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ft is much taAe desired, not tody for oar oMm
sake, but that ot the whole world, tLatwe should
. great degre
liand^. - The narrow limits of the country, its
comparatively barren soil, its unfavourable cli
mate, and its, scanty population, make it appear'
■* presumptuous: to hold it up in tliis important
point of view. But, when we come to look more
* closely into the matter, we shall.not find- the no
tion so very.wild. * ..
'An-Englishman, while he eats and drinks no'
more than> another man, labors three tirpes as
many hours' in the course of a year as any other
man. His life is three common lives. People'
t>f other countries have some leisure hours.-J-
An Englishman has none. He always walks or
rides as fast as he can. You may know him
from all the rest of the world, by his' head going
before his fret; by .pushing Along as if going for
a wager, and Kis §toop and his round shoulders.
An American gentleman - observed, that, when
he first came to London, all the people in the
streets “seemed as if they were going on an er
rand) and had been charged to make haste back.”
Neyer was there a better description. If we see
•a man walking at a leisurely pace, in the coun
try, we suspect him to be a thief, or, at least, a
vagrant. Sunday seems to be the only day in
the week when an Englishman does not enjoy
himself. He lolls about, and out of spirits.—
The old saying, that “when the Devil finds out
any ope with nothing to do, he is sure to set him
to workcertainly had its origin in England
►try, gberaimefis of jjpc, vial causes jbftfcat.ttAt*
,al strength, which you foolishly attribute to the
cleverness of A financier; 4o a sinfcing fund, or
to attyTjf the nUmeroUp humbugs, Vitfy .which
you have'been so long amused.
The population of a country i3 no stAndard/of
its strength, dr, at least, the population itself %
nd such standard; if it ifrere it would be diffi
cult to conceive howutHiippetted, font a hand
ful of Eilrlishmen have become the masters o
India, and have been able tol tax the people o
that country as completely as we are taxed here,
orwery nearly no. A man is a man, to*be sure;
luatt os Sterne said to the monk, “there is some
difference in men, my friend.” It is very clear,
that if there be one man ;who does, in the same
line of businesses much as two other men, ant
if he travels twice as- far as either of them, he is
letter than both of them-to his employer, be
cause he eats no more than one of them, and re
quires no more clothes, lodging, &c. than one of
them. And therefore, in estimatingthe strength
of England, or any dther country, we must look
more at the char&ctpr and performances of the
>eople than at their numbers. In England every
thing moves in a quick pace. The stirring dis-
josition of the people shortens distance. More burgh Encyclopedia it is gr avely affirmed that
is done in the same space of time than in other the f.ittlo Ro!t h#»t ntrtts President., at-
countries. ^ The tradesmen in London almost
lold a conversation with the tradesmen at York
or Exeter* v
tRi
I wonder such a people should ever have had
Sunday or Churches, The Popes have left us
some Saint’s Days; they have been disregarded
by the nation at iarge: and though retained for
a long while in the public offices, they have al
dieeh abolished at last by act of Parliament, the
nation being too busy to indulge the whims of the
Holy Father any longer. To have an idea of
the everlasting industry of this nation, you have
only to look at the garden of a laboring man.—
This is the scene of his leisure hours; that
say, the twilight and the Sunday, when he wil
'Cultivate flowers or shrubs, . rather than submit
to a minute’s rest
The propensity to incessant labor is common
do all ranks:—nie lawyers, doctors, parsotfs
merchants; all are alike; and, as to the shop
keepers and tradesmen, they know not what
leisure or pleasure msans. The Gentlemen are
as busy as the rest. They are half -their lives
on horseback. ' Hunting and shooting are their
labor, and hard labor too. Every man also aims
at perfection in his way. He is not content un
less he has something or another, in which he
does, or thinks he does, surpass all other men.
Hence our fine horses, dogs, sheep, cattle, the
Leads of which are attended to with such inflexi
ble perseverance. Ashore or two of gentlemen
riding full speed down a hill nearly as steep as
the roof of a souse, when, one false step must in
evitably send horse and rider to certain death,
is an object to be seen no where but in England.
Nor are these sports and that of boxing and
other perilous exercises to be left out in an enu
meration of t'iq causes of national power, though
shallow philosophers affect to despise them.—
They tend to prpduce great energy in indivitlu
nls, and it is of the union of individual energy
that national power principally consists. To
nvhat does America owe the achievement and
the preservation of her independence, but to the
anus of a,.race of men, brave because they are
handy and hardy, because, from their infancy,
they have been bred to labor and perilous pur
suits?
