"Take of black Soap, two pounds and a half flower of Sulphur, two pounds and a half-Mushrooms of any kind, two pounds-Water, fixteen gallons; divide. the water into two equal parts, put one half in a barrel with the foap and muhFooms after having bruifed them a little, the other half of the water is to be boiled in a caldron, with the fulphur enclofed in a bag, and fixed to the bottom of the caldron by a ftone, or any other weight; during the ebullition of about twenty minutes, the bag of fulphur must be tired about with a flick, the better to impregnate the water; by augmenting the ingredients, the effects will be more fenfible :-The water that has been thus boiled, muft then be - poured into the barrel and daily stirred with a flick, until it acquires the highest degree of ranknefs; care being always taken to flop up the barrel after the water has been stirred. I. SOME thoughts ought to be immediately banished as foon as they have found entrance.-And if we are often troubled with them, the fafest way will be to keep a good guard on the avenues of the mind by which they enter, and avoid thofe occafions which commonly excite them. For fometimes it is much easier to prevent a bad thought entering the mind, than to get rid of it when it is entered.More particularly, 1. Watch against all fretful and difcontented thoughts which do but chafe and corrode the mind to no purpose. To harbour these is to do yourself more inju. ry than is in the power of your greatest enery to do you. It is equally a chrif. tian's intereft and duty to learn, in whatever ftate he is, therewith to be content. 2. Harbour not too anxious and apprehenfive thoughts. By giving way to tormenting fears, fufpicions of fome approaching danger or troublesome e vent, we not only anticipate but double the evil we fear and undergo much. more from the apprehenfion of it before it comes, than from the whole weight of it when present. This is a great, but common weakness; which a man fhould endeavour to arm himself against by such kind of reflections as thefe;-" Are not all these events under the certain direction of a wife providence? If they befal me, they are then that fhare of fuffering which GOD hath appointed me; and which he "This compofition is to be fprinkled expects I thould bear as a chriftian. How often hath my timorous heart magnified or injected on the plants infected; and, it former trials? which I found to be lefs in will at the first injection, deftroy the great-reality that they appeared upon their aper number of the infects, but will require proach. And perhaps the formidable af frequent repetitions to kill thofe who live pect they put on, is only a ftratagem of the under ground, especially the Ants; to exgreat enemy of my beft interefls, defigned on terminate them, from two to eight pints of liquor will be neceffary, according to the purpofe to divert me from fome point of duty, or to draw me into fome fin to avoid them. However, why fhould I torment my felt to no purpofe? The pain and afflic tion the dreaded evil will give me when it comes, is of GOD's fending; the pain I feel in the apprehenfion of it before it comes, is of my own procuring. Whereby I often make my fufferings more than double; for this overplus of them, which I bring upon my feit, is often greater than that measure of them which the hand of providence immediately brings upon me.' Difmifs as foon as may be, ail angry extent of their nefts. Two ounces of Nux Vomica added to the above compofition, and boiled together with the flour of fulphur, will render the Recipe ftill more effectual, efpecially when Ants are to be destroyed." THE fpirits, when exhaufted, have fcarcely the force to be impatient; but they must be diligently watched, that they do not become pettifh. [Port Folio.] 3. and wrathful thoughts. These will bu But, above all, be fure to fet a guard on 4. Banish all malignant and revengeful thoughts. A fpirit of revenge is the very fpirit of the devil, than which nothing makes a man more like him; and nothing chriftianity was defigned to promote. can be more oppofite to the temper which It your revenge be not fatisfied, it will give you torment now; if it be, it will give you greater hereafter. None is a greater lelf. tormentor than a malicious and revengeful man, who turns the poifon of his own temper upon himself. Drive from the mind all filly, trifling, and unreasonable thoughts; which tome times get into it we know not how, and and hold it in empty, idle amufements, feize and poffefs it before we are aware; that yield niether pleasure nor