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the Attorney. General does the like. This is the iffue; and he fubmits the determination of it to twelve of his equals.

C. Pray what do you mean by the words manner and form ?

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7. By the words manner and form, I apprehend, Sir, the defendant means fay, that he did not publifh a talfe, fcandalous, and feditious libel.

C. How then can that be true which my neighbour Farmer Jones told me?

7. It cannot. For no honeft Judge will direct me to find the defendant guilty of the mere publishing the little book fet forth in the information, when I am fworn to try the iffue between the parties joined, which is, whether the defendant did pub. lish a falfe, fcandalous, and feditious libel, and not whether he did publifh the little book or paper fet forth in the information, for that is not what I am, fworn to try.

C. But pray, Sir, when a perfon is indicted for murder, does not the ind Etment ftate, that the criminal was moved and fe duce by the inftigation of the Devil? J. Yes.

C. Is that part of the indictment neceffary to be proved ?

J Mol clearly not-nor is it neceffary

to let it forth in the and:&ment, as I conceive, for it those words were to be left out, and the indictment to flute, that the criminal did on fuch a day mur er a particular perfon therein named with milice prepenfe, I conceive that the indi&tment would be as good and effe&tual in law, as if the words moved and feduced by the initigation of the Devil were inferted,

C. If therefore these words, which are generally inferted in indictments, are not necellary to be proved, how comes it abour, that you fo ftrenuoufly infift, that the Attorney General is bound to prove that the little book, or paper, fet fort in the information, is falfe, fcandalous, and fedi ious?

7 I apprehend, that as every publication is not criminal, it is neceffary to point out fomething in the publication you complain of to render it fo, or eife there is no difference in publications.

C. That is true-how then can you reconci's finding a defendant guilty of the bare publication of a libel, or little book, when the information chargeth him with publifhing, a falfe, fcandalous, and feditious libel, and not the leaft falfhood, fcandal, or fedition, has been proved ?

7. I cannot reconcile it to my con fcle.ce.

C Not when my Lord Judge tells you, you have nothing to do but to find the bare pubhean?

7. Not all the judges in Europ we e to tell me fo-jor ina'l any may P wide me, to the wonds, talfe, fc n dalous, and fe inous, em re words of form, and nothing mon.-it they have no

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meaning, why are they put in ? To in fert words without meaning would be ri diculous; and I am convinced, in my own mind, that there is more in the words than jurymen are aware of, or elfe the uniform practice of putting them in informations would not have prevazed from the first commencement of that mode of profecu- . tion to the prefent Aia.

C. Have you never heard what altercations there have been about the world

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JYes, and I very well remember, that in the cafe of the K. and Owen, Mr. Prart (now L. Camd) infifted upon it, that as the word ffe was put in the information, the protecutor was bound to it lo, or the defendant ought to be prove acquitted.

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7. I mean to infer, that if the fimple fact of publifhing was the only thing the jury had to do with, the Court upon appheation would have fet the verdict afi le, as being againft evidence, and the profecutor would not have been backward in making fuch application-but he was too prudent, for he knew the jury had a right to determine whether it was a libel or not, as much as they have a right to determine whether a perfon is guilty of murler. And every one knows, that the bare act of kil ling does not amount to murder, any more than the mere publishing a lule book a

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Tey with felony, the judge (I think his name was Fofter) told the jury, that unlefs the profecutor proved the ducats were put into Ashley's pocket, with the intent laid in the indi&ment, they muft aquit him; "for (aid the judge) the intent is the principal thing to be confidered." There is no harm in the bare putting ducats into another man's pocket-it is the inten tion with which they are put there that conftitutes the crime. The fame rule pre vails in the cafe of an indictment for an affault with an intent to commit a rape, if the intention be not proved. The cafe of a clergyman is fo remarkable, that I cannot omit it upon this occafion: In a fermon he preached, he recited a story out of Fox's Martyrology, and one Greenwood, being a prejudiced perfon, and a great on him, and was killed by the Hand of pertecutor, had great plagues infl.ed upGod: Whereas, in truth. he never was to plagued, and was him felt, prefent at that fermon; and he thereupon brought his action upon the cafe for calling him a prejudiced perfon; and the defendant nl aded not guilty. Wray, chief justice, denvered the law to the jury that it being delivered as a ftory, and not with any malice or intention to flander any perfon, he was not guilty of the words mahcioufly, and fo was tound not guilty. From these cafes it plainly appears, that the law contiders the intention in criminal as well as civil profecutions.

