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7 8 eT betouets wich Truths fat diel’ te sardine Blew 5°
_& The revoi
* gdhered ro the meafures of governour Lewis,
“The revolutions of of Maiichudtetts ‘aad €on-
_, dued, humbled and givea aver to theis sapacity.
> them that MpMf.chuderts is not yet prepared to
tion makers. +
“ali the affuults that have been made, from withio
The firength of the revolutionary party has been
© fully exerted this {pring to put to the legiflae
‘had 78 members in the houfe of reprcfenta-
Ww FoR THE pyinen stares” sanerras :
“ggcount of the number of petitioners, for, and
of Philaglelp : $4.° 9420
Chester WB S00
Delaware 4 103 re l4es
_ Mohtgomery © wy “St Qo sa
‘Cumberland 3° 5350 1 7 262
Berks » « t 136 Teer
_ Lancaster 9" 16° 780. 49,» TOT
r goes) Leow 7h
: 8° 539
Lo 9 ae
ary 268 we
“3 any
Fran! ad 68
reehingtom, ete & 695 >
Total, a $949
ia BRONSON,
» ferved a ‘communigation recommending the fet-
+ dling of piers within a thoal, called the fhears,
“Having wimedfed fo many fhipwrecks, ttceted |
with the Jofs of tives, as. weit as an immenfiry |.
+ oF property, it would be gratifying to fee tome
means adopced for the fatety of vellels on fo
. contemplated, muft be detirable to every friend
therein recommended, feem very uncertain.
*fearcely hazard a judgment, But slong a coat
. ve AO 304.) PUBLISHED oN TUESDAY AND FRIDAY, FOR THe PROPRIETOK, ALT THE NORTIOWS
CORANE,
Ss’ GAZETTE,
“FOR THE. COUNTRY.
or Dock eae WALATT STREETS, PHILADET PIA. oa re
“ ~ 7 "Wi from the Orient to the drooping West—making the wind my Post horse, sil unfold—the deeds camupenced on this Ball of Farth”
PHILADELPHIA,
‘TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1805.
eae:
Anicara the weapn Back upon
‘Foerace the tag ra fe Eandid bea
hatcan ecteadh etatehde yet enacts
sabsring hance i
ota in netembeace ot leh fee
S Farouiethee colds eamverateieognces
ricinus aff they howe
jutionary party in the city of New
York kave had a meeting arid determined io
fepport Dewit. Clinten as fenator for thar dise
trict at the next election, in the place of one
“who during the lat feffjon of the tegiflarure,
-The other candidate i is is nar yet Gxed upone “
necticut have again met with a great defcat.—
’ Thofe of Madochniferts, laft auruwn baalted the
the triumph they. had gained in the choice “of
selectors of prefident and vice prefident, and
affected ta confider the ftate as completely fabs
The election of this {p.ing, however, has blafted |
theie high ra fed expectations, and convinced
give up her political inftitutions to be overturn
ed or new-moddled by revolutionary sonftitu-,
Connecticut aifo maintains Sher grovad againit
and without, upon her fyftem of goveroment.
‘There, too, within the laft year, the trade of
“conftitution mending has been fet up and puth-
ed with great vigour 5 but it did not fucce-d.
ture fuch 2s are friendly to te craft ; and the
“refult has been, that out of the whole number
of reprefentatives, 195, they have obtained only"
63.—In May 1804 the promoteys of revolution
‘tives; Is October htt ‘they had 63 5 and they
have now 68.++ This is but poor encouragement
for thofe who labour night and day in the caufe
“of a people who, after all, appear more attached
‘to their olg fyftems than their new friends,”
(MR. BRONSON,
Having obferved in feveral pobtck papers an
vremonftrants againft, the call of a conyention
to alter the conftitution of Penofylvania, all of
which, were cither Bortial, or incorrefi— Permit
‘me through the medium of your ufeful, paper,
to lay before. the publick, the. following ftate-
ment, for the authenticity of which Ican atte.
member of the Legislatures
Be Revicon 5 Rem
| Butiticat, Pasitloners.' strancese. strane.
