Political. 3 publication, the editor of the CHARLESTON COURIER. of power has time ont of regnant topic of difcontent. nt of it is often a ftepping , power a ftepping stone to ufe again to complaint, and non a mill-horle round, fursafe trader in politics with eption and of profit, at the only of the public purfe (that ely a trifling evil) but of the ility and comfort. In fact = greatest complainers when hare in the government or flate, never fail to give the of complaint when they get moft lewd, babbling bound pack of demagogues, always moft thorough paced fawning and Federalism: but betwee Anti-Federalifts. Federalifts from the field routed them for the prefe fire to the camp, and bro and are now fcuffling fo fpeak lefs figuratively, a Prove their doctrine or By Jacobinic stabs and while fome of the public charge to the tune of the or Ca ira. Beautiful which many love tor fom mufic-for " An Und thing"-But, readers, what" because it ma to use it for patriotic purpofts, or for the purpofe of peculation; and that as foon as they got the vigilant guardians of the fate out of power and themselves faft in it, their ambition and avarice would be too many for their prudence, and they would fall out with each other in a feramble for office, influence and pelf. Thofe predic-place between them, as w tions are verified, and the party which by The Mountain & the Mo art and grofs mifreprefentation of their ad- name of Clintonians and verfaries, and if it were poffible ftill more pell-mell, cutting, hacki to themselves, ouited the federalifts, pre-tearing each other's eyes fent at this moment to the northward a mobbing like Poillardes, fpectacle to the public eye die moft ridic-fellois of the dray, the ulous, and if a people could be improved are whetting their weapo by fuch things, the most edifying imagin. || political lectures into the able. The game of the French from 1792 ple, and to 1796, is playing there in all its parts, and all its modes-the fake is the fame-he object the fame-the principle the famewords run equally high, and the words are pretty nearly the fame, as thofe of which the French jacobins made ufe at that deteftable period.Afffination is not commited it is true-as yet it is only preached. The guillotine is not as yet erefted in the ftrects-it ftill remains locked up in the bofom; but if we are to form a conjec-ry that would foufe us b ture from the language which is held, it is of Mr. LOCKE, and the probable that we fhall foon hear of the fli- the Affociation of Ideas, letto, the poinard, and the national razor, up to the knees, in the a he who when out boas (fo the French called the guillotine) makown purity, and moi! loudlying fome citizens bite the duft. at of others, never fails when corrupt even to rottennefs. fes which that defcription of office practice, are the very furnish them with all the topwhen out of office they enender government in the abto the people. In truth powot more odious or more mifheir invectives, when as demadulate and beguile the peomade by their practices when cers they plunder and opprefs. people fee it, yet the people They liften with languifhthe demagogue of to-day, who - betrayer to-morrow, though he is reminding them that he betrayer and plunderer to-day erday their demagogue and i in a correct view of the heart e is ever found to act in a pocity, and a conviction of the ave flated above, that the fed. atedly foretold, and over and pprized the people, exhorting ep the prediction in rememas foon as ever thofe flaming entioufnefs under the abused erty, the democrats, got into would foon demonftrate to the of the country what their real ics. The famous Lord No probably been heard o America) once peaki of the prefent Lord Hu by Hutchinfon, who w Dublin College, a K Minister of State, an c befides many other thi were to give that little Ireland, and Scotland, would beg the Ifle of The divifions of party and the fcuffles purpofes even darkly infinuated. In what fates, that at a Demec The public Journals of New-York at this moment preient an afflicting difplay of the abominable evils to which the spirit of It is no longer a conteft between the an whoever he is, equip his army, and arch on the expedition he has propofed, Hell,) we with fuccefs to his laudable nterprize. We have often taken occafion to menon, and the haggard afpect of an afflicted orld, wearied and walled with looking in fear and aftonishment upon the ran factions which have paffed in France uring the revolution, bear teftimony the horrors and abominations of that peiod. Confidering that murder was let pofe by the authorities exifting at the time France, and it is reftrained by law in America, we do not know that there is to be found in the whole progrefs of the French revolution a peice of more daring puden: depravity and wickednefs, than paragraph in one of thofe papers. Reader contemplate it; it needs no ment-it fpeaks for itfelf. The writer having obferved, that Governor Clinton's declaration refpecting Mr. Jeffer fon at Mr. Barr's houfe muft, it made at all, have been made in confidence, and that the exTofing them now to the public is an act of bafenefs, he thus concludes com "Any man, who after this fall confide in the wretch who has published or authorifed the publication of this anecdote, will deferve to be ftabbed to the heart by the poignard of an affaffin in the unfuf peding moments of fleep." This outrageous conflict in New-York, occafioned by the laudible revolt of the fecond perfonage in rank in the antiledereral party, from the