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On Wednesday, the 19th O&t. the Houfe of Reprefentatives were engaged on the Refolution offered by Mr. Dawson, for altering the Conflitution. The Refolu. tion, of which the following is a copy, pal. fed after a fort debate.

Refolved, by the Senate and House of Reprefentatives of the United States of A merica, in Congress affembled, two thirds of both houfes concurring, that the following article be propofed to the legislatures of the several ftates, as an amendment to the conftitution of the United States, which, when ratified by three fourths of the faid legislatures, fhall be valid, to all intents and purpofes, as part of the faid conftitution, viz.

That in all future elections of President and Vice Prefident, the perfons voted for fhall be particularly defignated, by declaring which is voted for as Prefident, and which as Vice President. The perfon voted for as Prefident, having the greatest number of votes, fhall be the Prefident, if fuch number be a majority of all the electors appointed; it no perfon have such ma jority, then from the five highest on the Int of thofe voted for as Prefident, the Houfe of Reprefentatives thall immediately choofe by ballot one of them as Prefident. And in every cafe, the person voted for as Vice Prefident, having the great. eft number of votes fhall be the Vice Pref ident; but if there fhould be two or more who have equal votes, the Senate fhall choose one of them for Vice President.

This one good act of our prefent adminiftration, may be confidered as a kernel of wheat found amongst a bufhel of chaff.

The fame day, a motion made by Mr. Randolph," that the members of the house, in teftimony of national gratitude towards the memory of that undaunted patriot, SAMUEL ADAMS, decealed, wear a crape around the left arm one month," was agreed to unanimoufly..

From the Philadelphia Gazette
VERY IMPORTANT.

September 24th, which fays-" A Spania fchooner is just arrived here from Havannah with orders to the Governor not to give up the poffeffion of Louifiana to either France or the United States; but to wait for farther infiructions from the Court of Spain."

[CONFIRMATION]

FROM CADIZ, August 17.

"The fituation of our market has expe. rienced very little change fince my laft, but the political fituation of this country is very much altered indeed. When I wrote vou laft war with England was expected every inftant; now we are given to underftand, we are on the belt terms with Great Britain, and perhaps on the eve of hoftility with France. This fudden change in the politics of the cabinet of Madrid arifes from the conduct of Banaparte towards Spain in the fale of Louisia. na to the United States. It appears the ceffion of that province by Spain to France was under certain conditions, many of which have not been fulfilled, and others glaringly violated. A perfon of good in

formation has affured me that remonftrances have been made to the First Conful upon this head, with a vigor and energy that was not to be expected from

government generally fuppofed fubfervient to the will of France. And fimilar reprefentations are to be made by our minifters in the United States to your government, as it is inffted, that by the non-fulfilment on the part of France of the conditions on which the was to have Louifiana, fhe has neither the right to poffefs it herself, nor to fell it to the United States. This revolution in the European affairs may produce the most important confequences. Conjecture is afloat about the deftination of the (mall fleet here, of fix feventy-fours and eight frigates; but the general opinion is that the Havanna will be its deftination, with the view of blockading the Miffiffippi, in cafe your government ratifies the treaty with France. The militia of all this kingdom is in motion. It is fuppofed the king will make a general review at Valladolid. The nature of the other military preparations. evidently fhews that they are directed again France. It is the general opinion that Great Britain will fecond the efforts of Spain for preventing Louifiana encreafing the already too extenfive territory of the United States, and that Spain in return has pledged herfeli for the defence of Portugal against France. Time will fhew what will be the refult of this. But depend upon it, that fome great events are brewing upon the continent of Europe.'

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the Spanish minifter has remonftrated to our government against the United States taking poffeffion of Louisiana.

