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BOSTON, Feb. 20.
llow long aiks a conrefpondent, are we to con
tinue in our present inglorious acquiescence in the
lhamcful refinance that some of the states persist in
against federal and national measures? How long is
JWaflachul’etts to luffer the paltry politics, weakjea
loulV, or local inlerefts of Nevv-York, and Penn
-I'yivania, to diftraft our own government, and
keen us holden to those wretched measures which
have so long made America the pity or contempt
of Europe? How long are we to dillrcfs our own
numerous citizens wifti the weight of continental
taxes, and support our delegation in an assembly
which has no powers to maintain the reputation or
advance the teal intcreft of our commonwealth?
This State has made reiterated and strenuous exer
tions to restore thatfirmnefs, confidence and great
ness which diftinguithed America from 1774
to 1782, but to little purpose : It is therefore now
time to form a new and ftlonger union. The five
states of New-England, closely confederated, can
have nothing to fear. Let then our general as
sembly immediately recall our delegates from that
lhadowy meeting which ft ill bears the name of Con
gress, as being an expeufive eftabliftiment. Send
p'ropofals for instituting a new Congress, as the
representative of the natic-n of New-England, and
leave the rest of the continent to puifue their own
imbecile and disjointed plans, until they have ex
perimentally learnt the folly, danger and disgrace
of them, and acquired magnanimity and wisdom
fuflicient to join a confederation that may refeue
them from deftruftion.
N E W-Y O R K, March 24.
ExiraJl of a letter from Halifax * 'via St. John's,
datedFeh. 3, 1787.
The acclamations of joy in this land, rage (ill
consequence of the diftrafted state of your country)
beyond all defeription ; and they firmly believe
that the Englifti Court have taken an effectual step
to disunite you, by the wife appointment of that
sagacious politician and General Lord Dochefter,
to the governments of the British territory in Ame
rica. The unsettled, unhinged situation of the
states (for which you are deservedly ridiculed)
and want of encouragement, only keep me and
many others in this hateful and illibetai country ;
for my attachment to your cause (if properly con
duced) you can never qtieftion ; but your present
imbecile measures, I heartily reprobate ; and de
pend that Guy (as his duty) will not be wanting in
exertion to avail himfelf of the imbecility and di
ftraCion existing in your land—Pray, where arc
the men, the Soldiers and Patriots, who gained so
much honor throughout the world, by their gal
lantry and wisdom—in the days of the war, “ the
time to dry men’s fouls,” as your Amor Pat rite
writer Common Sense said; where, I repeat are
they §one —that yo 1 seem so much to need fkilful
navigators—or are you too republican to call in
their aid—fearing, as they have been soldiers, that
they will misrule you,—or in other words, be too
ftvere in their difeipline ?
“ Some government of flalility and energy, I
finceiely wiili you,—and as it ought to proceed
from yourselves (without any foreign interference
whatsoever) better a monarchy than an ideal repub
lic —for 1 cannot coincide with the two lines,
which graces the title page of your judicious theo
retical conftitutiohs, viz.
“ For forms of government let fools couteft,
“ That that’s best adminiftcr’d is heft/’
“ Were my power and talents adequate to my
lerious willies—l would endeavour to prescribe a
mode for your honor and happiness; but when I
refieft on the multitude of wife men and good pa
triots among you, I blulh for my preemption in
adventuring my fentimenrs thus much—nor ftiould
I have touched on so abstruse a fubjeC, but from
a conviXion that I was imparting lioneft sentiments
to a proven friend.—One reason afligned for your
difuniou, extravagance and infurreXious, in this
Emporium of « royal royalty” (terms afiumed by
the Philiff;ne refugees) by those who with your
nation refpeXability, is, that those who were your
avowed and nioft implacable enemies, during the
bloody and arduous war you was engaged in, are
admitted among you again,—many of them in oJ»
Jicey —and having extensive connexions of opulence
among the Engliih —are neither wanting in intrigue
nor wealth, to effeX almost any piirpofe in the
United States ;---which appellation, now, by your
own raifconduX (and I believe originating in the
above causes) has become contemptible in moll of
Europe ; and which your old mother country is Se
dulous in diffufing. Your situation, though cri
tical, is not irremediable ; if timely application
and spirit is (hewn—-you may soon laugh, in your
“ turn.” Your luxuries, your effeminacy, &c.
contribute also to precipitate you to contempt and
poverty---which, by this time all among you ought
to be sensible of, and tend to rouse you from your
torpor and supineness.
“ Many are the advantages which North-Ame
rica enjoys above other nations—in refpeX to its
vast extent and the means of maintaining numbers
of people, it is perhaps superior to any other;
now this immense continent having been chiefly
peopled by British fubjeXs, whole language and
national charaXer were the fame, the foreigners
who have fettled among them, will become so in
termixed by the general population, that the whole
people, phylically speaking, will be one> The
leeds of decay which were sown in the very for
mation of the antient empires, will here have no
cxiftence: To this we may add that the situation
of this country ensures its independence ; its in
habitants so far from being in the least danger from
the attacks of any other quarter of the globe, will
have t in their power with industry to engross an
important commerce, as it pofteftes the means of
building, fitting out, and maintaining a consider
able naval force : America has all the materials
requisite for a great empiie-—time, industry, and
perfeverante, will demonstrate to the world the
truth of thel'e lemarks.
