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point of Afabaw and not within
the Ogcchce, (hall be compelled •
to enter t and dear with the Col
lator* of the port of Sunbury,
any law, usage, or custom to the
contrary notwithfhndiftg.
By Order of the House ,
N. BROWNSON, Speaker. *
AuguJla t February I, 1788.
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# # # As the “ Adventures es an Aeronaut '*
csrac so late, they must be poffponed to next
week.; but we (hall give the Advertisement,
which was deffgned to follow thqfe papers.
advertisement:.
AV.A RIE TY of events ;. or, if you
please, eventful time, (which makes
aud unmakes many a man) made* me pror
prietor of a number of manuscripts ; which,
it was thought, might with a little arrange
ment, afford entertainment, or at iealt, in
' xioceut amusement.
Among these papers, there are a few ex
tracts from printed works; and as all was de
signed for private use foiely, and lome writ
ten by hands that are now mouldered into
duff, (as your’s, courteous Reader, and mine
muff very soon) it will be difficult always to
ascertain the author. But if any such ex
tracts be at all used j none of them (hall be
knowingly used without some diftinguilhing
mark, or remark.
As to the essays, tranffations, &c. &rc. no
name can with>prepriety be affixed to them.
But if any gentleman can point out their real
author, to fend the name to the Printer will
be an obliging aCt: And any one that pteafes,
may claim them as his own proper goods-and
chattels—provided, the claim be made with
truth and decency.
If in either of these, or any other incon
fequcnt instances, the Editor should appear to
make mistakes, do not, for your own fake,
lose your temper ; but be pleased to remem
ber, what we all hope and wirti may be once
remembered in our own favor; “ that igno
rance and error is the lot of humanity; and
to this lot it muff continue fubjeft, until hap
pily we obtain a poss in that country, where
all errors forever cease.
But in these variable, and variegated Scenes,
where appearances often deceive, even the
sagacious, and where only one attains to in
fallibility ; it follows, that all the rest muff
be fallible. But this being a Cardinal point,
lye Shall leave it to the decision, of the next
tondave of caps.
So, courteous Reader, I greet you well;
which is as .much as to fay—l wiffi you all
imaginable happiness.
But remember, this wish cannot be cora
pleated, until you Shall have Shot a tremen
dous gulph 5 and as, in. Shooting this gulph,
there is, in Heaven or in earth, but ONE
power that can affi'ft and protect you 5 so this
gives me an opportunity of making another
wish in your favor, which I do molt fervent
ly, and with all my heart—May that power
aflift and protect you ever!
The EDITOR*
a fragment.
*7* A ND * n t * lo ** days, no min (hall
marvel to hear one talk of chari
ty towards his neighbour, and with the fame
breath bellow upon him the language of conn
tempt.
28. And Patience lhall be called by ano
ther name; and because one hath not the gift
of prophecy, it Bull fee said, thwo iso© can
dor in turn.
It). A Shandean Tffpafla# (halfbe offered
as an apology, and it (hall not be edeemed ne
ccffary to give gfefatorymatter-the fir# pbcc .
in a work., s ‘
30. Moreover, there (hall be falfe devia
tions concerning the poefy.of those. times.
3* • And when one (hall be accused of dis
playing his wit upon a work before he saw
1 the end thereof, he (hall attempt that which
he was charged witj), and utter blasphemous
words, faying,
32. “ I had likened the Adventures of an
. *• Aeronaut to eternity, being without bc
“ ginning, I iniagined it mud be,
“ cn d, and concluded, that no time was like
“ the present for my.remarks.” -
33. And felf-conceit (hall be so prevalent,
that.a mani (hall flatter himfelf, when he fays,
he is in doubt of the existence of F Y„ O
Abcitta’s essay ; that some will be inclined to
give ear unto him.
34. Nevertheless, so great (hall
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LONDON, November, 7,
*'
Subfonee of the Mauifedo of the Ottoman
Court against the Court of Ruflia, communi
cated on the of Auguji , to all tfce fo
reign Mimjters.,
AFTER. tha defirs of*tranquility and
public repose had induced the Sublime,
Porte and the Court of Ruflia to put an end
to humilities in the year 1774, this lad took
every occaflon to make further propofitiors,
incongruous with a sincere reconciliation, and
contrary even to their own foicmn conventions.
She unexpectedly invaded the r reine:s the in
depe deuce of which was the baits of the pea e
of Kaynardgy ; and whilst to attain perfect
security on both-Tides, and to annihilate all
further causes lor contention between the twq
dates, it was agreed in a reciprocal piece of
communication, and expressly declared in a
capitulation* that neither openly, nor in se
cret, any afts of hostility were to be com
mitted ; the Court of Ruflia excited the Kan
of Teflis, (who, moreover, by virtue of an
imperial diploma, is fubjeft to us) to rebel
against the Sublime Porte ; (he afterwards in
troduced Ruffian troops into the place of Te
flis, and gained over that Kan; by which
means die raised disturbances in Georgia and
its frontiers, and when called upon to defid,
(he returned a negative answer. In the arti
cles of the peace, clear dipulations had been
made for the exportation of fait in favor of
the inhabitants of Ockzakow, wdiich had been
afligned to them for a great length of time;
yet the Ruffians, by various vexations, have
prevented the people of the frontiers from ex
porting the fait, and when required to fulfil
their conditions, have declined it.
