Being thus marked, they were put on board the gallies, and chained to the oars, where they remained until relieved by their generous and humane owners, who remitted a fum of money to Leghorn, equal to their purchase, being 300 Louis d'ors for the Captain, 60 for the mate, and 30 for each seaman.

The labour and fatigue, with their scanty allowance and fevere ufage, were so much as to make them with for death, rather than life. A cowskin was freely exercised upon them, without difcrimination, and often without provocation, by their renegadoes, who served alfo as interpreters for the Algerines, but would not deign to look on them. Mr. Stewart left the crews of several vessels behind him, whofe only hope of redemption refts on the exertions of Congrefs. He informs, that the Captains of thofe crews were more fortunate than Capt. Clarke, owing to the humanity of the French and British Confuls, who have hired them from slavery and hard labour, and taken them into their own families. He alfo informs, that the Algerines were very active in building and equipping veffels of war, though few or none cruife without the ftreights -and that he was informed that the Maltefe had a confiderable force united with the Por. tuguese, who were to rendezvous at Madeira, in order to take fuch veffels under their convoy as may be bound to the Streights.

BOSTON, April 26.

A writer in a late [London] Publick Advertifer fhrewdly faysWere extracts from American Gazettes more generally admitted into our publick prints, the effect might be of service in, evincing the wretched confequences of ingratitude and rebellion-These glorious fons of freedom acknowledge themfelves to be bankrupts in faith as well as cafe -They own they have among them no publick fpirit, no union, no government.-Each mushroom State accuses its twin-brother of being the cause of that contempt in which the American name is held throughout Europe--and each has at least plaufible ground for his accufation. Now let us look at our own picture, drawn by very, able hands in the caricatura ftyle. The prints on the fide of oppofition give but a bad character of poor old England, as to her good fenfe and ingenuity; but nothing can be hinted by her bittereft fons against her honour and integrity. The foldiers and failors of Britain clamour not for half pay, or penfions, earned by fervice. Her publick debts are regularly difcharged her merchants are generally honeft-and her laws (open equally to the na tive and the alien) would compel them to act justly, were they otherwife difposed. Add to thefe, that impoverished as the nation has been, by an unequal, unsuccessful war, fhe has yet the honefty to diftrefs herself, rather than abandon to wretchednefs those friends, who in fupporting their cause, loft their all. Read this contraft, O Americans, and bluth for thy mifled, fallen country

A hint has, in the fouthern papers, been fuggefted to the Deputies to the Federal Con vention, on the propriety of recommending a diffolution of the Confederation, and a divifion of the States into four republicks The first to contain the States of New Hampshire, Maffachusetts, Rhode-Ifland, and Connecticut, to which Vermont might be added. The fecond to contain, New-York, New-Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The third Virginia the two Carolinas, and Georgia. And the fourth to contain, the State of Franklin, Kentucky, and the lands lying on the Ohio. This difvifion feems to be pointed out by climate, whose effect no pofitive law ever can furpafs. The religion, manners, customs, exports, imports, and general intereft of each, being then the fame, no oppofition, arifing from difference in thefe (as at prefent) would any longer divide their councils-unanimity would render us secure at home, and refpected abroad, and promote agriculture, manufactures and commerce.

A London paper, of Jan. 10, fays, “A general joy is diffused throughout the kingdom of France, on account of the grand affembly which is to meet on the 29th of Jánuary. There has not been a fimilar meeting held fince 1626. There are one hundred and forty perfons fummoned besides the moft qualified of the Clergy, Nobility, Magiftrates of the principal towns; the first Prefidents and Procureurs Generale of the fovereign courts are alfo convoked. The fundamental laws of France were established in like manner in the time of Charlemagne."

Many perfons, at the beginning of the late fire, depofited their goods and furniture near the meeting-house, which they then deemed, from its remote fituation, to be a place of fafety; but they were unhappily disappointed, great quantities being destroyed before they could be removed a fecond time.

We are happy, however, in informing the publick, that, amidst the destruction by the fire, a curious fpecimen of art and industry, which does honour to our country, was luckily preferved; we mean the ORRERY conftructed by Mr. JOSEPH POPE. This admirable performance, the refult of many years labour and ftudy, is near fix feet in diameter, and was almoft finished, when the houfe of the artist, with most of his effects, were in a few minutes reduced to afhes. Much praise is due to thofe gentlemen who, by their exertions, preferved to the lovers of fcience this curious fpecimen of philofophick and mechanick ingenuity, and depofited it at the houfe of his Excellency the Governour, where, we are told, it ftill remains.

The light of the fire was plainly feen at Newbury Port, and at feveral other towns, near 50 miles distance.

