POOR 70E. LA wretched looking old man is well remembered by many in the neighborhood of Bath and Lew. es, to have long wandered about without indicating a wish of becoming a resident any where.When pressed to disclose the cause of his uneasiness, he invariably declined assigning the slightest reason for it. Indeed, in all his migrations, he was never heard to utter any thing but " Poor Joe's alone! Poor Joe's alone!" His manner was unimpassioned, his expression without variety of tone, yet his voice was rather tremulous. This circumstance gave rise to the following original stanzas. The vulgar, who are always superstitious, knew him only by the appellation of the "Wandering Jew."- -London Paper. THE MISANTHROPIST. We rather feel than hear him groan; "Poor Joe's alone! Poor Joe's alone!" Nor him the churlish winter spares ; His shrinking frame, and hoary locks! The rude winds lash his silv'ry hairs; The pelting storm his mis'ry mocks ; Yet while his hollow looks betray The throb supprest, the secret moanNo words but these his griefs convey, "Poor Joe's alone! Poor Joe's alone!" But though to paint the woes he feels, A moment's respite from his woe; The In vain the source of woes we seek, To him, from life's gay scenes estrang'd, No friend the social bliss to share, No wife to make his griefs her own, The sorrowing victim of despair "Poor Joe's alone! Poor Joe's alone!" But though no cure his grief receives, A mild and quiet aspect there ; A wanderer, aged, and unknown, Or pours unseen this pensive lay"Poor Joe's alone! Poor Joe's alone!" Diversity. ANECDOTE RELATIVE TO TOM JONES. WHEN Fielding had finished his Novel, being much diftreffed, he fold it to an obfcure Bookfeller for 251. on condition of being paid on a certain given day. In the mean time he fhewed the MS. to Thomfon, the Poet, who was immediately ftruck with its great merit, advifed Fielding by all means to get from the bargain, which he did without much difficulty, as the Bookfeller was moft capable of eftimating the value of his purchase. Thomfon recommended the work to Andrew Miller, and the parties met at a tavern over a beef fleak and a bottle. Miller began with faying, "Mr. Fielding, I always de"termine on affairs at once, and never "change my offer. I will not give one 66 farthing more than 200 pounds." Two hundred pounds? (cries Fielding) "yes," fays the other, and not one farthing more." Fielding, whofe furprise arofe from joy, and pot difappointment, shook him by the hand, fealed the bargain, and ordered in two bottles of wine. Miller got a very large fum by the fale of the book. He at different times during his life, affifled Fielding with 2,500l. which debt he cancelled in his will. [Poulfon's Amer. Daily Advr.] We hope to be able, in a fhort time, to place the whole of this poem before our readers-it exhibits in juft and glowing colours, the wretch, who has fince be come the calumniator of Washington, and the reviler of Christ. [Philad. Gazette.] IN proportion to the ignorance and emptiness of Cneetham and Duane, is the turbulence they excite. The worit wheel in a carriage, it has been faid, always makes the moft noife. [Port Folio.] A WIT, defcribing the univerfal Em pire of Love, drolly defcribes its onfets among the finny race. -----------Love assails And warms, 'mid seas of ice, the melting whales, Cools crimped Cod, fierce pangs to perch imparts, Shrinks shrivell'd shrimps, and opens oysters' heans [Ibid.] KOTZEBUE, in his Benyowski, avers that fish are mute for no other reafon that they drink nothing but water. [Ibid.] A Paris paper fays, "The American& and English educate their children in the fear of God, and the love of money." TERMS OF THE BALANCE. 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HUDSON, (NEW-YORK) TUESDAY, JUNE 14, 1803. Hither the products of your closet-labors bring, FOR THE BALANCE. ON THE MORAL AND POLITICAL EF- THE [CONCLUDED.] caufe, in the event of an invafion, it would prefent fubje& is an inftance. The num ber of African flaves in this country is fo vast and formidable, that the rights, of which they had been robbed, are now withThe number of flaves compared to that held from feeming neceffity; and the plain of freemen, in the five fouthern States, is dictates and strong feelings of humanity nearly in the proportion of fix to eleven ; are forced to yield to the all-powerful plea thofe ftates are therefore in a condition of of felf-prefervation and public falety.great weakness. The whole number of Were there only a few thoufand of thofe whites and blacks, in that