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Wt TfiERE appears in ninny per
' £0 unfortunate propensity for emigra-
L».,0. a kind of reliefs desire to leave com
.ruble and convenient settlements in
He arch of new situations, as though they
R«pc£ed by change of place to be liip-
W'jor'&i by the spontaneous productions of
r ,0g earth.—-This difpofnion has been the
f* finifce of many evils to its poflHTors—kept
■them wandering vagrants for many years
I—ft ripped them of their little properties,
'and rewarded them only with poverty and
slifappointmcnt.
One would naturally imagine that the
Ikitizcns of this state had little occasion for
It he cxercife of these emigrating principles
- .little ncceffitv to search for better lands, and
very little foundation to hope that in such
$ a search they would be fuccefsful. hut
; even here instances liave not been wanting
i of men, wlio have left very pleasant and
comfortable situations, and removed with
I rueir families and personal property to the
weltern waters, or to Kentucky— and who
hive then fold that property, to defray the
* txpence of removing their farm lies* back
to their former homes; and then to find
out, and not till then, that instead of a
better country or belter lands, the only
thing they needed was a little more indus
try. Men may keep moving ail their
life time, (if by the way they can defray
the expcnce of their various expeditions,)
and (till they cannot find the country that
wili afford them support, without their own
exertions ; and thole who will make even
moderate exertions, will not often have
taulc to complain lor want of ample re
muneration.
The lands within the fettled part of this
state are mostly fertile, pieafantly situated,
and require nothing but moderate industry
to make them answer all the purposes of
human life, ami to render the proprietors
of them wealthy—But unfortunately ma
ny of our citizens desire to avoid industry
•altogether, and to wifti by extending their
pollc-ftions, to prtclude the neceflkv of cul
tivating them —on this principle we often
find men poffefled of much more land
than they can polfibly cultivate, extreme
ly anxious to add to their pofTeftions, or
complaining that they have too little , while
a great part of what they possess remains
totally negledtd.
Man, difeotttented man, seems rcfolved
within himfelf that he will not find rest for
the foie of his foot, nor contentment in a
world of bJellings. It is an undeniable
truth that no country under heaven, holds
out more advantages to new frttlers or old ,
planters, than the State of Georgia—the
lands here are rich and abundantly produc
“rffy little labour will furnifli all (he [
neceftariei, and moderate Industry willpro- (
curemoftof the luxuriesof life. Men here (
of every defeription can live with less labor, * {
than is required for a subsistence in almqli, [
anv ether country; upon lb little in faCt, t
that they very soon contrast a habit of t
uiienefs, and endeavour to live without
nv. A fcttler here from the northern or” j
eastern states, who in his own country ,
was contented to work, from fun rile to .
fun-let, every day, from year to year, and (
was happy if at the end of each year, he ,
was as well off as at the beginning; on be
coming a citizen of Georgia, finds by
Jhort experience, that two or three
labour in a week, will be fufficient for
lupport of himfelf and the JulJf/lence of his
family, and not having calculated when in
hts own country, on much more than a
support, he neglects to improve the advanta
ge-, of his new fitnation, and that time
w hich is not necejfarily employed for the
lupport of his family is spent in play—
whereby Inch a habit of idleness is com
traced, that even the little labour that
tjpis country requires becomes a hard talk,
and he endeavours by fcheeming and fpe- >
dilating to avoid work altogether. This
i» one way in which speculators here are
formed—they are the creatures of the for
tunate situation of our country; and as
every man experiences the ease of procur
ing a fubft lienee here, and as no one is for
that purpote compelled to work more than
one third, or one half his time, every man
has fulficient leisure on hand, to contract
i f dispose l to do so) habits injurious to
himfelf, and highly detrimental to his
country. —Speculation soon becomes the
order of the day—its influence is felt by
all dalles, and the merchant, the mechanic
1! the daily labourer are each exerting
* vei» efforts to speculate themselves into
situations where labour will not be necef
lary ; and the different views and different
pnrfuits of the different claifes, often lay
a foundation for party or company allbc -
ations, which at firft founded on pecunia
ry co-fiJer.it ions, often become political
foci ties to the injury and dtfturbance of
the government.