- In England every man tries to excel all others,
not so much in rising above taem in the scale of
life, but in the particular line of life, in which he
i3 ^placed. He would rather not do a thing at all
than not to do it well. Tff this unconquerable
spirit of perseverance, it is that we owe that as-
toni.laiag perfection, ’to w.iich
in most of the mechanic arts, and in whatever
appertains to agriculture* though as to the last
•we have, in many respects, to contend agaiusi
nature itself. In every tiling where horses are
"the instruments (and horses are second only to
men) the English so far surpass all the rest of
the world, that there i3 no room for romparison
The man who has a mind to know something of
England, in this respect, should walk from the
Tower of London to Charing Cross, a little after
day-light in the morning, while the streets are
clear of people. He would then see the teams
of immense horses; drawing up from the bank ol
the Thames,-coals, timber, stone, aud other hea
vy materials. Dae morning last summer, I
counted, in various places, more than a hundred
of these teams, worth each of them, harness,
waggbn, load and all, little less than 1000/.—
The horses upon an average, weigh more than a
tun. But, next after a fox-hunt, the finest sight
in En gi.uid is a stage-coach just ready to start.
A great sheep or cattle fair i« a beautiful sight;
but, in the stage-coach you see more of what
jna 1 is capable of performing. The vehicle, it-
if, the harness, all so complete and so neatly
13 to are as usefully employed in this way as they
would in any other. By following this sport,
arranged; so strong and clear and good. The
beau ifui horses impatient to be oif. The inside
fuil and the outside covered in every part with
men, women, children, boxes, bags, bundles.—
The coach'tna, taking his reigns in one hand
and his whip iii the other, gives A signal with his
foot, and away go, at .the rate of seven miles an
hour, the population and the property of a hamlet..
One of tnese coaches coining m, after a long
journey,. h| a sight not less' interesting. The
horses are *«W all sweat and foam, the reek
from their bodies ascending like a cloud. The
w£ole equipage is-covered,, perhaps with dust
or dirt. But still, on it comes as steady as the
hand of a clock. As a proof of the perfection
to which this mode of travelling, has been
brought, there us one v coach wbieh goes between
Exeter and London, the proprietors of which
agree to forfeit eight pence for every minute
that the coach is behind its time at ally of its
stages; and this coach* I believe, travels 8
nuies an hour, and that too upon a verrhilly,
and, and at some seasons, very deep road,
There'miy be persons to say, “these descrip
tions may amusing to your readers in
But the'great thing of all is the innocent la-
)or, which is continually creating things, which
give strength to a country. I do not know, that
we excel some other nations in ingenuity in the
useful arts. Workmen are very adroit in Ame
rica. They build as well and more neatly than
we do. They work as nimbly. Bet they do not
work so much. They take some leisure, which
we never do. I must, however, always insist
that we derive infinite advantage from our sports.
To these we owe, almost entirely our second
selves, our horses of speed, and even those we
should not have without our dogs. It is very
well in the way of Like, to ridicule fox-hunting
squires and parsonspbut, if the matter be well
considered, we shall find that these gentlemen
to
they set an example of adventurous riding
those beneath them; and, if there had been no
fox-hunting in England, I much question if we
should have seen five thousand yeomanry caval
ry instead of the hundred thousand, who, at one
time, were actually mounted on their own horses,
in their own uniforms. No matter for the cause
which they came forth. The cause
in
might
have been different. A regiment of soldiers, all
of whom can ride and box and shoot, must be
much more formidable than a regiment of men
who only know haw to dance and sing and act
plays. It must be the same with a nation.—
The “walking mania,” as it has been called, is,
in my opinion, a thing highly to be priced; and
especially that wonderful exploit of captain
Barclay, which, however, has now, been surpas
sed by the man, who has walked eleven hundred
miles in eleven hundred; hours, and whose name
I am sorry I have forgotten. What'is this but a
great instance of the bodily powers of man?—
VVhat man will now not be ashamed to say that
he wants a horse or a coach to carry him twenty
or thirty miles in a day? The standard of the
capacity of man has been raised by these per
formances; and there can be no question that
the nation has really been made stronger bv
them.