district of coun- wretched people among us, it would betry, is about one million feven hundred hove the nation, on every principle of and ninety thousand: fubftracting from juftice and humanity, to ranfom them imthis, the fix hundred and thirty thousand mediately from bondage and to provide flaves, together with an equal number of means for their inftruction and fubfiftence; free people to guard and reprefs them, it but, under prefent circumftances, this would appear that the flrength of the South- would be impracticable. If the whole ern States, as it refpects numbers, is only frightful hoft of negroes, at the fouthabout five hundred and thirty thoufand. ward, fhould at once be let loofe upon foIndeed thofe ftates, in the prefent reflefs ciety, by the removal of the yoke from and turbulent condition of the negroes, their necks, the country every where who, from a variety of concurring circum- would quickly fuffer difturbance and conflances, have become strongly imbued vulfions; and the fouthern ftates, in parwith the principles of liberty and equality, ticular, would become another St. Doare, in point of ftrength, almoft annihila-mingo. Ignorant, incapable of felf-directed. In the event of an invafion of the middle flates, little or no affiftance could be drawn from the diftri&t South of the Potomack; while an invafion of the HE existence of flavery, in a free republic, inverts a general rule of po litical arithmetic. The ftrength of a commonwealth ufually bears a direct proportion to the number of its inhabitants; but, as far as its number is augmented by flaves, the operation or effect of fuch increase is in an inverfe ratio, by weakening the force of the whole aggregate body. Slaves in a community are like prifoners of war in a fhip, who, in proportion to their numbers, weaken and endanger the crew and render them an eafy prey to an invading foe. Any given number of flaves, thirfting for freedom and inflamed with animofity, would require, at least, an equal number of freemen to curb their reftless passions and to keep them in fubjec-South even by a finall army, acting in contion: therefore, on the fuppofition that the flaves in the bofom of this country are an eighth part of the nation, it has loft by their means a full eighth of its ftrength; or it is in fuch a degree weaker than it might be, if it were difburdened of this As with individuals, fo with nations, wretched clafs of people. Suppofing, for the first step in the path of iniquity often inftance, that the whole number of the peo- feemingly occafions a neceffity of a feple of the United States were four mil- cond, and that of a third; and fo the felions, and that five hundred thoufand of ries continues to an indefinite extent; the them were flaves; the nation, in this cafe, difficulty of retreating or flopping con. would be only three millions strong; belly growing still greater. Of this our cert with a general explosion of negro- tion, extremely debafed in their difpofitions and habits, knowing no law but the will of their mafters,-no government but that of the fcourge, which had been conftantly hanging over them-fmarting in the fenfe of paft wrongs, and animated with a thirft of vengeance; a general li centioufnefs and the moit horrible diforders, rapines and murders, would be the inevitable confequences of their general emancipation. Liberty to them, until prepared by previous education and difcipline, would be a cup of intoxication, and might prove even to themselves a curfe rather than a bleffing; while the whole nation would be conftantly expofed to their ravages and depredations.-Is then 186 negro flavery, as it refpe&ts this country, an evil without remedy, and that will be with out end? Muft this foul ftain forever continue on the character of cur nation? Are the children of the wretched Africans, even down to remoteft generations, doomed to drink the bitter draught of bondage and to bleed under the fcourge of oppreffion and tyranny? No: their eventual emancipation is morally certain. If this should happen fuddenly and violently by a gen. eral infurrection of the blacks, incited by the intrigues and aided by the arms of a foreign power, (a thing not impoffible, as they are materials already but too well prepared for combuftion) the confequences would be awful far beyond defeription. But fhould the country escape this awful catastrophe, the gradual emancipation of the negro flaves and their compleat eman. cipation eventually may be confidently expected. Not only is domeftic flavery ab horrent to the genius of