feffion they were formerly wreed by the magnanimous and juft, was new or impof- In fhort Louifianians, you will find in on her own basis, to eftablifh her in the confidence from his allies ---who, by his penetrating genius, difcriminated the true interefts of his country, and, by an irrefiftA late letter from a refpectable mercan- able will, gave operation to thofe interefts: tile house in London, contains the follow-who, in fine, was born to replace France ing obfervations on the prefent ftate of political affairs between the Governments of France and England: A meffage was fent on Sunday to Bonaparte with the ultimatum of our Court, which is believed to be, that in confequence of the frequent infraction of the Treaty of Amiens, by the French in Switzerland, and their annexing Piedmont and Parma to France, we felt authorised and determined to retain Malta, and to infift that New-Orleans and Louifia. na fhall be reftored to Spain, or given up to the United States of America fo that the navigation of the Miffiflippi fhall on no account be left in the power of France." Ibid. The following curious article, (fays the Gazette of the United States) forms a ve. ry appropriate comment on Don Marquis's hand-kiffing note to our Secretary of State. From the PHILADELPHIA GAZETTE. [TRANSLATION.] PROCLAMATION. In the name of the French Republic, L'AUSSAT, Colonial Prefect, TO THE LOUISIANIANS. || This man, Louifianians, prefides over our deftinies. From this moment he is the pledge of your happiness. To fecure this, in this fortunate foil, it is only neceffary to affift the prodigality of nature. This is the defign of the French government. To cultivate peace and friendship with all your neighbours; to protect your commerce, encourage your agriculture, people your deferts; fofter induftry, refpect property, customs and opinions; pay reverence to religion; to honour virtue; to fecure to the laws their fovereignty, and to correct them only as the light of experi ence may dictate; to introduce permanent order and economy in all the branches of the public adminiftration; to unite fill clofer the ties which the fame origin, the fame morals, the fame difpofitions have created between this colony and the mother country; thefe, Louifianians, are the honourable objects of the miffion of your captain general Victor, your colonial prefect and your chief judge. Thefe, they are happy to fay, are the motives with which they come to mix with you. The reputation of the Captain Genera! has doublefs even here preceded him. Companions in arms with the Firft Conful, he diftinguifhed himself, from the commencement of the campaign of the famous armies of Italy. In lefs brilliant days, he aftonifhed Suwarrow by precipitating his Your feparation from France marks one of the moft fhameful epochs of her annals, under an enfeebled and corrupt government, after an ignominious war, and a difgraceful peace. To that cowardly and unnatural aban-flight: He was in fine, one of the lieuten donment, you prefented the contraft of heroic love, fidelity and courage. The hearts of all Frenchmen were foften ed by the fpectacle. They never let it flip their remembrance. They then exclaim. ed, with pride, and have never fince ceafed to repeat, that the blood of France runs in your veins. As foon as they had regained their dignity and their glory, by the revolution and a train of prodigious triumphs, they turned towards you their affectionate attention. You conftituted a part of their first negociation. They wifhed your retrocellion to accompany and fignalize their firft peace. The time was not yet arrived. It was neceffary that A MAN fhould appear, to whom nothing which is natural, great, ants of Bonaparte, at the battle of Maren- Under every circumftance you will have reafon to rejoice at having become French, you will daily feel more and more the value of that, fplendid title, the object of the envy of the whole globe. We know, nevertheless, Louifianians, and will not diffimulate it, that during thirty years, Spain, by the temperance of a generous and mild government, has endeav oured to make you forget the grievous fault of an unworthy agent of this noble nation -She is our clofe and faithful friend. It will not be us who will inftigate you to repay her mildness with ingratitude. We will endeavor, by acts of munificence, to emulate the policy of the Chief he had given you. Your attachment for the French Republic, our common country; your gratitude to thofe who protect you, and the daily fight of your growing profperity, are the objects which we fhall aim at; with a zeal and affiduity, which only can be limited by the fulfilment of all our duties and all our wifhes. New Orleans, the 11th year of the French Republie. By the Colonial Prefect, The Knot. MARRIED, In this city, Sunday evening last, Capt. ReuBEN MORE to Miss HEPZA HUZZEY, both of Hudson. At Reading, Connecticut, Rev. BETHEL JUDD, rector of Christ church, in this city, to Miss MARGARET HERON, daughter of William Heron, Esq. of that place. The Knell. DROWNED, On Friday last, by the oversetting of a small skiff on Hudson's river, PaILIP MURPHY, a young man belonging to this city. To Correspondents. The communication, under the signature of "PARVUS HOMO," is, for cogent reasons, inadmissible. 