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FROM THE CONNECTICUT JOURNAL.

Mefsrs. GREENS,

I HAVE to requeft our Farmers

to take a little more care in making their cider, of which they have this year a great plenty. It is found that nut-mills are not as good as a wheel for grinding-as the latter more effectually preffes the pulp of the apple. But a more important thing is, to let the pomace lie at least a day in the trough, before it is put upon the prefs. The ufe of this is, to give the juice time to penetrate and foften the pulp of the fruit after it is bruised; and thus extract the fugar of the apple, which is the best part of it.

The watery and acid parts, being least tenacious, are firft feparated by the force of the nuts, the wheel or the prefs; and if pomace is preffed immediately after grinding, the faccharine matter, which is more vifcid, is retained, unless the pulp is well macerated and foftened.

A LOVER OF GOOD CIDER.

Miscellany.

FOR THE BALANCE.

MR. EDITOR,

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OBSERVED in your laff paper a communication figned "A Bachelor," concerning whom I beg the permiflion of being indulged in a few remarks, through the fame medium. Since this Bachelor, Mr. Editor, has taken the liberty to give the public a description of himfelf and circumflances, I hope alfo to be permitted to do the fame of my felf...

Well, then, Sir, I am a young woman, not quite, thirty years of age-my hair is not as grey as a perfon's that is a hundred years old, nor are my eyes fo but what I can fee with them-(and this, I think, is more than the Bachelor "turned of thirty can boaftmy property is fuch that it will fupport me very well with work- which is much better than to be fupported with. out work)--I have neither a carriage or

horfe, except neighbour Shanks' on which I take a ride every day I live. And as to my" perfonal appearance" and "manners" I have nothing to fay, but will leave the well difpofed to judge for themselves. After this defcription I have given of myfelf and circumftances, I think I am in as fair a way to get a good husband as he is to obtain a wife.

As this man "turned of thirty" appeared in his communication to be a pretty decent fort of a fellow, I had the curiofity, one or two evenings laft week to take walk on the Hill to fee him. But, Mr. Editor, what was my furprize! Instead of a genteel tolerable looking fellow, as I expected to fee, I faw nothing but a wornout, dried up old Bachelor, who I should fuppofe was more likely turned of an hun. dred than thirty. His hair was as grey as a rat's, as the faying is. His eyes were fo far funk in his head as hardly to be perceived. And his " perfonal appearance" inftead of being "very tolerable," is, in my opinion, most abominable. He is a little, puny, infignificant fellow, who is hardly able to accompany himfelt abroad, much more the ladies. And, to crown all, he was obliged to carry a cane to keep himself from falling and beating out his brains, if he is fo lucky as to have any,

character, which, under the garb of fwotn evidence has been made by a certain W. Jackfon of Philadelphia in the paper of which he is the Editor, called the Political Regifter.

Had the faid evidence appeared isolated with no other weight but the name of the Editor and the circumstances of his depofitien, I would have treated his malicious attack with the filence of contempt as all the facts therein related even when true would not prove I had violated the laws of this country nor the duties of my station, but a letter from the President of the United States to Jackfon having been circulated along with his evidence, this circumftance alone, although the President does not exprefs his opinion upon the fubje& ftamps this affair with a degree of impor tance, it would have been otherwife divefted of.

For this reafon and for the respect I owe to the Prefident of the United States, to this government and to my felf, I have tho't proper in thus addreffing you, to enter into the explanation of this tranfaction, innocent, in itfell, confonant with the laws of the country, proper in my ftation, and of infidious malignity. which cannot be disfigured by the artifice

medium of the prefs. This facred prinple of felf-defence is as inherent to political flates, as it is to individuals, and when an offence is thus made against a fovereign which cannot be brought into a court of juftice it is not only the right, but also, it Is the duty of the reprefentative of that fo vereign or nation to repel the attack with the fame weapons, which are made ufe of for his injury.

Were the foreign Minifters to be deprived of this right, enjoyed by every individual who breathes the air of the United States, they would be reduced to the fad condition of diflinguished flaves in the very centre of the land of liberty, For fome time paft fome of the Philadelphia newspapers had publifhed paragraphs and circulated comments about the exilling differences between the King of Spain and the United States, mutilating facts, altering circumilances and drawing falfe conclufions highly contrary to the character of justice and generofity for often and fo magnanimoufly proved by the King my maiter. I myfell was pointed out as the author of fome letters from Cadiz and Madrid, although I never knew of them but by the newfpapers and with the fame injuftice, an abulive paragraph against the Prefident was fince attributed to me. Thus

the public mind was poiloned with incorrect accounts and obnoxious conclufions: under fuch circumftances I believed then,

right but alle now, it was not only my

Rio Perdido would raife the American colours they fhould be fupported. No, fir, it is not true, although given under oath by Mr. Jackion, that I had received fuch a letter. I only told him in the way of converfation, and not for any other purpose whatever, that there were in Philadelphia one or two letters from New Orleans, mentioning the above account: 1 never informed him I had received oné, as in real.