The philosophers of the “humanity” school
condemn all these things as vulgar and barbar
ous. They look upon tliein as the contrary ot
refinement. They represent it to be an act of
cruelty for a crowd of horsemen to hollow after
a pack of dogs, in pursuit of a poor animal, who
they sav has done them no harm, and in whose
torments they feel delight. I notice this more
particularly, as I perceive the sicky sentimental
taste to have made great way in America. But
what is there more cruel in a fox-chase than in
those sports with the gun in which the Americans
are so famous, and to their early pursuits of
which they probably owe their liberties?
I have this, though in a desultory way, de
scribed what appears tome to be the real founda
tion of the strength of England; and it is of
great importance that we and you should form a
correct judgment on the subject. It is always
the object of the government to make us believe,
that whatever we have, we owe to it. It was
during the duke of York’s famous affair, assert
ed by Mr. Charles Yorke, that it was his royal
igimess who had made the, English army what
it was, and if any man happens to know of any
assertion more impudent ever uttered from a
iair of lips, I shall be obliged to him to point it
rat.to me. While Pitt was in high reputation,
his parasites ascribed the prosperity of the nation
to him. It was his financial system that had
made England what it was, and his successors,
though they acknowledge him as their founder,
have, until now, continued to take to themselves
the merit of having done a great deal for us.—
Yow they lay the miseries of the country upon
hunce, upon a combination of unfavorable causes.
file truth is, that the real, the solid means of
the country, they have not been able to take
away; by Pitt anil byrthem, such a system of
nanagement has been adopted and pursued, that
lie whole affairs of the country have been thrown
nto confusion; a convulsion in matters of pro
perty has taken place; the hand of industry has
isen arrested; confidence between man and
nan (which is our real birt- right) threatened to
>e destroyed, or at least suspended; and as a
necessary consequence, comparative feebleness
must ensue.; This is the way in which their fine
plans and projects have made the country pros
perous. ' Wm, Cobbett.
w*
national (fo
be .studied ig^ BritfSh 'authors. Eve _
Las be'cn nsen by them to hide from the w
the mortification of defeat. Oqr frigatea l
in * to
been represented . as seventy-fours, and
sloops have been called -frigates, because
inever admitted by An Englishman, that a
1 sel oif his country has struck, her flag to an ei
or inferior force." Even the little .trigate Es
was called by the Courier, a ship ejfo/te line1 to
hide from the world the fact that the haughty
conceited Britons had .despatched a 36 gun fri
gate, and a 28 gun sloop ;n pursuit of an Ame
rican frigate of the smallest class. The history
of Europq, we learn from British authors. The
actions aud character of Frenchmen, ©f Span
iards, ofrGermans, &c. we become acquainted
with through the niedium.of the English press
thus we see nothing inits natural colors and pro
portions, all is discolored and distorted by Et
iish passions and prejudices. An attempt wilt
be made by their historiirtis to rob our navy iol
its glory. Indeed we see it already. The near
dnnual Register has a chapter into which are
copied the grossest misrepresentations of foe
English papers on this subject. IntheEdift-
t.he Little Belt beat off the frigate President, a|
for; a severe action of40 minutes. Falsehoods
uj this kind will be Spread by the-English press
over Europe. The naval monument will ciiec
their circulation in America; or at least, afford
the means of dectecting and exposing them
“OTHERS HAVE ILL LUCK TOO!” 1
Our friend John Bull not only grumbles, but
bellows at the war burdens laid on his buck fo
time of peace. We arc not capable of rejoicing!
ike Shylock, at the “ill luck” of fellowmenj
but we do rejoice. t|iat foe sins of England, (“the
rallying point of legitimacy”) are visited with
jenance; that if uninterrupted peace is not at-:
tainable, neither can war be perpetual, while na-i
tioas must phy the costs.—Boston Chronicle.
BLUE LAWS.
The (( Blue Laws of Connecticut” have often
jeen a source of of merriment to the citizens of
tiie present day. But it is not generally known,
that some of the early acts of the legislature oi
fentlsylvania, are equally queer. Aoout the
year 1683, or 1684, the legislature of Pennsyl
vania passed a resolution that “no member
hereof should come to the house barefoot, or
itt his bread and cheese on the steps/'—Fhila-
10l«- _ . ||
KMW 3Ce ’ fflfof,
for tfffe. nujgpn of the' emperor of
6 liat that plac e
ij, on Lis way to Vienna. Ou the
irch *hA ex-empress of France,>l aria / J.J
[ted th^re with her suite and numerous *
,iiue, including ten large heavy loadpa
coaches, besides hacks* In the evttj 1
attended the opera, and left there early ,
morning, on her way to her dominions 'i n ■
ma, amongst a numerous crowd of special
and loud acclamations' of Vive Louisdl! Sf
SPECIE.
