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” fiNTittn Tnwaro4 it tlie Custom Ron* Prom
Dec. f, Ship Priendlhip, John Marfhim, Grenada
Jrigt. Hibernia, Thomas Scurlog, Bristol and Baltimore
0. Schooner Polly, Samuel Stone, South-Carolina
( 11, Brigt. Fanny, William Robertson, St. Kitts
• Hope, William ChriUie, fortfmouth
Entered Outwardi p or
Ship Polly and Betsey, Robert Brewton, LondAn
* Brigt. Chance, Thomas Pulker, Jamaica
SWp Berwick, George Moor, St. Vincent
Sloop Jenny, James Aitken, St. Nichola
Brigt. Jnduftfy, James Furfe, Falmouth
Schooner Betsey and Katie, Thomas Shefmati, Dominica
Sloop Greyhound, Nathan Conyers, Turks-,!Hand
Schooner Rebecca, William l,averdy, Dominica
Sloop William and Mary, Josiah Procter, Boston
Cleared For
Dec. 6, Brigt. Montague, Preserved Alger, Jamaica
7, Schooner Liberty, Richard Churchill, South-Carolina
11, Sloop Wheel of Fortune, Samuel Pearce, St. Augustine
Schooner Polly, Samuel Stone, South-Carolina
Sloop Providence, William Chace, Jamaica
11, Brigt. Lord Polteney, James Brown, St. Vincent
Maxima rtvtftntia futris dthetur. Juv.
-ft MM—frOOD education is the source both of publick and private feli-
I G 1 city* The Americans, fcnfible of this, with great success
| i have established colleges and feminarirs of learning in several
part* nf the Continent, and hence no doubt the many nervous
and spirited pieces that have lately appeared In defence of
their rights, and (o the honour of their genius. A laudable deiign of
this nature seems now to be in agitation in the neighbouring province,
aud many have been the advantages and emoluments pointed out by their
writers as the necefTtry conference of a well formed plan of domefiick
education. This fubjeft needs little recommendation, especially if we
confider the expencc, solicitude, and danger of fending vouth to distant
parrs}. therefore, if we of this province would aft confident with the
foheme of ceeonomy and frugality, (so much talked of) if we wothd lay
a good foundation for the welfare of poderitv, we cannot but wifli, desire,
and endeavour to get our children Inftrufted at home under our own im
mediate ir.fpeftion. So great did the importance of early inditution ap
pear to the ancients, that they took this office upon themfefves, and
thought it no disgrace to spend their time in forming the minds of their
children } they never sent them in their youth from their native country,
for they judged that filial refpeft and friendfhip were mod promoted at
home, and were likewise the bell incitements to the dudy of what is praise
worthy. If we retain our youth under the yoke of oar difeipline, we may
cake filch methods as are mod likely to render them ofefa! members of
society, we may imprint in their hearts a love, fear, and reverence for
ns;—foefe things inflilled into children in their tender years give us fomt
reason toexpeft that hereafter they will render us a due obedience and e
deem. Certainly the bed way to effeft this is to have them under our
own eye* so that we may have frequent opportunities of carefully obferv*
ing thejr words, geltures, adions, and amusements. Children have no
thing in tbemfelves but what inclises them to folly,.and if neglefted, we
(hall labour very unprofitably with our admonitioas when tey arrive
to year* of maturity. Errors become habitual, and habits strengthen and
frow worse and worse. The vices of children are swords that pierce the
earts of parents, so that if we are wi ling to faveourfelves a great deal
of futoreVneafinefs, it should be our Rudy to know their peculiar genius,
apd, by proper cultivation endeavour to improve their dispositions. In
vain we hopeto reap If we negleft to sow ; and yet, after all oar care, it
It not in our power to make our children what we could wi(h them. But
though we cannot do rhii, we can do great things towards it 1 we can early
teach them to obey, that they may know how to command, we may lay
before them the amiablencfs of honesty and virtae, and give them just i
deasof good, fen fe, good nature, and good manners. There is no doubt
bat these things are best learnt from parents; the authority of arty pn
ceptor Cannot enforce them so mach as parental example and admonition ;
for this reason it was that Cato was willing to be the only inftruftor of bis
children, that they might copy after his bright example. The limits of
yoar paper will not permit me to produce all the arguments that might be
ofed in’ favour of a domcftick education ; let it be fufficient to fay, that
when • child Is absent from .His parents for years, in order to attain a
competent-fund of ufefal knowledge, be too often learns what is better
and loses Ms affeftions to the members of his own family. No
disposition is more agreeable, or can give more fatisfaftion to parents,
than tpfee a benevolence and firm friendlhip between their children. ,lt
is an evident demon (tration-that their children love them, when they love
one another, and the way to promote this fraternal amity is to keep them
together when young, To this we may add the pleasure parents mult
daily receive in feeing the advances their offspring make in ufeful and
found learning.
