have been violently difpoffeffed; fome of them are murdered, and others are now wandering in exile; and the property as well as the power of that devoted country have been feized, as a prey, by a band of daring confpirators; by men, as unufed to property as they were to power, and who, to retain both, opprefs their brutified countrymen, and fpread confu. fion, rapine, and carnage, as far as they can carry their arms or intrigues.

Whatever fubmiffion, therefore, cowards may think is due to this terrible Republic, we are furely under no obligation to her, either moral or political, for the benefits we received from her murdered fovereign. On the contrary, as foon as fhe feized the government, the difplayed a policy inimical to the United States, and ftill perfeveres in it; fhe has fown difcord among our citizens, plundered our commerce, broke the faith of a treaty fhe claimed, and infulted our juft and peaceable government in the moft offenfive manner; and these things have not been tranfacted in a corner, but having paffed on an open theatre, are notorious to all Europe.

How much then muft the glory of the United States be obfcured in the eyes of virtuous and intelligent foreigners, when they fee men, of fome rank and refpectability in the commonwealth, join a few mercenary gazetteers, in offering incenfe to this common enemy! Will it not be just to prefage our approaching diffolution, when twenty years only have produced fo great a declenfion in private and public virtue, and the facred principles of truth and juftice?

Let us bring the bufinefs home, and endeavour to illuftrate it by fuppofing a cafe, which is much lefs improbable than many others that have happened in our memory. If an army of French revolutionifts Thould land on or near our country, and, by opening the prifon-doors, proclaiming liberty to the

flaves,

aves, and holding out the temptation of equality (or plunder, which is fynonimous) to the worthless and profligate, they fhould organize a holy infurrection in the fouthern States; fuppofe, again, they' fhould be fo fortunate (which God forbid!) as to reduce two or three of those States; and, to fortify their conqueft, they should transfer the property from the prefent proprietors to their flaves, and to others, the vile inftruments of the revolution; would the middle and northern States ftill acknowledge them as a part of the American confederation? would they listen to these intruders with any patience, if they claimed a right in the Union of 1776, or pretended to any share in the honour of establishing the American independence in its rights or franchifes? Would they not rather confider them as a common enemy, and arm with zeal to expel or crush them, as foon as poffible?

I have adduced this fuppofition, because it is not an improbable one, and to ask our southern orators, the principal advocates of the French intereft, how they would relish fuch an event. They cannot be weak enough to imagine, because they had figured on the floor of Congrefs, or elfewhere, as the partifans of France, that their property, or the property of their friends, would be the more fecure. These new lords of the foil would not inquire, whether a man was a democrat or an ariftocrat in politics, whether he was a federalist or anti-federalist, devoted to England or to France, but what wealth he had; and whether he would carry a mufket to fubjugate the other States.

If this cafe has any analogy with our relation to France, and I fincerely think it has, what fhall we fay to those orators in Congrefs, who labour fo zealoufly in recommending the rebel government of that country to the friendship and gratitude of their fellow-citizens; and this at a time when her armies

are defolating Europe from motives of ambition; her agents and minifters are infulting our own Government; and her pirates are plundering our veffels in every part of the ocean? I am really afhamed that fo degenerate a fpirit thould appear any where in the United States, and much more when it appears in her public councils. If, like the uninformed Indians, we are really awed by the devil, in the name of all that is chriftian and manly, I hope we shall not copy them fo clofely, as to fall down likewife and worship his image.

THURSDAY, 8th JUNE.

O'Careys and the Learned Pig.-Advertisement.— The docility, tractability, and fagacity of many animals, fuch as the dog, horfe, and elephant, have been as much the theme of converfation as the ftupidity and stubbornnefs of the pig has been proverbial.

This little animal forms an exception to the general rule; for he not only equals any, but exceeds all the above in their moft eminent qualities.

He will read right, fpell, tell the hour of the day, diftingufh colours, the number of perfons prefent, &c. &c. And what is more aftonifhing, any lady or gentleman may draw a card and keep it concealed, and the pig, without any hefitation, will difcover the card drawn from another pack.

To be feen by any number of perfons, at Mr. Cook's houfe, corner of Market and Third Street, from ten in the morning till one, and from two till feven in the evening. Admittance one quarter of a dollar.

It may not be amifs to inform thofe who have a defire to fee the performance of this fapient animal, that they will do well to lofe no time in gratifying their curiofity, as it is confidently reported, that the O'CAREYS are about to engage him as editor to their Gazette. FRIDAY,

FRIDAY, 9th JUNE.

John B-ll, Efq. Grog-man and Bankrupt.-To the inhabitants of the counties of Philadelphia and Delaware, and the public in general. On Friday, June 2d, broke into the southern apartment of that magnificent fabric at the corner of Walnut and Sixth Streets, a Mr. John B-ll, taylor, debauchee, grog-drinker, and fquire. This wonderful animal was bred in the village of Darby, in the county of Delaware. At the age of eighteen he received the honourable title of grog-drinker, at twenty he obtained the name of debauchee, for which he was caft out of the tabernacle of the holy lambs. He fought fafety by flight, and arrived fafe at Salem, New-Jersey. Here he exhibited a fpecimen of his ablilities with the infipid fair, and the grogmen, but was foon obliged to move his quarters; he next pitched his tent in Baltimore, and from thence to Virginia. From Virginia the grog-man returned to his native village of Darby, after an absence of seven years, more or lefs. The exploits of the fquire being very notorious, it would therefore be fuperfluous and indelicate to repeat them, as the chief of them overftep the modefty of nature. Shortly after his arrival in the village of his nativity, he fet up grog-drinking, cock-fighting, and horfe-racing, which he perfevered in for the space of three years, when, fome how or other, his neck flipt into the noose of matrimony. He then moved to Philadelphia, rented a house in Strawberry Alley, and commenced grog-drinking on a very extensive plan. He has fometimes been seen at noon-day crawling into his door on as many legs as a snapturtle generally ufes; and it would have taken a very fkilful phyfiognomist to have diftinguished him from that animal. Having drank grog and eaten oyfters for nine months, he bequeathed his landlord

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a three-legged ftool, a few needles without eyes, and the cleanfing of hell*, in place of his rent.

This fame fquire grog-man having a little low cunning, with which he took in his brother flats, got credit of them to the amount of feveral hundreds, and is now paying them off with a sponge.

The faid fquire grog-drinker is to remove his quarters on the twenty-fixth of this month; therefore every honeft, difhoneft, fuperficial, or judicious landlord, inn-kepeer, ftore-keeper, &c. &c. are hereby cautioned to have no contractions with him the faid fquire, for, instead of the ready rhino, they will receive the sponge.

June 21, 1797.

A BILKED CREDITOR.

SATURDAY, 10th JUNE.

French and Spanish Cruelty towards American Sailors.-Captain Merrihew, of the ship Mount Vernon, gives the following account of the different fpoliations committed on the trade of the United States by French privateers, which came immediately within his own knowledge during his ftay at the port of St. John's, Porto Rico, and which can be attefted alfo by a number of other citizens of Ame rica, who had the misfortune to be carried in there.

Captured by the privateer Vengeance, the Schooner, Loring Taber mafter, belonging to Bofton, bound to Jamaica, and sent to St. Domingo. The mate and several of the crew of faid schooner were put on fhore at St. John's, deftitute of every neceffary, being plundered even of their wearing apparel: the mate took fick in a few days after, and died; the expenfes of his interment, &c. were defrayed by the different American captains.

Hell is under a taylor's fhop-board.

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