160 The Wreath. [From the first Volume of the Gazette of the United States, which a friend has obligingly loaned us, we copy the following extract :-] THE ORIGIN OF LAWS. THRICE happy age, the youthful Poet cries, Ere laws arose, ere tyrants bade them rise; No wars, No proud great man, nor one who would be great, Mistaken youth! each nation first was rude, To whom no joys of social life were known, A slave, with slaves his monarch's throne he rais'd; When Commerce, rising from the bed of ease, Like some strong, vast flood, unbounded, fierce, and His nature leads ungovern'd men along ; Like mighty bulwarks made to stem that tide, The laws are form'd, and plac'd on every side; When e'er it breaks the bounds by these decreed, New statutes rise, and stronger laws succeed ; More and more gentle grows the dying stream, More and more strong the rising bulwarks seem : Till, like a niner working sure and slow, Luxury creeps on, and ruins all below; The basis sinks, the ample piles decay, The stately fabric shakes and falls away ; Primæval Want and Ignorance come on, But Freedom, sovereign boon of life, is gone. Diversity, Mr. LEDYARD, a native of Connecticut, who traversed some of the most dreary regions of Ruffia, in a letter to Doctor Ledyard of Long-Island, wrote as follows. "You have no idea of the exceffive cold in the region of Siberia. By experiments that I made at Yakutik, I found on the 19th of November the mercury in my thermometer froze. In December 1 found by repeated obfervations, that two ounces of clear quick filver openly expofed, froze hard in fifteen minutes. served that in these fevere frofts, the air I obwas condensed, as is with you in a thick fog the atmosphere is frozen-refpiration | is fatiguing &c. It is a happy law of nature, that in fuch intenfe cold there is feldom any wind-when there is, it is dangerous to be abroad. "There are no wells at Yakut fk; for it is found by experiment that the water freezes at fixty feet deep. People of these regies are therefore obliged to ufe ice and fnow. They have alfo ice windowsglafs is of no ufe to the few who have it ; the difference in the flate of the air, within and without, is fo great, that the glass is covered on the infide with feveral inches of froft, and in that fituation it is lefs luminous than ice. The timber of the houfes fplits and opens with loud cracksthe rivers thunder, and open with broad fiflures-all nature groans beneath the rigorous winter." ORIGIN OF THE ORDER OF THE GARTER. - IN the year 1349, the Countess of Salifbury a niftrefs of Edward III. happened at a court-ball to drop her garter; and the King taking it up, exclaimed, Honi foit qui male penfe;""evil to him that evil thinks.' In memorial of this trivial event, he inflituted the order of the garter, and gave the foregoing words as the motto of the order. It is the most dignified order in England. Only twenty-five perfons befides the King were originally admitted; and the number has never been increafed. LOYALTY. IN the 7th century, when an hired af faffin made a defperate attempt at Edwin, King of England, Lilla, one of his courtiers, feeing no other way to fave the life of his prince, fprung between him and the affaffin's dagger; which he received in his own vitals, and inftantly expired. VOL. II. [The following anecdote is humbly Submitted to the confideration of those credulous and well-meaning democrats, who have been talked into a belief that their taxes are lightened.] Hely Hutchinfon, late provoft of Trinity College, and father of Dublin, on his firft introduction into the Irifh parliament, de. livered a fpeech of confiderable length on land.-Counfellor Caftello, a member of the rapid increafe of the profperity of Ire the fame parliament, liftened with great attention to the young orator's flowery dec lamation; and when he had done, the coun fellor got up, and expreffed the fatisfaction he felt on hearing that his native country was in fuch a flourishing ftate." When," added he," that youthful fenator got up to fpeak, I had three halfpence in my pocket, and I am fure they must be three guineas now!