Fair prospect^ are held out,
and desirable article will shortly
plentiful among us as formerly,
weeks since, an importation of 79,000 dolTi
was made at this port from Nassau; and on
that this usef, .
become^.
So
me
day last, an arrival from the same place hrm.!Ul
4(^000 dollars more.—Charleston Citu
City Gazmi|
DREADFUL ACCIDENT!
Ap accident of
tooktplace yesterday,.
The following is a copy of letter received w
yesterday,dated
Jifarie-tia, June 6, lgjfj
the most distressing n a +„
A Iie lar S R Steam bo-- f
built at VV heeling, came to anchor here t ’
pefore yesterday, at evening. She had set 1
without being prepared f »r the purpose, an,/«.
detained during the night for some iron work!!
Tney raised the steam too high before she stanf
ed, and while the hands were all called toaretUi
in the act of raising the anchor, the boiler ei«
oloded at the end next to them. It was terri- :
nle beyond conception; almost all were carried *
overboard, and dreadfully burned. One '
drowned, and 15 or 15 much injured: Six 6,
ast night, and tw o or three more must die
Xat. Intel.
srican midshipman killed
a son of the late colonel!
delphia Mercantile Advertiser, June 8.
OUB naval HISTORY.
The Nava! Monument, published by Mr.
lowen, is justly regarded as an important acqui
sition tq the American public. It contains etfi-’
ual accounts of all the naval actions fought d
ng the late war; besides twenty-five engr
ugs; with anecdotes of persons, and circui
ial narratives of events, &c. This woi
gather with the Naval Chronicle, com)
part,of the Aaalectic Magazjae, must
ti;
The friends of the abolition of slavery, appear
not to know that the English countenance the en
slavement *nf others beside the Africans; ac-
ording to a late English newspaper, the Malays
or natives of the country of Malacca, are held
in a state of slavery at St. Helena. Hundreds
of Africans are every year kidnapped on the
Mosam'nique coast, and sent to Prince of Wales’
Island; the Malays, it is to be presumed, are
sent to St. Helena in exchange—to meliorate
the breed.—Aurora.
Mr. Moore, the Am
at Port Mahon, was
MoorLof Maryland, a distinguished officer o
the revolutionary army. The young man y,- r
imdertcominodore Barney, at Blailensburg, amlj
amon| those who fought.' His brother officers
contemplate erecting a marble Monument to hi,
memory at Mahon, in the British burial place
—where his remains were entombed.—Boston
Palladium.
s —
r LIFE OF GENERAL JACKSON.
\Ve understand that this work, since the
death of Major John Reid, has been undertaken
by John H. Daton, esq. and ha3 already consi
derably progressed. It will be particularly an
nounced in our paper next week.—JYasftcilie
Whig.
It is worthy of remark, that none of the kings
of France have been succeeded in the throne bv
their own sons for nearly two centuries; the
present king Louis XVIII. succeeded his bro
ther Louis XVI who succeeded his grand
father Louis XV. who likewise succeeded his
grandfather Louis XIV. when about five years
of age; nor has the present king any son to suc
ceed him in the event of his death.—Trenton
merican. &
GENERAL ORDERS.
By a recent order from the U nited States’
adjutant and inspector general’s office, it is re-
jaired that all officers of the army shall satis-
actorily account for, and settle up accounts
or supplies within three months from the date
of this order, (May 10) under the penalty of
being dismissed from the service of the United
Stab
es.-
MilledgeviUe
Journal.
Lewis Goldsmith, the notorious author of the
“Secret History of the Cabinet of Bonaparte”
-j—is now 7 editor of f 4 Anti-Gal iicun Moni-
t>r”—and has somewhat changed his political
principles—if ever he had any .—Charleston
float her* Patriot._
I
DEMOCRATIC SPEECH
OF
There has been in thi3 city, for some davs
past, a delegation from toe Chickasaw nation o:
Indians, consisting of general William Colbert,
the great war chief of the Ciiickasaws; major
James Colbert, interpreter of the United States;
Eb-tis-stie, Mingo, the great orator; Ap-pa-sau-
tub-bee, a chief; Chas-tau-ny, and Col-leet-chee.
warriors—conducted by Air. Wighton King.—
These chiefs and warriors, with the rest of their
nation, took an active part in the late w ar against
dur combined white and red foes in the south,
and can boast they never spilled the blocd of a
ignite man, except in war, and then have always
taken part with the United States. General
Colbert has particularly distinguished himself.
