"But though every man will claim the privilege of being, in many refpects, an "individual felt, diftin& from others, yet, "let us not convert this natural liberty "and independence of the foul into a 66 proud fpirit of diffention, or use it for "a cloak of evil-Let us reft fatisfied with "our own principles and perfuafions, "without invading the rights of others. "And, above all things, let us avoid that "tyranny of opinion which leads fome to "imagine that they only can difcover "truth, and that all men elfe are wander"ing in the dark: Still let us "hold faft "the form of found words," and embrace "every means which the goodness of Di. vine Providence hath afforded of cleanfing our iniquities, and helping our infirmities-In particular, when we look "forward to the prize of our high calling, "and hope for a bleffed immortality, thro' Jefus Chrift, let us be earnest and un"wearied, in fulfilling the measure of du"ty that is required.' 46 Jefus Chrift came from God as a meffenger to our world, in that ignorant, fuperftitious, and corrupted eflate, "to which it was reduced, to preach the doctrine of repentance; and, on this condition, followed by a renewed life, "to hold torth the promise of a reconcil. ed and merciful God. This, in as few words as fo great a fcheme can well be "comprehended, is the defign of our Saviour's miffion-the object of bis whole miniftry. This he maintains in fuch plain, but ftrong and expreffive terms, "as leave no room for controverfy. In. numerable paffages, of which there can be no mifapprehenfion, demonfirate to "the dulleft mind what is the spirit of Chrift's religion-what are the terms of acceptance by him, as the appointed judge of the world-Jefus Chrift himfelf has held no other language has no 41 " "where difhonoured and invalidated this "moral fyftem. 66 66 | reputations made whole, if merely plaiffer ed over with federal dollars, or cents.Now, gentlemen delinquents, I doubt not, you are all ready to curse those malicious enemies who harrass and perfecute me with law-fuits. I thank ye, for this mark of kindness and compassion. But you must reflect that I am better able to bear the "Say, then, fhall we allow an apostle "of his, or even all his apoflles, to throw "down to the ground the venerable building which he had erected-and plainly "tell us that all the good temper of the "heart, and all the good order of the life, are of no fignificance, operate nothing "to our acceptance. But that fomething of a totally different nature, and which "certainly may fubfift without either a "virtuous heart, or life, and which certainly has been affociated with great and "fcandalous crimes, is the fingle thing "which juflifieth us in the fight of God, "and opens the doors of everlafting bliss "to us? No! Not if an angel, defcending in my view from Heaven, should utter fuch a profanation, while GOD preferves the image of himself upon my "mind—and I have the teftimony of Jefus "Chrift, that he came from the father, "on the errand of our moral recovery"would I put any faith in him-but abide "by the more credible and honourable teftimony of my Mafter." 66 66 perfecutions of open, avowed enemies, than the neglect of profeffed friends. And give me leave to affure you, that with the contributions drawn by the one, and the juft payment withheld by the other, the pro prietor of a paper runs a very great chance of falling to the ground. The latter, however, is much more alarming than the tormer.-You all understand me; and I hope you will evince it, by an immediate remittance of your dues, particularly such of you as have received the Balance from its commencement, and have paid little or nothing. These are few, but I pray that the number may ftill diminish. Were all my fubfcribers as punctual as a part of them, I could feel grateful to them, and bid defiance to my enemies. HARRY CROSWELL. LIBEL SUIT. On Friday laft, before a circuit court held in the city of Albany, was tried the caufe of Ebenezer Foot, against the editor of this paper, for a libel. The words on which the action was founded, were contained in two of the papers publifhed dur ing an altercation which took place in the Lanfingburgh Gazette and Farmer's Regifter, the last year. On the trial an unforefeen circumftance gave an unfortunate turn to the cause on the part of the defendant. This was an unexpected decifion of the court, of which the plaintiff availed himself, which went to preclude the admiflion of the witnesses on which the defendant intended refting his defence, and completely placed it out of his power to meet his antagonist with the teftimony by which he expected to deftroy his claim to damages. This decifion was founded on an omiffion in the pleadings, occafioned (if the decifion of the court was correct) by a miftaken apprehenfion of the law on the fubject. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, with two hundred dollars damages. As it is intended to fubmit the cafe to the decifion of the fupreme court, on a motion for a new trial, any remarks on the fubject are at prefent deemed im. proper. [Lanfingburgh Gaz.] The duties on importation received at the Cuftom House, Norfolk, Vir. during the month of Auguft laft, amounted to 120,000 dollars. There are belonging to that dif triЯ about 20,000 tons registered vessels. A meeting of the inhabitants of Indiana territory has been held to confider the expediency of endeavouring to obtain an alteration in their form of government. A Bilious Fever prevails to fuch a degree at Wyoming, on the Sufquehannah, that there are scarce well perfons fufficient to take care of the fick. The mortality is fuppofed to be as great in proportion to the number of inhabitants, as it was in Philadelphia, during the yellow fever of '93. The Philadelphia Company of Bookfellers, with a vote of thanks, have awarded a Gold Medal to Mr. William Young, of the Delaware paper mills, for eleven reams of excellent printing paper, manufactured of mulberry roots, and bags made of Guina bark, A moft daring and outrageous riot took place at Elkton races in the week before Jaft. About 40 United Irifhmen, lately from the kingdom, who were employed in digging the crollcut canal, broke off from their work on the morning of the race, and, armed with bludgeons and fhelelahs, proceeded to the race ground, where they paraded in a menacing and infolent manner, evidently with a view to attract notice or provoke irritation. It at length broke out in an attack on the stall of a free negro, which they entirely demolished, and beat fome of the negroes in a most cruel manner. On the most ftri& enquiry, no greater provocation could be difcovered to have been given than that one of the negro men, on one of the Irishmen saying he would whip him, replied, perhaps he was not able: On that inftant he was knocked down by blows from feveral of them.The negroes fled to the village, begging protection from the white people. The rioters purfued them, fwearing that they would kill and deftroy every negro in Elk ton. Several of the gentlemen who had been on the race ground endeavoured to quiet the rioters and fave the negroes; but all to no purpose. They attacked the gentlemen, who had no other defenfive weapons than their whips, and many got fe verely cut and bruifed. A magiftrate of the county, who attempting to do his duty, was knocked down and feverely beat.One of the rioters had his fkull fractured (by a blow aimed at one of the gentlemen) of which he died in a few hours. of the rioters were feverely beat and cut with whips, and fome of them were laid to be rode down. Some of them have fince died. It is faid in their approach to the race ground they made their brags that they could whip double their number of Americans. Several [N. Y. Com. Adv.] The following melancholy affair happened, not long fince in Laurens diftrict, (S. C.) to fome people of the name of Western : the fame ftate himself, and could not be brought to for many hours. The third came to himself in about half an hour, and faid his younger brother was alive when he went to the bottom of the well. The fifth now came, (a married man of about thirty) who having tied a handkerchief over his mouth, and faftened himself in the bucket, defcended and brought up the other bodies. LONDON, AUG. 24. The articles by yesterday's Gottenburgh mail afford additional proofs of the warm intereft which the Emperor Alexander takes in the cause of the unfortunate Bourbons; and, as there feems no doubt of his ferious intention to attempt the refloration of that illuftrious Houfe, it is confidered, and by no means irrationally, that the means to place one of the Princes at the head of the army to be employed for that purpose. GOTTENBURG, AUG. 12. The Prince De Conde, the Duke of Orleans, and another of the French Princes, are very foon expected at Riga, where, it is faid, that' two English frigates are to convoy them; they will proceed from thence to fome convenient place in the Ruffian dominions to meet Louis the XVIIIth, leave having been given by the Emperor of Ruffia for that purpose; their avaunt Couriers paffed through Gottenburg for Riga, on the 10th inftant. A Norwegian Gentleman, who has been travelling along the Coaft of France, by Havre, from Boulogne, Calais, Oftend, &c. to Amfterdam which place he left twelve days fince, fays, that the greatest difaffection prevailed every where, but particularly in the army. In Boulogne there were 1800 veffels of all defcriptions, which number it was intended to increafe to 3000; in the vicinity were about 24,000 troops, and about 15,000 