Committees of the feveral churches in town, on the laft Sabbath, fet on foot fub. fcriptions for the relief of the unhappy fufferers by the late fire, and we hear the large

fums which have been already fubfcribed are truly characteristick of the benevolence and liberality which have ever distinguished the citizens of this metropolis.

We are informed that Dr. WILLIAMS, Profeffor of Mathematicks and Philofophy, at Cambridge, is chofen a fellow of the Electoral Academy of Sciences at Manheim.

On Monday laft, died, after a fickness of 14 days, Mrs. Hannah Flagg, aged 102.... Notwithstanding the great age of this venerable lady, the retained her fenfes to the laft moment of life..

April 30.-In the Houfe of Commons of Ireland, on the 17th of February,' leave was given to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, to bring in a Bill for facilitating the trade and intercourfe between that kingdom and the United States of America.

Friday lalt, the Hon. the Legislature, convened in the Reprefentatives Chamber, appointed Alexander Hodgdon, Efq; Treasurer and Receiver General of this Commonwealth vice Thomas Ivers, Efq; deceafed.

Friday an Order paffed in the Hon. House of Reprefentatives, expelling therefrom Mofes Harvey, Reprefentative of Montague, in Hampshire County, who ftands convicted upon an indictment for fedition, and is fentenced to an ignominious punishment, by the Hon. Supreme Judicial Court.

NEW-YORK, April 24.

The Honourable the Legislature of this State, adjourned on Saturday laft, to meet at the town of Poughkeepfie, in Dutchess county, on the first Monday in January next, unlefs fooner convened by proclamation of his Excellency the Governour.

The Sloop Experiment, commanded by Capt. Stewart Dean, arrived at this port on Sunday laft, from Canton, in China, after a paffage of four months and twelve days. This veffel failed from hence, on the 18th of Dec. 1785, and was the second adventurer from the United States of America, to so distant a port. It was a matter of furprise to the natives and Europeans, in that quarter, to fee fo fmall a veffel arrive from a clime fo remote from China; and must have given them an exalted conception of the enterprizing fpirit of the citizens of these United States. The fuccefsful and fafe return of Capt. Dean, has taught us, that fancy often times paints danger in much higher colours than is found really to exist, and that by maintaining a Spirit of enterprize, diligence and activity, we are enabled to furmount difficulties, which on a curfory view, are deemed fraught with dangers. Captain Dean brought home all the hands he took out with him, having had no fickness on board.

We alfo learn, that the fhip Empress of China, Capt. Greene, from this port, was to fail from Canton, a few days after the Experiment that the thip Canton, Captain Truxton, from Philadelphia, was lying at the fame place, and was expected to fail in fix

or eight weeks that the fhip Grand Turk, from Salem, had arrived fome time before Captain Dean's departure.

Lift of Ships lying at Wampooe, at Captain Dean's departure.

American Ships-Ship Emprefs of China, Capt. Greene, New York;hip Canton, Truxton, Philadelphia ;-fhip Hope, M`Gee, New York-shipGrand Turk, Weft, Salem." RICHMOND (Virginia) April 11.

It is with peculiar fatisfaction we inform the publick, that our illustrious fellow citizen, GEORGE WASHINGTON, Efquire, has confented to ferve on the enfuing Federal Convention, to be held in Philadelphia, the fecond Monday in May next; and that his Excellency Edmund Randolph, Efq; purposes leaving this City, early that Month, on the fame bufinefs.Should a delegation attend from each, or a majority of the states (chofen with that circumfpection and wisdom, which governed the Legislature of this Commonwealth) what happy confequences may all the true friends to Federal Government, promise themselves, from the united zeal, policy and ability of fo auguft an affembly.

WOR CESTE R. On Tuesday last week, the Supreme Ju dicial Court was opened in this Town, agreeably to adjournment: This Court is now holding three perfons are indicted for Treafon, viz. Henry Gale, of Princeton--Silas Livermore, of Paxton, and Jacob Chamber.. lain, of Dudley; their trials are now in hearing.

A large number have applied, and are still applying to the Commiffioners, who are au thorised to pardon persons of certain descrip tions, concerned in the late Rebellion.

By accounts from Rhode Island, we learn, that that unfortunate State is likely to be hampered with an administration, who, in all probability will add,if póffible,to the confusion and diftrels of that republick. The measures of their late administration have been pronounced infamous throughout America, a well as in Europe.

The General Affembly of the State of New York, is removed out of the city of New-York, to Poughkeepsie, near an hundred miles diftant from that city.

It is now the general opinion, that unless fome wife plan should be proposed by the federal convention, and adopted by the feveral ftates, that our republican governments will fpeedily terminate; what will take their place, Heaven only knows.

DIED.]-At Bofton, Jofeph Webb, Efq; Grand-Mafter of Ancient Mafons for this Commonwealth. Mr. John Dafforne, Painter. At Marblehead, Capt. John Prince, a ged 51. At Cohaffet, Capt. John Gillespie, aged 63. In the East-Indies, Col. Ifaac Sears, of New-York. In this town, Mrs. Walker.

