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and confufion. Thus, comparing fmall things with great, a fyftem of tree government the beft that human wifdom could deyife; nay, one that fhould proceed from the immediate dictates of divine infpira- | tion, would be liable to be quickly arrefted in its operations and rendered futile.

Were human nature purged of its drofs and poffeffed of angelical purity, it would be easy to fence against all invafion of the rights of man; or rather, no attempts to invade his rights would ever happen: but as in all preceding ages, fo in the prefent ftate of the world, the general predominance of selfishness and the dark intrigues. and the violent and difcordant gufts of

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from the utmoft extreme of liberty down to the gloomy and horrid abyfs of defpotifm.-Craft eafily enlifts ignorance in its party and service; hypocrify leads fimplicity in its train. Knavery out-wits honefly. Rapacious ambition, in the fair guife of patriotifm; concealing its poinard under its skirt; fmiling, and nodding, and cringing, and ufing words fmoother than oil,"-wins the hearts of the multitude; and is borne along on the tide of popularity and faluted with applaufive fhouts. Faction is fuperfeded by faction: demagogues alternately vanquish and are vanquished; and the people, the sport of villainous intrigues, each one ardently pursuing his own little felfish interefts; all dreaming of fovereignty ;-all afpiring to be gods, fuddenly fall, at laft into the fnares which had been prepared for them, and furrender themfelves at difcretion.

Thefe re hard fayings ;" but their truth is fanctioned by the folemn teftimony of history and experience.

Selected.

FROM THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE.

AUTHENTIC.

Mr. Jefferfon's Paper Money tender to Mr. G. Jones, of Rockingham County.

THE following ftatement of facts, relating to this tranfaction, are inade to the Edito of this paper in a way which has obtained his entire confidence. It is a tranf. action concerning which much has been written-much has been published-much has been faid. Thofe who have in any way interefted themfelves, will be pleafed to fee it reduced to precifion. To a community of fo much intelligence, which contains fo many individuals of great endowments, there can be no neceffity for the ed

itor of this paper to attempt to give a com- || plexion, when the facts fpeak fo loudly and fo eloquently for themselves. By this remark we do not mean to foreftall public opinion as to those editors or writers who may follow a different track. The first duty which we owe to our fubfcribers is to publifh the exact truth, as far as we can obtain it, upon all fubjects which either relate to the public affairs, or to the public characters of the times.

Rockingham, March 17, 1803. Having feen in the Ricmond Recorder fome imperfect statements, unauthorised by me, relative to a transaction which tock

any fum within my power to lend, fhould have rifked his reputation, and attempted to requite my friendship, by repaying the paltry fum of fifty pounds and intereft, with fomething less than one fourth of the real legal intereft then due thereon; which I thought not worth receiving, and therefore, on the return of Mrs. Harvey, re-enclofed to Mr. Jefferfon the faid paper money, together with his bond, in a piece of blank paper, leaving him to his own reflections; refolving at the fame time, not to expofe him until I fhould be advised of the refult of his deliberations on the fubject;-Ot which I heard nothing until the 28th day of February, 1780, when a Mr.

place fome years ago, between Thomas Jet-Leonard Herring, a neighbour of mine ferfon, efq. the prefent chief magiftrate of the United States, and myfelf, I have thought it proper to fet the matter in a fair point of view by giving a true ftate of the facts; which fhould have been done ere

this, had my health permitted. The facts

are as follows, viz.

who is yet living, informed me he had ta ken from the fafh of a window in a public houfe in Staunton, a letter directed to me, which he delivered to my hand. On opening the fuppofed letter, I found it to be part of a half a fheet of paper covering the aforefaid bond. The thin cover however was fo worn out at the folds and corners, that the bond was to be feen, which was

corners.