Speculation ufuallv obtains where men
live widioiit industry, and where fpecula
’iou iml idleness obtains party spirit soon
' v •l f >> a great misfortune that so rhanv
< our cmiens are adduced to habits of
st, iel sappy would it be for them and
l.r oar country were they mwe induftri •
ous—l l uludry is the author of wealth
the parent cf happiness—ls promotes
health and gives a double relifti to every
enjoyment. Let us then lay aside specu
lating fchernes, and all restless desire for
change of situation, and learn to be imluf
trious —and let us teach our children to be
so too—early make them industrious and
habit will make that industry agreeable,
then (hall vve difeharge our duty as men
and highly serve our country f And I will
venture to fay to every planter, be his pos
sessions large or final!, that if he will for
five years lucceflively be industrious and
frugal, on hisprefent possessions, he will at
the end of that time be more wealthy and
far happier, than he would be by going in
quest of new lands, and removing from
place to place in search of spots of imag
inary fertility ; without having it in Ins
power to realize the effeCtsof his exertions,
or to possess what may be called a perman
’ ant home for himfelf and family. Z.
Mejfrs. Randolph & Bunce,
BY inserting the following ex
tract you will I trust, recommend the pe
rusal of a work evincing the harmonies of
nature, and consequently the perpetual pre
sence of a Deity to support thole harmo
nies ; adue recolieCtion of this omnipre
sence, mull check every vicious thought,
and teach us to fly from fin as from the
face of a lerpent, or the devouring pesti
lence: for if we dare not offend in the
presence of an earthly parent or elder, how
dare we before the most high God,
whose pervading eye fees the inmost re
cedes of our hearts ? Mentor.
“ Alas ! bleflings have been given to
us in common, and we communicate to
each other only the ills of life. Man is
every where complaining of the want of
land, and the globe is covered with de
serts. Man alone is exposed to famine,
while the animal creation, down to infers,
are wallowing in plenty. Almost every
where he is the Have of his equal, while
the feebleft of animals maintain their lib
erty against the strongest. Nature who
designed him for love, denied him arms,
and he has forged them for himfelf, to
combat his fellow. She presents to all her
children aflyiums and feftivals ; and the
avenues of o.ir cities announce our ap
proach | only by the fad fpeCtacle
of wheels Tind gibbets. The hiftory of
nature exhibits bleflings only, that of man
nothing but robbery and madness. His
hei%s9<Sie the pfcrfons whotlave rendered
themselves the mod tremendous. Every
where he despises the hand which spin%
the garment that clothes him, and w hie If s
jculttvatc-* for him lire fertile DofOiY) TirTilie
earth. Everv where he esteems his de
ceiver, and reveres his opprefl'ors! Always
diffatblied w-ith the prefont, -he alone of
beings regrets the past, and trembles at the
thought of futurity. Nature has granted
to him alone the knowledge of a
,aml swarms of inhuman religious have
sprung out of a sentiment so Ample and*
so consoloTary! What, then, is the
power barriers to that >
ufnatilTd.J What uuifion has milled that
marvellous reason, which has invented so
many arts, except the art of being happy ? O
ve legislators! boaflt longer*
or the earth evs;ry where watered with his
blood and with his tears, accuses you all
of having thofe of hntjjre. %,
iT#t“higaliJfto his coun
try, ms country to mankind, and mankind
to God, is no mote acquainted,with tbp
laws of politics, than he who, forming*)
alyftem of physics for himfelf alone, and
feperating his penpal relations from all
connexion with the earthy
and thefun, u*Wthe S
t i ()Wf tho%
divine harmonies, I haveaevoted my life,
and this work. If, like so many others, I
have gone
not be fatal to
appears to me the natural bond of man
kind, the hope of our sublime passions, and
the complement of our miserable destiny.
Happy, if I have been able sometimes to
prop, with my feeble support, that sacred
edifice, a flailed as it is, in these times on
everv fide ! But its foundations rest not on
the earth, and to Heaven its stately co
lumns rear their heads. However bold
some of my speculations may be, they
have nothing to do with bad people. Bur,
perhaps more than one epicurean may
difeern in them, that man’s supreme
pleasure is in VIRTUE ! Good citizens
will perhaps find in them new means of
beiirg ufeful. At least, I iliaii have the
full recompense of my labor, if so much
as one unfortunate wretch, ready to fink
at the melancholy fpcChcle which the
ivor!! presents, Hull revive, on beholding
in Nvrußß a father, a friend a re°
WARDER !" »
Saint Pierre, W. l/l, page 63.
