in favor of their project, have given their votes, and they are in juftice bound to abide the decifion. There will not be fo many Democratic Reprefentatives in the Legiflature this fall, as there were last fpring, by at least fifteen.

The ftrength of parties in the Houfe of Reprefentatives will be NEW-ENGLANDMEN, 132, VIRGINIANS, 63, leaving a fed eral majority of 69.-In the Spring the majority was 38. Thus, not only the federal towns, but many of thofe which have heretofore fent democratic reprefentatives, in obedience to the call of the New-Haven Convention, have explicitly declared by their votes, that they are fatisfied with the prefent conftitution of the ftate, and that however they may differ from their neigh bours on certain points of National policy, with respect to the government of the State they are agreed.

It may be gratifing to the public to fee what has been the progrefs of democracy in this State for fome years paft. In October 1802, Mr. Babcock published in the American Mercury, the following state. ment. "The House of Reprefentatives "contained in O&tober 1801, about 40 republican members-about 55 in May "1802, and at the feffion of October

1802, between 70 and 80." In May laft, they had 78 members-They will have this fall 63. No comments are neceffary upon the foregoing facts. If intrigue, and corruption could have revolu tionized Connecticut, he would have met her fate long fince. She ftands firm and increases in ftrength, and vigour. Our fifter State of New-Hampshire has in a great meafure regained the ground, from which he was forced by furprise in the fpring. Maffachusetts we have no doubt will purfue her own dignified, and commanding courfe at her approaching elections. In this ftate of things, let the friends of New-England thank God, and take courage.

Editor's Closet.

There is fuch an air of honefly and candor in the following paragraph, that I cannot deny myself the pleasure of copying it. It appears in a Virginia democratic paper; and, on that account, is more deferving of notice.-Read, and obferve:

doption may anfwer the expectations of "its mof fanguine advocates. We how. "ever, cannot fupprefs our fears that fuch "will not be the refult. The conftitu"tion of the United States, wifely pro"vides for its own amendment; but the

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prefent measure has already been the fa"vorite of federalifts and of republicans, "and we view it more as an alteration "than an amendment. It establishes, in "our opinion, a very dangerous prece"dent that the ruling party in congrefs "have the power of propofing any altera"tion in the conftitution, that fuch pro"pofition, would be conftitutional, how"ever abfurd, and that provided three "fourths of the ftate legiflatures could be "prevailed upon to adopt it, the people "of the United States must be bound thereby. Suppofe it fhould hereafter

happen, (which we truft never will be "the cafe) that Congrefs fhould think it "for the intereft of the people, that their "Prefident fhould be changed for an he"reditary chief magiftrate, and that three "fourths of the States were of the fame

thereby." The Virginia democrats, have openly exulted at this; and they have unqueftionably, in their private circles, broached the idea of an hereditary chief magiftrate," boafting at the fame time of the tamenefs and credulity of " three fourths of the ftates." The writer of the paragraph above quoted, being a democrat, has heard thefe fecret whispers; but, being alfo an honeft man, he has been alarmed at them; and, being alarmed, has candidly and frankly expreffed his fears. -Thus will it be with every honest man, when the real defigns of Virginia are laid open to view.

THE CONTRAST.

THE following is an official lift of the veffels of war, built or purchased by the federal adminiftration, and owned by the United States, in the year 1799•

General Greene,

32

38

Ganges,

26

Portfmonth,

24

Merrimack,

24

Connecticut, Baltimore, Delaware, Maryland, Herald, Trumbull,

This writer feems willing to allow the "moft fanguine advocates" of the amendment more credit for their good intentions than I think they deferve; but in his fears and opinions I entirely coincide. It may very naturally be asked, how it happens, that a Virginia democrat fhould be the firft to exprefs thefe opinions openly? Let us, then, endeavor to account for it. The amendment or alteration was a Virginia meafure. In effecting it, that ftate has obtained a complete triumph. It fe cures to them a Prefident. But this is not all. "It eftablifhes a precedent-that the ruling party in Congrefs have the power of propofing any alteration in the conflitu tion, that fuch propofition, would be conflitutional, however abfurd, and that provided three fourths of the state legislatureslowing veffels have been furnished: could be prevailed upon to adopt it, the people of the United States must be bourd

Petap/co, Warren, Norfolk, Richmond, Pinckney, Eagle, Augufla, Pickering, Scammel, Experiment Enterprize,

Agricultural.