In the month of September, 1773, Mr. Jefferfon made application to me for the loan of fifty pounds, which he propofed allo confiderably fretted, efpecially at the returning in a few months with thanks, &c. which fum I lent him with the greatest warded, or how it found its way to the fath, By whom that paper was forcheerfulness, having, at that time, the high-where my obliging neighbour accidentally eft confidence in him as a man of honor, difcovered it, I have never yet been able to honefly, and integrity; for which he gave learn: but, from the whole of the circum his bond payable in twelve months, when ftances, I was induced to believe it might propofed, that if his convenience requir- be intended never to reach my hands. ed, he might have it a longer time on con However, atter fundry evafions, and redition that he would punctually pay the intereft annually. This however, Mr. Jef-peated applications to Col. Nicholas Lew is of Albemarle, to whom I was referred ferfon failed doing; nor did I hear from as the agent of Mr. Jefferfon, while he him on the fubject until I received his letwas in France, I received payment of the ter inclofing the principal and intereft in principal and intereft. paper money, which, when it came to my hand, was not worth more than one fhilling in the pound. The following is a corre&t copy of the letter alluded to. "Monticello, April 29, 1779.

"Dear Sir,

GABRIEL JONES.

FROM THE EVENING POST.

MATTHEW LYON.

"By Mrs. Harvey I inclose to you the principal and intereft of the money you were fo kind as to lend me fome years aIT may be recolle&ted, that in one of our go. It furnishes me alfo with an occafion laft papers, we gave an extract from the of acknowledging, with this, the many oth-Washington Federalift, headed Gallatin er obligations under which you have laid me, of which I fhall always be proud to fhew a due fenfe, whenever opportunities

fhall offer.

"I am, dear fir, with much efteem, your friend and fervant.

(Signed) "Th: JEFFERSON.” I confefs that on veiwing the deceptious afpect of the foregoing letter and its enclosure, I felt great furprife and difappointment, that a perfon who flood fo high in the public eftimation as to be, at that time, the governor of Virginia, and who had shared fo much of my private confidence, that he might have commanded

and Mathew Lyon. and Mathew Lyon. From this article it appeared that this imported bear in human fhape, has been appointed agent of the United States for furnishing fupplies to the army, to the exclufion of men of character and refpectability. And it further appear ed that the imported Secretary of the Treafury had honored his draught in an uncommon degree, by paying it about five months before it became due, while the bill of Mr. Steele, late Secretary for the Milliffippi Territory, an American and a federalift, was, under the moft trifling pretences, difhonored and expofed to a proteft; nay, that more than fourteen months had now

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Capt. Jonathan Faffet, Capt. John Faffet, Lieut. Rufus Perry, Lieut. Jonathan Wright, and Lieut. MATHEW LYON, were tried for deferting their pofts on Onion River, without their being attacked or forced by the enemy, and without orders.

"The Court having duly confidered the evidence for and against the prifoners, are of opinion, that Capt. Jonathan Faffet, Capt. John Faffet, Lieut. Jonathan Wright and Lieut. MATHEW LYON, are guilty of deferting their pofts without orders, or without being attacked, or forced by the enemy, and they are alfo, with Lieut. Ru. fus Perry, guilty of a breach of the fixth article of the rules and regulations publifhed by the Honorable, the Continental Congrefs, for the better regulation of the Army. And do adjudge that Capt. Jonathan Fallet Capt. John Faffet, Lieut. Jonathan Wright, Lieut. Rufus Perry, and Lient. MATHEW LYON, be cafhiered, and forfeit all their pay, to be appropriated towards making good the damages fuftained by the inhabitants on Onion River, on account of their unfoldier like behavior; and that they be all, and each of them, declared incapable ever hereafter holding any military command or employment in the States of America.

"And that their names and crimes be published in the newspapers."

This now is another of the war-worn foldiers of the American revolution. We fancy the democratic editors will be a little tender in future how they touch on the revolutionary fervices of "fpitting Mathew Lyon," or " poor Luther Baldwin."

We observe that the fentence incapacitates Mathew from holding" any military command or employment in the States of America." We will not undertake to say that the employment he now holds, that of "Agent for furnishing fupplies to the army," is a military employment; but we will venture to fay, it is an employment that he never would have received from General Washington. He was a man of honourable fentiments, and would have felt the difgrace of having such a creature employed in the moft menial office in his gift. But, aha! the diftribution of honour and office has now fallen to the lot of quite an

other fort of man-one who affures us, under his own hand, that "of the various executive duties, no one excites more anxious concern than that of placing the intereft of our fellow citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding fufficient for their station," and that "time is taken, and information fought, to feek out the best through the Union." Certainly it muft be admitted, that our Prefident is fingularlv happy in making fuch difcoveries who "the belt men through the Union."

