the Imperfect as this fpecies of coercion may feem, crimes are very rare among them infomuch that were it made a queftion, whether no law, as among the favage A mericans, or too much law, as among civilized Europeans, fubje&is man to the greateft evil, one who has feen both conditions of existence would pronounce it to be the leaft; and that the sheep are happier of themselves, than under care of the wolves." Now this is downright plain dealingthe people are sheep, and government are wolves, their natural enemies. After this, we need not be furprized at any thing we may hear from Mr. Jefferson. FOR THE BALANCE. A WRITER in the Pittsfield Sun, who feems, in an equal measure, to combine the ftupidity of a calf with the ferocity of a Tiger, fpeaking of Mr. Adams the ex-prefident, fays, that "he has brought on himfelf and party the merited cures of millions of freemen." And the reafons affigned for the pouring out thefe vials of tremendous wrath upon Mr. Adams is not that he has been guilty of any crime, which is cognizable in a court of law or equity, but that he has apoitatifed (in the writer's opinion) "from practical republicanifm." This is a genuine fpecimen of the jacobinical fpirit. It is copying the Parisian mode, with a remarkable degree of exa&inefs. The names of republic and republicanifm were, for fev. eral years, uled in Paris as a Talisman or charm. Whenever Robefpierre denounced people as apoftates from republicanifm, the denunciation was fufficient to fend them pell mell to the guillotine, laden with the curfes of an ignorant rabble. And why is not a guillotine eftablished in this country, that should fhave off human heads with as much expedition as a farmer's boy fhaves off the tops of turnips? -It is not becaufe jacobins, like this wri ter, would be backward in promoting fuch an establishment; but it is becaufe their power is not equal to their venom. The good old proverb is verified in them: curft Cows have fhort horns." CASTIGATOR. Citizen Gallatin is fuppofed to be calcu lating the amount of our loffes at New-Orleans, and anxiously enquires of the Spanifh intendant, why he "ops de veels ?” [Port Folio.] "I came forward in defence of Mr. "Washington when he was attacked, and "made the beft that could be made of a "feries of blunders that had nearly ru"ined the country." In reply to the malicious calumnies of a contemptible vagabond, we will recite the venerable and u nanimous testimony of Congress. On the 23d of December, 1783, General Wash. ington resigned his commission of commander in chief of the American armies, into the hands of Congress. The scene was inexpressibly grand, and was so affecting that it drew tears from the eyes of Congress and of a vast multitude of spectators. The following is a part of the answer of Congress to. Washington's address on that memorable occa The editor of the Bee, while endeavoring to bolster up one of his thrice-repeated falshoods, declared that it was corroborated by newspaper testimony. We requested him to inform us what newspaper had ever contained the assertion, as original. He has not deigned to comply with cur request: and he certainly never will-for he never can. But he ought to acknowledge that, in fact, the assertion was not made originally in any paper but his own; and that this little fib was only brought forward to help out his former great mistake. Yet, even that he will never do. Democratic editors never retract any thing, least it might injure their credit. We have had frequent occasion to expose the pil fering tricks of democratic printers. Many of them.. we find, are very willing to copy original productions from our paper; but, they seem to have a par ticular aversion to giving credit for them. The Wreath suffers must by their depredations. From this they snatch a flower with as much dexterity, as a school-boy would a rose from a hedge, or a pick-pocket a watch from its owner's fcb. Such conduct is pitiful; aud we earnestly beg our rival editors to desist from it. In several papers we have observed, the Balance has been accredited for productions which never appeared in it. or at least, which did not originate in "The United States in Congress affem- 66 We wish to see no more of this. Care is always taken, to make a proper discrimination between original and selected matter which we insert: We can, therefore, see no reason for blunders of this kind. If any additional proof of the cafemniating nature of Democrats, is wanting, it is furnished in this fact :-The heaviest and blackest charges against both Jefferson and Burr, have been brought forward by men of their own party. These men are Denniston and Cheetham, and James T. Callender. The former have taken the utmost pains to destroy the reputation of Col. Burr; and the latter has been no less active in publishing accusations against Mr. Jefferson. To Readers. WE are under the neceffity of iffuing the second volume of the BALANCE on a smaller sheet than was used for the first. It will be observed, however, that the page or matter is but inconsiderably reduced in width, and none in length. Considering that the advertisements are given in an extra sheet, the paper is now, unquestionably, the lowest priced (in proportion to the quantity of matter contained in it) of any in the United States.