EXTRACT.

FROM THE COURANT.

WHEAT UPON CLOVER.

IT

Tis a very common practice with the English Farmers and it is becoming fo in Pennsylvania and fome other States, to turn in clover fward near fowing time, and fow wheat upon it, harrowing in the feed. This faves the expence of one or two ploughings, and gives alfo one cutting of grafs, or half a fummer's pafturage; while the wheat crop is rather better than it would be were the fame land fallowed. The clover by covering the ground prevents the fun from exhaufting ita ftrength, and when turned in full of fap makes a rich, though not lafting manure. If the clover be flout, and the flouter the better, it fhould be rolled down, and rolled the fame way the plough is to go, that it may be the better covered. The clover it large and thick, as it may almost any where be made by the Plaifter of Paris, deftroys noxious weeds, and by piercing and filling the ground with its roots, renders it as mel. low as fallowing would do. This mode of culture is earnestly recommended to the trial of Connecticut Farmers. If doubtful, their experiments may be upon a fmall fcale at firft.

We are apt to think this life of ours immortal-and to bestow no attention to the narrow limits deftined fooner or later to confine it. Thus thinking, we live; and act on many occafions repugnant to that virtue and justice which we should admire, venerate and practice, did we call to mind the uncertainty of our prospects and duration here, and the certainty of an hereafter, in which we are to be rewarded, or punished, according to the good or bad. deeds done in this life.

A grave-yard is both inftructive to the mind, and wholfome to the foul :- -While it ridicules the idea of any other fuperiority in human nature than that of worth and virtue; it demonftrates that death hurls his darts alike at all; and that in the grave all share one common fate, to moulder and decay :-And as we pafs on, from stone to flone, from tomb to tomb, and either reflet upon the infcriptions, or upon the actions which diftinguifhed the perfons they mark; a voice feems continually af cending to our ears, faving-" Liverightcoufly, that you may die good and live a gain, to immortality happiness and glo. ry ["

Improvement.

FOR THE BALANCE.

PATENT AUGERS,

FOR baring poft-holes, wells, and for other purposes, invented by Christopher Hoxie, of this city.-The utility of thefe augers, is well known to those who have had an opportunity of trying them. Farmers, whofe land confifts of clay, loam, or fandy foil, may enquire, for their own fatisfaction, of almost any gentleman, who have lots in this city, fome of whom will atteft, that they have bored poft holes three feet deep in two minntes-others will fay, that one hundred holes may be bored in one day, and with lefs trouble than to dig twelve with a fpade. Amongst many others, the Mayor of Albany, and Chan. cellor of the ftate-Thomas Powers and Thomas Frothingham of Hudson, and Henry Merriot, of Claverack, are referred to.

Thefe Augers may be had for the trifling fun of five dollars, feel plate, from the Patentes.

Miscellany.

FROM THE BAROMETER.

The following was communicated to us from res. pectable authority, and we have no doubt of its being literally correct.

THE HERMITESS OF NORTH-SALEM.

WHEN the train of human events appears to deviate from its wonted courie, and becomes productive of characters altogether new and unexampled, it has a claim on the world to be perpetuated.

An inftance of this kind, where nature has appeared furprisingly to wander from its wonted operations, is difplayed in the character, and manner of life, exhibited by a certain female in the vicinity of this town. We often hear of men from various motives preferring a life of folitude in fome gloomy cavern of the earth; but to find one of the fair-fex immured in a cave, wholly fecluded from human focie. ty, is a rare phenomenon.

Acquainted with all their delicacy of body, their natural timidity of mind, their loquacity of temper, and their inordinate love of feeing and of being feen, to find them forfaking all human fociety for the dreary haunts of favage beafts, appears, when related, too romantic to gain behef. Yet the reader may rely on the sequel, as a fimple narrative of facts.