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Yes, the likeness is indeed excellent; and nothing is wanting to complete the similitude, but the ship, on board of which "the shipwrecked and unhappy mariner, Federalism," is about to meet such an horrible fate. This ship is the Constitution. She is cast forlorn and desolate upon the boisterous billows of the ocean"-upon Mr. Jefferson's

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tempestuous sea." Federalism (says this democrat)" in vain looks around for some friendly arm to wrest him from a watery tomb."-" In excrutiating agonies, he loudly calls upon his God "-Yes, for Federalism has not yet become sufficiently versed in modern philosophy, to give up his dependence upon God. But, after " struggling for a while," is the Constitution to "" sink," and federalism to "die ?"So says this democrat. But we trust not. The goodly ship, we confess, has been dreadfully shattered. Federalism is alarmed for her safe. ty. But, relying on the goodness of his cause, he will never despair while a spar or a plank of the Constitution remains afloat.

The Bee is a cunning insect. It complains bitterly of the numerous prosecutions for slander which have recently been instituted against Cheetham

and would make these a set-off for indictments a

is neighbor, let the injured citizen appeal to the laws of his country for redress. Let him prosecute the offender-and let him recover such damages, as a jury shall pronounce adequate to the injury sus. tained. In this case, the printer has an cpportunity to give the truth of his charge in evidence; and if he fails in doing it, he is punished by fine alone But how different is the case of an indictment. The printer is arraigned as a public offender. He is not permitted to prove the truth of his charges. And if he is convicted, he is fine, imprisoned, and bound over. If the Bee has a single particle of honesty, it will in future make a proper distinction between

the cases.

A Jeffersonian philosopher, who writes in the New-York Commercial Advertiser, has set up a very handsome defence of cowardice. He says "it is a deficiency of mental energy, and frequently the effect of physical constitution ;" and then, after mentioning a lady who trembled on seeing a broom, and a man who fell into convulsions at the sight of a cat, he declares that he "now knows a very great person, whose legs set off at full speed as soon as he smells gun powder." He closes his essay in a manner which must be highly gratifying to our "serene President:"- "Happy will that age be (says he) when a man may take to his heels at the sight of an enemy, and be as honorable as those who stand in front of the battle."

We admire the following sentiment in the dedication of Junius to the English nation. Its truth will be felt and acknowledged by every man who believes that a solemn and written compact affords better protection to the life and property of the citizen, than the whims, the freaks, the passions and the prejudices of a jacobin club. Americans boast of enjoying more real liberty than any nation in the world. Time only can shew, whether they have virtue and independence enough to protect their constitution from violation.

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"Let me exhort and conjure you (fays Junius) never to fuffer an invasion of your political conftitution, however mi"nute the inftance may appear, to país by, "without a determined, perfevering refiftance, One precedent creates another. They foon accumulate and con"fitute law. What yefterday was fact, to-day is doctrine. Examples are fuppofed to justify the most dangerous "measures; and where they do not fuit exactly, the defect is fupplied by analogy. Be affured that the laws, which protect us in our civil rights, grow out "of the conftitution, and that they must "fall or flourish with it. This is not the "cause of faction or of party, or of any individual; but the common intereft of every man in Britain.”

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gainst federal editors. This is not a mere simple blunder—it is an intentional misrepresentation; for even Holt knows, that the prosecutions against Cheetham were all by private action, and a part of We hope that every MERCURY is not a thief, them instituted by democrats. Private suits for although we observe in that of Mr. Babcock, slander are always justifiable. If a printer slanders || production stolen from the Balance.

Agricultural.

FROM THE COMPLETE FARMER.

ENGLISH MANNER OF MOWING WHEAT.

Mr. De Lifle introduced in England the mowing of Wheat, according to the following method.

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HE fcythe is at leaft fix inches fhorter in the blade than the common fcythe; and inftead of a cradle has two twigs of ofier put femicircular wife into holes made in the handle of the fcythe,

near the blade, in such a manner that one femicircle interfects the other,

By this method of mowing wheat, the ftanding corn is always at the left hand. The mower mows it inward, bearing the corn he cuts on his fcythe, till it comes to that which is ftanding, againft which it gently leans, After every mower follows a gatherer, who being provided with a hook or stick, about two feet long, gathers up the corn, makes it into a gavel, and lays it gently on the ground. This must be done with fpirit, as another mower immediately follows,

Monitorial Department.

