The Georgia gazette. (Savannah, Ga.) 1788-1802, October 21, 1802, Image 2

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The YANKEE PHILOSOPHER, Nv. 6. To PARENTS. fi Examiflons les promenades de la. nature: frappons la folie dans sa course; et saisissons les moears dans lour naissance.” WHEN tlie improvement of the mind is made sub ordinate to corporeal accomplishments, and the arts of making a genteel bow, and drinking a graceful glass of wine, with the fashionable tallies of a ball room, are taught, to the exclusion of natural and moral philoso phy, the preceptor may expedl a son of vanity, lit to de corate-the draAving room of the ladies, and display a re fined taste in the choice of a finical button to adorn the lappels of his well chosen coat; the mind thus tutored will be stored with the principles of dissipation and debaucliery, he inlists under the standard of Epicurus, and habit soon throws her strong chains upon him-—he is the complete Buck; if pleasure is any where to be sold he is the ‘firft to purchase; he takes his i6th glass of Madeira after dinner with a good relish, sings a song, smokes his dozer, goes to bed a brute, and is then a young man of spirit. View the sequel; old age soon comes up with him, riot and de bauchery have destroyed his constitution and dissipated his property, his vices have weaned the affection of his friends, he is incapable of enjoying his former pleasures, and sees no more happiness in society; turns misanthrope, raves a gainst the degeneracy of the world and injustice of men. Unfortunate man! my heart awakes to sympathy for thee! Why did not thy parent and instructor teach thee how to live? Against the*#i an aflion will lie in the Court <ff Con science for abusing the charge confided in them. Ido not advance this as anew theory, or imagine myself the first who has connected these causes and events, but would ap ply it to that mistaken custom which inhabits some of our southern cities of excluding youth from the association of more advanced age. This custom is not confined to the male sex, but more ridiculously, yet less dangerously, ex ists in the female; the daughter is not permitted to pay a friendly visit with her mother, but is confined to the soci ety of her own age. Among the other sex the distinction of bachelors, bachelors junior, &c. keep voting men at an awful distance from those to whom they ought to look for examples to imitate. The youth driven from the society of age and wisdom seeks that where a similarity of age and disposition will give him a cheerful welcome, joyfully contributes bis mite towards the support of the juvenile as sociation; led on by the ardency of youth, and the en thusiasm of unrestrained passions, eventually becomes a , member of a league against good morals; lie finds himself situated in a society of fanatics, his name is synonymous with folly, and his life a disgrace to a reasonable creature. It is the custom in some parts of the United States, as well as in Europe, for the youth of both sexes to be taught their manners and habits in the school of experience; at the age of puberty’ they are introduced to the society of their parents and aged friends, and arc- permitted to share their pleasures and amusements; by this their manners be come stable and manly, and their habits are decency and virtue. Fathers, who have sons for whose welfare you feel anxious, and guardians who have wards submitted to your care, will you say to them, “ Go learn wisdom of your equals, fly to their society to learn the world; you are yet too young, too ignorant, and too volatile to keep the com pany of your fathers;” and then, by giving them a few theoretical lessons, think you have discharged y cur duty? If this be youiTanguage, let the Philosopher observe, it is your own sensual pleasure you study, and not the welfare of your children. The fire and enthusiasm of the youth need the fixed and stable direction of the sage to retain him in the paths of decency and virtue; without it lie follows the delusions of his passions, till he enters the gate of in famy and misery, where he is embraced by sickness and distress until the portals of death are opened to his relief. Fathers, these consequences to the moralist are not ex aggerated, to the philosopher they are unavoidable, and to the ignorant let existing circumstances demonstrate their truth. In a former number I have noticed the effects of educa tion on the young mincl; at present I shall simply observe, that, when we behold the young men of any place defying the laws of morality, forsaking the road to their future happiness, destroying their constitution by riot and de bauchery, avoiding the circle of chastity and virtue, and fiving to the gambling room and brothel house for the