profit, and turn to no manner of account in the world; only confume time, and prevent a deed there is little difference whether better employment of the mind. And inwe fpend the time in fleep, or in thefe waking dreams. Nay, if the thoughts which thus infenfibly teal upon you be not altogether abfurd and whimsical, yet if they be impertinent and unfeafonable, they ought to be difmiffed, because they keep out better company. [TO BE CONTINUED.] The devil was drunk; the devil said, And, first, a shapeless, pumpkin head, These he bestow'd and look'd and smil'd: The Excrescence heard! his crowd he took, IN Holcroft's new interefting "Trav-frogs: if th els from Hamburgh through Weftphalia, Holland and the Netherlands to Paris," a very magnificient work, juft received from London, we find an entire chapter dedicated to a generous memorial of the talents and hofpitality of the late WILLIAM VANS MURRAY, Efq. ambaffador at the Hague. 66 I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Murray, the American minifter, at the Hague ; and he, in confequence of what he had heard and read of me, invited me to dinner. His manner was open and well bred; and I willingly accepted the propo fa!. In a foreign country to meet with a well informed man, who fpeaks your language, and has been bred under laws and cuftoms that have a great affinity with your own, is a peculiar enjoyment. It is the green mould of Cheshire cheese, which is always poignant to the tafte, when at home; but abroad it is a luxury which money can feldom procure. Mr. Murray, with amiable franknefs, told me he knew fome of our opinions differed; but that liberal men, acquainted with the world, never made difference of opinion the caufe of quarrel. Let them but think and diicufs with good humour, and it is the caufe of mutual benefit. All his remarks were of a public nature, and many of them were founded in truth. The American character, he faid, was formed on the English; and the Americans, confequently, had in them a mixture of democracy. This mixture perhaps was greater from the daring fpirit of many of its original colonists: men who had offended the laws of England, and had been fent into the woods and wilds of America to effect their reform. Here neceffity rendered them industrious and orderly; and their audacious habits fitted them to repel the affaults of the native Indians. The progrefs of the American revolution might be traced it was prepared, gradual, and for that reason. took a nermanos : were fined or He mainta free as the A tury and a h hope the calc fears of which We enjoyed o pride,miftruft we ate, but I hofpitality tal lent: for, exc there was "t flow of foul.' us with her c of her manner ftanding. Of a vifit, I can but it appeare highly cultivat bufy world: t fmiles which they enjoy not ment, but that fcarcely more to life of wh retreat if well i FROM MA A Gentlema of age of good fa if not hand fome formity, and a five of 200l. pe dy of character, teel profeffion, yet cheerful difp The advertiler w ment to be ent the fulleft and n his being what h fton, Efq. No. ters, poft paid, DI Four frigates are equipping, by order of the adminiftration, which are immediately to be difpatched to reinforce the U. States fquadron in the Mediterranean. A bill has paffed the Houfe of Repre fentatives, appropriating 50,000 dollars for progreffing with the public buildings in the City of Washington. We understand that the records of Weft Floridia, fometime ago delivered by the British government to our minifter in London, have fafely arrived at Baltimore, and are daily expected at the department of flate. [Nat. Intel.] William C. C. Claiborne, Governor of the Mifliffippi Territory, has authorifed the eftablfhment of a bank of Difcount, Depofit and Exchange, in the city of NewOrleans, under the name of the "LouisJANA BANK." The capital is to confift of 600,000 dollars divided into shares, of 100 dollars each. Subfcriptions were to be opened the 16th of March, under the fu. perintendance of Edward Livingston and 15 other gentlemen. As foon as 300,000 It is afferted, that the British have got dollars are fubfcribed for, the Sockhold.poffeffion of the city of St. Domingo, ers are to chufe 15 Directors, who are to continue in office until the ed Monday in January next, after which they are to be elected annually. The Bills and Notes are to be transferable and negociable, and obligatory on the Bank, though not under feal. The Directors have power to increafe their capital flock to 2,000,000 dolJars. The continuance of the charter is limited to 10 years. with the approbation of the Haytian Gov. eraiment. The French troops have been permitted to remove themselves to Cuba. The whole island of Hifpaniola is now in poffeffion of the blacks, under the command of Gen. Deffalines, First Conful for life. [Prov. pap.] During the fnow ftorms the paft winter, an Ewe was buried in North Providence, R. I. for the fpace of 21 days. In this fituation fhe had yeaned a lamb, which lived about a fortnight, and was killed by the falling in of the fnows.