-Let me fee."-On which he put his hand into his pocket, pulled them out, and, having looked at them for a mo they are half-pence ftill!" ment, exclaimed, "Oh, by my LACONIC. ), FRANCIS, King of France, having been defeated in battle and taken prif oner, in the year 1525, wrote a letter to his queen, which contained only theft few words," Madam, all is loft, except our honour." TERMS OF THE BALANCE. To City Subscribers, Two Dollars and fifty cents, payable in quarterly advances. To Country Subscribers, who receive their papers at the office, Two Dollars, payable as above. Dollars, exclusive of postage, payable in advance. To those who receive them by the mail, Twe A handsome title-page, with an Index or Table of Contents, will be given with the last number of each volume. Advertisements inserted in a conspicuous and handsome manner, in the Advertiser which accom panies the Balance. Complete files of the first volume, which have been reserved in good order for binding, are for sale -Price of the volume, bound, Two Dollars and fif ty cents-unbound, Two Dollars. The whole may be sent, stitched or in bundles, to any post-office in the state, for 52 cents póstage; or to any post-of fice in the union for 78 cents. PUBLISHED BY SAMPSON, CHITTENDEN & CROSWELL, Warren-Street, Hudson. WHERE PRINTING IN GENERAL IS EXECUTAS WITH ELEGANCE AND ACCURACY. The COLUMBIAN AND Balance, PAGE 161 REPOSITORY. Driginal Effays. 66 HAIL SACRED POLITY, BY FREEDOM REAR'D ! 66 HAIL SACRED FREEDOM, WHEN BY LAW RESTRAIN'D !" BEATTIE. HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1803. Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, FOR THE BALANCE. ON THE USE OF FIRE. [CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.] TRAVE RAVELLERS tell us of fome LERS favage tribes in warm climates, who have no knowledge of the ufe of fire; but dread it and flee from it, in the fuppofition that it is a creature of a fpiteful nature, that will bite and destroy them. However ftrange this may appear, it is not altogether improbable. If a number of children male and female fhould be left on fome warm ifland, the fpontaneous productions of whofe luxuriant foil fhould feed and fupport them, and fhould there grow up and propagate the fpecies, fecluded from the rest of mankind; in the event of fire, kindled in their fight by lightning, or, as it fometimes happens, from the intensity of the rays of the fun, they would gaze upon it with pleafing wonder; they would approach and touch the beautiful flame; -when the inflant pain from the burn would cause them to retreat with confternation and difmay, Long would they remember the venomous bite of this ftrange ferpent; they would tell the frightful tale to their children; and feveral generations might pafs away, before any one of them would obtain any knowledge of the ufe of fire, or even venture to enkindle it. | muft have paffed away before mankind attained to the skill of manufacturing that moft precious metal. Though the world is almoft fix thoufand years old, every age is ftill making fome addition to the flock of human knowledge, respecting the mechanical ules of fire.The wifeft men of antiquity, a Socrates, a Pythagoras, or even a Solomon, could no wife have imagined the astonishing effects, which are produced by a single spark of fire, in the inftances of its application to he ftole fire from heaven, might probably The various kinds of feam-machines are alfo of modern invention. The irrefiftible force arifing from the expansion of confined air; and the power of fire to Vulcan, a deity of no in confiderable notoriety among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and who is reprefented in the pagan mythology, as labouring in fire and forging thunderbolts for Jove, obtained his title to godfhip, by inftructing fome ig-produce fuch expanfion, either fuddenly norant nation in the application of fire to mechanical ufes. The wondering favage, taught to fmelt the ore, to forge the precious iron, and to mould it into ploughfhares and pruning-hooks and the various inftruments for domeftic ufe, was naturally led to place his inftructor in thefe ufeful arts, in the rank of gods. Indeed his claim to be fixed among the flais was much better than that of the ancient Hero, whom the pagans adored under the name of Mars; who rofe to the poffeffion of divine honours over heaps of flain, and whofe hands were full of blood." The ante-deluvian Vulcan was TubalCain. He appears to be the first artificer in iron; and as he was of the fixth or gradually, as beft fuits the purposes of man, give room for an endlefs variety of ufeful mechanical