City and County 2°) 39 9ga
Totaly §
- COMMERCIAL.
YOR THE «ITED STATES? cazerre,
‘In your paper of the tgth February, I ‘ob:
near Lewiftown creek. Iam pteafed to fee the
attention of the publick (and particularly the
merchants) drawn ta 30 objedt fo highly i
‘portant to the navigation of the bay uf Delaware.
dangeraus 2 cealt.
Though the providing a harbour, the objedt
to humanity, and the commercial intereft of
this country, ftill. the efficacy of the means
“As to the’ coft of fettling the piers, I vould
fo greatly expofed, fa remote from ftane (a very
neceffary: material) a variety of difficuities would
be experienced. © And if once effetted, fuck is
the nature of fand, when agitated by the furf,
“gr ang eddy, that it always inclines to any thing
: doube be alcertained, that piers fettled in 29 fegt
water, would, in the courte of a fhort time, cole
leét fuch a body of, fand as 10 fender sheny ii inac-
ceffible by thipping. |
~ Bar having fnentioaed ‘hele cireumftances
mit as objedtions ro the fettling of piers, I will fab-
mit tq the -ontideration ‘of the fhipper, anorher
plan hich would io doubt greatly tend to the
elfedting of the defired objeét...
Many of the marchants of Philadelphia, as
well as many others acquaioted with the firua~
tion of Lewis creek, have fag a long time talked
of the improving its mouth, for the admiffion
of thipping. ‘To effe& this a law has been paffed
>in the fate of Delaware for cutting a canal from
Rehoboth Bay. ta the head watess of Lewis
creek, As to the praicabiliry and effedt of
fuch an object, I fubinit a few remarks. 9 \*
“The dittance of the waters which empty into
R. Bay and Lewis creek, is afcertained hy actual
meafarement not to exceed a half mile—Th¢
higheft ground to cut isbut abayt 20 feet adoye
the level of the water. The R. Bay a large
ba&n of water. a5 miles in circumference has
three diferent Communicasions with’ Jodiaa
river.’ Acd although the height of its waters
fore an_ebb through the inlet during one half
he flood, it ig obferved never to fall But about
‘ inches on that fide nearly contiguous.to L.
creck Hence it is evident that that part moft
remote from the ialet and adjacent to L, reek
is about the level of a comaton high tide. And
asitis the ebb that forms the channels of all
inlets, were this furpiufage of. water emptied
through a canal into Lewis, the quantity aod
force of ics waters being doubled and the time
of the ebb encreafed, by nearly one third, it
would ‘clear: owt the creek, wath away the
thoals and afford inftead of 6 1-2 feet wxer
from . 12 to. 15, efpecially in farms, times of
the greateft danger,
This canal, if once effected, could not poffis
bly. from ail raiional calculations, fail {a mak-
ing a great improyement an the month of L,
Creek and render ita {fe aad commodious bar-
finnil ie S walking the lower deck, he ofay lay
his accquat’ with cracking hig crasiom. An
a4 thefe elegant reys ave conftryéted an philofs-
phicat principles, fo, it would Tem, they require
than” mately or ordiviary’ feawen. | Afar
time finge: one of them was hauled out into the
fiream;” bur itis (faid fhe s would not obey the
helm, and gonfiderable exertion was necefry
to keep her froui running ‘afuore. By the way,
the whale generation appear to have a predstice
tion for the land. : Oa. this oceafion a naval
officer was beard to fey, he would not trait his
dog in her to the Mediterranean. Silly howe
ever, ** they are rey goed wefiels, «and wery
fit for a woyage,"? N.Y Dail. #6.