-The Ewe was preferved. A trotting-match of 12 meafured miles, in a curracle, has lately been decided in New-York. The winning horfe came.in about a dozen lengths a head; he performed it in 42 minutes and 25 feconds. The Madras prints of Dec. 3, record ifh on the 1ft November, near Caffowly an important victory gained by the Britin Hindoftan, in which they had 172, including officers, killed, and 652 wounded. There was alfo killed in the battle, 277 miffing. Major General Ware's head was horfes, befides 154 wounded, and 122 carried away by a cannon ball. If we can place confidence in the lat accounts from Ceylon, we may suppose that all the British territory on the island is by this time evacuated by the Candians. [New-York paper.] Extract of a letter from a Midshipman on board the Constitution, to his friend in Wilmington, (Del ) Constitution, at Syracuse, Nov 29th 1803. DEAR SIR, "I am extremely happy to have it in my power to inform you fomething of the circumftances of the Dey of Algiers. "He has in his treasury fitteen millions of dollars, 20,000 horse and foot, has ranfomed from him, upon an average calcula tion, 1200 flaves annually, 1500 dollars each. Taxes, rent, &c. between four and five million-ninety-four thousand inhabi tants in the city of Algiers-naval force four frigates, three brigs, two schooners, three xebec fhips. The dey received our conful, and the utmost attention was paid him by the Dey's first officers-we believe the United States to be the most favoured nation. He made us a handfome prefent of bullocks, fheep, poultry, and vegetables of every kind. "The British conful is ordered from Algiers-we are informed the dey has a number of British fubjects at labour." who kept the negroes on the alert, the dwelling houfe and the negroes cabin, fences, &c. (all contagious to the gin,) no further damage was fuftained. It is fuppofed from a variety of circumstances, that fire was intentionally put to the building, and that the foul deed was execu ted by a perfon in the neighborhood. Will not the avenging hand of heaven wing the fwifteft arrows of retribution, on the fiend that could thus diabolically rob five innocent orphans of their fubflance. Information has been received from New-Orleans, that feveral attempts have been recently made to fet fire to that city. Governor Claiborne has iffued a procla mation offering a reward of 500 dollars for the detection of the incendiaries.. The governor has alfo, by his procla mation of the 21ft ult, offered a pardon to all abfent flaves who fhall return to their refpective owners within two months from that date: provided they are charged with no other crime than running a. way, FOREIGN. LONDON, MARCH 5. It is faid that fome Frenchmen have arrived at Jerfey, from La Vendee, with at view to folicit arms, &c, fom our Gov. ernment, for maintaining a contest in that country in favour of the Royal Caufe. The policy of encouraging fuch infurrection at the prefent moment, when it would be wholly unfupported, would be more than doubtful. for Paris. The First Conful affected the MARCH 9. Some Dutch Papers to the 29 h ult. were yesterday received, but they contain no accounts from Paris of a later date, than thofe which appeared in our Paper of Wednesday It is flated, however, that the First Conful had vifited the Theatres twice fince the detection of the late con Ipiracy, and that he was cach time greeted with the loudeft applaufe. It is added, that he perfifts in his plan of invading England, and that orders have been iffured by him for accelerating the preparations for its execution. The Dutch Papers ftate, that Gen. Dumas and Admiral Mongeo are at this time on a vifit of infpection to the different ports and dockyards of Belgium, where the utmost activity continues to prevail. A detachment of the Flushing flotilla lately put to fea with two batallions of troops on board, but loon after returned in confequence of a heavy fog renA letter from Lifbon, dated the 14th ult.dering it unfafe for them to proceed :mentions a report of fome trefh requifitions they were probably