“ It has been remarked, tl that the Indians have
diminifned every where in America, since their
connexion with the Europeans. This has been
justly aferibed to the Europeans having introduced
spirituous liquors among them. Let those men
who are every day turning their backs upon all the
benefits of cultivated society, to seek habitations
among the Indians, confider how far this wander
ing mode of life is produced by the fame cause
which hath l'cattered and annihilated so many In
dian tribes. However exalted, my countrymen,
your ideas of liberty may be, while you expose
yourlelves, by the use of spirituous liquors, to this
consequence of them, you are nothing more than
the Pioneers, or in more slavish terms, the hewers
of*wood of your more induflrious neighbours.”
The following is the measurement aXually taken
of A COW, which belonged to Jacob Hiltzheimer,
Esq. and was lately fold for 280 silver dollars at
the Philadelphia market, viz. In height, on the rump,
15 hand 3 3-8 inches ; on the back, over the loins,
15, 2 3-8; on thefhoulders, 15, 1 1-2. In length,
to the tail extended, 15 feet, 2 Inches; from the
nofc to the ridge of the horns, 2,1 1-2 ; from the
forehead to the rump, 8,6 ;in girth, round the body
behind the fore legs, 8,1 1-2 ; at the navel,
9, o' 1-2 ; across the hips, in a straight line, 6
1-4; from the ground to the dewlap, 1 6.
This extraordinary cow weighed, thefore quar
ters, 954 lb. the hind quarters, 57 1 lb. the hide,
in lb. head and heart, 4 6 lb. belly and feet, 72
lb. fat, 35 lb. tallow 163 lb. fthe guts were not
weighed.) Whole weight, exclusive of guts, 1955
lb. The fame gentleman has also raised A STEER
whose dimensions and weight far exceeded that; 0 I
the above-meutioned cow.
England has always been famous for raifmg 0 [ I
beeves ; upon the annals of that county we (i u j[ I
that an ox that weighed 1568 lb. (87 lb. less th aa I’
this American cow) was conceived almost a phj. ■
nomenon. Comments upon this fubjecl are \e:y ■
dispensable, we having had such reiterated proof* I
that American farmers can raise as good beef as I
the Engliih, if they please.
PETERSBURG, March 15,
Ext raft of a letter from Kentucky, dated Februa * I
ry 18, 1787.
“ The Delegates from the Assembly are returned, I
by whom we are informed, that an election fur a I
new Convention is ordered to take place; in confer I
quence of which the Convention, that met in Jan, I
broke up without doing any business.
“ The reports which have circulated to the pre« I
judice of General Clark, are supposed to have ori.
ginated through feme envious, malicious letters
from this country, which, on a ft lid enquiry, will
be found groundless.
“ The Lincoln Militia, in hopes of retrieving
their character, lately marched from this for ti e
Chickamawgua Indian towns, forty miles front
which, they fell in with one of their camps, 15 in
number, S of whom were killed, the others el'cap
ed, and the party returned.
“ About the 20th of Jauuary, a party of Indians
killed a man near Clarkfville ; Mr. Van Meter and
Son, at Severn’s Valley ; Mr. Moore, about 10
miles from Lincoln court-house, and routed afar*
veyiug party from Sandy Creek, one of whom is
mi ding.
“ A number of Indians have just crofted intojef*
ferfon county,from whence we daily expedtore«
ceive accounts of many of the inhabitants being
killed. The Indians have been very tioublefome
for some time past.”
SAVANNAH, April 19.
On the ninth of March the House of Reprefen*
tatives of the state of Mafl'achufetts palled a bill,
curtailing the Governor’s salary from iiool. to
8001. per annum. This Bill being lent up to bis
Excellency, he was pleased to dispatch a meftage,
with his negative to the bill, in ejeft , by referring
the Honorable Legislature to the article of the con*
dilution refpeding the Governor’s salary—thus
giving it as his opinion, in as delicate a manner as
the fubjeft required, that the bill was unconjlitu •*
tioral.
A letter in the Independent Gazetteer of March
7th, printed at Philadelphia, said to be picked tip
under one of the lamps in the market, among fc*
veral severe ftridures on the present fituatiou of
A*merican affairs, has the following :
“ New-York, you know, refilled the import to
Congrel's feme time since, the matter has been
brought on again, and again refufed; In Mary«
land the Senate and the AlTembly are at fword*
points ; the latter has dissolved itfelf in a pet, anJ
the former has publilhed a fort of juftification of it*
condud.
In this state there are two deciliveparti.es, which
would with pleasure cut each others throats for
the good oj the whole ■ God forbid that either ihoulil
succeed, for either would, by prevailing, defeat
our wiflies. It is the eft'enee of confufionto keep
parties as near a balance as poftible, for, by pull*
ing equally in contrary directions, the machine
stands still, grows weaker and weaker till it parts,
and yielding to oppolite force, hies to pieces.
“ 011 going into the Aftembly you fee these par*
ties ranged on each fide of the House, and every
question propoled by one is regularly opposed by
the other—argument becomes a. farce, and the
question might as well bejput without faying a fyl»