To aid the cause of virtue and religion.

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FOR THE BALANCE.

REFLECTIONS ON THE GREATER FORCE OF
PARENTAL, THAN OF FILIAL AFFECTION.

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T has been remarked by a celebrated writer, that it is easier for one father to maintain ten children, than it is for ten children to maintain one father. Indeed this is not univerfally true; moft willingly is it acknowledged that there have been many inftances of filial duty and attachment ;-many inftances of children who have cheerfully fupported their aged and helpless parents, even by their own labour. In a general view, however, filial gratitude bears no proportion to parental love. The love of parents toward their

offspring is fo intenfe, that they think
nothing too much to do or to suffer for
their fakes whole years of toil, in feed.
ing and cloathing them, they endure with
cheerfulness. But when, by reafon of
poverty and old age, parents become
chargeable to their children, they ufually
feel the full weight of fuch a burden; and
fometimes, by looks if not by words and
actions, they betray an opinion, that it is
high time for the old folks to die.

Miscellany.

FOR THE BALANCE.

IN

N no country, perhaps, fince man begun to till the ground, has there been fuch a rapid progrefs in turning a wilder. nefs into fruitful fields, as in this. It is three years ago, namely, in the year 1680, no more than one hundred and twenty. that William Penn obtained from Charles

This being the natural ftate and courfe of things in the world, instead of repining at it, we fhould endeavour to cure our. felves of the foolish defire to Ipin out life felves of the foolish defire to Ipin out life1, partly by purchase and partly in reward of his father's fervices, a grant of to an undue length. There is a period, the territory called Pennfylvania; which when it is proper that we fhould feel an was then a vaft foreft-the dreary haunt of entire willingness to retire and make room wild beafts and of favage man, who lived for others;a period, when death is not only neceffary, but defirable. And tion to have given to the territory, of folely by the chafe. It was Penn's inten indeed nothing can be more irrational than to wish to out-live one's usefulness, and which he had become the proprietor, the even to live beyond the wishes of one's been refufed, he propofed to call it Sylvaname of New Wales: this name having The king (Charles II.) ordered Penn to be nearest connections. In two conditions nia, fignifying a wood-land or foreft. liam's father who had been a famous admiaffixed to Sylvania, in honour to Wil. ral in the British navy. The proprie. tor, it seems, was diffatisfied with this mark of honorary diftinction, left it should Thefe circumftances appear in the fol have the appearance of vanity in himself. lowing letter of that great and good man.

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efpecially men fometimes live too long,
even in the opinion of their own chil-
dren. The firft is the condition of pov.
erty, when they become chargeable and
burthenfome. The other is the condition
of great wealth, when their children are in
hafte to take poffeffion of their eftates, and
are apt to grow uneafy, if the period of
enjoying their legacies be deferred beyond
their reasonable expectations.-Gripus,
who, already rich, rifes early, fits up
late, eats the bread of care ;"-ufes every
effort to add to a heap, that is but too
large, might refpite his avarice a little, if
he would confider that he is laying before
his children a ftrong temptation of wishing
him out of their way. On the other hand,
children, who have the care of aged help
lefs parents would lighten the burden, by
remembering that they alfo may be old
and helpless, and may themfelves need,
'rom their children, the like kind offices.
People frequently find the fame measure
meted to them, in old age, which they
themselves had meted out to their aged pa-

rents.

The following anecdote has a good moral, and was declared to be a fact. While a man, of confiderable property, was em ployed in fcooping out a wooden difh, he was afked by his little boy that ftood by him, what he made it for." I am making it, he replied, for your grandfather; he is old and flavers fo, that your mother fays he muft leave the table and eat by himfelf in a wooden difh." "Well then, faid the little boy, I fuppofe, father, that I too must make a wooden difh for you to eat in when you grow old." Such, it was faid, was the force of this fimple, but pungent remark, on the mind of the father, that he laid afide his work, and never affumed it again.

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LETTER

OF WILLIAM PENN TO RICHARD TURNER.