Positicks of New York — A vigorous attempt
is now making by the revolutionary demaceats
of New York to elf ét avother change of men
in their ftate legifture, ° ‘fo accomplish that
purpole, a writer, who is fuppufed co be Tunis
Wortman,’ has publifhed” an ‘* Appeal ta the
People,” in which. the gricrances of the rew|
fadtion are fully fet forth, the. villanies of the |
prefent democratic’ legiflature dilated upon at j
large, and thofe leaders of the demogratick party -
who have~ refuted to “enlift under the neiely |
erected’ “standard, are, denounced by, name,
venal -corrapt barterers of their confei aces, ,!
heir’ oathéy and the pubtick interett- |
To go into a full detail of all theic pro: - 4
ings would occupy too ‘muck of our paper and
of the reader's time. It may be fufiicient for
the purpofes of information awd ainufement to |
copy from the New York Evening Poft, the!
Editor's fprightly and fatirical comments upon
Mr. Wortmisa’s Ap ¥; fal. We therefore fubjoia |
the fqllowing. }
Brom the New York Evening Post. }
* Fhe Appeal.—Three numbers of a feries of ,
papers under this title have lately appeared in
the American Citizen: No fooner had we begun
to perufe the firtt number than we immediately
recognized our old friend Wortman again ;'
pour for veils of fuch adraughts: And were
i¢ to meet-with the patronage of thefe / whom it
tends, moft. cffeatially- ferve, ’ another, mean
forceto the waters of Lewis. ©
the jolet ta Lew wii
emptying near the fame place, bot in * diferent
dire€tions, caf up fhoals to their mutual inju-
ry. To obviate this it is, contemplated, and is
evidently the intereft of the traders from both
crecks, to ftop the moyth of Bodkill aod turn
its waters, along 2. thort canal, through marih
into Lewis 5 thereby forcing them j intly along
the fame channel.
Ag to the expenfe of effecting thefe abjedts i it
is efimated at 13,009 @rilars, Rehoboth canal
in comparitun to the object contemplated, L,
creek might be made a harbour for veffels of 15
feot water, how highly does i it demand the'at=
tention of the merchaat and ipfurer 2? What a
pumbet of uieful lives might be preferved,' and
whet.in immenfity of property faved from 1 the
deftruction of the waves ?
| That thefe ideas, are not ‘merely vifionary,
the publick; may, be, “Mure that nearly’ tw
thirds of the money for cutting. the Rehoboth
ganal is already fubfcribed, gnd serangementi
making for beginning | the werk.
, Being ted to; thefo remarks by: your former
ublication I. fubmit them to the contideration
ofthe merchant ; fhould they merit attention,
Samuel and Miers Fither, merchants of Philadel
j tia, are fupnithed with the Law, % weil asa
Book, for receiving fab{criptions, far _futting
the above mentianed fanal et
AGRICOLA,
~ Lewis aeons 0b f, of April Hos...
© There has been a great great deal of quizzing and
fquibbing about the gua boats of this country,
as if they were good for nothing except amu-
fing philofophers and {caring the crows.’ ”
ic muft be confefled; that if thofe built in this
city be fair fpecimens of the others, there is
fomething of it.“ They have one rudder. and
no fern—one bowfprit and fro flems, waeixe
it-follows that the-phrafes fem and fern, fore
and aft, are too vulgar to be appticable to thei?
‘The {pace between decks, fot every body knows
that. men of wat have more thao one decks, is
vpon fo economical a plaa (this is the age of
Feonomics) that a dog msy think himfclf lucky
if he runs from ere end to the other without
Fnocking his-head againtt a Beam. At leat if'a
thus fettled oa the bottom. Hese, it would no!
man thould Fenture beyond. phe. rape city of a
Qne of the, greatelk means of cbttruing .
is’ thé ‘tranfverfe dire&tions +
of ite waters, with thof: Bodkill, Thele creeks egucts of resentment, and inivrepresentation in ail grawn up at- Albany on the. 20th of Febsuary,, ‘
10, Bodkill 3. Now if for a fam {9 inconfiderable | ™
And | Posts
though he for fon-e reafon or other has changed |
‘his fignature of Maniius, for that of Fabrigius.