-We pledge ourselves that the paper for the whole vol ume, shall be at least equal in quality with the pre sent number. Agricultural. FOR THE BALANCE. ON THE INSEPERABLE CONNECTION OF THE AG. RICULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL INTERESTS. OTHING can be more ftupid than it would be for the body of farmers to endeavour to cramp and difcourage naviga. tion and commerce, or for the body of merchants to defpife agriculture; because the interefts of thefe two claffes of people are intimately and infeperably connected. Agriculture is the basis of commerce, and commerce cherishes agriculture. But for the merchant, the farmer would have no market for the furpluffage of his produce, and without a market, he would have no encouragement to exert himfelf vigorously and extenfively in the line of his bufinefs. The United States are fkirted and inter fected by an immenfe extent of navigable waters; and their inhabitants are amphibious animals accustomed both to the land and to the watery element. The farmer furnishes means of bufinels to the mer. chant and navigator, and these take off of the hands of the farmer the furpluffes of his produce, which they convey to diftant climes and from thence they bring back to the farmer, at a reafonable rate of purchafe, a variety of pleafant and convenient articles, that the prefent ftate of fociety has rendered necellary. Thus there is between them a conftant reciprocity of benefits. Countries, upon whofe fkirts and in whole bofom few or no fhips unfurl their fails, impofe on the tiller of the ground the hard and double neceflity of felling extremely cheap and purchafing extremely dear. In Siberia in Ruffia, according to the late account of Kotzebue who was banithed thither by the emperor Paul, a loaf of wheat-flour bread weighing fix pounds, fells only for four French fols, nearly equal to three ceats. Beef and fowl fell at one fol and an half, that is a little more ore than one cent; and butter at between three and four French fols, that is, from two to three cents a pound. On the other hand, the farmer, in that uncommercial country, has to give a most exorbitant price for foreign articles. A quart of brandy cofts two roubles and an half; fugar is a rouble a pound,--a rouble being the fame in value as our dollar. Monitorial Department. To aid the cause of virtue and religion. FOR THE BALANCE. FRANKLIN'S ALMANAC. DR. R. FRANKLIN has fome where mentioned that, in his younger days, he kept an interleaved almanac, wherein he accustomed himfelf, every evening to write. preceding day; which was done with a down the imprudencies and faults of the defign to mark and avoid them in the time to come. Some others, after the example of the Doctor, having fince pursued the have derived confiderable benefit from it fame method, have profeffed that they in the regulation of their lives. The Doctor's ingenious device, which he prudently used for the purpose of selfcorrection, might go far, if it was brought into a general ufe, in correcting the faults and mending the manners of mankind. A large portion of human faults fprings from inattention or inconfideration; and might be corrected by frequent felt examination and conftant vigilance. Fervidus has a warm affectionate heart, but is fo liable to fudden gufts of anger, that fcarcely a day happens wherein he does not pour out fome bitter expreffions even against his best friends; and which he never fails to regret as foon as his pasfion has fubfided. If Fervidus would be at the trouble of recording, every evening, the paffionate and indifcreet expreffions of the preceeding day, he would foon learn to bridle his tongue. Garrulus means no body any ill, and is not wanting in underftanding; but an un common portion of innate vanity prompts him, in all companies, to engrofs the converfation, and frequently to tell long and marvellous flories;-obferving always to make himfelf the hero of his own tales. By keeping a regular Diary, tho' it should only contain remarks and comments upon the phifiognomy of the companies in whofe prefence he had, from time to time, related his tedious, incredible and egotistical naratives, Garrulus might