DEAR FRIEND,

MY true love in the Lord falutes thee

and dear friends that love the Lord's precious truth in thofe parts. Thine I have, and for my business here, know, that after many writings, watchings, folicitings, and difputes in council, this day my country was confirmed to me under the great feal of England, with large powers and privi leges, by the name of Pennfylvania: a name the king would give it, in honour to my father. I choofe New Wales, being as this a pretty healthy country; but Penn being Welch for a head, as Penmanmore in Wales, Penrith in Cumber land, and Penn in Buckhamfhire, the higheft land in England, called this Pennfyl vania, which is the high or head woodland: for I propofed, when the fecretary,

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it, and went to the king to have it ftruck out and altered; he faid it was paffed and he would take it upon him--nor could twenty guineas move the under fecretary to vary the name; for I feared, left it fhould be looked upon as a vanity in me, and not as a respect of the king, as it truly was, to my father, whom he often mentioned with praile. Thou mayeft communicate my grant to friends, and expect my propofals; it is a clear and just thing; and my God that has given it me, through many difficulties, will, I believe, blefs and make it the feed of a nation. I fhall have a tender care to the government, that it be well laid at firft. No more now but Idear love in the truth.

1ft Mo. 5th, 1681.

W. PENN.

CONJECTURES ON

THE ORIGIN OF PARADISE LOST.

[FROM HALEY'S LIFE OF MILTON.] WHEN Voltaire vifited England, in the early part of his life, and was engaged in foliciting a fubfcription for his Henriade, which first appeared uuder the title of the " League," he publifhed, in our language, an effay on epic poetry; a work, which, though written under fuch difadvantages, poffeffes the peculiar vivacity of this extraordinary writer, and indeed is fo curious a fpecimen of his verfatile talents, that although it has been fuperfeded by a French compofition of greater extent, under the fame title, it ought, I think, to have found a place in that fignal monument to the name of Voltaire-the edition of his works in ninety-two volumes.

As my reader may be gratified in feeing the English ftyle of this celebrated er, I will tranfcribe, without abridgement, what he fays of Andreini:

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"In the like manner Pythagoras owed the invention of mufic to the noise of the hammer of a black fmith; and thus, in our days, Sir Ifaac Newton, walking in his garden, had firft thought of his fyftem of gravitation, upon feeing an apple falling from a

tree.

"It was thus, that in the year 1727, Voltaire, then studying in England, and collecting all pollible information concerning our great epic poet, accounted for the || origin of Paradise Loft.”

PRINTING.

IN the National Library at Paris, some parts of the Bible have been found tranfla ted into German, and printed at Bamberg by Albert Peifter, in 1462. The characters are moveable; like thofe now made ufe of; their form is large Gothic, fuch as was then used to write miffals; the date and place of the printing, as well as the name of the printer, are at the end of the book, printed in the fame characters as the rest of the work; the German expreffions joined to thofe dates, leaves no doubt that it is not to the compofition of the book, but to the printing alone that the date 1462 is to be applied. The difcovery of this book is foreign-important in the History of Printing on the following account :-The firft book (paffing over one or two fmall works) printed in movable characters, with a certain date of the year; is the Pfalter of 1457, reprinted in 1459. From that epoch to the year 1462, in which the Bible printed at Mentz by John Fuft and P. Schoeffer appeared, we know of no work bearing the date of the printing. Yet the Bible of 1462 is cer. tainly not the first printed; ancient authors affert, that from the year 1450 the edition affert, that from the year 1450 the edition of the Bible in miffal characters was begun ; characters which are not those employed in the Mentz edition. Befides, there are doubts refpecting the places in which printing was first exercifed. Mentz, Harlem, and Stratfbourg, have their partizans. Thofe of Mentz are very exclufive: they pretend, that ftill the year 1462 printing was not till the troubles which followed the capture of it in 1462, that the workmen of Fuft and Schoffer were difperfed, and carried their art to different places. But the fact, that printing was not carried from

Milton, as he was travelling through Italy in his youth, faw at Florence, a comedy called, Adamo, written by one Andrein, a player, & dedicated to Mary de Medicis, Queen of France. The fubject of the play, was the Fall of Man; the actors, God, the devils, the angels, Adam, Eve, the ferpent, death, and the feven mortal fins. The topic, fo improper for drama, but fo fuitable to the abfurd genius of the Italian ftage (as it was at that time) was handled in a manner entirely conformable to the extravagance of the defign. The fcene opens with a chorus of angels, and a cherubim thus fpeaks for the rest :—‘ Let the rainbow be the fiddle. ftick of the fiddle of the heavens ! let the planets be the notes of our mufic! let time beat carefully the measure, and the winds make the fharps,' &c. Thus the play begins, and every fcene rifes above the laft in profufion of impertinence!

