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Agricultural.

EXTRACT.

FROM THE TRUE AMERICAN.

PEAR TREES.

Trenton, March 2d, 1804.

FRIEND WILSON,

As

SI came from Philadelphia at the commencement of the laft fitting of the Legiflature, I viewed with forrow great part of the Pear Trees in fight of the road, greatly injured by the blaft fo deftructive to that valuable fruit, and as I have preserved my trees of that kind of fruit from that malady for more than thirty years paft, by an accidental dif covery, I conceive it my duty to communicate it to the public, through your paper, if you think the relation worth the trouble.

On my plantation was a great number of Pear Trees which were continually blafting, and the limbs dying, until the greatest part were dead or in a state of de

cay, except one near the house which had Iron of different kinds hung on it, fuch as old Sickles, Scythes, Hoops, &c. which tree kept entirely free from the afforefaid misfortune: this induced me to try others by hanging any iron of a proper form for the purpose, fuch as nail rods, horfe fhoes, old hoops, or any fuch as would be moft fafe from falling, on most of the largest limbs, in fuch manner as not to bind and injure the tree. Since that was done I have not perceived the blast to injure them, and many trees which were previously all dead except the trunk, or nearly fo, are now and have been for more than twenty years paft in a flourishing condition. The reafon I leave to others; but the fact is fo well proved by near or quite thirty years experience, the labor and expence fo trifling, that I earnestly recommend it; and am

Your Friend,

JOSEPH COOPER.

A COMMENTATOR, fays a critic, may be defcribed as a dealer in obfcurity, and a haberdafher of difficulties.

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OSE not the time of your youth, but gather thofe feeds of virtue and knowledge which may be of use to yourfelf, and comfort to your friends, for the rest of your life. And that this may be the better effected, attend thereunto with patience, and be fure to correct and refrain yourfell from anger. Suffer not forrow to caft you down, but with cheerfulness and good courage go on the race you have to run in all fobriety and truth. Be fure, with an hallowed care, to have refpect to all the commandments of God, and give not yourfelf to neglect them in the leaft things, left by degrees you come to forget them in the greatest; for the heart of man is deceitful above all things. And in all your duties and devotions towards God, rather perform them joyfully than penfively; for God loves a cheerful giver. For your religion let it be directed according to that which shall be taught by thefe which are in God's church the proper teachers thereof, rather than that you ever either fancy one to yourfelf, or be led by men. that are fingular in their own opinions, and delight to go ways of their own finding cut; for you will certainly find fobernels and truth in the one, and much unsteadiness and vanity in the other."

Improvements, &c. .

FROM THE BALTIMORE TELEGRAPHE.

PATENT HEMP AND FLAX BREAK.

MR. OWEN ROBERTS, of Baltimore, has obtained a patent for the inven tion of a Hemp and Flax break," which promises to be of as great utility to the U. nited States, as any machine hitherto invented, on a model fo fimple. It may be erected at a comparatively trifling expence, and when in complete operation, will clear fix or eight thoufand weight of Hemp daily, with the affiance of only fix hands. No manual labor is necellary, except turning and fhifting the Hemp; the rollers and breakers being wrought by a horse, or water, and fo conftructed, as to work any number, by throwing them out of gear, as occafion may require.

It is hoped that a conviction of the util ity of this invention will enfure it the patronage of every friend to the infant arts and manufactures of his country

AMERICAN MANUFACTURES.

STRAW BONNETS AND SUSPENDERS.

Thofe two articles, though feemingly of little moment, have annually drained this country of fome thoufands of dollars for many years paft. It must afford pleafure to all who feel interested in the profperity of this country, to find the above articles daily brought into this town from Bofton and its neighborhood, at a much cheap. er rate than they can be had from England, and tho' the straw bonnets are generally inferior to thofe imported, yet from fpeci mens exhibited (of which famples have been fent to England) we are evidently neft texture and in any quantity. competent to furnish this article of the fi

[N. Y. Mer. Advertifer.]

