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rli r jRIjpWfc/ ■ < ,*.' ,Cv lj'' jjjft,' '<*he k C&ffett’g. W< «v ifcr »«*5=*^is irt once :.» exhi»iti|m and description eraRd.tgren£tb> 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 * +