LOUISIANA TREATY,

On the 20th ult. the Senate ratified the Treaty by, which France has ceded Louifi. ana to the United States; 24 votes in the affirmative, and 7 in the negative. We are forry to learn that one federalist, Mr. Dayton, voted in the affirmative. The treaty, is as follows :—

TREATY

BETWEEN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

AND THE

FRENCH REPUBLIC. The Prefident of the United States of America and the First Conful, in the name of the French people, defiring to remove all fource of misunderstanding relative to objects of difcuffion mentioned in the fe cond and fifth articles of the convention of the 8th Vendemaire, an 9, (30th September, 1800) relative to the rights claimed by the United States, in virtue of the treaty concluded at Madrid the 27th of October, 1795, between his Catholic Majefly and the faid United States, and willing to ftrengthen the union and friendship which at the time of the faid convention was hap pily reeftablished between the two nations, have relpectively named their plenicotentaries, to wit, the Prefident of the Ued States, by and with the advice and confent of the Senate of the faid States, Robert R. Livington, minifler plenipotentiary of the United States, and James Monroe, minif ter plenipotentiary and envoy extraordina ry of the faid States, near the Government of the French Republic; and the Fit Conful, in the name of the French people, citizen Francis Barbe Marbois, minister of the public treasury, who, after having refpectively exchanged their full powers, have agreed to the following articles :

Article I. WHEREAS, by article the third of the treaty concluded at St. Idtfonfo, the 8th Vendemaire an 9, (1ft Oãober, 1800) between the First Conful of the French Republic and his Catholic Majefty, it was agreed as follows:

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His Catholic Majefly promifes and engages on his part to cede to the "French Republic, fix months after the "full and entire execution of the condi "tions and ftipulations herein relative to "his Royal Highness the Duke of Parma, "the colony or Province of Louifiana, "with the fame extent that it now has in "the hands of Spain, and that it had when

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France poffeffed it; and fuch as it "fhould be after the treaties fubfequently "entered into between Spain and other "States."

And whereas, in puríuance of the treaty, and particularly of the third article, the French Republic has an inconteftible title: to the domain and to the poffeffion of the faid territory. The Firft Conful of the French Republic defiring to give to the United States a ftrong proot of his friendfhip, doth hereby cede to the faid United States, in the name of the French Republic for ever and in full fovereignty, the faid territory, with all its rights and appurtenances, as fully and in the fame manner as they have been acquired by the French Republic in virtue of the abovementioned treaty, concluded with his Catholic Majef ty.

- Article II. In the ceffion made by the preceeding article are included the adja. cent iflands belonging to Louisiana, all public lots and fquares, vacant lands, and all public buildings, tortifications, bar. racks, and other edifices which are not private property. The archives, papers and documents, relative to the domain and fovereignty of Louifiana and its dependencies, will be left in the poffeffion of the commiffaries of the United States, and copies will be afterwards given in due form to the magiftrates and municipal officers, or fuch of the faid papers and documents as may be neceffary to them.

Article III. The inhabitants of the ceded territory fhall be incorporated in the union of the United States, and admitted as foon as poffible, according to the prin ciples of the federal conftitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean time they fhall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the religion which they profefs.

Article IV. There fhall be fent by the government of France a cominillary to Louifiana, to the end that he do every act ne. ceffary, as well to receive from the offi cers of his Catholic Majefty the faid conntry and its dependencies, in the name of the French Republic, if it has not been already done, as to tranfmit it in the name of the French Republic to the commillary or agent of the United States.

three months after the ratification of this
treaty.

Article VI. The United States prom-
ife to execute fuch treaties and articles as
may have been agreed between Spain and
the tribes and nations of Indians, until,
by mutual confent of the United States
and the faid tribes or nations, other fuita-
ble articles fhall have been agreed upon.
Article VII. As it is reciprocally ad.

vantageous to the commerce of France and
the United States to encourage the com-
munication of both nations for a limited

time in the country ceded by the prefent
treaty, until general arrangement relative
to the commerce of both nations may be
agreed on; it has been agreed between the
contra&ing parties, that the French fhips
coming directly from France or any of her
colonies, loaded only with the produce and
manufactures of France or her faid colo-
nies; and the fhips of Spain coming di-
rectly from Spain or any of her colonies,
loaded only with the produce and manu-
factures of Spain or her colonies, fhall be
admitted during the fpace of twelve years
in the port of New-Orleans and in all oth-
er legal ports of entry within the ceded
territory, in the fame manner as the ihips
of the United States coming directly from
France or Spain, or any of their colonies,
without being fubject to any other or
greater duty on merchandize, or other or
greater tonnage than that paid by the citi-
zens of the United States.