our free govern ment and to the opinions of a great majority of the nation; but even the Southern ftates are now faft fettling with people who have a deep-rooted oppofition to it : under thele circumitances, the evil cannot be perpetuated. Time will work its cure. In one important refpe&t, however, this country feems doomed always to suffer a great inconvenience and to wear a foul flain; it must forever be loaded and deformed with a vaft and increasing number of people, whofe colour, features &c. exhibit a ftriking and difgufting contrafi to the other inhabitants. When the Romans were at the zenith of their power, the number of their flaves nearly equalled that of their freemen. Thefe flaves were prifonvers of war from the neighbouring nations, which had been conquered by the Roman arms they were gradually manumitted ; and their pofterity intermarrying with thofe of the natives, ali finally were melted down into one mals. But Heaven forbid that fuch a general commixture fhould ever happen between our pofterity and that of the negroes; or that the fkin of the Ethiopians hou! be changed by a fexual intercourfe with the Whites. The best that can be hoped, is, that the negroes in this country muy always continue a diflinct people and full bad is this hell.-They may probably increafe to the number of feveral inillions. Denied the privilege of intermauiage and degraded in fociety, their views and interests will always clash with thole of the white people. Envy, wounded pride, inveterate rancour, and all the dark and dangerous paflions, will, from time to time, inflame their breafts; while our nation will, to endlefs ages, exhibit the deformed, chequered, motley appearance of black and white. Such is the reward of national iniquity. which can be expected from the curfed -Such are even the most tolerable evils, traffic of human flesh. Political. FROM THE WASHINGTON FEDERALIST. GALLATIN AND MATTHEW LYON. -- MATTHEW LYON, the famous fpitting memory, is agent to the United Knight of the Wooden Sword, and of States for furnishing fupplies to the Ar my. A bill drawn by him on the Treafury of the United States was lately forwarded to this place to be prefented for acceptance, or payment, if it could be had. The bill was drawn in February laft, and the money was not due from the United States until October next. The bill was prefented, and paid immediately, though the credit of the United States or of the Drawer would not have been injured by delay, because it was mentioned by Matthew when he fold the bill, that the money was not due from the United States till O&tober. We have been thus particular in this tranfaction, not froma any great importance attached to it, but to contraft it with the fate of another bill drawn under very different circumflan ces. Mr. Steele, the late Secretary for the Miffiffippi Territory, drew on the Treafury of the United States for money which was due to him, under an act of Congress, for fervices performed in collc&ting the direct tax. When the bill was prelented to Mr. Gallatin, he acknowledged the money to be due, but would not pay the bill until all the returns under the dire& tax had come in, and the accounts fertld. This was in November 1801-in this fituation the bill lay unpaid, until the accounts were fettled, which was near fourteen months after it was firft prefented when the bolder called again for payment on Mr. Gallatin. To his unfpeakable aftonishment, the bill could not be paid becaufe-hear the Genevean-because all the money due for thefe fervices was not drawn for at the fame time.* The bills *The money was not all due to Mr. Steele, his agents being entitled to a part. The bill of one of his agents he forwarded with his own, and it met the same fate. The other agent living probably at a great distance, and not wanting his morey, has not thought proper to draw for it; therefore both the other creditors must wait the pleasure of this one. If he should not call on the United States for his money, those creditors who have no connexion with, or controul over him, must lose their debts for his folly or negligence. This doctrine has certainly the merit of novelty to recommend it. It may have been considered as very just and equitable in France or Geneva, but not in this country. FOR 1803 prefented were therefore protefted, and returned to the drawers, the fair and hon. eft creditors of the United States, who are fubject to all the expences and damages of a protefted bill, befides the long delay of payment. The balenefs of this tranfaction can only be fully understood by comparing it to the one firft detailed, and feriously reflecting on the confequences which muft and might refult from it. In the fift, we fee a man defpifed by every perfon of character in the United States made the agent of government, and fuch anxiety fhewn to render him service and to honor his drafts, that they are paid many months before they are due. On the other hand, we fee a faithful and good officer univerfally refpected and esteemed, drawing upon the Treafury for money acknowledged to be due him.