near Oftend. These were the bulk upon the coast, but there were confiderable more up the country. One of them being engaged in digging a well, which was funk to the depth of thirty-five feet, on defcending about half way down, complained that he felt very fick, took of his hat and fanned himself fome some time, and then attempted to reHe fays that though the invafion of turn but before he arrived at the top of England was much talked of, and every the well, his ftrength failed, and he fell to preparation made for it, but few perfons the bottom. A younger brother, about believed it would ever take place, and that twelve or fourteen years of age, defired to fince the late trials the name of Bonaparte be let down immediately in the bucket to was execiated, and the refloration of the try to fave his brother; which being inBourbons anxioufly wished for; and that cautiously granted, he remained at the bot- nothing but the fear of ag in wandering tom helpless with the first. A third came, through all the horrors of the late revolu and went down with the fame imprudence;tion prevented their de glaring in favour of but making fings of diftrefs, he was immeit in Holland; he fays that people were diately hauled up, As he came to the top groaning under their oppreffion. of the well, he would have fhared the fate of his other two brothers had it not been for the bye-standers, who caught him as he was falling out of the bucket. A fourth went down, but with fome more caution being tied in the bucket; when down, he placed the body of his younger brother fo as to bring it up although he appeared in Should we meet an arm'd ship, 'twould be folly to Veer about then-and leave her a-stern. Huzza! who's afraid! when there's nothing to Keep well from the clutches of Davy! over, he began to whistle from morning to night, and from night to morning, fo that many perfons app rehended, that want of reft muft kill him. It will foon be three years fince he began to cry in fuch a man. ner, that he has already loft the fight of one To the banks of Potomac, for a Dry Dock quick eye, and, fhould he not leave it off, he must steer, Your gun-boat-the pride of the Navy. Diversity. FEMALE COURAGE. probably in a fhort time be entirely blind. He is thirty-five years of age, but looks as if he had paffed three-fcore-ten. His only food for thefe last fifteen years has been, in every 24 hours two finall flices of bread; and his only drink two glaffes of water. A PATENT has been obtained for a new kind of Wind Engine, capable of be WITH refpe&t to courage, the authoring applied to all the purpofes of wind, of L'Apologie de beau Sexe relates a flory which it true, has feldom been equalled by man. A fervant girl of Lifle, remarkable for her fearlefs difpofition, laid a wager that fhe would go into a charnel-houfe, at midnight, without a light, and bring from thence a dead man's fkull. Accordingly at the time appointed, fhe went; but the perfon with whom the had made the bet, Hoist boom,-fire away, then scud right and tight, intending to terrify her, had gone before, And frighten them all to the d-1. What then! avast sniv'ling! my lads never fear, On the banks of Potomac, high and dry, free and Is a Dry Dock-a birth snug and warm. I heard our brave Adm'ral palaver one day, But he might full as well have had nothing to say, On the banks of Potomac, high and dry, free and In a Dry Dock-he'll take us in tow. I said to the Feds,-for you see they look'd queer, A gun boat d'ye mind me, all danger can shun, and hid himself in the place. When he connot ha' two heads !" IT was a beautiful turn given by a great IN the mad-houfe, at Aix-le-Chapelle is an infane man, whofe madness has been fubject to furprifing and periodical changes. He has been fhut up there for fifteen years. For the three first years he never Spoke a word, but was continually filent. During the three following, he feldom ceaf. ed to speak either night or day. Alterwards he laughed for three years, and in fuch a violent manner, that he often fell into convulfions. When this period was fream, or water-mills; by means of flyers, Original. HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1804. Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, Enrich our columns, and instruct mankind. FOR THE BALANCE. THE LIMNER. MR. EDITOR, HA AVING a little leifure, one day last week, I concluded that it could -not be better employed, than in drawing my own likeness. I therefore inftantly feated myself before my glass-not my Reflector, Mr. Editor; for to own the truth, I have no inclination to lay my heart open to the view of every inquifitive fpe&tator. "There!" every reader will be ready to exclaim-" there is a diffembling knave for you-this fame Peter Pallet, who is fo fond of cenfuring others for their averfion to being transparently painted, is himself afraid to fhew his heart." Hold, gentle reader-judge not too haftily. There is a vaft difference between exhibiting one's own heart, and having it exhibited by others. I once had the pleasure of knowing a man-(Alas! he has recently left this, for "another and a better world," who, as it were, "carried his heart in his hand," who " wore a window in his breaft." And the confequence was, (I fay it with pain) that heart was stung by the poifonous fhaft of calumny-it was drained of its blood by a wound inflicted by the hand of envy-it was torn and mangled by the fangs of unfeeling vultures, even after it had become. the tenant of the tomb. Therefore, read In the first place, you complain of the er, I fay, judge not too haftily. Learn to difcriminate between the heart that invol-prefent mode of wearing the hair; and untarily. fhrinks back from the ftare of the multitude, and that which lies concealed behind a fpecious mask, from the eye of intimacy and friendship. I admire, but I alfo pity the man who unbofoms himfelt to every body. It is a melancholy truth, that such a man is fure to meet with more enemies, more perfecution, and more injuftice, than the most egregious hypocrite on earth. I had but just finished my own likeness, (a defcription of which the reader will undoubtedly difpenfe with) when the pennypoft handed me the following letter : TO THE LIMNER. MR. PALLET, intimate that it is a fhade to the countenance. This is precifely what might be expected from one who knows nothing of female modefty. A young lady muft be poffeffed of an uncommon flock of impudence, to appear amongst people, with her face wholly unveiled, while her bofom is uncovered, and her body and limbs but little better. When we expofe nothing elfe, we are very willing to fhew our faces; but in proportion as we reduce the patterns of our gowns, you may rely upon it, we fhall thicken our veils and lengthen our locks. In illuftration of this opinion, I will merely mention, that the modeft delicacy of the female fex is luch, that if a young lady should unluckily happen to be exposed in a state of nudity, her first object would be to conceal her blushes by You next complain of what you ceaceive to be an improper expofure of the bofom, and, in the fame breath, acknowledge what effect this exposure had upon yourself, If the effect was fo great upon you, that your pallet hung carelessly upon your thumb, and your pencil fell from your fingers, how muft it operate upon our fimple young beaux, who anticipateand anticipate? This is not a letter of complaint; for, tho' when I went to your fhop for a full-hiding her face. length portrait, I was not aware that you was a (felf-taught) writer, as well as painter, ftill, I am not, on the whole, much difpleafed with the account of me, which you thought fit to fend to the prefs. InIn deed, Mr. Pallet, after you had declared that I was an excellent figure, handfome," &c. you might well suppose that a little feverity might be exercifed with perfect fafety. But give me leave to tell you, Sir, that your flattery and your cenfure are alike indifferent to me. The fole obje&t of this letter is to defend fashionable female drefs, and if I don't fatisfy you that you are altogether mistaken in your notions on the fubject, I will confent to put on and wear any old-fashioned dress which the moft fqueamish limner in the country fhall direct. Though I confefs that a naked elbow does by no means make a comely appearance; yet, I contend, that fuch an effential joint ought not be confined in the tight fleeve of a gown. On the fcore of convenience, therefore, this fafhion may be defended. As to the tranfparency and fcantinefs of gowns, I have only to defire, that eve FANNY FANCIFUL. Peter Pallet, A. M. Political. ry perfon who finds fault with them, mayings. But a fhort explanation will clear be compelled, to fwelter through one hot up this point, to the fatisfaction of every fummer, under an ample burthen of muf- reader. It will be fhewn that the eleclin, chintz and dimity. tors of prefident and vice-prefident, inflead of being men of wifdom, difcretion. and honesty, might juft as well be the mereft machines, the fimpleft blockheads on earth: For the plain fact is, the prefident and vice-prefident are already chof. en; and nothing is wanting but a little fpecious formality and childish mummery, to make the work complete-that is, the ftates devoted to Jefferfon and to Virgin. ia, have only to make choice of men of the right ftamp, who, bearing the name, with exercifing the right, of electors, have to meet and vote for the characters already chofen ;-and this will be called an election of prefident and vice-prefident of the United States of America! Extra& from Gov. Tichenor's