em ployment of their tedious hours', you, unfortunate parents, may in a great measure behold in yourselves the cause of their ruin. It was once in your power to have inclined them to virtue and fame, and you omitted it! It was once in your power to have conciliated their confidence, and thereby have impressed on their minds the indelible prin ciples of honor, and you were otherwise engaged! It was once in your power to have reclaimed them, and you ex erted not yourselves! Now you can only pray for them! for be assured no less than supernatural assistance can re store to them the privileges and enjoyments of rational creatures. ‘ A YANKEE PHILOSOPHER. Dancingschool. J. B. LEROY r this opportunity of pre fell ting his thanks to I, the ladies and gentlemen who have formerly honor ed him with the tuition of their children, and informs them and the public, that he intends opening his DANCING SCHOOL, on Tuesday the jqth of this month, at bis lodgings, Harden’s buildings on the Bay, where a commo dious room is provided. Far from adopting the pompous and too* oftiu deceiving language with which many dc feribe the branch of education they advertise to teach, the above conceives it fufticient to Hate, that his pupils will be taught the gracefulnefs of the moll fafhionable dances. JO 3 * The days of tuition are Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. OSlober 1 2."’ b WANTS A SITUATION, ; IN a counting-house, wholesale or retail (tore, A YOUNG MAN, who can be well recommended, writes a good hand, and has been regularly bred to the Winds. A line directed to W. IL and left with the printer, will be duly attended to. Qciobcr jy, 1802* TDK DON, N.Xigvf. t. r YESTERDAY ie’nnight, about 4 o’clock in the after noon, a fire broke out at the house of mr. Bond, a firmer at Shobrook, 6 miles from Exeter, which was at tended with the mod.melancholy conlequence. When this lad catastrophe occurred mr. Bond and part of his family were at church, and only two of his daughters at home, the elded about 18 years of age, the other 15; both of them after dinner had repo fed themielvet, on a bed, and did not awake until they were furrOunded with flames, one of whom immediately flew to the window and defeend ed Unhurt; the other attempted to follow her, but fame fire foiling before her became so alarmed that Hie ran to an other part of the house, where, finding the fire raging with greater violence, file endeavored to get back agaiu, but being prevented by the flames, ran to the window of ano ther room; here the feene was affli&ing to an ex tie me de gree; the young lady was seen by her neighbors tiling e very effort to open the window, which file being unable to accomplilli, they begged her to break the glass, which was indantaneoufly efle&ed; but unfortunately in the hurry and confufion no ladder could be found, so that ho aid could be afforded her; and being unable, with her fit mod efforts, to force her way through, her duration be came awful beyond defeription; repeatedly (lie jumped at the window, clasped the frames with her hands, but being luffocated with the imoke die fell backwards and perished in the flames. Her body was soon after dug out, with the head and legs burnt off. The whole of the premises were coni pined. A lervant maid coming too near the fire whild part of a chimney was falling down a brick fell upon her head and fractured her flcull. Augujl 24. A division has failed from Toulon againd Tunis, with an aid de camp of the fird condd, who is to demand of the bey the cause of his violation of the treaties with France, .and of his intuits to the French flag. The dey ot Algiers will receive next a visit from the French squadron. Aug u Jl 25. Yesterday we received the Paris journals to the 22d indant, and at the fame time a letter from our correfpondenc, the contents of which will be found of fome importance. The ftridtures in fome of the London nevvf papers have given fiich offence to the chief consul that, by an order of the government, the further circulation of Englilh publications of this defeription has been prohibited in France* Already has this unexpected order been carried into execution. No sooner was it ilTued than the commif lioners of the police visited the several coffeehoufes and reading rooms, and seized all the Englilh papers they could find. The principle upon which this arbitrary pro ceeding is attempted totybe judlfied, though extremely Aveak, is highly conciliatotys; and if the motives alleged are really those by which ttie consulate have been actuat ed, Ave mud confider them as agreeably demonstrative of the difpofiticn 0+ Boftaparte carefully to cultivate the ad vantages of peace. AuguJl 26. \ efterday arrived mails from Hamburgh and Holland. By the latter we have received