inventions; which may probably be multiplying and improving as long as the world fhall fland. In a word, how to warm apartments with the leaft poffible quantities of fuel; how to apply fire to all the mechanical uses of which it is capable; and how to govern, check and extinguish it in the most eafy and expeditious manner, is an inex. hauftible fcience, in which mankind will be always advancing and improving. M. Gun-powder was invented by Roger Bacon, an English Friar, in the year 1280. Sixty years after its invention, it was first suggested as useful in war, The ancient fable of Promotheus, that generation from Adam, feveral centuries by Swartz, a munk of Colɔgne, Political. FROM THE U. S. GAZETTE. TOM PAINE has recommenced his ufeful labours," and again addreffed the citizens of the United States through the medium of the Aurora. In that paper of this morning we are favoured with his "Letter the Sixth" to the citizens of the United States. This letter, like most of his other productions fince his arrival in the country, is compofed principally of encomiums upon himself and upon his proupon his projects for reforming the world, and abufe of General Washington's administration. The only thing worthy of notice in this publication is a copy of the whole of Mr. Jefferfon's affectionate letter of invitation to Paine. We have marked in Italics in a pamphlet, and under your own name. ces required. Mr. Monroe was entrusted views. The return of our citizens from the phrenzy into which they had been -- that part of which was laft fummer publifh-long for a letter, will be better developedering the other nations of Europe. This ed in this country, from European newfpapers, and which was made the theme of a feries of effays in this Gazette. Several things in this affectionate letter from the greatest Philofopher to the greatelt Blaf. phemer in the world deferve the ferious attention of the people of the United States. As it will no longer be a queftion with any one whether Mr. Jefferlon really wrote fuch a letter to his table companion and bofom friend, we prefume the democrats, efpecially thofe of them who profefs ciriltianity, will find much edification in peru fing this brotherly epiftle. It will be noticed that Mr. Jefferfon becane prefident of the United States on the 4th of March 1801, and that he delayed no longer than " by Mr. Dawson the bearer of this, a meni- is evident in almost every page of Mr. 66 on his arrival at Paris. You expreffed alic THOMAS JEFFERSON. FROM THE SAME. on the contrary I well know, that il, "upon confideration, after the expen 66 66 ment made, you should be of opinion, "that it produces any folid benefit to the Republic, the American Government will not only bear the departure with patience, but with pleasure!" 66 The plain language of all this is, break your treaty with us-capture our pre-fhips-plunder us of our property, beat and imprison our feamen, and if, on con till the 18th of the fame month before he mers WASHINGTON, MARCH 18, 1801. DEAR SIR, Your letters of O.'1ft, 4th, 6th 16th, came duly to hand, and the papers which they covered were according to your permiffion, published in the news-papers and fideration, it is of any benefit to the REPUBLIC, we fhall bear it with PLEASURE. This was the language of an American Minifter !—and that minifter is again fent to the fame country, with two millions of dollars to purchafe-what ?-the permif. fion of enjoying our own rights!!!! But again-Mr. Monroe wrote thus to the Secretary of State, on the 20th November 1794. "I was invited by the diplomatic mem "bers of the committee of public fately "to a conference on a new topic: I was "informed it was their intention to prefs || "the war against England in particular; but that they were diftreffed for funds, "and afked could any aid be obtained " from the United States? I told them I "was fatisfied if it was in their power, it "would be rendered." This, it will be noted, was after our declaration of Neutrality. In his fubfequent communications to the diplomatic members of the committee of public fafety, he obferves, "It It is the with of the French Repub"lic to obtain, by loan, a fum of money "from the United States of America to enable it to profecute the war. "This is to be expected from three four"ces; the General government, the State "governments, and from individuals. "The French caufe and the French nation are greatly regarded in America, " and I am perfuaded fome money may be "obtained, and perhaps a very refpectable "fum from the three fources above men"tioned." Thus it was that Mr. Monroe's communications to the French Government conftantly encouraged the hope, that the United