He with seven others of his natipn fought w ith
us as long a.o as at St. Clair’s defeat; and in the y
late war, before bis nation was ready for ihe fight* y \
‘ ‘ ' “liteif
A FEDERAL GOVERNOR.
On Wednesday last, governor Brooks dem
and conciliatory speech to
he singly joined the Sd regiment of the Unite*
States’ infantry; after remaining with them nifJe SHOCKING EFFECTS OF FALSE HONOR-
months. iiP rp.iiirnpt tn ou n»tmn k; r !
In cons equence of a dispute originating in a
attended
’ it-
months, he returned to his nation, collected his
warriors,.and marched to Fort Montgomery, on
the Alabama, from thence against Pensacola,
crossed the Escambia and pursued the flying hos-
tile-Creeks near to Apalachicola, killing many
of the enemy and returning to Fort Montgomery
with 85 Creek prisoners- The business of th6
delegation at this city was to obtain a permanent
adjustment of boundaries between them and the
Creeks, Cherokees and Chactaws; tor which pur.
pose commissioners have been appointed They
nave been satisfactorily paid, also, at the war
department, fojr their military services during
the late war, and returned home, to use their
own expression, “with gratitude and thanks to - }
the president, and their white brothers, as well ?f. e , de ,
as glad hearts to their wives - and children.” It * advised
it is but just to add, their appearance ami ..de
portment are such as to entitle them to
and attention.—«Vat. Intel.
respect
of judge Randolph’s recovery. We are" inffirm-
ed, that an operation has been performed, by
which a discharge of blood, internally deposited,
has-been effected, and favorable symptoms of
recovery have manifested themselves.-—En
quirer.
The venerable Charles Thompson, secretary
of the revolutionary Congress, has just'publisP
ed ajt Philadelphia, a new translation of the
bible, upon which he has been engaged tweiAy
years- It is written in the modern 7 stwlo; less
obscurely, and more Conformably to the origi
nal, than the thtaslation now in use,—Frvvi-
dence Patviot. -
v^red an ai le ana conciliatory speech to the
Alassachusetts’ legislature, truly republican in
its principles. He s rts out by mentioning the
equal rights of mankind, and the commutation,
ol a natural for social rights, and the blessings
of free representative government, lie says, in
thje course of his speech, that “virtue is the
grjeat conservative of republics." He also ue-
clares that “a knowledge of the value of first
principle^ ought to be cultivated. Avarice ai.d
ambition Wage eternal war witli equal rights and
public libferty. This was the doctrine of our
fathers, founded in the nature of man; it is the
doctrine of the constitution, illustrated by the
uniquivdc^l testimony of experience.^«V. I r .
Col. Hth. wust.
From the Philadelphia Gazette.
balj-rooti;, two young men of this city had
meeting i i Jersey on Thursday last; they were
bv wiiat is erroneouslv termed, tlieir
friends! The fatal engines of death were plac-
in tjieir hands by their pretended friends. The
contents Mere discharged without effect. Again f
the j - were reloaded—and again they prove harm
less to either party. Thrice they'were loaded
and tnrice proved harmless! Here let the read
er fir a moment pause. Let humanity, let ho
nor) if you pi ease so to call it, ponder over this
sceite of infatuation and wickedness. Two
you bs, perhaps grown up together in friendship,
converted into deadlv enemies.—
and unrestrained by reflection,
they are hirried tar the field of death; and
their friend unconcernedly look on their
attempts at e ch others murder! Thirsting
tor
. 4 —— - — —— — —»■' • - — ^
eaclj other’s food, the instruments of destruc-
We gre happy to state there is much prospect loa ^’ an<l again discharged
HuImA PunrtalnK'o MinAtrawtr r> '
without effec f A fifth time, with the same re
sult!! A sixth! A SEVENTH, and a youth of 18
is se it into erarnity! We can proceed no far
ther. the hearf-bursting subject is left to our
reader’s reflections.
ANOTHER SPOT IN THE SUN-
Another spot has made its appearance about
tiie centre ot tiie Sun’s surface. It is about the
size »f the fofjner large, spot, but more round,
and j s of A jefbl&ck colur. It is at least worthy
of reiqark, tliat these phenomena have, each
time, beeiapr ceded by an extraordinary change
of tin i weathe .—Philadelphia Mer. Advertiser,
June * +