-The Secretary, inftead of paying it, puts on frivolous pretext for more than a year, it off and then fubje&is the drawer to very great expence, trouble and delay, which might have been avoided, by ftating the objections at fift. The damages occafioned by the proteft are regulated by the different flates. In few are they lels and in fome more than 15 per centum on the whole amount, befides intereft, coft and charges. A pretty little fum for an American to pay for the whim or caprice of an infolent foreigner. We are not acquainted with Mr. Steele's circumftances: but let us now put a very natural fuppofition, and a very common cafe-Suppole Mr. Stecle, being emploved by the governmect, had neglected all other bufinefs, depending folely on his offi. cial emoluments to fupport his familyrelying on the promptitude of government to pay its debis, he enters into engage. ments on the credit of his public bills, to provide for the future fupport of his family-moft of his fortune and all his credit, reft on thefe bills-they are forwardedwhen prefented at the reafury fuch an anfwer is given, as to keep alive hope, and delay and anxious expectation, the bills to fupport credit. After feveral inores though fair creditor, relying on the faith are fuddenly protefled, the unfortunate, of government, is irretrieveably ruined, and himself and family reduced to beg gary. It may be anfwered, perhaps, that in the prefent inftance, the confequences will not be as injurous as expreffed-Of this we cannot certainly fpeak-but every perfon will allow, that there are thoufands on whom fuch conduct would operate as fatally as above defcribed; and towards a ny perfon it would be in the highest degree unjut. Such, Americans, are the glorious effects of placing imported patriots at the head of your affairs. The dregs and outcafts of every foreign nation, are received with Next, the editors say, or seem to say, they are no egotists and every body believes them, no doubt. Next come what the editors call "the leading articles of their polical* creed," one of which is, "never to publish an untruth, knowing it to be such."-The only answer we have to make to this, is, that the whole tribe of democratic editors does not afford a wretch more bold, more daring, more hardened in falshood and misrepresentation than Isaac Mitchell. pen arms, nourished and fupported by our government whilft thofe foreigners whofe refidence is really beneficial, and native Americans, are spurned with indignation by our rulers, and ruined by reliance on the faith and honor of government. Such are the men felected by the chief magiftrate to conduct your affairs; not becaufe they are better qualified, but because they feel none of thofe fympathetic emotions, none of thofe unphilofophical weaknesses, which arife from being the children of one common country and from thofe tender endearments and early affociations, which form the ftrongest cement to fociety, the firmeft foundation of government, and the most fruitful fource of friendship and patriotifm. The man who fanned the flame that threatened to conflagrate our country, could not be fuppofed very warmly attach. ed to its profperity or happinefs-Nor editors, is a most abominable falshood. He has fhould we look for noblenefs or generofity from him who could lead those deluded by his artifice and fophiftry to the brink of des truction, and upon the leaft appearance of danger, leave them a facrifice to his turbulence and ambition. When a man is appointed to office, who, tho' a stranger among us, commenced his public career by an avowed hoftility to our laws, and by countenancing and perfuading an oppofition to our government, who threatened infamy and deftruction to thofe officers who dared to perform their dutywhen fuch a man is placed as the fecond officer under the prei lent, what can we expect but contempt of our laws, and infult to our citizens ? Balance Closet. [The following article was omitted last week for want of room.] We long since gave up the hopes of ever discov. ering