the AThe people here (a few Creoles excepted) would rejoice at prompt and effectual mealures being used by the people of the west ern country. place is faid to be ordered for St. DominThe French army deftined for this go: a place of depofit is ftill refused to us; the mit favourable opportunity in the world now prefents itfelf, and if loft, I fear can never be regained. A few men would take this place for they would meet with little or no efiitance. It would furprife you to fee the lively intereft which the peo. ple here take in the future well being of they read, and re-echo the fpeeches of the our nation; and the rapture with which fenators who were in favor of taking immediate poffeffion of this country. "I hope in God's name that our weftand put in readinefs, and that no time may ern militia may be immediately equipped he loft in purfuing the means of our tafety. By our enemies we are charged with want of public fpirit. The Spaniards view the French with horror and difguft. They fee their own government on the brink of ruin "We lay before our readers the follow-by the intrigues of French policy and like ing letter which has been received in this place from a gentleman in New-Orleans. PITTSBURGH, MAY 27. The writer of it is high in the confidence of a large portion of the people on the western waters; he has been chofen to repre confequences. They feem impatient of a man in despair are regardless of further delay, and often utter their furprife at the tameness and pufillanimity of the wefteru country." The Wreath. [The following humorous Ode appeared in the Northern Budget, in the spring of 1802. Our readers will judge whether it might not be justly applied to May, 1803, when severe frosts and snowstorms, rendered the season as dreary as December. Edit. Bal] A MAY-DAY ODE, Adapted to the present and approaching season." CEASE, ye lying Bards—give o'er : Chaunt the Joys of Spring no more : Where the boasted charms of MAY? Are they seen, cr felt, to-day ? Show me now green fields and bowers, • Purling streams, and fragrant flowers.' Where your songsters in the grove, • Warbling tender tales of love Where are now your tender lambs, Frisking, sportive, round their dams?' Where your odours on the gale, Gently wafted through the vale?' Where's your love-inspiring breeze, Sighing softly through the trees?' Where your gentle, tepid showers, Bringing herbage, grass and flowers?' Do young and old come forth to play, • On THIS Sunshine holiday?' Where's your Philomela's note, Which on evening's breeze doth float?' Where your turtles, kind and true, In the nest to bill and coo ?'Come with me this morn-and, hark! Can you hear the rising lark Pour her song to greet the day, On this smiling morn of May Where's your goddess cloth'd in green, 4 4 • With timid air and graceful mein, Gently breaking on the view, • Deck'd with pinks and vi'lets blue,' Through whose flaxen tresses gay • Zephyrs, Loves, and Graces play ?' (My heart, I'm sure, gains much more heat, When by the fire I toast my feet.) If young or old wish to carouse, They'll surely do it in the house : For, till the ground is somewhat thaw'd, None but a fool would walk abroad. Poor Philomela's love-sick note, I fear, is frozen in her throat, Turtles, in nests, may bill and coo, And keep quite comfortable too; And, if each other's health they prize, They'll wait till noon before they rise. The lark, if she the dawn invoke, Must wear a fur-cap, boots, and cloak. And if your GODDESS Out must trip it, Pray, help her to a muff and tippet: If she with flow'rs must be array'd, (As Nature has none ready made, Except her last year's stock of thistles) Provide her with some artificials. The Loves and Graces keep at home; For, should they with their mother roam, Unless you get them winter clothes, They'll freeze their fingers, ears, and toes, And catch their little deaths. But stayYour QUEEN will not walk forth to day: Check'd in her full career to fame, She'll keep within, to hide her shame ; And, while her cot the tempests rocks, She'll trim the fire, and darn her socks. TERMS OF THE BALANCE. To City Subscribers, Two Dollars and fifty cents, payable in quarterly advances. To Country Subscribers, who receive their papers at the office, Two Dollars, payable as above. To those who receive them by the mail, Two Dollars, exclusive of postage, payable in advance. 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HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1803. Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, FOR THE BALANCE. POLITICAL SKETCHES. SPECULAT No. I. OPECULATIONS on civil government often prove fallacious from the circumftance of their being founded on too flattering an opinion of human nature. Man is regarded as a creature, that loves the light of truth and is obedient to the dictates of reafon -every movement of his foul (unlefs clouded with ignorance) is in a fuppofed harmony with the focial and general interefts; every cord of his heart vibrates in unifon with the public good. The people labour under no contamination, but fuch as has proceeded from bad forms of government and from vicious rulers. "Unfhackle them, fays the theorist, from fyftems of monarchy and hierarchy; free them from the abfurd prejudices with which they have been leaded by villainous politicians and priefts, and they will never fail to judge and to act correctly. Give them but freedom and the means of political knowledge, and, with undeviating fleps, would they tread the path of wifdom. The public good would be their pole-ftar. The divinity would flir within them ;-from a ftate of "perfectability," they would foon mount up to the proud pinnacle of perfection itfelf: all their deeds would wear the ami able marks of juftice and humanity, and their voice would be unerring like the On these principles, the clofet-vifiona- the intoxicating poifon. Flattery is delicious among all delicacies, this is the fweetest morfel to the human palate. It is with raptures of delight, people hear that they are "wife as ferpents and harmless as doves;" that their judgment is correct and their difpofitions equitable and amiable; that, in their collective capacity, they can do no wrong, and that their voice is the voice of God. Yet let the truth be told, tho' it be to unwilling ears. In the auguft prefence of truth, thele mental vifions are diffipated like mifts before the fun. Upon Herschel, Saturn, Jupiter, or fome other of the furrounding planets, there poffibly may be a fuperior order of creatures whose nature and character comport with the flattering description of the difciples of the new School; but in vain might we search for fuch an order of creatures upon this earth.. Rulers, from the beginning of the world to the prefent day, especially if they have to the present day, especially if they have been called by the odious name of kings, he believes to have been little better than incarnate devils; while the people he There is a monftrous principle of selfclothes with the attributes of deity.ifhnefs in human nature, that is the great Hence, from his own diftempered imag-fource of all thofe bitter waters which ination, and in a totally wrong view of flow over the world. It is this, that poihuman nature, he fpins out political theofons focial happiness and rents in pieces ries, which are ingeniously abfurd. The wife-headed people, he thinks, can demolthofe fyftems of government, which are moft friendly to the general rights of manifh, build up, alter and regulate forms and kind. A curious mechanic may make a fyftems of government, with as much facility and accuracy as an ingenious mewatch, whofe movements fhall be exactly chanic may take in pieces a watch, scour chanic may take in pieces a watch, fcour regular and uniform; because he adjufts each part to its proper place, and each its wheels, renew its fprings, correct its regulator, and put it together again withpart keeps the place affigned it but if the feveral parts of the watch, by fome magic out misplacing a fingle pin. power, were feemingly endowed with a locomotive faculty and with the difcordant principle of felfifh nefs, infcmuch that the pins fhould thruft themfelves into the place of the regulator, and the wheels into that of the main fpring, it is easy to see that the machine would be thrown into diforder Godwin's Political Juftice and the writings of the French philofophifts are fraught with vifionary ideas fuch as have now been mentioned. They have circulated extenfively; they have been read with avidity; and millions have drunk |