TO PREVENT RUST.

THE following very simple application has been found to prevent iron and fteel from rufting:

To any given quantity of falt oil var. nifh, add four-fifths of well re&tified fpirits of turpentine; apply this varnish flightly and equally with a fponge, and put the article to dry in a place fheltered from the duft. It preferves and brightens the colour of copper; and is faid, that all metalic articles varnished with it, will retain their brilliancy, and never contrac any spots of ruft.

Miscellany.

EXTRACTS.

THE MAN OF PLEASURE.

THE man of pleafure, in the vortex his opulence has created, finds no home in the everchanging fcene; difcovers no friend in the ever fmiling countenance ; feels the inanity of his coftly gratifications, and meets ennui and fpleen, on the very geal his ambition had reached: for happinefs is the daughter of content, and content fprings only fron. peace of mind, which never dwells with the ambitious, and turns from the flave of opinion.

Pleafure is to be had by him who wills it. Opinion alone renders every thing

difficult, and deprives us of happiness. It her eyes to the ceiling, acknowledged the
is a hundred times eafier to be happy, thankindness of Providence in bringing about
to appear lo. The man of tafte, the tru fuch a wonderful work of charity, by
ly voluptuous man, require not riches; fuch unexpected means.
he wishes only to be free and his own
mafter. Whoever enjoys health, the ne-
ceffaries of life, with a heart free froin
the defire of imaginary gratifications, is
rich enough-he poffeffes the aurea me-
diocritas of Horace. Accumulators of
wealth feek, then, fome other employ.
ment for your opulence; it has no value
in the purchase of real happiness,

DOUBLE DISAPPOINTMENT.

JOHNSON tells us, in his life of the great Frederick of Pruffia, that his majefty's father was particularly attached to his tall regiment, and that if he met with a woman of more than common height, he configned her to Berlin, and married her to one of his giants, intending thereby to to propogate procerity, and procure heirs for the father's habiliments. The following cimftance proves the truth of this pompous paragraph. As the king was one day travelling incognito through Brandenburgh, arrayed in a blue coat, little hat, and worsted flockings, he caft his eyes upon a young woman, who was near seven feet high. Such a fight as this never efcaped him, and he alighted from his horse, and cauled her to be brought before him; when, finding that fhe was a fhoemaker's daughter, unmarried, unengaged, and only nineteen years of age, he immediately wrote a letter to the colonel of the royal regiment of grenadier guards, at Berlin, commanding him to caufe the bearer to be inftantly married to the tallest man in his corps, and to be prefent at the ceremony. This letter he delivered to the girl, with out informing her of the contents; but making her a handfome prefent, enjoined her to carry it as directed, deliver it into the colonel's own hands, and wait for an anfwer; this done, he proceeded on his journey. The girl never having been at Berlin, and not fufpe&ing the rank of the perfonage who gave her the letter, bargained with a little old woman in the neighbourhood to carry it. The deputy was true to her truft, and delivered the letter as directed; but the colonel, on reading it, was furprized. However, his majefty's orders were peremtory, and muft be obeyed the parties met and were married, and the affair remained a myflery, until the king's return to his capital, when the first perfons he wished to fee were his handsome new married couple. He was aftonished at the fight of the bride, and in great wrath, demanded" how the came to practife fuch abominable deceit ?" The woman told him the truth, and lifting up

Political.

FROM THE EVENING POST.

