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_ SATURDAY, November 14, 1789.] THE AUGUSTA CHRONICLE .<£• '•.] •>>- A If yD h ' - ■ '' ■ ~-*** L - ' * GAZETTE the STA T&. k FREED OM of the PRESS, m 4 TRIAL bp JURY, thali remain inviolate. N.v, C.,p lui „ .j G ..r t i.. AUGUSTA) Printed by JOHN E. SMI TH, Printer to the State > Efrp, Artuh ,f Intelligence, Advert if ements, &c. will be gratefully received, and every kind of Printing performed. For the Augufia Chronicle. Observer. No. I, SCI e n c E. WHOEVER has been acquainted with the republic of letters, and With man kind, muff have observed how often pedantry and fatfe learning have taken to themselves the name of Science, and assumed a feat in the temple of real knowledge. Amdrtgft the numerous train of those who claim the ho nor of being learned, rtqt fa many are truly so as has been generally imagined. There if re many whose minds are empty, anJ Whole underltandings are.not enlarged, by a regu lar train of thought. .. Tinsel atid external (hew may create a great noife v and af ter them the unmeaning applause of a certain . class of people; but the penetrating mind will always fee through tlfc deception. * Trite fci knce fee ins rather to be confined to men Os genius, or at leaff the fcientific men muff have some little share of it: It is cldfkly ccnneftecl a train of independent t-egutafTgtfefliona. It does not consist in servile imitatiod,. or in mechanically leading over a huge collection of authors ; but it is the offspring of good think ing—of a flrong mind and perfetfferipg inves tigation. —Genius is the child of nature ; in dependent reflection springs from genius, and science is the refolt of reflexion. Hence let. those who <wip for knowledge , learn, that thinking is their hufintfs. The thoughtless man may read forever, and not advance, a (ingle inch upon the field of knowledge.—To, •what purpose art adive mental powers be llowed upon us, if they>e not set in motion ? The moving principle contained within the human mind dots not profit us—dots ndt tend to improvement,, if it be not brought into operation. Continued mental iniditfity wduld feaniih science from the world; Whtreas the contrary Would product gradual, but perpe- . tusl improvemet. .... A being like man, poffelTed of initlledual powers,'*ft»ould remember, that, ill thfc gene ral circle of science, there is ample room for advances ; the field is widely extended, and winy parts of it yet unexplored« Paying, thereforei a fauable refped to former pro moters Os hum an knowledge, tyfery feienti fic man' should fuffer the powers of his mind fO operate freely,—lhould (piritedly inveffi gate, and induflrioufly add, to the quantity of human science already laid up in store. Too great a diffidence of ope’s own abilities, where genius is tolerable, has a detrimental influence upon science. A far ritort mode-„ fate genius than the phijofophic Newton may fojfibly difeover errors in some parts of that grtat man’s work, and make improvements in. others. Therefore the adive principle of every man’s mind ought to be exerted, that the joint efforts of all gtniufes mar;, coincide to produce the greartftpofltble effed. By this I do not mean to recommend a Ipirit of ar mganrt, but only* spirit of adiyity and ani mated jperfeverance.. .And the latter maybe recommended for this reafonTrue fcience' is cloftly connetted with the true dignity of human nature: It enlarge* the underflandiug; it refines, . embellikhes, .gtalts. It adds a bright luftre to the charader of man; —it •nobles hjs him to an tflevated ftatton in the fyffem of GEORGIA. ■Vtv ! x- w COPENHAGEN, Augufl u , It is certain rtiat an obflinatc Tea fight took place between the Swedith and Ruffian fleets, at about thirty mile 6 east of Bornholm, on the afith of July,. which laded from 2 o’clock in the afternoon till eight o’clock at night, when the Ruffian fleet wag seen fleering more toward* the east, and the Swede* feemcd pre paring to follow them* Fro/n the Lower Augufl 4. By a courier and fomtprivate letters which arrived here this afterat 3n, we learn, that the above fca fight had ternynated in favor at the Swedes. ?■■■ P A R I sj Augufl f. , Yeflerday a large decjted boat was flopped Upon the river, with gunpowder and small (hot •, the commander or captain produced a passport ligned by the Maquis de la Fiyettfc, and couorterfigned by the Mafquis de la Salle, second in command. The populace immedi ately inferred there was fora* plot against their liberty—ran to the Hotel de ViUe to call oh the iyfarquis.de }a Fayetlqjor an explanation concerning the powder, and loudly demand-, ed h» head. The Marquis pacified the mul titude by signing his name feverat times be fore them, and remarking that it bore no rs femblance whatever with that upon the pair port, and that it was a snare designedly laid to avert from him the affections of the people. The populace, thinking then it mull be the. Marquis of la Salle, went to bis house, broke it open, fcarchcd all lys papers, and.put a seal upon all