any thing like truth, honesty, candor or ingenuousness in Isaac Mitchell, editor of the Baromtcr. His editorial conduct alone, if we knew noth■ng else of him, would sufficiently pronounce the Character of the man. As he commenced his laCours with a "Proem," it was natural enough for aim to close his first year with an epilogue; but why this epilogue was not given in rhyme, we know not, unless Mitchell thought, with almost every body else, that the Proem alone was sufficient to enitle him to everlasting fame as a poet. In the first paragraph of the epilogue, the ediFors say they are "conscious of having acted as heir duty appeared to dictate, even though they hould have failed of obtaining public approbation." Mercy on us! What an heterodox sentiment is ere! We thought that the democratic notion was, hat the people knew every thing, and could do othing wrong. But Mitchell says, he may do right nd still "fail of obtaining public approbation.” Mitchell has long pretended and he now pretends, that he is in possession of means to injure the private reputation of one of the editors of the Balance. He does, indeed, possess the heart of a villain-the tongue of a slanderer, and the pen of a calumniator; but, that he is acquainted with any fact, of the most trivial nature, that could, if disclosed, cast the least shade on the character of either of the been challenged and invited to produce any fact of *We are at a loss to know the meaning of this word, unless it is a corrupt derivation from polygamy and surely we cannot expect that Mitchell will print bis creed on that subject at present, however forward he may be to profess and practice it. In our last, we mentioned the removal of Mr. Rogers, naval officer for the port of New-York. In the Bee of the preceding week the removal was also mentioned, and the following remark added : "Mr. Rogers was an officer in the We certainly do not expect that Mr. "Echo," It seems that the Citizen of New. York had made It has been feared that modern fashionable refinement would finally come to this. Without pretending to believe that any very serious plot or conspiracy is on foot, we would merely suggest, that if the ladies succeed well in wearing trousers, the time is not far distant when they will boldly assert their right to put on the breeches. Though the lines communicated to us by TROJACULUS, which are declared to have been written extempore by a lad of 16 years of age, on the death of his brother," are too incorrect for publication, an esteem for the youthful writer is excited by the ingenuity of his composition, and still more by the vein of goodness and piety that runs through "1ft. The Citizen alledges that Mr. OBSERVER, ON Consideration, is omitted. Agricultural. PREMIUMS OFFERED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING AGRICULTURE. FOR OR a cheap and effectual method of destroying the canker worm to be communicated before 1ft Oct. 1803-one hundred dollars or Gold Medal. A like premium for a certain, and the cheapest method of deftroyiug the bug worm-to be communicated before ift Dec. 1803. Annual premium, 30 dollars, to if Oat. 1805, for the introduction of a Ram or Ewe; for the purpofe of propagating a head of fheep; fuperior to what may be already in the ftate-claims before ift oa. Thirty dollars for the greateft quantity of wool, meat, and tallow, from the finalleft number of theep, not less than a fcore --claim before 1804. For the largeft quantity of compoft manure, not lefs than 2000 tons, by fome new and useful method, in proportion to expence and of materials common to moft farms-50 dollars or a gold medal -next largeft quantity, thirty dollarsclaim 1ft Auguft, 1803. To the beft new and improved method, of introducing fine grafs, fit for hay or pafture, in low fresh meadows now producing coarfe grafs or bushes, not lefs than 2 acres -30 dollars-claim 1ft Nov. 1804. For the difcovery of any fpecies of Grafs not commonly cultivated or known, and of a quality for food of neat cattle or horfes, fuperior to thofe now in ufc-50 dollars claim aft O. 1804. To the perfon who fhall exhibit diftin&t fpecimens, of the greateft variety of graff es now in ufe, and specify their respective qualities, produ&tiveness and usefulness tor food, for different kind of animals-50 dollars-claims, ift Oct. 1803. To the perfon who fhall produce from deed, the best growth of thrifty trees, not lefs than 600, and in the proportion of 2400 to the acre, if the following kinds of foreft trees, oak, afh, elm, fugar maple, beech, black and yellow