SARAH BISHOP (for this is the name of this Hermitefs) is a perfon of about fifty years of age. About thirty years. ago the was a young lady of confiderable beauty, a competent fhare of mental endowments, and education; fhe was poffeffed of a handfome fortune, but she was. of a tender and delicate conftitution, and enjoyed but a low degree of health; fhe could hardly be comfortable without conftant recourfe to medicine, and careful attendance; and added to this, fhe always discovered an unusual antipathy to men; and was often beard to fay, that fhe had no dread of any animal on earth but man.Difgufted with them, and confequentiy with the world, about twenty three years ago, the withdrew herfelf from all human fociety, and in the bloom of life reforted to the mountains, which divide Salem from North Salem; where he has spent her days to the prefent time, in a cave, or rather in a cleft of the rock, withdrawn from rerday, (in company with the two Capt. the fociety of every living creature. YefSmiths of this town) I went into the mountains to visit this furprising Hermitge, a juft portrait of which, is contained in the following lines.

As you pa's the fouthern and most ele. vated ridge of the mountain, and begin to defcend the fouthern fleep, you meet

with a perpendicular defcent of a rock of @bout ten feet, in the front of which is this cave. At the foot of this rock is a gentle defcent of rich and fertile ground, extending about ten rods, when it inftant. ly forms a frightful precipice, defcending about half a mile to the pond, known by the name of the Long pond. On the right and left of this fertile ground, the mountain rifes in cliffs, and almoft inclofes it, being a fquare of one half acre. In the front of the rock on the north, where the cave is, and level with the ground, there appears to be a large fruftrum of the rock, of a cubic fathom in fize, thrown out of the rock by fome unknown convulfion of nature, and lies in front of the cavity from whence it was rent, partly inclofing the mouth, and forming a room of the fame dimenfions with the fruftrum itself, the rock is left entire above, and forms the root of this humble mansion.

This cavern is the habitation of this Hermitefs, in which fhe has fpent twenty three of her beft years, felf-excluded from all human fociety. She keeps no domef. ticated animal, not even a fowl, a cat, or a dog. Her little plantation, confifting of one half acre, is cleared of its wood and reduced to grafs, but the makes but little ule of it, excepting that he has raifed a few peach trees on it, and fhe plants yearly a few hills of beans, cucumbers and po. tatoes, The whole plat is furrounded with: a luxuriant growth of grape vines, which overfpread the furrounding wood, and produce grapes in great abundance. On the oppofite fide of this little tenement, or cave, is a fine fountain of excellent water, which iffues from the fide of the moun. tain, and lofes itfelf in this little plat.

At this fourtain we found this wonder ful woman, whofe appearance is a little difficult to deferie; indeed, like nature in its firft cftate, he was without form, that is, the appearch in no form or pofition I had ever feen before: her dress appeared little effe but one confufed and fhapelefs mals of rags, patched together without any order, which obfcured every human shape, excepting her head, which was clothed with a xuriency of lank grey hair, de pending on every fide, jaft as nature and time bad formed it, wholly devoid of any artificial covering or ornement.

When the difcovered our approach fhe exhabited the appearance of any other wild ☐ timid animal. She ftarted, looked wild, and haftened with the utmost precip

ation to her cave, which the entered an barricaded the entrance with old fhelle* which the had pulled from the decayed trees. To this humble mansion we ap

* By "fhells" we fuppofe our corr pontent means thin pieces of timber pl from falling trees.