Their Couful has reduced the Hofpodar of
Moldavia, whp in our (late holds the rank
of Prince i and when,, after his escape direct
ed the Consul, it was demanded that he fliould
be given.up to the Sublime Borte> iu conformi
ty to the Conventions, the Ruffian Minister
violated and invalidated those Conventions by
the decisive answer, “ That his Court would
not give him up and in condruing many o
ther articles in whatever sense was mod agree
able to him, he made awmifeft the bad inten
tions of his Court.
In eftabli filing Confute in Walachia, Bef
farabia, and in the ifies anefc places where they
could have no other business hut to moled the
Mudulmans, the Court of Ruffin h*s (educed
all the fubjefts of the Sublime Porte, and has
enticed many of them into her own provinces,
employing some in the navy, and others in dif
ferent tervices.
The Court of Russia has made an improper
interference in our internal affairs in demand
ing the deposition and chadifement of several
Pachas, Judges, and Commandants in our de
minions, in particular the Pacha of Cildu, and
the Winces of Moldavia and Walter^
1 *
Betides which, every one knows the facUU
t J with which the Sublime Bprte gave per,
minion to the Ruffian merchants to enjoy tbs
free exercise of their commerce, in allowing
them to go about whatever they thought pro
per; every one also knows the stipulation
that was made—that the merchants, who
were fubjetts of the Sublime. Porte, foould be
treated with the fame indulgence in a due re
ciprocity—but the Court of Russia, in order
to engross all the trade to herfelf, has obliged
the fubjetts of the Sublime Eprte.to.pay largec
duties than those flic imposes on the fubjetts of
other powers ; and does not fuflier our mer
chants to pass through the provinces, whea
" their objett is to recover their just debts, by
vyhich oppreflions many of them haye beea
ruined, and others obliged to fly the country.
When the merchant fliips of the Sublime
Porte have from stress of weather, or‘any
* other cause, wanted to take flicker in any of
the Ruffian ports, they have not permitted
them, but have fired t vyith bajl on the crews
of those veflels.
In the last place, the Miiiifler from the
Court of Russia has challenged us to war, in
insisting officially, that if w$ di<J not accede
to the explanation made by his Court, resett
ing the Kan of Teflis, General Potemkin
would have orders, with an army of 60 oc
70 thousand men, to approach our frontiers,
and compel us to the execution of those arti
cles. And further, that the Empress of.Ruf-*
fia would herfelf come sin person. The no-,
tification of such an order to General Potemp
kin, to come upon our frontiers with so large
aii army, is exattly the counterpart of the*
condutt which the Court of Russia held 05 the
invasion of the Cr mea.
The notification, in. addition to the fieps
before taken, hss destroyed all confidence*
and made her dangerous intentions clear and
certain. And as a the principal cause of that
insecurity was tjie Crimea remaining in the
power of Russia, the Sublime Porte manifeft
ed its inclination to renew and consolidate the
friendfliip between the two Courts, provided
the Crimea was by a new treaty, put into its
former condition, to which the Ruffian Mi
nister gave a positive refufal* adding, that he
ihould not even make the proportion to his
Court, and that if he did, no advantage could
result from it, his Court being determined
neither to abandon the Crimea, npr to accede,
to those articles, which she had already de
clined. War is become for the Muflulmans
iijdifpenfably neceflary, as well for these rea
sons as others without number, both private
aud public.
On which- account it was. thought proper to
remit this manifefto to> our refpettablp, es-
old, and sincere friend the King of
, ia order to notify and declare to
our friends the refolution.which the Sublimo
Porte has taken to make war upon the Court
of Russia ; a resolution which is submitted to
. his mature consideration, with an eye of dif
cretiopand equity.
Given at Con flap tinople the 24th of"
August, 1787,.
Accounts from Vienna fay, that the Empe
ror* has just issued a circular letter, command
ing all the officers and soldiers belonging to
their hereditary regiments to repair immedi
ately to their refpettive. commands.
It is said that a very serious revolt has
arisen in St. Domingo* that tbe intendant had
been maflacred, and that M. de la Luzernt*
the Governor, had narrowly escaped the fains*:
t&tc.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 14* <
Last Wednesday began the races, when the
following horses were entered and run for the
jockey Club Plate Colonel Wafliington’t
Horse Ranger; Col. Wade Hampton’s Alli
gator; Major Butler’s justice 5 Capt. Twin-
I in,-** Comet i Ms, Quaih’i Cwomb j aoj