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they could not ftand by and fee it done without faying a single word in behalf of our unfortunate, plundered countrymen. But let me tell fuch perfons, they are most egregiously mistaken. The Prefident has told us that commerce does beft when it is left to fhift for itfelf, without favor or protection. Nor was it to be expected that he who was fo intent on purfuing his fyftem of ECONOмies, that he might fee how much ECONOMies might still be inThe" Enlightened Government of France." troduced into our public expenditures,' was to be diverted from his favorite ob. ject, by fo petty an affair as the one before us. He who took care to fend the "leaft poffible force" to the Mediteranean, by which means we have loft one of our fineft frigates, and must probably lofe at leaft a million of money befides to redeem the Captured crew, I fay it could hardly be expected that this man would be diverted from his blundering, beggarly ECONOMies, fo much as to incur any confiderable expence in behalf of American commerce; a thing fo little interefting to the flate of Virginia. Thofe who think otherwife are now informed, that the conduct of the French and Spaniards has been communicated to our administration, nay, officialcommunicated by the American Conful at St. Jago, fome time before the rifing of the lall Congrefs.

WE have for fome time paft been ac-
cuftomed, almoft daily, to hear of the cu-
rious manner in which the fubjects of our
"Sifter Republic" are in the habi of e-
vincing their friendship towards us. It is
fuppofed to be a moderate computation to
fay, that fince the French retreated from
St. Domingo, not lefs than TWO MILLION
of dullars have been plundered by them
Sever-
from different American citizens.

al ports in the land of Cuba, more par-
ticularly Barracoa and St. Jago, have at-
forded them a perfeft afylum to carry on
their piratical warfare against our defence

lefs commerce.

The Spaniards, as might
naturally have been expected after what
had paffed refpecting New-Orleans, knewly
they had nothing to fear from our pu-
fillanimous administration, while it beho-
ved them much to keep well with France;
for France is too wife not to take good care
to make herself feared and confequently
refpected. The Spanish Island of Cuba
therefore, has afforded the French every
poffible facility to carry into full effect their
fchemes of piracy and plunder; and they
have not been backward to avail them-
felves of it. If our government had not
already tamely fubmitted to be kicked,
and cuffed, and robbed by the Spaniards,
ull it would be mockery to talk of fpirit,
we fhould fay that the injuries received
from the French were nothing compared
with the infolence of our Spanish ally. The
former robs us of our property in the most
frank and open manner that can be defired,
but the governor of the Spanish Ifland, re-
ceives the booty and affects to give the
captured an opportunity of a fair trial,
which is done by ftripping the veffei and
fending the captain and crew about their
business.
bufinefs. Every day brings fresh accounts
of thefe piracies; but yeflerday news was
received here of the capture of the brig
Amiable Creole, a more particular account
of which will be found under the Charlef-
ton head of this evening, and the brig
Dove both belonging to this port, from
Port au-Prince, and having on board near.
ly 6oooo wr. Coffee. The brigs were
capruict by a boat carrying two guns!

Some perfons may be difpofed to believe
that it out gvernment were actually made
acquainted with all this, they would not,

Have you any doubt reader? We affure you that no hireling printer of the adminiftration dare deny it. Do you ftare, are you aftonished? Then you have been lefs obfervant of the meafures of the prefent adminiftration than any American ought to be. Do you feel indignant? You may as well be quiet; for I can tell you that nothing will ever be done fhould the exceffes proceed to thirty times the length they already have. Perhaps when Mr. Jefferfon fhall fome day or other have dif covered that the Spanish treaty, over which he and his minifters have been poring more than two years, is the most complete fpecimen of diplomatic nonfenfe, that even this philofophic age has produced; when he fhall have learnt that the very cales contemplated by the preamble of that treaty, are afterwards exprefsly excepted from its operation, and fhall have inftructed Mr. Pinckney to begin a new treaty on the fame fubje&t, that is, for exceffes committed during the laft war between France and England, and which treaty after two years more will perhaps be finished, and then alter a couple of year's examina tion of it, it will be found as happily evafive as the laft; when Mr. Jefferson I say, hall in this manner have got this old treaty off his hands, and provided for a fufficient Sumber of his friends by appointing them to different ffices arifing under it, then perhaps he may be induced to begin to ne gociste afieh concerning the excelles

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"Prefent as a moft ferious grievance the practice of armed veffels faid to be of the French republick laying in our ports longer than neceffary or than by treaty authorifed to do; endeavouring to gain informa tien of the failing of our veffels engaged in lawful trade with a view to interrupt or capture them, and in one inftance laid before us, of their actually having captured within the limits of the United States. We regard fuch conduct as in the highest degree injurious and infulting to our country and recommend to the government of the United States to employ a fufficient Naval force, on our coafts to prevent in future fimilar aggreflions and we also recommend that the diftrict attorney do af certain whether there are not now vessels fitting within the ports of this ftate for the purpose of cruizing againft the citizens or fubjects of countries in friendship with the United States."