proceedings of the Executive, the honeft defertion ct leading perfons in Pennfylvania, Maryland, and in Congrefs, and the oppofition which they have to the doctrines and conduct of the partizans of the cabinet, evince that there is a fchifm in the party at large, and that the fpirit of difcontent and divifior has got among them. For our parts, we fpeak not of it with any fort of malignant Triumph or party delight. The country is likely to receive more difgrace than advantages from it. The form of democratic madness moft entirely pafs over, before any thing fubftantially good or rational can be expected to be done. So long as all thofe who have power demonftrably fhow that they think neither of the country or the country's permanent good, nor of any thing but themfelves and offices, and their own private interefts, it little avails how much they quarrel among them. felves. As Mr. Windham, in his celebrated fpecch, faid of the French revolutionary quarrels, "The fhip has been in "mutiny-there has been fighting in the "waift and on the forecastle, but the vef"fel has held her course." So it is in this cafe, it difgraces one party without tween the Dilettanti and Amiteurs about Handel and Farrinelli the Italian mufician, and can only fay in the words of the Dean, Strange that such difference should be EXTRACT FROM THE COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. 66 elective Ambrose Spe nother judge what noted for complaining bit person who had is for Governor turned out to b Spencer," replic reliance on eve think that every Mr. Spencer, We are extr UNLESS the prefent legiflture pafs a law, defining republicanifm, and fixing it upon fome folid bafis, it will, like the law about duelling, flip through their fingers. If a law fhould not be made exprefsly upon the fubje&t, it might be added by way of tail, to the one upon the franchife." At prefent, there are various opinions about republicanifm, caufing contentions among the citizens, and injurious to the rights of man.' democrats, republicans and genuine republicans; fine and fuperfine. In one point there seems to be a general agree.fice, it certainly ment, that all good republicans get the buil offices they can. Editor's Closet. A GOOD THING. There are In the disputes and contentions between the terrorists and moderates (the Lewisites and Burrites) a precious confession, now and then, creeps out, which shews how charmingly the friends of the peo ple have managed the affairs of the state for a few years past. The following fact may be relied on. The whole pamphlet of Aristides scarcely furnishes a more important one :- A genuine republican and a real republican (both holding offices in the state) having a high dispute in Albany the other day, the Burrite, without ceremcny, damn'd the whole Clinton faction for a pack of aristocrats; and was proceeding with great violence, when the other interrupted him with, Pray, sir, how do you obtain your living? To whom are you indebted for your bread? Who gave you the office which supports you?" The Burrite was thunder. struck; and the Clintonian, elated with his victory, continued, Ambrose Spencer and De Witt Clin. ton had better men than yourself turned out of of fice to make room for you; and now, you ungrate ful"-" Did they so?" interrupted the Burrite, raising his head and his voice, "Then all I have Judge Lewis d they dare not c We must think governor, with falsnccds, he m where, he is. L the truth bt n told to get a ma in this vicinity, state besides, the session, di una doctrines, advan to the jury, on t -that the court be given in evide judge of both lav Could be granted false. Neither were decided in a conjecture, what The partizans for more than he the Burites a fa genuine republica A VI Some days ago tained currency in parte, it was s fought three great nav and killed he we found that it h from the bonor ble to a member ofth however, proved left to conjecture vent such a monst a Georgetown pape editor of that paps ed of the scarcity public demand, he article of his own. itals, "GREAT above-mention.cd getting hold of the cast his eye on the 66 Yours, EVE VERY attentive obferver will remark among the plants, of almost lome individual crop, every kind of ftalks which are diftinguishable from the others by a greater degree of health, or luxuriance, or prolificacy, or earliness, or fome other peculiarity. A friend of mine remarked many years ago a particu lar ftem of peas among his earlieft crop, which came into flower and ripened long before the others, He marked this ftem, and faved the whole of its produce for feed. These came as much earlier as they had originally done. This produce was alfo faved for feed; and thus he obtained a particular kind of early pea, that came at least a week before the best fort he could buy in the fhops, if fown at the fame time with them." The Dr. relates facts fimilar to this refpe&ting wheat and beans. The general idea he means to inculcate, is obvious, and extremely worthy attention." [From an English Publication.] LET firft action be the your lifting up of your mind to Almighty God by hearty prayer, and feelingly digeft the words you speak by continual meditation, and thinking of him to whom you pray ; and ufe this as an ordinary, and at an ordinary hour, whereby the time itfelf will put you in remembrance to do that which The Balance. be an you are accufiomed to do. In that time oufly occupied; fo fhall you make fuch It For Philosophical. FOR THE BALANCE. MR. CROSWELL, I No. I. F the din and clamor of politicks (which have for a long time enveloped, and drowned all the fine feelings for literature, and the nobler fciences) will permit, I wish you to make it convenient to fequefter a little corner in your useful paper, in which I may, from time to time, depofit fome of the product of my vacant moments, I remember that my Lord Bolingbroke has fomewhere given this caution, that we fhould not fuffer, much lefs encourage, the imagination to rove in fearch of truth. To know things as they are, is to know the truth. To know things as they may be, is to guess at truth, is to guefs at truth, Judgment and obfervation lead to the one, imagination and fpeculation to the other.