States would contribute to fupport the expenfes of the war, and in the reprefentations to his own government he strongly and conftantly urged the meafure. He fays to the Secretary of State-"I fincere having declined a re-election; a number " "If preferring the form of govern- ly with we may affift them if poffible; "and am perfuaded the people would "cheerfully bear a tax, the product of "which was to be applied to the French "Republic," and then tells the commit"tee of public fafety, that "the fum which "might be raised in America, would in his "judgment, be confiderable." All this Mr. Monroe well knew, was a direct departure from our neutral declaration, and the course we were bound to purfue; but it was a favorite plan of the Jef. ferfon party to lend money to France, and involve the country in the war. The fuccefs of this plan however, was fruftrated by Prefident Washing on, and the mortification and regret of the party have been eminently confpicuous. Now raised to power they feem determined to perfevere in their fyftem, fo far as circumftances will allow, and Mr. Monroe has already departed with two million of dollars to be expended, as he fhall judge proper, among our "good allies" and "generous friends,' the French. From a late North-Carolina Paper. THE PLATFORM OF FEDERALISM. MR. GROVE, one of the Reprefentatives of the State of North-Carolina, in the late Congress of the United States, "But although I am, and ever have been, in these relpects a Federalist, I will take the liberty of repeating a fentiment which many of you have heard me frequently exprefs-" that I will always be willing to fecond and fuftain any propofition, from whatever fource it may de. rive its origin, which I might think conducive to the intereft of my country, and will never be found advocating, from the mere fpirit of party, any mealure which might be prejudicial to its welfare." Balance Closet. In the American Mercury of the 12 h instant, published at Hartford, Mr. Babcock the editor, after declaring, in substance, that the democra's in Connecticut, tho' greatly defeated at the last election, are still increasing and will finally triumph, assumes the prophetic style and raves like one of the ancient Sybils, in the following terrific language: 66 66 "When all Calabria fhakes beneath the "feet of the people, it is much more dread"ful than the local eruptions of Velu"vius and Etna. When the earth all a"round is falling in, tho' it be but flowly, the cruft is coatinually growing this. ner, and the poor wretches, without a place to caft their eyes to for fafety, muft e'er long be fwallowed up with fud"den deftruation, and there can be none to. "deliver. Let federal deceivers be affur"ed an extenfive fire is kindled under "them, whofe flames are increafing, tho' "there may be but few volcanoes exhibi"ting ebullitions. Here a scene is disclosed, that is infinitely more horrible than the old gun-powder-plot. Surely every federal republican must stand aghast ;-his teeth chattering in his head and his hair bristling on end. What! Is Connecticut shaking like Calabria in the neighbourhood of some hidden Volcano ?—Is the earth all around falling in -Is the crust on which the people stand, continually growing thinner ?-Is an extensive subterraneous fire kindled ?-Are its flames increasing-Are several volcanoes exhibiting ebullitions; and are many more operating in secret-All this must be truly tremendous. While we suspect that citizen Babcock, scorched in his imagination by the sulphurous fires which he so feelingly describes, has rather overcharged the picture, we are constrained to acknowledge the aptness of his similies. His comparing Jacobinical principles, the general diffusion whereof would be subversive of the bonds of civil society, to volca. noes, is a thought entirely just, tho' not new. DEMOCRATIC CUNNING. From a statement which appears in the last Bee, it would seem that the elections in Connecticut are conducted much after the manner of legislative business-that the votes are not given for two rival candidates, but that a single candidate is held up, and the votes taken in the affirmative and in the negative-for and against his election. We should like to know what the Bee means by votes" against Trumbull." We aver there are no such votes given in Connecticut. If it means, that the candidate who was held up in opposition to, or ' against" Trumbull, received 8,071 votes, the statement is absolutely false. The whole number of votes for Kirby, was but 7,848. "I don't know how to remove these large stones," said a labourer on a turnpike-road. "Call them federalists, and they will soon be removed,” replied a by-stander. |