The Grand Jury return their thanks to the court generally and requeft their prefentments may be published.

James Seagrove, Foreman, James Smith, J. Teabeau, Thomas King, James Nephew, G. Bailey, R. M. D. J. Elliot, Murduch M'Cleod, Norman M'Donald, Abraham Delyon, F. Oneal, M. Burke, John Bolton, Charles Oddingfels, Mofes Shettal, Jofeph Law, Thomas Spalding, Simon Frazier, William Peacock, James Gignilliat.

A true copy, STILES, Clerk. Who now does not feel a pride in being an American ?

CHARLESTON, MAY 14. Yesterday arrived the fchooner Edward, Capt. Rowe, in 18 days from Grenada. Off St. Kitts, April 24, Capt. Rowe was boarded by an English privateer belonging to that place, and treated politely. May 3, lat. 26, 10, long. 63, was boarded by a French privateer, manned principally by Spaniards, who robbed him of one thou and dollars in cash, and a number of small articles. They put on board of him the crew of the brig Amiable Creole, Allen, of New-York, from Port-au-Prince,

which they had captured three days before, without fupplying Capt. R. with an arti cle for their fuftenance, although the pr vatecrsmen had promised to supply him with read, meat, &c. as a condition of his ta'ng them on board. The brig Amiable Creole had been fent into Porto Rico. The brig Dove, from Port.au-Prince, vas captured at the fame time with the Creole. As a fpecimen of the difcrminaing talents and lynx ey'd difcernment of the commander of the privateer, in afcer. ining the legality of a veffels papers, Capt. Rowe informs us that on handing his register to the captain he haftily caft his eye over it, bottom upwards, and reurned it with the obfervation that it was all correct.

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will rendezvous at Hampton, and fail from thence in a fquadron.

The Secretary of the Navy has iffed orders to the officers at New-York, Paila delphia and Baltimore, to clofe their re." cruiting rendezvous, and to repair with out delay to their refpective fhips.

The following is an extract of a letter from Paris, of the 20th March, published. in a London paper of the 4th ult.

"Laft Saturday all the gates or barriers were again fhut at fix o'clock in the morning, and continued fo for 48 hours. Du. ring the time every perfon walking in the treets was arrested who had no pafs, and a general domicilary vifit took place; I fay a general, because the First Conful, to fhew an example of submission, when the country is in danger, did not except his own palace, where even two fufpicious per fons were arrefted. Talleyrand's brother wis, (though released in 24 hours) arrested at the hotel in Rue de Bacques. The ter ror is now fo great, and honor and duty fo entirely vanquished, that Gand L

were given up by their own relatives; Mt by his wife; and poor R-, by his fifter and brother-in-law, whom he fa ved from deftruction in 1793. Mad. De. mas fuffered in the Temple the agony of fixty hours confinement. During her flay, the old Duchefs de H and her grand daughter were brought in there. You know the former is above eighty, and the latter not fourteen years of age, they had been denounced by their own fervants.

"The prifon of Georges is unknown; but thofe of Pichegru and Moreau are changed almost every twenty-four hours. They have been by turns in the Temple in the Abbey, in La Force, at Vincenes, and in the Conciergerie. The dread of their numerous partizans has caufed thefe tyranical measures of precaution. Pichegru has been very ill from the wounds he received when taken, and it has even been reported that he was dead; but I heard this day that he is fill in La Force: that when yesterday, he was ordered to be removed to the Temple again, he was unable to ife from bed. He has two very deep wounds in his head, and has been deliri

ous.

