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make the mod exquisite of nature’s work 3, perfect
ly irresistible. A Lady, to-whom nature has been
bountiful in the endowments of body and mind,
without a proper education, is iike “arose in the
«« desert, or a gem in the bottom of the ocean,”
unnoticed and unenjoyed.
J U V E N I S.
LONDON, April 19.
A letter from on board the Lord Hyde Packet,
artived at Falmouth from New-York, fays, that
the day before they failed, the General Washing
ton, carrying 20 guns, arrived there from Madeira,
./ laden with wines, and brought in with her an Al
gerine corsair, which they had taken after an en
gagement of an hour and a half. Capt- Hender
son, of the Washington, fays, he had no irons of
his own to put on the prisoners, but he found plenty
on board the corsair, which he madeufe of, as
they began to be very outrageous. They intended
to dispose of the prisoners in the following manner,
—to-fend to the Dey to exchange some Americans
for them, and if that was refuted, that they then
should be made slaves of, and treated in the fame
manner as the Algerines treat their prisoners.
Advices from Genoa fay, that a treaty Os amity
and commerce has been lately entered into between
that republic and the emperor of Germany.
Accounts from Venice mention, two squadrons
of live velfels each, mounting 20 guns, being just
fitted out to cruize in the Adriatic.
It is currently said, that many warm Republi
can Episcopalians in America, are mu:h offended
at the title of Bilhops and Archbilhops, as bring
ing to their recolleftion the Englilh Hierarchy,
with lordly powers; and wilh to have apostles,
patriarchs, or even prelates or archptelbyters, or
some primitive suitable terms in their Head.—ln
deed Bolton, the original fanftuary of puritanical
faints, becoming an hierarchial city, is a most fur
priling phenomenon, and equal to that of the Con
gress attending mass In Philadelphia.
Extraii of a letter from Parts , April Ir.
4 ‘ At this moment the utmost coufulion reigns
here, owing to a general distrust and want of calh.
The bankers offer 12 per cent, for money to sup
port their credit; and, to add to the calamity, a
tun on the bank (the Caiffe d’Efcompte) has al
icady begun. It is no wonder that there should
hr a temporary and sudden want of confidence be
tween man and man, on the difeovery of knavilh
gambling, and other in men of such
. rank as Calonne, Miromefnil, and Aligre, whose
places were nearly in France the fame as those of
thefirft Lord of the Treasury, and Lord Chancel
lor, and the Lord Privy Seal, in England. It is
much apprehended, that many great houses will
be ruined "by this total flop to credit; you may,
therefore, caution your merchants against great
operations with this city, till the alarm is sub
sided.”
The secret committee who have it in charge to
prepare the impeachment against Warren Hastings,
Esq 1 have already gone through voluminous evi
dence at the India House, and have so arranged
their plan, as to make it probable "that the bill of
impeachment will be ready to be laid before the
House of Commons by the expiration of the pre
sent month.
Monsieur and the Count d’Artois went in Hate,
by order of the French King, on the 16th of March,
and held a general assembly of the notables, when
the proceedings of the Several committees were
laid before them.
Advices have been received from Terceira, one
of the Azores, that fourteen fail of American Ihips
have lately arrived there, with many articles which
were much wanted; and that a regular trade is
iiow eflablithed there with the ports of Boston,
.New-York, and Philadelphia.
BOSTON, May 20.
A eorrefpondent proposes that an application
should be made to the reverend body of clergy
in this town, to join their prayers to heaven to
deliver our country, not only from war, famine
and peftilente, but from two evils greater than
them all, viz. Paper money and levelling Legilla
tors.
Yerterday, agreeable to the constitution, the
gentlemen returned to serve asfenators and repre
feutatives in general, met at the state house in this
town, and took the oaths, and fubferibed the de
claration required, before the Governor and Coun
cil tor the time being, who then withdrew: die
Senate made choice of the Hon. Samuel Adams,
Esq. for their president; and the House of Re
presentatives chose the Hon. James Warren, Esq.
for their speaker: the Governor, Council, and
tioufe of were theu efcortcd, by
the independent cadets, commanded by Samnel
Bradford, Esq to the old brick meeting house,
where a sermon, well adapted to (he occasion,
was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Jofcph Lyman, of
Hatfield.
