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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»