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VINEYARD is always a favour

ite fpot of ground, where the hufbandman beftows his greateft care and attention. In the ftriking language of the fcripture, which abounds with the most beautiful metaphors, the nation of the Jews was called, the Vineyard of the Lord: They were his peculiar people-bleffed with advantages above all other nationsthey had been carried through the wildernefs forty years-fupported by a continual fcene of miracles, and planted in a country, defcribed as a land flowing with milk and honey. They had every religious and civil privilege, which their habits and tempers could bear or enjoy.— Yet they conftantly proved ungrateful always rebelled, and finally loft all civil happinefs-were, and to this day are, fcattered abroad amongst the various nations of the earth, as a hifling and a byword; their temple and cities are no more, and their name is only mentioned as a reproach. When their dreadful catastrophe was drawing nigh, when previous threatenings and leffer calamities had failed to reclaim them, the Prophet is fent to demand of them, what more could have been done-to make them their own judges, and to foretel that heavy fentence which was foon, in the course of events, to be put in execution against them ?

The ideas which I fhall now fuggeft from the text, are,

Ift. That this State may be well called the Vineyard of GOD, from the exalted privileges which have been beftowed upon it.

2dly. That GOD has done all for us, which in the courfe of nature and providence, could have been done, to make us a happy people.

3dly. That we have, by our pride, obftinacy and rebellion, forfeited every blessing which we have enjoyed.

4thly. That we are now in a fair way to fuffer the curfes, denounced by the Prophet in the text, against the jews.

The Jews were brought out of bondage, where they enjoyed neither civil or religious liberty, and placed in a land of bleffings. The ancient inhabitants were driven out before them, and they were walled in on every fide, by the most permanent fafety.

The firit fettlers of this State, emigrated from a country, where flavery in civil, and perfecution in religious matters, were cruelly indulged;-the natives of the wildernefs gave way to them

they were fecured against every danger, and had no oppreffion on either fide, until they became a great and mighty people-It is true that they were often in danger; but it is as true, that a way was as often made for their efcape. The bleflings of freedom, which we enjoyed in civil and religious matters, before the attempt was made by the mother country

to enílave us. The fertility of our foil, the falubrity of our air, and the encrease of our children, night well entitle the fpot we poffefs, to be called the Vineyard of GOD. No wafting plague or peftilence, glutted the yawning grave-no horrid earthquakes moved the foundation of our ftable towers-no meagre famine stalked along the glebe, or conquering armies drenched our fields in blood.

2dly. God has done all for us, which in the course of nature and providence, could have been done, to make us a happy people.

Befides the bleffings already mentioned, when almost the whole earth lay buried in vaffalage-when envy had raised her hand, urged on by the force of avarice to ravish from us, our faireft privileges, and would have deprived us of that fecurity of life and property, which GOD and nature had given us-when men at three thousand miles diftance, arrogantly claimed the right of difpofing of us, and the fruits of our labour, with out our confent, and by depriving us of the dominion of external things, would have robbed us of that dignity, of that mark of the Deity, firft inftamped on the Luman race; then, in that trying and critical moment, Heaven raised up friends to our affittance-patriots, deep and wife in counsel, feeking their country's fafety, and warriours, valiant and faithful in the field, to defend our dearest rights;but what is ftill more wonderful, he removed the deep rooted prejudices, which we had from our earliest infancy imbib. ed, against the French nation, and brought on a beneficial and honourable alliance between us and them. This was indeed, like fmiting the rock, from whence waters flowed through the wildernefs, to refresh the thirty multitude, who, otherwife would have perifhed. May the fprings never dry, but let the waters of friendship flow without ceafing. Finally, by giving aid where it was not expected-by giving victories, where they were not hoped for-and union, where there was no apparent foundation for it, we were brought over the boisterous ftreams of Jordan, and planted in a land, which may be faid to flow with milk and honey. Sovereign lords of the foil, we have no haughty tyrant to hold us as tenants we make our own magiftratesare governed by no laws but what are made by ourselves, and by an annual election of our legiflators, we are placed beyond the reach of tyranny,and hedg ed in on every fide, from davery -Weil

may our Heavenly father fay of us," what could have been done more for my vineyard, that has not been done in it ?"

3dly. I proceed to fhew that we have, by our pride, obftinacy and rebellion, forfeited every bleffing.