June 4. On Thursday last, the committee of
both branches of the legislature rppointed to exa
mine and count the votes returned for Governor,
for the year ensuing, reported the who_le number
for Governor to be 24,588, of which his Excel
lency John Hancock, ‘Efq. had *8, 45'9-
No choice of a person to fill the office of Lieu
tenant-Governor for. the ensuing year, having been
made by the people, the Hon. House of Repre
sentatives, agreeable to the constitution, on Fri
day proceeded to ballot for two canditates for that
office, to be sent up to the Hon. Senate, -when the
Hon. Thomas Cuftiing, Esq. (who had an unani
mous vote) and the Hon. Nathaniel Gorcham,
Esq. were chosen, and sent up accordingly. The
Senate then proceeded to the election of a Lieuten
ant-Governor, and the Hon. Thomas Cuftiing,
Esq. Was Unauimoufly defied.
SPRINGFIELD, June 6.
Extra 3 of a letter from an ejjieer in Col. Bedlam's
regiment, dated HmbJUid, Mdyij, 1787.
Dear Sir,
** I am in good spirits, though a little weary,
having just returned from a circuitous march of
near one hundred miles, which was performed in
two days, in a severe florm. We lodged at
Northampton one night, and returned here the
next day ; I was then immediately ordered, with
a small party of our troops, intoSwanzey, (Ver
mont) about 16 or 18 miles from this place, where
we made a prisoner of one of Shay’s Lieutenants,
who had with him a considerable number of gui
neas, and enlisting orders, a copy of which Teu
clofe, verbatim et literatim.”
[Copy of the enlisting order.]
We do Each one of us acnolege our Selves to
be Inliften into a company Commanded by Capt
and Lieut Isaac Bullard and in Col
Hazletons Reg”nt of Regulators in order for the
fuppresen of tyranikle governmint in the Mafla
chufetts State and we do Ingage to Abbay Such or
ders as we fliall receive from time to to time -
from our Superor Officers and to faithfully Sarve
for the tarme of three months from the Date in
Witness Hereof we have hereunto Set our name;
the Conditions of will be for a Sarjt 60s, pr
month to a*Corp’l 50s, a months to a Privet 40s,
a munth and If Git the Day their will Be a Couce
dreble Bounty ifther Forty or Sixtypounds
- r 1
LITCHFIELD, June 4.
By a letter from Great Barrington, dated the
26th"ult. we learn, that a Few days since, the noted
Robert loiner, on<of die mfurgents, and an ac
tive villain among the gang of plunderers, was
apprehended and committed to goal in that town.
He fired upon his pursuers, and was badly wound
ed in the head by a (hot returned. By the fame
letter we are also informed, that Enoch Tyler,
who Was convicted, and fcntenced to die by tbfe
supreme court, at their late sessions in that town,
and since pardoned by the governor, immediately
after his libratioa a (Turned his arms, joined and
assisted a gang of robbers in plundeting a number
of houses in Weft-Stockbridge. He is-now con
fined in Albany goal for a riot in the state of New-
York ; from whence, after receiving the rewards
of his deeds there, he will be demanded, and
transmitted to Maffachufctts, to fuffer the puuifh
ment due to so hardened a villain.
NEWPORT, May 31.
A correspondent observes, that the sons of anar
chy here flatter 1* emfelves, that the new Legisla
tures of Maftachufetts and Connecticut (which
are now in session) are deeply infeCted with the
paper influenza, and that this virulent plague, with
all its concomitant evils, will spread a similar de
vastation to that we have fatally experienced.
But, fays our correspondent, if they should be in
attentive to the ruin and merited depredation con
sequent on Rich disorders; if they tfcould rejeft
the wife and salutary system of their lateadmini
ftration, and blindly plunge into the Rhode-Ifland
politics, in order that they might trample on the
sacred principles of the conflitution, and felfiflily
sport with the rights of poverty—no recrimina
tion will be too severe—no satire will be too poig
nant—the pen of Junius, while it bitterly retorts
the sarcastic proverb—“ Rbode-IJlandfaith, n will
awake the patriot’s zeal to a firm opposition a
Tacitus will faithfully hiftrorify the reproachful
system, and unveil the delusions aud falfe glofles
of tbs barpics of aaarchy—yyhils the auctioneer
will caricature the diffinguifhed contours of per*
fidy, fraud and injustice
POUGHKEEPSIE, May 30.