jects of difcuffion under a forcible point of view, which had been carefully concealed, and prefenting them to the public eye undar new afpefts, and apprehending that the editors who had previouflv efpoufed a party on the queftion would refufe to infert in their papers my intended publication, I thought that Mr. Jackion, among others, would not perhaps have the reluctance which I anticipated in the former. Prequeffed him to call upon me, and having acceded to my requeft, atter a defultory converfation about the news of the day, of Mr.Pinckney having called for his palfports (my apprehenfions of the rafh ftep) and the detriment which would arife from a war between two nations invited by their reciprocal interefts to the preservation of peace, I told him he could do more good to his country by advocating peace, than by the warlike principles he was proclaiming in his paper. I dwelt a while upon this topic and finished by bringing forward the only object of our meeting, and telling him that if fo difpofed, I could give to him for publication, explanations and elucidation's which could not fail to be favorable to the caufe of peace, and that for his trouble he would have the acknowledgment that would be proper; those were my only words upon this head in all the course of our converfa. tion. In this offer I had in view but the juft compenfation which is due to an edi. tor of a new paper, full of advertisements as Mr. Jackfon's, for the room that my intended effays would have occupied in his Gazette, or reward for his labour if he was to take upon himfelf to couch my ideas in a more correct language than I could do it myfelf. Surely the honor of a man who is in the habit of retailing the fpace of his paper by lines fhould not be hurt at a just compenfation which was offered, when it was queftioned of occupying fome columns of it; and Mr. Jackfon is lefs ex. cufable in the perverfion of my meaning (converting under oath a mere furmife of his into the affirmation of a fat) as I re. peatedly told him, "Sir, this is not a diplomatic intrigué, it is a plain cafe, and of there was any thing difhonorable in it I would be the last man to propofe i, and you would be the last man to whom it would be propofed by me."

Why M. Jackfon has omitted in his affidavit thefe expreffions of mine, fo illuf

letters, under the above mentioned date, have been written from New-Orleans, is a fact known by fome people in the city. I myself have feen one of them, directed to a very refpectable perfon in Philadel phia, and if authorifed by him I would mention his name; but after the Preficent's declaration I am convinced of the falfhood of the affertion, and perfuaded that calumnies can be invented and propagated with the fame facility in New-Orleans as they are done in Philadelphia.

lous as the only thing which in rigour was contemplated by me was the mechanical contemplated by me was the mechanical part of his office, that is the printing of my publications. It could be apprehended that a foreign min fter would rifque an intrigue to bribe directly or indirectly a high officer of a Crown, depofitory of the leofficer of a Crown, depofitory of the fecrets of flate and director of its measures, but to bribe Mr. Jackson, the Editor of a newfpaper whofe fheets are fcarcely to be feen across the waters of the Schuylkill and the Delaware, without a place in the Goy. the Delaware, without a place in the Goy ernment, without perfonal influence, to bribe him for the typographical publication, tion of ideas which were not his own, by their nature perfectly harmlefs and legal, is their nature perfectly harmless and legal, is a conjecture only to be fuggefted by a wick ed heart or a miferable head. I repeat that the only apprehended refufal of the that the only apprehended refufal of the Editors who had efpoufed a fide of the queftion contrary to my ideas determined me to call on the faid W. Jack fon; but altho' I confider him a man of fome talents, he is highly deceived if he fuppofes I could miftake his pep for the key to the temple of Janus.

Where is then what he fo very politely is pleased to term my infamous purpose? Is it in the elucidations or explanations propofed? Surely not, as he knew very lit. propofed? Surely not, as he knew very lit. tle of them, and even if known they were perfectly innocent. Was it in their tendency that is impoffible, when their ob je&t was by his own confeffion the peace and advantage of our two countries; was it in the attempt of publishing them? it is demonstrated, that in fuch circumftarrces I have not only the right, but it was even my duty to do it was it in the tender of the compenfation? it is evident there was the compenfation? it is evident there was no more indelicacy in this proceeding than there is in the offer or the present of a fee to a lawyer or to a phyfician; where is then the offence to Mr. Jacklon's honor or to the rights of his country?

If Mr. Jackfon has proceeded with a culpable levity, and, affirming under oath that he had penetrated my infamous pur. pofe, when it is evident he had completely miflaken it, he has been not lefs incorrect in afferting upon oath that I had, mention ed to him to have myself received a letter from New Orleans, which, ftated that there was a letter at that place in Mr. Jefferfon's hand-writing, which declares that if the fettlers between the Miffilippi and the