Here I take leave to say, that the language in feripture, accommodating itself to the understanding of men, when it treats of forfeitures, judgments, &c. does not mean that a decree of forfeiture, or a poffitive judgment, is denounced against a people or a man, for their or his crimes, it is better fuited to our ideas of the great governour of the univerfe, to fuppofe, that he has in the economy of providence, eftablished a certain chain, or fyftem of caufes and effects, which can never fail, and whereby virtue is conftantly rewarded, and vice as conftantly punished :Therefore when I fpeak of the people's having forfeited every bleffing, I mean only, that they have become fo criminal and depraved, that they can no longer enjoy the multiplied favours beftowed upon them :-The bleffings of virtue can never be enjoyed by vicious men, or the bleffings of civil freedom, by men who regard the gratification of private passions more than the dignity of human nature.

We are placed in a land, producing every thing neceffary to our temporal comfort, yet we thirst for foreign luxu ries, as the Hebrews did for the leeks and onions of Egypt. We have the power to fecure our political happinefs, to en joy a legal and complete protection of our perfons and property-but we sport away our freedom; and for the vile motive of cheating our creditors, of wronging the widow and orphan, and of indulging idleness and debauchery, we are overturning the best form of government, that a people were ever bleffed with: And thus, by cherishing ideas, and fixing habits, incompatable with, we are rendering ourselves incapable of enjoying, the bleflings fo plentifully beftowed

upon us.

But I conclude 4thly, by fhewing that we are in a fair way to fuffer the curfes denounced by the Prophet, against the Jews.

"Now go to, I will tell you what I will do with my vineyard :-I will take away the hedge thereof, and it fhall be eaten up and break down the wall thereof, and it fhall be trodden-I will lay it wafte, and it fhall not be pruned nor digged; but there fhall come up briars and thorns-I will alfo command the clouds, and they hall not rain upon it."

If the conftitution of our flate, may be called a hedge which fecures our perfons and property, as a fence does the vines of a vineyard-if the focial compact between the people, may be called a wall to defend them from external enemies, no one will fay that we are not in danger of having them removed: And then, Oh my foul, think! And fhudder at the horrid thought! Our fafety, our freedom, and all our enjoyments, however dearly earned by the anxious patriot, and bleeding warriour, are to be trodden by the violence of, perhaps, a ftrange nation, like a vineyard laid waste to the beasts of the field.

If the fine fentiments of religious and civil liberty, may be compared to the vines bearing rich clusters, they fhall not be pruned the voice of tyranny fhall forbid their being pruned: They fhall not again enliven the page of hiftory, or roll in torrents fublimely, from the mouth of the orator-the pen fhail be afraid to fhed them on paper; but the ideas of oppreffion, indignity and cruelty, fhall, like the thorns and briars of a wafted vineyard, be feen in their place.

"I will alfo command the clouds, and they fhall not rain upon it"-the feminaries and fchools, which have diffeminated literature in every part of the ftate, and refreshed our land, as the benign droppings of the clouds do a vineyard, fhall fail, and ignorance and fuperitition fpread themselves, until the mind of the people may be fitly compared to a vineyard-where the clouds are forbid to rain, and where the furface, by extreme drought, is become fit to be blown abroad by every wind, and scattered on all the face of the ground.

relinquishes a ftate of nature, for a state of civil fociety :-Should he, to avoid the rapine and danger of a state of nature, throw himself under the protection of an unlimited monarchy, he would there fubject himself to the will of one robber only, whereas in a state of nature, he would be liable to be invaded by thousands :But should he with others, form a focial compact, by which the rights of all would be governed by ftanding laws, equally applying to governours, as well as governed, he would be in a state of civil fociety, the most perfect and secure: Such is the happy constitution of this commonwealth.

As the wall and the hedge, are the fure protection and defence of the vineyard, fo the conftitution, or focial compact, which unites the force of all, for the defence and protection of each individual, may well be called the hedge and the wall of a nation or state.

As the end and defign of a vineyard, is the production of fweet grapes, fo the end and defign of civil government,is the production of the fweet fruits of peace, quietness, bonefly, juftice, charity and love. When we were, as hath been before hint. ed, delivered from the hand of the oppreffor, the LORD of this vineyard might well expect, that we should be contented and peaceable, under law-makers of our own election, and under rulers of our own appointment; that we fhould have been ready to facrifice every thing to publick and private faith; that each one would have cheerfully paid his debts, and that no one would have attempted to defraud another ;-but instead of these fweet grapes, we have brought forth wild grapes we have turned liberty into licentioufnefs-have violated the bonds of fociety, and in rebelling against our own government, have rebelled against Him, whofe unmerited favour hath indulged us with it. We have indeed brought forth the wild grapes of rebellion, ingratitude, dishonesty and confusion; and the hedge and wall of our fafety, feems to be tumbling into the dust.

SIR,

UR fecretary for foreign affairs, has

a

ter to him, from our minister at the Court of London, of the 4th of March, 1780,

and of the papers mentioned to have been inclofed in it.

We have deliberately and difpaffionately examined and confidered the feve