1462, is now contradicted by the edition of a book printed at Bamberg, á town far off from Mentz fhortly after the 1st of May, 1402.-London Pap.

Improvements.

FROM A PORTLAND PAPER.

PORTLAND PATENT rum.

DANIEL ILSLEY, of this town, who, for a number of years, has been concerned in the diftilling bufinefs, has invented a new and useful improvement, which has not been known or ufed before this application; and for which he has obtained a Patent.

The following account contains fome of the advantages, as flated in the words of faid Daniel Ilfley to the Government :

"The Subfcriber reprefents, that hav ing for a long time been familiar, both in theory and practice with the bufinefs of diftilling Spirits, he has contemplated, and at length fucceeded in difcovering an improvement in that art, which will greatly facilitate the procefs, and which will produce fpirits of a better quality and in greater quantity with lefs time and labour than is applied in the common mode of diftilling. ft. He is able to produce, by the aid of this difcovery, high proof rum, equal in flavour to any which is imported, and entirely free from that difagreeable fmell and tafte which has rendered the rum of this country inferior to that of the West Indies. 2d. All the fpirit may be taken from the great copper and be good first proof rum, without leaving ary low wines; this of courfe will render useless a low

wine copper, or the fpirit may be wholly made third or fourth proof rum, and be produced in lefs time by two hours than is required to produce firft proof by the common procefs.'

FROM A LONDON PAPER.

AT Wolfen-buttle, a compofition has been invented to prevent combuftible fubflances from taking fire. It confifts of a powder, made of one ounce of fulphur, one of red ochere, and fix of copperas. To fortify wood against fire, it is firft to be covered with glue, over which the powder is fpread. This procefs is to be repeated three or four times. For linen and paper, water is ufed inflead of glue, and the procefs repeated twice. If this powder be thrown on fubftances actually in combuftion, in the proportion of two ounces to a fquare foot, it will inftantly extinguish the fire.

Be it our weekly task,

To note the passing tidings of the times.

Hudson, June 21, 1803.

CURIOSITY.

This city is fupplied with water from a fountain about two miles diftant, by means of an aqueduct. For feveral weeks, the pipes in the lower end of Warren-Street, had been almoft completely dry, while in every other part of the city, the water run with its ufual force. This led to an examination of the main conduit pipe (formed of logs) when it was difcovered, that the roots of a willow tree, had found their way through the joints of a private pipe, and from thence had proceeded to the main pipe, where they had grown and increaf ed to fuch an immenfe number of fine fibres, that the bore of the main log, for about 20 feet, was entirely filled up. further examination, it was alfo found that the private pipe, from whence the roots had proceeded, was full of roots for the fame or a greater distance, making in the whole, about 40 feet!

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The feparate roots were not larger than common wire, but were so closely and firmly matted together, as to form a mafs almost folid.

By the attention and vigilance of the Collector of Amboy, fome perfons have lately been difcovered to be concerned in the nefarious bufinefs of fmuggling. They had the addrefs to get four puncheons of rum from on board a floop from Montego Bay, (Jamaica) bound to this port, which they landed and fecreted for a fhort time; but fortunately they were foon after difcovered, feized, libelled and condemned. On this the floop Virginia

Rathway trader, in which the rum had been brought to fhore, was libelled in the District Court of New-Jerfey, and condemned alfo. Suits are now depending against the mafter of this veffel and the other perfons engaged in this bufinefs, for the penalties prefcribed by the revenue acts of Congrefs for offences of this defcription. [All the New-York papers.]

An American Merchant at New-Orleans, under date of May 17th, writes to his correfpondent in this city per the brig Union as follows:-" The pleafing account, that Generel Wilkinson has received the Royal Proclamation for OPENING

THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS,
reached us this morning. It has already
given to our business a confiderable degree
of activity." [N. Y. Mer. Adv.]

PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 4
CAUTION AGAINST FIRE.