“STunris o* Nature,”Printedat Wor
t Mau'ichufctts, by Thomas, Son
aud Thomus,
"fr ’ i
1 Vufirjl w/. of include; Vitih
the following sentence :
“ For my part, I, wfio do not pretend
to be a Newton, am determined never to
' leave the border of my rivulet ; I (hall let
■ up iny red in my humble valley ; and em
: ploy myfelf in culling l’ome herbs and flow
i ers; happy if lam able to form of them
, some garlands to decorate the entrance of
1 that rustic temple, which my feeble hands
t presumed to rear to the majesty of nature !
“ Ths mm wha confccrates his hours
“ By vig’rous effort, and an honest aim ;
“ At once he draws the sting ot life and death,
“ He walks with nature & her paths are peace”
NEW-YORK, August io.
Extrafl of a letter from Belfaft , dated June’].
“ To such an unexampled (fate of prof- 1
peritv has the linen manufa&ure risen in
Ireland, that cloths which used to fell at
nineteen pence per yard, fold this day in
our market for three (hillings and one
penny.”
“ How happy, comfortable, and con
tented Ihouldfuch prices render our wea
vers and manufadfurers? What country
in Europe can afford greater incentives to
indudry and peaceable demeanor in its in
habitants of all ranks? Whoever willies to
interrupt or destroy such comforts, de
fences the execration of Ireland as an ene
mv to mankind.”
CO IF-POX.
We have already given an account of
Drs. Jenner and Pearson’s publications on
the cow-pox, whichtended to edlablifli the
important faft, that those ivho have had
that disease, which never proves fatal, and
which may alwys be so managed as never
to disfigure the patient, are not capable of
afterwards takingthe small-pox infection—
a faft which, if properly followed up, pro
mises fair to extirpate the latter disease, to
which more have fallen victims than to
the peltilence Drs. Pearson, Jenner,
and Woodville, with a zeal that does them
great honor, have since bellowed much
attention in ascertaining by pro
per trials, it is prudent to perse
vere in substituting a disease that has hi
therto appeared no way dangerous, for
one that so often proves mortal; and, we
are happy to add, with a success equal to
the.moft sanguine expectations that could
have been formed : in consequence of
which, the following circular letter has
been addrefled to the gentlemen of the fa
culty. *
Leicester Square, March 12, 1799.
o i R,
I hope you will pardon me for
takittg the liberty to inform you, byway
cvtJanrp tA ihp T
have publilhed on the fubjeft of the cow
pox, that upwards of one hundred and
sixty patieflts, from two weeks to forty*
years of age, principally infants, have been
inoculated, since the twentieth ot January
last, by Dr. Woodville and myfelf separ
ately. at prelffft, only communi
cate the following observations:
1. Not one mortal case occurred.
one of the patients was confideredito
. — Although the ex
treme cases of thefevere kind, which ordi
narily occur in the fame number of cases
in the inoculated ftnaljjpojc, did not occur
in the above pra&ice ; and although many
of the patients were' even more (lightly
disordered qonftitutionally,. k yet the whole
.tftjignnt of feemed
to be as in the fame number
patients in the inoculated fmall-po*. 4
None of the patients (namely,
hitheVto inoculated for the small-pox; fub
fequantly* to the vaccine disease, the
infection. 5. —One of the
tan; faffs' is, that the local affe&iornPßP *
inoculated part, on the whole, was less.
and of shorter duration than
in the inoculated small-pox. 6.—ln many
of the cases eruptions on the body appear
ed, some of which could not be diftin
> guifhed from the small-pox.
I have Tent the matter of the cow-pox
pustule on the thread enclosed, in order, if
you approve of the enquiry, to enoculate
with it; and I entreat you to favour me
with the result of your trials: but I mull
trouble you to apply the rest of inocula
ting with variolous matter subsequently to
the vaccine dil’order.
I have the honor to be, Sec. See.
G. PEERSON.
P. S. I am happy to be able to state,
that at Berkley, Dr. Jenner has continu
ed his trials of inoculation with vaccine
matter, sent from London, with good
luccefs. I ihould have given you a more
circumftanciai account of the cases here
alluded to, but I think it unneceflary, as
Dr. Woodville has a pamphlet in the
preis on the fubjeCL
PUlofo. Mag.