Vendemaire, an. 9.) is approved, and to have its execution in the fame manner as if it had been inferted in this present treaty, and it fhall be ratified in the fame form and in the fame time, fo that the one shall not be ratified diflinct from the other.

Another particular convention figned at the fame date of the prefent treaty, relative to a definitive rule between the con

tracting parties, it is in like manner approved, and will be ratified in the fame form, ard in the fame time, and jointly.

Article X. The prefent treaty fhall be ratified in good and due form, and the ratification fhall be exchanged in the space of fix months after the date of the fignature by the minifters plenipotentiary, and fooner if poflible.

the respective

IN FAITH WHEREOF, plenipotentiaries have figned thefe articles. in the French and English languages ;declaring neverthelefs that the prefent treaty was originally agreed to in the French language; and have thereunto affixed their feals.

Done at Paris, the tenth day of Floreal in the eleventh year of the French Republic, and the 30th of April, 1803. BARBE MARBOIS. ROB. R. LIVINGSTON, JAS. MONROE.

Two feparate conventions are added to the treaty, the First of which flipulates as follows:

1. That the government of the United States pay to France, fixty millions of francs, independent of a fum fixed by the other convention for the payment of debts due by France to the U. S.

During the pace of time above mer tioned, no other nation fhall have a right to the fame privileges in the ports of the ceded territory: the twelve years fhall com mence three months after the exchange of ratifications, if it thall take place in France or three months after it fhall have been notified at Paris to the French govern 2. That for the payment of this fum, ment, if it fhall take place in the United the U. S. fhall create a flock of 11,250,000 States; it is however well underflood that dollars, bearing an intereft of fix per cent, the object of the above article is to faver the manufactures, commerce, freight and payable half yearly in London, Amfterdam and Paris, amounting by the half navigation of France and of Spain, fo far year to 337.500 dollars; the principal of as relates to the importations that the the faid flock to be reimbursed at the treafFrench and Spanish fhall make into the ury of the U. S. in annual payments of faid ports of the United States, without in any fort affecting the regulations that the of which the firft payment fhall comnot less than 3,000,000, of dollars each; United States may make concerning the Article V. Immediately after the rati-exportation of the produce and merchanmence 15 years after the date of the exexportation of the produce and merchen-change of ratifications, and that the ftock fication of the prefent treaty by the Prefi-dize of the United States, or any right dent of the United States, and in cafe that of the First Conful's fhall have been previ oufly obtained, the Commiffary of the French Republic, fhall remit all military poits of New-Orleans, and other parts of the ceded territory, to the commiffary or commiffaries named by the Prefident to take poffeflion; the troops, whether of France or Spain, who may be there, fhall ceafe to occupy any military poft from the time of taking poffeffion, and thall be embarked as foon as poffible in courfe of

they may have to make fuch regulations.

Article VIII. In future and forever after the expiation of the twelve years, the fhips of France fhall be treated upon the footing of the most favored nations in the ports above mentioned.

Article IX. The particular convention figned this day by the refpective ministers, having for its object to provide for the payment of debts due to the citizens of the United States by the French Republic. prior to the 30th of September, 1800, (8th

fhall be transferred to France in 3 months after the exchange of ratifications, and alter Louifiana fhall be taken poffeffion of by the U. S.

3. That the dollar of the U. S. fhall be reckoned at five francs and one third.

Ratifications to be exchanged in 6

months.

The Second convention which, to be properly underflood, must be published at full length, is unavoidably poltponed until next week.