Ob Wedliefday evening last a mod (hocking a?*
cident happened at the house of Mr. JelTe Oakley,
merchant in ; the Nine Partners. He having re,
ceived five or fix quarter calks of gunpowder,
with several other goods, and through hurry of
business neglecting to secure the powder by cod,
veying it from the (tore room, put it into a closet
in one corner. Having several persons in the
(tore with him, one of them taking a candle which
had burnt in a manner to the fnuff, and carelessly
going to the clotet, unobserved by Mr. Oakley, | tt
what was left ©f the candle fall into one of the
kegs, which taking fire instantly, blew up the
whole; by which melancholy affair, the perfoa
who had the candle was torn to .pieces, and one
who flood next to him was thrown through the
window into the street, another carried into the
cellar, and there buried in the rubbilli, and the
remainder in the store very considerably burnt and
bruised—we are however informed that they are
all alive, exccpt.the one who had the candle, tho’
it is expefted the person thrown into the street, (j
and the one in the cellar, will not recover—the j
rest are likely to do well, among whom is Mr, §
Oakley,
N E W - Y O R K, Junt 8.
We are autborifed to inform the public, tha ? |
peace is again reflored in the county of Berklhire, j
and that the reports which have circulated for some J
weeks past, -that the insurgents, to the number of I
6 or 800, had assembled with design of releafinjl
the prisoners in confinement at Great-BarringtonJ
are without foundation,
A letter from Vermont mentions, General Shayil
grievously complains of having been very greatly!
plundered during his late peregrination ! and that!
too, as he fiippcrfes, by some pretended friends anil
well-wilhers to his intended reform of govem-i
ment; for that he had, in a small portable wooden!
box, 672 ducats in gold, 1329 guilders, anil
some ftivers m silver: all which together with the!
box itfelf, and some of Lis molt important letter:!
(of foreign and domestic correspondence) werel
taken from under his bed in the night between it!
24th and 25th ultimo. That he hath not been able!
to get the lead intelligence of thevrlc robbers tha!
took them away; but that, from some circuml
stances, he apprehends the money hath before th!
time found its way into the treasury of Rogue’s!
Island. The gold, he fays, was tied up in a lea!
ther bag, and marked PETER THE GREAT, i!
capitals.
The General proposes to iflue a proclamation!
offering a large reward for either the recovery!
the money or apprehending the scoundrels whl
•robbed him.
We have authority to allure the public, th!
the report of the New-Jersey legislature beinfl
about to emit a further sum of paper money, !
entirely without foundation; the Legislature ol
that ft ate being utterly averse to that, as weliil
every other Rogue-liiand measure.
We hear, that in consequence of a report Jcirl
culated in Philadelphia, by the brokers of [thal
•city, refpefting the intention of the Lcgifiature ol
New-Jei fey to emit more paper, the currency ol
that date depreciated last week considerably j btl
that it has since rose to its former standard.
PHILADELPHIA, June iff. I
The Meeting at Eafton, and the tendency of tit!
resolutions formed there, are fubjetfs offerioal
regret to every well disposed citizen, and indicatfl
a latent spark of that pernicious spirit, which hal
introduced anarchy and civil war into a’fifter fiat*
What mnft be their idea of government,
ceive that because a partial advantage is facrificel
to the general welfare, the people are nidified I
the oppolition to eftablilhed Jaws, and in the a!
tempt to defeat that authority, which they hal
voluntarily delegated to their representatives ?
there a public measure that does not in some <!•“■
gree infringe the peculiar interests of individual *
for, the very condition of society arises from t!
aggregate of natural rights, which are affignedl
favor of the common weal ? But the wickednefs*
such measures is equal to their folly, as what cifl
ginates in idle difeontent, may terminate in
effectual, but dreadful struggles of rebellion. 4
exertions of the eastern insurgents prove indeel
how much may be done by a factious attack up!
a regular government, but the event has the!
like wife, that every hope of success must necel
rily be disappointed.
Though the particular arguments, debates, I
dscifioas that take place in the federal convent)!