This, fir, is the hiftory of this tranfacridiculously magnified by Mr. Jackfon, who has prefented it to the public with as much folemnity, as if he had difcovered the gun powder plot, or the confpiracies of Fiefque and of Bedmar-all the heinous crime is, that I wifhed to make afe, with decency and decorum, of the inconteftible right I poffefs of felt defence, applying it to my fovereign and to iny country; the intended elucidations have fince appeared in other papers under the fignature of Graviora Manent, and by the perufal of those effays, you may easily judge if their contents are of a nature to bribe Mr. Jackfon with any acknowledgment, as he declares in his evidence, or if there is in them to be found a fingle expreflion contrary to the refpe&t due to the government or to this country: the ufe I have made of the liberty of the prefs cannot be difputed without attacking the conftitution, as the law does not confider in its falutary reftrictions the publifher but the publication, and if this does not infringe the law, it would be a criminal attempt to restrain any perfon in the United States from the exercise of this facred right; this is, Sir, what was intended to be done and has fince been done by me my means have been juft and legal, my object pure and benevolent, and can only give offence but to perfons, who, groaning under pique and difappointment, eftablish their expiring hopes of retrieving their fhattered fortunes on the public calamities of a war, for fuch perfons the doftrine of advocating peace cannot be but high treafon.

I would have demanded from this government the punishment of the faid Jackfau, for the offence of converting a mere furmife of his into the affirmation of a tact, and employed under his perverted idea an infamous and defamatory language, had I

not anticipated that when the particulars. of this letter fhall be known to the public, I fhall be completely avenged by the feverity of his feelings.

Although the vindication of my conduct exclufively belongs to my King and go. vernment, a favorable opinion of the good people of America is far from being indifferent to me. For the reafon and for the degree of intereft and importance that the circulation of the Prefident's letter has impreffed into this affair, I have thus condefcended publicly to notice an incorrect affidavit with unjust and abominable conclu.

Well convinced, by cruel experience,

The wreck of the Schooner Liberty, of Egg-Harbor was driven on fhore at Kewha Ifland, S. C. and it is fuppofed that her captain (Sweetzer) and every person on board perished.

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The fame fate it is believed, has befallen the brig Experiment, Capt Palmer, and crew, of Charleston.

Difpatches from Spain by Mr. Dalton, have been received at the office of the Sec. retary of State. The contents of thefe difpatches, if we are correctly informed, are important, but their nature and tendency we know not. From certain circumffah." ces we are however induced to conjecture that they are of a pacific afpect.

More than two months fince, we had, from certain hints given us, fome caufe to believe that attempts were making by hegociation for ceding Louifiana to the Span iards in exchange for the Floridas and the Ifland of New Orleans, the United States

to receive a certain fum of money to boot. It is not impoffible that thefe difpatches may relate to fuch negociation!)

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The violent fquall which occurred about 8 6,clock yesterday morning, drove the Ship Fortune from her fafts at the Lazaretto, and overfet her within one hundred yards of the wharf.-Three of the paffengers who happened to be on board were drowned. Two were fathers of families by this accident left deflitute, in a country with the habits, customs, manners, and language of which they are hacquainted.

Confidering that, after fo long, a feries of misfortunes and of viciffitudes, it is neceflary to allure the guaranty and safety of the citizens in a manner durable and irrevocable, and that the most certain method of attaining this object is to hel tow upon the only chief capable of reprefenting and of governing the nation wor. thily an auguft and facred title, which will concentrate in him the forces of the ftate, will be impofing abroad, and will be the pledge of tranquility and prosperity at home.

Confidering that the title of GovernorGeneral, heretofore confided on the citi zen Jean Jaques Deffalines, does not exprefs in a fatisfactory manner, the general with, as it fuppofes a fecondary power depending upon a foreign authority, whofe yoke we have fhaken off forever:

Without having any longer regard to conftant and obftinate refufal of Citizen

Jean Jaques Deffalines, to accept the power which had been delegated to him by the people, and the army at the epoch of the declaration of our independence ; fuch refufal being contrary to the interefts, the wishes, and the welfare of this country

We confer upon the faid citizen Jean Jaques Deffalines, the title of EMPEROR OF HAYTI, and the right of chufing and nominating his fucceffor.

We defire that this tree expreffion of our hearts, already called for by the people, be offered to its fanction with the leaft delay, and receive its prompt and entire execution by a decree from the fenate, which fhall be extraordinarily convoked for that purpofe,

[Philadelphia Paper.]

Nomination of the Emperor of Hayti, 17. J. DESSALINES.

WE, Generals of the army of Hayti, Defirous of confecrating by an authentic at the wifh of our heart, and to anfwer to the frongly pronounced will of the people of Hi;

Perfuaded that the fupreme authority fhould be undivided, and that the intereft

Boston, and its vicinity. Some particulars will be given hereafter.

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adminiftration to be placed in the hands. of him who unites the confidence, the affections and the love of his fellow-citi

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(Signed) Vernet, minifter of Finances : Clerveaux Chriftophe, commandant of the divifion of the North; Petion; Gi. bard, and Geffrard, commandant of the divifion of the South, Generals of Division and counfellors of State-together with upwards of 300 officers,

Fir! year of Independence, At Deffalines, Feb. 15. THE GOV. GEN. OF HAYTI, To the generals of the Army, and to the Civil and Military Authorities, organs of the people:

CITIZENS,

If any confideration juftifies in my fight the auguft title which your confidence confers upon me, it must be no doubt my zeal