-Alfo, the poet obferves, Give yourfelf to be merry. For you degenerate from your father, if you find not yourself moft able in wit and body, to do any thing when you be most merry. But let your mirth be ever void of all four. rility, and biting words to any man. a wound, given by a word, is oftentimes harder to be cured than that which is giv. en with a fword, Be you rather a hearer and bearer away of other men's talk, than a beginner or procurer of fpeech, otherwife you fhall be counted to delight to hear yourself speak. If you hear a wife fentence, or an apt phrafe, commit it to your memory, with respect of the circumftances when you fhall fpeak it. Let never oath be heard to come out of your mouth, nor word of ribaldry. Deteft it in others, fo fhall cufton make to yourself a law against it in yourself. Be modeft in each affembly; and rather be rebuked of light tellows for maidenlike fhamefacednels, than of your fad friends for bold pertnefs. Think upon every word you speak before you utter it; and remember how nature hath ramified up, as it were, the tongue with the teeth; yea, and hair without the lips; all betokening reins or bridles, a gainst the loofe ufe of the tongue. Above all things tell no untruth, No, not in trifles. The cuftom of it is naught; and let it not fatisfy you that for a time the hearers take it for a truth; for after, it will be known as it is, to your fhame. For there cannot be a greater reproach to a gentleman, than to be accounted a lyar.I at prefent know of matter: But fome Study and endeavour yourself to be virtu, may object and lay, you have forgotten "Of God above or man below, What can we reason, but from what we know?" Keeping the two above obfervations closely in view, and with the moft ftrict bridle on the reafoning faculty, I fhall now proceed to enquire concerning matter, that object of the firft ftudy of human beings. What then is matter? In answer to this, I would introduce the following Philofophical Thefts, that matter is extention in fome figure impenetrable by other extentions; or, in other words, the idea of one quantity or parcel of matter, cannot be This is all destroyed by that of another. that matter does attract, is heavy, &c. and this attraction is therefore an attribute, or quality, &c. that belong to the defcription of matter. To this I fhall anfwer in my next number. PHILANTHROPOS. Literary Gleanings. FOR THE BALANCE. VOLTAIRE very happily characteri zes two negociators :-Cardinal Mazarine, and Hare the Spanish minifter. The art of Mazarine lay in cunning-that of Hare in deliberation. Hare made ufe of but few words-and whatever Mazarine faid was equivocal. The genius of the Italian was to over-reach-that of the Spaniard to keep on his guard. It is faid that the Spaniard made this reflection on the cardinal-He purfues one great error in politics, which is, that he would ever deceive, Patriotifm of the Hollanders in the time of Louis XIV. What advanced the ruin of Holland fill more (fays Voltaire, fpeaking of the invafion of that country by Louis XIV. was, that the Marquis De Louvois had fecretly employed Count de Benthem to purchase from themselves, a great part of the ammunition defigned for their own deftruction; and by this means, had disfurnished their magazines. It is not in the leaft furprizing, that their merchants fhould have fold those military stores before a declaration of war, when they fell them every day to their enemies, during the most defperate contents. 'Tis known (continues he) to every one, that a merchant of that country, formerly repli ed to prince Maurice, who reprehended him for fuch a traffic, "My Lord, it I could, by fea, carry on an advantageous trade with hell, I would run the hazard of fcorching my fails," Life, faid the Marefchal Saxe on his death-bed, is a dream. Mine has been a very fine one-but it has been short. "What is the benefit of reading?" faid Louis to the duke of Vivonne, The duke, who was plump and fresh coloured, replied, " Reading, Sir, has the like effect upon the mind, with what your majefty's partridges have upon my cheeks." Falfe zeal, fays Frederick of Pruffia, is a tyrant that depopulates provincesToleration is a tender mother, that nourishes them, and makes them flourish. "Troops ready to act, a full treafury, and the vivacity of my character, were the reasons why I made war upon Maria Therefa, queen of Hungary and Bohemia." Thus Ipeaks Frederick of Pruffia of himself. Voltaire fays, never man, perhaps, felt reafon more forcibly, or lif tened more attentively to his paffions, than Frederick; but this mixtuae of a philofophic mind, and a diforderly imagination, have ever compofed his character. The following epitaph, I much admire, for its concifenefs and beautiful fimplicity: St. Pavin here lies in the dust Grieve for his death his readers must- Literary Motice. American