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YE LOYAL TRAIN who patronize this night,
To aid the suff'rers for a nation's right,
While thus your hearts with patriot feelings glow,
How must your zeal depress the vaunting foe!
He aims destruction on our Isle to bring,
Хон

You to protect your Country and your King.
He boasts of FREEDOM, while her land he braves,
And hopes to conquer her with goaded slaves;
Slaves, who, to aggravate their grief and shame,
An UPSTART ALIEK's iron scourge can tame.
But LET HIM COME-with all his menac'd ire,
Ia wonted league with "FAMINE, SWORD, and
FIRE;

Yes, LET HIM COME, and be our vengeance hurl'd
In just defence of FREEDOM and the WORLD.
In such a cause what BRITON would not bleed!
In such a righteous cause we must succeed.

THE HERO whom cur matchless Poet drew
In the bold scenes which you to night will view,
Dar'd, with a band, his spirit rous'd, advance,
And BEAT ON HER OWN SOIL this braggart

FRANCE.

And ADIXCOURT, shall fix his glorious name,
Coeval with the Universe in Fame.
Shall then her ruffian Hosts our land assail,

And one, e'en one return to tell the tale?

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No! All the Youth of England are on fire,"-
To meet the base inva ers all aspire ;
All burn to emulate their Sires of yore,
And spread a LIVING RAMPART on the shore;
A Rampart that shall there as firmly stand
As the white Cliffs that guard and grace the land.

Nor shall th' HISTORIC MUSE, when on her page,
She marks the virtues of this patriot age,
Forget the noble Train assembled here,
To raise the ORPHAN, dry the WIDOW's tear;
To single VALOUR recompence impart,
And kindle bounteous zeal in ev'ry heart;
But in her glowing Page with pride reveal
The present Tribute of that bounteous zeal ;
While future BRITONS, by the deed inflam'd
"Will stand a tip-toe when this night is nam'd."

Diversity.

ANECDOTE,

Translated from the French for the Boston Magazine,

DEMOSTHENES ftopped one day, in the midst of his difcourfe, and began to relate this ftory. "During the heat of fummer, a young man had hired an afs to conduct him from Athens to Megara. At noon the young man, to avoid the ardour of the fun, wifhed to lie down under the fhade of the afs; but the owner difputed his right, alledging that he had loaned the afs, and not his fhadow. The young man, on the contrary, faid, that in loaning the afs, he had alfo loaned the fhadow." Demofthenes here finifhed his tale, and de. fcended from the roftrum; but the people detained him and demanded with earneftnefs how the difpute was terminated.

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What!" faid he, "you hear with avidity frivolous tales, proper to amufe chil. ren, and will not liften to me when I speak to you of your own, and your country's interefts !"

AS rude health partakes too much of the country, and of courfe is not very pleafing to people of tafte, a dashing young fellow acquires by his midnight vigils a pallid meagre vifage, which gen. erally denotes an intimate knowledge of [ibid.]

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the town.

WOMEN are certainly not at all inferior to men in refolution, and perhaps much lefs in courage than is generally im. agined. The reafon they appear fo is be.

caule women affect to be more afraid than

they really are, and men pretend to be lefs. [Ibid.]

A farcaftic writer, adverting to the lu crative employment of George Rofe, Eiq. and others, who, during Pitt's adminiftra. tion, were employed rather for their useful, than fhining talents, introduces the follow. ing remarkable paffage.

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Mr. Pitt with his law education, has a notion that the dulleft men are the most faithful fervants. They never difconcert a fcheme by any amendments of their own. They are obfequious and exact. The clock work of government, it feems can never go right unlefs it has a proper number of lead. en weights. Since the profperity of Eng. land is now made to confit in its finance, and our minifter is the first accomptant in the kingdom, perhaps to cypher and to comay form the official capacity of every great flatefman." [Ibid.]

HONOUR is but a fictitions kind of
honefty, a mean but a neceffary fubftitute
for it in focieties who have none. It is a
fort of paper credit with which men are o-
bliged to trade, who are deficient in the
fterling cafh, of true morality and religion.py
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IN the courfe of my morning's reading, in the works of one, who underflood the nature of government much better than the philofophical pretenders, or infolent foreigners, in America, I learn, that factions, in republics, have been, and are full as capable as Monarchs, of the most cruel oppreffions of injuflice. It is but too true, that the love, and even the very idea of genuine liberty is extremely rare. It is but too true, that there are many whole whole fcheme of freedom is made up of pride, perverfenefs, and infolence. They feel themselves in a ftate of thraldom, they imagine that their fouls are cooped and cabined in, unless they have fome man, or foe body of men, dependent on their [ibid.]