his effeCts. He luckily was not within. While they were gone there, M. la Fayette aflemblediome militia to guard the avenues of tpe Hotel, in order to prevent the multitude from returning there.. The project remains iq a flyle of mystery, as it i* not pofliblc the gentlemen above-mentioned could be concerned in the proceeding : if they had, the populace would readily have beeu appear ed by their avowing the powder to be for the defence of the people. The King wiote the following letter to M. de la Fayette.: . “ I am informed, Sir, that a considerable number of my soldiers, of divers regiments, hajve abandoßed their colours, to join the troops of Paris. I authorize you to those who may have arrived before you ha\*h received this prefect letter, only, pnlefs they lhould prefer to return to their refpeCtive corps, .with a billet from you> itt (bhith case they will not experience aiiy thing difagree able* . v /. •*, As to thi French guards, I authorize them lo enter into the militia of my capital, and tfaeit pay pod fuhfilteoce (lull be con ti nneduntil my city of (halt have taken arrangements refpeCfiflg tbtir fubfiftence* “ The four, companies Who are herd to guard my person, (hall continue, to perform thatfervice, anp will fake -care of them. (Signed) . « LOUIS.’’ . —•*•!. 'll LON D 9 Nj Augufl is. Letters in town from Rotbfryland, in the county Os Armagh, Ireland, dated the 18th ult. give an account of the desperate and alarmipg riots flill fubfifliug between the De fenders and the Peep of Day Boys, Di (Tenters and Roman Catholicks, in that county. Tbefe, letters mention .a desperate .engage ment having taken placfc on the nth ult. at . ■ r* . .. [Vol. iy. No. CL XIII.} Lifenegadda fort, where a large body of the Peep, of pay Boys had polled themselves with ammunition and provisions; they were at tacked by a body of the oppofi e-party With rnufqoetry,, and afterwards: pretfed by the bayonet, and upwards of fifty men killed, fe vesal mortally wounded, .many made prifoo ers, and the rest put to flight. Extrati of a letter front Louvain, Juty 3r, ■ “ After wnat happened at Tirlemont, we were iu fear of fometbing (imilar taking place ' here ; and in faCt our commandant received accounts that a number of peasants had sorta- . ed apian for entering this place on the afcth, upon the ringing the alarm bell, whiKt the people within would find enough to employ the troops; howevei,. the commandant took the neeetiary precautions to preserve good or der, each battalion was furmfhed with a piece of cannon,, the guns of the place weie point ed up tbe high ftieets, and the pa:io!es and guards doubled, with ordcis to flop ah whom 1 they should meet aimer : In the aiiemoon some of the military were iii used by the po pulace, but upon the appearance of , a sh ug detachment the mob di/petfed ; however, be tween eight and nine o’clock, they began plundering in some of tbe bye corners of the town, all the bells rang, arid the garrifonaf* fembied under arms; but were laluted with flones and muiket (hot, which they anfwcred pretty warmly, and the people difperled, but aliembled in other places, and oppciled the * troops; rnlhort, the confufion foou becamte general, and was incrcaicd.hy accounts that a number of peasants we it, approaching the town j A party of the troops wax immediate- . ly lent against them, upon, whom the peasants fired; on which the troops began to fire* which they continued till the mob was dif peried. Ihe firing iafted in tbe town foufr hours; and numbers were killed. The next . day a number of armed peasants were leen on - the road to Tirlemont; but a. paity of dra goons drove them away, after killing several. Trauquility is now reflored, and the prefer-•. vation.of ibis place entirely owing to the *, wile tneafuics taken by the commandant.” Jhe late chp;. Pacha was to (et out on the 6th of june from Adrianople, at the beau ot taooo men for Ifmail,, where he was to rake the command of 60,000. Tne Ruffian fleet i$ in much more force on ■ the Black lea, Jtjiau was expefled^ Nalif Effendi, who married the late Grahdl Sigiiioi s daughther, together With his father and brothers, have loft thtir heads. The French andSpamfh ministers are en* deav<iu r jngto bring about a peace. . r ■Ma fl y wonder the King of France is not mc-rC -spirited and prompt in the embarcaff- . intnts by which he is iurrounded. Those . who. are no enemies to defpotifinvfay, he - trifle* wiih . his army, as we d id in our difputd with Afherita : The tafe is very different ; - the troops we sent to that .Continent, were obediefit so command, but however a lever* fo France might tend to imimidatfl the inforgents, his majesty has no power to exhibit one.; though at thehead of tbe army, the troops are immoveable to his word, and > "ic is worihy of notice, thatthe < profefs more royalty, and .cry up patribtifin - less than any other. 'The king himfelf has 1 more confidence in one troop of the .brigade, U>an in a wholefqua«iron of French.--' -Jiorfes, a teafoa may indeed be assigned fur that l