"The examination of the prifoners are continued every day feparately, but they have not yet been confronted. Their in terrogatories are very voluminous, and it is fuppofed that they will not appear before any tribunal this week. Every day fome more perfons are fufpe&ted or implica

The Firft Conful fent laft Friday for Maffena, Macdonald, and Lecourbe, and they have fince left town, which has produced the report, that they have been exiled until the state trials are over.

"La night the camp equipage of the First Conful left, for the second time in ten days, this city for the coaft, but a courier has ordered them back again. Laft Tuesday they were at Amiens, but receiv ed orders by the Telegraphe to return. You can judge from thefe contrary move. ments, how impoffible it is to fay when the deftiny of England will finally be determined. That it is, however, not diftant, is the common opinion."

FOREIGN NEWS,
Selected from London papers to the 15th April.

LONDON, APRIL 11.

The execution of the Duke of Engheim was as private, and as ftudioufly concealed, as his condemnation was published with eclat. For twenty-four hours after his murder, petitions for him were prefented by the Duke De Laincourt, and leveral other of his friends, through the means of Madame Bonaparte, as the First Conful refides at Malmailon, where he is visible to none but his Minifter, favourites and relatives. Even in the Senate, on the 221, it was propofed by Lanjau. nais to advife the First Conful to pardon the Duke. It is faid at Paris that this Senator pointed out in ftrong language the dan ger of accustoming Bonaparte to blood in Civil caules; and laid among other things, "that Nero wept at one time when he was forced to fign his name to a death warrant; but at another time, accuftomed to the fight of blood, by the advice of depraved counfellors, he murdered his own mother and brother, tutor, his fenators, minifters, generals, and all claffes of Roman citizens, with the fame indifference as he faw Rome burning."

from fatigue that he could hardly ftand.
In the dungeon at Vincennes, where he
was fhut up, with four gens d'armes, for
the tourteen hours he lived after his con-
demnation, there was neither bed nor
chairs, there was fome ftraw where he fat
down, but he was prevented from a mo-
ment's reft, by the noife and questions of
thefe fatellites, who had orders to prevent
his flumber. A clergyman was with him
for an hour, but was not permitted to
fpeak with him, except fo loud as to be
heard by the guards.

In the morning, before day light, on
the 224, General Murat arrived at Vincen-"
nes, efcorted by fifty Mamelukes, and ac-
companied with four Aid-de-Camps, and
General Mortier, Hulin, and Louis Bona-
parte, who had come on purpose from the
Coaft. Each Mameluke held a flambeau,
and 200 Gens d'Armes and 300 men of the
Italian troops furrounded the caftle, pie-
vented the approach of every one, and
guarded all the avenues to that part of the
wood about a hundred yards diftant from
the caftle, fixed for the place of execution.
The Duke being told that the fentence was
to be executed, faid calmly, "I am ready
and refigned." When he heard, upon en-
quiry, that the grenadiers who fhould fhoot
him, were Italians or Bonaparte's guard,
he faid, "Thank God they are not French-

men.

I am condemned by a foreigner, and, God be praised, my executioners are foreigners too. It will be a ftain lefs upon my countrymen." Upon the place of execution, he lifted his hands towards Heaven, and faid, "May God preferve my King, and deliver my country from its Foreign Yoke." Two gens d'armes then wanted to tie an handkerchief over his eyes; but he faid; "A loyal fubject, who has fo often been expofed to fire and Bonaparte defired General Mortier to fword, can see the approach of death with be the Prefident of the Military Com- naked eyes and without fear." His hat mifhion, which condemned the Duke, but was then taken off. But in looking at the he declined it. General Hulin was then grenadiers, who had already pointed their appointed (the fon of a wafherwoman,fufils at him, he faid, in Italian, Grenaand formerly a fervant in the workhoufe of the Court at Verfailles.) notorious fince July 14th, 1789, in all the dreadful catastrophes of the Revolution. After fentence was paffed, the Duke afked if he could fee Bonaparte! "Yes," faid HuYes," faid Hulin, "if you have any difcoveries to make." Defcoveries, anfwered the Duke, with indignation; "carry me to the place of execution," "That cannot be done," faid Halin, "before we report our fentence to the First Conful.""I knew the fentence," answered the Duke, "before, against the laws of nations, he carried me away from Engheim."