talk!, to rear the tender thought,
* To teach the young idea how to (hoot,
To poor the frefh inftfuftions o’er the mind,
To breathe th’enliv’ning spirit, and to fix
The generous purpo ft in the glowing bread.
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L O N D ON, SarTEMRER 30.
)CGBOeGfi(ESTERDAy General Paoli gave a very grand entertainment
to divers of the nobility, at his house In Dover-street, at
lIfVW which Mrs. Macaulay, the celebrated hiftonan, was pre-
The real character and principle of the Corsican chjef becomes now
doubted among ft the patrons of liberty, as a figure very firailar to this
modern hero has been obfcrved coaftantly attending the levee of a noble
Bari in Booth: And ley street. - , A f .
. ■ Yeftvrday at one o’clock in the afterneon came on the election of two
persona to lie returned by the Livery to the Court 0/Aldermen, for the
Aldermen to chafe one of them to serve the office of Lord Mayor for th
city of London, for the year en firing., . -..
Petitiona for impeachments are soon expefted from several parts of the
“Jy the rctern of the French troops employed against the Corsicans, it
t*SS 6y. 45,4, Sine, it, Cipt-
Total lofi offh w* l^C rei “ rn# the hofpuals, have died *
pitting®! f * C Ffe,,ch troo P** dead * lo * 2 73* Brill sick in theVof.
The ingenious and learned Doftor Hay, Doftor of Civil Law Sec
he har,Tth11ft 1 r Th “ rfti *y fc ’"night to return from Paris, wheri
ficrci * ***** * Cek *’ 00 * Tr 7 important, though very
vattnurerimeJTnf ? a(Tared * from un Sueftionableauthority, that the firft
Ad K °! draß °°‘ u ba * bcun for fome rime pail promised bf
letters from Hamburgh inform, that he MJniftry of Verfaillea
Wh ‘ W 0“ P robab, y ln a rime, nftonifh all
ll'J re P or, *;d William Henry Littelton, Esq. his Majesty’s Ambaffader
at the court of FWa}, will be recalled to fuVed Sir f/antis Bernard!
as Governor of Maffachufe;ts-Bay.
By a gentleman just arrived from Bred, we are informed, that they am
i;n, t ffT!.) hurr)r j m I dl the dock yaids, in fitting out a fquadrou of
hne of battle Ihips, destined, a, was given out, to befent a, a fleet of ob
servation n the Mediterranean.
a-7. 3. The language of the petition from the city York is so powerful,
and the terms so deemve, that it is lajftßlg the axe immediately to‘the root s
5” ,. l 7 e are greatly chagrined at it, as they know not how thV
lhall be able to parry so formidable a blow.
.v *\t A *J' ortb >’ B * ron has publickly declared, that it Is his opinion
that tne allegations in the 1.0r.d00 Petition againli a late Pay matter are true,
and when the Livery Bull be called upon to prove them, that he Will
furnilh them with proof to support their charge.
o<9. 6. It is laid that the Emperor of Germany will yifit Bn eland
very soon. 8
The report that Governor Bernard is not to return to America is en
tirely without foundation ; it being determined to fend that gentlemarf
back to his government, with an enlargement of his com million.
I he Spanilh naval force, which is usually distributed in their different
ports, particularly at Cadiz and Carthagena, is now collcfted at Ferroi*
which occahons various conjectures.