On Thurfday morning, between one
and two o'clock, having left a candle burn-
ing in the room, on account of the indifpo-
fition of one of my children, I was alarm-
ed by the fmoke and heat which I felt. My
Wife and I immediately ftepped out of bed,
and finding the floor fo hot as to burn our
feet, we fnatched up the Children and ran
down without clothes into the street, not
knowing from whence the fire proceeded.
The neighbours were foon alarmed and
came to our affiftance-Jofeph Connover,
Robert Bayne and Alexander Buckhan-
nan, rushed into the room, and perceiving
that the fire was between the ceiling and
the floor, broke in part of the latter with an
axe from whence the flames immediately
bu: forth, but were foon happily extin-
guilhed by the activity of my Neighbours.
It appears that a rat muft have carried the
lighted candle to its neft which being com-
pofed of rags eafily caught fire. One of
the Joils was nearly burnt through.
confider it my duty, in this public man-
ner, to acknowledge my obligation to my
neighbours, and to caution people again
keeping a candle burning at nignt.-A
lamp in cafes of neceffity would be per-
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A few nights before this attack, which was on Friday the 13th inft. our informant was told, a party had been fired on 5 times, were drove from their camp, and loft all their money and a gun, but no perfon was killed or wounded. On the 15th, another party was attacked, and purfued 7 or 8 miles by perfons on horfeback. As our informant paffed through the nation, he faw a Mr. Patterson, from near Lexington, who had a few days before been badly wounded in the fhoulder and arm by the favages.

Extract of a letter from Edward Tiffin, Efq. Governor of the state of Ohio, to a gentleman of Baltimore, dated

CHILLICOTHE, MAY 27. "We have had an alarm from the Indians, two white men have been killed and wounded, and one Indian of the Shawa. nefe nation-I have juft returned from the Frontiers, and am happy to find that it has originated from private quarrels with individuals who have fuffered, and without the knowledge of the chicls, who are very forry on hearing of the affair, and fincerely difpofed to cultivate peace and harmony Iwith the white people. We have impru dent men fettled on our frontiers, and the Indians have inconfiderate young warriors amongst them. It requires much pru dence and addrefs to keep both fides in order.

FRANCIS DAYMON,
No. 96 Catharine fireet.

WASHINGTON, (KEN.) MAY 26.
INDIAN HOSTILITIES.

Mr. Daniel Wall, who arrived from
Natchez on Monday laft, has been polite
enough to give us the following important
enough to give us the following important
though melancholy intelligence.

As one Jofeph White, a Mr. Stapleton and our informant were paffing through the wildernefs together, they were fired on by two Indians who lay in ambush by the road fide. There must have been two balls in each of the Indian's guns, as that number

paffed thro' White's breaft which inftantly

terminated his exiftance and the fame
through our informant's hat. Two other
Indians were flanding off a few yards who
did not fire, but attempted to catch the hor-
fes that were following with the packs, and
that of the deceafed, but did not effect it.
The furvivors were purfued feveral miles,
the Indians frequently appearing in fight,
and among them a white man was plainly
difcovered. When they arrived at Duck
river fettlement, about 15 miles on this fide
of the place where the attack was made, a
party went back and got the money, which
our informant and his companion had hid,
but faw nothing of the Indians, nor could
they find Mr. Wall's horfe,

From the Chillicothe Gazette, May 28.

In our laft we flated fome of the cir cumftances of an alarm which took place in this town, on the morning of publica tion, in confequence of the murder of Capt. Herod fuppofed to have been per petrated by Indians ;-As is reafonable to be expected, from the confufed and vanous accounts from the fcene of action at that moment in circulation, we might in fome parts be incorrect. That Captain Herod was found fhot, fcalped and tomahawked, is a fact, but by whom is not yet afcertained;-that a party of Indians had been previously feen in that neighborhood was premature. The party who went from this town in purfuit of the depreda tors fcoured the country for a confider. able distance, in which they met with fev eral Indian encampments but the Indians appeared to have no knowledge of the event at Old Chillicothe and when informed of it, expreffed their disapprobation of the act-that they were dilpofed for peace --and that if Herod was killed by an Indian, they would endeavor to find him out and deliver him up.-Some of the party were out until yefterday, with a view of informing fuch Indians as they might meet with, the real statement of the above tranf action.

An unfortunate occurrence, however,

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