defined to join the having been made by the French Minifler grand flotilla at Boulogne. to the Portuguese Government. It is still reported that the Toulon fleet failed on the 29th January-its force is varionfly ftated; but it is generally fuppofed to be ten fail of the line. It is believed that its deftination is to collect the Ferrol and Rochfort fquadrons, and thus reinforced to form a junction with the Breft feet. MARCH 6. The Moniteurs of the later dates, are principally filled with congratulatory addreffes to the First Conful from the National Inftitute, the Coufular Guard and the different Civil, Military, and Clerical Authorities, throughout the whole of the Republic. Different extracts are alfo giv en from the Courier de Londres, as a proof that the affaffination of the First Conful was an event which had, for fome time paft, been confidently expected by the French emigrants in this country. Madame Lajollaio, the wife of the principal agent in Moreau's confpiracy, was apprehended at Strafburg, and her papers feized, as fhe was on point of fetting off Letters from Ruffia affert, that the Emperor Elexander has fully agreed to enter into a convention with Great Britain and fome other Powers, the propofed object of which is to preferve the integrity of the Ottoman Empire. It is alfo faid, that a further augmentation of his military force is immediately to take place, and that orders have actually been given for the failing of the Ruffian fleet. The expectation of the next accounts from France proving highly interesting, gives rife, daily, to a variety of rumours, but which are found to originate merely in vague conjecture. Of this defcription was the report mentioned in our last paper, of Moreau and Pichegru having been guil lotined at Paris, though the circumftance is flated to have been related by an Ameri can gentleman just arrived. The embargo which we yesterday mentioned to have been laid on all veflels in the feveral ports of this kingdom, is likely to be of very short duration. An enterprize against certain ports of the enemy will be immediately carried into execution. Our Plymouth letter flates, that the French fleet had not attempted to fail from Breft fo late as Saturday laff, though they continued in perfect readiness for fea. Admiral Cornwallis has detached four fail of the line, to watch the enemy's fquadron at Rochefort. From Dover we learn, that a perfon arrived there a few days ago from Flushing, who fays, that he faw upwards of twenty boats completely fitted up for the conveyance of cavalry, and that near two hundred more, of the fame defcription, would fhortly be ready for fea. Thirty two veffels of different defcriptions, have within thofe few days got into Boulogne from the Weftward. The London "Courier" of the 15th ult. (which has just been put into our hands by a commercial friend) contains the following articles: [Mer. Adv.] "Pichegru had attempted to elude dif Covery by ufing crutches. It is faid, too, in fome Dutch papers which have been confiderable time in the Thuilleries before received to the 10th, that he had been a his arreft. To a queftiom refpecting the replied that he left it to call General Mo. caufe of his having quitted England, be reau for his condut towards him, Moreau having denounced him to the Directory. Being further prefed as to his having feen Moreau, he is faid to have answered, After what has paffed between us, we cannot fee each other but fword in hand." 66 "It is underflood that Moreau is to be tried before a criminal court, confifting of fix judges; and that he is not to be allowed the benefit of a trial by jury. "The firing heard at Deal and Dover two or three days ago, did not, it is now faid, proceed from our cruifers, but from the enemy, who were exercifing their mortars, gun-batteries, and flotilla. Their boats and veffels have made no movement indicatory of an intention to put to fea. "The embargo, which has just been ta ken off, did not extend to every port. No embargo took place either at Leith, Hull, or New-Caftle." The Knot. MARRIED, At Loonenburgh, Mr. AMASA RUGGLES to Miss. MARY PARKER, daughter of Joseph Parker Esq. all of that place. FROM THE CORRECTOR. By Toby Tickler, Esq. THIS THE HOUSE THAT GEORGE BUILT, A Cantata, written for the amufement of The And To be fung after the Election. Emoluments, Perquifites and Office. The family of Livingston. This is the Colonel Burr. This is the Cat, that killed the rat, that eat the malt, that lay in the house that George built. Cheetham. 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