diers, lower your arms, otherwife you
will mifs me, or only wound me." Of
the nine Grenadiers who fired at him,
feven hit him; feven bullets pierced his
body. Immediately after his murder,
Gen. Murat fent his aid-de-camp to Mal-
maison. A small coffin filled with lime,
was ready to receive his body, and a grave
had been dug in the garden of the Caftle,

where he was buried.

Circular letter addreffed to all the members
fen-Circular
of the diplomatic body.

From the time of the Duke's arreft, he had never been permitted once to lay down on a bed, to undrefs, to fhave, or to change his linen, and his feet were fo fwollen

SIR,

PARIS, March 28.

The first Conful has ordered me to tranfmit to your Excellency a copy of the report prefented to him by the grand judge, on an intended confpiracy formed in France

by Mr. Drake, the envoy of his Britannic majefty at the court of Munich, and which, by its object and date, was connected with the infamous plot on which the tribunals are now fitting in judgment.

A printed copy of the letters and au tentic papers of Mr. Drake is annexed to the report. The originals will immediately be fent by order of the firft Conful to to his Serene Highnefs the Ele&tor of Bavaria. Such a proftitution of the most honorable function that can be conferred on men, is without precedent in the hiftory of civilized nations. It will aftonish and grieve Europe like the fcandal of an unheard of crime, which the most worthlefs governments have never dared to meditate. The fift Conful is too well acquainted with the fentiments and qualities which diftinguish the diplomatic body accredited to him, not to be convinced that they will fee with profound forrow the profánation of the facred character of ambaffador converted into a minifter of plots, villany and corruption. Accept, &c.

(Signed) TALLEYRAND,
Minifter of Foreign Relations.

The following is the answer of the American Am-
bassador
To M. Talieyrand.

SIR,

"I have received the note which you
did me the honor to write to me, with a
copy of the report of the Grand Judge,
relative to papers which prove that Mr.
Drake, the British Minifter of Munich,
has held a culpable correfpondence with
traitors, for objects which all civilized na-
tions must regard with horror, and that
horror must be redoubled when we fee that
it is a minifter who thus proflitutes his fa-
cred character. When a fubaltern agent
commits a bafe or atrocious act, it may
be fuppofed that he is influenced by per-
fonal intereft: but the actions of a minif-
ter are generally attributed to the Govern-
ment he reprefents; and even when he
ats agaift his order (which I hope is the
cafe in this inftance) his conduct is fo much
indentified with his Government, that
fuch acts tend to overturn focial order,
and to bring nations back to barbarism.
I beg your Excellency to offer the First
Conful, in the name of my Government,
the most fincere felicitations for having
happily efcaped the attempts of his ene-
mies, directed not only against his life,
but against an object more dear to his heart
-The happiness of the nation of which
he is the Chief; a happiness which is
the refult of his noble labours in the field
of honour and in the cabinet, and which
is not yet fufficiently cftablished not to be
deeply fhaken by his lofs.

Signed
LIVINGSTON.
Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States,

The Wreath.

EXTRACT:

WHAT IS GLORY?

BY P. L. COUTIER.

WHAT is glory? Say a featheri

Mounted on the buoyant air; Prey to every wind and weather, Often soil'd and seldom fair.

What is glory? Ask the garter,

Twining round his Grace's knee, Would'st thou ease and conscience barter, Such a thing on thee to see?

What is glory? Ask the maiden,
Wedded to a titled drone,
Sick at soul, and heavy laden;

Empty pageantry her own.