But Fabricius takes iuch hig:
bis creft and fays—"
From the pee! formianes ofthe duties I have ‘une
ertakeny Eeshy er be deterred by menaces.
nor ottured by i nereaticn Accustomed tp meet the
their forms,. 1 tocally disregard and despise the -
‘rade est of their assaults.” j
~ Then, flruniag with ‘the magnitude of thi
‘undertaking! he thug proglaims this digaitied
refolution—-
With the hireting acribts: re of the day, 1 shall
not descend j jnto the lists of forma} controversy.”
Prefiming that by 4 bireling: Leribbers™ he
felt, I ought, perhaps, if twas really that chodeit
jan my friends take me to be, to bow at once
beneath -this reproof, and obferve a humbte
filence., But fomehow cultom, which has been .
aptly called. {cond nature, hag acquired fuch a_
way over me, (J am obliged in candour to own:
it) in common with fon we other federal editors, | &
that T 90 longer fear ‘to criticife. every demo-
cratick weiter that falls inumy, way, from the:
Lord High Admiral of phe Navy,” Jefferfon,
down to cockfyain Wortman. So ifyou picafe,
a gentle reader, do methe honour ‘of your com=
pany; and, we'll juft look over Mr. Woriman’s
Appeal to ether 5 to!which [ feel the more
emboldened; by his affurance that i will take
no notice of Mee Th oy
“The declared parpole of ibis. genviacan i is,
to appeal to the people’? at the comjng elec~
tion tin plain language, to digtate. to the clec~
torethroughout the ftate, whom: they fhall
lature’; whom “they fall hopour and whom
they hall difgrace. «A very pretty,” decent,
modeft, fenfidle, republican fort of a body this 3
office.of digtator, *
«I appeal to the people n not ot for the shocking pur-}§
of proscription and insyrrection; but to admin~
ister the mjld and peaceful correstives. prescribed
by the constitution ; if it shall hereafter sppear by
aclose and faithful examination that their sights
hoye been bartered & betrayed—fhag legislation |i
been conducted upon base and mercenary’ p incipies
thet publick fepresentaticcs have g
ted: the confidence reposed in “them
shall be maimifest that the gorernment jn its colizce
tivelerpacity upprised of every Tact, and possessing
anjphere ce khds a Aw not quiy in its infants
Dus: th One gH the'Mages of its progression ori-
inated ar ant Was ‘Enaltly ‘consuinmated by® ¢:
Bb wn sanctioned and enforced wie tcasure.
lectared to be an imperious duty of the
pe nopley t0 rise itt all their et 3 to purity their
government frova -polluti pursue the
most vigorous ang SSeient sutzs to erase ‘Ue
or Shoe)
e
ta be payigaced py philofophers, they are mary t
= ground ‘that-one! = If the reader will pow pleafe to leg witti us.
would-be adopted, which would give additional | hardly knows how to @ approssh ham ¢ He eretts | ¢q yonder tablé and turn ever the files of the:-
means fuch poor, paltry federal writers as wy,"
ghufe for their reprefectarives in the next legis«| |
Jet us now fee how he demeans bimfele 3 in his y
‘~SRARSPEARES -
©
“The Rogtith of this t take tobe that Mee
Worman dont lite the 2¢t granting a cherter «”
in Georgis forse years ago, and which illegal,
bafe and eandalous conductaF: Georgia, “gated -
at the lat fefhon of congrefs more heat and
paffion than was ever feen in that body before, -
aod threatgoed, “and indeed frill threatens co:
fequencey that will be fele throughout the unis
on; and naw Mr. Wortman bas began an Ap
pralto the Peuple”® fur the exprefs purpole of ©
Frocoriog the fame outrageous and difor: .
ing fcencs ta be ated in this Siate, whi
calls © adminiitering the mid and peoegid gore
rectives preferibed by that eguititucon.? - ~ .