find a cure for his egotif and might learn to keep within. the bounds of credibility. Vivida is a kind compaffionate woman; but has fuch a blabbing tongue that fhe frequently expofes herfelt and wounds the peace of her acquaintance, by difclofing things which ought to have been kept within the repofitory of her own breast.By a proper ufe of the Franklinian almanac, a cure of this unhappy foible would be certain and speedy. Scores of inftances of faults, follies and foibles, might be mentioned, for which fuch a Diary might prove an excellent corrective; because by their regiftry and periodical reviews, there would naturally be excited a vigilant care to avoid them in future. In short, as another year has commenced and new almanacs are needed, let Franklin's almanac be brought into general ufe. Let all who wish to amend their own ways, keep a daily register of their faults, and carefully review them, weekly, monthly, and at the end of the year. In the course of fuch a useful practice, every fucceeding week and month, refpecting their lives, might be like the fucceeding editions of a book-difencumbered, from time to time, . of its errata, revised and improved. Miscellany. FOR THE BALANCE. OBSERVATION. THE following representation of the opinions of the celebrated JOHN JAMES ROSSEAU, is a hasty translation from the French. The original was published at Amsterdam, in 1763. From much enquiry there is reason to suppose it has never appeared in an English dress. The manuscript is said to have been stolen from the author [a pupil of Rosseau] and given to the world without his consent. It manifests, that he was well acquainted with the rhapsodies, sophistry, and paradoxies of the Philosopher of Geneva.-How much is it to be lamented, that a man of such genius-the author of an admirable system of education, and of excellent reflections on human life and manners, should likewise be the author of sentiments, which declare religion as fit only for despots and slaves-incorsistent with the happ ness of civil society-of sentiments which favour licentiousness and the commission of the worst of crimes. The beauty, warmth and energy of his style will ever be admired by the lovers of science But the votaries of religion and humanity, will guard against the infection of that subtile and dangerous poison, which is mingled with the most eligible and delicious repast.It is the misfortune of most of the young people who read the productions of this great genius, to admire and defend every thing he has written. Charmed by his facinating description, they assent as readily to his wildest reveries, as to his most important and useful truths. His Emelia and Confessions are equally praised by enthusiastic and unreflect ing minds. If this curious performance tends to put them on their guard against his unjust censures and pernicious opinions, the wish of the translator will be satisfied. PROFESSION OF PHILOSOPHIC || ing her into the greatest exceffes by the re I FAITH. BELIEVE only in one man, of boundless genius, the creator of a new world of reasonable beings, vifible and invifible; who is the light of lights, and the only fon of truth. Happy to be regenerat ed in him, and by him, I believe that he knows every thing, and that men know nothing that they are all neceffarily corrupted, and led aftray by knowledge; and that he alone has been perfected by it. That we ought to burn all books-except his, which we ought to admire. With heart and mind, I fubfcribe to his fentiments, whilft he denies me tho't, and himself accumulates one reafon upon another; whilft he profcribes the most ufeful arts and cultivates the most frivo lous; whilft he conftitutes himself the champion of virtue, and composes a volup tuous romance; whilft he declaims against the ufe of eloquence, and fpeaks without ceasing his favorite language; whilft he is inflamed with a holy zeal for decency, and at the fame time regrets, that girls do not dance in a ftate of nudity with boys. He afferts, that laws are good for nothing;. and he has made laws. He defpifes religion, and profeffes it. He fends us into defarts; and fays defarts no longer exift. He detefts fociety, and laments bitterly his feperation from it. He pretends that the favage man is perfect; and he writes four volumes on the Tubject of educationand I have never ceafed to coincide with his fentiments, as much as he coincided with his own. He affects an open and decided contempt for a celebrated nation, and refides in it from choice. He vilifies and calumniates it, and praises its generofity. He honors and celebrates his country, and voluntarily flies from it. For the first time he defired to return to it at the very moment it denied him an afylum-and I have conftantly