an authentic copy of the treaty concluded between France and tiie prince of Orange, who formally renounces the dignity of dadtholder, and a bandons all claims to his territorial property lituated. in the Batavian republic or its colonies. The enjoyment of all annual'and permanent rents a riling from his polled ions in that quarter is however fecuied to him in the fame man ner as to other pofleffors of rents. The indemnification made to him eonfifts of the bifiioprin of Fulda, and fome more territories, granted to him in full ibvereignty. Angiiji 27. Accounts broqght by the Lilbon mail which arrived ytderday morning date, that the French tninider, gen. Ladies, had quitted Lilbon on the 10th in dant in an abrupt manner. His sudden departure had oc cadoned a condderable alarm both at court and in the city. September 12. The intelligence contained for the lad week in the Paris papers is rather important. Ihe re-edabiifl)incut of the republic in her ancient rela tions with the Ottoman Porte, and the Aulic reicript tranfi mitted by the cabinet of Vienna tc the diet of Ratilbon, cannot be viewed Avitb indifference. By the former France obtains every privilege and right granted to the mod fa vored nation; and the latter, which may be conddered as a proted again ft the joint declaration of the republic and Rufiia lor allotting the indemnities, fiietvs the (humilia tion to which the house of Austria is reduced. But has Austria any jjuft cause of complaint? She, whose ambition has been proverbial, finds no consolation, no redress, but in unavailing murmurs, and in deploring that Aveaknefs which prevents her from opposing the execution of the pro ject concerted by Bonaparte and the emperor Alexander lor the permanent tranquillity of Germany. If foreign interference has been found necessary in the internal con cerns of the empire it has been found 1b merely from the tedious delays and frivolous deliberations of the diet, di vided and cmbarrad’ecl as it has eA r er been by the intrigues and influence ot the cabinet of Vienna. Its complaints mud, however, prove froitlefs, and we trust that no mate rial alteration will be differed to take place in a plan Avhich premises to put an end to those difeordant pretentions, those eternal feuds, that have so often diltradted and con vulsed the whole empire. It is with real concern we notice the commencement of a civil war in Switzerland; blood has been already (heel, and the smaller cantons seem determined to red 11, with all their power, the introdudlion of tfie neAv conditution of Helvetia. It is not difficult to anticipate the iffiie of this unfortunate contest, they mult yield to the united force of the other dates, supported by the power and influence of France. We have already exprefied an opinion that Touffaint would not be brought to a public trial; he has been confin ed in the castle of Jeux, lituated near Mount Jura, where he is probably destined to pa£ the remainder of his life. Partly AuguJl 16. Conformably to the oraonnance of the counlellor of date prefect of police, of the 12th inst. the tAvo feqatus cotfuite of the 2d and 4th of August were yesterday proclaimed, at 7 o’clock in the morning, in the city of Paris, and throughout the department of the Seine, as well as in the communes of tlie Sevres, Men don, and St. Cloud, The mayors of the 12 diftri&s exercised a&s of benevo lence, according to the inltrucfions they had received upon tV - fiibjeit,/.tnd did.ibuted prize in the r- , At 11 m the morning th department and the city rffwnbk-d es the 4rfcfi-ftl ** pnM*ecie4 to-the palacs of government: At I - the Te Deum in Notre Dame, in common ■ tribunal ot appeal, the criminal tribunal, the trlbm 1 “ the iirft in dance and of commerce, and tlie j u OICf,0 ICf , peace of the 12 didrids. A military #acii:aent aS- 1 pamed them. In tlie evening the tower of /ty/re J) Avas brilliantly illuminated with a liar, i„ tty v*l,ich • placed the fen of the th. Col , fc £p Arvlncft predicted at the birth or- tlie fird toilful. Tty ’ cipal public tdifkes were illuminated; amount Ws mofl Jtnnrf, it was i£ pfdedal, having oii it the datue of Peace voted bv 1 Jcnatus confulte of the 2d ind. * A firework of anew kind agreeably f UI p r ised the im menie crowds which pressed on both banks of the Seb I he pedestal, lelt in obfcuritv for the purpose offavorinJ the brilliancy .or the fire, was on a sudden illuminatj At tne lame mftant other fireworks from the ci d™ list cl de Ville and at tlie efpianude of the Champs El! feesy dilputed the palm ot admiration. Groups of danc* trs, luchas Paris alone can prell-nt, assembled near the’ orchedras erected on the Place Vendomcy and of that of tne ci de-oant Hotel de Vilhy and prolonged the fl during the night. Every one, on