What is glory? Ask the lawyer, Feeless trudging to the court, Harder work than any sawyer, Ceaseless labor, less support.

What is glory to the city

Hie, and ask the trading crew, Man in common council witty, Christian call'd-at heart a Jew.

What is glory? Ask him bawling,
Patriot of heroic age,

The house his stand-he waits a calling;
Longs for party to engage.

What is glory? Ask the miser, Starving 'mid his bags of gold, Ask his heir? He, hardly wiser, Scattering wide the sordid mould.

What is glory? Ask the poet,

Pockets low and wishes high, Wanting, and yet none must know it, All but earth, and air and sky.

What is glory? Ask the sailor,

Weather beaten, tempest tost, Ship his prison, winds his jailor; Kindred, friends and country lost. Ask the soldier, faint and gory,

Leaning where his comrades lie, Ask him firmly, what is glory? He shall answer with a sigh.

What is glory? Hero! striding
Madly o'er a ruin'd land,
What is glory? Time is gliding,
Death and judgment are at hand.

FOR THE BALANCE.

MR. EDITOR,

The following wholesome advice is copied from the wall of a country inn, where it was inscrib. ed by the hand of a village school-master-You will doubtless, with me, consider it as worth preserving. TAG.

COME, my old friend, and take a pot ;

But mark now what I say: While drinking to thy neighbor's health, Drink not thy own away.

It but too often is the case,

While we sit o'er the pot,

And kindly wish our friend good health, Our own is quite forgot.

Diversity.

EXTRACT.S

From the Ancient Records of Massachusetts.

JOSIAS PLAISTOWE, for flealing lour baskets of corn from the Indians is ordered to return them cight befkets, to be fined five pounds, and hereafter to be called by the name of Jofias, and not Mr. as formerly he used to be.

Captain Stone for abufing Mr. Ludlow, and calling him juftafs, is fined an hundred pounds, and prohibited coming' within the patent without the governor's leave upon pain of death.

Serjeant Perkins, ordered to carry for ty turfs to the fort, for being drunk.

Edward Palmer, for his extortion in taking two pounds thirteen fhillings and four for the wood work of Boston flocks, pence, is fined four pounds, and ordered to be fet one hour in the flocks.

Captain Lovel, admonifhed to take heed of light carriage.

Thomas Petit for fufpicion of flander, idlenefs, flubbornefs, is fentenced to be feverely whipped, and to be kept in bold.

Catharine, the wife of Richard Cornifh, was found' fufpicious of incontinency, and feriously admonished to take heed.

Daniel Clarke, found to be an immoderate drinker, was fined forty fhillings.

John Wedgewood, for being in the company of drunkards, to be fet in the flocks.

John Kitchen, for fhewing books which he was commanded to bring to the and forbid to fhew them to any governer other, and yet fhewed them, was fined ten fhillings.

Rober Sherthofe, for fwea ing by the blood of God, was fentenced to have his tongue put into a cleft flick, and to ftand fo for the space of half an hour.

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Why Mr."faid a tall fellow the other day, to a little perfon, who was in company with five or fix huge men, "I proteft you are fo fmall I did not fee you before." "Very likely," replied the lit tle gentleman--"I am like a four-pence half-penny among fix cents--not readily perceived, yet worth the whole of them."

Speech of Jacob Alter, of Cumberland, in the Penn sylvania Legislature, on the question of impeach ing the Fedcial Judges.

MR. SBEAKER,

I DINK as dis gweflion does not re guire much gonzideration. Oar tudy is only to ax wedder we arr to be goberned by de Pritifh Laws, or by de laws of dis gounty, If we are to be goberned by de laws of Great Pitain den de judges wi be glear. But if we arr to be goberned by de laws of Bennfyllany den we thall go Dem dat aim for de Pritish laws will wote against de imbeachment, and dem dat am for de laws of Bennfyffany will wote for pringing defe judges to imbeachment.

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