To induce the people of this Rate to with z
draw their confidence tron al shofe oftheir -
prefent regrefentatives who. yoted.ia favour * *
of the merchums” bank.» Mr, Worian has
undertaken to prove that they were gither die
ire€ty bribed am! corrupted to vore 2s they did,
or that (forthe late decifive meafurss of the
leg'fliture, ordering a profeeation, has foggeE-
ed the expediency of a tittl more csytion} at
leait there is good canfe for fulpicion thav Fhe
here been bribed. ‘The firit atragk hema
ison the fenaiors for Weft Cheiter, Purdy ana
Thomas. The following is the manner in which
he deals wich them, | > 6°”
“« The reptched and { andy, mean as
of tajents wud invegrity can remlcr him,
haa ot out Sinead a guilty notoric procured
that conspictiousness gs a vena instrument which “_
ts never could command in an hon
er. Let him feaurh to the constit euents he hs ab:
ae and the gountry he has disgraced
Yasensitts sti
try douceur w
ive all the consolation he is capable of enjoyicg
‘trom deserting’ his’ principles, and betraying his
friends, Let his weak and wretch compuniots the
general, enjoy the same distinguished celebrity (i
is due to lis equal Participation inthe ghame ¢ their
numes jike Cast shall descend
‘posterity together, vale i in infamny, and meparae
Liz in the punishment which awaits them/
American Citizen for laft winter, he may find
fomething that may smufe him ; it is what was.
eatled: Toe. Bepublisen Addrefi,” which was.
184, thet isto fay, a litle better thag-a pear -
yo omy, as a large and refpefable meeting of
ithe members attending the legidature fom alt”
parts of the flare, and then fent out ta
«People, of the fate of New York to induce thems
to fupport his honour Morgan’ Lewis, “as go>
vernoure Runaing bis eye down. to the bots
‘om of this addrefs he will there perceive “rhe.
faxe to be figned by * Epentzeg Purpy,
“Chairman s”” fetefted out of alb'the repudtican
gentlemen in either hyule of the legifatnee, ai
ong whole name would give the moft weight to”
‘the meafure, And to camplete the thing, Meo
* Gheethara obferves; in his iatroduftion of this —.
addrefs, that % The refpeTable names annexed ©
‘ta bbe addrefi add to its felidity” Yes, wpor
my life, here itis in the files b-fore ws sAlasf
fame perfons, that Purdy is goly * she sarctched
and grovelliag’ Purdy, ean as, ‘total wart Po
talents an@ integrity can render bing? 'pofeltcd
of fuch an jufenfible \upidity CF mind’ &
Wortwan phrafe), thar be nevzr could *f cams
mand -any confpicnosf. ef ‘as \an.. honaurable
cherater P Asto “ his-weas and wretched
companion, ”'Generat Thomas, we do rat hap-
pen to come acrofs his eulogiim juft at this mo=
ment, and therefore we git icays hin wich ally
his fcandal open him, .
As we * forefeey we think we we do, thatie ‘wilh
not be many weeks bctore our genuine republin
car .ilt be brought to bed with feveral cons |
tradiGions refpecting: men formerly their faa,
ourites, of the fame‘ con, plexion with ‘the
above refpefting Mr. Purdy; we resonjmend -
to theie perufal, wichout lofg of thee, Me.
Jefferfon’s letter to - Muzzei there they wilt
difgover the true fecret of’ reconciling irrecans
cilable contradigtions in fubjects of thiz natare,
From that they wi immediately ° leara the ort
of afperting ‘and reining the good ‘naine of any
of their former friends in the mo/t approved
manner. They have only 10 take. Relomon, ~
and. Sampfon; -and the -** whare Ergland, ? or
fome other demirep- ang fer them aitaflozt oa
“f che terapeftuous fea of liberty” and the bue
finefe is accomplified. After that they may
go on and abufe every mag they ‘plezfe,. fom
Gorernour Lewis to the Recorder ed eh ’
We te Gertinned |
i and’after aif this arg we now to be told by'the | |
ye