Antiquities. FROM THE AURORA. SOME very extraordinary ftru&tures have lately been difcovered on the banks of the Little Miami river, fate of Ohio. They confit of ftructures bearing every evidence of an acquaintance with the arts. of civilization and of fcience, and from their great extent leave little room for enquiry as to the ancient flate of this continent, which fets afide all former hypothefis. Thefe works, confidered as military fortifications, are not confined to one pofition, nor to that rude uniformity which diftinguishes the works of unrefined nations. The principal courfe of fortifications which are fituated a few miles from the Ohio, are compofed of a number of fquares and oblong communications, adapted to the pofition of the gound; feveral rifing banks and hills are chofen as points of defence; and circular as well as rectangular ftructures prefent themfelves; which are connected by long chains of works-of various lengths from half a mile to a mile. PROPOSALS, are iffued by Meffrs. Hudfon & Goodwin, of Hartford, Conn. for publishing by fubfcription, a series of papers which originally appeared in the newspapers, under the title of THE ECHO; with other fugitive poetical pieces. The work will form a duodecimo volume, probably of between three and four hundred pages; it will be handfome-is preferved and fallyports open covered ly printed and bound at one Dollar. PUBLISHERS' ADDRESS. It is remarkable that the communication is by interior breaft works, adjoining the neighboring fprings; the fides of the hills form a natural talus or glacis to the gener al range of the works, and a covert way cut from each of the fally ports to the fprings. In one point where there is a fpring fomewhat distant from the main fortrefs a fmall fortrefs appears-the fize of the greater may be conceived by that of the lefs which forms a parallelogram of 662 -by 331 feet. The fides of fome of the fquares are from 1000 to 2000 feet. And one of the communications extends to the difiance of 2864 feet. One of the most extraordinary of the discoveries of thefe antiquities, is what we call a turnpike road, formed of ftone, which iffues from one of the fallyports of the greater fortification more than 20 feet wide and has been traced to the extent of TO those who have read the newspapers for ten years paft, the title of this work will be familiar. The plan of it was probably original. It was at first intended to ridicule the pompous flyle of writing, which many of those who contributed to the gazettes, had adopted. But, as the fpirit of party progreffed in the country, and every thing, became abforbed in politics, the authors happening to be of one fentiment, gave their pieces a political caft. Intimately connected with THE ECHO, were the NEW-YEAR'S VERSES, which appeared from time to time, from the of fice of the Connecticut Courant. As all thefe publications have appeared only in the perishable form of a hand-bill, or a newspaper, a wifh has been often expref-three miles from the works, in good order. fed, that they might be publifhed in a more fecure and falling form. To gratify this wifh, the authors have agreed to correct the various pieces, to add the necessary explanatory notes, to write one or two additional numbers to THE ECHO, and to have the whole publifhed in a volume. Subfcription papers will be sent to various parts or the country, and the work will go to prefs, as foon as a fufficient number of fubfcribers appear to defray the expence of publishing. Subfcriptions received at the Bal ance-Office. Twenty miles above the greater fortification on the fame river is another feries of works, upon fimilar principles. There are no ditches to any, but great ingenuity is preceptible in the choice of pofitions and the application of art to the line of apparent defence. A Mr. Ludlow found in one of the works an iron ball of 70 pounds weight, which has thrown great difficulty in the way of enquiry. May. it not have been adventitioufly placed there? Or does it belong to the ancient works ? ting the matter in controverfy-after eat- The hiftory of this tranfa&ion furnish- Referees' Tavern-Bill for fix days. May 21ft. 20 Dinners 9 Bottles Wine 4 Nights hay for Horfe May 22d. ees for fome of them) had meeting, together with the eir witneffes, at the tavern , in order to audit and fetIn difpute between the parhepif, 224 & 234 days of and 23 days of June, and elv, 1768 when they finalleaving the business, fubir decifion unfettled and a amounting to 137 dollars 685 parties to pay. er the amount of this tavern was brought against the parAment, to May term 1801. was tried at the adjourned mmon Pleas on the 11th of tant; when the jury, conhe opinion of the court, gave the plaintiff for the principal tereft from the time of bringand cofls. anent is ftill depending in _s, after leven arbitrators, choarties, had met three feveral ervals of a month between of meeting-after fitting at a تيفي 7 15 Dinners 17 12 Suppers 4 Cold Breakfafts May 234. 5 Nights Hay for Horfe June 220, 23d. 19 Bottles Wine 26 Bottles Porter 935 7210 19 9 4 verfus John Koch. Summons iffued Sept fame day judgment, and £ 1 10 o debt, coft tember 24th, 1803, jud referred to three men. I certify that the coft record of the juftice wh above cafe, while the fa before the juftice and re lows: Coft before the juftice f conftable and witness Coft for the firft referee men at one dollar eac Tavern bill Coft for the laft referee. days fitting each one Tavern bill & witneffes The 1ft and 2d day's ta 9 6396 NNO 5 5 7 1 о 3 1 |