M. de Francoir, charge des affaires at Our Court for France, ha*, bv
order of the French court, demanded fatisfaftion of our Minillry, for the
insult offered to the French man of war in the DoU ns, by the Hawke sloop
firing (hot into her because (he would not lower her colours.
Off. 7. At thefcna! ciofmg of the poll yelterday afternoou at Guildhall,
the member;, Hood as follows :
For Mr, Alderman Deck ford, m |pgy
Mr. Alderman Trecothick, i 9 u
Sir Henry Bankes.
Oft. to. This day a Court of Aldermen was held at Guildhall, when
the (herifis returned Mr. Alderman Beckford and Mr. Alderman Treco
thick, for their choice of one of them to be Lord Mayor of this city j
Whereupon the court made choice of Mr. Beckford, to be Lord Mayor
for the year enffting.
o<f. ia. On Tuesday Lord Holland fist out from his houfc in Piccadilly
for the south es France, for the recovery of his health.
We hear that the Duke of Grafton, the Earl of Hertford, and General
Conway, had the honoor of a conference for two hours with his Majesty
yhfterday.
Yesterday the (heriffs accompanied by fourteen other gentlemen of the
Livery, waited on Mr. Beckford, at his house in Soho-Square, to requell
him to accept tho office of Lord Mayor to which he was elefted j which,
after expressing his grateful acknowledgments to the Livery, he coofenta
ed to do.
A letter from Hull, dated the 6th Inst. fays, ** Last Tuesday the Ruffian
fleet appeared off the Iloldernefs coall, and on Wcdnefday pilots from
this place got on board, where they weighed anchor and put to Tea; but
the wind blowing flrong from the east, they werq obliged to put back,
and are now at anchor at the Hawke, near t* muuth of the Humber. Th*
account in the London papers of one of this fleet being loft at the Scaw,
is not true; hut a bomb'veflcl is come into our road to repair fomeda
mages (he has received. The rendezvous is at Spithcad, to which plac*
the Admiral is ordered to get with all expedition.”
We hear the whole Ruffian fleet have orders to rendezvous in the bay of
Gibraltar, previous to their voyage up the Levant.
We hear that orders have been dispatched to the commanding officer of
the troops at Boston, to make a drift enquiry into the affair of the grena
dier who was lately refeued from the conltables there; and that direftiona
have been given for juttice to be executed oa all who have violated the
rights of the civil magistrates in that town.
Oft. 13. We hear chat Mr. Alderman Beckford is in the fixty-firft
year of his age. .
On Wcdnefday Sir Edward Hawke had the honour of a conference with
his Majesty at St. James’s. . . .
The augmentation of troops on the Infh efiabliihmeotf which it 19
thought will meet with a warm oppodtion, is to amount to 3000.
Oft. 14. Yesterday Lord Viscount Weymouth had the honour of a
conference with bis Majesty, after breaking up of the council at St.
hear that the Earl of Hnrcourt will go again Ambassador to the
court of France, and is to set out fome time this month for Pans.
It is confidently asserted. that Gen. Paoli has a pension fettled upon
him, by the government, of one thoofand pounds per ann.
This morning his Excellency the Ruffian Ambassador had * long coofe
nou.wilh both tk. Secrctarie, of Sun. on Ac fobj.a of.dv.ee. r.,r.
ed yesterday from Peterfburgh. Im mediately after which, his Excellency
sent an express to Portsmouth to the commanders of jhe Ruffian men or
W Yesterday a packet arrived at the Admiralty-Office from Commodore
Spry, commanderof his Majefly’s squadron in the Mediterranean.
It is reported that the second petition of the Livery of London wit b s e
presented to hit Majesty the week after next, by the Lord Mayor, Mr.
Alderman Betkfo and, and the rest of the gentlemen who went up with the
left, together with several otbeis who have since become members o. the
B, A°letter E from Portsmouth, dated Oft. ia. for*. ” Two Ruffian mtn of
war are already airived. one of 74. and foe other of 50 gune-—Th ro
mainder of the fioetii daily expe&cd, for we hear they ireuAfamaafo fond*