fl proached, and after fome coverfation with from St. Domingo, and who were deftiher, we obtained liberty to remove the tute of fupport, and many of them of palifadoes and look in; for we were not cloathing, have been relieved in Charlefable to enter, the room being only fuffi- ton, S. C. by charitable donations. This cient to accommodate a fingle perfon. fupport fo grateful to the feelings of hu We converfed with her for fome confid- manity, arofe from 3.667 dls. 69 cts; of errble time, found her to be of a found which, about 2,083 dis. 19 cts. were giv mind, a religions turn of thought, and to en by the citizens, and the remainder of be entirely happy and contented with her the above fum was contributed by feveral fituation; of this fhe has given to others French refidents in the city.-The above repeated demonftration, who have, in vain, fum being nearly exhaufted, the various refolicited her to quit this dreary abode. Itgious focieties, and fome citizens have We faw no utenfil, either for labour or lately raised the additional fum of 2.366 cookery, excepting an old pewter bafon, cookery, excepting an old pewter bafon, dls. 49 cts. for the unfortunate emigrants; and a goard-fhell; no bed but the folid and the ladies of Charlefton, have contribrock, unless it were a few old rags, fcatter-uted their mite, by delivering to the Com ed here and there upon it; no bed cloths ||mittee of Benevolence, various articles of of any kind; not the leaft appearance of apparel from their ward-robes, for the fe any fort of food, and no fire. male indigents.

She had indeed a place in one corner of her cell, where the kindled fire at times, but it did not appear that any fire had been kindled there this fpring. To confirm this opinion, a certain man lays, that he paffed her cell five or fix days after the great fall of fnow in the beginning of March laft, that he had no fire then, and had not been out of her cave fince the fnow had fallen. How the fubfifts during the fevere feafons, is yet a myftery. She the fevere seasons, is yet a myftery. She fays fhe eats but little flesh of any kind, and it is difficult to imagine how fhe is fupported through the winter feafon. In the fummer fhe fubfifs on the berries, nuts, and roots which the mountains afford. It may be that fhe fecretes her winter flore in fome other fiffure of the rock, more convenient for the purpule than the cell the inhabitants.

She keeps a Bible with her, and fays fhe takes much fatisfa&tion, and fpends much time in reading in it, and meditating thereon. It may be this woman is a fincere worshipper of God; it fo, fhe is yet more rich, wife, and happy, than thousands in rich, wife, and happy, than thoufands in affluence and honor, who behold her with aftonishment and fcorn. At any rate, from this humble, yet afton.fhing page of human nature-we read a moft excellent lecture on the human heart. It was the peculiar ftate of this woman's heart which drove her to forfake the fociety of man, and led her to this folitary manfion. The peculiar relifh of the human heart will embrace folitude, difhonor, deformity, and death itself for happinefs, whilft its antipathies cán embitter a paradife of joy. Reafon has no power again it its influence; it is not the energy of fcience, but a heart form. ed to a wife, decent, and useful life, that muft regenerate the world.

BENEVOLENCE.

FROM the 1f of January, 804, to the 8th Auguft, 1015 French Emigrants

FROM THE EVENING POST.

BUST OF HAMILTON. WHEN Ceracchi, a celebrated Italian fculpter, was in this country, about 13 years ago, he took a model of Gen. Hamilton's head for a buft, which, in 1794, he executed in marble, at Florence, and fent to Gen. Hamilton, in whofe poffeffion it continued during his life, and by whole family it will doubtlefs be preferved with the most facred care. All who have ever feen this wonderful piece of art will recollect their emotions of pleasure and furprize at the ftriking refemblance it bore to the illuftrious deceased; its perfect delineation of every feature; its correct exhi bition of character: The friends and admirers of this truly great man will theretore hear with the livelieft fatisfaction, that a

mould from this buft has just been completed, under the direction of Mr. John Dixey, of this city, and that one caft is finished from it in plaifter of Paris, which preferves in the greatest perfection all the characteristics of the original. These cafts may be multiplied to an extent that will enable all who fet a proper value on his unequaled talents, virtues, and eminent public fervices, to gratify themselves with a perfect likenefs of HAMILTON.

P S. The Caft that has been taken may be feen at Mr. Dixey's, No. 118, Wil iram-Street.

LONDON.

THIS metropolis, comprehends, be Gides London, Wefiminfter and Southwark, no less than 45 villages of confiterable extent, independent of a vaft acceffion of buildings upon the open fields in the vicinity. Is length is nearly 8 miles, its breadth 3, and its circumference 23 ;