admired his noble contrarieties. He declared that we had no mufic, and at the fame time our mufic was tranfported with fuccefs into the very bofom of Italy. -That in our fociety there were no virtues, and ftrangers from all countries came to enjoy them. That we were flaves, and himfelf, the partizan of Liberty, dwelt a mongst us from preference. That we had no country, and at that time we offered the brightest and most heroic facrifices which hiftory records; always unfhaken in my belief, I have not hefitated to agree with him that we have neither mufic, virtue, liberty, nor country. I am firmly perfuaded, that he has rendered a very fignal and important fervice to the human race, whilft he has taught the art of feducing a young girl, and allur veries of a falfe philofophy; whilft he has reprefented a paffive and base woman as the model of virtue, and a husband wicked and infamous without motive, as a rare example of honefty-Whilft in fhort, mingling virtue and vice with fo much art, that the most fubtile eye can fcarcely diftinguifh them, he has taught men to walk conftantly on the borders of precipices, to feek danger and not to fhun it. To die calmly, nourishing to the last breath, an adulterous paflion-making philofophy the opium of remorfe and the calm of confci ence. He affures us that every thing is evil in man living in fociety; and that one man's good is neceffarily another's evil. Socigood is neceffarily another's evil. Society ought then to diffolve itfelf; and nevertheless, it cannot diffolve. It always exifts; I conclude that men feel nothing of it; fociety is tranquil; men are then weak and cowardly; it is cherifhed by its members, and they cheerfully fupport it; I declare in the face of the earth that all men are fools; and myfteries contrary to experience cannot fhake my faith. (To be Continued.) DUNSTABLE, (N. H.) DEC. 13. ON Saturday morning, about 8 o'clock, TIMOTHY HADLEY, aged about 18, was found dead in bed; a large quantity of froth mixed with blood, covering a confiderable part of his face,prefented a fhocking fpectacle. A young man (Charles Roby) of 21 years of age, who lept with him, of 21 years of age, who lept with him, appeared alfo in a pitiful fituation, though living.-He was unable to fpeak or open his eyes, was confiderably fwolen and in great diftrefs. He was immediately removed, and medical aid was administered to him. It appeared in evidence to the Coroner's inqueft on the deceased, that the young men, who flept in a fmall and pretty tight chamber in which there was no fire place, had, about 9 o'clock, carried into their chamber a kettle of lighted charcoal ;--that both the young men were well when they went to bed and that nothing appeared in their previous conduct, which could raffe a fuf picion that they could have taken any thing with a defign to fhorten life. The jury's verdict was, that the deceafed came to his tained but it was the poisonous quality of the charcoal which affected the young men. On Saturday night, the charcoal which was not confumed, was again lighted in the fame chamber, and a cat thut up in it. In the morning, the charcoal was about half confumed, and the cat dead. She appeared to have died fome time before morning. Roby is yet living.-On Saturday he was entirely fenfelefs; on Sunday morning he recovered his fenfes, but recollected nothing after he went to fleep on Friday night. It is expected he will recover. As cases similar to the above, are not unfrequent ; and as no uniform and successful method has been adopted in this country, for the recovery of persons suffocated by charcoal, the annexed case, extracted from the Transactions of the Humane Society of England, (into which it is copied from a Frenck memoir) may prove beneficial to the community. SUFFOCATION BY CHARCOAL. THE LIFE RESTORED BY MR. HARMANT. "I WAS fent for by M. de Potier, to attend his cook; but, as I was not at home, they had recourfe to another phyfician. This gentleman judging, from the appearance of the patient, that it was an appoplectic fit, he ordered the remedies ufual in fuch cafes.