the hands of even the country youth! In a country where this is frequent, no public happiness can be of long duration; no government, founded on principles of freedom, can long exist. Universal licentiousness must ensue; anarchy must follow it, and despotism must close the horrid career. This progress is inevitable. It is a wise and just sentence, the fulfilment of which every nation on earth has, at some time or other experienced,—that the licentious, the immoral, and the irreligious never shall be FREE.

From the Boston Commercial Gazette.-"Mr. RusSEL, I observe that the Chronicle abuses the Hon. Mr. Goodhue, one of the Senators of this State, in the Congress of the United States, for circulating General Washington's Letter to the President, and Porcupine's Gazette. If it be true that the honourable gentleman did leave some of these on the road, he certainly is entitled to public thanks for the action; but its being asserted in the Chronicle affords a strong presumption that it is not the case. However, this may be, it is certain that those publications cannot be too generally read; and it is hoped that every friend to his country will upon every possible occasion, distribute them, where they cannot be otherwise obtained.

"General Washington's Letter expresses an high approbation of President Adams, and gives his opinion of the infamous conduct of the Directory towards the United States. For this reason, the Jacobins are anxious to suppress it, they know the effect which Mr. Adams's answers to the different addresses, have had on the public mind, and they dread the concurrence of General Washington's testimony with his, against the intriguing encroach

ments,

ments, and barbarous oppressions of the French government. But the people will no longer be deceived, they have heard of Washington's letter, and they will read it, they wish to know what their old friend says; they can confide in the advice of Adams and Washington, they are convinced that these great and good men are real patriots, and that they have no attachments but to their own native country.

"With regard to Porcupine's Gazette, it has been of great service; the editor nobly and manfully came forward, at a time when our prejudices in favour of France was beyond all bounds, and pointed out the danger that was to be apprehended, from the views of the government, of that nation. He thereby exposed his property to destruction, and himself and family to assassination and massacre; with all these he was threatened; the Jacobins knew he told the truth, and therefore wanted to stop his mouth, or put him out of the way; but he persevered, and still remains a scourge to them, and the supporter of social order, political liberty, good government, and undefiled religion. If these things do not entitle him to public patronage, it is hard to say what would."

I do not publish the above by way of puff, for I stand in need of none; but to show such bitter dogs as NOAH WEBSTER, that men, whose love to America nobody can doubt, see my efforts and my motives in a light quite different to them.

Democratic Erudition.-At Lexington (Kentucky) a mob assembled on the 24th of July, with a fellow of the name of FISHBACK at their head; they got pen, ink and paper, and to work they went, drawing up resolves to the number of ten, amongst which is the following one, which for sentiment as

well

well as orthography, is unequalled even in the annals of American democracy.

"Resolvd that thar es sufishunt resen too beeleev "and wee doe beeleev that our leebeerte es in daingur and wee plege ouer selves too echeother and

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too ouer cuntery that wee will defende um agenst "awl unconstetushonal ataks that mey bee made 66 uppon um."

Grand discovery! Bold patriots! Elegant writers!If these sagacious and learned citizens had asssembled in any place, where there had been a single magistrate of spirit and good sense, he would have dispersed them by his constables, and thereby spared his country the disgrace, which their barbarous resolves are calculated to reflect on it. If this Kentucky newspaper were to fall into the hands of a person totally unacquainted with the rest of America, he would take us all for a sort of savages; and, in fact, the Kentuckians do appear to be just civilized enough to be the tools of faction, and that's all. They are something like the wild Irish, who have every thing of the savage about hem, but his sobriety and sincerity. If the more civilized part of the Kentuckians do not stomach this comparison, let them enable us to make one more in their favour by working a reform in the manners of their hordes.

Another Specimen.-The following curious letter was sent to the Editor of the FRANKLIN REPOSITORY, a very valuable paper published at Chambersburgh.

"August 23tr. 1798.-Sir, I wish you to withhald your peapers until ferther orderrs plas to send mee the amount of your acount and Il indever to send it to you-Sir as I undersand you wish to know the reasons of thos who with draw their subscrip

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tion from your peapers-Mine is as-folows I hove obsurved that you haf repetedly Cast aspersians in an indiscriment Manner agenst a class of Citisens Coled Democrats and also in your peaper of the fifteenth insent a peece against Richard Bard Esqr. wharin you Charge him with lying misrepresentations and other things whitch I Canot thing hee is Gilty of I Cannot-but think you hav been rong informed consarning Mr. Bard diseweading the peapel Who withdrew ther Subscription from you I have of late heard him repettedly declare that he never had ane ward of conversation With even ane of those peaple in regard of ther Withdrawing ther Subscriptions till after it was done. and he also Says that even. sence those peaple has With drew ther Subscriptions has never spokeen one word With one of them in regard of ther doing so excepting one of them that wos at his house Shotly after heé ded it. and informed him of it. and I expect that you may not find that thos peaple who Withdrew ther subscripion from the peapers leeft at Mr Bard Will lestesy to the truth of what hee say I am S y &

"Mr. Robert Harper"

"J HAMILTON"

Presbyterian Clergy.-Though the "PASTORAL LETTER" of the General Assembly was promulgated so long ago as the 17th of May last, I never happened to see it till now. When I first cast my eyes on the title of it, in the Salem Gazette, I expected to find under that title something like a reprobation of the conduct of France, and more especially did I expect this, when I found the letter to commence on the subject of" the extraordinay situation of the world at the present moment. I expected

I expected to see that situation traced back to its true cause; and the flagitious principles, which have produced the awful crisis in which we are placed, I expected to see exposed in all their horrid deformity.

But, what was my disappointment, when instead of a wholesome and striking lesson, drawn from this inexhausible source, I found the "PASTORAL LETTER," nothing more than a tissue of commonplace remarks and exclamations on the follies and sins of the times; and when, instead of a pious and. energetic call on the people, to gird on the sword of the Lord and of Gideon, in the holy cause of resistance to French plunder, sacrilege, and murder, I found that wicked nation not even hinted at, except amongst the "formidable innovations and con"vulsions in Europe!"

To what cause ought we to ascribe this guarded silence respecting the hellish foe, who now threatens us with universal devastation? Presbyterians are not remarkable for a passive submission to injuries and insults, any more than they are for abstaining from a mixture of religion and politics. I shall leave the reader to discover the cause of their scrupulous forbearance on the present occasion, candidly confessing, that it is totally out of the reach of my capacity.

The Century. The Literati of Great Britain are engaged in a dispute respecting the solution of the following problem :-When does the 18th Century end, with the year 1799, or with the year 1800? -The contest is maintained with great warmth and obstinacy on both sides; numbers of the illiterate are hourly ranging themselves under the banners of one or the other, and when the last advices came away it was apprehended that the result would

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