retiring, blefled t happy day, as the dawn of that haupinefs which France will enjoy securely and in peace. there was alio on the lame day a solemn ferviceof thankfgrying m tlie Protestant church of Paris, in thedreet hciint Thomas de Louvre, on the occasion of the procla’ mation ol th e fenatus confulte for organizing the conftty tution; and M. J. B. Caprara, legate of the holy fee. p. lebrateu, in the church ot Notre Dame, a solemn rnafs, \ during which he consecrated the archbishop of Lyons, M rtich, unde to the firft coniiil# . ffrmation cl the civil code is proceeded on vrith ac tivity; the conferences for the difeuffion of the articles are held every Thuri'day at Bie heuie of the consul Caraba ceres. Rotterdam, AuguJl 13. Lad Tuesday night our whole northwest iuburbs were tiireatened for three hours with ut tei oedruction, a mod alarming fire l.aving broken out in the gunpowder manufactory of mr. Snelle, of this city, at the end of the Jhiccade; it was occationed by lightning. On its fird dilcovery it was permitted to burn at will 1 wnole hour, such the horror and ciifmay which pre vailed; for the magazine, containing fome thousand ponnis of powcier, Avas Avitiiin a few feet ot the premises which Avere burning. At length four journeymen masons braved every danger, and got on the top of the roof, clearing it incessantly from the flakes and sparks of fire which fell on it. Ibis encouraged others to venture Qlofer; so that a lad one engine, and then fome others, began to play. It burned from about half pad ia to 3 o’clock in the morn ing, Avhen the weighing houies, containing several heap ot fulphur, nitre, &c. Avitli the carpenter’s lliop andtw mills, were entirely confirmed. Many gentlemen ofoci city have ‘their country reddences on this spot, Avho, with their families, fled from their houses in the greatett confier nation, nearly naked, taking nothing with them but tkir children. One old man of 77 years of age was rode over and killed in the bufitlp, and another person is milling, lup poled to have been drowned. What is lingular, a fans house oppodte caught fire the next night, also by lightning, but was happily extinguifiied by means of an engine wliidi had been left at tlie powder mill. NEIV YORK, September 30. ON Monday lad a moil violent hurricane was experi enced at Newbury and Salitbury; the vein of wind was confined within the Avidth of about 80 rods, but in its progrdfive clireclion Iwept almod every thing away. A house belonging to mr. David Harriet was taken fiomiff ibundakio.ii and carried several iods, and several other houses and barns unroofed. Mod of the orchards lying Avithin the courie of the dorm were destroyed, and dt of 3 and 4 feet thickness were tAvided and levelled acA the ground. No lives are however reported to be bb [Bofion paper. OSiober 1. Yesterday morning the French Blips of vrar L’i Rotriaine, La VY-lcntaire, and La Sulerrandre, from this port, it is faicl for Bred. La Confidante reroains here, and will fail in a day or two for Guadaloupe. Stanford, (Dutchefs county) August ty- Mrs.k.- lizabeth Meigs, the wife of mr. Phineas Meigs, a^ 0 - 1 this day delivered of four living daughters atoneL- i I they all weigh 9 lbs. 11 oz. 1 Baltimore, September 29. Yesterday morning^ I ‘HJnittd States (hip John Adanis, commanded by j c a I Rogers, elq. failed from this port for the Mediterranfip 1 on pasting Walnut ri'ree farm, the residence of co ‘‘ J I bias Lear, Hie fainted that gentleman with 7 g lins 1 on palling Mount Vernon, where rest the remains wjjjg | illustrious Washington, Hie fired a salute of 16 .ML Norfolk, Calaber 2. It is with regret avc Hate ®7|E of the French fl.ip Neptune, 73 days from Havre de I bound to this port with a valuable cargo of dry l a coming to the address of meffrs. A. and F. 1 übeul. ■ funk 30 leagues from Cape Henry; the crc-AV and ■ gt rs were picked up by the schooner Fanny, ca P*-* j s fyth, from Turk’s lilaud, bound to Netv ■ landed at Hampton yesterday. Passengers, rntl J b Lv( fl . ■ beuf, (of Norfolk) jofhua Barney, Holmes, an-. I ly, (of Baltimore) and 10 French gentlemen an ■ Knoxville, (TenneJfeeJ September T s* nelclay lad a party confiding of five Cherokee killed a young man by the name ot Ilunyan, Pigeon, in Sevier county. The Indians ‘ha .° n ■ thcmfelves near a place where he was hunting. T hree balls entered iiis body. This murder is ■ have been committed on account of the death 0 ■ who Avas accidentally killed in Sevier county * a J K Cbarlejlon , October 12. The T avo Fnen s B on the id September, and we are indebted to ■ of capt. for London papeis ot the -T 0 to which date we have a regular file. 0° a • eictffß we do not notice any event of political mom the prohibition- of Englilh newlpapers by t f government of France* |1