-They concluded that the patient was abfolutely dead, and from that moment every remedy was difcontinued. It was not before two o'clock in the afternoon that I was informed either of the invitation in the morning or of the state of the patient. I ran to his affiftance; on my entering the doors, the other phyfician happened to meet me, told me the cook was dead, and that every kind of aid had been administered in vain. The numerous attendants were already preparing for his funeral ceremony--I immediately examined his body with the ftricteft attention ;--and I found his face livid, and a little fwollen; the eyes half open, bright, prominent; the mouth clof ed, teeth fixed, the neck enlarged, the belly" very much wollen: there was neither pulfe nor respiration.. I concluded that the appearances were the effect of vapour of lighted charcoal. -The girl had carried up, the preceding night, a brafier with charcoal: the next morning, when fhe went into the room to awaken him, the found him in the above fituation. I ordered him to be placed naked upon a feat in a court by the fide of a fountain. I began with throwing cold water in his face by glafsfuls, and defired the affiftants to follow my example; but they complied with reluctance, being prepoffeffed that the Agricultural. FOR THE BALANCE. ON THE INSEPERABLE CONNECTION OF THE AG. NOTHING OTHING can be more ftupid than it would be for the body of farmers to endeavour to cramp and difcourage navigation and commerce, or for the body of merchants to defpife agriculture; becaufe the interefts of thefe two claffes of people are intimately and infeperably connected. Agriculture is the bafis of commerce, and commerce cherishes agriculture. But for the merchant, the farmer would have no market for the furpluffage of his produce, and without a market, he would have no encouragement to exert himfelf vigorously and extenfively in the line of his bufinefs. The United States are fkirted and inter Monitorial Department. R. FRANKLIN has fome where mentioned that, in his younger days, he The Doctor's ingenious device, which fected by an immenfe extent of navigable ous animals accustomed both to the, land Countries, upon whofe fkirts and in whofe bofom few or no flips unfurl their fails, impofe on the tiller of the ground the hard and double neceflity of felling extremely cheap and purchafing extremely dear. In Siberia in Ruffia, according to the late account of Kotfzebue who was banished thither by the emperor Paul, a loaf of wheat-flour bread weighing fix pounds, fells only for four French fols, nearly equal to three cents. Beef and fowl fell at one fol and an half, that is a little more than one cent; and butter at between three and four French fols, that is, from two to three cents a pound. On the other hand, the farmer, in that uncommercial country, has to give a moft exorbitant price for foreign articles. A quart of brandy cofts two roubles and an half; fugar is a rouble a pound, a rouble being the fame in value as our dollar. Scores of inftances of faults, follies and foibles, might be mentioned, for which fuch a Diary might prove an excellent corrective; becaule by their regiftry and periodical reviews, there would naturally be excited a vigilant care to avoid them in future. In fhort, as another year has commenced and new almanacs are needed, let Franklin's almanac be brought into general ufe. Let all who wish to amend their own ways, keep a daily register of their faults, and We hasten to lay before our readers the following in. teresting article : On the 22nd December, in the house of Representatives, a message was received from the President of the United States by Mr. Lewis, his Secretary, imparting to the house the information requested respecting the violation on the part of Spain of the treaty between the United States and that nation. THE MESSAGE IS AS FOLLOWS: "Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, 46 I now transmit a report from the Secretary of State, with the information requested in your resolu tion of the 17th instant. "In making this communication, I deem it proper to observe, that I was led by the regard due to the rights and interests of the United States, and to the just sensibility of the portion of our fellow-citizens, more immediately affected by the irregular proceeding at New-Orleans, to lose not a moment in causing every step to be taken which the occasion claimed from me : being equally aware of the obligation to maintain, in all cases, the rights of the nation, and to employ, for that purpose, these just and honorable means which belong to the character of the United States. "Dec. 22, 1802.” "TH: JEFFERSON. The message is accompanied by letters from our Consul at New-Orleans-the Proclamation of the Intendant-a letter from the governor of the Mississippi Territory to the secretary of state, enclosing a letter written to the governor of Louisiana-and a letter from the governor of Kentucky to the President. JOHN PAGE, Esq is elected Governor of Virginia. There seems to be but one opinion concerning this gentleman. All parties speak of him in terms of approbation. JAMES TURKER, Esq. a democrat, is elected Governor of North Carolina, in place of the late Governor ASHE, deceased. Mr. RICHARDSON is elected Governor of SouthCarolina; and PIERGE BUTLER, Senator of the United States, in the room of Mr. CALHOUN, deceased. |