Speech. The governor of the commonwealth of Maffachusetts has tranfmitted to me certain refolutions of their Legiflature, propofing an amendment of an article in the federal conftitution, respecting the principles of reprefentation, aiming to confine it to the votes of freemen, and not depend upon the number of flaves in any part of the federal territory. These refolutions will be laid before you. By whom have thefe officers been al By a very small faction, privately convened at the Capitol. Did not the people authorite this choice? That the federal compa& fhould be ap-ready chofen ? proached with caution, and there fhould exit an equality of political rights among the feveral ftates in the national reprefentation, are truths of which you can never loose fight. Therefore these resolutions will receive a candid and deliberate confidera-ing of the measure. tion, before you are prepared to fay that the number of flaves already in the United States, and thofe that are daily impor. ted, ought to increase the influence or power of their mafters, in making laws to bind the freemen of a itate, in which the principles of liberty, are so complete and entire, as not to admit flavery to appear, or to exift within its limits. Editor's Closet. Was not this choice made by the reprefentatives of the people? No! It was made by a part of the men fent to Congrefs to enact laws, and to make provision for carrying them into effeat. Had not thefe reprefentatives a right to dictate to the people, who ought to be their prefident and vice president ? Certainly not for the people, by their conflitution, have wifely retained the right of electing their chief magiftrate them. felves. Befides, if they had yielded up this right to their reprefentatives in Congrels, a majority of the whole, would be deemed neceifary to a choice; whereas, in the prefent cafe, the choice has been made by a majority of a part only of the reprefen. tatives, as all the menibers, who were oppofed to the election of the fuccefsful The period for chocfing electors of Pref- candidite, were carefully excluded from ident and Vice-Prefident of the Unitedjoining the caucus. States, approaches. As this is the greatest and moft important election recognifed by cur confiemtion, it may feem a little odd, that the people of this fate appear to take Icis intered in it, than they would in the e1.thon of a conftable at our town-meci THE GREATEST ELECTION.' But if the choice of this fmall faftion was unauthorized, how are the people bound by it? By the principles of juftice and freedom, they are not bound: but the fattion have managed the bufinefs with fo much art, that they are certain of having a majority of electors, fufficiently pliant to bend to their will. They know who are fervile enough to become inftruments. These inftruments will be proposed as electors ;-and who will dare to oppofe their appointment? After their appointment, should any one of them feel a little squeamish a· bout being led by the nofe, will he dare to vote contrary to the command of his dictator? No. For if he fhould, denunciation and perfecution would be the certain coniequence. Therefore, I infift, our chief magiftrate for the next term, is already chofen and were it not for the name of having a conftitution, and enjoying electoral rights, we might as well have neither. The electors for this ftate, meet in this city, to perform the voting ceremony. Would to God we could view them in any other light, than as fo many Puppets. MORE SPECULATION. We have heard (and we are half inclined to believe it) that our prefident has another vaft fpeculation in his eye. It is laid, that our minifter at the court of his imperiat majesty, Bonaparte the First, has been inftructed to purchase the whole ifland of St. Domingo, with all its black, white, Spanifh and French inhabitants, and all its falt mountains, prairies, Iwamps, &c. And it is further faid, that his imperial majesty, finding it impoffible ever to obtain and keep poffeffion of the faid ifland, has graciously confented to the propofition, & has agreed to take thirty millions of dollars for the fame, giving the United States full liberty to get poffeffion of it, in the best manner they can. It has been reported, that our minifter commenced the negociation by presenting a very lengthy and cunning memorial to the imperial court, in which he laboured to depreciate the value of the Iland, particularly flating it was an unhealthy elimate, and that the foil could be culti vated only by flaves; by which his imperial majefly was fo completely gulled, that he offered the property at lefs than half its value, as above itated!!! NEW ENGLAND. Pierpont Edwards and Abraham Bishop, both hold very lucrative offices under the general government; and these are the |