birch, chefnut, walnut or hickory, 25 dollars, or if all of oak, 50 dollars-claims, 14 Oct. 1806. To the perfon who fhall analyze the conftituent parts, of feveral fertile foils refpectively, and in like manner of several poor foils, fo as to difcover the defects of the latter, and fhew by actual experiments, how the defects may be remedied, by the addition of earths or other ingredients, in a manner which may be practifed upon by common farmers, 50 dollars, and if it appears to the truflces, that upon an extenfive practice, the improvement of the foil, would be more than equivalent to the expence of the improvement, the addition of 100 dollars. A minute defcription of the feveral foils, and all the circumstances relative to the proceffes, cultivation and refults will be required-claims before 1ft Nov. 1804. The communications must be accompanied with proper certificates, from fele&t men, magiftrates, clergymen and other vouchers to the fatisfaction of the truflees; the names to be in a fealed paper, with a mark or device, correfponding to the fignature of the communication. By order of the Trustees, JOHN AVERY, Sec. Monitorial Department. To aid the cause of virtue and religion. FROM AN EDINBURGH PAPER. RELIGIOUS ANECDOTE, DURING The Marquis, in order to fatisfy himfelf as to the truth of his defence, obferv. ed, that if fo, he must have acquired fome confiderable aptnefs in the exercife of prayer. The poor man replied, that he could not boaft of his ability in that exer. cife. The Marquis then requested him to kneel down and pray aloud before him; which he did, with fuch copioufnefs, fluency and ardour, as fully fatisfied the Marquis, that no perfon could pray in that manner, who did not live in the habit of daily intercourfe with God. The Noble Marquis then took him by the hand, re voked his fentence, and placed him a mong his perfonal attendants. Miscellany. FOR THE BALANCE. THE HE late publication, purporting that the Tyrian dye, which, in old time, was celebrated above all colours, is recently discovered to have been made from the Sea Nettle, induces me to communicate a defcription of that fingular production of nature. Doftor Morfe, in his Geography, fpeaking of the curious animal, fometimes called Animal Flower, fometimes Sea-Nettle, from its fuppofed property of stinging, but more generally by the naine of Sea-Anemone, from its refemblance to the flower of that plant, has URING the late unhappy com. the following remarks. "The firft di. motions in Ireland, a private foldier in the covery to our knowledge of thefe animak' army of Lord Cornwallis, was daily ob- on this part of the American coaft, was by ferved to be abfent from his quarters and the Rev. Dr. Cutler, Rev. Mr. Prince of the company of his fellow foldiers. This Salem, and others, at Nahant, in the monta gave rife to a fufpicion that he withdrew of June, 1791. They found them in a for the purpofe of holding improper interfor the purpofe of holding improper inter-place called the Swallow Houfe, which is courfe with the rebels. The poor man was brought to trial, and by a court martial was condemned to fuffer death. The marquis hearing of this, wifhed to examine the minutes of the trial; and not being fatisfied, fent for the condemned prifoner to converfe with him. Upon being interrogated by his Lordship, he folemnly diffign, declared his fincere attachment to his avowed every treafonable practice or deSovereign, and his readiness to live and die in his fervice and affirmed that the real caufe of his frequent abfence was for the purpofe of fecret prayer, for which his Lordship knew he had no opportunity among his profane comrades, who, on account of his religious profeffion, had become his inveterate enemies. This, he informed his Lordfhip, was the whole de a cavern in the rocks, on the fouth fide of Nahant. When the tide had receded, great numbers of them were discovered at. tached to the fides of the rocks. Their general appearance was like that of a great number of flowers, of different fizes, with fupported on fhort, thick flower flems, fix expanded leaves in each bloffom, and growing from the rocks. When the leaves or arms of the animal arc contracted, it refembles a truncated cone, with its bafe adhering to the rock; but it h the power of affuming a variety of fhapes. as that of a large flower with a number petals, or flower leaves; or of a full blown anemone; or of a large rofe or popp &c. When the arms or leaves of te lar ger ones were extended they were five or fix inches in circumference, and exhibited |