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Driginal Elays.

HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1803.

Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, Enrich our columns, and instruct mankind.

FOR THE BALANCE.

OBSERVATIONS ON POPULATION.

THE

HE swift increase of population in this country, from the periods of the original fettlements of feveral parts of it by the Europeans to the prefent day, is a ve ry remarkable incident in the hiflory of mankind. In lefs than two centuries, a great and mighty people, furpaffing in numbers fome of the oldeft nations of Europe, and exceeding them all, except one, in quantity of fhipping and extent of commerce, has, like creation, emerged from chaos, or almoft from nothing. Every fea has been traverfed and every clime ex. plored by their fhips, while the defert has been turned by their labours into fruitful fields and opulent cities.

The first effectual fettlement from Europe, within the prefent limits of the U. nited States, was in the year 1607; when Capt. John Smith, whofe character was equally illuftrious for prudence, intrepidity and a moft winning addrefs, together with feveral other leaders, planted a little colony in Virginia. This colony confift ed of no more than one hundred and four perfons; fifty of whom were carried off by diseases, within the firft five months. In three years after, the colony, which had by immigrations from the parent state, increased to five hundred, becoming care.

lefs, indolent and fa&tious, fell a prey to the barbarity of the natives, to the diseases of the climate and to famine ; and were reduced to the number of fixty. About twelve years from this period, the Virginia colonifls, to the number of three hundred and forty-nine people, were maffacreed by the favages in one day. In the year 1624, commiffioners, who had been. fent over from England, to examine into the flate of the Virginia colony, reported, "That the people fent to inhabit there were moft of them, by fickness, famine and maffacres of the favages, dead; that thofe who were living were in neceflity and want, and in continual danger from the favages." A confiderable portion of this miferable remnant were convicts, banifhed for their crimes-men the most corrupt in principles and morals, and enemies to all order. The next fettlements

in this country from Europe, were begun by the Dutch, who, in the year 1613, erected a fort and a trading houfe on the Ipot where Albany is now built; and another fort on the South-Weft point of the ifland, where the city of New-York now ftands. Their right was founded on the difcovery of Capt.. Henry Hudson, an Englishman, who went over to Holland and entered into the fervice of the Dutch;

and failing from Amfterdam in the year 1607, difcovered the river that has been called by his name, and failed up its channel to the head of navigation.

"The firft effectual fettlements of the English, in New-England, were made by thofe, who, after the reformation, diffe-ited from the establishment of the Epifcopalian church, who fuffered on account of their diffent, and fought an affylum from

their fufferings." They were firft diftinguished by the name of Puritans. Flceing from religious perfecution in England, they betook themselves to Holland, where a wife commercial policy had led to a liberal toleration in religious opinions. After fojourning feveral years at Leyden, a little company of thofe religious pilgrims, one hundred and one in number, embarked for the wilds of America, and begun the fettlement of Plymouth in Maffachusetts, in the month of December, 1620. Before the April following, forty four perfons, which was nearly half their number, had died. Their perils were numerous, and their hardships were feemingly intolerable; under which they difplayed induftry, fortitude and perfeverance, fuch as have never been furpaffed. As they were the fathers of New-England, fo they laid the foundation of those «fteady habits," for which fome parts of

that diftrict have ever fince been diflin

guished, and which it is too much the fashion of the prefent day to mention with ridicule.

Thefe were the fmall and feeble beginnings of a nation, which now numbers five millions of people. Hai a prophet foretold this event, he would have been loaded with fcorn. as an impoftor. So litle did the wifeft men, of paft ages, comprehend the ratio of increase in the population of th's country, that even Dr. Franklin hazarded a conjecture, perlans thirty years ว or more, that the American coloes, in the pace of one century, might as populous as England, the parent flate!

(TO BE CONTINUED.)

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