Recent and numerous experiments,
made by the moll eminent of tiie faculty
in London, tend to confirm the efficacy of
the cow-pox, as a means of extirpating
that horrible scourge of the human race*)
nall-pox. Several hundred indivi
daais have recently been inoculated for
* - \
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ihis new in the metropolis, and
they have all taken ir, and recovered from
it in a few days, without its being attended
by any ilinefs, other than a few puthdes
which have appeared in the arm. These
persons have since been repeatedly inocu
late dwith the variolous matter of the small
pox, but without effedl. Several of them
have even slept in the fame bed with per
sons in the mod infe&ious date of the
latter disorder, but without being in any
degree affedted bv it.
Monthly Flag,
PHILADELPHIA, Augud 3.
William Duane, who has been hired
for forne time pad to condtuft Bache’s
Aurora, was brought up before Judge Pe
ters, on Friday morning, and bound in
2000 dollars, and two lureties in 1000
each. His trial is expected to come on
before Judge Paterson in October next.
There were two persons who appeared as
his securities—one of them a man of the
name of Barker, who didinguiflied him
felf in the attempt of Israel to get into the
Senate ; the other proved to be Guy Bry
an, a Government Contractor.
GEN. MASSENA’s SOLILOQIJY.
Retreat! Defeated! Driven before the
Slaves of Atidria and Russia! and what is
worse, beaten and boxed about by the
peasants to whom we have given liberty!*
Intolerable ! I could tear the tri-coloured
cockade from my hat, to fee all the bene
volent schemes of the French republic
blafted*te a set of dupid fellows who do
not value of freedom.
The Great Nation, the Generous Re
public, projected the plan of setting the
world free—they determined to pull ty
rants from their thrones, and drive prielfo
from their churches —they sent forth ar
mies of Republicans to drive tyrants and
their Haves from the earth.. We have exe
cuted a great part of the plan—We have
overturned half of the tyrannies of Eu
rope—and just as we were about setting
down quietly to enjoy the fruits of our la
bour, our enemies multiply; the barbarous
Coflack is joined to the stupid German,
and we are driven from the ricli spoils of >
the conquered nations.
And all for what! becau'fe these lubber
ly fellows dont un'cferdand th?privilege of
being governed by French republicans.
They dont know when they are free
happy. We have driven away all the a
ristocrats and*tyrants who have deceived
and plundered them—and for this favor,
we only demand the right of making them
pay us tribute, and being governed by our
agents and o'ttr, garrisons! We only wish
"Ttrcm to Wrrrß for us, maintain
masters of our appointment, go and comb
. at our pleasure, destroy their temples, theic
relics of Saints, give up their opinions,
and believe as we believe—in fliort, all we
want is to have them behave like good,
industrious, peaceable republican Jlttves of
France-* and. then they would be free and
happy —and we fliould be pleated—And yet,
after all our blood mid toil, we find the
people dont know what it is to b t free.
They are difeontented—want to go back
to their old masters—and are taking, arms
to drive us, their from their
Jaoufes and their fields—Stupid fcoundrels!'
vVhaf, prefer tyrants of their own growth
—natives of their own foil; to the Repub
lican, rulers, armie&fet over thereby,.,
Frsrr?e! Foutres! not fit to*mre'» s
in this age of reason.
Mahomet and disciples
■ could concert, ahdfworcl, one half
the human race into his followers; and
the' Great Natfon cant turn into Atheists
mrnid Lawlefsr-Brigands one half the smallest
in' Italy! I' tlynk the generous re
public may as well give over this crusade
against religion, r.nd let the bigots enjoy
their God add their Saviour—Riaht or
wrong, we cant break up their worfliip,
without breaking their heads, and what is
more, a chance to have our own
heads broke! Tom Paine is certainly
wrong—this is no age of reason, when
men are not willing to be conquered into
freedom pom religion , I wifil mvfelf out of
this serape!
. BALTIMORE, August 8.
Tne neutrality of the Pruifian monarch
at the present time, is as Angular an in
stance of political inactivity as we perhaps
have upon record. Situated between two
of the most powerful nations of Europe,
who are at present engaged in war with
rr?nce, he maintains the ftriCteft neutrali
ty, when, in sass it would seem that his
in 1 .rest demanded an immediate interfe
rence. Th’at the neutrality of Prussia will
eventually prove injurious, (we might al
most jay ruinous) to that kingdom, is de
monttrable from the following positions r
ii- Its local situation puts it in the
power of the Auftrains and Ruffians, coa
le.v.ej to attack the Prussian dominions i:i
several pomts at once; and the barriers *
and bounds which might be opposed to an
■ enemy being weak, their foie confidence
must be repoied in their armies, which